08 April, 2016

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SAT SATURDAY 09 APRIL 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b075mf37 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b075tddr (Listen) SAT Beethoven for a Later Age, Convalescence SAT SAT The Takacs Quartet's first violinist Edward Dusinberre SAT reflects on his career with his fellow players; taking a SAT leap of faith, and Beethoven's late and transcendent music. SAT SAT Read by Tim McMullan SAT Abridged by Sara Davies SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Tim McMullan SAT Author: Edward Dusinberre SAT Abridger: Sara Davies SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b075mf3c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b075mf3f (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b075mf3h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b075mf3k (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b075thvw (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b075thvy (Listen) SAT Why stalkers stalk SAT SAT After our listener's experience of being stalked for 10 SAT years, Jennifer Tracey speaks to a woman who's worked with SAT hundreds of stalkers in an attempt to work out why they do SAT it. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b075mf3m (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b075mf3p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b075t6kj (Listen) SAT Gainsborough's Nodding Donkeys SAT SAT Forget Texas! There's oil in the plains of Lincolnshire. But SAT not many people seem to notice. SAT SAT Helen Mark travels to the market town of Gainsborough to SAT discover more about the nodding donkeys that pepper its SAT landscape. Oil wells sit comfortably fringed by a housing SAT estate, the leisure centre and the golf course. SAT SAT It turns out that the East Midlands is the UK's second SAT largest inshore oil producing area, courtesy of the SAT Gainsborough Trough, once a deep and dirty patch of sea. Now SAT it produces twelve hundred barrels of high quality oil a SAT day, mostly pumped up by nodding donkeys. SAT SAT Whereas fracking attracts protest and controversy, local SAT people seem quite content to live alongside these nodding SAT pumps, perhaps because they look so benign - friendly even - SAT and work away quietly with apparently little human SAT intervention. SAT SAT Helen meets local teacher and long-distance runner Nigel SAT Bowler, for whom the donkeys are a landmark on his running SAT routes. There's artist Verity Barrett, who loved the pumps SAT as a child, part of the 'scenic route' on trips to visit her SAT granddad. SAT SAT Julie Barlow from i-gas explains the business of oil SAT extraction and geologists Malcom Fry and Paul Hildreth slice SAT through the soil to bring alive the geological layers that SAT led to the Gainsborough Trough. Then there are Daniel Ashman SAT and Louise Hammond, who've spent the last week camping SAT outside a new exploratory oil boring site near the village SAT of Laughton, as part of an anti-fracking protest. SAT SAT As the dustbin lorry and the postman do their rounds of the SAT Park Springs Housing Estate on the edge of Gainsborough, SAT another few barrels of oil are drawn up from 1500m SAT underground. The nodding donkeys aren't bad neighbours, it SAT seems. 'I think they're wonderful' says Paul Hildreth. SAT SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b07650vz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Rural Services SAT SAT Sybil Ruscoe is at the Brockweir and Hewelsfield Village SAT Shop in the Forest of Dean - built and run by local people SAT to fill the gaps left when local services disappeared. It's SAT one of a growing number of community enterprises springing SAT up in rural areas. It also provides a cafe, wifi, office SAT space and some postal services. SAT SAT We also meet people in Derbyshire who've bought their local SAT pub; campaigners in Somerset who fought to save the town's SAT last bank and a man in Northumberland who put his own money SAT into starting up a rural bus service when existing routes SAT were lost. SAT SAT Producer: Sally Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b075mf3t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b07650w3 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b07652n3 (Listen) SAT Stuart Maconie, Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Radzi Chinyanganya, SAT Frederick Forsyth SAT SAT Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at SAT the world. SAT SAT 10:30 World War One: The Cultural Front b07654q4 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Bleeding France SAT SAT Francine Stock continues her annual exploration of the SAT culture made in the years of war. 1916. A year of slaughter SAT on an industrial scale at Verdun & The Somme. Paris, the SAT city of eternal light was now darker, greyer & more French SAT than before 1914. Under fire from above. A place of SAT departure and arrival for the thousands of Poilu (hairy SAT ones) sent up the line to death at Verdun, a 10 month SAT artillery duel that would define France's war. SAT SAT Many Poilu on leave (Permissionaires) just wanted a bed, a SAT woman & entertainment to distract them from the memories of SAT ceaseless bombardment. Picasso was painting portraits SAT including poet Apollinaire. Home from the front with a star SAT shaped wound & verses to match. Americans like Edith Wharton SAT wrote fiction & fact in support of France's war, including SAT The Book of the Homeless for which Stravinsky contributed an SAT anti-German march. SAT SAT Henri Barbusse, recovering from his wounds, broke new ground SAT with his novel Under Fire. At the Musee de L'Armee hangs a SAT remarkable canvas unlike any other created in the career of SAT 'Nabi' painter Felix Vallotton. 'Verdun' is a boiling world SAT of destruction with no place for man, pierced by deathly SAT searchlights of colour & power. SAT SAT Fernand Leger recorded his frontline experiences mainly in SAT letters, able only to sketch not paint, but his watercolour SAT La Cocarde shows the crumpled & broken aircraft that SAT littered the battlefield. Some of those aircraft had carried SAT aces, the new heroes of the war to either glory or SAT destruction or both. Their deeds were vital morale boosters SAT for both publics & governments. The flying Americans of the SAT Lafayette Escadrille were instrumental in selling a good, SAT clean war back home to a reluctant American public & young SAT men eager for adventure. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Burman. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b076nwps (Listen) SAT The Hidden Power of Noise SAT SAT Bridget Kendall and guests explore the unseen and often SAT un-noticed power which noise has over us. With writer Garret SAT Keizer who is interested in the social and economic SAT dimensions of noise; sound artist Jana Winderen who records SAT sounds made by underwater creatures; and Cambridge Professor SAT of English Steven Connor who focuses on the 'ums, ahs, ohs, SAT and ahems', expressive language noises that are often SAT dismissed as marginal or trivial. SAT SAT (Photo: Illustration showing computer wave-forms spelling SAT 'noise'. Credit: Shan Pillay). SAT SAT Garret Keizer SAT SAT Garret Keizer, the author of ‘The Unwanted Sound of SAT Everything We Want’, has been pondering what noise says SAT about human relationships: who gets to make noise, who gets SAT heard and who gets to complain about excessive noise. And SAT also: whether the poor and powerless are exposed to more SAT noise pollution than the wealthy. SAT SAT Jana Winderen SAT SAT Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen travels the world with SAT four hydrophones, recording sounds made by underwater SAT creatures. She then plays the sounds of, say, cod SAT communicating with each other, to her friends before dinner. SAT She says that some people change their mind about eating SAT fish after they’d heard them talking to each other. SAT SAT Steven Connor SAT SAT Steven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English at Cambridge SAT University where his research is focussed on the literature SAT and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as SAT well as the history of sound, voice and auditory media. In SAT ‘Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and other Vocalizations’ SAT he probes the fringes and limits of human language to SAT challenge our basic assumptions about what it is to SAT communicate and where meaning lies in language. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b07654q6 (Listen) SAT The Babylon Brigade SAT SAT In this edition: a greyish sticky dough called fufu from the SAT Democratic Republic of Congo; pesto Genovese from Italy, SAT made as it used to be, with a pestle and mortar; there's a SAT dish of smoked puffin from Iceland and some of the finest SAT cannabis lollipops in the American west. All this culinary SAT exotica comes as part of the weekly insight, analysis, SAT colour and description which is served up by reporters SAT around the world. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b075mf3y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b075mf40 (Listen) SAT Offshore - not as foreign as it sounds SAT SAT Offshore, tax avoidance, trusts. Words of the week as 11 SAT million confidential documents from the Panama based lawyers SAT Mossack Fonseca were leaked to a German newspaper SAT Suddeutsche Zeitung and analysed by the International SAT Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The 215,000 trusts, SAT companies, and foundations identified are not all owned by SAT world leaders, celebrities, and politicians. There are SAT unknown people of fairly modest wealth there too. What SAT should we do if an accountant or adviser suggests to us that SAT offshore is not as foreign as it sounds? SAT SAT More than six million people who are members of a workplace SAT pension scheme will find they pay more National Insurance SAT from this week. It's been described by some as a 'stealth SAT tax raid' which will net the Treasury £5.5bn a year. Why is SAT it happening? SAT SAT How much should a £415 washing machine cost? You could pay SAT £1248 if you rent-to-own it through a firm called SAT Brighthouse. The extra cost includes delivery, insurance, SAT and the credit over three years at 69.9% APR. Another. quite SAT separate, rent-to-own firm was recently forced to pay SAT £939,000 redress to 59,000 customers - a penalty for unfair SAT practice. But a new not-for-profit rent-to-own company would SAT charge just £648 and you would own the washing machine SAT nearly 18 months sooner. So will this newcomer disrupt the SAT market? SAT SAT This week saw yet another new ISA launched. The Innovative SAT Finance ISA allows peer-to-peer investments to be put into SAT an ISA so that the returns earned are tax-free. The industry SAT say it's a 'pivotal' moment but is it suitable for all SAT levels of investor? SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Reporters: Jonathan Park + James Melley SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b075thgv (Listen) SAT Series 48, Episode 6 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 b075mf42 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b075mf44 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b075thgz (Listen) SAT Natalie Bennett, Michael Fallon MP, Frank Field MP, Lord SAT Digby Jones of Birmingham SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby with topical debate from Holy Trinity SAT Church in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, with the Leader of the SAT Green Party in England and Wales Natalie Bennett, the SAT Defence Secretary Michael Fallon MP, Chair of the Work and SAT Pensions Select Committee Frank Field MP, and Digby Lord SAT Jones of Birmingham. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b075mf46 (Listen) SAT Call 03 700 100 444. Lines are open from 1230-1430 on SAT Saturday.The email address; any.answers@bbc.co.uk. Hashtag SAT BBCAQ for those of you who are Tweeting. And you can follow SAT us @bbcanyquestions. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b04k4022 (Listen) SAT Reykjavik SAT SAT 11th October 1986: the height of the Cold War, enough SAT missiles to detonate the planet two thousand times over. SAT SAT Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet at Gorbachev's SAT request for a one-day, informal chat, at the (some say SAT haunted) Hofdi House near Reykjavik. But in the small brown SAT room where they meet, Gorbachev suddenly blindsides the SAT Americans: out of the blue, he offers 50% cuts in all SAT missiles - and he'll sign today. The White House team is SAT catastrophically unprepared for this - no-one predicted it. SAT SAT But Reagan sees how he can really achieve something.... and SAT within hours they are talking the most colossal cuts in SAT nuclear warheads, aiming to reach zero missiles within ten SAT years. How did this happen? How did it fail? SAT SAT Drawing on both American and Russian transcripts of every SAT word said between the two leaders, Jonathan Myerson's SAT gripping drama explores the pressures on both sides, moment SAT by moment, as the deal grows bigger and bigger, and the SAT drama shifts from measured words at the negotiating table, SAT to the panic, graft and invention of the two diplomatic SAT teams outside the room. SAT SAT Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting SAT SAT Images courtesy of the Ronald Ronald Reagan Library. SAT SAT Credits SAT Ronald Reagan: Kerry Shale SAT Mikhail Gorbachev: Zubin Varla SAT George Shultz: Colin Stinton SAT Eduard Shevardnadze: Michael Bertenshaw SAT John Poindexter: Matthew Marsh SAT Georgy Arbatov: Matthew Marsh SAT Paul Nitze: Nathan Osgood SAT Ed Rowny: Ian Conningham SAT Roz Ridgway: Elaine Claxton SAT Sergei Akhromeyev: David Acton SAT Director: Jonquil Panting SAT Producer: Jonquil Panting SAT Writer: Jonathan Myerson SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b075pxfx (Listen) SAT Series 22, Bring Him Home SAT SAT Bring Him Home, from Les Miserables, is a beautiful and SAT moving prayer-in-song that has developed meaning and SAT identity outside the hit musical. SAT SAT Taking part in the programme: SAT SAT The celebrated tenor, Alfie Boe, has sung this many times in SAT the West End and on Broadway; he discusses what the song SAT means to him. SAT SAT Herbert Kretzmer talks about the agonising process of SAT writing the lyrics. SAT SAT The Greater Manchester Police Male Voice Choir recorded a SAT version especially for the programme; one of their members SAT describes singing Bring Him Home at the funeral of PC Dave SAT Phillips in November 2015. SAT SAT The original Cosette, from Les Miserables, Rebecca Caine now SAT sings this song - written for a male voice - regularly as SAT part of international recitals. SAT SAT And for Becky Douglas it will forever be a reminder of her SAT daughter whose death inspired the foundation of a leprosy SAT charity. SAT SAT Jeremy Summerly, Director of Music at St Peter's College, SAT Oxford plays through the piece and describes why it moves us SAT emotionally. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist of Bring Him Home SAT SAT Rebecca Caine, the first 'Cosette' in Les Mis SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b075mf4f (Listen) SAT Poet Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Angela Rippon, Shirley Manson SAT SAT The poet Jean 'Binta' Breeze - described as the first woman SAT to write and perform dub poetry - talks about her new SAT collection 'The Verandah Poems'. Angela Rippon tells us what SAT it's like to celebrate 50 years in British broadcasting and SAT discusses her new two part television series How to Stay SAT Young. We hear reaction from Polly Neate of Women's Aid to SAT the continuing Archers story line involving Helen and Rob SAT and his controlling behaviour. We discuss the case of the SAT teenage girls who murdered Angela Wrightson and the issues SAT it raises. SAT SAT The American reporter Joanna Connors was 30 years old when SAT she was raped at knife point by a stranger. tells us why, SAT twenty years after the assault she decided to find her SAT attacker and learn more about him. SAT The Scottish singer Shirley Manson the outspoken, SAT flame-haired lead singer of the alternative rock band SAT Garbage, kicks off our second series of The Chain. We cook SAT the perfect Chapli Beef Kebab with the Pakistani food writer SAT Sumayya Usmani. And the history of cake. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Producer Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Jean 'Binta' Breeze SAT Interviewed Guest: Angela Rippon SAT Interviewed Guest: Polly Neate SAT Interviewed Guest: Joanna Connors SAT Interviewed Guest: Shirley Manson SAT Interviewed Guest: Sumayya Usmani SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 17:00 PM b075mf4h (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b075thvy (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b075mf4m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b075mf4r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b075mf4t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b07654q8 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Nikki Bedi, Shalamar, Irvine Welsh, Leslie SAT Caron, Josie Long, Danny Sapani SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Irvine Welsh, SAT Leslie Caron, Josie Long and Danny Sapani for an eclectic SAT mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from SAT Shalamar. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Leslie Caron SAT The second episode of 'The Durrells' is on Sunday 10th April SAT at 20.00 on ITV. SAT SAT Danny Sapani SAT 'Les Blancs' is at London's National Theatre until Thursday SAT 2nd June. SAT SAT Josie Long SAT 'Josie Long: Romance and Adventure' is on Friday 15th April SAT at 11.30 on BBC Radio 4. You can catch up with the first two SAT episodes on iPlayer. SAT SAT Irvine Welsh SAT 'The Blade Artist' is published by Jonathan Cape and SAT available now. SAT SAT Shalamar SAT SAT 'The Complete Solar Singles Collection' is available now on SAT Sanctuary. SAT Shalamar are touring the UK this month. They're playing SAT Concorde 2, Brighton tonight, Corn Exchange, Ipswich SAT tomorrow and City Hall, Sheffield on Tuesday 12th. Check SAT their website for further dates. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Irvine Welsh SAT Interviewed Guest: Leslie Caron SAT Interviewed Guest: Josie Long SAT Interviewed Guest: Danny Sapani SAT Performer: Shalamar SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b07654qb (Listen) SAT Sanjeev Gupta SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b075mf50 (Listen) SAT Dheepan, X at the Royal Court, All That Man Is, Shakespeare SAT at Compton Verney, The Five SAT SAT French film Dheepan won the 2015 Palme d'Or, with a tale of SAT Tamil refugees fleeing Sri Lanka and arriving in France, SAT finding a whole new set of opportunities and problems SAT Alistair McDowall's newest play X is set on a space station SAT on Pluto. It opens at London's Royal Court Theatre; will our SAT reviewers think it's out of this world? SAT David Szalay's was named as one of Granta's Best Young SAT British Novelists in 2013. His new novel All That Man Is SAT looks at 9 young men in modern Europe SAT Shakespeare In Art is an exhibition at Compton Verney SAT looking at the many ways that artists in different SAT disciplines have depicted the work of The Bard. SAT The Five is a new thriller TV series where a group of SAT friends is reunited when one of them is implicated in a SAT murder. SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Malorie Blackman, Kerry Shale and SAT Alice Jones. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Dheepan SAT Dheepan SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT All That Man Is by David Szalay SAT SAT All That Man Is by David Szalay is available in hardback and SAT ebook. SAT SAT Shakespeare in Art SAT Shakespeare in Art: Tempests, Tyrants and Tragedy SAT is at Compton Verney in Warwickshire until 19 June 2016 SAT SAT Image: ‘Macbeth’, Act I, Scene 3, the Weird Sisters, Henry SAT Fuseli, 1783 © Royal Shakespeare Company Collection, SAT Stratford-upon-Avon. SAT SAT X SAT X SAT is at the Royal Court in London until 7 May 2016 SAT SAT Photo credit: Manuel Harlan SAT SAT The Five SAT The Five SAT begins on Sky 1 on Friday 15 April at 9pm. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Malorie Blackman SAT Interviewed Guest: Kerry Shale SAT Interviewed Guest: Alice Jones SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b07654x0 (Listen) SAT The Unabomber SAT SAT Twenty years ago the FBI ended their longest-running SAT domestic terrorism investigation with the arrest of the SAT Unabomber, a notorious serial bomber obsessed with SAT technology. It's a story of a devastating fraternal dilemma, SAT a 17-year manhunt and a controversial media decision to SAT publish the bomber's demands. SAT SAT Between 1978 and 1995, Theodore Kaczynski lived in a remote SAT cabin in rural Montana, from where he planned the downfall SAT of industrial society. A former Harvard scholar and the SAT youngest-ever professor at University of California, SAT Kaczynski was motivated by a desire to punish proponents of SAT technology - from a senior geneticist to a junior computer SAT salesman. SAT SAT Kaczynski made 16 bombs that killed three people and injured SAT 23, some severely. SAT SAT Then, controversially, America's two most prestigious SAT newspapers, on the advice of the FBI, agreed to publish his SAT 35,000-word manifesto - triggering a debate about media SAT ethics that persists to this day. The gamble paid off in a SAT most unexpected way. SAT SAT Two decades on, as terror dominates the news agenda and we SAT continue to debate the relationship between technology and SAT security, Benjamin Ramm re-visits the extraordinary story of SAT the Unabomber. SAT SAT Benjamin meets some of the key figures in the hunt for one SAT of America's most wanted - those he hurt, those who knew him SAT and those who tried to capture him. And, alongside media SAT reports of his crimes, we hear some of the words of the SAT Unabomber himself, through excerpts from his extensive notes SAT and writings. SAT SAT Produced by Rebecca Maxted SAT A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b075mltm (Listen) SAT The Magus, Episode 3 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 fiancĂ©e, 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 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 Revisted) as Lily. SAT SAT Writen by .....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 Anton: Maarten Dannenberg SAT Margaret: Josie Taylor SAT Lily De Seitas: Beth Goddard SAT Kemp: Rachel Atkins SAT Briggs: Michael Shelford SAT Meli: Chris Pavlo SAT Mrs Marks: Elaine Claxton SAT Margaret: Josie Taylor SAT Greek Ticket Seller: Andreas Karras SAT Benji: Rudi Goodman SAT Author: John Fowles SAT Adaptor: Adrian Hodges SAT Director: Heather Larmour SAT Producer: Heather Larmour SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b075mf56 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Agree to Differ b075szsp (Listen) SAT Series 2, Trident SAT SAT A final decision to commit to the successor programme to SAT Britain's nuclear weapons programme, Trident, is expected SAT this year. For supporters, Trident is the ultimate security SAT guarantee in the unpredictable strategic environment of the SAT next forty-to-fifty years. For those against, Trident is SAT militarily nonsensical, financially insane, and morally SAT intolerable. You might feel you have heard a great deal on SAT this subject and yet public opinion is still divided over SAT the issue. In this programme the aim is to give listeners a SAT completely new way to understand the debate and to decide SAT where they stand. Two experts who passionately disagree on SAT Trident renewal are challenged to reach agreement over their SAT differences and bring clarity over what the disagreement is SAT fundamentally about. Sir Malcolm Rifkind is a former Defence SAT and Foreign Secretary and was once third in line to 'push SAT the button'. Dr Rebecca Johnson is a life-long peace SAT activist and Chief Executive of the Acronym Institute for SAT Disarmament Diplomacy. They join Matthew Taylor for the SAT first in a new series of Agree to Differ. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b075pm3z (Listen) SAT Semi-Final 1, 2016 SAT SAT (13/17) SAT The competition steps up a gear with the start of the 2016 SAT semi-finals, chaired by Russell Davies. Three heat winners SAT and one of the top-scoring runners-up across the series SAT compete for a place in the 2016 Final. SAT SAT On which of the Hawaiian islands is Pearl Harbor? How many SAT players are there on a Gaelic football team? And which SAT character in Disney's original cartoon of The Jungle Book SAT was voiced by the actor George Sanders? SAT SAT As always, there's also a chance for a Brain of Britain SAT listener to 'Beat the Brains' by suggesting devious SAT questions of his or her own with which to outwit the SAT competitors. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT TONY ALPE, currently unemployed, from South East London; SAT SAT MIKE CLARKE, a driver with a voluntary organisation from SAT Montrose; SAT SAT JOHN GRANT, a voluntary worker from West London; SAT SAT ROY ISWORTH, a surgeon from Tenterden in Kent. SAT SAT 23:30 Murmur b075mly5 (Listen) SAT Julia Blackburn reads her poem about the death of her SAT husband and flocks of winter starlings. Not long after her SAT husband died she found herself drawn to write a series of SAT poems about his last years and his life. At the same time SAT near their Suffolk home Julia watched the great seething and SAT pulsing of winter starling murmurations. Without expecting SAT it she also found that the starlings flew into her poem and SAT began to help her make sense of her husband's death. Her SAT book of poems is called: Murmurations of Love, Grief and SAT Starlings. She reads it, talks about her husband and tries SAT to hear the sound of ten thousand starlings wheeling through SAT the dusk of a winter's day. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 APRIL 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0766fv6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Shorts b03tr81h (Listen) SUN Series 13, Egg and Cress SUN SUN Scottish Shorts, the best writing from Scotland. SUN Egg and Cress by Melissa Reid SUN A disappointing sandwich is the start of a slow unravelling SUN for a put-upon mother. Reader Laura Smales. Produced by SUN Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN Melissa Reid is working towards a Creative Writing PhD and SUN is writing her first novel - a story for young adults set in SUN the North of Scotland. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Laura Smales SUN Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SUN Writer: Melissa Reid SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0766fv8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0766fvb (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0766fvd (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0766fvg (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0766kd1 (Listen) SUN St Edward's Church in Eggbuckland, Plymouth SUN SUN Bells on Sunday, which this week comes from Devon, a county SUN which has more rings of bells than any other. St Edward's SUN church in Eggbuckland, Plymouth has 6 bells, all cast in SUN 1882. This week we hear a typical call change band, raising SUN the bells prior to ringing these traditional Devon Call SUN Changes. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b07654qb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0766fvj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0766kd3 (Listen) SUN Mercy SUN SUN Journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik has been fascinated and SUN challenged by 'the unsettling and overwhelming' mercy of God SUN all his life - even his name means 'servant of the SUN Merciful'. When he studies sacred texts, it is references to SUN mercy that he seeks out first. SUN SUN In this programme, Abdul has selected readings that SUN illuminate the nature of mercy from the Quran, the Baghavad SUN Gita, the works of William Blake, Pope Francis, and Thomas SUN Merton - as well as the compositions of musicians as diverse SUN as Sir John Taverner and John Coltrane. SUN SUN A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0766kd6 (Listen) SUN Future Food: Grow Up Urban Farms SUN SUN On an unassuming industrial estate in the east of London, SUN Dan Saladino discovers an aquaponic farm that could be a SUN model for the future of food production in an urban SUN environment. Grow Up Urban Farms grow tilapia, and use the SUN waste material from these fish to feed the plants that they SUN grow hydroponically. SUN SUN Co-founders of Grow Up, Kate Hofman and Tom Webster, guide SUN Dan around the facility - which is ramping up production. SUN Already selling leaves, from micro-coriander and pea shoots SUN to Thai basil, to local shops and chefs - Kate and Tom plan SUN to sell their fish soon too. Is this a glimpse into the way SUN we will grow much more of our food in coming years? SUN SUN This is the first in a special series of three programmes, SUN profiling the finalists in the 'Future Food' category in the SUN 2016 BBC Food and Farming Awards. Joining Dan are this SUN year's judges, farmer Mike Gooding and Managing Editor of SUN The Grocer magazine, Julia Glotz. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0766fvl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0766fvn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0766fvq (Listen) SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b0766kd9 (Listen) SUN Vision Aid Overseas SUN SUN Twiggy presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Vision Aid SUN Overseas SUN Registered Charity No 1081695 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Vision Aid Overseas' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Vision Aid Overseas'. SUN SUN Yisimash Digis, Amba Giorgis, Ethiopia SUN SUN Yisimash (who you hear about in the appeal) is a volunteer SUN clinical nurse who was provided with a pair of spectacles so SUN she can see properly to care for all her patients. SUN SUN Distance vision testing, Zambia SUN SUN A lady in Zambia has her distance vision tested by a team SUN from Vision Aid Overseas who came to provide outreach eye SUN care services in her local community. SUN SUN Catherine and Blessings, Zambia SUN SUN Catherine and Blessings are both 7 year old students from SUN Zambia who were provided with an eye test and a pair of SUN spectacles so that they are able to thrive again in school. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0766fvs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0766fvv (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0766kdd (Listen) SUN Living in Resurrection SUN SUN Easter might already seem a long time ago and two Sundays SUN on, the world looks very much the same. But resurrection is SUN not simply a date in a calendar, a doctrine to be affirmed. SUN Christians believe it is a reality to be lived through all SUN the joys and sorrows of human experience. In a live service SUN from Tabernacl Baptist Church located in the heart of SUN Cardiff city centre, the Rev Denzil John and the preacher SUN the Rev. Roy Jenkins reflect on living in the light of SUN Resurrection. The Cardiff Ardwyn Singers, accompanied by SUN Janice Ball, are directed by David Michael Leggett. SUN Producer: Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b075thh1 (Listen) SUN The Meaning of Time SUN SUN Will Self reflects on our sense of the meaning of time and SUN the changes in our perception brought about by new SUN technologies. SUN SUN "Obviously the world wide web and the internet have played a SUN key role in making each and every one of us a little hot SUN spot of Nowness: over the past twenty years as more and more SUN people have chosen to spend more and more of their time in SUN this virtual realm, so we've sought to furnish its fuzzy SUN immensity with our memories, individual and collective." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj1l (Listen) SUN Swallow 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 Brett Westwood presents the swallow. You can see Swallows at SUN this time of year gathering on telegraph wires, strung out SUN like musical notes on a stave, before their long journey SUN south to Africa. The female swallow often rears two broods SUN of young each year but in sunny weather when there are SUN plenty of flying insects, she may manage three broods. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0766fvx (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0769qsn (Listen) SUN Rob asserts his viewpoint, and Susan stirs the pot. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones SUN Bruce Titchener: Michael Byrne SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b0769qsq (Listen) SUN Disability Campaigners SUN SUN Sue MacGregor reunites five people who experienced a long SUN and bitter struggle for historic disability discrimination SUN rights. SUN SUN Kept apart from other children in stiflingly boring special SUN schools, hidden away in institutions or trapped and SUN powerless in family homes, this was normal life for millions SUN of disabled people in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. SUN SUN Routinely turned away from cafes for "putting other SUN customers off" and cinemas for being "a fire hazard", cruel SUN names and insensitive questions were a regular indignity. SUN SUN In 1979 a Government report found that discrimination SUN against disabled people was as bad as that relating to race SUN or gender. The reportt highlighted the case of a draughtsman SUN whose job offer was withdrawn because he had a prosthetic SUN leg. SUN SUN In the 1980s, a new generation of disabled people started SUN challenging society and the Government, saying it was SUN society that prevented them from actively participating in a SUN fuller working and social life. SUN SUN When letters and peaceful campaigning failed, demonstrators SUN upped the ante, chaining themselves to buses and bringing SUN Whitehall to a standstill. The campaign split friendships SUN and loyalties and left many bitterly disappointed. SUN SUN Joining Sue around the table to look back on what was dubbed SUN "the last civil rights movement" are Baroness Jane Campbell SUN who was arrested during campaigning; Sir Bert Massie who was SUN accused of being an "Uncle Tom" when he started working with SUN the Government; Peter White who, as the BBC's Disability SUN Correspondent, had a front row seat on the campaign; Lord SUN Hague who steered the Disability Discrimination Act through SUN Parliament; and Adam Thomas who met his wife while chained SUN to a bus! SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b0766fvz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b0731bsv (Listen) SUN Series 16, Episode 1 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Henning Wehn, Jon Richardson, Susan Calman and Jack Dee are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as tattoos, milk, supermarkets and SUN Vladimir Putin. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. SUN SUN Produced by Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Henning Wehn SUN Panellist: Jon Richardson SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: Jack Dee SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0769qss (Listen) SUN Food in Extreme Places: The Submarine (2/3) SUN SUN Continuing our series of programmes on cooking and eating in SUN challenging conditions in remote places: The Royal Navy's SUN submarines make their own air and water so food is the one SUN factor limiting how long they can remain at sea. Sheila SUN Dillon explores life, and the role food plays in it, on SUN board HMS Artful- a nuclear-powered but not nuclear-armed SUN submarine. More than simply for nutrition, food acts as a SUN marker of the day and time in a world without sunlight and SUN is crucial in maintaining morale. So how do you order enough SUN food for 140 crew for up to 3 months at sea, store it in SUN confined spaces and cook for a 24 hour operation while SUN coping with the vessel diving or having to keep silence in a SUN stealth operation? Sheila learns about the naval favourites SUN 'Cheesy Wham-bam' and 'Nelly's Wellies', how they mark an SUN important occasion and works out if the chef if the most SUN popular job to have on board. SUN SUN This episode follows on from eating in the Antarctic. Next SUN is food in space. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon SUN Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0766fw1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0766fw3 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Hell Is Other People: A Self-Help Guide to Social SUN Anxiety b06fkd1y (Listen) SUN Performer Byron Vincent is unfazed when entertaining an SUN audience but is terrified of making conversation with SUN strangers. He embarks on a quest to overcome his paralyzing SUN fear of social situations. SUN SUN Social anxiety - the fear of social interaction with others SUN - is the most common anxiety disorder. Byron has a bad case SUN of it. Like many people has been held back from enjoying or SUN getting involved in situations he would have liked to. SUN SUN For those who live with social phobia, life can be a litany SUN of missed opportunities, of people assuming a lack of saying SUN something denotes a lack of something to say. So he's SUN decided to tackle his stranger danger head on and beat his SUN social anxiety. On a journey of trial and error via SUN Californian tranquility gurus, life coaches, fellow SUN 'panickers', dinner parties, the barbers' chair and more, SUN Byron hopes that the mortal dread induced by social SUN interaction will become a thing of the past. SUN SUN Producer Neil McCarthy. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b075thgf (Listen) SUN Cornwall Garden Society Show SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the programme from the Cornwall Garden SUN Society Show. SUN SUN James Wong, Anne Swithinbank and Matt Biggs are this week's SUN panellists, discussing the best ways to quickly compost SUN perennial weeds, singing the praises of raised beds, and SUN advising on how to rid your garden of invasive bamboo. SUN SUN The panel also takes a look at what the Cornwall Garden SUN Society Show has to offer, and Chris Beardshaw investigates SUN the gardening scene in Seattle, WA. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant Producer: Laurence Bassett SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – Is there a way of quickly composting perennial weeds? SUN SUN Anne – You can drown them in water until it has completely SUN died and then compost it. I’ve got some *Potentilla SUN reptans* at the moment – which came in on some bare-rooted SUN gooseberries – and it’s an awful weed so I incinerate that SUN actually. SUN SUN Matt – You could dry them out in the sunshine first too. SUN SUN James – I take mine to the council tip and they give me SUN compost in return. SUN SUN SUN Q – I would like to know what plants to grow in an exposed, SUN north-Cornwall coastal garden in the colours of blue and SUN white please. SUN SUN Anne – You’ll need a windbreak – *Olearia* is a good choice, SUN especially *traversii* (the ‘Daisy Bushes’). I’d then try SUN *Echinops* – the ‘Globe Thistles’. On a smaller scale you SUN could try ‘Cupid’s Dart’ – *Catananche caerulea* – as an SUN annual. SUN SUN James – *Agave americana*. SUN SUN Matt – *Agapanthus*. Or the *Eryngium* – the ‘Sea Holly’; SUN *Eryngium bourgattii* ‘Picos Blue’ is a good one. SUN SUN SUN Q – What’s the point of raised beds? SUN SUN Matt – One point is to avoid the natural growing conditions SUN eg heavy clay. Also, as I get older it makes gardening SUN easier as I don’t have to bend down as much. The soil warms SUN up quicker in the Spring so it extends the growing season. SUN SUN Anne – They suit the tidy-minded because they are neat. SUN SUN James – They are great to increase productivity in small SUN spaces. SUN SUN SUN Q – My roses that were pruned in the autumn put on early SUN growth but succumbed to wind burn. Can they be pruned back? SUN I’m particularly worried about *Floribundas*. SUN SUN James – I think the pruning has been done for you. Leave SUN them to it. Avoid putting any fertiliser on now but maybe SUN some later in the year. SUN SUN Q – How do I get rid of rampant, invasive bamboo without SUN using chemicals? SUN SUN James – Tricky. I’d hack it down to the ground two or three SUN times in a year to drain its underground reserves of SUN energy. It will eventually go. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’ve been growing carrots at 900ft (275m) on Bodmin Moor SUN and the last three years have been disastrous. They are SUN thin and reedy and they get carrot fly. SUN SUN Anne – It’s likely to be the bad summers that we’ve had SUN SUN Matt – It might be worth starting them off in modules and SUN then transplant them. Or plant smaller, round-rooted SUN varieties like ‘Parmex’ round the outside of a pot and then SUN planting them out. SUN SUN James – Try switching to Bilberries – very similar but can’t SUN be found in the supermarket. SUN SUN SUN Q – How can I grow Lemon Verbena successfully? SUN SUN Anne – Very easily I should think. Plant it into a SUN container and have it outside on a patio for the summer – or SUN in a greenhouse. Come the autumn you could either take SUN cuttings and bring them into the greenhouse or dig up the SUN plant, re-pot it and bring it in. Keep it frost free. Then SUN back out on the patio in spring. SUN SUN Q – My ‘Marjorie’ plum tree is now fifteen years old. It SUN has been a good fruiter but has become rather straggly - SUN should I prune? If so, when and how much? SUN SUN Matt – End of July to end of August normally. I would thin SUN it out rather than heavily prune. SUN SUN SUN Q – What are the badgers looking for when they’re digging up SUN my lawn? SUN SUN Anne – Worms and grubs essentially. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b0769qsv (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces friends who share interests and those SUN who have little in common, yet whether they live in Omagh, SUN Tadcaster or Manchester, they rely on their mutual support. 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 b0769qsx (Listen) SUN Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Episode 1 SUN SUN Adapted for radio by Jeanette Winterson from her acclaimed SUN novel. SUN SUN A unique coming of age story and a darkly funny tale of SUN religious excess and human obsession. SUN SUN Mrs Winterson has grand plans for her adopted daughter. SUN Having received Little Jeanette from the Lord she intends to SUN give her back to the Lord - she'll be a Missionary and save SUN the world from sin. But despite her strange and zealous SUN upbringing Little Jeanette begins to question her future. SUN Inspired by the legends of the Holy Grail, she may forge her SUN own path - much to her mother's despair. SUN SUN Piano performed by David Thomas SUN SUN From the award winning novel by Jeanette Winterson SUN Dramatised for radio by Jeanette Winterson SUN SUN Directed by Helen Perry SUN A BBC Cymru/Wales Production SUN SUN Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, SUN Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is Jeanette Winterson's SUN semi-autobiographical novel. Her subsequent novels, SUN including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the SUN Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great SUN international acclaim and Jeanette Winterson's honours SUN include England's Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy' SUN s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d'argent at the SUN Cannes Film Festival. SUN SUN Lesley Sharp is an award-winning stage, film and television SUN actress, particularly well known for her variety of British SUN television roles including Clocking Off, Scott & Bailey, Bob SUN & Rose and Afterlife. SUN SUN Credits SUN Mrs Winterson: Lesley Sharp SUN Little Jeanette: Eleanor Worthington-Cox SUN Jeanette: Katie West SUN Pastor Spratt: Vincent Franklin SUN Miss Jewsbury: Pauline Lynch SUN Mrs White: Susan Jameson SUN May: Adie Allen SUN Elsie Norris: Angela Pleasance SUN Louie: Claire Cage SUN Mrs Arkwright: Vicky Licorish SUN Man: Sam Rix SUN Author: Jeanette Winterson SUN Adaptor: Jeanette Winterson SUN Director: Helen Perry SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0769qsz (Listen) SUN Kate Tempest SUN SUN Kate Tempest is an acclaimed rapper, poet and playwright and SUN now she's added novelist to her CV. She talks to Mariella SUN Frostrup about her debut, The Bricks That Built The Houses, SUN the story of three young Londoners trying to escape their SUN complicated lives. SUN Also on the programme two authors discuss why the SUN environmental changing is the new big fear in dystopian SUN fiction and writer Callan Wink tells us why he finds writing SUN hard, hard work. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Kate Tempest SUN Interviewed Guest: Callan Wink SUN SUN 16:30 The Poetic Spark b0769st8 (Listen) SUN The inscription on Muriel Spark's tombstone in Tuscany reads SUN 'Muriel Spark. Poeta'. SUN SUN Surprising perhaps: because, despite the fact that Spark SUN always referred to herself as a poet, it's her reputation as SUN a novelist, and the creator of the charismatic Jean Brodie, SUN for which she's better known. SUN SUN Before Muriel was anywhere near her prime, she'd established SUN a reputation as a poet. Aged just fourteen, she won a SUN prestigious poetry competition celebrating the centenary of SUN Walter Scott. Later, she published several collections to SUN glowing reviews and completed a controversial stint as SUN Editor of the Poetry Review, during which time she gathered SUN as many enemies as her fictional alter-ego, Jean Brodie SUN (notably Marie Stopes about whom she famously quipped: 'I SUN used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had SUN not thought of birth control')! SUN SUN Muriel Spark kept writing poetry throughout her life. 10 SUN years after her death, AL Kennedy, a long term admirer of SUN her novels and short stories, wonders what new insights the SUN poems might lend to her writing and character. SUN SUN Fiona Sampson SUN SUN Professor of Poetry at the University of Roehampton, where SUN she is the Director of the Roehampton Poetry Centre and SUN Editor of *Poem*. SUN SUN SUN SUN She has published twenty books, including works of poetry, SUN volumes on the philosophy of language and on the writing SUN process. Her poetry has been published and broadcast in more SUN than thirty languages. SUN SUN Michael Schmidt SUN SUN FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, Michael was born SUN in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham SUN College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many SUN publications are several collections of poems and a novel, SUN *The Colonist* (1981), about a boy’s childhood in Mexico. He SUN is general editor of *PN Review* and founder as well as SUN managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester. SUN SUN Alan Taylor SUN SUN Alan Taylor is founding editor of the Scottish Review of SUN Books. He writes for the Times Literary Supplement, the SUN Herald and the Sunday Herald. Glasgow: The Autobiography SUN will be published later this year. Forthcoming is a memoir SUN of Muriel Spark, whose friendship he enjoyed from 1990 until SUN her death in 2006. SUN SUN Penelope Jardine SUN SUN Muriel Spark’s companion, friend and helper for many years. SUN SUN Alexandra Mathie SUN SUN Alexandra Mathie’s stage work includes productions at the SUN National Theatre, the Royal Exchange, Royal Lyceum, Stephen SUN Joseph Theatre and in the West End. Amongst many television SUN appearances she has been seen in Coronation Street, Doctors, SUN Eastenders and Casualty. She is regularly to be heard on SUN BBC Radio. SUN SUN 17:00 The Panama Papers b075pz83 (Listen) SUN This week's massive leak of confidential documents from the SUN Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, has given SUN unprecedented access to the way the rich and powerful have SUN used tax havens to hide their wealth. But within the eleven SUN and a half million documents, there is also evidence of how SUN some of the shell companies set up by the firm, or the SUN individuals that owned them, have been the subject of SUN international sanctions and have been used by rogue states SUN and oppressive regimes including North Korea and Syria. SUN Simon Cox reveals details from the leaked papers and travels SUN to the British Virgin Islands where a small office run by SUN Mossack Fonseca was used to create more than 100,000 SUN companies. One of them was a front for a North Korean Bank SUN that was later sanctioned by the United States for SUN supporting the regime's illicit nuclear and ballistic SUN missile programme. According to the US, the BVI based front SUN company managed millions of dollars in transactions in SUN support of North Korea. SUN Other companies set up by on the island were used by a SUN billionaire businessman who is a cousin of Syrian President SUN Bashar Al Assad and who was sanctioned by the US for using SUN "intimidation and his close ties to the Assad regime at the SUN expense of ordinary Syrians." SUN Mossack Fonseca has said it never knowingly allowed the use SUN of its companies by individuals with any relationship with SUN North Korea or Syria and says it has operated beyond SUN reproach for 40 years and has never been charged with SUN criminal wrong-doing. SUN Reporter: Simon Cox Producer: James Melley. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b07654qb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0766fw7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0766fw9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0766fwc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0769stb (Listen) SUN Adrian Goldberg SUN SUN Adrian Goldberg chooses his pick of BBC radio this week. It SUN was a week when The Archers gripped the nation, and of SUN course we can't forget the culmination of Rob and Helen's SUN domestic disputes. But there was plenty of other captivating SUN radio on the BBC this week - a revealing investigation into SUN the Muslim Deobandi sect, psychedelic drugs rehabilitated in SUN the name of science, and nodding donkeys in the Lincolnshire SUN countryside - don't worry the two things aren't related, And SUN that's not to mention Madonna's bottom! SUN SUN Production team Kevin Mousley & Kay Bishton. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0769tsn (Listen) SUN Clarrie has some words of advice, and Henry is playing up. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rest Is History b0769tsq (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 SUN SUN Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of SUN it. So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to SUN find out more about it. SUN SUN Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate SUN Williams, Frank is joined by a selection of celebrity guests SUN who help him navigate his way through the annals of time, SUN picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and most SUN interesting moments in history. SUN SUN The guests are Al Murray and Isy Suttie, who discuss Robin SUN Hood, wartime slogans, Annie Oakley and a statue-related SUN history mystery. SUN SUN Produced by Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard SUN An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Frank Skinner SUN Interviewed Guest: Al Murray SUN Interviewed Guest: Isy Suttie SUN Interviewed Guest: Kate Williams SUN Producer: Mark Augustyn SUN Producer: Justin Pollard SUN SUN 19:45 Infinite Possibilities and Unlikely Probabilities SUN b0414qvb (Listen) SUN Balance SUN SUN Three contemporary stories by Anita Sullivan - commissioned SUN specially for Radio 4 - set in a seaside town and exploring SUN a wider world that co-exists with our everyday lives. SUN SUN Balance: SUN SUN In the charity shop, Fran counts and checks all the pieces SUN in the donated board games. but are the scrabble tiles SUN trying to tell her something? SUN SUN Anita Sullivan has written a number of plays and short SUN stories for BBC Radio, among them 'Countrysides' (2011), SUN 'The Last Breath' (created with Ben Fearnside, 2012) and the SUN adaptation for 'An Angel At My Table', which won Best Audio SUN Drama (series or serial) at the BBC Audio Drama awards in SUN 2014. SUN SUN Reader: Rakie Ayola SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Rakie Ayola SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Anita Sullivan SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b075thgl (Listen) SUN Fathers and Babies SUN SUN Paternity Leave SUN This week it was claimed that only 1 percent of men are SUN taking up the option of shared parental leave - a new SUN provision that came into force a year ago. A number of media SUN outlets covered the story, interviewing experts about why SUN there was such a low take-up. But in reality the figures SUN used are deeply flawed and cannot be used to prove such a SUN statement. SUN SUN Exponential Love SUN "I love you twice as much today as yesterday, but half as SUN much as tomorrow." - This is the inscription on a card that SUN teacher Kyle Evans once saw in a card from his father to his SUN mother. But if that was true, what would it have meant over SUN the course of their relationship? Kyle takes us through a SUN musical exploration of what exponential love would look SUN like. The item is based on a performance he gave for a SUN regional heat of Cheltenham Festivals Famelab - a SUN competition trying to explain science in an engaging way. SUN SUN The cost of the EU SUN One of our listeners spotted a comparison made this week SUN between the UK's contribution to the EU and a sandwich. One SUN blogger says it's like buying a £3 sandwich with a £5 note, SUN and getting over a £1,000 in change. We look at the figures SUN on how much the UK pays to the EU, and what it gets back. SUN SUN The story of 'average' SUN In the 1600s astronomers were coming up with measurements to SUN help sailors read their maps with a compass. But with all SUN the observations of the skies they were making, how did they SUN choose the best number? We tell the story of how astronomers SUN started to find the average from a group of numbers. By the SUN 1800s, one Belgian astronomer began to apply it to all sorts SUN of social and national statistics - and the 'Average Man' SUN was born. SUN SUN And we set a little maths problem to solve... SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Charlotte McDonald. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b075mf0n (Listen) SUN Mother Angelica, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, DJ Derek, Doreen SUN Massey and Joe Medicine Crow SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The American broadcasting nun Mother Angelica who founded SUN the Eternal Word Television Network and dispensed SUN traditional Catholic advice to viewers. SUN SUN The German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, one of SUN the principal architects of his country's re-unification. SUN SUN Derek Serpell-Morris, who gave up his job as an accountant SUN to become DJ Derek, playing reggae and ska and claiming to SUN be Britain's oldest DJ. SUN SUN Doreen Massey who changed the way we think about geography SUN SUN and Joe Medicine Crow, the native American historian who was SUN a direct link back to Custer's last stand. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George SUN Interviewed guest: Joanna Bogle SUN Interviewed guest: Paul Burnell SUN Interviewed guest: Lord Owen SUN Interviewed guest: Hilary Wainwright SUN Interviewed guest: Emma Jackson SUN Interviewed guest: Dr David Featherstone SUN Interviewed guest: Herman Viola. SUN SUN Mother Angelica SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Joanna Bogle, a presenter on EWTN and to SUN Paul Burnell, former Editor of the Catholic Universe SUN newspaper. SUN SUN Born 20 April 1923; died 27 March 2016 aged 92. SUN SUN Hans-Dietrich Genscher SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Lord Owen. SUN SUN Born 21 March 1927; died 31 March 2016 aged 89. SUN SUN Derek Serpell-Morris (DJ Derek) SUN SUN Born 18 December 1941; died c.11 July 2015 aged 74. SUN SUN Doreen Massey SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her friend Hilary Wainwright and to SUN sociologist Emma Jackson and Dr David Featherstone who was SUN one of Doreen’s PHD students. SUN SUN Born 3 January 1944; died 11 March 2016 aged 72. SUN SUN Joe Medicine Crow SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend, the academic Herman Viola. SUN SUN Born 7 October 1913; died 3 April 2016 aged 102. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Joanna Bogle SUN Interviewed Guest: Paul Burnell SUN Interviewed Guest: David Owen SUN Interviewed Guest: Hilary Wainwright SUN Interviewed Guest: Emma Jackson SUN Interviewed Guest: David Featherstone SUN Interviewed Guest: Herman Viola SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b075mf40 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0766kd9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b075t6kq (Listen) SUN Tax transparency - Norway's model SUN SUN The Panama papers reveal tax evasion is a huge international SUN problem. SUN SUN But how can governments clean things up? One way might be by SUN opening things up. SUN SUN In the UK, it is a criminal offence to reveal someone else's SUN tax affairs, but in some countries you can easily discover SUN how much anyone earns and how much they pay in tax, from the SUN prime minister and the richest business leader to the SUN poorest pensioner. SUN SUN It can have a profound effect on business practice and wider SUN society, as business correspondent Jonty Bloom discovers, SUN travelling to Norway. SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander SUN SUN With special thanks to Bill Lomas, Leek Town Crier. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0766fwk (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b075mdy7 (Listen) SUN Jacques Audiard SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN Director Jacques Audiard reveals why he cast a former Tamil SUN Tiger to star in his drama Dheepan, which won the SUN prestigious Palme D'Or at last year's Cannes festival. SUN SUN Composer Neil Brand unravels the mysteries of the score to SUN one of the greatest openings in cinema history, Citizen SUN Kane. SUN SUN Location scout Philip Lobban explains how a key scene in a SUN recent James Bond film was set in Surrey and Scotland SUN simultaneously, with the help of some digital trickery. SUN SUN Couple In a Hole director Tom Geens on his debut movie, SUN which took five years to get financed and was abandoned SUN after two days when his lead actor broke his leg, and why SUN this turned out to be a happy accident. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Jacques Audiard SUN Interviewed Guest: Neil Brand SUN Interviewed Guest: Philip Lobban SUN Interviewed Guest: Tom Geens SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0766kd3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 APRIL 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0766h2b (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b075qjl5 (Listen) MON The BSA and Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award Shortlist MON MON The Ethnography award 'short list': Thinking Allowed, in MON association with the British Sociological Association, MON presents a special programme devoted to the academic MON research which has been short listed for our third annual MON award for a study that has made a significant contribution MON to ethnography, the in-depth analysis of the everyday life MON of a culture or sub culture. Laurie Taylor is joined by MON three of the judges: Claire Alexander, Professor of MON Sociology at the University of Manchester, Helen Sampson, MON Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre at MON Cardiff University and Olivia Sheringham, Postdoctoral MON Research Fellow in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, MON University of London. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Claire Alexander at the University of Manchester MON Helen Sampson, Director of the MON Seafarers International Research Centre at the University of MON Cardiff MON Olivia Sheringham at Queen Mary, University of London MON MON MON MON Emma Jackson, *Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed MON in Mobility* (Routledge, 2015) MON MON Alistair Fraser, *Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the MON Post-Industrial City* (OUP, 2015) MON MON Anna Strhan, *Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for MON Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals* (OUP, 2015) MON MON Emma Crewe, *The House of Commons: An Anthropology of MPs at MON Work* (Bloomsbury, 2015) MON MON Maxim Bolt, *Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border MON Farms: The Roots of Impermanence* (Cambridge University MON Press, 2015) MON MON Nayanika Mookherjee, *The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, MON Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971* (Duke MON University Press, 2015) MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0766kd1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0766h2d (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0766h2g (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0766h2j (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0766h2l (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b076wdry (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0769vtb (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Vernon Harwood. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0766h2q (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01s6y1h (Listen) MON Cuckoo - Male MON MON David Attenborough narrates the first in a new series of MON short stories about our British birds inspired by their MON calls and songs, beginning with the Cuckoo. After spending MON winter in Africa, the migratory urge propels the Cuckoos MON northwards. And for many of us their return is a welcome MON sign that spring is well and truly here. MON MON Cuckoo - Male (Cuculus canorus) MON Image courtesy of RSPB MON MON 06:00 Today b076b0ky (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b076b0l0 (Listen) MON Loneliness and Inner Voices MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to the psychologist MON Charles Fernyhough about the inner speech in our heads. But MON what if it's a lone voice? The writer Olivia Laing explores MON what it's like to be lonely in a bustling city, while the MON playwright Alistair McDowall explores what happens when MON you're abandoned on a distant planet with no sense of time. MON The biographer Frances Wilson writes a tale of hero-worship, MON betrayal and revenge through the life of Thomas De Quincey, MON a man who modelled his opium-habit on Coleridge and his MON voice and writing on Wordsworth. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Charles Fernyhough MON Interviewed Guest: Olivia Laing MON Interviewed Guest: Alistair McDowall MON Interviewed Guest: Frances Wilson MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b076b0l2 (Listen) MON At the Existentialist Cafe, Episode 1 MON MON Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot MON cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. MON They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and MON longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves MON to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called MON Phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a MON phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make MON philosophy out of it!" MON MON It was this simple phrase that ignited a movement, inspiring MON Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, MON humanistic sensibility, creating an entirely new MON philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical MON freedom, authentic being and political activism. This MON movement swept through the jazz clubs and cafĂ©s of the Left MON Bank before making its way across the world as MON Existentialism. MON MON Featuring philosophers, playwrights, anthropologists, MON convicts and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist CafĂ© MON follows the existentialists' story - from the first MON rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role MON in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, MON feminism, and gay rights. MON MON Interweaving biography and philosophy, this is an epic MON account of passionate encounters - fights, love affairs, MON mentorships, rebellions, and long partnership. It's also an MON investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us MON today - at a moment when we are once again confronting the MON major questions of freedom, global responsibility and human MON authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world. MON MON Written by Sarah Bakewell MON Read by Sasha Behar MON Abridged by Polly Coles MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Sasha Behar MON Author: Sarah Bakewell MON Abridger: Polly Coles MON Producer: Clive Brill MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0766h2s (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON Transgender Advice MON BBC Gender Dysphoria & Transgender Advice MON MON The Beaumont Society MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b076b2pg (Listen) MON Writing the Century: The Secret, Innocence MON MON The series which explores the 20th century through the words MON of real people. Muriel Howard's account of her Somerset MON childhood and the secret that defined it adapted by Tina MON Pepler with Sara Davies. MON MON It's 1911 and Muriel at 5-years-old begins to question her MON mother's night-time absences MON MON Violinists ..... Sam and Andrew McGregor MON MON Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins MON MON Muriel Howard, full name Brenda Muriel Howard-Tripp, grew up MON in the Somerset village of Sampford Brett with her brother MON and widowed mother after her father, the rector, died of MON consumption. Behind the story of a fatherless and MON impecunious but affectionate rural upbringing hovers a MON secret that threatens to emerge and tear apart her MON close-knit family. MON MON Adapted from her unpublished memoir, The Secret, explores MON the emotions of a child caught in an adult drama she doesn't MON understand. MON MON The action plays out against the backdrop of village life, MON school and friendships in early 20th Century rural England, MON spanning the years 1911-1923. MON MON Brenda Muriel Howard-Tripp went on to become a trail-blazing MON career woman, Director of East Europe at the British Council MON and cultural attachĂ© in the Soviet Union after the Second MON World War. MON MON Credits MON Muriel: Scarlett Brookes MON Mother: Jeany Spark MON Young Muriel: Madeleine Power MON Young Philip: Finn Monteath MON Jinks: Joe Sims MON Mrs Burnel: Susan Jameson MON Mrs Sawyer: Adie Allen MON Ethel: Nicola Ferguson MON Violet: Nicola Ferguson MON Adaptor: Tina Pepler MON Adaptor: Sara Davies MON Director: Gemma Jenkins MON Producer: Gemma Jenkins MON MON 11:00 Swansong b076b35d (Listen) MON Her heart it played MON like well worn strings; MON in her eyes MON the sadness sings; MON of one who was destined MON for better things MON MON Hana Walker-Brown's grandma was kept alive for seven hours MON in order for her family to rush to the hospital to say their MON goodbyes. One moment, alive like few 86 year olds; the next, MON parked in the one-way ward, a holding bay between this life MON and the next. MON MON Swansong is a meditation on memory and loss, acceptance and MON death, with real life stories, imagined ones and the sounds MON and silences that weave our worlds together. MON MON As Hana sat with her family waiting for the final moment, MON grief already upon them, her grandma lay in her own time and MON place - memories flooding in and around the reality of her MON situation, like a rolodex, flicking through years, moments, MON experiences in which she'd found happiness, sadness, MON weakness and strength. Content with death, after a life MON well-lived. MON MON Comprising interviews with those who witnessed these final MON moments and audio captured by Hana with her grandma over the MON years, this feature blurs the lines between fact and fiction MON to take the listener through the precious final moments MON before passing to the other side. MON MON Produced by Hana Walker-Brown MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Boswell's Lives b076bc7j (Listen) MON Series 2, Boswell's Life of Bennett MON MON by Jon Canter MON MON Comedy as James Boswell Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer MON pursues other legends to immortalise. Today he attempts to MON locate the cream cracker under the settee of Mr Alan MON Bennett. MON MON Credits MON James Boswell: Miles Jupp MON Alan Bennett: Alistair McGowan MON Writer: Jon Canter MON Director: Sally Avens MON MON 12:00 News Summary b0766h2v (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b076bc7l (Listen) MON 11 April 1916 - Dieter Lippke MON MON On this day in 1916, as reports came in of the German army MON crossing into the French trenches at Verdun, Dieter's MON position at Buckfast Abbey is threatened. MON MON Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer MON Amos Rutter: Richard Cotton MON Brother Columban: Sean Baker MON Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw MON Sylvia Graham: Joanna David MON Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant MON Dom Anscar Vonier: Kenneth Collard MON Brother Aloysius: Toby Bryant MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b0766h2x (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0766h2z (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b076bv38 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 Free Speech b076bv3b (Listen) MON Oxygen of Freedom MON MON Timothy Garton Ash introduces the subject of freedom of MON speech and why it is more important than ever in today's MON internet-connected world. Professor Garton Ash sets out the MON arguments for why we need free speech, including for the MON sake of diversity, good governance and the search for truth. MON He argues that as smartphones and the web change our MON communications, we need a set of principles which govern MON free speech more than ever as this essential human right MON comes under attack. Drawing on research behind his book on MON the subject, he identifies three main threats. The first is MON what he calls the heckler's veto: if you shout loudly enough MON you can restrict free speech. The second is the MON offensiveness veto: if you cry 'I'm offended' you can MON restrict free speech. The third is the assassin's veto: if MON you say that, we will kill you. MON MON Produced by Nina Robinson MON MON (Illustration provided by Luis Ruibal). MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0769tsn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06j67y0 (Listen) MON The Liberty Cap MON MON Pete has been suffering from depression for many years but MON no therapy or medicine has had any lasting benefit. Now he MON is considering taking part in a clinical trial that is MON testing a new treatment that uses Psilocybin, the MON psychoactive chemical found in magic mushrooms. MON MON The Liberty Cap is written by Hattie Naylor (award winning MON playwright whose many plays include Ivan and the Dogs and MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys) and made in consultation with Dr MON Robin Carhart-Harris, a psycho-pharmacologist at Imperial MON College London, who is conducting research into psychedelic MON drugs and their potential therapeutic uses. MON MON Scientific research into psychedelic drugs has been MON effectively shut down for decades but is now becoming more MON widespread. The action of this drama is inspired by clinical MON trials that are currently taking place and the ethical MON questions they raise, although all characters portrayed are MON entirely fictional. MON MON The Liberty Cap was developed through the Wellcome Trust MON Experimental Stories scheme. MON MON Written by Hattie Naylor MON MON Programme consultant: Dr Robin Carhart-Harris MON Music consultant: Mark Jackson MON Sound design by Alisdair McGregor MON MON Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris MON A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Pete: Nigel Barrett MON Sam: Paul Currier MON Anna: Sally Orrock MON Writer: Hattie Naylor MON Director: Boz Temple-Morris MON Producer: Boz Temple-Morris MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b076bxlb (Listen) MON Semi-Final 2, 2016 MON MON (14/17) MON Russell Davies welcomes four more semi-finalists to the MON Radio Theatre in London, competing for a place in the 63rd MON Brain of Britain Final. MON MON This week's competitors, from Edinburgh, Leicester, MON Buckinghamshire and Merseyside, are all either heat winners MON or top-scoring runners-up from earlier in the series. To win MON through to the Final they'll need to know the name of the MON battle commemorated by the climactic section of MON Tchaikovsky's '1812' overture, the surname of the Goods' MON neighbours in the sitcom The Good Life, and the sporting MON tournament whose winner is awarded the Wanamaker Trophy. MON MON There'll also be the usual opportunity for a listener to MON 'Beat the Brains', with fiendish questions of his or her own MON devising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b0769qss (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics b076bz3h (Listen) MON Series 2, Aristophanes MON MON Join Natalie Haynes and guests for half an hour of comedy MON and the Classics from the BBC Radio Theatre in London. MON MON Natalie is a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive MON about Ancient Greece and Rome. MON MON Tonight she stands up in the name of Greek playwright and MON inventor of 'old comedy', Aristophanes. Expect a chorus of MON frogs, rather too much information about padded costumes, MON and a sex strike. Oh, and a lot of gossip from two and half MON thousand years ago. MON MON With special guests Rosie Wyles, Edith Hall and Fiona Laird. MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b076bz3l (Listen) MON Series 9, Home MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores how the digital world is changing MON our concept of how we find home and where that happens to MON be. MON MON 17:00 PM b0766h35 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0766h37 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b076bz3n (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 2 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Joe Lycett, Sam Simmons, Richard Osman and Aisling Bea are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as kitchens, pigeons, the Vatican and MON breakfast cereal. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Joe Lycett MON Panellist: Sam Simmons MON Panellist: Richard Osman MON Panellist: Aisling Bea MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b076bz3q (Listen) MON Bert is rebuilding, and Jill takes a call. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0766h39 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b076b2pg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 A Waste of Space b076mllv (Listen) MON Harriet Sergeant investigates whether empty commercial MON buildings could house the homeless. MON MON In October 2015, a group of housing activists - the MON Manchester Angels - broke into the defunct Manchester Stock MON Exchange and started living there illegally. They expected MON to be evicted by the building's new owners, Premier League MON footballers Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs, who were midway MON through converting it into boutique hotel. But instead of MON action to get the squatters removed, the footballers decided MON to let them stay for the winter. Not everyone was happy with MON either party and the police were frequently called to MON incidents at the Stock Exchange, caused by rival groups of MON squatters. MON MON Politicians have been so concerned about the damage caused MON to commercial property that they want to make squatting in MON commercial buildings a criminal, rather than a civil MON offence. But with the number of empty commercial buildings MON reaching record numbers - estimated at more than 1.5 million MON in the UK - has this high profile philanthropic gesture by MON two of the world's most famous footballers challenged MON prevailing attitudes to squatting? MON MON Harriet Sergeant, columnist for the Daily Mail and a MON contributor to the right-leaning Centre for Policy Studies, MON investigates why co-operatives and collectives are choosing MON to occupy defunct commercial spaces and whether the use of MON empty commercial buildings could provide a short-term fix MON for the burgeoning housing crisis. MON MON Harriet talks to property developers, local authorities, MON leading academics, landlords, social groups and cooperatives MON using the example of the Manchester Stock Exchange to MON understand commercial squatting. Can it be harnessed to MON benefit cities, rather than seen chiefly as an anti social MON act? MON MON Presenter: Harriet Sergeant MON Producers: Andrew McGibbon, Louise Morris MON Executive Producer: Lynne R Jones MON MON A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b075t5mv (Listen) MON Born Free, Killed by Hate in South Africa MON MON In 1994 apartheid ended in South Africa and Nelson Mandela MON was elected president. He promised in his inauguration MON speech to "build a society in which all South Africans will MON be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts ... a MON rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world." These MON promises were enshrined in South Africa's post-apartheid MON constitution, the first in the world to outlaw all forms of MON discrimination. MON MON In 1994 Motshidisi Pascalina Melamu was born, making her one MON of the first of the so-called 'born free generation'. Pasca, MON as she was known, dreamed of becoming a politician, and MON studied hard at school. She loved singing, dancing and MON football. And girls - Pasca was a lesbian. MON MON In December last year, Pasca's body was found in a field. MON She had been beaten and mutilated. She was one of three MON LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex) MON people murdered in a six-week period last year. Hate crimes MON against the LGBTI community have long been a problem in MON South Africa, and the government has tried to tackle them. MON But activists say these recent crimes are just one sign that MON things aren't getting better. James Fletcher travels to the MON townships south of Johannesburg to speak with Pasca's family MON and friends, and to ask whether the government is failing MON LGBTI South Africans. MON MON 21:00 Rewinding the Menopause b0643vfl (Listen) MON Dr Aarathi Prasad looks at how new research into women's MON fertility may help stave off the menopause, improving health MON and quality of life. MON MON The conventional wisdom is that a woman has a finite number MON of eggs which begin dying off before she is even born. MON Researchers in the 1950s counted the number of healthy eggs MON in human ovaries over the course of a life time. After the MON menopause none remain. MON MON In 2004, Dr Jonathan Tilly's lab at the Massachusetts MON General Hospital challenged this assumption when they MON identified cells they believed could replenish a woman's MON bank of eggs. The research is controversial as it has yet to MON be convincingly replicated, although scientists like Dr MON Evelyn Telfer - once sceptical of Dr Tilly's claims - have MON isolated the cells and already produced some promising MON results. MON MON Meanwhile, medical colleagues in Edinburgh have been MON freezing ovarian tissue, harvested from patients who - MON either through illness or medical treatment such as MON chemotherapy - face an early menopause. The aim is to use MON the patient's ovarian tissue at a later date to reverse the MON menopause and restore their fertility. MON MON In the long-term, such research could have implications for MON all menopausal women. However, obstetrician Dr Susan Bewley MON warns that benefits could come at a cost. She believes the MON menopause is a natural part of aging and there are risks in MON trying to reverse it. MON MON So what might the future hold for the application of this MON new research? MON MON Producer: Sara Parker MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b076b0l0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0766h3h (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0766h3k (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b076bzxp (Listen) MON Mothering Sunday, Episode 6 MON MON Booker prize-winner Graham Swift's new novel is a luminous MON and sensual meditation on truth, loss and the forging of a MON writer. MON MON After their secret assignation on Mothering Sunday, Jane MON Fairchild is given the freedom of her lover Paul's empty MON mansion when he leaves to meet his fiancĂ©e for lunch. MON MON Read by Eileen Atkins MON Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Eileen Atkins MON Author: Graham Swift MON Abridger: Eilidh McCreadie MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b075pz7x (Listen) MON Steven Pinker on Language MON MON Professor Steven Pinker joins Michael Rosen and Dr Laura MON Wright in the studio for a wide-ranging talk about his love MON of, and life working in, language. Steven is Johnstone MON Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and he's come MON up with some of the biggest and most exciting ideas about MON language. His books include The Language Instinct, How the MON Mind Works, and most recently, The Sense of Style: The MON Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Michael Rosen, Dr Laura Wright and Professor Steven Pinker MON (l-r) MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b076bzxr (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports as MPs and peers return to Westminster MON after the Easter break. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 APRIL 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0766g0h (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b076b0l2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0766g0k (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0766g0m (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0766g0q (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0766g0s (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b076zv7c (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b076c8m2 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tvnnw (Listen) TUE Sandwich Tern 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 presents the sandwich tern. Sandwich terns TUE are the UK's largest breeding terns and have shaggy black TUE crests and a black bill with a yellow tip. They live in TUE colonies on shingle or sandy beaches and were first TUE described from birds seen in Sandwich in the 1780s by TUE William Boys, a Kentish surgeon. TUE TUE Sandwich tern (Sterna sandvicensis) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b076c9j8 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Deobandis b076cg3d (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In part two of The Deobandis, the BBC's former Pakistan TUE correspondent Owen Bennett Jones reveals a secret history of TUE Jihadist propagation in Britain. TUE TUE This follows the BBC's discovery of an archive of Pakistani TUE Jihadist publications, which report in detail the links some TUE British Deobandi scholars have with militant organisations TUE in Pakistan. Among the revelations are details of a lecture TUE tour of Britain by Masood Azhar - a prominent Pakistani TUE militant operating in Kashmir. He toured the UK in the early TUE 1990s, spreading the word of Jihad to recruit fighters, TUE raise funds and build links which would aid young Britons TUE going abroad to fight Jihad decades later. TUE TUE The programme also explores intra-Muslim sectarianism in TUE Britain, and discovers how some senior Deobandi leaders have TUE links to the proscribed organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba, a TUE militant anti-Shia political party formed in Pakistan in the TUE 1980s. TUE TUE But how widespread and representative is this sympathy with TUE militancy? TUE TUE The programme explores the current battle for control in TUE some British mosques, speaking to British Deobandi Muslims TUE pushing back against the infiltration of Pakistani religious TUE politics in British life. TUE TUE As one campaigner says, this is 'the battle for the soul of TUE Islam' and the 'silent majority' must speak out - but can TUE moderate Muslims build the institutional power they need to TUE really enforce change? TUE TUE CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: TUE TUE Aimen Dean - former member of Al Qaeda and former MI5 TUE operative TUE TUE Rafaello Pantucci - Director in International Security TUE Studies, RUSI TUE TUE Mufti Mohammed Amin Pandor TUE TUE Toaha Qureshi MBE - Trustee of Aalimi Majlise Tahaffuze TUE Khatme Nubuwwat (Stockwell, London) TUE TUE Aamer Anwar - human rights lawyer TUE TUE Producers: Richard Fenton-Smith & Sajid Iqbal TUE Researcher: Holly Topham. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b076cg3g (Listen) TUE At the Existentialist Cafe, Episode 2 TUE TUE Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot TUE cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. TUE They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and TUE longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves TUE to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called TUE Phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a TUE phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make TUE philosophy out of it!" TUE TUE It was this simple phrase that ignited a movement, inspiring TUE Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, TUE humanistic sensibility, creating an entirely new TUE philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical TUE freedom, authentic being and political activism. This TUE movement swept through the jazz clubs and cafĂ©s of the Left TUE Bank before making its way across the world as TUE Existentialism. TUE TUE Featuring philosophers, playwrights, anthropologists, TUE convicts and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist CafĂ© TUE follows the existentialists' story - from the first TUE rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role TUE in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, TUE feminism, and gay rights. TUE TUE Interweaving biography and philosophy, this is an epic TUE account of passionate encounters - fights, love affairs, TUE mentorships, rebellions, and long partnership. It's also an TUE investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us TUE today - at a moment when we are once again confronting the TUE major questions of freedom, global responsibility and human TUE authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world. TUE TUE Written by Sarah Bakewell TUE Read by Sasha Behar TUE Abridged by Polly Coles TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Sasha Behar TUE Author: Sarah Bakewell TUE Abridger: Polly Coles TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0766g0x (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b076cg3j (Listen) TUE Writing the Century: The Secret, The Go-between TUE TUE The series which explores the 20th century through the words TUE of real people. Muriel Howard's account of her Somerset TUE childhood and the secret that defined it adapted by Tina TUE Pepler with Sara Davies. TUE TUE Muriel becomes an unwitting decoy in her mother's drama TUE TUE Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE Credits TUE Muriel: Scarlett Brookes TUE Mother: Jeany Spark TUE Young Muriel: Madeleine Power TUE Philip: Will Howard TUE Ralph: Tom Forrister TUE Jinks: Joe Sims TUE Mr Perry: James Lailey TUE Constable Hembry: James Lailey TUE Adaptor: Tina Pepler TUE Adaptor: Sara Davies TUE Director: Gemma Jenkins TUE Producer: Gemma Jenkins TUE TUE 11:00 The Neglected Sense b076cg3n (Listen) TUE We may fear going blind, deaf or dumb, but few of us worry TUE about losing our olfactory senses. And yet more than 200,000 TUE people in the UK are anosmic - they cannot smell. TUE TUE Radio 4 announcer Kathy Clugston is anosmic and presents TUE this programme 'from the inside', giving a first hand TUE account of the condition. In this programme, Kathy sets out TUE on a personal mission to discover why she can't smell. She TUE has never before researched the extent to which smell guides TUE and shapes our lives, how we smell and what parts of the TUE brain are affected - for example, is her 'terrible memory' TUE connected to the condition? TUE TUE Referred to by the experts as the forgotten or neglected TUE sense, we reveal the seriousness of not being able to smell. TUE TUE Anosmia can be caused by a virus or a head injury, TUE allergies, polyps, or a brain tumour, but for many, TUE including Kathy, it is something that's missing from birth. TUE Sanguine as she is, Kathy knows she's vulnerable - "I've TUE left the gas on, fallen asleep with a pot on the stove". TUE TUE She adds, "As I got older I began to realise how much I miss TUE out on. People say "Oh, you can't smell B.O.! Lucky you!" TUE but then it dawns on them that I can't smell freshly brewed TUE coffee, newly cut grass, a baby's head, my partner's hair, a TUE rose. I can't catch a whiff of something and be instantly TUE transported back to my grandma's kitchen or an exotic TUE holiday. It's as if life has a missing layer." TUE TUE A Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b076cg3q (Listen) TUE Series 22, Sukiyaki (Ue o Muite Arukou) TUE TUE Memories of a prison camp in the Arizona desert, a tsunami TUE and a plane crash are stirred by the bittersweet Japanese TUE song Sukiyaki, a huge global hit of the 1960s. TUE TUE Originally released in Japan with the title 'Ue o Muite TUE Arukou' ('I Look Up As I Walk'), the song was retitled TUE 'Sukiyaki' (the name for a type of beef stew) for TUE international release. It went to No 1 in the USA, Canada TUE and Australia and placed in the top 10 of the UK singles TUE chart. With melancholy lyrics set to a bright and TUE unforgettable melody, it has since been covered hundreds of TUE times in countless languages. TUE TUE California peach farmer Mas Masumoto tells the story of his TUE family's internment in an Arizona relocation camp following TUE the bombing of Pearl Harbor and explains what the song meant TUE to him and many other Japanese-Americans in the years after TUE WWII. Violinist and composer Diana Yukawa plays the song as TUE a way to remember her father, who died in the same plane TUE crash that killed Kyu Sakamoto, the original singer of TUE 'Sukiyaki'. Michael Bourdaghs, author of 'Sayonara Amerika, TUE Sayonara Nippon', talks about the songwriting team behind TUE the song (Rokusuke Ei, Hachidai Nakamura and Kyu Sakamoto), TUE and the surprising roots of the song in the Japanese protest TUE movement of the early 1960s. TUE TUE Janice-Marie Johnson of A Taste of Honey talks about writing TUE an English version of the song and how she interpreted the TUE Japanese lyrics. Gemma Treharne-Foose speaks about her TUE experience of travelling to Japan from her home in the TUE Rhondda Valleys, and what the song came to mean to her. And TUE we hear the story of how Ue o Muite Arukou became a 'prayer TUE for hope' following the devastating earthquake and tsunami TUE that hit Japan in March 2011 from musician Masami TUE Utsunomiya. TUE TUE Producer: Mair Bosworth. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b0766g11 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b076cg3s (Listen) TUE 12 April 1916 - Adam Wilson TUE TUE On this day in 1916, Glasgow revolutionary John Maclean was TUE imprisoned for breaches of the Defence of the Realm Act, and TUE Adam Wilson finally meets up with an old friend. TUE TUE Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy TUE Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer TUE Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams TUE Gert Battley: Maggie Steed TUE Man: Richard Cotton TUE Woman: Sarah Hannah TUE Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b0766g13 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0766g17 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b076hrcf (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 Free Speech b076zxkz (Listen) TUE I'm Offended TUE TUE Timothy Garton Ash examines how free speech is being eroded TUE in the place it should be most secure: in universities. He TUE examines the activist practise known as 'no platforming'. It TUE means that one group of students is being prevented from TUE hearing someone they do want to hear, because another group TUE of students doesn't want that voice to be heard. Feminists TUE Julie Bindel and Germaine Greer were both 'no platformed' TUE due to their views on transgender people. Professor Garton TUE Ash argues that the practice goes directly against a core TUE principle of free speech, which is that all views - even TUE offensive ones - must be robustly challenged in TUE well-informed debate and not censored by those who cry 'I'm TUE offended'. TUE Producer: Nina Robinson TUE TUE (Illustration by Luis Ruibal). TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b076bz3q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03zy2k4 (Listen) TUE Silk: The Clerks' Room, Bethany TUE TUE By Janice Okoh TUE TUE Based on the BBC1 series Silk, the radio series tells of the TUE adventure and mishap in the Clerks' Room at the Shoe Lane TUE chambers. TUE TUE As a junior clerk in a male-dominated clerks' room, Bethany TUE doesn't need reminding that her dream to become a barrister TUE should remain a closely-held secret. But when she finds TUE herself in hot water after unknowingly giving a must-win TUE case to a pitifully under-performing barrister, her passion TUE for the law comes into its own. TUE TUE BBC1's Silk created by Peter Moffat TUE TUE Executive producer: Hilary Salmon TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Credits TUE Bethany: Amy Wren TUE Billy: Neil Stuke TUE Mr Lewis: Charles Edwards TUE Harriet: Miranda Raison TUE Jake: Theo Barklem-Biggs TUE Mrs Adjoran: Flaminia Cinque TUE Lisa: Priyanga Burford TUE Rebecca: Carolyn Pickles TUE Ms Spoons: Tracy Wiles TUE Judge: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Official: Matthew Watson TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Writer: Janice Okoh TUE TUE 15:00 The Design Dimension b076hrcj (Listen) TUE Series 3, Money, Money, Money TUE TUE Tom Dyckhoff looks at the world we inhabit through the lens TUE of design. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b076hrcl (Listen) TUE Digging Climate Change TUE TUE Professor Alice Roberts asks if archaeology can help us TUE understand climate change. TUE TUE Producer: Helen Lennard. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b076hrcn (Listen) TUE House Names TUE TUE Michael Rosen talks to Dr Laura Wright about her new TUE research on popular house names, from Foo Choo Villas to TUE Nutty Hagg to Orchard Cottage, and what this tells us about TUE our history. She's uncovered why some houses have names but TUE some have numbers, and what this tells us about our history. TUE Place names expert Professor Richard Coates joins them to TUE talk about the origins of these words in the UK. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b076hrcq (Listen) TUE Series 39, Nancy Dell'Olio chooses the life of Lucrezia TUE Borgia TUE TUE Nancy Dell'Olio nominates the controversial life of Lucrezia TUE Borgia as she says she identifies with this great TUE Renaissance woman as she too is "considered a controversial TUE figure". TUE Lucrezia Borgia was the Pope's daughter and over the TUE centuries her name has been a byword for poison, incest and TUE intrigue. Novels, TV series, plays and an opera have been TUE written about her. But was she just a victim of malicious TUE gossip that vastly exaggerated her actual misdoings ? TUE To help uncover the story the expert witness is historian TUE and author Sarah Dunant. The presenter is Matthew Parris and TUE the producer is Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE :Nancy Dell'Olio is currently an Ambassador for CharityStars TUE UK. TUE :Sarah Dunant is author of 'The Borgias-Blood and Beauty'. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Nancy Dell'Olio TUE Interviewed Guest: Sarah Dunant TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0766g1g (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0766g1l (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b063dcgb (Listen) TUE Series 10, Things That Go Bump in the Day TUE TUE The Sparrowhawk team are forced to work together to overcome TUE a little problem they discover in the office. Lead by Clare, TUE they're thinking outside the box... 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 Megan: Nina Conti TUE Ray: Richard Lumsden TUE Helen: Pippa Haywood TUE Libby: Sarah Kendall TUE Joan: Sarah Thom TUE Enna: Sarah Thom TUE Mr Mortimer: David Cann TUE Buzzcock: David Cann TUE Jolyon Meryk: Kieran Hodgson TUE Greg: Kieran Hodgson TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Writer: David Ramsden TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b076hsd1 (Listen) TUE Jazzer needs some help, and Kirsty tells it like it is. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0766g1q (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b076cg3j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Justice across Borders b076hsd5 (Listen) TUE Allan Little explores the work of the International Criminal TUE Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague and assesses TUE its legacy as it prepares to close in 2017. TUE TUE At the end of March this year, the International Criminal TUE Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague is expected TUE to deliver a judgement for its highest profile defendant - TUE Radovan KaradĹľic. It comes 23 years after the Tribunal was TUE first set up by the UN and 20 years after its first TUE prosecution began. The ICTY was the first war crimes court TUE created by the UN and built on the legacy of the Nuremberg TUE and Tokyo tribunals. TUE TUE It was formed to investigate crimes committed during the TUE wars in the former Yugoslavia and to bring those responsible TUE to justice. It was seen as a pioneer in the field of TUE international justice and has indicted 161 people. TUE TUE But the ICTY is now preparing to close. A completion TUE strategy, put in place some years ago, will see it shut its TUE doors at the end of December 2017 . Outstanding cases will TUE be handed over to the recently formed Mechanism for TUE International Criminal Tribunals. TUE TUE BBC reporter Allan Little has spent much time at the ICTY TUE during his coverage of the Balkans conflict. In the wake of TUE the expected judgement on KaradĹľic and ahead of the ICTY's TUE closure, he explores the Tribunal's history, talks to those TUE who work there, and assesses its legacy. Has it been a model TUE for other forms of transitional justice? And how do people TUE in the Balkans, for whom it was hoped the court process TUE might bring closure, see its work? TUE TUE Allan visits the ICTY to talk to a range of people who staff TUE it. He visits the vast archives which hold 9 million TUE documents and also sees the holding cells outside the TUE courtrooms for those who are on trial. He also hears from TUE others who have studied the ICTY and who are experts in the TUE area of international justice. TUE TUE Producer: Emma Kingsley. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0766g1s (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 The Joy of 9 to 5 b06pv02c (Listen) TUE They're overworked, under appreciated, and mostly not very TUE good at their jobs. Lucy Kellaway asks do we really need TUE managers? TUE TUE In part two of her series on modern work culture, Lucy TUE Kellaway, columnist for the Financial Times, looks at the TUE much-maligned manager. Wouldn't it be better if we just got TUE rid of them altogether? TUE TUE Lucy explores the extent to which we workers need structure TUE from the top, or would rather have the freedom to get on TUE with our jobs without constant interference. TUE TUE We hear from the frontline why it's so tough to manage. TUE Could an Al-Qaeda memo prove the key to why hierarchy is TUE necessary to get things done? TUE TUE From 17th century pirates to 21st century tech-start ups, TUE Lucy looks at alternative ways of managing organisations and TUE asks whether work would be a happier, more grown-up place if TUE we put them into practice. TUE TUE Written and presented by Lucy Kellaway TUE TUE Producer: Gemma Newby TUE Executive Producer: Russell Finch TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 21:30 The Deobandis b076cg3d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0766g1z (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0766g21 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b076hsd9 (Listen) TUE Mothering Sunday, Episode 7 TUE TUE Booker prize-winner Graham Swift's new novel is a luminous TUE and sensual meditation on truth, loss and the forging of a TUE writer. TUE TUE As author Jane Fairchild is interviewed later in life, she TUE finds her thoughts returning to the afternoon in 1924 when TUE everything changed. TUE TUE Read by Eileen Atkins TUE Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Eileen Atkins TUE Author: Graham Swift TUE Abridger: Eilidh McCreadie TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE TUE 23:00 Love in Recovery b076hsdd (Listen) TUE Series 2, Parents 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 fifth episode, Simon's son Joe (Alex Lawther) is TUE grounded, so Simon (John Hannah) has dragged him along to TUE the meeting. He's in trouble, he's worried, he's out of his TUE depth. And that's just Simon. Will Julie (Sue Johnston) have TUE the answers he's looking for? TUE TUE Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent TUE time in Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found support TUE from the unlikeliest group of disparate souls - with one TUE common bond. As well as offering the support he needed TUE throughout a difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, TUE sometimes daily, dose of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and TUE friendship. TUE TUE There are lots of different kinds of AA meetings. Love in TUE Recovery is about meetings where people tell their stories. TUE There are funny stories, sad stories, stories of small TUE victories and milestones, stories of loss, stories of hope, TUE and those stories that you really shouldn't laugh at - but TUE still do, along with the storyteller. TUE TUE Written and created by Pete Jackson TUE Producer/Director: Ben Worsfield TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Marion: Julia Deakin TUE Fiona: Rebecca Front TUE Simon: John Hannah TUE Julie: Sue Johnston TUE Danno: Paul Kaye TUE Andy: Eddie Marsan TUE Writer: Pete Jackson TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE Director: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b076hsdg (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0766g3x (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b076cg3g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0766g3z (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0766g41 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0766g45 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0766g49 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b076zm8w (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b076hsq8 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378t4y (Listen) WED Great Black-backed Gull 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 great black-backed gull. WED These gulls are the largest in the world. They are quite WED common around our coasts and you can see them in summer WED perched on a crag watching for any signs of danger or WED potential prey. Although they are scavengers Great WED Black-Backs will attack and kill other birds. WED WED Great Black-backed gull WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b076htnp (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b076htns (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Libby Purves WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b076htnv (Listen) WED At the Existentialist Cafe, Episode 3 WED WED Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot WED cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. WED They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and WED longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves WED to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called WED Phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a WED phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make WED philosophy out of it!" WED WED It was this simple phrase that ignited a movement, inspiring WED Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, WED humanistic sensibility, creating an entirely new WED philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical WED freedom, authentic being and political activism. This WED movement swept through the jazz clubs and cafĂ©s of the Left WED Bank before making its way across the world as WED Existentialism. WED WED Featuring philosophers, playwrights, anthropologists, WED convicts and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist CafĂ© WED follows the existentialists' story - from the first WED rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role WED in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, WED feminism, and gay rights. WED WED Interweaving biography and philosophy, this is an epic WED account of passionate encounters - fights, love affairs, WED mentorships, rebellions, and long partnership. It's also an WED investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us WED today - at a moment when we are once again confronting the WED major questions of freedom, global responsibility and human WED authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world. WED WED Written by Sarah Bakewell WED Read by Sasha Behar WED Abridged by Polly Coles WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Sasha Behar WED Author: Sarah Bakewell WED Abridger: Polly Coles WED Producer: Clive Brill WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0766g4k (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b076htnx (Listen) WED Writing the Century: The Secret, Foundationers WED WED The series which explores the 20th century through the words WED of real people. Muriel Howard's account of her Somerset WED childhood and the secret that defined it adapted by Tina WED Pepler with Sara Davies. WED WED Boarding school offers an escape from her mother's "wild WED moods and secrets" WED WED Violinists ..... Sam and Andrew McGregor WED WED Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED Credits WED Muriel: Scarlett Brookes WED Mother: Jeany Spark WED Young Muriel: Madeleine Power WED Ena: Lucy Hutchinson WED Miss James: Susan Jameson WED Mrs Mason: Nicola Ferguson WED Mrs Bricknell: Nicola Ferguson WED Adaptor: Tina Pepler WED Adaptor: Sara Davies WED Director: Gemma Jenkins WED Producer: Gemma Jenkins WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b076mlls (Listen) WED Zachary and Jacqui - Testing Times with Dyslexia WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and her WED 16 year old son; as he faces his GCSEs, he shares his WED anxiety with his mother. Another in the series that proves WED it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 A Waste of Space b076mllv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] WED WED 11:30 Chain Reaction b03phrws (Listen) WED Series 9, Grant Morrison talks to Neil Innes WED WED Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show WED where last week's interviewee becomes this week's WED interviewer. WED WED The chain continues this week with comic book legend Grant WED Morrison talking to writer, performer, musician and Monty WED Python collaborator Neil Innes. WED WED Producer ... Carl Cooper. WED WED 12:00 News Summary b0766g4s (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b076mm1s (Listen) WED 13 April 1916 - Cora Gidley WED WED On this day in 1916, the Mexican government requested a WED withdrawal of American troops from their territory, and in WED Staverton, Cora Gidley has a domestic crisis. WED WED Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro WED Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard WED Bertram Colville: Nick Underwood WED Clarence Ogden: David Sterne WED Cyrus Colville: Anton Lesser WED Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes WED Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw WED Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe WED John Rossiter: Mark Carey WED Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b0766g4x (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0766g4z (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b076mm1v (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 Free Speech b076zxyt (Listen) WED Respect Me, Respect My Religion WED WED Timothy Garton Ash asks if religion is a special case where WED freedom of speech should be