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SAT SATURDAY 04 MAY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01s4vhx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01sbgr3 (Listen) SAT Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Episode 5 SAT SAT In 1997 Margaret Thatcher invited Charles Moore to write her SAT biography on the understanding that it would not be SAT published until after her death. This is the first volume of SAT his meticulously researched portrait of the former Prime SAT Minster. The reader is Nicholas Farrell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Nicholas Farrell SAT Writer: Charles Moore SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s4vhz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s4vj1 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s4vj3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01s4vj5 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s4vkr (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Revd Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01s4vkt (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01s4vj7 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01s4vj9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01s4sz4 (Listen) SAT Highland Ponies SAT SAT The image of a keeper leading a pony off a heather-clad SAT hill, a deer carcass slung across its back, may sound like SAT something from a Landseer painting, but in 21st century SAT Scotland, Highland ponies - or garrons - are still a valued SAT part of the deer stalking business. SAT SAT Helen Mark visits the Reay Forest estate in Sutherland to SAT find out what ponies can offer which even the toughest SAT off-road vehicle cannot. Garrons were a fixture of most SAT estates until the 1970s, when in many places they were SAT deemed to be part of the past. Some estates, though, kept SAT garrons for use in the most inaccessible corners of their SAT land, and they are now being adopted for the first time by SAT some estates which have come to see the value of these hardy SAT creatures. Helen hears how the garron is part of the SAT Highland landscape not just for sentimental reasons, SAT creating continuity with the past, but for sound economic SAT and practical purposes too. SAT SAT Produced by Moira Hickey. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01s7srx (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith finds out what it takes to grow the perfect SAT grass needed for seed production, in Suffolk. Bad weather SAT over the last year has not only made it tougher for farmers SAT to grow seed crops, it's put the demand for seeds wildly out SAT of kilter. As the European Commission prepares to confirm SAT its plans for tightening the regulation of seeds, Charlotte SAT learns about the current UK certification process. Anna Hill SAT hears claims that these new proposals could threaten seed SAT banks holding rare and old varieties, and could end seed SAT sharing. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01s4vjc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01s7t3m (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day, Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01s7t3p (Listen) SAT Dame Evelyn Glennie; Monty Don; Steve Hackett's Inheritance SAT Tracks; Beth Reekles; Sara Wheeler in Dundee SAT SAT Sian Williams & JP Devlin with Dame Evelyn Glennie, teenage SAT novelist Beth Reekles and her mum Claire, and snooker player SAT Katie Henrick. Gardener Monty Don takes a Daytrip to the SAT Courtauld Institute in London to look at Cezanne's Mont SAT Sainte-Victoire; travel writer Sara Wheeler explores Dundee; SAT son of Skegness Mark Johnson explains how he became the SAT voice of the Kentucky Derby; & Genesis guitarist Steve SAT Hackett shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Britain in a Box b01s7t3r (Listen) SAT Series 6, Nationwide SAT SAT Paul Jackson returns with the series that does much more SAT than celebrating innovative television programmes - it uses SAT them as a window on a particular period in our cultural and SAT social history. In the spotlight over the next three weeks SAT will be: Channel 4's longest running sit com, Desmond's - SAT the OTHER Peckham based comedy which featured Norman Beaton SAT as Desmond, the owner of a West Indian Barber shop; then SAT there's the world's longest running medical soap, BBC1's SAT Casualty. SAT SAT But first off, Paul Jackson assesses the impact and legacy SAT of the popular current affairs programme that launched the SAT television career of Sue Lawley, and spawned the birth of TV SAT consumer journalism, Nationwide. SAT SAT Paul talks to the programme's first presenter, Michael SAT Barratt and the show's first director, Keith Clement, who SAT recall the early technical mishaps which threatened to take SAT Nationwide off the air. When Michael announced to viewers SAT that we were going to Glasgow, the viewers would see wavy SAT lines and hear technical clunks. The BBC circuit system was SAT not quite up to speed with the technical ambition of the SAT programme - though within six months, and ever increasing SAT audience numbers, the programme found its feet. SAT SAT Popular across the nation because of its inclusion of the SAT regions, we hear Sue Lawley on why she felt the programme SAT became a success. We also hear her account of THAT interview SAT with Mrs. Thatcher when housewife, Mrs Diana Gould persisted SAT in questioning Mrs Thatcher on the decision to sink the SAT Argentinian war ship, Belgrano when it 'was sailing away' SAT during the Falklands War. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01s7t3t (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01s7tpx (Listen) SAT The Chocolate Revolution SAT SAT Reporters' stories from around the world: why Rupert SAT Wingfield Hayes believes North Korea's recent sabre-rattling SAT speaks not of a regime that is strong and confident but one SAT that is weak and scared, of the outside world and SAT increasingly of its own people too. Emilie Filou accompanies SAT the fly-catchers of Burkina Faso as they test an old legend SAT - 'if you live too close to the river, it will eat your SAT eyes!' Mexico's latest political scandal unfolds in a SAT restaurant over the road from the BBC office - Will Grant's SAT handily placed then to reveal all. 'A kind of hell' - Darius SAT Bazargan finds out why heroin addiction's spreading through SAT Afghani society and James Harkin's been on Turkey's border SAT with Syria and tells a tale of the actress who couldn't stop SAT crying and the boy who's made friends with a turtle. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01s7tpz (Listen) SAT Interest-only mortgages, hikes in fuel bills, Zopa SAT SAT INTEREST ONLY MORTGAGES SAT The Financial Conduct Authority's first major piece of work SAT finds that 2.6 million people have interest only mortgages SAT and around half will not have enough to pay them off. The SAT average shortfall is £71,850 - compared with the £22,100 the SAT average borrowers expect to have to find. The FCA Chief SAT Executive Martin Wheatley tells Money Box that lenders SAT should be helpful to those who cannot pay off the loan. But SAT it may not be that simple. We talk to borrowers who face SAT losing their home. And ask the Council for Mortgage Lenders SAT what its members really will do to help. SAT SAT PEERING INTO THE FUTURE SAT Peer to peer lending has just got a little bit safer. And we SAT have a peer to peer debate between the biggest peer to peer SAT arranger, Zopa, and the man who runs the p2p comparison SAT site. They will discuss Zopa's new safeguard - which is not SAT a guarantee, not a promise, not insurance but a system to SAT sort of try to make sure that when someone you lend money to SAT defaults you will get all, or most, or at worst some of your SAT money back. SAT SAT STANDING CHARGES RETURN SAT All energy companies will have to re-introduce a standing SAT charge in the near future. Some have already. And already SAT that has led to big percentage rises in the fuel bills of SAT low users. Ofgem explains its policy to reintroduce them SAT live on Money Box. A critic calls for safeguards. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01s4vfg (Listen) SAT Series 80, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Katy Brand, Fred Macaulay and SAT Humphrey Ker. SAT SAT Producer: Sam Bryant SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01s4vjf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01s4vjh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01s4vfq (Listen) SAT Yvette Cooper, Lord Oakeshott, Trevor Kavanagh, Chris SAT Grayling SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the Radio SAT Theatre at Broadcasting House, London, with Shadow Home SAT Secretary Yvette Cooper MP, Liberal Democrat Peer Lord SAT Oakeshott, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling MP and Steve SAT Crowther the Executive Chairman of UKIP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01s7tq1 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01s7tq3 (Listen) SAT Love, etc SAT SAT By Julian Barnes SAT Dramatised by Julia Stoneham SAT "Hello! We've met before ... Yes. I am sure. SAT Positive. About ten years ago." SAT Stuart's right. We have met before, and his SAT best friend Oliver, and Gillian, the woman they SAT both loved. We now have the chance to pick up SAT from where we left them in France ... SAT SAT Stuart................Carl Prekopp SAT Oliver.................Nicholas Boulton SAT Gillian.................Hermione Norris SAT Sophie................Lauren Mote SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale SAT SAT Darker and deeper than its predecessor, Talking It Over, SAT this sequel is an engrossing exploraton of betrayal and SAT revenge told with a delicate balance between humour and SAT despair. Set ten years later we now have the chance to pick SAT up from where we left Stuart, Oliver and Gillian in France. SAT SAT All those years ago, the feckless and witty Oliver betrayed SAT his life-long friendship with Stuart, wrecked his marriage, SAT stole Gillian his wife and then moved to France. There, in SAT an attempt to ease Stuart's misery and her own conscience SAT Gillian staged a violent incident calculated to convince SAT Stuart that her marriage to Oliver is a disaster. SAT SAT But now Oliver and Gillian are back in London, Gillian has SAT resumed her art restoration work while Oliver is still SAT pursuing self-indulgent impractical projects. They have two SAT daughters. There isn't much money but they are happily SAT jogging along when Stuart, now a successful entrepreneur SAT with an unsuccessful marriage behind him, suddenly returns SAT from the USA, re-enters their lives and life begins to take SAT an unexpected turn for all of them. SAT SAT The characters tell their stories using the same witty, SAT intimate style as in Talking It Over. Told in the form of SAT triangulating dialogue, with the listener as a confidant. SAT This device, in the hands of Hermione Norris, Carl Prekopp SAT and Nicholas Boulton, captures the distinctive style Julian SAT Barnes uses in both novels to highlight the way in which, in SAT life, people react to unpredictable situations in ways that SAT are astonishing and sometimes even shocking. SAT SAT WRITER SAT Julian Barnes is a firm favourite with the Radio 4 listener. SAT Skillful and entertaining. His characters are always both SAT believable and beautifully observed. His most recent work - SAT The Sense of An Ending, winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, SAT and his new book published last month, Levels Of Life, a SAT semi-biographical book about his wife Pat Kavanagh's death, SAT join his collection of work which has been translated into SAT more than thirty languages. SAT SAT DRAMATIST SAT There is an exactness and delicacy in Julia Stoneham's SAT writing which fits perfectly with Julian Barnes. Her own SAT track record is impressive with many radio plays to her SAT name. She has in the past also written for television and SAT this included the hugely popular The House of Eilot. Her SAT trilogy of books about the Land Army Girls which was SAT originally broadcast on Radio 4 as The Cinderella Service is SAT now published and she is at present working on another SAT novel. SAT SAT 15:30 Richard Wagner - Power, Sex and Revolution b01s4g74 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Mention his name and images flicker of dwarves, flying SAT maidens, magic swords and bronze breast-plates, all of it SAT served in vast portions to test stamina of audience and SAT singers alike. But what's really going on in Wagner? SAT SAT Two hundred years after the composer's birth, Paul Mason SAT takes a fresh look at the man whose music has gripped him SAT for as long as he can remember. The megalithic fifteen hours SAT of The Ring cycle dominate our view of Wagner, but behind it SAT lies a man whose complex personality leaves us still SAT struggling to understand him. He was a revolutionary, not SAT just in music but also in politics, even finding himself a SAT wanted man in exile. He was determined to transform drama SAT into something which would be a powerful force in society, SAT and a man driven by ambition to revitalise a Germany which SAT he saw as critically unwell. And there were the darker SAT instincts, not least an attitude to racial purity which SAT leaves deep questions about his validity as an artist. SAT SAT In the first programme Mason peers into the murky depths of SAT a tale of desire and obsession. 