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SAT SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0783lsz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b07889g4 (Listen) SAT Respectable, Who's Respectable Now? SAT SAT Lynsey Hanley explores the experience of class and social SAT mobility in Britain over the past four decades. She offers a SAT personal insight into the psychological cost of leaving her SAT working-class upbringing behind; moving from her home in SAT Chelmsley Wood, a vast council estate near Birmingham, to SAT sixth-form college, to university and on to a career in SAT journalism. SAT SAT In this final episode, she looks at the divisive notion, SAT encouraged by politicians of all parties over the past two SAT decades, that we're all middle-class now. SAT SAT Written and read by Lynsey Hanley. SAT SAT Abridged by Sian Preece. SAT SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Lynsey Hanley SAT Author: Lynsey Hanley SAT Abridger: Sian Preece SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0783lt1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0783lt3 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0783lt5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0783lt7 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0788bj8 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev SAT Dr Stephen Wigley, Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist SAT Church. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b078mmh0 (Listen) SAT Maternity leave: Why don't dads get it? SAT SAT iPM listener Chris Hope knew he was entitled to Shared SAT Parental Leave when his baby was born. When he was told he'd SAT be paid at the statutory rate, rather than the same as SAT female colleagues on maternity leave, he decided to SAT challenge it. He tells Jennifer Tracey how he put a case SAT together and won. SAT SAT Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0783lt9 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0783ltc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b07882k9 (Listen) SAT Southwell Races, Nottinghamshire SAT SAT Helen Mark spends a day at Southwell Races in rural SAT Nottinghamshire. It's one of the smallest and most rural SAT racetracks in Britain, but it's also one of the busiest. SAT SAT Helen follows a day in the life of the race-track, meeting SAT some of the people who make it happen. She talks about SAT dreams and 'babies' (two year old horses) with trainer David SAT Brown as one of his horses has a swim in the pool. SAT SAT There are the Travelling Stable Lasses, jockey Andrew Mullen SAT (no, he hadn't eaten anything all day), racehorse trainer SAT Ollie Pears, who has several legs of horses for sale if SAT you'd like one. SAT SAT There's drama, as Helen joins the race-course vet as they SAT race alongside the horses just in case one of them takes a SAT fall. And she learns how to choose a horse to put your money SAT on. Or not. SAT SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b078mbf5 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: The Future of Food SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0783ltf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b078mbf7 (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 b078mbf9 (Listen) SAT Lenny Henry, Pumeza Matshikiza, Jack Cooke, Emma SAT Bridgewater, Ana Matronic SAT SAT With Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles SAT SAT Lenny Henry talks about his new album of Blues music and his SAT hugely successful career in show business. Following the SAT news that he will receive a special BAFTA award at this SAT year's ceremony, Lenny discusses how his career has moved SAT from TV comedian to Shakespearean actor and scriptwriter. SAT Lenny is also one of the founders of the charity Comic SAT Relief which has raised over a billion pounds since it SAT started. SAT SAT Soprano Pumeza Matshikiza was brought up in the townships of SAT South Africa and made the giant leap into a professional SAT operatic career and a major label recording contract. Pumeza SAT first heard opera on the radio aged 14 and despite being SAT unable to read music she dedicated herself to studying the SAT art form. SAT SAT Jack Cooke tells us why he gave up his office job for a life SAT climbing trees. Jack has climbed over 80 trees for his new SAT book and reveals the unusual things he's found up trees and SAT some of the more surreal arboreal adventures he's had. SAT SAT Ceramics designer Emma Bridgewater shares her Inheritance SAT Tracks: Le Premier Bonheur du Jour by Francoise Hardy and SAT Gulf Coast Highway by Emmylou Harris & Willie Nelson. SAT SAT Ana Matronic from the Scissor Sisters talks to reporter Anna SAT Bailey about her love of robots. SAT SAT And former hang gliding world champion Ron Freeman explains SAT how he was first inspired to take up the sport after SAT watching Peter Pan. SAT SAT Producer: Steven Williams SAT SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Ana Matronic SAT Ana Matronic talks robots with reporter Anna Bailey SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Lenny Henry SAT Interviewed Guest: Pumeza Matshikiza SAT Interviewed Guest: Jack Cooke SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Bridgewater SAT Interviewed Guest: Ana Matronic SAT Interviewer: Anna Bailey SAT Interviewed Guest: Ron Freeman SAT Producer: Steven Williams SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b078mbfc (Listen) SAT Series 13, King's Lynn SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the programme from King's Lynn. Annie Gray, SAT Tim Hayward, Andi Oliver and Lizzie Mabbott answer the SAT culinary queries. SAT SAT The panel sink their teeth into shrimp, soups, and samphire. SAT Along the way, they debate how to construct the perfect SAT afternoon tea, what tinned foods they could not live SAT without, and offer a few tips regarding male grooming! SAT SAT Joining the panel this week are the Chairman of King's SAT Lynn's True's Yard Museum as well as local shrimp fisherman, SAT George Solly. SAT SAT Produced by Darby Dorras SAT Assistant producer: Hannah Newton SAT SAT Food consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b078d5d7 (Listen) SAT Helen Lewis of the New Statesman looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0783lth (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b0783ltk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b0783ltm (Listen) SAT Pensions lifeboat under pressure? SAT SAT As BHS goes into administration and its pension scheme is SAT assessed for entry to the Pension Protection Fund, Money Box SAT takes a closer look at the pensions 'lifeboat'. David Blake, SAT professor of pension economics at the Cass Business School, SAT argues it risks getting in trouble itself, given the number SAT of final salary pension schemes in deficit it could have to SAT take on. But the PPF is currently in surplus, and Alan SAT Higham of Pensionschamp.com explains the careful risk SAT assessments its analysts make to ensure it can continue to SAT come to the rescue of schemes in peril. They join Paul Lewis SAT to discuss the best ways to manage the future costs of final SAT salary pension schemes. SAT SAT From today, the cost of making a call, sending a text or SAT downloading an email while holidaying in the EU falls by 75% SAT - and yet you could still pay £3 to send a single text SAT message. Matthew Howett, from telecoms analysts Ovum, SAT explains what's going on. The changes are due to EU SAT legislation, but this begs the question of what will happen SAT if the UK leaves the EU. Paul speaks to Arianna Andreangeli, SAT lecturer in competition law at the University of Edinburgh. SAT SAT People on low incomes are being expected to pay more towards SAT their council tax by an increasing number of local councils SAT in England. Since the national council tax benefit scheme SAT was replaced by local council tax support, some who used to SAT get 100% of their council tax paid now have to find 20% or SAT more. Paul speaks to Hannah Aldridge from the New Policy SAT Institute, who has researched the issue. SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT Council Tax SAT SAT SAT What is Council Tax Support - Turn2us - SAT https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Council-Tax-Suppor SAT /What-is-Council-Tax-Support#guide-content SAT SAT New Policy Institute - Key Changes to Council Tax Support SAT in 2016/17 - SAT http://npi.org.uk/publications/key-changes-council-tax-suppo SAT t-201617/ SAT SAT Department for Communities and Local Government - Local SAT Council Tax support schemes: an independent review - SAT https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-council-tax SAT support-schemes-an-independent-review SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b0788bcg (Listen) SAT Series 90, Episode 3 SAT SAT Susan Calman, Zoe Lyons, Vicki Pepperdine and Andy Hamilton SAT are amongst Miles' guests in the long-running satirical quiz SAT of the week's news. SAT SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Zoe Lyons SAT Panellist: Vicki Pepperdine SAT Panellist: Andy Hamilton SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0783ltp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0783ltr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0788bcl (Listen) SAT Jon Ashworth MP, Claire Fox, Chris Grayling MP, John SAT Nicolson MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Corby in Northamptonshire with Shadow Minister without SAT Portfolio Jon Ashworth MP, Claire Fox from the Institute of SAT Ideas, the Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling MP SAT and the SNP's Westminster Spokesman on Culture Media and SAT Sport John Nicolson MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0783ltt (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b078mc9p (Listen) SAT Look Back in Anger SAT SAT To celebrate sixty years since John Osborne wrote his SAT classic play, Richard Wilson directs a new radio SAT dramatisation with David Tennant as Jimmy Porter. The play SAT that launched the Angry Young Man movement has lost none of SAT its bite and still disturbs and questions in equal measure. SAT SAT Directed by Richard Wilson SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Jimmy Porter: David Tennant SAT Alison: Nancy Carroll SAT Cliff: Daniel Evans SAT Helena: Claire Price SAT Colonel: Ian McKellen SAT Director: Richard Wilson SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Writer: John Osborne SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0783ltw (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week.Presented by Jenni SAT Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0783lty (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b078mmh0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0783lv0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0783lv2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0783lv4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b078mtvd (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Phil Gayle, Daniel Mays, Virginia Ironside, SAT Torben Betts, Alex Lowe, Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones, SAT Bill Baird SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Phil Gayle are joined by actor Daniel SAT Mays, playwright Torben Betts, author Virginia Ironside and SAT comic actor Alex Lowe for an eclectic mix of conversation, SAT music and comedy. With music from Teddy Thompson and Kelly SAT Jones and Bill Baird. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Torben Betts SAT 'Invincible' is touring until 18th June. It's at Mercury SAT Theatre, Colchester on Saturday 30th April, Gala Theatre, SAT Durham from 2nd to 4th May and Stamford Arts Centre on 6th SAT and 7th May. Check the website for more dates. SAT SAT Alex Lowe SAT Episode 2 of 'Barry's Lunch Club' is on Friday 6th May at SAT 11.30 on BBC Radio 4. The first episode is available on SAT iPlayer. SAT SAT Daniel Mays SAT 'The Caretaker' is at The Old Vic, London until Saturday SAT 14th May. SAT SAT SAT Virginia Ironside SAT 'No Thanks! I'm Quite Happy Standing!' is published by SAT Quercus and available now. SAT SAT Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones SAT SAT ‘Little Windows’ is out now on Cooking Vinyl. SAT SAT Teddy and Kelly are touring throughout May. Dates include SAT Glee Club, Birmingham on 4th, Apex, Bury St Edmunds on 5th SAT and Bath International Music Festival at Komedia on 24th. SAT Check Teddy and Kelly's website for other dates. SAT SAT Bill Baird SAT ‘Earth Into Aether’ is out now on Talkshow Records. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Torben Betts SAT Interviewed Guest: Alex Lowe SAT Performer: Teddy Thompson SAT Performer: Kelly Jones SAT Performer: Bill Baird SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b078mtvg (Listen) SAT Liz Clegg SAT SAT She's been described as a swearing, chain-smoking version of SAT Mother Teresa. Mother-of-two Liz Clegg was once a SAT firefighter in Devon who hung out at music festivals. These SAT days she spends most of her time in France, raising funds SAT and caring round the clock for hundreds of young SAT unaccompanied children in the so-called Jungle in Calais. SAT SAT Her efforts have attracted international attention, with SAT Clegg being invited to discuss her work in the US. Her SAT admirers in the UK include the actress Juliet Stevenson. SAT SAT Becky Milligan speaks to Liz Clegg's daughter Inca, her SAT childhood friend Rufus Norris and others to reveal how she SAT became a surrogate mother to so many. SAT SAT Presenter: Becky Milligan SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0783lv6 (Listen) SAT Son of Saul, Mark Haddon, Kings of War, Love Nina, Pablo SAT Bronstein at Tate SAT SAT Son of Saul is an award-laden Hungarian film dealing with SAT the sonderkommandos at Auschwitz, Jewish inmates who were SAT forced to prepare and mislead new arrivals. SAT Mark Haddon's latest book is a collection of rather dark SAT short stories which he hopes can "create empathy for SAT unloveable people in difficult circumstances". SAT Belgian thetare director Ivo van Hove has condensed several SAT Shakespeare royal plays into Kings of War; four and a half SAT hours in Dutch, telling English history. SAT Nick Hornby has adapted Nina Stibbe's Love Nina for BBC TV SAT Pablo Bronstein brings dance to Tate Britain SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Ekow Eshun, Antonia Quirke and SAT Kate Bassett. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Son Of Saul SAT Son Of Saul SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT Kings of War SAT SAT Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s SAT Kings of War SAT is at the Barbican in London until Sunday 1 May. SAT SAT Photo credit: Jan Versweyveld SAT SAT Mark Haddon SAT SAT The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon will be available from SAT Thursday 5 May in hardback and ebook. SAT SAT Love, Nina SAT SAT Love, Nina begins on Friday 20 May on BBC One. SAT SAT SAT Pablo Bronstein SAT Pablo Bronstein: Historical Dances in an Antique Setting SAT is at Tate Britain in London until 9 October 2016. SAT SAT Artwork: © Pablo Bronstein. Photography: © Tate, 2016. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Ekow Eshun SAT Interviewed Guest: Antonia Quirke SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Bassett SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b078mvwj (Listen) SAT Tennant Looks Back at Osborne SAT SAT Sixty years ago, one small play shocked British theatre to SAT its core and started a cultural revolution. John Osborne, a SAT writer from an unfashionable Midlands city, put ordinary SAT lives on stage and made them an extraordinary comment on SAT post-war Britain. As he prepares to star in a new production SAT for Radio 4, David Tennant explores John Osborne's own SAT papers to uncover how he put his own life and relationships SAT into Look Back in Anger. SAT SAT Along the way, we look back at the anger which greeted the SAT play from many critics. The BBC's theatre critic Ivor Brown SAT called it, "unspeakably dirty and squalid. It is difficult SAT to believe that a colonel's daughter, brought up with some SAT standards, would have stayed in this sty for a day." He went SAT on to fume, "I felt angry because it wasted my time." He was SAT one of many who hated the play. SAT SAT David Tennant hears interviews with John Osborne, reads his SAT personal letters, as well as archive of critic Kenneth Tynan SAT and director Tony Richardson. He also plays extracts from SAT previous productions, including a classic with Richard SAT Burton as Jimmy Porter. SAT SAT Contributors include playwright David Hare, critic Michael SAT Billington, and actors Gary Raymond and George Devine. SAT SAT Producer: Jo Wheeler SAT Executive Producer: David Morley SAT A Bite Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b07856ls (Listen) SAT Missing Presumed Dead: The Odyssey, Episode 1 SAT SAT In Simon Armitage's new version of Homer's Odyssey, a high SAT ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on SAT a delicate diplomatic mission to Istanbul. When his trip SAT ends up in a horrific bar room brawl, social media explodes SAT and the enigmatic darling of a political party becomes SAT Europe's most wanted man overnight. Chased by the SAT authorities, damned by religious leaders, pursued by those SAT looking for vengeance and head-hunted by fanatics, his SAT Odyssey begins. SAT SAT Plunged into the ancient past Odysseus must now contend with SAT all the unworldly beings and unnatural phenomena that stand SAT in his way. In part one, The Lotus Flowers, Cyclops and SAT Circe must all be overcome in the struggle for survival and SAT the long voyage back to the present day. Here reality and SAT mythology are blurred SAT SAT At home, with her husband missing presumed dead, his wife SAT Penelope and their young son are besieged by the press, SAT ravenous for the full story. SAT SAT The music was composed by James Fortune SAT SAT Missing Presumed Dead was originally directed for the stage SAT by Nick Bagnall and co-produced by The Liverpool Everyman SAT and the English Touring Theatre SAT SAT Directed for radio in Salford by Susan Roberts. SAT SAT Credits SAT Smith: Colin Tierney SAT Odysseus: Colin Tierney SAT Prime Minister: Simon Dutton SAT Cyclops: Simon Dutton SAT Anthea: Polly Frame SAT Athene: Polly Frame SAT Penelope: Susie Trayling SAT Magnus: Lee Armstrong SAT Mcgill: Roger Evans SAT Eurylochus: Roger Evans SAT Kite: David Hartley SAT Reynolds: Ranjit Krishnamma SAT Fenton: Chris Reilly SAT Perimedes: Chris Reilly SAT Soli: Sule Rimi SAT Polites: Sule Rimi SAT Circe: Danusia Samal SAT Briseis: Danusia Samal SAT Author: Homer SAT Adaptor: Simon Armitage SAT Director: Susan Roberts SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0783lv8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 FutureProofing b0787dyz (Listen) SAT Ageing SAT SAT Should we retire the concept of 'ageing'? SAT SAT The first episode of the new series of FutureProofing SAT explores the technology and demography which herald a SAT revolution in our ideas about ageing, and a fundamental SAT shift in the expectations we all have for the course our SAT lives might take. SAT SAT Presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson travel to SAT California to meet the scientists at the cutting edge of the SAT quest to stop age-related illness and decline. And they SAT explore the ideas that will have to change if we all live to SAT 150 and beyond. SAT SAT Even conservative estimates now place human lifespan for SAT new-borns today in a developed country at more than 100. SAT FutureProofing examines the fundamental changes to our SAT expectations, hopes and dreams which ensue from the SAT scientific work taking place now to postpone, or even end, SAT ageing. SAT SAT FutureProofing is a six part series which explores the ideas SAT that will shape our future. Episodes in the second series SAT for April-June 2016 include programmes on the future of SAT Ageing, Crime, Energy, Memory, Language and War. SAT SAT Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b0785r0s (Listen) SAT Semi-Final 4, 2016 SAT SAT (16/17) SAT The last of the 2016 Finalists will be decided this week as SAT Russell Davies welcomes the last four semi-finalists of the SAT tournament. They're from Stirling, Southampton, Tunbridge SAT Wells and Sheffield. SAT SAT Which Israeli political party has a name meaning SAT 'consolidation'? In which year did divorce become legal in SAT the Republic of Ireland? Which country's national flag SAT includes a stylised representation of a yurt? SAT SAT The semi-finalists will also be pooling their knowledge to SAT tackle questions from a Brain of Britain listener, who'll SAT win a prize if they can't answer them successfully. SAT SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT KERRY GRIFFITHS, a seller of antiques and collectibles, from SAT Stirling; SAT SAT ALAN HARRISON, a songwriter from Sheffield; SAT SAT ROBERT SPRINGTHORPE, a GP from Tunbridge Wells in Kent; SAT SAT JOHN WEBLEY, a dentist from Southampton. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b07856lx (Listen) SAT Time, Memory and Remembrance SAT SAT Roger McGough marks a series of poetic anniversaries with a SAT programme on the theme of time, memory and remembrance. SAT Shakespeare, of course, makes an appearance, as does SAT Charlotte Bronte. It's also a century since the Easter SAT Rising in Dublin inspired WB Yeats and others to put pen to SAT paper. More reflections on time and memory come from poets SAT including TS Eliot and Thomas Hardy. Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT SAT SAT All the World's a Stage SAT SAT By William Shakespeare SAT SAT From The Portable Shakespeare SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT The Self Unseeing SAT SAT by Thomas Hardy SAT SAT From The Oxford Authors: Thomas Hardy SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Home is So Sad SAT SAT by Philip Larkin SAT SAT From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Parting SAT SAT by Charlotte Bronte SAT SAT From The Brontes SAT SAT Published by Everyman Poetry SAT SAT SAT SAT Water SAT SAT by Fleur Adcock SAT SAT From Being Human SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Vertical Realities SAT SAT by Luljeta Lleshanaku SAT SAT Translated by Henry Israeli and Shpresa Qatipi SAT SAT From Being Human SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT A Memory SAT SAT by Rupert Brooke SAT SAT From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke SAT SAT Published by Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd SAT SAT SAT SAT Perhaps SAT SAT by Vera Brittain SAT SAT From Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of The First World SAT War and After by Vera Brittain SAT SAT Published by Virago SAT SAT SAT SAT Burnt Norton (Extract from Four Quartets) SAT SAT by T S Eliot SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Beyond the Last Lamp SAT SAT by Thomas Hardy SAT SAT From The Oxford Authors: Thomas Hardy SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Wayfarer SAT SAT by Padraic Pearse SAT SAT From The Oxford Book of Irish Verse; XVIIth Century–XXth SAT Century SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from The Spring in Ireland, 1916 SAT SAT by James Stephens SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://allpoetry.com/The-Spring-In-Ireland:-1916 SAT SAT SAT SAT Easter 1916 SAT SAT by W.B. Yeats SAT SAT From The Collected Poems of W.B Yeats SAT SAT Published by Palgrave SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Cymbeline SAT SAT By William Shakespeare SAT SAT From The Portable Shakespeare SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 01 MAY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b078w86l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Time b03yn0ds (Listen) SUN A Family Visit SUN SUN These three new tales by Olga Grushin - commissioned SUN specially for BBC Radio 4 - touch upon the lives of five SUN generations and explore the effects of time on one Russian SUN family. SUN SUN " ... I found a small alarm clock with square black numbers SUN and a picture of a tiny butterfly in the middle of its round SUN face, I took it. SUN SUN "The hands didn't move at first, but my mother said you just SUN had to wind it; only when she did, I saw that it was broken, SUN because the second hand ran backward, and if you stared at SUN the clock long enough to notice, so did the minute hand." SUN SUN Programme 1. A Family Visit SUN Visiting Russia from America after the death of his SUN grandfather, a young boy observes the tensions between his SUN mother and her siblings. SUN SUN Olga Grushin was born in Moscow in 1971 and spent her SUN childhood in Moscow and Prague. In 1989 she became the first SUN Soviet citizen to enrol for a full-time degree in the United SUN States while retaining Soviet citizenship. In 2006 she was SUN shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and named SUN one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. She SUN has published two novels: The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) SUN and The Concert Ticket (2010). Her story 'The Homecoming' SUN featured in the series 'Platform Three' on Radio 4 (2010) SUN and The Dream Life of Sukhanov was a Book At Bedtime in SUN 2012. Olga lives in Washington D.C. SUN SUN Reader: Ruth Gemmell SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Joshua McGuire SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Olga Grushin SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b078w87c (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b078w87y (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b078w880 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b078w883 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b078wl20 (Listen) SUN Coventry Cathedral SUN SUN This week's Bells on Sunday comes from Coventry Cathedral, SUN to mark the 50th anniversary of its consecration. The SUN medieval Cathedral was destroyed during the evening of 14th SUN November 1940 by the Luftwaffe. The next morning, all that SUN remained was a shell full of rubble, and the tower, SUN containing the cathedral's bells. The new cathedral, built SUN beside the ruins, was consecrated in the presence of Her SUN Majesty the Queen on the 25th May 1962 and there were SUN celebrations on Friday marking that anniversary, attended by SUN the Princess Royal. The tower of the cathedral has a ring of SUN 12 bells, with the Tenor weighing just over 33 and a half SUN hundredweight, and tuned to C sharp. This week we hear the SUN bells of Coventry Cathedral, undamaged during that historic SUN air raid and the rest of the War, ringing, 'Stedman SUN Cinques'. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b078mtvg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b078w88w (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b078wl22 (Listen) SUN The Twilight Zone SUN SUN The film The Revenant was filmed only at twilight, to SUN capture the natural light 'when God speaks', in the words of SUN its star Leonardo DiCaprio. This is just the latest example SUN of a fascination with that shift from daytime to night that SUN has absorbed poets, writers, artists and those with faith SUN and of none. SUN SUN Journalist Malcolm Doney explores - with poetry, prose and SUN music - how we respond to this twilight zone, both in our SUN surroundings and within ourselves. SUN SUN Presenter: Malcolm Doney SUN Producer: Jonathan Mayo SUN A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: The History of Rasselas, Prince SUN of Abissinia SUN SUN Author: Samuel Johnson SUN SUN Publisher: R. and J. Dodsley, W. Johnston SUN SUN Title: SUN Blue Nights SUN SUN Author: Joan Didion SUN SUN Publisher: Fourth Estate SUN SUN Title: Lifesaving Poems forward by SUN Anthony Wilson SUN SUN Author: Anthony Wilson SUN SUN Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd SUN SUN SUN Title: Let evening come SUN SUN Author: Jane Kenyon SUN SUN Publisher: Graywolf Press SUN SUN Title: SUN Real presences SUN SUN Author: George Steiner SUN SUN Publisher: Faber and Faber SUN SUN Title: To Know the Dark SUN SUN Author: Wendell Berry SUN SUN Publisher: counterpoint SUN SUN Title: She Walks In Beauty SUN SUN Author: Byron SUN SUN Publisher: John Murray SUN SUN SUN Title: Sounds of the Eternal: A Celtic SUN Psalter SUN SUN Author: John Philip Newell SUN SUN Publisher: New Beginnings / Material Media SUN SUN SUN Title: Variation on a Theme by Rilke SUN SUN Author: Denise Levertov SUN SUN Publisher: New Directions SUN SUN SUN Title: Everything Is Going To Be SUN Alright (New Collected Poems) SUN SUN Author: Derek Mahon SUN SUN Publisher: Gallery Press SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b078wl24 (Listen) SUN Alpacas and Autism SUN SUN Ruth Sanderson meets Chris Deakin on his farm in SUN Leicestershire where Alpacas are bred for use in therapy. SUN Known for their calming effect these South American cousins SUN of the lama now regularly provide a therapeutic activity for SUN autistic youngsters in the area. SUN SUN Ruth meets Chris at Vale farm just as the shearing season is SUN getting started and pitches in. SUN SUN Producer: Perminder Khatkar. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b078w89f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b078w89t (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b078w8bb (Listen) SUN Politics and anti-Semitism, The Christian convert, Have SUN faith in Leicester City FC SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b078wl26 (Listen) SUN Deaf Child Worldwide SUN SUN Sophie Stone presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Deaf SUN Child Worldwide SUN Registered Charity No 1016532 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Deaf Child Worldwide' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Deaf Child Worldwide'. SUN SUN Deaf Child Worldwide SUN SUN Deaf Child Worldwide is the international arm of the SUN National Deaf Children’s Society. Our vision is a world SUN without barriers for every deaf child and we facilitate work SUN that enables deaf children and young people in developing SUN countries to be fully included in their family, education SUN and community life. SUN SUN Ester, 14, at school SUN SUN Ester, whose story you hear in the appeal, is thriving at SUN her new school where she learns sign language among hearing SUN and deaf friends. SUN SUN Norah, mother of Ester who is deaf SUN SUN Norah’s husband abandoned her family, who you hear about in SUN the appeal, after a third deaf child was born. Norah was SUN determined all her children would still receive an education SUN and she now helps other local parents so that their deaf SUN children will get the right support, from the start. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b078w8bw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b078w8by (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b078wl28 (Listen) SUN Rogation tide in April or May, as seed was being sown, was SUN traditionally the time when people prayed that there would SUN be a good harvest. In this service, Canon Noel Battye SUN explores our responsibility and calling to be stewards of SUN God's Creation. SUN SUN From St Nicholas' Church, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim. SUN Led by Archdeacon George Davison. SUN SUN O come ye servants of the Lord (Tye) SUN We plough the fields and scatter SUN Joel 2. 21-27 SUN Almighty and Everlasting God (Gibbons) SUN For the beauty of the earth SUN Teach me, my God and King SUN Be thou my vision SUN SUN With the Choir of Carrickfergus Grammar School, directed by SUN Edward Craig SUN Organist: Stephen Hamill. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b0788bcn (Listen) SUN The Power of the Pen SUN SUN On a visit to her local flea market in Florence, Sarah SUN Dunant stumbles across a love letter. The date: November SUN 1918. There's the challenge of the Italian of course....but SUN the biggest hurdle, she says, was the handwriting. It was SUN "as if a conscientious ant had climbed out of the ink pot SUN and then wound its way across every millimetre of the page". SUN SUN Admiring the tiny handwriting with hardly any space between SUN the lines, Sarah reflects on the modern day demise of SUN handwriting. SUN SUN "Regimented key strokes in various type fonts" are no SUN substitute, she argues, for the beauty and emotion contained SUN in handwriting. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sarah Dunant SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp38 (Listen) SUN Puffin SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Puffin. Far better-known SUN for its comical looks than its calls, the puffin is a bird SUN that that is recognised by many and has earned the nickname SUN "sea-parrot" or "clown of the sea". SUN SUN Puffin (Fratercula arctica) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b078w8c0 (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 b078wm2k (Listen) SUN Tom has got his hands full, and Jim needs to make up his SUN mind. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones SUN Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton SUN Lawyer: Richard Pepple SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00jlxjp (Listen) SUN Hillsborough SUN SUN At the end of the week in which the Hillsborough inquest SUN found that the 96 Liverpool football died unlawfully at the SUN FA Cup semi-final in 1989, Sue MacGregor revisits The SUN Reunion from 2009 when, on the 20th anniversary, she brought SUN together a group of people who were involved in the disaster SUN to talk about the events of that day at a time when they SUN were still in the midst of their fight for justice. SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b078w8c2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b078xpfg (Listen) SUN Series 16, Episode 4 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 the jokes, ghosts, LEGO and reality SUN TV. 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 and Farming Awards b078wm2p (Listen) SUN Food and Farming Awards 2016, First Course SUN SUN Featuring the finalists of the BBC Food and Farming Awards. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b078w8c4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b078w8c6 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Food and Farming Awards b078wmtg (Listen) SUN Food and Farming Awards 2016, Second Course SUN SUN Featuring the finalists of the BBC Food and Farming Awards. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0788bc6 (Listen) SUN York SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN York. SUN SUN Christine Walkden, Matthew Wilson and Bob Flowerdew answer SUN the questions from the audience, discussing the purposes and SUN positives of show gardens and advising on how to get the SUN most out of supermarket herbs. They also recommend climbing SUN plants fit for adorning a child's climbing frame and unusual SUN plants to put in raised planters. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant producer: Laurence Bassett SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Fact Sheet SUN Q – Why do the herbs that I buy from the supermarket not SUN grow long term? SUN SUN Christine – Often the plants are forced and pumped full of SUN fertiliser to make them attractive to buy and this can’t SUN last. You’re better growing your own from seed. SUN SUN Bob – Because they’ve been grown quickly they are often SUN missing flavour too SUN SUN Matthew – You could get some 9cm(3.5inch)/1l pots, fill them SUN with compost, pop them on the windowsill and sow directly SUN into those. Harvest at micro veg size and you’ll get even SUN more flavour because there’s less water in them. SUN SUN Eric – Also, the plants are too crowded in supermarket pots SUN so it’s often a good idea to split them up and repot them SUN and they’ll have a better chance of survival. SUN SUN Q – What can I do to help my garlic? The leaves are SUN yellowing and they’re looking a bit sad. SUN SUN Bob – Garlic has to make big leaves and then the leaves make SUN the bulbs swell. So you want lots of leaves for big bulbs. SUN You could improve the drainage. I grow mine in buckets and SUN keep them indoors through winter and then move them out in SUN spring and this gives a longer growing season. Try putting SUN open-topped cloches on them to keep them a bit warmer. SUN SUN SUN Q – About 16 years ago, following the advice of Bunny SUN Guinness, we created a wooden climbing frame for our young SUN child that could be converted into a trellis for climbing SUN plants later. Now that our child is preparing to go to SUN university we are about to move the frame into its second SUN life. What hardy, vigorous climbers can the panel SUN recommend? It’s in a shady area. SUN SUN Matthew – You’re going to have to improve the soil first and SUN foremost. Then you could run some Ivy up it. SUN SUN Bob – Could you move it to a sunny position? That would make SUN the climbers flower much better, though they will grow in SUN shade. Try climbing roses – not ramblers, they will swamp SUN it. There’s one – ‘Zepherine Drouhin’ – that’s famous SUN because it’s thornless which is nice. Then, *Akebias* are SUN nice early flowerers. Jasmines too, *Clematis montanas* SUN like the ‘Wilsonii’ would be great. SUN SUN Christine – Look at the early-flowering *Clematis* like SUN *macropetala* and *alpina*. You could look at annual SUN climbers like Sweet Peas, the ‘Chilean Glory’ vine, the SUN ‘Cup-and-Saucer’ vine, or ‘Morning Glory’. But they would SUN do better in the sun. SUN SUN SUN Q – I want to turn my small, concrete yard into a wildlife SUN oasis. I want to grow a tree that’s beneficial for both SUN birds and pollinators, what can you suggest to grow in a SUN large pot? SUN SUN Matthew – Crabapples – you can get a whole variety of SUN sizes. I like ‘Red Sentinel’ and *Maylus sargentii* which SUN over a decade will only get to 1.6-1.7m (5.2-5.5ft) high and SUN 1.8m across. SUN SUN Christine – Have a look at the smaller* Sorbuses *(the SUN ‘Mountain Ashes’) and their relatives like *cashmiriana*, SUN *vilmorinii*, and ‘Joseph Rock’. SUN SUN Bob – I’d put a post in the middle of a big pot and grow a SUN bramble SUN SUN SUN Q – I have a *Cercidiphyllum japonicum* ‘Pendulum’ and every SUN year it suffers scorch from late frost. Apparently spraying SUN with cold water before the sun appears can stop this. Is SUN this true or, if not, could you suggest other methods SUN please? SUN SUN Matthew – This is a weeping type of Katsura with a very SUN interesting scent. Scorch is caused by the defrosting, not SUN the frost itself, so westward plants scorch less than the SUN eastward ones because they warm up more slowly throughout SUN the day. SUN SUN Bob – Easiest thing to do