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SAT SATURDAY 20 MARCH 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00rbsb0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00r93vz (Listen) SAT Chopin: Prince of the Romantics, Episode 5 SAT SAT Adam Zamoyski's biography of the brief but eventful life of SAT the great Romantic composer Frederic Chopin from Polish SAT child prodigy to Paris dandy his turbulent relationship with SAT George Sand and his early death penniless in Paris. SAT SAT As Paris is shaken by revolution Chopin seeks refuge in SAT Scotland where he is forced to fend off the attentions of SAT several well-meaning 'Scottish Ladies'. Returning to Paris SAT his health deteriorates rapidly and relying on the SAT benevolence and support of his friends he retreats to his SAT apartment where he begins to make plans for his own SAT sumptuous funeral. SAT SAT Abridged by Doreen Estall. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rbsb2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rbsb4 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rbsb6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00rbsb8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rbsnb (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Judy Merry. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00rbsnd (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. A weekly SAT companion to the nightly PM the expertise of the Radio 4 SAT audience shapes the programme. Presented by Jennifer Tracey SAT and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00rbsng (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00rd3vw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00rd3vy (Listen) SAT Post-Flood Cumbria SAT SAT In November 2009 much of the UK experienced some of the SAT heaviest rain for years. One of the worst affected areas was SAT Cumbria where rivers burst their banks and torrents of water SAT raced through the streets of towns and villages and SAT devastated the surrounding countryside. SAT SAT For a while images of the devastation dominated the media. SAT But what happened next? Matt Baker visits the area to find SAT out how the clean-up and rebuilding operation is going and SAT talks to people whose lives and businesses were badly SAT affected. He starts his day in Workington where the main SAT bridge collapsed leading to the tragic death of a local SAT policeman and effectively splitting the town in two. Work is SAT now underway on a new temporary road bridge which will SAT finally enable people to travel from one side of the town to SAT the other without an 18-mile detour. Matt joins Chris Tomlin SAT of the Lake District National Park out on the fells to find SAT out just where all the water came from that caused so much SAT damage. He also hears from local farmers about the SAT devastation caused to their land by the thousands of tons of SAT gravel and debris left behind by the water. SAT SAT Matt visits Wordsworth House the birthplace and childhood SAT home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth where he helps out in SAT the clean-up operation in the 18th century-kitchen garden. SAT He is also taken around the streets of Cockermouth by Mike SAT Park team leader of the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue team who SAT helped to rescue people from their flooded homes and SAT businesses. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00rd3w0 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00rd3w2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00rd3w4 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00rd3w6 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by writer Anthony SAT Horowitz. With poetry from Salena Godden. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00rd3w8 (Listen) SAT The Tropic of Cancer runs through 17 countries and Simon SAT Reeve visited most of them - and one or two others for good SAT measure - on a journey round the imaginary line. He found a SAT huge variety of climates and landscapes from deep jungle to SAT vast desert and an even bigger range of ways of life from SAT deep poverty to vast wealth. He talks to Sandi Toksvig about SAT his experiences including sneaking illegally into Burma and SAT what conclusions he has come to about the way the planet is SAT changing. SAT SAT The port of Darwin in northern Australia and the region SAT behind it known as Arnhemland is one of the less touristy SAT parts of the country. But it has much to offer in terms of SAT an impressive terrain that hasn't altered for millions of SAT years and which has been home to the aborigine people for SAT many thousands. Sandi talks to travel journalist Wendy SAT Gomersall who has visited the area and the indigenous people SAT and Sab Lord who was brought up there on a buffalo station SAT in what is now a national park the size of Wales and who SAT acts as a guide to the area's natural and human heritage. SAT SAT 10:30 Ali: Me, My Family and Muhammad Ali b00rd3wb (Listen) SAT Deirdre Pascall relives her youthful meeting with Muhammad SAT Ali in 1976 and measures his impact on the black British SAT population of the day. SAT SAT When Deirdre went with her broadcaster father Alex Pascall SAT OBE to the Savoy Hotel in March 1976 she was dreaming of SAT getting a glimpse of her childhood hero world champion boxer SAT Muhammad Ali. Little did she know that once Ali had seen her SAT she would be swept up and spend much of the press conference SAT for the launch of Ali's autobiography The Greatest sitting SAT on the great man's knee. SAT SAT Surrounded by the great and good of the British press with SAT photographers crammed into the room she remembers the Champ SAT asking her who he was. 'You're the greatest' was her reply SAT to his evident delight. SAT SAT But the next day there were no pictures of her in the SAT newspapers. They chose to stick with the shot of Ali and his SAT book. Perhaps in the London of 1976 a little black girl SAT wasn't felt to be a particularly British image? SAT SAT Since then Deirdre has wondered much about that day. In this SAT programme she goes in search of the memories and in SAT particular in search of a photograph of her meeting. She SAT also asks her father and her father's generation what they SAT made of Ali's trips to the UK back then. He was already a SAT superstar to most British people by that time even if some SAT of them found his abrasive language and powerful Islamic SAT rhetoric disturbing. As a boxer he had no equals. But how SAT important a figure was he to black Britons who had their own SAT struggles and challenges often very different from the ones SAT that Ali represented back in the States? SAT SAT Of course the reason for her trip to the Savoy in the first SAT place was so that her father could get an interview with Ali SAT for his BBC radio show Black Londoners. Deirdre listens SAT again to that recording in which a far more quietly spoken SAT Ali talks to his British brothers. This isn't the showman SAT who appeared on the Parkinson show although his humour is SAT there. This was an Ali listening and learning and probing as SAT we hear during the programme. SAT SAT There are other issues for Deirdre as well. How does she SAT feel now about her hero's stance on the place of women on SAT integration on religion? And why is that Savoy meeting with SAT a boxer so important to a woman who went on to train as a SAT classical pianist? SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00rd3wd (Listen) SAT Benedict Brogan of The Daily Telegraph looks back at the SAT Week in Westminster. SAT SAT The last time the Conservatives won an election was in 1992 SAT against the odds and during a recession. The then SAT Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten - now Lord Patten - SAT looks back at the struggles of that campaign and compares it SAT to what might happen this time. SAT SAT Also involved in that general election was Glenys Kinnock SAT the wife of the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock and now a SAT government minister and peer. What role did she play then SAT and does she think women now play a larger part in SAT determining the outcome of elections? SAT SAT Also in the programme: SAT SAT With UKIP aiming to field over 500 candidates in the SAT forthcoming general election what effect will it have on the SAT Conservative vote? SAT SAT And how do we read the current opinion polls? Stephan SAT Shakespeare of YouGov and Andrew Cooper of Populus discuss SAT how far we can trust them. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00rd3wg (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00rd3wj (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00rbs19 (Listen) SAT Series 30, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the SAT week's news with help from Jon Holmes Laura Shavin Mitch SAT Benn and Marcus Brigstocke. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00rd3wl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00rd3wn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00rbs1c (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Leeds. SAT SAT The panellists are associate editor of the Daily Telegraph SAT Simon Heffer secretary of state for children schools and SAT families Ed Balls shadow foreign secretary William Hague and SAT Green Party Parliamentary candidate Bea Campbell. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00rd3wq (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00rd3ws (Listen) SAT Playing With Trains, Episode 1 SAT SAT Adaptation of Stephen Poliakoff's RSC play about an SAT entrepreneurial engineer and his relationship with his son SAT and daughter. After making his fortune in the gramophone SAT industry in the 1960s Bill Galpin becomes a champion of SAT inventors and sets out to change the conservative attitude SAT of British industry. His ambition and drive lead him into SAT difficult waters with his talented daughter and son. SAT SAT Bill Galpin ...... Timothy Spall SAT Roxanna Galpin ...... Zoe Tapper SAT Danny Galpin ...... Geoffrey Streatfeild SAT Frances ...... Helen Longworth SAT Mick ...... Joseph Kloska SAT Gant ...... Michael Fenton Stevens SAT Vernon Boyce ...... Nigel Hastings SAT SAT Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00rb2sv (Listen) SAT Series 9, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands SAT SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional SAT appeal. SAT SAT He's Got the Whole World in His Hands is a spiritual song SAT originating in the United States but it first caught the SAT public's attention when Laurie London took it to the top of SAT the charts in 1958. In this programme people describe the SAT place that the song has in their lives. Including the SAT conductor of a choir for refugees and asylum seekers and the SAT minister who led prayers on President Obama's first day in SAT office. SAT SAT The programme also includes a performance from Washington SAT Performing Arts Society's Children of the Gospel Choir. They SAT sang an arrangement of He's Got the Whole World in His Hands SAT made by their conductor and Artistic Director Stanley J SAT Thurston at the National Prayer Service at the Washington SAT National Cathedral on January 21 2009. President Barack SAT Obama Vice President Joseph Biden and their families SAT attended this service and the sermon was given by the SAT Reverend Sharon E Watkins. SAT SAT Music played SAT Laurie London SAT He's Got the Whole World in His Hands SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00rd3wv (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00rd3wx (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00rbnmm (Listen) SAT Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top executives from the SAT worlds of house building drinking and gambling to find out SAT what they think of their rivals. They also talk about SAT annoying regulations: what would they change if they had the SAT chance? SAT SAT Evan is joined by Pete Redfern chief executive of the house SAT builders Taylor Wimpey Andrew Morgan president of drinks SAT manufacturer Diageo Europe and Mark Davies group director of SAT the betting exchange Betfair. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00rd3wz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00rd3x1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00rd3x3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00rd3x5 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the actor Jim Broadbent Legally Blonde's SAT Sheridan Smith and writer and now presenter of her own food SAT televison series Sophie Dahl. SAT SAT Jo Bunting talks bread with master baker Tom Herbert. SAT SAT With music from Rox and Dr Rubberfunk. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00rd3x7 (Listen) SAT Lord Saville SAT SAT Edward Stourton looks at the life and career of Lord Saville SAT of Newdigate whose report into Bloody Sunday - when British SAT soldiers killed 13 unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland - SAT is expected to be handed to the government shortly. The SAT report has taken 12 years and cost 200 million pounds and SAT become something of a scandal in its own right. SAT SAT When Tony Blair announced the inquiry in 1998 36 years after SAT the killings on the streets of Londonderry (or Derry as SAT nationalists call it) Lord Saville seemed a natural SAT chairman. In this programme friends and colleagues recall SAT his meteoric rise through the ranks of the judiciary while SAT earning himself a reputation as a Bond-like action man SAT hang-gliding dinghy sailing and earning his pilot's licence. SAT SAT He was called to the Bar in 1962 became a Queen's Counsel in SAT 1975 and a Bencher of his Inn in 1983. He was appointed a SAT High Court judge in 1985 and went on to become Lord Justice SAT of Appeal and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He was SAT considered to be young for a judge at the time (aged 61) and SAT a keen advocate of new technology. SAT SAT But the Saville Inquiry has been bogged down in one delay SAT after another becoming the longest-running and most SAT expensive public inquiry in British history and Lord Saville SAT himself has come in for considerable criticism. SAT SAT The report from the inquiry is due to be handed to the SAT government shortly but it is still not known when the SAT results are likely to be made public. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00rd3x9 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00rd3xc (Listen) SAT Soccer, Springboks and Segregation SAT SAT As South Africa prepares to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup SAT Allan Little examines the role that sport has played in the SAT republic's internal politics and in forming its SAT international reputation. SAT SAT South Africa is a country often divided both within itself SAT and from the rest of the world. For decades sport was SAT tarnished by class and racial divides. Two sporting cultures SAT existed - one for whites one for blacks - each with its own SAT pantheon of heroes triumphs and tragedies. Archive on 4 SAT explores the role of sport in South Africa's history from SAT the Gleneagles Agreement that saw the Republic banned from SAT worldwide competition to the rebel tours in cricket and SAT rugby and the athletes who were forced to leave their SAT homeland in order to compete on the world stage. SAT SAT Allan Little was there when South Africa won the Rugby World SAT Cup; so too was Nelson Mandela who was wearing Francois SAT Pienaar's shirt - a highly significant gesture symbolising SAT the fact that he was not so much a white Afrikaner but the SAT captain of a team the whole nation could support. SAT SAT Allan charts the events that put South African sport on the SAT front pages and assesses how the end of apartheid the SAT introduction of the controversial race quota systems in SAT sport and the hosting of international tournaments like the SAT rugby and football World Cups have affected the country's SAT sport and society. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00r907w (Listen) SAT Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady, The Pursuit SAT SAT Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel SAT Richardson. SAT SAT The beautiful young heiress Clarissa Harlowe is dangerously SAT attracted by the wiles of the notorious libertine Robert SAT Lovelace. Threatened by an imminent marriage arranged with SAT the odious suitor her family have found for her Lovelace SAT persuades Clarissa to flee with him. SAT SAT Clarissa Harlowe ...... Zoe Waites SAT Robert Lovelace ...... Richard Armitage SAT James Harlowe ...... Oliver Milburn SAT Solmes ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT Bella Harlowe ...... Sophie Thompson SAT Lady Harlowe ...... Alison Steadman SAT Lord Harlowe ...... John Rowe SAT Mrs Norton ...... Deborah Findlay SAT Anna Howe ...... Cathy Sara SAT SAT Directed by Marilyn Imrie SAT SAT A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 Weather b00rd3zy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00rblxz (Listen) SAT A London fertility clinic has caused outrage by putting up a SAT human egg as the prize in a raffle. The winner will be able SAT to travel to America where they'll get the chance to select SAT their ideal donor egg based on its mother's profession SAT ethnic background and qualifications. Critics have called SAT the plan deplorable and claim it cheapens human life SAT reducing it to a commercial transaction. But is it SAT inherently immoral? The heart of this issue is that demand SAT for eggs and sperm outstrips supply. So if altruism and SAT generosity aren't solving the problem why not let the market SAT do the job and pay people the going rate for their gametes? SAT SAT Witnesses: SAT SAT Professor Gedis Grudzinskas ex-medical director of the SAT Bridge Centre Fertility Clinic; now a consultant in SAT infertility and gynaecology SAT SAT Dr Alexina McWhinnie ex-senior research fellow at Dundee SAT University Department of Social Work and writer on the SAT subject of the long-term effects of donor insemination. SAT Author of a book called Who Am I? SAT SAT Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards professor of practical SAT philosophy at Oxford University SAT SAT Dr Vivienne Nathanson head of science and ethics at the SAT British Medical Association. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00rb16j (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of SAT quotations and anecdotes. SAT SAT With Mary Beard Marcel Theroux Arthur Smith and Ariel Leve. SAT SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00r90cg (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests read by Henry SAT Goodman and Selina Cadell. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT SAT Happiness SAT by Michael Van Walleghen SAT From: Good Poems for Hard Times SAT Pub: Penguin SAT SAT Pre-Existence SAT by Frances Cornford SAT From: Frances Cornford Collected Poems SAT Pub: The Cresset Press SAT SAT The Oblong Mirror SAT by Robert Seatter SAT From: On the Beach with Chet Baker SAT Pub: Seren SAT SAT I Want to be a Tourist SAT by Kapka Kassabova SAT From: Geography for the Lost SAT Pub: Bloodaxe SAT SAT I’m So Full of Feeling SAT by Fernando Pessoa SAT From: Poems of Fernando Pessoa SAT Translated by Edwin Honig and Susan M Brown SAT Pub: City Lights Books SAT SAT My Glance is Clear Like a Sunflower SAT by Fernando Pessoa SAT From: Poems of Fernando Pessoa SAT Translated by Edwin Honig and Susan M Brown SAT Pub: City Lights Books SAT SAT Sonnet IX SAT by Eleanor Brown SAT From: Maiden Speech SAT Pub: Bloodaxe SAT SAT On Monsieur’s Departure SAT by Elizabeth I SAT From: The Virago Book of Love Poetry SAT Pub: Virago SAT SAT A Night With A Wolf SAT by Bayard Taylor SAT From: Headlines from the Jungle by Virginia McKenna and SAT Anne Harvey SAT Pub: Viking SAT SAT Little Red-Cap SAT by Carol Ann Duffy SAT From: The World’s Wife SAT Pub: Picador SAT SAT Freshen the Flowers She Said SAT by Mary Oliver SAT From: Blue Iris SAT Pub: Beacon Press SAT SAT Moonlit Apples SAT by John Drinkwater SAT From: The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse SAT Pub: Oxford University Press SAT SAT Ordinary Life SAT by Barbara Crooker SAT From: Ordinary Life SAT Pub: Line Press SAT SAT Slumber Song SAT by Siegfried Sassoon SAT From: Picture Show SAT Pub: E P Dutton and Company SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 MARCH 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00rd42z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b00rbly1 (Listen) SUN Sr Elizabeth Obbard SUN SUN Series of six talks by eminent thinkers exploring how faith SUN and religion interact with a variety of aspects in society. SUN SUN Sr Elizabeth Obbard a Carmelite solitary at Aylesford Priory SUN in Kent explores how people's personal faith is affected and SUN shaped by formal religion. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rd431 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rd433 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rd435 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00rd437 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00rd439 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Petroc South Brent in Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00rd3x7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00rd43c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00rd43f (Listen) SUN Sweet Surrender SUN SUN When should we accept our lot and when should we rage SUN against circumstances? Fergal Keane considers the notion SUN that serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance. SUN SUN The readers are Liza Sadovy Frank Stirling and Don SUN Wycherley. SUN SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Music SUN SUN Music 1: ‘Having Seen The Moon’ by Karl Jenkins. From the SUN album Requiem. Released by EMI Records. SUN SUN Music 2: ‘And The Healing Has Begun’ written and performed SUN by Van Morrison. Released by Polydor. SUN SUN Music 3: ‘Varen’ by Edvard Grieg. Available on the album SUN Nordic Light. Performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic SUN Orchestra. Releaed by BIS. SUN SUN Music 4: ‘Von Der Jugend (Of Youth)’ the 3rd Movement from SUN Das Lied Von Der Erde (The Song of the Earth) by Gustav SUN Mahler. Performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Released SUN by Preiser Records. SUN SUN Music 5: ‘Vocalise’ composed by Sergei Rachmaninov performed SUN by the English Chamber Orchestra and the Tertelier family. SUN Available on the album Tertelier Family Favourites. SUN Published by EMI Records. SUN SUN Music 6: ‘The Moon Over Mtatsiminda’ by Jansug Kakhidze SUN performed by Jan Garbarek. Available on the album Rites. SUN Released by ECM Records. SUN SUN Music 7: ‘I Think I Understand’ by Joni Mitchell. Available SUN on the album Clouds. Released by Reprise. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Reading 1: “The Boats” by Tomaz Salamun. Available in the SUN Poetry Review Vol 99.4 Winter 2009 “This Time It’s Personal” SUN available at www.poetryreview.org.uk. SUN SUN Reading 2: ‘Gravy’ by Raymond Carver. Available in “All of SUN Us” collected poems of Raymond Carver. Published by Harvill P. SUN SUN Reading 3: “In Consolation to His Wife” by Plutarch SUN translated by Robin Waterfield. Available in Essays SUN published by Penguin. SUN SUN Reading 4: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan SUN Thomas. Available in Collection Poems published by Phoenix. SUN SUN Reading 5: “Our Billie” by Ian Clayton. Published by Penguin SUN available from April 2010. SUN SUN Reading 6: “Revelation” by Robert Frost. Available in Poems SUN of Doubt and Belief. Published by Macmillan. SUN SUN Reading 7: “The Diving Bell And The Butterfly” by SUN Jean-Dominique Bauby. Translated by Jeremy Leggatt. SUN Published by Fourth Estate. SUN SUN Reading 8: “To Leuconoe” by Eric McAlpine. From The Literary SUN Review Vol 52/4 Summer 2009. Published by Farleigh Dickinson SUN Unversity. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00rd4d4 (Listen) SUN Charlotte Smith visits the Sheffield school which is growing SUN its own food to teach pupils where their meals come from. SUN Emmanuel Junior School will use the food in school dinners SUN and sell any excess in local farmers' markets. Charlotte SUN finds out how the project aims to connect youngsters with SUN local city farms. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00rd4d6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00rd4d8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00rd4db (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news of SUN the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories both SUN familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN On this week's programme SUN SUN On this week's Sunday programme we hear about the legacy of SUN murdered Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero thirty years after SUN his death and what he still means to the people of El SUN Salvador. SUN SUN Is Tai Chi offensive to Christians? Edward Stourton will be SUN finding out about the spiritual aspects of this gentle SUN Eastern exercise and having a go himself. SUN SUN As battles still rage over the holy city of Jerusalem we SUN examine the religious roots of the hostilities and whether SUN there can ever be a peaceful solution. SUN SUN Pope Benedict has written a pastoral letter to the Catholics SUN of Ireland following the sex abuse scandals that have rocked SUN the church. It's due to be read at Sunday mass we'll be SUN finding out what's in it and how its being received. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00rd4dd (Listen) SUN International Alert SUN SUN Joanna Lumley appeals on behalf of International Alert. SUN SUN Donations to International Alert should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal please mark the back of your envelope SUN International Alert. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. 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SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00rd4dl (Listen) SUN People on the Edge of His Pain SUN SUN The fifth service in a series for Lent considers the life of SUN St Peter and comes live from the Church of God of Prophecy SUN Aberdeen Street in Birmingham's Winson Green. SUN SUN Led by Lorraine Alagoa with preacher Bishop Joe Aldred. SUN SUN Music directors: Deseta Davis Vincent McCalla Charmain SUN Oliver. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00rbs1f (Listen) SUN Simon Schama looks forward to spring with personal SUN reflections on the changing seasons and commends Geoffrey SUN Chaucer's upbeat opinion of April compared with TS Eliot's SUN more pessimistic view. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00rd4dn (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00rd4dq (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00rd4ds (Listen) SUN Frank Cottrell Boyce SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Frank Cottrell Boyce. SUN SUN His film credits include Hilary and Jackie Welcome to SUN Sarajevo and 24 Hour Party People. He's also written TV SUN soaps radio and stage plays and children's novels. SUN SUN These days children are his main audience and as a father of SUN seven himself he should know what they want. He not only SUN tests his ideas on them but they keep him focused: 'I need SUN them in the house to make sure I'm not watching telly or SUN having a four-hour bath - the fact that they're there makes SUN me work.'. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00rb1xp (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 11 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With Paul SUN Merton Jenny Eclair Pam Ayres and Gyles Brandreth. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00rd4dv (Listen) SUN Beetroot and Health Legislation SUN SUN If beetroot juice is good for our blood pressure should it SUN be left up to the European Union to decide whether or not a SUN food manufacturer can make such a claim? The food industry SUN is reeling at the EU's tightening up of regulations which SUN make it more difficult to make a health claim for a food. SUN SUN If precise scientific evidence is required isn't the EU SUN expecting the same clinical rigour for a food as for a drug? SUN Sheila Dillon meets one beetroot juice producer in Suffolk SUN who following new scientific evidence for the health effects SUN of his juice hopes to make a health claim for the product. SUN How difficult might that be? Consumer safety is the SUN paramount concern but is this level of control costly and SUN damaging for small food companies and patronising to the SUN consumer? Sheila travels to Brussels and meets small food SUN companies trying to come to terms with the changes in EU SUN health claims. SUN SUN In trying to protect the public could the bureaucrats be SUN throwing the metaphorical baby out with the bath water? SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00rd4dx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00rd4dz (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Banishing Eve b00rd4f1 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Historian of the ancient world Bettany Hughes uses the SUN latest scholarship to take us back to the 2nd century AD as SUN pagan Europe began to embrace Christianity. What emerged out SUN of this crucible of religious change marked the beginning of SUN the end for women as religious leaders for a millennium and SUN half. Common wisdom would have it that women went from SUN goddesses to flower arrangers in just over a century. But SUN why - and was it that straightforward? SUN SUN Bettany finds that the history of women in the early church SUN is written more in the fragments of stone left behind than SUN in the scriptures. She visits Rome and traces the activities SUN of women in the early church as they fought hand in hand SUN with men to see their faith survive. Things got more SUN difficult after Christianity became the recognised religion SUN of the Roman Empire and beyond. But this is not just a tale SUN of capitulation and annihilation; women fought doggedly for SUN their positions. From Nicea to Northumbria Bettany follows SUN the decline - but not quite fall - of women in the early SUN church. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00rbs13 (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN SUN Bob Flowerdew Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson answer SUN questions posed by the gardeners in Shoreham-by-Sea West Sussex. SUN SUN The programme visits the UK's first commercial olive growers SUN and report on new plant varieties from the British Plant SUN Fair. SUN SUN Includes gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio b00rd983 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Roger Law investigates the life and work of Caravaggio. SUN SUN Much heated debate centres on Caravaggio's secretive SUN techniques in the studio; were his great innovations in SUN painting based on smoke and mirrors? SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00rd4p1 (Listen) SUN Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady, The Flight SUN SUN Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel SUN Richardson. SUN SUN Clarissa has been persuaded to flee with the notorious SUN libertine Lovelace escaping an arranged marriage. In London SUN she begins to learn of the darker side of Lovelace's SUN character as he secures her lodgings in a house of ill SUN repute and begins to use lies trickery and cruel delusions SUN in an attempt to seduce her. SUN SUN Clarissa Harlowe ...... Zoe Waites SUN Robert Lovelace ...... Richard Armitage SUN Anna Howe ...... Cathy Sara SUN Mrs Sinclair ...... Miriam Margolyes SUN Dorcas ...... Lisa Hammond SUN Sally ...... Sophie Thompson SUN Belford ...... Adrian Scarborough SUN Tourville ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt SUN Captain Tomlinson ...... Stephen Critchlow SUN SUN Directed by Marilyn Imrie SUN SUN A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00rd4p3 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist DJ Taylor who SUN explains why in his latest book he's taken on the persona of SUN a 1930s thriller writer. He talks about his fascination with SUN period slang and why he decided to make up some of his own. SUN SUN There's also news of a New York exhibition of JD Salinger's SUN letters containing major revelations about the reclusive SUN writer's life. Declan Kiely of the Morgan Library explains SUN what these 10 letters tell us. SUN SUN And the writer Rachel Polonsky discusses what browsing the SUN private library of one of Stalin's most notorious henchmen SUN taught her about the life of Vyacheslav Molotov. SUN SUN Book list SUN SUN DJ Taylor: At The Chime of a City Clock SUN Publisher: Constable SUN SUN DJ Taylor: Ask Alice SUN Publisher: Chatto and Windus SUN SUN DJ Taylor: Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a SUN Generation 1918-1940 SUN Publisher: Vintage SUN SUN Rachel Polonsky: Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in SUN Russian History SUN Publisher: Faber and Faber SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00rd4p5 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces poems from 'across the pond'. SUN There's a bus ride in Nova Scotia and a few trips to the SUN cinema with works by Elizabeth Bishop Frank O'Hara and Billy SUN Collins. For good measure there's also a Swedish poem about SUN growing up and a very English poem with a host of bluebells. SUN The readers are Jennifer Jellicorse and Kerry Shale. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00rbkyf (Listen) SUN Around a third of all youngsters who have been abused are SUN victims of other children and young people. Jackie Long SUN investigates what is done to help young abusers stop SUN offending and asks why so many are slipping through the net. SUN SUN Hidden problem of children sexually abusing children SUN SUN Jackie Long reports on the largely taboo subject of SUN children sexually abusing children and how a long-promised SUN national strategy to help victims has not been delivered. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00rd3x7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00rd4p7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00rd4p9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00rd4pc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00rd4pf (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00rd4q4 (Listen) SUN Pip hears some words of wisdom. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00rd4q6 (Listen) SUN Matt Frei talks to journalist Carl Bernstein about the value SUN of staking out the truth even if it means going forward SUN alone. SUN SUN Spring officially sets in and it's Sunshine Week in SUN Washington DC the yearly opportunity for the federal SUN government to highlight its efforts towards transparency in SUN governing. Carl Bernstein offers his thoughts on what we can SUN learn from Watergate and the ways that secrecy continues to SUN play out in American politics. SUN SUN Author and travel writer Jonathan Raban joins Matt to talk SUN about his most recent escapes and the challenges and SUN benefits of being a lone wolf. SUN SUN Matt talks to historian and journalist Ellen Fitzpatrick SUN about her new book Letters to Jackie. The collection of SUN letters sent to Jackie Kennedy on the death of her husband SUN John F Kennedy highlight the emptiness that loss can bring SUN and how the words of Americans from all over the nation SUN served to abate that pain. SUN SUN Carl Bernstein SUN SUN Matt Frei talks to Carl Bernstein about challenging the SUN status quo in Washington D.C. From his role in uncovering SUN the Watergate scandal to his current concerns with the SUN United States Congress Americana hears more about what SUN changes are needed to bring about government reform. SUN SUN Letters to Jackie SUN SUN Matt Frei talks to Ellen Fitzpatrick about her new book SUN 'Letters to Jackie Condolences from a Grieving Nation'. SUN SUN The collection contains previously unreleased letters sent SUN to Jacqueline Kennedy upon the loss of her husband President SUN John F. Kennedy. The letters come from average Americans and SUN cultural icons alike and reveal a fuller picture of the SUN grief of the nation. SUN SUN Jonathan Raban SUN SUN Matt Frei talks to Jonathan Raban about what it’s like to be SUN an outsider looking in on America. The award-winning author SUN shares his impressions of America's class divisions politics SUN and personalities. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008khxt (Listen) SUN Treasure Island, The Sea Cook SUN SUN John le Carre reads Robert Louis Stevenson's classic SUN adventure story abridged by Katrin Williams. SUN SUN Jim meets the crippled sea cook Long John Silver and soon SUN discovers that there is much more to him than meets the eye. SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00rbq34 (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00rbs15 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series analysing and SUN celebrating the life stories of people who have recently SUN died. SUN SUN CHARLIE GILLETT SUN SUN Broadcaster champion of world music and author of a major SUN history of rock'n'roll who has died aged 68. SUN SUN Charlie Gillett was a DJ whose understated presentation SUN style disguised a burning passion for music. Most recently SUN he was part of the world music team at Radio 3 and had a SUN regular show on the BBC World Service. But in the 1970s his SUN Radio London programme Honky Tonk was required listening for SUN music industry professionals on the look out for new talent SUN and in the eighties his weekly appearances on Capital Radio SUN were equally influential. Charlie Gillett was born in SUN Morecambe in Lancashire and grew up in Stockton on Tees. He SUN read economics at Cambridge before moving to Columbia SUN University in New York to study for an MA. The thesis he SUN wrote there on the history of rock ’n’ roll was one of the SUN first serious studies of the music – and was published as SUN the critically acclaimed book “The Sound of the City”. SUN SUN Last Word hears from the artist manager and founder of Stiff SUN Records Dave Robinson; Charlie Gillett’s Radio 3 colleague SUN and SOAS lecturer Lucy Durán and from the Portuguese Fado SUN singer Mariza. SUN SUN Charlie Gillett was born 20 February 1942 and died 17 March SUN 2010. SUN SUN SIR BRIAN PITMAN SUN SUN Banker widely respected for his five decades with Lloyds SUN Bank who has died aged 78. SUN SUN Sir Brian Pitman was one of the leading bankers of his SUN generation. He joined his local branch of Lloyds Bank in SUN Cheltenham as a twenty one year old and rose to become the SUN company’s Chief Executive and then Chairman. He transformed SUN the fortunes of Lloyds turning it into one of the largest SUN and most successful of the Big Four high street banks. SUN SUN Last Word hears from Sir David Walker former Assistant SUN Secretary to the Treasury who was deputy chairman of Lloyds SUN Bank in the early 1990s and to the BBC business editor SUN Robert Peston. SUN SUN Sir Brian Pitman was born 13 December 1931 and died 11 March SUN 2010. SUN SUN FATIMA MEER SUN SUN South African writer and anti-apartheid activist who has SUN died aged 81. SUN SUN Fatima Meer was a South African writer academic and leading SUN anti-apartheid activist. She was one of the founding members SUN of the Federation of South African Women and was banned by SUN the apartheid government on a number of occasions for SUN organising protests. This meant she was unable to publish SUN her work faced limitations on who she could meet and how far SUN she could travel. In 1976 she was detained without trial. SUN She wrote and edited many books was on the staff of the SUN University of Natal and held a number of visiting SUN professorships around the world including at the London SUN School of Economics. SUN SUN Last Word hears from Fatima Meer’s friend the broadcaster SUN Audrey Brown and Cecilie Palmer who was held in the same SUN prison as Fatima Meer. SUN SUN Fatima Meer was born 12 August 1928 and died 12 March 2010. SUN SUN HAROLD BEACH SUN SUN Car designer for Aston Martin who has died aged 96. SUN SUN As Chief Designer at Aston Martin cars Harold Beach was SUN responsible for some of the company’s most famous models. In SUN particular he developed the DB4 which became the DB5 driven SUN by Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger. Harold Beach SUN started out as an apprentice at the Rolls Royce coachbuilder SUN Barkers in 1928. During the 1930s he worked on racing cars SUN owned by Earl Howe and Sir Malcolm Campbell. When war broke SUN out he helped to develop military vehicles including the SUN floating Sherman tank used in the D Day landings. He joined SUN Aston Martin in the early 1950s. SUN SUN Matthew speaks to Ted Cutting who worked alongside Harold SUN Beach and to the motoring journalist Paul Chudecki. SUN SUN Harold Beach was born 15 February 1913 and died 24 January SUN 2010. SUN SUN PETER GRAVES SUN SUN American actor and star of television's Mission:Impossible SUN who has died aged 83. SUN SUN Peter Graves was the tall handsome American actor who made SUN his name in the TV series Mission Impossible and then sent SUN himself up in the spoof disaster movie “Airplane”. His good SUN looks ensured that he had a string of roles in movies and on SUN TV in a screen career that lasted for more than fifty years. SUN SUN Broadcaster and critic Matthew Sweet pays tribute. SUN SUN Peter Graves was born 18 March 1926 and died 14 March 2010. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00rd3wj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00rd4dd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00rb1xt (Listen) SUN Minds of Our Own? SUN SUN Policy-makers have long looked to science to help understand SUN human behaviour and to influence it. But what if science SUN could actually read people's thoughts and intentions? That's SUN the promise of the latest research from neuroscientists who SUN claim to be able to scan our brains for lies broken promises SUN and violent intentions. But how reliable is the science of SUN 'mind-reading'? How might it change our ideas about free SUN will responsibility and rehabilitation? And should we not be SUN able to keep the thoughts in our head private? Presented by SUN Kenan Malik. SUN SUN Deborah Denno professor of law at Fordham University in New SUN York SUN SUN Steven J Laken president and CEO Cephos Corp SUN SUN Professor Hank Greeley director Center for Law and the SUN Biosciences at Stanford University in California SUN SUN Ray Tallis philosopher and doctor SUN SUN Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP chairman of the Centre for SUN Social Justice SUN SUN Professor Julian Savulescu director of the Wellcome Centre SUN for Neuroethics at Oxford University SUN SUN Professor Geraint Rees director of the Institute of SUN Cognitive Neuroscience University College London SUN SUN Paul Root Wolpe Asa Griggs Candler professor of bioethics at SUN Emory University in Atlanta. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00rd4r5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00rd4r7 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Make 'Em Laugh. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00rbs17 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock travels to Ealing studios to visit the set of SUN Gurinder Chadha's new film It's a Wonderful Afterlife. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00rd43f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 MARCH 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00rd782 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00rbltf (Listen) MON The latest British Crime Survey statistics show 744000 MON domestic burglaries in England and Wales. This may seem a MON lot and though it is no consolation to anyone who had their MON house ransacked last year it actually represents a drop of MON more than a million since 1995. So why is burglary less MON appealing to criminals? Are they turning to a life without MON crime or are they simply taking up something else? Laurie MON Taylor hears from James Treadwell whose ongoing research MON seems to present the answer and it is part of a story MON involving the plummeting cost of a DVD player and the rising MON popularity of the iPod. MON MON Also on the programme: milk and modernity. What part has the MON wonderful white nectar had in the development of cities the MON separation of urban and rural and our notions of what is MON pure and natural? It is a surprising story in which ideas of MON what is natural are constantly being inverted. Laurie speaks MON to Peter Atkins and Harry West. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00rd439 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rd78n (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rd7gd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rd7l0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00rd7mk (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rd7rc (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Judy Merry. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00rd7wy (Listen) MON With spring approaching Farming Today looks for signs of new MON life in the countryside and Charlotte Smith discovers that MON the native UK daffodil is in decline. MON MON Also should the Common Agricultural Policy be rebranded to MON include the environment in its remit? A European Union MON commissioner thinks farming and the environment should sit MON side by side. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00rdvqy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00rd84r (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00rdvr0 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr discusses how the key moments of the last MON century were reported by the British press with veteran MON journalist John Simpson. Director Rob Lemkin talks about the MON mission to bring unreported atrocities to light in his film MON about the Khmer Rouge. Emilie Bickerton looks at how film MON critics became great directors via French film journal MON Cahiers du Cinema. And academic John R Bowen asks 'can Islam MON be French?'. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00rd84t (Listen) MON The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, Episode 1 MON MON Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders' account of MON the troubled life of Violet Gibson the daughter of an MON Anglo-Irish lord who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in MON Rome in 1926. MON MON On Wednesday 7th April 1926 in front of a crowd of cheering MON Fascist supporters Benito Mussolini is shot at close MON quarters. The bullet nicks the bridge of his nose and the MON bleeding is profuse. Who shot him and why did they do it? MON MON Abridged by Jill Waters MON MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00rd85f (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON MON Including: MON MON The Children Schools and Families Bill is currently in its MON final stages and is now with a committee of the House of MON Lords for detailed scrutiny. A part of that bill is MON attempting to regulate the education of the estimated MON 20-40000 children currently learning at home. Are the MON suggested regulations a necessity to protect potentially MON vulnerable children kept away from school by their parents MON or are they actually as Home Education charities claim a MON sledgehammer to crack a nut? Jane Garvey is joined by Fiona MON Nicholson Education Otherwise trustee and Graham Badman MON ex-director of Children's Services to discuss. MON MON With the ever-increasing stresses of modern life - rushing MON from work tidying away toys cooking dinner before unloading MON the fourth load of washing - many mothers crave 'me time'. MON Whether it's a mini-break or a spa day a bubble bath or a MON walk in the park is alone-time for mothers an essential or a MON luxury? And should mothers be finding ways of relaxing with MON their children around? Jane tackles the topic with two MON writers who have six children between them Lucy Cavendish MON and Jennie Bristow. MON MON Quilt making originally a method of making use of old fabric MON has developed into a contemporary art form. Grayson Perry MON and Tracey Emin both use the technique in their work. A new MON exhibition at the V and A in London investigates the stories MON behind some of Britain's oldest surviving quilts such as one MON made by women on a 19th-century convict ship. Jane is taken MON round the exhibition by its curator Sue Prichard and the MON quilting expert Linda Seward. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rd9cq (Listen) MON The Beacon, An Author in the Family MON MON Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. MON MON The Prime siblings have grown up on a remote farm. May has MON stayed at home to look after her mother and Colin and MON Berenice live locally; only Frank has left the area to MON become a journalist in London. Then Frank has an idea which MON will bring him fame and fortune but have disastrous MON consequences for the rest of the family. MON MON May Prime ...... Manon Edwards MON Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri MON Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones MON Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas MON Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins MON Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson MON Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley MON TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams MON TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark MON Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum MON MON Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 11:00 Captured By Pirates b00rdwm5 (Listen) MON Kate Silverton uncovers the story of the 70 English MON schoolchildren who were captured by pirates off the China MON coast and later ended up in a Japanese concentration camp MON with Scottish athlete and missionary Eric Liddell. Some of MON those who were there help to recount this extraordinary tale. MON MON 11:30 Sneakiepeeks b00pkbmh (Listen) MON Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept MON backstabbing surveillance operatives. MON MON Beagle Team find they are in competition with their nemesis MON Terrier Team on the latest mission. MON MON Bill ...... Richard Lumsden MON Sharla ...... Nina Conti MON Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya MON Edward Barraclough MP ...... Paterson Joseph MON Ros ...... Lucy Montgomery MON Brian/Customer/Wilco/Reporter ...... Ewan Bailey MON Norris ...... Joe Thomas MON Dylis/Secretary ...... Tessa Nicholson. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00rd8mk (Listen) MON The millionaire offering gas and electricity at cost price MON and should the taxman sponsor a TV show to help small MON businesses? MON MON Customs and Revenue is sponsoring a new TV show to help MON small businesses. Should the taxman be spending our money MON making TV programmes or is it good commercial sense? MON MON Taking on the big energy companies: the millionaire who says MON he can offer consumers gas and electricity at cost price. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00rd8r2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00rd8tg (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00rdwrf (Listen) MON Series 24, Episode 1 MON MON Paul Gambaccini chairs the first heat of the music quiz with MON contestants from the south of England competing at the BBC MON Radio Theatre in London. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00rd4q4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rdwrh (Listen) MON Listening to Time MON MON By Judith Somerville. Hans and Anna meet by chance when MON visiting one of the remote Aran Islands the extraordinary MON beauty of which leads to them developing an unexpected and MON intense bond. For Hans it is part of a journey of emotional MON recovery. MON MON Anna ...... Kate Buffery MON Hans ...... David Troughton MON Mrs O'Flaherty ...... Joanna Munro MON German voices ...... Michael Shelford MON MON Directed by Cherry Cookson. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00rd3xc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 On the Map b00rd8yv (Listen) MON The Map Makers MON MON Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern MON cartography. If a picture paints a thousand words a map can MON paint a million. They help us navigate our way through MON unfamiliar landscapes and cities entice us into new places MON and give us a bigger picture of the world we inhabit. MON MON Mike considers the maps he first fell in love with as a MON teenager - Ordnance Survey maps. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00rd4dv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00rdxlx (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss the place of Islam in Europe. MON How do different religious traditions coexist alongside each MON other and what happens when tensions arise? MON MON 17:00 PM b00rd92d (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00rd93w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00rdxlz (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 12 MON MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With Sue MON Perkins Graham Norton Tony Hawks and Paul Merton. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00rd8tv (Listen) MON Vicky shows her sentimental side. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00rd95m (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang including a review of MON Emma Thompson's return to the role of Nanny McPhee in a MON sequel to her 2005 film. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rd9cq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b00rdxm1 (Listen) MON Mike Thomson presents the series using documentary evidence MON to throw new light on past events. MON MON With the Bloody Sunday Inquiry due to submit its report to MON the secretary of state for Northern Ireland Mike MON investigates how the tragic events of 30th January 1972 MON sparked a murky propaganda battle which was fought in the MON world's media. Mike discovers how a secretive foreign office MON department working alongside a covert army intelligence unit MON spun stories against Republicans and Loyalists in the years MON after Bloody Sunday: stories which are now known to be MON untrue. He hears how this black propaganda campaign included MON tall tales of devil-worshipping among paramilitary groups MON and deliveries of Soviet weapons to the IRA. Through MON documents from the time and eyewitness testimonies Mike MON finds out just how far this blending of fact and fiction MON went to distort what was really happening in Northern MON Ireland during the Troubles. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00rdxm3 (Listen) MON Who Are The Taliban? MON MON While the fighting in Afghanistan continues there is talk MON too of a negotiated peace. But do we really understand who MON the Taliban are what they want and how they fit into Afghan MON society? Edward Stourton discovers what dealing with the MON Taliban would really mean. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00rdxm5 (Listen) MON Turbines in the Back Garden MON MON Can you make money from electricity? New rules are designed MON to make it profitable for individuals to erect wind turbines MON and put solar panels on their roofs using the electricity MON for their own use and selling the surplus to the grid. MON MON Tom Heap is planning a turbine for his home on the windy MON Isle of Mull. If anyone can make a packet from the wind MON racket then surely it's Tom. He crunches the numbers to MON discover just what kind of income he can expect from his new MON turbine. Is it reliable low maintenance and highly MON profitable? If it stacks up for his home how do the figures MON look for urban dwellers? Could we all be giving power rather MON than taking it? Could we all be making a little pocket money MON from the sun and the wind? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00rdvr0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00rdtb0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00rdtbf (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00rm54r (Listen) MON Solar, Episode 6 MON MON Hugh Bonneville reads from Ian McEwan's new novel. MON MON After divorcing his fifth wife Nobel Prize-winning physicist MON Michael Beard has a new girlfriend Melissa but she is MON behaving differently towards him. Then he receives some MON unwelcome news. MON MON Abridged by Barry Johnston. MON MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Rory Bremner's International Satirists b00rdxm7 (Listen) MON Victor Giacobbo - Switzerland MON MON Rory Bremner engages topical comics satirists and comedians MON from different countries about their cultures and how they MON relate to ours - if at all. MON MON Victor Giacobbo has been a satirical presence in Switzerland MON for the best part of 30 years and uses a variety of comic MON character creations to illustrate the subtle but active MON social differences in this well-behaved country. The fact MON that Switzerland is the oldest culturally integrated openly MON democratic country in Europe cannot conceal the absurdities MON and contradictions found in the political classes and the MON people of this cheerful mildly repressed law-abiding nation. MON MON A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00rdvkn (Listen) MON News views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 MARCH 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00rd76l (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00rd84t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rd784 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rd7fc (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rd7gg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00rd7l2 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rd7mm (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Judy Merry. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00rd7rf (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00rd7x0 (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Between Ourselves b00rdyg6 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 1 TUE TUE Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together two TUE people who have had profound and similar experiences to hear TUE their individual stories and compare the long-term effects TUE on each of their lives. TUE TUE Two women who went completely blind in a matter of weeks TUE tell their stories. Julie Coakley was studying art as a TUE mature student when what she describes as 'man flu' laid her TUE low for a couple of weeks. One day she collapsed and was TUE rushed to hospital where she was diagnosed with meningitis. TUE As a result she completely lost her sight and some of her TUE hearing. At the age of 19 Jill Daley was living in TUE Switzerland working as an au pair when complications with TUE diabetes began to interfere with her vision. Very quickly TUE her sight was completely destroyed. TUE TUE Jill has had 14 years to adjust to her sight loss while TUE Julie is just two years into her journey. Both discuss the TUE impact that going blind has had on them and their families. TUE Have they been able to embrace the 'blind world'? How have TUE they coped practically and psychologically with this huge TUE upheaval? What have been the biggest challenges? TUE TUE Julie Coakley Olivia O'Leary and Jill Daley in the Between TUE Ourselves' studio TUE TUE 09:30 The Public Meeting b00mbhyk (Listen) TUE Sparsely attended frequently heckled the public political TUE meeting fell out of favour in the television age. John TUE Beesley investigates the contribution of public meetings to TUE our democracy and asks whether they are due a resurgence. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00rmpwd (Listen) TUE The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders' account of TUE the troubled life of Violet Gibson the daugher of an TUE Anglo-Irish lord who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in TUE Rome in 1926. TUE TUE Violet Gibson was the daughter of an Anglo-Irish peer. Her TUE circumstances were comfortable financially but her quest for TUE spiritual comfort was troubled. What led her to raise a TUE pistol at the Fascist dictator Mussolini? TUE TUE Abridged by Jill Waters TUE TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00rghvy (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rkdgt (Listen) TUE The Beacon, Taking Flight TUE TUE Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. TUE TUE Frank's misery memoir has been published and is a huge TUE success. Back at the farm now that mother has died May must TUE inform her siblings. TUE TUE May Prime ...... Manon Edwards TUE Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri TUE Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones TUE Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas TUE Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins TUE Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson TUE Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley TUE TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams TUE TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark TUE Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 The Alps b00rdygc (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE The Alps form a vast mountain barrier stretching from Vienna TUE to Nice dividing German north from Latin south. Misha Glenny TUE tackles our shared European history in a totally unexpected TUE way exploring the impact of the Alps on our culture our TUE economy and the formation of eight European states. TUE TUE Misha travels to Switzerland and France in pursuit of a myth TUE - that it was the British who invented alpine sports. At the TUE launch for the 125th anniversary of the Cresta Run he TUE discovers that the first British travellers to the Alps were TUE either very rich or very ill. With interviews from Fergus TUE Fleming Jim Ring - author of How the English Made The Alps TUE and Swiss hotelier Art Furrer who confirms that yes it is TUE all true. TUE TUE 11:30 Wild Billy Childish b00rdygf (Listen) TUE John Wilson meets a prolific and unique British artist. TUE TUE For someone who professes that 'art can achieve nothing' and TUE who claims to detest hard work Billy Childish has been an TUE artist of extraordinary industry and influence. In 30 years TUE of activity he has written 40 collections of poetry recorded TUE more than 120 albums and painted 5000 pictures. He has TUE founded art movements created self styled non-art movements TUE and been credited by Tracey Emin as her greatest influence. TUE Peter Doig calls him 'one of the most outstanding and often TUE misunderstood figures on the British art scene'. TUE TUE But despite all the output acclaim and influence Billy TUE Childish remains a total outsider. His punk rock band TUE recently did a session for Marc Riley's programme on BBC TUE 6Music. 'I can't believe this is only the second session TUE that you've done in 30 years' said Marc 'why is that?' TUE 'Because nobody will bloody touch me' said the charmingly TUE polite Childish with a bemused smile. TUE TUE Now the ICA in London has given its three galleries over to TUE Billy's work the first time a mainstream gallery has ever TUE opened its doors to him. TUE TUE John Wilson speaks to artists musicians and poets about his TUE work and in a long interview at Billy's Kent home he TUE discovers why Billy thinks his work upsets and enthralls TUE people in roughly equal measure and why this artistic TUE eccentric mustachioed tea-drinking poet regards himself as TUE totally un-English. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00rd8kh (Listen) TUE In an internet and health conscious age many of us expect to TUE feel good all of the time and look for cures for minor TUE illnesses where in the past people might have put up and shut up. TUE TUE A group of leading doctors and specialists this week claimed TUE the 'worried well' account for a fifth of GP appointments - TUE wasting doctors' time and money that could be spent on those TUE who need it more. TUE TUE While most local surgeries out-source out-of-hours care GPs TUE are earning more than ever before; and patients group TUE National Voices has launched a campaign for a better TUE complaint and feedback system. TUE TUE So are you sympathetic to GP stress? Is your surgery full of TUE time wasters? Or perhaps you feel that you are getting a raw TUE deal and that your surgery is never open at the right time? TUE Can you ever get hold of a doctor in the evening or at the TUE weekend? We want to hear your views for our phone-in. TUE TUE Julian Worricker chairs our phone-in every Tuesday. To take TUE part on the day call us on 03700 100 444. (Calls are TUE answered between 10am and 1pm every Tuesday: standard TUE geographic charges apply and calls may be included in your TUE telecom provider's call package. Calls from mobiles may be TUE higher). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00rd8mm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00rd8r4 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00rdyrb (Listen) TUE Series 9, Bach's Goldberg Variations TUE TUE Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional TUE appeal. TUE TUE Bach wrote his Goldberg Variations for harpsichord in the TUE 1740s but today it's performed by pianists all over the TUE world. People describe the place these pieces have in their TUE lives including a neuroscientist from New York painist TUE Angela Hewitt a father driving his family through the night TUE in the Australian Outback and a woman from Oregon whose life TUE was transformed perhaps even saved by this music. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00rd8tv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rdz0s (Listen) TUE Crime and Trial Rage on the Road TUE TUE Documentary drama by John Taylor investigating the complex TUE anatomy of a crime and trial. The headlines were dramatic: a TUE desperate car chase along winding country lanes a vicious TUE attack on two innocent lovers and the brutal murder of a TUE young man. But it soon became apparent that the killing of TUE Lee Harvey outside Keeper's Cottage was an incident even TUE more astonishing than it first appeared. TUE TUE Tracie Andrews ...... Sian Brooke TUE David Crigman QC ...... Kim Wall TUE DC Brian Russell ...... Michael Higgs TUE Superintendant Ian Johnstone ...... Roderick Smith TUE Pathologist ...... John Rowe TUE Sister Hadley ...... Penelope Freeman TUE Child witness ...... Brittany Skye-Parnaby TUE TUE Produced and directed by Alan Hall and John Taylor TUE TUE A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00rdz1r (Listen) TUE Climate change is one of the most complex and controversial TUE topics in science at the moment. We take a long hard look at TUE the realities of climate change: what's known and more TUE importantly where the uncertainties lie. What will the TUE farmers of the future be planting? Will their crops be TUE subtle variations of the ones we see today or you ask is TUE there something surprising waiting in the wings to feed the TUE world's growing population? As technology improves it will TUE produce more efficient energy sources and less power hungry TUE devices. So is it really going to cost trillions of pounds TUE to ameliorate the effects of climate change? And how much TUE electricity could we generate if we put a tiny hydroelectric TUE plant in every body of moving water in the country? TUE TUE Join Richard Daniel and his guests climate change expert TUE Prof Mike Hulme environment scientist Dr Ros Taylor and TUE plant geneticist Prof Denis Murphy. TUE TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00bvq5k (Listen) TUE Spy Stories, The Rocking-Horse Spy TUE TUE Classic tales of deception and betrayal. TUE TUE By Ted Allbeury. TUE TUE A chance encounter at the Science Museum leads to subterfuge TUE and a disturbing moral dilemma. TUE TUE Read by Alfred Molina. TUE TUE A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 On the Map b00rghjm (Listen) TUE Mapping the Metropolis TUE TUE Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern TUE cartography. TUE TUE How do you make sense of a strange city and turn a TUE bewildering maze of streets into a map that's instantly TUE informative to a confused visitor? Mike Parker hits the city TUE streets to find out what makes the ideal map for steering us TUE through the urban jungle. He meets the man who has made it TUE his mission to single-handedly create a new map of TUE Manchester and discovers how digesting the entire London A TUE to Z makes cabbies' brains bigger. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00rdzv4 (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of words TUE language and the way we speak. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00rdzv6 (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor discusses books recommended by two specialists TUE of Russian history and literature Robert Service and TUE Valentina Polukhina. TUE TUE Robert Service is Professor of Russian History at St TUE Antony's College Oxford where his research interests cover TUE Russian history from the late 19th century to the present TUE day. Nowadays he is focusing on Russia in its international TUE framework. He is currently working on the geopolitics of the TUE Russian Revolution as well as a study of the end of the Cold TUE War. His work includes biographies of Lenin Stalin and TUE Trotsky. TUE TUE Valentina Polukhina was born in Siberia and educated at the TUE Universities of Kemerovo Tula and Moscow. Between 1962 and TUE 1973 she taught at Moscow Lumumba University and from 1973 TUE to 2001 she was a professor at Keele University. In addition TUE to her publications on poets including Akhmatova Pasternak TUE Tsvetaeva Khlebnikov and Mandelshtam Valentina is the author TUE and editor of major studies on the poet Joseph Brodsky. She TUE has a particular interest in bringing Russian literature to TUE English audiences and has organised visits from many Russian TUE writers and poets to Keele and other English universities. TUE Both the post of Russian Poet in Residence at the University TUE of Keele and the Russian Poets' Fund were established thanks TUE to her efforts. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00rd90l (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00rd92g (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00rdzv8 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Jenny Eclair TUE TUE Marcus Brigstocke invites guests to try new experiences. TUE TUE Jenny Eclair tries five things she's never done before. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00rd8tj (Listen) TUE Kenton misses the point of a dinner a deux. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00rd93y (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews. John Wilson reports on Sandra TUE Bullock's Oscar-winning performance in The Blind Side. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rd9cq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00rdzvb (Listen) TUE The government is promising extra help for people out of TUE work during the recession. But as Britain braces itself for TUE a rise in unemployment Allan Urry reports from the TUE communities already hardest hit and asks what redundant TUE steelmakers public sector workers and others joining the TUE dole queue can really expect at the Jobcentre. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00rdzvd (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Am I Normal? b00rdzvh (Listen) TUE Series 7, Eating Disorders TUE TUE Most of us in the UK are overweight and many are constantly TUE dieting. How can we talk about what's normal when it comes TUE to eating when the majority of us simply consume too much TUE food? TUE TUE Vivienne Parry sets forth on a mission to pin down what TUE normal or healthy eating actually means. TUE TUE She meets the evangelists from the raw food pure food TUE community the health food junkies who say their diet is the TUE natural 'normal' way of eating and hears from those who fear TUE that an obessession with eating only the 'purest' of foods TUE is giving rise to a new 'righteous eating' condition called TUE orthorexia. TUE TUE Vivienne speaks to those who believe extreme diets and TUE restricting and controlling what we eat are worrying steps TUE on a path towards a diagnosable eating disorder. But others TUE say that eccentric diets represent a rejection of the TUE current food environment a problem only when they seriously TUE affect on someone's life or offer inadequate nutrition. TUE TUE With a staggering 60 per cent of us overweight or obese one TUE woman tells Vivienne how desperate she is to achieve a TUE 'normal' weight as she prepares for gastric surgery to TUE reduce her 19 stone weight. TUE TUE Obesity is the subject of a powerful struggle among medical TUE professionals who are currently deciding what should and TUE shouldn't be considered to be a mental disorder. A prominent TUE neuroscientist tells Vivienne that obesity is a brain TUE disorder while others argue that handing out psychiatric TUE labels to obese people risks labelling swathes of the TUE population as 'abnormal'. TUE TUE 21:30 Between Ourselves b00rdyg6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00rdt8d (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00rdtb2 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00rm54t (Listen) TUE Solar, Episode 7 TUE TUE Hugh Bonneville reads from Ian McEwan's new novel. TUE TUE Michael Beard has just been told by his girlfriend Melissa TUE that she is pregnant. This is not the news he wanted to hear. TUE TUE Abridged by Barry Johnston. TUE TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Wil Hodgson: Straight Outta Chippenham b00g4ywy (Listen) TUE Straight Outta Chippenham: Comedian and Chippenham resident TUE Wil Hodgson recounts tales of life lived as an outsider in a TUE 'man's town'. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00rdvf6 (Listen) TUE News views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with David Wilby. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 MARCH 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00rd76n (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00rmpwd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rd786 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rd7ff (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rd7gj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00rd7l4 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rd7mp (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Judy Merry. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00rd7rh (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00rd7x2 (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00rf127 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Shirley Jones. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00rmpwg (Listen) WED The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, Episode 3 WED WED Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders' account of WED the troubled life of Violet Gibson the daugher of an WED Anglo-Irish lord who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in WED Rome in 1926. WED WED Mussolini was a man with a passion for living dangerously - WED his battle scars and near misses testified to that - and it WED was the heroic legend that he stoked which so enthused his WED supporters. But Violet Gibson came to feel differently. WED WED Abridged by Jill Waters WED WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00rghvc (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rkdgk (Listen) WED The Beacon, Alone WED WED Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. WED WED The death of her mother releases May from her duties but WED triggers memories of an earlier breakdown. Meanwhile Frank's WED success gathers pace as news breaks that the book is to be WED made into a film. WED WED May Prime ...... Manon Edwards WED Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri WED Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones WED Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas WED Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins WED Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson WED Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley WED TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams WED TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark WED Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum WED WED Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 Cadbury is Our Longbridge b00rf169 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Miles Warde tells the inside story of the closure of WED Cadbury's Somerdale factory near Bristol. Two years in the WED making the series reveals how Somerdale became caught up in WED a global story. WED WED Cadbury first announced the closure of this historic site at WED the end of 2007 and said that much of the production would WED be moved to Poland instead. Miles explores why that decision WED was made and what happens in an economy where the WED shareholder is always put first. WED WED 11:30 House On Fire b00pl1h7 (Listen) WED Moving In WED WED Comedy by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman. WED WED Vicky and Matt previously strangers have decided to buy a WED house together in these credit crunch times. It's day one WED and only one person can have the spacious top bedroom. Who WED will get it and what are they prepared to do to secure it? WED WED Vicky ...... Emma Pierson WED Matt ...... Jody Latham WED Col Bill ...... Rupert Vansittart WED Julie ...... Janine Duvitski WED Peter ...... Philip Jackson WED WED With Fergus Craig and Colin Hoult. WED WED Directed by Clive Brill and Dan Hine WED WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 Budget Special b00rqpp6 (Listen) WED Live from Westminster Alistair Darling presents his Budget WED to the House of Commons. WED WED 13:57 Weather b00rd8mp (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00rd8tj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rfhjj (Listen) WED The Sensitive - A Nobody WED WED Alastair Jessiman's Glasgow psychic detective returns for a WED new and disturbing case. WED WED Thomas suffers a crisis of confidence when he is asked to WED investigate a potential serial killer. An old girlfriend Kat WED persuades him to take a break but when they drive north for WED a few days Thomas soon becomes convinced that they are being WED followed. WED WED Thomas ...... Robin Laing WED Kat ...... Daniela Nardini WED Young Man ...... Iain Robertson WED Mrs Soutar ...... Sheila Donald WED Crawford ...... Simon Tait WED WPC ...... Suzanne Donaldson WED WED Directed by Bruce Young. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00rfhjl (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial WED issues. WED WED Guests: WED WED Katie Tucker chief operating officer from whole of market WED broker Private Finance WED Melanie Bien director (head of media relations) Savills WED Private Finance WED Paula John editor in chief Your Mortgage. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00bvq5d (Listen) WED Spy Stories, Parker Adderson, Philosopher WED WED Classic tales of deception and betrayal. WED WED Ambrose Bierce's story describes a surprising encounter WED between a Confederate general and an oddly carefree spy WED during the American Civil War. WED WED Read by Stacey Keach. WED WED A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 On the Map b00rghjp (Listen) WED Motoring Maps WED WED Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern WED cartography. WED WED The ultimate in cheap and ubiquitous mapping there's WED scarcely a vehicle in the land that doesn't contain a WED dog-eared road atlas. Road maps and their digital descendent WED the sat nav may guide us efficiently around our nation's WED highways but they don't tell us much else about the WED landscape we're speeding through. Mike recalls a bygone age WED of elegant motoring maps and considers how modern road WED mapping and its unrelenting emphasis on our motorways and WED trunk roads has changed our picture of Britain. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00rfhjn (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b00rdzvh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00rd90n (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00rd92j (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Party b00rfhjq (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Satirical sitcom by Tom Basden about a group of young WED idealists trying to set up a new political party. WED WED The Party clarifies its policies on climate change while WED Duncan deals with the aftermath of under-cooked chicken WED sausages from a BBQ. Before long murder is committed and the WED young idealists are placed in a compromising position. WED WED Simon ...... Tom Basden WED Mel ...... Anna Crilly WED Duncan ...... Tim Key WED Jared ...... Johnny Sweet WED Phoebe ...... Katy Wix. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00rd8tl (Listen) WED Usha embraces the Great Outdoors. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00rd940 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an WED interview with director Peter Greenaway about Nightwatching WED his film about Rembrandt who is played by Martin Freeman. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rkdgk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00rfhjs (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind WED the week's news. Claire Fox Michael Portillo Clifford WED Longley and Kenan Malik cross-examine witnesses. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b00rfhjv (Listen) WED Rev Prof Alister McGrath WED WED Series of six talks by eminent thinkers exploring how faith WED and religion interact with a variety of aspects in society. WED WED Rev Prof Alister McGrath reflects on the continuously WED developing relationship between the natural sciences faith WED and religion. WED WED 21:00 God On My Mind b00rfhpr (Listen) WED Evolution WED WED Matthew Taylor discovers what the latest scientific research WED can tell us about the human need for religion. WED WED We are programmed by our genes to believe in supernatural WED powers and to obey moral codes. Is this because it gave our WED ancestors an evolutionary advantage? Iranians Scandinavians WED Papuans chimpanzees twins and wedding rings offer some WED startling answers. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00rf127 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00rdt8g (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00rdtb4 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:40 Budget Statement by the Chancellor b00rs77k (Listen) WED The Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling explains WED his Budget. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00rm54w (Listen) WED Solar, Episode 8 WED WED Hugh Bonneville reads from Ian McEwan's new novel. WED WED Four more years have passed and Professor Beard is WED travelling to New Mexico for the launch of his new solar WED energy plant. But his plans - and his personal life - begin WED to unravel. WED WED Abridged by Barry Johnston. WED WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Earls of the Court b00rfhpt (Listen) WED The Ides of March WED WED Comedy drama series by Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright WED about two Australians down on their luck in London. WED WED The night of Lloydie's much-publicised toga party is fast WED approaching. But can Johnno raise his game in time and play WED the crucial role in the Ides of March sketch? WED WED Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright WED Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale WED Woman 1 ...... Alison Pettitt WED Woman 2 ...... Keely Beresford WED WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 23:15 Nick Mohammed in Quarters b00h8qk5 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Energetic sketch comedy from Nick Mohammed. With Anna Crilly WED and Colin Hoult. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00rdvf8 (Listen) WED News views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Sean Curran. WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 MARCH 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00rd76q (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00rmpwg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rd788 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rd7fh (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rd7gl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00rd7l6 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rd7mr (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Judy Merry. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00rd7rk (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00rd7x4 (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00rfhx2 (Listen) THU The History of the City, part 1 THU THU Melvyn Bragg presents the first of a two-part discussion THU about the history of the city. With Peter Hall Julia Merritt THU and Greg Woolf. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00rmpwj (Listen) THU The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, Episode 4 THU THU Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders' account of THU the troubled life of Violet Gibson the daugher of an THU Anglo-Irish lord who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in THU Rome in 1926. THU THU As she was led off by the police in the moments after she THU had shot Benito Mussolini Violet seemed confused and THU surprised to hear what she had done. But her subsequent THU behaviour showed flashes of remarkable lucidity. Was it an THU act of sanity to attempt to kill a man whom the world later THU regarded as deluded? THU THU Abridged by Jill Waters THU THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00rghvf (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rkdgm (Listen) THU The Beacon, Truth and Lies THU THU Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. THU THU Alone at the farm May remembers how they learned of Frank's THU book. Back in London Frank is haunted by memories and afraid THU to be alone. THU THU May Prime ...... Manon Edwards THU Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri THU Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones THU Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas THU Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins THU Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson THU Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley THU TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams THU TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark THU Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum THU THU Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00rjz1p (Listen) THU The Children of Dushanbe THU THU Angus Crawford reports on efforts to rescue vulnerable girls THU in Tajikistan who were locked up rather than helped. He THU hears how girls who had been raped were detained for being THU 'degenerate'. He also sees how a British NGO is working with THU the Tajik authorities to help these teenagers find freedom THU and safety. THU THU 11:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's THU History of Modern American Literature b00rfhzx (Listen) THU The Celebrity Tour THU THU Mark Lawson tells the story of how American writing became THU the literary superpower of the 20th century telling the THU nation's stories of money power sex religion and war. THU THU Among the millions of words written by modern American THU authors one of the most important is 'I'. The THU autobiographical first-person story - featuring authors in THU light disguise or even under their own names - has become an THU increasingly significant literary genre. THU THU Philip Roth and John Updike wrote long sequences of stories THU about fictional famous American authors - Nathan Zuckerman THU and Henry Bech - who can be read as versions of their own THU histories. Later Roth went further with several books THU including characters with his own name just as Norman Mailer THU would refer to himself in non-fiction books as 'Mailer'. THU This is one of the devices of the 'New Journalism' developed THU by Tom Wolfe and Hunter S Thompson which put the reporter at THU the heart of the story. THU THU Conversely some authors including JD Salinger and Thomas THU Pynchon were so appalled by the prospect of the publicity THU circuit that they preferred to vanish completely. THU THU Beginning on 'The Philip Roth Tour' of Newark New Jersey in THU which Liz Del Tufo takes tourists to sites featured in the THU author's work Mark Lawson reflects on the way in which a THU celebrity culture has made writers play with their public THU personalities talking to Philip Roth Tom Wolfe Bret Easton THU Ellis Jay McInerney Dave Eggers and Professor Diane Roberts. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00rd8km (Listen) THU Money Box and You and Yours join forces to analyse the THU Budget and take phone calls on the financial questions you THU want answers to. The Budget comes as the government is under THU pressure to start cutting the UK's deficit more quickly THU which is set to hit 178 billion pounds this year. With a THU General Election to be held later this spring the financial THU policies of all the political parties will be coming under THU scrutiny by voters. Join Winifred Robinson Vincent Duggleby THU Paul Lewis and a panel of experts for Budget Call. THU THU You can call the programme when lines open on Thursday at THU 10:30 GMT. The number is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic THU charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00rd8mr (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00rd8r8 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00rdxm5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00rd8tl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rfhzz (Listen) THU Scummow - Things Washed Up by the Sea THU THU Comedy about faith love and redemption by Annamaria Murphy. THU When a delirious Irishman arrives in a Cornish harbour baker THU Mary Kneebone takes him in and soon the sick and gullible THU are queuing at her door. THU THU Mary Kneebone ...... Mary Woodvine THU Edna Lugg ...... Barbara Jefford THU Declan Credan ...... Stephen Hogan THU Virgin Mary ...... Alison Pettit THU Eamon Credan ...... John O'Mahony THU Davey Ellis ...... Charles Barnecut THU THU Directed by Claire Grove. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00rd3vy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00rd4dd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00bvq6c (Listen) THU Spy Stories, The Child Spy THU THU Classic tales of deception and betrayal. THU THU Alphonse Daudet's story set at the time of the Siege of THU Paris in 1870 tells of the consequences of a young boy's THU innocent recruitment into espionage. THU THU Read by Martin Jarvis. THU THU A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 On the Map b00rghjr (Listen) THU Social Mapping THU THU Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern THU cartography. THU THU There's no more effective way of representing our lives than THU a map: social and political conditions health trends and the THU movements of goods and ideas have far greater impact when THU they're plotted in multicoloured cartography. Mike asks how THU society is now being analysed online in cartographic THU mash-ups and crowd-sourced data. He also discovers how THU mapping the human condition its needs and habits its highs THU and its lows goes back to way before the digital age. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00rd4p3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00rfj18 (Listen) THU It has been estimated that shipping kills 60000 people THU annually through its polluting exhaust fumes. As the Marine THU Environment Protection Committee meets in London to discuss THU solutions Quentin Cooper hears what can be done. THU THU 17:00 PM b00rd90q (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00rd92l (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00rfj1b (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 4 THU THU Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his field THU with no ability whatsoever. THU THU Milton is a world-class cyclist who gets tangled up in a THU close-fitting body suit and the population of Holland. THU THU With Tom Goodman-Hill Lucy Montgomery Ben Willbond. THU THU Music by Guy Jackson. THU THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00rd8tn (Listen) THU Kate shows she's still a daddy's girl. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00rd942 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rkdgm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00rfj43 (Listen) THU A year ago Simon Cox reported from Mid Staffordshire THU Hospital where hundreds of patients died as the result of THU poor-quality care. The government said this was a one-off THU but the list of hospitals with similar failings continues to THU grow. Simon investigates the latest hospital with unusually THU high death rates and accused of poor quality of care. After THU tens of billions of pounds extra investment he asks why the THU NHS continues to have problems with patient safety. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00rfj45 (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs and THU company bosses talk about the issues that matter to their THU companies and their customers. THU THU 21:00 Waking Up in the Dock b00rfj47 (Listen) THU Strangulation smothering and sex attacks - all committed by THU people who claim to have been asleep at the time. Edi Stark THU investigates whether the law and science are at odds in the THU 'sleepwalking defence'. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00rfhx2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00rdt8j (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00rdtb6 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:40 Budget Response by the Conservative Party b00rs7bd (Listen) THU The Shadow Chancellor George Osborne responds to the Budget. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00rm54y (Listen) THU Solar, Episode 9 THU THU Hugh Bonneville reads from Ian McEwan's new novel. THU THU Professor Michael Beard is driving with his business partner THU Toby Hammer to Lordsburg in New Mexico for the official THU opening of their new solar energy plant. But events are THU about to conspire against them. THU THU Abridged by Barry Johnston. THU THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Scrooby Trevithick b00rfj49 (Listen) THU Comedy series written by and starring Andy Parsons following THU the exploits of hapless Scrooby a well-meaning but flawed THU young man who is desperately trying to better himself THU through his own website where he's left his web-diaries. THU THU Scrooby tries to become a writer having had what he regards THU as a cracking idea for a best-seller entitled A Short THU History of Combine Harvesters in Cornish. THU THU With Dara O Briain Russell Howard Hugh Dennis Russell Kane THU Rufus Hound Alun Cochrane Dominic Frisby Paul Thorne Martin THU Coyote and Barunka O'Shaughnessy. THU THU An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00rdvfc (Listen) THU News views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Robert Orchard. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 MARCH 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00rd76s (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00rmpwj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rd78b (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rd7fk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rd7gn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00rd7l8 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rd7mt (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Judy Merry. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00rd7rm (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00rd7x6 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00rd4ds (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00rmpwl (Listen) FRI The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, Episode 5 FRI FRI Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders's account FRI of troubled life of Violet Gibson the daugher of an FRI Anglo-Irish lord who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in FRI Rome in 1926. FRI FRI Violet was eventually released by the Italian government. FRI But how would her family determine her fate and future? FRI FRI Abridged by Jill Waters FRI FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00rghvh (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rkdgq (Listen) FRI The Beacon, Inheritance FRI FRI Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. FRI FRI Frank turns up unexpectedly at the farm and the will is FRI read. FRI FRI May Prime ...... Manon Edwards FRI Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri FRI Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones FRI Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas FRI Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins FRI Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson FRI Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley FRI TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams FRI TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark FRI Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 Haiti: Phoning Home b00rfj9s (Listen) FRI In a special report from Haiti Nick Davis follows a French FRI charity that is giving free phone calls to victims of the FRI earthquake and providing crucial communications for the FRI relief agencies that have come to help them. FRI FRI When disaster strikes the first instinct is to check on FRI loved ones - but how when there are no telephones? And how FRI to co-ordinate relief efforts? Re-establishing phone links FRI is vital and that's why Telecoms Sans Frontieres (Telecoms FRI Without Borders) who perform that role are among the first FRI into any disaster zone. Haiti in the aftermath of its FRI devastating earthquake is their current challenge. Nick FRI Davis has been watching as loved ones are connected and FRI rescue services given the technical help they need to work FRI effectively. FRI FRI 11:30 Jeeves Live b008kdv4 (Listen) FRI Bertie Changes His Mind FRI FRI Martin Jarvis plays Bertie Wooster Jeeves and an array of FRI other PG Wodehouse characters. FRI FRI Jeeves describes his concern that Mr Wooster is considering FRI adopting a daughter. Perhaps a timely visit to a school for FRI young ladies may change his master's mind? FRI FRI A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00rd8kp (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00rd8mt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00rd8rb (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00rfj9v (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00rd8tn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rfl5p (Listen) FRI No Place Like Home FRI FRI By Robert Rigby and Nick Russell-Pavier. Householder FRI Jonathan confronts a burglar with his legally-owned shotgun. FRI FRI The Intruder ...... Alex Jennings FRI Jonathan ...... Toby Stephens FRI Police Officer/Matt Hughes/Colin ......Ben Crowe FRI Tom Robbins/Commander ...... Jonathan Oliver FRI Janet Robbins/WPC ...... Victoria Carling FRI Julie/Sophie ...... Zoe King FRI FRI Produced by Nick Russell-Pavier FRI FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00rfl5r (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs a correspondence edition of the popular FRI horticultural forum. Pippa Greenwood Matt Biggs and Bob FRI Flowerdew answer questions sent in by listeners. FRI FRI Plus an update on our slug trials and supermarket bedding FRI plants are put to the test. FRI FRI 15:45 On the Map b00rghjt (Listen) FRI The Lie of the Land FRI FRI Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern FRI cartography. FRI FRI There are lies damned lies statistics - and then there are FRI maps. Borders can be moved and countries expanded shrunk or FRI even left off the map altogether. We'd like to believe that FRI maps are a purely factual representation of the world with FRI no bias or agenda but in fact every cartographer decides FRI what to include on their map and what to exclude. Mike FRI Parker discovers how maps can be used as tools of power FRI politics and propaganda. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00rfl5t (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00rfl5w (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Lewis Gilbert the director of Alfie FRI Educating Rita and The Spy Who Loved Me. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00rd90s (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00rd92n (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00rfl5z (Listen) FRI Series 30, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the FRI week's news with help from Jon Holmes Laura Shavin Mitch FRI Benn and a special guest. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00rd8tq (Listen) FRI Tony is given cause for optimism. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00rd944 (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson including an FRI interview with James Shapiro whose new book examines the FRI many contested theories about the authorship of FRI Shakespeare's plays. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rkdgq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00rfl61 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the British FRI Medical Association in London. The panellists are foreign FRI secretary David Miliband shadow health secretary Andrew FRI Lansley the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman Vince FRI Cable and writer and broadcaster Germaine Greer. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00rfl63 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Simon Schama. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus b00rfl65 (Listen) FRI The Beginnings of Science and Literature FRI FRI Another chance to hear the Director of the British Museum FRI Neil MacGregor retell the history of human development using FRI 100 selected objects from the Museum. FRI FRI He begins with a small tablet found in modern Iraq and FRI brought back to the British Museum. When it was translated FRI back in 1872 it turned out to be an account of a great flood FRI that significantly pre-dated the famous Biblical tale of FRI Noah. This discovery caused a storm around the world and led FRI to a passionate debate about the truth of the Bible - about FRI storytelling and the universality of legend. FRI FRI Neil then moves on to describe the British Museum's most FRI famous mathematical papyrus. This shows how and why the FRI ancient Egyptians were dealing with numbers around 1550 BC. FRI It contains 84 different calculations to help with various FRI aspects of Egyptian life from pyramid building to working FRI out how much grain it takes to fatten a goose. Neil FRI describes it as 'a crammer for a dazzling career in an FRI ancient civil service.' FRI FRI Then its Crete around 1700BC and the story both of man's FRI fascination with bulls and the emergence of one of most FRI cosmopolitan and prosperous civilisations in the history of FRI the Eastern Mediterranean: the Minoans. The Minoans of Crete FRI were more powerful than the mainland and enjoyed a complex FRI and still largely unknown culture. They enjoyed a ritual FRI connection with bulls and a rich bronze-making tradition. To FRI consider the Minoans and the role of the bull in myth and FRI legend Neil introduces us to a small bronze sculpture of a FRI man leaping over a bull one of the highlights of the British FRI Museum's Minoan collection. He explores the vast network of FRI trade routes in the Mediterranean of the time encounters an FRI ancient shipwreck and tracks down a modern day bull leaper FRI to try and figure out the attraction. FRI FRI In 1833 a group of workmen were looking for stones in a FRI field near the village of Mold in North Wales when they FRI unearthed a burial site with a skeleton covered by a crushed FRI sheet of pure gold. For his fourth item in this programme FRI Neil tells the story of what has become known at the British FRI Museum as the Mold Gold Cape and tries to envisage the FRI society that made it. He has already described the FRI contemporary courts of the pharaohs of Egypt and the palaces FRI of the Minoans in Crete; nothing like that seems to have FRI existed in Britain at that time but he imagines a people FRI with surprisingly sophisticated skills and social structures. FRI FRI Finally Neil stands under the British Museum's giant statue FRI of the King Ramesses II an inspiration to Shelley and a FRI remarkable ruler who built monuments all over Egypt. He FRI inspired a line of future pharaohs and was worshipped as a FRI god a thousand years later. He lived to be over 90 and FRI fathered some 100 children. Neil considers the achievements FRI of Ramesses II in fixing the image of imperial Egypt for the FRI rest of the world. And the sculptor Antony Gormley the man FRI responsible for a contemporary giant statue The Angel of the FRI North assesses the towering figure of Ramesses as an FRI enduring work of art. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00rdt8l (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00rdtb8 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:40 Budget Response by the Liberal Democrats b00rs7gz (Listen) FRI The Liberal Democrats' treasury spokesman Vince Cable FRI responds to the Budget. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00rm550 (Listen) FRI Solar, Episode 10 FRI FRI Hugh Bonneville reads from Ian McEwan's new novel. FRI FRI Michael Beard is being pursued by a lawyer from Albuquerque FRI and to make matters worse his American girlfriend Darlene FRI has just told his English girlfriend Melissa that they are FRI getting married. FRI FRI Abridged by Barry Johnston. FRI FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00rdzv6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00rdvff (Listen) FRI News views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI
19 March, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 20/03/2010 - 26/03/2010
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