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SAT SATURDAY 07 MAY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b078w95v (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b079rrbb (Listen) SAT The Running Hare, Episode 5 SAT SAT A close up and intimate natural history by John SAT Lewis-Stempel. By taking an abandoned field close to his SAT farm, he observes in minute detail the behaviour of plants, SAT birds and animals that are being displaced by agribusiness. SAT In telling the story of one field, he tells the story of our SAT countryside, our language, our religion and our food. But in SAT transforming one field, he creates a haven for one SAT particular animal close to his heart - the brown hare. SAT SAT The final episode brings mixed emotions - the field awaits a SAT new use and a new owner. SAT SAT Writer: John Lewis-Stempel SAT Abridger Barry Johnston SAT Reader: Bernard Hill SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Bernard Hill SAT Writer: John Lewis-Stempel SAT Abridger: Barry Johnston SAT Producer: David Roper SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b078w95x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b078w95z (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b078w961 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b078w963 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0790n76 (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0790n78 (Listen) SAT A single phone call that can change lives SAT SAT Sometimes it's just one simple thing that can make all the SAT difference. We hear from a husband and wife who saw a SAT problem and did something about it. David Carney Haworth, a SAT retired Police Sergeant and his wife Elizabeth, a SAT Headteacher have set up Operation Encompass. It's an early SAT warning system to help children who are victims of domestic SAT abuse. This is the story of how they did it. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b078w965 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b078w967 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b078zdcr (Listen) SAT Tennyson's Lincolnshire SAT SAT Helen Mark explores the Lincolnshire Wolds through the SAT poetry of Victorian Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. SAT SAT The Lincolnshire Wolds are a designated Area of Outstanding SAT Natural Beauty, remote and in some ways little-changed since SAT Tennyson was born here, in the village of Somersby, in 1809. SAT SAT Helen meets dialect speakers, like Tennyson, whose 'first SAT language was Lincolnshire'. She'll find out how he might SAT have described the landscape and how it appears in some of SAT his dialect poems. She meets some rare farm animals that SAT would have been familiar to him and visits a rookery he SAT describes in his famous poem 'Maud'. We'll hear direct SAT descendants of those very rooks! SAT SAT Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b079dnxq (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week 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 b078w969 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b079dnxs (Listen) SAT Meet the author: Marina Lewycka SAT SAT Our arts correspondent Rebecca Jones talks to the writer SAT Marina Lewycka about her new novel The Lubetkin Legacy, SAT which is set on a housing estate in north London. SAT SAT They discuss migration, housing, comedy and how her first SAT book, A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, was rejected SAT 36 times before it was published. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b079dnxv (Listen) SAT Mark Haddon SAT SAT Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Mark Haddon. SAT SAT Best known for writing multi prize winning novel The Curious SAT Incident of the dog in the Nighttime, author and illustrator SAT Mark Haddon will discuss his first book of short stories and SAT getting writers block. SAT SAT Since 2009 a third of our public libraries have closed. Poet SAT and model Greta Bellamacina joins us to talk about a film SAT she's made in support of The Library. SAT SAT Listener Sanjeen Payne-Kumar contacted us about an SAT extraordinary meeting he had with Mother Teresa. We thought SAT we'd better get him on the programme to tell us more, and it SAT turns out it's not the only interesting story he has... SAT SAT Sophie Scott is a neuroscientist who has a particular SAT interest in laughter. No surprise, then that she also does SAT Stand up comedy. She'll be in the studio with Aasmah and SAT Richard. SAT SAT We'll hear the inheritance tracks Katherine Jenkins who SAT chooses We are Family by Sister Sledge and Intermezzo from SAT Cavalleria Rusticana performed by The Philharmonia SAT Orchestra. SAT SAT JP meets Peter Pullon, model maker to the stars and we have SAT your Thank You. SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT Mark Haddon's book of short stories, The Pier Falls is out SAT on 5th May SAT The Safe House: A Decline of Ideas has its premiere at The SAT Gate cinema in Notting Hill on May 23 and will appear at a SAT selection of independent cinemas. SAT Katherine Jenkins' new album Celebration is out now and her SAT UK tour continues on June 10th in Poole. SAT SAT Peter Pullon Model Maker SAT Peter Pullon SAT has made Orville, Emu, Nookie Bear, Oswald the Ostrich, the SAT Honey Monster and the Smash Martians among others. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Haddon SAT Interviewed Guest: Greta Bellamacina SAT Interviewed Guest: Sanjeen Payne-Kumar SAT Interviewed Guest: Sophie Scott SAT Interviewed Guest: Katherine Jenkins SAT Interviewed Guest: Peter Pullon SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b079dnxx (Listen) SAT Series 13, Truro SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the programme from Truro. Annie Gray, SAT Rachel McCormack, Tim Hayward and Tim Anderson are this SAT week's panellists discussing their favourite memories of SAT childhood indulgence as well as answering the audience's SAT questions on local topics like pasties, gin, and sardines. SAT SAT Produced by Katie Burningham 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 b079dnxz (Listen) SAT Steve Richards and guests Lord Wood, Mark Field MP, Isabel SAT Hardman of the Spectator, and Helen Lewis of the New SAT Statesman, reflect on the implications of the range of SAT elections which took place on May 5th. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b078w96c (Listen) SAT What is Truth? What is Fantasy? SAT SAT What's life like in North Korea? Our reporter Steve Evans SAT gets rare access, but wonders if all is as it seems. Gabriel SAT Gatehouse meets Hungarians once so keen to tear down SAT barriers between them and their eastern European neighbours SAT who now believe it's time to put up fences. Katy Watson SAT witnesses poignant scenes on the US/Mexico border as SAT families enjoy a brief reunion amid speculation about what a SAT Trump presidency might mean for Mexicans. What's SAT trash-talking got to do with playing chess? David Edmonds SAT has been finding out on a visit to the American state of SAT Missouri. And Emma Jane Kirby's in Istanbul learning why a SAT gentle novel from the 1940s is striking a chord with today's SAT young Turks. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b078w96f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b078w96h (Listen) SAT The return of the 100% mortgage, Choices over maturing NS&I SAT index-linked savings certificates SAT SAT This week one of Britain's biggest banks, Barclays, launched SAT a 100% mortgage deal - though with some strings attached. SAT The 'bank of mum and dad' has to stump up 10% of the SAT purchase price which then gets placed in a savings account. SAT The Barclays' decision has prompted debate in the industry SAT as 100% mortgage deals have had a bad press since the 2008 SAT credit crunch, with thousands of homeowners left in negative SAT equity. Simon Collins from mortgage brokers John Charcol SAT joins the programme. SAT SAT The right for low incomed people or those with a poor credit SAT history to open a basic bank account was introduced in SAT January this year. The right to a basic bank account is part SAT of the EU Payment Accounts Directive 2014. But what would SAT happen if the UK votes in June to leave the EU? Will the SAT right to a basic bank account still exist? Michael Ruck, SAT from Pinsent Masons reveals the answer. And Anna Ellison SAT from Policis looks into the reasons why almost two million SAT of us do not even have a basic bank account. SAT SAT The highly popular NS&I Index Linked Savings Certificates SAT are coming to the end of their term over the next few SAT months. Should investors holding these maturing SAT certificates, which were last on general sale in 2011, lock SAT in, roll over or cash out? What are the pros and cons? Kevin SAT Mountford, Head of Banking with MoneySuperMarket.com, speaks SAT to the programme. SAT SAT Should businesses and banks in particular do more to combat SAT online scams and even pay back the victims who've lost out? SAT That's the debate Richard Lloyd of Which? and banking SAT professor Alistair Milne from Loughborough University will SAT have live on the programme. SAT Basic bank accounts SAT SAT SAT Money Advice Service - SAT https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/basic-bank SAT accounts SAT SAT SAT HM Treasury - SAT https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/implementation-o SAT -the-eu-payments-accounts-directive/implementation-of-the-eu SAT payment-accounts-directive SAT NS&I SAT SAT NS&I Index-linked Savings Certificates - SAT http://www.nsandi.com/index-linked-savings-certificates SAT Online fraud and scams SAT SAT Which? How to spot an online scam - SAT http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/l/online-scams SAT SAT SAT Financial Fraud Action UK - Fraud Update 2015 - SAT http://www.financialfraudaction.org.uk/cms/assets/1/2015%20y SAT ar%20end%20fraud%20update%20report.pdf SAT 100% Mortgages SAT http://www.gocompare.com/mortgages/100-mortgages/ SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b0790dm8 (Listen) SAT Series 90, Episode 4 SAT SAT Jeremy Hardy, Holly Walsh, Sarah Kendall and Michael Deacon SAT join Miles Jupp for another episode of the long-running SAT satirical quiz of the week's news. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Holly Walsh SAT Panellist: Sarah Kendall SAT Panellist: Michael Deacon SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b078w96k (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b078w96m (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0790frw (Listen) SAT Diane Abbott MP, Ken Clarke MP, Tom Harris, Gerard Lyons SAT SAT Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Radio Theatre SAT at Broadcasting House in London with the Shadow Secretary of SAT State for International Development, Diane Abbott MP, former SAT Chancellor Ken Clarke MP, the director of Scottish Leave and SAT Daily Telegraph Columnist Tom Harris and the economist SAT Gerard Lyons. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b078w96p (Listen) SAT Any Answers after the Saturday broadcast of Any Questions? SAT Lines open at 1230 SAT Call 03700 100 444. Email is any.answers@bbc.co.uk. Or SAT tweet, the hastag is BBCAQ. Follow us @bbcanyquestions. SAT SAT 14:30 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b079lhy2 (Listen) SAT Sex, Performance SAT SAT Blood Sex and Money, an epic 24 hours of drama inspired by SAT the works of literature's greatest whistle blower, Emile SAT Zola. SAT SAT Season 2. Sex. Episode 1. Performance. SAT SAT A story of sexual desire and the birth of a celebrity SAT dramatised by Oliver Emanuel. SAT SAT Glenda Jackson returns as Dide, the matriarch to a family of SAT wolves - the Rougon- Macquarts - and drawing us into the SAT decadence and degradation of 19th Century France. SAT SAT Nana's been living and working on the dangerous streets of SAT Paris when a theatre manager buys her for the night and SAT realizes just how potent she could be. SAT SAT Directed by Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dide: Glenda Jackson SAT Nana: Holliday Grainger SAT Mignon: Ben Batt SAT Fauchery: John Catterall SAT Copeau: David Crellin SAT Rose: Kimberly Hart-Simpson SAT Paul: Reece Noi SAT Satin: Kate O'Flynn SAT Director: Kirsty Williams SAT Author: Emile Zola SAT Adaptor: Oliver Emanuel SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b078y1q4 (Listen) SAT Series 22, Feed the Birds SAT SAT 'Feed The Birds' was written by Richard and Robert Sherman SAT for the 1964 film Mary Poppins. Composer Richard Sherman SAT recalls how the song was a Walt Disney favourite and long SAT after the film was over, Walt would call him down into his SAT office in the late afternoon, gaze out of the window and say SAT 'Play it.' Karen Dotrice, who played Jane Banks in the SAT original film, describes the experience of hearing the song SAT sung by Julie Andrews. Lawyer Eli McCann describes how SAT re-watching Mary Poppins a few years ago, one snowy SAT afternoon in Salt Lake City, was a turning point in his SAT life, and teacher Marie Barteld remembers her love of 'Feed SAT The Birds' as a child, and how she took the words of the SAT song literally - much to her mother's consternation. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b078w96r (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b078w96t (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b0790n78 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b078w96w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b078w96y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b078w970 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b079lt8n (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Scottee, Lesley Manville, Midge Ure, Neil SAT Bartlett, Tim Samuels, The Coral, Birds of Chicago SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Lesley Manville, SAT Midge Ure, Neil Bartlett and Tim Samuels for an eclectic mix SAT of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Coral SAT and Birds of Chicago. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Midge Ure SAT SAT ‘The UK’s Best Part-Time Band will be on BBC Four in June. SAT See website for Midge’s tour dates Autumn/Winter 2016 SAT SAT Lesley Manville SAT SAT ‘Mum’ is on BBC Two on May 13th at 10pm SAT SAT Neil Bartlett SAT SAT ‘Stella’ is at the Theatre Royal Brighton, Friday 27th SAT Saturday 28th May as part of the Brighton Festival then goes SAT to Hoxton Hall from 1 – 18 June as part of LIFT (the London SAT International Festival of Theatre). SAT SAT SAT Tim Samuels SAT SAT 'Who Stole My Spear' is out now. SAT SAT The Coral SAT ‘Miss Fortune’, from their album 'Distance Inbetween' out SAT now on Ignition Records. They are playing SAT Stoke On Trent at The Sugarmill on 20th May, New Slang SAT London on 26th May and Liverpool Sound City on the 29th May. SAT SAT Birds of Chicago SAT SAT ‘Real Midnight’, out now on Five Head Entertainment. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Scottee SAT Interviewed Guest: Lesley Manville SAT Interviewed Guest: Midge Ure SAT Interviewed Guest: Neil Bartlett SAT Interviewed Guest: Tim Samuels SAT Performer: The Coral SAT Performer: Birds of Chicago SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b079lt8t (Listen) SAT Lord Dubs SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles the life of the Labour politician, Lord SAT Dubs. SAT SAT Born in 1932, Alfred Dubs came to the UK as a 6 year old, SAT from Czechoslovakia on the 'Kindertransport'. SAT He studied at the London School of Economics and had a SAT career in marketing, before working as a local councillor. SAT He was elected as an MP in 1979. SAT This spring he introduced an amendment, in the House of SAT Lords, to the government's immigration bill. He called on SAT David Cameron to allow 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children SAT into the UK from Europe. This week, the Prime Minister SAT agreed to allow some children to enter. SAT SAT Friends and political opponents describe Lord Dubs as SAT persuasive and determined. The programme speaks to friends, SAT tennis partners and those who've been dragged up mountains SAT by him. SAT SAT Produced by Ruth Alexander and Sarah Shebbeare. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b078w972 (Listen) SAT Upstart Crow, Midsummer Night's Dream, Knight of Cups, SAT Louise Erdrich, Mona Hatoum SAT SAT Ben Elton has a new sitcom on BBC2; Upstart Crow starring SAT David Mitchell as The Bard of Avon. Could it be a return to SAT his golden form of Blackadder? SAT A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first production by Emma SAT Rice, the new Artistic Director at London's Globe Theatre. SAT Does it auger well for her residency? SAT Terrence Malick is a much-admired film director whose recent SAT work has received very mixed critical responses. Will his SAT latest, Knight of Cups, be admired or reviled? SAT Novelist Louise Erdrich is of North American Indian descent SAT and her work reflects this. Her newest - LaRose - is set in SAT the world of the Ojibwe tribe SAT Mona Hatoum has a retrospective of her work at Tate Modern - SAT how well does or can it chronicle her conceptual art? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Elif Shafak, Denise Mina and Boyd SAT Tonkin. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Knight Of Cups SAT SAT Knight Of Cups is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT A Midsummer Night’s Dream SAT A Midsummer Night’s Dream SAT is at Shakespeare’s Globe in London until 11 September 2016. SAT SAT Photographer credit: Steve Tanner. SAT SAT Louise Erdricht SAT SAT LaRose by Louise Erdrich will be available from Tuesday 10 SAT May in hardback and ebook. SAT SAT Upstart Crow SAT Upstart Crow SAT begins on Monday 9 May at 10pm on BBC Two. SAT SAT SAT Mona Hatoum SAT Mona Hatoum SAT is at Tate Modern in London until 21 August 2016. SAT SAT Image: Mona Hatoum, Performance Still, 1985/1995, Tate. SAT Presented by Tate Patrons 2012. Photo Edward Woodman, SAT Courtesy White Cube © Mona Hatoum SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Elif Shafak SAT Interviewed Guest: Denise Mina SAT Interviewed Guest: Boyd Tonkin SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b079lt8w (Listen) SAT Return to Subtopia SAT SAT The distinguished architectural writer Gillian Darley SAT retraces the story of "Subtopia", one of the most SAT significant architectural debacles of the post-war era, and SAT considers its long shadow. SAT SAT Her story starts with Ian Nairn, the maverick young SAT architectural journalist, who invented the word "Subtopia" SAT in the mid-1950s, when the Architectural Review ran a SAT campaign against unsightly clutter and the blurring of SAT distinctions between town and country. SAT SAT Nairn drew upon a recent road journey he had made, stating SAT that the outcome of "Subtopia" would be that "the end of SAT Southampton will look like the beginning of Carlisle; the SAT parts in between will look like the end of Carlisle or the SAT beginning of Southampton." SAT SAT He continued uncompromisingly: "The whole land surface is SAT becoming covered by the creeping mildew that already SAT circumscribes all of our towns. Subtopia is the annihilation SAT of the site, the steamrollering of all individuality of SAT place to one uniform and mediocre pattern." SAT SAT Gillian Darley brings together lively original archive SAT featuring Nairn himself, Gilbert Harding, Sir Hugh Casson, SAT Sir John Betjeman and others, to re-trace the story. SAT SAT She talks on location in Southampton with the architectural SAT photographer Gareth Gardner about his new project to SAT re-trace and photograph once more the locations which Nairn SAT visited. In studio, she explores the original and SAT contemporary picture with the architect Janice Murphett, and SAT the architectural writer, Gavin Stamp. SAT SAT And she wonders whether, if the short-lived and unhappy Ian SAT Nairn were alive today, what would he feel about the British SAT landscape? SAT SAT Producer: Beaty Rubens. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b078wqyy (Listen) SAT Missing Presumed Dead: The Odyssey, Episode 2 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 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 two, The Land of the Dead with Tiresias SAT and his own mother Anticlea and The Sirens must all be SAT overcome as well as a huge storm in the struggle for SAT survival and the long voyage back to the present day. 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 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 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 Tiresias: 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 Anticlea: Danusia Samal SAT Author: Homer SAT Adaptor: Simon Armitage SAT Director: Susan Roberts SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b078w974 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 FutureProofing b078zcc2 (Listen) SAT Crime SAT SAT Who will be on top in the world of future crime - the cops SAT or the criminals? How will crime change and what can be done SAT to prevent it in future? Presenters Timandra Harkness and SAT Leo Johnson explore how crime and punishment will change in SAT the 21st century. SAT SAT They discover how crime and technology combine to create a SAT toxic mix of threats and vulnerabilities in the next few SAT decades. As criminals swiftly adopt and adapt emerging SAT technologies to enable them to stay one step ahead of anyone SAT trying to combat crime, the programme examines what kind of SAT crimes this might lead to, and how it might be possible to SAT stop offenders in future. New technology also holds out the SAT prospect of radically different kinds of punishment, as well SAT as significant developments in the understanding of how and SAT why crime happens. SAT SAT Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b078xpf6 (Listen) SAT The Final, 2016 SAT SAT (17/17) SAT The grand Final of the 2016 series comes from the Radio SAT Theatre in London, with Russell Davies in the chair. The SAT four competitors who've come through the heats and the SAT semi-finals with heads held high, compete for the silver SAT Brain of Britain trophy. The winner will add his or her name SAT to the 63-year roll-call of champions that has included such SAT illustrious quizzing names as Irene Thomas, Kevin Ashman and SAT Barry Simmons. SAT SAT The Finalists will also be asked to combine their knowledge SAT to tackle a pair of devious questions set for them by the SAT outgoing Brain of Britain champion, Nigel Jones. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT The 2016 Finalists SAT SAT MIKE CLARK, a driver with a charitable organisation in SAT Montrose SAT SAT JANE COOPER, a teacher and writer from Edinburgh SAT SAT IAN FENNELL, a software developer from Kidderminster SAT SAT JOHN WEBLEY, a dentist from Southampton. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b078wqz2 (Listen) SAT Listener Stories SAT SAT Listeners tell Roger McGough the stories behind their poetry SAT requests. Poems include William Blake's The Tyger, The SAT Thought Fox by Ted Hughes and To the Cuckoo by Wordsworth. SAT Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT SAT SAT Retrospect SAT SAT by Rupert Brooke SAT SAT From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke SAT SAT Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd SAT SAT SAT SAT My Star SAT SAT by Robert Browning SAT SAT From The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Vol II SAT SAT Published by John Murray SAT SAT SAT SAT To the Cuckoo SAT SAT by William Wordsworth SAT SAT Wordsworth – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT IX from Last Poems SAT SAT By AE Housman SAT SAT From The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman SAT SAT Published by Jonathan Cape SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Sand SAT SAT by Dylan Iorworth SAT SAT (sent in by listener) SAT SAT SAT SAT Stop Thief (rewritten) SAT SAT By Roger McGough SAT SAT SAT SAT The Thought Fox SAT SAT by Ted Hughes SAT SAT From Poetry Please – The Nation’s Best-Loved Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Away and See SAT SAT by Carol Ann Duffy SAT SAT From Carol Ann Duffy – Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT The Tyger SAT SAT by William Blake SAT SAT From Poetry Please – the Nation’s Best-Loved Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover SAT SAT by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester SAT SAT Taken from the CD Popular Poetry, Popular Verse Vol II SAT SAT Label: Naxos SAT SAT SAT SAT Lines on a Young Lady's Photo Album SAT SAT by Philip Larkin SAT SAT From Collected Poems by Philip Larkin SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT The Horse Whisperer SAT SAT by Andrew Forster SAT SAT Taken from SAT https://herddynamics.wordpress.com/horse-whisperer-poem-by-a SAT drew-forster/ SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 MAY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b079m0bv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Time b03z3lkn (Listen) SUN Father Time 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 2. Father Time SUN SUN Strange things happen to Professor Lebedev in the middle of SUN the concert hall. Is he dreaming or is there a greater force SUN at work? 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: David Warner SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: David Warner SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Olga Grushin SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b079m0bx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b079m0bz (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b079m0c1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b079m0c3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b079m52g (Listen) SUN St Mary's Church, Barnes, London SUN SUN This week's Bells on Sunday comes from St. Mary's Church, SUN Barnes in London. The tower was built in the 15th century SUN and the earliest bell was cast in 1575, a further two bells SUN being added later in the 16th century. The present ring of 8 SUN was completed in 1897. The tenor weighs 10 hundredweight and SUN is tuned to G. This week we hear them ringing Bristol SUN Surprise Major. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b079lt8t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b079m0c5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b079m52j (Listen) SUN Death Be Not Proud SUN SUN Death has been an inspiration to poets, authors, artists and SUN composers throughout the centuries. The multi award winning SUN poet, Professor Michael Symmons Roberts, devotes his debut SUN presenting Something Understood to an intense reflection on SUN the subject, its mystery and inevitability. SUN SUN Roberts has himself used death in his own work, notably in SUN his poem Corpse which is featured in the programme alongside SUN the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. But it's SUN the life and poetry of John Donne, which Roberts cites as SUN his main inspiration. Donne, Roberts explains, courted death SUN as a young man and witnessed plenty of it. SUN SUN Another life-long influence on Roberts is the music of David SUN Bowie who died earlier this year. "Mortality, the need to SUN seize the fleeting life we have, was always there in his SUN work," Roberts says as he reflects on the elegiac Heroes and SUN tells the story of Bowie's final album, Blackstar and the SUN song Lazarus. "Many fans interpreted it as a message from SUN beyond the border, from a man who had crossed it." SUN SUN Other music includes Vera Hall singing Death is Awful, SUN Mozart's Requiem and John Donne's poem Death Be Not Proud SUN set to music by John Tavener. SUN SUN Presenter: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Producer: Michael Wakelin SUN A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: John Donne: The Reformed Soul - A SUN Biography SUN SUN Author: John Stubbs SUN SUN Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company SUN SUN SUN Title: Because I Could Not Stop For SUN Death (Taken from Poems: Series 1) SUN SUN Author: Emily Dickinson SUN SUN Publisher: Roberts Brothers SUN SUN SUN Title: Plenty SUN SUN Author: David Hare SUN SUN Publisher: Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN Title: Sunday Morning (Taken from SUN Selected Poems) SUN SUN Author: Wallace Stevens SUN SUN Publisher: Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN Title: Corpse (Taken from Edgelands) SUN SUN Author: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN SUN Publisher: Vintage SUN SUN SUN Title: Psalm 23:4 (Taken from The Bible SUN – King James Version) SUN SUN Publisher: Collins SUN SUN SUN Title: Holy Sonnets: Death, Be Not Proud SUN (Taken from Holy Sonnets) SUN SUN Author: John Donne SUN SUN Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing SUN Platform SUN SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b079m52l (Listen) SUN Hosier Farming System SUN SUN In the 1920s Arthur Hosier moved to Wiltshire, first buying SUN a run-down farm nearly 900 feet above sea level on the SUN Wiltshire-Hampshire-Berkshire borders. By the end of his SUN career, through sheer hard work and the invention of a SUN number of labour-saving machines, he was farming around SUN 14,000 acres. His most famous invention was the mobile SUN Milking Bail, which allowed an 'open air dairy' system to SUN operate across the farm all year round. This and many other SUN inventions were documented in the publication of a book 'The SUN Hosier's Farming System' in the 1950s which remains SUN something of a cult read in agricultural circles. SUN SUN Caz Graham visits Wexcombe Manor farm to discover that SUN Arthur's great grandson George Hosier is carrying on this SUN tradition of innovation through a no-till arable system. SUN Selling all of his cultivation equipment and importing a SUN single cross cut drill from New Zealand, George no longer SUN cultivates his land in a traditional way. Leaving the soil SUN unturned, sowing a winter cover crop and grazing SUN overwintered cattle and sheep, George's hope is that he will SUN again improve the soil fertility and productivity through SUN natural processes. SUN SUN Producer: Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b079m0c7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b079m0cc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b079m0cf (Listen) SUN "The more we understand religion, the better able we are as SUN a result to engage religious actors, the more effective our SUN diplomacy will be in advancing the interests and values of SUN our people". SUN SUN US Secretary of State John Kerry said this in a speech last SUN month. He appointed Shaun Cassey in 2013 as his Special SUN Representative on religion in global affairs. Edward SUN Stourton discusses with Shaun Cassey what Secretary Kerry SUN meant and his role in pursuing this goal. SUN SUN The BBC's Reagan Morris reports on the elderly nuns who are SUN taking on pop superstar Katy Perry, as well as the Los SUN Angeles Catholic hierarchy. SUN SUN How much has the anti-Semitism row cost Labour votes in the SUN recent elections? Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg discusses this SUN with Edward Stourton and whether the party can rebuild their SUN relationship with the Jewish community he represents. SUN SUN Many people have a will but how many have considered their SUN digital legacy? Ahead of Dying Matters Awareness Week Kevin SUN Bocquet reports on the growing issue of dealing with death SUN in the online world. SUN SUN The Bloody History of Bible Translations - Harry Freedman SUN discusses his new book about those who have dared to SUN translate the word of God. SUN SUN According to U2's Bono Christian contemporary music should SUN explore more difficult themes because he is convinced that SUN God wants people to be honest and open about how they truly SUN feel. Three of Britain's contemporary worship composers SUN share their thoughts on whether this fairly reflects the SUN genre. SUN SUN Conservative statements about the role of women and other SUN aspects of contemporary society published on some mosque SUN websites were picked up by a number of newspapers this week. SUN Edward Stourton discusses what it means. SUN SUN Producers: SUN SUN Catherine Earlam SUN Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b079m52n (Listen) SUN PEAS SUN SUN Carol Ann Duffy presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN PEAS SUN Registered Charity No 1126550 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'PEAS' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'PEAS'. SUN SUN PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) SUN SUN In countries like Uganda, only one in four children has the SUN opportunity to study at secondary school. SUN PEAS is a not-for-profit social enterprise that delivers SUN low-cost, secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa. SUN Currently educating over 14,000 students across 30 SUN sustainably delivered schools in Uganda and Zambia, PEAS SUN focus on getting more girls and boys from disadvantaged SUN communities into quality education and enables them to reach SUN their potential. SUN SUN Deborah (who you hear about in the appeal) SUN SUN Deborah is in Senior 4 at Pioneer High School in the Mityana SUN District in Central Uganda. She attends the girl’s club... SUN *“Some girls cannot afford to buy sanitary pads because they SUN are too expensive. Like me, I could not afford to buy but SUN with the re-usable pad it gives me the chance to learn."* SUN SUN “I can continue to come to school” SUN SUN Rahima, who also attends the girl’s club, is in Senior 2 at SUN Pioneer High School. SUN *“I feel comfortable using the sanitary pads and I can SUN continue to come to school. The re-usables absorb SUN everything. My mother does not have the money to buy SUN sanitary pads so it’s great that this re-usable lasts a SUN whole year.”* SUN SUN Educating more children from the poorest families SUN SUN Almost two in every three students attending a PEAS school SUN are from the poorest families in Ugandan society – a much SUN higher proportion than attend government or private schools. SUN Research shows students that gain an education at a PEAS SUN school graduate with exam results equal to, or better than, SUN those same counterparts. SUN SUN Join our Club SUN SUN The first challenge is encouraging girls to attend school SUN but an even tougher challenge is ensuring they remain in SUN school. Girls’ Clubs, set up across the PEAS school SUN network, provide re-usable sanitary pads, empower girls to SUN realise their potential and teach new skills to increase SUN employability. 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SUN Preacher: The Rector, The Revd Steve James. With the Revd Dr SUN Paul Mathole (Associate Minister) and Sarah Bradley (Youth SUN Minister). Director of Music: Olly Hamilton. Producer: SUN Andrew Earis. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN BBC Radio 4. It’s ten past eight. The Archbishops of SUN Canterbury and York have called for ‘a great wave of prayer SUN across the land as the season of Pentecost approaches.’ SUN That’s taken up in Sunday Worship now which comes live from SUN Holy Trinity Church, Platt, in Manchester. The service is SUN introduced by the church’s Associate Minister, the Revd Dr SUN Paul Mathole. SUN SUN Paul Mathole SUN Good morning and a warm welcome to Manchester. It’s the week SUN before Pentecost – when the early church burst into life SUN with the joy of the resurrection. SUN SUN Our church is one that was built in a hurry. In fact it was SUN a bit of a competition. A man called Thomas Worsley wanted SUN the church completed before another in the local area. It SUN was a race to get to the top of the tower! Little did he SUN know that one hundred and seventy years later it would be SUN surrounded by universities, hospitals, part of the thriving SUN activity around Manchester’s city centre. Our congregation SUN comes from all corners of the world and spans generations, SUN with an average age in the early thirties. We feel very SUN privileged to provide a spiritual home to so many young SUN lives. SUN SUN Leading the service with me this morning is our Youth and SUN Children’s minister Sarah Bradley. We begin by singing Isaac SUN Watts’ hymn calling all creation to praise our God. SUN SUN MUSIC: FROM ALL WHO DWELL BENEATH THE SKIES SUN SUN Sarah Bradley SUN Heavenly Father, we thank you that you are Lord over our SUN whole world; thank you that all who dwell on earth can look SUN to you as king. And we pray those words you taught us, “thy SUN kingdom come” - that all the world might share in the hope SUN and blessing of your kingship. Amen SUN SUN We’re really excited to be part of an initiative from the SUN Archbishops of Canterbury and York to pray for the SUN evangelisation of our nation. And it starts today! Let’s SUN hear from Archbishop Justin Welby now: SUN SUN RECORDED INSERT SUN As Christians there’s nothing more important than our SUN relationship with Jesus Christ. When that flourishes it SUN overflows to the world around us, to our friends to our SUN family to those we work with to everyone we know. And when SUN the church is full of the presence of Christ, we overflow SUN and transform society in the most beautiful and wonderful SUN way. That overflowing starts with our prayer lives SUN individually and together as we pray and meet with Christ in SUN prayer. That’s why this Pentecost the Archbishop of York and SUN I are asking churches [cut England] to pray for a renewal of SUN their expectancy in the abundance and the overflowing of SUN Christ in their lives together so that people right across SUN the country see who Jesus is and are drawn to faith in him. SUN SUN Sarah Bradley SUN “The overflow of Christ in our lives” - as a church that’s SUN what we’re passionate about. [?Our congregation comes from SUN all corners of the world and spans generations, with an SUN average age in the early thirties. We feel very privileged SUN to provide a spiritual home to so many young lives.] SUN SUN In our songs, our Bible teaching, in our midweek groups, SUN we’re trying to reach the coming generation with the good SUN news of Jesus. Our music today is directed by Olly Hamilton, SUN with professional musicians, music students and other SUN talented performers drawn from our congregation. Our next SUN song reminds us what a joyful story we have to tell because SUN of what Jesus has done for us: When I was lost you came and SUN rescued me. SUN SUN MUSIC: WHEN I WAS LOST SUN SUN Paul Mathole SUN Our first reading is from the gospel of Luke, chapter 24 SUN starting at verse 36. It’s just after the crucifixion. Two SUN disciples, heading out of Jerusalem, met a man on the road. SUN When they broke bread with the man, they suddenly came to SUN recognise it was the risen Lord Jesus! They’ve rushed back SUN to the city to tell the others... SUN SUN SUN Reader 1: Mez SUN 36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself SUN stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” SUN 37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a SUN ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do SUN doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. SUN It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have SUN flesh and bones, as you see I have.” SUN 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. SUN 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy SUN and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to SUN eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he SUN took it and ate it in their presence. SUN 44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was SUN still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written SUN about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” SUN 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the SUN Scriptures. 46 He told them, “This is what is written: The SUN Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, SUN 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be SUN preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. SUN 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 I am going to send SUN you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until SUN you have been clothed with power from on high.” SUN Paul Mathole SUN The disciples had a story that had to be told! We’re going SUN to hear now from Alex McGowan with her own story of how SUN Jesus has changed her life SUN Alex McGowan: Personal Testimony SUN SUN At 25, I was a feature reporter for News of the World when SUN the paper suddenly closed. Redundant, I had to face the fact SUN that I'd been living a double life, concealing a daily SUN cannabis habit. I was using drugs to try and get rid of the SUN empty feeling, but it didn't work. SUN SUN After I was made redundant, my using increased. I was SUN desperate, but didn't know what to do. One day, while I was SUN smoking, I had a profound experience with God for the first SUN time, which I definitely wasn't looking for. SUN SUN It was as if He confronted me personally, and I saw myself SUN as I was through His eyes...totally lost, and as far from SUN Him as I could be. It shook me to the core and life hasn't SUN been the same since. SUN SUN The experience propelled me into 12 step recovery meetings SUN similar to AA, where I subsequently heard the gospel. My SUN faith in Jesus means I wasn't at war with God any more. This SUN has given me peace. SUN SUN Knowing Jesus means I don't have to fight to prove my worth SUN anymore, because my identity is in Him, not my SUN accomplishments or failures. I love Jesus because even SUN though my life was such a mess, he met me where I was and SUN pulled me out of it; for me, my desire to use drugs SUN vanished. SUN SUN The power of God is unmistakeable; the changes He's brought SUN about could never have been produced by human will power. SUN Jesus came and found me when I wasn't even looking for Him SUN and I love Him for that. SUN He is all powerful, but so tender and kind, all at once. Who SUN wouldn't want a friend like that?! SUN SUN Now I work as a funeral celebrant - a lay person sharing the SUN gospel on a daily basis in a predominantly secular SUN environment. It's more successful than you'd think because, SUN religion aside, everyone knows deep down they are searching SUN for something, but who are we to stand in the presence of SUN God? What a joy to explain to people that through Christ, SUN anyone, no matter who you are, can call on His name and know SUN his amazing grace. SUN Paul Mathole SUN It’s by the grace of God alone that we can stand in his SUN presence. We sing of that now. SUN SUN MUSIC: GRACE UNMEASURED, SUN SUN Sarah Bradley SUN Our second reading is from the opening of 1 Peter - his SUN words of wonder at the hope we have in Jesus. SUN SUN Reader 2: BJ SUN 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! SUN In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living SUN hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, SUN 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or SUN fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who SUN through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming SUN of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last SUN time. 6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a SUN little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds SUN of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness SUN of your faithof greater worth than gold, which perishes even SUN though refined by firemay result in praise, glory and honor SUN when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen SUN him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, SUN you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and SUN glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your SUN faith, the salvation of your souls. SUN Sarah Bradley SUN In a moment, our Rector the Revd Steve James will come and SUN speak to us about that passage. But first we sing - I heard SUN the voice of Jesus say SUN SUN MUSIC: I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS SAY SUN SUN TALK: Steve James SUN Many years ago, just after I’d come to faith, I wanted to SUN give my grandfather a bible. .. He had been a Welsh miner at SUN the coalface for many years and a Welsh Baptist as well.. SUN But.. What to write in the front of that bible that would SUN capture how I felt as a 19 year old about my new found SUN faith? SUN I chose the verse we’ve just read .”Without having seen Him SUN you love Him”. It seemed to capture the radical craziness of SUN believing in Jesus in a secular world.. To love someone SUN we’ve never seen! SUN Now the Archbishops have called the churches to pray for the SUN evangelisation of the nation.. Every Christian would say SUN Amen to that!! SUN But what a challenge in our material world!? Its an SUN invisible kingdom and an invisible King! In fact the only SUN thing that IS visible, are Christians.. But it’s when these SUN Christians overflow with love, and faith and hope in some of SUN the toughest circumstances, that people begin to take SUN notice. SUN Peter, in his letter, is full of praise for what God has SUN done for us. By his mercy he has secured our future.. he has SUN given us a living hope. SUN Hope is an invisible thing, but it makes such a difference. SUN The Chinese Philosopher, Carver Yu said of our world.. we SUN have technological optimism.. and literary despair- SUN Everything to live with, nothing to live for. SUN SUN Peter speaks of this hope as a heavenly inheritance that can SUN never perish SUN spoil or fade, kept in heaven for you. So there’s ultimately SUN a good purpose to all that we go [ the Christian goes] SUN through in life- God wants to bring us to a place where our SUN deepest hopes and longings will finally be met. SUN And that’s such a contrast to life today – which perishes, SUN spoils or fades. SUN I had a clergy friend who was a vicar of a church in SUN Fontanbleu, just south of Paris. He’d arranged for us to SUN stay the night in a chateau. It was delightful! But when we SUN had breakfast with the owners in the morning, they explained SUN what happened in a chateau, when someone in a generation SUN died. The property would be divided, and then divided again SUN in each generation.. Its French law, or at least allegedly SUN it was, and so they saw this wonderful inheritance simply SUN diminishing before their very eyes! SUN Well, not so with our living hope! SUN But what’s this future hope based on? It’s based on an SUN event in the past – in history - the physical resurrection SUN of Jesus Christ from the dead. SUN Much has been written on the evidence for the resurrection, SUN but here’s one small but