'Tristan and Isolde' takes SAT us deep into the mind of its composer, a man with powerful SAT sexual urges of his own, and whose approach to life was SAT totally reshaped by his discovery of one of the greatest SAT philosophers of his age. We hear from those who have sung SAT and studied the work, and also a man so captivated by the SAT power of opera, and Wagner in particular, that he built his SAT own opera house in which to stage these giant and SAT ever-challenging works. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01s7tq5 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: The Staves; fat-shaming; feminist teen SAT bloggers SAT SAT Harmony from three sisters - The Staves perform. A blogger SAT talks about her experience of 'fat-shaming' and how she's SAT been subjected to verbal abuse in public. Britain's first SAT female professional boxing coach on her hopes for her young SAT fighters. Writer Sarah Dunant discusses the impact of the SAT Borgias on history and their predilection for murder and SAT intrigue. The online petition to keep women on our fivers. SAT How the sisterhood is being divided by a new breed of elite SAT 'XX Factor' women, according to Professor Alison Wolf. SAT Teenagers taking a stand, here and in the US. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT Produer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01s7tq7 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01s4vkt (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01s4vjk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01s4vjm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s4vjp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01s7tq9 (Listen) SAT Jack Jones, Julie Burchill, Gloria Hunniford, Peter Culshaw, SAT Primal Scream, Birds of Chicago SAT SAT This week Clive Anderson dreams The Impossible Dream with SAT double Grammy Award winning, legendary crooner Jack Jones. SAT He tells Clive about his career as a pop and swing singer in SAT the 60's and why he's saying goodbye to the UK with his SAT 'Jack Jones Farewell UK Tour'. It starts on 12th May at SAT National Concert Hall Dublin and ends on Sunday 2nd June at SAT The Kings Theatre, Southsea. SAT SAT Clive has a Sugar Rush with journalist, author and SAT self-declared 'militant feminist' Julie Burchill. In 1989, SAT Julie first penned the the 1980s-defining blockbuster SAT 'Ambition'; a novel where no taboo is left unbroken, no SAT fantasy left unfulfilled in a shocking exposé of the lengths SAT to which one woman will go to become editor of the UK's SAT bestselling tabloid. SAT It's re-released in paperback on 6th May. SAT SAT Jo Bunting has a clandestine chat with music and arts SAT broadcaster Peter Culshaw. Peter's written the biography of SAT Manu Chao, the Che Guevara of world music, who once toured SAT Colombia by train with a circus troupe, negotiating with SAT government troops, rebels and narcotrificantes along the SAT way. 'Clandestino: In Search of Manu Chao' is the story of SAT one of the world's most elusive stars. SAT SAT Clive's star-gazing with broadcaster Gloria Hunniford, who's SAT organised an event celebrating musical theatre at London's SAT Royal Albert Hall. This annual star-studded benefit for The SAT Caron Keating Foundation helps people and families affected SAT by cancer. 'The Night of 1000 Stars' is on Sunday 5th May at SAT 20.00. SAT SAT With music from the Scream Team! Scottish rockers Primal SAT Scream perform 'It's Alright, It's OK' from their album SAT 'More Light.' SAT SAT And Birds of Chicago bounce into the studio to perform SAT 'Trampoline' from their album 'Birds of Chicago' SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01s7tqc (Listen) SAT Margaret Hodge SAT SAT Edward Stourton profiles Labour MP Margaret Hodge. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01s7twv (Listen) SAT I'm So Excited! and Lionel Shriver's Big Brother SAT SAT Pedro Almodovar's new film I'm So Excited! is a sky-high SAT romp with The Pointer Sisters on the soundtrack but its SAT plane stuck in mid-air is also a metaphor for Spain caught SAT in economic crisis. SAT SAT Richard Eyre's production of The Pajama Game comes to SAT Chichester with Joanna Riding and Hadley Fraser; a triumph SAT on Broadway in 1954, the film version with Doris Day wasn't SAT a critical success. Can a musical based on industrial SAT relations in a nightwear factory prove zingy and uplifting? SAT SAT Lionel Shriver has turned her attention to obesity in the SAT West in Big Brother. It's the story of a woman who tries to SAT save her overweight brother from his own path of SAT self-destruction. SAT SAT The first major solo exhibition in the UK of US artist Ellen SAT Gallagher's work, Ellen Gallagher: AxME, opens at Tate SAT Modern, featuring funny and challenging images from black SAT cultural history. SAT SAT And US series Hannibal, created by Bryan Fuller, is about to SAT begin on Sky Living... Hannibal Lecter is back. Fuller says SAT the violence in the show is deliberately heightened and SAT unreal - but will audiences be ready for it? SAT SAT Novelist Malorie Blackman, writer Stephanie Merritt and SAT priest and journalist Giles Fraser join Tom Sutcliffe. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01s7v7b (Listen) SAT From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step SAT SAT Seventy years ago the psychoanalyst and parenting expert SAT Donald Winnicott first broadcast his idea of the SAT 'good-enough mother'; the mother who wasn't perfect and was SAT free, to some extent, to fail. From 1943-1962 he gave some SAT 50 BBC broadcasts. Aimed directly at mothers, they had a SAT profound impact on popular ideas about motherhood. SAT Winnicott's pioneering talks came after the rigid, SAT traumatising regime advocated by Frederick Truby-King - SAT babies fed every four hours, left uncuddled in prams SAT outdoors. Anne argues Truby-King is the spiritual father of SAT the much discussed contemporary ideas of Gina Ford, of SAT Supernanny and the naughty step. SAT SAT By contrast, Winnicott believed that "It is when a mother SAT trusts her judgement that she is at her best." In his work SAT he took the radical step of talking to mothers directly SAT through the radio. SAT SAT Winnicott explained a baby's development in vivid, SAT non-clinical language; he avoided exciting guilt or anxiety SAT in 'the ordinary devoted mother' without access to help or SAT therapy. He broadcast anonymously but received sacks of SAT letters. When his talks were published, they sold over SAT 50,000 copies, and influenced Dr Spock. SAT SAT Winnicott invented a new language in which to talk about SAT babies and with the help of the BBC he created a new way to SAT talk to parents about parenting. His broadcasts touched on SAT many subjects: stepparents, saying no, feeling guilty, the SAT development of a child's sense of right and wrong, why SAT babies cry, weaning, the baby as a person, and what we mean SAT by a normal child. SAT SAT His brilliance was to build up mothers by breaking down the SAT idea of motherhood. By unburdening women of inherited SAT notions of perfection he helped them to become better SAT mothers. He argued that failing was in fact a necessary part SAT of parenting, and through the failure of the parent the SAT child realises the limits of its own power and the reality SAT of an imperfect world. And he questioned the assumption that SAT professionals always new better and broke taboos about SAT parenting. SAT SAT With a proliferation of parenting manuals and TV shows SAT today, Winnicott's message seems to have been lost. Many SAT parents and in particular mothers still feel guilty about SAT not living up to an ideal for their children. Anne Karpf is SAT argues that today mothers need Winnicott more than they ever SAT did. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01s39z8 (Listen) SAT The Great Scott, Waverley SAT SAT Waverley by Walter Scott SAT Adapted by Mike Harris SAT SAT A gripping tale of love, war and divided loyalties with SAT Scotland in open rebellion against the Union with England. SAT SAT It's 1745 and 21year old Edward Waverley, a newly SAT commissioned red-coat officer, is posted to Scotland on the SAT eve of Bonnie Prince Charlie's violent bid for power. His SAT father is a rising minister in the ruling Hanoverian state, SAT but the beloved Uncle who brought him up is an old Jacobite, SAT loyal to the exiled Stewart dynasty. SAT SAT Waverley falls in love with two very different Scottish SAT girls - the cautious, loyalist, lowlander Rose Bradwardine, SAT and the fiery highland rebel Flora. He goes AWOL for Flora SAT just as her brother Fergus is rallying their clan to fight SAT for Charlie. SAT SAT When Waverley is accused by his Commanding Officer of a SAT treasonable flirtation with the enemy, he joins the uprising SAT in a fit of pique and helps defeat an English army at the SAT battle of Prestonpans. SAT SAT When he finds out that he has caused the arrest of Uncle, he SAT returns to London to try to clear his name. SAT SAT With David Tennant as Walter Scott. SAT SAT All other parts are played by members of the cast. SAT SAT The music is composed and performed by Ross Hughes and Esben SAT Tjalve. SAT SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Waverley: Rupert Evans SAT Gardiner: Christian Rodska SAT Flora: Alison McKenzie SAT Mrs Bates: Alison McKenzie SAT Rose: Olivia Morgan SAT Fergus: Forbes Masson SAT Evan Dhu: Mark Bonnar SAT Charles Edward Stuart: Joe McFadden SAT Gilfillin: Robert Hudson SAT Walter Scott: David Tennant SAT Director: Clive Brill SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Writer: Mike Harris SAT Composer: Ross Hughes SAT Composer: Esben Tjalve SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01s4vjr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b01nq41q (Listen) SAT Series 3, James Friel: In Praise of the Single Life SAT SAT Novelist James Friel, author of "The Posthumous Affair", SAT defends the value and virtues of the single life against the SAT widespread cultural view that being in a couple is a SAT superior state of being. SAT SAT Four Thought is a series of talks offering a personal SAT viewpoint recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in SAT London. SAT SAT Producer: Sheila Cook. SAT Lessons from the Mosh Pit SAT Life Without Facebook SAT What's Worse Than Death? SAT SAT 22:30 In Search of the British Dream b01qdtqj (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT In Search of the British Dream travels from the cramped SAT sitting rooms of poor illegal migrants to the plush London SAT homes of the global elite, including a Saudi princess and SAT the son of a Russian billionaire. SAT SAT There are now 7.5 million foreign-born people in the UK. SAT Almost three million have come in the last 10 years. One in SAT eight people in England and Wales were born abroad - the SAT same ratio as in the land built on immigration, the United SAT States. SAT SAT But do we have a defined "British Dream" -- a road map for SAT how to integrate? SAT SAT In part two of the series, Mukul Devichand asks newcomers SAT sometimes difficult questions about fitting in. Do people SAT chose to remain apart, or is Britain an easy place to make SAT local friends? Is there still racism on British streets? Are SAT people able to just be themselves -- and should they be? SAT SAT Mukul Devichand was born in a Welsh town as the son of SAT Indian migrants and has explored migration issues around the SAT world for the BBC. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01s4744 (Listen) SAT Series 3, University of Leeds SAT SAT A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a SAT team of three University students take on a team of three of SAT their professors. SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Leeds, the SAT specialist subjects are Civil Engineering, Popular Music SAT Studies and Psychology, with questions ranging from dada and SAT Dylan, to concrete and cogwheels - via penguins and postage SAT stamps. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01s39zd (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents the first in a new series of poems SAT requested by listeners, with an edition that dares to walk SAT on the wilder side, focusing on feelings other than those SAT that relate to love. If the emotions felt in a single day SAT were mapped across a life, what would be encountered? We SAT hear poems that touch upon darker feelings, such as hatred, SAT shame and remembrance. SAT SAT Joined by the actors Patrick Romer, Kate Littlewood and Alun SAT Raglan, Roger introduces poems by the likes of the footloose SAT Verlaine, some sharply observed gems by Emily Dickinson, a SAT dark poem about shame by the American poet Richard Wilbur, SAT and a lament that conjures up powerful suburban SAT frustrations, written by the Bristol-based poet and SAT novelist, Helen Dunmore. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 05 MAY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01s7s55 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Brief Sparks b01946nz (Listen) SUN The Snobs SUN SUN Muriel Spark had one of the most distinctive voices in SUN twentieth-century writing, was capable of incisive and SUN darkly-comic observation, and won prizes for her writing SUN across the World. SUN SUN Spark worked as a novelist, dramatist and children's author, SUN but it is perhaps her short stories that best exemplify her SUN sharp eye and beautifully-crafted work, where she coolly SUN probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath veneer of human SUN respectability. The three stories in this series include the SUN darkly funny 'Ladies and Gentlemen', which contrasts well SUN with the wry humour of social comedy 'Snobs' and the sharp SUN satire of class, aspiration and phobia in 'You Should Have SUN Seen the Mess'. SUN SUN The series begins with Patricia Hodge reading 'The Snobs', a SUN deliciously acerbic and witty dissection of snobbery, SUN insensitivity and social climbing. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s7s57 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s7s59 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s7s5c (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01s7s5f (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01s7vtk (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints Church in Worcester. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01s7tqc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01s7s5h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01s7vtm (Listen) SUN Debt SUN SUN Ever since the current financial crisis started back in SUN 2007, debt has been on everybody's mind. SUN SUN Much of the discussion in the media has been about economics SUN and ways to alleviate the crisis. What about the moral SUN questions debt raises? SUN SUN Mark Tully discusses our social and philosophical attitudes SUN to the problem of debt and talks to financial educator and SUN broadcaster Alvin Hall. SUN SUN There are readings from Dickens, Shakespeare and the poet SUN Kathleen Raine and music by composers ranging from Handel to SUN Jocelyn Pook. The readers are Harriet Walter and Tim SUN Pigott-Smith. SUN SUN Produced by: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01s7vtp (Listen) SUN Dawn Chorus Day SUN SUN May 5th is International Dawn Chorus day and to celebrate SUN this worldwide event presenter Trai Anfield heads to the SUN Coombes Valley near Leek in Staffordshire to experience the SUN emulsion of sound of a dawn chorus there. SUN SUN Well before dawn, for this special Living World, Trai SUN Anfield meets up with Jarrod Sneyd from the RSPB. Here SUN standing in oak woodland their sense of anticipation rises SUN as with the first shimmers of light breaking the eastern SUN horizon, the first pipings of the thrush family begin to SUN break the silence. Slowly and imperceptibly more birds and SUN different species join the awakening woods, the warblers, SUN flycatchers and redstarts are then followed by the seed SUN eaters until, soon after sunrise, the wood is alive with SUN nature's choral sound. Can there be any better way to SUN celebrate the arrival of spring. SUN SUN During the morning Trai discovers what birds are actually SUN doing at dawn and why this is a special time of year. She SUN also discovers that there is a dusk chorus, no less SUN spectacular, but with increased ambient sounds in the SUN evening, this is an event that is often overlooked. Sadly SUN and all too soon, the dawn chorus in this little corner of SUN England begins to wane and the countryside reverts to SUN background ambient sound as those songsters head off to SUN forage in the woods. Likewise Trai packs up her microphone SUN and heads off for a breakfast with the memory of that sound SUN still fresh in her memory. SUN Tweet of the Day SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01s7s5k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01s7s5m (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01s7vtr (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01s7vtt (Listen) SUN Retrak SUN SUN James McAvoy presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Retrak. SUN Reg Charity:1122799 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Retrak. SUN SUN RETRAK SUN SUN Retrak believe in a world where no child is forced to live SUN on the streets. We reach out to vulnerable street children SUN suffering hunger, poverty, abuse and violence to ensure that SUN they have an alternative to life on the streets. We provide SUN a safe place to stay along with food, medicine, clothing, SUN and an education which they desperately need. We understand SUN the importance for children of a stable and loving home, and SUN so we go to great lengths to reunite families, or, where SUN this is not possible, find and train caring foster families. SUN Retrak tackles the reasons why children end up on the SUN streets. We work with families to heal rifts, support SUN children’s education, to provide income generating activity SUN and vocational training to provide children and parents with SUN a fulfilling and sustainable income for the future. SUN Retrak has over 15 years experience of working with street SUN children, their families and communities. We work in Uganda, SUN Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. Our long term approach helps SUN to make sure that children never have to go back to living SUN on the street, and it works. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01s7s5p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01s7s5r (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01s7vtw (Listen) SUN Fr Aidan Rossiter CJ is the celebrant and preacher at this SUN Mass for the 6th Sunday of Easter with the Chamber Choir of SUN St George's College Weybridge - BBC Songs of Praise Senior SUN School Choir of the Year 2012. Live from St George's SUN College. Director of Music: Tansy Castledine. Organist: SUN Daniel Phillips. Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01s4vfs (Listen) SUN The Limits of Materialism SUN SUN John Gray draws on a story by Walter de la Mare to argue SUN that the prevailing creed of scientific materialism is a SUN "simple minded philosophy", preferring de la Mare's SUN unsettling portrayal of everyday existence as insubstantial SUN and unknowable. "Even if there are such things as laws of SUN nature, there's no reason to think they must be accessible SUN to the human mind." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01s7vty (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01s7vzv (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Simon Frith SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... 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SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01s7vzx (Listen) SUN The Hutton Inquiry SUN SUN On 29 May 2003, the Today programme broadcast a report SUN criticising the government's use of intelligence in the lead SUN up to war with Iraq. SUN SUN At the heart of the report was the allegation that Number 10 SUN had "sexed up" an intelligence dossier to make a more SUN convincing case for war. More specifically, that the SUN government probably knew that one of the key claims in the SUN dossier was wrong before they put it in: the claim that SUN Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction that SUN could be "ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them". SUN SUN The government, and specifically Director of Communications, SUN Alastair Campbell, were furious. The row that followed was SUN one of the bitterest in BBC history, and was fuelled in part SUN by the death of the story's source, government scientist, SUN David Kelly. The Hutton Inquiry was set up to establish what SUN went wrong and exposed the inner workings of the BBC, secret SUN services, civil service and government machinery. Its SUN findings, when published in January 2004, caused SUN reverberations throughout the British establishment. SUN SUN Sue MacGregor reunites some of the people who were caught up SUN in that row: Andrew Gilligan, the Today programme reporter SUN whose broadcast was the cause of the argument; Geoff Hoon, SUN Defence Secretary, who was accused of leaking David Kelly's SUN name as the source of the story; Tom Kelly, who as Tony SUN Blair's spokesman was at the heart of the storm and Greg SUN Dyke, who resigned as Director General when Hutton's SUN conclusions were so critical of the BBC. SUN SUN Producer: Deborah Dudgeon and Kate Taylor SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01s4768 (Listen) SUN Series 11, Episode 4 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Henning Wehn, Katherine Ryan, Graeme Garden and Lloyd SUN Langford are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as geese, horses, SUN advertising and Madonna. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01s7vzz (Listen) SUN Digital Dishes - life stories through recipes SUN SUN Inside one kitchen in Bristol, thirteen strangers from all SUN over Europe gathered to share food and stories about food. SUN The Food Programme was there to capture it all as the SUN cooking got under way. SUN SUN As well as resulting in one of the most diverse menus ever SUN assembled it was an event that explained why cous-cous can SUN spark conversation, how a special Bulgarian dish can help SUN tell your fortune and why a hippy commune in 1970's Exeter SUN was ahead of its time in how we think about food. SUN SUN This unique event was the result of a project run by the SUN Watershed arts centre in Bristol. The thirteen Europeans SUN were taking part in a workshop to learn more about digital SUN technology, food however, was the subject they would use to SUN make this happen. SUN SUN In one day, participants from Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, SUN Turkey, France and the UK would come up with a dish that SUN would help them tell their life stories. In Bristol they'd SUN shop, cook, share their food and their stories. The progamme SUN captured this special food event and a restaurant and menu SUN that would exist for one night only. SUN SUN Hear the wonders of Bulgarian Banitsa, the pleasures of a SUN Turkish Karnıyarık and the delights of a two hour meal over SUN Algerian cous-cous. SUN SUN Producers: Dan Saladino and Hannah Briggs. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01s7s5t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01s7w01 (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 Do I Have a Right to Be Forgotten? b01pnn4m (Listen) SUN When Emma Barnett, a tech-savvy 27 year old typed her name SUN into a search engine she found photos from her past she SUN would really rather forget. And she is not alone; millions SUN of people are sharing photos, tweets and status updates with SUN friends every day - later discovering, regretfully, that SUN they live online forever. SUN SUN But with the European Union hoping to enshrine a "right to SUN be forgotten" will it become possible to own your online SUN life? On this journey Emma discovers what rights she has to SUN delete material from the internet and the implications this SUN has on how we record events and write history. SUN SUN Producer: Clare Walker SUN (Repeat). SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01s4vf4 (Listen) SUN East Malling SUN SUN This week the team visits the East Malling Research Centre SUN in Kent, with Eric Robson in the chair. Matthew Wilson, Bob SUN Flowerdew and Christine Walkden are on the panel taking SUN local gardeners' questions. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01s7xs9 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with four conversations recorded by eleven and SUN twelve year olds in this week's Sunday Edition of Radio 4's SUN series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you SUN listen. The conversations, about the children's lives and SUN those of their parents, friends and grandparents, were SUN recorded as part of The Listening Project Schools Pilot SUN funded by BBC Learning; over a hundred children in four SUN schools in the north west took part. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01s7xsc (Listen) SUN Angel Pavement, Episode 1 SUN SUN Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley SUN Dramatised by Martin Jameson SUN SUN Twigg and Dersingham, Purveyors of Fine Veneers, has been a SUN successful family firm in the City for three generations. SUN But now, in the depression of 1930, it can no longer cover SUN its costs and the owner, young Mr Dersingham, is looking for SUN cuts. SUN SUN Then James Golspie arrives with a proposition. He has the SUN sole agency for some excellent Baltic veneers at SUN extraordinary prices and, despite the caution of the company SUN accountant Mr Smeeth, an agreement is reached. But is Smeeth SUN right? Is Golspie everything he seems? SUN SUN Directed by Chris Wallis SUN An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Our Guide: Marcus Brigstocke SUN James Golspie: Henry Goodman SUN Herbert Smeeth: Jeff Rawle SUN Mrs Cross: Fenella Norman SUN Miss Verever: Fenella Norman SUN Harold Turgis: Joseph Kloska SUN Goath: Shaun Prendergast SUN Miss Matfield: Victoria Brazier SUN Mr Dersingham: Carl Prekopp SUN Mr Pearson: Stephen Critchlow SUN Benenden: Stephen Critchlow SUN Poppy Sellers: Millie Binks SUN Mary Dersingham: Colleen Prendergast SUN Mrs Pearson: Jane Purcell SUN Edie: Jane Purcell SUN Agnes: Lucia Cox SUN Lena Golspie: Faye Castelow SUN Director: Chris Wallis SUN Writer: Martin Jameson SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01s7xsf (Listen) SUN Poet Gillian Clarke - Ice SUN SUN The National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke discusses her SUN collection Ice which was shortlisted for last year's TS SUN Eliot prize. SUN SUN Inspired by the snowy winters of 2009 and 2010, the poems in SUN Ice move through the seasons : from Gillian's experience of SUN being snowed in to the sound of an icicle as it begins to SUN melt. From the bluebells of Spring (inspired by a Renoir SUN painting at the National Museum of Art in Cardiff) through SUN to a hot summer's day and on to the harvest moons of autumn SUN to New Year's Eve. SUN SUN They also include Gillian's earliest childhood memories, SUN such as the opening poem Polar, which recalls the toddler SUN Gillian lying on a polar bear rug which her father bought in SUN a junk shop; and memories of a more collective nature - SUN mining disasters and ancient British mythology. SUN SUN The land, language, history and myths of Wales are all SUN present in these poems. SUN SUN Gillian says a love of language and an inherent ability to SUN articulate is something the Welsh are brought up with, SUN learnt from the early days of attending Chapel; and she says SUN that being National Poet of Wales is no different than SUN getting up at a family occasion and giving a verse or two, a SUN tradition which lies at the heart of her culture. SUN SUN James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the SUN questions. Recorded at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. SUN SUN June's Bookclub choice : Quarantine by Jim Crace. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN Blog:Gillian Clarke on Ice SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01s7xsh (Listen) SUN Roger McGough with a varied selection of poetry requests. SUN Poems of praise to the lowly and the heavenly, including SUN work by George Barker and RS Thomas who were both born one SUN hundred years ago this year. RS Thomas's 'A Marriage' is SUN tender and moving; "We met under a shower of bird notes", SUN and he analyses the powerful stillness of the atmosphere 'In SUN Church.' Poems by another priest poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins SUN also feature, with his sonnet to Felix Randall, which he SUN wrote after the death of a parishioner of his while he was a SUN priest in Liverpool, as well as 'God's Grandeur'. There will SUN be many secular exultations too though, with Les Murray SUN paying homage to the bed, Emily Dickinson to the sea and a SUN paean to the music of Bach by the Swedish poet Lars SUN Gustafsson. With readings by John Mackay and guest poets SUN Leontia Flynn and Paula Meehan. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Constant Cravings: Does Food Addiction Exist? SUN b01s4g7v (Listen) SUN Could obesity, in some cases, result from an addiction, and SUN if so, do we need to change the way we treat it? SUN SUN When we think about addiction, drugs, alcohol or gambling SUN come to mind. Though hardly uncommon, many people will go SUN their whole lives without ever even dabbling in them. But SUN could the everyday act of eating also be addictive? In SUN excess, drugs, alcohol and gambling can cause massive SUN physical and psychological harm, cutting across class, sex SUN and age. But so can excessive eating. And if we're to SUN believe alarming predictions about rising obesity levels, SUN then perhaps we need to consider looking at overeating from SUN a different angle. SUN SUN Researchers around the world are asking the same question: SUN is overeating a compulsive behaviour that exploits the same SUN biological mechanisms we see in people addicted to drugs or SUN alcohol? Is there such a thing as food addiction and how SUN addictive are certain foods? In, Constant Cravings: Does SUN Food Addiction Exist, Sally Marlow, a researcher in alcohol SUN addiction at London's Institute of Psychiatry, explores the SUN latest evidence underpinning the scientific basis for SUN overeating, and asks just how radical should the solutions SUN be? SUN SUN In 2012, NeuroFAST, an EU research project began SUN co-ordinating data on the relationship between overeating SUN and addiction. Its mission is to achieve consensus on how SUN overeating should be classified clinically, which might then SUN lead to major shifts in treatment, public policy and SUN attitudes to obesity. SUN SUN Few of us, if we're honest, would consider obesity as little SUN more than self-inflicted. And it's how many of us used to SUN think about other addictions. Yet now we know that an SUN individual's choices are influenced by a host of biological SUN and environmental mechanisms: genes, brain chemistry and SUN family history. Might overeating share these mechanisms? SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01s7tqc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01s7s5w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01s7s5y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s7s60 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01s7xsk (Listen) SUN This week the course of true love never did run smooth - SUN whether it's World War Two contriving to keep poet Ian SUN McMillan's future parents apart or the difficulties of SUN finding Mr Right in Matlock unless comedian Isy Suttie is SUN playing Cupid. SUN SUN A blistering Reunion gets four key players from the events SUN leading up to The Hutton Report round the table to talk. SUN SUN And the dramatic testimonies from members of the BBC SUN Philharmonic on tour in Japan when the earthquake struck. SUN SUN Sid James, Not Just a Dirty Laugh - Radio 4 SUN Swimming Through Chocolate - Radio 4 SUN Word of Mouth - Radio 4 SUN Bernard Who? - Radio 4 SUN Britain in a Box - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week: Margaret Thatcher, The Authorised SUN Biography - Radio 4 SUN Thames Crossings - Radio 4 SUN Down the Line - Radio 4 SUN The Reunion : The Hutton Inquiry - Radio 4 SUN Love, War and Trains - Radio 4 SUN Isy Suttie's Love Letters - Radio 4 SUN Return to Japan - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01s7xsm (Listen) SUN Jill has a plan, and Peggy gets hold of the wrong end of the SUN stick. SUN SUN 19:15 Tim Key's Suspended Sentence b0128pyh (Listen) SUN Truths universally acknowledged. Clocks striking thirteen. SUN Bests and worsts of times. A truly great opening line can SUN make a novel iconic. But what makes these famous first SUN sentences sing to us? SUN SUN Last year, Perrier award-winning comedian and poet Tim Key SUN chased down the meaning of Nikolai Gogol's enigmatic short SUN story "The Overcoat", in a feature that garnered some of the SUN most prestigious awards in European radio - winning the SUN EBU's Ake Blomstrom Prize, and being nominated for the Prix SUN Italia and Prix Marulic. SUN SUN Now, another chance to hear his first radio 'documentary' SUN (sort of), originally aired in 2011, as he tries to sleuth SUN out what makes a great literary opening line, with the help SUN of author Joe Dunthorne, comedian and novelist Mark Watson, SUN and literary critics Maureen Freely and John Sutherland. You SUN see, Tim's just desperate to write his first novel - it's in SUN him, just waiting, waiting to be unleashed. If only he could SUN think of a good beginning... SUN SUN Fresh from his acclaimed stage show "Masterslut" and regular SUN spots on Charlie Brooker's "Newswipe" and Steve Coogan's SUN "Mid-Morning Matters With Alan Partridge", Tim's on a SUN mission to pen the ultimate opening line: one that will SUN knock your socks off, hook you in, blow you away (he'll sort SUN out the rest later, yeah?). SUN SUN As he slowly crafts his one-sentence magnum opus, Tim taps SUN into the minds of some of Britain's top literary talents to SUN find out what a first line should and shouldn't do, and the SUN hours of sweat and toil enshrined in those crucial few SUN words. He also tries to galvanise his imagination - taking a SUN spin of one of the world's strangest literary board games... SUN SUN The pressure's on, as we hear a roll-call of some of the SUN finest and most famous first lines in publishing history - SUN from Dickens to Dostoevsky to uh, Dan Brown. Overwhelmed SUN with information, we also hear a crash course on what not to SUN do - as Tim visits Knebworth House, ancestral pile of a man SUN whose most famous first sentence is legendary for all the SUN wrong reasons: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, author of the infamous SUN "It was a dark and stormy night..." SUN SUN Finally it's time to try out Tim's sentence of the SUN unsuspecting public, as he visits the award-winning Brick SUN Lane Book Club for a focus group...before in the final SUN moments, he unleashes that killer first sentence on the SUN world...(so then Tim: what comes next?). SUN SUN Producer: Steven Rajam SUN SUN 19:45 George Mackay Brown Stories b01s7xsp (Listen) SUN The Five of Spades SUN SUN Short story by one of Orkney's finest writers, George Mackay SUN Brown. An internationally renowned poet and Booker-nominated SUN novelist, Mackay Brown's work was infused by the islands SUN history and culture; his friend Seamus Heaney said of him: SUN "He transforms everything by passing it through the eye of SUN the needle of Orkney." SUN SUN Today's story is set in the 1800s and depicts the trials and SUN tribulations of Check Harra, a young Orcadian whose love of SUN gambling leads him into a series of extraordinary SUN adventures. SUN SUN George MacKay Brown (1921 - 1996) was a prolific short story SUN writer. "The Five of Spades" can be found in the collection SUN "A Time to Keep", which was republished by Birlinn at the SUN end of last month. SUN SUN Read by Andy Clark. SUN SUN Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN The theme music is "Way Oot West" by Jennifer and Hazel SUN Wrigley, taken from the album Mither O' The Sea. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01s4vf8 (Listen) SUN Austerity, Thatcher, Mozart and dead birds SUN SUN Austerity: a spreadsheet error? SUN SUN Tim Harford tells the story of the student who uncovered a SUN mistake in a famous economic paper that has been used to SUN make the case for austerity cuts. In 2010, two Harvard SUN economists published an academic study, which showed that SUN when government debt rises above 90% of annual economic SUN output, growth falls significantly. As politicians tried to SUN find answers to the global economic crisis, "Growth in a SUN Time of Debt" by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff was SUN cited by some of the key figures making the case for tough SUN debt-cutting measures in the US and Europe. But, in the SUN course of a class project, student Thomas Herndon and his SUN professors say they have found problems with the SUN Reinhart-Rogoff findings. What does this mean for austerity SUN economics? SUN SUN Interviewees: Thomas Herndon, University of Massachusetts SUN student; Professor Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts; SUN Professor Daniel Hamermesh, Royal Holloway, University of SUN London; Megan McArdle, special correspondent for Newsweek SUN and The Daily Beast. SUN SUN Margaret Thatcher in Numbers: SUN SUN Baroness Thatcher was Britain's first female prime minister SUN and one of the most influential political figures of the SUN 20th Century. She was a pioneer of free market economics, SUN helping to spread the ideas around the world. But the Iron SUN lady was a divisive figure with passionate supporters and SUN critics. Both hold to strong beliefs about what she did. But SUN what does the data tell us about the many claims made about SUN Mrs Thatcher? SUN SUN With special thanks for the journalism of Michael Blastland SUN and Andrew Dilnot. SUN SUN Interviewees: Professor Andrew Oswald, Warwick University; SUN Professor Alissa Goodman, Institute of Education; Professor SUN Nick Crafts, Warwick University. SUN SUN A mathematical reading of the Magic Flute: SUN SUN Hear Professor Marcus du Sautoy's mathematical reading of SUN the Magic Flute, presented at London's Royal Opera House. SUN Mozart's final opera, The Magic Flute, premiered just 10 SUN weeks before the composer's death and was the biggest SUN popular hit of his life. With its panto-style storyline and SUN catchy tunes, it's said to be one of the most accessible SUN operas for the uninitiated. But there's an awful lot going SUN on beneath the jokes and the musical notes. SUN SUN Birds + Windows =? SUN SUN "In America each day, more than 2 million birds die crashing SUN into window panes." A fact from a recent episode of BBC SUN Radio 4's The Unbelievable Truth. But More or Less refused SUN to believe - and started investigating. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01s4vf6 (Listen) SUN A country singer, a Labour Party General Secretary, a film SUN star, a cellist and a co-housing campaigner SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The country singer George Jones whose turbulent life of SUN divorce and drunkenness matched the subject matter of many SUN of his songs. Hank Wangford pays tribute. SUN SUN Jim Mortimer who was General Secretary of the Labour Party SUN during the troubled 1980s and the first chair of the SUN conciliation service ACAS during the industrial strife of SUN the 70s. SUN SUN Deanna Durbin, the film star known as "America's perfect SUN daughter" who retired from the public eye when she grew out SUN of the role. SUN SUN Sarah Berger who was a leading campaigner for the British SUN co-housing movement. SUN SUN And the Hungarian cellist Janos Starker - Steven Isserlis SUN shares his memories. SUN SUN Editor: Philip Sellars SUN Producer: Laura Northedge SUN Producer: Julian May SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01s7tpz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01s7vtt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01s4szn (Listen) SUN Job Search SUN SUN Millions of young people want to work but do not know where SUN to find it. SUN A clutch of them tell their stories to Peter Day, and a SUN panel of experts weighs in with advice and guidance. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01s7xzw (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 b01s7xzy (Listen) SUN Hugo Rifkind of The Times analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01s4sz6 (Listen) SUN Pedro Almodovar on I'm So Excited; Tom Courtenay on Billy SUN Liar; Riz Ahmed's big break SUN SUN The Spanish director Pedro Almodovar talks to Francine Stock SUN about his raunchy new comedy I'm So Excited in which a plane SUN with a technical fault circles the skies, hoping to find an SUN airport to land in. According to Almodovar, it's a metaphor SUN for the political and financial difficulties facing Spain. SUN Adam Leon explains why he wanted to show the grittier, real SUN New York in his new feature Gimme The Loot about young SUN graffiti artists. And how he deals with questions over how a SUN white director can make a convincing film about a SUN predominantly black scene. SUN The actor Tom Courtenay, seen most recently in Quartet, SUN looks back at Billy Liar, 50 years on. Directed by John SUN Schlesinger, and co-starring Julie Christie, the film SUN portrays Billy, a dreamer working in an undertakers and SUN planning escape. SUN And with The Reluctant Fundamentalist due for release next SUN week, the young British actor Riz Ahmed tells the story of SUN his big break and how he was discovered by the director SUN Michael Winterbottom. SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01s7vtm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 06 MAY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01s7s6y (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01s4qqs (Listen) MON British class survey; Tribute to Geoff Pearson MON MON Laurie Taylor discusses the 'Great British Class Survey', a MON unique piece of research conducted by BBC Lab UK and MON academics from six different universities. The researchers MON devised a new way of measuring class, which doesn't define MON it by occupation but by the different kinds of economic, MON cultural and social resources or 'capitals' that people MON possess. But how have other academics with an interest in MON class reacted to this research? Mike Savage, one of the MON survey researchers and Professor in Sociology at the MON University of Essex, debates the merits of this new approach MON to class stratification with Colin Mills, lecturer in MON Sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford and Beverly Skeggs, MON Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, London. MON MON Also, Dick Hobbs, Professor of Sociology at the University MON of Essex, offers a tribute to the eminent criminologist, MON Geoff Pearson who died recently. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01s7vtk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s7s70 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s7s72 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s7s74 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01s7s76 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01sc3jd (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Revd Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01s7yvg (Listen) MON It's been a difficult time for the UK's one thousand garden MON centres, as well as retail nurseries, florists and farm MON shops, because of the late arrival of the spring. On this MON May Bank Holiday though, there are high hopes for a busy day MON of plant-buying. Sybil Ruscoe visits Farplants in West MON Sussex, one of the country's largest plant wholesalers, MON supplying around twelve million plants a year, to learn MON about the journey from propagation to shop shelf. MON MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe. Produced by Rich Ward. MON MON 05:56 Weather b01s7s78 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01s6y1h (Listen) MON Cuckoo - Male MON MON David Attenborough narrates the first in a new series of MON short stories about our British birds inspired by their MON calls and songs, beginning with the Cuckoo. After spending MON winter in Africa, the migratory urge propels the Cuckoos MON northwards. And for many of us their return is a welcome MON sign that spring is well and truly here. MON MON 06:00 Today b01s7yvj (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01s7yvl (Listen) MON Michael Rosen at the Brighton Festival MON MON Start the Week is at the Brighton Festival. Stephanie MON Flanders talks to Michael Rosen about why the 1929 MON children's novel, Emil and the Detectives, is at the heart MON of the festival, with its city tale of hope, invention and MON dissent. But the writer and traveller Jay Griffiths MON criticises a Western risk-averse society for denying MON children the opportunity to roam free. Stanmer Woods is the MON setting of Matt Adams's latest theatrical experience which MON traces the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland, and MON the artist Mariele Neudecker brings the outside world inside MON in her transformation of a Regency Town House. MON MON Producer; Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01s4g6p (Listen) MON A Sting in the Tale, Episode 1 MON MON Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from MON his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in MON experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into MON the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to MON protect our rarest bees. MON MON Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent, the short-haired MON bumblebee now only exists in the wilds of New Zealand, the MON descendants of a few queen bees shipped over in the MON nineteenth century. MON Dave Goulson shares exclusive research into these curious MON creatures, looks at history's relationship with the MON bumblebee and offers advice on how to protect it for all MON time. MON MON We'll also hear about bumblebee sniffer dogs, how bees MON navigate their way home and why you should remember these MON tiny furry friends next time you pour ketchup on your fish MON and chips. MON MON One of the UK's most respected conservationists and the MON founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Goulson MON combines Gerald Durrell-esque tales of a child's growing MON passion for nature with a deep insight into the crucial MON importance of the bumblebee. MON MON He details the minutiae of life in their nests, sharing MON fascinating research into the effects intensive farming has MON had on our bee populations and on the potential dangers if MON we continue down this path. MON MON Read by Tim McInnerny MON MON Producer: Joanne Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s7yvq (Listen) MON Women in the 1920s MON MON The 1920s saw great changes for women: equal voting rights MON were introduced in 1929, but earlier in the decade "surplus MON women" were a great subject for debate in newspapers. MON Following the devastating loss of life in the First World MON War, some parts of society worried about what to do with MON young widows and women who would never marry. Baroness MON Shirley Williams, social historian Juliet Gardiner, author MON Virginia Nicholson and Dr Kate Murphy discuss the changing MON lives of women in the "Roaring '20s" as some made the most MON of increasing freedom and independence by becoming doctors MON and teachers, and working in a fledgling BBC. MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Produced by Rebecca Myatt. MON MON Politics and Employment MON MON In 1928 the Equal Franchise Act was passed which gave women MON equal voting rights with men. The 1920s also saw MON unemployment benefit extended to include allowances for MON wives, the Law of Property Act which enabled both husband MON and wife to inherit property equally, the Infanticide Act MON which meant that, if a woman’s mind was found to be MON unbalanced, she could no longer be hanged for killing her MON child and the Matrimonial Causes Bill making a wife eligible MON to petition for divorce on account of her husband’s MON adultery. How did these landmark political acts change MON society and benefit the ordinary woman? MON MON At Home - Family MON MON Before the First World War, a single woman had one aim in MON life: to get married. But the death of so many British MON soldiers in the war changed all that and many women found MON themselves in a generation of so-called 'Surplus Women' who MON carved out extraordinary lives for themselves, challenging MON conventions and becoming engineers and explorers. Others had MON to cope with poverty, childlessness and frustration. Those MON that did get married found they had to give up employment to MON take care of the family and manage the household. MON MON Lady Olive Baillie MON MON The new film of The Great Gatsby depicts a world of MON glamorous parties, fabulous wealth and breathtaking MON extravagance. Gatsby, of course, entertains at his mansion MON on Long Island – but was there perhaps a British version of MON him? Lady Olive Baillie was an Anglo-American heiress who MON bought Leeds Castle in Kent in 1926. She set about restoring MON it to the height of luxury and modernity, and then hosted MON lavish house parties where her guests included royalty, film MON stars and tycoons. MON MON Leisure MON The lifting of war-time restrictions in the early 1920s MON created new sorts of pastimes. In London, entrepreneurs MON opened clubs, restaurants and dance halls to cater for the MON new crazes of jazz and dancing. 'Wireless' radio was the MON technological marvel of the decade and families would gather MON round to listen. And a new breed of young woman - the MON flapper - wore short skirts, bobbed her hair and flouted MON social norms. MON MON Editor: Robyn Read MON Producer: Rebecca Myatt MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01s7yvs (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 7, Episode 1 MON MON Kris Marshall returns as the famous diarist. Rumours that MON 1666 might prove to be an unlucky year, or even herald the MON end of the world, are of no concern to Samuel Pepys. He's MON far more interested in his new friend, Mrs Knipp. Mrs Knipp MON is an actress and singer, and is often to be found MON entertaining the guests in the homes of Sam's friends. As MON their friendship develops, they even have nicknames for each MON other - she is 'Barbara Allen' and he is 'Dapper Dicky'. MON Elizabeth meanwhile is having much less fun. As Sam admits, MON she's working like a horse at decorating his closet - as MON well as being kept awake at night by Sam's disturbed sleep MON and, worst of all, his snoring! Adapted by Hattie Naylor. MON MON Cast: MON Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall MON Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways MON Will . . . John Biddle MON Mr Kriton . . .Alun Raglan MON Mrs Knipp . . . Sophie Thompson MON Lord Brouncker . . . Tim McMullan, MON King Charles and James, Duke of York . . . Ewan Bailey. MON MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David MON Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by MON Alice Baxter. MON Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Catherine Robinson MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 11:00 Stories from the Squeezed Middle b01s7yvv (Listen) MON Rosie Millard travels to Newcastle and Durham and to MON Winchester to meet men and women for whom the Recession has MON meant some tough choices, and in some cases, really tough MON lives. MON MON They are the so-called 'Squeezed Middle' - middle-incomers MON who prospered during the Blair years and who enjoyed MON middle-class lifestyles and aspirations for their children MON and themselves. With incomes that supported regular MON holidays, a car or two, schooling and housing choices not to MON mention a regular bottle of wine, these families have been MON amongst those hit hardest by the Recession. Of course, they MON attract less attention and sympathy than those who have MON least and for whom hardship has always been the norm. MON MON Yet for the men and women of the Squeezed Middle, it's meant MON real sacrifice in order, for example, to keep their MON children's educational aspirations alive - "we have to sell MON the house if she's to take up her university place" - or MON enduring a hot-waterless long winter because the boiler is MON on its last legs and the car is a necessity. MON MON Unlike the victims of mass sackings when a high street chain MON goes bust, these Recession victims have, in many cases, MON freelance careers, dependent on ad-hoc bookings and MON commissions for which the market has often all but dried up. MON MON Rosie Millard compares the destinies and despair of women MON and men in the north and south of England, in each case well MON removed from the relative economic bubble of London, and MON finds out just how they now make ends meet and above all MON what choices they have been forced into to keep their MON aspirations and expectations alive... MON MON Producer: Simon Elmes and Sarah Bowen. MON MON 11:30 Kerry's List b01s7yvx (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON The second in a four-part sketch show co-written by and MON starring comedian and actress Kerry Godliman. MON MON Kerry is a married mother of two, a stand up comedian and MON has two children. Her life can only properly function with MON her daily list - if she didn't compile this vital list, her MON life would simply fall apart. MON Each week, this series looks at a different list and delves MON into Kerry's madcap world by looking at various elements of MON that week's list in sketches, narrative and stand up. MON MON In this second episode, Kerry's List includes cancelling the MON organic food box, adopting a panda, searching through the MON baby's poo, being grateful, changing the water in the fish MON tank, learning the