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SAT SATURDAY 12 MARCH 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00z63ty (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00z9pzr (Listen) SAT To Miss With Love, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Katharine Birbalsingh. SAT SAT A third of teachers leave within their first term on the SAT job. This one wouldn't quit for all the world. SAT SAT Read by Adjoa Andoh SAT SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00z63v0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00z63v2 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00z63v4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00z63v6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00z63v8 (Listen) SAT With the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00z63vb (Listen) SAT 'I'm a right Jack.' Do you know your lower deck from your SAT ditty box? Listener John Craven draws on his years at sea to SAT explain a language on the wane. The BBC defence SAT correspondent, Caroline Wyatt, reads our bulletin of SAT listeners' news. And a special guest appearance by THE John SAT Craven. Presented by Eddie Mair and Becky Milligan. SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00z63vd (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00z63vg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00zd6zt (Listen) SAT Series 17, Episode 6 SAT SAT In the last programme of the series, Stuart Maconie walks SAT the Lickey Hills overlooking Birmingham with a group of SAT first time walkers, from the inner city. SAT SAT Stuart Maconie and the Birmingham group of walkers SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00zd6zw (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin SAT Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00z63vj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00zd6zy (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00zd700 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with creativity guru Sir Ken Robinson and poet SAT Salena Godden; an interview with a man who grew up in a SAT squatter camp in Northern Ireland; a Sound Sculpture which SAT inspired a career in science fiction; the Secret Life of SAT former Liverpool FC manager Rafael Benitez; actress and SAT writer Jo Scanlan shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00zd702 (Listen) SAT Turkey - Harlem SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig finds out about modern day Harlem in New York SAT and looks at travel in Turkey. She talks to New Yorker SAT Reggie Nadelson about one of the city's most exciting SAT neighbourhoods and to historian Professor Norman Stone and SAT independent traveller Sally Mustoe about travelling around SAT Turkey. SAT SAT Producer Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Paul Sinha's Quiz Culture b00zd704 (Listen) SAT Comedian Paul Sinha harbours an obsession with trivia and SAT quizzes, and is immensely proud to be ranked the UK's 22nd SAT best quizzer. At the European Quizzing Championships in SAT Derby, he pits his skills against the Continent's finest, SAT meeting the quizzing world's superstars, and asking why, SAT unlike the UK, other parts of the world celebrate success in SAT the field of knowledge as much as any sporting triumph. SAT SAT Producer Monise Durrani. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00zd706 (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00zd708 (Listen) SAT How fear of catastrophe has shaped the Japanese psyche. SAT Menace and bloodshed in Ivory Coast, as the nation's SAT troubles deepen. The impact of the foreign media on the SAT course of the Arab revolutions. And exploring the SAT imaginative world of a robot-loving, Chinese inventor. SAT SAT Nowhere in the world is better prepared for earthquakes than SAT Japan. But no amount of careful planning could have really SAT readied the nation for what it has just endured. This was a SAT disaster on a truly vast scale. It will be days yet before SAT we fully understand the extent of its impact in Japan and SAT beyond.... Fear of exactly this kind of event continually SAT haunts the Japanese in their chronically quake-prone SAT land...and Hugh Levinson explains how very deeply this dread SAT of impending catastrophe has embedded itself in the national SAT culture.... SAT SAT These are extremely dangerous days for the West African SAT state of Ivory Coast. There's a fear that the nation will SAT descend into all-out civil war. The political system has SAT completely seized up. The outside world believes that SAT November's presidential elections were won by Alassane SAT Ouatara. But the sitting leader, Laurent Gbagbo is refusing SAT to hand over power... And Andrew Harding has been finding SAT out what that means on the streets of Abidjan... SAT SAT All revolutions are different. Each has it's own character. SAT But a large part of their success or failure often hinges on SAT whether the army stays loyal to the regime. And in Libya SAT much of the military has indeed stood by Colonel Gaddafi. SAT There's a growing sense that he's there to stay. Right up on SAT the front lines, John Simpson has been watching this drama SAT play out....and he reflects now on some of the defining SAT rhythms of revolutions.... SAT SAT In the far north-east of India, lies the state of Manipur. SAT It's land of rolling hills...lush and well-watered. But it's SAT also been a troubled place. Along with much of the SAT north-east there have been inter-ethnic tensions, and SAT Manipur has endured a very long-running insurgency. My SAT colleague Rupa Jha has been spending time with some of its SAT victims.... SAT SAT It's hard to define what makes for a creative, inventive SAT spirit....that ability suddenly to see a solution....a SAT different way of doing things. The inventor of the light SAT bulb, Thomas Edison certainly had it. He famously said that SAT genius was one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent SAT perspiration. But it's also easy to believe that creativity SAT requires a certain amount of freedom....room to experiment, SAT question and think differently. And Martin Patience has been SAT wondering whether authoritarian China creates the right SAT climate for its inventive dreamers.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00zd70b (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00z62gc (Listen) SAT Series 33, Census and sensibility, with Jan Ravens SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis slog through their census forms; SAT Jon Holmes gets his pips in a twist; Mitch Benn ponders SAT trial by tabloid; guest stand-up Henning Wehn struggles to SAT be modest and impressionist Jan Ravens brings Anne Robinson, SAT Janet Street-Porter and Sarah Palin along to the party. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00z63vl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00z63vn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00z62nq (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Teignmouth SAT Science Festival in Devon, with questions for the panel SAT including Justice Secretary Ken Clarke, former Labour SAT minister Ben Bradshaw, property expert and TV presenter SAT Kirstie Allsopp and Kevin Maguire, Daily Mirror Associate SAT Editor. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00zd70d (Listen) SAT Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any SAT Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's SAT programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? SAT phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: SAT 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00zd70g (Listen) SAT The Gun SAT SAT Mike Walker adapts C S Forester's gripping guerrilla warfare SAT story set in Napoleonic Spain. Made famous by Hollywood as SAT The Pride and the Passion. SAT SAT Partisan groups under charismatic leaders wage a desperate SAT war in which no quarter is given by either side. The hero of SAT The Gun is the gun itself, a massive 18 pounder that is SAT dragged across the mountains and plains of Spain - an epic SAT task. Throughout the story, the gun changes the lives of SAT those who fight each other to the death in order to gain SAT control of it. SAT SAT The Gun is a companion piece to The Gun Goes to Hollywood, SAT which tells the story behind the Hollywood version, which SAT was directed by Stanley Kramer and starred Cary Grant, Frank SAT Sinatra and Sophia Loren. SAT SAT Jorge......................Scott Arthur SAT El Balbanito..............Matthew Gravelle SAT Isadore.....................Keiron Self SAT Carlos ONeill ............Don Gilet SAT Father Bernard............Kevin Doyle SAT Duke Alonso...............Sule Rimmi SAT Urquiola.....................Richard Nicholls SAT SAT Producer.....................Polly Thomas SAT SAT A BBC Radio Drama Cymru/Wales production. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00z5c89 (Listen) SAT Series 11, Simple Gifts SAT SAT Simple Gifts started life as a Shaker Hymn and became SAT incorporated into the hymn Lord of the Dance and Aaron SAT Copland's ballet suite Appalachian Spring. SAT In this programme, Nora Guthrie describes the central place SAT this tune has played throughout her life. Pete Lashley tells SAT how he heard it unexpectedly whilst touring in New Zealand. SAT Michael Carter explains why his father chose this tune for SAT his famous hymn "Lord of the Dance" and Scott Malchus SAT describes running a marathon whilst listening to this music. SAT Producer, Rosie Boulton. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00zd70j (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Jane Garvey presents: Actress Sienna Miller on her life and SAT new stage role. As part of our Women in Business season, we SAT look at the importance of networking. What effect with SAT Government plans to reform the Child Support Agency have on SAT families? Olivia Williams talks about playing Betty in Neil SAT La Bute's new play "In a Forest Dark and Deep", we hear SAT about a new campaign to get a statue of the early feminist SAT Mary Wollestonecraft put up in North London and Woman's Hour SAT at the Southbank WOW Festival. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00zd70l (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00z5zy9 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented this week by SAT Stephanie Flanders, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, SAT statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the SAT business world, through discussion with people running SAT leading and emerging companies. SAT SAT This week, Stephanie's top executive guests hail from the SAT worlds of mobile energy, sanitary fittings and business SAT services. They discuss how businesses cope in a "slow SAT growth" environment. Could years of slow growth be more SAT challenging than a short sharp shock? SAT SAT And not so long ago, the slow coach economy in Europe was SAT Germany - now it's steaming ahead of everyone. What's gone SAT right for Germany - and what lessons could other countries SAT learn? SAT SAT Stephanie is joined in the studio by Rupert Soames, chief SAT executive of mobile energy group, Aggreko; Neal Gandhi, SAT chief executive of international business services company SAT Quickstart Global; David Haines, chief executive of German SAT bathroom fittings company Grohe. SAT SAT Producer: Caroline Bayley. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00z63vq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00z63vs (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00z63vv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00zd70n (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by gardening guru Monty Don. The King of SAT Gardener's World returned to our screens last night and he's SAT just published Great Gardens of Italy - a personal journey SAT and exploration of the lavish hideaways of the romantic SAT South to the luxurious retreats of the moneyed North. His TV SAT series 'Monty Don's Italian Gardens' will be broadcast in SAT the Spring on BBC2. SAT SAT They say you haven't arrived as a politician until Michael SAT Cockerell has made a documentary about you. He's interviewed SAT eight serving prime minsters from David Cameron back to SAT Edward Heath. This time he turns his attention to 'The SAT Secret World of Whitehall' his new TV series in which he SAT investigates three powerhouses of Whitehall - the Cabinet SAT Office, Number 10 and the Private Office. SAT SAT I found your splint in the hall drawer. Your suspenders were SAT 50p. We used the wooden knitting needles for propping up the SAT house plants. Remember? Just some of the notes Phyllida SAT wrote to her mother in law who lived within their family SAT home for her last 17 years. Clive talks to Phyllida about SAT her book 'Notes to My Mother-in-Law', her acting career and SAT The Magic Roundabout. SAT SAT Emma Freud talks to comedian, television writer and author SAT David Baddie about his new novel 'The Death of Eli Gold'. SAT SAT Music comes from the hotly-tipped Scottish sextet Admiral SAT Fallow. And from one of Mike Skinner's favourite MC/artists SAT - Ghostpoet who performs something a little bit different in SAT the Loose Ends Studio. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00zd70q (Listen) SAT Foreign Secretary, William Hague SAT SAT He's a popular figure in the Conservative Party and a key SAT player in the Coalition, but this week the Foreign SAT Secretary, William Hague, was criticised after a bungled SAS SAT mission into Libya. The Prime Minister has defended him, but SAT others are asking whether Hague still has a passion for SAT politics at the highest level. SAT SAT As Tory leader in 2001, he led his party to a crushing SAT defeat and announced his resignation the day after the SAT election. Over the next few years, he enjoyed a rise in SAT popularity, probably helped by appearances on the TV show, SAT 'Have I Got News for You'. Now, back at the top of the SAT political game, he's again facing challenges which are SAT testing his mettle. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00zd70s (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00zd70v (Listen) SAT Divorce - British Style SAT SAT 40 years ago, a legal change ushered in one of the most SAT profound and rapid changes in British society. The Divorce SAT Act of 1969 came into force in 1971, introducing the concept SAT of no-fault divorces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. SAT Scotland followed with its own reform not long after. The SAT results were dramatic. The rate of divorce - which had been SAT around 30,000 a year in the 1960s, rocketed in the first SAT year of the new act to over 110,000. It continued to rise, SAT hitting a high of over 160,000 couples in the mid-80s, SAT before dropping back down as more couples cohabit rather SAT than marry. Still, four out of ten marriages are estimated SAT to end in divorce, and the UK has one of the highest divorce SAT rates in Europe. SAT Rosie Boycott, herself a veteran of the feminist battles of SAT the 1960s, revisits the personal stories and surprising SAT debates of the 1950s, 60s and 70s documenting and reflecting SAT on the profound social change unleashed by the new divorce SAT legislation. SAT Producer: Daniel Tetlow. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00z52d6 (Listen) SAT Anna of the Five Towns, Episode 1 SAT SAT Arnold Bennett's powerful story of love, tyranny and SAT rebellion set against the vitality and harshness of life in SAT the Staffordshire Potteries in the late nineteenth century, SAT dramatised by Helen Edmundson. SAT SAT Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her SAT miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and SAT freedom. On coming of age she learns that she is to inherit SAT a fortune and realises that she is loved by the charismatic SAT Henry Mynors. But with the money comes responsibility and a SAT growing bond with one of her tenants William Price. SAT SAT Anna.....Charlotte Riley SAT Tellwright.....David Schofield SAT Young Agnes.....Emilia Harker SAT William Price.....Michael Socha SAT Titus Price.....James Masters SAT Henry Mynors.....Lee Williams SAT Beatrice/Older Agnes.....Rosina Carbone SAT Mrs Sutton.....Olwen May SAT Revivalist.....Andrew Westfield SAT Sarah Vodrey.....Jacqueline Redgwell SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT Charlotte Riley as Anna Tellwright and Lee Williams as Henry SAT Mynors SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00z63vx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00z5hrj (Listen) SAT What - if anything - should Britain do about Libya? Do we SAT have a moral duty to intervene on the side of the rebels, SAT and - if so - how far should we be prepared to go to help SAT them? One rebel spokesman this week asked Britain to SAT intervene immediately with air strikes against Gadaffi's SAT forces. Should we wait for a UN resolution (which might well SAT be vetoed by Russia or China) or should we act now to save SAT civilian lives? There are many practical considerations SAT involving international and domestic politics, military SAT capabilities and economics; but before we start arguing SAT about what might be achievable or prudent, we must decide SAT what is right. SAT SAT If military intervention is ruled out, what about supplying SAT arms to the rebels? If not weapons, what about food, SAT shelter, medicine and other humanitarian assistance? And if SAT we send in doctors, should there be troops to protect them? SAT What about indirect pressure on the regime through SAT financial, trade and diplomatic sanctions? And what if SAT Gadaffi remains in power despite them? Or should Britons now SAT accept that we have neither the power nor the moral SAT authority to interfere in the internal affairs of other SAT countries? Politicians are driven by the idea of progress SAT and things getting better but it can be a dangerous SAT imperative when trying to overthrow dictators. If we support SAT the Arab populism in the name of freedom are we merely SAT clearing the stage for the next anti-western tyranny that SAT waits in the wings? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Clifford SAT Longley and Anne McElvoy. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b00z58bg (Listen) SAT Stirling SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Stirling, host Steve SAT Punt puts questions to students and lecturers of Psychology, SAT Marketing, and English Studies. So if you've got a notion as SAT to who lived at 7 Eccles Street, what is James Bond's family SAT motto, or why on earth a marketer might use a 'semantic SAT cognitive differential tangent' then listen in... SAT SAT "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz SAT show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 SAT listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded SAT on location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes SAT posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union SAT buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities SAT across the UK. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00z53v2 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces requests for inspiring poems, SAT including the result of the Winning Words project. This SAT asked the British public to suggest lines that might SAT encourage athletes taking part in the London 2012 Olympic SAT and Paralympic Games, as well as future generations of SAT Londoners. Find out which lines, nominated by the public and SAT selected by a panel which included Poet Laureate Carol Ann SAT Duffy, will be engraved on the wall in the Athletes' Village SAT in the Olympic Park. The programme includes some of Roger SAT McGough's own poems on a sporting theme, taken from his SAT collection 'Sporting Relations'. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 MARCH 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00zd8ds (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Circus Bears b00zgxh6 (Listen) SUN Mixing folk tale with fantasy, and history with myth, SUN Booker-nominated writer Mick Jackson explores some SUN little-known chapters in England's past. SUN SUN Today's story remembers the Circus Bears of Bristol and the SUN day they revolted. SUN SUN Adapted from his collection 'Bears Of England'. SUN SUN Reader: Ian Holm SUN Music by Lorraine Bowen. SUN Producer: Karen Rose SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zd8dv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zd8dx (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zd8dz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00zd8f1 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00zd8f3 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Olaves, Hart Street, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00zd70q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00zd8f5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00zd8f7 (Listen) SUN No East and West in Our Round World SUN SUN Dr Nabil Mustapha was born in Egypt and raised in the Baha'i SUN faith which has at its heart the principle of world unity. SUN He has practiced as a surgeon worldwide and in this SUN programme talks about how he has learned to see unity in SUN diversity and to embrace difference. SUN SUN The programme includes an interview with Professor Suheil SUN Bushrui who was also raised in the Baha'i faith and who SUN teaches an inter-faith course at the university of Maryland SUN in the United States. SUN SUN Dr Mustapha recalls the challenge of being accepted in SUN social circles in London in the sixties when he was a young SUN doctor who didn't drink because of his faith. He draws upon SUN music and literature to illustrate his belief that even SUN without a shared language or religion we have much in SUN common. SUN SUN He talks about how his search for greater understanding SUN between faiths helped him to establish a multi-faith forum SUN with people in his Borough. They meet to pray for peace, to SUN break down differences and to highlight commonalities. SUN SUN Producer: Kim Normanton SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00zd8f9 (Listen) SUN Oaklands Farm is one of the biggest egg producers in the SUN country, with more than a million laying hens. The Griffiths SUN family are investing in new enriched colony cages which will SUN replace battery cages in 2012. The new cages each house 80 SUN hens and include a perch, a scratching area, and a nest box. SUN Elwyn Griffiths shows Sarah Swadling what the new units are SUN like, and discusses whether or not they are a real step SUN forward for welfare. SUN SUN Producing eggs for someone else to profit from 'seemed like SUN a stupid idea' to the Griffiths', and so the farm has a SUN hi-tech robotic egg grading and packing facility from which SUN eggs are sent to discount chains, catering suppliers, and SUN supermarkets. Eggs which don't make the grade for cosmetic SUN reasons are turned into liquid egg, used in manufacturing SUN products like cakes and quiches. The scare over dioxin SUN contamination in German liquid egg earlier this year SUN revealed just how important an ingredient it is. Elwyn is SUN sceptical that the scare has led to more food processing SUN companies buying British. SUN SUN Producer and Presenter: Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00zd8fc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00zd8ff (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00zd8fh (Listen) SUN William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00zd8fk (Listen) SUN School-Home Support SUN SUN Jan Tallis presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity School-Home Support. SUN SUN Donations to School-Home Support should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN School-Home Support. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN You can also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide School Home Support SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners without SUN a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1084696. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b00zd8fm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00zd8fp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00zd8fr (Listen) SUN The Unreconciled - Self and Others SUN SUN Part of our series for Lent live from the chapel of Durham SUN School. Preacher: The Very Rev Michael Sadgrove; Leader: SUN Anna de Lange. Featuring BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the SUN Year Liam Jones and the choirs of Durham and Durham Johnston SUN Schools. Music Directors: Roger Muttit and Edwin Holmes. SUN Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN In our journey through Lent, we will be looking at issues in SUN Christian reconciliation. Download web resources specially SUN written for the series from the Churches Together in Britain SUN and Ireland website. As we travel towards Easter, we prepare SUN ourselves to meet the ultimate reconciling work - what God SUN has done for us in the crucifixion, death and resurrection SUN of his Son, Jesus Christ. Our service this morning comes SUN from a school community. What can the increasing self SUN awareness of the young as they learn to work together, teach SUN us about 'Ourselves and Others,' as this Lent we prepare to SUN consider The Unreconciled? SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00z62ns (Listen) SUN Series 2, Foreign Fare SUN SUN 4/20. We sometimes forget that vegetables that we see as SUN common-place today in all their varieties have wild origins. SUN The potato for example is a name given to a tuber that both SUN comes from Africa and South America - And the history of SUN their discovery and export into our European markets can be SUN traced by examining how those first explorers named the SUN plants. In Foreign Fare, David Attenborough traces the SUN discovery of some common vegetables to their wild beginnings SUN - and the fascinating natural history of their use as food. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00zd8ft (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00zd8fw (Listen) SUN Written by: Adrian Flynn SUN Directed by: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister SUN John Simons ..... Richard Katz SUN Sally ..... Alex Tregear SUN Luke ..... Nyasha Hatendi. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00zd8fy (Listen) SUN Comic Relief SUN SUN In this episode of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor gathers SUN together the founding members of Comic Relief. SUN SUN The idea first emerged in 1984 when a devastating famine was SUN crippling Ethiopia. Inspired by the work of Live Aid, a SUN group of people led by writer Richard Curtis decided to tap SUN into the great British comedy scene and raise money for SUN Africa. All costs would be covered by sponsors. This would SUN enable the 'Golden Pound' principal - that every penny SUN raised should go to charity. SUN SUN Comic Relief was launched live on Noel Edmonds' Late, Late SUN Breakfast Show on Christmas Day 1985 from a refugee camp in SUN Sudan. Helen Fielding was the Comic Relief documentary maker SUN leading the project in Africa at the time. The launch raised SUN £1 million. A few months later Comic Relief staged their SUN first live fundraising show at London's Shaftesbury Theatre SUN with performances by Rowan Atkinson, Ronnie Corbett and Kate SUN Bush. That year, they released their first number one hit SUN single with The Young Ones and Cliff Richard. SUN SUN Comic Relief needed a symbol - something which could be sold SUN in exchange for a donation and which would give the public a SUN way of joining in. On the back of the Red Nose idea came the SUN first ever Red Nose Day TV extravaganza in 1988 - an event SUN which would bring together comedy and charity like never SUN before on live national TV. Richard Curtis recalls 'chaos, SUN panic and tears' behind the scenes. The show raised a SUN staggering £15 million and would go on to become an SUN institution. SUN SUN Sue is joined around the table by; Richard Curtis co-founder SUN of Comic Relief; Lenny Henry and Griff Rhys Jones who SUN presented the early TV shows; Helen Fielding who was the SUN first Africa documentary producer and Paddy Coulter, who was SUN Head of Media at Oxfam and an early Comic Relief board SUN member. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Cuddon SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00z5bnx (Listen) SUN Series 59, Episode 5 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition and deviation? SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00zd8g0 (Listen) SUN Food writer Tim Hayward goes in search of British SUN charcuterie - the preserved meat that we tend to think of as SUN Contintental. He finds that making it is thriving and closer SUN to its origins in the home than he had expected. He meets a SUN couple whose hobby smoking meats has turned into a career; a SUN shopkeeper, a publican and a restaurateur who cure hams and SUN salamis on the premises for customers, and a pig farming SUN family who have taken to curing their own pork. He learns SUN about the British traditions of salting and pickling meats SUN and talks to author Lindy Wildsmith about how we can do it SUN at home - and even has a go at making his own bacon. SUN SUN Producer: Harry Parker. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00zd8g2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00zd8g4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with an in-depth SUN look at events around the world. To share your views email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 In Doubt We Trust b00zd8nx (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN "We take things very personally at the moment. People get SUN very disturbed and angry when their certainties about SUN themselves and their world are questioned." So says the SUN philosopher Angie Hobbs. But why? In this programme the SUN writer Mark Vernon, who himself had a crisis of faith, looks SUN at our attitudes towards doubt and certainty. SUN SUN In conversations with David Jenkins, the former Bishop of SUN Durham, Karen Armstrong, Ann Widdecombe and a variety of SUN scientists and philosophers, he explores the art of doubting SUN and our the ability to question well. He discovers that if SUN we can master this art, it can help us to flourish and SUN become more fully human. SUN SUN Producers: Amanda Hancox and Rosie Dawson. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00z61qw (Listen) SUN Cuddington, Buckinghamshire SUN SUN Eric Robson is joined by Matthew Wilson, Pippa Greenwood and SUN Matthew Biggs in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire. SUN SUN Anne Swithinbank presents the Pruning A Banksia Rose SUN Rulebook. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Genius Unrecognised b00zd8nz (Listen) SUN Aircraft SUN SUN Tony Hill, Director of Manchester's Museum of Science and SUN Industry honours the scientists who revolutionised SUN microscopic technology, electrical power, air navigation, SUN gyroscopic travel and digital sound. In their day they were SUN dismissed as blue-sky time-wasters but now we recognise SUN their genius. SUN SUN George Cayley (1773-1857) SUN SUN More than a century before the Wright brothers took off at SUN Kitty Hawk, George Cayley designed a heavier-than-air flying SUN machine. It incorporated all the essential discoveries that SUN make aeroplanes possible, including separate systems for SUN lift, propulsion and control. SUN SUN Alas, the internal combustion engine hadn't yet been SUN invented, but Cayley built the first successful glider to SUN carry a human being. A full-size replica of this aircraft is SUN on display at the Yorkshire Air Museum. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00zd92b (Listen) SUN Anna of the Five Towns, Episode 2 SUN SUN Arnold Bennett's powerful story of love, tyranny and SUN rebellion set against the vitality and harshness of life in SUN the Staffordshire Potteries in the late nineteenth, SUN dramatised by Helen Edmundson. SUN SUN Having inherited a fortune on her twenty first birthday Anna SUN Tellwright begins to gain independence and freedom. But on SUN her return from an eventful holiday with the Suttons and SUN Henry Mynors her joy is marred by some shocking news about SUN one of her tenant's Titus Price. Anna's growing concern for SUN his son William leads her to a defiant act that threatens SUN everything. SUN SUN Anna.....Charlotte Riley SUN Tellwright.....David Schofield SUN Young Agnes.....Emilia Harker SUN William Price.....Michael Socha SUN Henry Mynors.....Lee Williams SUN Beatrice/Older Agnes.....Rosina Carbone SUN Mrs Sutton.....Olwen May SUN Mr Sutton/Coroner.....Jonathan Keeble SUN Sarah Vodrey.....Jacqueline Redgwell SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00zd92d (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist Justin Cartwright SUN about his new book, Other People's Money, inspired by the SUN financial crisis and centred round a three hundred year old SUN private bank. SUN SUN She also speaks to the acclaimed actress Juliet Stevenson SUN about her unabridged reading of George Eliot's Middlemarch. SUN SUN Plus, American writer Jessica Francis Kane discusses why she SUN chose a very British tragedy - the Bethnal Green disaster of SUN 1943, in which a hundred and seventy three people died SUN taking shelter in the underground station - as the subject SUN for a fictional book. SUN SUN PRODUCER: SALLY SPURRING. SUN SUN 16:30 The Company of Poets b00zd92g (Listen) SUN Susannah Clapp looks through Angela Carter's journals to SUN discover her unknown poetry. She introduces Angela's circle SUN - her editors Andrew Motion (former Poet Laureate), and SUN Carmen Callil (founder of Virago Press), and her close SUN friend Salman Rushdie, as well as the critic Marina Warner - SUN not just to the verse itself, but to the fact that Angela SUN even wrote poetry, which none of them knew. SUN SUN Angela Carter is one of the most pungent writers of the last SUN fifty years and yet her poems are more or less unknown. They SUN were written at the beginning of her life as a writer: her SUN first novel was published in 1966, and so have a particular SUN interest as showing a path not taken. In this programme SUN Susannah and guests argue that they strikingly anticipate SUN her fiction and other writing, in both the richness of SUN expression and in subject matter and sometimes even the very SUN violence of the verse makes her concerns plainer. Through SUN readings and analysis, the programme explores Carter's SUN poetic interest in fairy tale, her fascination with the SUN 18th-century (Susannah will argue that she was both a romper SUN and a sceptic secularist), her feminism, her foul tongue, SUN and her fascinating politics. And her poetry will also SUN illustrate Carter's vivid visual sense and tastes, such as SUN her love of cats. SUN SUN For the programme Susannah goes to the British Library to SUN look at the poems in Angela Carter's journals, and her lists SUN of the things that she was reading at the time she wrote SUN them. SUN SUN Readings will be done by Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense, SUN The Ghost Writer and the RSC.) SUN SUN Susannah was a close friend of Angela Carter's. SUN SUN Contributors: Salman Rushdie, Andrew Motion, Marina Warner, SUN Carmen Callil, Jamie Andrews. Readings by Olivia Williams. SUN SUN Producer: Rebecca Stratford. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00z5g2n (Listen) SUN Danger at Work SUN SUN Following the recent first conviction and hefty fine under SUN new Corporate Manslaughter legislation, the UK's health and SUN safety regime has been hailed a success. Falling death and SUN accident rates appear to confirm an improving trend. SUN SUN But the families of some of those seriously injured and SUN killed in workplace accidents say too many employers are SUN still gettings off too lightly even when they've been found SUN responsible for serious breaches of health and safety SUN legislation. SUN SUN As the government proposes lighter regulation of workplaces SUN and the Health and Safety Executive faces deep cuts, Morland SUN Sanders asks whether protection for employees will be put at SUN risk. SUN SUN No checks at 'risky' workplaces SUN SUN Workplaces with 'significant risk' may go unchecked as SUN government cuts hit Health and Safety Executive inspections, SUN the BBC has learned. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00zd70q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00zd8g6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00zd8g8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zd8gb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00zd92j (Listen) SUN James Walton makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Kathryn Blennerhassett SUN SUN In this week's Pick of the Week, you can learn some tricks SUN of the trade from surgeons, teachers, lorry-drivers and SUN spies. There's some powerful personal memories of Martin SUN Luther King; a memorable appearance from one of the few SUN teenage girls in literary history to wear a monocle; and the SUN somehow dismaying news that scientists are now utterly SUN certain about the uncertainty principle. Be warned though: SUN there's also some rather rude comedy from among others, SUN George Formby and Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray. SUN SUN George Formby - Britain's First Popstar - Radio 2 SUN On the Ropes - Radio 4 SUN Direct Red - Radio 4 SUN The Reunion - Radio 4 SUN Stand Up For Comic Relief - Radio 4 SUN Private Passions - Radio 3 SUN To Miss With Love - Radio 4 SUN Good Show Clarissa - Radio 4 SUN Generation Gap - Radio 4 SUN Black Roses - The Killing of Sophie Lancaster - Radio 4 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN The Wales Window of Alabama - Radio 4 SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN Calibrated Conundrums - Radio 4 SUN Richard Bacon - 5 Live. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00zd92l (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00zd92n (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00cqfym (Listen) SUN The Further Adventures of the First King of Mars, The Shadow SUN of a Volcano SUN SUN To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, SUN Nick Walker was commissioned to write the sci-fi adventure SUN 'The First King Of Mars'. SUN SUN 'Mars Twenty' has landed. And it wasn't pretty. SUN SUN Nick Walker's theatre work has been presented extensively in SUN the UK as well as Europe, and the USA. His plays and short SUN stories are often featured on BBC Radio 4 and 3 series of SUN the late-night show The Bigger Issues. He is the author of SUN two critically acclaimed novels Blackbox and Helloland, SUN published in the UK, US, Australia, Japan and across Europe. SUN SUN Performed by Peter Capaldi. SUN Producer: Karen Rose SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00z629z (Listen) SUN This week Lord Patten, the new chairman of the BBC Trust, SUN faced a grilling from a parliamentary select committee. Did SUN he impress? Roger Bolton asks Jocelyn Hay of the Voice of SUN the Listener and Viewer and the chairman of that committee SUN John Whittingdale MP for their assessment. SUN SUN Twelve-year-old schoolboy Jojo Baidoo, beat the stage school SUN darlings to become the leading man in this week's Book at SUN Bedtime on Radio 4. SUN SUN BBC Radio 7 is poised to relaunch as BBC Radio 4 Extra, SUN offering among other things 500 archive episodes of Desert SUN Island Discs. But many of you are still unconvinced by the SUN sound quality and coverage offered by digital radio. Tim SUN Davie, the BBC's head of audio and music, tells Roger why he SUN still believes there is no downside to digital. SUN SUN Will the BBC Hindi Service continue on shortwave? To the SUN dismay of many it was due to be axed at the end of this SUN month but alternative funding may now be available. Editor SUN Amit Baruah shares the heartfelt thanks of some of its 11 SUN million listeners. SUN SUN And listeners wonder what happened to the last episode of SUN Radio 4 comedy Mordrin McDonald? Did it disappear into the SUN mists of time? SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00z6f34 (Listen) SUN Cyril Stein, Alberto Granado, Rachel Cameron and Anthony SUN Brooke SUN SUN Matthew Bannister remembers: SUN SUN Cyril Stein, who built up Ladbrokes from one betting shop to SUN a multi-billion pound business. SUN SUN Alberto Granado who travelled with Che Guevara on his famous SUN motorcycle journey across South America. SUN SUN Rachel Cameron - doyen of ballet teachers - who passed on SUN the ideas of Diaghilev. SUN SUN Necmettin Erbakan, Turkey's first Islamist prime minister. SUN SUN And the last white Rajah of Sarawak - Anthony Brooke. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00zd70b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00zd8fk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00z5bqd (Listen) SUN Testing the Emotions SUN SUN Investigative journalist and author Fran Abrams looks at a SUN popular but controversial programme designed to teach SUN children emotional and social skills in schools. The concept SUN of emotional intelligence has almost become a global SUN ideology. It's taught, in one form or another, in around 70% SUN of secondary and 90% of primary schools in England and is SUN popular in Scotland and Wales too. But what exactly is SUN emotional intelligence, can it really be developed and how SUN sound are its scientific claims? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00zd92q (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00zd93h (Listen) SUN Episode 43 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading journalist has a wry look at how the SUN broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories in SUN Westminster and beyond. This week Dennis Sewell of The SUN Spectator takes the chair. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00z62g9 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, SUN the writers behind Fair Game, a political thriller starring SUN Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. SUN SUN Star Wars super-fan Jamie Benning explains why he has spent SUN four years making three unofficial documentaries about the SUN initial trilogy. SUN SUN Lesley Manville dissects her performance in Mike Leigh's SUN Another Year, now out on DVD. SUN SUN Director Anh Hung Tran discusses his adaptation of Haruki SUN Murakami's Norwegian Wood. SUN SUN Staff Benda Bilili are a collection of disabled musicians SUN who have been propelled from the streets of Kinshasa to SUN international acclaim thanks to a new documentary. Its SUN co-director Renaurd Barret explains all. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00zd8f7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 MARCH 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00zd9fh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00z6dxg (Listen) MON Outsourced cultures - Happiness audience's response MON MON In the Indian call centre or 'outsourcing' industry, workers MON are trained to emulate the American or British workers which MON they have replaced. They change their names, take on western MON accents and develop lifestyles organised around a foreign MON culture in a distant time zone. Laurie Taylor is joined by MON Henrietta Moore to talk to Shehzad Nadeem about his new MON study into the hybrid culture these Asian employees have MON created. MON Also on the programme the writer Marek Kohn joins Laurie to MON discuss the Thinking Allowed audience's spirited response to MON Pascal Bruckner's indictment of the culture of happiness. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00zd8f3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zd9fm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zd9fp (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zd9fr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00zd9ft (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zd9fw (Listen) MON Prayer and reflection. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00zd9fy (Listen) MON Half of the butter that is produced in Europe has been MON frozen and defrosted by the time it reaches the shop MON shelves. Even butter produced in the UK and sold in the UK MON may have spent some time in the deep freeze before ending up MON in your basket. MON MON Farmers are being warned by the police to be vigilant for MON illegal raves on their land, Farming Today hears about the MON aftermath a rave left on one man's property and the expense MON of cleaning it up. MON MON Also, with spring well on its way, we hear which crops will MON reap the biggest benefit this coming year. Martin MON Poyntz-Roberts visits a brassica farmer who is preparing to MON plant a batch of sapling cauliflowers in the midlands. MON MON Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00zd9g0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00zdbhx (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00zdbhz (Listen) MON Andrew Marr with the physicists Brian Greene and Brian Cox MON explores the universe in all its wonder. And he attempts to MON understand our relation to parallel universes, which can be MON separated from us by enormous stretches of time and space, MON or hover just millimetres away. The science writer, Angela MON Saini, looks at why India is so successful in producing the MON next generation of doctors and scientists, in her book, Geek MON Nation. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Letters to the Arab World b00zmzpj (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Five writers from North Africa and the Middle East consider MON the momentous events that are reshaping the Arab world. As MON the political and cultural landscape shifts around them, MON these authors and thinkers use open letters to reflect on MON the consequences for the region and for its people. Editor MON Philip Sellars. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zdbj3 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents. It's 70 years since two British MON chemists patented "polyethylene terephthalate", the basis of MON the synthetic fibre known as polyester. We look at how it's MON been used in the past and how it's one of the most versatile MON fabrics for the future. Will the introduction of fines for MON hospitals failing to provide single sex wards bring about MON change or turn out to be a costly burden? Sue Flood - a MON photographer with a unique viewpoint from the coldest places MON on the planet talks about her work and film maker Ken MON Wardrop on his new documentary "His & Hers" which takes the MON voices of seventy Irish women to share the story of their MON relationships with men from childhood to dating and marriage MON and old age. MON MON 70 Years of Polyester MON MON It's 70 years since two British chemists patented MON “polyethylene terephthalateâ€, the basis of the synthetic MON fibre known as polyester. Man made fibres like polyester MON often provoke mixed feelings but not for performer Lorraine MON Bowen whose new show, Polyester Fiesta, celebrates the MON synthetic fibre. Lorraine shows off her much loved MON collection of polyester dresses and housecoats to Judi MON Herman. Dr Richard Blackburn from the University of Leeds MON and Dilys Williams from the London College of Fashion joins MON Jane in the studio to discuss the history of polyester, its MON uses now and its viability, eco and fashion-wise, for the MON future. MON MON Mixed-Sex Hospital Wards MON MON The coalition government has vowed to abolish NHS mixed-sex MON hospital wards. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said he was MON determined to end the practice and will introduce sanctions MON – a £250 fine for every breach of the rules - for those not MON complying. However the issue has been the subject of MON manifesto pledges and political promises for over a decade. MON The Townswomen's Guilds, whose 34,000 members have been MON campaigning against mixed-sex wards since 1978, believe MON fines are not a powerful enough deterrent. Jane is joined MON by Anne Milton, Public Health Minister and Alison Parkinson, MON Spokesperson for the Townswomen’s Guild. Why is getting rid MON of mixed-sex wards such a problem? If there are reasonable MON standards of privacy at the bedside, can mixed-sex MON accommodation be so bad? What can be done to improve the MON situation? MON MON Sue Flood - Polar Photographer MON MON Coming nose to nose with a polar bear, or flipper to finger MON with an Emperor Penguin might be your idea of a dream come MON true, however the relentless hours in the cold, and weeks MON without hot showers might make you think twice. Sue Flood MON fortunately has had no such qualms. With over fifteen years MON experience filming wildlife with the BBC Natural History MON Unit, she moved to still photography and looked to the MON farthest horizons. A book, ‘Cold Places’, and subsequent MON exhibition at the Getty Images Gallery, show the results of MON this happy – and award winning – change of direction. Sue MON joins Jane to talk about what life is like in the coldest MON places on the planet, waking up adrift an ice floe, and what MON it is like to travel with a Shackleton. MON MON Ken Wardrop - His & Hers MON MON “A man loves his girlfriend the most, his wife the best, but MON his mother the longest.†- that's an Old Irish Proverb which MON has been brought to life by the film maker Ken Wardrop. His MON creative documentary “His & Hers†takes the voices of MON seventy Irish women to share the story of their MON relationships with men from childhood to dating and marriage MON and old age. This low budget film has been a big success in MON Ireland, and was described by one critic as “a perfectly MON crafted cinematic quiltâ€. Jane talks to Ken about his MON motivation for making the film, and the women he found to MON feature in it. MON MON The film is out now in selected cinemas. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zdbj5 (Listen) MON The Paris Wife, The Wives' Corner MON MON 1/5 Paula McLain's fictional memoir of Paris in the 1920s is MON told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife. Hadley is MON older than Hemingway by nine years, and when the newlyweds MON arrive in Paris in 1921 she finds herself missing home and MON feeling like a fish out of water. But Hemingway adores the MON city right from the start, and Hadley adores Hem, so she MON determines to get over her homesickness and fall in love MON with Paris too. Before long Hemingway is introduced into the MON circle of writers and artists who have made the city their MON own, but after invitations to tea with Ezra Pound and MON Gertrude Stein, Hadley realises with dismay that she's MON expected to join the wives' corner. MON MON Adapted by Sheila Yeger. Directed by Sara Davies MON MON Hadley: Laurel Lefkow MON Hemingway: Julian Ovenden MON Ezra Pound: Martin Reeve MON Gertrude Stein: Kim Hicks MON Scott Fitzgerald: Gerard Cooke MON Zelda Fitzgerald: Susannah Hampton MON Pauline Pfeifer: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse. MON MON 11:00 Cadbury Kraft: A Year On b00zddhl (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON It was one of the biggest corporate takeovers in UK history, MON and it began with an epic PR disaster for Kraft. Having MON promised to save Somerdale (an historic west country MON chocolate factory) the American food conglomerate promptly MON changed their minds. According to YouGov last March, 94% of MON consumers were aware that Cadbury had been swallowed by MON Kraft. So what has happened to the workers of Somerdale - MON and Bournville - in the twelve months since ? MON Last year Miles Warde presented Cadbury Is Our Longbridge, a MON series about the takeover on Radio 4. This two part follow MON up catches up with those most affected and asks what has MON been learnt. MON "I've watched the whole lot being disassembled, yeah ... MON they still expected you to clean the machinery as they were MON taking it out. And I've taken photos of the last bar of MON Crunchie coming off, and they've written, The End." MON The presenter is Miles Warde, and the programme is produced MON by Emma Harding and Miles Warde. MON MON 11:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00zdh7k (Listen) MON Sham MON MON Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel MON documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit MON after claiming to have had a number of bizarre adventures. MON MON This week he travels to Sham a country where alternative MON therapies abound. MON MON Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson MON Rachel ..... Mariah Gale MON Raindrop ..... Antonia Campbell Hughes MON Muesli ..... David Horovitch MON Mumbo ..... Julian Dutton MON Kaleem ..... Lewis Alsamari MON Healer ..... Stuart McLoughlin MON Tofu ..... Sally Orrock MON Hunter .... Bill Dare MON Grand ..... Joanna Monro MON MON Written by Bill Dare MON Produced by Steven Canny MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00zf9gh (Listen) MON Julian Worricker investigates why police dogs are costing MON taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages. MON MON We'll be inflation busting - looking at which items in your MON shopping basket will influence whether rates go up - who'll MON be the biggest losers? MON MON And as the shutter closes on another family business - can MON small photography stores compete with internet prices? MON MON 12:57 Weather b00zd9g2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00zf9gk (Listen) MON National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty MON minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To MON share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 The 3rd Degree b00zdh7m (Listen) MON Reading MON MON Coming this week from the University of Reading, host Steve MON Punt quizzes students and lecturers of Food Science & MON Technology, International Relations, and English and MON American Literature. MON Which is why you're going to find out the meanings of such MON obscure and outlandish concepts as "interregnum", MON "Tetrapak", "Spationaute", "Myanmar", "Thermidore", "golem" MON and "Chris Moyles" MON MON "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz MON show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 MON listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded MON on location at a different University each week, and it pits MON three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a MON genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being MON a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent MON standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and MON jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes MON posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union MON buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities MON across the UK. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the MON 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the MON Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their MON Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, MON and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both MON sides... MON MON The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit MON surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly MON rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more MON than just glanced at that reading list... MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00zd92l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00zdhzs (Listen) MON The Gun Goes to Hollywood MON MON The Pride and the Passion is Hollywood's 1957 adaptation of MON The Gun, by C S Forester. It's set in Spain during the MON Napoleonic wars and tells the story of Captain Anthony MON Trumbull, played by Cary Grant, a British military officer, MON who is ordered to retrieve an enormous cannon and transport MON it across Spain to the British lines, where it will be used MON to attack the French garrison at Avila. Guerrilla leader MON Miguel, played by Frank Sinatra, agrees to help, even though MON he despises the Englishman, and Miguel's feisty girlfriend MON Juana, played by Sophia Loren, comes with them. Along the MON way Juana falls in love with Trundall. But the film had a MON notoriously troubled set. Sinatra left the production early MON because of marriage difficulties with Ava Gardner, and MON Grant, then 53, fell in love with his co-star Loren, 23. MON Mike Walker's play imagines the behind-the-scenes ructions MON from the viewpoint of the script doctor, Earl Felton, who MON was drafted in to save the day. MON MON Earl Felton . . . Steven Weber MON Cary Grant . . . Greg Itzin MON Sophia Loren . . Kate Steele MON Frank Sinatra . . . Jonathan Silverman MON Stanley Kramer . . Jonathan Getz MON Barman . . . Andre Sogliuzzo MON Gangster . . Tom Virtue MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00zd70v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Churchill's Other Lives b00y6p63 (Listen) MON Bricklaying MON MON Historian Sir David Cannadine explores 'Churchill's Other MON Lives' outside politics. Winston Churchill was a committed MON bricklayer, he even joined the bricklayers' union. But this MON didn't mean he had anything in common with the working man. MON MON He was surrounded by a retinue of servants, he never even MON set foot in a shop and he famously got stuck on the Circle MON line the only time he used the tube. In the first programme MON in the series, David Cannadine explores Churchill's devotion MON to bricklaying and what it tells us about his relationship MON with ordinary people. MON MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00zd8g0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Mr Tesco: The Legacy of Terry Leahy b00zj2lv (Listen) MON As Sir Terry Leahy leaves Tesco he gives a rare and MON revealing interview to Damian Reece, (Head of Business at MON the Telegraph newspaper) who travels with him, back to his MON home city of Liverpool; and discovers how the man who grew MON up on a council estate there ended up running a global MON business. MON MON Under Sir Terry's leadership Tesco has become the third MON largest retailer in the world, and Britain's biggest private MON sector employer. Profits for the company which started life MON as a 'pile it high sell it cheap' supermarket, hit £1.6 bn MON last year. MON MON In this in depth portrait he talks about his early MON influences, crucial turning points for the company, and what MON motivates him. They visit Toxeth where a new store is the MON biggest private investment in the area since the riots in MON 1981; riots which saw the original store there burnt down, MON and which bring back personal memories. MON MON For Sir Terry, there's more than just profit at stake, it's MON about social mobility, consumer choice and regeneration. MON MON But what does he say to protestors who blame Tesco for the MON demise of small shops, and say profits have been made at the MON expense of suppliers? It's customers who made us and MON customers who can break us he says, and confesses he wasn't MON prepared for being criticised for running a successful MON company. MON MON Life after Tesco will see him playing a key part in a new MON economic regeneration body for Merseyside, aiming to bring MON jobs and wealth to the area. But how will the boss, used to MON running the show, adapt to a public role where politics, MON rather than profits, take centre stage? MON MON Presenter: Damian Reece MON MON Producer: Liz Carney MON An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00zf9tt (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zd9g4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00zf9tf (Listen) MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the long running panel game in which MON panellists attempt to talk on a subject without hesitation, MON repetition or deviation. This week the guests are Marcus MON Brigstocke, Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock and Sue Perkins. MON Subjects include 'The Aztecs', 'My Garden Shed' and most MON unusually... 'Anything and Everything'. What will the MON panellists do when given such free rein with the subject MON matter? MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00zdhzx (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00zdhzz (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, MON MON Sienna Miller, Sheridan Smith and James Purefoy star in a MON West End production of Terence Rattigan's Flare Path, MON directed by Trevor Nunn. The drama was first staged in 1942 MON and depicts a love triangle between an RAF pilot, his MON actress wife and a famous film star. Peter Kemp reviews. MON MON Woody Allen's latest film, You Will Meet A Tall Dark MON Stranger, is a romcom starring Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones MON and Naomi Watts; Ken Loach's new film, Route Irish, is a MON thriller about security contractors in Iraq. Critic Gaylene MON Gould casts a critical eye over both. MON MON Emma Donoghue's novel Room was inspired by the Josef Fritzl MON case. She explains why she chose to tell the story of a MON woman who has been kept prisoner for seven years in a 12 MON foot square room through the voice of the woman's five year MON old son. MON MON Producer Beth Meade. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zdbj5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b00zdj01 (Listen) MON Mike Thomson returns with Radio 4's investigative history MON series. MON MON 1. The Bomb, the Chancellor and Britain's Nuclear Secrets MON MON In the first edition of a new series, Mike investigates MON documents which suggest that Labour Chancellor Denis Healey MON was kept in the dark over plans to modernise Polaris, MON Britain's nuclear weapons system in the mid-1970s. MON MON Dubbed Chevaline, the upgrade programme was top secret and MON highly controversial, that would eventually cost hundreds of MON millions of pounds more than originally estimated. And all MON this at a time of economic hardship. Striving to keep his MON split party together on the highly sensitive issue of MON nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Harold Wilson restricted MON decision-making to a small circle of ministers. MON MON But Thomson discovers papers which suggest that officials MON may have gone to extreme lengths to ensure that Chevaline MON was kept on track, proposing to withold key information from MON a sceptical Chancellor on the "need to know" basis. Was MON national security the real reason or were other motives at MON play? MON MON Mike puts the claims to former Cabinet Ministers Tony Benn MON and Lord Owen, formerly David Owen, Foreign Secretary in the MON late 70s. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00zdj03 (Listen) MON The prime minister has proposed a new 'muscular liberalism', MON aimed at better integrating Britain's Muslims. It aims to MON counter the alienation that has led to a few young British MON Muslim men being prepared to mount terrorist attacks. David MON Walker asks what the new policy will mean on the ground, and MON how easily it can be reconciled with government plans for MON more local diversity and faith schools. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00z6f1q (Listen) MON Adam Rutherford presents the weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. Joining him on the programme this week MON is Dr Ian Crawford from Birkbeck College, University of MON London, who will be discussing the future of human space MON flight and what it holds now that the final shuttle missions MON are almost completed. Also on the show; we find out what MON daffodils are really made of and we visit the science museum MON where the orginal workshop of engineer James Watt is about MON to be opened to the public. Finally, the champion of science MON that makes us laugh and think Marc Abrahams, the creator of MON the Ig Nobel awards, is in the studio. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Space Missions MON MON As the shuttle Discovery has touched down for the last time MON and preparations get underway for her sister shuttle MON Endeavour’s final flight, Adam Rutherford talks to Dr Ian MON Crawford, from Birkbeck College, to reflect on the missions MON and also to discuss the future of human space exploration. MON MON Daffodils MON MON Scientists from Oxford University claim to have defined MON exactly what the trumpet of a daffodil is. Flowers are MON usually built from the same basic four parts: sepals, MON petals, stamens and carpels, but daffodils also have a fifth MON part, known as the trumpet, or corona. After dissecting MON thousands of bulbs Dr. Robert Scotland and his team have MON suggested that the trumpet is a new organ. Robert joins Adam MON to explain more. MON MON James Watt exhibition MON MON Adam visits the Science Museum in London, where curators are MON preparing for a new exhibition which allows visitors to step MON inside the extraordinary workshop of inventor and engineer MON James Watt. Watt was seen as the founder of the Industrial MON Revolution - his improvements to the steam engine were MON fundamental to the changes brought by the revolution. The MON exhibition opens on March 23rd. Ben Russell and Andrew Nahum MON show Adam around the exhibition and explain Watts and his MON partner Matthew Boulton’s legacy. MON MON Ig Nobel Prizes MON MON Adam talks to Marc Abrahams, founder of the annual Ig Nobel MON Prizes. The prizes honour achievements in ‘improbable MON research’ that first make people laugh, and then make them MON think. Now in their 21st year, the awards are intended to MON celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative and spur MON people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. Marc MON is in the UK on the 2011 Ig Nobel Tour of the U.K, as part MON of national Science and Engineering week. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00zdbhz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00zd9g6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00zf9gm (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00zdj07 (Listen) MON Pigeon English, Episode 6 MON MON Written by Stephen Kelman. Horrified that it involved MON mugging a member of his church, Harri has run out his MON initiation test with the Dell Farm Crew and now they are MON sworn enemies. And he is worried about his sister's MON friendship with Miquita, who is the girlfriend of one of the MON Crew. MON MON Written by Stephen Kelman. MON Read by Jojo Baidoo. MON MON Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, MON Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and MON Robert Sparks. MON MON Abridged by Jane Marshall MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b00zdj09 (Listen) MON Comedian Alex Horne (from BBC 4's We Need Answers) brings MON his 5 piece jazz band to Radio 4 in this one-off audience MON show that combines comedy, improvisation, storytelling and MON music. Alex and the band explore the fantasies of a computer MON programmer; try combat aerobics for the over 60s; learn to MON speak 'jazz' and journey into space. Meanwhile special MON guest, the explorer Benedict Allen, finds out if music can MON enhance his rumble in the jungle. MON MON Alex Horne - Host MON Joe Auckland - Trumpet MON Mark Brown - Saxophone MON Will Collier - Bass MON Ben Reynolds - Drums and percussion MON Joe Stilgoe - Keyboards and piano MON MON Producer - Julia McKenzie. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zf9qq (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 MARCH 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00zdkxn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Letters to the Arab World b00zmzpj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zdkxq (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zdkxs (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zdkxv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00zdkxx (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zdkxz (Listen) TUE Prayer and reflection. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00zdky1 (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00zfbrx (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 On the Ropes b00zf6qv (Listen) TUE Professor David Nutt TUE TUE Professor David Nutt talks to John Humphrys about his short, TUE controversial tenure as Chair of the Government's Advisory TUE Council on the Misuse of drugs. TUE TUE He wrote a contentious paper comparing a made-up condition TUE 'equasy' (an addiction to horse-riding) with the dangers of TUE ecstasy. He recalls a phone-call from the then Home TUE Secretary, Jacqui Smith, who was infuriated by what he had TUE written. She felt he was belittling the dangers of a Class A TUE drug, and attempting to meddle in Government policy. TUE TUE Unbowed, he then gave a lecture where he re-stated his TUE views. By this time Alan Johnson was Home Secretary and TUE Professor David Nutt - in what he describes as an TUE 'e-dismissal' - was sacked from his advisory role. TUE TUE Professor Nutt describes the events leading up to his TUE dismissal, and discusses the impact on him personally when TUE The Sun ran a piece illustrated by photos of his children, TUE one of them apparently drunk (she wasn't) the other smoking TUE a roll-up (of tobacco). The Sun later printed an apology. TUE TUE 09:30 The Narrowcasters b00zdky5 (Listen) TUE The Money Channel TUE TUE Romania may be struggling to establish a fully functioning TUE market economy, but it can at least boast something even the TUE UK lacks - a 24-hour business TV channel. Nigel Cassidy TUE looks in on a live broadcast from the capital Bucharest, and TUE asks if the network is providing the best role models for TUE budding entrepreneurs in the former Communist state. TUE TUE Producer: Ben Crighton. TUE TUE 09:45 Letters to the Arab World b00zn0wd (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Five writers from North Africa and the Middle East consider TUE the momentous events that are reshaping the Arab world. As TUE the political and cultural landscape shifts around them, TUE these authors and thinkers use open letters to reflect on TUE the consequences for the region and for its people. Editor TUE Philip Sellars. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zdl1p (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents: Celebrating, informing and TUE entertaining women with news, views and interviews of TUE topical interest. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zdl1r (Listen) TUE The Paris Wife, A First Anniversary TUE TUE Adapted by Sheila Yeger. Directed by Sara Davies TUE TUE 11:00 The Search for Growth b00zdl1t (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE In the run up to the Budget, the BBC's Economics Editor, TUE Stephanie Flanders, sets out on the search for growth in TUE Britain's economy. Where might it come from, can we deliver TUE it and will it provide the jobs we need? In conversation TUE with business gurus, economists and those struggling to TUE re-boot UK PLC, Stephanie asks whether Britain's economy has TUE a bright future or is set for decades of low growth? TUE TUE Producers: Julia Johnson and John Murphy. TUE TUE 11:30 The Way Out: The Disabled Avant-Garde b00zdl1w (Listen) TUE Can art and irony achieve what mainstream politics never has TUE and give the disability movement its own revolution? TUE TUE Disability has never had its revolutionary moment: no TUE Suffrage, Stonewall or Watts Riots. Rather it's been TUE perceived as the poor relation of civil rights, last on the TUE agitation pecking order. Performance artist Aaron Williamson TUE (who is profoundly deaf) presents a feature exploring TUE whether performing arts practice can do what political TUE agitation never has - radicalize, even revolutionise, TUE mainstream public perceptions of disability. Williamson's TUE collective, the (probably ironically named) 'Disabled TUE Avant-Garde' has performed cabaret, stand-up, played live, TUE staged political pranks, and even made short films depicting TUE a world in which a violent, insurrectionary gang of TUE 'disability terrorists' has brought the government to its TUE knees à la Baader Meinhof/ Angry Brigade - a sort of TUE missing film about an absent revolution. TUE TUE These artists, as well as affiliate organizations like 15mm TUE Films, set out to challenge popular perceptions of disabled TUE people as well as explore disabled artists' own physical TUE differences from the norm. TUE TUE This feature will look at their work in contrast to TUE mainstream public thinking on disability (eg.the Equality TUE and Human Rights Commission) and ask whether the radical TUE possibilities opened up by disability politics have been TUE co-opted by endless subsidy and 'minority' box ticking. It TUE will also explore whether this is the one remaining area of TUE identity politics where art still has the edge. Featuring TUE interview, audio and sound art from the 'Disabled TUE Avant-Garde'. TUE TUE Presenter: Aaron Williamson TUE Producer: Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00zdl1y (Listen) TUE Is teaching harder than it looks? Should we give teachers TUE more respect for doing a difficult job? Jamie Oliver's TV TUE show Dream School proves that being an expert isn't enough TUE to motivate some pupils. He's chosen a group of individuals TUE at the top of their profession - including actor Simon TUE Callow, barrister Cherie Blair and musician Jazzie B, to try TUE to inspire a class of students disillusioned by education. TUE But as the show reveals, it's not that easy to persuade them TUE that learning is worthwhile. It takes more than simply TUE knowing your subject to get results. You have to know how to TUE teach. So why do we undervalue our teachers? Share your TUE views by emailing youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 TUE 444 (lines open at 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00zdky7 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00zfbrz (Listen) TUE National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty TUE minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To TUE share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00zdl20 (Listen) TUE Series 11, The Impossible Dream TUE TUE In this series that explores those pieces of music that TUE never fail to move us, this week we feature, 'The Impossible TUE Dream', a song that talks of the resilience of the human TUE spirit. It tells the story of a quest and it's had a TUE surprising journey of it's own. It was originally composed TUE for the 1965 musical The Man of La Mancha which was inspired TUE by Miguel de Cervantes story of Don Quixote. The music was TUE written by Mitch Leigh and the lyrics by Joe Darion. Now in TUE his 80's Leigh explains how his first writing partner was WH TUE Auden and talks about why this particular piece struck a TUE chord with African American friends at that time. TUE Generations on, international Soprano Lesley Garrett recalls TUE how this song inspired her childhood dreams in Doncaster, TUE Yachtsman of the Year Geoff Holt talks about how this song TUE carried him across the Atlantic on one of the most important TUE voyages of his life and former advertising executive Rob TUE Chew explains how this piece is helping him face lifes TUE biggest challenge. TUE Producer Nicola Humphries. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00zdhzx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00zdl22 (Listen) TUE Small Acts of Kindness TUE TUE In the late 1950s Charlie was a violent and uncontrollable TUE entrant to art school. His teacher changed the course of his TUE life. BAFTA award-winning writer Trevor Preston's TUE semi-autobiographical play catches up with Charlie as his TUE mentor's death shifts everything once more. TUE TUE Charlie ..... Stephen Greif TUE Alice ..... Ann Beach TUE Beth ..... Susan Penhaligon TUE Annie ..... Joanna Monro TUE Kass ..... Sean Baker TUE Charlie at 16 ..... Gethin Anthony TUE Eliza ..... Sally Orrock TUE Miss Monnier ..... Christine Kavanagh TUE TUE Directed by Toby Swift TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00zdl24 (Listen) TUE Tom Holland presents Radio 4's popular history programme in TUE which listener's questions and research help offer new TUE insights into the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00zdl26 (Listen) TUE Extremely Entertaining Short Stories, The Brown Wallet TUE TUE Stacy Aumonier's life as a stage performer, 'society TUE entertainer', World War One private and draughtsman all TUE contributed to his unrivalled reputation as a short-story TUE writer in the 1920's. TUE TUE 'The Brown Wallet' by Stacy Aumonier was abridged by Neville TUE Teller and read by Mark Heap. It was recorded in Belfast and TUE the Producer/Director was Laura Conway. TUE TUE 15:45 Churchill's Other Lives b00zfsxy (Listen) TUE Appetite TUE TUE Historian Sir David Cannadine explores 'Churchill's Other TUE Lives' outside politics. Winston Churchill is known to have TUE drunk copious quantities of alcohol. But was he an TUE alcoholic? He developed a taste for Havana cigars while TUE visiting Cuba, but did he actually smoke all those cigars? TUE TUE Churchill was so keen on his food that during the Second TUE World War, the constraints of rationing were unknown to him. TUE In this programme, David Cannadine explores Churchill's TUE prodigious appetite. TUE TUE With Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. TUE Producer: Melissa FitzGerald TUE A Blakeway Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00zdl28 (Listen) TUE th political pressure mounting for changes to the UK's TUE relationship with the European Court of Human Rights in TUE Strasbourg, Joshua Rozenberg explores what scope there may TUE be for reforms and how far, if at all, they would alter the TUE Court's decisions. And following recent concern about how TUE the media in Britain reports on witnesses and suspects in TUE high profile criminal investigations, he talks to the TUE Attorney General, the Rt. Hon. Dominic Grieve, Q.C., M.P., TUE about the law on contempt of court. The law in this area was TUE last amended by Parliament in the early 1980s, before the TUE Internet and social networking. How should we now strike a TUE proper balance between public information on the one hand TUE and reporting which may be prejudicial to future TUE prosecutions on the other? TUE TUE Producer: Simon Coates. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00zdl2b (Listen) TUE Russell Kane, Hilary Bradt TUE TUE Comedian Russell Kane talks about his love of Flaubert, TUE choosing Three Tales as his good read. The travel guide TUE writer Hilary Bradt nominates Sandi Toksvig's Flying Under TUE Bridges because it makes her laugh, and presenter Harriett TUE Gilbert sings the praises of the chilling crime novel A TUE Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell. Three very different TUE books which produce a very lively and entertaining TUE discussion. TUE TUE Producer Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00zfl4v (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zdky9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b00zf1zy (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 1 TUE TUE The return of the ground-breaking Radio 4 show hosted by the TUE legendary Gary Bellamy; brought to you by the creators of TUE The Fast Show. TUE TUE Down the Line stars Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy, with Amelia TUE Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy TUE Montgomery and Paul Whitehouse, TUE TUE Special guests are Rosie Cavaliero, Robert Popper and Adil TUE Ray. TUE Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson TUE A Down the Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00zf200 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00zfl4x (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Garrison Keillor, the creator of Lake Wobegon, reads from TUE his collection of love poetry. As a 16 year old he memorised TUE Shakespeare sonnets and this has inspired him to write a TUE collection called 77 Love Sonnets. TUE TUE Richard Ayoade made his name acting in the Channel 4 comedy TUE the IT Crowd. He makes his feature film directing debut with TUE Submarine, a comedy about the desires of a 15 year old boy, TUE with a cast including Sally Hawkins and Paddy Considine. TUE Mark Eccleston reviews. TUE TUE Producer Ella-mai Robey. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zdl1r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00zf202 (Listen) TUE Egypt's Missing Millions TUE TUE File On 4. Banks and fraud squads across the world are TUE beginning the task of tracing a vast fortune stolen from the TUE Egyptian people by members of the Mubarak regime. Some TUE estimates have suggested the missing money could run into TUE many billions of pounds. TUE Ministers, businessmen and members of the president's family TUE have deposited vast sums in Swiss bank accounts and bought TUE luxury properties in London. Where did all this wealth come TUE from? How was the Egyptian government able to continue TUE abusing its power for three decades? And could the regime's TUE business partners in multinational corporations really have TUE been blind to what was happening? TUE Fran Abrams travels to Egypt to investigate and to assess TUE the chances of the money being recovered. TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00zfl4z (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 The Herschel Space Telescope b00nvt8r (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE The first of two programmes which follows the engineers and TUE astronomers who worked on the biggest telescope ever sent to TUE space, in one of the most important missions in the history TUE of European spaceflight. Jonathon Amos joins Professor Matt TUE Griffin of Cardiff University and his international team as TUE they aimed to peer through the areas in space that are TUE invisible to other telescopes. This is the story of their TUE aims to solve the mystery behind galaxy and star formation TUE and how these processes eventually gave rise to life-bearing TUE planets like Earth. In this episode, first broadcast in TUE 2009, the team are approaching the biggest milestone in TUE their twenty year project - the launch of their work on a TUE rocket from a spaceport in French Guiana. TUE TUE 21:30 On the Ropes b00zf6qv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00zdkyc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00zfl51 (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00zf204 (Listen) TUE Pigeon English, Episode 7 TUE TUE Written by Stephen Kelman. Harri is at war with the Dell TUE Farm Crew but confident that he can outrun them when he is TUE chased, he is intensifying his hunt for the killer. And as TUE he continues to gather evidence, he begins to make a list of TUE suspects. TUE TUE Written by Stephen Kelman. TUE Read by Jojo Baidoo. TUE TUE Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, TUE Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and TUE Robert Sparks. TUE TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Music Group b00zf206 (Listen) TUE Comic Relief Special TUE TUE The Music Group is back with a Comic Relief Special. TUE Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks his TUE laughter-loving comedy guests to choose a track to delight, TUE or otherwise, the audience assembled in the Radio Theatre. TUE TUE Amongst Phil's guests are Sherlock's Mrs Hudson and sitcom TUE veteran, Una Stubbs; comedy genius turned punk-folk TUE troubadour, Ade Edmondson; and comedian Susan Calman who TUE gave up corporate law for laughter. Ade has chosen a TUE predictably anarchic, 'doo-dah' leftfield choice of music. TUE What will the other guests make of it? TUE TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zf208 (Listen) TUE Rachel Byrne reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00zf335 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Letters to the Arab World b00zn0wd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zf337 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zf339 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zf33c (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00zf33f (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zj36g (Listen) WED Prayer and reflection. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00zf33h (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00zfh2z (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00zf33k (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Sir Cameron Mackintosh. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Letters to the Arab World b00zn0wg (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Five writers from North Africa and the Middle East consider WED the momentous events that are reshaping the Arab world. As WED the political and cultural landscape shifts around them, WED these authors and thinkers use open letters to reflect on WED the consequences for the region and for its people. Editor WED Philip Sellars. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zf33m (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents. Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women with news, views and interviews of WED topical interest. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zf33p (Listen) WED The Paris Wife, A disappearance, and an arrival WED WED Adapted by Sheila Yeger. Directed by Sara Davies WED WED 11:00 While the Boys Are Away b00zf33r (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED In this series of three programmes, broadcaster and film WED maker Gareth Jones chronicles the experiences of the WED families of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh while the WED soldiers go off on a six month tour in Afghanistan. WED WED In the first programme Gareth Jones - the man behind the WED critically acclaimed films 'Frontline Iraq' and 'Frontline WED Afghanistan' - meets the soldiers and their families as WED preparations are underway for the forthcoming tour of duty. WED WED Producer: Martin Kurzik. WED WED 11:30 Turf Wars b00zf33t (Listen) WED An Incident at the Border WED WED Arthur (Joe Kloska) and Olivia (Leah Brotherhead) take the WED sun in their local park on a beautiful summer's day. Olivia WED is reading a newspaper article on their country's new-found WED independence. It seems that no-one knows quite what the WED terms are for the secession. Arthur couldn't care less. He's WED apolitical and just enjoying watching the ducks. WED WED Suddenly a soldier (Nigel Planer) arrives, dragging a tape WED across the ground, marking out the new border. He barges WED between the two young lovers. Now one is on one side of the WED new border, and one on the other! WED WED Arthur's attempt to cross is met with a stun-gun jolt from WED the guard, who has as little understanding of the new ground WED rules as the couple. He just knows he has been trained to be WED suspicious of everyone who isn't from 'this country' which WED now includes Arthur! WED WED How can our lovers be reunited? WED WED by Kieran Lynn WED WED Reiver ..... Nigel Planer WED Olivia ..... Leah Brotherhead WED Arthur ..... Joseph Kloska WED WED Directed by Peter Kavanagh. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00zf33w (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00zf33y (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00zfkfg (Listen) WED National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty WED minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To WED share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00zfkfj (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00zf200 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00zf340 (Listen) WED McLevy - Series 7, Prince of Darkness WED WED Brian Cox, Siobhan Redmond and David Hayman star in the WED latest episode of the detective series set in Victorian WED Edinburgh and Leith. Written by David Ashton. WED WED 3/4. Episode Three: Prince Of Darkness. Jean Brash is WED confronted by a former lover back from the dead. She had WED once poisoned him - fatally, or so she thought - and now he WED is out for revenge. Meanwhile, McLevy dreams of death by WED drowning. Is it a premonition or just the result of drinking WED too much coffee? WED WED McLevy...............................................BRIAN WED COX WED Jean Brash............................SIOBHAN REDMOND WED Preger..........................................DAVID HAYMAN WED Mulholland............MICHAEL PERCEVAL-MAXWELL WED Hannah........................................COLETTE O'NEIL WED Roach...........................................DAVID ASHTON WED Mary.......................................EDITH MACARTHUR WED Col Moncrieff.............................GRANT O'ROURKE WED Louis................................................KIM WED GERARD WED WED Producer/Director: Bruce Young. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00zfkfl (Listen) WED The rules about paternity leave and pay are changing next WED month, with fathers, partners and civil partners able to WED take time off if 'mum' goes back to work early. WED WED If you're considering taking advantage of the new system, or WED have a question about any aspect of maternity, paternity or WED adoption rights and pay, Paul Lewis and guests will be WED waiting for your call on this afternoon's Money Box Live. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00zf342 (Listen) WED Extremely Entertaining Short Stories, A Source of Irritation WED WED 'A Source of Irritation' by Stacy Aumonier was abridged by WED Neville Teller and read by Mark Addy. It was recorded in WED Belfast and the Producer/Director was Michael Shannon. WED WED 15:45 Churchill's Other Lives b00zft2t (Listen) WED Journalist WED WED Historian Sir David Cannadine explores 'Churchill's Other WED Lives' outside politics. As a young man, Churchill WED discovered his love for words and decided to make a living WED out of them, initially as a war correspondent. WED WED Indeed he became a writer so prolific and unstoppable that WED when he was hit by a car in a New York street, he dictated a WED thousand words about the experience from his hospital bed. WED Some of what he wrote was, as David Cannadine shows, very WED pot-boilerish. In this programme, we hear extracts from WED Churchill's forgotten early dispatches, which made him WED famous at a young age. WED WED With Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. WED Producer: Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00zfkfn (Listen) WED The Prime Minister recently criticised what he called 'state WED multiculturalism' and said it had failed, arguing that WED Britain needs a stronger national identity. Is it time to WED turn our backs on the multi-cultural idea? And what would a WED stronger national identity mean to people who feel at the WED cultural margins of our society? As the politicians debate, WED Laurie Taylor speaks to Britain's leading cultural theorist, WED Stuart Hall. They discuss culture, politics, race and nation WED in a special edition of Thinking Allowed. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Story of Economics b00zf344 (Listen) WED Gods WED WED In this three-part series Michael Blastland lays out the WED history of economic ideas to understand why economics goes WED wrong and whether it can ever go entirely right. In the WED first programme, 'Gods', Michael goes to Athens and the site WED of Aristotle's Lyceum - where economics as a discipline WED began. WED WED Producer: Richard Knight. WED WED 17:00 PM b00zfkfq (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zf346 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 4 at the Fringe b00m721q (Listen) WED 2009, Episode 1 WED WED 4 At The Fringe is a stand up comedy show for Radio 4 which WED features some of the best comedy acts appearing at Edinburgh WED Festival Fringe in 2009, recorded at Pleasance Beyond. WED WED Host Micky Flanagan introduces John Gordillo, Lucy Porter WED Alistair McGowan and Tom Basden WED WED 4 At The Fringe brings the best of the acts appearing at The WED Edinburgh Festival Fringe in one bite sized audio chunk! WED WED The producer is Paul Russell, and this is an Open Mike WED production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00zf348 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00zf34b (Listen) WED With John Wilson. WED WED Comedian Frank Skinner talks about his career and making the WED news funny as he prepares to return to BBC television with WED Opinionated, in which he discusses the big stories of the WED week with guests and a live studio audience, at a different WED locations across the country. WED WED The exhibition Syd Barrett: Art and Letters celebrates the WED original Pink Floyd front-man's work as a visual artist, WED displaying a large collection of his artwork and previously WED unseen love letters, sketches and paintings. WED WED Mike Leigh marks his return to directing for the stage with WED a revival of his 1979 play, Ecstasy, about a group of old WED friends in a rundown bedsit, just at the point when Margaret WED Thatcher's government is about to transform the country. WED Historian Dominic Sandbrook reviews the production. WED WED Producer India Rakusen. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zf33p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00zf34d (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Clifford Longley, WED Melanie Phillips and Kenan Malik. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b00zf34g (Listen) WED Lord Ian Blair WED WED This year's Lent Talks sees six well known figures reflect WED on different elements of conflict found in the story of WED Jesus' ministry and Passion from the perspective of their WED own personal and professional experience. WED WED In the first Lent Talk of the series, Former Metropolitan WED Police Commissioner, Lord Ian Blair, explores the conflict WED of religion in public life, considering conflict as a force WED for both good and evil. WED WED The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for WED self-examination and reflection on universal human WED conditions such as temptation, betrayal, abandonment, greed, WED forgiveness and love. The main theme for this year's talks WED will explore conflict in different forms and how it WED interacts with various aspects of society and culture. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00zf34j (Listen) WED Carbon Trading WED WED It sounded like the perfect answer. Carbon trading could WED halt global warming, boost 'green' investment in the WED developing world and make money for city traders. Four years WED on and Europe's complex system to cut emissions from our WED factories has comprehensively failed. Despite vast amounts WED of money and effort being thrown at the scheme the current WED phase of carbon trading has, according to one report, cut WED emissions by a third of one per cent. In 'Costing the Earth' WED Tom Heap asks if capitalism's big idea has a future or just WED a murky past. WED WED Back in the 1990s, in a desperate attempt to get the United WED States to sign up to binding reductions in the emission of WED greenhouse gases the concept of carbon trading was WED developed. The idea was that polluting industries would be WED forced to buy the right to pollute in the form of carbon WED credits. If they wanted to pollute more they'd have to pay. WED If they polluted less then they could make a profit by WED offering their surplus credits to other businesses. Over WED time the number of credits would be reduced, bringing WED worldwide carbon emissions tumbling in a relatively WED pain-free way. WED WED The truth, as Tom discovers, is very different. The US has WED refused to take part, Japan and Korea have shelved plans to WED join in and the issue splits the Australian government. Only WED in the European Union has a system been developed and even WED here corruption, theft and a vast surplus of credits have WED combined to damage the policy's reputation and blunt its WED effectiveness. WED WED Despite doubts about the system it's influence is spreading WED fast. Many businesses are using a system of voluntary carbon WED off-setting to ease the conscience of their customers. Buy a WED flight or a 4 x 4 and you'll often be asked to pay a little WED extra to fund carbon-reduction schemes in the developing WED world. Closer to home the idea of habitat banking is gaining WED ground. This could give developers the chance to build on a WED wildlife-rich area as long as they pay to create the WED equivalent habitat elsewhere. It's a concept that's popular WED within the coalition government and supporters expect it to WED become a major part of conservation policy in England within WED the decade. WED WED Should we worry about this commodification of our WED environment or embrace the arrival of money and markets into WED the campaign to save our planet and improve the green space WED on our doorstep? WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00zf33k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00zf34n (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00zfkkv (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00zf34q (Listen) WED Pigeon English, Episode 8 WED WED Eager to fit in to his new life in London Harri is tempted WED to stone a bus but when his mother spots him he is WED overwhelmed with remorse and he remembers, nostalgically, WED how straightforward his life in Ghana seemed compared to the WED temptations with which he is now surrounded. WED WED Written by Stephen Kelman. WED Read by Jojo Baidoo. WED WED Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, WED Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and WED Robert Sparks. WED WED Abridged by Jane Marshall WED Producer: Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 It Is Rocket Science b00zf34s (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Helen Keen presents her off-beat but true account of the WED history of space flight, aided by Peter Serafinowicz and WED Susy Kane. This week how Wernher Von Braun went from SS WED officer to American space supremo to Disney children's WED presenter; America's home-grown rocket genius Jack Parsons WED and his unhealthy interest in Satanism; and the surprising WED story of Fix the French Space Cat. WED WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill WED Produced by Gareth Edwards WED WED It Is Rocket Science is performed by Helen Keen and stars WED Peter Serafinowicz as the Voice of Space, with all other WED parts played by Susy Kane. WED WED 23:15 The Ladies b00t4q13 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED The Ladies attempt to apprehend a thief, and we hear from a WED struggling graffiti artist and two women who seem to be WED married to the same man. WED WED Written by and starring Emily Watson Howes. WED WED Cast: WED Emily Watson Howes WED Kate Donmall WED Susanna Hislop WED Fran Moulds WED WED Producer: Mark Talbot WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zf34v (Listen) WED Keith MacDougall reports on events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 MARCH 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00zf37m (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Letters to the Arab World b00zn0wg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zf37r (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zf37t (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zf37w (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00zf37y (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zf380 (Listen) THU Prayer and reflection. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00zf382 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 06:00 Today b00zfmqb (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00zf384 (Listen) THU The Medieval University THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval university. THU THU In the 11th and 12th centuries a completely new type of THU institution began to spring up in European cities. Bologna THU was the first modern university, quickly followed by similar THU institutions in Paris, Oxford and elsewhere. They taught a THU broad curriculum based on the so-called trivium, the THU fundamental subjects of grammar, logic and rhetoric. THU Initially founded to train the clergy, universities THU revolutionised European intellectual life. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Letters to the Arab World b00zn0wj (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Five writers from North Africa and the Middle East consider THU the momentous events that are reshaping the Arab world. As THU the political and cultural landscape shifts around them, THU these authors and thinkers use open letters to reflect on THU the consequences for the region and for its people. Editor THU Philip Sellars. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zf388 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of THU topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zf4hx (Listen) THU The Paris Wife, A new friend on the scene THU THU Adapted by Sheila Yeger. Directed by Sara Davies THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00zfmqd (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Nazi Gold: Publishing the Third Reich b00zf4hz (Listen) THU Why are books about the Third Reich such an ongoing THU publishing phenomenon in the UK....and what does it say THU about us? THU THU According to trade magazine The Bookseller, there were no THU less than 850 new titles about the Third Reich published in THU the UK in 2010 (up from 380 in 2000 -.that's more than THU double in ten years). These join the thousands already THU available on Amazon covering everything from Hitler and the THU occult to SS uniforms and the teaspoons of the Third Reich; THU from Nazi bunkers and secret weapons to the regime's THU interest in flying saucers, the lives of the Fuhrer's THU personal pilots and (our favourite) 'How Astrology Guided THU Hitler's Germany'. THU THU And there's no sign the market has become saturated, far THU from it: Hitler and his regime are known in the British THU publishing business as 'The gift that keeps on giving'. THU Interestingly, book sales in the UK on subjects relating to THU Nazism are not matched, in relative terms, by any other THU country in the world. So really: what does all this say THU about us, the reading public? This feature - with shades of THU light and dark - examines an ongoing, national publishing THU phenomenon, talking to authors and agents, historians, Nazi THU thriller writers and publishers among others. THU THU Guests also include the comedian David Mitchell, Laurence THU Rees, Guy Walters and Henry Stevens, author of 'Hitler's THU Flying Saucers'. THU THU Presenter: Clive Anderson THU Producer: Simon Hollis THU A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00zfmqg (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00zf38b (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00zfmqj (Listen) THU National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty THU minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To THU share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00zf34j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00zf348 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00zf4j1 (Listen) THU Shy Baby THU THU Lionel Stillman has a new job, a girlfriend he thinks he THU loves, and a secret ambition - to be a stand-up comic. But THU he also has a problem. People make him nervous. THU THU Gary Ogin's new comedy explores the crippling effects of THU acute social anxiety on work, hopes and relationships. As THU Lionel stumbles from bad date with Emma to bad first day at THU a call centre, he struggles with an inner voice telling him THU he's boring and useless - "or just plain weird". At first, THU Emma thinks he's attractively shy. Then she decides he's a THU drinker. THU THU But Lionel does have friends. At a weekly support group his THU fellow sufferers Simon, Max and Rosie uncover his ambition THU to be a comic and encourage him to take it further by THU setting a challenge: to perform in a comedy club. As the THU night approaches, the idea seems ludicrous. How can a man THU who can't bring himself to meet his girlfriend's parents THU stand up and perform in front of a raucous pub crowd? Rosie THU holds the key. THU THU Shy Baby features Stuart McLoughlin as Lionel, Alex Tregear THU as Rosie, and Polly Barsby as Emma. The play was researched THU with the help of Social Anxiety support groups in London and THU Bristol. THU THU Producer: Chris Ledgard. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00zd6zt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00zd8fk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00zf4j3 (Listen) THU Extremely Entertaining Short Stories, The Room THU THU 'The Room by Stacy Aumonier was abridged by Neville Teller THU and read by Mathew Horne. It was recorded in Belfast and the THU Producer/Director was Laura Conway. THU THU 15:45 Churchill's Other Lives b00zft85 (Listen) THU Son and Father THU THU Winston Churchill had an unhappy childhood. His father was THU distant, drunken, cold. His mother was a spendthrift who had THU numerous affairs. So how was he able to rise above his THU difficult upbringing and become the success he did? THU THU In this programme, David Cannadine also explores the legacy THU left by Churchill's childhood when he himself became a THU father, and asks why was he unable to be a better parent. THU THU With Roger Allam as Winston Churchill THU Producer: Melissa FitzGerald THU A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00zd92d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00zf4j5 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b00zfmql (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zf38d (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b00zf4j7 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU THU Charlie Brooker returns to Radio 4 with the comedy panel THU show that seeks the best in wrong answers. He plunders his THU guests' pasts and creativity over a series of rounds in THU which panellists have to be wrong to be right. THU THU Comedians Frank Skinner, Isy Suttie and Jon Richardson are THU the guests for this edition. The panel's worst experiences THU on a day out - which take in the delights of a Birmingham THU underpass, Gatwick Airport and 2 am in Swindon - is just one THU of topics under the wrong spotlight. There's also the THU wrongest ideas for a smartphone app plus Jon Richardson lets THU rip on his pet hate of twenty-first century - sexual THU liberation... THU THU Charlie Brooker also presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your THU Life, Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live and writes for The THU Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British THU Press Awards for his column, and Best Newcomer at the THU British Comedy Awards 2009. THU THU Producer: Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00zf4nn (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00zf4nq (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson. THU THU Current Doctor Who, actor Matt Smith, stars in a new TV THU drama as Christopher Isherwood. Scripted by Kevin Elyot, it THU chronicles Isherwood's relationship with his mother (played THU by Lindsay Duncan) and his escape to Berlin, which inspired THU the musical Cabaret. Philip Hoare, the biographer of Noel THU Coward, reviews the drama. THU THU The David Cohen Prize is awarded every two years as THU recognition for a writer's career. Previous winners include THU Seamus Heaney, Beryl Bainbridge, Doris Lessing, William THU Trevor and Muriel Spark. This year's winner talks to Mark THU Lawson ahead of the ceremony tonight. THU THU Ryan Craig's new play for the National Theatre paints a THU picture of a Jewish family under pressure. The father (Henry THU Goodman) has a failing catering business. While his son THU fights for the Israeli's in Gaza, his daughter investigates THU war crimes in the same conflict. Sarah Churchwell reviews. THU THU Producer Ella-mai Robey. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zf4hx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00zdl28 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00zfmqn (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Science Betrayed b00zf4ns (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU What happens when science goes bad? From the anthropological THU hoax of Piltdown man back in 1912, through to more recent THU cases, such as that of Dr Hwang Woo-suk, the Korean THU scientist accused of faking his "breakthrough" into stem THU cell research, there have been some dramatic and spectacular THU examples of scientists, who, for whatever reason, have THU chosen to be less than honest with their research and data. THU THU In the first of this two part series, Dr Adam Rutherford THU investigates how common cases of scientific misconduct are, THU and the motivation for the scientists who stand accused. How THU damaging are cases like these, not only to their respective THU fields, but to the public perception of a pursuit whose THU central premise, many would claim, is a quest for universal THU truth, whatever that truth might be. THU THU Adam Rutherford looks at some of the science scandals that THU have been hitting the headlines over the last few years, and THU assesses the impact they've had. He asks if deceit and THU misconduct are more common than we think, or whether, like THU any enterprise that involves humans, it's simply the work of THU a few rotten apples. THU THU Producers: Alexandra Feachem and Roland Pease. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00zf384 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00zf38g (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00zfmqq (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00zf4nx (Listen) THU Pigeon English, Episode 9 THU THU Written by Stephen Kelman. Harri finds a piece of crucial THU evidence in his hunt for the killer but the more he knows THU the more he puts himself in danger. THU THU Written by Stephen Kelman. THU Read by Jojo Baidoo. THU THU Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, THU Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and THU Robert Sparks. THU THU Abridged by Jane Marshall THU Producer: Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 It's Your Round b00zf4nz (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU THU "It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show where the format THU is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the THU panellists has brought along their own round for the others THU to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and THU unpredictable. THU THU This episode Tim Key, Micky Flanagan, Bridget Christie and THU Nick Hancock battle it out to see who can beat each other at THU their own games. THU THU Enjoy the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the THU games they've brought along. What is Micky's "Cockney THU Rhyming Slang Charades" all about and is it any fun to play? THU Can anyone understand the rules to Tim's "No More Women"? THU And what is Bridget's idea of her "Fantasy Funeral"? Find THU out the answers to these questions and more in this show. THU THU Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure THU everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. THU THU Writers: Angus Deayton, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell THU The reader is Christine Kavanagh THU Devised by Benjamin Partridge THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zf4p1 (Listen) THU Events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 MARCH 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00zf5s1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Letters to the Arab World b00zn0wj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zf5s3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zf5s5 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zf5s7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00zf5s9 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zf5sc (Listen) FRI Prayer and reflection. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00zf5sf (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin FRI Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00zfmvt (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather FRI 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; FRI Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00zd8fy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Letters to the Arab World b00zn0wl (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Five writers from North Africa and the Middle East consider FRI the momentous events that are reshaping the Arab world. As FRI the political and cultural landscape shifts around them, FRI these authors and thinkers use open letters to reflect on FRI the consequences for the region and for its people. Editor FRI Philip Sellars. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zf5sk (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents: Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zf5sm (Listen) FRI The Paris Wife, The Final Betrayal FRI FRI Adapted by Sheila Yeger. Directed by Sara Davies FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00zf5sp (Listen) FRI Series 7, Passion at Glasgow Cross FRI FRI On the wall above the Val D'Oro, one of the oldest fish and FRI chip shops in Glasgow hangs a painting of the Crucifixion, FRI painted to commemorate the residents of one of the poorest FRI areas of the city. FRI FRI Completed in 2010 David Adam's stark image of a crucified FRI Christ in a street scene at Glasgow Cross places Christ in FRI the midst of the city. At the foot of the cross where FRI Christ's grieving mother Mary traditionally stands, is FRI another Mary, Mary Paterson, a valued customer and local FRI character, now in her nineties, huddled over the basket in FRI which she carried her dog Sheba. FRI FRI To the left of the cross, Luigi Corvi, owner of the shop, FRI stands poised to sing, bearing a plate of fish and chips. In FRI his innocence, a small boy offers up the remains of his Irn FRI Bru to Jesus while a woman to his right attempts to pick the FRI pocket of a passer-by and a man nearby injects heroin into FRI his thigh. FRI FRI But as Alan Dein discovers in the first of the new series of FRI Lives in a Landscape, exploring offbeat aspects of FRI contemporary Britain, the Passion at Glasgow Cross also FRI describes Luigi's long suppressed dream: he serves fish and FRI chips by day but dreams of life singing opera at La Scala... FRI FRI Producer David Stenhouse FRI FRI 11:30 Spread A Little Happiness b00zf5sr (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI FRI A quiet Sunday for Hope and Carrie painting the shop becomes FRI quite exciting after all. Debra Stevenson and Nicola Duffet FRI star in John Godber and Jane Thornton's comedy set in a FRI sandwich bar in Beverley, near Hull. FRI FRI Hope ..... Debra Stevenson FRI Maria ..... Nicola Duffett FRI Dave ..... Neil Dudgeon FRI Mam ..... Anne Reid FRI Ray ..... Shaun Prendergast FRI Gavin ...... Ralph Brown FRI Jenny ..... Sarah Moyle FRI Anita ..... Sherry Baines FRI Carrie ..... Elizabeth Godber FRI Eve ..... Helen Longworth FRI Bob ...... Ben Crowe FRI Monty ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Blinds man ..... James Weaver FRI FRI 'Spread A Little Happiness' is sung by Debra Stevenson. FRI FRI Producer/Director: Chris Wallis FRI An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00zfmvw (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00zf5st (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00zfmvy (Listen) FRI National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty FRI minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To FRI share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00zf5sw (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00zf4nn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00xpp21 (Listen) FRI Ciao Bella! FRI FRI Written by by Jerome Vincent. FRI FRI Eleanor Bron plays Nonna Grazia, and Cherie Lunghi, plays FRI her daughter, Theresa, in Jerome Vincent's play set in and FRI around an Italian delicatessen in Brighton. FRI FRI The action turns around the fate of the deli following the FRI death of Theresa's husband, Carlo - who had worked hard to FRI build up his business and stop it falling into the hands of FRI Salvatore Iaquinta, the owner of a chain of cheap Italian FRI coffee shops. Sal is smooth, ruthless and good-looking; and FRI he's after Theresa, as well as her shop. FRI FRI But in steps Theresa's daughter, Toni - recently made FRI redundant from a high-powered job in the City - who decides FRI to put her business acumen to good use and drag the deli FRI into the 21st century, while making sure it still retains FRI the old world charm and wonderful food, the customers love. FRI FRI Toni's grandmother, Nonna Grazia, is a fiery old woman who FRI was once a child-partisan in the hills around Benevento, and FRI fought the Germans during the war, even though she was only FRI 13. As well as handing out advice to all and sundry (whether FRI they want it or not!) she's also a fantastic cook. In one FRI scene of the play she cooks a garlic and pasta dish FRI guaranteed to have listeners licking their lips! FRI FRI Throughout the production we use specially recorded Italian FRI popular music, performed by cousin Immacolata (played by FRI Rita Ullo). Based on the real-life experiences of the FRI writer's extended, deli-owning family, the play is rich in FRI detail and humour - and the very distinct aural flavour of FRI the Italian community in Britain. FRI FRI Nonna ..... Eleanor Bron FRI Theresa ..... Cherie Lunghi FRI Salvatore / Kiriakov ..... Richard Attlee FRI Toni ..... Alison Pettit FRI Nino / Fiorello ..... Gunnar Cauthery FRI Emilio ..... Adrian Grove FRI Aldo / Carlo ...... John Evitts FRI Immacolata .....Rita Ullo FRI FRI Guitarist: Paolo Vanoncini FRI FRI Producer/Director: David Blount FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00zf5sy (Listen) FRI Eden Project, Cornwall FRI FRI Eric Robson and panellists Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank FRI and Chris Beardshaw gather at the Eden Project in time for FRI its 10th birthday. FRI FRI A profile on the world's largest greenhouse. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Churchill's Other Lives b00zft89 (Listen) FRI Women FRI FRI Winston Churchill never knew the names of his secretaries FRI calling 'get me a miss', when he needed dictation. Yet such FRI was his charm that women fell in love with him over the FRI dinner table. How much was he interested in women, or sex? FRI FRI In this programme, historian Sir David Cannadine explores FRI Churchill's attitude to women, his relationship with his FRI nanny, Mrs. Everest, and with the other central woman in his FRI life, his wife Clementine. FRI FRI With Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. FRI Producer: Melissa FitzGerald FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00zfmw0 (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00zf5t0 (Listen) FRI The latest news and names from the world of film. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00zfmxk (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zf5t2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00zf5t4 (Listen) FRI Comedians Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the latest edition FRI of the topical stand-up and sketch show. They are joined by FRI Mitch Benn and guests Lloyd Langford and Holly Walsh. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00zf642 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00zf644 (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang looks at the 21st century clown - from FRI Psychoville to Angelos Epithemiou. Epithemiou's creator Dan FRI Renton Skinner talks candidly about his experience of FRI fooling around on stage and we hear from Ganmar, a clown FRI from Yorkshire who is currently attending the World Clown FRI Association Convention in New York. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zf5sm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00zf646 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Liverpool Hope FRI University with panellists including Shadow Cabinet member FRI Caroline Flint and Cabinet minster Chris Huhne. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00zf648 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Cicada FRI FRI 5/20. One of the great wild sounds of North America is the FRI purring of insects in the evening, especially that of FRI Cicadas, one of the great stridulating sounds in the wild. FRI This is the tale of one Cicada; the 17-year periodic Cicada FRI that stunned the community in New England thirteen years FRI after the Pilgrim Fathers had landed. There was a plague of FRI insects, all with red eyes on stalks - and all emerging FRI continuously out of the soil. When the plague subsided a few FRI weeks later the people of Plymouth Rock were braced for FRI another onslaught, but nothing happened until 17 years FRI later. David Attenborough recalls a filming trip to New FRI England to film this species of Cicada with both fascinating FRI natural history and a hilarious twist. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00znyfz (Listen) FRI The Cairo Trilogy, Episode 1 FRI FRI Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novels of Nobel FRI Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz the drama was recorded FRI on the streets of Cairo. FRI FRI This episode begins at the end of the First World War and FRI culminates in a popular uprising in March 1919 when the FRI eldest son Fahmy joins the nationalist cause. FRI FRI Old Kamal...........Omar Sharif FRI Young Kamal.......Karim Fouda FRI Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab.....Ihab Sakkout FRI Amina..............Caroline Khalil FRI Fahmy..............Mena Reda FRI Yasin................Tamer Nasrat FRI Miriam..............Ola Roshdy FRI FRI Other cast members: Rena Malak, Yara Goubran, Zeinab FRI Moubarak, Maryam El Khoshed, Nairy Avedissian, Ekram Zalat, FRI Sherif Nour, Shirine El Ansari, Salah Fahmy, Yeve Youssef, FRI Sedky Sakhar, Dina Nadim, Ahmed Nour, Saymaa Shalan, Radwa FRI Elgabry, Mika Thabet, Hany Seef, Hugh Sowden. FRI FRI Music by Sacha Puttnam FRI Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon FRI Producer/Director: John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00zf5t6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00zfmxm (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00zf64d (Listen) FRI Pigeon English, Episode 10 FRI FRI Written by Stephen Kelman. Harri has worked out the identity FRI of the killer but knowledge is dangerous and the Dell Farm FRI Crew are in no mood to let him pass on his vital FRI information. FRI FRI Written by Stephen Kelman. FRI Read by Jojo Baidoo. FRI FRI Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, FRI Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and FRI Robert Sparks. FRI FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00zdl2b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zf64g (Listen) FRI News from Westminster. FRI
11 March, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 12/03/2011 - 18/03/2011
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