significant detail. SUN If you visit Jerusalem today, you’ll find there’s a debate SUN over the exact location of the tomb of Jesus. Now there’s a SUN good contender or two, but the reason we’re not exactly sure SUN where His tomb lay, is perhaps because, to the early SUN Christians, it wasn't that important. SUN As the apocryphal story goes of Joseph of Arimathea. . the SUN man who gave away his family tomb for Jesus’ burial - - SUN speaking to his wife he says –“ I’ve given the family tomb SUN away to the preacher from Galilee”. And his wife says, ”but SUN why? I’m going to be buried there, you will be buried there, SUN all our family will be buried there?! “ “Oh”, says Joseph, SUN “don't worry – He only wants it for the weekend!” SUN The New testament tells that after His resurrection, “for 40 SUN days, with his disciples, which included Peter, he walked SUN around, talked ate and passed SUN through walls and finally ascended into heaven in order to SUN demonstrate that He was in no way bound to the old order of SUN things.. Since then, this old world of ours has never been SUN the same.” SUN This future hope based on that past event affects how we SUN live in our present trials and tribulations. Peter writes SUN this strange line.. .. in this hope you rejoice, even though SUN now you have had to suffer grief through various trials.. SUN Joy and grief in one sentence!? SUN SUN 2 years ago we got that phone call everyone dreads..the SUN police saying..your daughter has been airlifted to SUN hospital.. brain injury.. she’s in theatre now.. you rush to SUN a and e.. you’re taken to one side into a nice room with SUN free tea and coffee and Kleenex.. and you know it must be SUN serious.. SUN And it really was.. life and death..4 times they told us she SUN might die.. and in the few hours and days afterwards we got SUN that blinding clarity that only comes in the furnace of SUN suffering. We found ourselves saying. Thank God??, she has SUN an inheritance that can never perish spoil or fade.. SUN Now this is a story with a happy ending.. through prayer and SUN the wonderful NHS, she’s back at work.. And we all know it SUN doesn't always work out that way. We have experienced the SUN grief of death here in our congregation too. But here’s the SUN strange thing. In the midst of difficulties, despite the SUN circumstances, there is a living hope, indeed, there is a SUN Living Lord, who is an island of certainty in a sea of SUN uncertainty. SUN SUN Do we deserve this inheritance? Of course not! But that’s SUN the joy of it! There are so many reasons to keep us out of SUN heaven, why should he let us in? And yet He is dying to let SUN us in. It's a gift .. of his grace. A pardon, if you like.. SUN and it answers that nagging feeling that we sometimes call SUN “imposter syndrome” – the feeling that one day the boss will SUN find you out. He has found you out! But he has covered your SUN shame and bought your forgiveness.. As the old Good Friday SUN hymn says :- “ He died that we might be forgiven he died to SUN make us good that we might go at last to heaven saved by his SUN precious blood”. SUN SUN SUN You can’t see him, or at least you weren’t around to see him SUN all those years ago, but Peter saw, and wrote this for every SUN generation to read including my grandfather. I imagine him SUN marvelling with wonder as he says “Without having seen Him, SUN YOU, in the 21C love him! SUN Some years ago.. as 19 year old.. I began looking into the SUN Christian faith. I’d been going to church all my life.. but SUN after one evening service a lovely girl asked me if I’d like SUN to come to the youth group.. I said yes, not really knowing SUN the kind of holy huddle I was letting myself in for.. It was SUN great, actually! Guitars.. good songs- and then she said.. SUN lets pray. I looked around for the vicar.. he was the only SUN person I’d ever heard pray out loud.. but she prayed.. and SUN as I watched her peeking thru my fingers.. I saw her talking SUN to someone I couldn't see, and that she loved him. And at SUN that point I felt myself going bright red, dying of SUN embarrassment, but I knew SUN she had something I didn't have. SUN Today, people can’t see Jesus.. but they can see you and me. SUN You know, we often talk about faith as something SUN cerebral..something you need to understand, something you SUN hold to.But can I ask you.... do you love Him? That’s real SUN Christianity.. SUN And people catch what other people love.. It is the SUN Christian faith in a nutshell.. Without having seen Him, you SUN love Him. Amen SUN SUN MUSIC: ALAS! AND DID MY SAVIOUR BLEED, SUN Sarah Bradley SUN Alexandra Frazer singing Alas And Did My Saviour Bleed. Our SUN prayers are led by Deborah Primrose, a member of the SUN congregation here at Platt. SUN SUN Prayers: Deborah Primrose SUN ”Without having seen Him you love Him” SUN Our Heavenly Father as followers of Jesus we do love him and SUN we have not yet seen him. SUN SUN We thank you for those who shared the truth of Jesus and his SUN love, mercy and forgiveness with us. We ask that in turn we SUN may pass on this Good News to others so they may know they SUN are loved and forgiven too. SUN SUN Give us confidence to speak of you, Sensitivity to walk with SUN others on their journey, And love to inspire us to reach out SUN to others. Most of all, give us a passion to see your SUN Kingdom come, That we might take risky steps To be your SUN witnesses to your world. Through your Son, our Saviour, SUN Jesus Christ. Amen. SUN SUN When your followers walked the Emmaus road, Wondering what SUN was true and what was not, You came alongside them and SUN revealed yourself Through opened word and broken bread. Come SUN alongside those we know and love Who wonder and seek at this SUN time. Especially we pray for our neighbours, friends and SUN families. Reveal yourself in your love, make us ready to SUN walk alongside them too, Until they see your face and know SUN your presence. Amen. SUN SUN Let us also silently pray for those we may know in need of SUN relief from pain, sadness, worry and hardship. [count 5 SUN seconds] SUN SUN Let us pray for those countries of the world torn by war and SUN division - we ask for simple acts of bravery, kindness and SUN love to change situations through the power of the Holy SUN Spirit. [count 5 seconds] SUN As Bishop Tom Wright wrote “we are praying, as Jesus was SUN praying and acting for the redemption of the world; for the SUN radical defeat and uprooting of evil and for heaven and SUN earth to be married at last, for God to be all in all and if SUN we pray this way we must be prepared to live this way” SUN SUN And now A Prayer of St Richard of Chichester (1197-1253) SUN SUN Thanks be to you, our Lord Jesus Christ, SUN for all the benefits which you have given us, SUN for all the pains and insults which you have borne for us. SUN Most merciful Redeemer, Friend and Brother, SUN may we know you more clearly, SUN love you more dearly, SUN and follow you more nearly, SUN day by day SUN Amen. SUN Sarah Bradley SUN We say the Lord’s Prayer together: SUN SUN Our Father in heaven, SUN hallowed be your name, SUN your kingdom come, SUN your will be done, SUN on earth as in heaven. SUN Give us today our daily bread. SUN Forgive us our sins, SUN as we forgive those who sin against us. SUN Lead us not into temptation SUN but deliver us from evil, SUN for the kingdom, the power, SUN and the glory are yours SUN now and forever. SUN Amen. SUN SUN Paul Mathole SUN Without having seen him, you love him. It’s a love that SUN cannot help but overflow. As our final hymn puts it, “Then SUN sings my soul”: How great thou art. SUN SUN MUSIC: O LORD MY GOD! SUN SUN Paul Mathole: Final Blessing SUN SUN MUSIC SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b0790fry (Listen) SUN Florence Under Water SUN SUN 50 years after one of the worst floods in Florence's SUN history, Sarah Dunant reflects on the events of 1966 and the SUN work still going on to save some of the greatest art in the SUN world. SUN SUN She talks to some of those who were there about their SUN memories of the human and cultural catastrophe. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sarah Dunant SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b01s8mng (Listen) SUN Swift SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David SUN Attenborough presents the Swift. Swifts live in the sky, SUN feeding, mating and sleeping on the wing. Their feet are so SUN reduced they cannot stand particularly well on land, only SUN the near vertical surfaces on which they build their nest. SUN SUN Swift (Apus apus) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b079m0cm (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 b079m78l (Listen) SUN Helen makes a decision, and it is deadline day at the Dower SUN House. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Joanna Toye 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 Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Miranda Elliott: Lucy Fleming SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler 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 Julian Bywater: Alun Raglan SUN Clerk: George Watkins SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b079m78n (Listen) SUN Tom Hanks SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Tom Hanks. SUN SUN From 'Big' to 'Sleepless in Seattle', 'Captain Phillips' to SUN 'Apollo 13', his long and distinguished film-making career SUN has brought him multiple awards and many plaudits. He's the SUN recipient of eight Emmys, one Bafta and four Golden Globes SUN and was the youngest ever actor to be given a lifetime SUN achievement award by the American Film institute. The voice SUN of Woody in the 'Toy Story' films, he won the first of his SUN two Oscars in 1993 for Philadelphia and again the following SUN year for Forrest Gump. SUN SUN His parents split up when he was 5 and he went to live with SUN his father. By the age of 10 he'd lived in ten different SUN houses in five different cities. He loved school and SUN developed a passion for history which is reflected in the SUN film he made with Steven Spielberg, 'Saving Private Ryan' SUN and the TV mini-series 'Band of Brothers' and 'The Pacific' SUN which he also produced. SUN SUN His latest film is 'Hologram for The King'. SUN SUN He is married to the actor & producer, Rita Wilson. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN The podcast version of the programme will be an extended SUN version of the broadcast interview. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Tom Hanks SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b079m0ct (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b0785rmw (Listen) SUN Series 16, Episode 5 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Henning Wehn, Jon Richardson, Susan Calman and Jack Dee are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as the British aristocracy, funerals, SUN nudity and rubber. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. SUN SUN Produced by Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Henning Wehn SUN Panellist: John Richardson SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: Jack Dee SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b079m78q (Listen) SUN Best Food Producer: The Finalists SUN SUN Yotam Ottolenghi and Sheila Dillon meet BBC Food and Farming SUN Awards's best food producers. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b079m0cw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b079m0cy (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Brain of Britain b079mdhq (Listen) SUN Bard Brain of Britain SUN SUN In a special edition of the nation's longest-running general SUN knowledge contest, Russell Davies welcomes four experts to SUN determine who knows most about William Shakespeare and his SUN works. SUN SUN The competitors joining Russell at the Radio Theatre in SUN London will include Shakespearean actors and directors, as SUN well as those who've written and researched extensively in SUN the field of Shakespeare studies. The questions will range SUN across Shakespeare's life, plays and poems, and there'll be SUN plenty of musical and archive extracts to identify. The SUN winner will lift the trophy as the official 'Bard Brain of SUN Britain'. SUN SUN Producer Paul Bajoria. SUN SUN The panel SUN SUN PAUL EDMONDSON is Head of Learning and Research at the SUN Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, a charitable organisation that SUN promotes knowledge and understanding of Shakespeare's life SUN and work, and cares for the five surviving buildings in SUN Stratford with links to Shakespeare. He is a regular SUN broadcaster, co-supervisory editor of the Penguin SUN Shakespeare, Director of the Stratford upon Avon Poetry SUN Festival and the General Editor of the SUN blog bloggingshakespeare.com SUN SUN CAROL RUTTER is a world authority on women in the SUN performance of Shakespeare. She is the author of Enter The SUN Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage, and SUN is Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at the SUN University of Warwick. SUN SUN JOHN SESSIONS actor and comedian, studied at RADA alongside SUN Kenneth Branagh. His enormously diverse film and TV roles SUN include Boswell to Robbie Coltrane's Dr Johnson, Edward SUN Heath, Geoffrey Howe, Arthur Lowe, Mycroft Holmes, a SUN psychopathic computer in Dr Who, and Dr Prunesquallor in the SUN BBC's dramatisation of Gormenghast. He has taken roles in SUN several films of Shakespeare plays including Branagh's Henry SUN V and the 2004 movie of The Merchant of Venice with Al SUN Pacino. SUN SUN FIONA SHAW is one of the most respected and accomplished of SUN Shakespearean actors. She has worked with the RSC regularly SUN since the mid-1980s, taking lead roles in The Taming Of The SUN Shrew, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Electra, Hedda Gabler - and SUN she famously played the title role in Richard II. She SUN appeared as Harry Potter's aunt Petunia Dursley in five of SUN the Harry Potter films. Recently she has won acclaim as an SUN opera director with productions of Vaughan Williams's Riders SUN to the Sea and Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0790c4s (Listen) SUN East Cornwall SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN East Cornwall. James Wong, Anne Swithinbank and Matt Biggs SUN provide answers to questions on creating mini Japanese SUN gardens, early-blooming Azaleas, and how to construct a SUN child-friendly maze in your garden. SUN SUN They also advise on how to beat blight and the best ways to SUN deter pigeons from interfering with your crops. 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 – How can I get rid of Spanish Bluebells ( SUN *Hyacinthoides hispanica*) SUN ? SUN SUN Matt – For spraying it’s better to crush the leaves then SUN spray with a systemic herbicide – your best bet is to keep SUN weakening them before they have a chance to photosynthesise. SUN SUN SUN Q – How do I make a mini Japanese Garden? What plants do you SUN recommend to accompany small Acers? SUN SUN James – Cornwall is a very good climate for Japanese Gardens SUN – moss on trees, unusual shapes from the effects of wind and SUN salt air, boulders. When buying online, check the size of SUN the pots because pictures can be deceiving SUN SUN Matt – I would stick with the Acers – less is more, maybe SUN add some moss, small broken twigs, rocks and stones. SUN SUN SUN Q – Last year my daughter’s greenhouse tomatoes and potatoes SUN grew very well, now they have keeled over and gone mouldy. SUN What has happened? SUN SUN James – Black and brown patches just after they are SUN beginning to ripen can only mean blight (late blight). They SUN are more at risk if grown outside – best thing to do is SUN choose a blight-resistant variety, such as ‘Crimson Crush’ – SUN delicious and blight resistant. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’ve got an Evergreen Azalea which normally flowers from SUN the end of April to early June but it began flowering at SUN Christmas 2015 and is still in full bloom – what TLC can I SUN apply to help the plant recover, when will it flower SUN again? SUN SUN Anne – I don’t think you need to worry too much; it has been SUN tricked by the mild winter. That may be its flowering over SUN for the year, it should flower again next year as normal SUN depending on our weather conditions. You can feed it with SUN ericaceous plant food. SUN SUN Matt – the only cause for concern could be that sometimes SUN plants flower out of season or for a particularly long time SUN before they finally die – but you should be able to tell SUN from the plant’s overall condition. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’m thinking of making a low, grandchild-friendly maze SUN in the garden, could it be done with Lavender or is there SUN something else you could recommend? SUN SUN James – Yes, Lavender is perfect! If you want it to be low, SUN quick-growing and adaptable to our climate and great for SUN wildlife, flowers and scent. Also – Chilean Guava – SUN Identical to Box in many ways but Box blight-resistant, SUN small scented flowers and delicious small fruit. SUN SUN Anne – There’s an oriental privet which is much finer than SUN the usual privet *(Ligustrum ovalifolium or Ligustrum SUN delavayi), *it’s worth looking at privets because they can SUN be really nice low, easily-clipped evergreen hedges. SUN SUN Matt - *Ilex crenata* the Japanese Holly (non-prickly) – SUN used a lot as a substitute for Box hedge. And *Lonicera SUN nitida*. You could mow the grass to create a pattern on your SUN lawn. SUN SUN SUN Q – I recently dug out a north-facing bank (part shaded by SUN Beech trees) and it was full of nettles and brambles. I hope SUN I have removed all the brambles, what should I plant to stop SUN the weeds returning? And what are the chances that the SUN bramble will come back if I didn’t remove it all? SUN SUN Matt – I would plant several different Ivy over it to make a SUN patchwork - like *Vinca Minor* and *Jasminum nudiflorum. SUN *Planting climbers as ground covers will work well. SUN SUN Anne – Yes, because of the potential problem with brambles, SUN you should plant transient plants for now. I’d be sewing SUN Foxgloves, Honesty (biennials) and Ferns – from garden SUN centres can be quite cheap by the tray. Also *Coriaria SUN violacea* – extended growth and small purple flowers. SUN SUN SUN Q – We are creating a garden from paddock land, views to the SUN west and ‘leggy’ Hawthorn trees on the boundary – must we SUN lose the open aspect to plant protection for a garden of SUN shrubs, herbaceous plants and vegetables? What will survive SUN strong westerly winds, be beautiful and grow fairly quickly? SUN SUN Anne – If you are going to landscape the paddock you can SUN create shelter within it by planting quick growing trees and SUN shrubs – by creating ‘rooms’ you will be creating shelter. SUN Design the plot first and find where you will need SUN sightlines – use hedges and ‘shelter belt’ trees to protect SUN the new plants. SUN SUN Matt – To create interest and surprise throughout the garden SUN I would recommend *Griselinia littoralis *or some of the SUN E*scallonias* or even more Hawthorne hedging. SUN SUN SUN Q – I planted a lot of Hyacinths and they all turned to mush SUN in the ground. (They were indoors for some time) What am I SUN doing wrong? SUN SUN Anne – Lack of ventilation, warm and muggy conditions will SUN harm them. The cooler you can keep them – like a cool porch SUN – the better and the longer they are going to last. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have a problem with pigeons, who poo all over the SUN steps; and mice, who eat all the tulip bulbs. How do I deter SUN them? SUN SUN Matt – Roses over the archway should stop the pigeons from SUN being able to perch. Dip the tulip bulbs in liquid seaweed – SUN anything that smells strongly should deter them. SUN SUN Anne – Small, pale plastic spikes might stop them perching. SUN SUN James – Small horticultural wire across the arch held just SUN above by a few nails. Plant hormone *Methyl jasmonate SUN *(Jasmine scented)*, *can be used as a bird deterrent. SUN *Piperine *found in black pepper and *Capsaicin *which is SUN found in chili – black pepper and chili flakes are cheap to SUN buy and can be sprinkled in when planting. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b079mdhs (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with a conversation between friends, one of whom SUN supported the other through a psychotic episode and the SUN depression following treatment, about how it changed them. 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 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b079mdy2 (Listen) SUN Sex, Power SUN SUN Blood Sex and Money, an epic 24 hours of drama inspired by SUN the works of literature's greatest whistle blower, Emile SUN Zola. SUN SUN Season 2. Sex. Episode 2. Power SUN SUN A potent story about the clash between love and politics SUN dramatised by Oliver Emanuel. SUN SUN Eugene Rougon is at the peak of his political power when his SUN lover gives him an ultimatum. SUN SUN Glenda Jackson stars as Dide the matriarch to a family of SUN wolves - the Rougon- Macquarts. SUN SUN Directed by Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dide: Glenda Jackson SUN Eugene: Robert Jack SUN Veronique: Victoria Beesley SUN Photographer: Laurie Brown SUN Minister: Laurie Brown SUN Clorinde: Laura Dos Santos SUN Delestang: Alasdair Hankinson SUN Gilquin: Jonathan Keeble SUN Emperor: Jonathan Keeble SUN Director: Kirsty Williams SUN Author: Emile Zola SUN Adaptor: Oliver Emanuel SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b079mdy4 (Listen) SUN Allan Ahlberg SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to celebrated author Allan Ahlberg, SUN creator of children's classics including The Jolly Postman SUN and Each Peach Pear Plum. His latest book is all about SUN doubling, and could even help young readers with their SUN maths, but Allan Ahlberg tells Mariella that he's never had SUN a moral or educational purpose in his work, for him it's all SUN about playfulness and experimenting with words. SUN We investigate some of the quirkier texts to be found in the SUN London Library, including a Letter On Corpulence, Addressed SUN to the Public, from 1864 and The Little Book of Health and SUN Courtesy which was written for children in 1905. SUN Mariella discusses a new prize which aims to reward a work SUN of fiction with strong female protagonists at its centre, SUN and an editor recommends a work from a rival's list. SUN SUN Half the World Literary Award SUN Half the World Literary Award SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Allan Ahlberg SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b079mdy6 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces poems requested by listeners. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN On the Grasshopper and Cricket SUN SUN By John Keats SUN SUN From The Complete Poems [John Keats] SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Summer SUN SUN By Christina Rossetti SUN SUN From Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti SUN SUN Published by Wordsworth SUN SUN SUN SUN One Cigarette SUN SUN By Edwin Morgan SUN SUN From Edwin Morgan – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Carcanet SUN SUN SUN SUN Wessex Heights SUN SUN By Thomas Hardy SUN SUN From The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN The Catch SUN SUN By Simon Armitage SUN SUN From Kid SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Garden SUN SUN By Andrew Marvell SUN SUN From Andrew Marvell – Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Carcanet SUN SUN SUN SUN A Wall SUN SUN By Dannie Abse SUN SUN From Welsh Retrospective SUN SUN Published by Seren SUN SUN SUN SUN Suicide off Egg Rock SUN SUN By Sylvia Plath SUN SUN From Sylvia Plath – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN In My Craft or Sullen Art SUN SUN By Dylan Thomas SUN SUN (archive recording) SUN SUN From Dylan Thomas: The Poems SUN SUN Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN A Child Half Asleep SUN SUN By Tony Connor SUN SUN Taken from SUN https://webofnotes.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/a-child-half- SUN sleep.pdf SUN SUN In Mrs Tilscher's Class SUN SUN By Carol Ann Duffy SUN SUN From Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Jabberwocky SUN SUN By Lewis Carroll SUN SUN From A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse SUN SUN Published by Allen Lane SUN SUN SUN SUN My Own Heart SUN SUN By Gerard Manley Hopkins SUN SUN From Hopkins – Poems and Prose SUN SUN Published by Everyman’s Library SUN SUN SUN SUN An Arundel Tomb SUN SUN By Philip Larkin SUN SUN From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 The Blame Game b078z5m8 (Listen) SUN Doctors, social workers, police officers, midwives, teachers SUN and many others are scrutinised more than ever before. They SUN risk being exposed for making poor decisions, and punished. SUN SUN But does our widespread intolerance of failure do more harm SUN than good? Are we failing to understand the distinction SUN between systemic failure and individual failure - and SUN drawing the wrong conclusions as a result? SUN SUN Eliza Manningham-Buller - Director General of MI5 from 2002 SUN to 2007 - talks to an intelligence officer in Britain's SUN Security Service, the former Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell SUN and Sharon Shoesmith who won a claim for unfair dismissal SUN over the Baby P case. She also hears from a frontline social SUN worker, a midwife and the football coach Steve Coppell about SUN working in environments where it seems that someone must SUN always be to blame. SUN SUN Hers is not an argument against holding people to account - SUN criminal negligence and serious culpability must be exposed, SUN scrutinised and punished - but an attempt to understand how SUN to hold people responsible while avoiding fruitless witch SUN hunts. In other words: how do we learn valuable lessons, SUN without demonising individuals for honest mistakes? SUN SUN Producer: Mark Savage. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b079lt8t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b079m0d0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b079m0d2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b079m0d4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b079mhlm (Listen) SUN Helen Lederer SUN SUN The best of BBC Radio in the past seven days as chosen by SUN Helen Lederer it includes Nostalgia, tears and notions of SUN masculinity . We hear about a spy who used her jewels to fox SUN the Nazis - to the story behind a classic song from Mary SUN Poppins along the way we're exposed to greatness, phenomenal SUN female musicians and surrogate dogs... Oh and football. SUN SUN production team : Kevin Mousley, Kay Bishton and Sally SUN Richardson. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b079mhlp (Listen) SUN Emma and Fallon head to Greenbury, and Jazzer tries SUN something new. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rest Is History b079mhls (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 6 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 Josie Long and Kevin Eldon, who discuss SUN Captain Blood, Drake's Drum, Bloody Mary and E.R.N.I.E. 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: Josie Long SUN Panellist: Kevin Eldon SUN Panellist: Kate Williams SUN Producer: Mark Augustyn SUN Producer: Justin Pollard SUN SUN 19:45 Border Crossing b079mjm8 (Listen) SUN First Born & Demoiselle 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 First Born by Leila Haidar, a Syrian mother mourns the SUN death of her eldest son. The reader is Sirine Saba. SUN SUN In Michelle Green's response, Demoiselle, a woman prepares SUN to join her friend working with migrating cranes in India. SUN The reader is Clare Corbett. SUN SUN Leila Haidar is the pseudonym of a published writer living SUN in a regime-controlled area of Syria. Michelle Green is a SUN British-Canadian writer and spoken word artist. She has SUN published one collection of poetry, and her book Jebel SUN Marra, a collection of linked stories on Darfur's ongoing SUN war, is out now. SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Sirine Saba SUN Reader: Clare Corbett SUN Writer: Leila Haidar SUN Writer: Michelle Green SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0790cgp (Listen) SUN The Most Profitable Product in History SUN SUN What is the world's most profitable product? SUN Recently one of our listeners contacted us to say he heard a SUN BBC correspondent describe the iPhone as the most profitable SUN product in history. It was just an off-the-cuff comment but SUN it got us thinking - could it be true? We asked listeners to SUN get in touch with their suggestions. We take a look at a SUN handful of them, from Viagra to popcorn in our quest for an SUN answer. Could it be something more historical? SUN SUN EU and trade SUN We take a look at the numbers on trade and at the UK's SUN relationship with the EU. Tim Harford interviews Chad P. SUN Bown, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for SUN International Economics. SUN SUN Leicester City's Premier League success SUN At the beginning of the football season we explored the SUN fallibility of predictions from experts and fans. As the SUN season is ending, that is the only prediction we made SUN correctly - that they are usually very wrong. Leicester City SUN has had an astonishing success in winning the English SUN Premier League. We take a look at the numbers behind the SUN team's performance. SUN SUN Sexist Data Crisis SUN Are countries around the world failing to collect adequate SUN details about their female citizens? Campaigners have argued SUN we are missing data in areas that would help us understand SUN women's lives better, for example land and inheritance SUN rights. We also explore how women's work can be overlooked SUN from labour surveys. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b078w935 (Listen) SUN Reverend Daniel Berrigan, Lord Walton of Detchant, Jenny SUN Diski, Guy Woolfenden SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Reverend Daniel Berrigan, the American Catholic priest SUN who devoted his life to campaigning for peace. He was SUN arrested many times for protests against the Vietnam War and SUN nuclear weapons. SUN SUN Jenny Diski who wrote celebrated novels, essays including SUN her travelogue Skating to Antarctica and her latest memoir SUN In Gratitude. SUN SUN Lord Walton, the eminent neurologist who wrote an SUN influential paper on muscle diseases. SUN SUN And Guy Woolfenden, long serving musical director at the SUN Royal Shakespeare Company. Sir Trevor Nunn pays tribute. SUN SUN Revd Daniel Berrigan (pictured) SUN SUN American Catholic priest who devoted his life to campaigning SUN for peace. He was arrested many times for protests against SUN the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons. Matthew spoke to his SUN friend, Father John Dear. SUN SUN Born 9 May 1921; died 30 April 2016 aged 94. SUN SUN Jenny Diski SUN SUN Author who wrote essays including her travelogue *Skating to SUN Antarctica* and her latest memoir *In Gratitude*. Last Word SUN spoke to her friend and publisher, Alexandra Pringle who is SUN Editor in Chief at Bloomsbury and to Marykay Wilmers, Editor SUN of London Review of Books. SUN SUN SUN Born 8 July 1947; died 28 April 2016 aged 68. SUN SUN Lord Walton of Detchant SUN SUN Eminent neurologist who wrote an influential paper on muscle SUN diseases. Matthew spoke to his friend and colleague, SUN Professor Volker Straub. SUN SUN Born 16 September 1922; died 21 April 2016 aged 93. SUN SUN Guy Woolfenden SUN SUN Composer and long serving musical director at the Royal SUN Shakespeare Company. Sir Trevor Nunn and Guy’s lifelong SUN friend, Tim Reynish pay tribute. SUN SUN Born 12 July 1937; died 15 April 2016 aged 78. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Trevor Nunn SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b078w96h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b079m52n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b079mkqy (Listen) SUN Recruiting by Algorithm SUN SUN Can a computer programme choose the right applicant for a SUN job? Online assessments, scanning programmes, computer SUN algorithms and the number crunching of social network data SUN are all now part of the tool kit of the recruitment SUN industry. As Peter Day discovers, to get through to an SUN actual interview, you often have to impress a computer SUN algorithm first. Traditionally a subjective process, Peter SUN looks at this huge change in the way people are selected for SUN jobs and asks whether technology can achieve the recruiters' SUN aim of eliminating bias from hiring. SUN SUN Producer Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b079m0db (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b078w8z5 (Listen) SUN Stephen Frears, Women in westerns, Angela Pleasence SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN Director Stephen Frears and writer Nicholas Martin discuss SUN Florence Foster Jenkins, their bio-pic of the New York SUN socialite and would-be singer whose voice made grown men SUN weep, mostly with laughter. SUN SUN Actor Angela Pleasence talks about the making of Symptoms, SUN her psychological thriller that was nominated for the Palme SUN D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974 and disappeared SUN from view a year later, only to re-emerge in 2014. SUN SUN From Johnny Guitar to Jane Got A Gun, The Film Programme SUN presents a short history of women in westerns, with our SUN guides Rosalynn Try-Hane and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. SUN SUN Credits SUN Interviewed Guest: Stephen Frears SUN Interviewed Guest: Nicholas Martin SUN Interviewed Guest: Angela Pleasence SUN Interviewed Guest: Rosalynn Try-Hane SUN Interviewed Guest: Larushka Ivan-Zadeh SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b079m52j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 MAY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b079m0g5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b078z9th (Listen) MON Migrant women, Wedding paradoxes MON MON Migrant women in Britain: Laurie Taylor talks to Linda MON McDowell, Professor of Human Geography at the University of MON Oxford and author of a sweeping study of generations of MON immigrant working women in Britain. From textile mill MON workers in the 1940s to shopkeepers in the 50s, nannies of MON the 90s and software developers of today, these first and MON second generation migrants have been in the vanguard of a MON social revolution in women's contribution to the economy in MON the second half of the 20th century. In factories and MON hospitals, care homes and universities they've played a MON lasting role in British society, in spite of recurrent MON discrimination. But what do they have to say about their MON work and experience? MON MON Also, Julia Carter, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the MON Canterbury Christ Church University, considers the reasons MON why, in an era when weddings have never been more liberated MON from cultural norms and official control, couples still MON choose to follow the same assumed traditions. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Julia Carter at Canterbury Christ Church University MON Linda McDowell at the University of Oxford MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b079m52g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b079m0g7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b079m0g9 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b079m0gc (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b079m0gf (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07bbb25 (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b079mtld (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b079m0gh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01s8vcs (Listen) MON Nightingale: Part One 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 nightingale. (Part 1 of 2) A bird MON whose song of rich crescendos of pure whistles and MON breathless phrases is hailed as one of the most complex and MON beautiful in the bird world and quite different to its plain MON brown appearance. MON MON Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) MON Image courtesy of RSPB MON MON 06:00 Today b079mwss (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b079mwsx (Listen) MON Technology in Education MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores the use of technology MON in education. Professor Sugata Mitra has installed an MON internet-connected PC in a slum in India and watched how MON curiosity leads children to learn together. Digital MON technology is increasingly used in schools but the MON educationalist Neil Selwyn questions whether this is a MON positive step. The writer Lynsey Hanley looks at how class MON is embedded in the education system and the former MON Headmaster at Eton, Tony Little, on his vision for the MON future of schooling. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Sugata Mitra MON Interviewed Guest: Neil Selwyn MON Interviewed Guest: Tony Little MON Interviewed Guest: Lynsey Hanley MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b079mwt6 (Listen) MON Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, Episode 1 MON MON Chris Packham is a naturalist, nature photographer and MON author, best known for his television work. But in his MON lyrical and painfully honest new memoir, he reveals the MON life-events which would eventually shape him and change him MON forever. MON MON Chris brings to life his childhood in the 1970s, from his MON bedroom bursting with birds' eggs and jam jars, to his feral MON adventures. But throughout his story is the search for MON freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn't MON understand him. MON MON Chris begins his recollections as an introverted, unusual MON young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school. MON MON This unconventional and uncompromising memoir moves back and MON forth through time, capturing a child's view of the 60s and MON 70s - the music, the clothes, the cars - alongside recent, MON more exposing recollections from adulthood. MON MON Read by Chris Packham and Rachel Atkins MON Abridged by Jo Coombs MON Produced by Pippa Vaughan MON A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Support Organisations MON Samaritans MON is available 24 hours a day for anyone struggling to cope MON and provide a safe place to talk where calls are completely MON confidential. MON Phone: 116 123 MON Email: MON jo@samaritans.org MON www.samaritans.org MON PAPYRUS MON offer support, practical advice and information to young MON people considering suicide and can also offer help and MON advice if you’re concerned about someone you know. MON Phone: 0800 068 41 41 MON www.papyrus-uk.org MON Lifeline MON provides support to people suffering distress or despair in MON Northern Ireland, regardless of age or district. MON Phone: 0808 808 8000 (24 hours a day) MON www.lifelinehelpline.info MON Breathing Space MON offers a confidential phone and web based service for people MON in Scotland experiencing low mood, depression or anxiety. MON Phone: 0800 83 85 87 (Mon-Thu 6pm-2am, weekends 24 hrs). MON A BSL service is also available via the website. MON www.breathingspacescotland.co.uk MON Community Advice & Listening Line MON offers emotional support and information on mental health MON and related matters to people in Wales. MON Phone: 0800 132 737 (24/7) or text "help" to 81066. MON www.callhelpline.org.uk MON SANE MON provides confidential emotional support and information to MON anyone affected by mental illness. It also provides a MON resource for anyone affected by suicide MON Phone: 0300 304 7000 (6pm – 11pm daily) MON www.sane.org.uk MON Mind MON provides advice and support on a range of topics including MON types of mental health problem, legislation and details of MON local help and support in England and Wales. MON Phone: 0300 123 3393 (weekdays 9am - 6pm) MON www.mind.org.uk MON Niamh Mental Wellbeing MON (Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health) provides MON local services to support the mental health and wellbeing of MON people across Northern Ireland. MON Phone: 028 9032 8474 MON www.niamhwellbeing.org MON SAMH MON (Scottish Association for Mental Health) can answer general MON mental health enquiries, advise you on your rights and MON signpost you to your local services. MON Phone: 0141 530 1000 MON www.samh.org.uk MON MON Credits MON Reader: Chris Packham MON Reader: Rachel Atkins MON Author: Chris Packham MON Abridger: Jo Coombs MON Producer: Pippa Vaughan MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b079m0gk (Listen) MON Keeping a diary, Drones and abortion pills, Global gender MON gap in politics MON MON Writing a diary - why we do it, is it helpful MON psychologically and what is it like to look back upon your MON younger self? MON MON There are currently proposals to restrict abortion laws in MON Poland. An organisation, Women on Waves, has attempted to MON send drones carrying abortion pills into Poland from MON Germany. The founder of the organisation and a Polish human MON rights activist join Jane to clarify the situation facing MON women in Poland today. MON MON About 80 percent of lawmakers and 95 percent of heads of MON state in the world are men. Two campaigners, the founder of MON the Women in Parliaments Global Forum and a member of MON Parliament from Iceland discuss the global gender gap in MON politics and report back from a recent conference on the MON subject. MON MON Journalist and writer Christa D'Souza talks about the MON challenges and difficulties of the menopause. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Tasmin Little MON Interviewed Guest: Sally Bayley MON Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Gomperts MON Interviewed Guest: Agnieszka Stupkiewicz-Turek MON Interviewed Guest: Silvana Koch-Mehrin MON Interviewed Guest: Hanna Birna Kirstjansdottir MON Interviewed Guest: Christa D'Souza MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b079n7mw (Listen) MON Writing the Century: The Experience of Love, Episode 1 MON MON Written and narrated by Christopher Green, with material MON from the National Lesbian and Gay Survey MON MON In 1993, Christopher Green was a scared young man, sitting MON alone in a hospital room with a dying man he barely knew. MON Chris had volunteered to be a Terrence Higgins Trust buddy, MON and had been introduced to the man in the bed: Kenneth MON Barrow, an actor and writer who had set up a mass MON observation diary project involving 700 gay men and MON lesbians. Asked to write anonymously about their everyday MON lives and loves, the contributors documented their lives MON during the years when HIV and AIDS first came to public MON attention, and Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1986, MON forbidding the 'promotion of homosexuality', was fought over MON and passed into law. They continued well after Kenneth's MON death and for over twenty years, when they were finally MON collected and archived as the National Lesbian and Gay MON Survey, alongside the Mass Observation archive at the MON University of Sussex. MON MON As Writing The Century continues to explore the history of MON the twentieth century through real-life correspondence and MON diaries, Christopher tells the story of Ken's remarkable MON project, and how the candid and entertaining personal MON stories contained in the Survey remind us all how radically MON - and recently - life has changed for lesbians and gay men MON in Britain. MON MON Olivier-award winning entertainer Christopher Green is best MON known in his multiple personas as Country and Western Icon MON Tina C. (nine-time Grammy award-winner and host of five MON Radio 4 comedy series), OAP Rap Artist Ida Barr (Artificial MON Hip Hop), and as The Singing Hypnotist, as well through his MON commissions from the RSC, the British Library, the Tate MON gallery, the V&A, the Science Museum and the Barbican. MON MON 1/5 In which young Christopher learns about Karposi's MON Sarcoma, jerk off parties and Norma Shearer. MON MON Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. MON MON Credits MON Himself: Christopher Green MON Kenneth Barrow: Jonathan Coy MON Young Christopher: Matthew Tennyson MON Anna: Adie Allen MON Young Ken: Sam Rix MON Psychiatrist: James Bailey MON Archivist: Susan Jameson MON Julie: Nicola Ferguson MON Sonia: Scarlett Brookes MON Ricardo: James Lailey MON Landlord: Sargon Yelda MON Anna's Father: Sean Baker MON Writer: Christopher Green MON Director: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON MON 11:00 The Untold b079n7my (Listen) MON A Storm in Babbacombe Bay MON MON Grace Dent tells the story of a clash between a bestselling MON author and a millionaire hotel developer in the idyllic MON setting of Babbacombe Bay. MON MON Millionaire businessman Peter de Savary has applied to build MON a car park on the hill overlooking Torquay's picturesque MON Babbacombe Bay. The car park would service the expansion of MON the Cary Arms, a luxury hotel on the bay. MON MON The car park is opposed by million selling author Lesley MON Pearse along with a number of other local residents, who MON mount a vocal campaign against the plan. MON MON The decision will be made at an all-important meeting of the MON council's planning committee. As crucial vote approaches, MON which side will emerge victorious? MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b079n7n0 (Listen) MON Series 6, Crispquilibrium 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, the Wall of Crisps is rocked by a political MON scandal as the placement of bags in the wall of a new range MON of Scottish political crisps is hotly debated - namely the MON Prawn Sturgeons, Easy Cheesy Davidsons, Chicken and Chorizo MON Dugdales, Goats Cheese and Heritage Tomato Harvies, and MON Fiery Hot Chipotle Rennies. 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 Alok: Susheel Kumar MON Sanjay: Omar Raza MON Mrs Birkett: Stewart Cairns MON Hilly Bewerdine: Kate Brailsford MON Bra Jeff: Steven McNicoll MON Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson Nimmo MON Mutton Jeff: Sean Scanlan MON Writer: Donald McLeary MON Writer: Sanjeev Kohli MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b079m0gn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b076cbxk (Listen) MON 9 May 1916 - Kitty Lumley MON MON On this day in 1916, the Summer Time Bill was introduced to MON parliament, and Kitty and Dieter get to make hay, MON metaphorically. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf MON Brother Aloysius: Toby Bryant MON Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer MON Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables MON Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford MON Policeman: Nick Underwood MON Stallholder: Sargon Yelda MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b079m0gq (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b079m0gs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b079ndww (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 A British History in Weather b079ndwy (Listen) MON The Weather Indoors MON MON Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has MON written and painted itself into the cultural life of England MON in a history of a country and its culture told by its MON weather from the earliest days to the present, come rain MON come shine. MON We begin indoors looking outside. But the weather finds us MON everywhere. Inside, we are out of the weather. That's the MON point. But when we shut the front door with relief we do not MON entirely shut the weather out. MON MON In ten programmes During Wind and Rain will bear witness to MON England's cultural climates across the centuries. Before the MON Norman Conquest, Anglo-Saxons living in a wintry world wrote MON about the coldness of exile or the shelters they had to MON defend against enemies outside. The Middle Ages brought the MON warmth of spring; the new lyrics were sung in praise of MON blossoms and cuckoos. Descriptions of a rainy night are rare MON before 1700, but by the end of the eighteenth century the MON Romantics had adopted the squall as a fit subject for their MON most probing thoughts. MON MON The weather is vast and yet we experience it intimately, and MON Alexandra Harris builds her story from small details. There MON is the drawing of a twelfth-century man in February, warming MON bare toes by the fire. There is the tiny glass left behind MON from the Frost Fair of 1684, and the Sunspan house in MON Angmering that embodies the bright ambitions of the 1930s. MON There are distinct voices of compelling individuals. "Bloody MON cold," says Jonathan Swift in the "slobbery" January of MON 1713. Percy Shelley wants to become a cloud and John Ruskin MON wants to bottle one. During Wind and Rain is a celebration MON of English air and a life story of those who have lived in MON it. MON MON With music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b079mhlp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b079ndx0 (Listen) MON Sex, Family MON MON Starring Glenda Jackson, Anna Maxwell Martin and Samuel MON West, and inspired by the epic saga of the Rougon Macquart MON families by literature's greatest ever whistle-blower, Emile MON Zola MON MON Adelaide Fouque (Dide) is 104 years old, trapped in her MON small room in the local asylum, but omniscient as she broods MON over her extended family. MON MON As a young woman, she gave birth to two dynasties that MON exemplified French society: one legitimate - rich, powerful, MON obsessive and corrupt; the other - illegitimate, poor, MON vulnerable, weak and depraved. France is on the brink of a MON new Empire. Her family is a turbulent mix of the good, the MON bad and the misguided. MON MON This third episode, Family, takes place over one evening, in MON the luxurious mansion belonging to Aristide Rougon. Inviting MON his politically influential brother Eugene round to help MON clinch the engagement of his feckless son Maxime to a rich MON young heiress seems a simple enough matter. All his MON exquisite trophy wife Renee needs to do is look pretty and MON entertain. So very simple - yet by the end of the evening MON this rich, seemingly united family has completely MON unravelled, exposing the rotten core at its heart. MON MON Dan Rebellato is a Sony nominated writer and Professor of MON Theatre at Royal Holloway. MON MON Dramatised by Dan Rebellato MON Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore MON MON Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas MON Executive Producer: Melanie Harris MON Series Producer: Susan Roberts MON MON A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Dide: Glenda Jackson MON Aristide: Samuel West MON Renee: Anna Maxwell Martin MON Eugene: Robert Jack MON Maxime: John Heffernan MON Adaptor: Dan Rebellato MON Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore MON Director: Polly Thomas MON Producer: Polly Thomas MON Executive Producer: Melanie Harris MON Series Producer: Susan Roberts MON Author: Emile Zola MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b079nfk8 (Listen) MON Series 6, The University of York MON MON A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this MON week from the University of York, with specialist subjects MON including History of Art, Theatre, TV and Film Studies and MON Physics, and questions ranging from Bartok to La Belle Et La MON Bête via David Bowie and the Chinese Renmimbi. MON MON The programme is recorded on location at a different MON University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates MON against three of their Professors in an original and fresh MON take on an academic quiz. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow MON and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the MON students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages MON and science, but also their Professors' awareness of MON television, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In MON addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their MON Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope MON for mild embarrassment on both sides. MON MON Other Universities featured in this series include MON Gloucestershire, Chester, Birmingham City, Bath and Glasgow. MON MON Produced by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b079m78q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Sprung Floor b079njxk (Listen) MON Dancer and choreographer Dane Hurst has bought a former MON Rambert Company vinyl dance floor to take back to his home MON in South Africa, for under-privileged children to dance on. MON MON Dance is like a magic carpet - it transported young Dane out MON of the volatility and violence and poverty of his childhood MON in segregated Port Elizabeth to life as a Rambert student MON and dancer in London. He believes it can transport other MON young people. MON MON Buying the floor was the start of a larger dream that Dane MON calls the Moving Assembly Project (MAP). In the next few MON years, Dane plans to construct a prototype dance space out MON of shipping containers in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and MON to install the floor in it - to give dance training to MON thousands of underprivileged children, transporting them for MON a moment out of their frustrations and grief. MON MON This programme follows Dane as he starts on his dream, MON visiting MAP's pilot project - workshops with vulnerable MON children at the Ubuntu Centre in the old township of Zwide MON in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth. We hear modern MON dance touch local teenagers and Dane visits his childhood MON dance school in another part of the city's northern areas MON where he finds children in severe need. MON MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b079nfz6 (Listen) MON Series 9, Changeling MON MON Why does a parent's awe over their child's ability with MON technology turn so quickly to fear? Aleks Krotoski explores MON the anxieties at the heart of modern parenting and tech. MON MON Alicia Blum-Ross MON Alicia Blum-Ross is a Research Officer in the Department of MON Media and Communications on the MON Preparing for a Digital Future MON research project at LSE. She talks to us about how parents MON are affected by technology in their children’s lives. MON MON Steven Bruhm MON Steven Bruhm is Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor in the MON Department of English at The University of Western Ontario MON and Managing Editor of the Horror Studies. He talks to us MON about the Gothic Child and the place of the child in horror. MON MON Owen Duffy MON Owen Duffy is a journalist who covers technology, migration MON and asylum, cities and LGBT issues, tabletop game blogger MON and father of two. He talks to about us how he tries to MON balance technology in his children’s lives and how quickly MON his children can master the digital world. MON MON Colin Heywood MON Professor Colin Heywood is an Emeritus Professor of History MON at The University of Nottingham, and author of ‘The History MON of Childhood’. He tells us about how our modern perception MON of childhood links back to The Enlightment and the Romantic MON Idea of the child “trailing clouds of glory”. MON MON Nathan Jurgenson MON Nathan Jurgenson is a social media theorist, a Contributing MON Editor for The New Inquiry, co-founder and Chair of the MON Theorizing the Web conference, and a researcher for MON Snapchat. He talks to us about why adults struggle with MON Digital Dualism, while young people can embrace it. MON MON 17:00 PM b079m0gw (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b079m0h0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b079nggy (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 6 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Elis James, Reginald D Hunter, Maeve Higgins and David MON O'Doherty are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as gifts, women, fashion MON and songs. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Elis James MON Panellist: Reginald D Hunter MON Panellist: Maeve Higgins MON Panellist: David O'Doherty MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b079ngh0 (Listen) MON Pat is feeling outnumbered, and the Grundys need to make MON plans. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b079m0h2 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b079n7mw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 EF Schumacher: Is Small the Next Big? b079njxm (Listen) MON Is small the next big? Are the visionary ideas of E F MON Schumacher, cult author of the 1970s classic Small is MON Beautiful, about to hit the mainstream? MON MON "An ounce of theory," wrote Schumacher, "is worth a ton of MON practice". In this programme, Leo Johnson goes on a search MON to see if the ideas of E F Schumacher are working on the MON ground. Are they delivering on the pressing economic and MON social challenges confronting us? MON MON It's a tour of the landscape of the possible that takes us MON from the most successful bank share in the world - a bank MON with a quasi-mystical obsession with staying small - to the MON Brixton pound, complete with Brixton's local lad David Bowie MON on the £10 note. We go from SIM-enabled solar lights MON targeting the Kenyan poor, via the Maker Movement - pioneers MON of distributed manufacturing - at Technoport in Norway, and MON finally to the bewilderingly salad-loving children of MON Bristol's Ashton Vale primary school. MON MON What emerges is a blueprint for a different economy - where MON banks can lend to small businesses, where local communities MON re-form, where decentralised renewable energy delivers lower MON cost power, and where work forms us not as tools adapted to MON our machines but as beings connected to the people and place MON around us. It's a vision of an economy in transition towards MON the small - from mass towards micro-production, from fossil MON fuels towards local renewables, from centralised to MON distributed organisations - and where our own role shifts MON from consumer to producer and citizen. MON MON It's a glimpse of economics, as Schumacher put it, "as if MON people mattered". MON MON But is it heading for the big time? MON MON Written and presented by Leo Johnson MON MON A Reel Soul Movies production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b078zcrt (Listen) MON China's Family Planning Army MON MON Now that China has ended its One Child policy, one group of MON state employees may soon be out of a job - the country's MON hated population police. Hundreds of thousands of officers MON used to hunt down families suspected of violating the MON country's draconian rules on child bearing, handing out MON crippling fines, confiscating property and sometimes forcing MON women to have abortions. But with an eye on improving child MON welfare in the countryside, there is a plan to redeploy many MON of these officers as child development specialists. Lucy Ash MON visits a pilot project in Shaanxi Province training former MON enforcers to offer advice and support to rural grandparents MON who are left rearing children while the parents migrate to MON jobs in the big cities. If successful, the scheme could be MON rolled out nationwide to redeploy an army of family planning MON workers and transform the life prospects of millions of MON rural children. MON MON 21:00 Past Imperfect b062kx4x (Listen) MON Startling new research shows how false memories can be MON artificially generated and used to change behaviour - with MON implications for advertising, military intelligence and the MON treatment of addictions. MON MON Memory is more of a creative than a mechanical process. Like MON a Wikipedia entry, we can make changes to our MON autobiographical history - but so can other people. MON MON Martin Plimmer meets experts and observes experiments MON demonstrating the fragility of memory and the ease with MON which false memories can be implanted. MON MON At Warwick University, Prof Kimberley Wade has implanted MON false memories of childhood experiences such as taking a hot MON air balloon ride. Martin follows an experiment in which MON participants form vivid memories of activities they have not MON actually experienced. MON MON At Hull University, Prof Giuliana Mazzoni reveals how MON implanted false memories can change people's behaviour. MON Working with unsuspecting volunteers, she explores whether MON she can alter their food preferences by creating false MON memory of an adverse reaction to eating turkey sandwiches. MON MON Martin discusses the implications of this research with US MON psychologist Prof Elizabeth Loftus who believes it could be MON used to treat obesity and addictions by introducing false MON memories of disliking fatty foods, alcohol or drugs. MON MON Professor Loftus has also worked with the US military on MON ways of implanting false memories of their interrogator in MON enemy prisoners - raising admitted ethical issues and MON concerns about the abuse of these techniques. MON MON And Martin Plimmer learns how our memories are all being MON subtly altered by advertising - as certain types of adverts MON can create false memories of experiencing and liking a MON product. MON MON An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b079mwsx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b079m0h5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b079m0h9 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b079njxp (Listen) MON Not Working, Episode 6 MON MON Lisa Owens' witty and poignant debut novel, read by Emily MON Bruni. MON MON Claire Flannery has quit her marketing job in order to MON search for her true vocation. But months have passed and MON she's no closer to understanding what she wants to do with MON her life. It doesn't help that Luke, her long-term partner, MON is passionate about his job, which also happens to be one of MON the worthiest in the world... he's training to be a brain MON surgeon. MON MON In addition, she's fallen out badly with her mother - who MON refuses to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather MON exposed himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed MON like a big deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's MON reaction has left her hurt and reeling. 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 b078zdl0 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 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 James Acaster, Alex Horne, Larry Dean, Nish Kumar. MON MON A So Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Baddiel MON Panellist: James Acaster MON Panellist: Alex Horne MON Panellist: Larry Dean MON Panellist: Nish Kumar MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b079njxr (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 MAY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b079m0ky (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b079mwt6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b079m0l0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b079m0l4 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b079m0l6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b079m0l8 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07b2hxc (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b079pm4w (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Alun Beach. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tydrm (Listen) TUE Whinchat TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve TUE Backshall presents the whinchat. TUE TUE Whinchats are perky little summer visitors, about the size TUE of a robin and migrate to the UK in spring from their TUE wintering grounds south of the Sahara. They're birds of open TUE country, preferring moors, heaths and rough ground and are TUE often found where gorse bushes grow, which explains their TUE common name, whin being a Scottish word for gorse. TUE TUE Whinchat (Saxiola Rubetra) TUE Image courtesy of Steve Round (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b079pm4y (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Europeans - The Roots of Identity b079pm50 (Listen) TUE Rome TUE TUE What has really shaped Europeans' identity? In the first of TUE a new series, historian Margaret MacMillan visits Rome to TUE explore the idea of 'universal' Europe , and the constant TUE tension between unity and diversity. From imperial ambition TUE to local life, roads to religion, maps to food she discovers TUE a continent and a way of life in constant creation. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Bowlby TUE Editor: Bridget Harney. TUE TUE 09:30 The Ideas That Make Us b04v3cxf (Listen) TUE Series 3, Irony TUE TUE Bettany Hughes examines irony in her archaeology of TUE philosophy in a club where it's banned and in the studios of TUE Radio 4's Today programme. TUE TUE The surprising and invigorating history of the most TUE influential ideas in the story of civilisation, described as TUE 'a double expresso 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 considers irony with philosopher TUE Angie Hobbs, comedian Robert Newman, and grand inquisitor TUE John Humphrys. Bettany travels to Athens to see where these TUE ideas were born and then explores the street markets, TUE churches, offices and homes where they continue to morph and TUE influence our daily 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, TUE charisma, nemesis and virtue. TUE TUE Series Producer: Dixi Stewart. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b079pm52 (Listen) TUE Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, Episode 2 TUE TUE Chris Packham is a naturalist, nature photographer and TUE author, best known for his television work. But in his TUE lyrical and emotionally honest new memoir, he reveals the TUE life-events which would eventually shape him, and change him TUE forever. TUE TUE Chris brings to life his childhood in the 1970s, from his TUE bedroom bursting with birds' eggs and jam jars, to his feral TUE adventures. But throughout his story is the search for TUE freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn't TUE understand him. TUE TUE Today, Chris continues to remember his difficult childhood, TUE discovers the taste of tadpoles and encounters some bullies. TUE TUE This unconventional and uncompromising memoir moves back and TUE forth through time, capturing a child's view of the 60s and TUE 70s - the music, the clothes, the cars - alongside recent, TUE more exposing recollections from adulthood. TUE TUE Read by Chris Packham and Rachel Atkins TUE Abridged by Jo Coombs TUE Produced by Pippa Vaughan TUE A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Support Organisations TUE Samaritans TUE is available 24 hours a day for anyone struggling to cope TUE and provide a safe place to talk where calls are completely TUE confidential. TUE Phone: 116 123 TUE Email: TUE jo@samaritans.org TUE www.samaritans.org TUE PAPYRUS TUE offer support, practical advice and information to young TUE people considering suicide and can also offer help and TUE advice if you’re concerned about someone you know. TUE Phone: 0800 068 41 41 TUE www.papyrus-uk.org TUE Lifeline TUE provides support to people suffering distress or despair in TUE Northern Ireland, regardless of age or district. TUE Phone: 0808 808 8000 (24 hours a day) TUE www.lifelinehelpline.info TUE Breathing Space TUE offers a confidential phone and web based service for people TUE in Scotland experiencing low mood, depression or anxiety. TUE Phone: 0800 83 85 87 (Mon-Thu 6pm-2am, weekends 24 hrs). TUE A BSL service is also available via the website. TUE www.breathingspacescotland.co.uk TUE Community Advice & Listening Line TUE offers emotional support and information on mental health TUE and related matters to people in Wales. TUE Phone: 0800 132 737 (24/7) or text "help" to 81066. TUE www.callhelpline.org.uk TUE SANE TUE provides confidential emotional support and information to TUE anyone affected by mental illness. It also provides a TUE resource for anyone affected by suicide TUE Phone: 0300 304 7000 (6pm – 11pm daily) TUE www.sane.org.uk TUE Mind TUE provides advice and support on a range of topics including TUE types of mental health problem, legislation and details of TUE local help and support in England and Wales. TUE Phone: 0300 123 3393 (weekdays 9am - 6pm) TUE www.mind.org.uk TUE Niamh Mental Wellbeing TUE (Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health) provides TUE local services to support the mental health and wellbeing of TUE people across Northern Ireland. TUE Phone: 028 9032 8474 TUE www.niamhwellbeing.org TUE SAMH TUE (Scottish Association for Mental Health) can answer general TUE mental health enquiries, advise you on your rights and TUE signpost you to your local services. TUE Phone: 0141 530 1000 TUE www.samh.org.uk TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Chris Packham TUE Reader: Rachel Atkins TUE Author: Chris Packham TUE Abridger: Jo Coombs TUE Producer: Pippa Vaughan TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b079m0ld (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b079pm54 (Listen) TUE Writing the Century: The Experience of Love, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written and narrated by Christopher Green, with material TUE from the National Lesbian and Gay Survey TUE TUE In 1993, Christopher Green was a scared young man, sitting TUE alone in a hospital room with a dying man he barely knew. TUE Chris had volunteered to be a Terrence Higgins Trust buddy, TUE and had been introduced to the man in the bed: Kenneth TUE Barrow, an actor and writer who had set up a mass TUE observation diary project involving 700 gay men and TUE lesbians. Asked to write anonymously about their everyday TUE lives and loves, the contributors documented their lives TUE during the years when HIV and AIDS first came to public TUE attention, and Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1986, TUE forbidding the 'promotion of homosexuality', was fought over TUE and passed into law. They continued well after Kenneth's TUE death and for over twenty years, when they were finally TUE collected and archived as the National Lesbian and Gay TUE Survey, alongside the Mass Observation archive at the TUE University of Sussex. TUE TUE As Writing The Century continues to explore the history of TUE the twentieth century through real-life correspondence and TUE diaries, Christopher tells the story of Ken's remarkable TUE project, and how the candid and entertaining personal TUE stories contained in the Survey remind us all how radically TUE - and recently - life has changed for lesbians and gay men TUE in Britain. TUE TUE Olivier-award winning entertainer Christopher Green is best TUE known in his multiple personas as Country and Western Icon TUE Tina C. (nine-time Grammy award-winner and host of five TUE Radio 4 comedy series), OAP Rap Artist Ida Barr (Artificial TUE Hip Hop), and as The Singing Hypnotist, as well through his TUE commissions from the RSC, the British Library, the Tate TUE gallery, the V&A, the Science Museum and the Barbican. TUE TUE 2/5 In which young Kenneth goes for 'the cure'. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE Credits TUE Kenneth Barrow: Jonathan Coy TUE Young Christopher: Matthew Tennyson TUE Anna: Adie Allen TUE Young Ken: Sam Rix TUE Psychiatrist: James Bailey TUE Archivist: Susan Jameson TUE Julie: Nicola Ferguson TUE Sonia: Scarlett Brookes TUE Ricardo: James Lailey TUE Landlord: Sargon Yelda TUE Anna's Father: Sean Baker TUE Writer: Christopher Green TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE TUE 11:00 Suppose I Lose It b04v383w (Listen) TUE Now in her 80s, one issue looms ahead for Joan Bakewell and TUE others from her generation - the fear of dementia. She TUE admits that she's becoming increasingly forgetful. Her home TUE is decked with post-it note reminders to help her remember. TUE But are the annoying lapses in memory, that characterise her TUE daily life, just a normal part of ageing, or could they TUE signal something more serious like dementia? As she herself TUE says - 'suppose I lose it?'. TUE TUE In this programme, Joan asks what she might expect and how TUE she should prepare if she receives the diagnosis. TUE TUE Joan's search is spurred on by the news that her friend of TUE many years, the actress Prunella Scales, has dementia. Over TUE cups of tea at their home, Joan talks to Prunella and her TUE husband, the actor Timothy West, about how her memory loss TUE is affecting their lives. TUE TUE Dementia is a growing problem for the nation. Over 800,000 TUE now suffer from it and there's no available cure. It's a TUE problem that the government has been prioritising through TUE the National Challenge on Dementia, but as Professor Sube TUE Banerjee, a lead author on the National Dementia Strategy, TUE says there's still an immense amount that needs to be done. TUE TUE Even hospitals struggle to cope with people with dementia. TUE Being mostly old and frail, they make up a quarter of TUE inpatients, yet the experience can be traumatising. They TUE tend to leave hospital less capable than when they went it, TUE and are often more confused and anxious. TUE TUE So how will hospitals cope as the numbers with dementia TUE spiral? Professor Harwood is one of those making a start, TUE adapting Ward B47 at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham and TUE training staff to meet the complex needs of patients with TUE dementia, which are only now starting to be understood. TUE TUE One of the challenges of caring for dementia patients is TUE that often their disease is so advanced that they can no TUE longer make decisions about their medical treatment. What's TUE more, few make their wishes known in advance. So TUE geriatrician Professor Rowan Harwood often has to make a TUE best guess, which can mean keeping patients alive longer TUE than they might have wanted. Joan asks what she should do to TUE prepare should she be diagnosed with dementia. TUE TUE And what's more terrifying - living with dementia, or living TUE in a society that fails to support those suffering with it. TUE Several towns around the country are now addressing the TUE ignorance and fear that can leave sufferers and their carers TUE feeling isolated. The Crawley Dementia Alliance is bringing TUE together schools, GPs, local businesses and transport TUE services to make Crawley more 'dementia friendly'. And it is TUE dementia suffers themselves whose opinions lie at the heart TUE of what happens here. TUE TUE Producer: Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE Me, my friend Pru, and our memories TUE Joan Bakewell interviews Prunella Scales and Timothy West TUE TUE 11:30 16 5 66 b079pqct (Listen) TUE On Monday 16th of May, 1966 two of the greatest albums of TUE all time were released. Through archive, interviews and TUE music from The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Bob Dylan's Blonde TUE on Blonde, we tell the story of the music from that TUE momentous day. TUE TUE For the American music lover, the two albums would come to TUE shape music history. Blonde on Blonde is considered Bob TUE Dylan's magnum opus, while Pet Sounds is The Beach Boys' TUE epic journey into the musical mind of Brian Wilson. TUE TUE Fifty years on, we hear from those who remember that day - TUE musicians who worked on the albums, and teenagers who saved TUE up to buy the records but had a choice to make, Pet Sounds TUE or Blonde on Blonde. TUE TUE We hear of two lovers who danced in the kitchen to Pet TUE Sounds. Wouldn't it Be Nice played as they talked of the TUE future. On that day in 1966, Bob Dylan was playing in TUE Sheffield, one of his forty or so worldwide shows. One Dylan TUE fan remembers it like it was yesterday. The next day Dylan TUE would play Manchester and be called "Judas". TUE TUE One day, two musical visions. TUE TUE Produced by Barney Rowntree and Shani Aviram TUE A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b079m0lg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b076cbr5 (Listen) TUE 10 May 1916 - Hetty Cox TUE TUE On this day in 1916, for the first time 18 year olds could TUE be called up for home service, and Hetty is in unforgiving TUE mood. TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Hetty Cox: Adie Allen TUE Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy TUE Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables TUE Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams TUE Isaac Cox: James Lailey TUE Lewis Cox: Dylan Edwards TUE Oswald Dyer: Dean Nolan TUE Greg: Sam Rix TUE Stationmaster: Mark Carey TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b079m0lj (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b079m0lp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b079pqcw (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 A British History in Weather b07b2hxf (Listen) TUE The Wisdom of Winter TUE TUE Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has TUE written and painted itself into the cultural life of TUE England. Winter: the oldest season. TUE TUE Our thoughts have been expressed through certain weathers. TUE In the English literature that survives from the 8th, 9th TUE and 10th centuries, it is often winter that speaks loudest. TUE Though that winter is a fierce challenge, it is also TUE surprisingly beautiful, exposing the white bones of the TUE world as a kind of truth. TUE TUE With music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b079ngh0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b079pqcy (Listen) TUE Sex, Lovesick TUE TUE Lovesick is the fourth drama in Emile Zola: Sex, inspired by TUE literature's greatest ever whistle-blower, and his epic saga TUE of the Rougon Macquart families. TUE TUE Adelaide Fouque (Dide) is 104 years old, trapped in her TUE small room in the local asylum, but omniscient when it comes TUE to her extended family. As a young woman, she gave birth to TUE two dynasties that exemplified French society: one TUE legitimate - rich, powerful, obsessive and corrupt; the TUE other - illegitimate, poor, vulnerable, weak and depraved. TUE France is on the brink of a new Empire. Her family is a TUE turbulent mix of the good, the bad and the misguided. TUE TUE In episode four, Lovesick, Dide reflects on the fate of TUE Angelique, the love child of the incestuous affair in the TUE previous episode. Abandoned by her real mother and cruel TUE foster carers, Angelique is fortunate enough to be adopted TUE by Hubertine, a kind woman desperate to have a child. TUE Angelique is a strange, obsessive child, inheriting much of TUE the dangerous Macquart-Rougon traits. Dide watches TUE helplessly as Angelique's love of God clashes fatally with TUE her love of a beautiful young man. Tragedy is the inevitable TUE conclusion. TUE TUE Dan Rebellato is a Sony nominated writer and Professor of TUE Theatre at Royal Holloway. TUE TUE Dramatised by Dan Rebellato TUE Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas TUE Executive Producer: Melanie Harris TUE Series Producer: Susan Roberts TUE TUE A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Dide: Glenda Jackson TUE Angelique: Robyn Skeete TUE Hubertine: Mina Anwar TUE Renee: Anna Maxwell Martin TUE Girl at the Stream: Lucy Moss TUE St Catherine: Yusra Warsama TUE Director: Polly Thomas TUE Producer: Polly Thomas TUE Author: Emile Zola TUE Adaptor: Dan Rebellato TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b079dnxx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b079pr8w (Listen) TUE The Sun King of China TUE TUE Meet Huang Ming, the Chinese inventor who describes himself TUE as, 'the number one crazy solar guy in the world'. TUE TUE One of the prize exhibits of his museum in northern China is TUE a vintage solar panel. It's a water heater, installed by TUE President Jimmy Carter on the roof of the West Wing of the TUE White House. Back in 1979 the installation was meant to TUE symbolise a new solar-powered future for America. Instead, TUE oil prices fell and Ronald Reagan removed the White House TUE panels. TUE TUE 37 years on and it's China, not the US that's embracing the TUE idea of a solar-powered economy. Huang Ming, an engineer, TUE prominent political figure and businessman is leading the TUE way with his foundation of Solar Valley. In 800 acres of TUE land south of Beijing he employs 3000 people in solar TUE research, development and manufacture. TUE TUE Peter Hadfield visits Solar Valley to see the fruits of the TUE sun, from a solar-powered yurt to the world's biggest TUE solar-powered building. He asks if Huang Ming can persuade TUE his nation to turn its back on coal and oil and angle its TUE face toward the sun. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b079pr8y (Listen) TUE Snuck and Sung: Irregular Verbs TUE TUE Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright explore irregular verbs TUE with Dr Marcelle Cole, and a contribution from Steven TUE Pinker. TUE What are they, where did they come from, and why do they TUE exist in English? Are there any new ones being produced, and TUE how are they used in real life? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b079pr90 (Listen) TUE Series 39, Richard the Lionheart TUE TUE Richard the Lionheart has been portrayed on screen by Sean TUE Connery, Anthony Hopkins and Patrick Stewart, quite a starry TUE list. But what is the reality behind the legend of this TUE famous king? Richard's nominator is Timmy Mallett, a legend TUE of children's TV but also unexpectedly a history graduate. TUE Great historical characters, he says, have great stories TUE attached to them, and Richard's life was not short of TUE adventure, particularly on the Third Crusade. Applying a TUE cool head to Richard's life is the historian and broadcaster TUE Helen Castor. She concedes that much of Timmy's enthusiasm TUE is probably deserved. Presenter Matthew Parris attempts to TUE discover the truth about whether the Lionheart was in fact TUE gay. TUE The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde. TUE TUE Richard the Lionheart TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Timmy Mallett TUE Interviewed Guest: Helen Castor TUE Producer: Miles Warde TUE TUE 17:00 PM b079m0lt (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b079m0lw (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b042l78d (Listen) TUE Series 2, Rosa and Matthew 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 recounts the tale of Rosa and Matthew, TUE a hypnotherapist and an osteopath who work a few doors apart TUE and find it difficult to express their feelings for each TUE other. 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 b079prj1 (Listen) TUE Peggy lets off steam, and Adam is not playing ball. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b079m0m0 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b079pm54 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b079prlt (Listen) TUE The Serious Fraud Office has begun an investigation into TUE allegations of corruption in the award of multi-million TUE pound oil contracts in the Middle East. Oil consulting firm TUE Unaoil, based in Monaco, denies that it helped British and TUE other companies win contracts by corrupting politicians and TUE government officials. TUE The investigation follows a leak of thousands of emails and TUE other documents. Jane Deith has been given access to the TUE leaked papers and reveals what they tell us about the TUE business of oil. TUE Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b079m0m3 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b079prlw (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents the series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 Europeans - The Roots of Identity b079pm50 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b079m0m5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b079m0m7 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b079prly (Listen) TUE Not Working, Episode 7 TUE TUE Lisa Owens' "generation-defining" comic debut novel, read by TUE Emily Bruni. TUE TUE Claire Flannery is searching for her true vocation. But, TUE months after she quit her marketing job, she's no closer to TUE understanding what it is she wants to do with her life. It TUE doesn't help that Luke, her long-term partner, is passionate TUE about his job, which also happens to be one of the worthiest TUE in the world... he's training to be a brain surgeon. He's TUE been supportive up until now, but is starting to lose TUE patience. TUE TUE In addition, she's fallen out badly with her mother - who TUE refuses to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather TUE exposed himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed TUE like a big deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's TUE reaction has left her hurt and reeling. 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? b04wwgz3 (Listen) TUE Series 2, All the Fun of the Affair TUE TUE Stephen K Amos' sitcom about his own teenage years, growing TUE up black, gay and funny in 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 b079prm0 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b079m0p3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b079pm52 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b079m0p5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b079m0p7 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b079m0p9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b079m0pc (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b079zxgj (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b079r0bb (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 b020tqln (Listen) WED Lesser Whitethroat WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Miranda Kresovnikoff presents the Lesser Whitethroat. A loud WED rattling song from a roadside hedge announces that Lesser WED whitethroats are back from their African winter homes. WED WED Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca) WED Image courtesy of Nigel Blake (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b079zxgl (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 b079r52y (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b079r530 (Listen) WED Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, Episode 3 WED WED Chris Packham is a naturalist, nature photographer and WED author, best known for his television work. But in his WED lyrical and emotionally honest new memoir, he reveals the WED life-events which would eventually shape him, and change him WED forever. WED WED Chris brings to life his childhood in the 1970s, from his WED bedroom bursting with birds' eggs and jam jars, to his feral WED adventures. But throughout his story is the search for WED freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn't WED understand him. WED WED In this episode, Chris decides that animals are easier to WED trust than people. He makes a nocturnal escape through his WED bedroom window, finds treasure up a tree and falls in love. WED WED This unconventional and uncompromising memoir moves back and WED forth through time, capturing a child's view of the 60s and WED 70s - the music, the clothes, the cars - alongside recent, WED more exposing recollections from adulthood. WED WED Read by Chris Packham and Rachel Atkins WED Abridged by Jo Coombs WED Produced by Pippa Vaughan WED A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Support Organisations WED Samaritans WED is available 24 hours a day for anyone struggling to cope WED and provide a safe place to talk where calls are completely WED confidential. WED Phone: 116 123 WED Email: WED jo@samaritans.org WED www.samaritans.org WED PAPYRUS WED offer support, practical advice and information to young WED people considering suicide and can also offer help and WED advice if you’re concerned about someone you know. WED Phone: 0800 068 41 41 WED www.papyrus-uk.org WED Lifeline WED provides support to people suffering distress or despair in WED Northern Ireland, regardless of age or district. WED Phone: 0808 808 8000 (24 hours a day) WED www.lifelinehelpline.info WED Breathing Space WED offers a confidential phone and web based service for people WED in Scotland experiencing low mood, depression or anxiety. WED Phone: 0800 83 85 87 (Mon-Thu 6pm-2am, weekends 24 hrs). WED A BSL service is also available via the website. WED www.breathingspacescotland.co.uk WED Community Advice & Listening Line WED offers emotional support and information on mental health WED and related matters to people in Wales. WED Phone: 0800 132 737 (24/7) or text "help" to 81066. WED www.callhelpline.org.uk WED SANE WED provides confidential emotional support and information to WED anyone affected by mental illness. It also provides a WED resource for anyone affected by suicide WED Phone: 0300 304 7000 (6pm – 11pm daily) WED www.sane.org.uk WED Mind WED provides advice and support on a range of topics including WED types of mental health problem, legislation and details of WED local help and support in England and Wales. WED Phone: 0300 123 3393 (weekdays 9am - 6pm) WED www.mind.org.uk WED Niamh Mental Wellbeing WED (Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health) provides WED local services to support the mental health and wellbeing of WED people across Northern Ireland. WED Phone: 028 9032 8474 WED www.niamhwellbeing.org WED SAMH WED (Scottish Association for Mental Health) can answer general WED mental health enquiries, advise you on your rights and WED signpost you to your local services. WED Phone: 0141 530 1000 WED www.samh.org.uk WED WED Credits WED Reader: Chris Packham WED Reader: Rachel Atkins WED Author: Chris Packham WED Abridger: Jo Coombs WED Producer: Pippa Vaughan WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b079m0pf (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b079r532 (Listen) WED Writing the Century: The Experience of Love, Episode 3 WED WED Written and narrated by Christopher Green, with material WED from the National Lesbian and Gay Survey WED WED In 1993, Christopher Green was a scared young man, sitting WED alone in a hospital room with a dying man he barely knew. WED Chris had volunteered to be a Terrence Higgins Trust buddy, WED and had been introduced to the man in the bed: Kenneth WED Barrow, an actor and writer who had set up a mass WED observation diary project involving 700 gay men and WED lesbians. Asked to write anonymously about their everyday WED lives and loves, the contributors documented their lives WED during the years when HIV and AIDS first came to public WED attention, and Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1986, WED forbidding the 'promotion of homosexuality', was fought over WED and passed into law. They continued well after Kenneth's WED death and for over twenty years, when they were finally WED collected and archived as the National Lesbian and Gay WED Survey, alongside the Mass Observation archive at the WED University of Sussex. WED WED As Writing The Century continues to explore the history of WED the twentieth century through real-life correspondence and WED diaries, Christopher tells the story of Ken's remarkable WED project, and how the candid and entertaining personal WED stories contained in the Survey remind us all how radically WED - and recently - life has changed for lesbians and gay men WED in Britain. WED WED Olivier-award winning entertainer Christopher Green is best WED known in his multiple personas as Country and Western Icon WED Tina C. (nine-time Grammy award-winner and host of five WED Radio 4 comedy series), OAP Rap Artist Ida Barr (Artificial WED Hip Hop), and as The Singing Hypnotist, as well through his WED commissions from the RSC, the British Library, the Tate WED gallery, the V&A, the Science Museum and the Barbican. WED WED 3/5 In which lesbians invade the Six O'Clock News. WED WED Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Christopher Green WED Kenneth Barrow: Jonathan Coy WED Young Christopher: Matthew Tennyson WED Anna: Adie Allen WED Young Ken: Sam Rix WED Psychiatrist: James Bailey WED Archivist: Susan Jameson WED Julie: Nicola Ferguson WED Sonia: Scarlett Brookes WED Ricardo: James Lailey WED Landlord: Sargon Yelda WED Anna's Father: Sean Baker WED Writer: Christopher Green WED Director: Jonquil Panting WED Producer: Jonquil Panting WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b079r535 (Listen) WED Dom and Sarah - Wild About Wildlife WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between friends who work at WED the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in Jersey concluding WED that a slow worm's worth is more than that of a mobile WED phone. Another in the series that proves it's surprising WED 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 EF Schumacher: Is Small the Next Big? b079njxm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] WED WED 11:30 Polyoaks b079r537 (Listen) WED Series 4, Hello, Goodbye 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 Annette Crosbie guest stars in this episode on end of life WED care. Polyoaks is to become a 'vanguard' site as part of the WED NHS 'Five Year Forward View'. Best intentions are subverted WED by one older service user's views on so-called elderly care. 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 Jeremy: David Westhead WED Hugh: Simon Greenall WED Monica: Polly Frame WED Roy: Nigel Planer WED Veronica: Annette Crosbie WED Stephanie Simons: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Mrs O'Neil: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Ali Evans: Caroline Rodgers WED Writer: Phil Hammond WED Writer: David Spicer WED Director: Frank Stirling WED WED 12:00 News Summary b079m0ph (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b076cbr7 (Listen) WED 11 May 1916 - Isabel Graham WED WED On this day in 1916, The Times reported that Sir Roger WED Casement was to be tried for High Treason, for his WED involvement in the Easter Rising, and Isabel gets a lesson WED in relaxing. WED WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford WED Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro WED Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready WED Elsie Knocker: Marianne Oldham WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b079m0pm (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b079m0pp (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b07bc1py (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 A British History in Weather b07b2hyd (Listen) WED Wind WED WED Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has WED written and painted itself into the cultural life of WED England. WED WED The blasted country - a windy island. WED WED "There was a proper gust, I remember, which sent dry leaves WED off across the pavement into shop doorways and blew back my WED hood. And something caught my eye as I looked up. Way above WED me in the grey sky, at the top of Chichester cathedral WED spire, there was a glint of light. It was the weathervane WED turning. It must just momentarily have caught the sun. And WED then there it was in distant silhouette again, with its big WED flat rooster tail. I'd never noticed it, and yet it had been WED up there all the time - up in the weather which goes on WED continuously, regardless of us, up there as well as down WED here in the street." WED WED With music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b079prj1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b079r539 (Listen) WED Sex, Innocence WED WED Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola, Season 2 - Sex WED WED The second season of dramas inspired by the work of WED literature's greatest whistle blower - Emile Zola. Double WED Oscar winner Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old and WED matriarch to the family Rougon-Macquart. WED WED Innocence by Martin Jameson is inspired by Zola's The Sin of WED Father Mouret. A young man wakes up in an idyllic garden in WED the care of a beautiful young woman. He has no idea of his WED true identity. But when his memory returns, the young man is WED forced to question the very nature of his identity and a WED battle for his soul ensues. WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED Credits WED Dide: Glenda Jackson WED Serge: Nico Mirallegro WED Albine: Leila Mimmack WED Doctor Pascal: Paul McGann WED Brother Archangias: Steve Evets WED Director: Nadia Molinari WED Author: Emile Zola WED Adaptor: Martin Jameson WED WED 15:00 Money Box b07b2rny (Listen) WED Need somebody to walk your dog, share the cost of a car WED journey or rent a room? Maybe you have skills or goods you WED want to make available? Websites and apps are springing up WED allowing you to borrow, exchange or rent everything from WED clothes to sports equipment and tools. WED WED The UK's sharing economy could be worth £9 billion per year WED by 2025 say PwC and Chancellor George Osborne is keen to WED encourage it, announcing two new £1,000 tax-free allowance WED in his last budget. One for selling goods and services and WED one for income from property you own. The Treasury say that WED retirees, students and anyone wanting extra money will be WED able to earn £1,000 tax free. WED WED On Wednesday's programme, presenter Lesley Curwen and guests WED will explore the benefits, costs and risks of this growing WED sector: WED WED Joining Lesley will be: WED WED Debbie Wosskow, Founder, lovehomeswap & Chair,Sharing WED Economy UK. WED Ali Clabburn, MD, Liftshare. WED Rikke Rosenlund, Founder, Borrow My Doggy. WED Robert Killick, CEO ClerksWell Ltd. WED WED If you're part of the sharing economy or want to be, let us WED know your questions, stories and experiences. Call 03700 100 WED 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Standard geographic charges from WED landlines and mobiles will apply. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b079prlw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b079r53c (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b079m0ps (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b079m0pv (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b079m0px (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04p87r7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Exit Strategy WED WED 6/6: Exit Strategy. In this final episode of the series, WED Uljabaan is determined to fail his annual inspection, in WED order to be sent to a better posting. But he'll need Kat and WED Lucy's help in order to make it work - and he can do without WED any surprises, such as the identity of the Zone Commander WED who'll be conducting the inspection... 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: Charles Edwards WED The Computer: John-Luke Roberts WED Zone Commander Ravella: Nina Sosanya WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 19:00 The Archers b079r53f (Listen) WED Josh turns on the charm, and Helen recounts a memory. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b079m0pz (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b079r532 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 FutureProofing b079r5lv (Listen) WED Energy WED WED If new energy sources offer cheap, plentiful power to WED everyone, how will the planet cope? FutureProofing examines WED a new method of power generation promising clean, limitless WED power for everyone. Can it work, what are the consequences, WED and is there a viable alternative? WED WED Fusion has long-promised cheap, clean and limitless power, WED but over half a century of effort this technology has still WED not delivered an operational power plant. Now hopes are high WED that a vast project in the south of France will finally WED crack the problems and deliver a working model that can be WED replicated around the world. FutureProofing presenters WED Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson travel to Provence to find WED out what the prospects are for a scheme costing upwards of WED £10billion which could transform the energy supply for us WED all and with it global geo-politics and the environment for WED centuries to come. WED WED The programme explores what viable alternatives there could WED be to generate power at the same scale for billions of WED people across the world, and whether such an alternative is WED a better route to achieving the goal of cheap, plentiful and WED clean energy for the future. WED WED Producer: Jonathan Brunert. WED WED 20:45 Why I Changed My Mind b079r5lx (Listen) WED Series 2, Prof Deirdre McCloskey WED WED Dominic Lawson asks the distinguished American academic WED Professor Deirdre McCloskey why she changed her views on WED politics and economics, her faith in God, and her gender. 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 b079pr8w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b079r52y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b07cbwh3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b079m0q1 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b079r5lz (Listen) WED Not Working, Episode 8 WED WED Lisa Owens' "generation-defining" comic debut novel, read by WED Emily Bruni. WED WED Claire Flannery is still searching for her true vocation. WED Months after she quit her marketing job, she's no closer to WED understanding what it is she wants to do with her life. It WED doesn't help that Luke, her long-term partner, is passionate WED about his job, which also happens to be one of the worthiest WED in the world (he's training to be a brain surgeon). WED WED In addition, she's badly fallen out with her mother - who WED refuses to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather WED exposed himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed WED like a big deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's WED reaction has left her hurt and reeling. 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 b079r5m1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 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 Actor: Paul Whitehouse WED Actor: Esther Coles WED Actor: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Actor: Rosie Cavaliero WED Actor: Sue Elliott-Nicholls WED Actor: Charlie Higson WED Actor: Vilma Hollingbery WED Actor: Jason Maza WED Actor: Cecilia Noble WED Writer: David Cummings WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED WED 23:15 Death and Taxis b079r6tg (Listen) WED The Andy Warhol Diaries, Part One WED WED Adapted by Sean Grundy and starring Scott Capurro as Andy WED Warhol. Also starring Ronni Ancona, Jon Culshaw and Kerry WED Shale. WED WED Everyone who is anyone in New York from 1976 to 1987 is in WED Warhol's diary - from Mick Jagger to Donald Trump. WED WED "Friday, August 30, 1978: The doorbell rang and it was Liza. WED She said, 'give me every drug you've got.' I gave them some WED coke, Valium and four Quaaludes. A little figure in a white WED hat came up, and it was Marty Scorsese, hiding around the WED corner. He and Liza went off to have their affair on all the WED drugs. (Valium $1)" WED WED Beginning in the fall of 1976, America's most famous artist WED Andy Warhol talked to his secretary by phone at 9:00 AM, WED every Monday to Friday morning, for ten years. He would talk WED about the events of the previous day, and his office would WED transcribe his monologues into diary pages. WED WED The diary began as a careful recording of his use of money, WED from phone calls to nickels for bag-ladies to cab rides WED (lots of cab rides), but quickly evolved into Warhol's WED personal observations. It was posthumously published in 1989 WED - a condensed version of Andy's more-than-20,000 page, WED phoned-in audit/diary. WED WED The core themes to the dramas are Warhol's loves (art, men, WED fame, money, mainly money) and his fears (failure, WED embarrassment, death, mainly death). WED WED The episodes follow four key themes, using four people in WED Andy's life from 76-87 - homeless Crazy Matty, Warhol's WED boyfriend Jon Gould, writer Truman Capote and artist WED Jean-Michel Basquiat. Woven into this world are buddies Mick WED and Bianca Jagger, Jerry Hall, Liza Minnelli and Donald WED Trump. WED WED Nobody escapes his sharp tongue. WED WED Based on The Andy Warhol Diaries, edited by Pat Hackett WED Writer: Sean Grundy WED Producer: David Morley WED Director: Dirk Maggs WED WED A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Bianca Jagger: Ronni Ancona WED Jerry Hall: Ronni Ancona WED Jade Jagger: Ronni Ancona WED Andy Warhol: Scott Capurro WED Mick Jagger: Jon Culshaw WED John Lennon: Jon Culshaw WED Muhammed Ali: Jon Culshaw WED Fred Hughes: Kerry Shale WED Ronnie Cutrone: Martin T Sherman WED Writer: Sean Grundy WED Producer: David Morley WED Director: Dirk Maggs WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b079r6tk (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 MAY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b079m0rr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b079r530 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b079m0rt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b079m0rw (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b079m0ry (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b079m0s0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07bgmgs (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b07b2crw (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 b0378x87 (Listen) THU Yellow Wagtail 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 yellow wagtail. Arriving in THU April, Yellow Wagtails are summer visitors to the UK, THU breeding mostly in the south and east. The Yellow Wagtail THU has several different races which all winter south of the THU Sahara and all look slightly different. The birds which THU breed in the UK are the yellowest of all. THU THU Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b07b2qds (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 b079rbcj (Listen) THU Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot' THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates who, with Israel THU Tonge, spread rumours of a Catholic plot to assassinate THU Charles II. From 1678, they went to great lengths to support THU their scheme, forging evidence and identifying the supposed THU conspirators. Fearing a second Gunpowder Plot, there was THU hysteria in London and across the British Isles, with many THU Catholics, particularly Jesuit priests, wrongly implicated THU and then executed. Oates was eventually put on trial under THU James II and sentenced by Judge Jeffreys to public whipping THU through the streets of London. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b079rbcl (Listen) THU Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, Episode 4 THU THU Chris Packham is a naturalist, nature photographer and THU author, best known for his television work. But in his THU lyrical and emotionally honest new memoir, he reveals the THU life-events which would eventually shape him, and change him THU forever. THU THU Chris brings to life his childhood in the 1970s, from his THU bedroom bursting with birds' eggs and jam jars, to his feral THU adventures. But throughout his story is the search for THU freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn't THU understand him. THU THU In this fourth episode, Chris takes a kestrel from its nest, THU forming an all-consuming friendship which will eventually THU teach him hard lessons about love and loss. THU THU This unconventional and uncompromising memoir moves back and THU forth through time, capturing a child's view of the 60s and THU 70s - the music, the clothes, the cars - alongside recent, THU more exposing recollections from adulthood. THU THU Read by Chris Packham and Rachel Atkins THU Abridged by Jo Coombs THU Produced by Pippa Vaughan THU A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Support Organisations THU Samaritans THU is available 24 hours a day for anyone struggling to cope THU and provide a safe place to talk where calls are completely THU confidential. THU Phone: 116 123 THU Email: THU jo@samaritans.org THU www.samaritans.org THU PAPYRUS THU offer support, practical advice and information to young THU people considering suicide and can also offer help and THU advice if you’re concerned about someone you know. THU Phone: 0800 068 41 41 THU www.papyrus-uk.org THU Lifeline THU provides support to people suffering distress or despair in THU Northern Ireland, regardless of age or district. THU Phone: 0808 808 8000 (24 hours a day) THU www.lifelinehelpline.info THU Breathing Space THU offers a confidential phone and web based service for people THU in Scotland experiencing low mood, depression or anxiety. THU Phone: 0800 83 85 87 (Mon-Thu 6pm-2am, weekends 24 hrs). THU A BSL service is also available via the website. THU www.breathingspacescotland.co.uk THU Community Advice & Listening Line THU offers emotional support and information on mental health THU and related matters to people in Wales. THU Phone: 0800 132 737 (24/7) or text "help" to 81066. THU www.callhelpline.org.uk THU SANE THU provides confidential emotional support and information to THU anyone affected by mental illness. It also provides a THU resource for anyone affected by suicide THU Phone: 0300 304 7000 (6pm – 11pm daily) THU www.sane.org.uk THU Mind THU provides advice and support on a range of topics including THU types of mental health problem, legislation and details of THU local help and support in England and Wales. THU Phone: 0300 123 3393 (weekdays 9am - 6pm) THU www.mind.org.uk THU Niamh Mental Wellbeing THU (Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health) provides THU local services to support the mental health and wellbeing of THU people across Northern Ireland. THU Phone: 028 9032 8474 THU www.niamhwellbeing.org THU SAMH THU (Scottish Association for Mental Health) can answer general THU mental health enquiries, advise you on your rights and THU signpost you to your local services. THU Phone: 0141 530 1000 THU www.samh.org.uk THU THU Credits THU Reader: Chris Packham THU Reader: Rachel Atkins THU Author: Chris Packham THU Abridger: Jo Coombs THU Producer: Pippa Vaughan THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b079m0s2 (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b079rbcn (Listen) THU Writing the Century: The Experience of Love, Episode 4 THU THU Written and narrated by Christopher Green, with material THU from the National Lesbian and Gay Survey THU THU In 1993, Christopher Green was a scared young man, sitting THU alone in a hospital room with a dying man he barely knew. THU Chris had volunteered to be a Terrence Higgins Trust buddy, THU and had been introduced to the man in the bed: Kenneth THU Barrow, an actor and writer who had set up a mass THU observation diary project involving 700 gay men and THU lesbians. Asked to write anonymously about their everyday THU lives and loves, the contributors documented their lives THU during the years when HIV and AIDS first came to public THU attention, and Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1986, THU forbidding the 'promotion of homosexuality', was fought over THU and passed into law. They continued well after Kenneth's THU death and for over twenty years, when they were finally THU collected and archived as the National Lesbian and Gay THU Survey, alongside the Mass Observation archive at the THU University of Sussex. THU THU As Writing The Century continues to explore the history of THU the twentieth century through real-life correspondence and THU diaries, Christopher tells the story of Ken's remarkable THU project, and how the candid and entertaining personal THU stories contained in the Survey remind us all how radically THU - and recently - life has changed for lesbians and gay men THU in Britain. THU THU Olivier-award winning entertainer Christopher Green is best THU known in his multiple personas as Country and Western Icon THU Tina C. (nine-time Grammy award-winner and host of five THU Radio 4 comedy series), OAP Rap Artist Ida Barr (Artificial THU Hip Hop), and as The Singing Hypnotist, as well through his THU commissions from the RSC, the British Library, the Tate THU gallery, the V&A, the Science Museum and the Barbican. THU THU 4/5 In which Christopher reveals his secret. THU THU Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU Credits THU Himself: Christopher Green THU Kenneth Barrow: Jonathan Coy THU Young Christopher: Matthew Tennyson THU Anna: Adie Allen THU Young Ken: Sam Rix THU Psychiatrist: James Bailey THU Archivist: Susan Jameson THU Julie: Nicola Ferguson THU Sonia: Scarlett Brookes THU Ricardo: James Lailey THU Landlord: Sargon Yelda THU Anna's Father: Sean Baker THU Writer: Christopher Green THU Director: Jonquil Panting THU Producer: Jonquil Panting THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b079rbcq (Listen) THU Checkmate Me in St Louis THU THU Dave Edmonds travels to the mid-western city of St Louis THU (subject of the musical 'Meet Me In St Louis', starring Judy THU Garland) for the US chess championships. The city has become THU a world centre for the game of chess. Its status has partly THU been achieved by funding from a controversial THU multi-millionaire, whose childhood included time in an THU orphanage. Rex Sinquefield is well known for his fascination THU with the game and his enthusiasm is shared by many others. THU There is a thriving chess centre, elite tournaments which THU attract some of the top players, a Chess Hall of Fame and THU chess lessons in local schools. THU THU St Louis is one of America's most violent cities and has THU most recently been in the news for race riots which erupted THU when an unarmed black man was shot by police. Can the game THU of chess serve to lessen racial tension and unite its THU citizens across the board? THU THU Producer: Mark Savage. THU THU 11:30 Shakespeare In... b079rbcs (Listen) THU South Africa THU THU Writer Nadia Davids talks to a variety of South Africans THU including legendary actor John Kani and former political THU prisoner Eddie Daniels about what Shakespeare means in the THU country today. She finds Shakespeare being performed as a THU way of discussing race, violence against women post THU Pistorius, and the current political crisis around President THU Zuma, but also that his presence in South Africa's cultural THU landscape is contested by some as part of the debate about THU decolonising education. For others such as school pupils THU from a township outside Cape Town and for a group of THU homeless men in Johannesburg, Shakespeare offers an THU opportunity to grow and develop as well as reflect on their THU own lives. THU THU Producer: Maggie Ayre. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b079m0s4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b076cbrx (Listen) THU 12 May 1916 - Edwin Lloyd THU THU On this day in 1916, the papers reported food shortages in THU Germany at a dire level, and in Ashburton, Edwin Lloyd is THU well enough to start work again. THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog THU Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes THU Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett THU William Fulford: Ryan Coath THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b079m0s6 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b079m0s8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b07b2qf5 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 A British History in Weather b07b2kcs (Listen) THU Britain and the Sun THU THU Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has THU written and painted itself into the cultural life of THU England. Britain and the sun: a rare treat? THU THU "I kept a kind of weather diary during a hot spell last THU summer. I didn't try to record pressure or the movement of THU air fronts - I'd have been hopeless at that - but just noted THU some ordinary details of life in the warm, basic ingredients THU from which summer days are made. There's the waking up THU already hot with a single sheet in a crumpled mess, and why THU does the traffic sound louder - o yes because the window's THU open behind the curtain. Best keep the curtains closed all THU day. So the house stays dark, and there's a white-green THU flash when you come back into it from brightness, before the THU eyes have adapted, as well as the swooning doziness of THU sitting at a desk again after half an hour in the sun. THU There's all the action in the street outside, people going THU to the park, hot children pulling scooters, hotter children THU crying, music from open car windows, wasps in the kitchen, a THU cloud of heat hovering half way up the stairs. In the THU evening the scent of lilac pools in the stillness; you can THU walk into it like a room." THU THU Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b079r53f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b079rbcv (Listen) THU Sex, Jealousy THU THU Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola, Season 2 - Sex THU THU The second season of drama inspired by the works of THU literature's greatest whistle blower - Emile Zola. Glenda THU Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old and matriarch to the THU Rougon-Macquart family. THU THU Jealousy by Martin Jameson inspired by Zola's A Love THU Episode. Recently widowed, Helene lives a claustrophobic and THU reclusive life struggling to look after her fragile, sickly THU daughter Jeanne. But when handsome Doctor Henri Deberle THU comes to her aid, it seems as if life for both mother and THU daughter might take a new turn - but Helene soon finds her THU heart pulled in two irreconcilable directions. THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU Dide: Glenda Jackson THU Helene: Lyndsey Marshal THU Henri: Fraser James THU Jeanne: Talia Barnett THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Author: Emile Zola THU Adaptor: Martin Jameson THU THU 15:00 Open Country b079rbcx (Listen) THU Dawn Chorus across Europe THU THU Brett Westwood presents a special programme as Open Country THU joins forces with the European Broadcasting Union and RTE in THU Ireland to follow the Dawn Chorus from East to West across THU Europe. THU THU Sunday 1 May was International Dawn Chorus Day and from THU midnight until six am, Brett Westwood sat in RSPB Ham Wall THU in Somerset with Éanna Nà Lamhna, a wildlife expert from THU Ireland, broadcasting about what they heard. The silence of THU the night is broken by belching Moorhens, booming Bitterns THU and even a Marsh Frog before Dawn breaks to reveal a huge THU cast of Coots, Little Grebes and even Brett's first Cuckoo THU of Spring, to name but a few. THU THU Brett also speaks to Alexander Khaburgaev in Russia about THU the birds waking up in Sparrow Hill, Moscow, and hears from THU experts in Malta and The Netherlands. THU THU Producer: Toby Field. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b079m52n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b079mdy4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b079rbd1 (Listen) THU Remembering Antonia Bird THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU Director Antonia Bird remembered by friends and colleagues, THU Ronan Bennett, Mark Cousins and Kate Hardie. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Ronan Bennett THU Interviewed Guest: Mark Cousins THU Interviewed Guest: Kate Hardie THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b079m0sb (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b079m0sd (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b079m0sg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Don't Start b06wg843 (Listen) THU Series 3, Driving 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 and Neil's return home from a funeral THU involves a missed left turn, a backseat stenographer and the THU planet Zobula. 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 b06mg9gb (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 3 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 b079rbd5 (Listen) THU Brian wants to impress, and Lynda is in search of a remedy. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b079m0sj (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b079rbcn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Briefing Room b079rbd7 (Listen) THU The Truth About BHS THU THU What you need to know about what's happening now. New series THU looking at an important issue in the news. Presented by THU David Aaronovitch. THU THU 20:30 In Business b079rbd9 (Listen) THU Turnarounds THU THU Imagine you run a company and it's failing. What do you do? THU Matthew Gwyther speaks to leaders who've turned around THU businesses in difficulties and finds out how they did it, THU what inspired them and what lessons they can pass on. THU THU Produced by Nina Robinson. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b079m0sb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b079rbcj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b079r03y (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b079m0sl (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b079rbdc (Listen) THU Not Working, Episode 9 THU THU Lisa Owens' "generation-defining" comic debut novel, read by THU Emily Bruni. THU THU Claire Flannery is searching for her true vocation. Months THU after she quit her marketing job, she's no closer to THU understanding what she wants to do with her life. It doesn't THU help that Luke, her long-term partner, is passionate about THU his job, which also happens to be one of the worthiest in THU the world (he's training to be a brain surgeon). THU THU In addition, she's fallen out badly with her mother - who THU refuses to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather THU exposed himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed THU like a big deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's THU reaction has left her hurt and reeling. 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 b079rbdf (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 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 Ronnie Barker, Mel Brooks and THU Lemmy, amongst others. 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 THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b079rbdh (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 MAY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b07b2m08 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b079rbcl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07b9s2t (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07bkjpy (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07bkjq2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b07bkjq4 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07b2ddh (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b07b2ddk (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 b03bkt7v (Listen) FRI Firecrest FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the FRI Firecrest. Firecrests are very small birds, a mere nine FRI centimetres long and are often confused with their much FRI commoner cousins, goldcrests. Both have the brilliant orange FRI or yellow crown feathers, but the firecrest embellishes FRI these with black eyestripes, dazzling white eyebrows and FRI golden patches on the sides of its neck ... a jewel of a FRI bird. FRI FRI Firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus) FRI Image courtesy of David Kjaer (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b07b2lw5 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b079m78n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b079rd1y (Listen) FRI Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, Episode 5 FRI FRI Chris Packham is a naturalist, nature photographer and FRI author, best known for his television work. But in his FRI lyrical and emotionally honest new memoir, he reveals the FRI life-events which would eventually shape him, and change him FRI forever. FRI FRI Chris brings to life his childhood in the 1970s, from his FRI bedroom bursting with birds' eggs and jam jars, to his feral FRI adventures. But throughout his story is the search for FRI freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn't FRI understand him. FRI FRI In this episode, Chris concludes his painfully honest FRI memoir. He is a confirmed outsider - almost overwhelmed - FRI but determined to do things his way, on his terms. FRI FRI This unconventional and uncompromising memoir moves back and FRI forth through time, capturing a child's view of the 60s and FRI 70s - the music, the clothes, the cars - alongside recent, FRI more exposing recollections from adulthood. FRI FRI Read by Chris Packham and Rachel Atkins FRI Abridged by Jo Coombs FRI Produced by Pippa Vaughan FRI A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Chris Packham FRI Reader: Rachel Atkins FRI Author: Chris Packham FRI Abridger: Jo Coombs FRI Producer: Pippa Vaughan FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b079m0v0 (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b079rfwx (Listen) FRI Writing the Century: The Experience of Love, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written and narrated by Christopher Green, with material FRI from the National Lesbian and Gay Survey FRI FRI In 1993, Christopher Green was a scared young man, sitting FRI alone in a hospital room with a dying man he barely knew. FRI Chris had volunteered to be a Terrence Higgins Trust buddy, FRI and had been introduced to the man in the bed: Kenneth FRI Barrow, an actor and writer who had set up a mass FRI observation diary project involving 700 gay men and FRI lesbians. Asked to write anonymously about their everyday FRI lives and loves, the contributors documented their lives FRI during the years when HIV and AIDS first came to public FRI attention, and Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1986, FRI forbidding the 'promotion of homosexuality', was fought over FRI and passed into law. They continued well after Kenneth's FRI death and for over twenty years, when they were finally FRI collected and archived as the National Lesbian and Gay FRI Survey, alongside the Mass Observation archive at the FRI University of Sussex. FRI FRI As Writing The Century continues to explore the history of FRI the twentieth century through real-life correspondence and FRI diaries, Christopher tells the story of Ken's remarkable FRI project, and how the candid and entertaining personal FRI stories contained in the Survey remind us all how radically FRI - and recently - life has changed for lesbians and gay men FRI in Britain. FRI FRI Olivier-award winning entertainer Christopher Green is best FRI known in his multiple personas as Country and Western Icon FRI Tina C. (nine-time Grammy award-winner and host of five FRI Radio 4 comedy series), OAP Rap Artist Ida Barr (Artificial FRI Hip Hop), and as The Singing Hypnotist, as well through his FRI commissions from the RSC, the British Library, the Tate FRI gallery, the V&A, the Science Museum and the Barbican. FRI FRI 5/5 In which we experience love and litter. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kenneth Barrow: Jonathan Coy FRI Young Christopher: Matthew Tennyson FRI Anna: Adie Allen FRI Young Ken: Sam Rix FRI Psychiatrist: James Bailey FRI Archivist: Susan Jameson FRI Julie: Nicola Ferguson FRI Sonia: Scarlett Brookes FRI Ricardo: James Lailey FRI Landlord: Sargon Yelda FRI Anna's Father: Sean Baker FRI Writer: Christopher Green FRI Director: Jonquil Panting FRI Producer: Jonquil Panting FRI FRI 11:00 The Anglo-Irish Century b079rfwz (Listen) FRI It's Good to Talk FRI FRI In the final programme of Diarmaid Ferriter's four part FRI series looking at the last hundred years of Anglo-Irish FRI History the story moves from the darkest days of the FRI sectarian violence in Northern Ireland by way of the FRI Sunningdale agreement, the false dawns of Margaret FRI Thatcher's era, the Downing Street Declaration and the Good FRI Friday peace process. FRI Diarmaid speaks to several of those involved in that process FRI including former First Minister of Northern Ireland Lord FRI David Trimble, Northern Ireland's current Deputy First FRI Minister Martin McGuinness, Prime Minister Sir John Major FRI and former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. FRI They talk about the challenge of establishing trust, the FRI importance of personal relationships between the leaders FRI involved and the sheer weight of history carried by Her FRI Majesty The Queen in visiting Ireland in 2011. And Bertie FRI Ahern reveals exclusively his role in the organisation of FRI that visit. FRI FRI Producer: Tom Alban. FRI FRI 11:30 Barry's Lunch Club b079rfx1 (Listen) FRI Hobbies 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 3: Hobbies FRI How do older people keep minds active? Barry discusses FRI various hobbies while all the time keeping an eye on the FRI ferocious dog that Hilary is minding in the hall for the FRI morning. 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 b079m0v2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b076cbs1 (Listen) FRI 13 May 1916 - Alexander Gidley FRI FRI On this day in 1916, the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith FRI visited Mountjoy prison in Dublin, where De Valera refused FRI to shake his hand, and in Staverton, it's Alexander's FRI birthday. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Oswald Dyer: Dean Nolan FRI Wilfred Truscott: Stephen Tomlin FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b079m0v4 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b079m0v6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b07b2lw7 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 A British History in Weather b07b2krc (Listen) FRI Punishing Weather FRI FRI Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has FRI written and painted itself into the cultural life of FRI England. Punishing weather: do we deserve the weather we FRI get? FRI FRI Weather and time have often been twinned. They are linked by FRI one word in Latin, tempus. Quel temps fait-il, ask the FRI French. Proust's time regained is also the weather of memory FRI revisited. In English the connection is less clear because FRI our word for weather is from Norse 'weder', but still there FRI is a long and potent tradition of thought that links the FRI passing of time with the mobile, changeful, ever-passing FRI weather. In this tradition time and weather began together FRI when Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden into an imperfect FRI and impermanent world. FRI FRI Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b079rbd5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b079rfx3 (Listen) FRI Sex, Affairs FRI FRI Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola, Season 2 - Sex FRI Affairs by Lavinia Murray FRI Double Oscar winning actress Glenda Jackson, and Alison FRI Steadman lead this gloriously mischievous episode. Unusual FRI for Zola, this is comedic and fun. Dide follows her FRI great-grand-son as he journeys to Paris to find his fortune. FRI Octave Mouret, ambitious and a ladies man, moves into an FRI apartment block where there are female delights, it seems, FRI on each floor. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dide: Glenda Jackson FRI Octave: Jack Lowden FRI Mrs Josserand: Alison Steadman FRI Berthe: Verity Henry FRI Concierge: Eric Potts FRI August Vabre: Eric Potts FRI Mr Josserand: Eric Potts FRI Adele: Rachel Austin FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI Author: Emile Zola FRI Adaptor: Lavinia Murray FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b079rfx5 (Listen) FRI West Suffolk FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI West Suffolk. Bunny Guinness, Matthew Wilson and Christine FRI Walkden answer this week's questions from the audience. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant producer: Laurence Bassett FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Second God b079rfx7 (Listen) FRI A new story specially commissioned for Radio 4 from Teju FRI Cole, one of the most interesting writers on FRI multiculturalism working today, and read by Riz Ahmed (Four FRI Lions, The Reluctant Fundamentalist). FRI FRI Hussain, a New York gas station attendant, worries about FRI love. Concerned for his ageing parents back in Pakistan, he FRI makes a rash decision which has serious consequences for his FRI relationship. FRI FRI Teju Cole is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and FRI art historian. His 2011 novel Open City was described by the FRI Guardian as, "an excellent novel about spatial relations, FRI layers of urban history and immigrant experience". Using FRI Cole's trademark insight and subtlety, Second God explores FRI how definitions of love can differ around the world, and FRI what this means for a two people in modern New York. FRI FRI Riz Ahmed, also known as Riz MC, is an English actor and FRI rapper of Pakistani descent. He appeared in many acclaimed FRI films including The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Road to FRI Guantanamo, Shifty, Britz, Four Lions, Ill Manors, and FRI Nightcrawler. He also has a lead role in forthcoming HBO FRI series The Night Of, premiering in July 2016. FRI FRI Writer: Teju Cole FRI Reader: Riz Ahmed FRI Producer: Simon Richardson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Teju Cole FRI Reader: Riz Ahmed FRI Producer: Simon Richardson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b079m0v8 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b079rfx9 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b079rfxc (Listen) FRI Ruth and Alan - Shoemakers FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a master FRI craftsman and his former apprentice, about the skills and FRI the pitfalls of shoe-making. Another in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b079m0vb (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b079m0vd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b079rfxf (Listen) FRI Series 90, Episode 5 FRI FRI This week, the programme comes from the Corn Exchange in FRI Ipswich as Miles Jupp is joined by Susan Calman, Hugo FRI Rifkind, Zoe Lyons and Jeremy Hardy for the long-running FRI satirical quiz of the week's news. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Sheehan FRI FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Hugo Rifkind FRI Panellist: Zoe Lyons FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Producer: Paul Sheehan FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b079rfxh (Listen) FRI Peggy sets the record straight, and Ed and Emma think about FRI their future. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Latif: Alex Caan FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b079m0vg (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b079rfwx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b079rgy3 (Listen) FRI Lord Ashdown, Dr Liam Fox MP, Dave Nellist, Rachel Reeves MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Colyton in Devon with a panel including the former FRI Leader of the liberal Democrats Lord Ashdown, former Defence FRI Secretary Dr Liam Fox MP, Dave Nellist the National Chair of FRI the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition TUSC and the FRI Labour MP Rachel Reeves. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b07b9x8h (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b076cc8s (Listen) FRI 9-13 May 1916 FRI FRI In a week when the Teachers Association strongly condemned FRI the encouragement of child labour to replace conscripted FRI men, much of the Ashburton community is on a steep learning FRI curve. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Richard Monks FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Brother Aloysius: Toby Bryant FRI Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer FRI Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Policeman: Nick Underwood FRI Stallholder: Sargon Yelda FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI Hetty Cox: Adie Allen FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams FRI Isaac Cox: James Lailey FRI Lewis Cox: Dylan Edwards FRI Oswald Dyer: Dean Nolan FRI Greg: Sam Rix FRI Stationmaster: Mark Carey FRI Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Elsie Knocker: Marianne Oldham FRI Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog FRI Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes FRI Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett FRI William Fulford: Ryan Coath FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Wilfred Truscott: Stephen Tomlin FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b079m0vj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b079m0vm (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b079rgy5 (Listen) FRI Not Working, Episode 10 FRI FRI Lisa Owens' "generation-defining" comic debut novel, read by FRI Emily Bruni. FRI FRI Claire Flannery is searching for her true vocation. Months FRI after she quit her marketing job, she's no closer to FRI understanding what she wants to do with her life. It doesn't FRI help that Luke, her long-term partner, is passionate about FRI his job, which also happens to be one of the worthiest in FRI the world (he's training to be a brain surgeon). FRI FRI In addition, she's fallen out badly with her mother - who FRI refuses to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather FRI exposed himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed FRI like a big deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's FRI reaction has left her hurt and reeling. Her father, FRI thankfully, is completely behind her and helps her FRI understand that her mother just needs time to come to terms FRI with what happened. 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 b079pr90 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Drags to Riches b05tkllp (Listen) FRI The British drag scene has moved from working men's clubs to FRI lucrative mainstream. Kim Normanton meets three very FRI different drag entrepreneurs, and presents an entertaining FRI and moving portrait of a booming industry. She talks to the FRI men behind the wigs and lashes and explores questions about FRI gender identity in modern Britain. FRI FRI Lee Sanderson, aka 'Peggy Lee', had a market stall in FRI Blackpool but now runs a flourishing drag business with FRI venues across the Canary Islands, which entertained 90,000 FRI tourists last year. He was inspired to join the world of FRI drag when he sneaked into a local pub, aged 13, and saw his FRI first drag queen. "The pub was packed, I saw this man FRI standing on the bar in the spotlight looking all glamorous FRI and the audience adoring him - he was being respected and I FRI thought I'd like some of that kind of attention. And it was FRI the money, to be honest." FRI FRI Back in the UK, Walt Utz is the founder of the Supreme FRI Fabulettes - four young drag queens who travel the world FRI performing close-harmony singing. One new business FRI opportunity Walt is keen to exploit is gay weddings - but FRI it's not just weddings which bring in the bookings. Vicki of FRI the Fabulettes comments, "Gay weddings are fun, but we FRI performed at four funerals last year. I was dancing round a FRI coffin! Whenever we get invited it's a celebration." FRI FRI The third entrepreneur, Amy Redmond, is the manager of a new FRI kind of drag business Sink The Pink. She organizes huge drag FRI balls and fills venues with 3,000 drag queens. "To FRI physically look at there's a very strong difference from a FRI traditional camp northern drag queen to a Sink The Pink drag FRI queen. They have beards and a hairy leg sticking through the FRI fishnet." FRI FRI Producers: Elizabeth Burke and Kim Normanton FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b079rgy7 (Listen) FRI Sara and Jane - The Need to Connect FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a sister who FRI emigrated to Canada and one who remained in Scotland, about FRI the persistent sadness of living over 6000 kilometres apart. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
06 May, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 07/05/2016 - 13/05/2016
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