curtailed. He asks how we can WED reconcile belief in an absolute revealed truth with the WED post-Enlightenment freedom to question everything, including WED religious faith. He proposes that the principle we should WED adopt is to "respect the believer but not necessarily the WED content of the belief". Will this be enough to bridge the WED gap? WED Producer: Nina Robinson WED WED (Illustration by Luis Ruibal). WED WED 14:00 The Archers b076hsd1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b076mml5 (Listen) WED lament WED WED Original new drama by award-winning director/playwright WED debbie tucker green. A man and a woman meet up again several WED years after they broke up. They gradually learn that the WED assumptions they've made about each other are quite wrong. WED WED Director ..... debbie tucker green WED Producer ..... Mary Peate WED WED Playwright and filmmaker debbie tucker green has written a WED number of original dramas for Radio 3 but this is her Radio WED 4 debut. Earlier this year green received a BAFTA nomination WED for her first feature film, Second Coming, starring Idris WED Elba and Nadine Marshall and last year she wrote and WED directed the much acclaimed Hang starring Marianne Jean WED Baptiste for The Royal Court Theatre. WED WED Green takes us right under the skin of her characters in WED sustained, real-time scenes bubbling with suppressed WED emotion, which build to a haunting and moving exploration of WED three relationships. As ever in green's work, the music is WED central. WED WED The distinguished cast is made up of Nadine Marshall, WED long-term collaborator of debbie tucker green's; Paterson WED Joseph, well known to British theatre and TV audiences; WED Cecilia Noble, recently lauded for her TV role in Danny and WED The Human Zoo by Lenny Henry, and Lucian Msamati, also well WED known to British TV and theatre audiences and most recently WED for his acclaimed portrayal of Iago at the RSC. WED WED Credits WED Man: Paterson Joseph WED Woman: Nadine Marshall WED Husband: Lucian Msamati WED Mum: Cecilia Noble WED Writer: debbie tucker green WED Director: debbie tucker green WED Producer: Mary Peate WED WED 15:00 Money Box b076mml7 (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 The Joy of 9 to 5 b06pv02c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b076mmlc (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0766g55 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0766g59 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0766g5f (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04lsl25 (Listen) WED Series 2, Tempting Fete WED WED 2/6: Tempting Fete. In this second episode of the series, WED Lucy borrows Kat's guitar and finds that this machine WED irritates aliens. Meanwhile tempers are fraught as WED preparations are made for the annual village fete, and WED Richard receives some surprising news from The Computer. WED WED Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is a sitcom WED about an alien race that have noticed that those all-at-once WED invasions of Earth never work out that well. So they've WED locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green WED behind an impenetrable force field in order to study human WED behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading. WED WED The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new WED alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the WED weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when WED the force field went up. So along with Lucy Alexander (the WED only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against WED whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to WED the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish WED she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, and much to the WED annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his WED unintelligible minions and The Computer (his WED hyperintelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run WED the invasion. WED WED Written by Eddie Robson WED Script-edited by Arthur Mathews WED Original music written and performed by Grace Petrie WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Katrina Lyons: Hattie Morahan WED Richard Lyons: Peter Davison WED Margaret Lyons: Jan Francis WED Lucy Alexander: Hannah Murray WED Field Commander Uljabaan: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Computer: John-Luke Roberts WED Madeleine: Jane Slavin WED Penny: Elaine Claxton WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED WED 19:00 The Archers b076mmlr (Listen) WED Adam is forging ahead, and Neil has an ultimatum for Josh. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0766g5k (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b076htnx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Agree to Differ b076mmm2 (Listen) WED Series 2, Anglican Communion and Homosexuality WED WED The Anglican Communion, the global body of the Anglican WED Church, is deeply divided over how it reconciles its WED differences on same-sex marriage. Many feel the Communion is WED being ripped apart by, on the one hand, Western provinces WED where gay Christians are welcomed into the Church and where WED there is growing support for same-sex marriage and, on the WED other, conservative provinces in Africa where homosexuality WED is seen as a 'sin' and in places is criminalised. It is a WED debate not just about different scriptural interpretations, WED but a power struggle between two opposing cultural world WED views. For some it is simply a question of what should come WED first; unity or justice? Jayne Ozanne is a gay British WED evangelical Christian. Reverend Canon Hassan John is from WED the Anglican church in Nigeria. They both join Matthew WED Taylor to see whether despite strongly opposing views they WED can agree to differ. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b076mmtq (Listen) WED Talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b076hrcl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b076htns (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0766g5p (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b076mmts (Listen) WED Mothering Sunday, Episode 8 WED WED Serialised reading of Graham Swift's novel. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Eileen Atkins WED Author: Graham Swift WED Abridger: Eilidh McCreadie WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED WED 23:00 Nurse b076mmtv (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED A bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health WED nurse created by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings. WED WED Liz (played by Esther Coles), the community psychiatric WED nurse of the title makes her rounds to visit "service users" WED in their homes. Most of those patients are played by comedy WED chameleon Paul Whitehouse himself - with supporting roles WED for Rosie Cavaliero, Vilma Hollingbery and Cecilia Noble. WED WED Whitehouse brings us an obese bed-bound mummy's boy, an WED agoraphobic ex-con, a manic ex-glam rock star, ageing rake WED Herbert who hoards his house with possessions and memories, WED a Jewish chatterbox in unrequited love with his Jamaican WED neighbour, and a long-suffering carer and his WED Alzheimer's-afflicted mother. WED WED There are new characters too in the guise of a WED self-proclaimed DJ and a Geordie struggling with his wife's WED job in the world's oldest profession. WED WED We follow their humorous, sometimes sad and occasionally WED moving interactions with Liz, whose job is to assess their WED progress, dispense medication and offer support. WED WED Nurse gives a sympathetic insight into the world of some of WED society's more marginalised people in a heartfelt and WED considered way. WED WED Written by David Cummings and Paul Whitehouse, with WED additional material by Esther Coles. WED WED Cast: WED Paul Whitehouse WED Esther Coles WED Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Rosie Cavaliero WED Sue Elliott-Nichols WED Charlie Higson WED Vilma Hollingbery WED Jason Maza WED Cecilia Noble WED WED A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Paul Whitehouse WED Actor: Esther Coles WED Actor: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Actor: Rosie Cavaliero WED Actor: Sue Elliott-Nicholls WED Actor: Charlie Higson WED Actor: Vilma Hollingbery WED Actor: Jason Maza WED Actor: Cecilia Noble WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b03qf2rn (Listen) WED Series 2, Medicine WED WED Comedian Tim Key grapples with the concept of medicine by WED telling poems. He also attempts to cure his guitarist, Tom WED Basden, of an ailment. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim Key WED Performer: Tom Basden WED Producer: James Robinson WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b076mmtx (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 APRIL 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0766g7t (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b076htnv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0766g7w (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0766g7y (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0766g80 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0766g82 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b076zrzs (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b076mmvg (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Alun Beach. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378x0n (Listen) THU Rock Pipit THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Michaela Strachan presents the rock pipit. The sight of a THU greyish bird no bigger than a sparrow, at home on the THU highest cliffs and feeding within reach of breaking waves THU can come as a surprise. In spring and early summer, the male THU Pipits become wonderful extroverts and perform to attract a THU female, during which they sing loudly to compete with the THU sea-wash. THU THU Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b076mnkp (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b076mnkr (Listen) THU The Neutron THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron, one of the THU particles found in an atom's nucleus. Building on the work THU of Ernest Rutherford, the British physicist James Chadwick THU won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the THU neutron in 1932. Neutrons play a fundamental role in the THU universe and their discovery was at the heart of THU developments in nuclear physics in the first half of the THU 20th century. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b076mnkt (Listen) THU At the Existentialist Cafe, Episode 4 THU THU Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot THU cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. THU They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and THU longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves THU to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called THU Phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a THU phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make THU philosophy out of it!" THU THU It was this simple phrase that ignited a movement, inspiring THU Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, THU humanistic sensibility, creating an entirely new THU philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical THU freedom, authentic being and political activism. This THU movement swept through the jazz clubs and cafĂ©s of the Left THU Bank before making its way across the world as THU Existentialism. THU THU Featuring philosophers, playwrights, anthropologists, THU convicts and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist CafĂ© THU follows the existentialists' story - from the first THU rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role THU in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, THU feminism, and gay rights. THU THU Interweaving biography and philosophy, this is an epic THU account of passionate encounters - fights, love affairs, THU mentorships, rebellions, and long partnership. It's also an THU investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us THU today - at a moment when we are once again confronting the THU major questions of freedom, global responsibility and human THU authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world. THU THU Written by Sarah Bakewell THU Read by Sasha Behar THU Abridged by Polly Coles THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Sasha Behar THU Author: Sarah Bakewell THU Abridger: Polly Coles THU Producer: Clive Brill THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0766g84 (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b076mnkw (Listen) THU Writing the Century: The Secret, Betrayal THU THU The series which explores the 20th century through the words THU of real people. Muriel Howard's account of her Somerset THU childhood and the secret that defined it adapted by Tina THU Pepler with Sara Davies. THU THU Betrayal close to home brings her mother's secret out into THU the open THU THU Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU Credits THU Muriel: Scarlett Brookes THU Mother: Jeany Spark THU Philip: Will Howard THU Ralph: Tom Forrister THU Jinks: Joe Sims THU Adaptor: Tina Pepler THU Adaptor: Sara Davies THU Director: Gemma Jenkins THU Producer: Gemma Jenkins THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b076mnky (Listen) THU Norway: Parents Against the State THU THU Norway's widely regarded as one of the world's most THU progressive societies, yet it's at the centre of an THU international storm over its child protection policies. THU Campaigners accuse its social workers of removing children - THU some from immigrant backgrounds - from their parents without THU justification, and permanently erasing family bonds. Tim THU Whewell meets parents who say they've lost their children THU because of misunderstood remarks or "insufficient eye THU contact" - and Norwegian professionals who call the system THU monstrous and dysfunctional. Is a service designed to put THU children first now out of control? THU THU 11:30 Will Gompertz Gets Creative b062dh71 (Listen) THU Spoken Word Poetry THU THU Will Gompertz meets young poets from the Roundhouse Poetry THU Collective in London, and offers them expert advice on THU composing spoken word pieces from performance poets Hollie THU McNish and Polar Bear. THU THU If you are inspired to get involved in poetry or spoken word THU - or indeed any other areas of artistic endeavour - there's THU lots to discover at the BBC's Get Creative website THU http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/sections/get-creative THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU Darius shares the first lines of his work THU THU Gabriel reads his poem to the group THU THU Hollie McNish helps one of the groups merge their lines THU THU The Roundhouse Poetry Collective wrote spoken word pieces THU around the theme of fear THU THU The group came up with a place, time, light and sound to THU base their poem in THU THU 12:00 News Summary b0766g86 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b076mpfv (Listen) THU 14 April 1916 - Edwin Lloyd THU THU On this day in 1916, British airmen who had bombarded THU Constantinople, all returned safely from the 300 mile round THU flight, and Edwin Lloyd feels a long way from home. THU THU Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog THU Ambrose Nichols: Steve Clark THU Donald Fox: Jayson Benovichi-Dicken THU Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes THU Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett THU Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant THU William Fulford: Ryan Coath THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b0766g88 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0766g8b (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b076mpg9 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 Free Speech b076zxzn (Listen) THU Media We Need THU THU Timothy Garton Ash asks whether we have the media we need to THU really exercise our right to freedom of expression? He THU examines the diversity of voices across the media landscape THU and wonders whether the ownership structure of Britain's THU media industry is conducive to free speech. Are we able to THU understand what is happening in our government so we can THU exercise clear judgment on public policy? Are we being told THU the Truth with a capital T? With the advent of the internet, THU there is a plethora of ways in which we are now THU communicating, especially using social media networks like THU Facebook. But is the algorithm used for news feeds showing THU us only what we want to see, rather than what we need to THU see? THU Producer: Nina Robinson THU THU (Illustration by Luis Ruibal). THU THU 14:00 The Archers b076mmlr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b076mptb (Listen) THU Pandora THU THU By Caroline Horton THU THU Things are fine. Pandora is young, living in Paris, she's THU got a nice boyfriend and a job that pays the bills. So why THU did she try to kill herself? While her boyfriend Tom THU wrestles with this question, Pandora gets drunk with her THU Danish friend Bert. But she can't hide from her problems THU forever. THU THU An intimate journey through the no-man's land of a suicide THU survival, written by and starring Caroline Horton. Caroline THU is an exciting writer/performer from Birmingham. Her 2010 THU stage play You're Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy won her THU Best Solo Performer at The Stage Awards 2010 and was THU nominated for an Olivier Award. Her second, Mess, won Best THU Ensemble at The Stage Awards 2012. Her first radio drama - THU Paris, Nana & Me was shortlisted for the Imison Award in THU 2014. THU THU Directed by James Robinson THU A BBC Cymru Wales Production. THU THU Credits THU Pandora: Caroline Horton THU Tom: Martin Bonger THU Bert: Troels Hagen Findsen THU Director: James Robinson THU Writer: Caroline Horton THU THU 15:00 Open Country b076mptd (Listen) THU The National Forest: 25 Years THU THU Helen Mark visits the National Forest as its marks 25 years THU since it started to create huge areas of woodland. THU THU The entire area covers 200 square miles across the boundary THU of the East and West Midlands over the three counties of THU Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Leicestershire. Helen explores THU how this regeneration through nature has impacted upon the THU lives of the people in the area. THU THU She begins by planting our very own 'Open Country' oak tree. THU THU Producer: Perminder Khatkar. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0766kd9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0769qsz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b076mq2q (Listen) THU Radio 4's weekly look at the world of film. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b0766g8g (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b0766g8j (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0766g8l (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Don't Make Me Laugh b076mq2s (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU David Baddiel hosts the second series of the panel show THU where some of the funniest comedians have to go against all THU their instincts and try not to make an audience laugh. THU THU Featuring Richard Osman, Clive Anderson, Nick Helm and THU Yasmine Akram. THU THU A So Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Baddiel THU Panellist: Richard Osman THU Panellist: Clive Anderson THU Panellist: Nick Helm THU Panellist: Yasmine Akram THU THU 19:00 The Archers b076mq91 (Listen) THU Lilian is looking glamorous, but it is Elizabeth who is THU turning heads. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0766g8r (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b076mnkw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Borders, An Odyssey b077jsmr (Listen) THU Leaving THU THU Why leave home? In the first of this three part series THU Frances Stonor Saunders, with Homer's The Odyssey as her THU guide, explores the twists and turns of our bordered lives THU and our bordered world. She asks what happens when we THU decide, or are forced, to leave our home. With Judith Kerr, THU Helen Sharman, Neal Ascherson, Edith Hall, and readings by THU Sam West. THU THU Producer: Fiona Leach THU Researcher: Ruth Edwards. THU THU 20:30 In Business b076mqb8 (Listen) THU European Unicorns THU THU A Unicorn is a mythical animal. But it's also the name now THU given to private start-up companies, mainly in the tech or THU internet sector which are valued at a billion dollars or THU more. THU THU They're extremely fast-growing and are often keener to THU increase customers rather than make profits at this stage. THU They rely on private investors to fund their growth and THU those investors give the companies their valuations. THU THU Through interviews with European unicorns including Blah, THU Blah Car, a ride-sharing service and Hello Fresh which THU delivers measured fresh ingredients and recipes to your THU door, Caroline Bayley asks how "real" the tech unicorns are THU and whether the billion dollar plus valuations are fuelling THU another tech bubble which could be in danger of bursting. THU THU Producer Anna Meisel. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b0766g8g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b076mnkr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0766g8t (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b076mqbb (Listen) THU Mothering Sunday, Episode 9 THU THU Serialised reading of Graham Swift's novel. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Eileen Atkins THU Author: Graham Swift THU Abridger: Eilidh McCreadie THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU 23:00 Down the Line b01sdmxx (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 3 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 Producers: 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 Today in Parliament b076mqbz (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0766gc9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b076mnkt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0766gcc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0766gcf (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0766gch (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0766gck (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b077004y (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b076nzh9 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk7c (Listen) FRI Turnstone 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 Brett Westwood presents the turnstone. A turnstone is a FRI stout little wading bird which you'll often see probing FRI under seaweed on rocky shores or flipping pebbles over with FRI the stout bills...hence their name....Turnstone. In summer FRI they are intricately patterned and strikingly coloured like FRI a tortoiseshell cat but at other times of year they look FRI brownish and can be hard to see against the seaweed covered FRI rocks among which they love to feed. FRI FRI Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) FRI Image courtesy of rspb-images.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b076nzhc (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b0769qsq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b076p088 (Listen) FRI At the Existentialist Cafe, Episode 5 FRI FRI Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot FRI cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. FRI They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and FRI longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves FRI to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called FRI Phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a FRI phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make FRI philosophy out of it!" FRI FRI It was this simple phrase that ignited a movement, inspiring FRI Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, FRI humanistic sensibility, creating an entirely new FRI philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical FRI freedom, authentic being and political activism. This FRI movement swept through the jazz clubs and cafĂ©s of the Left FRI Bank before making its way across the world as FRI Existentialism. FRI FRI Featuring philosophers, playwrights, anthropologists, FRI convicts and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist CafĂ© FRI follows the existentialists' story - from the first FRI rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role FRI in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, FRI feminism, and gay rights. FRI FRI Interweaving biography and philosophy, this is an epic FRI account of passionate encounters - fights, love affairs, FRI mentorships, rebellions, and long partnership. It's also an FRI investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us FRI today - at a moment when we are once again confronting the FRI major questions of freedom, global responsibility and human FRI authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Bakewell FRI Read by Sasha Behar FRI Abridged by Polly Coles FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Sasha Behar FRI Author: Sarah Bakewell FRI Abridger: Polly Coles FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0766gcm (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b076p08b (Listen) FRI Writing the Century: The Secret, Episode 5 FRI FRI The series which explores the 20th century through the words FRI of real people. Muriel Howard's account of her Somerset FRI childhood and the secret that defined it adapted by Tina FRI Pepler with Sara Davies. FRI FRI With her mother's affair exposed Muriel waits for the FRI village to react FRI FRI Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. FRI FRI Credits FRI Muriel: Scarlett Brookes FRI Mother: Jeany Spark FRI Philip: Will Howard FRI Ralph: Tom Forrister FRI Jinks: Joe Sims FRI Adaptor: Tina Pepler FRI Adaptor: Sara Davies FRI Director: Gemma Jenkins FRI Producer: Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 11:00 The Drop Out Boogie b076p08d (Listen) FRI There can surely have never been so much pressure on young FRI people to go to university and get a degree, but while for FRI many it remains the best option for securing a decent FRI future, many thousands of others choose to leave higher FRI education and make their own way instead; nearly 25,000 FRI students dropped out in the last year figures are available. FRI Laura Snapes is a journalist who dropped out of two FRI different universities herself, deciding she'd be better off FRI trying to forge her path in her chosen career by doing FRI rather than learning. In this programme she meets other FRI drop-outs to find out what their motives were for leaving FRI higher education behind, and whether they regret their FRI decision. She'll hear how some feel university was never FRI really for them, while for others the pressure of having to FRI succeed, combined with the shadow of their mounting debts, FRI led to mental health problems that forced them to quit. FRI Laura also finds out from her own parents what they really FRI felt when she broke the news that their daughter was FRI dropping out not once but twice. FRI FRI 11:30 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure b076p08g (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 3 FRI FRI Comedy drama about a young woman trying to build a more FRI fulfilling life for herself in Glasgow. FRI FRI Josie's 32nd birthday has her questioning whether her dream FRI of one day having a family is now unrealistic. 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 Written by Josie Long FRI Producer: Colin Anderson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Josie: Josie Long FRI Darren: Darren Osbourne FRI Roddy: Roddy Macneill FRI Kerry: Hatty Ashdown FRI Eleanor: Clare Grogan FRI Chris: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Mona: Rebecca Hamilton FRI Fraser: Chris Pavlo FRI Genevieve: Puja Panchkoty FRI Writer: Josie Long FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b0766gcp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b076p08j (Listen) FRI 15 April 1916 - Tobias Holden FRI FRI On this day in 1916, the cabinet met in Downing street to FRI discuss the problems of conscription and recruitment, and FRI Tobias has a day of surprises. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Clarence Ogden: David Sterne FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett FRI Moses Wickens: Ben Callon FRI Primrose Rutter: Jade Matthew FRI Usher: Ciaran Bermingham FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b0766gcr (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0766gct (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b076p099 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 Free Speech b076zy0h (Listen) FRI Big Brother Is Watching FRI FRI It is often said that our right to free speech is balanced FRI by our right to privacy. Timothy Garton Ash asks how we FRI should strike the right balance between the two. In a world FRI where we are sharing more of our lives online than ever FRI before, should we accept that our privacy rights are no FRI longer as important? FRI Producer: Nina Robinson FRI FRI (Illustration by Luis Ruibal). FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b076mq91 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b05pnvq9 (Listen) FRI Beyond Endurance FRI FRI Dominic West stars as Ernest Shackleton in Meredith Hooper's FRI play, charting the great explorer's 1914 Endurance FRI expedition planning to cross Antarctica, told in the words FRI of the explorers themselves. FRI FRI Just over a hundred years ago, with war breaking out in FRI Europe, Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on what is considered FRI the last major expedition of the heroic age of polar FRI exploration - to cross the Antarctic from coast to coast. FRI This is the story of that expedition, told in the words of FRI the men themselves, through their diaries, accounts and FRI journals. It was an expedition that became known for being FRI one of the great feats of endurance, and one from which FRI Shackleton was determined not to lose a single man. FRI FRI Sir Ernest Shackleton ..... Dominic West. West is best known FRI for portraying Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO drama FRI series The Wire, and won the award for Leading Actor at the FRI 2012 British Academy Television Awards for portraying serial FRI killer Fred West in Appropriate Adult. FRI Thomas Orde-Lees ..... Jamie Glover FRI Frank Hurley ..... Gabriel Andrews FRI Alexander Macklin ..... Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Frank Wild ..... David Hounslow FRI Reginald James..... Neet Mohan FRI Harry McNish ..... Sam Dale FRI FRI Written by Meredith Hooper, an award-winning writer, FRI historian, lecturer and broadcaster who specialises in the FRI Antarctic. The Ferocious Summer, her book on climate change FRI in Antarctica, was named Daily Mail Science Book of the Year FRI in 2008. Hooper has lived and worked in Antarctica for long FRI periods of study as part of the Artists & Writers Programmes FRI of both the Australian and US Governments, and as a guest of FRI the Royal Navy. Her previous drama, Kathleen and Con, for FRI BBC Radio 4, was based on the love letters between Captain FRI Scott and his wife Kathleen. FRI This year she is curating the major exhibition at the Royal FRI Geographical Society in London on Shackleton's Endurance FRI Expedition. FRI FRI Directed by Justine Willett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sir Ernest Shackleton: Dominic West FRI Thomas Orde-Lees: Jamie Glover FRI Frank Hurley: Gabriel Andrews FRI Alexander Macklin: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Frank Wild: David Hounslow FRI Reginald James: Neet Mohan FRI Harry McNish: Sam Dale FRI Writer: Meredith Hooper FRI Director: Justine Willett FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b076prgg (Listen) FRI Bury St Edmunds FRI FRI A panel of experts answer listeners' horticultural queries. FRI FRI 15:45 An Investigation into Love by Babcock and Wainwright FRI b076prgj (Listen) FRI by Pippa Goldschmidt FRI The arrival of a particular white mouse causes romantic FRI chaos in a research laboratory. FRI FRI Read by Tamara Kennedy FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tamara Kennedy FRI Writer: Pippa Goldschmidt FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0766gcw (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b076prgl (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b076prgn (Listen) FRI Joanna and Freddie - Coming of Age FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between an 11 year old FRI and his mother about the challenges of single-parenting and FRI of puberty. Another in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0766gd0 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0766gd2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b076prgq (Listen) FRI Series 90, Episode 1 FRI FRI Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Danny Finkelstein and Lucy FRI Porter are Miles' guests for this the first episode of FRI Series 90 of the satirical quiz. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Danny Finkelstein FRI Panellist: Lucy Porter FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b076prgs (Listen) FRI Lynda is not impressed, and Peggy spots something unusual. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Caroline Harrington FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan 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 Richard Locke: William Gaminara FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Dominic Farrell: Lex Shrapnel FRI Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0766gd4 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b076p08b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b076prgv (Listen) FRI Edwina Currie, John Hilary, Leanne Wood AM FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Knutsford FRI in Cheshire with a panel including the former conservative FRI minister Edwina Currie, the CEO of War on Want John Hilary, FRI and the leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne Wood AM. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b076prgx (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b076prgz (Listen) FRI 11-15 April 1916 FRI FRI In the week, in 1916, when reports reached Britain of a FRI million Armenians massacred, the community in Ashburton find FRI their world rocked by surprises. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Richard Monks FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer FRI Brother Columban: Sean Baker FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett FRI Donald Fox: Jayson Benovichi-Dicken FRI Usher: Ciaran Bermingham FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes FRI Brother Aloysius: Toby Bryant FRI Moses Wickens: Ben Callon FRI John Rossiter: Mark Carey FRI Ambrose Nichols: Steve Clark FRI William Fulford: Ryan Coath FRI Dom Anscar Vonier: Kenneth Collard FRI Amos Rutter: Richard Cotton FRI Sylvia Graham: Joanna David FRI Woman: Sarah Hannah FRI Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Cyrus Colville: Anton Lesser FRI Primrose Rutter: Jade Matthew FRI Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Gert Battley: Maggie Steed FRI Clarence Ogden: David Sterne FRI Bertram Colville: Nick Underwood FRI Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant FRI Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0766gd6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0766gd8 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b076prh1 (Listen) FRI Mothering Sunday, Episode 10 FRI FRI Set in the aftermath of the Great War, Booker prize-winner FRI Graham Swift's new novel is a luminous and sensual FRI meditation on truth, loss and the forging of a writer. FRI FRI Jane reflects on how her last, secret, assignation with Paul FRI Sheringham would lead indirectly to her future literary FRI success. FRI FRI Read by Eileen Atkins FRI Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b076hrcq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b076prh3 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b076prh5 (Listen) FRI Linda and Johnathon - A New Family FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother of four FRI and her fifth child, the 16 year old neighbour she gave a FRI home to when his own family proved too disruptive. Another FRI in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI