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SAT SATURDAY 07 APRIL 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01f6cjw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01fcn00 (Listen) SAT The Great Animal Orchestra, Episode 5 SAT SAT Read by Nigel Lindsay. SAT SAT Having explored the worlds of inanimate and animal sound, SAT Krause turns to the sounds and noises generated by modern SAT human beings and their effects on the non-human world around SAT them. SAT SAT Bernie Krause is the world's leading expert in natural SAT sound. He has spent the last 40 years recording ecological SAT soundscapes and has archived the sounds of over 15,000 SAT species - half of the wild soundscapes he has on tape don't SAT exist anymore because of human actions. SAT SAT In The Great Animal Orchestra he invites us to listen SAT through his ears to all three as he showcases singing trees, SAT contrasting coasts, and the roar of the modern world. SAT SAT Written by Bernie Krause SAT Adapted by Polly Coles SAT SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01f6ck1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01f6ck4 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01f6ck6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01f6ck8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01f6cn3 (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day from Wales, with SAT Canon Patrick Thomas. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01f6cn5 (Listen) SAT Falklands satire: "It gives the impression that the SAT Government's response to the war is fairly amateurish and SAT shambolic." A listener on his collection of cartoons and SAT satirical programmes relating to the war in the South SAT Atlantic, plus former 'Week-ending' producer Jimmy Mulville. SAT John Craven reads Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01f6ckb (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01f6ckd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01f6864 (Listen) SAT Drought SAT SAT As parts of the country face a hosepipe ban for the first SAT time in 20 years, Jules Hudson is in Berkshire to find out SAT how the drought is affecting the county. SAT SAT Presenter: Jules Hudson SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT John Hounslow with Jules in Berkshire SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01d84d9 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Caz Graham walks through the issues over access to the SAT country as budget cuts question the future of footpaths. Caz SAT Graham rambles around Sedbergh with David Butterworth, the SAT Chief Executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park SAT Authority, to discuss the concerns. SAT SAT North of the border, Cameron McNeish tells Moira Hickey SAT about the impact for ramblers of the Land Reform Act in SAT 2003. Cyclists in South Wales are also benefitting from new SAT paths which aim to enable commuter routes through the SAT countryside. SAT SAT And Caz walks along Hadrian's Wall to discover the benefits SAT to the local economy of footpaths due to tourism. SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01f6ckg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01d84df (Listen) SAT Presented by Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01d84dt (Listen) SAT Jeanette Winterson, Mr Gee, David Lindo, Polly Morgan, Sir SAT George Pollock, Carmarthen crowdscape and Howard Jones SAT SAT Anita Anand with author Jeanette Winterson, poet Mr Gee, SAT young taxidermist Polly Morgan and urban birder David Lindo. SAT Plus a crowdscape from the Welsh town of Carmarthen, SAT Inheritance Tracks from 80s pop star Howard Jones and SAT listener Sir George Pollock remembers taking part in a ski SAT jump on Hampstead Heath in London in the 1950s. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01d84dy (Listen) SAT Wildlife travel SAT SAT John McCarthy explores wildlife travel with naturalist and SAT tv presenter, Mark Carwardine, who has spent thirty years SAT travelling around the world to observe and aid conservation SAT of a huge range of species including whales, tigers, SAT gorillas and sea birds. He is also joined by wildlife travel SAT writer, James Parry, who has made a unique tour of the SAT world's top twenty deserts chosen for their outstanding SAT wildlife and landscape interest - and award-winning wildlife SAT photographer, Andy Rouse, discusses his recent trips to SAT Rwanda in relation to mountain gorillas, and to India to SAT study tigers. SAT Producer: Margaret Collins. SAT SAT 10:30 Hairpieces for Horses and Clogs for Dogs b01fnqxw (Listen) SAT Domestic dogs and leisure horses have never had it so good, SAT why do we spend like we do? From hair extensions to SAT formulated feeds, sorbet and scones it seems there is SAT nothing an owner can't buy for their treasured animal SAT companion. SAT SAT With endless accessories and feeds now available, Dylan SAT Winter explores what's changed in our life alongside these SAT animals to account for such pampering and expenditure. SAT SAT Amongst the aisles of an equestrian megastore and the trade SAT stands at Crufts he tackles the light-of-purse owners now SAT weighed down with shopping bags to find out what they are SAT prepared to spend and why. Dylan also asks anthrozoologists SAT and psychologists about the origins and psychology of the SAT complex quirky bonds humans have with these animals. SAT SAT Producer: Sheena Duncan SAT A Sheena Duncan production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b01d84f4 (Listen) SAT Direct democracy is meant to transform our politics, giving SAT voters more power. Voters are meant to exercise that power SAT through devices like petitions and referendums. There are SAT also proposals for the recall of MPs by popular vote in SAT between general elections. But how far will these measures SAT really make a difference? Is government managing to resist SAT more voter influence, or using referendums, imposed from the SAT centre, as a new weapon of central power? Or is direct SAT democracy a bad idea in principle, exposing representative SAT democracy to populism? David Grossman investigates. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01d84f6 (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01d84fb (Listen) SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: Mortgage prisoners: Should SAT borrowers have more protection against rising standard SAT variable rates (SVR's)? The Financial Services Consumer SAT Panel wants a new FSA rule to help those trapped in an SAT existing loan, and unable to access a better deal elsewhere SAT when they need to remortgage. But how realistic is it? Gift SAT cards: What happens when a company goes bust? And why do SAT they have expiry dates? And we hear from a Money Box SAT listener who found himself uninsurable because he had a SAT criminal record. New laws could change that. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01f6ch3 (Listen) SAT Series 77, Episode 1 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01f6ckj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01f6ckl (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01f6ch9 (Listen) SAT Sturminster Newton SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and SAT politics from The Exchange, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, with SAT UKIP leader, Nigel Farage; Labour MP, Ben Bradshaw; SAT Conservative MP, John Redwood; and writer and comedian, Viv SAT Groskop. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01d84fl (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b018kcj6 (Listen) SAT The Voysey Inheritance SAT SAT Harley Granville Barker's classic 1905 play, The Voysey SAT Inheritance. SAT SAT Edward discovers that in inheriting his father's impressive SAT family business, he is inheriting a Ponzi scheme. For years SAT his father has been making free with clients' capital and SAT speculating recklessly, as his own father did before him. SAT Edward must decide whether to continue the business and try SAT to put matters right - a seemingly impossible task - or to SAT expose the crime and bring his family to certain ruin. SAT SAT With Samuel Barnett as Edward and Clive Merrison as Mr. SAT Voysey. SAT SAT Edward........................... Samuel Barnett SAT Mr Voysey................ .... . Clive Merrison SAT Mr George Booth........... Gawn Grainger SAT Trenchard Voysey.......... Richard Dillane SAT Major Booth Vosey............ Alan Cox SAT Denis Tregoning................ Joseph Arkley SAT Mrs Voysey...................... Phyllida Law SAT Honor Voysey.................. Amanda Lawrence SAT Peacey............................. Paul Moriarty SAT SAT The Voysey Inheritance was adapted for radio and directed by SAT Lu Kemp. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01d84fq (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Liz Jones SAT SAT The real Mad Men - why women still only make up a small SAT percentage of the industry's "creatives. Oscar winning SAT documentary maker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy on her film about SAT the problem of acid attacks in Pakistan. A disabled blogger SAT and activist on the controversy surrounding a new TV series SAT "The Undateables" which follows ten single people with SAT disabilities as they set out to find love. And the original SAT Tate and Lyle "Sugar girls" talk about life at the factory SAT in London's East End during the War. Plus the age old SAT question; how much bosom a woman should display? and can a SAT feminist wear make up? SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01d84fs (Listen) SAT The day's top news stories, with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01d6n4z (Listen) SAT Falklands satire: "It gives the impression that the SAT Government's response to the war is fairly amateurish and SAT shambolic." A listener on his collection of cartoons and SAT satirical programmes relating to the war in the South SAT Atlantic, plus former 'Week-ending' producer Jimmy Mulville. SAT John Craven reads Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01f6ckq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01f6cks (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01f6ckv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01d84g1 (Listen) SAT Matt Lucas, Gilles Peterson, Paul Nicholas and Carol Morley SAT SAT We're rolling out the red carpet for comedian and actor Matt SAT Lucas, whose celebrity guests join him and his mum in his SAT flat for 'The Matt Lucas Awards' with their nominations for SAT awards such as Smuggest Nation of People or Most Moreish SAT Food. The winner will receive the much-coveted 'Lucas' SAT statue - a golden miniature of naked Matt! Have your black SAT tie ready for 'The Matt Lucas Awards' on BBC One at 10.35 pm SAT on Tuesday 10th April. SAT SAT Global beats DJ Gilles Peterson will be talking all that SAT jazz about spending thirteen years presenting his SAT groundbreaking BBC Radio 1 show 'Worldwide'. Gilles is now SAT making the move to 6 Music to play a mixture of soul, jazz, SAT hip-hop and dance on Saturdays from 3pm - 6pm from Saturday SAT 7th April. SAT SAT Jon Holmes will be living on the Edge with filmmaker Carol SAT Morley. Following the success of her documentary 'Dreams of SAT a Life', Carol's new film 'Edge' is a gentle tale of the SAT motives and agendas of a group of disparate lost souls who SAT gather at an Eastbourne hotel. 'Edge' is released on DVD on SAT 16th April. SAT SAT Best-known for his TV role as bookmaker Vince in 'Just Good SAT Friends', actor Paul Nicholas will be talking to Peter about SAT life on screen and on both sides of the stage. Paul is SAT currently directing the much loved Dickens story 'A Tale of SAT Two Cities' at London's Charing Cross Theatre until 12th SAT May. SAT SAT With music from London four-piece Folk-Americana outfit The SAT Cedars, who'll be brightening up the studio and performing SAT 'The Colour' from their debut album 'Little Copper Still'. SAT SAT And we're counting on a Magic Number from Michele Stodart, SAT who plays her single 'Foolish Love' from her debut solo SAT album 'Wide-Eyed Crossing'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01d84g5 (Listen) SAT Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins SAT SAT With the Hunger Games topping cinema box-office charts over SAT the Easter weekend, Gerry Northam profiles Suzanne Collins, SAT the children's author who wrote the best-selling books on SAT which the film is based. Her trilogy, set in a SAT post-apocalypse America, is said to have been inspired by a SAT combination of Greek myth and reality television as well as SAT Collins' own upbringing as the daughter of an air-force SAT officer who served in Vietnam. So how much do we know about SAT the woman behind the phenomenon now being described as the SAT US equivalent of Harry Potter? SAT Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01d84g7 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Deborah Bull from King's SAT Cultural Institute, writer Adam Mars Jones and BBC SAT diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall review the week's SAT cultural highlights. SAT SAT Chichester Festival Theatre's 50th anniversary season kicks SAT off with Jeremy Herrin's production of Uncle Vanya. Using SAT Michael Frayn's translation of Chekhov's text it stars Roger SAT Allam as Vanya in a cast which also includes Dervla Kirwan, SAT Timothy West and Maggie Steed. SAT SAT Pure is Timothy Mo's first novel for 12 years. Its main SAT narrator is Snooky - a Bangkok ladyboy whose life as a SAT hedonistic film reviewer is rudely interrupted when he is SAT blackmailed by the authorities into spying on a cell of SAT would-be jihadists based over the border in Malaysia. SAT SAT The new season of Sky Arts Playhouse Presents comprises 11 SAT short dramas and comedies from a range of writers including SAT Will Self, Paul O'Grady and Sandi Toksvig. The first play - SAT The Minor Character - stars David Tennant as Will - a very SAT unreliable narrator who finds himself increasingly SAT marginalised by his circle of friends. SAT SAT The first major survey of Damien Hirst's work in the UK has SAT opened at Tate Modern in London. It brings together 70 of SAT his works including landmark pieces like The Physical SAT Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, A SAT Thousand Years and For the Love of God. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT Uncle Vanya is on at the Chichester Festival Theatre, until SAT May 5th 2012. SAT SAT Le Havre is at selected cinemas from this weekend, SAT certificate PG. SAT SAT Damien Hirst exhibition is at the Tate Modern until 9 SAT September 2012. SAT SAT Playhouse Presents begin on Sky Arts 1 on 12 April at 9pm. SAT SAT Pure by Timothy Mo is published by Turnaround Books. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01d84gc (Listen) SAT From Our Rome Correspondent SAT SAT There are few who can remember the days when David Willey SAT wasn't the BBC's Rome Correspondent. Here, with the help of SAT the BBC's and his own private archive, David looks back at SAT his years acting as our eyes and ears in the Italian SAT capital. SAT SAT The programme also delves into David's earlier career SAT covering North and East Africa and the early years of the SAT Vietnam War. But it's the understanding of the culture and SAT the politics of Italy that David has made his lifetime's SAT work. SAT SAT In this very personal reminiscence he explores again the SAT events of his time in the country. He talks to old friends SAT and new arrivals about Italian life and attitudes at a SAT crucial point in the country's story, and he offers his own SAT telling insights into the stories behind the stories, and SAT the importance of gaining and sustaining the trust of those SAT on whom he reports. SAT SAT There's a particularly telling view of the Vatican and its SAT workings from a man who was largely responsible for the Pope SAT providing Radio Four with a unique 'Thought for the Day'. SAT SAT There's also a chance to hear the lighter side of David's SAT Roman adventure including a truffle hunt with an eccentric SAT female aristocrat and a conversation with a man who has both SAT a Stradivarius and a Guaneri violin to choose from when he SAT performs. SAT SAT But it's the extra insights, the tour of Silvio Berlusconi's SAT private tomb and the private conversations with the late SAT Pope John Paul II that make David Willey such a unique and SAT treasured figure in the BBC News story. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01f5gvh (Listen) SAT Plantagenet: Series 3, Henry V - True Believers SAT SAT by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Young SAT prince Hal will inherit an unstable throne, and a kingdom SAT riven with heresy and rebellion. Victory over the rebel SAT Hotspur, and then the French, will bring peace to England SAT and glory to the king - but at what cost to the man? SAT SAT Hal ...Luke Treadaway SAT Catherine...Lydia Leonard SAT Thomas of Earlham...James Lailey SAT Sir John Oldcastle...Nicky Henson SAT Henry IV...Paul Moriarty SAT Badby...Simon Bubb SAT Bradmore...Carl Prekopp SAT With Rikki Lawton, Gerard McDermott and Christopher Webster SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01f6ckx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b01d44rm (Listen) SAT Joint Enterprise SAT SAT In the first of a new series, Clive Anderson and guests SAT discuss the controversial law of joint enterprise under SAT which people can be convicted of murder even if they didn't SAT physically participate in an assault or strike the fatal SAT blow. SAT SAT Francis Fitzgibbon QC, who has defended people in joint SAT enterprise cases, argues that this complex and unwieldy law SAT is being applied indiscriminately to combat gang violence, SAT and is leading to miscarriages of justice. SAT SAT Solicitor Simon Natas calls for the law to be changed to SAT make it necessary to prove that a defendant intended that SAT someone should be killed or seriously injured. SAT SAT But Mark Heywood QC who has prosecuted in the trials of SAT people accused of murder following the death of a young man SAT during a knife attack by a gang in Victoria Station, defends SAT the way joint enterprise law is currently being applied. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT A Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01f5hp1 (Listen) SAT Series 2, University of Sussex SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Sussex, "The 3rd SAT Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at SAT cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst SAT delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a SAT different University each week, and it pits three SAT Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b01f5gvm (Listen) SAT Series 12, next to of course god america i SAT SAT Known as the poet who didn't use capitals or punctuation, ee SAT cummings loved life and the natural world. But he also loved SAT satirising the pretensions of American politicians, and SAT their uses and misuses of patriotism. That's certainly what SAT he does in his acclaimed 1926 sonnet, '"next to of course SAT god america', which crashes together some of the USA's SAT revered foundational texts to great effect. His use of wit SAT puts him in a very different league to the British war SAT poets. SAT SAT Peggy Reynolds begins the new series of Adventures in Poetry SAT by exploring the impact and wider associations of cummings' SAT poem. She hears about the circumstances in which Cummings SAT wrote it: serving in the Ambulance Corps during the First SAT World War, he was detained by the French for over 3 months, SAT under suspicion of being a German spy. Professor David Herd SAT of the University of Kent, an expert on Twentieth Century SAT American poetry, argues that after undergoing such SAT imprisonment, it's perhaps no surprise that Cummings had SAT cause to parody the consequences of politicians resorting to SAT tub-thumping patriotic rhetoric at times of crisis. We hear SAT how the poem still speaks to people today, among them SAT American journalist Michael Goldfarb, who was an unembedded SAT reporter in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 APRIL 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01d84gm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Arthur Miller Short Stories b01fnmx6 (Listen) SUN Please Don't Kill Anything SUN SUN Acclaimed actor Alfred Molina performs Arthur Miller's SUN affecting 'Monroe' story. It has an especial extra resonance SUN as it seems the nearest Miller came to characterising SUN Marilyn Monroe within a short story. The sweet, dedicated SUN girl-wife - and he, the loving older husband - still at the SUN beginning of what could be a perfect, idyllic partnership. SUN SUN A married couple watch fishermen on a beach at sundown SUN unloading their latest catch. She worries over the ones that SUN will die needlessly, unacceptable to the fishermen but not SUN returned to the sea. She tries to throw some of them back. SUN The husband, amused, patiently indulges her childlike SUN obsession. SUN SUN The generosity of spirit and understanding between the two SUN is movingly conveyed and seems to echo aspects of Miller's SUN own relationship with Monroe. Written in 1960, its sense of SUN contentment and celebration contrasts notably with what we SUN know was to happen between them soon afterwards. He doesn't SUN foresee the tragedies to come... Or does he? SUN SUN Reader: Alfred Molina SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Productions for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d84gt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d84gw (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d84gy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01d84h0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01d84h2 (Listen) SUN The bells of Exeter Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01d84g5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01d84h4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01fhnsp (Listen) SUN Always the Last to Be Picked SUN SUN Mark Tully considers the enduring effects that being chosen SUN last can have on us and asks whether the negative aspects of SUN competition might out-way the positive. SUN SUN We often think of those who get picked first as the winners, SUN or the best. But Mark Tully chooses to focus instead on SUN those who are left until the end, whose self-confidence is SUN jeopardised in the name of sport, and in many other areas of SUN our lives. SUN SUN He also questions the underlying notion that our very SUN existence depends on 'survival of the fittest', a phrase SUN that is often used to justify ruthless competition and the SUN rejection of 'losers'. He discovers that the term originally SUN referred to the survival of species that can best fit their SUN environment, often by cooperation rather than aggression. SUN SUN So is society better for being competitive, or would life SUN improve for everyone if the pressure to be the best was SUN abandoned? And will the last ever be the first? SUN SUN The readers are Emily Raymond, David Holt, Adam Fowler and SUN Frank Stirling. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 Sunrise Service b01fhnsr (Listen) SUN As Easter Day dawns, the Very Revd Stephen Lake leads a SUN meditation from Gloucester Cathedral reflecting on the SUN mystery of the Resurrection - with the Cathedral Youth Choir SUN directed by Ashley Grote and accompanied by Liam Crangle. SUN Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01fcy1g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01fcy1j (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01fhnst (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01fhnsw (Listen) SUN Y Care International SUN SUN John Bishop presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Y Care International. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1109789, SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Y Care International. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Y Care International SUN SUN Y Care International is the international relief and SUN development agency of the YMCA, working across 16 countries SUN around the world. Co-founded in 1984 by the current SUN President, Terry Waite CBE, The YMCA is the largest SUN international youth movement and the oldest international SUN voluntary organisation working with children and young SUN people, both in the UK and worldwide. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01fcy1l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01fcy1n (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01fhnsy (Listen) SUN The Bishop of Manchester preaches at this special Easter SUN Eucharist featuring composer Sasha Johnson Manning's and SUN poet Michael Symmons Roberts' new Radio 4 commission 'The SUN People's Passion' live from Manchester Cathedral. President: SUN The Dean, The Very Revd Rogers Govender; Deacon: The SUN Precentor, The Revd Canon Gilly Myers; Organist & Master of SUN the Choristers: Christopher Stokes; Sub-Organist: Jeffrey SUN Makinson; Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01fhnt0 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01fhnt2 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Adrian Flynn SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene 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 Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Rufus ..... David Seddon. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01fhnt4 (Listen) SUN Greenham Common SUN SUN In the second of a new series of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor SUN brings together five people from both sides of the fence at SUN the Greenham Common airbase. SUN SUN In the early 1980s the Berkshire military base became home SUN to a nuclear arsenal capable of wiping out most of SUN civilisation. Over many years thousands of women took part SUN in massive protests, many hundreds were arrested and jailed SUN - and policing costs alone ran into millions. The startling SUN methods and unorthodox ways of the women dominated headlines SUN for more than a decade. SUN SUN Helen John was among the first protestors to arrive, SUN Katherine Jones stayed for 17 years and Rebecca Johnson now SUN travels the world advising on nuclear weapons policy. Mick SUN Marsh was the base commander at the height of the protests SUN and Mick Eathorne-Gibbons was the Conservative councillor SUN for Greenham. They all played a key role in one of the SUN largest and longest protests in living memory. SUN SUN At its height, the camp was home to about 100 women - they SUN endured terrible weather, squalor, ridicule and SUN intimidation. Local residents were desperate to see the back SUN of them. SUN SUN Were the women fearless heroines challenging the might of SUN the superpowers or, as many press reports at the time SUN maintained, a band of peacenik feminists with a grudge SUN against men In this programme they re-live those turbulent SUN times and debate to what extent the actions of the peace SUN protestors impacted on global negotiations to reduce Cruise SUN missiles. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01f5hp9 (Listen) SUN Series 9, Episode 1 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 Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, Lucy Porter and Graeme Garden are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as: Parrots, Breakfast, Insurance and SUN Oliver Cromwell. 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 programme for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01fhnt6 (Listen) SUN The Therapy of Food SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks at the spiritual and therapeutic value SUN many place on breadmaking. She meets a group of refugees SUN who've experienced torture, all using baking in their SUN recovery. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01fcy1q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01fhnt8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 John Peel's Shed b017rd2p (Listen) SUN Direct from a five-star, complete sell-out run at the SUN Edinburgh Festival, comes John Osborne's Radio 4 debut SUN partly adapted from his acclaimed book Radio Head (Radio 4's SUN Book Of The Week). SUN SUN In 2002, John Osborne won a competition on John Peel's Radio SUN One show. His prize was a box of records that took eight SUN years to listen to. This is an ode to radio, those records SUN and anyone who's ever sought solace in the wireless. SUN SUN A story about one man's love for radio, how it allows you to SUN escape into another world. Based on his book Radio Head, up SUN and down the dial of British Radio, this is about what SUN happened next: a show about the pleasure of having your own SUN personal project. The story is about passion, obsession with SUN music and about legacy; trying to do something special with SUN such a rare, eclectic box of records. SUN SUN Produced by John Pocock SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01fhnyh (Listen) SUN Liphook, Hampshire SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson and Bunny Guinness are SUN guests of Bramshott, Liphook & District Horticultural SUN Society. Eric Robson is in the chair. SUN SUN Rosie Yeomans investigates some extreme gardening at Marwell SUN Zoo, Hampshire and some timely advice on minimizing water SUN usage in the garden, SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01fhnyk (Listen) SUN Omnibus Edition SUN SUN Fi Glover introduces the omnibus edition of Radio 4's new SUN series, mounted in conjunction with the British Library, SUN that captures the nation in conversation. SUN SUN This week, we meet Beryl and Graham from Hull. Beryl is a SUN twice married grandmother who talks with her grandson about SUN love, loss and how she lost her heart late in life to the SUN man who gave her a lift home in his Reliant Robin; Jean and SUN her daughter Rebecca talk about the difficulties of facing SUN up to failing health and death; Cy tells his granddaughter SUN Lucy about his life as a musician in Liverpool's glory days SUN and Alan and Christine from Stoke on Trent talk about the SUN magnetic hold the town's Spode porcelain factory has had on SUN their lives. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that SUN aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in SUN which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation SUN with someone close to them about a subject they've never SUN discussed intimately before. The conversations are being SUN gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and SUN national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every SUN conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an SUN important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then SUN edited to extract the key moment of connection between the SUN participants. Many of the long conversations are being SUN archived by the British Library which they will use to build SUN up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the SUN UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload SUN your own conversations or just learn more about The SUN Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01d9w42 (Listen) SUN Plantagenet: Series 3, Henry VI - A Simple Man SUN SUN by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. The SUN once-great England of Henry V is bankrupt and losing SUN territory in France. The times call for a strong man who can SUN unite the kingdom. Not the weak, idealistic Henry VI, SUN pleading for peace and incapacitated by bouts of insanity. SUN As the House of York grows in power, Queen Margaret is SUN forced to take up arms to protect her royal line. SUN SUN Henry VI... Al Weaver SUN Margaret...Aimee Ffion Edwards SUN York... Shaun Dooley SUN Cardinal Beaufort...Paul Moriarty SUN Warwick...Gerard McDermott SUN Somerset...Carl Prekopp SUN Edward of York...Simon Bubb SUN With Rikki Lawton, James Lailey and Christopher Webster SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01fhp9b (Listen) SUN Sir Ronald Harwood on the books that influenced him SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup meets Ronald Harwood to talk about his SUN five of the best books, while Janice Galloway and Jenny SUN Colgan cater for those with a literary sweet tooth. Plus SUN Michael Carlson on the enduring appeal of the baseball SUN novel. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN Sir Ronald Harwood's Five of the Best SUN SUN Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson SUN The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leo Roston SUN The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger SUN The Power and the Glory by Graeme Greene SUN Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh SUN SUN Book List SUN SUN Rosie Hopkin's Sweet Shop of Dreams by Jenny Colgan pub by SUN Sphere SUN Tis is not about me by Janice Galloway by Granta Books SUN SUN Baseball novels Book List SUN SUN The Great American Novel by Philip Roth SUN Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen SUN Calico Joe by John Grisham SUN The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, SUN Moby Dick by Herman Melville, SUN End Zone - by Don DeLillo SUN Underworld - by Don DeLillo, SUN You know me Al - by Ring Landner, SUN Bang the Drum Slowly - by Mark Harris, SUN The year the Yankees lost the Pennant - by Douglas Wallop SUN The Universal Baseball Associations, Inc, J. Henry Waugh - SUN by Robert Coover SUN Shoeless Joe by WP Kinsella SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of Rosie Hopkin's Sweet Shop of SUN Dreams by Jenny Colgan SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b01d9w48 (Listen) SUN Series 12, The Raven SUN SUN Peggy Reynolds explores one of the most iconic poems ever SUN published. Over 160 years since its first appearance, it is SUN still inspiring film makers, horror writers and theatre SUN directors to produce their own interpretations. Yet many SUN loathed the poem, including W.B Yeats who said it was SUN insincere and vulgar. The poem granted its author instant SUN fame, yet he spent most of his life in poverty. To try and SUN capitalise on its success he wrote an essay about its SUN composition, which many believe to imbued with an over SUN inflated sense of mastery. The poet attracted nearly as much SUN controversy as his poem. An inveterate gambler, alcoholic SUN and occasional drug abuser, he was a philanderer whose most SUN popular poems were about his devotion to a lost love. SUN There's also a demonic bird involved. Need any more clues? SUN Nevermore SUN With guests including the poet and falconer Helen Macdonald, SUN Professor of English John Sutherland, the poet Jay Parini, SUN the raven master at the Tower of London and occasional SUN appearances by feathered friends, Peggy Reynolds unpicks SUN Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Green Gold: The Bamboo Boom b01f5mn2 (Listen) SUN Camille Rebelo believes in bamboo. With a Masters in SUN Environmental Management from Yale, she sees herself as a SUN pioneer of a new approach to make forestry work for people - SUN and also for profit. And to do so, she and her colleagues SUN are tapping into new sources of private investment. They are SUN developing a bamboo plantation in Nicaragua, funded, in SUN part, by the world's first asset - backed Bamboo Bond. SUN SUN Eco Planet Bamboo is convinced that the way forward is to SUN persuade investors that money really does grow on trees - or SUN in this instance a grass, since that's what bamboo is. SUN SUN Bamboo has a higher tensile strength than steel, and is also SUN versatile, light, flexible and enduring. Unlike other SUN timbers it can also be used for construction, clothing, SUN food, cosmetics, medicine, green charcoal and fuel. It SUN reaches maturity in a fraction of the time it takes tropical SUN hardwoods to grow, and unlike trees continues to grow and SUN replenish once harvested. Bamboo also captures more carbon SUN than any other land plant. SUN SUN Nowhere is that need for a replacement for timber more SUN evident than Nicaragua, which has one of the highest rates SUN of deforestation in the world. The bamboo plantation has SUN provided jobs in a poor area of the country with few SUN employment opportunities. Eco Planet Bamboo talks of SUN Conscious Capitalism, and its unique Bamboo Bond is SUN promising investors returns of 500% over a 15 year period. SUN SUN The BBC's World Affairs Correspondent Mike Wooldridge asks SUN whether such promises are too good to be true? Could bamboo SUN prove to be green gold for Nicaragua's poor? And is this a SUN way of not only fighting poverty, but global warming too? SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Evans SUN A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01d84g5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01fcy1s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01fcy1v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fcy1x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01fhp9g (Listen) SUN Stewart Henderson makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN 'Now is the hot pot of our discontent' - It was a meeting of SUN theatrical titans when Sir Laurence Olivier was granted an SUN audience with Doris Speed, aka - Annie Walker, hear all SUN about that on Pick Of The Week presented by Stewart SUN Henderson. There is also the shameful account of West Indian SUN immigrants being turned away from British churches in the SUN 1950's..And the endangered Lesser Spotted Woodpecker makes a SUN heart lifting appearance in an ancient English wood. SUN SUN The People's Passion - Radio 4 SUN Great British Faith - Radio 2 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Nature - Radio 4 SUN La France, Maintenant - Radio 4 SUN The Mystery of the Holy Thorn - Radio 4 SUN The Guessing Game - Radio Scotland SUN Michael Grade - On The Box - Radio 2 SUN Wireless Nights - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Fathers and Sons - Radio 4 SUN Witness - World Service SUN Art Disrupted - Radio 4 SUN The Music Teacher - Radio 4 SUN Just A Minute's Indian Adventure - Radio 4 SUN Alex Horne Presents the Horne Section - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01fhp9j (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 In and Out of the Kitchen b016kzf8 (Listen) SUN September 18th to 24th SUN SUN Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen features a few SUN entries from the kitchen diary of cookery writer, Damien SUN Trench. In a mixture of narrative, dialogue and recipes, SUN Damien unflinchingly captures every angle of his day-to-day SUN life, "no matter how grizzly" as he puts it "or, indeed, how SUN gristly". SUN SUN Cast: SUN Miles Jupp as Damien Trench SUN with SUN Justin Edwards as Anthony SUN Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney SUN Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher SUN and SUN Maggie Service as Libby/Angie SUN SUN Producer: Sam Michell. SUN SUN 19:45 Emerald City and Other Stories b01fhp9l (Listen) SUN Emerald City SUN SUN 2011 was a phenomenal year for the young American author, SUN Jennifer Egan. Her novel, 'A Visit From The Goon Squad' SUN became a run-away bestseller and went on to win the Pulitzer SUN Prize for Fiction. SUN SUN In her first collection of short stories, entitled Emerald SUN City, the stories are a pithy and sometimes poignant look at SUN contemporary life in the United States. Young and SUN middle-aged characters change, grow and regret in a series SUN of tales that traverse the United States and the state of SUN modern marriage, parenting and ambition. SUN SUN Today's title story, Emerald City, examines the allure and SUN the disappointments of life among the trend-setters of New SUN York, where fashionistas scrabble for fame and fortune and SUN where realities hit hard. SUN SUN The Reader is tbc SUN The Abridger is Miranda Davies SUN The Producer is Di Speirs. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01f6cgx (Listen) SUN Presented by Roger Bolton SUN SUN Can anything be done to make Radio 4 comedy appeal to a SUN wider audience? The writers of Ed Reardon's Week and North SUN by Northamptonshire, along with Radio 4's comedy SUN commissioning editor, discuss. SUN SUN The BBC's Complaints system is being overhauled. Find out SUN more about how you can have your say on what needs to be SUN done to make it better. SUN SUN It's been five months since BBC local radio listeners first SUN complained about the strange clicks, crackle and pops they SUN hear when listening online. So why is it still not fixed? SUN The man in charge tries to explain what's gone wrong. SUN SUN And the producer of Start the Week explains how she goes SUN about slashing a third of the programme every week for the SUN shortened evening repeat. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01f6cgv (Listen) SUN Jane Little on: SUN SUN Bill Wedderburn, brilliant scholar, public lawyer, and trade SUN union hero. SUN SUN Adrienne Rich, one of the most respected, widely-read, and SUN radical American poets of the last half century. SUN SUN Tom Lodge, whose multiple careers ranged from cowboy to SUN pirate radio DJ to Zen Buddhist Master. SUN SUN Howard Anderson, television producer who helped pioneer the SUN filming of Parliament. SUN SUN And drummer, Cedric Sharpley, the human influence in Gary SUN Numan's futuristic pop music. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01d84fb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01fhnsw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01f68mk (Listen) SUN Growing Old SUN SUN As Baby Boomers start turning 65, many countries are quite SUN suddenly growing old. The trend means SUN big changes for the economy, healthcare, social life..and a SUN challenge to the assumptions by which we have SUN lived life for the past two centuries. Peter Day explains SUN why. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01fhpcn (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 b01fhpcq (Listen) SUN Episode 98 SUN SUN Mehdi Hasan of The New Statesman analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01f6866 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino to SUN discuss This Must Be The Place, starring Sean Penn as a SUN jaded rock star on a hunt for the Nazi who persecuted his SUN father. SUN SUN Morten Tyldum discusses his much praised Norwegian thriller, SUN Headhunters. SUN SUN As Headhunters is set to be given the Hollywood treatment, SUN critics Tim Robey and Catherine Bray discuss the complex SUN business of remakes. SUN SUN And Four Weddings and a Funeral director Mike Newell SUN professes his love for Jean Renoir's classic POW drama, La SUN Grande Illusion. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01fhnsp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 APRIL 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01fcy2k (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01f676s (Listen) MON Steeltown - Life after Burberry MON MON When the factories close, what happens to the communities MON they leave behind? In this week's programme, Laurie MON investigates the effects of industrial decline in Wales, MON examining in-depth sociological studies of the residents of MON two industrial Welsh towns. MON Professor Valerie Walkerdine discusses the impact of the MON closure of the steelworks in 'Steeltown.' How does an MON community cope when its focal point finally closes? How does MON the community attempt to maintain a sense of identity? How MON do young men deal with the embarrassment of being branded MON "mammy's boys" for having to take on 'feminine' work? And MON how do women manage to hold the community together? MON Also in the programme, Jean Jenkins tells Laurie about her MON research on how the closure of the Burberry factory in MON Treorchy affected non-work life for the workers concerned. MON Many people found part time work, but did that really MON improve their life at home? MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01d84h2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fcy2m (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fcy2p (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fcy2r (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01fcy2t (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01fhpgc (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon MON Patrick Thomas. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01fhrhq (Listen) MON Denmark has a long history of exporting butter and cheese to MON the UK, and now you'll find Danish dairy products in pretty MON much every supermarket here. Sarah Swadling visits dairy MON farmer Per Warming, near Aars in northern Jutland, to MON examine animal welfare and how the industry has coped with a MON period of intense change. Keeping cows indoors all year MON round is an idea which is gaining ground in the UK, and MON which has proved highly controversial. In Denmark about half MON of all milking cows are kept this way. The number of Danish MON dairy farmers halved in ten years, but Per says that this MON was 'just progress' and such is the strength of their MON co-operative dairy system that Danish farmers now own one of MON the UK's biggest milk processors. MON MON Produced and presented by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01fcy2w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01fhrhs (Listen) MON Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including MON Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01fhrhv (Listen) MON Peter Carey on Start the Week MON MON Andrew Marr talks to the prize-winning novelist, Peter Carey MON about his latest work, The Chemistry of Tears. At its heart MON is a small clockwork puzzle and Carey muses on how the MON industrial revolution has changed what it means to be human. MON The science writer Philip Ball goes back another century to MON the world of Galileo and Newton, to study the changes in MON thinking and knowledge embodied by the scientifically MON curious. And the historian Rebecca Stott rediscovers the MON first evolutionists, and the collective daring of Darwin's MON scientific forebears who had the imagination to speculate on MON the natural world. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01fhrhx (Listen) MON Double Cross, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Ben Macintyre. MON MON A team of agents (codenames Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, MON Tricycle and Garbo) is recruited to work as part of the MON 'Double Cross System' run by the secret Twenty Committee. MON MON D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World MON War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a MON different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at MON convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, MON were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force. The MON deception involved every branch of Allied wartime MON intelligence - the Bletchley Park code-breakers, MI5, MI6, MON SOE, Scientific Intelligence, the FBI and the French MON Resistance. But at its heart was the 'Double Cross System', MON a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty MON Committee, so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a MON double cross. MON MON The key D-Day spies were just five in number, and one of the MON oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian MON playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a Serbian seducer, a MON wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken MON farming, and a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love MON for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception. MON Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy MON sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the MON first time. Under the direction of an eccentric but MON brilliant intelligence officer in tartan trousers, working MON from a smoky lair in St James's, these spies would weave a MON web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler's army MON and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel MON in safety. MON MON These double agents were, variously, brave, treacherous, MON fickle, greedy and inspired. They were not conventional MON warriors, but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless MON lives. Their codenames were Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, MON Tricycle and Garbo. This is their story. MON MON Reader: Jonathan Keeble. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01fhrhz (Listen) MON Grandparents MON MON Celebrating grandparents. Many might agree with the car MON sticker that says: "If you'd known how wonderful it would be MON to have grandchildren, you would have had them first." There MON are 14 million grandparents in the UK and Jane is joined by MON three of them: Deidre Sanders - the agony aunt and MON grandmother of two young children; Angie Le Mar - the MON actress and comedian and a new grandmother; and Jane MON Fearnley-Whittingstall, author of the Good Granny Guide and MON a grandmother of six ranging in age from 15 down to two. She MON describes her recent visit to Ethiopia to find out what it's MON like to be a grandparent there. Virginia Ironside performs a MON monologue about her joy in being a granny. There are MON listener stories and the experience of one woman who's MON raising her grand-daughter alone. Jane and her guests also MON discuss the part many grandparents play in childcare, the MON terrible sadness when grandparents lose contact, and what MON the generations can teach each other. MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Louise Corley. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01fhrj1 (Listen) MON The Man Who Knows, Episode 1 MON MON It's London in the late 1960's and Dominic Bold of The MON Morning News is Britain's most successful gossip columnist, MON celebrated for his uncannily intimate knowledge of what goes MON on in the lives of entertainment stars, MON politicians, members of the Royal Family and the MON aristocracy. MON MON But when Bold gets hold of a story involving actress Alice MON Morney, which she believes she has told only to those MON closest to her, she becomes determined to uncover his source MON in her entourage. MON MON In 'The Man Who Knows' by Mark Lawson MON Gordon Bannoch was played by Gerard Murphy MON Dominic Bold ..... Jonathan Firth MON Alice Morney ..... Lizzy McInnerny MON Danny Carlton ..... Nickolas Grace MON Barney Hamilton ..... Michael Elwyn MON Ted Reaney and Sidney ..... Neil Brand MON Rosie Pilks ...... Issy Van Randwyck MON and Tubby Marrinner and MON Simon Dee ..... Jon Glover MON The song lyrics were written by Mark Lawson MON And the music was composed and performed by Neil Brand MON MON The Director was Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 11:00 La France Maintenant b01fhrj3 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In part one of 'La France, Maintenant!', Professor Andrew MON Hussey travelled through the south of France starting in MON Marseilles and ending in Lyon, discovering as he went some MON significant tensions, but also a new-found energy in the MON region born out of self-confidence and a restlessness with MON the clichés surrounding this most romanticised of countries. MON In this second part of the series, he heads to the very MON north of the country - to Lille - a place that looks out at MON Belgium, Britain and Holland as much as it looks back at MON France itself. He meets a local rapper who became one of MON France's earliest internet sensations, as well as local MON students producing Ch'ti magazine - Ch'ti being the French MON colloquialism for northerner. Once more he finds a region MON bursting with a strong sense of itself, no longer in the MON control of Hussey's final destination, Paris. There, he MON meets the producers behind the TV hit 'Spiral', who are keen MON to offer a true picture of the city to counter the Woody MON Allen counterfeit - as well as long-serving private MON investigators and the director of the Cannes Film Festival. MON At the end of the journey, Hussey makes the case that La MON France, maintenant, is a country that's facing troubles of MON course but is also once again bursting with creative energy MON and self-belief. MON MON 11:30 Mr Blue Sky b01fhrj5 (Listen) MON Series 2, Good Luck! MON MON Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal MON optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the MON silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every MON bit of bad news. MON MON This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass MON is always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his MON wife of 19 years, Jacqui or 'Jax' (played by Claire MON Skinner), knows all too well. Even as life deals Harvey and MON the Easter family a series of sadistic blows, be it having MON Harvey's racist mum coming to stay, a missing cat called MON Lucky or a Nazi neighbour, Harvey looks on the positive MON side. It's pathological with him. The way Jax sees it, MON instead of dealing with the problems of their marriage and MON the two kids - restless, fickle, hyperactive space cadet MON Robbie, 16, street-talking, soon-to-be-married council MON busybody Charlie, 18 (and her live-in boyfriend Kill-R) - MON Harvey's optimism ("it'll be fine") is actually his way of MON avoiding engagement with the big issues. MON MON His days as Junior Deputy Assistant Sales Manager at a MON Ringfence-Upon-Thames piano shop soon to be renamed Sean's MON Super Synths must surely be numbered, his daughter's Big Fat MON Weyfleet Wedding is beyond the family's austerity measures, MON and Jax is dangerously close to taking her new career move MON with hunky builder Rakesh to the next stage. MON MON Mr Blue Sky is about one man battling to remain positive in MON moments of crisis, and one woman battling to live with MON someone who has his head in the clouds. MON MON On day one of the Easter family economy drive, Charlie MON accuses Robbie of taking drugs and a scratchcard win MON convinces Harvey he's having a lucky day. MON MON Harvey Easter ...... Mark Benton MON Jacqui Easter ...... Claire Skinner MON Charlie Easter ...... Rosamund Hanson MON Robbie Easter ...... Tyger Drew Honey MON Kill-R ...... Javone Prince MON Rakesh Rathi ...... Navin Chowdhry MON Dr Ray Marsh ...... Justin Edwards MON Sean Calhoun ...... Michael Legge MON MON Written by Andrew Collins MON Title Music Arrangement by Jim Bob MON Producer/Director: Anna Madley MON A Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01fhrj7 (Listen) MON Small car special MON MON In a You & Yours special, Julian Worricker hears about the MON rising popularity of the small car or "supermini". MON MON As fuel prices hit record highs, people are downsizing to MON smaller cars which are greener and, with better fuel MON consumption, cost less to run. What does the rise of the MON small car mean for manufacturers competing in this sector? MON And how do the finances of the small car stack up for the MON motorist? MON MON The British car industry is booming even in the downturn as MON eighty percent of the cars made in the UK are exported but MON will consumers in China and the US ever be interested in MON smaller cars? And can manufacturers make enough of a profit MON on superminis? MON MON Julian also hears from students on the Royal College of MON Art's prestigious vehicle design course about how they are MON meeting the challenges of ageing populations and urban MON living with designs for the small cars of the future. MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker. MON Produced by Olivia Skinner. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01fcy30 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01fhrj9 (Listen) MON Shaun Ley presents the national and international news. MON MON 13:45 Ship of Dreams b01fhrjc (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic shocked the world. MON The ship itself and the tales of those involved in it's MON passing have enthralled and chilled generations since. MON MON In this series of five programmes Jeanette Winterson will MON lead us through from the fixing of the first rivet, the MON spectacular launch, arrival in Queenstown and on to the MON vessels eventual grave. MON MON This is much more than a diary of events however. This is a MON powerful narrative by one of today's leading writers. It MON will follow the mood of the time, explore the myths and MON controversies, delve into the romanticism of the tragedy and MON consider the resulting epic quest for the submerged hulk. MON The Titanic is a snapshot of a generation, driven by a quest MON for profit and a desire to open up the world - a world MON dominated by class division. MON MON We will hear first hand audio archive accounts from MON survivors, an exploration of the intrigue which surrounds MON her design, manufacture and demise and consideration of the MON wonder and mystery of the symbolic artefacts which have been MON raised from the deep. MON MON In the first part of the series we hear of the arrival of MON passengers, her launch and the factors which led to her MON being such an enormous ship. MON MON Producer: Kevin Dawson MON A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01fhp9j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01fhrjf (Listen) MON The Judas Burner MON MON by Jeff Young MON Past and present collide when an old man refuses to leave MON his home, which is due for demolition: He looks back to his MON past and finds strength and meaning in a wild, strange MON ritual of his childhood. The burning of an effigy of Judas MON Iscariot was performed every Good Friday in an area of MON Liverpool known as The Dingle. This evocative, romantic and MON defiant drama is an elegy for the death of a way of life. MON The voices of real people who used to take part in the MON ritual are woven into the drama. MON MON Jim ....... David Schofield MON Noreen ..... Eileen O'Brien MON Young Jim ....... Jordan Edwards MON Micky Daz ...... William Gilby MON Eileen ..... Lottie Holloway MON Councillor Biggs ...... Conrad Nelson MON Butchers ...... Carl Cockram MON Dixie Boy ..... Simon Lennon MON With contributions from Winifred Connolly nee Jones, Gerard MON Laverty and George Taylor MON Directed by Pauline Harris MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01fhrjh (Listen) MON Series 2, Queen Mary, University of London MON MON Coming this week from Queen Mary, University of London, "The MON 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed MON at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners MON whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on MON location at a different University each week, and it pits MON three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a MON genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being MON a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent MON standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and MON jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01fhnt6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Jack London's People of the Abyss b01fhrjk (Listen) MON In 1902 American journalist and writer Jack London came to MON the UK to live among the East End poor for three months. He MON wrote about his experiences in "People of the Abyss" which MON was published a year later. London later said that the book MON was the one about which he was most proud - but the horror MON and extreme poverty that he saw in the East End, made such a MON profound impact that it affected him for the rest of his MON life. MON MON Historian Dan Cruickshank - who himself lives in the East MON End - takes us on a journey re-visiting some of the places MON mentioned in London's book and tries to discover what it was MON that horrified Jack London so much that he wrote to a MON friend...."The whole thing, all the conditions of life, the MON intensity of it, everything is overwhelming. I never MON conceived such a mass of misery in the world before". MON MON With the help of an Ordinance Survey map, historians, MON writers and sociologists - Dan compares the East End of the MON past with that he now knows so well - and along the way MON makes some starting discoveries. MON MON Presenter: Dan Cruickshank MON Producer: Angela Hind MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01fhrjm (Listen) MON Olympics MON MON Ernie Rea in conversation with guests about the place of MON faith in today's complex world. MON MON 17:00 PM b01fhrjp (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fcy32 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01fhrjr (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 2 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 John Finnemore, Henning Wehn, Danielle Ward and Tom MON Wrigglesworth are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Pandas, MON Football, China and Smoking. 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 b01dcm9b (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01fhrjw (Listen) MON Theatre Producers Special MON MON Mark Lawson talks to leading theatre producers, including MON Cameron Mackintosh, Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire, MON Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bill Kenwright and Sonia Friedman, MON about the art of creating a hit show. MON MON The theatre impresarios discuss the impact of having a MON successful show and how long running productions such as Les MON Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera changed the theatre MON industry. Along side the hits, the producers talk about the MON millions of pounds lost when they have a flop; and they MON address the criticism that ticket prices are often too high. MON MON Producer Claire Bartleet. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01fhrj1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Psychiatrist and the Deputy Fuhrer b01fhrjy (Listen) MON Drawing on never-before-released papers, historian Daniel MON Pick uncovers the extraordinary story of British MON psychiatrist Henry Dicks, who was sent to examine Rudolf MON Hess in a British military safe house, at the height of the MON Second World War. MON MON In May 1941, Nazi Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess suddenly MON appeared in a field in Scotland, having flown solo from MON Germany on what appeared to be a peace mission. MON MON Much of this story is well known, but now Daniel Pick, MON Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of MON London, reveals documents which provide a fresh insight into MON this extraordinary episode - and cast new light on the role MON of psychology in the battle against Nazism. MON MON Soon after Hess' capture and incarceration, Dr Henry Dicks, MON a British psychiatrist, was sent by the British authorities MON to meet him. His mission was to see what his specialised MON training could glean about this senior Nazi's thinking - MON without revealing he was a psychiatrist. MON MON Dicks first encountered Hess in 1941, at the eerie military MON safe house in Surrey where the erstwhile Deputy Fuhrer was MON being held. And in this programme, Professor Pick reveals MON the contents of the notebook in which Dicks kept a record of MON his encounters. MON MON He sets their contents in the context of the Second World MON War with the help of Professor Richard Overy. MON MON He listens to a rare recording from the US National Archives MON of Hess being interrogated at Nuremberg. MON MON And after the war, the lessons of encounters such as Dicks' MON meetings with Hess were still being pressed into service to MON combat extremism. MON MON As Dr Jessica Reinisch tells him, even as Hess was consigned MON to prison in Berlin, psychological insights into Nazi MON thinking were helping to shape the drive to de-Nazify MON post-war Germany. MON MON Producer: Phil Tinline. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01f67yb (Listen) MON The Angola 2 MON MON Tim Franks looks at the case of two US inmates who have been MON held in solitary confinement in Louisiana for what will be MON 40 years this month. It's believed to be the longest period MON of time in US penal history. For most of their confinement MON Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace were held in the Louisiana MON State Penitentiary, a prison often known as "Angola", after MON the origin of the people who worked there when it was a MON slave plantation. The two were originally imprisoned for MON armed robbery. The men who later became known as the Angola MON 2 were linked to the Black Panther party, and fought for MON better prison conditions for the black inmates, and an end MON to the widespread rape and harsh work conditions. While in MON prison there, they were charged with the murder of a prison MON guard, and convicted on the evidence of a prison inmate who MON had been promised his freedom if he testified against them. MON For most of the time since then they have been held in MON solitary confinement. The official reason has remained the MON same for 40 years: fear that the men would re-start their MON Black Panther-type activism and organise younger inmates as MON militants. The use of solitary confinement has been on the MON increase in the US - we ask are there good reasons for its MON use, and whether it is compatible with US law. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01f6868 (Listen) MON Material World MON MON Science programme reporting on developments across the MON disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, MON conveying the excitement they feel for their research MON projects MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01fhrhv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01fcy34 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01fhslj (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01fhsll (Listen) MON The Snow Child, Episode 6 MON MON Jack and Mabel hope that a fresh start in 'Alaska, our MON newest homeland' will enable them to put the strain of their MON childless marriage behind them. But the northern wilderness MON proves as unforgiving as it is beautiful: Jack fears that he MON will collapse under the strain of creating a farm, and a MON lonely winter eats its way into Mabel's soul. When the first MON snow falls, the couple find themselves building a small MON figure - a snow girl. The next morning, their creation has MON gone, and they see a child running through the spruce trees. MON Gradually this child - an elusive, untameable little girl MON who hunts with a fox and is more at ease in the savage MON landscape than in the homestead - comes into their lives. MON But as their love for the snow child and for the land she MON opens up to them grows, so too does their awareness that it, MON and she, may break their hearts. MON Written with the clarity and vividness of the Russian MON fairytale from which it takes its inspiration, The Snow MON Child is an instant classic. MON MON The reader is Miranda Richardson MON MON The Snow Child was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by MON Gemma McMullan. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01f5ld5 (Listen) MON The Queen's Speech MON MON In this Diamond Jubilee year, Michael Rosen looks at the way MON in which the Queen speaks. Has it changed over the years, MON and how do her grandchildren speak? MON MON Voice coach Penny Dyer demonstrates how she helped Helen MON Mirren to transform the way she talked, for the film 'The MON Queen'. MON MON Clive Upton talks about this kind of speech - known as "Trad MON RP" or "URP". MON MON Jonathan Harrington has studied the Queen's Speech over the MON decades and traces the ways in which she has come to sound MON more like her people. MON MON And Peter French listens to the younger generation of the MON Royal family to hear how they speak. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries b00v6kcr (Listen) MON Series 2, March and April MON MON A second chance to hear satirist Craig Brown dip into the MON private lives of public figures from the 1960's to the MON present day. MON MON March and April: Gyles Brandreth celebrates his birthday MON through the years, and Sharon Osbourne auditions some MON handsome young singers. MON MON Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan MON Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells. MON Written by Craig Brown. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 APRIL 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01fcy3q (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01fhrhx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fcy3s (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fcy3v (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fcy3x (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01fcy3z (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01dcmb9 (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon TUE Patrick Thomas. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01dcmbc (Listen) TUE Whether it is cheese, butter, yoghurt or a glass of fresh TUE milk, the UK consumer demand for dairy products has helped TUE push the industry to become the third largest in Europe. TUE Whilst thirteen billion litres of milk are produced here TUE each year, the number of dairy farmers has halved over the TUE last decade. In Farming Today, Caz Graham investigates if TUE the sector has the bottle to compete globally. TUE TUE And as homeowners are asked to think again when using water, TUE some farmers are trying to cut back the amount they use by a TUE fifth. Over the next 12 months, Anna Hill will be following TUE the trials of Andrew Blenkiron, a farm estate manager in one TUE of the worst drought-hit parts of East Anglia. He has 6,500 TUE thousand acres of thirsty crops and vegetables planted in TUE light, sandy soil which need plenty of water and his TUE reservoir is already running low. TUE TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced in Birmingham by Angela TUE Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01dcmbf (Listen) TUE Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including TUE Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Public Philosopher b01ddxbf (Listen) TUE Should a banker be paid more than a nurse? TUE TUE The eminent Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel TUE brings his trademark style to a discussion on a topical TUE issue, questioning the thinking underlying a current TUE controversy. This week, he digs deep into the morality of TUE high pay and bankers' bonuses. TUE TUE "My image of a banker is an overweight man behind a desk" TUE says Alice. The audience bursts into laughter. "My image of TUE a nurse," she goes on, "is an overworked woman who works TUE night shifts and is constantly on her feet". TUE TUE Michael Sandel asks "So by that logic, Alice, maybe there's TUE a case for paying nurses more than bankers. Am I right?" TUE TUE Alice agrees and so begins Michael Sandel's journey through TUE the morality of fair pay. TUE TUE He explores whether fair pay is a question of the importance TUE of the contribution one makes, whether it is a reward for TUE effort ...and whether it's the market that should define how TUE much people should get paid. TUE TUE He questions whether Wayne Rooney gets the pay he deserves TUE for "kicking a pigskin around a field for a certain period TUE of time". TUE TUE In this series of public events, recorded at the London TUE School of Economics, he challenges his audience to apply TUE critical thinking and philosophical reasoning to a host of TUE ethical dilemmas most people rely on gut instinct to TUE resolve. TUE TUE Producer: Adele Armstrong. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01fhyq2 (Listen) TUE Double Cross, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Ben Macintyre. TUE TUE By 1941 Double Cross agents are providing the Germans with TUE false military information and plans are being made to use TUE pigeons as weapons of espionage. TUE TUE Reader: Jonathan Keeble TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier Production For BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ddxbm (Listen) TUE Erica James TUE TUE Erica James on the publishing phenomenon that is 50 Shades TUE of Grey. Olympic hopeful Natasha Baker on going for glory in TUE the Para Dressage at London 2012. Connie Fisher on her TUE return to the stage. Plus how effective are smear tests ? TUE TUE Presenter Jane Garvey TUE Producer Kirsty Starkey. TUE TUE Cervical cancer screening TUE TUE Glasgow GP Margaret McCartney has chosen not to have smear TUE tests and says that women are not given balanced information TUE about cervical cancer screening. Her views conflict with TUE current advice. Jane is joined by Dr Margaret McCartney and TUE Professor Peter Sasieri to discuss whether or not women TUE should be screened for cervical cancer. TUE TUE Connie Fisher TUE TUE Connie Fisher won the BBC talent contest 'How do you solve a TUE problem like Maria?' in 2006. She shot to stardom winning TUE the leading role in 'The Sound of Music'. After being told TUE that she would never sing again, she has defeated the odds TUE and takes the lead in the new production of the Berstein TUE musical 'Wonderful Town' at The Lowry in Salford. Jane is TUE joined by Connie Fisher to talk about her starring role and TUE her voice. TUE TUE Paralympic Dressage TUE TUE The next in our series of features meeting sports women who TUE are training hard for London 2012. Natasha Baker is hoping TUE to take part in the Paralympics. She competes in the TUE Para-Dressage with her horse, Cabral. Louise Adamson met TUE Natasha and her mother, Lorraine, who helps to coach her. TUE TUE Erotica TUE TUE E. L. James is the author of 'Fifty Shades of Grey', the TUE erotic novel which soared to the top of the New York Times TUE e-book bestseller list - and which will soon be turned into TUE a movie by Universal Pictures. Jane is joined by E.L. James TUE and Rowan Pelling, the former editor of the Erotic Review, TUE to discuss the enduring appeal of erotic fiction for women. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ddxbp (Listen) TUE The Man Who Knows, Episode 2 TUE TUE Fleet Street, 1968: Gossip columnist Dominic Bold has been TUE invading some major celebrities' privacy. Actress Alice TUE Morney is determined to uncover his source. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01fjx78 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Wood and Water TUE TUE According to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, fish live in TUE trees too. The Trust's biologists are using wood as a TUE remarkably effective tool to change the depth and flow of TUE stream s and improve them for wildlife. They don't just stop TUE at streams either: at the confluence of the Tame and Trent TUE rivers , they've submerged entire willow trees in gravel TUE islands in a project to widen the river channel. TUE TUE Across the country in Norfolk the National Trust has felled TUE trees into the River Bure at its Blickling Hall estate and TUE in just a few years, has seen gravel beds improve for trout TUE - members of the local fishing club are impressed - and TUE exotic damselflies. TUE TUE In Nature: Wood and Water, Brett Westwood explores the TUE growing use of coarse woody debris( CWD) in managing our TUE rivers. Visiting the sites he finds that this natural TUE engineering is remarkably cheap and fast-acting. Wood felled TUE into sluggish currents can vary flow rates and affect silt TUE deposition. In some places scouring by faster currents has TUE exposed gravel beds which are spawning areas for trout, and TUE slacker areas where the young trout can shelter in pools or TUE hide among the tangle of branches. In Staffordshire, the TUE debris has helped native crayfish to hide in shallow TUE streams, and the wood itself is a breeding ground for rare TUE insects including the scarce logjammer hoverfly which lays TUE its eggs in partly submerged sunlit logs. TUE TUE There are worries from landowners about flood prevention, TUE but according to Alastair Driver of the Environment Agency, TUE if sites are carefully chosen, then CWD could be useful for TUE retaining water higher in river catchments and preventing TUE excessive flooding downstream. By mimicking nature, and TUE allowing our rivers to be more dynamic, we could improve the TUE quality of our river wildlife and fulfil some of the TUE ecological requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive. TUE TUE 11:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b01fhwj5 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Mozart TUE TUE Professor Robert Winston brings a scientist's ear to his TUE passion for music, exploring the medical histories of great TUE composers and how illness affected the music they wrote. TUE TUE Mozart's health has fascinated observers for over two TUE hundred years. The documents have examined to reveal every TUE available medical detail. Any mention of a cough or an ache TUE has been minutely analysed for evidence about the diseases TUE he suffered and the mystery illness that killed him at the TUE tender age of 35. But is this intense scrutiny is obscuring TUE our picture of Mozart? Over 160 different causes of death, TUE alone, have now been suggested. Professor Winston sifts TUE through the morass of information and speculation to TUE discover what Mozart's health can really tell us about the TUE man and his music. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Taylor. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01ddxc0 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker TUE TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. TUE You can have your say: TUE Email via our web page; www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours and TUE don't forget to leave a contact number where we can reach TUE you. TUE Call us on 03700 100 444 from 10am on Tuesday. TUE Text us on 84844 and we may call you back. TUE TUE Presented by Julian Worricker TUE Produced by Maire Devine. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01ddxc2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01ddxc4 (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Ship of Dreams b01ddxc6 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In the second part of the series Jeanette considers the TUE building of the ship in Belfast's Harland and Wolff TUE shipyard. We hear of Bram Stoker's visit, and the importance TUE of Titanic to being British. TUE TUE Producer: Kevin Dawson TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01dcm9b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ddxcb (Listen) TUE White Noise TUE TUE By Matthew Broughton. TUE TUE A dark hymn to Dagenham in East London. Freddy wants to be TUE an artist. Danny wants to clean up the streets. And Kath TUE just wants the pictures to come back to her TV. As the TUE Olympics loom large, something world-changing is about to TUE happen to one family. TUE TUE Freddie .. Theo Barklem-Biggs TUE Danny .. Ricci Harnett TUE Kath .. Louise Jameson TUE Astrid .. Ayesha Antoine TUE Johnny .. Matthew Gravelle TUE TUE Directed by James Robinson TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01ddxcg (Listen) TUE Tom Holland presents Radio 4's popular history programme in TUE which listener's questions and research help offer new TUE insights into the past. TUE TUE Today, the programme marks the centenary of the sinking of TUE the Titanic by looking into our understanding of icebergs TUE 100 years ago and asking whether the ship's designers can TUE really be blamed for not knowing what we know now. Helen TUE Castor is in Exeter at the home of the Met Office to uncover TUE the tragic and little-known story of the men who manned the TUE Atlantic weather ships in wartime. And a listener in Dorset TUE needs your help with a project which marks the impact of TUE Black American GI's during the Second World War. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01fhyry (Listen) TUE What lies beneath TUE TUE Mining is set to return to Cornwall as tin and tungsten TUE prices continue to rise. Plus a rare earth metal called TUE Indium, a key component in smart phones and flat screens, is TUE enticing prospectors back to the mines of the South West. TUE TUE Tin mining has long been just a relic of Cornwall's past; a TUE landscape dotted with old overgrown chimneys being the only TUE evidence of the wheals once found all across the county. TUE TUE The last miners left South Crofty mine, near Redruth in the TUE heart of Cornwall in 1998 when the price of tin made mining TUE in the area unviable, but now investors and geologists have TUE turned their attention to some of the other minerals lying TUE underground alongside the tin. Rare earth metals are also TUE hiding below the surface at South Crofty and could help TUE bring prosperity to a much maligned part of the country. TUE TUE Just across the county border in Devon, mining is set to TUE begin at Hemerdon, just outside Plymouth. Hemerdon is home TUE to the fourth largest Tungsten deposit in the world and the TUE price of tungsten is soaring. TUE TUE Tom Heap meets the new prospectors hoping to make the area TUE profitable once again. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01fhys0 (Listen) TUE Chris Ledgard meets the academics doing stand-up comedy in a TUE London pub; asks why foreign languages have to be so TUE difficult, and discovers that jokes reach parts of the brain TUE that other words cannot reach. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01ddxcq (Listen) TUE Series 27, Oscar Wilde TUE TUE Oscar Wilde, author of The Importance of Being Earnest and TUE The Ballad of Reading Gaol, is proposed by Will Self, a TUE writer once described as a 'high powered satirical weapon'. TUE TUE In 1895, and at the height of his success, Wilde began libel TUE proceedings against the Marquess of Queensberry, sparking a TUE disastrous sequence of trials, prison, exile and disgrace. A TUE century later Oscar Wilde is often listed as one of the TUE wittiest Britons who ever lived, but this was a life that TUE ended in tragedy and early death. Joining Will Self and TUE Matthew Parris in the studio is Franny Moyle, author of a TUE biography of Oscar Wilde's wife, Constance, an often TUE overlooked character in Wilde's life. The programme features TUE actor Simon Russell Beale's reading of De Profundis - From TUE The Depths. TUE TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01ddxcs (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ddxcx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01ddxcz (Listen) TUE Series 8, Original British Drama TUE TUE Ed reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, TUE complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his TUE never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever TUE scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and TUE cat together. TUE TUE This week, following one of his numerous, pithy, letters of TUE complaint to the BBC, Ed finds himself doing some research TUE for his son, Jake, the only family member left representing TUE the name of Reardon working in the media. The unexpected TUE consequence of this is that Ed finds himself working in TUE harmony with the 12 year- olds both on screen and in the TUE coffee stations and tea points of power, to produce a piece TUE of genuinely water-cooler factutainment. TUE TUE Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas TUE Olive ..... Stephanie Cole TUE Radio DJ ..... Simon Greenall TUE Policeman ..... Martin Hyder TUE Pearl ..... Rita May TUE Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE Jake ..... Sam Pamphillon TUE Pool Manager ..... Nicola Sanderson TUE Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. TUE Produced by Dawn Ellis. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01fhys8 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01ddxd5 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Clive James TUE about his new collection of poetry, called Nefertiti in the TUE Flak Tower. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ddxbp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 France and Race: A Question of Identite b01fhysd (Listen) TUE Julian Jackson explores the central issue in the current TUE election campaign for the Presidency of France: race, TUE religion and what it means today to be French. TUE TUE Clichy-sous-Bois is a notorious Parisian ghetto. True, the TUE wooded, gently rolling slopes of this borough to the TUE north-east of the capital are stacked with residential TUE blocks, yet there are no telltale burned-out blocks or TUE abandoned lots. Clichy is kempt. It was though in this TUE almost wholly immigrant community that the death in 2005 of TUE two Muslim youths fleeing from police sparked some of the TUE worst and most widespread race riots seen in Europe for TUE generations. TUE TUE There are today 5 million Muslims in France, the largest TUE population in western Europe, largely as a result of the TUE country's colonial past in north Africa. And their presence TUE has increasingly since the 2005 riots been a central issue TUE in French society. In 2009 the government instituted a TUE national enquiry, with town-hall meetings and debates that TUE resulted in much hand-wringing, over what it means today 'to TUE be French', not least in the light of the country's ban on TUE wearing the full Islamic veil in public. TUE TUE Now there is widespread belief that with the far-right TUE National Front led by the charismatic Marine le Pen, there TUE may be a re-run of the 2002 shock elimination by the party TUE of one of the main contenders in the first round of voting. TUE TUE In this programme, Julian Jackson, Professor of modern TUE French history at London University, visits Clichy and meets TUE the men and women who are at the heart of the debate - TUE Jean-Francois Copé, chief of Sarkozy's UMP, Harlem Désir, TUE Socialist MP and founder of SOS Racism and Marine le Pen to TUE discuss what being French is all about and how they TUE reconcile the fraught arguments over race and religion. TUE TUE Producer: Simon Elmes. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01ddxd9 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01fhysj (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE Producer: Deborah Cohen. TUE TUE 21:30 The Public Philosopher b01ddxbf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01fcy47 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01ddxdh (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ddxdk (Listen) TUE The Snow Child, Episode 7 TUE TUE The reader is Miranda Richardson TUE The Snow Child was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by TUE Gemma McMullan. TUE TUE 23:00 Richard Herring's Objective b00vhgc7 (Listen) TUE Series 1, The St George's Flag TUE TUE Comedian Richard Herring reclaims those things we have given TUE a bad name to. This week he's reclaiming the English TUE National Flag from any associations with far right TUE extremists. Why does the man and woman on the street have no TUE idea when St George's day is? Who is St George? Richard asks TUE a vexillologist (flag expert) about how flags have come to TUE symbolise nations.He also talks to anthropologist Kate Fox TUE who has studied the behaviour of the English, about why the TUE English are not natural flag waving patriots. The show was TUE recorded in front of an audience. Producer ..... Alison TUE Vernon-Smith ". TUE TUE 23:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries b00vcms4 (Listen) TUE Series 2, May and June TUE TUE A second chance to hear satirist Craig Brown dip into the TUE private lives of public figures from the 1960's to the TUE present day. TUE TUE May & June. As the summer heats up passions rise for Barbara TUE Cartland and Edwina Currie. TUE TUE Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan TUE Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells. TUE Written by Craig Brown. TUE Produced by Victoria Lloyd. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 APRIL 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01fcy4t (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01fhyq2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fcy4w (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fcy4y (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fcy50 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01fcy52 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ddxf6 (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon WED Patrick Thomas. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01fjt02 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Angela Frain. WED WED 06:00 Today b01fjt04 (Listen) WED Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including WED Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01fjt06 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01g6nkq (Listen) WED Double Cross, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Ben Macintyre. WED WED By 1943, preparations are gathering pace for the Allied WED landings in Normandy, and new recruit, Lily Sergeyev, offers WED her services to the British Double Cross team as a spy. WED WED Reader: Jonathan Keeble WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier Production For BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01fjt08 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01fjt0b (Listen) WED The Man Who Knows, Episode 3 WED WED Fleet Street, 1968: A gossip columnist has been invading WED some major celebrities' privacy. WED WED 11:00 Random Edition b01fjt0d (Listen) WED Sinking of the Titanic Special WED WED Reports of Titanic's collision with an iceberg could hardly WED be more white hot than this: an Evening News printed in WED London on the very day the pride of the White Star Line went WED down. And yet the paper declares 'All Passengers Safely WED Taken Off' and 'Crippled Vessel Steaming to Halifax'. WED WED Just one angle for Peter Snow to explore in this Random WED Edition Special. As ever, the newspaper of choice guides his WED investigations. With the Evening News reminding readers of WED the splendours of the great ship, Peter visits the Titanic WED Artefacts Exhibition and Queen Mary 2 (today's largest WED ocean-going liner) to imagine what impressed passengers on WED the maiden voyage - like salesman Adolphe Saalfeld, listed WED in the newspaper. His perfume vials have been rescued from WED the seabed and are part of the exhibition. WED WED The Evening News also carries a string of cues to the great WED 'what ifs' of the Titanic story. What if sister ship Olympic WED hadn't been damaged the previous year, diverting workers WED from completing Titanic and thereby changing the date of the WED maiden voyage? If only Titanic hadn't narrowly avoided an WED accident in Southampton as she set off...her departure might WED have been delayed. As the newspaper makes clear, this was a WED big night for the still fledgling Marconi wireless system - WED Peter Snow visits the Marconi Archive and the Museum of the WED History of Science in Oxford to discover more. WED WED And with the Evening News overdosing on iceberg stories, WED Peter asks whether a head-on collision rather than the WED fateful glancing blow would have meant the ship staying WED afloat. Throughout the programme listeners can hear vivid WED eye-witness testimony from Titanic survivors, plus music WED recorded soon after the disaster. And there's also the WED authentic sound of one of Titanic's hooters, restored to WED working order. WED WED Producer: Andrew Green WED A Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 My First Planet b01fjt0g (Listen) WED The Landing Has Landed WED WED Day 1 on the colony and they've lost the food, the air, the WED Commander and the Mood Music. Meanwhile, Chief Physician WED Lillian makes a terrible discovery about Project Adam... WED WED A sitcom set on a shiny new planet where we ask the question WED - if humankind were to colonize space, is it destined to WED succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the WED way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) WED WED Welcome to the colony. We're aware that having been in deep WED cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some WED supplementary information. WED WED Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on WED the voyage, so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst) is WED now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, WED and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly WED meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian WED (Vicki Pepperdine - "Getting On"), who'd really rather WED everyone was walking round in tight colour-coded tunics and WED saluting each other. She's also in charge of Project Adam, WED the plan to conceive and give birth to the first colony-born WED baby. Unfortunately, the two people hand-picked for this WED purpose - Carol and Richard - were rather fibbing about WED being a couple, just to get on the trip. WED WED Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and WED also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an WED "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer WED the question - if humankind were to colonize space, is it WED destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and WED infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) WED WED Brian ...... Nicholas Lyndhurst WED Lillian ...... Vicki Pepperdine WED Mason ........ Tom Goodman-Hill WED Archer ........ Phil Whelans WED Carol ........ Cariad Lloyd WED Richard ....... John Dorney WED WED Written by Phil Whelans WED Produced & directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01fjt0j (Listen) WED Consumer news with Peter White. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01fcy54 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01fjt0l (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Ship of Dreams b01fjt0n (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED In the third part of the series we hear about life aboard WED the ship. A world of deep pile carpets, Turkish baths and WED crystal fountains. WED WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01fhys8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01fjtgn (Listen) WED Red and Blue, Hearts and Minds WED WED By Philip Palmer. WED WED Former British Army officer Bradley Shoreham works as a WED defence consultant. The 'war game' he has created may only WED be a simulation but he is about to find that its WED consequences are rather more real than he would like. WED WED Bradley Shoreham ..... Tim Woodward WED Emma Macintosh ..... Tracy Wiles WED Fergus O'Donnell ..... Lloyd Hutchinson WED Cooper ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer WED Lt.Col. Mackay ..... Don Gilet WED Major General Gibbs ..... James Lailey WED Brigadier Harper ..... Gerard McDermott WED Sergeant Evans ..... Tom Meredith WED Desk Sergeant ..... Harry Livingstone WED WED Directed by Toby Swift WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01fjtgq (Listen) WED Saving and Investing WED WED Cash ISA's, stocks and shares, gilts and bonds: How to make WED your money grow? Whatever your saving or investment WED question, Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer your WED queries. The number to call is 03700 100 444. Lines open at WED 1300 BST on Wednesday. Or you can email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01fhysj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01fjtgv (Listen) WED We pay others to take away our household refuse from the WED front of our house whilst hoarding other junk in the attic. WED And while most of us wouldn't mind buying other people's WED discarded clothes in a charity shop, only a few are prepared WED to take even edible food from supermarket dumpsters. What WED hidden motives lurk behind our relationship with waste? WED Martin O'Brien, author of 'A Crisis of Waste?' and Jeff WED Ferrell, author of 'Empire of Scrounge', join Laurie to sift WED through the competing ways of understanding refuse. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01fjtgz (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01fq84h (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's WED news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fcy56 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Castle b00t28d6 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Pilchards of Doom WED WED Hie ye to "The Castle", a rollicking sitcom set way back WED then, starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley", "Four WED Weddings & A Funeral") and Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley") WED WED In this episode, Sir John grapples with both an adulterous WED affair and a tin of pilchards. Meanwhile, Thomas explores WED the secrets of the Universe and Anne falls in love with King WED Russell de Brand WED WED Sir John Woodstock ...... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne ....... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock ........ Martha Howe-Douglas WED Cardinal Duncan ...... Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte ....... Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock ....... Steven Kynman WED Merlin ....... Lewis Macleod WED WED Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED Producer/Director: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01fjth5 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01fjth7 (Listen) WED Mark Lawson reports on how the life and character of Anne WED Frank has inspired new work from writers including Nathan WED Englander, Bernard Kops, Shalom Auslander and Ellen Feldman. WED WED Producer Ellie Bury. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01fjt0b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b01fjvxl (Listen) WED Clive Anderson and guests discuss whether our planning law WED strikes the right balance between encouraging economic WED growth and the protection of human rights and the WED environment. Top lawyers and planning law experts examine WED concerns that the Government has tilted the playing field in WED favour of the interests of developers. WED WED Planning law determines if our neighbour can build a single WED extension or whether a £33bn high speed rail network slicing WED through swathes of English countryside can go ahead. It WED controls where, and how many, houses are built, where WED gypsies can camp, and where wind farms or nuclear power WED stations are sited. WED WED But does this law provide individuals and communities with WED enough protection from unwanted or un-needed development? WED Does the Government's proposed National Planning Policy WED Framework effectively give an automatic green light to WED development, opening up the prospect of a free-for-all for WED building on green field land and less restriction on the WED density of housing development? Or has the removal of WED regional planning authorities given too much power to the WED NIMBYs? Is the Government creating a chaotic planning WED framework in which only lawyers are likely to benefit? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01fjvxn (Listen) WED Series 3, Bobby Cummines WED WED Bobby Cummines, Chief Executive, UNLOCK, the National WED Association of Reformed Offenders, who served 13 years in WED high security prisons for robbery and manslaughter, argues WED if society wants to reduce crime, reformed criminals must be WED helped to get jobs and discrimination against them needs to WED stop. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01fhyry (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01fjt06 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01fcy58 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01fjvxq (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01fjvxs (Listen) WED The Snow Child, Episode 8 WED WED The reader is Miranda Richardson WED The Snow Child was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by WED Gemma McMullan. WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b01fjvxv (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel is charged with creating relaxing music for a pregnant WED ladies music group. WED WED But whilst Arts Centre director Belinda happily sells WED tickets for his 'live inspirational womb music' sessions, WED Nigel is hampered in his preparations by the usual array of WED challenging pupils and a rather early arrival. WED WED Nigel Penny ...... Richie Webb WED Belinda ....... Vicki Pepperdine WED Alfie ...... Jim North WED Heather ...... Felicity Montagu WED Jeremy ...... Dave Lamb WED Claude ...... Joseph Webb WED Libby ...... Jess Robinson WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Cornwell Estate b00vkxy6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Jimmy Baker WED WED Written by Andrew McGibbon and Phil Cornwell WED WED Jimmy leaves the Cornwell Estate for his native Newcastle to WED restart his career as a stand up comedian. But that's not WED all he's come back to do. WED WED Jimmy Baker ..... Phil Cornwell WED Sergeant Paul Farris ..... Simon Greenall WED Emma Baker ..... Jill Halfpenny WED Terry ..... Andrew McGibbon WED Malkey Robey ..... Paul Brennen WED WED Created by Phil Cornwell and Andrew McGibbon with additional WED material by Nick Romero WED Producer/Director: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries b00vhf5y (Listen) WED Series 2, July and August WED WED July & August. School's out for Barack Obama, Frank McCourt WED and Emma Thompson. WED WED Satirist Craig Brown dips into the private lives of public WED figures from the 1960s to the present day. WED WED Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan WED Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells. WED Written by Craig Brown. WED Produced by Victoria Lloyd. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 APRIL 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01fcy5v (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01g6nkq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fcy5x (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fcy5z (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fcy61 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01fcy63 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01g7py3 (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon THU Patrick Thomas. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01dfnfl (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01dfnfn (Listen) THU Presented by Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01dgh7d (Listen) THU Early Geology THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the emergence of geology THU as a scientific discipline. In the Renaissance a few THU scholars began to study rocks and to speculate about how THU they had been formed. Some of their findings appeared to THU contradict Scripture, and for many years religion and THU scholarship appeared to be at odds. In the eighteenth THU century this body of knowledge gave rise to a new science - THU geology - whose findings were of historic importance to our THU knowledge of the Earth and its origins. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01fhynx (Listen) THU Double Cross, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Ben Macintyre. THU THU The plans for the D-Day landings have been finalised but the THU alarm is raised when a high profile German businessman with THU ties to MI5 is arrested by the Gestapo. THU THU Reader: Jonathan Keeble THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier Production For BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01dgh7j (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dgh7l (Listen) THU The Man Who Knows, Episode 4 THU THU Fleet Street, 1968: A gossip columnist has been invading THU some major celebrities' privacy. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01fjx63 (Listen) THU Forced Sterilisation in Uzbekistan THU THU Natalia Antelava reports on Uzbekistan where women have THU become the new target of one of the most repressive regimes THU on earth. She uncovers evidence that women are being THU sterilised,often without their knowledge, in an effort by THU the government to control the population. THU The programme speaks to victims and doctors and highlights THU the fear and paranoia that have made this such a difficult THU story to tell. Women have fled the country in order to THU escape the practice. Only a few brave Uzbeks have been THU willing to speak, often telling horrific stories the THU government don't want told. THU Producer: Wesley Stephenson. THU THU 11:30 Who's Angry Now? b01fjx67 (Listen) THU Broadcaster and journalist John Harris was in his teens at THU the height of the Thatcher years and protest-song obsessed. THU He feasted on the work of Billy Bragg, The Style Council and THU The Redskins, three Trotskyists who wrote jaunty soul THU numbers about the history of socialism. THU THU In his own suburban band The Immediates, he wrote songs THU about long-term unemployment, nuclear weapons and the return THU of Victorian values. But nearly thirty years on, he really THU misses it all. He's wondering where are today's equivalents THU not just of Billy Bragg, but the young Bob Dylan and Ewan THU McColl? THU THU In this programme, he goes on a journey to meet some of THU today's musicians who are sufficiently fired up to sing THU socially and politically conscious music. They include the THU folk singer songwriter Grace Petrie who was angered by Nick THU Clegg's change of position on tuition fees to write protest THU songs such as 'Farewell to Welfare'. John also hears from THU Johnny 'Itch' Fox, the lead singer of punk band The King THU Blues, who see no division between their activism and their THU music & the controversial rapper MC Lowkey who has been very THU vocal about issues such as Palestine, the war on terror and THU the English riots. Just before the Occupy London camp was THU evicted, he also met with Get Cape. Wear Cape. THU THU Fly's Sam Duckworth who's been helping to launch the first THU release from Occupation Records, 'Folk the banks'. Finally THU Billy Bragg himself offers his opinion about this new THU generation, some of whom he has shared a stage with, and how THU they differ from himself and the musicians of his day. THU THU Producer: Simon Jacobs THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01fjx6c (Listen) THU Consumer news with Julian Worricker. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01fcy65 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01fjx6f (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Ship of Dreams b01fjx6h (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU In the fourth part of the series we focus on the sinking of THU the Titanic. A tale of class division, heroism and horror. THU THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01fjth5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01fjx6k (Listen) THU Rough Magick THU THU A comedic drama by Marty Ross set in 1605 in the Scottish THU Highlands in which the Royal playwright Shaxberd saves King THU James from assassination and attempts to save an innocent THU girl from being burnt as a witch. THU THU 1605. Fearing further terrorist activity following the THU gunpowder plot, King James transports his court to the THU Scottish Highlands, complete with The King's Men, his THU favoured theatre company. This includes middle-aged, THU careworn, neurotic and pox-troubled playwright William THU Shaxberd (although he prefers being called 'Shakespeare'). THU When the Royal wagons get bogged down on the moors and a THU seemingly supernatural attempt is made on the life of the THU paranoid, superstitious James, a local woman, Shona, is THU accused of witchcraft. Shaxberd owes Shona a debt and THU shaking off his customary deference to authority he employs THU all his ingenuity and gift for theatre to help her escape THU the gallows. But who was the real attacker? And does the THU innocent Shona have some genuine magic up her sleeve? THU THU The play takes its prompt from historical facts: James's THU obsession with witchcraft and the political paranoia THU post-Gunpowder Plot; Shakespeare's being sometimes credited THU as 'Shaxberd' (might it have been his actual name?), his THU awkward position at court as a Catholic glove-maker's son, THU his rewriting of Scottish history in 'Macbeth' to flatter THU King James (Banquo's descendant); as well as the probably THU apocryphal story that The King's Men may have toured THU Scotland prior to the writing of 'Macbeth'. THU THU William Shaxberd. . . JOHN PAUL HURLEY THU King James . . . RICHARD CONLON THU Lord Riddrie. . . ROBERT JACK THU Shona . . . SALLY REID THU Courtier . . . TERRY WALE THU McIver . . . STEVEN McNICOLL THU McGlee . . . DAVID WALKER THU THU Producer/director: David Ian Neville. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01fjx6m (Listen) THU Watership Down Under Threat THU THU Watership Down under threat. Helen Mark visits the Berkshire THU site made famous by author Richard Adams. Development is now THU planned, but should literary status override housing need? THU THU A planning application to build 2,000 homes south of Newbury THU has met fierce opposition from a local community. Armed with THU an international bestseller, Watership Down, the campaigners THU and author Richard Adams believe the site of the original THU warren, Sandleford Park, should remain as open countryside. THU THU To explore the issues and mark the 40th anniversary of the THU book's publication Helen follows the path taken by the THU fictional rabbits Hazel and Fiver. It takes her across the THU real landscape that follows the Berkshire/Hampshire border. THU THU It's a truly stunning part of rural Britain, but is there THU room for sentimentality when we have a serious housing THU shortage? Open Country investigates the arguments for and THU against. THU THU Producer: Clare Freeman. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01fhnsw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01fhp9b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01fjx6p (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01fjx6r (Listen) THU Science magazine programme. THU THU 17:00 PM b01fjx6t (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fcy67 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01dgh8t (Listen) THU With guest Nick Helm THU THU Comedian Alex Horne is joined by his own 5 piece band for a THU brand new series of music and comedy. The band will be THU joined by Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee guest Nick Helm, THU and explore the relationship between man and dog and THU dinosaurs and puns. THU THU Host .... Alex Horne THU Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland THU Saxophone/clarinet .... Mark Brown THU Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier THU Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds THU Piano/keyboard .... Joe Stilgoe THU Guest performer .... Nick Helm. THU THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01fjx6y (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01fjx72 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01dgh7l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01fjx74 (Listen) THU Parts of England are facing the worst drought in more than THU 30 years. A hosepipe ban has been imposed. How did we get THU here? For The Report, Linda Pressly investigates. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01fjx76 (Listen) THU French Lessons THU THU As the EuroZone struggles for survival, France remains at THU the heart of Europe. Peter Day finds out how French business THU is faring in an era of huge European uncertainty. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Nature b01fjx78 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01fjx5v (Listen) THU Early Geology THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the emergence of geology THU as a scientific discipline. In the Renaissance a few THU scholars began to study rocks and to speculate about how THU they had been formed. Some of their findings appeared to THU contradict Scripture, and for many years religion and THU scholarship appeared to be at odds. In the eighteenth THU century this body of knowledge gave rise to a new science - THU geology - whose findings were of historic importance to our THU knowledge of the Earth and its origins. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 21:58 Weather b01fcy69 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01fjxc3 (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01fjxc5 (Listen) THU The Snow Child, Episode 9 THU THU The reader is Miranda Richardson THU The Snow Child was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by THU Gemma McMullan. THU THU 23:00 Wireless Nights b01fjxc7 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Continuing his new series of nocturnal meditations, Jarvis THU Cocker prowls the nation's night. THU THU From dusk til dawn he searches for the people and things THU that only come out at night. Weaving his way between short THU features, he eavesdrops on an all night poker game where THU nerves begin to fray as the hours roll on; on a feminist THU punk gig giving musical expression to the call centre THU generation; and on an alcohol fuelled badger-watch where a THU man's mind unwinds and thoughts of sabotage begin to enter. THU THU Producer: Neil McCarthy. THU THU 23:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries b00vkw57 (Listen) THU Series 2, September and October THU THU September & October. Autumn brings gloom for Sylvia Plath, THU Thomas Hardy and Max Clifford. THU THU A second chance to hear satirist Craig Brown dip into the THU private lives of public figures from the 1960's to the THU present day. THU THU Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan THU Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells. THU Written by Craig Brown. THU Produced by Victoria Lloyd. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 APRIL 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01fcy6w (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01fhynx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fcy6y (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fcy70 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dgh9x (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01dgh9z (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01dghb1 (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon FRI Patrick Thomas. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01dghb3 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01fjxwy (Listen) FRI Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01fhnt4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01g6pwc (Listen) FRI Double Cross, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Ben Macintyre. FRI FRI It is June 1944 and the Allies prepare for the landings in FRI Normandy, taking the Germans by surprise, thanks to the work FRI of the double agents working for the British secret service. FRI FRI Reader: Jonathan Keeble FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier Production For BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01fjz2l (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01fjz2n (Listen) FRI The Man Who Knows, Episode 5 FRI FRI Fleet Street, 1968: A gossip columnist has been invading FRI some major celebrities' privacy. FRI FRI 11:00 Titanic Town b01fjz2q (Listen) FRI At the Titanic Quarter on Belfast's Queen's Island, work FRI continues on the office blocks and riverside apartments FRI despite the economic gloom.This redevelopment of 105 acres FRI of land once home to the sprawling Harland & Wolff shipyard FRI is a totem of a regenerating city and the starting point for FRI Gerry Anderson's exploration of the meaning of Titanic in FRI the city of her birth. FRI FRI It might seem strange, and in questionable taste, to name FRI this brave new world after an 'unsinkable' ship which FRI perished on its maiden voyage, and for many years the people FRI of Belfast would most definitely have agreed. A famous FRI photograph from 1911 shows workers streaming out of the FRI shipyard with the half-built Titanic towering above the FRI terraced streets behind them. It's a reminder that this FRI global icon has roots in a real place amongst real people. FRI FRI They don't make ships in Belfast anymore. The last great FRI liner to be built was Canberra in 1960. But the Titanic has FRI become the thread that links modern Belfast to its FRI industrial heyday. Cleansed of its residual guilt and FRI divisive political undertones by the passage of time and a FRI sprinkling of Hollywood stardust, it's now held up as an FRI emblem of local ingenuity and entrepreneurial nous. If FRI something this incredible, this famous can come from this FRI small city on the fringe of Europe, perhaps the next Google FRI or Microsoft might begin here too. FRI FRI As the people of Belfast now like to say about the Titanic. FRI 'She was all right when she left here.'. FRI FRI 11:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00r2cm9 (Listen) FRI Series 4, Milton Jones - Birdman! FRI FRI In this episode, Milton's a daredevil test pilot and Top Gun FRI who gets tangled up in a fiendish plot to replace the turkey FRI twizzler... So if you find yourself daydreaming about owls, FRI dodos, Papua New Guinea, a helicopter made of spoons and a FRI comfy pillow made of chicken giblets then you've quite FRI definitely caught "Another Case Of Milton Jones" FRI FRI He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom FRI Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine With Me") FRI and Ingrid Oliver ("Watson & Oliver"). FRI FRI Produced & directed by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01fjz2s (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01fjz2v (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today Matthew talks to his adoptive son about FRI how he rescued him as a baby from South Vietnam. More from FRI the Listening Project at 4.55pm this afternoon. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01fcy76 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01fjz2x (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents the national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Ship of Dreams b01fjz2z (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final part of the series we hear of the events FRI following the sinking of the ship, the inquiries, the poetry FRI and the exaggerated tales of daring do. FRI FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01fjx6y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01fjz31 (Listen) FRI Is Anything Broken? FRI FRI by Daniel Davies FRI FRI A real-time comedy drama about modern life, set during one FRI of the most stressful journeys known to humanity - the trip FRI from Arrivals Hall to Departure Gate. FRI FRI Patrick ..... Adam Kotz FRI Oriane ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Oscar ..... Kasper Hilton-Hille FRI Maya ..... Tracy Wiles FRI Emily ..... Susie Riddell FRI Kimberley ..... Christine Absalom FRI Norbert ..... Don Gilet FRI Peter ..... Gerard McDermott FRI Tibor ..... Peter Hamilton-Dyer FRI Steward ..... Harry Livingstone FRI Tannoy ..... Beverly Tagg FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01fjz33 (Listen) FRI West Midlands FRI FRI Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew answer FRI your gardening queries from Beckminster Methodist Church. FRI Eric Robson is in the chair. FRI FRI We return to Matthew Wison's garden for advice on building a FRI child-friendly garden. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Made in Bristol b01fjz35 (Listen) FRI Reality Check FRI FRI Tania Hershman's three short pieces of flash fiction FRI commissioned for the More Than Words Festival in Bristol are FRI linked by the theme of science. A professor confronts a FRI childhood ghost during a storm at sea; a scientist is FRI visited in the lab by a character from fiction; and a group FRI of biochemists find themselves the life and soul of a party. FRI FRI Tania Hershman writes short stories, poetry and flash FRI fiction, is writer in residence at the Science Faculty at FRI Bristol University and has a second short story collection, FRI My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions coming out shortly. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Davies. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01fjz37 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01fjz39 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01fjz3c (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation. Liverpudlian Jayne talks to her mother Sally FRI about family life and her father who died when Jayne was FRI two. There's a final visit to the Listening Project tonight FRI at 1155pm. FRI FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01fjz3f (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fcy78 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01fjz3h (Listen) FRI Series 77, Episode 2 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01fjz3k (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01fjz3m (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01fjz2n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01fjz3p (Listen) FRI London FRI FRI Edward Stourton chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from the radio theatre, Broadcasting House, in FRI London. FRI FRI Producer: Isobel Eaton. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01fjz3r (Listen) FRI Reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01fny86 (Listen) FRI An English Tragedy FRI FRI Based on actual events at the end of World War Two, this FRI play by Oscar winner Ronald Harwood stars Derek Jacobi. FRI FRI May 1945: victory in Europe, and a Labour landslide. English FRI traitor John Amery is arrested in Italy and brought back to FRI London for trial. If convicted, he faces the death penalty. FRI But his father is a senior politician; surely the FRI Establishment will look after its own... FRI FRI The play charts the weeks leading up to the execution, FRI following John's arrest in Italy and trial in London. Like a FRI real-life Sebastian Flyte, he clutches his teddy bear, lies, FRI boasts and jokes as the day of execution draws inexorably FRI nearer. Meanwhile his distraught parents try everything in FRI their power to save him. FRI FRI John Amery was the Harrow educated son of Churchill's FRI Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery. His brother Julian FRI was later to become a prominent Conservative MP. A troubled FRI man, who had been expelled from Public School and bankrupted FRI as a young entrepreneur, John became a passionate fascist. FRI He broadcast pro-Nazi propaganda during World War 2 and ran FRI a programme recruiting British POWs to fight for Germany on FRI the Eastern Front. Unlike his brother Julian, John was a FRI wild boy - bisexual, hedonistic and unstable. Why? FRI FRI Ronald Harwood's work as a screen writer includes The FRI Pianist, which won him an Oscar for Best Screenplay and his FRI films The Dresser and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly also FRI won Oscar nominations. FRI FRI John Amery ..... Geoffrey Streatfield FRI Leopold Amery ..... Derek Jacobi FRI Bryddie Amery ..... Isla Blair FRI Warder/ Sergant ..... Christopher Knott FRI The Major / Judge ..... Pip Donaghy FRI Dr Rosemary Pimlott ..... Melanie Jessop FRI FRI Written by Ronald Harwood FRI Adapted for Radio by Bert Coules FRI Directed by Philip Franks FRI FRI The producer is Frank Stirling, and this is a Unique FRI production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01fcy7b (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01fjz7f (Listen) FRI Robin Lustig presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01fjz7h (Listen) FRI The Snow Child, Episode 10 FRI FRI The reader is Miranda Richardson FRI The Snow Child was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by FRI Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01ddxcq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries b00vrssk (Listen) FRI Series 2, November and December FRI FRI November & December. As winter sets in, John Prescott, FRI Germaine Greer and Nigella Lawson's thoughts turn to home. FRI FRI A second chance to hear satirist Craig Brown dip into the FRI private lives of public figures from the 1960's to the FRI present day. FRI FRI Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan FRI Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells. FRI FRI Written by Craig Brown. FRI Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01fjz95 (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation. Jamaican-born Monica talks to her son Rikki FRI about being gay, coming out and about having a gay son. And FRI you can hear an omnibus edition of all today's FRI conversations, plus an extra encounter, on Sunday at 2.45pm. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI
06 April, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 07/04/2012 - 13/04/2012
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