15 April, 2016

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SAT SATURDAY 16 APRIL 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0766glx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b076p088 (Listen) SAT At the Existentialist Cafe, Episode 5 SAT SAT Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot SAT cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. SAT They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and SAT longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves SAT to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called SAT Phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a SAT phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make SAT philosophy out of it!" SAT SAT It was this simple phrase that ignited a movement, inspiring SAT Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, SAT humanistic sensibility, creating an entirely new SAT philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical SAT freedom, authentic being and political activism. This SAT movement swept through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left SAT Bank before making its way across the world as SAT Existentialism. SAT SAT Featuring philosophers, playwrights, anthropologists, SAT convicts and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café SAT follows the existentialists' story - from the first SAT rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role SAT in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, SAT feminism, and gay rights. SAT SAT Interweaving biography and philosophy, this is an epic SAT account of passionate encounters - fights, love affairs, SAT mentorships, rebellions, and long partnership. It's also an SAT investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us SAT today - at a moment when we are once again confronting the SAT major questions of freedom, global responsibility and human SAT authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world. SAT SAT Written by Sarah Bakewell SAT Read by Sasha Behar SAT Abridged by Polly Coles SAT SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Sasha Behar SAT Author: Sarah Bakewell SAT Abridger: Polly Coles SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0766glz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0766gm3 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0766gm7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0766gmg (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b076prrm (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Reverend Clair Jaquiss. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b076prrp (Listen) SAT The Mystery of the Unknown Children SAT SAT How one listener set about discovering the identities of two SAT unknown Kindertransport children who appeared in a cinefilm SAT found in his loft. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0766gmr (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0766gmx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b076mptd (Listen) SAT The National Forest: 25 Years SAT SAT Helen Mark visits the National Forest as its marks 25 years SAT since it started to create huge areas of woodland. SAT SAT The entire area covers 200 square miles across the boundary SAT of the East and West Midlands over the three counties of SAT Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Leicestershire. Helen explores SAT how this regeneration through nature has impacted upon the SAT lives of the people in the area. SAT SAT She begins by planting our very own 'Open Country' oak tree. SAT SAT Producer: Perminder Khatkar. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b07705wg (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Agricultural Research SAT SAT Charlotte Smith is at the University of Bristol's School of SAT Veterinary Science on the slopes of the Mendip Hills in SAT Somerset. Both an academic teaching school and SAT state-of-the-art research centre this facility covering 255 SAT hectares has for over 50 years pioneered many of the animal SAT welfare and veterinary practices now used across the SAT country. Charlotte hears of research into hens, SAT antimicrobial use in the farming industry and what the new SAT generation of vets could be researching. SAT SAT We also meet research happening in crop spraying technology, SAT listen to academic thoughts on bees and pollinators and work SAT being undertaken to alleviate some of the issues as we feed SAT an ever increasing Global population. SAT SAT Producer Andrew Dawes. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0766gn6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b07705wj (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b07705wl (Listen) SAT Michelle Collins SAT SAT Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles talk to the actress SAT Michelle Collins about her love of markets and clothes, her SAT singing and acting career from EastEnders to Coronation SAT Street, and her latest role in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. SAT Wayne Hemingway shares his passion for classic cars, boot SAT sales and his vast collection of vintage vinyl. SAT SAT The 'natural navigator' Tristan Gooley, explains how to read SAT water - drawing on his own pioneering journeys to reveal the SAT clues, signs and patterns in ponds, puddles, oceans and even SAT in the bath. And Tom Gregory remembers swimming the Channel SAT at the age of 11. SAT SAT JP Devlin meets Pat Stewart aka "The Girl in the Spotty SAT Dress" to hear about the iconic 1950s photograph taken of SAT her and friend Wendy Clarke on Blackpool Promendade, her SAT association with Laurel and Hardy and the significance of SAT song her husband left her. SAT SAT And the film director, Peter Greenaway, shares his SAT Inheritance Tracks: An Elephant Never Forgets, performed by SAT Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Band, and Concerto in A minor SAT for Bassoon, composed by Antonio Vivaldi and performed by SAT Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Neville Marriner. SAT SAT Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is currently playing at Cliffs SAT Pavilion, Southend and is then on tour around the country. SAT How to Read Water, by Tristan Gooley is out now. SAT The Classic Car Boot Sale is at Lewis Cubitt Square, King's SAT Cross, London N1C 4UZ, today and tomorrow, 16 / 17 April. SAT Peter Greenaway's latest film 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato' is SAT in cinemas now. SAT SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT The Girl in the Spotty Dress SAT SAT Pat Stewart, in the spotty dress, with her friend Wendy SAT Clarke, on Blackpool Promenade in 1951. SAT SAT The Girl in the Spotty Dress by Pat Stewart is published by SAT John Blake Publishing. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Michelle Collins SAT Interviewed Guest: Wayne Hemingway SAT Interviewed Guest: Tristan Gooley SAT Interviewed Guest: Tom Gregory SAT Interviewer: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Pat Stewart SAT Interviewed Guest: Peter Greenaway SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 10:30 World War One: The Cultural Front b07705wn (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Tank and the Home Fires SAT SAT 1916: Francine Stock continues her series on the cultural SAT responses to the conflict with a focus on the tank. SAT Prefigured in drawings by Leonardo and H.G. Wells' short SAT story 'The Land Iron Clads', the tank appears at the Battle SAT of the Somme on September 15, 1916. Quickly becoming a SAT British icon, it attracts enormous public interest and SAT sparks the production of popular souvenir items like SAT handbags, teapots, toys and cartoons, popular songs and SAT musical shows. The first officially commissioned war artist SAT Muirhead Bone is sent out to the Somme and creates a series SAT of dramatic charcoal drawings to illustrate its mesmerising SAT appearance. SAT SAT Meanwhile, hugely popular musicals like The Bing Boys are SAT Here, Theodore and Co and Oscar Ashe's Chu Chin Chow provide SAT distractions for maimed soldiers or those returning on leave SAT from the horror of war. At cinemas across the country, SAT twenty million people crowd to see the war first hand and SAT spot their friends and family in The Battle of the Somme. As SAT Mallins and McDowell lug their huge cameras around muddy SAT trenches, you can lip-read men saying hello to their mums SAT and see the naked fear on their faces before going over the SAT parapet. SAT SAT With huge swathes of children back home losing their SAT fathers, Francine discovers how books such as 'War in SAT Dollyland', tried explain the alien world of war from a SAT child's point of view. And she visits the study in Essex SAT where H. G. Wells wrote one of the best-selling works of SAT wartime fiction, Mr Britling Sees it Through. Many parallels SAT can be drawn between Wells and the protagonist, not least SAT the question, which Britling often poses, of whether an SAT intellectual can really capture the realities of war from SAT the comfort of his armchair. SAT SAT Producer Clare Walker. SAT SAT Tank by Muirhead Bone © IWM (Art.IWM REPRO 000684 7) SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b07705wq (Listen) SAT George Parker of the Financial Times hears that the Prime SAT Minister can't survive a 'Leave' vote in the EU referendum. SAT What's the point of an 'awayday' for MPs? Has David Cameron SAT slipped up on spin? And how did Labour 'come round' to the SAT EU? SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0766gnc (Listen) SAT Drama for Dilma SAT SAT Colouring in the spaces between the world headlines. In this SAT edition, trouble for ladies who lead - with Brazil's SAT President Dilma Roussef facing impeachment and a traditional SAT chief in Malawi going into battle against child marriage. No SAT ordinary kitchen-sink drama: we go inside the recording SAT studio where they make a radio soap opera beamed into SAT embattled Syria. Has child protection in Norway become SAT overzealous? And why's the subject hit a raw nerve in the SAT former Communist countries of eastern Europe? And is it a SAT case of wanderlust lost as Germans fall out of love with the SAT foreign holiday? SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b0766gnf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b0766gnh (Listen) SAT The Big Benefits Freeze SAT SAT The Supreme Court handed HMRC a victory this week when it SAT ruled against a group of film scheme investors seeking to SAT appeal a February decision that their actions constituted SAT tax avoidance. What does this mean for the future of similar SAT schemes? SAT SAT This week, in any other year, your benefits would have gone SAT up with inflation. But in 2016 they have all been frozen - SAT apart from the basic state pension which increases by 2.9%. SAT With doubts over the sustainability of the triple lock, how SAT long can pensioners escape benefit cuts? SAT SAT The Government wants to crack down on claims management SAT companies. So it is proposing that the fees they charge SAT should be capped, both in pounds and percentage terms. The SAT companies say that will kill off their business. But SAT financial advisers say it is a good thing if it stops SAT frivolous claims. SAT SAT Nowhere in Britain has embraced PFI quite like Scotland. The SAT recent closure of 17 schools in Edinburgh built through SAT public-private partnerships highlights how widespread it is. SAT We discuss the long term effect on the Scottish tax payer. SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Reporter: Ben Carter SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. 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SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Danny Finkelstein SAT Panellist: Cariad Lloyd SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0766gnr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0766gny (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b076prgv (Listen) SAT Edwina Currie, John Hilary, Tim Montgomerie, Leanne Wood SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Knutsford SAT Multi Academy Trust in Cheshire with a panel including the SAT former conservative minister Edwina Currie, the Executive SAT Director of War on Want John Hilary, Tim Montgomerie who SAT writes for The Times newspaper and the leader of Plaid Cymru SAT Leanne Wood. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b078cvz0 (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 The Forsyte Saga b07705ws (Listen) SAT The Forsytes Continues, Episode 1 SAT SAT John Galsworthy's epic novels of love, money and betrayal in SAT an upper class family. SAT Dramatised for radio by Lin Coghlan SAT SAT 1920 and Soames Forsyte would do anything for his sparkling SAT daughter, Fleur. But when she begins to fall in love with SAT the wrong man, how can he stop history repeating itself? SAT SAT Original music composed by Neil Brand SAT SAT Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new SAT dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The SAT Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the SAT lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 SAT years from 1886 to 1936. SAT SAT The Forsytes Continues is the 2nd of 4 series of The Forsyte SAT Saga, which follows the life of young Fleur Forsyte, the SAT baby born at the end of series one. Now 19 and thoroughly SAT spoiled by her doting father, Fleur is relishing everything SAT the 1920s has to offer. SAT SAT It's 20 years since Soames Forsyte divorced the love of his SAT life, Irene, who went on to marry his cousin Jo. Now their SAT respective children have grown up, neither knowing their SAT parents' troubled history. SAT SAT When adult life inflicts its first wounds, Fleur throws SAT herself into smart society determined to embrace all that is SAT considered modern. She's an archetypal bright young thing, a SAT restless soul, on a mission to burn her wings. This young SAT generation which has survived the horrors of war is hell SAT bent on consuming all that is shiny and new - it's fast cars SAT and fast living, where scruples are old hat and collecting SAT "sensations" is the thing. To Soames, every inch the SAT Victorian man, this modern age feels increasingly strange SAT and he wonders about his place in it and how to protect his SAT daughter from it. SAT SAT Still insulated from reality by their wealth and class, the SAT Forsytes and their kind can no longer ignore the threat of SAT social change. SAT SAT Today's 90' drama comprises the third novel, To Let. Our SAT dramatisation of the fourth novel, The White Monkey, begins SAT on Monday and continues across the week in the 15 Minute SAT Drama slot before concluding in the Saturday Drama at 1430. SAT SAT Award-winning writers Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan are SAT dramatising the complete novels and Interludes and have SAT taken a new approach to the books - delving deeper to bring SAT more of Galsworthy's wonderful insight, wit and observation SAT from the page. Although focussed on the period in which they SAT were written - in the first 20 years of the 20th century - SAT the novels feel remarkably contemporary and have much to SAT reveal of our own world and inner lives. SAT SAT Credits SAT Fleur Forsyte: Jessica Raine SAT Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson SAT Irene Forsyte: Juliet Aubrey SAT Jon: Jonathan Bailey SAT Michael Mont: Ben Lambert SAT Annette Forsyte: Aurelie Amblard SAT Jo Forsyte: Ewan Bailey SAT Holly Dartie: Katie Redford SAT Prosper Profond: Sam Alexander SAT June Forsyte: Amelia Lowdell SAT Violet: Evie Killip SAT Man: Gerard McDermott SAT Author: John Galsworthy SAT Adaptor: Lin Coghlan SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT Producer: Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0766gpv (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Hibo Wardare has published her memoir Cut: One Woman's fight SAT against FGM in Britain today. She tells us about being cut SAT at the age of six and how she's still suffering the SAT consequences today. SAT SAT The journalist Zaina Erhaim talks about winning the Index SAT for Censorship award for journalism and her work training SAT reporters in Syria and providing women with access to the SAT internet. SAT SAT Elena Ferrante's final novel in her Neapolitan Quartet has SAT been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. We SAT discuss the Ferrante phenomenon with Guardian columnist SAT Deborah Orr and Joanna Biggs of the London Review of Books. SAT SAT The Cardiff born artist Gwenno discusses her unique blend of SAT music, mixing electronic synth pop with Welsh and Cornish SAT lyrics. SAT SAT The latest annual figures from the Tavistock Clinic the SAT country's only gender identity clinic for the under 18s SAT reveal that almost twice as many of the young people SAT referred there last year were born female, as opposed to SAT those born male. We hear from Consultant Clinical SAT Psychologist Bernadette Wren on the reasons why and from SAT Sasha who received treatment from the Tavistock clinic in SAT his teens. SAT SAT Athleisure - sportswear as high fashion. It's an industry SAT worth more than £4.5 billion pounds. Joanne Admiral founder SAT of athleisure wear company 'Hey Jo' and Fashion Features SAT Director at Elle UK Kenya Hunt discuss how to best wear this SAT latest trend. SAT SAT Flatulence is hilarious to some and mortifying to others but SAT when it comes to relationships is it ever okay to break wind SAT in front of a partner? The GP Clare Gerada and journalist SAT Daisy Buchanan discuss. SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Erin Riley. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Erin Riley SAT Interviewed Guest: Hibo Wardare SAT Interviewed Guest: Zaina Erhaim SAT Interviewed Guest: Deborah Orr SAT Interviewed Guest: Joanna Biggs SAT Interviewed Guest: Gwenno SAT Interviewed Guest: Bernadette Wren SAT Interviewed Guest: Sasha SAT Interviewed Guest: Joanne Admiral SAT Interviewed Guest: Kenya Hunt SAT Interviewed Guest: Clare Gerada SAT Interviewed Guest: Daisy Buchanan SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0766gpx (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b076prrp (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0766gq2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0766gq9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0766gqg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b077062x (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Arthur Smith, Lesley Sharp, Harlan Coben, SAT Jeremy Hardy, Charles Bradley, Nick Harper SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Lesley Sharp, SAT Harlan Coben and Jeremy Hardy for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from Charles SAT Bradley and Nick Harper. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Nick Harper SAT SAT Nick Harper's retrospective 3 vinyl LP box set is available SAT at independent record stores from today. Nick plays Arch1 SAT London on Saturday 16 April and Sat July 9 - Avebury Rocks - SAT charity concert in the heart of magical Wiltshire. SAT See his website for more dates SAT SAT Harlan Coben SAT The second episode of SAT The Five SAT is on Sky 1 on Friday 22nd April at 9pm. SAT Harlan's latest book SAT Fool Me Once SAT is published by Century and available now. SAT SAT Lesley Sharp SAT Scott & Bailey SAT is on Wednesday 13th 9pm on ITV. And Lesley is currently SAT playing Mrs Winterton in the R4 Classic Serial, a new SAT version of SAT Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit SAT SAT Jeremy Hardy SAT Jeremy Hardy is touring until 18th June. Plowright Theatre, SAT Scunthorpe on Saturday 16th, Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone SAT Sunday 17th and Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames on Friday SAT 22nd April. SAT Check Jeremy's website for further dates SAT . SAT SAT Charles Bradley SAT Charles Bradley's SAT new album 'Changes' is out now on Dunham / Daptone SAT Records. He plays at The Sage Gateshead on Sunday 17 April. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Lesley Sharp SAT Interviewed Guest: Harlan Coben SAT Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Hardy SAT Performer: Charles Bradley SAT Performer: Nick Harper SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b077062z (Listen) SAT Jamie Vardy SAT SAT Mark Coles looks at the life and career of footballer Jamie SAT Vardy. In just four years Vardy has gone from being a SAT relative unknown, being paid a few hundred pounds a week at SAT a non-league club, to one of the biggest names in European SAT football. As well as playing for England, Vardy is Leicester SAT City's star player - the team are now hotly tipped to win SAT the Premier League. SAT SAT Rejected by Sheffield Wednesday while a member of their SAT youth team for being too short, Vardy spent years working in SAT a factory in Sheffield, his recent success nothing short of SAT a Hollywood fairy-tale. Indeed, a Hollywood film is in the SAT pipeline. But his rise hasn't been problem free - in 2007 he SAT was convicted of assault after an altercation outside a pub, SAT and last year he was fined £40,000, by his own club, for SAT reportedly making a racist comment in a casino. SAT SAT Mark Coles speaks to Vardy's childhood friend Liam Muirhead, SAT his former teacher Dr Chris Wall and one of his first SAT football coaches Gary Marrow, about what has made him the SAT player he is today. SAT SAT Producer: Smita Patel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0766gqv (Listen) SAT Eye in the Sky, Hotels of North America, The Suicide, SAT Flowers, Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979 SAT SAT Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul star in Eye in the SAT Sky, a contemporary thriller set in the world of counter SAT intelligence and drone warfare - is the life of a 9 year old SAT girl acceptable collateral damage? SAT SAT Rick Moody's new novel Hotels of North America has an SAT unusual narrative voice. It takes the form of a series of SAT hotel reviews, as written by Reginald Edward Morse, one of SAT the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many SAT reviews reveal more than just details of hotels -they tell SAT his life story. SAT SAT Playwright Suhayla El-Bushra takes Nikolai Erdman's Soviet SAT classic The Suicide and sets it in contemporary urban London SAT at London's National Theatre, starring Javone Prince from SAT E4's Phone Shop. SAT SAT A new comedy drama on Channel 4, Flowers, stars Olivia SAT Colman and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh) and features an SAT eccentric family struggling to hold themselves together in a SAT crumbling old house. SAT SAT Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979 at Tate Britain shows SAT how artists working in Britain transformed the nature of SAT art, bringing together 70 works by 21 artists. SAT SAT Eye in the Sky SAT Eye in the Sky SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT The Suicide SAT The Suicide SAT is at the National Theatre in London until 25 June 2016. SAT SAT Images (above and left) - photo credit: Johan Persson SAT SAT Conceptual Art SAT Conceptual Art in Britain 1964–1979 SAT is at Tate Britain in London until 29 August 2016. SAT SAT Image: Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) by Roelof Louw. Roelof SAT Louw/Tate Patrons 2013/Aspen Art Museum 2015. SAT SAT Flowers SAT Flowers SAT begins on Channel 4 on Monday 25 April at 10pm. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b07706k5 (Listen) SAT Working Class Heroes and Poverty Porn SAT SAT Writer-broadcaster Stuart Maconie provocatively traces the SAT depiction of working class people - from the heroes of SAT popular culture in the 50s and 60s, to the real-life TV SAT characters in so-called "poverty porn", which confronted SAT viewers head on 60 years later. SAT SAT His quest starts with pop. He's not alone in noticing that SAT today's stars tend to be that little bit posher than the SAT Brians, Georges and Erics of 1960s fame. Nick Robinson SAT noticed the same thing on the Today programme. And there's SAT been similar concern about actors. Nowadays, it seems, SAT working people can't afford to train for a career on stage SAT and screen. SAT SAT The 60s docu-dramas, like Up the Junction, took up where the SAT New Wave of Room at the Top and Saturday Night and Sunday SAT Morning left off. Then came the observational documentaries SAT of Paul Watson. But his milestone 1974 series, The Family, SAT was received as entertainment rather than social document. SAT Watson robustly denies that he was "the godfather of reality SAT TV". SAT SAT Towards the end of Maconie's personal and outspoken SAT programme, we hear TV professionals arguing that shows like SAT Skint and Benefits Street simply relate difficult truths SAT about modern Britain. And even Skint had a hero, a kind of SAT flawed role model in the figure of a man called Dean. SAT SAT Maconie enlists cultural historian Matthew Sweet to decode SAT heroes in postwar films and talks to Peter Flannery, creator SAT of Our Friends in the North, the 90s drama series about SAT politics and class. Maxine Peake talks about how northern SAT dramas always sound working class to a wider audience. SAT SAT And in the series Educating Yorkshire, how do the SAT aspirations of a confident Year 8 pupil to become either an SAT actor or firefighter look in 2016? SAT SAT Producer: Nick Baker SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b0769qsx (Listen) SAT Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Episode 1 SAT SAT Adapted for radio by Jeanette Winterson from her acclaimed SAT novel. SAT SAT A unique coming of age story and a darkly funny tale of SAT religious excess and human obsession. SAT SAT Mrs Winterson has grand plans for her adopted daughter. SAT Having received Little Jeanette from the Lord she intends to SAT give her back to the Lord - she'll be a Missionary and save SAT the world from sin. But despite her strange and zealous SAT upbringing Little Jeanette begins to question her future. SAT Inspired by the legends of the Holy Grail, she may forge her SAT own path - much to her mother's despair. SAT SAT Piano performed by David Thomas SAT SAT From the award winning novel by Jeanette Winterson SAT Dramatised for radio by Jeanette Winterson SAT SAT Directed by Helen Perry SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales Production SAT SAT Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, SAT Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is Jeanette Winterson's SAT semi-autobiographical novel. Her subsequent novels, SAT including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the SAT Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great SAT international acclaim and Jeanette Winterson's honours SAT include England's Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy' SAT s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d'argent at the SAT Cannes Film Festival. SAT SAT Lesley Sharp is an award-winning stage, film and television SAT actress, particularly well known for her variety of British SAT television roles including Clocking Off, Scott & Bailey, Bob SAT & Rose and Afterlife. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mrs Winterson: Lesley Sharp SAT Little Jeanette: Eleanor Worthington-Cox SAT Jeanette: Katie West SAT Pastor Spratt: Vincent Franklin SAT Miss Jewsbury: Pauline Lynch SAT Mrs White: Susan Jameson SAT May: Adie Allen SAT Elsie Norris: Angela Pleasance SAT Louie: Claire Cage SAT Mrs Arkwright: Vicky Licorish SAT Man: Sam Rix SAT Author: Jeanette Winterson SAT Adaptor: Jeanette Winterson SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0766gr8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Agree to Differ b076mmm2 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Anglican Communion and Homosexuality SAT SAT The Anglican Communion, the global body of the Anglican SAT Church, is deeply divided over how it reconciles its SAT differences on same-sex marriage. Many feel the Communion is SAT being ripped apart by, on the one hand, Western provinces SAT where gay Christians are welcomed into the Church and where SAT there is growing support for same-sex marriage and, on the SAT other, conservative provinces in Africa where homosexuality SAT is seen as a 'sin' and in places is criminalised. It is a SAT debate not just about different scriptural interpretations, SAT but a power struggle between two opposing cultural world SAT views. For some it is simply a question of what should come SAT first; unity or justice? Jayne Ozanne is a gay British SAT evangelical Christian. Reverend Canon Hassan John is from SAT the Anglican church in Nigeria. They both join Matthew SAT Taylor to see whether despite strongly opposing views they SAT can agree to differ. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b076bxlb (Listen) SAT Semi-Final 2, 2016 SAT SAT (14/17) SAT Russell Davies welcomes four more semi-finalists to the SAT Radio Theatre in London, competing for a place in the 63rd SAT Brain of Britain Final. SAT SAT This week's competitors, from Edinburgh, Leicester, SAT Buckinghamshire and Merseyside, are all either heat winners SAT or top-scoring runners-up from earlier in the series. To win SAT through to the Final they'll need to know the name of the SAT battle commemorated by the climactic section of SAT Tchaikovsky's '1812' overture, the surname of the Goods' SAT neighbours in the sitcom The Good Life, and the sporting SAT tournament whose winner is awarded the Wanamaker Trophy. SAT SAT There'll also be the usual opportunity for a listener to SAT 'Beat the Brains', with fiendish questions of his or her own SAT devising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT JANE COOPER, a teacher and writer from Edinburgh SAT SAT ROB GREENHILL, a mature student and Student Union officer SAT from Leicester SAT SAT MIKE PORTER, a university lecturer from Haddenham in SAT Buckinghamshire SAT SAT DAVID SIMMS, a tennis coach from Liverpool. SAT SAT 23:30 The Poetic Spark b0769st8 (Listen) SAT The inscription on Muriel Spark's tombstone in Tuscany reads SAT 'Muriel Spark. Poeta'. SAT SAT Surprising perhaps: because, despite the fact that Spark SAT always referred to herself as a poet, it's her reputation as SAT a novelist, and the creator of the charismatic Jean Brodie, SAT for which she's better known. SAT SAT Before Muriel was anywhere near her prime, she'd established SAT a reputation as a poet. Aged just fourteen, she won a SAT prestigious poetry competition celebrating the centenary of SAT Walter Scott. Later, she published several collections to SAT glowing reviews and completed a controversial stint as SAT Editor of the Poetry Review, during which time she gathered SAT as many enemies as her fictional alter-ego, Jean Brodie SAT (notably Marie Stopes about whom she famously quipped: 'I SAT used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had SAT not thought of birth control')! SAT SAT Muriel Spark kept writing poetry throughout her life. 10 SAT years after her death, AL Kennedy, a long term admirer of SAT her novels and short stories, wonders what new insights the SAT poems might lend to her writing and character. SAT SAT Fiona Sampson SAT SAT Professor of Poetry at the University of Roehampton, where SAT she is the Director of the Roehampton Poetry Centre and SAT Editor of *Poem*. SAT SAT SAT SAT She has published twenty books, including works of poetry, SAT volumes on the philosophy of language and on the writing SAT process. Her poetry has been published and broadcast in more SAT than thirty languages. SAT SAT Michael Schmidt SAT SAT FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, Michael was born SAT in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham SAT College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many SAT publications are several collections of poems and a novel, SAT *The Colonist* (1981), about a boy’s childhood in Mexico. He SAT is general editor of *PN Review* and founder as well as SAT managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester. SAT SAT Alan Taylor SAT SAT Alan Taylor is founding editor of the Scottish Review of SAT Books. He writes for the Times Literary Supplement, the SAT Herald and the Sunday Herald. Glasgow: The Autobiography SAT will be published later this year. Forthcoming is a memoir SAT of Muriel Spark, whose friendship he enjoyed from 1990 until SAT her death in 2006. SAT SAT Penelope Jardine SAT SAT Muriel Spark’s companion, friend and helper for many years. SAT SAT Alexandra Mathie SAT SAT Alexandra Mathie’s stage work includes productions at the SAT National Theatre, the Royal Exchange, Royal Lyceum, Stephen SAT Joseph Theatre and in the West End. Amongst many television SAT appearances she has been seen in Coronation Street, Doctors, SAT Eastenders and Casualty. She is regularly to be heard on SAT BBC Radio. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 APRIL 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0770qgz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Shorts b03vd1kp (Listen) SUN Series 13, The Punch SUN SUN Scottish Shorts, the best writing from Scotland. SUN The Punch by Kenneth Steven. SUN An argument with his brother sets Ranald on the journey of a SUN lifetime. Reader Iain Macrae. Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. SUN SUN Kenneth Steven's novel WELL OF THE NORTH WIND is out now. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Ian Macrae SUN Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SUN Writer: Kenneth Steven SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0770qh1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0770qh3 (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0770qh5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0770qh7 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b07738jn (Listen) SUN St Andrew's and St George's West, Edinburgh SUN SUN This week's Bells on Sunday comes from the church of St SUN Andrew's and St George's West, Edinburgh, Scotland. This SUN Grade A listed building was completed in 1784 and serves the SUN Edinburgh New Town Parish. The church is notable for its SUN elliptical plan, the first as such in Great Britain. The SUN tower holds a peal of 8 bells cast by William & Thomas Mears SUN of London in 1788. The tenor weighs fourteen and a half SUN hundredweight and is tuned to E. This week we hear part of a SUN full peal of Marlborough Surprise Major. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b077062z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0770qh9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b07738jq (Listen) SUN The Suspension of Disbelief SUN SUN Described by The New York Times as "one of the smartest SUN writers alive", award winning novelist Rachel Cusk makes her SUN debut as a presenter on Radio 4 with a reflection on the SUN "suspension of disbelief", inspired by Samuel Taylor SUN Coleridge. SUN SUN "It was given to us as an explanation of how stories work," SUN she explains, " the suspension of our disbelief is what SUN allows the unreal to become, momentarily, real." SUN SUN Using the poetry of T S Eliot, Wordsworth, Herbert and SUN Coleridge himself, Rachel takes the listener on a journey SUN through reality and belief, which ultimately affects our SUN understanding of ourselves. SUN SUN "We want to be transported by stories out of our own lives, SUN much as we want to be lifted by faith out of doubt. Yet the SUN drama of our own experience is so much closer and more real SUN to us - the problem is that it lacks the coherence and order SUN of narrative. To bear reality, we need to believe that our SUN lives constitute some kind of story. We want the writer to SUN write it for us, to arrange things into a meaningful SUN pattern, to help us suspend our disbelief." SUN SUN Music from Beethoven, Radiohead, Britten and Karl Jenkins SUN help Rachel reveal the "value of disbelief" and "the SUN possibilities for freedom it offers". SUN SUN A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Lyrical Ballads SUN SUN Author: William Wordsworth SUN SUN Publisher: Penguin Classics SUN Title: The Collar SUN SUN Author: George Herbert SUN SUN Publisher: Penguin Classics SUN Title: The Prelude SUN SUN Author: William Wordsworth SUN SUN Publisher: Penguin Classics SUN Title: Klingsor's Last Summer (Klein und Wagner) SUN SUN Author: Hermann Hesse SUN SUN Translator: C. Winston, R. Winston SUN SUN Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd SUN Title: Burnt Norton, Four Quartets SUN SUN Author: TS Eliot SUN SUN Publisher: Faber & Faber SUN Title: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner SUN SUN Author: Samuel Taylor SUN SUN Publisher: Perfection Learning SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b07738js (Listen) SUN Future Food: McDonald's Beef Carbon Project SUN SUN Dan Saladino visits Stephen Hobbs's beef farm near Milton SUN Keynes, to find out about a project by McDonald's that aims SUN to help beef farmers work more sustainably. SUN SUN As he walks round, Dan is joined by Connor McVeigh, the SUN Supply Chain Director for McDonald's UK, which sourced SUN 40,000 tonnes of beef from around 16,000 British and Irish SUN farms in 2015. SUN SUN This is the second 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 b0770qhc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0770qhf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0770qhh (Listen) SUN Shakespeare's religion, Pope in Lesbos, What do Muslims SUN really think? SUN SUN Presenter William Crawley hears reaction to Pope Francis' SUN visit to Lesbos, and explores the significance of the joint SUN approach to the migrant crisis by the Catholic and Orthodox SUN churches. SUN SUN Ahead of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's SUN death, Trevor Barnes reports on the religion of SUN Shakespeare's England, and the influence of the Bible on his SUN language. SUN SUN This week's Channel 4 documentary "What British Muslims SUN really think", has been heavily criticised by members of SUN Muslim communities for putting across what they see as a SUN skewed picture of Islam in Britain. The programme's SUN executive producer Samir Shah and author and activist SUN Shelina Janmohamed discuss. SUN SUN Liz Leonard examines the current religious landscape of SUN Scotland, in light of the recent Scottish Social Attitudes SUN survey which suggests that most people in Scotland are 'not SUN religious'. 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SUN SUN MedEquip4Kids SUN SUN MedEquip4Kids improves children’s healthcare in the UK by SUN funding equipment not available from limited NHS resources. SUN This year, the charity is appealing especially for resources SUN to improve children’s mental health. MedEquip4Kids is SUN providing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services SUN (CAMHS) nationwide with materials to support the one in ten SUN children and young people with a mental health condition. SUN Find out more at SUN www.medequip4kids.org.uk SUN SUN Resources provided by MedEquip4Kids for Wigan CAMHS SUN SUN MedEquip4Kids has provided 90 CAMHS teams across the UK with SUN books, games and toys. These specialist materials help SUN children like Ben, who features in the appeal, to understand SUN and communicate their feelings and to manage their SUN conditions. 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SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0773dpq (Listen) SUN Hallowed Be Thy Name SUN SUN In the second of an occasional series of services exploring SUN the Lord's Prayer, Sunday Worship visits St Catharine's SUN College, Cambridge. The service is led by the Chaplain, Revd SUN David Neaum, and explores with students and staff of the SUN College the different ways in which they find sacred space SUN for God in their lives. The preacher is the University of SUN Cambridge theologian Professor Catherine Pickstock. SUN SUN The service includes a performance by the winner of the BBC SUN Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year competition, Agatha SUN Petters, a chorister at the College. Music is led by the SUN Girls' Choir and Chapel Choir, directed by Edward Wickham. SUN The producer is Andrew Earis. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN SUN SUN OPENING ANNO SUN BBC Radio 4. It’s ten past eight. Professor of Metaphysics SUN and Poetics in Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity Catherine SUN Pickstock is the preacher for this morning’s Sunday Worship SUN which comes live from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. SUN It’s the second in an occasional series on the Lord’s Prayer SUN and is introduced by the Chaplain, the Revd David Neaum*. SUN CHAPLAIN SUN Good morning, from the steps of Chapel overlooking the open, SUN main Court of St Catharine’s College. This morning’s service SUN takes the second phrase of the Lord’s Prayer, ‘hallowed be SUN Thy Name’ as its inspiration. St Catharine’s was founded in SUN 1473, at a time when the Lord’s name certainly would have SUN been ‘hallowed’ as a matter of course in places of SUN learning. There’s a lot in those four words about the SUN Holyness and the Name of God. Both this Chapel and its SUN antecedents have been hallowed places within the College, SUN and they are still places where we know God by name in SUN worship and prayer. Inside the Chapel are gathered our SUN student choir and our junior girls’ choir, along with the SUN students who have just returned to begin a new term and who SUN will begin our service by singing the hymn ‘The God of SUN Abraham Praise’. SUN SUN SUN HYMN: THE GOD OF ABRAHAM PRAISE SUN SUN CHAPLAIN SUN SUN So, let us pray: SUN SUN Heavenly Father, we give you thanks for those places where SUN you reveal yourself to us and we learn to speak your name. SUN As your name is hallowed so may your presence mark the SUN places where we encounter you, making them holy and sacred SUN in our memories and reminding us that you, our God, are with SUN us now and always. SUN All: Amen. SUN MUSIC O God to whom all hearts are seen Robert Kindersley SUN O God to whom all hearts are seen, composed by Robert SUN Kindersley. The Master, Professor Dame Jean Thomas gives our SUN first reading now, from Exodus, Chapter three, beginning at SUN the first verse. SUN SUN SUN READING – THE MASTER SUN SUN Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the SUN priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, SUN and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of SUN the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; SUN he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not SUN consumed. Then Moses said, ‘I must turn aside and look at SUN this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.’ SUN When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see, God SUN called to him out of the bush, ‘Moses, Moses!’ And he said, SUN ‘Here I am.’ Then he said, ‘Come no closer! Remove the SUN sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are SUN standing is holy ground.’ He said further, ‘I am the God of SUN your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the SUN God of Jacob.’ And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to SUN look at God. SUN Then the Lord said, ‘I have observed the misery of my people SUN who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their SUN taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have SUN come down to deliver them from the Egyptians. So come, I SUN will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, SUN out of Egypt.’ SUN But Moses said to God, ‘If I come to the Israelites and say SUN to them, “The God of your ancestors has sent me to you”, and SUN they ask me, “What is his name?” what shall I say to them?’ SUN God said to Moses, ‘I am who I am.’ He said further, ‘Thus SUN you shall say to the Israelites, “I am has sent me to you.” SUN ’ God also said to Moses, ‘Thus you shall say to the SUN Israelites, “The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of SUN Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me SUN to you”: SUN This is my name for ever, and this my title for all SUN generations. SUN This is the word of the Lord, SUN Thanks be to God. SUN CHAPLAIN SUN SUN The God who revealed his name to Moses in the wilderness, is SUN a God we still encounter. Not through a burning bush SUN perhaps, but in ways and places that are still hallowed by SUN God as he continues to reveal his name [to us]. SUN SUN We’ll now hear three reflections by a student in divinity, a SUN junior chorister, and a teaching fellow of the College SUN recorded in and around the College where they have SUN discerned the presence of God. SUN SUN CHOIR: Chant: Bless the Lord my Soul (Taize) SUN SUN ENCOUNTER 1 (PRE-RECORDED INSERT) SUN My name is Rebecca Webster. I am a second year student in SUN Theology and Religious Studies and Chapel Clerk here at St SUN Catharine’s College. Here in my room in college I am SUN fortunate enough to have a window seat that overlooks some SUN playing fields. Strange for a city, the view is of grass, SUN trees and the sky. When I’m sitting there I’m reminded of SUN the constancy of nature, the steadfastness of the Lord’s SUN peace and presence. No matter what is happening in my life SUN at that time, I am under the same sky that I have always SUN been under, the same sky that all before me have lived SUN under. I am reminded that in God’s transcendence, He is, and SUN always has been, present with us. SUN SUN CHOIR: Chant: Bless the Lord my Soul (Taize) SUN SUN SUN ENCOUNTER 2 Francesca (PRE-RECORDED INSERT) SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN CHOIR: Chant: Bless the Lord my Soul (Taize) SUN ENCOUNTER 3 SUN My name is Dr Michael Hurley. I am a Fellow in English at St SUN Catharine’s, and I am in the old library. The eighteenth SUN century panelling and décor, and the elevated view onto the SUN College’s main court, makes for a lovely working SUN environment. But I am less moved by the aesthetics of this SUN place than by the hushed industry that goes in here. It’s SUN the desultory browsing, reading and writing that, for me, SUN consecrates this place – every single day of the term. So SUN much of what is said about education today figures it SUN instrumentally. Studying is said to get you somewhere or SUN something: a qualification or a job. But the collective SUN energy in this library, any day of the week, suggests the SUN opposite possibility -- that learning might have value for SUN its own sake. The desire to satisfy curiosity, to know, is SUN certainly a very human impulse. But the purity of that SUN impulse feels to me to be highly spiritual too. SUN MUSIC Locus iste Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) SUN CHAPLAIN SUN SUN Locus site by Bruckner, the words for which are: this place SUN was made by God a priceless mystery; it is without reproof. SUN SUN In a few moments Professor Catherine Pickstock, an alumna of SUN this College and Professor of Metaphysics and Poetics in the SUN Faculty of Divinity here in Cambridge will give the SUN address. But first, a reading from the Gospel of according SUN to John, Chapter seventeen, beginning at the first verse.’ SUN SUN READING - TBC SUN SUN Jesus looked up to heaven and said, ‘Father, the hour has SUN come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, SUN since you have given him authority over all people, to give SUN eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is SUN eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and SUN Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth by SUN finishing the work that you gave me to do. So now, Father, SUN glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in SUN your presence before the world existed. SUN SUN ‘I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from SUN the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and SUN they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you SUN have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me SUN I have given to them, and they have received them and know SUN in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that SUN you sent me. SUN SUN This is the word of the Lord, SUN Thanks be to God. SUN SUN SUN SERMON PART 1 SUN SUN We utter the phrase, “Hallowed be Thy name”, so often that SUN we seldom consider how strange it is. Why hallow ‘Thy name’, SUN and not God directly? Is honouring a ‘name’, whether human SUN or divine, the same as honouring the person so named? Is it SUN just a manner of speaking? SUN But a name may be given to many different people, and even SUN when attached to one person, there is no perfect identity of SUN the two, the name and the person. This is why one can act SUN representatively ‘in the name of’ another person. To act in SUN someone’s name is to honour that individual person, but also SUN all their emanations, roles and influence. SUN SUN To hallow is to honour, but it has more layers to it than SUN that. It means not just to proclaim, but also the opposite, SUN to reserve, to make somewhat secret. It means to consecrate. SUN So to hallow a name is paradoxical; it is to render somewhat SUN hidden the very word that most shows forth, or proclaims SUN identity. SUN SUN And so it was with the most intimate name of God for the SUN ancient Hebrews, the unpronounceable name of the SUN Tetragrammaton, the four unsayable consonants: Y, H, V, H. SUN This name was both clarified and obscured to Moses, as a SUN repeated ‘I AM’, or ‘I AM AND ALWAYS WILL BE’, giving rise SUN to later argument as to whether it proclaims God as SUN unchanging being, or as absolute power of self-definition. SUN For God to claim the name ‘I AM’ is to say that his name SUN uniquely coincides with his existence. With ordinary names, SUN this is not the case: a human being may be called Jack or SUN William. But God is simply called ‘is’ according to the SUN Bible. SUN SUN Does this mean that God is unchanging and reliable, or that SUN he is utterly unpredictable? Again we can look at the way SUN names normally work. Names come to be associated with the SUN traits of particular persons. So the name ‘Raskolnikov’ in SUN Dostovevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment denotes urban SUN alienation and nihilistic wickedness. And yet a name can SUN also indicate that same person, despite changed SUN characteristics, as when Raskolnikov later repents. SUN SUN So names are strange: they seem to mark both habitual SUN consistency of character, and persistence of identity SUN despite change. SUN SUN SUN SUN What then of the name of God? Is his name ‘being’, because, SUN like existence as we know it, he might turn out to be SUN anything? Or, is he ‘being’ as an unalterable, reliable, SUN rock-like standard of goodness? Is his name really SUN ‘surprise’, because we cannot know? Or is his name SUN ‘sameness’? The Exodus passage suggests both ‘surprise’ and SUN ‘sameness’ at once, because always a good surprise. For the SUN name ‘I AM’ is given in a very particular worldly context SUN that occasions an epiphany of the eternal. The ‘brightness SUN of the lit bush’ is a momentary intimation of an abiding SUN fire that does not burn, yet the voice that speaks from this SUN fire proclaims a specific future of freedom from captivity SUN for Israel, and arrival at a new place of flourishing. SUN SUN So the name of God is more than everything, and beyond any SUN place, and yet just for this reason, must be mediated by SUN many particular attachments, affinities and places. This SUN unites for us consistency with surprise, as intimations of SUN eternity suddenly interrupt our ordinary hurried experiences SUN of time. And we have heard already some of the ways in which SUN eternity seems to interrupt time in particular places – the SUN hushed library, the playing fields – for students and staff SUN of the College. SUN SUN SUN Our own names are not identical with our existences, but SUN hold open a sort of gap between what we have been so far, SUN and what we might yet become. This is an interval both of SUN danger, and of promise. For a contaminated human name is SUN always redeemable, if we act in the name of God as SUN consistently good being, who is a source of endlessly new SUN and surprising goodness. If we do so act, then our names may SUN come to coincide with our existence, and both as individuals SUN and as peoples, we can start to be newly identified as SUN unpredictably consistent in our surprising creativity. That SUN is the mark of God’s name upon us. SUN HYMN Bright the vision that delighted Richard Mant SUN (1776-1848) SUN SUN SERMON PART 2 SUN SUN Christ manifests to his followers the name of God. But what SUN name is this? SUN SUN One may suppose it is the Tetragrammaton – the unknowable ‘I SUN AM’. For only this name was worthy to be hallowed by any SUN Jewish preacher. SUN SUN So Christ, like Moses, proclaimed the secret name of God. As SUN a second Moses, he linked the manifestation of this name SUN with a new law or rite. SUN The place where Jesus announces that he has shown the name SUN of God is also the place where he gives the new rite at the SUN last supper; no longer the height of a mountain, but an SUN upper room. And in place of a non-consuming divine fire in a SUN natural bush, he exhibits a divine-human body as ordinary SUN bread and wine. In contrast to the Old Testament SUN unity-in-tension of universal truth with specific SUN revelation, here is the mystery of the absolute coincidence SUN of the two, since earlier in John’s Gospel, Jesus had SUN identified himself with the ‘I AM’. SUN SUN But it cannot just mean the hidden ‘I AM’. Jesus manifests SUN the name through showing the words of the Father to his SUN disciples so perfectly that they are equally his own words; SUN as he glorifies his Father, so his Father glorifies his Son. SUN As he has given the disciples, who hear these words, to his SUN Father, so his Father has given the disciples to him. SUN SUN Therefore, even though that name was humanly bestowed, the SUN name ‘Jesus Christ’ is the eternal name of God Himself, and SUN the ritual utterance of that name attunes us to God, SUN bringing about in us a God-likeness. SUN SUN What can this mean? SUN SUN First, it reveals a surprising distance between existence SUN and name, even in God, but a perfectly relational distance; SUN the being of the Father exhaustively expresses his name in SUN the Son. Even the reception of a name remains in God in the SUN form of the Holy Spirit. God is thereby eternally united SUN with the human history of the Jews, and its consummate SUN realisation in Christ and the Church. SUN SUN Secondly, it means the promise of God to the Church of a new SUN Exodus and homecoming. The time of final naming of all SUN creatures and their thrice hallowing in the name of the SUN Trinity. The final surprise of the arrival of an astonishing SUN complete harmony and consistency on earth. A threefold SUN hallowing therefore of all, in which we gradually become SUN what we sing, in triple time: Holy, Holy, Holy: the SUN diversely shared name of Being and action together. SUN SUN MUSIC Sanctus and Benedictus from the Messe Basse SUN Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1925) SUN SUN CHAPLAIN SUN The Sanctus and Benedictus from Faure’s Messe basse, sung by SUN Agatha Petters, a Chorister here at St Catharine’s College SUN and winner of this year’s BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the SUN Year Competition, with the Girls Choir of St Catharine’s SUN College directed by Edward Wickham and accompanied by our SUN Senior Organ Scholar Will Fairbairn. This year’s competition SUN launches today. SUN SUN Let us pray. SUN SUN SPEAKER 1 SUN God Almighty, we give you thanks for the opportunities we SUN have to praise you in this College Chapel, hallowed by SUN centuries of worship and by your presence, and we pray that SUN all who pass through this Chapel’s doors will continue to SUN encounter your holy name in this place. We pray for St SUN Catharine’s College, its Master, fellows, students and staff SUN and our research teaching and learning. SUN Thy kingdom come SUN thy will be done. SUN SUN SUN SPEAKER 2 SUN Heavenly Father we ask for your blessing upon the world in SUN the midst of its disorder and injustice. We pray for SUN increased international cooperation and resolve to address SUN the disparities of wealth and inequalities of opportunity SUN that exist between peoples and nations. We pray for all in SUN governance that they may be inspired to pursue peace and the SUN common good. SUN Thy kingdom come. SUN Thy will be done. SUN SUN SPEAKER 1 SUN Lord Jesus Christ we give you thanks for all the ways we SUN encounter you in our daily lives. We give thanks for those SUN whose love for us expresses something of your love, for the SUN times when we are able to acknowledge that we are in the SUN wrong and receive your forgiveness. We pray that all may SUN come to know your name in your hallowing and sancitfying of SUN our lives. SUN Thy kingdom come SUN thy will be done. SUN SUN SPEAKER 2 SUN Spirit of God we pray that you will animate our thoughts and SUN minds, inspiring us to recognize your presence in the world SUN and the gifts we have received at your hands. May we be SUN faithful interpreters of your Gospel, active witnesses to SUN your love and hopeful recipients of your peace. SUN Thy kingdom come SUN thy will be done. SUN SUN CHAPLAIN SUN We gather together all our prayers in the Lord’s Prayer, SUN which is sung here to a setting in German by the Estonian SUN composer Arvo Part, accompanied by our Junior organ scholar, SUN Alex Coplan. SUN SUN MUSIC Vater Unser Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) SUN SUN CHAPLAIN SUN Let us now sing of the majesty of our God, hallowing his SUN name with our praise in the hymn ‘How shall I sing that SUN Majesty’. SUN SUN HYMN – How shall I sing that majesty? John Mason SUN (c.1645-1694) SUN BLESSING SUN SUN May the God of all holiness draw you into his presence, SUN reveal to you his saving love and strengthen you to do his SUN will. And the blessing of God almighty, the Father the Son SUN and the Holy Spirit be upon you now and remain with you SUN always. Amen. SUN SUN CHORAL BLESSING: God be in my head Judith Bingham (b. 1952) SUN SUN Text: Anonymous: Medieval SUN Book of Hours, 1514, in English in the Sarum Primer of 1558 SUN SUN [[ORGAN VOLUNTARY – Fugue on the Magnificat (Bach)]] SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b076prgx (Listen) SUN When Is Enough Enough? SUN SUN Sarah Dunant takes an historical look at avarice. She argues SUN that the revelations in the Panama Papers are just the SUN latest proof that man's greed is woven into the human SUN psyche. SUN SUN Dante gave it a harder time than lust...two centuries later, SUN it's one of Machiavelli's central themes and many of the SUN greatest works of art exist only because they were paid for SUN by rich, often corrupt, figures, many within the church. SUN SUN And - Sarah asks - aren't many of us, to some extent, SUN guilty? Can any of us really say that when it comes to money SUN we know when enough is enough? SUN SUN Producer: SUN SUN Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sarah Dunant SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b01s6y1h (Listen) SUN Cuckoo - Male SUN SUN David Attenborough narrates the first in a new series of SUN short stories about our British birds inspired by their SUN calls and songs, beginning with the Cuckoo. After spending SUN winter in Africa, the migratory urge propels the Cuckoos SUN northwards. And for many of us their return is a welcome SUN sign that spring is well and truly here. SUN SUN Cuckoo - Male (Cuculus canorus) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0770qhp (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 b0773dps (Listen) SUN Clarrie has some words of advice, and Lynda is not SUN impressed. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Caroline Harrington SUN Director: Marina Caldarone SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Dominic Farrell: Lex Shrapnel SUN Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b0773lcc (Listen) SUN Euro 96 SUN SUN The European Championship of 1996 was the opportunity for SUN English football to recapture some pride, after the failure SUN to qualify for the 1994 World Cup. England were the hosts, SUN and an extraordinarily hot summer set the stage. SUN SUN The tournament became poised as an important national moment SUN - sales of St. Georges flags exploded and Skinner and SUN Baddiel's Britpop infused tournament anthem Three Lions was SUN inescapable. SUN SUN But as the start of the tournament approached, lead striker SUN Alan Shearer was struggling for goals, coach Terry Venables SUN had had little time to implement his strategy, and no-one SUN knew if the unpredictable but brilliant midfielder Paul SUN Gascoigne would be able to show the form for which he was SUN famous. While excitement built at home, the players were in SUN the headlines for the wrong reasons when a pre-season tour SUN of the Far East combined failings on the pitch with drunken SUN photographs of players in the tabloid newspapers. SUN SUN But once the tournament started, the team rode luck and SUN individual brilliance to the semi-final. SUN SUN Sue is joined by Darren Anderton, who played all five games, SUN and by Ted Buxton, who was the assistant to the manager and SUN the Chief Scout. David Davies was in charge of the team's SUN relationship with the press, Harry Harris was covering the SUN tournament as Chief Football Writer for the Daily Mirror, SUN and Barry Davies was commentating for the BBC. SUN SUN Producer: Robert Nicholson SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b0770qhr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b076bz3n (Listen) SUN Series 16, Episode 2 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 Joe Lycett, Sam Simmons, Richard Osman and Aisling Bea are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as kitchens, pigeons, the Vatican and SUN breakfast cereal. 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: Joe Lycett SUN Panellist: Sam Simmons SUN Panellist: Richard Osman SUN Panellist: Aisling Bea SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0773lcp (Listen) SUN Food in Space SUN SUN Food in the most extreme cooking environment, space. Dan SUN Saladino tries menus for Mars. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0770qht (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0770qhw (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 An Excellent Dumb Discourse: Shakespeare in Silence SUN b0773ld6 (Listen) SUN Isn't silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that's nuanced, SUN beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between SUN 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was SUN released, nearly three hundred Shakespeare films were made. SUN SUN Judith Buchanan, director of Silents Now and Professor in SUN the Department of English and Related Literature at the SUN University of York, celebrates this phenomenon - the muted, SUN gesturing figures, the stop-motion magic. SUN SUN She is joined by the actor Samuel West - along with Flora SUN Spencer-Longhurst (actress, on her silenced Lavinia in the SUN Globe's latest Titus Andronicus), Christopher Wheeldon SUN (Choreographer, associate of the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden SUN in London) and Paata Tsikurishvili (Director of Synetic SUN Theatre in America). SUN SUN Together they explore Shakespeare in picture and movement. SUN SUN A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b076prgg (Listen) SUN Bury St Edmunds SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Bury St Edmunds. Bunny Guinness, Matthew Wilson and SUN Christine Walkden answer the questions from an audience of SUN local gardeners. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – Can the panel recommend ways to stop pheasants picking SUN off the heads of my plants? SUN SUN Bunny – Make lots of noise to make your garden unattractive SUN – works for Canada Geese SUN SUN Matthew – Put a mirror in your garden and pheasants will get SUN distracted by it SUN SUN SUN Q – I planted a plum tree last year, it’s in blossom, should SUN I expect fruit? SUN SUN Christine – If it’s a small, young tree I wouldn’t recommend SUN it. I’d take the flowers off and allow all the tree’s SUN energy to go into root establishment SUN SUN Matthew – Take the flowers off and give it a good water and SUN feed. They need to establish roots in the first year. SUN SUN Bunny – Keep the trunk clear of weeds etc too SUN SUN SUN Q – I didn’t dig up my potatoes last year. They’re now SUN sprouting. Should I take them out or leave them and try for SUN a crop this year? SUN SUN Matthew – No reason why you couldn’t get a crop this year. SUN One issue might be reduced yield but I wouldn’t worry about SUN it. SUN SUN Bunny – I would dig them up. If you leave them they’ll SUN clump and compete and end up being very tiny. Also, viruses SUN are a problem. Lift them, give them away, sow some more. SUN SUN SUN Q – The old Bramley Apple tree in my garden has become SUN covered in moss – is it harmful? SUN SUN Christine – No. Moss is very superficial. If it’s not SUN affecting the fruit I wouldn’t worry. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have boring but mature Laurels edging my garden. How SUN do I replace them to get more colour and interest? It is SUN mostly shaded and infested with conifers. SUN SUN Bunny – People put Laurel in because it’s so fast-growing SUN but the work you need to put in to keep it under control is SUN mammoth. And they have cyanide in the stemmata so when you SUN cut a load be careful! Something like a *Taxus* (Yew) hedge SUN would be magnificent for green. You can maintain it however SUN high you like it and you can control it quite easily. For SUN colour a *Rosa rugosa* hedge would do it if it’s dappled SUN shade. Mayflower is disease-resistant. But you could choose SUN from 50 or 60 different types. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have a walled kitchen garden with fruit trees on the SUN walls. I understand it’s necessary to hand pollinate SUN peaches which I do with an old shaving brush. Is it SUN beneficial for other trees too? SUN SUN Christine – Peaches, apricots, some people will try it on SUN figs. To a large extent, it depends on if you’re having SUN problems. If not, don’t worry. SUN SUN Bunny – Sometimes it’s a good idea to thin to encourage them SUN to grow bigger. A lot depends on what’s around them – at SUN the moment I have lots of Comfrey near my fruit trees so the SUN bees are out and about doing their job. SUN SUN SUN Q – What’s your favourite garden apart from your own? SUN SUN Bunny – Les Jardines Agapanthe, in France SUN SUN Christine – Coleton Fishacre in Plymouth SUN SUN Matthew – Ganna Walska Lotusland in Santa Barbara, CA SUN SUN SUN Q – A friend of mine has been looking after a memorial oak SUN tree in the village green. She believes it’s a Turkey Oak SUN planted between ten and fifteen years ago. She was SUN recommended to water it with a sugar solution. Is this SUN really necessary? SUN SUN Matthew – It’s a load of rubbish SUN SUN Bunny – Put a coarse bark mulch around the base of the tree SUN – about 50-100mm (2-4inches) – it will increase the oxygen SUN in the soil and the microorganisms and it will boost the SUN tree massively. SUN SUN Matthew – Trees are essentially woodland plants – if you SUN replicate that environment it will boost their health SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b0773ldg (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations which reveal the close SUN bond between mothers and sons, from Cumbria, Northern SUN Ireland and Scotland, all in the Omnibus of the series that SUN proves it's surprising 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 b0773ldq (Listen) SUN Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Episode 2 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 Now 16, Jeanette's future as a budding missionary is called SUN into question when she falls in love with one of her SUN converts, Melanie. It's not long before Mrs Winterson SUN discovers her daughter's 'unnatural passions'. As the SUN congregation determine to exorcise her demons, Jeanette is SUN forced to choose between her church, home and family or the SUN woman she loves. 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 Jeanette: Katie West SUN Pastor Spratt: Vincent Franklin SUN Miss Jewsbury: Pauline Lynch SUN Melanie: Nicola Ferguson SUN Mrs White: Susan Jameson SUN May: Adie Allen SUN Elsie Norris: Angela Pleasance SUN Louie: Claire Cage SUN Mrs Arkwright: Vicky Licorish SUN The Demon: Sam Rix SUN Author: Jeanette Winterson SUN Adaptor: Jeanette Winterson SUN Director: Helen Perry SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0773ldz (Listen) SUN Barney Norris SUN SUN On the 400th anniversary of his death, Mariella Frostrup SUN discusses the work and legacy of Miguel de Cervantes with SUN authors Daniel Hahn and Deborah Levy. Cervantes is often SUN credited with inventing the modern novel and the playful wit SUN and digressive plotting of Don Quixote have influenced SUN generations of writers. SUN SUN Playwright Barney Norris talks to Mariella about his first SUN novel Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain . Set in Salisbury, SUN it's about five characters whose lives are united - and SUN transformed - by a car accident. He talks about the SUN importance of the cathedral city to his life and work. SUN SUN Also on the programme, Mariella investigates new ways of SUN getting a book published with self publishing star Rachel SUN Abbott and Angus Phillips from the Oxford Centre for SUN Publishing, and novelist Francesca Haig rails against the SUN critical term 'literary'. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Daniel Hahn SUN Interviewed Guest: Deborah Levy SUN Interviewed Guest: Barney Norris SUN Interviewed Guest: Rachel Abbott SUN Interviewed Guest: Angus Phillips SUN Interviewed Guest: Francesca Haig SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b0773msq (Listen) SUN Poetry by Heart SUN SUN Roger McGough is back with the first in a new series of the SUN poetry requests show. This programme comes from the annual SUN Poetry by Heart competition. Students learn and recite a SUN variety of poems, from Sylvia Plath's Morning Song to A SUN Satirical Elegy by Jonathan Swift. There's a wealth of SUN talent on display, but who will be crowned winner? SUN If you fancy making a request then get in touch at SUN poetryplease@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @bbcpoetryplease. SUN Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN St Kevin and the Blackbird SUN SUN by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN From Opened Ground: Poems 1966 – 1996 SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Concert Party: Busseboom SUN SUN by Edmund Blunden SUN SUN From The Faber Book of War Poetry SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Easter Monday SUN SUN by Eleanor Farjeon SUN SUN From Peace and War; a Collection of Poems SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Morning Song SUN SUN by Sylvia Plath SUN SUN From Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Chimney Sweeper SUN SUN by William Blake SUN SUN From Poetry By Heart – Poems for Learning and Reciting SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Two Pages SUN SUN by Choman Hardi SUN SUN From ‘Life For Us’ SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe Books SUN SUN SUN SUN A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a Late Famous General SUN SUN by Jonathan Swift SUN SUN From Poetry By Heart – Poems for Learning and Reciting SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Envy SUN SUN by Adelaide Ann Procter SUN SUN From Poetry By Heart – Poems for Learning and Reciting SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Invitation to Love SUN SUN by Paul Dunbar SUN SUN From Poetry By Heart – Poems for Learning and Reciting SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from The Ballad of Reading Gaol SUN SUN by Oscar Wilde SUN SUN From Poetry By Heart – Poems for Learning and Reciting SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Machines SUN SUN by Michael Donaghy SUN SUN From Conjure SUN SUN Published by Picador SUN SUN SUN SUN My Grandfather at the Pool SUN SUN by Glyn Maxwell SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/my-grandfather-at-the- SUN ool/ SUN SUN Glyn Maxwell is published by Picador SUN SUN SUN SUN In Parenthesis SUN SUN by David Jones SUN SUN From In Parenthesis SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 Justice across Borders b076hsd5 (Listen) SUN Allan Little explores the work of the International Criminal SUN Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague and assesses SUN its legacy as it prepares to close in 2017. SUN SUN In March this year, the International Criminal Tribunal for SUN the former Yugoslavia in the Hague delivered a verdict for SUN its highest profile defendant - Radovan Karadžic, finding SUN him guilty of 10 out of 11 counts of genocide, war crimes, SUN crimes against humanity and other atrocities in the Bosnian SUN war of the 1990s. It came 23 years after the Tribunal was SUN first set up by the UN and 20 years after its first SUN prosecution began. The ICTY was the first war crimes court SUN created by the UN and built on the legacy of the Nuremberg SUN and Tokyo tribunals. SUN SUN It was formed to investigate crimes committed during the SUN wars in the former Yugoslavia and to bring those responsible SUN to justice. It was seen as a pioneer in the field of SUN international justice and has indicted 161 people. SUN SUN But the ICTY is now preparing to close. A completion SUN strategy, put in place some years ago, will see it shut its SUN doors at the end of December 2017 . Outstanding cases will SUN be handed over to the recently formed Mechanism for SUN International Criminal Tribunals. SUN SUN BBC reporter Allan Little has spent much time at the ICTY SUN during his coverage of the Balkans conflict. He explores the SUN Tribunal's history, talks to those who work there, and SUN assesses its legacy. Has it been a model for other forms of SUN transitional justice? And how do people in the Balkans, for SUN whom it was hoped the court process might bring closure, see SUN its work? SUN SUN Allan visits the ICTY to talk to a range of people who staff SUN it. He visits the vast archives which hold 9 million SUN documents and also sees the holding cells outside the SUN courtrooms for those who are on trial. He also hears from SUN others who have studied the ICTY and who are experts in the SUN area of international justice. SUN SUN Producer: Emma Kingsley. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b077062z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0770qhy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0770qj0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0770qj2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0773pck (Listen) SUN Simon Parkes presents Pick of the Week- the best of BBC SUN Radio in the last seven days it includes programmes asking SUN people where they're going; there's a play where the two SUN main characters talk over each other; a documentary SUN examining the dilemmas of not being able to smell and why SUN the weather in 1816 had such a profound impact on art and SUN culture. SUN SUN Production team: Kevin Mousley & Kay Bishton. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0773pcm (Listen) SUN There is just no pleasing Lynda, and Pat berates Tom. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rest Is History b0773pcp (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 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 Holly Walsh and Richard Herring, who discuss SUN Burke and Hare, Mussolini, Catherine Parr and the jokes of SUN yesteryear. 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: Holly Walsh SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Herring SUN Interviewed Guest: Kate Williams SUN Producer: Mark Augustyn SUN Producer: Justin Pollard SUN SUN 19:45 Infinite Possibilities and Unlikely Probabilities SUN b041vcqy (Listen) SUN Serving Children 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 Serving Children: SUN SUN Lem waits tables at a local restaurant, but he brings so SUN much more than food to the customers. 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: Tom Riley SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Tom Riley SUN Writer: Anita Sullivan SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b076prgl (Listen) SUN Celebrity Deaths SUN SUN Celebrity deaths SUN SUN A number of people have asked the team if more famous people SUN have died this year compared to other years. It's a hard one SUN to measure - but we have had a go at some back of the SUN envelope calculations with data from Who's Who and BBC SUN obituaries. Is the intuitive feeling that more people have SUN died this year misplaced? SUN SUN 'What British Muslims really think' poll SUN SUN This week many news outlets covered polling research carried SUN out for a documentary on Channel 4. Some of the points that SUN came out included that half of all British Muslims think SUN homosexuality should be illegal and that 23% want Sharia SUN Law. But how representative are these views? We speak to SUN Anthony Wells from the blog UK Polling Report who explains SUN the difficulties of carrying out polling. SUN SUN The number of Brits abroad SUN SUN Figures released this week suggested that there was an SUN increase in the number of people coming to the UK from other SUN parts of Europe. But many listeners have been asking - how SUN many Brits are living in other parts of Europe? We try to SUN find the best figures available. SUN SUN European Girls Maths Olympiad SUN SUN In 2012 a new international maths competition was started at SUN the University of Cambridge. It was a chance for female SUN students to get a chance of meeting girls from other SUN countries and try to solve hard maths problems, as they are SUN under represented at most other international competitions. SUN We hear about how the competition got started in celebration SUN of this year's competition in Romania. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Charlotte McDonald. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0766gcw (Listen) SUN Arnold Wesker, Howard Marks, Peggy Fortnum, Merle Haggard SUN and Rachel Johnson SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The playwright Sir Arnold Wesker whose work celebrated SUN working class life, SUN SUN Howard Marks, the convicted cannabis smuggler and raconteur SUN who became a folk hero to some. SUN SUN Peggy Fortnum, the children's book illustrator who brought SUN Paddington Bear to life. SUN SUN The country singer Merle Haggard whose music was steeped in SUN traditional redneck America. SUN SUN And Rachel Johnson, last surviving resident of the Scottish SUN island of St Kilda which was evacuated in 1930. SUN SUN Sir Arnold Wesker SUN SUN Playwright whose work celebrated working class life. SUN Matthew spoke to his friend, the writer Lisa Appignanesi. SUN SUN Born 24 May 1932; died 12 April 2016 aged 83. SUN SUN Howard Marks SUN SUN Convicted cannabis smuggler and raconteur who became a folk SUN hero to some. Last Word spoke to his friend David Jenkins SUN and to Customs officer Frank Hurst. SUN SUN Born 13 August 1945; died 10 April 2016 aged 70. SUN SUN Peggy Fortnum SUN SUN Children's book illustrator who brought Paddington Bear to SUN life. Last Word spoke to her step granddaughter, Caroline SUN Nutall-Smith and to her nephew Kevin Brownlow. SUN SUN Born 23 December 1919; died 28 March 2016 aged 96. SUN SUN Merle Haggard SUN SUN Country singer whose music was steeped in traditional SUN redneck America. Matthew spoke to the English country and SUN western singer, Hank Wangford. SUN SUN Born 6 April 1937; died 6 April 2016 aged 79. SUN SUN Rachel Johnson SUN SUN Last surviving resident of the Scottish island of St Kilda SUN which was evacuated in 1930. Last Word spoke to her son, SUN Ronnie Johnson. SUN SUN Born 8 July 1922; died 4 April 2016 aged 93. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0766gnh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0773dpn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b076mqb8 (Listen) SUN European Unicorns SUN SUN A Unicorn is a mythical animal. But it's also the name now SUN given to private start-up companies, mainly in the tech or SUN internet sector which are valued at a billion dollars or SUN more. SUN SUN They're extremely fast-growing and are often keener to SUN increase customers rather than make profits at this stage. SUN They rely on private investors to fund their growth and SUN those investors give the companies their valuations. SUN SUN Through interviews with European unicorns including SUN BlaBlaCar, a ride-sharing service and Hello Fresh which SUN delivers measured fresh ingredients and recipes to your SUN door, Caroline Bayley asks how "real" the tech unicorns are SUN and whether the billion dollar plus valuations are fuelling SUN another tech bubble which could be in danger of bursting. SUN SUN Producer Anna Meisel. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0770qjs (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b076mq2q (Listen) SUN The Jungle Book Revisited SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN "I wanna be like you, I wanna talk like you, be like you SUN too" could easily be the refrain sung by Hollywood producers SUN intent on flooding the market with re-boots, remakes, SUN sequels and prequels. As The Jungle Book is the latest to SUN get a computer-generated makeover, Francine talks to the SUN King Of The Swingers, director Jon Favreau. SUN SUN Many of us who live in the city dream about moving to the SUN country when they retire. Many cinephiles dream about moving SUN to the country and setting up a cinema. Alastair Till and SUN Suzie Sinclair have done just that. They sold their business SUN in London and built a cinema in Newlyn in Cornwall, without SUN any previous experience of the film industry. Francine pays SUN them a visit to see how they're getting on. SUN SUN Director Agnieszka Holland recalls her life in exile after SUN she defected to the West from her home country, Poland, in SUN 1981, and what happened when the communist authorities SUN stopped her contacting her daughter. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Jon Favreau SUN Interviewed Guest: Alastair Till SUN Interviewed Guest: Suzie Sinclair SUN Interviewed Guest: Agnieszka Holland SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b07738jq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 APRIL 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0770qlf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b076mmlc (Listen) MON Ethnography Award winner, Transcultural football MON MON The winner of the 2016 British Sociological Association & MON Thinking Allowed Ethnography award, Maxim Bolt, Lecturer in MON Anthropology and African Studies at the University of MON Birmingham, talks to Laurie Taylor about his groundbreaking MON study of insecure lives on the border farms between Zimbabwe MON and South Africa. How do people create homes and stability MON in times of mass unemployment and uncertainty? Also, MON transcultural sport: young Congolese migrants establishing a MON sense of belonging in a Dublin football team. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Max Mauro at the University of Southampton and the Open MON University MON Maxim Bolt at the University of Birmingham MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b07738jn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0770qlh (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0770qlk (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0770qlm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0770qlp (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b078cvyt (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Reverend Clair Jaquiss. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b07740nh (Listen) MON NFU views on Brexit, poultry industry, traditional grasses MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0770qlr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zr1zj (Listen) MON Common Whitethroat MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Kate Humble presents the common whitethroat. Whitethroats MON are warblers which winter in the Sahel region south of the MON Sahara desert and spend spring and summer in Europe. When MON they arrive in April the males establish a territory by MON singing that scratchy song from hedgerow perches or by MON launching themselves into the air. MON MON Common Whitethroat (Sylvia communis) MON Webpage image courtesy of Malcolm Hunt (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b0774ys8 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0774ysb (Listen) MON Reporting War and Conflict MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe discusses the writing of war MON and conflict. The journalist Patrick Cockburn looks back at MON his years covering crises in the Middle East, especially the MON rise of the so-called Islamic state. The Turkish writer Ece MON Temelkuran looks at the difficulty of reporting in a country MON where press freedoms are severely curtailed and asks whether MON fiction and poetry are a way of telling a more truthful MON story. The legendary American investigative reporter Seymour MON Hersh first gained recognition in the 1960s for exposing the MON My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War and MON has spent his career uncovering wrong-doing at the highest MON level. But reporting is changing and the academic Charlie MON Beckett celebrates the rise of citizen journalism. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Patrick Cockburn MON Interviewed Guest: Ece Temelkuran MON Interviewed Guest: Seymour Hersh MON Interviewed Guest: Charlie Beckett MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0774ysd (Listen) MON A House Full of Daughters, Episode 1 MON MON Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's journey through MON seven generations of women, including her Flamenco dancing MON great great grandmother Pepita, her grandmother Vita MON Sackville West and her mother Philippa - all of whom have MON shaped and formed, in extraordinary ways, exactly who she MON has become today. MON MON We journey through the slums of 19th century Malaga to the MON political elite of Washington, from English boarding schools MON during the second world war, to London in the 60s and New MON York in the 80s. MON MON It is one woman's investigation into how her past forms and MON informs her future. MON MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Juliet Stevenson MON Author: Juliet Nicolson MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0770qlt (Listen) MON Primary school offer day, Black and Asian organ donors, MON #Whomademyclothes MON MON Across the country today thousands of families will find out MON the primary schools offers their children have received. We MON discuss what to do if you're not happy with your options. MON MON Black and Asian people are more likely to need an organ MON transplant than the rest of the population but these groups MON generally have fewer organ donors. We hear from an Asian MON woman who desperately needed a liver transplant and find out MON why there are so few Black and Asian organ donors in the UK. MON MON Women make up only 5 percent of Britain's prison population MON but once in prison they appear to contravene prison rules MON more often than men. We explore the causes of women behaving MON badly in prisons. MON MON Fashion Revolution Week kicks off with the launch of the MON hashtag #Whomademyclothes. We explore who shoulders the MON responsibility for ethics on the high street. MON MON When Ian Brennan's partner was raped twenty-five years ago, MON he says the entire course of his life was altered. Since MON then he's worked in the field of violence prevention and MON written a novella, Sister Maple Syrup Eyes, that explores MON how rape might affect more than just the person attacked. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore MON Interviewed guest: Elizabeth Copeland MON Interviewed guest: Neerja Jain MON Interviewed guest: Monira Khanom MON Interviewed guest: Mary Creagh MON Interviewed guest: Liz Leffman MON Interviewed guest: Tania Bassett MON Interviewed guest: Martha Gill MON Interviewed guest: Ian Brennan. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore MON Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Copeland MON Interviewed Guest: Neerja Jain MON Interviewed Guest: Monira Khanom MON Interviewed Guest: Mary Creagh MON Interviewed Guest: Liz Leffman MON Interviewed Guest: Tania Bassett MON Interviewed Guest: Martha Gill MON Interviewed Guest: Ian Brennan MON MON 10:45 The Forsyte Saga b0774ysg (Listen) MON The Forsytes Continues, Episode 2 MON MON John Galsworthy's epic family saga of love, money and MON betrayal. MON Dramatised for radio by Lin Coghlan MON MON In desperate need of distraction, a newly married Fleur MON throws herself into the social whirl of 1920s London. When a MON troubled poet declares he's in love with her, she wonders MON how she can add him to her collection of Bright Young Things MON MON Original music composed by Neil Brand MON MON Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins MON MON Today's play marks the start of the fourth novel in the MON series, The White Monkey. MON MON The story continues every day this week in the 15 Minute MON Drama slot and concludes in the Saturday Drama at 1430. MON MON Credits MON Fleur Mont: Jessica Raine MON Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson MON Michael Mont: Ben Lambert MON Wilfred Desert: Max Bennett MON Sir Lawrence Mont: Brian Protheroe MON Florrie: Evie Killip MON Taxi Driver: Gerard McDermott MON Author: John Galsworthy MON Adaptor: Lin Coghlan MON Director: Gemma Jenkins MON Producer: Gemma Jenkins MON MON 11:00 The Business of Music with Matt Everitt b07752bx (Listen) MON The Pirate Ship MON MON In the first of a two-part series, journalist and MON broadcaster Matt Everitt talks to record executives, MON industry insiders, artists and fans about the decisions that MON have transformed the record industry. MON MON In the late 1990s, when Debbie Southwood-Smith was working MON as an A&R manager at the height of the CD boom, it seemed MON the money would never run out. She would stay in the Four MON Seasons Hotel every week, she'd follow bands around the MON world. But then, one day, she walked past her younger MON brother's room and heard the sound of CDs spinning and hard MON drives whirring. "It was my job to notice trends - but MON Napster, I didn't see that coming." MON MON The launch of Napster in 1999 shifted the power of the MON industry. Since then global music revenues have shrunk by MON 45%. MP3s and online file-sharing gave listeners the MON opportunity to take risks without having to buy a CD. Soon, MON a generation brought up on free music regarded the music MON bosses as overfed and considered that downloading was not MON stealing. MON MON The industry struck back and took legal action - but what a MON different story it might have been if Napster had been MON co-opted and been turned into a paid service for the MON industry. MON MON Secret talks would lead to the launch of iTunes - but people MON bought tracks, not albums, and revenues fell. The record MON labels fought digital, and digital won. MON MON Record executives, managers and industry insiders including MON Roger Ames, Daniel Glass, Peter Mensch and Brian Message are MON asked, could the music industry have saved itself, or was it MON the inevitable victim of the sudden shift in technology? MON MON Producer: Barney Rowntree MON A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b07753hg (Listen) MON Series 6, Chickpea Landslide MON MON The hit series returns for a sixth series with more shop MON based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, courtesy MON of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. Written by and MON starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli. MON MON Set in a Scots-Asian corner shop, the award winning Fags, MON Mags & Bags sees a return of all the shop regular MON characters, and some guest appearances along the way, from MON the likes of Julia Deakin and Mina Anwar. MON MON In this first episode, Ramesh's girlfriend Malcolm has MON opened up Lenzie's first foodbank to help the local needy. MON However, the patrons appear to be quite pernickety about MON what's on offer, and a debate opens up about who is actually MON eligible to use the foodbank, causing tension amongst the MON Lenzidens. MON MON Join the staff of Fags, Mags and Bags in their tireless MON quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke MON with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh MON Mahju has built it up over the course of over 30 years and MON is a firmly entrenched, friendly presence in the local area. MON He is joined by his shop sidekick, Dave. MON MON Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both MON surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach MON to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business. MON Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them - MON whether they like it or not! MON MON Written by Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli MON MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli MON Dave: Donald McLeary MON Sanjay: Omar Raza MON Alok: Susheel Kumar MON Malcolm: Mina Anwar MON Janice Littbarski: Julia Deakin MON Bishop Briggs: Michael Redmond MON Mrs Birkett: Stewart Cairns MON Mr Hepworth: Tom Urie MON Writer: Donald McLeary MON Writer: Sanjeev Kohli MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b0770qlw (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b076bdvd (Listen) MON 18 April 1916 - Emily Colville MON MON On this day in 1916, dissent divided the cabinet over the MON extension of conscription, while in Ashburton Emily Colville MON faces unexpected hostility. MON MON Written by Lucy Catherine MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON SECRET SHAKESPEARE - Did you spot them? MON A quote is hidden in each episode of 2016. If you discover MON one, tweet it using #BBCHomeFront. MON MON Credits MON Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes MON Carslake: Stephen Tomlin MON Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro MON Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog MON Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett MON Mother: Helen Clapp MON Old Woman: Susan Jameson MON Writer: Lucy Catherine MON Director: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b0770qly (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0770qm0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b07753hj (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 Scenes from Student Life b07754yp (Listen) MON A Gift of Raisins MON MON It's October 2015 and 2000 new students at St Andrews MON University celebrate Raisin Weekend. Raisin's origins are MON lost, but the ritual of new students joining new academic MON families goes back to the very beginning of student life. MON The tradition at St Andrews was to present a gift of raisins MON - now new students offer alcohol to their new families. MON MON In a booze-fuelled, fancy-dressed series of rituals over one MON weekend, freshers or bejants get adopted by academic MON "parents" and meet their new brothers, sisters, uncles and MON cousins, partying in their halls and digs, and celebrating MON on the street with ambulance crews, university security and MON extra police standing nervously by. MON MON New presenter Ellie Cawthorne, who recently completed an MA MON at Nottingham University, braves the initiation rites. She MON uncovers past Raisin celebrations with the help of MON university historians - including the fateful year, 1933, MON when Raisin was banned outright, partly due to theft of MON female nightwear. MON MON As we hear from University historian Dr Norman Reid, the MON idea of academic families goes back to a pre-university era, MON possibly in the 13th century, when informal groups of MON scholars - some as young as 12 - gathered round a fatherly MON master, himself a recent student. There were no university MON buildings, and teaching took place either in a Church or the MON master's home. MON MON Producer: Nick Baker MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0773pcm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b07756b8 (Listen) MON The Busker MON MON Actor-singer Brian Protheroe, stars as Wilfy, an ageing MON busker on the London underground. When a young man stops to MON listen to his music, Wilfy's life takes an unexpected twist MON that has echoes for his own personal life. Joe Ward Munrow's MON first play for radio, is a poignant and surreal glimpse into MON the world of busking. It asks the question what happens when MON life gives you a second chance. MON MON Producer/Director, Jessica Brown MON MON Brian Protheroe is a singer, songwriter and actor. He is MON best known for his 1970s hit single, 'Pinball'. He performs MON all the music in The Busker. MON MON Joe Ward Munrow is a new, young writer based in Liverpool. MON He grew up in London, where his father is a licensed busker MON on the London underground. MON MON Credits MON Wilfy: Brian Protheroe MON Richard: Dylan Edwards MON Anna: Caroline Burns Cooke MON Melissa: Nicola Ferguson MON Billy: Ewan Bailey MON Gary: Sam Rix MON Director: Jessica Brown MON Producer: Jessica Brown MON Writer: Joe Ward Munrow MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b07756bb (Listen) MON Semi-Final 3, 2016 MON MON (15/17) MON The third of this year's semi-finals features competitors MON from London, Merseyside, Lincolnshire and the West Midlands. MON Russell Davies asks the questions. MON MON As well as being a football ground, Stamford Bridge is a MON village where a battle took place in 1066 - in which MON present-day English county? What was the name of the US Air MON Force base in California where Space Shuttle landings took MON place from 1981-2001? Which building was described in the MON Architectural Review in 1932 as 'the new Tower of London'? MON MON Today's winner will go through to the 63rd Brain of Britain MON Final in two weeks' time. There'll also be a chance for a MON listener to win a prize by devising questions to stump the MON competitors. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b0773lcp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics b07756bd (Listen) MON Series 2, Ovid 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 Roman poet, Ovid. MON Expect frottage at the races, Greek myths from a female MON perspective, and enough inspiration for painters, writers MON and sculptures to last a couple of millennia. MON With special guests Llewelyn Morgan and Michael Squire. MON MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b07756bg (Listen) MON Series 9, Taste MON MON Food is a universal necessity, human brains light up more MON for food than any other experience, so it's little wonder MON that food culture has exploded online. Social media is MON festooned with pictures, recipes, cooking videos and we MON can't seem to ever get enough. MON MON But, is the digital world doing more than getting our mouths MON watering? Could technology be changing the very way we MON taste? MON MON In this episode, Aleks Krotoski explores how food trends MON develop and shape our culture and spread on social media, as MON well as exploring new tech that may change the way we eat - MON from 3D printed delights, to Chef Watson who creates recipes MON in the cloud, and even how we might manipulate our brains to MON change how we perceive flavour. MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Ann Duffy. MON MON Elizabeth Atia MON Elizabeth Atia MON is one of Britain’s MON top 20 food bloggers MON and quite possibly the most northerly. She talks to us about MON how blogging changed the way she way she cooks, and the two MON way relationship between blogger and reader. MON MON Kjeld Van Bommel MON Dr. Kjeld van Bommel MON a senior consultant at TNO in the Netherlands. He tells us MON about his work on 3D printed food, including the Performance MON Project which is bringing back the pleasure of eating to MON patients who can no longer chew, and shares that some people MON may have already eaten printed food without even knowing it. MON MON Ailbhe Malone MON Ailbhe Malone MON is the head of Lifestyle at Buzzfeed UK. She tells us about MON Proper Tasty MON and explains why the short, snappy, recipe videos have MON exploded in popularity on social media. MON MON Florian Pinel MON Florian Pinel MON is the lead Engineer on IBM’s Chef Watson. He tells us how MON Chef Watson MON creates strange, surprising, yet tasty recipes using MON Computational Cooking. MON MON David Sax MON David Sax MON is a journalist, foodie and author of the Tastemakers. He MON explains the power of food trends and how they spread and MON evolve to change our collective taste. MON Photo Credit: Christopher Farber MON MON Charles Spence MON Professor Charles Spence MON a cognitive psychologist, author of The Perfect Meal: The MON Multisensory Science of Food and Dining, and head of the MON Crossmodal Research Laboratory at The University of Oxford. MON He tells us how Taste affects the brain, and how our sensory MON perceptions of food can be manipulated and changed. MON MON 17:00 PM b0770qm2 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0770qm4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b07756bj (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 3 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 Elis James, Reginald D Hunter, Maeve Higgins and David MON O'Doherty are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as the 1970s, toys, the MON moon and electricity. 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: Elis James MON Panellist: Reginald D Hunter MON Panellist: Maeve Higgins MON Panellist: David O'Doherty MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b07756bl (Listen) MON Jim is being evasive, and Jolene inspires her husband. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0770qm6 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 The Forsyte Saga b0774ysg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Are Human Rights Really Universal? b07756bn (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In the aftermath of the Second World War, the 1948 the MON Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed a set of MON rights for all humankind, belonging to each of us, simply by MON virtue of being human. Universalism - that they belong to MON everyone, everywhere - is the key idea that grounds human MON rights, it gives them meaning, application and authority. MON MON Talking to legal philosophers, historians, sceptics and MON advocates, Helena Kennedy QC explores the philosophical and MON historical foundations of human rights. Are they really MON universal - or is this just moral posturing on a grand MON scale, a legal fiction, a philosophical sleight of hand? MON MON Human rights are routinely ignored by states around the MON world. They may aspire to be universal in their application MON but, instead, they are universally broken. MON MON There are lots of claimed universalisms in the world - MON religions, political creeds, ideas of the common good - why MON should this one, the language of universal human rights, be MON adhered to above all others? What are universal human MON rights, really - are they a moral, legal or political idea? MON And where did they come from - were they created or MON discovered? MON MON Going back to ideas of justice in the ancient world, Helena MON Kennedy explores the case for the defence - that human MON rights tap into the deeper threads that bind us, a universal MON humanity that finds its expression as political community MON through the idea of human rights and that, far from being a MON post-war Western construct, their roots are indeed MON universal, embedded across space and time. MON MON Presenter: Helena Kennedy MON Producer: Simon Hollis MON MON A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b076mnky (Listen) MON Norway: Parents Against the State MON MON Norway's widely regarded as one of the world's most MON progressive societies, yet it's at the centre of an MON international storm over its child protection policies. MON Campaigners accuse its social workers of removing children - MON some from immigrant backgrounds - from their parents without MON justification, and permanently erasing family bonds. Tim MON Whewell meets parents who say they've lost their children MON because of misunderstood remarks or "insufficient eye MON contact" - and Norwegian professionals who call the system MON monstrous and dysfunctional. Is a service designed to put MON children first now out of control? MON MON 21:00 The Neglected Sense b076cg3n (Listen) MON We may fear going blind, deaf or dumb, but few of us worry MON about losing our olfactory senses. And yet more than 200,000 MON people in the UK are anosmic - they cannot smell. MON MON Radio 4 announcer Kathy Clugston is anosmic and presents MON this programme 'from the inside', giving a first hand MON account of the condition. In this programme, Kathy sets out MON on a personal mission to discover why she can't smell. She MON has never before researched the extent to which smell guides MON and shapes our lives, how we smell and what parts of the MON brain are affected - for example, is her 'terrible memory' MON connected to the condition? MON MON Referred to by the experts as the forgotten or neglected MON sense, we reveal the seriousness of not being able to smell. MON MON Anosmia can be caused by a virus or a head injury, MON allergies, polyps, or a brain tumour, but for many, MON including Kathy, it is something that's missing from birth. MON Sanguine as she is, Kathy knows she's vulnerable - "I've MON left the gas on, fallen asleep with a pot on the stove". MON MON She adds, "As I got older I began to realise how much I miss MON out on. People say "Oh, you can't smell B.O.! Lucky you!" MON but then it dawns on them that I can't smell freshly brewed MON coffee, newly cut grass, a baby's head, my partner's hair, a MON rose. I can't catch a whiff of something and be instantly MON transported back to my grandma's kitchen or an exotic MON holiday. It's as if life has a missing layer." MON MON A Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0774ysb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0770qm8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0770qmb (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0775pfd (Listen) MON 10 Days, Episode 1 MON MON A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author MON Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from MON a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being MON made or ruined, lives are at stake. MON MON Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and MON the hard realities of living in London collide. MON MON Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Jasmine Hyde MON Reader: Ben Onwukwe MON Author: Gillian Slovo MON Abridger: Eileen Horne MON Producer: Clive Brill MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b076hrcn (Listen) MON House Names MON MON Michael Rosen talks to Dr Laura Wright about her new MON research on popular house names, from Foo Choo Villas to MON Nutty Hagg to Orchard Cottage, and what this tells us about MON our history. She's uncovered why some houses have names but MON some have numbers, and what this tells us about our history. MON Place names expert Professor Richard Coates joins them to MON talk about the origins of these words in the UK. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0775pfg (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 APRIL 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0770qnv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0774ysd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0770qnx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0770qnz (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0770qp1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0770qp3 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b078nsdp (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Reverend Clair Jaquiss. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b077g82h (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tx41n (Listen) TUE Sparrowhawk TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve TUE Backshall presents the sparrowhawk. TUE TUE A garden visit from a sparrowhawk can be an exciting affair. TUE They're smash-and grab raiders, using bushes, hedgerows and TUE fences as cover to take their victims by surprise. Males are TUE blue-grey above, with a striking rusty-orange chest and are TUE smaller than the brown females - this allows the pair to TUE take a wide range of prey. TUE TUE Sparrwohawk (Accipiter nisus) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b077gd50 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Shakespeare and the American Dream b077gd52 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Robert McCrum journeys across America tracing the origins of TUE the country's love affair with Shakespeare. He finds TUE Americans of all ages, races and classes who feel TUE Shakespeare gives them a voice to express very real concerns TUE about contemporary politics and society. He watches Henry V TUE in Nashville set during the Civil War, sees Shakespeare TUE performed two blocks from the US Congress where issues of TUE politics and leadership play out both on stage and on the TUE senate floor with an audience made up of power brokers. He TUE meets Stephen Sondheim and actor Alec Baldwin, both great TUE Shakespeare lovers to discuss what still makes him relevant TUE today TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b074x31b (Listen) TUE Sathnam Sanghera feels he has come a long way from his TUE working class Wolverhampton background and now regards TUE himself as firmly middle class. TUE In this second programme for One to One, he meets Alpesh TUE Chauhan, an Asian Brummie from a working class background, TUE who has become an Assistant Conductor with the CBSO (City of TUE Birmingham Symphony Orchestra). TUE As someone who has broken through so many social barriers, TUE has Alpesh's ethnic background proved to be a bigger hurdle TUE than his social class? TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b077gd54 (Listen) TUE A House Full of Daughters, Episode 2 TUE TUE Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's journey through TUE seven generations of women, including her Flamenco dancing TUE great great grandmother Pepita, her grandmother Vita TUE Sackville West and her mother Philippa - all of whom have TUE shaped and formed, in extraordinary ways, exactly who she TUE has become today. TUE TUE We journey through the slums of 19th century Malaga to the TUE political elite of Washington, from English boarding schools TUE during the second world war, to London in the 60s and New TUE York in the 80s. TUE TUE It is one woman's investigation into how her past forms and TUE informs her future. TUE TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Juliet Stevenson TUE Author: Juliet Nicolson TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0770qp5 (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 The Forsyte Saga b077gd56 (Listen) TUE The Forsytes Continues, Episode 3 TUE TUE John Galsworthy's epic family saga of love, money and TUE betrayal. TUE Dramatised for radio by Lin Coghlan TUE TUE Soames ruffles feathers at a board meeting when he questions TUE the modern way of doing business TUE TUE Original music composed by Neil Brand TUE TUE Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE Credits TUE Fleur Mont: Jessica Raine TUE Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson TUE Michael Mont: Ben Lambert TUE Wilfred Desert: Max Bennett TUE Sir Lawrence Mont: Brian Protheroe TUE Elderson: Ewan Bailey TUE Porter: George Watkins TUE Author: John Galsworthy TUE Adaptor: Lin Coghlan TUE Director: Gemma Jenkins TUE Producer: Gemma Jenkins TUE TUE 11:00 All in the Womb b077gd58 (Listen) TUE Radio 4 documentary. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b077gd5b (Listen) TUE Series 22, The Way You Look Tonight TUE TUE 'The Way You Look Tonight' was written by Jerome Kern and TUE Dorothy Fields for the 1936 film 'Swing Time'. Sung by Fred TUE Astaire to Ginger Rodgers while she was washing her hair, TUE the song won an Oscar. It's been recorded by Frank Sinatra TUE and Billie Holiday. Sarah Woodward, daughter of actor TUE Edward, recalls how age seven, she watched him sing it on TUE The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show with his 'angelic' TUE voice; theatre director Michael Bawtree remembers the song TUE being his father's favourite, and being distraught when he TUE broke the gramophone record as a five year old; and TUE Glaswegian singer Eddie Toal describes making an album of TUE jazz songs, including 'The Way You Look Tonight' to remember TUE his late wife, Irene. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b0770qp7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b076bf09 (Listen) TUE 19 April 1916 - Rose Fairweather TUE TUE On this day in 1916, the Western Times announced that two TUE British Officers had escaped from POW camp, and Rose TUE Fairweather feels trapped on Blackfold farm. TUE TUE Written by Lucy Catherine TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE SECRET SHAKESPEARE - Did you spot them? TUE A quote is hidden in each episode of 2016. If you discover TUE one, tweet it using #BBCHomeFront. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rose Fairweather: Helen Longworth TUE Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro TUE Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams TUE Gert Battley: Maggie Steed TUE John Rossiter: Mark Carey TUE Morris Battley: Sean Baker TUE Writer: Lucy Catherine TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b0770qp9 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0770qpc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b077gd5d (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 Scenes from Student Life b077gd5g (Listen) TUE Town and Gown TUE TUE The tension between university students and local people TUE flared up into a bloody battle in Oxford on February 10, TUE 1355 - known as the St Scholastica's Day Riot. TUE TUE Recent graduate Ellie Cawthorne travels to Oxford to meet TUE local historian Mark Davies and hear the grisly facts - 63 TUE students lost their lives and others were scalped as the TUE townspeople exacted their revenge on the scholars. Documents TUE at the Bodleian Library show that King Edward III came down TUE heavily on the side of the University, exacting penance from TUE the town which continued for 500 years. TUE TUE Chief archivist Simon Bailey tells Ellie that a final TUE burying of the hatchet occurred as late as 1955 - 600 years TUE after the event - when the City Mayor and University TUE Chancellor granted each other reciprocal privileges. TUE TUE The friction between town and gown is traced forward to TUE today, with locals unhappy about the takeover of pubs and TUE living quarters as university numbers increase. TUE TUE Sidney Sussex college at Cambridge commissioned a video to TUE make students more self-aware, and advised them to "ditch TUE the gown" on a night out so as not to offer a target. But TUE other events attempt to bring both sides together, whether TUE it's a fun run or, at Oxford, the annual Town and Gown TUE Boxing Match where both sides put on gloves and bash the TUE living daylights out of each other. TUE TUE Producer: Richard Bannerman TUE Series Producer: Nick Baker TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b07756bl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b040hx6n (Listen) TUE Silk: The Clerks' Room, John TUE TUE By Mick Collins TUE From an original idea by Janice Okoh and Mick Collins TUE TUE Based on the BBC1 series Silk, the radio series tells of the TUE adventures and mishaps in the Clerks' Room at the Shoe Lane TUE chambers. TUE TUE As the battle of supremacy of the clerks' room reaches fever TUE pitch, John finds himself caught in the crossfire. TUE TUE Head Clerk Billy Lamb and Practice Manager Harriet Hammond TUE have made no secret of their disdain for each other's work TUE practices. The conflict passes the point of no return when TUE they both independently conspire to oust each other. As TUE second-in-command, John soon finds out how highly both sides TUE value his allegiance. Forced to pick a side, it's not long TUE before he's embroiled in plotting a devious coup. TUE TUE BBC1's Silk created by Peter Moffat TUE TUE Executive producer: Hilary Salmon TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Credits TUE John: John MacMillan TUE Billy: Neil Stuke TUE Harriet: Miranda Raison TUE Sara: Jeany Spark TUE Bethany: Amy Wren TUE Neville: Sean Murray TUE Judge: Steve Toussaint TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Writer: Mick Collins TUE TUE 15:00 The Design Dimension b077ggv7 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Death by Design TUE TUE Tom Dyckhoff examines the importance of design after death. TUE He looks at the environmental considerations around the TUE disposal of the body - including the work of British TUE Columbia University's Death Lab. TUE TUE With more than 75 per cent of the UK population being TUE cremated, Tom takes a behind the scenes look at a TUE crematorium which pipes its waste energy to heat a TUE neighbouring Leisure Centre swimming pool - and takes a dip. TUE TUE He also considers the option of a bespoke coffin designed in TUE a range of replica shapes from musical instruments to cars, TUE trains, planes and boats and hears from a woman who has TUE already planned her green funeral in a coffin shaped like a TUE pink satin ballet shoe. TUE TUE Finally, Tom visits the most famous Victorian Cemetery of TUE all at Highgate North London which numbers amongst its TUE occupants celebrities, artists, musicians and philosophers TUE including Karl Marx. TUE TUE Produced by Sara Parker TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b077ggv9 (Listen) TUE The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic TUE TUE Ascension Island is a tiny scrap of British territory, TUE marooned in the tropical mid-Atlantic roughly halfway TUE between Brazil and Africa. It's the tip of a giant undersea TUE volcano - rugged, remote and, up until around 150 years ago, TUE almost completely devoid of vegetation. TUE TUE Peter Gibbs visits to learn how 19th-century botanist Joseph TUE Hooker, encouraged by Charles Darwin, planted a forest on TUE the island's summit to trap moisture brought by the trade TUE winds, introducing a panoply of flora from around the world TUE - ginger, guava, bamboo, ficus and dozens more. TUE TUE But is Ascension's cloud forest all it appears? He talks to TUE conservationists struggling to cope with invasive species TUE running riot, hears about the rescue of Ascension's tiny TUE endemic ferns, encounters nesting turtles on the beaches and TUE ventures among the chattering 'wideawakes' on the sweltering TUE lava plains by the coast. TUE TUE Producer: Matthew Teller. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b077ggvc (Listen) TUE Metaphors for the Past: From Dinosaurs to Victorian Values TUE TUE Michael Rosen and Dr. Laura Wright talk to Dr Ross Wilson TUE about how we talk about historical eras in order to define TUE the way we live now, and how we've progressed. Ross Wilson TUE is a historian at the University of Chichester who's written TUE a book called The Language of the Past delving into the TUE origins of terms about periods in history - Stone Age, TUE mediaeval, Victorian Values - when we came up with them and TUE why we use them. How historically accurate are they and does TUE it matter? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b077ggvf (Listen) TUE Series 39, Ray Peacock chooses the life of Lenny Bruce TUE TUE To his followers Lenny Bruce was a genius and a free speech TUE hero. To his detractors he was labelled sick and dirty. TUE Bruce shocked his audiences intentionally. In his TUE uncompromisingly frank humour he took on organized religion, TUE government, jingoism, capitalism, the death penalty, war, TUE and sexual mores. TUE TUE But he was eventually destroyed by the battle he fought with TUE the US justice system. TUE TUE The comedian, Ray Peacock nominates Lenny Bruce as his great TUE life as he regards him as a pioneer in stand-up. Along with TUE expert Dr Oliver Double and presenter Matthew Parris they TUE uncover a controversial life. TUE TUE To illustrate the life of Lenny Bruce this programme does TUE play some audio which some listeners may find offensive. TUE TUE The producer is Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Ray Peacock TUE Interviewed Guest: Oliver Double TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0770qpf (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0770qph (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b06442qh (Listen) TUE Series 10, This Is a Man's World TUE TUE Episode Five - This Is A Man's World. TUE TUE Nali's ex-husband arrives unexpectedly and Clare takes it TUE upon herself to intervene. Simon has some bad news about TUE Brian's vitamin supplements. 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 Simon: Andrew Wincott TUE Justin: Dustin Demri-Burns TUE Thomas: Stefan Ramsden TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Writer: David Ramsden TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b077ghk5 (Listen) TUE Rex just keeps on trying, and Tony galvanises Pat. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0770qpk (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 The Forsyte Saga b077gd56 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Held Hostage in Syria b077kkgn (Listen) TUE Speaking together for the first time, four European hostages TUE of so-called Islamic State talk to Lyse Doucet about their TUE period of incarceration between October 2012 and May 2014. TUE Federico Motka, Didier Francois, Daniel Rye Ottosen, and TUE Pierre Torres were all held by IS for around 18 months each. TUE TUE Producer: David Prest TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0770qpm (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 b06qkkzm (Listen) TUE Lucy Kellaway investigates the persistent taboo over TUE salaries, and asks who benefits from this secrecy. TUE TUE What we are paid is rarely a meritocracy. Studies show that TUE if you are taller, more attractive, have better hair, you're TUE likely to take home a bigger pay packet. Even the most TUE popular way of rewarding extra effort at work - performance TUE related pay - has been shown to demotivate and demoralise TUE workers. TUE TUE Lucy steps inside at a broad range of offices to investigate TUE - from Suma Wholefoods in Halifax where all 200 employees, TUE whether driving a forklift or trading commodities, earns TUE exactly the same amount, to Gravity Payments, where the CEO TUE has just cut his million dollar salary to fund his promise TUE that no employee will earn less than $70,000. TUE TUE Speaking to workers and business leaders, Lucy asks whether TUE there is a fairer way of cutting up the cake. TUE TUE Written and presented by Lucy Kellaway TUE Producer: Lucy Greenwell TUE Executive Producer: Russell Finch TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 21:30 Shakespeare and the American Dream b077gd52 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0770qpp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0770qpr (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07869zw (Listen) TUE 10 Days, Episode 2 TUE TUE A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author TUE Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from TUE a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being TUE made or ruined, lives are at stake. TUE TUE Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and TUE the hard realities of living in London collide. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE As the heat wave persists, in the aftermath of an TUE unfortunate death involving the Metropolitan Police, the TUE Home Secretary grapples with personal and professional TUE intrigues. TUE TUE Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Jasmine Hyde TUE Reader: Ben Onwukwe TUE Author: Gillian Slovo TUE Abridger: Eileen Horne TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE TUE 23:00 Love in Recovery b077gjkl (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Wake 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 final episode of the series, the group leave their TUE meeting room to take Andy (Eddie Marsan) to his mum's wake. TUE Andy hasn't seen the rest of his family in a long time and TUE he's nervous, anxious and a little angry. He just wants to TUE say goodbye to his mum and leave. But it's not as simple as TUE that. 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 TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Maeve: Rachel Atkins TUE Marion: Julia Deakin TUE Fiona: Rebecca Front TUE Simon: John Hannah TUE Nora: Moira Jackson TUE Bloke in Car: Pete Jackson TUE Julie: Sue Johnston TUE Danno: Paul Kaye TUE Geoff: Bill Kilshaw TUE Conor: Gary Lilburn TUE Andy: Eddie Marsan TUE Writer: Pete Jackson TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE Director: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b077gl2m (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 APRIL 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0770qr7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b077gd54 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0770qr9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0770qrc (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0770qrf (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0770qrh (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b078ykry (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Reverend Clair Jaquiss. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b077gpnl (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 b0378xmn (Listen) WED Common Tern 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 common tern. The Common Tern WED is the most widespread of our breeding terns and is very WED graceful. It has long slender wings and a deeply forked tail WED with the outer feathers extended into long streamers. These WED features give the bird its other name, sea swallow, by which WED terns are often called. WED WED Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b077gqk3 (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 b0790gz0 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b077gqk7 (Listen) WED A House Full of Daughters, Episode 3 WED WED Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's journey through WED seven generations of women, including her Flamenco dancing WED great great grandmother Pepita, her grandmother Vita WED Sackville West and her mother Philippa - all of whom have WED shaped and formed, in extraordinary ways, exactly who she WED has become today. WED WED We journey through the slums of 19th century Malaga to the WED political elite of Washington, from English boarding schools WED during the second world war, to London in the 60s and New WED York in the 80s. WED WED It is one woman's investigation into how her past forms and WED informs her future. WED WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Juliet Stevenson WED Author: Juliet Nicolson WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0770qrk (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 The Forsyte Saga b077gqk9 (Listen) WED The Forsytes Continues, Episode 4 WED WED John Galsworthy's epic family saga of love, money and WED betrayal. WED Dramatised for radio by Lin Coghlan WED WED While Fleur decides to flirt with danger, Michael wrestles WED with his conscience at work WED WED Original music composed by Neil Brand WED WED Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED Credits WED Fleur Mont: Jessica Raine WED Michael Mont: Ben Lambert WED Wilfred Desert: Max Bennett WED Bicket: Sam Alexander WED Victorine: Evie Killip WED Author: John Galsworthy WED Adaptor: Lin Coghlan WED Director: Gemma Jenkins WED Producer: Gemma Jenkins WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b077gqkc (Listen) WED Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that WED proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The WED 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 Are Human Rights Really Universal? b07756bn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] WED WED 11:30 Chain Reaction b03q8z47 (Listen) WED Series 9, Neil Innes talks to Graham Linehan 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 ex-Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band WED member and Monty Python collaborator Neil Innes talking to WED comedy writer and director Graham Linehan. WED WED Producer ... Carl Cooper. WED WED 12:00 News Summary b0770qrm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b076bf9h (Listen) WED 20 April 1916 - Elspeth Tavener WED WED On this day in 1916, a cabinet crisis was narrowly averted WED when the Prime Minister agreed to extend conscription, but WED the rift widens between Halecot and Blackfold farms. WED WED Written by Lucy Catherine WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED SECRET SHAKESPEARE - Did you spot them? WED A quote is hidden in each episode of 2016. If you discover WED one, tweet it using #BBCHomeFront. WED WED Credits WED Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams WED Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy WED Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer WED Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables WED Lewis Cox: Dylan Edwards WED Morris Battley: Sean Baker WED Rose Fairweather: Helen Longworth WED Writer: Lucy Catherine WED Director: Allegra McIlroy WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b0770qrp (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0770qrr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b077gs01 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 Scenes from Student Life b077gs03 (Listen) WED The Wits WED WED University brings together talent of all kinds. Students who WED study one subject emerge to do something entirely different, WED often taking their place in the wider world as writers, WED actors and - sometimes - wits. WED WED Recent graduate Ellie Cawthorne enters the 16th century hall WED at St Johns College Cambridge, where one of the earliest WED satirical plays about student life was performed. The WED Parnassus Plays of 1598 showed two eager students fending WED off temptations of alcohol and lust, only to end up as WED impoverished shepherds. WED WED She talks to St John's Librarian Mark Nicholls about the WED plays, which were part of a flowering of talent that WED enlivened the cultural world of Elizabethan England. Writers WED like Thomas Nashe and Christopher Marlowe were Shakespeare's WED contemporaries. They, as Professor Jennifer Richards of WED Newcastle University points out, could be considered WED forerunners of many later students who lived off their wits WED as much as their degrees. Hugh Laurie arrived at Cambridge WED to row, but met Stephen Fry, joined the Footlights, and both WED were launched into a performing career. WED WED Ellie talks to the award-winning young director Liz WED Stevenson who tested her theatre skills at Nottingham WED University, and to Nish Kumar, stand-up comic, writer and WED broadcaster, who found during his years at Durham that he WED could make it as a latter-day 'Wit'. WED WED Producer: Richard Bannerman WED Series Producer: Nick Baker WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b077ghk5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b042zcqk (Listen) WED Original British Dramatists, Rock Me Amadeus WED WED By Simon Topping WED WED Charlie was born a boy but has always known that she's WED really a girl. What's to be done? WED The arrival of a German exchange student prompts Charlie to WED take action. WED WED Simon Topping won the BBC Writer's Prize in 2013. WED This is his first play for radio. WED WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Charlie: Alex Lawther WED Tim: Felix Auer WED Lily: Scarlett Brookes WED Mum: Karina Fernandez WED Gemma: Nikki Runeckles WED Dad: Craige Els WED Director: Sally Avens WED Writer: Simon Topping WED WED 15:00 Money Box b077gsv8 (Listen) WED Does your big day need a big budget? Share your questions WED and ideas with Ruth Alexander and guests. Call 03700 100 444 WED from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED The Cost of a Church Wedding WED GOV.UK Marriages and Civil Partnerships in the UK WED GOV.UK: Convert a civil partnership into a marriage in WED England & Wales WED Getting Married in Scotland WED Changing a civil partnership into a marriage in Scotland WED GOV.UK: Wedding venues advised to play fair WED CMA: Cancellation advisory letter for wedding and event WED planners WED CMA: 60 Second consumer guide to cancelling goods or WED services WED GOV.UK: Consumer Rights WED Citizens Advice: Living together, marriage and civil WED partnerships. WED Chartered Trading Standards Institute WED WED 15:30 The Joy of 9 to 5 b06qkkzm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b077gt3g (Listen) WED Happiness and government, Good parenting WED WED Happiness - Should the government promote it? Danny Dorling, WED Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University WED of Oxford, talks to Laurie Taylor about the necessity to WED inspire a better politics with new measures of what matters WED most to us. These would include the avoidance of misery, the WED gaining of long term life satisfaction, the feeling of WED fulfilment, of worth, of kindness, of usefulness and love. WED Politicians, he contends, should promote a collective good WED which incorporates these priorities. They're joined by Paul WED Ormerod, economist and Visiting Professor at UCL Centre for WED Decision Making Uncertainty, who contends that policymakers WED should not claim that they can increase happiness through WED public policy decisions. WED WED Also, do dominant ideals of 'good' parenting contain a class WED bias? Esther Dermott. Professor of Sociology, argues that WED the activities of the most educationally advantaged parents WED are accepted as the benchmark against whom others are WED assessed. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0770qrt (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0770qrw (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0770qry (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04md4nr (Listen) WED Series 2, Questioning Loyalties WED WED 3/6 Questioning Loyalties. Field Commander Uljabaan's WED loyalty cards, rewarding villagers for their collaboration, WED are not only ruining Katrina's plans but also Richard's WED chances in the weekly pub quiz. They turn to Ron, the WED landlord of the Rose & Crown for help in scuppering the WED scheme. 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 hyper-intelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run WED the invasion. WED WED Written by Eddie Robson WED Script-edited by Arthur Mathews 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: Charles Edwards WED The Computer: John-Luke Roberts WED Ron: Dave Lamb WED Lawrence: Michael Bertenshaw WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED WED 19:00 The Archers b077gt9n (Listen) WED Pip has a proposition for Tom, and is Eddie raining on WED Lynda's parade? WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0770qs0 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 The Forsyte Saga b077gqk9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Agree to Differ b077gtvz (Listen) WED Series 2, Artificial Intelligence WED WED We are witnessing a momentous speed up in Artificial WED Intelligence - in the power of machines to learn, WED communicate and interact with us. On any day, AI provides WED hundreds of millions of people with search results, traffic WED predictions, translations in real time and it speeds up the WED operation of our laptops by guessing what we'll do next. WED Several companies are working on cars that can drive WED themselves? and AI techniques are playing a major role in WED science and medicine. WED While the potential benefits of AI are thought to be huge, WED there have been increasing warnings from prominent figures WED in science and technology about the potential dangers. Just WED how 'intelligent' might the machines become? Will they be WED able to 'think' for themselves? Could they ever be WED 'conscious' - or is that just the stuff of science-fiction? WED And would we want them to be? Matthew Taylor is joined by WED Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial WED College and Mark Bishop, Professor of Cognitive Computing, WED Goldsmiths, University of London. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b078c9l2 (Listen) WED Talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b077ggv9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0790gz0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0770qs2 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0786b1r (Listen) WED 10 Days, Episode 3 WED WED A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author WED Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from WED a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being WED made or ruined, lives are at stake. WED WED Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and WED the hard realities of living in London collide. WED WED Episode 3: WED Cathy and her daughter are caught up in the street protests WED that the Met and the government are struggling to contain. WED WED Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Jasmine Hyde WED Reader: Ben Onwukwe WED Author: Gillian Slovo WED Abridger: Eileen Horne WED Producer: Clive Brill WED WED 23:00 Nurse b077gtw3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 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 A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Liz: Esther Coles WED Actor: Paul Whitehouse 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 Producer: Paul Whitehouse WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b03s9pjl (Listen) WED Series 2, Survival WED WED This week comedian Tim Key has travelled to 'the wilds' to WED recite poems which grapple with the concept of survival. Tom WED Basden plays the banjo. 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 b077gtw5 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 APRIL 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0770qtl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b077gqk7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0770qtn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0770qtq (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0770qts (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0770qtv (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0790g17 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Reverend Clair Jaquiss. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b077j3fj (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tvys6 (Listen) THU Osprey THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Steve Backshall presents the osprey. Ospreys are fish-eaters THU and the sight of one of these majestic birds plunging feet THU first to catch its prey is a sight to cherish. The return of THU the ospreys is one of the great UK conservation stories. THU After extinction through egg-collecting and shooting in the THU 19th and early 20th centuries, birds returned in the 1950s THU and have responded well to protection. THU THU Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b077kkqf (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 b077j4yv (Listen) THU 1816, the Year Without a Summer THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the eruption THU of Mt Tambora, in 1815, on the Indonesian island of Sambawa. THU This was the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history THU and it had the highest death toll, devastating people living THU in the immediate area. Tambora has been linked with drastic THU weather changes in North America and Europe the following THU year, with frosts in June and heavy rains throughout the THU summer in many areas. This led to food shortages, which may THU have prompted westward migration in America and, in a Europe THU barely recovered from the Napoleonic Wars, led to widespread THU famine. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b077j4yx (Listen) THU A House Full of Daughters, Episode 4 THU THU Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's journey through THU seven generations of women, including her Flamenco dancing THU great great grandmother Pepita, her grandmother Vita THU Sackville West and her mother Philippa - all of whom have THU shaped and formed, in extraordinary ways, exactly who she THU has become today. THU THU We journey through the slums of 19th century Malaga to the THU political elite of Washington, from English boarding schools THU during the second world war, to London in the 60s and New THU York in the 80s. THU THU It is one woman's investigation into how her past forms and THU informs her future. THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Juliet Stevenson THU Author: Juliet Nicolson THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0770qtx (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 The Forsyte Saga b077j4yz (Listen) THU The Forsytes Continues, Episode 5 THU THU John Galsworthy's epic family saga of love, money and THU betrayal. THU Dramatised for radio by Lin Coghlan THU THU Soames visits his cousin George and muses on life and death. THU THU Original music composed by Neil Brand THU THU Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU Credits THU Fleur Mont: Jessica Raine THU Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson THU Michael Mont: Ben Lambert THU George Forsyte: Gerard McDermott THU Elderson: Ewan Bailey THU Bicket: Sam Alexander THU Porter: Sean Baker THU Author: John Galsworthy THU Adaptor: Lin Coghlan THU Director: Gemma Jenkins THU Producer: Gemma Jenkins THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b077j4z1 (Listen) THU 'Islamic State's' Most Wanted THU THU Chloe Hadjimatheou tells the astonishing story of a group of THU kids from Raqqa in Syria who chose to resist the so-called THU Islamic State, which occupied their city in 2014 and made it THU the capital of their "Caliphate". These extraordinary THU activists have risked everything to oppose IS; several have THU been killed, or had family members murdered. IS has put a THU bounty on the resistance leaders' heads. But the group THU continues its work, under the banner 'Raqqa Is Being THU Slaughtered Silently'. Chloe meets the group's founders, THU some of whom are now organising activists in Raqqa from the THU relative safety of other countries. THU THU 11:30 Will Gompertz Gets Creative b0631npz (Listen) THU Pottery THU THU Will Gompertz visits the Hole In The Wall Pottery Group in THU Emsworth in Hampshire and is joined by leading ceramicist THU Kate Malone and her former pupil Johnny Vegas for a special THU one-off masterclass in clay-born creativity. THU THU If you are inspired to get involved in pottery - or indeed THU any other areas of artistic endeavour - there's lots to THU discover at the BBC's Get Creative website THU http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/sections/get-creative THU THU Producer: Clare Walker. THU THU Johnny Vegas, Kate Malone and Will Gompertz with their pots THU THU Pots by the Hole in the Wall Pottery Group THU THU Johnny and Will at the wheel THU THU Johnny working on a pot THU THU Some creations from the Hole in the Wall Pottery Group THU THU 12:00 News Summary b0770qtz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b077j4z3 (Listen) THU 21 April 1916 - Tobias Holden THU THU On this day in 1916, a British naval patrol intercepted Sir THU Roger Casement bringing munitions to Ireland, and Tobias THU Holden tries to mend bridges. THU THU Written by Lucy Catherine THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU SECRET SHAKESPEARE - Did you spot them? THU A quote is hidden in each episode of 2016. If you discover THU one, tweet it using #BBCHomeFront. THU THU Credits THU Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant THU Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard THU Amos Rutter: Richard Cotton THU Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe THU Moses Wickens: Ben Callon THU Primrose Rutter: Jade Matthew THU Writer: Lucy Catherine THU Director: Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b0770qv1 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0770qv3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b077j4z5 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 Scenes from Student Life b077j4z7 (Listen) THU The Diarist and the Blogger THU THU Recording Cambridge student life in 1690 was Abraham de la THU Pryme, member of St John's College. His daily studies in THU logic, his passion for science and mathematics, the grim THU event when a friend commits suicide, silly pranks played by THU other students, and famous neighbours like Isaac Newton - THU all are carefully noted in his diary. THU THU Ellie Cawthorne meets Cambridge chief archivist Jacky Cox THU who shows her the actual large battered diary kept at the THU University Library. THU THU Jumping forward 300 years, Ellie talks to Bethany Hutson, THU who kept a blog during her time at Gloucester University. THU There are differences - Pryme forswore alcohol and romance THU but indulged in magic, while Bethany enjoyed a drink and THU tangled with love, but not with magic. Both though were THU equally committed to their studies, experienced the freedoms THU and the pressures of university life, leading up to the THU final exams and the degree ceremony when they bowed before THU the chancellor and became, as Pryme describes it, "compleat THU batchellours". THU THU Producer: Richard Bannerman THU Series Producer: Nick Baker THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b077gt9n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b077jb6h (Listen) THU Holy Father THU THU It is the near future in the Vatican. A charismatic Pope has THU died with his radical reforming mission incomplete. As the THU Cardinals gather in the Vatican for the late pontiff's THU funeral and then the secret conclave that will elect his THU successor, two men are considered the most likely papabili. THU One - Cardinal Brendan Faber - would become the first THU English Pope since Nicolas Brakespeare; the other - Cardinal THU Dieudonne Simouri - would be the first African pontiff. THU Faber represents the liberal reformist wing of the Catholic THU Church; Simouri the conservative, counter-reformist section. THU They have become symbolic of a struggle for the soul of the THU church. However, on the eve of the conclave, Faber receives THU an unexpected visitor in Rome. THU THU Writer ..... Mark Lawson THU Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan THU Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU Credits THU Cardinal Faber: Nick Dunning THU Cardinal Simouri: Jude Akuwudike THU Rachel Grealish: Lise Ann McLaughlin THU Martha Keen: Scarlett Brookes THU Tom Graham: Patrick FitzSymons THU Cardinal O'Callaghan: Pat Laffan THU Padro Antenucci: Faolan Morgan THU Writer: Mark Lawson THU Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan THU Director: Eoin O'Callaghan THU THU 15:00 Open Country b077jb6m (Listen) THU Old Oswestry Hillfort THU THU Helen Mark visits the Iron-Age Hillfort in Oswestry, THU Shropshire to discover why it's the "Stonehenge of the Iron THU Age" and how plans for housing might affect the landscape. THU She hears how the Hillfort was used to train soldiers in THU trench warfare and mortar practice during World War One, and THU how the solider and poet Wilfred Owen may have written THU 'Storm' in the shadow of the Hillfort. Helen also meets the THU people for whom Old Oswestry Hillfort is a constant source THU of inspiration for both exercise and artistic endeavours. THU THU Producer: Toby Field. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0773dpn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0773ldz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b0770qv5 (Listen) THU Blind Cinema THU THU Francine Stock visits the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham THU and tries out Blind Cinema. As you enter the cinema you are THU blindfolded by a group of schoolchildren, who then provide a THU whispered description of the action onscreen via THU ear-trumpets. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b0770qv7 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b0770qv9 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0770qvc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Don't Make Me Laugh b077jb6z (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 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 Omid Djalili, Sara Pascoe, Russell Kane, Adam THU Hess. THU THU A So Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Baddiel THU Panellist: Omid Djalili THU Panellist: Sara Pascoe THU Panellist: Russell Kane THU Panellist: Adam Hess THU THU 19:00 The Archers b077jb73 (Listen) THU Lilian is on a spree, and the Brookfield Archers raise a THU glass. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0770qvf (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 The Forsyte Saga b077j4yz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Borders, An Odyssey b077rxbt (Listen) THU The Journey THU THU Is home just a story we tell ourselves? This three-part THU series continues with Frances Stonor Saunders following THU Homer's Odysseus, the mythical avatar of all our journeys, THU as he struggles to get home and asks how much home we really THU need. With Judith Kerr, Helen Sharman, Misha Glenny, Neal THU Ascherson, David Willetts, Edith Hall. Readings by Sam West. THU THU Producer: Fiona Leach THU Researcher: Ruth Edwards. THU THU 20:30 In Business b077jb7j (Listen) THU Selling Shakespeare THU THU As part of the festivities for the 400th anniversary of THU William Shakespeare's death, In Business asks how the Bard THU has had an impact on the corporate world. As well as being a THU profitable part of the British economy, particularly for the THU tourist sector in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's plays THU have been exported to almost every country there is. In THU Neuss, Germany, a replica of the Globe has stood since 1991. THU In Bollywood, Shakespeare's stories have been retold since THU the dawn of Indian cinema, and become major money-spinners THU courtesy of movies such as Omkara (Othello) and Haider THU (Hamlet). In corporate America, his plays have been seized THU upon by executive training teams. And in China, THU Shakespeare's works are being marketed to a new generation THU of domestic consumers, eager for a taste of historical THU culture. THU Author and critic Andrew Dickson goes on a globe-trotting THU journey to find out how the Bard is still very much in THU business - and discovers one of the most successful and THU flexible cultural brands there is. Produced by Nina THU Robinson. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b0770qv7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b077j4yv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0770qvh (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0786b48 (Listen) THU 10 Days, Episode 4 THU THU A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author THU Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from THU a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being THU made or ruined, lives are at stake. THU THU Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and THU the hard realities of living in London collide. THU THU Episode 4: THU While the Prime Minister is away at a trade conference, the THU new Police Commissioner is focused on finding the Molotov THU Man who has become the tabloid face of the London riots. THU THU Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Jasmine Hyde THU Reader: Ben Onwukwe THU Author: Gillian Slovo THU Abridger: Eileen Horne THU Producer: Clive Brill THU THU 23:00 Down the Line b01sjhj0 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 4 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 b077jb7l (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 APRIL 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0770qxm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b077j4yx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0770qxp (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0770qxr (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0770qxt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0770qxw (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b078j45j (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Reverend Clair Jaquiss. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b077jp0v (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tw750 (Listen) FRI House Martin FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve FRI Backshall presents the house martin. FRI FRI House martins are often confused with swallows , but look FRI shorter-tailed and lack the rusty throats. They're compact FRI birds which build their with pellets of mud under our eaves FRI and although they're so familiar to us in summer, we still FRI can't be certain where they spend the winter. Ornithologists FRI believe that they may spend our winter catching insects high FRI over African rainforests. FRI FRI House Martin (Delichon urbica) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b077jp0x (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 b0773lcc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b077jp0z (Listen) FRI A House Full of Daughters, Episode 5 FRI FRI Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's journey through FRI seven generations of women, including her Flamenco dancing FRI great great grandmother Pepita, her grandmother Vita FRI Sackville West and her mother Philippa - all of whom have FRI shaped and formed, in extraordinary ways, exactly who she FRI has become today. FRI FRI We journey through the slums of 19th century Malaga to the FRI political elite of Washington, from English boarding schools FRI during the second world war, to London in the 60s and New FRI York in the 80s. FRI FRI It is one woman's investigation into how her past forms and FRI informs her future. FRI FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Juliet Stevenson FRI Author: Juliet Nicolson FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0770qxy (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 The Forsyte Saga b077jp11 (Listen) FRI The Forsytes Continues, Episode 6 FRI FRI John Galsworthy's epic family saga of love, money and FRI betrayal. FRI Dramatised for radio by Lin Coghlan FRI FRI Michael learns a secret from Fleur's past and Soames's FRI suspicions about a business deal are confirmed FRI FRI Original music composed by Neil Brand FRI FRI Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. FRI FRI Credits FRI Fleur Mont: Jessica Raine FRI Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson FRI Michael Mont: Ben Lambert FRI Wilfred Desert: Max Bennett FRI Sir Lawrence Mont: Brian Protheroe FRI June Forsyte: Amelia Lowdell FRI Butterfield: Caolan McCarthy FRI Driver: George Watkins FRI Man: Richard Pepple FRI Author: John Galsworthy FRI Adaptor: Lin Coghlan FRI Director: Gemma Jenkins FRI Producer: Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 11:00 The Anglo-Irish Century b077jp13 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI In this, the first of four programmes looking back at a FRI century of Anglo-Irish relations, Diarmaid Ferriter begins FRI with the Anglo-Irish agreement of 1921. The names on the FRI treaty document, and indeed the names missing from it, tell FRI a story in themselves. Ireland's Michael Collins signed FRI fearing it was a suicidal gesture, accepting, as it did the FRI New Free States allegiance to the Crown. Churchill felt it FRI was one of his first great political successes, bringing an FRI end to a damaging war. The Irish leader De Valera had FRI operated at arms length from the Irish negotiating team and FRI his opposition to the resulting treaty resulted in the FRI violent turmoil that followed. FRI But the years leading up to the treaty were themselves some FRI of the most bloody in Irish history. Diarmaid turns back to FRI the failed Easter Rising and the brutal suppression of it, FRI the growing tensions and the electoral disaster of the Irish FRI Parliamentary Party in the 1918 elections. Thereafter there FRI was a slide towards a war of independence that saw brutality FRI on both sides. It reached a grim climax with the events of FRI Bloody Sunday on 21st November 1920 which prompted a FRI parliamentary debate in which the former Prime Minister H. FRI H. Asquith attacked both sides from the back benches. FRI Diarmaid also explains the importance of the unlikely FRI partnerships forged during the subsequent treaty FRI negotiations, partnerships of mutual understanding if not FRI friendship, between the likes of Michael Collins and Winston FRI Churchill. That they were able to reach a compromise FRI accepted by the majority of the new Irish parliament and the FRI country is significant. But as this first programme in the FRI series underlines, the new Free State had been born out of FRI an armed struggle and the arms were not yet to be turned FRI into ploughshares. FRI FRI Producer: Tom Alban. FRI FRI 11:30 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure b077jp15 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 4 FRI FRI Comedy drama about a young woman trying to build a more FRI fulfilling life for herself in Glasgow. FRI FRI Josie and Darren go camping but find themselves disastrously FRI ill equipped for the great outdoors. 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 Margaret: Clare Grogan FRI PCSO Officer: Chris Pavlo FRI The Podcaster: Jesse Thorn FRI Shondra: Claudia O'Doherty FRI Unfeasably Handsome Man: John Early FRI Writer: Josie Long FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b0770qy0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b076bk9l (Listen) FRI 22 April 1916 - William Fulford FRI FRI On this day in 1916, Emmeline Pankhurst condemned her FRI daughter Sylvia's involvement in an anti-conscription rally, FRI and in Ashburton, William Fulford too is at odds with his FRI parents. FRI FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI SECRET SHAKESPEARE - Did you spot them? FRI A quote is hidden in each episode of 2016. If you discover FRI one, tweet it using #BBCHomeFront. FRI FRI Credits FRI William Fulford: Ryan Coath FRI Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro FRI Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog FRI Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes FRI Joanna Fulford: Rachael Spence FRI Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett FRI Reuben Fulford: Martin Pirongs FRI Soldier: Sam Rix FRI Writer: Lucy Catherine FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b0770qy2 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0770qy4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b077jp17 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 Scenes from Student Life b077jp19 (Listen) FRI Lords and Sizars FRI FRI In 1805 Lord Byron, a new arrival at Trinity College FRI Cambridge, wrote to his friend requesting '4 dozen of wine', FRI plus port, sherry, claret and Madeira. The life of a student FRI Lord was very different to that of a sizar. Sizars came from FRI modest backgrounds and had to wait at tables and serve in FRI other ways to earn their keep at their College. Byron kept FRI horses and even a tame bear, as well as spending much of his FRI time drinking, playing cards and going to the races at FRI Newmarket. FRI FRI Recent graduate Ellie Cawthorne talks to Trinity historian FRI Dr. Ross Wilson about Byron's time at the College and the FRI great gap between the privileged and the rank-and-file. FRI FRI Jumping on to 2016, Tom Jenkin, Deputy Editor of the online FRI student newspaper The Tab, acknowledges that the class FRI divide also thrives. What school you went to and where FRI you're from are often the first questions you're asked when FRI you arrive, and a father with a Landrover Defender has the FRI same curiosity value and clout as Byron's post-horse and FRI carriage. FRI FRI For the less well-off student, the part-time job beckons, as FRI it did for Gloucester student Bethany Hutson, who earned FRI extra cash in an all-you-can-eat Chinese. FRI FRI There is, though, in these competitive times, a new urgency FRI to the degree which students aim for - nothing less than a FRI 2:1 will do. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Bannerman FRI Series Producer: Nick Baker FRI A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b077jb73 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b077jq32 (Listen) FRI Big Time FRI FRI Shakespeare died four hundred years ago on the same day as FRI Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote. Except they didn't. FRI The calendars of their two countries were ten days apart. FRI Cervantes has got wind of this and plots to outwit his FRI appointed death by nipping out of Spain. If he can do this FRI and get to Stratford, he intends to get Shakespeare out of FRI his death bed and jump the life to come with the other great FRI literary adventurer of their shared age. Immortality beyond FRI their artistic reputation would be assured that way. The FRI only obstacle in the Spaniard's way is Shakespeare FRI distractingly beautiful young housekeeper, Regina, and also FRI the bard's somewhat odd collection of bottled coloured FRI liquids. A new play by Jonathan Holloway. Cervantes: Simon FRI Callow; Shakespeare: Nicky Henson; Regina: Laura FRI Elphinstone. Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI Credits FRI Cervantes: Simon Callow FRI Shakespeare: Nicky Henson FRI Regina: Laura Elphinstone FRI Writer: Jonathan Holloway FRI Producer: Tim Dee FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b077jq34 (Listen) FRI Bushey FRI FRI Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Bushey in Hertfordshire. Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and FRI Pippa Greenwood answer the questions from an audience of FRI local gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Hannah Newton FRI Assistant Producer: Laurence Bassett FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Gyles Brandreth's What Ho, Your Majesty? b077jq36 (Listen) FRI In a specially commissioned new comic story for Radio 4, the FRI author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth presents his very own FRI 90th birthday gift to the Queen. FRI FRI As a lifelong admirer of P G Wodehouse, Gyles has chosen to FRI re-imagine the bygone world of gentlemen's clubs, FRI pan-handling politicians and helpful St James's shopkeepers FRI - the world of Willie Dabney, confidant of the Prime FRI Minister and godson to Her Majesty. FRI FRI Willie wants only to do the best for everybody, but his FRI generosity gets the better of him when he is asked to run an FRI errand for the Queen, involving a senior peer, the FRI Astronomer Royal and a hostess gift with a difference. FRI FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Gyles Brandreth FRI Writer: Gyles Brandreth FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0770qy6 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b077jqps (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b077jqpv (Listen) FRI Mandy and Geri - It's Not My Name That Matters FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends about FRI commitment to fund-raising and the disappointment when you FRI don't achieve your goal - another in the series that proves FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0770qy8 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0770qyb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b077jqpx (Listen) FRI Series 90, Episode 2 FRI FRI Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Edwina Currie and Andy Hamilton FRI are Miles' guests in the long-running satirical quiz of the FRI week's news. FRI FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production FRI Producer: Richard Morris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Rebecca Front FRI Panellist: Edwina Currie FRI Panellist: Andy Hamilton FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b077jqpz (Listen) FRI Jazzer is not in the mood, and just who will be gorgeous FRI George? FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Paul Brodrick FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe 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 Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Joanne Madeley: Alison Newman FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0770qyd (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 The Forsyte Saga b077jp11 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b077jqq1 (Listen) FRI Hilary Benn MP, Nigel Farage MEP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Tunbridge Wells in Kent with a panel including the FRI Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP and the Leader of FRI UKIP Nigel Farage MEP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b077jqq3 (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b076bwv0 (Listen) FRI 18-22 April 1916 FRI FRI On the week, in 1916, when a British naval patrol FRI intercepted Sir Roger Casement bringing munitions to FRI Ireland, alliances are broken and made in Ashburton. FRI FRI Written by Lucy Catherine FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Richard Monks FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews FRI FRI SECRET SHAKESPEARE - Did you spot them? FRI A quote is hidden in each episode of 2016. If you discover FRI one, tweet it using #BBCHomeFront. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer FRI Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes FRI Morris Battley: Sean Baker FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett FRI Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant FRI John Rossiter: Mark Carey FRI Moses Wickens: Ben Callon FRI Mother: Helen Clapp FRI William Fulford: Ryan Coath FRI Amos Rutter: Richard Cotton FRI Lewis Cox: Dylan Edwards FRI Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog FRI Old Woman: Susan Jameson FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Rose Fairweather: Helen Longworth FRI Primrose Rutter: Jade Matthew FRI Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro FRI Reuben Fulford: Martin Pirongs FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Soldier: Sam Rix FRI Joanna Fulford: Rachael Spence FRI Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables FRI Gert Battley: Maggie Steed FRI Carslake: Stephen Tomlin FRI Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams FRI Writer: Lucy Catherine FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0770qyg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0770qyj (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0786bk7 (Listen) FRI 10 Days, Episode 5 FRI FRI A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author FRI Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from FRI a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being FRI made or ruined, lives are at stake. FRI FRI Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and FRI the hard realities of living in London collide. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Crisis point has been reached - for London, for Peter FRI Whiteley, for Cathy and her daughter, and for Joshua Yares, FRI struggling to stop the rioting and find an officer gone FRI rogue. FRI FRI Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jasmine Hyde FRI Reader: Ben Onwukwe FRI Author: Gillian Slovo FRI Abridger: Eileen Horne FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b077ggvf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b077jqq5 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b077jqq7 (Listen) FRI Tim and Ali - Everest: The Other Woman FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a woman and her FRI husband, who was leading an Everest climb at the time of the FRI Nepal earthquake, about the need for communication. 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