is cover it with something like a SUN net curtain the night before. To spray with water, you’d SUN need to be out at 5am every day! You could try putting a SUN sprinkler on overnight to stop it frosting. SUN SUN SUN Q – I grow flowers for cutting but my Gladioli have been SUN water damaged in recent years. As I planted well over 90 SUN over a six-week period this was disappointing. What am I SUN doing wrong or is the weather to blame? SUN SUN Christine – Unless you’re going to put a physical cover over SUN them I’m afraid heavy rain will damage Gladioli. SUN SUN Bob – You could try new varieties of gladioli called SUN ‘Glamourglads’ and their not quite as big and because the SUN patterns are more varied you don’t see the water damage as SUN badly. SUN SUN SUN Q – We are planning a community garden. We want to plant SUN something fun and unusual in the raised planters – ideas? SUN The planters will be 2m x 1m (6.5ft x 3.2ft) and there will SUN be three or four of them. SUN SUN Bob – I’d go for ‘Policeman’s Helmets’ (*Impatiens SUN glandulifera*) which is an invasive weed that’s pretty and SUN about 3ft (0.9m) tall and has exploding seed pods that SUN children just love. SUN SUN Christine – Mandrakes SUN SUN Matthew – Long-term: plant Yew or Box that you can gradually SUN train into topiary. Short-term: go crazy with Canners and SUN lush Lilies and big blowsy Geraniums and Pelargoniums, SUN half-hardy Salvias – things with lots of colour. SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b078wmtj (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about the ruthless dedication SUN of some flower and vegetable growers, things to consider SUN when choosing a baby's name, and the realities of SUN retirement. All in the Omnibus edition 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 b078wqyy (Listen) SUN Missing Presumed Dead: The Odyssey, Episode 2 SUN SUN In Simon Armitage's new version of Homer's Odyssey, a high SUN ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on SUN a delicate diplomatic mission to Istanbul. When his trip SUN ends up in a horrific bar room brawl, social media explodes SUN and the enigmatic darling of a political party becomes SUN Europe's most wanted man overnight. Chased by the SUN authorities, damned by religious leaders, pursued by those SUN looking for vengeance and head-hunted by fanatics, his SUN Odyssey begins. SUN Plunged into the ancient past Odysseus must now contend with SUN all the unworldly beings and unnatural phenomena that stand SUN in his way. In part two, The Land of the Dead with Tiresias SUN and his own mother Anticlea and The Sirens must all be SUN overcome as well as a huge storm in the struggle for SUN survival and the long voyage back to the present day. SUN At home, with her husband missing presumed dead, his wife SUN Penelope and their young son are besieged by the press, SUN ravenous for the full story. SUN SUN The music was composed by James Fortune SUN Missing Presumed Dead was originally directed for the stage SUN by Nick Bagnall and co-produced by The Liverpool Everyman SUN and the English Touring Theatre SUN Directed for radio in Salford by Susan Roberts. SUN SUN Credits SUN Smith: Colin Tierney SUN Odysseus: Colin Tierney SUN Prime Minister: Simon Dutton SUN Tiresias: Simon Dutton SUN Anthea: Polly Frame SUN Athene: Polly Frame SUN Penelope: Susie Trayling SUN Magnus: Lee Armstrong SUN Mcgill: Roger Evans SUN Eurylochus: Roger Evans SUN Kite: David Hartley SUN Reynolds: Ranjit Krishnamma SUN Fenton: Chris Reilly SUN Perimedes: Chris Reilly SUN Soli: Sule Rimi SUN Polites: Sule Rimi SUN Circe: Danusia Samal SUN Anticlea: Danusia Samal SUN Author: Homer SUN Adaptor: Simon Armitage SUN Director: Susan Roberts SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b078wqz0 (Listen) SUN Javier Marias - The Infatuations SUN SUN The eminent Spanish novelist Javier MarÃas joins James SUN Naughtie and a group of readers to discuss his 2013 novel SUN The Infatuations, about the human need to fill the unknown SUN with stories. SUN SUN Every morning before work, Maria loves to watch a couple SUN having breakfast in a Madrid café. She wonders about their SUN lives, who they are and what they do. Later, when she finds SUN out the man is murdered, she becomes friends with the widow SUN and is drawn into the mystery. SUN SUN Javier MarÃas explains the balance between writing a SUN thrilling murder mystery and exploring philosophical ideas SUN in the book, and likens it to watching a film - something SUN bad must happen to the characters, otherwise there would be SUN no film. He also describes his writing process - once the SUN book is written he accepts it as it is, and never does a SUN second version. SUN SUN June's Bookclub choice : V by Tony Harrison (1985) SUN SUN Interviewed guest : Javier MarÃas SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b078wqz2 (Listen) SUN Listener Stories SUN SUN Listeners tell Roger McGough the stories behind their poetry SUN requests. Poems include William Blake's The Tyger, The SUN Thought Fox by Ted Hughes and To the Cuckoo by Wordsworth. SUN Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN Retrospect SUN SUN by Rupert Brooke SUN SUN From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke SUN SUN Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN My Star SUN SUN by Robert Browning SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Vol II SUN SUN Published by John Murray SUN SUN SUN SUN To the Cuckoo SUN SUN by William Wordsworth SUN SUN Wordsworth – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN IX from Last Poems SUN SUN By AE Housman SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman SUN SUN Published by Jonathan Cape SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Sand SUN SUN by Dylan Iorworth SUN SUN (sent in by listener) SUN SUN SUN SUN Stop Thief (rewritten) SUN SUN By Roger McGough SUN SUN SUN SUN The Thought Fox SUN SUN by Ted Hughes SUN SUN From Poetry Please – The Nation’s Best-Loved Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Away and See SUN SUN by Carol Ann Duffy SUN SUN From Carol Ann Duffy – Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN The Tyger SUN SUN by William Blake SUN SUN From Poetry Please – the Nation’s Best-Loved Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover SUN SUN by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester SUN SUN Taken from the CD Popular Poetry, Popular Verse Vol II SUN SUN Label: Naxos SUN SUN SUN SUN Lines on a Young Lady's Photo Album SUN SUN by Philip Larkin SUN SUN From Collected Poems by Philip Larkin SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Horse Whisperer SUN SUN by Andrew Forster SUN SUN Taken from SUN https://herddynamics.wordpress.com/horse-whisperer-poem-by-a SUN drew-forster/ SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 The Force of Google b07875zc (Listen) SUN Google dominates internet searching across most parts of the SUN globe. The algorithm which produces its search results is SUN highly secret and always changing, but is crucial in SUN influencing the information we all obtain, the viewpoints we SUN read, the people we find out about, and the products we buy. SUN SUN It dominates the market because it's so effective. Rivals SUN find it difficult to compete. But however good the SUN algorithm, however carefully crafted to give us what Google SUN thinks we actually want, is it really healthy for one search SUN engine, and one company, to have so much impact? SUN SUN Rory Cellan-Jones explores Google's uniquely powerful role SUN at the centre of today's information society. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b078mtvg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b078w8c8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b078w8cb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b078w8cd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b078wsdf (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea SUN SUN Ernie Rea presents the best of BBC radio in the past week in SUN Pick of the Week - some big questions feature in his SUN selections. Now that the Hillsborough Inquest has delivered SUN its damning verdict, did the fact that it was specifically SUN Liverpool fans who died affect the narrative of blame? What SUN will happen to society if, as predicted, many of the babies SUN born today live to be 120? Has Google, the world's biggest SUN Search Engine, become so powerful that it can make or break SUN your business? And on the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's SUN death, why do Supreme Court judges in America stage a SUN Shakespeare play every year. SUN SUN Production team Kevin Mousley & Kay Bishton. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b078wsdj (Listen) SUN Pat and Tony make progress, and David steps up. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rest Is History b078wsdl (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 5 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 Miles Jupp and Zoe Lyons, who discuss King SUN Arthur, Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Josephine, and Sir SUN Walter Raleigh. 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 Panellist: Miles Jupp SUN Panellist: Zoe Lyons SUN Panellist: Kate Williams SUN Producer: Mark Augustyn SUN Producer: Justin Pollard SUN SUN 19:45 Border Crossing b078wsdp (Listen) SUN The Homsi Wolf & Cry Wolf SUN SUN A series of programmes that sets up a unique pairing between SUN writers from countries challenged by refugee and migration SUN issues with short story writers from Britain. Each foreign SUN story was given to a British writer who wrote their own SUN response, in an exchange of fiction that aims to explode SUN myths, explore shared concerns and extend the boundaries of SUN the short story. SUN SUN In The Homsi Wolf by Mahmoud Al Hussein, a Syrian father SUN tries to protect his family from the bombing raids on his SUN village and comes face to face with an enemy on the ground. SUN The reader is Amir El Masry. SUN SUN In Sara Maitland's response, Cry Wolf, a mother returns with SUN her young daughter to her family home in the Highlands, SUN where she has a strange and frightening encounter. The SUN reader is Sara Markland. SUN SUN Mahmoud Al Hussein is a Syrian writer, dramatist, actor and SUN director who specialised in Syria in children's theatre. He SUN now lives in Turkey and is developing drama for radio. Sara SUN Maitland is a novelist, short-story writer, columnist and SUN essayist, and author of much-praised non-fiction books SUN including The Book of Silence and Gossip from the Forest. SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Amir El Masry SUN Reader: Sara Markland SUN Writer: Mahmoud Al Hussein SUN Writer: Sara Maitland SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0788bcb (Listen) SUN EU Migration SUN SUN EU migrants in the UK SUN How many people have come from the EU to live in the UK? Can SUN we trust the numbers? And if the UK leaves the EU, what SUN would it mean for immigration controls and the future of the SUN economy? We tackle these questions with the help of Jonathan SUN Porte, director of the National Institute of Economic and SUN Social Research, and Matthew Pollard, Executive Director, SUN Migration Watch. SUN SUN Fire death shock SUN Recently the Guardian somewhat alarmingly reported that the SUN number of fire deaths jumped 21% in one year - the biggest SUN rise in a decade. This comes against a background of SUN shrinking Fire Brigade budgets, and Labour says the figures SUN show the cuts have already gone too far. But something about SUN the story didn't smell right to us... SUN SUN Simpson's Paradox SUN A Dutch statistician recently became suspicious by headlines SUN in the Dutch news that women were being discriminated SUN against when it came to getting science research funding. SUN Professor Casper Albers of the Heymans Institute for SUN Psychological Research, Groningen, helps explain what is SUN known as Simpson's Paradox with the aid of a choir metaphor, SUN performed by the BBC Singers. SUN SUN Fermat's last theorem SUN What could connect British mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles SUN and the makers of the Simpsons TV show? Science author Simon SUN Singh explains that both have a love of Fermat's Last SUN theorem. A sketch of the famous equation appears on the SUN American cartoon, while next month Professor Wiles will go SUN to Oslo to collect the Abel prize, widely regarded as the SUN Nobel for mathematics, for his work in proving Fermat's Last SUN theorem. We explore why it draws so much interest. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0783lqk (Listen) SUN Lord Peston, Ruth Prideaux, Patricio Aylwin, Professor Sir SUN David Mackay, Gareth Thomas SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The economist Lord Peston who advised the Labour governments SUN of the 60s and 70s. His son Robert Peston and Lord SUN Hattersley pay tribute. SUN SUN The women's cricket coach Ruth Prideaux who steered England SUN to victory at the 1993 World Cup. SUN SUN The Chilean President Patricio Aylwin who is credited with SUN restoring democracy after nearly 17 years of military SUN dictatorship. SUN SUN The physicist Professor Sir David Mackay, known as 'the SUN cleverest man in Cambridge' and a debunker of myths about SUN climate change. SUN SUN And the actor Gareth Thomas best known for his leading role SUN in the TV series Blake's Seven. SUN SUN Lord Peston SUN SUN Matthew spoke to friend, Lord Hattersley and Lord Peston’s SUN son, Robert Peston. SUN SUN Born 19 March 1931; died 23 April 2016 Aged 85 SUN SUN Ruth Prideaux SUN SUN Matthew spoke to former cricketers Baroness Rachael Heyhoe SUN Flint and Barbara Daniels. SUN SUN Born 12 July 1930; died 7 April 2016 Aged 82 SUN SUN Patricio Aylwin SUN SUN Matthew spoke to BBC’s correspondent in Chile, Gideon Long. SUN SUN Born 26 November 1918; died 19 April 2016 Aged 97 SUN SUN Professor Sir David Mackay SUN SUN Matthew spoke to friend and colleague, Dr Alan Blackwell and SUN journalist and environmental activist, Mark Lynus. SUN SUN Born 22 April 1967; died 14 April 2016 Aged 48 SUN SUN Gareth Thomas (Pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to friend, Roy Gould. SUN SUN Born 12 February 1945; died 13 April 2016 Aged 71 SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0783ltm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b078wl26 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0788889 (Listen) SUN Colorado's Big Marijuana Experiment SUN SUN Marijuana is now legal in some US states and a fast-growing SUN industry has emerged, especially in Colorado which was the SUN first state to embrace the drug. But according to federal SUN law marijuana is still illegal. This means that many SUN companies can't get banking services, advertise their wares SUN or pay tax in the way that other companies do. SUN SUN So how do they survive and thrive? And in what direction is SUN the US moving? Will marijuana soon become a legal drug, like SUN alcohol, across the US? Or will law-makers decide that SUN Colorado's big marijuana experiment has gone too far? And SUN what is it like to run a company in one of the world's SUN riskiest business sectors? SUN SUN Presenter : Peter Day SUN Producer : Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b078w8cl (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Moth Radio Hour b0788pnc (Listen) SUN Series 2, Taxidermy, Orderlies and Spinal Tap SUN SUN True stories told live in the USA: The Moth's founder, SUN George Dawes Green, with tales of inheritance, hospitals and SUN Spinal Tap. SUN SUN The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation SUN dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the SUN USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and SUN the storytelling novice, who has lived through something SUN extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by SUN the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of SUN friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in SUN through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New SUN York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce SUN immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New SUN York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts SUN of the world. SUN SUN The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live SUN and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. SUN The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SUN SUN Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, SUN from the humorous to the heart-breaking. SUN SUN The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic SUN Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed SUN by the Public Radio Exchange. SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b0788bcn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:48 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 MAY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b078w8f7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0787dmb (Listen) MON The Flaneur - Walking in the City MON MON Walking in the city: The flaneur and flaneuse. Laurie Taylor MON presents a themed programme which explores the history and MON meaning of the urban stroller, past and present. MON Keith Tester, Adjunct Professor at the Thesis Eleven Centre MON for Cultural Sociology, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, MON charts the origins of the 'Flaneur'; the "man of the crowd" MON of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and one of the MON heroes of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. MON Matthew Beamont, co-director of University College London's MON Urban Lab, contends that the city idler isn't simply a by MON product of modernism, illuminating London's past via the MON nocturnal wanderings of poets, novelists and thinkers. MON And Lauren Elkin, lecturer in the department of English and MON Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris, MON counters the implicit assumption that the city belongs to a MON figure of masculine privilege and leisure. She introduces us MON to the transgressive 'flaneuse' who claims the right to city MON space. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Matthew Beaumont at University College London MON Lauren Elkin at the American University of Paris MON MON Keith Tester at the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural MON Sociology at MON La Trobe University, Melbourne MON MON MON Matthew Beaumont, *Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of MON London, Chaucer to Dickens* (Verso, 2015) MON MON *The Flaneur* - a collection of essays, edited by Keith MON Tester, (London Routledge, 1994) MON MON Lauren Elkin, *Flaneuse: The (Feminine) Art of Walking in MON Cities* (Chatto and Windus, 2016) MON MON MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b078wl20 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b078w8f9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b078w8fc (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b078w8fg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b078w8fk (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b079yx5n (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev MON Dr Stephen Wigley, Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist MON Church. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b078wxfl (Listen) MON Beatrix Potter in the Lake District MON MON Caz Graham explores the farming legacy of the author and MON artist Beatrix Potter, in the 150th year since her birth. MON Beatrix fell in love with the landscape and wildlife of the MON Lake District, and used her earnings to buy several tenanted MON farms. She left fourteen farms - 4,000 acres - to the MON National Trust when she died. MON Caz visits her old home at Hill Top where she wrote her MON popular books; meets the farmer at one of the tenanted farms MON donated by Beatrix, where Herdwick sheep are still reared; MON and explores her legacy on the farmland and landscape of the MON Lake District today. MON Produced in Bristol by Sally Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b078w8fp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01s8mng (Listen) MON Swift MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David MON Attenborough presents the Swift. Swifts live in the sky, MON feeding, mating and sleeping on the wing. Their feet are so MON reduced they cannot stand particularly well on land, only MON the near vertical surfaces on which they build their nest. MON MON Swift (Apus apus) MON Image courtesy of RSPB MON MON 06:00 Today b078wxzb (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b078xf12 (Listen) MON Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry MON MON On Start the Week Grayson Perry discusses the concept of MON masculinity in modern Britain with Mary Ann Sieghart. The MON new artistic director at the Globe Theatre, Emma Rice, MON explains how she is playing with gender in Shakespeare's MON Midsummer Night's Dream, and the celebrated mezzo-soprano MON Alice Coote talks of her career in 'breeches', singing the MON male role. The former artists' model, Kelley Swain reveals MON what it's like being the object of a work of art. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Mary Ann Sieghart MON Interviewed Guest: Grayson Perry MON Interviewed Guest: Emma Rice MON Interviewed Guest: Alice Coote MON Interviewed Guest: Kelley Swain MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b078xf14 (Listen) MON The Running Hare, Episode 1 MON MON A close up and intimate natural history by John MON Lewis-Stempel. By taking an abandoned field close to his MON farm, he observes in minute detail the behaviour of plants, MON birds and animals that are being displaced by agribusiness. MON In telling the story of one field, he tells the story of our MON countryside, our language, our religion and our food. But in MON transforming one field, he creates a haven for one MON particular animal close to his heart - the brown hare. MON MON In the opening episode, a suitable field is chosen for a MON year-long experiment. And trouble begins. MON MON Writer: John Lewis-Stempel MON Abridger Barry Johnston MON Reader: Bernard Hill MON MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Bernard Hill MON Writer: John Lewis-Stempel MON Abridger: Barry Johnston MON Producer: David Roper MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b078w8fy (Listen) MON The RCN @100 - A celebration of nurses and nursing MON MON The Set of '56. Nurses who trained together at the Middlesex MON Hospital in look back on their time training at the central MON London Hospital. The RCN's Chief Exec Janet Davies on the MON changing face of the Profession. How things are changing for MON the 21st century nurse. Plus hospital drama has always been MON a staple in the TV schedules. How has the representation of MON nurses kept pace with modern NHS and the jobs nurses do? MON Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine wrote and starred in the MON blackly comic Getting On set on a geriatric ward. Barbara MON Machin learned her craft as a writer on Casualty in the late MON 80's and has returned over the years for special episodes.We MON get beyond bed-pans and battle-axes to look at nursing on MON TV. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Beverley Purcell MON Interviewed Guest: Janet Davies MON Interviewed Guest: Alison Leary MON Interviewed Guest: Donna Kinnair MON Interviewed Guest: Vicky Pepperdine MON Interviewed Guest: Joanna Scanlan MON Interviewed Guest: Barbara Machin MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b078xf16 (Listen) MON Clouds in Trousers, Ice MON MON Katie Hims' drama, inspired by Alexandra Harris' book MON 'Weatherland', imagines Zoe as a woman growing up weathered MON - for whom every turn of her life is marked by the weather: MON rain, snow, a summer heatwave, a thunderstorm, the threat of MON a flood. All our lives are weather-bound but for Zoe the MON weather is more than just what goes on behind the scenes. MON MON Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON Credits MON Young Zoe: Sydney Wade MON Young Alice: Sydney Wade MON Young Shaun: Rhys Gannon MON Older Zoe: Patsy Ferran MON Older Shaun: David Reed MON Juliet: Laura Elphinstone MON Jim: Sam Troughton MON Zoe's Mum: Katy Carmichael MON Zoe's Dad: Tristan Sturrock MON Producer: Tim Dee MON Writer: Katie Hims MON MON 11:00 The Untold b078xf18 (Listen) MON Child Rescue MON MON In the first of a new series of The Untold Grace Dent looks MON at the case and asks what you would have done? MON MON Bahar and her Dad, Reza, fled from the Taliban in MON Afghanistan and made the journey across Europe to reach MON Calais. They have relatives in Leeds and had struck up a MON friendship with Rob Lawrie when he was working in the camp MON as a volunteer. At the end of his time there they begged for MON help and he agreed to put the little girl in the cabin of MON his lorry. His actions were foiled when sniffer dogs at the MON border found two Eritrean men who, unknown to him, had MON stowed in the back of his van. He faced a prison sentence of MON up to five years following his arrest. MON MON Producer Sue Mitchell has been alongside him following his MON return from France. The January court hearing in Bologna was MON a media frenzy, with people across the world debating the MON rights and wrongs of his actions. He was found guilty of MON 'child endangerment' for his attempt to smuggle Bahar into MON Britain and was given a suspended fine of 1,000 Euros. But MON he has paid a heavy price for his actions on many fronts: MON his wife has left him, taking the four children with her and MON he now faces the task of rebuilding his own life whilst also MON trying to help Bahar and Reza reach Britain MON MON He has struggled to cope and on his return he attempts MON suicide. He sold his carpet cleaning business to go to MON France, a move he took after seeing the images of three year MON old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi. Because he was in care as a MON child he wanted to try and help other children neglected by MON the system. He has bi-polar disorder and staying well is MON difficult, but what eventually helps is the huge swell of MON public opinion in favour of his actions, with many MON well-wishers spurring him on and sending donations for those MON in the camps. This interest in his story and the prominence MON it gives to child refugees has sparked interest from MON Hollywood and longer term there might well be a movie. MON MON But for now there are these recordings, made in the weeks MON following his return home as he contemplates his future and MON shares his story with the Untold, which is presented by MON Grace Dent. MON Produced by Sue Mitchell. MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b078xf1b (Listen) MON Series 6, Glamper, Camper, Pamper, Hamper 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 episode, Ramesh enrols the local community to raise MON funds to help Keenan realise his ambition of playing in a MON badminton tournament in Frankfurt. Keenan intends to fly the MON flag for Lenzie and Scotland, and Keenan's Mum is eyeing up MON being the new Judy Murray. 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 Keenan's Mum: Maureen Carr MON Hilly: Kate Brailsford MON Bra Jeff: Steven McNicoll MON Mutton Jeff: Sean Scanlan MON Lorna McKillop: Tom Urie MON Writer: Donald McLeary MON Writer: Sanjeev Kohli MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b078w8g3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b076c9h5 (Listen) MON 2 May 1916 - Adam Wilson MON MON On this day in 1916, A Zeppelin raid on the north east and MON southern Scottish coasts killed 36, and a letter arrives for MON Lewis Cox. MON MON Written by Shaun McKenna MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy MON Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer MON Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables MON Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams MON Isaac Cox: James Lailey MON John Rossiter: Mark Carey MON Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf MON Morris Battley: Sean Baker MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b078w8g7 (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b078w8gf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b078xf1d (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 Shakespeare: Love Across the Racial Divide b078xpf2 (Listen) MON Othello MON MON Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores five Shakespeare plays which MON cross the racial divide. No one has ever captured the joy MON and lunacy and power of love better than William MON Shakespeare. And his transgressive depictions of love in MON particular remain unsurpassed. MON MON Othello, Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Antony MON and Cleopatra and A Midsummer Night's Dream - in these five MON plays there's so much more to love than love. These are not MON tidy tragedies. Shakespeare apparently never left England MON except through his plays yet he embraced interracial MON relationships and supernatural relationships and turned them MON into thrilling, dangerous drama. We bring together scholars, MON directors and actors to explore how the compulsions and MON fears, joys and sorrows, very much part of everyday life for MON many in Britain today, were so brilliantly showcased by MON Shakespeare more than four hundred years ago. MON MON In the first play of the series, Othello, Shakespeare MON creates a powerful drama of a marriage between the Moor MON Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona. Shakespeare builds MON so many differences into his hero and heroine - differences MON of race, of age, of cultural background - the tragic end is MON almost inevitable. Yet most people who see or read the play MON come away feeling, but for Iago's cruel hand, the couple MON would have won the day. MON MON Producer Mohini Patel. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b078wsdj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b078xpf4 (Listen) MON Undivided Heart MON MON by Vincent O'Connell MON MON Susan has recently died. Was it an accident? Suicide? MON Murder? Three people visit her flat in a final communion MON with the woman they loved. But it seems she is a different MON woman for each of them. MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON Credits MON Marie: Christine Absalom MON Daniel: Nick Underwood MON Erica: Cristina Catalina MON Susan: Scarlett Brookes MON Writer: Vincent O'Connell MON Director: Marc Beeby MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b078xpf6 (Listen) MON The Final, 2016 MON MON (17/17) MON The grand Final of the 2016 series comes from the Radio MON Theatre in London, with Russell Davies in the chair. The MON four competitors who've come through the heats and the MON semi-finals with heads held high, compete for the silver MON Brain of Britain trophy. The winner will add his or her name MON to the 63-year roll-call of champions that has included such MON illustrious quizzing names as Irene Thomas, Kevin Ashman and MON Barry Simmons. MON MON The Finalists will also be asked to combine their knowledge MON to tackle a pair of devious questions set for them by the MON outgoing Brain of Britain champion, Nigel Jones. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food and Farming Awards b078xpf8 (Listen) MON Food and Farming Awards 2016, The Highlights MON MON Featuring the finalists of the BBC Food and Farming Awards. MON MON 16:00 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics b078xpfb (Listen) MON Series 2, Agrippina 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 Today she stands up in the name of one of the most powerful MON women of Ancient Rome and Caligula's big sister, Agrippina MON the Younger. MON MON Julia Agrippina was pretty well-connected all round given MON that her granddad was the Emperor Augustus, her husband MON (also her uncle: don't ask) was Emperor Claudius and her son MON was Emperor Nero. MON MON And she was no slouch. Turns out it was her handiness with MON the purse strings that kept the Empire going. Also, who else MON has survived an assassination attempt by a specially built MON collapsible boat? MON MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b078xpfd (Listen) MON Series 9, Lost and Found MON MON From lost cameras, dogs, cats, phones and people, we are MON turning to the web to find what we have lost. Aleks explores MON whether you are more likely to find what you've lost using MON online social networks? Are we as connected as we think we MON are? Or does it make more sense to step out of the digital MON world and search with the help of physical social networks? MON MON 17:00 PM b078w8gm (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b078w8gp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b0785rmw (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 5 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 Henning Wehn, Jon Richardson, Susan Calman and Jack Dee are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as the British aristocracy, funerals, MON nudity and rubber. 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: Henning Wehn MON Panellist: John Richardson MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Jack Dee MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b078xpfj (Listen) MON It's a busy day on The Green, and Lilian picks up a bargain. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b078w8gr (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON Chatsworth House MON MON John Wilson in the Rock Garden, MON Chatsworth House MON MON RHS Lindley Library MON MON John Wilson with Capability Brown's accounts book at MON RHS Lindley Library. MON MON MON MON MON Beatfreeks MON MON 'Beatfreeks' Joe Cook and Aaliyah Denton wrote poems about MON Capability Brown. Learn more about the Beatfreeks MON here MON . MON MON MON MON MON Dan Pearson MON Garden designer MON Dan Pearson MON talks about the influence Capability Brown has had on him. MON MON MON 19:45 Open Art b078xpfl (Listen) MON Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins, Episode 1 MON MON Part of Radio 4's collaboration with Artangel to commission MON new works from British contemporary artists. MON MON Ben Rivers is one of two artists who were selected in the MON open call for proposals in 2013. The result has been Rivers' MON most ambitious and multi-faceted work to date - a feature MON film (The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two MON Eyes Are Not Brothers), a multimedia installation at BBC MON Television Centre, a book, and this series of five audio MON pieces for broadcast on Radio 4. MON MON The work revolves around the stories of the American MON novelist Paul Bowles and his muse, the renowned Moroccan MON writer and artist Mohammed Mrabet. Combining documentary and MON fiction approaches, the strange, poetic and sometimes brutal MON narratives often centre around the traditional Moroccan MON culture of smoking Hashish. MON MON Mrabet's stories were gathered, transcribed and translated MON by Paul Bowles, eventually published in a series of MON anthologies. Selecting from the collections entitled MON M'Hashish and Harmless Poisons Blameless Sins, Ben Rivers MON and sound designer Philippe Ciompi embed the tales in a MON mosaic of sounds from the dramatic Moroccan landscape. MON MON Director: Ben Rivers MON Sound Designer: Philippe Ciompi MON Reader : Youssef Kerkour MON Producer: Russell Finch MON A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. MON MON 20:00 For Better or Worse b078xpfn (Listen) MON Writer and activist Peter McGraith married his long-term MON partner David in March 2014, the first gay wedding MON registered in the UK. MON MON Two years on he meets gay and lesbian couples and speaks MON with them about their relationships - why did they decide to MON get married? Or stay in a civil partnership? And why, for MON some, will marriage never be an option? MON MON Peter explores what kind of effect marriage is having on gay MON and lesbian couples... and how it might be affecting us as a MON society, for better or worse. MON MON And what does the marriage, for so long a cherished goal of MON equality campaigners, look like from the inside? Does it MON look and feel like heterosexual unions or is it, as some MON academics believe, re-building the institution from the MON ground up? MON MON Radio 4 hears personal accounts of queer marriage in post MON equality Britain, meeting couples, co-parents, friends and MON lovers along the way. MON MON Producer: Caitlin Smith MON MON Photo credit: Rana Rashed and Ade Omomo-Rashed. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b07881kx (Listen) MON Forgetting Igbo MON MON Nkem Ifejika cant speak the language of his forefathers. MON Nkem is British of Nigerian descent and comes from one of MON Nigeria's biggest ethnic groups the Igbo. He's one of the MON millions of Nigerians, who live in the diaspora - almost two MON hundred thousand of them living here in Britain. Nkem wants MON to know why he was never taught Igbo as a child and why the MON United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural MON Organisation, UNESCO, has warned that Igbo faces extinction MON in the next fifty years. MON MON In this week's Crossing Continents, Nkem travels to the Igbo MON heartland in the southeast of Nigeria to explore the demise MON of a once proud language. He discovers that recent history MON has had profound effects on Igbo culture and identity. He MON discovers too that some Igbos are seeking to reassert their MON language and culture. Part of this is a resurgence of Igbo MON identity under a new 'Biafran' movement. Is this likely to MON find traction or will it ignite painful divisions from the MON past and lead to renewed tensions across Nigeria. From MON Nkem's own London-based family - where his wife is teaching MON both him and their son to speak Igbo - to the ancestral MON villages of Anambra State, 'Forgetting Igbo' reveals MON shifting perspectives on Nigeria's colonial past, emerging MON new ambitions for its future - and deep fault lines at the MON heart of its society. MON MON Produced by Michael Gallagher. MON MON 21:00 The Impostors' Survival Guide b07865h3 (Listen) MON Oliver Burkeman explores the imposter phenomenon. That MON inexplicable feeling of fraudulence that plagues the working MON lives of so many people. MON MON Dr Valerie Young MON Dr. Valerie Young is an internationally-known speaker, a MON leading expert on the impostor syndrome, and author of MON award-winning book The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: MON Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How MON to Thrive in Spite of It. MON MON Jasmine Vergauwe MON MON Jasmine Vergauwe researches Organizational Psychology, MON Personality Psychology and Applied Psychology at the MON University of Ghent in Belgium. MON MON MON MON Amanda Palmer MON Amanda Palmer MON is an American singer-songwriter who first rose to MON prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and MON lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She has had MON a successful solo career, as well as going on to write and MON speak about the power of asking. MON MON Frances Hardinge MON Frances Hardinge MON is an author of fiction for children and young adults. Her MON 2015 novel The Lie Tree won Book of the year at the Costa MON Book Awards. MON MON Henry Marsh MON MON Henry Thomas Marsh CBE FRCS is a leading British MON neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in MON Ukraine. He’s also the author of the widely acclaimed memoir MON Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery. MON MON Jules Evans MON MON Jules Evans researches and writes about the therapeutic MON practices from ancient philosophies and wisdom traditions MON and how individuals and organisations use them today. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b078xf12 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b078w8h4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b078w8hb (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b078xpfq (Listen) MON Not Working, Episode 1 MON MON Lisa Owens's comic debut novel tells the story of a life MON unravelling in minute and spectacular ways, voicing the MON questions we've all asked ourselves but never dared to say MON out loud. MON MON Thirtysomething Claire Flannery has quit her job to discover MON her true vocation, only to realise that she has no idea how MON to go about finding it. In her muddled but somehow MON impeccable logic she discovers that, 'the more time you MON have, the less time you have'. As the weeks stretch into MON months with nothing to show but an overflowing internet MON search history and an unintended feud with her mother, MON Claire finds herself sinking under pressure and wondering MON where her life fell apart. MON MON Lisa Owens was born in 1985 and grew up in Glasgow and MON Hertfordshire. After graduating, she spent six years working MON in publishing before leaving to complete an MA in Creative MON Writing at the University of East Anglia. Not Working is her MON first novel. MON MON Read by Emily Bruni MON MON Written by Lisa Owens MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Emily Bruni MON Author: Lisa Owens MON Abridger: Robin Brooks MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 23:00 Don't Make Me Laugh b07882z6 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON David Baddiel hosts the second series of the provocative MON panel show where some of the funniest comedians have to go MON against all their instincts and try not to make an audience MON laugh. MON MON Featuring Lee Mack, Joe Lycett, Katherine Ryan and Tom MON Parry. MON MON A So Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Baddiel MON Panellist: Lee Mack MON Panellist: Joe Lycett MON Panellist: Katherine Ryan MON Panellist: Tom Parry MON MON 23:30 My Mother's Sari b05s3gz4 (Listen) MON Every morning, Dr. Shahidha Bari dresses for work and MON travels into London on a packed tube looking much like the MON people around her. But, as the child of immigrants growing MON up in a Bengali Muslim household in southeast England, she MON has also been accustomed to wearing entirely different sorts MON of clothes, reflective of her particular ancestry and MON cultural traditions. MON MON These days, stacks of elaborate silk saris, embroidered MON shawls and ornate bangles languish in a remote part of her MON wardrobe, now only rarely worn at weddings and religious MON ceremonies. But, in many ways, these are the most precious MON items of clothing she owns, profoundly bound up with memory MON and meaning, and connecting her to a life from which she has MON inevitably grown apart. Shahidha's most vivid recollections MON of her childhood are those of her mother bringing up 6 MON boisterous young children, always immaculately dressed in MON pressed and pleated saris of varied colours, textures and MON designs. MON MON In this programme, Shahidha traces the story of the sari, MON explores how it feels to wear one and asks what it meant for MON women like her mother. She talks with a range of women, MON including broadcaster Mishal Husain and writer Monica Ali MON about their experiences. And she explores the powerful, MON painful, sometimes complicated relationships between mother MON and daughters, and discovers the unexpected ways in which MON clothing can be imprinted with feelings of nostalgia, love MON and loss, whichever background we come from. MON MON Producer Mark Rickards. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 03 MAY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b078w8nr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b078xf14 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b078w8nt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b078w8nw (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b078w8ny (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b078w8p0 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07bbdg9 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev TUE Dr Stephen Wigley, Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist TUE Church. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b078y09x (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Alun Beach. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020xvgf (Listen) TUE Reed Warbler TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Reed Warbler. Reed TUE warblers are summer visitors from Africa, one of the few TUE long-distance migrants that are faring well in northern TUE Europe - possibly because we're creating more gravel pits TUE and conservation reedbeds. TUE TUE Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB TUE TUE 06:00 Today b078y1py (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 From Our Home Correspondent b078y1q0 (Listen) TUE In the first programme of a new series, Mishal Husain TUE introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around TUE the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary TUE life in the country. From politics to pastimes, from TUE hallowed traditions to emerging trends, from the curious to TUE the ridiculous, the programme presents a tableau of Britain TUE today. TUE TUE 09:30 The Ideas That Make Us b04v382b (Listen) TUE Series 3, Charisma TUE TUE Bettany Hughes investigates charisma at The Acropolis, in a TUE recording session with Live Aid founder Bob Geldof and on TUE the pages of a best-selling novel with author Ben Okri. TUE TUE The surprising and invigorating history of the most TUE influential ideas in the story of civilisation, described as TUE 'a double espresso shot of philosophy, history, science and TUE the arts'. Award--winning historian and broadcaster Bettany TUE Hughes begins each programme with the first, extant evidence TUE of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels TUE both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these TUE ideas have been moulded by history, and how they've shaped TUE us. TUE TUE In this programme Bettany investigates charisma with TUE classicist Professor Paul Cartledge, Byzantinist Dr TUE Dionysios Stathakopoulos, Live Aid founder Bob Geldof, TUE sociologist Professor Linda Woodhead and writer Ben Okri. TUE TUE Bettany travels to Athens to see where these ideas were born TUE and then explores the street markets, churches, offices and TUE homes where they continue to morph and influence our daily TUE lives. TUE TUE Ideas examined in the first series, in September 2013, were TUE idea, desire, agony, fame and justice. The second series, in TUE January 2014, considered wisdom, comedy, liberty, peace and TUE hospitality. Other ideas in this series are psyche, irony, TUE nemesis and virtue. TUE TUE Series Producer: Dixi Stewart. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b079rqqj (Listen) TUE The Running Hare, Episode 2 TUE TUE A close up and intimate natural history by John TUE Lewis-Stempel. By taking an abandoned field close to his TUE farm, he observes in minute detail the behaviour of plants, TUE birds and animals that are being displaced by agribusiness. TUE In telling the story of one field, he tells the story of our TUE countryside, our language, our religion and our food. But in TUE transforming one field, he creates a haven for one TUE particular animal close to his heart - the brown hare. TUE TUE In this second part, it is spring - the time for catching a TUE glimpse of those mad March hares. TUE TUE Writer: John Lewis-Stempel TUE Abridger Barry Johnston TUE Reader: Bernard Hill TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Bernard Hill TUE Writer: John Lewis-Stempel TUE Abridger: Barry Johnston TUE Producer: David Roper TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b078w8p2 (Listen) TUE Comedian Sara Pascoe, Male nurses, supporting Leicester City TUE TUE Stand-up comedian Sara Pascoe began to investigate TUE scientific and social beliefs about female sexuality for a TUE tour, but then realised that she would never be able to fit TUE everything she had learned into a gig, and so wrote the book TUE Animal. She talks to Jane about why she became so fascinated TUE by what makes us women. TUE TUE Only 10.8% of the total number of nurses on the Nursing & TUE Midwifery Council register are men. This figure has remained TUE static for the past four years. Although there has been a TUE rise in men entering the profession in the last few decades, TUE it has been a small, slow one. Why is nursing still so TUE female dominated? Is it a career that's ever discussed or TUE talked about with boys and young men? Jane speaks to Kieran TUE Uttley, a male nursing student at Keele University, and TUE Jason Warriner, Clinical Services Director at the Sussex TUE Beacon Centre, about their experiences. TUE TUE Leicester City will win the Premier League if they beat TUE Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday. Claudio TUE Ranieri's team can clinch the top-flight title for the first TUE time in the Foxes' 132-year history. It is the stuff of TUE football fantasy - last season they were struggling to stay TUE in the league and now they are on course to win it. Jane TUE speaks to two lifelong Leicester City football supporters TUE Kate Langan Vines and Charlotte Nicol about what the win TUE will mean to them. TUE TUE There are an increasing number of female chefs who are TUE creating careers in food to suit them. They are refusing to TUE work unsociable hours or conform to the stereotypical TUE male-dominated atmosphere of a kitchen; but instead are TUE creating blogs, pop-up restaurants and events that give them TUE the opportunity to cook in a more independent way. Jane TUE discusses these new ways of working with Elly Curshen, owner TUE of The Pear Café in Bristol and a Food Columnist for InStyle TUE Magazine and Aine Morris, Festival Director at Bristol Food TUE Connections. TUE TUE Lisa Owens talks to Jane about her novel Not Working, about TUE a young woman who gives up her job to find what makes her TUE happy and realises that it is more complicated than just TUE finding the right career. TUE TUE Credits TUE Interviewed Guest: Sara Pascoe TUE Interviewed Guest: Kieran Uttley TUE Interviewed Guest: Jason Warriner TUE Interviewed Guest: Kate Langan Vines TUE Interviewed Guest: Charlotte Nicol TUE Interviewed Guest: Ellie Curshen TUE Interviewed Guest: Aine Morris TUE Interviewed Guest: Lisa Owens TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b079yysq (Listen) TUE Clouds in Trousers, Sun TUE TUE Katie Hims' drama, inspired by Alexandra Harris' book TUE 'Weatherland', imagines Zoe as a woman growing up weathered TUE - for whom every turn of her life is marked by the weather: TUE rain, snow, a summer heatwave, a thunderstorm, the threat of TUE a flood. All our lives are weather-bound but for Zoe the TUE weather is more than just what goes on behind the scenes. TUE TUE Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE Credits TUE Young Zoe: Sydney Wade TUE Young Alice: Sydney Wade TUE Young Shaun: Rhys Gannon TUE Older Zoe: Patsy Ferran TUE Older Shaun: David Reed TUE Juliet: Laura Elphinstone TUE Jim: Sam Troughton TUE Zoe's Mum: Katy Carmichael TUE Zoe's Dad: Tristan Sturrock TUE Producer: Tim Dee TUE Writer: Katie Hims TUE TUE 11:00 Past Imperfect b062kx4x (Listen) TUE Startling new research shows how false memories can be TUE artificially generated and used to change behaviour - with TUE implications for advertising, military intelligence and the TUE treatment of addictions. TUE TUE Memory is more of a creative than a mechanical process. Like TUE a Wikipedia entry, we can make changes to our TUE autobiographical history - but so can other people. TUE TUE Martin Plimmer meets experts and observes experiments TUE demonstrating the fragility of memory and the ease with TUE which false memories can be implanted. TUE TUE At Warwick University, Prof Kimberley Wade has implanted TUE false memories of childhood experiences such as taking a hot TUE air balloon ride. Martin follows an experiment in which TUE participants form vivid memories of activities they have not TUE actually experienced. TUE TUE At Hull University, Prof Giuliana Mazzoni reveals how TUE implanted false memories can change people's behaviour. TUE Working with unsuspecting volunteers, she explores whether TUE she can alter their food preferences by creating false TUE memory of an adverse reaction to eating turkey sandwiches. TUE TUE Martin discusses the implications of this research with US TUE psychologist Prof Elizabeth Loftus who believes it could be TUE used to treat obesity and addictions by introducing false TUE memories of disliking fatty foods, alcohol or drugs. TUE TUE Professor Loftus has also worked with the US military on TUE ways of implanting false memories of their interrogator in TUE enemy prisoners - raising admitted ethical issues and TUE concerns about the abuse of these techniques. TUE TUE And Martin Plimmer learns how our memories are all being TUE subtly altered by advertising - as certain types of adverts TUE can create false memories of experiencing and liking a TUE product. TUE TUE An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b078y1q4 (Listen) TUE Series 22, Feed the Birds TUE TUE 'Feed The Birds' was written by Richard and Robert Sherman TUE for the 1964 film Mary Poppins. Composer Richard Sherman TUE recalls how the song was a Walt Disney favourite and long TUE after the film was over, Walt would call him down into his TUE office in the late afternoon, gaze out of the window and say TUE 'Play it.' Karen Dotrice, who played Jane Banks in the TUE original film, describes the experience of hearing the song TUE sung by Julie Andrews. Lawyer Eli McCann describes how TUE re-watching Mary Poppins a few years ago, one snowy TUE afternoon in Salt Lake City, was a turning point in his TUE life, and teacher Marie Barteld remembers her love of 'Feed TUE The Birds' as a child, and how she took the words of the TUE song literally - much to her mother's consternation. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b078w8p4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b078y1q6 (Listen) TUE 3 May 1916 - Emily Colville TUE TUE On this day in 1916, cheers met the announcement in TUE Parliament that three Irish rebel leaders had been executed, TUE and in Ashburton Emily Colville is on course for collision TUE with her fiancé. TUE TUE Written by Shaun McKenna TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes TUE Clarence Ogden: David Sterne TUE Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro TUE Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog TUE Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett TUE Molly Dyer: Stevie Thompson TUE Oswald Dyer: Dean Nolan TUE Simeon Dyer: Josh Darcy TUE Writer: Shaun McKenna TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b078w8p6 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b078w8p8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b078y2fy (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 Shakespeare: Love Across the Racial Divide b07bc1tt (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores five Shakespeare plays that TUE cross the racial divide. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b078xpfj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b078y4td (Listen) TUE Julius Caesar, Episode 1 TUE TUE by William Shakespeare TUE TUE Part One TUE TUE A new production in three parts of Shakespeare's great TUE political drama. Cassius persuades Brutus that Caesar's TUE ambition is a threat to the republic and a conspiracy is TUE formed. Part of the BBC Shakespeare Festival. TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE Credits TUE Caesar: Tim Pigott-Smith TUE Brutus: Robert Glenister TUE Cassius: Sam Troughton TUE Antony: Jamie Parker TUE Casca: Philip Fox TUE Portia: Fenella Woolgar TUE Cinna: Neet Mohan TUE Lucius: Adam Thomas Wright TUE Calpurnia: Jessica Turner TUE Flavius: Stephen Critchlow TUE Carpenter: David Hounslow TUE Marullus: David Acton TUE Cobbler: Chris Pavlo TUE Soothsayer: Sam Dale TUE Director: Marc Beeby TUE Writer: William Shakespeare TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b078mbfc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b078y4tk (Listen) TUE Four Menus to Save the Planet TUE TUE How should we eat to reduce our carbon footprint and save TUE the planet? Should we all give up meat? Or eat only meat TUE that's reared on grassland which couldn't be used for TUE anything else? Or maybe eat intensively-reared meat that TUE grows so fast that it has no time to emit a lot of methane TUE before it's slaughtered? TUE TUE Aside from meat, how important are food miles? Some argue TUE that food grown in hot countries and transported here by TUE boat has a lower overall carbon footprint than TUE food grown in Britain. TUE TUE Tom Heap chairs a debate from the Bristol Food Connections TUE festival with four experts who have very different views, TUE and present their own menus for low-carbon eating: Jasmijn TUE de Boo, Chief Executive of the Vegan Society, Simon Fairlie, TUE author of "Meat - A Benign Extravagance", Mark Lynas, TUE environmental author, and Sean Rickard, agricultural TUE economist. TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b078y4ts (Listen) TUE Roald Dahl's Language TUE TUE Michael Rosen on a new Roald Dahl dictionary collecting the TUE amazing words he invented - like squackling, and TUE wondercrump! With Dr Laura Wright and dictionary editor Dr TUE Susan Rennie. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b078y4tv (Listen) TUE Series 39, Graeme Lamb on Christine Granville TUE TUE Former British SAS commander Graeme Lamb champions the life TUE of wartime spy Christine Granville. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Graeme Lamb TUE TUE 17:00 PM b078w8pb (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b078w8pd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b041y1n3 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE TUE Isy Suttie returns to BBC Radio 4 with a brand new series of TUE her Sony Award Winning show, recounting a series of love TUE stories affecting people she's known throughout her life, TUE told partly through song. TUE TUE Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; TUE quite often she's intervened, changing the action TUE dramatically - for better or worse. Intertwined within these TUE stories are related real life anecdotes from Isy's own, TUE often disastrous, love life. TUE TUE In this episode, Isy returns to her home town of Matlock and TUE observes the unfolding romance between Eleanor, a dinner TUE lady, and Mr Woodfield, a teacher - both of whom are TUE unhappily married, but find solace in their workplace TUE friendship. TUE TUE With her multi-character and vocal skills, and accompanied TUE by her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving TUE world, sharing with us her lessons in life and love. TUE TUE "A voice you want to swim in" The Independent TUE TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Isy Suttie TUE Writer: Isy Suttie TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b078z4hm (Listen) TUE Pat sees an opportunity, and it is deadline day at the Dower TUE House. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b078w8pg (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Open Art b079ctz1 (Listen) TUE Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins, Episode 2 TUE TUE Part of Radio 4's collaboration with Artangel to commission TUE new works from British contemporary artists. TUE TUE Ben Rivers is one of two artists who were selected in the TUE Open call for proposals in 2013. The result has been Rivers' TUE most ambitious and multi-faceted work to date: a feature TUE film (The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two TUE Eyes Are Not Brothers), a multimedia installation at BBC TUE Television Centre, a book, and this series of five audio TUE pieces for broadcast on Radio 4. TUE TUE The work revolves around the stories of the American TUE novelist Paul Bowles and his muse, the renowned Moroccan TUE writer and artist Mohammed Mrabet. Combining documentary and TUE fiction approaches, the strange, poetic and sometimes brutal TUE narratives often centre around the traditional Moroccan TUE culture of smoking Hashish. TUE TUE Mrabet's stories were gathered transcribed and translated by TUE Paul Bowles, eventually published in a series of TUE anthologies. Selecting from the collections entitled TUE M'Hashish and Harmless Poisons Blameless Sins, Rivers and TUE sound designer Philippe Ciompi embed the tales in a mosaic TUE of sounds from the dramatic Moroccan landscape. TUE TUE Director: Ben Rivers TUE Sound Designer: Philippe Ciompi TUE Reader : Youssef Kerkour TUE Producer: Russell Finch TUE A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:00 The Blame Game b078z5m8 (Listen) TUE Doctors, social workers, police officers, midwives, teachers TUE and many others are scrutinised more than ever before. They TUE risk being exposed for making poor decisions, and punished. TUE TUE But does our widespread intolerance of failure do more harm TUE than good? Are we failing to understand the distinction TUE between systemic failure and individual failure - and TUE drawing the wrong conclusions as a result? TUE TUE Eliza Manningham-Buller - Director General of MI5 from 2002 TUE to 2007 - talks to an intelligence officer in Britain's TUE Security Service, the former Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell TUE and Sharon Shoesmith who won a claim for unfair dismissal TUE over the Baby P case. She also hears from a frontline social TUE worker, a midwife and the football coach Steve Coppell about TUE working in environments where it seems that someone must TUE always be to blame. TUE TUE Hers is not an argument against holding people to account - TUE criminal negligence and serious culpability must be exposed, TUE scrutinised and punished - but an attempt to understand how TUE to hold people responsible while avoiding fruitless witch TUE hunts. In other words: how do we learn valuable lessons, TUE without demonising individuals for honest mistakes? TUE TUE Producer: Mark Savage. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b078w8pj (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b078z5mb (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents the series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 From Our Home Correspondent b078y1q0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b078w8pl (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b078w8pn (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0790pyv (Listen) TUE Not Working, Episode 2 TUE TUE The comic debut novel by Lisa Owens, depicting a life TUE unravelling in minute and spectacular ways - and voicing the TUE questions we've all asked ourselves but never dared to say TUE out loud. TUE TUE Thirtysomething Claire Flannery has quit her job to discover TUE her true vocation, only to realise that she has no idea how TUE to go about finding it. In her muddled but somehow TUE impeccable logic she discovers that, 'the more time you TUE have, the less time you have'. As the weeks stretch into TUE months with nothing to show but an overflowing internet TUE search history and a growing rift with her mother, Claire TUE finds herself sinking under the pressure. TUE TUE The author Lisa Owens was born in 1985 and grew up in TUE Glasgow and Hertfordshire. After graduating, she spent six TUE years working in publishing before leaving to complete an MA TUE in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Not TUE Working is her first novel. TUE TUE Read by Emily Bruni TUE TUE Written by Lisa Owens TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Emily Bruni TUE Author: Lisa Owens TUE Abridger: Robin Brooks TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 23:00 What Does the K Stand For? b04vr5j8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Turning Cheeks TUE TUE The first in a new series of Stephen K Amos' sitcom about TUE his own teenage years, growing up black, gay and funny in TUE 1980s South London. TUE TUE Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. TUE Produced by Colin Anderson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos TUE Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah TUE Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna TUE Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas TUE Vincent Amos: Don Gilet TUE Miss Bliss: Michelle Butterly TUE Jayson Jackson: Frankie Wilson TUE Producer: Colin Anderson TUE Writer: Jonathan Harvey TUE Writer: Stephen K Amos TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b078z5md (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 MAY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b078w8r7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b079rqqj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b078w8r9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b078w8rc (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b078w8rf (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b078w8rh (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07bbv8s (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev WED Dr Stephen Wigley, Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist WED Church. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b078z5mx (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02twpwl (Listen) WED Kingfisher WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve WED Backshall presents the kingfisher. WED WED The Ancient Greeks knew the kingfisher as Halcyon and WED believed that the female built her nest on the waves calming WED the seas while she brooded her eggs: hence the expression, WED Halcyon days which we use now for periods of tranquillity. WED WED Kingfishers can bring in over 100 fish a day to their large WED broods and the resulting collection of bones and offal WED produces a stench that doesn't match the bird's attractive WED appearance. WED WED Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b078z5vs (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 b078z5vv (Listen) WED Ian Ogilvy, Ella Al-Shamahi, Chris Packham, Ralph McTell WED WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Libby Purves WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b079rqtf (Listen) WED The Running Hare, Episode 3 WED WED A close up and intimate natural history by John WED Lewis-Stempel. By taking an abandoned field close to his WED farm, he observes in minute detail the behaviour of plants, WED birds and animals that are being displaced by agribusiness. WED In telling the story of one field, he tells the story of our WED countryside, our language, our religion and our food. But in WED transforming one field, he creates a haven for one WED particular animal close to his heart - the brown hare. WED WED In part three, it is mid-summer. The wheat is golden, but WED there is the matter of the aggressive bull to manage. WED WED Writer: John Lewis-Stempel WED Abridger Barry Johnston WED Reader: Bernard Hill WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Bernard Hill WED Writer: John Lewis-Stempel WED Abridger: Barry Johnston WED Producer: David Roper WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b078w8rk (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b079yz8d (Listen) WED Clouds in Trousers, Rain WED WED Katie Hims' drama, inspired by Alexandra Harris' book WED 'Weatherland', imagines Zoe as a woman growing up weathered WED - for whom every turn of her life is marked by the weather: WED rain, snow, a summer heatwave, a thunderstorm, the threat of WED a flood. All our lives are weather-bound but for Zoe the WED weather is more than just what goes on behind the scenes. WED WED Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. WED WED Credits WED Young Zoe: Sydney Wade WED Young Alice: Sydney Wade WED Young Shaun: Rhys Gannon WED Older Zoe: Patsy Ferran WED Older Shaun: David Reed WED Juliet: Laura Elphinstone WED Jim: Sam Troughton WED Zoe's Mum: Katy Carmichael WED Zoe's Dad: Tristan Sturrock WED Producer: Tim Dee WED Writer: Katie Hims WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b078z6f9 (Listen) WED Tracey and Joanne - The Cavalry's Coming WED WED Fi Glover hears about the frightening experience of a WED psychotic episode, from a woman who suffered from WED post-partum psychosis and the friend who supported her WED through it. Another in the series that proves it's WED surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 For Better or Worse b078xpfn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] WED WED 11:30 Polyoaks b078z6sd (Listen) WED Series 4, Losing Patients WED WED Nigel Planer and returns in the Health Service satire by Dr WED Phil Hammond and David Spicer. The Polyoaks surgery is WED plagued by strikes, endless new management initiatives, WED staff shortages, militant patients, eight day weeks, WED privatisation - and all these things are entirely their WED fault, apparently. WED WED The dysfunctional Bristol surgery run by warring doctors, WED brothers Roy and Hugh Thornton (Nigel Planer and Simon WED Greenall), alternates between embracing and collapsing under WED reforms. They're a nurse down, they've got to slash their WED budget and there's a new Head of the local Clinical WED Commissioning Group who eats GPs for breakfast (Margaret WED Cabourn-Smith). WED WED The practice's calamitous 'celebrity' Dr Jeremy (David WED Westhead), who doesn't know what a Clinical Commissioning WED Group is, continues to dodge alimony payments, malpractice WED suits and the new practice Nurse Monica (Polly Frame). Nurse WED Monica is on exchange from NHS Scotland and is fuelled by a WED borderline psychotic contempt for patients and colleagues WED alike. WED WED In this first episode of the series, the staff of Polyoaks WED are roped into spearheading a new anti-obesity campaign to WED save lives, self respect and money. WED WED Written by Dr Phil Hammond and Mr David Spicer WED Directed by Frank Stirling WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Roy: Nigel Planer WED Hugh: Simon Greenall WED Jeremy: David Westhead WED Monica: Polly Frame WED Stephanie Simons: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Patient: Kate O'Sullivan WED Patient: Duncan Wisbey WED Writer: Phil Hammond WED Writer: David Spicer WED Director: Frank Stirling WED WED 12:00 News Summary b078w8rm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b076c9v7 (Listen) WED 4 May 1916 - Alexander Gidley WED WED On this day in 1916, the papers reported the extension of WED conscription to include all men between the ages of 18 and WED 41, and Alexander Gidley continues to face resistance at the WED quarry. WED WED Written by Shaun McKenna WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard WED Clarence Ogden: David Sterne WED Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro WED Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe WED Ivor: Paul Burgess WED Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready WED Pat McCrory: Jonny Holden WED Primrose Rutter: Jade Matthew WED Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Allegra McIlroy WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b078w8rp (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b078w8rr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b078z6sg (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 Shakespeare: Love Across the Racial Divide b07bgs4z (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores five Shakespeare plays that WED cross the racial divide. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b078z4hm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b078z9c5 (Listen) WED Julius Caesar, Episode 2 WED WED by William Shakespeare WED WED Part Two WED WED The plot against Caesar reaches crisis point as the WED conspirators gather at the Capitol in Rome. Part of the BBC WED Shakespeare Festival. WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED Credits WED Caesar: Tim Pigott-Smith WED Brutus: Robert Glenister WED Cassius: Sam Troughton WED Antony: Jamie Parker WED Casca: Philip Fox WED Portia: Fenella Woolgar WED Lucius: Adam Thomas Wright WED Calpurnia: Jessica Turner WED Metellus Cimber: Stephen Critchlow WED Decius Brutus: David Acton WED Trebonius: Chris Pavlo WED Soothsayer: Sam Dale WED Servant 1: Neet Mohan WED Artemidorus: David Hounslow WED Popilius: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Director: Marc Beeby WED Writer: William Shakespeare WED WED 15:00 Money Box b078z9tf (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b078z5mb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b078z9th (Listen) WED Migrant Women WED WED Migrant women in Britain: Laurie Taylor talks to Linda WED McDowell, Professor of Human Geography at the University of WED Oxford and author of a sweeping study of generations of WED immigrant working women in Britain. From textile mill WED workers in the 1940s to shopkeepers in the 50s, nannies of WED the 90s and software developers of today, these first and WED second generation migrants have been in the vanguard of a WED social revolution in women's contribution to the economy in WED the second half of the 20th century. In factories and WED hospitals, care homes and universities they've played a WED lasting role in British society, in spite of recurrent WED discrimination. But what do they have to say about their WED work and experience? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b078w8rt (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b078w8rw (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b078w8ry (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04nv6m8 (Listen) WED Series 2, Testing Times WED WED 5/6: Testing Times. It's the day after Lucy's eighteenth WED birthday, and her parents aren't happy, and not only because WED she took that bottle of rum from their drinks cabinet. They WED think she is wasting her life being part of the resistance, WED so unless she can pass her A Levels they're going to stop WED her coming to the meetings. Does it really take a village to WED raise a child? Or will they make things worse? WED WED Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is a sitcom WED about an alien race that have noticed that those all-at-once WED invasions of Earth never work out that well. So they've WED locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green WED behind an impenetrable force field in order to study human WED behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading. WED WED The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new WED alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the WED weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when WED the force field went up. So along with Lucy Alexander (the WED only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against WED whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to WED the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish WED she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, and much to the WED annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his WED unintelligible minions and The Computer (his WED hyperintelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run WED the invasion. WED WED Written by Eddie Robson WED Script-edited by Arthur Mathews WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Katrina Lyons: Hattie Morahan WED Richard Lyons: Peter Davison WED Margaret Lyons: Jan Francis WED Lucy Alexander: Hannah Murray WED Field Commander Uljabaan: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Computer: John-Luke Roberts WED Carl: Don Gilet WED Colin: Don Gilet WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 19:00 The Archers b078z9tk (Listen) WED Tom makes an impassioned plea, and David comes to the WED rescue. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b078w8s0 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 Open Art b079cw8r (Listen) WED Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins, Episode 3 WED WED Part of Radio 4's collaboration with Artangel to commission WED new works from British contemporary artists. WED WED Ben Rivers is one of two artists who were selected in the WED Open call for proposals in 2013. The result has been Rivers' WED most ambitious and multi-faceted work to date: a feature WED film (The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two WED Eyes Are Not Brothers), a multimedia installation at BBC WED Television Centre, a book, and this series of five audio WED pieces for broadcast on Radio 4. WED WED The work revolves around the stories of the American WED novelist Paul Bowles and his muse, the renowned Moroccan WED writer and artist Mohammed Mrabet. Combining documentary and WED fiction approaches, the strange, poetic and sometimes brutal WED narratives often centre around the traditional Moroccan WED culture of smoking Hashish. WED WED Mrabet's stories were gathered transcribed and translated by WED Paul Bowles, eventually published in a series of WED anthologies. Selecting from the collections entitled WED M'Hashish and Harmless Poisons Blameless Sins, Rivers and WED sound designer Philippe Ciompi embed the tales in a mosaic WED of sounds from the dramatic Moroccan landscape. WED WED Director: Ben Rivers WED Sound Designer: Philippe Ciompi WED Reader : Youssef Kerkour WED Producer: Russell Finch WED A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. WED WED 20:00 FutureProofing b078zcc2 (Listen) WED Crime WED WED Who will be on top in the world of future crime - the cops WED or the criminals? How will crime change and what can be done WED to prevent it in future? Presenters Timandra Harkness and WED Leo Johnson explore how crime and punishment will change in WED the 21st century. WED WED They discover how crime and technology combine to create a WED toxic mix of threats and vulnerabilities in the next few WED decades. As criminals swiftly adopt and adapt emerging WED technologies to enable them to stay one step ahead of anyone WED trying to combat crime, the programme examines what kind of WED crimes this might lead to, and how it might be possible to WED stop offenders in future. New technology also holds out the WED prospect of radically different kinds of punishment, as well WED as significant developments in the understanding of how and WED why crime happens. WED WED Producer: Jonathan Brunert. WED WED 20:45 Why I Changed My Mind b0787dz1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Prof Edzard Ernst WED WED Dominic Lawson talks to Edzard Ernst, who was once the WED world's first professor of complementary medicine, about why WED he abandoned his belief in homeopathy, the reaction his WED change of mind provoked, and how it led to a dispute with WED the office of the Prince of Wales. WED WED "Why I Changed My Mind" is a series in which Dominic WED explores how and why prominent individuals have modified WED their views on controversial topics. WED WED Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b078y4tk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b078z5vv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b079rc90 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b078w8s2 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0790q5c (Listen) WED Not Working, Episode 3 WED WED Lisa Owens' comic debut, depicting a life unravelling in WED minute and spectacular ways. WED WED Thirtysomething Claire Flannery has quit her job to discover WED her true vocation, only to realise that she has no idea how WED to go about finding it. As the weeks stretch into months WED with nothing to show but an overflowing internet search WED history and a growing rift with her mother, Claire finds WED herself sinking under the pressure. WED WED Read by Emily Bruni WED WED Written by Lisa Owens WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Emily Bruni WED Author: Lisa Owens WED Abridger: Robin Brooks WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 23:00 Nurse b078zcc4 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 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 Writer: David Cummings WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b03tt58f (Listen) WED Series 2, Stag WED WED It's the night before the wedding of Tim Key's guitarist - WED Tom Basden. So Tim is presenting the show from an outside WED broadcast van in Cheam. He's determined to give 'Lord' a WED stag night he'll never forget. But Lord is not so sure. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden and Michael Bertenshaw WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim Key WED Performer: Tom Basden WED Performer: Michael Bertenshaw WED Producer: James Robinson WED Writer: Tim Key WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b078zcc6 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 MAY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b078w8x4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b079rqtf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b078w8x9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b078w8xg (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b078w8xm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b078w8xt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07bgwk7 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev THU Dr Stephen Wigley, Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist THU Church. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b078zclg (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378wz1 (Listen) THU Bullfinch THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Michaela Strachan presents the Bullfinch. The males have THU rose-pink breasts and black caps and are eye-catching whilst THU the females are a duller pinkish-grey but share the black THU cap. Exactly why they're called Bullfinches isn't clear - THU perhaps it's to do with their rather thickset appearance. THU 'Budfinch' would be a more accurate name as they are very THU fond of the buds of trees, especially fruit trees. THU THU Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b078zcrp (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 b078zcrr (Listen) THU Tess of the d'Urbervilles THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Tess of the d'Urbervilles by THU Thomas Hardy, originally serialised in The Graphic in 1891 THU and, with some significant changes, as a complete novel in THU 1892. The book was controversial even before publication, THU rejected by one publisher as too overtly sexual, to which a THU second added it did not publish 'stories where the plot THU involves frequent and detailed reference to immoral THU situations.' Hardy's description of Tess as 'A Pure Woman' THU incensed some Victorian readers and, in turn, he resented THU the censoring of some of his scenes in the early versions, THU including references to Tess's baby following her rape by THU Alex d'Urberville, references to that attack at all, and THU even to a scene where Angel Clare lifted four milkmaids over THU a flooded lane (substituting transportation by wheelbarrow). THU THU The image above, from the 1891 edition, is captioned 'It Was THU Not Till About Three O'clock That Tess Raised Her Eyes And THU Gave A Momentary Glance Round. She Felt But Little Surprise THU At Seeing That Alec D'urberville Had Come Back, And Was THU Standing Under The Hedge By The Gate'. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b079rr28 (Listen) THU The Running Hare, Episode 4 THU THU A close up and intimate natural history by John THU Lewis-Stempel. By taking an abandoned field close to his THU farm, he observes in minute detail the behaviour of plants, THU birds and animals that are being displaced by agribusiness. THU In telling the story of one field, he tells the story of our THU countryside, our language, our religion and our food. But in THU transforming one field, he creates a haven for one THU particular animal close to his heart - the brown hare. THU THU Part four brings us to harvest time, but no traditional THU farmer would dream of using a combine harvester. THU THU Writer: John Lewis-Stempel THU Abridger Barry Johnston THU Reader: Bernard Hill THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Bernard Hill THU Writer: John Lewis-Stempel THU Abridger: Barry Johnston THU Producer: David Roper THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b078w8y5 (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b079z08k (Listen) THU Clouds in Trousers, Shelter THU THU Katie Hims' drama, inspired by Alexandra Harris' book THU 'Weatherland', imagines Zoe as a woman growing up weathered THU - for whom every turn of her life is marked by the weather: THU rain, snow, a summer heatwave, a thunderstorm, the threat of THU a flood. All our lives are weather-bound but for Zoe the THU weather is more than just what goes on behind the scenes. THU THU Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. THU THU Credits THU Young Zoe: Sydney Wade THU Young Alice: Sydney Wade THU Young Shaun: Rhys Gannon THU Older Zoe: Patsy Ferran THU Older Shaun: David Reed THU Juliet: Laura Elphinstone THU Jim: Sam Troughton THU Zoe's Mum: Katy Carmichael THU Zoe's Dad: Tristan Sturrock THU Producer: Tim Dee THU Writer: Katie Hims THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b078zcrt (Listen) THU China's Family Planning Army THU THU Now that China has ended its One Child policy, one group of THU state employees may soon be out of a job - the country's THU hated population police. Hundreds of thousands of officers THU used to hunt down families suspected of violating the THU country's draconian rules on child bearing, handing out THU crippling fines, confiscating property and sometimes forcing THU women to have abortions. But with an eye on improving child THU welfare in the countryside, there is a plan to redeploy many THU of these officers as child development specialists. Lucy Ash THU visits a pilot project in Shaanxi Province training former THU enforcers to offer advice and support to rural grandparents THU who are left rearing children while the parents migrate to THU jobs in the big cities. If successful, the scheme could be THU rolled out nationwide to redeploy an army of family planning THU workers and transform the life prospects of millions of THU rural children. THU THU 11:30 Shakespeare In... b078zd50 (Listen) THU India THU THU Nikki Bedi goes in search of Shakespeare in modern India and THU finds him remarkably relevant in the world's largest THU democracy. She finds his work translates everywhere from THU Bollywood to the slums of Mumbai, where young Indian THU practitioners are taking the plays and making them relevant THU and fresh for 21st century Indian society THU THU Producer: Maggie Ayre. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b078w8yb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b076c9v9 (Listen) THU 5 May 1916 - Cora Gidley THU THU On this day in 1916, the Western Times reported the French THU were gaining ground at Verdun, while Cora Gidley is on the THU defensive. THU THU Written by Shaun McKenna THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro THU Agatha Christie: Melody Grove THU Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard THU Clarence Ogden: David Sterne THU Emily Coville: Scarlett Brookes THU Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe THU Jacques Hamoir: Michael Bertenshaw THU Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready THU Pat McCrory: Jonny Holden THU Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Producer: Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b078w8yh (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b078w8yp (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b078zd52 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 Shakespeare: Love Across the Racial Divide b07bgwst (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores five Shakespeare plays that THU cross the racial divide. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b078z9tk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b078zdcp (Listen) THU Julius Caesar, Episode 3 THU THU by William Shakespeare THU THU Part Three THU THU Following the assassination of Caesar, Brutus and Cassius THU are forced to leave Rome. But the combined forces of Mark THU Antony and Octavius are hot on their heels. Part of the BBC THU Shakespeare Festival. THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU Credits THU Brutus: Robert Glenister THU Cassius: Sam Troughton THU Antony: Jamie Parker THU Caesar's Ghost: Tim Pigott-Smith THU Lucius: Adam Thomas Wright THU Octavius: Wilf Scolding THU Lepidus: David Hounslow THU Lucilius: David Acton THU Pindarus: Neet Mohan THU Strato: Stephen Critchlow THU Trebonius: Chris Pavlo THU Messala: Sam Dale THU Claudius: Mark Edel-Hunt THU Director: Marc Beeby THU Writer: William Shakespeare THU THU 15:00 Open Country b078zdcr (Listen) THU Tennyson's Lincolnshire THU THU Helen Mark explores the Lincolnshire Wolds through the THU poetry of Victorian Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. THU THU The Lincolnshire Wolds are a designated Area of Outstanding THU Natural Beauty, remote and in some ways little-changed since THU Tennyson was born here, in the village of Somersby, in 1809. THU THU Helen meets dialect speakers, like Tennyson, whose 'first THU language was Lincolnshire'. She'll find out how he might THU have described the landscape and how it appears in some of THU his dialect poems. She meets some rare farm animals that THU would have been familiar to him and visits a rookery he THU describes in his famous poem 'Maud'. We'll hear direct THU descendants of those very rooks! THU THU Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b078wl26 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b078wqz0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b078w8z5 (Listen) THU Stephen Frears THU THU Stephen Frears on Florence Foster Jenkins. THU THU Credits THU Interviewed Guest: Stephen Frears THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b078w8z7 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b078w8z9 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b078w8zc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Don't Start b06vnmy9 (Listen) THU Series 3, Medical THU THU What do long term partners really argue about? The third THU series of Frank Skinner's sharp comedy. Starring Frank THU Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. THU THU In this episode, Kim is not happy when a theoretical debate THU about her demise reveals Neil's yearning for an accordion. THU THU The first and second series of Don't Start met with instant THU critical and audience acclaim: THU THU "That he can deliver such a heavy premise for a series with THU such a lightness of touch is testament to his skills as a THU writer and, given that the protagonists are both bookworms, THU he's also permitted to use a flourish of fine words that THU would be lost in his stand-up routines." Jane Anderson, THU Radio Times THU THU "Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic THU comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a THU bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly THU precise dissection of a relationship." Daily Mail THU THU "...a lesson in relationship ping-pong..." Miranda Sawyer, THU The Observer THU THU Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a deceptively simple THU premise - an argument. Each week, our couple fall out over THU another apparently trivial flashpoint. Each week, the stakes THU mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these are no THU ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with THU increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references THU and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's weaknesses. THU Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an THU unmistakable tenderness. THU THU An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Neil: Frank Skinner THU Kim: Katherine Parkinson THU Writer: Frank Skinner THU THU 18:45 The Pin b06kgbgd (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 THU THU Join Alex and Ben in their weird twist on the double-act THU sketch show. Strap in for a 15 minute delve in to a world of THU oddness performed in front of a live studio audience. THU THU The Pin are an award-winning comedy duo, and legends of THU Edinburgh festival. They deconstruct the sketch form, in a THU show that exists somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and THU utterly joyous silliness. THU THU After a sold-out run in Edinburgh, and a string of hilarious THU performances across BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC 3, Channel 4, and THU Comedy Central, this is The Pin's debut solo show for Radio THU 4. Join them as they celebrate, make, collapse and rebuild THU their jokes, each other, and probably the radio too. THU THU For fans of Adam and Joe, Vic and Bob, and Fist of Fun - a THU show of absurd offerings from two loveable idiots. THU THU 'Reinventing sketch comedy before our very eyes.' THU ***** The List THU 'Eviscerating their chosen form completely.' THU **** The Sunday Times THU 'A very classy, very funny show indeed.' THU **** The Telegraph THU 'Adept at finding laughs in surprising places.' THU **** The Times THU 'A genuine boundary pusher.' THU **** London is Funny. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Alex Owen THU Performer: Ben Ashenden THU THU 19:00 The Archers b078zdl2 (Listen) THU Helen makes a decision, and Anna is working up to the wire. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b078w8zh (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Open Art b079cw8t (Listen) THU Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins, Episode 4 THU THU Part of Radio 4's collaboration with Artangel to commission THU new works from British contemporary artists. THU THU Ben Rivers is one of two artists who were selected in the THU Open call for proposals in 2013. The result has been Rivers' THU most ambitious and multi-faceted work to date: a feature THU film (The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two THU Eyes Are Not Brothers), a multimedia installation at BBC THU Television Centre, a book, and this series of five audio THU pieces for broadcast on Radio 4. THU THU The work revolves around the stories of the American THU novelist Paul Bowles and his muse, the renowned Moroccan THU writer and artist Mohammed Mrabet. Combining documentary and THU fiction approaches, the strange, poetic and sometimes brutal THU narratives often centre around the traditional Moroccan THU culture of smoking Hashish. THU THU Mrabet's stories were gathered transcribed and translated by THU Paul Bowles, eventually published in a series of THU anthologies. Selecting from the collections entitled THU M'Hashish and Harmless Poisons Blameless Sins, Rivers and THU sound designer Philippe Ciompi embed the tales in a mosaic THU of sounds from the dramatic Moroccan landscape. THU THU Director: Ben Rivers THU Sound Designer: Philippe Ciompi THU Reader : Youssef Kerkour THU Producer: Russell Finch THU A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. THU THU 20:00 A Celebration for Ascension Day b078zdls (Listen) THU "Since I am coming to that Holy roome, Where, with thy Quire THU of Saints for evermore, I shall be made thy Musique" (John THU Donne). THU To mark the day on which Christians celebrate Jesus' THU Ascension into Heaven the Reverend Dr. Sam Wells leads a THU Eucharist live from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. THU Preacher, the Right Reverend James Jones, reflects on times THU when Heaven and Earth meet. Whether in the celebration of THU Holy Communion or in the creativity of music such as THU tonight's broadcast premier of Will Todd's brand new Jazz THU Missa Brevis, Christians believe our human existence is THU touched by the Divine in a multitude of ways. Favourite THU Ascension-tide hymns alongside music by Will Todd and John THU Rutter are performed by the Daily Service Singers and St. THU Martin's Voices, with the Will Todd Ensemble directed by THU Andrew Earis. Producer: Katharine Longworth. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b078w8z7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b078zcrr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b078w8zx (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0790qc5 (Listen) THU Not Working, Episode 4 THU THU Lisa Owens' witty and poignant debut novel, read by Emily THU Bruni. THU THU Thirtysomething Claire Flannery is no closer to finding her THU true vocation. It doesn't help that she's increasingly THU distracted from her job search by the growing (and hurtful) THU rift with her mother - following Claire's revelation that THU her grandfather exposed himself to her when she was little. THU As weeks stretch into months, she has little to show but an THU overflowing internet search history and the prospect of THU spending her first Christmas without her family. THU THU Read by Emily Bruni THU THU Written by Lisa Owens THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Emily Bruni THU Author: Lisa Owens THU Abridger: Robin Brooks THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 23:00 52 First Impressions with David Quantick b078zdq7 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU Journalist and comedy writer David Quantick has met and THU interviewed hundreds of people - what were his first THU impressions, how have they changed and does it all matter? THU THU This week, stories about Mark E Smith, The Velvet THU Underground and being the back end of a pantomime horse - THU amongst others. (1/4) THU THU Written and Presented by David Quantick THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Quantick THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU Writer: David Quantick THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b078zdnz (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 MAY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Election 2016 b079cpqz (Listen) FRI Comprehensive coverage of the various elections taking place FRI across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07bm22s (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev FRI Dr Stephen Wigley, Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist FRI Church. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0790j7v (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 b01sby0q (Listen) FRI Garden Warbler FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David FRI Attenborough presents the Garden Warbler. Garden warblers FRI aren't very well named .these are birds which like overgrown FRI thickets of shrubs and small trees and so you're more likely FRI to find them in woodland clearings especially in newly- FRI coppiced areas. FRI FRI RSPB - Garden Warbler FRI Image by Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b07907r2 (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 b078wm2m (Listen) FRI Pinochet FRI FRI Sue MacGregor reunites five people involved in the campaign FRI to bring Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet to trial FRI for human rights abuses. FRI FRI For nearly two decades, General Augusto Pinochet repressed FRI and reshaped Chile. He seized power on September 11th 1973, FRI in a bloody military coup that toppled the Marxist FRI government of President Salvador. He then led the county FRI into an era of robust economic growth, transforming a FRI bankrupt economy into the most prosperous in Latin America. FRI During his rule, however, more than 3,200 people were FRI executed or disappeared, and thousands more were detained, FRI tortured or exiled. Pinochet's name became synonymous with FRI human rights abuses and corruption. FRI FRI He gave up the presidency in 1990 but held onto the post of FRI commander in chief. Then, in October 1998, in an FRI extraordinary turn of events he was detained in London on a FRI warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder FRI charges. It was the first time a former head of state had FRI been arrested based on the principle of universal FRI jurisdiction. The then-British Home Secretary Jack Straw FRI ordered his release on health grounds in 2000, after a FRI controversial medical test stated that Pinochet was not fit FRI to appear before a court, and he returned to Chile a free FRI man that same year. FRI FRI Joining Sue around the table to look back on Pinochet's FRI arrest and the landmark case that followed are Juan Garces, FRI a former aide to Salvador Allende; the former Home Secretary FRI Jack Straw; and Chilean Judge Juan Guzman, who was FRI personally transformed by the experience of descending into FRI what he called the "abyss" of investigating crimes committed FRI by Pinochet. FRI FRI Producer: Emily Williams FRI Series Producer: David Prest FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b079rrbb (Listen) FRI The Running Hare, Episode 5 FRI FRI A close up and intimate natural history by John FRI Lewis-Stempel. By taking an abandoned field close to his FRI farm, he observes in minute detail the behaviour of plants, FRI birds and animals that are being displaced by agribusiness. FRI In telling the story of one field, he tells the story of our FRI countryside, our language, our religion and our food. But in FRI transforming one field, he creates a haven for one FRI particular animal close to his heart - the brown hare. FRI FRI The final episode brings mixed emotions - the field awaits a FRI new use and a new owner. FRI FRI Writer: John Lewis-Stempel FRI Abridger Barry Johnston FRI Reader: Bernard Hill FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Bernard Hill FRI Writer: John Lewis-Stempel FRI Abridger: Barry Johnston FRI Producer: David Roper FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b078w92x (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b079z11v (Listen) FRI Clouds in Trousers, Flood FRI FRI Katie Hims' drama, inspired by Alexandra Harris' book FRI 'Weatherland', imagines Zoe as a woman growing up weathered FRI - for whom every turn of her life is marked by the weather: FRI rain, snow, a summer heatwave, a thunderstorm, the threat of FRI a flood. All our lives are weather-bound but for Zoe the FRI weather is more than just what goes on behind the scenes. FRI FRI Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI Credits FRI Young Zoe: Sydney Wade FRI Young Alice: Sydney Wade FRI Young Shaun: Rhys Gannon FRI Older Zoe: Patsy Ferran FRI Older Shaun: David Reed FRI Juliet: Laura Elphinstone FRI Jim: Sam Troughton FRI Zoe's Mum: Katy Carmichael FRI Zoe's Dad: Tristan Sturrock FRI Producer: Tim Dee FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI FRI 11:00 The Anglo-Irish Century b0790867 (Listen) FRI The Irish Exodus FRI FRI Although the ambitions and progress of politicians and FRI diplomats has been vital to the developing story of FRI Anglo-Irish relations over the last century, in his third FRI programme in the series covering the last hundred years, FRI Diarmaid Ferriter turns his focus to the ordinary Irishmen FRI and women who forged often unbreakable links with Britain by FRI the simple expedient of moving there. The scale of Irish FRI immigration, the lives those immigrants lead and the wealth FRI they sent back to the now independent Republic are central FRI to the post war period. FRI It was also an era that saw a changing of the guard in FRI Ireland as de Valera gave way to the very different FRI leadership of the Taoiseach Sean Lemass. Lemass also changed FRI the language of his Republican colleagues, referring to FRI Northern Ireland for the first time and, in the 1960s FRI forging links with the Northern Ireland Prime Minister FRI Terence O'Neill. FRI The impact of that shift, the restlessness of the Catholic FRI population in the north over civil rights and of the FRI Loyalists over what they perceived as a threat to the status FRI quo saw the situation deteriorate rapidly. FRI Diarmaid debates the impact of the 50th anniversary FRI celebrations of the Easter Rising on all sides in what was FRI to become a violent sectarian conflict. FRI Roy Hattersley, the man who called the troops in to keep the FRI peace in 1969, Martin McGuinness and Lord Trimble describe FRI the inexorable slide into conflict and the breakdown of FRI trust between Dublin and Westminster which reached a peak FRI with the events of Bloody Sunday and the fallout thereafter FRI as the then Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Prime Minister Edward FRI Heath argued on the phone and the British Embassy in Dublin FRI was set aflame. FRI FRI Producer: Tom Alban. FRI FRI 11:30 Barry's Lunch Club b07908hv (Listen) FRI Dating for the Over-60s FRI FRI Alex Lowe is 82 year old Barry, who invites an audience to FRI his weekly lunch club where he scrutinises themes close to FRI his heart. With club secretary Hilary (Stephanie Cole) to FRI rein him in, and club treasurer Peter (Philip Pope) FRI providing support on the civic hall piano, this is the FRI ultimate life-style guide for an ageing nation. FRI FRI Episode 2: Dating for the Over 60s FRI Barry offers advice about dating for the older generation. FRI To his amazement, Hilary is happy to discuss her recent FRI experience in the field. FRI FRI Barry is a cockney moved to the suburbs during the war. He FRI is not given to looking at the old days through rose FRI coloured spectacles, and is well up to speed with current FRI trends. A seemingly harmless old boy, he lures people into a FRI false sense of security, delivering hilariously stinging FRI rebukes or erudite assessments of how the world is treating FRI the over 60s. FRI FRI Stand-up comedy crossed with sitcom, the show plays out in FRI real time as if we are eavesdropping on a civic hall meeting FRI group. FRI FRI Written by Alex Lowe and Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI Executive Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Barry: Alex Lowe FRI Hilary: Stephanie Cole FRI Peter: Philip Pope FRI Writer: Alex Lowe FRI Writer: Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b078w92z (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b076c9vc (Listen) FRI 6 May 1916 - Johnnie Marshall FRI FRI On this day in 1916, two conscientious objectors were FRI arrested in Newton Abbot, and Johnnie Marshall is in pursuit FRI of information. FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant FRI Wilfred Truscott: Stephen Tomlin FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b078w931 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b078w933 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0790c3y (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 Shakespeare: Love Across the Racial Divide b07bkcxm (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores five Shakespeare plays that FRI cross the racial divide. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b078zdl2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b0790c4q (Listen) FRI The Rage FRI FRI Clare Lizzimore's stylish rapid-fire drama takes us inside FRI the head of Anthony: a boy full of rage. FRI FRI But Anthony's rage is ruining his life. Now he's running FRI from his past, starting again in a new place. But he's FRI losing it at school. He's frightening his girlfriend. FRI FRI Anger is what happens to us when we lose control of our FRI lives. But is the anger inside him really Anthony's fault? FRI Will it overtake him again? Will he do something even worse? FRI FRI Or is today the day, when Anthony outruns what's inside him? FRI FRI Clare Lizzimore is a writer and an Olivier Award winning FRI director, whose production of 'Bull' by Mike Bartlett won FRI 'Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre' at the FRI Olivier Awards 2015. Clare has been resident director at the FRI Citizens Theatre, Glasgow; staff director at the Royal FRI National Theatre, and she is currently an Associate Director FRI at Hampstead Theatre. As a director, her credits include FRI 'One Day When We Were Young' by Nick Payne as part of the FRI Paines Plough Roundabout Season, and 'Lay Down Your Cross' FRI by Nick Payne at Hampstead Theatre. At the Royal Court, she FRI directed 'Faces in the Crowd' by Leo Butler in 2008, and has FRI worked extensively with the International department. FRI Clare's own plays include 'Mint' at the Royal Court, 'My Big FRI Fat Fishy F***ing Epiphany' for the National Theatre Studio, FRI and 'Missing In Action' for Radio 4. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. FRI FRI Credits FRI Anthony: Theo Barklem-Biggs FRI Rebecca: Danusia Samal FRI Mum: Adie Allen FRI Dad: Lee Ross FRI Luke: Jason Maza FRI Boy: Sam Rix FRI Teacher: Ewan Bailey FRI Shopkeeper: Richard Pepple FRI Director: Jonquil Panting FRI Producer: Jonquil Panting FRI Writer: Clare Lizzimore FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0790c4s (Listen) FRI East Cornwall FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI East Cornwall. James Wong, Anne Swithinbank and Matt Biggs FRI answer the audience questions. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras FRI Assistant producer: Laurence Bassett FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Keeping Watch b0790c4v (Listen) FRI Story of the Week. FRI FRI David Park has written nine previous books including The Big FRI Snow, Swallowing the Sun, The Truth Commissioner, The Light FRI of Amsterdam, which was shortlisted for the 2014 FRI International IMPAC Prize, and, most recently, The Poets' FRI Wives, which was selected as Belfast's Choice for One City FRI One Book 2014. He has won the Authors' Club First Novel FRI Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the FRI Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund FRI Literary Award and the University of Ulster's McCrea FRI Literary Award, three times. His new novel Gods and Angels FRI is to be released 05 May 2016. His novel, The Truth FRI Commissioner was recently made into a feature film starring FRI Roger Allam. FRI FRI Writer ..... David Park FRI Reader ..... Ciarán McMenamin FRI Producer ..... Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ciaran McMenamin FRI Writer: David Park FRI Producer: Gemma McMullan FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b078w935 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b0790cgp (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b0790dm6 (Listen) FRI Tracey and Joanne - Just a Numbness FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends, one of FRI whom supported the other through a psychotic episode, about FRI the devastating depression that followed her treatment. FRI Another conversation in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b078w937 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b078w939 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b0790dm8 (Listen) FRI Series 90, Episode 4 FRI FRI Jeremy Hardy, Holly Walsh, Sarah Kendall and Michael Deacon FRI join Miles Jupp for another episode of the long-running FRI satirical quiz of the week's news. FRI FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Holly Walsh FRI Panellist: Sarah Kendall FRI Panellist: Michael Deacon FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0790f4v (Listen) FRI Eddie needs to find more work, and Kirsty is a pillar of FRI support. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Joanna Toye FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Miranda Elliott: Lucy Fleming FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton FRI Julian Bywater: Alun Raglan FRI Clerk: George Watkins FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b078w93c (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 Open Art b079cw8w (Listen) FRI Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins, Episode 5 FRI FRI Part of Radio 4's collaboration with Artangel to commission FRI new works from British contemporary artists. FRI FRI Ben Rivers is one of two artists who were selected in the FRI Open call for proposals in 2013. The result has been Rivers' FRI most ambitious and multi-faceted work to date: a feature FRI film (The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two FRI Eyes Are Not Brothers), a multimedia installation at BBC FRI Television Centre, a book, and this series of five audio FRI pieces for broadcast on Radio 4. FRI FRI The work revolves around the stories of the American FRI novelist Paul Bowles and his muse, the renowned Moroccan FRI writer and artist Mohammed Mrabet. Combining documentary and FRI fiction approaches, the strange, poetic and sometimes brutal FRI narratives often centre around the traditional Moroccan FRI culture of smoking Hashish. FRI FRI Mrabet's stories were gathered transcribed and translated by FRI Paul Bowles, eventually published in a series of FRI anthologies. Selecting from the collections entitled FRI M'Hashish and Harmless Poisons Blameless Sins, Rivers and FRI sound designer Philippe Ciompi embed the tales in a mosaic FRI of sounds from the dramatic Moroccan landscape. FRI FRI Director: Ben Rivers FRI Sound Designer: Philippe Ciompi FRI Reader : Youssef Kerkour FRI Producer: Russell Finch FRI A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0790frw (Listen) FRI Diane Abbott MP, Ken Clarke MP, Tom Harris, Gerard Lyons FRI FRI Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Radio Theatre FRI at Broadcasting House in London with the Shadow Secretary of FRI State for International Development, Diane Abbott MP, former FRI Chancellor Ken Clarke MP, the director of Scottish Leave and FRI Daily Telegraph Columnist Tom Harris and the economist FRI Gerard Lyons. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0790fry (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b076cb26 (Listen) FRI 2-6 May 1916 FRI FRI Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. FRI FRI Credits FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer FRI Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables FRI Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams FRI Isaac Cox: James Lailey FRI John Rossiter: Mark Carey FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Morris Battley: Sean Baker FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes FRI Clarence Ogden: David Sterne FRI Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro FRI Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog FRI Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett FRI Molly Dyer: Stevie Thompson FRI Oswald Dyer: Dean Nolan FRI Simeon Dyer: Josh Darcy FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Ivor: Paul Burgess FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Pat McCrory: Jonny Holden FRI Primrose Rutter: Jade Matthew FRI Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant FRI Agatha Christie: Melody Grove FRI Emily Coville: Scarlett Brookes FRI Jacques Hamoir: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b078w93f (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b078w93h (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0790qlv (Listen) FRI Not Working, Episode 5 FRI FRI Lisa Owens' witty and poignant debut novel, read by Emily FRI Bruni. FRI FRI Thirtysomething Claire Flannery is no closer to finding her FRI true vocation. It doesn't help that she's increasingly FRI distracted from her job search by a growing (and hurtful) FRI rift with her mother - following Claire's revelation that FRI her grandfather exposed himself to her when she was little. FRI In the hope that a change of scene will help relieve some FRI pressure, she and her partner Luke spend a weekend with his FRI parents. FRI FRI Read by Emily Bruni FRI FRI Written by Lisa Owens FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Emily Bruni FRI Author: Lisa Owens FRI Abridger: Robin Brooks FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b078y4tv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0790m2s (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b0790m2v (Listen) FRI Tracey and Joanne - There But for the Grace of God FRI FRI Fi Glover with friends who feel that post-partum psychosis FRI has made one a better doctor, while both now realize it's FRI essential to talk openly about the experience of mental FRI illness. Another conversation in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
29 April, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 30/04/2016 - 06/05/2016
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