29 April, 2011

Radio 4 Listings for 30/04/2011 - 06/05/2011

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SAT SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b010mxk6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00zf5sh (Listen) SAT Edgelands, Episode 5 SAT SAT Poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explore a SAT wilderness that is much closer than you think: those SAT debatable zones that are neither town nor countryside. These SAT two lyric poets celebrate the strange beauty of these places SAT that we all journey through, but generally fail to SAT acknowledge. SAT SAT Recorded entirely on location in the English edgelands, this SAT Book of the Week journeys through the post-industrial SAT landscapes of car breaker's yards, landfill sites, retail SAT parks, sewage treatment works and power stations. SAT SAT Today, ruined warehouses and abandoned piers. SAT SAT Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts SAT Produced by Emma Harding SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010mxk8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010mxkc (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010mxkf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b010mxkj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010mxkl (Listen) SAT With the Rev Prof Peter Galloway. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b010mxkn (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b010mxkq (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b010mxks (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b010r2zv (Listen) SAT Barra, Vatersay and Mingulay are three of the southernmost SAT islands of the Outer Herbrides and their shared history is SAT one of survival by moving with the times. In 1912 the last SAT inhabitants of Mingulay left the island for Barra after the SAT turbulent seas had claimed a boat full of the fishermen who SAT the island relied upon. Today Mingulay's waters are back in SAT discussion as it has become a proposed area of conservation SAT due to ancient corals which lie beneath. The islanders of SAT Barra fear that this conservation zone will make it harder SAT for them to make their living from fishing these waters but SAT Scottish Natural Heritage feel the risks to the coral are SAT too high to let activities go on unchecked. The debate is a SAT heated one but as Helen Mark discovers it is part of a long SAT history of independence from interference from the mainland, SAT a unique past which makes the island stronger today than it SAT perhaps ever has been. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b010r2zx (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b010mxkv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b010r47l (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk at 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather at 7.57am; SAT Thought for the Day at 7.48am. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b010r4c3 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with comedian and activist Mark Thomas and SAT poet Luke Wright. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b010r4c5 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy talks to journalist AA Gill about his travel SAT columns which have taken him from earthquake zones to SAT retirement homes and polar regions to Civil War sites. He SAT also meets novelist Wilbur Smith who reflects on piracy off SAT the east coast of Africa and hears from author Isabel Losada SAT how her quest for self knowledge induced her to take SAT hallucinogenic drugs in the Peruvian Amazon. John asks them SAT whether they write to travel or travel to write. SAT SAT 10:30 When Hollywood Met Halifax b010r7bw (Listen) SAT Liza Tarbuck discovers how Jayne Mansfield sprinkled SAT Hollywood glamour on the northern club circuit during the SAT last turbulent year of her life. Jayne Mansfield's story is SAT a story of our times - the celebrity whose life unravelled. SAT In 1967, the year she was to die in a tragic road accident SAT at 34, she packed up her furs and embarked on a little known SAT tour of English northern clubs. SAT SAT Her unique act of breathy ballads and risque lap dancing SAT routines astonished her audiences more used to SAT it's-the-way-I-tell-'em comedians and inoffensive covers SAT bands. At the time Mansfield was spiralling into alcoholism SAT and her life was imploding - realities she kept hidden from SAT her English fans. The programme traces how the once SAT glittering star of the Girl Can't Help It and Too Hot to SAT Handle was forced to get out on the road as her movie career SAT faded. SAT SAT Producer: Paula McGinley. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b010r7by (Listen) SAT John Kampfner examines what the coalition's new planning SAT regulations mean for 'localism' SAT SAT Producer: Paul Vickers. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b010r7c0 (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b010r7c2 (Listen) SAT More and more companies are closing the doors of their final SAT salary pension schemes- either to new members or existing SAT ones. But have they become too expensive? SAT SAT Paul Lewis looks back to see why this type of final salary SAT pension has become unpopular with employers. Blame is often SAT laid at the feet of Gordon Brown, who as Chancellor SAT introduced a tax affecting pension fund investments. But was SAT that really a factor? The programme explores less well-known SAT rules and changes that were really to blame for killing the SAT final salary pension. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b010mwm1 (Listen) SAT Series 74, Episode 3 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b010mxkx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b010mxkz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b010mwv2 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Wotton Arts SAT Festival in Wotton * under Edge Gloucestershire with SAT panellists Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and SAT Climate Change, and the Cabinet minister at the heart of the SAT row over campaigning in the AV referendum, the Labour MP SAT Gisela Stuart, who is campaigning for a no vote in the SAT referendum, Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP and yes vote SAT campaigner, and the Conservative MP and former Chief of SAT Staff to George Osborne, Matthew Hancock. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b010r7c4 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b010r7c6 (Listen) SAT One Chord Wonders: Television's Over SAT 5/5 SAT March, 1977. Punk rock is rumoured to be arriving in SAT suburban Surrey. Is anarchy about to overwhelm civilized SAT society or is this salvation for the bored teenagers of SAT Camberley? By Frank Cottrell Boyce. SAT SAT Adam ... Kristopher Milnes SAT Pete ... Freddy White SAT Sergeant Henshaw ... Gerard Horan SAT Councillor Myatt ... Fenella Woolgar SAT Mo ... Leanne Rowe SAT Benny ... James Daley SAT Pete's dad ... Ben Crowe SAT Muttley/Steve ... John Hasler SAT Margaret/Sharon ... Amy Enticknap SAT D.I. Voke ... John Rowe SAT Charlie Damage ... Dan Starkey SAT Town Clerk ... Nyasha Hatendi SAT Julie ... Sarah Bedi SAT Mo's mum ... Joan Walker SAT Mick ... Tim James SAT SAT Director/Producer ... Toby Swift SAT SAT 15:30 The Music Group b010m9t0 (Listen) SAT Series 5, Episode 1 SAT SAT Comedian Stewart Lee and voiceover artist Julie Berry are SAT joined by the author of One Day, novelist David Nicholls to SAT discuss three personally significant pieces of music. SAT SAT Amongst their choices are a soulful rendition of a song SAT about the Falklands' conflict, a piece that survived a SAT Carnegie Hall protest involving red paint; and a painful and SAT experimental journey into playing guitar when suffering from SAT a degenerative disease. SAT SAT In the process, we discover one Music Group member had an SAT adolescent passion for Space themes played by the Geoff Love SAT Orchestra, whilst another has experienced the benefits of SAT Bach in a hotel bathroom. We also discover what the free SAT jazz movement has to do comedy and more specifically, with SAT Morecambe and Wise. SAT SAT The Music Choices are: SAT Shipbuilding sung by Robert Wyatt SAT Bach's Chaconne from Partita No.2 for solo violin performed SAT by Yehudi Menuhin SAT 5 Weeks Later by Derek Bailey SAT SAT Presenter: Phil Hammond SAT Producer: Tamsin Hughes SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b010r7c8 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Farmers, code-crackers and factory SAT workers: we hear about the experiences of millions of women SAT during the Second World War. Ovarian cancer and what new SAT guidelines from NICE will mean for diagnosis and treatment. SAT We hear about the work of one organisation and how it helps SAT men who are released from prison to reconnect with their SAT families. Why feminism is back on the agenda in Poland. With SAT the current debate about male primogeniture triggered by the SAT royal wedding, we take a look at the historic queens we SAT might have had. Cook the Perfect... Shepherd's Pie with SAT leading food writer Lindsey Bareham. More parents than ever SAT are taking children out of school for term-time holidays, SAT but can it ever be justified? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b010r7cb (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b010mxkn (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b010mxl1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b010mxl3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010mxl5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b010r7cd (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT British actor John Simm became a household name in TV dramas SAT The Lakes and Life on Mars. He's back on our screens playing SAT prodigal son Tom in Exile; a dream-team collaboration SAT between writer Paul Abbot and actors Jim Broadbent, Timothy SAT West and Olivia Colman. He talks to Clive about all star SAT casts and returning to the North. SAT SAT Imogen Stubbs joins Clive to discuss the latest production SAT in her long theatrical career; an upcoming staging of SAT Ibsen's Little Eyolf. SAT SAT Clive is joined by Michael Mosley, presenter of the new BBC SAT One series which takes us on a rather personal journey SAT Inside Our Human Body. As well as closely examining the SAT landscape of our veins, pores and hairs, Michael will be SAT accompanying wannabe embryos on the journey of reproduction. SAT SAT And Jon Holmes talks to The League of Gentlemen's Steve SAT Pemberton about the new series of Pyschoville in which he SAT plays a stuffed toy collecting millionaire and a SAT serial-killer obsessive... SAT SAT With music from The Leisure Society who perform This Phantom SAT Life from their new album Into the Murky Water. SAT SAT And Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter and record SAT producer Raphael Saadiq plays Good Man from his new album, SAT Stone Rollin. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b010r7cg (Listen) SAT Series 10, Episode 1 SAT SAT The return of the award-winning series in which writers SAT create a fictional response to the week's news. A 15 minute SAT stand-alone drama created from scratch during the week. SAT SAT To complement Radio 4's News and Current Affairs output, our SAT weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major story SAT from the week's news. The form and content is entirely led SAT by the news topic - so drama can come in many guises, as SAT well as poetry and prose. SAT SAT It's uniquely radio - an instant reaction to the mood of the SAT moment - a concept impossible to imagine in any other SAT medium. SAT SAT The breadth of approach is echoed in the range of writers SAT that have participated so far. They include: David Edgar, SAT Amelia Bulmore, Mark Lawson, Bonnie Greer, Laura Solon, Will SAT Self, Alistair Beaton, Lemn Sissay, April de Angelis, SAT Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Adrian Mitchell, Stewart Lee, John SAT Sergeant, Jo Shapcott, Ian McMillan, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Kate SAT Mosse, Marina Warner, Gurpeet Kaur Bhatti, A.L. Kennedy and SAT Lyn Coghlan. SAT SAT FF2F presents writers with the creative opportunity to work SAT in a bold and instinctive way as they respond to events in SAT the news, beginning on a Monday when an idea is selected SAT through to Friday when the programme is recorded and edited. SAT SAT The high-profile series also attracts big names from the SAT acting profession. Philip Glenister, Tracy-Ann Oberman, SAT Samuel West, David Soul, Henry Goodman, Anne-Marie Duff, SAT Alistair McGowan, Robert Bathurst, Stephen Mangan, Ken SAT Cranham, Brendan Coyle, Haydn Gwynne and Sally Hawkins are SAT just some of the names who have featured so far. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b010r7cj (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b010r7cl (Listen) SAT The Sound of Sport SAT SAT When we think of the sound of sport on TV or radio, it's SAT generally commentary. But what's around the commentary? SAT Broadcast sport would be nothing without the crowds, the SAT kicks, the thwacks and the grunts. This programme is about SAT those sounds and why they matter. SAT SAT During the World Cup of 2010, the Vuvuzelas made many people SAT realise that the sound of a sports event, something they SAT took for granted, does matter. SAT SAT Dennis Baxter's job is to think about the sound of sport, SAT and he is our guide. For nearly 20 years he's worked on the SAT Olympics, defining how the broadcast will sound, always SAT trying to increase drama and excitement. For him, closer is SAT generally better. If he can put a microphone on an athlete, SAT he will. SAT SAT At the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, the TV coverage is SAT enhanced by microphones on the cox in each boat. Whilst SAT Wimbledon has a special sonic drama all of its own, as we SAT learn from Bill Whiston who mixed the Bafta-nominated sound SAT of the 2008 finals. SAT SAT When good sound isn't available, it's not uncommon for a SAT prerecorded sound to be added to cover the shot. Is this SAT cheating or merely giving us what we expect? SAT SAT The experience of "live" events can be highly produced, very SAT different from the experience of being there. Is this SAT enhanced sound so very different from that of a film or a SAT video game? We meet a Hollywood sound effects specialist and SAT a video game sound designer to find out what they do to SAT create a sense of authenticity and excitement. Are they SAT raising our expectations of how "real" sport should sound? SAT SAT As we approach the 2012 Olympics, this programme will make SAT you think more about what you hear when you watch sport. SAT SAT Producer: Peregrine Andrews SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b010m03y (Listen) SAT Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities, Episode 1 SAT SAT Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities - 'a noisy, vital, SAT impertinent social satire full of zest and high spirits' - SAT was published in 1838 to great acclaim and introduced SAT Dickens to the style of bold comic writing he went on to SAT make his own. Surtees' writing was a significant inspiration SAT for Pickwick Papers. SAT SAT John Jorrocks is one of the great comic characters of SAT English literature, a sporting cockney grocer, vulgar, SAT good-natured, Master-of-Foxhounds and a social hero among SAT the old hunting fraternity. SAT SAT Jorrocks ..... Danny Webb SAT Nash ..... Clive Swift SAT Doleful ..... Charles Edwards SAT Miss Barnington ..... Rebecca Saire SAT Mello/Moonface ..... Gareth Armstrong SAT Julia Jorrocks ..... Emma Pierson SAT Muleygrubs ..... Christian Rodska SAT Pigg/Bray ..... Rob Hudson SAT Simpkins ..... Geoffrey Beevers SAT Barnington ..... Grant Gillespie SAT SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b010mxl7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b010mrzr (Listen) SAT Meritocracy and monarchy SAT SAT Two people will walk down the aisle to get married on Friday SAT and like any wedding the rows and discussions the ceremony SAT is provoking are an interesting measure of the values that SAT are important to us. For example the guest list: was it SAT really acceptable to invite the crown prince of Bahrain, a SAT country that is vigorously and violently suppressing SAT protests in favour of democracy, and not to invite two SAT former British Prime Ministers - even if they were Labour? SAT Thankfully the issue has been solved by a tactful SAT withdrawal. Then there's family background of the bride and SAT finally of course, what to wear. Is a morning coat just too SAT posh? Does it send out the right message? Perhaps that will SAT be on the mind of Nick Clegg as he dresses on Friday SAT morning. A man who in his own words wants a country where SAT "Everyone is free to flourish and rise regardless of the SAT circumstances of their birth." At the Abbey, they will SAT celebrate the opposite principle: the marriage of a man born SAT to be king. Royalists argue that the monarchy symbolises SAT deeply ingrained values that go beyond social and political SAT fashion. Republicans counter that an hereditary ruler makes SAT as much sense as an hereditary dentist and the monarchy SAT traps us as subjects, enshrines inequality and that we SAT should have the power to choose our head of state. So is the SAT monarchy compatible with a truly meritocratic society? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Clifford Longley, Michael SAT Portillo and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b010m2fd (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 4 SAT SAT (4/13) SAT Who was the trumpeter, producer and record company boss who SAT had an American no.1 hit in 1979 with a tune called 'Rise'? SAT SAT The answer to this and many other musical questions will be SAT dispensed by Paul Gambaccini, in the chair for the fourth SAT heat of Counterpoint, the long-running music quiz. This SAT week's contenders are from Cumbria, West Yorkshire and the SAT West Midlands. SAT SAT They'll be tackling questions on every genre of music, from SAT the core classical repertoire to jazz, show tunes, film SAT music, vintage chart favourites and recent hits. As usual, SAT the contestants have no idea what's going to come their way SAT - the only thing that's guaranteed is that they'll be SAT racking their brains. And there'll be a generous helping of SAT musical extracts, both familiar and surprising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT MYLES CRAMPTON, a software developer from Ravenstonedale in SAT Cumbria; SAT SAT ALAN SHIPMAN, a retired delivery driver from Leeds; SAT SAT PAUL McKENNA, a fine artist from Sutton Coldfield. SAT SAT 23:30 Lost Voices b010m042 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Patricia Beer SAT SAT Brian Patten highlights the work of Patricia Beer, which he SAT feels deserves a new evaluation. Her strong, clear poetic SAT voice grew out of a life menaced by insecurity and anger. SAT Her friend, the poet Elaine Feinstein, and her niece, the SAT novelist Patricia Duncker, consider the woman and the SAT poetry. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 01 MAY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b010q864 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00lxfbg (Listen) SUN Perspectives, futouristic.co.uk SUN SUN Series of stories about people approaching something SUN familiar from a different point of view. SUN SUN By Christopher Priest, read by Nick Underwood. SUN SUN When he replies to an irresistible email proposition, Mr SUN Frogle can be sure of only one thing - nothing will ever be SUN the same again. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010q866 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010q868 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010q86b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b010q86d (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b010rb6l (Listen) SUN The bells of St Edward's, Egg Buckland, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b010mrzt (Listen) SUN Series 2, Care to be a nurse? SUN SUN Columnist Christina Patterson discusses her own experiences SUN of terrible nursing care. She asks why we keep making SUN excuses for bad nursing when good care is so important, and SUN maintains that whatever the pressures on them nurses always SUN have a choice about how they behave. SUN SUN Four Thought combines big ideas and evocative storytelling SUN in a series of personal viewpoints - speakers take to the SUN stage ready to air their latest thinking on the trends, SUN ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and SUN society. SUN SUN Recorded live at the RSA in London, these talks are SUN unscripted, thought-provoking and entertaining, with a SUN personal dimension. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b010q86g (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b010rb6n (Listen) SUN Keeping Time SUN SUN The history of our clocks is practically as long as our SUN history. Other creatures seem content to hear and obey their SUN inner clocks but from the early days - perhaps when we saw SUN how our shadows changed throughout the day - we wanted SUN desperately to attempt a hold on time. SUN SUN In 'Keeping Time' Irma Kurtz reflects on clocks, the SUN connection of timepieces to navigation and the way in which SUN we make punctuality a virtue. SUN SUN The readers are Liza Sadovy and Jonathan Firth. SUN SUN Presenter: Irma Kurtz SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b010rb6q (Listen) SUN Islay Birds SUN SUN The island of Islay is the most southerly island of the SUN Southern Hebrides and as such has an important role to play SUN in Scottish birdlife. Also known as the Queen of the SUN Hebrides this small island is, in winter, host to thousands SUN of winter migrant birds as they escape the harsh Arctic SUN weather. Some birds use the island as a stop over point to SUN rest and feed before heading away on migration, other SUN species, such as barnacle geese stay the entire winter, SUN leaving in the spring. SUN SUN This weeks Living World, finds Michael Scott leaving the SUN Scottish mainland to travel the two and a half hour journey SUN by ferry to meet an old friend of his Malcolm Ogilvie. SUN Malcolm has been studying the geese of the island for nearly SUN 50 years and has been resident here for half that time. But SUN Islay has so much more birdlife to offer than geese; indeed SUN in the autumn and spring keen birdwatchers come to the SUN island to attempt a remarkable feat, to see over 100 SUN different species of birds on the island in a single day. SUN SUN Michael and Malcolm visit over the winter and therefore aim SUN for lower numbers of birds to be seen during this visit, by SUN concentrating on one small but beautiful area of Islay, Loch SUN Gruinart on the northern coast of the island. Beginning at SUN the head of Gruinart, huge numbers of barnacle geese can be SUN seen feeding on the flooded fields below, geese that move SUN and erupt into restless flight in ever increasing numbers, a SUN spectacle that is both beautiful and awesome to behold. At SUN the head of the Loch is Ardnave Point where different SUN species of birds can be seen both on a small isolated lochan SUN and at the spectacular mouth of the Loch, framed by the SUN islands of Jura and Mull beyond. However one of the real SUN jewel species of these islands is a rare member of the crow SUN family, the chough. Islay holds a sixth of the UK's chough SUN population and Michael is keen to see these birds on this SUN visit as he scans the horizon from a windswept dune system SUN overlooking the sea. Is that their call being carried along SUN by the buffeting wind on the ridge? Yes, here they come, SUN these acrobatic specialists, right on cue. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b010q86j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b010q86l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b010rb6s (Listen) SUN In this special edition of the programme, 'Sunday' reports SUN live from Rome on the day of the beatification of Pope John SUN Paul II. SUN SUN When the Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected in SUN October 1978 he became the first non-Italian pope in over SUN 400 years. He went on to become one of the most important SUN figures of the late 20th century, raising the profile of the SUN Papacy around the world and was a major factor in the fall SUN of the Iron Curtain. He also presided over the paedophile SUN priest scandal and was harsh towards the liberation theology SUN priests in Latin America. SUN SUN In a special edition we look at the life and legacy of Pope SUN John Paul II. More than a million pilgrims are expected to SUN gather in St Peter's Square for the ceremony and we will be SUN broadcasting live from amongst them. William Crawley will be SUN our Rome correspondent for the day and he will look at the SUN papacy of John Paul through the eyes of those who worked and SUN travelled with him. SUN SUN Our reporter Adam Easton travels to Krakow to look at what SUN kind of legacy the Polish Pope has left in his home country SUN and whether his influence is still inspiring the church SUN there today. SUN SUN Meanwhile in Manchester Edward Stourton will discuss a SUN number of issues with our guests. Firstly is this SUN beatification happening too quickly? Church historian SUN Michael Walsh believes it is and he will debate the point SUN with Jack Valero who has been involved with both Opus Dei SUN and the beatification of Cardinal Newman. SUN SUN In our main debate we will look at the legacy of John Paul SUN II. Edward will be joined by former Tablet Editor John SUN Wilkins, feminist theologian Tina Beattie, interfaith expert SUN Ed Kessler and Colm O'Gorman who campaigns for victims of SUN abuse within the Catholic Church. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b010rb6v (Listen) SUN Self Help Africa SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Self Help Africa. SUN SUN Donations to Self Help Africa should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Self SUN Help Africa. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can SUN also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are SUN a UK tax payer, please provide Self Help Africa with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 298830. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b010q86n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b010q86q (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b010rb6x (Listen) SUN A service of the word from the Metropolitan Cathedral of SUN Christ the King, Liverpool led by the Dean, Canon Anthony SUN O'Brien who preaches alongside his Anglican neighbour from SUN down the road, the Dean of Liverpool Cathedral, Canon Justin SUN Welby. Pope John Paul II, to be beatified this morning by SUN Pope Benedict XVI, visited the UK in 1982. During his visit, SUN he talked about building a 'cathedral of peace.' The service SUN takes up this theme and reflects on the important work of SUN reconciliation in ordinary lives, between people of faith SUN and across the world. SUN The cathedral choir is directed by Timothy Noon, Director of SUN Music with Richard Lea, Organist. Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b010mwv4 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Monsters SUN SUN 11/20. Fire breathing dragons are clearly something from SUN legend, but what about a monster that lives in an ancient SUN deep lake? In this edition of David Attenborough's Life SUN Stories, Sir David reflects on a time when pre-eminent SUN conservationist and naturalist Peter Scott was immersed in SUN acquiring evidence of the existence of the Loch Ness SUN Monster. No such giant creature has ever been found or SUN concrete evidence it ever existed, but this is an intriguing SUN tale of discovery. David Attenborough moves his story on to SUN beyond the highlands of Scotland and into the Himalayas - SUN and it's here that Sir David reveals something very SUN surprising. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b010t31d (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b010t31g (Listen) SUN Written by: Simon Frith SUN Directed by: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris 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 Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Ted ..... Paul Webster SUN James Bellamy ..... Roger May SUN Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b010t31j (Listen) SUN Prof David Phillips SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the President of the Royal SUN Society of Chemistry, Professor David Phillips. SUN SUN His love of science has taken him on an extraordinary SUN journey. At the height of the Cold War, he swapped a post in SUN America for a place at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, SUN where he partied with the Bolshoi and was interrogated by SUN the KGB. He is also Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at SUN Imperial College, but, despite his eminence, he admits his SUN students had a 'professor button' fitted onto their hi-tech SUN lasers. It was, he explains, a knob he could twiddle while SUN showing visitors around the lab, but it wasn't connected to SUN the machinery and meant he didn't ruin his students' SUN experiments. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b010m2k7 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 4 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Alan Davies, Jack Dee, Marcus Brigstocke and Lucy Porter are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as: Eyes, Snakes, Cutlery and Dieting. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b010t31l (Listen) SUN Simon Parkes explores the connection between Royal wedding SUN banquets and British food. From historic feasts with SUN hundreds of lavish dishes, to present day 'austerity'. SUN SUN A visit to the Tudor kitchens of Hampton Court palace SUN reveals the scale and grandeur of wedding feasts of the SUN past. Power, wealth and their display was all-important, and SUN food was a central part of this. Huge marzipan sculptures, SUN models in food of St Paul's Cathedral, and in the case of SUN James II, a feast with 145 dishes in the first course alone; SUN nothing was too extravagant or beyond the skill of the SUN working-class cooks who invented these dishes. And SUN historically, even beggars on the street got to share the SUN food of the wedding feast, after each layer of the SUN aristocracy had enjoyed its fill. SUN SUN Food historian Ivan Day traces the evolution of buffets, SUN wedding breakfasts, and looks at the influence of 'the first SUN celebrity chef' - Patrick Lamb, master cook to four SUN monarchs, and author of an early aspirational cookery book. SUN SUN And as bunting and trestle tables take their place in SUN streets across the UK, The Food Programme asks whether royal SUN food has left a legacy of public feasting which might SUN enhance 21st century communities. SUN SUN Presenter: Simon Parkes Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b010q86s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b010t31n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with an in-depth SUN look at events around the world. Listeners can comment via SUN email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 David Hume and the Triumph of Reason b010lyyb (Listen) SUN Recorded on location in Edinburgh, Allan Little pays a 300th SUN anniversary tribute to his hero, the philosopher David Hume. SUN SUN Hume was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment at a SUN time when Edinburgh was 'a hotbed of genius'. His scepticism SUN and alleged atheism got him into trouble - but broke the SUN shackles of the old beliefs and paved the way for new SUN thinking in science and politics and economics. SUN SUN We hear not only about these radical thoughts but about Hume SUN the man - intensely convivial, a bon viveur and cook - he SUN was the toast of Paris and became, eventually, the highest SUN paid man of letters ever to write in English. SUN SUN We hear from Hume biographer Roderick Graham and from SUN academics Miranda Fricker, Nicholas Phillipson, Tom Devine, SUN Simon Blackburn and Michael Fry. SUN SUN Brian Pettifer plays the part of David Hume. SUN SUN We hear too how Hume's ideas are still relevant - how SUN 'Enlightenment for the 21st Century' has become the new SUN strap line for the RSA. SUN SUN Presenter: Allan Little SUN Producer: Susan Marling SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b010mwlq (Listen) SUN Carrickfergus SUN SUN Eric Robson leads Christine Walkden, Bunny Guinness and Bob SUN Flowerdew in a horticultural discussion in Carrickfergus, SUN County Antrim. SUN SUN An insight into rose breeding with Christine Walkden. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 15 by 15 b010t3jt (Listen) SUN Mattress SUN SUN What's in a word? Where did it come from? Where does it SUN lead? In a new series of five programmes Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN chooses a word and sees where it leads him. SUN SUN In 15 minutes he expects to learn 15 things he didn't know SUN before. His journey takes him to lexicographer Susie Dent, SUN who knows about words and can tell him where the word first SUN appeared in the English language. From there he sets off in SUN different directions, meeting people who in different ways SUN are connected to that programme's word. SUN SUN Each programme is devoted to one word, and over the five SUN programmes Hardeep encounters 'mattress', 'stroke', 'heel', SUN 'spin' and 'trifle'. SUN SUN In the first programme 'Mattress', Hardeep meets Gerry, SUN who's buying a mattress at an open air stall in a market, SUN Lauren Child, adaptor and illustrator of 'The Princess and SUN the Pea', David Cain who exterminates bedbugs, and opera SUN singer Julie Unwin who falls on one from a height. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Bannerman SUN A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b010t3jw (Listen) SUN Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities, Episode 2 SUN SUN Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities - 'a noisy, vital, SUN impertinent social satire full of zest and high spirits' - SUN was published in 1838 to great acclaim and introduced SUN Dickens to the style of bold comic writing he went on to SUN make his own. Surtees' writing was a significant inspiration SUN for Pickwick Papers. SUN SUN John Jorrocks is one of the great comic characters of SUN English literature, a sporting cockney grocer, vulgar, SUN good-natured, Master-of-Foxhounds and a social hero among SUN the old hunting fraternity. SUN SUN Jorrocks ..... Danny Webb SUN Nash ..... Clive Swift SUN Doleful ..... Charles Edwards SUN Miss Barnington ..... Rebecca Saire SUN Mello/Moonface ..... Gareth Armstrong SUN Julia Jorrocks ..... Emma Pierson SUN Muleygrubs ..... Christian Rodska SUN Pigg/Bray ..... Rob Hudson SUN Simpkins ..... Geoffrey Beevers SUN Barnington ..... Grant Gillespie SUN SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4 SUN Addition(s): SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b010t3jy (Listen) SUN Andrew O'Hagan - Be Near Me SUN SUN Andrew O'Hagan is a rising star in the literary world. He SUN joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss his novel Be SUN Near Me, the story of Father David, an aesthetic English SUN Catholic priest working in a working class community in SUN Ayrshire. SUN SUN This is a poignant story of a man who doesn't fit in. Father SUN David is trapped by class hatreds, and troubled by sexual SUN feelings which he struggles to keep submerged. He's a SUN character who's almost intent on self destruction, and as SUN the reader follows his story, we can't help but think it's SUN going to end in tragedy. SUN SUN Andrew O'Hagan talks about the challenges of writing such a SUN story in the first person, how inevitably people think it's SUN about himself - and how by creating a protagonist whose side SUN of the story is not quite reliable leads to intrigue in the SUN mind of the reader. SUN SUN Andrew has drawn on the community where he himself grew up - SUN a community ridden by class and religious divide. One of the SUN novel's strongest characters is Father David's housekeeper SUN Mrs Poole who was based on Andrew's mother and colleagues. SUN His mother was a school cleaner and as a child Andrew spent SUN some of his school holidays watching and listening to their SUN conversations as they went about the 'big clean' - preparing SUN the school for the new academic year. SUN SUN The starting point for the book was when Andrew happened to SUN be in a café in Paris and noticed a Catholic priest drinking SUN coffee alone in the corner. Andrew watched as a tear fell SUN down the priest's cheek, and immediately began to wonder SUN what his story was and went home to write it. SUN SUN As always on Bookclub, a group of readers join the author in SUN the discussion and James Naughtie chairs the programme. SUN SUN June's Bookclub choice : 'The History of Love' by Nicole SUN Krauss. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Lost Voices b010t3k0 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Robert Service SUN SUN As a young man, Brian Patten was fascinated by the life and SUN work of Robert Service, who in the early years of the 20th SUN century left a banking job in Glasgow for the excitement of SUN the goldrush in the Yukon. He almost immediately found SUN himself working in a bank again, but he was now in a SUN romantic wilderness. In the bars of Whitehorse he heard SUN wonderful stories of life in the Gold Rush which he SUN transmuted into Kipling-inspired verse, and he was soon the SUN best-paid poet in the western world. Yet despite his huge SUN popularity, he remained the self-described "man who wouldn't SUN fit in." Now, though honoured in Canada, his work is almost SUN forgotten. SUN SUN The poems are read by James Cosmo. SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 Fallout: The Legacy of Chernobyl b010mckx (Listen) SUN Events in Japan have reignited controversy around the safety SUN of nuclear energy, reviving memories of the world's worst SUN nuclear accident, at Chernobyl. SUN SUN But just how bad was the worst? What were the real health SUN consequences of Chernobyl? On the 25th anniversary of the SUN disaster Nick Ross travels to Ukraine, to the ruined plant SUN itself, to meet survivors and to talk to scientists and SUN doctors to try to unravel the truth. SUN SUN Has Chernobyl turned out to be the health catastrophe that SUN anti-nuclear campaigners claim? SUN SUN How much of our fear of radiation is rational and how much SUN is based on myth and propaganda surrounding the Chernobyl SUN accident? SUN SUN Producer: Brian King SUN An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b010r7cg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b010q86v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b010q86x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010q86z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b010t3k2 (Listen) SUN Gerry Northam makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b010t3k4 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b010t3k6 (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00mbl9q (Listen) SUN The Heart of Saturday Night, Come On Up to the House SUN SUN 'Come On Up to the House', by acclaimed Scottish writer A L SUN Kennedy, is the first in a series of stories inspired by the SUN distinctive world created by the legendary musician Tom SUN Waits - a dark and sometimes sleazy world peopled by SUN down-at-heel characters on the edge of society, or outcasts SUN singing of loss and longing. In this story, inspired by a SUN Waits track of the same name, a man finds himself reaching SUN out to a perfect stranger in the wee small hours of the SUN morning. SUN SUN The reader is the acclaimed actor, Peter Capaldi, best known SUN for his film roles in Local Hero and more recently In the SUN Loop, in which he reprised his extraordinary creation, spin SUN doctor Malcolm Tucker from Armando Iannucci's The Thick of SUN It. SUN SUN Author: A L Kennedy is a distinguished Scottish author and SUN stand-up comedian who has won awards both for her short SUN stories and novels. In 2003 she was nominated by Granta SUN magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. SUN SUN Produced by Justine Willett. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b010mwbt (Listen) SUN Note: The 29 April 2011 edition of More or Less is SUN truncated. This copy reflects the content of the full SUN programme broadcast on 1 May 2011. SUN SUN This week we present a cornucopia of wedding-related SUN numbers, including: SUN SUN Why we predict a jump in the number of weddings next year SUN (hint: it will have nothing to do with the Royal Wedding); SUN SUN How much does the average British wedding cost (less than SUN you might think); SUN SUN Can we know how many people watched the Royal Wedding SUN (probably not); SUN SUN Do married men earn more? (Yes, according to 140 years of SUN baseball stats.) SUN SUN Also in this week's programme: we explain the alternative SUN vote electoral system, using limericks and puddings. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b010mwlv (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's weekly obituaries SUN programme. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b010r7c2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b010rb6v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b010mv58 (Listen) SUN For Your Information SUN SUN Information seems to be moving right to the heart of the SUN 21st century economy but nobody really knows what it is or SUN how it works. Peter Day talks to pioneers in the field of SUN information management as well as corporate gatekeepers of SUN this valuable commodity we call information to find out what SUN advances are being made with the amount of data we now SUN generate. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b010t3k8 (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 b010t3kb (Listen) SUN Episode 50 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 political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week Kevin Maguire of The SUN Daily Mirror takes the chair and the editor is Catherine SUN Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b010mwlx (Listen) SUN Ray Winstone and Christian Carrion talk to Francine Stock SUN about their new films SUN SUN Produce: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b010rb6n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 MAY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b010q8b2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b010mrzc (Listen) MON Craft and Community MON MON Is DIY culture and home improvement linked to the ideals of MON John Ruskin? David Gauntlett, author of Making is Connecting MON believes it is and he contends that bloggers and online MON enthusiasts are the inheritors of Britain's creative culture MON - making communities through their craft in the same way MON that medieval stone masons used to do. But is posting a MON skate-boarding dog on YouTube really comparable to carving a MON gargoyle on a gothic cathedral? The sociologist Richard MON Sennett joins Laurie Taylor and David Gauntlett to discuss MON making things, creating communities and what counts as MON craftsmanship. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b010rb6l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010q8b4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010q8b6 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010q8b8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b010q8bb (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010t3ml (Listen) MON With the Rev Prof Peter Galloway. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b010t3mn (Listen) MON 12 months on since Gareth Barlow began farming, Caz Graham MON checks up on his progress. With no farming background, we MON find out how Gareth is faring as he strives to become a MON farmer. Caz meets up with Gareth as he weighs some of his MON Hebridean sheep before sending them to the abattoir. MON Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 05:57 Weather b010q8bd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b010t3mq (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 b010t3p0 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr explores how far empathy, or the lack of it, can MON explain cruelty. Simon Baron-Cohen proposes turning the MON focus away from evil or specific personality disorders, and MON to understand human behaviour by studying the 'empathy MON circuit' in the brain. Gwen Adshead, a forensic MON psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital and the crime writer MON Val McDermid question whether this would help in their line MON of work, and the philosopher Julian Baggini tries to pin MON down what we mean when we talk about the self. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b010t5wc (Listen) MON Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949, MON Episode 1 MON MON Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World MON War is told through a multitude of individual women's MON experiences. As their stories unfold we discover how they MON loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared. Today, the MON conflict begins, and thirty-seven year old Frances Faviell MON learns to administer first-aid, and Lorna Bradey, serving as MON a nurse in France, witnesses the horror of Dunkirk first MON hand. MON MON Read by Fenella Woolgar MON Abridged by Doreen Estall MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b010t5wf (Listen) MON Presented by Jenni Murray. MON In October 2010 several aspiring members of an esteemed MON fraternity at Yale University marched across its 300 year MON old quadrangle, lined up outside a women's hall of MON residence, and chanted "no means yes". What impact does such MON behaviour have on young women undergraduates? We look at MON franchising in our Women in Business series; with Danish MON restaurant Noma topping the list of the world's best MON restaurants for the second year running, we look at the MON Nordic tastes and food culture and how they're taking off in MON Britain; and The First Time - how have attitudes to losing MON your virginity changed over the years? MON MON Nordic Food MON MON Scandinavian food is tipped as the hottest UK culinary trend MON of 2011. The Danish restaurant, Noma, has put Scandinavian MON food in the spotlight after topping a list of the world’s MON best restaurant for the second year running and its MON predicted traditional Nordic products such as herring, MON smoked fish and lingonberry jam will increasingly be on MON British shopping lists. But what is the essence of good MON Nordic nosh? Miisa Mink, author of the Nordic Bakery MON Cookbook, and food anthropologist, cook and writer Signe MON Johansen join Jenni to explain what makes Scandinavian food MON so appealing. MON MON Nordic Bakery Cookbook by Miisa Mink, published by Ryland, MON Peters and Small (April 2011) MON MON Secrets of Scandinavian Cooking...: Scandilicious by Signe MON Johansen is published by Hodder and Stoughton on 12 May MON MON Losing Your Virginity MON MON Losing your virginity is a big moment and one we always MON remember, even if we’d prefer to forget. Thinking about MON your first time can stir memories of shame and joy, MON breathtaking romance or mind-numbing mundanity. But how do MON we define the loss of our virginity? Is actual intercourse MON the only act that counts when determining ones virginity? MON Or is it fair to still consider yourself a virgin if you MON willingly engage in other intimate sexual acts? Kate Monro MON went on a mission to find out and her book The First Time: MON True Tales of Virginity reveals the real stories of people’s MON most intimate sexual encounters. She joins Jenni along with MON Suzie Godson, sex columist with The Times. MON MON Kate Monro’s book, The First Time:True Tales of Virginity MON Lost and & Found (including my own), is published by Icon MON Books on 5th May, 2011 MON MON Women in Business: Franchising MON MON Starting your own business can be a daunting prospect MON especially if you’ve spent your career working for someone MON else. Over the last few years the numbers of women who have MON taken the franchise route into self-employment has increased MON and now just under one third of franchisees are women. With MON over 800 brands to choose from franchises can offer a MON solution to a family’s work-life balance. As part of our MON Women in Business series Jenni is joined by Gill Thomas, MON franchisor and founder of Jo Jingles music classes and by MON Independent Franchise Consultant Nina Moran-Watson to MON discuss what makes franchising an attractive business MON proposition for women. MON MON Misogyny on American Campuses MON MON In October 2010 several aspiring members of an esteemed MON fraternity at Yale University marched across its 300 year MON old quadrangle, lined up outside a women's hall of MON residence, and chanted "no means yes". The incident was MON captured on video and became a YouTube sensation. The MON controversy has sparked a wider debate. Presca Ahn, MON Fulbright Scholar at the LSE and Diane Rosenfeld from MON Harvard Law School join Jenni to ask what impact such MON behaviour has on young women undergraduates. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010t5wh (Listen) MON Writing the Century 16: The Iron Curtain, Episode 1 MON MON The series which explores the 20th century through the MON diaries and correspondence of real people, returns with "The MON Iron Curtain" by Nell Leyshon. The drama is inspired by the MON diaries of Paula Kirby, who went to teach English in East MON Germany in the 1980s, and her correspondence with paediatric MON surgeon Knut Löffler. MON MON Fresh out of university, 21 year old Paula Kirby settles MON into her new home and job, teaching English at the MON University in Dresden but finds herself attracted to one of MON her students, a Dr Knut Löffler. MON MON Paula ...... Charlotte Emmerson MON Knut ...... Jonathan Keeble MON Sarah ...... Danielle Henry MON Woman on train ...... Melissa Jane Sinden MON MON Directed by Susan Roberts. MON MON 11:00 The Real Apprentice b010t5wk (Listen) MON Seven unemployed men compete to win a builder's MON apprenticeship in South Wales. Jon Manel follows their MON progress, and explores how our concept of apprenticeship has MON changed over centuries. MON MON The charity Construction Youth Trust took its Real MON Apprentice scheme to Newport in the summer of 2010. Seven MON young people who weren't in education or employment were put MON to work on a building site, redeveloping two flats. The best MON performer won an apprenticeship with Newport City Homes. Jon MON Manel watches the competition and hears about the MON contestants' experience of trying to find work. MON MON But what can the winner expect of his apprenticeship? And MON how does the experience of today's apprentices compare to MON that of their predecessors decades - even centuries - ago? MON MON Jon meets a manager at Tata Steel - formerly British Steel - MON in Port Talbot, who is still with the company nearly forty MON years after he joined as an apprentice. And then we go back MON nearly six hundred years to discover the story of a MON fifteenth century butcher's apprentice from Newbury, MON recorded in a document in the Berkshire Record Office. MON Alison Fuller from Southampton University gives a potted MON history of how the lives of apprentices developed in the MON intervening years - for better and for worse. MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010t5wm (Listen) MON Series 4, Ayabassa Alan MON MON In this episode the new dance craze Ayabassa sweeps the MON town, meanwhile Dave finds a new friend in the shape of the MON local doctor Dr Southwell (played by Kevin Eldon) which puts MON Ramesh's nose out. MON MON So join the staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' in their tireless MON quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke MON with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh MON Mahju has built it up over the course of 30 years, and is a MON firmly entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh loves MON the art of the 'shop'. MON MON However; he does apply the 'low return' rules of the shop to MON all other aspects of his life. Ramesh is ably assisted by MON his shop sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who MON shares Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he MON is treated like a slave. MON MON Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both MON surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach MON to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business, and MON Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them MON whether they like it or not! MON MON Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kolhi MON Dave: Donald McLeary MON Sanjay: Omar Raza MON Alok: Susheel Kumar MON Dr Southwell: Kevin Eldon MON Mrs Begg: Marj Hogarth MON Mrs Armstrong: Maureen Carr MON Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson Nimmo MON Bra Jeff: Steven McNicol MON MON Producer/Director: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b010t5wp (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b010q8bg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b010vzwj (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 Counterpoint b010t5wr (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 5 MON MON The slow movement of which piano concerto has been likened MON to 'Orpheus taming the Furies'? MON MON Paul Gambaccini has the answer to this and many other MON musical questions, as he returns to the BBC Radio Theatre in MON London for the fifth heat in this, the 25th anniversary MON series of the general knowledge music quiz. MON MON The competitors this week come from Kent, Surrey and West MON Sussex. They'll each be hoping the wide range of their MON musical knowledge will carry them through to the series MON semi-finals. But first they have to tackle Paul's questions MON on every genre of music, from classical music of all eras to MON Broadway shows, film themes, jazz, rock and pop. MON MON There are also plenty of musical extracts and illustrations, MON both familiar and surprising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b010t3k4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b010t5wt (Listen) MON Star Struck by Katharine Way MON MON Sarah has got the job of her dreams. Working with Cal, an MON Astronomy Professor at a remote observatory in New Zealand, MON watching the destruction of a planet by a black hole. But MON then the Professor registers a message from the dying MON planet. Can it really be genuine? MON MON Sarah.........Julia Haworth MON Cal.............Philip Bretherton MON MON Producer Gary Brown MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b010r7cl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010t5ww (Listen) MON Series 1, Catherine, Lover and Reformer MON MON Peter the Great died on the 8th of February 1725. He was 52 MON years old, had reigned for forty of those years and MON transformed Russia from a struggling, landlocked state to a MON major and still expanding empire. But he died without MON appointing an heir. MON MON At the start of week 3 of BBC Radio 4's major new History MON series, Russia - The Wild East, Martin Sixsmith traces the MON power struggles after the death of Peter, until another MON Great leader emerges. While Peter the Great had laid the MON foundations of Russia as a European power, it was under MON Catherine the Great that Russia became Europe's most feared MON superpower. MON MON One of the reputations that Catherine acquired was of a MON woman with a healthy interest in sex, but this shouldn't MON overshadow her reforming zeal. She modernised the legal MON system, took ideas from the great Enlightenment thinkers MON Diderot and Voltaire, and learnt by heart long passages from MON Montesquieu's iconic manifesto of constitutionalism, on the MON separation of powers, civil liberties and the rule of law. MON MON "It seemed to many," Martin Sixsmith suggests, "that Russia MON was preparing to boldly go where few others would dare to MON tread - having been the most backward of the European MON powers, she now appeared to be leading the way to the MON enlightened future." MON MON But an ingrained fear of vulnerability lay beneath this show MON of strength, and Catherine followed an aggressive programme MON of expansion especially to the south. It provided a buffer MON against enemies on her borders, but sowed the seeds of MON ethnic tensions that still exist today, and a careful MON observer would have realised even at this stage that MON Catherine was setting very clear limits to the extent and MON nature of the changes she was prepared to allow. MON MON Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking MON MON Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b010t31l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Who'd be a Social Worker b010dk29 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Simon Cox gets a rare insight into life for junior social MON workers as he follows two newly qualified workers through MON their first six months in one of the busiest children's MON services departments in Britain. MON MON These are the people we rarely hear from. When something MON goes badly wrong and the protection of children like Baby P, MON Kyra Ishaq and Victoria Climbie fails, social workers are MON roundly lambasted, but never interviewed. MON MON In this programme, we see social work through their eyes. MON James and Natalie are fresh from their training at MON Birmingham University. They join the ranks of hundreds of MON over-loaded social workers trying to protect children in MON some of Birmingham's poorest areas. MON MON Freshly armed with the latest child development theories, MON honed listening skills, and advice on how to conduct a good MON family assessment, they brace themselves for work in the MON real world, not the class room. MON MON What follows is a sobering insight into the hidden lives of MON so many children: the prevalence of domestic violence, drug MON and alcohol addiction and latent aggression. As Natalie and MON James struggle with mountains of paperwork and looming MON deadlines, they constantly question whether they've got it MON right. Did they do all they could for that child, or was the MON truth cleverly concealed from them? How do you ask a burly, MON aggressive father if you can strip back the sheets, look MON through his cupboards and check for punch marks behind the MON door? And if they get it wrong, will it be their face MON staring out from the front of the newspaper as the latest MON social worker to have failed a child? MON MON Presenter: Simon Cox MON Producer: Deborah Dudgeon MON A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b010t5wy (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010q8bj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:26 Referendum Campaign Broadcast b010t5x0 (Listen) MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b010t64r (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 5 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Clive Anderson, Sue Perkins, Henning Wehn and Graeme Garden MON are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Sheep, Furniture, The MON Ancient Greeks and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b010t64t (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b010t64w (Listen) MON The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield opens MON MON Mark Lawson reports on the new Hepworth gallery in MON Wakefield, which includes works by the artist Barbara MON Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield. MON MON Producer Ekene Akalawu. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010t5wh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Christie's Through the Looking Glass b00vg8fg (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In the second of this two-part series Miranda Sawyer catches MON a glimpse of high Art, high society and high prices as she MON explores the contemporary auction market at London's oldest MON auctioneers. MON MON As some of the most expensive and rare privately owned MON artworks in the world are presented to an international MON audience for a week of sales in London, we ask who buys MON what, and why? We discover how the auction house has adapted MON its sales to survive the recession and discuss where this MON barometer of the art market is going next. MON MON Producer: Eleanor Thomas MON A Harcourt Films production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b010mt2y (Listen) MON What happened next? MON MON Lucy Ash revisits some of the significant stories covered in MON recent years and discovers what has changed since our MON initial reports. MON In some instances, there have been attempts to bring MON suspects to justice. In 2009 Crossing Continents uncovered MON disturbing evidence of alleged atrocities by the Kosovo MON Liberation Army during the Kosovo War ten years ago. Since MON then a trial has opened in the capital Pristina and two MON former KLA leaders are being prosecuted for war crimes. The MON case began in March 2011, just a few months after Dick MON Marty, Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe, released MON an explosive report claiming that the KLA summarily executed MON prisoners and harvested their kidneys to sell for organ MON transplants. MON Also in 2009 Crossing Continents looked at claims that MON Rwandans in France and Germany were controlling a deadly MON African militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. MON Reporter Peter Greste tracked down Callixte Mbarushimana to MON a Paris cafe. The elegantly dressed rebel Hutu leader flatly MON denied his group was responsible for attacks against MON civilians. But then, last October, Mbarushimana was arrested MON and sent to the International Criminal Court in the the MON Hague accused of 11 counts of crimes against humanity and MON war crimes, including rape and murder. Bereaved families and MON victims in Congo have long complained about a climate of MON impunity - could that be about to change? MON There appears to be a disheartening lack of change in MON Turkmenistan. Lucy Ash travelled there undercover in 2005 to MON find out what ordinary life was like for the citizens of one MON of the world's most repressive dictatorships. Despite the MON gold and marble clad buildings in the capital Ashgabat, she MON found people deprived not only of all rights and freedoms, MON but also of basic necessities such as healthcare. At that MON time the country was ruled by a man who renamed the month of MON April after his mother, outlawed ballet and banned gold MON teeth. The current president, ex dentist Gurbanguly MON Berdymukhammedov is less flamboyant but his promised reforms MON have failed to materialise. Doctors Without Borders, the MON last international nongovernmental organisation operating in MON the country recently left because the government refused to MON allow a programme to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis. MON This special edition also catches up with an American MON policeman who created a cult following for his "Street MON Story" podcasts, vivid vignettes of his work for the Tulsa MON Police Department. And now that India has decriminalised MON homosexuality, what has happened to the Gay Prince of MON Rajpipla, once shunned by his family and his community? MON MON 21:00 Material World b010mv4w (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell MON research. MON MON Springtime in the Arctic MON MON Dr Victoria Hill joins Quentin live by satphone from the MON Catlin Arctic Survey ice base North of Canada. She describes MON how the underside of the ice is suddenly turning green with MON an algal bloom as spring arrives. She studies 'Ocean Tea' - MON coloured, dissolved organic material, derived from the MON algae, that colour the water and increase heat absorption, MON perhaps increasing melting. But to what extent does that MON slow the formation of Atlantic bottom water, slowing the MON ocean circulation? In the studio they are joined by the MON project’s Head of Science, Dr Tim Cullingford MON MON Leakage in the South Atlantic MON MON The ocean circulation system in the Indian Ocean is MON ‘leaking’ into the South Atlantic around Cape Agulhas in MON Southern Africa. About 200 times the flow of the Amazon MON river, the warm, salty water is leaking into the Atlantic. MON According to a review in the Journal Nature by Lisa Beal of MON Miami University, the flow seems to be increasing perhaps MON and counteracting any reduction in the Atlantic circulation MON due to melting Arctic ice MON MON Shuttle to Search for Antimatter MON MON For the penultimate Space Shuttle flight, STS 134; Endeavour MON is on the launch pad for lift-off on Friday (29th at 10:47 MON BST). Aboard is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, destined MON for the ISS where it will search for signs of antimatter in MON the universe. We link up with Jonathan Amos at the Cape who MON will do a donut, introducing clips from Sam Ting, Nobel MON laureate behind the AMS MON MON The Cosmati Pavement MON MON When Kate Middleton and Prince William get married, they'll MON be standing on a newly-restored 13th century inlaid floor in MON Westminster Abbey, the Cosmati pavement. Vanessa Simioni, MON head of conservation at the Abbey describes how it has been MON cleaned, restored and conserved MON MON Ethics for roboticists MON MON The science fiction writer Isaac Azimov put forward a set of MON laws to ensure the ethical behaviour of robots. But real MON robots are unlike the automatons of fiction. A new report MON from a workshop held by the Engineering and Physical MON Sciences Research Council proposes ethical rules not for MON robots but for their makers. Professor Alan Winfield of the MON Bristol Robotics Lab explains MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b010t652 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr explores how far empathy, or the lack of it, can MON explain cruelty. Simon Baron-Cohen proposes turning the MON focus away from evil or specific personality disorders, and MON to understand human behaviour by studying the 'empathy MON circuit' in the brain. Gwen Adshead, a forensic MON psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital and the crime writer MON Val McDermid question whether this would help in their line MON of work, and the philosopher Julian Baggini tries to pin MON down what we mean when we talk about the self. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 21:58 Weather b010q8bl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b010vzyn (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 b010wvry (Listen) MON The Absolutist, Episode 6 MON MON September 1919: 20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train MON from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian MON Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will MON during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on MON the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector, MON an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft MON family. MON But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. MON He holds a secret deep in his soul. One that he is desperate MON to unburden himself of to Marian, if he can only find the MON courage. As he recalls his friendship with Will, from the MON training ground at Aldershot to the trenches of Northern MON France, he speaks of how the intensity of their friendship MON brought him both happiness and self-discovery as well as MON despair and pain. MON MON The reader is Blake Ritson. MON MON The Absolutist was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by MON Heather Larmour. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b010m9tb (Listen) MON Speakers' Corner MON MON Chris Ledgard explores Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde MON Park. He talks to the regulars who come to speak each week MON and learns how its history stretches back over a hundred MON years. The Speakers' Corner Trust is helping to set up more MON Speakers' Corners around the UK to promote debate and MON freedom of expression. In Tunisia, since the revolution last MON January, people have started to gather on the main street in MON Tunis to talk about politics and current affairs. MON MON Produced by Beatrice Fenton. MON MON 23:30 In Living Memory b00tg2lw (Listen) MON Series 12, The Humber Bridge MON MON Why was the Humber Bridge built? The first major proposal MON for a crossing was made in 1872, but a hundred and nine MON years were to pass before the Queen opened the bridge across MON the River Humber in July 1981. The aim was to link two MON remote areas of England, unite the new political entity - MON Humberside, and attract investment on both banks of the MON river. MON MON The bridge has been widely acclaimed as an architectural MON achievement. But it cost far more to build than originally MON envisaged, and traffic forecasts were optimistic. Just over MON a decade after the opening, its debts had reached £431 MON million pounds. And as Parliament debated how the money MON could be paid back, MPs focused on a promise made by the MON then Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle, on a January MON night in 1966. Was this really, as one Conservative member MON claimed, "a serious scandal...a bribe by the Labour party MON for the Hull North by-election"? MON MON Harold Wilson came to office in 1964 with a majority of just MON five. A by-election took that down to three. Then the MON Labour member for Hull North died in late 1965. His MON majority had been slight, and the by-election arranged for MON January 25th 1966 was seen as the key to the future of the MON Wilson government. The leading figures from both major MON parties headed from London to Hull to speak to packed MON hustings. The Labour candidate, Kevin McNamara, was MON favourite. But opinion polls right up to the last minute MON suggested Toby Jessel for the Conservatives was still in the MON race. A week before the election, Barbara Castle made her MON famous speech and ended nearly a century of debate by MON promising the people of Hull their bridge. MON MON In this edition of In Living Memory, we hear from the key MON figures in that election. Kevin McNamara and Toby Jessel MON discuss why the promise was made and whether it really had MON any political effect. A Labour party official at the centre MON of the discussions with Mrs Castle gives an insider's MON version of events. The fringe but feared candidate, the MON Guardian journalist Richard Gott, gives his perspective. MON And Sir Christopher Foster, who in January 1966 had just MON joined the Ministry of Transport as special advisor and MON chief economist, describes the ridicule he faced for MON allowing his minister to make a promise which, he says, made MON no economic sense. "It was with the greatest of MON embarassment" he remembers "that we learned the Humber MON Bridge was to be built...it was perfectly obvious that the MON Humber Bridge was not needed and would cost a great deal of MON money". The promise, he says, was made to win a MON by-election. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 03 MAY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b010r12m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b010t5wc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010r12p (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010r12r (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010r12t (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b010r12w (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010vy91 (Listen) TUE With the Rev Prof Peter Galloway. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b010t65n (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b010vy93 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Jam Generation Takes Power b010t6gh (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Political columnist Anne McElvoy meets leading figures from TUE the new generation at the top of British politics, including TUE Ed Miliband, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who grew up in TUE the 1980s listening to bands like The Jam. TUE TUE In the first programme, she traces how the Thatcher years TUE affected them as teenagers - and whether that time is in TUE their minds once more, now that we have Conservatives in TUE power again and acrimonious argument about spending and TUE cuts. TUE TUE In the second programme, she explores how the Blair years TUE saw them begin their careers in politics and what lessons TUE they now draw from that very different political period, in TUE terms of both spin and substance. TUE TUE In the final programme, Anne asks how this generation's TUE distinctive life experiences - too young to remember the TUE 1960s and much of the 1970s, but too old to grow up with the TUE internet - will shape our lives over the years to come. TUE TUE And across the series, she talks to those who have helped to TUE shape the culture these young men and women grew up with - TUE and finds out what they make of the political generation TUE they have helped to mould. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b010t6gk (Listen) TUE Series 2, Herbert Asquith TUE TUE Nick Robinson, the BBC Political Editor, continues his TUE series exploring how different prime ministers have used TUE their power, have responded to the great challenges of their TUE time and have made the job what it is today. TUE TUE The fourth of Nick's portraits in power is Herbert Asquith, TUE who was prime minister between 1908 and 1916 - the longest TUE uninterrupted spell in office among twentieth century prime TUE ministers until Margaret Thatcher (1979-90). TUE Asquith changed Britain by forcing through major social and TUE constitutional reforms, but his reputation was tarnished by TUE his refusal to give women the vote and his lack of strong TUE leadership during the First World War. TUE TUE Born into a family who worked in the northern woollen TUE industry, Asquith was a determined character and had a TUE first-class brain. After his election in 1886 he soon TUE emerged as a rising star in the Liberal Party and was TUE appointed Home Secretary by Gladstone before he was forty. TUE In 1906, he became Chancellor and laid the foundations of TUE Britain's welfare state. As prime minister, Asquith presided TUE over a talented Cabinet that included Lloyd George and TUE Winston Churchill. Asquith backed Lloyd George over his TUE radical 1909 budget and stood firm during the ensuing TUE constitutional crisis, which he settled by cutting the power TUE of the House of Lords. Although he managed to keep his TUE Cabinet united when Britain went to war in 1914, he failed TUE to give the strong leadership required of a war leader. His TUE decision to enter coalition with the Conservatives and TUE Labour in 1915 marked the beginning of his end as prime TUE minister. In 1916, he was out-manoeuvred by Lloyd George, TUE who succeeded him. After the war, the bitter rivalry between TUE the two men destroyed the Liberal Party as one of Britain's TUE two main parties. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b010t6gm (Listen) TUE Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949, TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Fenella Woolgar TUE Abridged by Doreen Estall TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b010t6gp (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. The tyranny of children's parties: TUE have they become too elaborate? Singers Charlie and Hattie TUE Webb will be performing live in the studio and chatting to TUE Jane about their musical journey from Kent to LA. When they TUE toured with Leonard Cohen he always introduced them as 'the TUE sublime Webb Sisters'. Hear about the IQAN system helping TUE older people and we look at how children should be TUE disciplined in school. At the recent NASUWT conference a TUE secondary teacher, Shane Johnschwager, called for the TUE greater use of sanctions such as Saturday morning detentions TUE and isolation units to punish indiscipline in school. We TUE talk to him and Joan McVittie from The Association of School TUE and College Leaders. TUE TUE The tyranny of children’s parties TUE TUE How many parents of young children find their free time is TUE eaten up by endless birthday parties? How many spend their TUE weekends ferrying the kids from swimming pool party to TUE bowling alley, and the other half frantically TUE present-shopping? Then there’s giving a party – do you book TUE an entertainer or do it yourself? Do you invite the whole TUE class or a select few? Why do we do it? Why can’t we just TUE say no? TUE TUE School discipline TUE TUE Many school heads are brushing low level bad behaviour under TUE the carpet because they don’t want to draw attention to TUE discipline problems in their school. At the recent NASUWT TUE conference a secondary teacher called for greater use of TUE sanctions such as Saturday morning detentions and isolation TUE units to punish indiscipline in school. Jane is joined by TUE Shane Johnschwager, a teacher and NASUWT branch secretary TUE for Brent, and by Joan McVittie, Head Teacher of Woodside TUE High school in London and President Elect of The Association TUE of School and College Leaders. TUE TUE The Webb Sisters TUE TUE The Webb Sisters are singers who hail from Kent, but have TUE spent the last ten years hanging out in LA, where they’ve TUE been asked to sing with artists such as Rufus Wainwright and TUE Sting. Their spine-tingling harmonies won them widespread TUE acclaim whilst touring the world with Leonard Cohen, who TUE described them as ‘the sublime Webb sisters’. Their new TUE album Savages is out on 9th May. Charley and Hattie Webb TUE join Jane to perform their award-winning song Baroque TUE Thoughts live in the studio. TUE TUE Technology to help the elderly TUE TUE A software system which could transform the lives of elderly TUE people is being tried out in Edinburgh. The system - called TUE ‘iQare’ - has been commissioned by a company run by Eve TUE Hatton from Stirling. It’s a touch screen computer which TUE allows elderly people to do everyday tasks, from planning TUE their day and keeping in touch with family and friends, to TUE accessing emergency help. Judy Merry has been to 'Caring in TUE Craigmillar,' a daycare centre in Edinburgh, which hopes to TUE be the first place in Scotland to adopt the system. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010t6gr (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 16: The Iron Curtain, Episode 2 TUE TUE Knut and Paula's relationship deepens as they spend time TUE alone together. Too soon the term ends and Knut has to TUE return to his clinic in Rostock. Big decisions need to be TUE made. TUE TUE Paula ...... Charlotte Emmerson TUE Knut ...... Jonathan Keeble TUE Sarah ...... Danielle Henry TUE Ulrike ...... Clare Louise Connolly TUE Stefan ...... David Seddon TUE TUE Directed by Susan Roberts. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b010t6gt (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE The re-introduction of European beavers into the British TUE countryside continues to be a long and complex consultation TUE process, with many beavers now in large habitat-scale TUE enclosures. These iconic riverine and wetland mammals, TUE famous for tree felling and lodge building in north America, TUE were part of the British landscape - and many want to see TUE their return. Saving Species has special access to its own TUE pair of beavers - not literally of course - but we'll be TUE reporting on a male and female from Norway over the coming TUE months from their first release into a large natural TUE enclosure in Devon, observing firsthand how they fashion the TUE habitat around them. It also kicks off one of Saving Species TUE major themes this year - Rivers and Wetlands. TUE TUE Sarah Pitt returns to the series with one of several TUE packages she's preparing about "citizen conservation". And TUE she's been to visit a garden. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Mary Colwell TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Walpole Chronicle b010t6gw (Listen) TUE The novelist Hugh Walpole was one of the most successful TUE writers of his generation; a consummate story teller. In the TUE 1920s and 30s he was a publisher's dream ticket. TUE TUE Each new novel dramatically outsold the one before. On his TUE lucrative literary tours of America he pulled in even bigger TUE audiences than Charles Dickens who had done the circuit 80 TUE years before. He was a friend of and admired by Virginia TUE Woolf, Arnold Bennett, John Buchan, Henry James, Clemence TUE Dane, and T.S. Eliot. He wrote more than 50 books including TUE 36 novels. He was the master of the epic family saga and TUE also an accomplished writer of psychological thrillers and TUE supernatural tales. Carl Jung thought Walpole was a better TUE psychologist than many of his professional colleagues. TUE TUE Today Walpole is largely forgotten. It was said that "the TUE works of Hugh Walpole will go on forever" but today only a TUE couple of his books are still in print. But what caused this TUE catastrophic decline in Walpole's reputation? TUE TUE For this re-appraisal of Walpole and his work Eric Robson TUE travels to the Borrowdale Valley in the Lake District where TUE Hugh settled for the last twenty years of his life. We go in TUE search of this larger than life character who denied the TUE existence of income tax, spent several fortunes on TUE collections of books and art works and sought the love of TUE London's literary set only to be ridiculed and parodied TUE whilst his back was turned. Why has the verdict of posterity TUE apparently been so harsh? TUE TUE Producer: Barney Rowntree TUE A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b010vyng (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b010r12y (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b010vynj (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 The Music Group b010t6gy (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 2 TUE TUE John Cooper Clarke and psychiatrist Sube Banerjee are joined TUE by the actress Samantha Morton to discuss three personally TUE significant pieces of music. TUE TUE Amongst their choices are a classic slice of secular gospel, TUE a 1970s punk rock call to arms; and a song that is TUE guaranteed to get one music group member dancing, exactly TUE one minute fifty seconds into the track. TUE TUE Along the way we find out what head teachers like to play to TUE pupils in assembly and the influence Joe Strummer had on TUE dementia strategy at the Department of Health. We also TUE discover the difference between song writing and poetry, in TUE the English language, and who stole John Cooper Clarke's TUE hair. TUE TUE The Music Choices are: TUE Please, Please, Please by James Brown and The Famous Flames TUE White Man (In Hammersmith Palais) by The Clash Scarlet TUE Fields by The Horrors TUE TUE Presenter: Phil Hammond TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b010t64t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b010t6h0 (Listen) TUE Lost Property, The Wrong Label TUE TUE by Katie Hims. London, 1941, and Alice knows that to stop TUE your children from being evacuated is tantamount to siding TUE with Hitler. TUE TUE Narrator ..... Rosie Cavaliero TUE Alice ..... Alex Tregear TUE Queenie ..... Katie Angelou TUE Ray ..... Daniel Cooper TUE Jim ..... Daniel Rabin TUE Mr Nightingale ..... Stuart McLoughlin TUE Miss Pearl ..... Bethan Walker TUE Miss Stanwyck ..... Sally Orrock TUE Mr Jones ..... Sean Baker TUE Mrs Jones ..... Joanna Monro TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b010t6h2 (Listen) TUE Helen Castor 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 b010t6h4 (Listen) TUE The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier, East Wind TUE TUE In East Wind the lives of a young couple are altered TUE irrevocably when a group of beguiling strangers are TUE shipwrecked off the shores of the Scilly Isles. Excitingly, TUE East Wind is one of several recently rediscovered stories by TUE Daphne du Maurier, and published in her new anthology, The TUE Doll: Short Stories. East Wind was written when she was just TUE nineteen, until now it has only ever been published in the TUE United States and was found in her 1926 notebooks in the TUE archives at Exeter University. Most of the other stories TUE included in the collection have never been published or have TUE been out of print for decades. Written early on in du TUE Maurier's writing career they reveal the dark themes TUE explored in the novels that made her name. TUE TUE Reader: Anna Madeley TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010t6h6 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Rebellion and Punishment TUE TUE Catherine's great passion was for Prince Potemkin and he TUE became her closest confidant and supporter. Catherine had TUE flirted with the liberal values of the European TUE Enlightenment, but a popular uprising sent her scuttling TUE back to the harshest forms of autocracy. TUE TUE Alexander Pushkin's classic tale, The Captain's Daughter, TUE captures the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Pugachev Revolt TUE in which hundreds of thousands of peasants, factory workers TUE and serfs turned against their masters. Landowners were TUE massacred and their estates ransacked. It was a foretaste of TUE the revolutionary terror that was about to sweep away the TUE monarchy in France and it gave Catherine nightmares. TUE TUE But, unlike revolutionary America or France where the people TUE were demanding ever more radical changes to society, in TUE Russia the spark for revolt was a reaction against reform, TUE and Catherine the great reformer became the great TUE reactionary, abandoning ideals of liberty, equality and rule TUE of law. TUE TUE Instead of giving power to the people, as Voltaire and TUE Diderot had hoped, Catherine finally endorses the old system TUE of autocracy - uncontrolled authority in the hands of one TUE person, namely herself. Martin Sixsmith argues that this is TUE the nub of Russian history, "that Russia is too big and too TUE unruly ever to be suited to democracy, and that only the TUE iron fist of uncompromising, centralised autocracy can keep TUE such a disparate centripetal empire together and maintain TUE order among her people. It's the same rationale," he says, TUE "enunciated by Rurik and Oleg, by Ivan the Terrible and TUE Peter the Great ... that would later be used by the TUE nineteenth century tsars, by the Communist regime in the TUE twentieth century and by Vladimir Putin in the twenty first. TUE TUE Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking TUE TUE Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b010t6h8 (Listen) TUE We do it at college, at work, and even in pursuit of TUE happiness. But what are the rules of engagement for an TUE interview? Michael Rosen finds out how to get into TUE university; how to keep your job or get a better one, and TUE how to impress the love of your life. TUE TUE Getting a place at university is more competitive than ever. TUE So just how level is the university playing field? Does the TUE process reward the most intelligent or the most articulate? TUE And are the skills developed for the college interview ones TUE that will come in handy later on....down the pub? TUE TUE Producer: John Byrne. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b010t6hb (Listen) TUE Series 24, Lewis Carroll TUE TUE Matthew Parris and writer Lynne Truss discuss the life of TUE author Lewis Carroll. Famous for the Alice books, Carroll TUE was also a brilliant mathematician and early photographer. TUE But his reputation has been clouded by allegations, never TUE substantiated, that he was a repressed paedophile. With the TUE help of biographer Robin Wilson, Lynne and Matthew try to TUE discover why, despite the millions of words written about TUE him, Carroll still remains a mystery. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b010t9gp (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010r130 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:26 Referendum Campaign Broadcast b010t6hd (Listen) TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b00sj5z7 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire TUE TUE Sony Award Winning comedy Clare in the Community returns TUE with Sally Phillips as Clare Barker the social worker who TUE has the right jargon for every problem she comes across, but TUE never a practical solution. TUE TUE Since the last series, society itself has improved little, TUE so there are still plenty of challenges out there for an TUE involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. TUE TUE A control freak, Clare Barker likes nothing better than TUE interfering in other people's lives on both a professional TUE and personal basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle TUE class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes TUE of discomfort to her. Each week we join Clare in her TUE continued struggle to control both her professional and TUE private life. TUE TUE The last series saw the personal and professional lives of TUE Clare's team shaken around and shuffled about, but it is in TUE the nature of hell to be unchanging, and most are present TUE and correct for a further round of frustration, despair, TUE disappointment, team meetings and eleven o'clock cakes at TUE the Sparrowhawk Family Centre. TUE TUE We find Clare is now Acting Team Leader at the Family Centre TUE as Irene has job swapped. And whilst Irene is in Melbourne TUE the team here are joined by Libby - an Aussie and a lezzie - TUE and proud to be both. TUE TUE Clare ..... Sally Phillips TUE Brian ..... Alex Lowe TUE Ray ..... Richard Lumsden TUE Helen ..... Liza Tarbuck TUE Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti TUE Libby ..... Sarah Kendall TUE TUE Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b010t7rq (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b010vzml (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson TUE TUE Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010t6gr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Lebanon: The Next Generation b010t6l7 (Listen) TUE Twenty-five years ago John McCarthy first set foot in TUE Lebanon. Twenty years ago he left. In the years between he TUE had been blindfolded, chained and beaten - as one of the TUE Western hostages caught up in the turmoil of the Lebanese TUE civil war. TUE TUE Now he returns for BBC Radio 4, with a set of questions he TUE is keen to answer. What has happened to Lebanon in the years TUE of comparative peace? Has the cycle of violence finally been TUE broken? What has happened to the civil war generation? And, TUE more importantly for John, what are the post-war generation TUE of young Lebanese doing to reshape their society? Are they TUE creating their own version of the Arab Spring? TUE TUE In the week of his visit John encounters two mass TUE demonstrations that illustrate the possibilities of change - TUE and also the barricades set against it. TUE TUE Event one is a rally of close to a million people in TUE Martyrs' Square. At this event the vast crowd roars approval TUE as the acting Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, calls for his TUE main political rival, Hezbollah, the Party of God, to give TUE up its weapons. Old Politics. TUE TUE Event two is more modest, but its impact on Lebanese society TUE could conceivably be more profound. Thirty-thousand people, TUE most of them young, march through the city streets to a hip TUE hop beat. They believe that for Lebanon to really become a TUE post-war society it must introduce a secular system, based TUE on individual human rights. The present system, they TUE believe, inevitably leads to conflict. New politics. TUE TUE John meets people from both sides of the great debate. Nadim TUE Gemayel, the son of an assassinated warlord who believes TUE that the days of warlords must be ended. Or Walid Jumblatt, TUE a current warlord, who feels trapped by the system that TUE sustains his power. TUE TUE And John meets a host of young people, determined to change TUE the world. TUE TUE Producer: Geoff Dunlop TUE A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b010vzmn (Listen) TUE Tony Shearman is the UK's first blind football manager to be TUE recognised by the Football Association. He tells us how he TUE follows the game and manages his team of sighted players. TUE TUE And the latest on Disability Living Allowance - we hear from TUE one listener who has been turned down for the higher rate TUE mobility component and intends to appeal. So who exactly TUE should qualify and what is the appeal process? TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b010t6l9 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond reports on a new support scheme for families TUE bereaved by suicide. TUE TUE 21:30 The Jam Generation Takes Power b010t6gh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b010r132 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b010vznt (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 b010wvsn (Listen) TUE The Absolutist, Episode 7 TUE TUE The reader is Blake Ritson. TUE TUE The Absolutist was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by TUE Heather Larmour. TUE TUE 23:00 Jon Ronson On b010t6lf (Listen) TUE Series 6, Spying TUE TUE Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another TUE series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human TUE condition. TUE TUE Jon Ronson talks to comedian Josie Long who found herself in TUE a situation where she had to make a choice on whether to spy TUE on someone's life... did morality step in? Writer Danny TUE Wallace recalls the days when a spy was sent to his home to TUE spy on his father, a leading expert on East German TUE literature. TUE TUE Johnny Howorth, rookie documentary maker, was also in a TUE situation where he was asked by US Marshals to spy on the TUE couple Ed and Elaine Brown who were convicted of tax crimes. TUE As he naively got more deeply involved, he feared another TUE Wako and had to make a difficult decision... John Symonds, a TUE so-called 'romeo spy' also tells his sometimes shocking TUE story. TUE TUE Producers: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs TUE An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b010t6lh (Listen) TUE Sean Curran presents the top news stories from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 MAY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b010r134 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b010t6gm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010r136 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010r138 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010r13b (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b010r13d (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010v8rj (Listen) WED With the Rev Prof Peter Galloway. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b010t6pz (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b010v8rl (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; WED Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b010v8rn (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b010t674 (Listen) WED Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949, WED Episode 3 WED WED Read by Fenella Woolgar WED Abridged by Doreen Estall WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b010t6y9 (Listen) WED Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women. WED WED On today's Woman's Hour the artist Maggi Hambling will be WED talking about her muse and model Henrietta Moraes - who also WED inspired Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010t6yc (Listen) WED Writing the Century 16: The Iron Curtain, Episode 3 WED WED With Knut working in Rostock and Paula teaching at the WED University in Dresden, they are forced to consider their WED future. The situation intensifies as Paula's return to the WED UK draws near. WED WED Paula ...... Charlotte Emmerson WED Knut ...... Jonathan Keeble WED Ulrike ...... Clare Louise Connolly WED Mr Graham ...... David Seddon WED WED Directed by Susan Roberts. WED WED 11:00 Random Edition b010t6yf (Listen) WED The Random Edition Festival of Britain Special WED WED Peter Snow with another journey into newspaper history. The WED Daily Mail for May 5th 1951 carried detailed reports of the WED previous day's events as the Festival of Britain at last WED swung into action. WED WED The King and Queen opened the South Bank exhibition in WED London - Skylon, Dome of Discovery and all - and the Daily WED Mail carried a plan of the site. Visitors complained about WED the price of food in the restaurants. Memories come from WED Michael Frayn, Lionel Blue, broadcaster Edward Greenfield WED and Festival of Britain Society chairman Fred Peskett...as WED well as from Peter Snow himself. WED WED But the programme also reflects the national character of WED the Festival, travelling to the mountains of North Wales to WED examine the Dolhendre Hillside Farm Scheme, which showed off WED modern farming methods to visitors from as far afield as WED Coventry and India. Dolhendre Isa Farm survives today in the WED hands of the same family who witnessed the dramatic changes WED the Festival brought. WED WED Also told is the story of the Festival ship, Campania, which WED carried an exhibition to ports around the coast. There are WED memories from Merseysiders who converted the ship, sailed in WED it and visited it. WED WED Elsewhere in this Random Edition, Charlotte Donaldson-Hudson WED recalls Noel Coward writing his wicked satire on the WED Festival, the song Don't Make Fun of the Fair, at her home WED in London: her film star mother was best friends with the WED songwriter. WED WED Despite the festival fever, the government minister WED responsible for the event, Herbert Morrison, received WED fearful stick in the press. Peter Snow explains why. Also in WED the mix of course, many visits to the BBC Sound Archive WED (including a contribution from the inimitable Brian WED Johnston, learning how to drive huskies), plus more musical WED sounds that lit up the Festival. WED WED Producer: Andrew Green WED An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Beauty of Britain b010t6yh (Listen) WED Series 2, Mission Command WED WED Beauty Oolonga, a Southern African care worker, shares her WED quirky view of Britain. Beauty struggles with an irascible WED gentleman and the Featherdown office struggle with Social WED Services' new pilot scheme for elder care in which the WED 'Assessment exercises are based on the battle principles of WED General von Moltke of the Prussian Army.' WED WED Beauty ..... Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Derek ..... Oscar James WED Nicole/Topaz/Tiffany ..... Morwenna Banks WED Karen ..... Nicola Sanderson WED Sally ..... Felicity Montagu WED Olivia/PhD Student .....Vicki Pepperdine WED WED The music for the series was performed by The West End WED Gospel Choir. WED Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson WED The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b010t6yk (Listen) WED Shari Vahl looks at reforms to make legal services more WED accessible. We begin our four-part energy series by looking WED at energy generated from the sun. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b010t6ym (Listen) WED John Waite investigates what happened when a Belfast WED commuter flight crashed killing 6 people. WED WED 12:57 Weather b010r13g (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b010v9zw (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 b010t7rn (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b010t7rq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b010t7rs (Listen) WED That's Mine, This is Yours WED WED by Peter Souter WED WED Juliet ... Tamsin Greig WED Sam ... Alex Jennings WED Amanda ... Eleanor Butters WED WED Directed by Gordon House WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b010vxys (Listen) WED If you are hoping to begin university in the autumn and you WED want your funding in place for the start of term, you need WED to apply now. WED WED But what financial help is available? Costs and support will WED vary depending on the course you do, household income and WED where you study. WED WED If you have a question about higher education costs or WED funding, Vincent Duggleby and a team of student money WED advisers will be ready to help on Wednesday's Money Box WED 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 b010t7rv (Listen) WED The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier, The Doll WED WED The Doll is a macabre and unsettling tale about a young man WED besotted by a young violinist, who in turn has a strange and WED haunting passion. The Doll is the title story of a newly WED published collection by Daphne du Maurier, and excitingly, WED is one of several recently re-discovered short fictions by WED the famous writer that have either never been published or WED have been out of print for decades. Written in the late WED 1920s when du Maurier herself was just twenty, The Doll WED reveals some of the dark themes that she explores in the WED novels that made her name. WED WED Reader: Ed Stoppard and Sean Baker WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010t7rx (Listen) WED Series 1, Napoleon Marches East WED WED It is the year 1812 and Napoleon's armies are marching WED eastwards, bringing the message of revolution to Russia. The WED French Enlightenment and the revolution of 1789 had had WED supporters and opponents among Russians. But when Napoleon WED turned his sights on Moscow, the threat to the Motherland WED spurred them to forget their differences, forget their WED grievances and unite. WED WED Against the backdrop of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and WED drawing on Tolstoy's War and Peace to illustrate Russia's WED deep seated fear of invasion, Martin Sixsmith reveals that WED the preservation of the nation became the overriding WED imperative, just as it had been at Kulikóvo Pole in 1380, WED just as it would be at Stalingrad in 1942. WED WED But, before the victory came the bungling. Catherine's WED successor and unloved son, Paul the First, was murdered in WED 1801 by a group of disgruntled Guards officers, and his WED twenty three year old son Alexander was summoned and told it WED was time for him to 'grow up and start to rule.' WED WED The gap between Russia's ruler and the Russian people had WED grown dangerously wide and Alexander feared revolution if it WED were not addressed. So his reforms were aimed at engaging WED the population in the interests of the state, giving them a WED stake in society, and creating patriotism and civic WED consciousness in a resentful population. But even then, his WED advisor Mikhail Speransky wrote about "the dead hand of WED autocracy" that had stifled every attempt to reform it, and WED Martin Sixsmith draws pertinent parallels with Russia today. WED WED Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking WED WED Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b010t7rz (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores radical gardening with George McKay. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b010t6l9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b010t9ks (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010r13j (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b010t7s1 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED Arthur Smith presents music and comedy from his home in WED Balham, South London. There's music in the kitchen, comedy WED in the front room and poetry on the landing. This week, WED finding a decent sized performance space amongst the WED accumulated debris that is Arthur's life are Katie Melua, WED Roisin Conaty, Alun Cochrane and Nick Helm WED WED Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b010t7s3 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b010vxyv (Listen) WED With John Wilson WED WED John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010t6yc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b010t7s5 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b010t7tx (Listen) WED Series 2, Don't Apologise WED WED Jonathan Sumption discusses modern apologies for historical WED events. Starting with Tony Blair's apology for the Irish WED potato famine and Pope John Paul II's 94 such apologies, he WED argues that the trend is turning into a tide. He argues that WED such apologies rely on a concept of inherited guilt, and WED asks whether the benefits ever outweigh the serious moral WED and philosophical objections. WED WED Four Thought combines big ideas and evocative storytelling WED in a series of personal viewpoints - speakers take to the WED stage ready to air their latest thinking on the trends, WED ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and WED society. WED WED Recorded live at the RSA in London, these talks are WED unscripted, thought-provoking and entertaining, with a WED personal dimension. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b010t7tz (Listen) WED Greening the Teens WED WED Take your average teenagers, Trudy (13, loves sports and WED Twilight), Liam (16, loves computer games) and Craig (19, WED loves cars). So much of what they enjoy seems to be energy WED intensive, but does this demographic really use more power? WED How do you get them to care about the environment they are WED going to inherit? WED WED That's the experiment Birmingham University is about to WED undertake. Can computer games, mobile alerts and social WED media create a generation of greens or are they already WED ahead of the curve? Farmworld is the most popular WED application on Facebook but could a real world equivalent to WED keeping and trading your animals online really help to WED change attitudes? Nestle have committed themselves to making WED the palm oil they use more eco-friendly after a Greenpeace WED spoof KitKat advert went viral, but can teenagers WED pre-occupation with all things online always produce such WED results? WED WED And should the kids really have to shoulder the WED responsibility? After all it was probably their WED gas-guzzling, gadget-consuming baby boomer parents and WED grandparents that created the problem. The UK Youth Climate WED Coalition is launching a long-term campaign, which will see WED all 650 Members of Parliament in the UK 'adopted' by a young WED person in their constituency in an attempt to keep climate WED change at the top of their agenda. How successful will their WED campaign be, even if the kids are alright can they really WED affect change at the top? WED WED 21:30 Midweek b010v8rn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b010r13l (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b010v92y (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 b010wvtx (Listen) WED The Absolutist, Episode 8 WED WED The reader is Blake Ritson. WED WED The Absolutist was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by WED Heather Larmour. WED WED 23:00 Fabulous b00dy23d (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Sitcom by Lucy Clarke about a woman who wants to be Fabulous WED but can't cope. WED WED With the builders in to build Faye a brand new kitchen and WED an award ceremony to go to, life should be glorious. WED WED With Daisy Haggard, Katy Brand, Justin Edwards. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b010t7vh (Listen) WED Rachel Byrne presents the top news stories from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 MAY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b010r13n (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b010t674 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010r13q (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010r13s (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010r13v (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b010r13x (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010t687 (Listen) THU With the Rev Prof Peter Galloway. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b010t689 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b010t698 (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather THU 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; THU Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b010t69b (Listen) THU The Origins of Islamic Law THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins and early THU development of Islamic law. The legal code of Islam is known THU as Sharia, an Arabic word meaning "the way". Its sources THU include the Qur'an, the example given by the Prophet THU Muhammad, and the opinions of legal scholars. In the 7th THU century, Sharia started to replace the tribal laws of THU pre-Islamic Arabia; over the next three hundred years it THU underwent considerable evolution as Islam spread. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b010t6dc (Listen) THU Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949, THU Episode 4 THU THU Read by Fenella Woolgar THU Abridged by Doreen Estall THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b010t6lk (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010t6lm (Listen) THU Writing the Century 16: The Iron Curtain, Episode 4 THU THU Back in England, Paula finds a new flat and job. Knut and THU Paula telephone and write as much as possible but the THU stresses of a relationship across the Iron Curtain take THU their toll. THU THU Paula ...... Charlotte Emmerson THU Knut ...... Jonathan Keeble THU Rebecca ...... Danielle Henry THU Stefan ...... David Seddon THU Mrs Waters ...... Melissa Jane Sinden THU THU Directed by Susan Roberts. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b010t6lp (Listen) THU South Africa THU THU Martin Plaut investigates alleged shortcomings at gold mines THU in South Africa. THU Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith. THU THU 11:30 78 Revolutions b010t6pb (Listen) THU Jenny Hammerton - a DJ of 78s - explores why the old discs THU are still alive and kicking. The 78rpm record lasted longer THU than any other format. Enrico Caruso recorded on 78s and THU Beatles records were cut on 78s in India in the late 1960s. THU And for some the old grooves and the heavy shellac discs are THU still the best. Record collectors swear the sound quality THU of 78s has never been surpassed and young afficienados are THU cutting their new pop songs on 78s. Sound artists and THU composers meanwhile are drawn to the patina of age that the THU old records carry in their scratch and hiss and some are THU making new music out of old noises. In the digital world THU where music has shrunk to invisible sound files, the wind up THU gramophone, a metal stylus and a box of heavy aromatic 10 THU inch discs seem more and more like precious and necessary THU demonstrations of the reality of things. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b010t6pd (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b010r13z (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b010t6pg (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 b010t7tz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b010t7s3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b010t6x7 (Listen) THU The Diva in Me THU THU Phillipa spends Saturday night eating toast and fantasizing THU about a boy-man from Southern Electric. She can sing THU anything from Bjork to Bassey with a touch of Judy Garland THU thrown in but the world has turned its back her. Why? A THU comedy with music by award-winning writer Charlotte Jones. THU THU Phillipa...Philippa Stanton THU Shadwell...Stuart McLoughlin THU Vicki...Sally Orrock THU Gene Kelly...Daniel Rabin THU Mona...Joanna Monro THU Trevor...Brian Bowles THU THU Directed by Claire Grove THU THU 15:00 Open Country b010r2zv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b010rb6v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b010t7p2 (Listen) THU The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier, The Happy THU Valley THU THU The Happy Valley by Daphne du Maurier tells the story of a THU young woman who dreams of an eerie wilderness and a grand THU old house, and echoes her most famous book, Rebecca. In the THU story, the young woman starts a romantic relationship with a THU man and finds herself walking into the real landscape she THU has dreamed of... THU THU The Happy Valley is selected from The Doll: Short Stories, THU the newly published collection by Daphne du Maurier. This THU includes several pieces recently rediscovered by an THU enthusastic devotee of the famous writer. The Happy Valley THU was originally printed in the Illustrated London News in THU 1932 but hasn't been published in a collection until now. THU Written early in her career these stories reveal the dark THU themes explored in the novels that made her name. THU THU Reader: Hattie Morahan THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Lucy Collingwood. THU THU 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010t7p4 (Listen) THU Series 1, Decembrist Revolt THU THU A haunting French lament and readings from Tolstoy's War and THU Peace underpin Martin Sixsmith's storyline as Napoleon's THU forces are chased from Russia. This, just like World War THU Two, was a people's war in defence of the motherland - THU furious, patriotic, and ultimately successful. The war THU however, bred further desire for radical change: serfs THU demanded freedom; peasants demanded the land, and the THU regular soldiers who pursued Napoleon all the way back to THU Paris, had seen a world their rulers would prefer them not THU to see. The discontent and the yearning for change would THU germinate and spread, before flowering in the most dramatic THU circumstances. THU THU After the liberal impulses of his youth, the French invasion THU and the spread of domestic opposition panicked Alexander I THU into a dour, slightly paranoid conservatism. The unrest that THU simmered during his lifetime exploded spectacularly when he THU died. The Decembrist Revolt over the succession - partly THU inspired by the American Revolution - demanded a THU constitutional monarchy and the abolition of serfdom. The THU uprising seemed to have been a shambolic, if heroic, THU failure. THU THU But it was an ominous warning to the new Tsar, Nicholas I, THU that all was not well in his empire. He responded by THU reinstating the old Muscovite tradition of absolute THU autocracy, strengthened the secret police, cracked down on THU dissent and introduced draconian measures to suppress THU political opposition. But, the harsh treatment of those who THU led the revolt - many were sent to Siberia and the five THU ring-leaders hanged - rallied public opinion to their cause, THU and in a country where poets have long been venerated as the THU conscience of the nation, Alexander Pushkin's sympathetic THU verses about the Decembrists did much to establish them as THU iconic standard bearers of the will for freedom. THU THU Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking THU THU Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b010t3jy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b010t7qp (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 17:00 PM b010t7qr (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010r141 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b010t7qt (Listen) THU Dave Angel THU THU British comedy legend and star of The Fast Show, Down the THU Line and Bellamy's People, Simon Day debut's his own Radio 4 THU character comedy show. THU THU Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The THU Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. THU Each week one of Simon's characters come to perform at The THU Mallard and we hear the highlights of that night's show, THU along with the back stage and front of house goings on at THU the theatre itself. THU THU This week 1990s Eco-Warrior Dave Angel (Simon Day), performs THU at The Mallard Theatre and a confused delivery man arrives THU with gifts from a star. THU THU Dave Angel / White Van Man ..... Simon Day THU Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd THU Goose ..... Felix Dexter THU Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b010tyls (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b010t7rj (Listen) THU Kirsty Lang reports on the Congolese band Benda Bilili THU THU Kirsty Lang reports on the Congolese band, Benda Bilili. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010t6lm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b010t7t6 (Listen) THU Tunisia was the focus of international attention when THU popular protest helped to topple the country's autocratic THU leader and triggered a wave of demonstrations across the THU region. But what happens next? Linda Pressley travels to THU Tunisia and meets those vying for political and business THU influence in its more open society. Amongst those she speaks THU to are Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of Tunisia's largest THU Islamist party and, until recently, a resident of Hemel THU Hempstead. THU THU 20:30 In Business b010t7t8 (Listen) THU Keep it Local THU THU As pubs struggle to survive, Peter Day travels through THU villages in Yorkshire and Cumbria to talk to local activists THU and find out how easy it is to buy and successfully run one THU of the focal points for any community - the village pub. He THU looks at the successes and failures and asks whether sheer THU enthusiasm and community spirit is enough to win through. THU Is there an economic case for these sorts of projects or can THU they only survive through grants and subsidies? THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b010t6gt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b010t69b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b010r143 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b010t7v5 (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 b010wwnq (Listen) THU The Absolutist, Episode 9 THU THU The reader is Blake Ritson. THU THU The Absolutist was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by THU Heather Larmour. THU THU 23:00 49 Cedar Street b010t7x5 (Listen) THU As far as the residents of 49 Cedar Street are concerned, THU this is one place where the Outside World need not apply. THU THU Laurence and Elliot have been living together for some time THU now - and it shows. They've settled into a sort of father THU and son role, with regular game nights and the occasional THU song and dance routine. THU THU Laurence does his best to look after Elliot and read him THU bedtime stories, in return Elliot tries to keep his room THU tidy and always eats his greens before pudding. Their home THU is a haven of peace and contentment, with comfy sofas, THU crayon drawings on the fridge and nice homemade biscuits. THU THU That is, until Hannah moves into the spare room. A walking THU collection of neuroses, emotions and non-stop jabbering THU about her ex, she crowbars her way into their life and THU threatens to turn everything upside down with her crazy THU woman's brain. However, the bond with her dysfunctional new THU family develops and she gradually lets go of some of her THU more destructive compulsions. THU THU And so it becomes the three of them against the world, THU battling side by side through the strange adventures THU surrounding the house at 49 Cedar Street, in a ludicrous but THU ultimately lovely world. THU THU Laurence ..... Colin Hoult THU Elliot ..... Tom Parry THU Hannah ..... Isabel Fay THU Cupid ..... Duncan Wisbey THU Victorian Orphan Boy ..... Alix Dunmore THU THU Original music was composed and performed by Alexander Rudd, THU with Natalie Rosario on cello. THU THU Written by Julie Bower THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b010t7x7 (Listen) THU Sean Curran presents the top news stories from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 MAY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b010r145 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Vote 2011 b010t7z9 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010r14c (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b010r14f (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010t6r0 (Listen) FRI With the Rev Prof Peter Galloway. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b010t6qp (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b010t6q3 (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 Desert Island Discs b010t31j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b010t6np (Listen) FRI Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949, FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Fenella Woolgar FRI Abridged by Doreen Estall FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b010t6q7 (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010t6bw (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 16: The Iron Curtain, Episode 5 FRI FRI August 1988 and the strain of external forces is FRI intolerable. For several months Knut's letters to Paula FRI stop. Letters and phone calls eventually resume but when the FRI Berlin Wall falls in 1989, is it too late? FRI FRI Paula ...... Charlotte Emmerson FRI Knut ...... Jonathan Keeble FRI Rebecca ...... Danielle Henry FRI Ulrike ...... Clare Louise Connolly FRI Stefan ...... David Seddon FRI FRI Directed by Susan Roberts. FRI FRI 11:00 Requiem for a Moth b010t6nr (Listen) FRI Britain's enthusiasm for moths gets far less attention than FRI its love of bird watching. But 'moth-ing' is a fast growing, FRI sociable recreation that draws us closer to the biodiversity FRI of our cities and countryside. FRI FRI Martin Wainwright seeks out the moth-men and women who FRI pursue the thousands of brightly coloured species of moth. FRI FRI Composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle talks about his life-long FRI passion for the insects, and how his music will pay tribute FRI to their enduring appeal. FRI FRI We spend an evening in the woods of Yorkshire welcoming in FRI the new season of moths. And we meet Madeleine Moth MP, who FRI reveals why moths are so crucial to our survival, and why FRI moth-fancying is a peculiarly British pastime. FRI FRI Producer: Iain Chambers FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b010t6nt (Listen) FRI Meet The Millers FRI FRI A candid look at contemporary family through the prism of FRI two North London siblings Lucy and Tom as they schlep FRI between their determinedly hands-on parents. Lucy is excited FRI about exploring surrealism, Tom is obsessively counting FRI sultanas and their mum Mimi (Sarah Alexander) is desperate FRI for her third attempt at married life to get started, but FRI the children's father Joe (David Tennant) has come to a FRI decision that will changes their all their lives... FRI FRI If it's Wednesday... it must be Holloway FRI FRI Joe ..... David Tennant FRI Mimi ..... Sarah Alexander FRI Tom ..... Finlay Christie FRI Lucy ..... Phoebe Abbott FRI Harry ..... Stuart Milligan FRI FRI Writer: Marcella Evaristi FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b010t6nw (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b010r14h (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b010t6ny (Listen) FRI National and international news, featuring analysis, comment FRI and interviews. Listeners can share their views via email: FRI wato@bbc.co.uk or on Twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b010tyls (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b010t6jh (Listen) FRI The Janitor by Ed Jones. FRI FRI Kevin is struggling to keep his new restaurant afloat in FRI posh Salford Quays. But then Jonno turns up. The boy he was FRI a dad to for a couple of years when he was shacked up with FRI his mother. He couldn't save the mother, can he now save the FRI kid? All fifteen stone of him? FRI FRI Kevin............Jason Done FRI Jonno............Tachia Newall FRI Sandra..........Naomi Radcliffe FRI Mikey............Chris Jack FRI Amy..............Catherine Kinsella FRI Scotty...........Gerard Fletcher FRI FRI Producer Gary Brown FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b010t6jk (Listen) FRI Carmarthenshire, Wales FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening Q&A in Carmarthenshire, FRI Wales. He is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew & Anne FRI Swithinbank. FRI FRI In addition, Matthew Wilson reports on a recent set of FRI daffodil trials taking place at RHS Wisley. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010t6jm (Listen) FRI Series 1, Defeat and Disaffection FRI FRI The problems of reform in European Russia are mirrored in FRI its hugely expanded, multiethnic, disparate empire. Today FRI these outlying countries provide dangerous flashpoints and FRI this programme begins with Martin Sixsmith's news reports in FRI the 1980's and 90's about the escalating conflicts in the FRI south of the USSR. He then looks back at the seeds sown FRI centuries earlier and argues that their roots can be FRI understood only through the long view of Russian history. FRI FRI Possession of southern territories including the Ukraine and FRI the Crimea accelerated Russia's rise to Great Power status- FRI and contributed to a sense of national pride that helped FRI glue together a fractious empire, but it wasn't without it's FRI costs. Comparing Pushkin's Prisoner of the Caucasus and FRI Lermontov's Hero of our Time, Sixsmith looks at Russia's FRI brutal conquest of the Caucasus. He draws a vivid portrait FRI of General Yermolov who remains today a figure of hatred and FRI revulsion, a symbol of Russian genocide. This memory is a FRI spur to some of the appalling atrocities of recent history FRI that Chechen fighters have inflicted on captured Russian FRI soldiers. FRI FRI Part of the reason Russia was willing to pay such a heavy FRI price for domination of the Caucasus was as a defence of her FRI vulnerable southern frontiers. Here the Persians, Turks and FRI - increasingly - the British were jostling for territory. FRI The decline of the Ottoman Empire provoked the onset of the FRI Great Game, with Russia and Britain facing off in a struggle FRI to fill the power vacuum. FRI FRI The defeat of Russia in the Crimean War marked Russia's FRI decline as the dominant European power, while at home it FRI sparked public dissatisfaction that would be exploited by FRI the emerging forces of revolutionary opposition. FRI FRI Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b010t6jp (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 b010t6jr (Listen) FRI Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood, arthouse and beyond - FRI Francine Stock investigates FRI FRI Producer: Zahid Warley. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b010t6jt (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010r14k (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b010t6f2 (Listen) FRI Series 74, Episode 4 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b010t6d5 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b010t6cn (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang reports from Brighton Festival FRI FRI With Kirsty Lang, including a report from the Brighton FRI Festival. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010t6bw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b010t6by (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Harrow High FRI School with Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, FRI Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, Shirley FRI Williams, the Liberal Democrat peer and Douglas Alexander, FRI Shadow Foreign Secretary. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b010t6c0 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 12 FRI FRI 12/20. When massing for their winter torpor in Mexico, the FRI pine trees laden with Monarch Butterflies are one of the FRI most mystical and magical places to be. David Attenborough FRI is one of many naturalists, writers and broadcasters to FRI marvel at this species migration feat and the spectacle of FRI their over wintering - one of the natural wonders of the FRI world. In this Life Story David Attenborough guides us FRI through the butterfly's migration to Canada from Mexico - FRI and back again - gently unpacking their natural history and FRI wonder. And he immerses us in other butterfly congregations FRI during filming trips over the years - but in a clever twist FRI brings us back to his garden with an intriguing thought FRI about the evolution of butterfly behaviour. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Russia: The Wild East b010t6c2 (Listen) FRI Russia: The Wild East Omnibus, The Dangerous Gap between FRI Ruler and Ruled FRI FRI Peter the Great died on the 8th of February 1725. He was 52 FRI years old, had reigned for forty of those years and FRI transformed Russia from a struggling, landlocked state to a FRI major and still expanding empire. But he died without FRI appointing an heir. FRI FRI At the start of week 3 of BBC Radio 4's major new History FRI series, Russia - The Wild East, Martin Sixsmith traces the FRI power struggles after the death of Peter, until another FRI Great leader emerges. While Peter the Great had laid the FRI foundations of Russia as a European power, it was under FRI Catherine the Great that Russia became Europe's most feared FRI superpower. FRI FRI One of the reputations that Catherine acquired was of a FRI woman with a healthy interest in sex, but this shouldn't FRI overshadow her reforming zeal. She modernised the legal FRI system, took ideas from the great Enlightenment thinkers FRI Diderot and Voltaire, and learnt by heart long passages from FRI Montesquieu's iconic manifesto of constitutionalism, on the FRI separation of powers, civil liberties and the rule of law. FRI FRI "It seemed to many," Martin Sixsmith suggests, "that Russia FRI was preparing to boldly go where few others would dare to FRI tread - having been the most backward of the European FRI powers, she now appeared to be leading the way to the FRI enlightened future." FRI FRI But an ingrained fear of vulnerability lay beneath this show FRI of strength, and Catherine followed an aggressive programme FRI of expansion especially to the south. It provided a buffer FRI against enemies on her borders, but sowed the seeds of FRI ethnic tensions that still exist today, and a careful FRI observer would have realised even at this stage that FRI Catherine was setting very clear limits to the extent and FRI nature of the changes she was prepared to allow. FRI FRI Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b010r14m (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b010t6c4 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b010x2q9 (Listen) FRI The Absolutist, Episode 10 FRI FRI The readers are Blake Ritson and William Gaunt FRI FRI The Absolutist was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by FRI Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b010t6hb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b010t6c8 (Listen) FRI The day's top news stories from Westminster with Mark FRI D'arcy. FRI