oboe and selling the Cath Kidston Potting MON Shed. MON MON Joining Kerry is her husband Ben (played by her real husband MON Ben Abell) and her five year old daughter Elsie (played by MON Melissa Bury) together with a range of bizarre characters - MON including an enthusiastic council environment worker, some MON disgruntled satsumas, a bored therapist, a Fairy Jeanmother MON and a very keen gym instructor. MON MON Any busy parent who's ever compiled a list of their own will MON relate to Kerry Godliman's incident filled world. MON MON The cast includes David Pusey (who co-wrote the series), MON Bridget Christie, Lucy Briers, Rosie Cavaliero and Nicholas MON Le Prevost. MON MON Kerry Godliman is fast establishing herself as a highly MON skilful stand up comic and actress, from her recent MON appearances on Live at The Apollo (BBC 1), Derek (C4) and MON Our Girl (BBC 1). MON MON Producer: Paul Russell MON An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Kerry Godliman MON Actor: David Pusey MON Actor: Bridget Christie MON Actor: Lucy Briers MON Actor: Rosie Cavaliero MON Actor: Nicholas Le Prevost MON Producer: Paul Russell MON Writer: Kerry Godliman MON Writer: David Pusey MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01s7yvz (Listen) MON What makes a good pub? MON MON Consumer news with Shari Vahl. What makes a good pub? MON MON 12:57 Weather b01s7s7b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01s7yw1 (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 In a Prince's Footsteps b01s7yw3 (Listen) MON Egypt MON MON In 1862 Albert, Prince of Wales, toured the Middle East. At MON the time it was still predominantly controlled by the MON Ottoman Empire. As he travelled, his photographer Francis MON Bedford kept a detailed photographic record of the trip. In MON this series John McCarthy revisits the scenes of Bedford's MON photographs - Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, MON Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Greece. He considers how the MON immediate physical, political and social landscape has MON evolved during the intervening 150 years. MON MON Some of Bedford's photographs are of widely known locations MON - the Pyramids at Giza, the Mount of Olives, the temples at MON Baalbek, the Acropolis - others are of remote hilltops and MON apparently random buildings, scenes without any obvious MON significance. Both however hold fascinating and unexpected MON tales and insight. MON MON The series will reflect on the rise and fall of empires - MON the Ottoman, British and French all play their part in these MON stories. They are now all gone, but the world's powers still MON seek to influence the politics of the region. MON MON In each episode John McCarthy focusses on two of Bedford's MON original photographs, revisiting the sites and taking his MON own pictures of the same scenes today. MON MON In the opening programme, John travels to Egypt to consider MON pictures of the Prince's party gathered in front of the MON Pyramids of Khufu and Khafre at Giza, and a broader Cairo MON picture taken from a key minaret in the city. MON MON This radio series coincides with a major exhibition of MON Bedford's photographs by the Royal Collection, currently MON showing at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. MON MON Presenter: John McCarthy MON Producer: Kevin Dawson MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01s7xsm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01s7yw5 (Listen) MON The Interrogation - Series 2, Grace MON MON by Roy Williams MON MON 2/3 The Story of Grace. An ambitious local woman, who made a MON name for herself during the London riots, has struggled to MON rise from her past, until only one thing stands in her way. MON MON Music by David Pickvance MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON DS Max Matthews: Kenneth Cranham MON DC Sean Armitage: Alex Lanipekun MON Grace Buffong: Noma Dumezweni MON Stephen Buffong: Jerome Holder MON Simone Parker: Amaka Okafor MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON Producer: Jessica Dromgoole MON Writer: Roy Williams MON Composer: David Pickvance MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01s7yw7 (Listen) MON Series 27, Episode 1 MON MON (1/13) MON MON Which rock group's songs have inspired a recent work by the MON great American modernist composer Steve Reich? And in which MON music-related field is the work of Herman Leonard, Francis MON Wolff and Chuck Stewart particularly notable? MON MON Paul Gambaccini welcomes the first trio of contestants in MON the 2013 series of the general knowledge music quiz. Over MON the next three months, music lovers will play in a knockout MON competition to find the brightest musical brain in Britain, MON who will be crowned the 27th annual Counterpoint champion. MON Questions cover the classical repertoire along with jazz, MON show tunes, film music, and sixty years of the pop charts. MON MON In Heat 1 the contestants come from London and Essex. MON They'll have to display their knowledge of music in all its MON variety, including tackling questions on a completely MON unforeseen specialist subject. There are plenty of musical MON extracts of all kinds to identify, both familiar and MON surprising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01s7vzz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 When Washington Came to Brum b01s7yyr (Listen) MON Washington Irving was the first superstar of American MON literature, and the first American author to gain MON international respect. Many of his most famous stories, MON including 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy MON Hollow', were affectionate hymns to his native New York MON State and the rural idyll of the Hudson Valley - so it's MON perhaps surprising to discover that they were written while MON Irving was living in the industrial hotbed of early MON nineteenth century Birmingham. Irving was in the city to MON forge links with British businesses and help rebuild his MON family's finances back home, which had been hit hard by the MON Anglo-American war of 1812; he went on to spend around MON twenty years in Europe before heading home to enjoy the MON wealth he'd earned as a writer. Birmingham novelist MON Catherine O'Flynn tells the story of Irving's time in the MON city, and of the relationships he built with British writers MON like Walter Scott and Charles Dickens, whose own Christmas MON stories were heavily influenced by Irving's own. She MON discovers how Irving has been taken up by academics as a MON pioneer of trans-national writing, and hears from Joe MON Queenan, who lives in Irving's home town and who regards MON Washington Irving impersonators as the most loathed MON individuals on the east coast of the United States. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01s7yyt (Listen) MON Series 3, Detox MON MON Do you feel in control of your technology, or is it the MON other way round? MON MON In this last episode of the current series of The Digital MON Human Aleks Krotoski asks if we could all do with a detox MON from our digital devices. It's a question she's increasingly MON been asking herself, which brings her to the couch of cyber MON addiction therapist Chris Mulligan. While there is no MON classification of cyber addiction in any psychiatric manual MON in the world there are clearly people who have problems MON switching off from games or what they're looking at online. MON MON Does the answer lie in how technology has hijacked the MON reward systems of our brains? Kelly Mcgonigal is a MON neuroscientist at Stanford University and has made a special MON study of willpower and the challenges we face in modern MON living. She's been researching how social information is MON profoundly addictive to the modern human brain. Aleks also MON hears about different approaches to solving the problem and MON keeping our technology use under control. Author Evgeny MON Morozov locks his phone and router cable in a time locked MON safe, while Susan Maushart took herself and her family MON offline for 6 months to kick-start a more mindful and MON deliberate approach to technology use. MON MON But are these methods no more than sticking plasters and is MON it to ourselves and how we relate to our technology that we MON should look to rebalance this relationship. Producer Peter MON McManus. MON MON 17:00 PM b01s7yyw (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s7s7d (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01s7zpg (Listen) MON Series 11, Episode 5 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Richard Osman, John Finnemore, Lucy Beaumont and Rhod MON Gilbert are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as octopuses, planes, MON armadillos and socks. 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 b01s7zpj (Listen) MON Pheobe is encouraging, and Ed and Jazzer have a hard day MON ahead of them. MON TB tests at Bridge Farm MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01s7zpl (Listen) MON Kwame Kwei-Armah MON MON With Mark Lawson. MON MON British actor, director and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah is MON now Artistic Director of the Center Stage theatre in MON Baltimore. Mark spent a day with Kwame, discussing his new MON play, race relations and the differences between UK and US MON theatre. MON MON Producer Penny Murphy. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01s7yvs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b01s83bx (Listen) MON Knowing Me, Knowing Autism MON MON This programme follows Robyn through her personal and MON professional life; juggling the demands of her own condition MON with her obligations to others; giving insight into autism MON through the people who experience it first hand. Her MON professional life is highly organised (courtesy of her MON iphone); her personal life extremely messy. But she paints MON with her fingers, writes lyrics, listens to music and goes MON to the gym; often using the routine and the ritual of these MON activities to manage her condition MON MON As Robyn says: "Autism is a spectrum of conditions, everyone MON is different. I don't know what it would be like not to be MON Autistic. I suppose if I had to create a short explanation MON I'd say Autism is like an all-encompassing wall. People like MON Rain man (who had classic autism) are enclosed by a brick MON wall, people with Asperger's are behind a frosted glass wall MON often able to see out but not reach the rest of the world, MON you can have a wall of any thickness in between and it's not MON always obvious what they are made of. But others can remove MON bricks by finding shared interests like IT, Thomas the tank MON engine and football". MON MON Robyn is a professional one to one mentor to young people MON with Autism. She helps them with the difficulties of daily MON life, talking to them about money and public transport, MON discussing their coping strategies, and dealing with the MON people they come into contact with who may not understand MON their needs. People with autism can sometimes have problems MON with executive functioning tasks (planning, creating new MON ideas, ordering tasks) focus on detail rather than the MON bigger picture (known as weak central coherence), have MON problems with anxiety. So Robyn's job also involves helping MON groups like the police, social workers and paediatricians to MON understand these behaviours. MON MON Her Aspergers is just one of ten disabilities she possesses. MON She lists the other nine (pointing out that lists are MON something she's good at): MON MON 1 left sided hemiplegia (a form of cerebral palsy) MON 2 hemnipoia ( no peripheral vision) MON 3 prosapragnosia ( I don't recognize faces i recognize MON people by their shoes MON 4 dyspraxia MON 5 dyslexia MON 6 dyscullia (math dyslexia) MON 7 lax ligaments MON 8 poor muscle tone MON 9 scared lung tissue MON MON Produced by Sue Mitchell. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01s4rj5 (Listen) MON Hazaras, Hatred and Pakistan MON MON Mobeen Azhar travels to the Pakistani city of Quetta to MON investigate how it has become the scene of violent and MON indiscriminate attacks by Sunni militants against the local MON ethnic Hazara community. It's a city which has become MON effectively a no-go area for foreign journalists due to the MON persistent and intensifying violence. Mobeen tells the story MON of a single day in January of this year when over 100 people MON lost their lives in twin bombings in Quetta. Claiming MON responsibility was the Sunni militant group MON Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Mobeen retraces the story of the MON bombings, and examines the growing security concerns in a MON district dominated by the Shia Hazara community. MON MON He speaks to Fayyaz Mohammed, a candidate in the forthcoming MON elections who has links to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and talks with MON Paul Bhatti, who until recently was the Pakistani Minister MON of National Harmony. Bhatti blames the government's MON inability to enforce "effective policy" on Pakistan's long MON history of military dictatorship. Azhar meets blast MON survivors and the families of victims, and finds out how the MON security situation is causing many young Hazaras to leave MON Quetta to seek a better life elsewhere - despite the dangers MON of putting their lives in the hands of people smugglers. MON MON Producer: Julie Ball. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01s4sz8 (Listen) MON Bees and pesticides; Heart gene therapy; Petal shapes MON MON EU states have voted in favour of a proposal to restrict the MON use of certain pesticides that have been linked to causing MON serious harm in bees. Neonicotinoid chemicals in pesticides MON are sprayed onto seeds and spread throughout the plant as it MON grows. There has been a lot of concern about this systematic MON approach, with some scientists arguing that it is comparable MON to using antibiotics prophylactically. Professor Dave MON Goulson from the University of Sussex and Dr. Lynn Dicks MON from the University of Cambridge discuss the scientific MON evidence currently available on these pesticides as well as MON the limited data available on the state of pollinating MON insects. MON MON Patients in the UK have begun being enrolled into trials to MON see if an engineered virus can be used to heal their damaged MON and struggling hearts. The trial will use a virus to MON introduce genetic material into heart muscle to reverse the MON organ's decline. Researchers found that levels of the MON protein SERCA2a were lower in heart-failure patients. So MON they devised a genetically modified virus, with the MON instructions for producing more of the protein that can MON infect the heart. The virus will be released into the MON damaged heart muscle of patients involved in two separate MON trials testing both the safety and effectiveness of this MON potential treatment. Dr Alexander Lyon, a cardiologist at MON one of the hospitals involved, the Royal Brompton in London, MON and also a Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at Imperial College MON London is in the studio. MON MON Why are petals all sorts of different shapes? New research MON shows that petals get their shape from a hidden molecular MON map within their buds that tells them how to grow. Dr Susana MON Sauret-Gueto from the John Innes plant science Centre in MON Norwich explains more about her research. MON MON Bees and neonics MON EU states have voted in favour of a proposal to restrict the MON use of certain pesticides that have been linked to causing MON serious harm in bees. MON MON Gene Therapy MON Patients in the UK have begun being enrolled into trials to MON see if an engineered virus can be used to heal their damaged MON and struggling hearts. MON MON Petal Shapes MON MON Petals get their shape from a hidden molecular map within MON their buds that tells them how to grow. Scientists from the MON John Innes Centre and University of East Anglia discovered MON that these concealed maps are made up of patterns of arrows MON that act as instructions for how each cell in the bud should MON grow. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01s7yvl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01s7s7g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01s83bz (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s83c1 (Listen) MON This Is Where I Am, Episode 11 MON MON After making a startling discovery, Debs starts looking in MON to what happened to Abdi's wife Azira in those last few MON moments in Dadaab - and she resolves to go to Kenya to see MON if she can pick up the trail. MON MON Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike. MON MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01s4g7g (Listen) MON Accents Will Happen MON MON New research at the University of Liverpool is tracking for MON the first time in the United Kingdom how and what words MON babies and toddlers are picking up or understand. According MON to Professor Caroline Rowland and her colleague Anna MON Christopher what is emerging is the need to take into MON account the different dialects spoken. But what's in an MON accent or dialect ? Should we be correcting children's MON accent and grammar so that they are not disadvantaged later MON in life and how and what influences they way we speak; for MON dialectologist Dr Andrew Hamer we are all products of our MON history. In this edition of 'Word of Mouth' Michael Rosen MON talks to those who love or loathe their accent; those who MON have managed to retain their accent and those who have MON changed the way they speak concluding with voice and dialect MON coach Charmian Hoare who works with actors and Vicky MON Carpenter who trains- well anyone and claims she can make MON you 'accent-less' but is there such a thing ? surely we all MON have an accent ? MON MON Presenter: Michael Rosan MON Producer :Perminder Khatkar. MON MON 23:30 Poetry, Texas b01h6467 (Listen) MON Poetry expresses the universal, and history only the MON particular - Aristotle, Poetics MON MON Poetry, Texas, is a radio documentary by Pejk Malinovski. MON It's about Poetry. What is Poetry? MON MON "Haaard work." According to Rick Rice. He lives alone in a MON trailer with his dog, in the small Texan town of that name. MON "It's a lot of haaard working people. You can see that just MON driving up and down the road. The bales of hay sitting MON there. The cattle. It's just a lot of hard working people, MON trying to make an honest dime." MON MON Malinovski, a third generation Danish poet, came across MON Poetry on Google and decided to venture out there to find MON the poetry of Poetry. MON MON Poetry is not really a town, it's a bunch of houses along a MON road with a gas station in the middle, three churches and a MON school. And a Taxidermist. MON MON "It's hard to know where poetry starts and where poetry MON stops now, back in the day it was well defined." Says Rick MON Salisbury of Poetry Taxidermy MON MON Pejk Malinovski takes the listeners gently and humorously by MON the hand and shows them a fresh way to look at Poetry. Free MON from dusty books and literary experts, free even from poets. MON But full of life. MON MON Produced by Pejk Malinovski MON A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 07 MAY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01s7s8c (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01s4g6p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s7s8f (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s7s8h (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s7s8k (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01s7s8m (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01sc3hw (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Revd Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01s89gh (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01s89gk (Listen) TUE Song Thrush TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David TUE Attenborough presents the Song Thrush. The male's song in TUE the dawn chorus includes a repertoire of over a hundred TUE different phrases making it one of the richest songs of any TUE British Bird. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01s89gm (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01s89mh (Listen) TUE Nancy Rothwell TUE TUE Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell is not only one of the UK's TUE leading brain scientists and physiologists; for the last TUE three years Nancy Rothwell has also run the country's TUE largest university - as President and Vice-Chancellor of the TUE University of Manchester. TUE TUE When Nancy Rothwell is not making decisions about the TUE university's £800 million annual budget and 50,000 students TUE and staff, she oversees a laboratory of researchers TUE developing and trialling an experimental treatment to TUE prevent death and disability caused by stroke. Given that TUE someone in the UK will have a stroke every five minutes, TUE that adds up to a lot of people who might end up benefitting TUE from Nancy Rothwell's life in science. TUE TUE Nancy did not start her career working on the brain. As a TUE young scientist, in 1970s, she made her reputation with TUE original and high profile research into the causes of TUE obesity, and the role of a tissue type known as brown fat. TUE But in the early 1990s, a shock finding from an experiment TUE stopped her in her tracks. It revealed something new and TUE profound about the brain - a classic case of serendipity in TUE science and a result that redirected Nancy Rothwell's TUE research into the new and challenging field of neuroscience. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01s89mk (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah talks to Satish Kumar TUE TUE Ritula Shah was brought up as a Jain, which has renunciation TUE as one of its central tenets. Ritula has always been TUE fascinated by this idea and in this series she wants to TUE explore what it means to give up something that still has TUE value to those around you. Why do it? Where does it leave TUE your relationships with those people whose choices you will TUE have contradicted or undermined by your own? What happens TUE when you waver (as surely you must)? TUE TUE In this first programme she explores the theory with ex-Jain TUE monk, Satish Kumar. He explains his own personal journey to TUE renunciation of both the material and the spiritual while TUE still a young man and why he ultimately rejected it as a way TUE of improving the world. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01s5d45 (Listen) TUE A Sting in the Tale, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Tim McInnerny TUE Producer: Joanne Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s89mm (Listen) TUE Joanna Lumley; Lionel Shriver; Financial Abuse TUE TUE Joanna Lumley discusses campaigning; Lionel Shriver's new TUE novel looks at obesity; Polly Morland has written about what TUE bravery involves. And we hear about the prevalence of TUE financial abuse and the pitfalls of entertaining if you are TUE single. Presented by Jane Garvey. Produced by Lucinda TUE Montefiore. TUE TUE Editor: Robyn Read TUE Producer: Lucinda Montefiore TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01s8x4z (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 7, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the spring of 1666, just after his 33rd birthday, Sam TUE notes that he's 'the happiest a man can be'. He's aware that TUE he should be working harder and enjoying himself less, but TUE he decides he's the right age to do it - and doesn't want to TUE wait until he's too old to appreciate it. At home it's TUE anything but peaceful. Sam is struggling to find a suitable TUE husband for his sister, Pauline, who will soon be regarded TUE as an old maid. Elizabeth and the maid argue to the point TUE where the maid walks out and goes back to her mother. And a TUE visit from Aunty Wight, who is tormented by fear of the TUE plague, proves very trying. Adapted by Hattie Naylor TUE TUE 11:00 Hallucination: Through the Doors of Perception TUE b01nbq6d (Listen) TUE Hallucinations aren't what they used to be. Time was when TUE reporting a divine vision would bring fame or fortune, and TUE have a queue of people wanting to touch your robe, receive a TUE blessing, or recommend you for sainthood. The Enlightenment TUE changed our view of hallucination and nowadays you'd be more TUE at risk of being handed a prescription for a major TUE tranquilliser or even sectioned under the Mental Health Act TUE for reporting what you saw or heard. Hallucinating, in TUE essence, the experience of seeing or hearing (and sometimes TUE smelling or touching) something that by any objective TUE measure, isn't there, has been linked to a wide variety of TUE causes. From the use of mind-altering substances such as TUE LSD, to the complex collection of often distressing symptoms TUE labelled schizophrenia. Neurological damage, dementia, TUE post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, stress, TUE narcolepsy - all these and more have been linked to TUE hallucination. But there are also examples of otherwise TUE 'healthy' individuals who have experienced vivid and TUE sometimes distressing hallucinations which for most of the TUE last century, science has largely overlooked. But with the TUE advent of fMRI scanning, where researchers can observe the TUE hallucinating brain in action, it is these "healthy" TUE individuals who are beginning to open the doors of TUE perception and which may provide new insights and treatments TUE for psychosis and schizophrenia. TUE TUE In this programme, Geoff Watts meets researchers attempting TUE to unlock the mysteries of hallucination as well as some of TUE those who experience the phenomenon. Geoff visits Dr Dominic TUE Ffytche of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and TUE undergoes a stroboscopic experiment designed to induce TUE hallucinations in subjects whilst their brains are being TUE scanned. We hear some of the vivid accounts from TUE hallucinators, including Doris, who has macular TUE degeneration. Over the last year, her failing eyesight has TUE resulted in an array of objects and images appearing before TUE her with startling clarity, from relatively benign baskets TUE of flowers to the rather more distressing sight of dark, TUE haunting figures sitting by her bed. Her condition is known TUE as Charles Bonnet Syndrome and Dr Ffytche estimates that TUE over 2 million people suffer from this in the UK alone, TUE mostly in silence, due to the fear of being labelled as TUE 'mad'. Geoff also visits Kelly Diederen's lab at Cambridge TUE University, which is investigating the origin of auditory TUE hallucinations - hearing voices. Common in people with TUE schizophrenia, Dr Diederen is instead, scanning the brains TUE of so-called "healthy hallucinators", individuals who TUE otherwise lead perfectly functional lives save for the fact TUE that they hear voices on a daily basis. Could they hold the TUE key to understanding and treating a key symptom of TUE psychosis? And Geoff talks to internationally renowned TUE neurologist and author, Dr Oliver Sacks, about his own TUE experience of hallucination as well as his new book on the TUE subject. TUE TUE 11:30 Richard Wagner - Power, Sex and Revolution b01s8byy (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Mention his name and images flicker of dwarves, flying TUE maidens, magic swords and bronze breast-plates, all of it TUE served in vast portions to test stamina of audience and TUE singers alike. But what's really going on in Wagner? TUE TUE In the second part of his journey through Wagner's music, TUE Paul Mason turns to the seemingly conventional world of a TUE singing competition in 16th-century Nuremburg. But Die TUE Meistersinger reveals dark seams beneath its surface: TUE complex human relationships and an attitude to nationalism TUE and race which raise fundamental questions about the TUE validity of Wagner's very artistic mission. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01s8bz0 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01s7s8p (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01s8bz2 (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 In a Prince's Footsteps b01s8wgt (Listen) TUE Aswan, Egypt TUE TUE In the second programme in this series, John travels up the TUE Nile to Aswan on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Here he TUE considers pictures of two of the ancient Egyptian temples at TUE Philae. The temple structures appear the same as in the TUE original photographs, but today they stand on a different TUE island. TUE TUE Presenter: John McCarthy TUE Producer: Kevin Dawson TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01s7zpj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01s8bz4 (Listen) TUE Tony and Rose TUE TUE Written by Nicola Baldwin. TUE With Robert Glenister and Marcia Warren. TUE TUE When architect Tony McGill returns to England from his home TUE in Germany to attend his Aunt Ruth's funeral, he struggles TUE to come to terms with the strange behaviour of his mother TUE Rose. TUE TUE Ruth and Rose, both widows, lived and looked after each TUE other, so he thought. But Ruth had tried to protect Tony TUE from the truth and it is only when Tony comes home for the TUE funeral that he realises quite how ill his mother is - with TUE dementia - and that he has little time to sort out what best TUE to do for her. TUE TUE At first it all seemed so straightforward - just take her TUE back to Germany, to stay with him, his wife Monica and son, TUE Karl Heinz. It soon dawns on Tony, however, that Rose's TUE situation is far more serious than he can handle and he TUE struggles with his decision not to leave her in England and TUE put her in a home. TUE TUE At the home, things go from bad to worse and Tony's TUE conscience is tested as he watches all dignity being pulled TUE away from her. Before it is too late he takes her on a TUE journey that ultimately buys him a bit of time to come to TUE terms with inevitability of what lies ahead. TUE TUE Written by Nicola Baldwin TUE TUE Director: Celia de Wolff TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Tony: Robert Glenister TUE Rose: Marcia Warren TUE Monica: Hazel Ellerby TUE Care Worker: Aicha Kossoko TUE Care Manager: Emma Kiley TUE Director: Celia de Wolff TUE Writer: Nicola Baldwin TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01s8bz6 (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01s8bz8 (Listen) TUE Bees Fight Back TUE TUE Much heat has been generated about about modern pesticides TUE called neonicotinoids. TUE Their supporters - the companies which make them, the TUE farmers who use them and the Department for Environment, TUE Food and Rural Affairs - say they are vital to protect crops TUE and boost yields in a hungry world. They say jobs would be TUE threatened in a big way if they were outlawed and that there TUE is no scientific proof that they are harming pollinating TUE insects which are also vital to agriculture. TUE TUE On the other side of the debate are environment campaigners, TUE scientists, the European Food Safety Authority, the European TUE Commission and a House of Commons select committee. They say TUE there is so much evidence that neonicotinoids kill bees and TUE other useful insects that their use in farms and gardens TUE cannot be justified. Beekeepers are divided, some fearing TUE that the alternative chemicals would cause even more damage, TUE some saying that the other threats to bees - disease and TUE loss of habitat - are far more serious. Some even challenge TUE the whole notion that bees are suffering a serious decline. TUE TUE For Costing the Earth, Tom Heap goes into the fields and TUE hedgerows of England - and into the laboratory of the TUE country's only Professor of Apiculture - to sort spin from TUE science and facts from campaign catchphrases. He also hears TUE from scientists and experts on the global health of TUE pollinating insects and the crops that depend on them. TUE TUE Produced by Steve Peacock. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01s8bzb (Listen) TUE With a royal baby imminent, Michael Rosen investigates TUE names. From rare surnames which have all but died out in TUE this country, to countries which tightly control first names TUE given to children. He meets expectant mothers at an TUE ante-natal class and finds out about the names they're TUE thinking of for their offspring, and talks to an historian TUE about royal names- are we ever likely to have a Prince Kevin TUE or a Princess Tracey? Produced in Bristol by Melvin TUE Rickarby. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01s8cnz (Listen) TUE Series 30, Bill Shankly TUE TUE Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts champions the life of the TUE legendary football manager Bill Shankly, who in the 1960s TUE took Liverpool from the second division to become one of the TUE world's greatest sides. Famous for his quip that "football TUE is not a matter of life and death, it's much more important TUE than that", Shankly lived and breathed football; but in his TUE later years he felt that the Liverpool managers had frozen TUE him out of the side he had nurtured, and betrayed him. TUE TUE Shankly came from humble beginnings. After school he worked TUE down the local coal mine until the pit was closed. He never TUE became rich and lived in a modest semi-detached house where TUE Liverpool fans were always welcome. His life was a far cry TUE from that of today's top managers, but through his canny TUE playing of the transfer market, did he anticipate their TUE methods? Matthew Parris chairs the discussion, with the aid TUE of Shankly biographer Stephen Kelly. TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01s8cp1 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s7s8r (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b01rqbmc (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Isy Suttie (Dobby from Channel 4's Peep Show and double TUE British Comedy Award nominee) returns to BBC Radio 4 with TUE these unique tales, recounting a series of love stories TUE affecting people she's known throughout her life, told TUE partly through song. TUE TUE Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; TUE quite often she's intervened, changing the action TUE dramatically - for better or worse. Intertwined within these TUE stories are related real life anecdotes from Isy's own, TUE often disastrous, love life. TUE TUE In this second episode, Isy tries tries to save her failing TUE relationship with a papier-mâché penguin, while at the same TUE time helping Matlock's resident busker, Mr Mississippi, TUE capture the heart of his unrequited love Lorna, a shelf TUE stacker at the local supermarket. TUE TUE With her multi-character and vocal skills, plus her guitar, TUE Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving world, sharing TUE with us her lessons in life and love. TUE TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01s8cp5 (Listen) TUE Clarrie's looking forward to her birthday, and Helen tells TUE all. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01s8cp7 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including Cultural Exchange: Germaine TUE Greer nominates an overlooked Australian novel. TUE TUE Producer Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01s8x4z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The New Dissidents b01s8cp9 (Listen) TUE The Good Friday Agreement is 15 years old. But, for some, TUE Northern Ireland remains a violent place. Beatings and TUE murders are still happening, with grim regularity. Now TUE there's a new danger. Several dissident republican groups TUE have come together to form a 'new IRA'. Peter Taylor asks TUE why, 15 years on, a dangerous few still write their TUE political messages in blood. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01s8cpc (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01s8cpf (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents a series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01s89mh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01s7s8t (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01s8cph (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s8cpk (Listen) TUE This Is Where I Am, Episode 12 TUE TUE Abdi has invited a former drug addict to his flat and Debs TUE is horrified at the unsuitable influence on Rebecca. After a TUE fierce argument, she leaves for Dadaab without telling him TUE where she is going or why. TUE TUE Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike. TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Absolutely Delish b01s8cpm (Listen) TUE The Food of Love TUE TUE New comedy by Mark Evans. TUE Fantasy and food collide when Natasha's search for romance TUE results in a rather strange dinner party. Her guests are TUE happy to dish out plenty of advice, but how much can a TUE brutal, blood thirsty totalitarian dictator really know TUE about love? TUE TUE Natasha ... Katherine Parkinson TUE Stalin ... Ewan Bailey TUE Ghandi ... Adeel Akhtar TUE Elizabeth 1 ... Joanna Brookes TUE Marie-Curie ... Phillipa Stanton TUE Steve ... Michael Shelford TUE TUE Director ..... Helen Perry TUE TUE Katherine Parkinson stars as unlucky -in-love Natasha. TUE Katherine is best known for playing Jen Barber in the TUE Channel 4 series The IT Crowd. She has also appeared in Doc TUE Martin and films The Boat That Rocked and How to Lose TUE Friends & Alienate People. TUE TUE Mark Evans' TV credits include award winning That Mitchell TUE and Webb Look, Comedy Nation and BAFTA nominated Sorry,I've TUE Got No Head. For Radio 4's Mark's written Bleak Expectations TUE and That Mitchell and Webb Sound amongst many others series. TUE TUE 23:30 When Harry Potter Met Frodo: The Strange World of Fan TUE Fiction b01p0bmx (Listen) TUE Novelist Naomi Alderman investigates the extraordinary TUE sub-culture of internet fan fiction and asks how it is TUE influencing the future of popular culture. TUE TUE The age of the internet has seen an explosion in the writing TUE and reading of fan fiction. Fans of books, movies, TV shows TUE are writing their own stories about their favourite TUE fictional characters and worlds. TUE TUE Some sample stories: What happens if Hamlet was a woman? TUE What would happen if the Pirates of the Caribbean raided the TUE Titanic? How does Mulder from the X Files deal with growing TUE a pair of wings? TUE TUE Many of the stories are on explicit sexual themes. The TUE recent, hugely successful series Fifty Shades Of Grey by EL TUE James has its roots in the fan fiction scene and has sparked TUE interest in the genre from commercial publishers. The TUE homoerotic sub-genre known as Slash fiction also has a huge TUE following among heterosexual women as readers and writers. TUE TUE Naomi talks to 'fanfic' writers and professional authors TUE about this unprecedented flowering of creative writing. She TUE finds out how it is giving a voice to female fans and TUE pioneering new forms of creativity outside the commercial TUE arena. TUE TUE With author China Mieville, Francesca Coppa, Henry Jenkins TUE and Ika Willis TUE TUE Produced by Russell Finch TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 08 MAY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01s7s9v (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01s5d45 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s7s9x (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s7s9z (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s7sb1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01s7sb3 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01sc3j4 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Revd Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01s89wp (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01s8mng (Listen) WED Swift WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David WED Attenborough presents the Swift. Swifts live in the sky, WED feeding, mating and sleeping on the wing. Their feet are so WED reduced they cannot stand particularly well on land, only WED the near vertical surfaces on which they build their nest. WED WED 06:00 Today b01s8mnj (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01s8mnl (Listen) WED Libby Purves is joined by the former home secretary, Alan WED Johnson MP. WED WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01s5f3k (Listen) WED A Sting in the Tale, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Tim McInnerny WED Producer: Joanne Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s8mnn (Listen) WED Kate Figes on infidelity; Botox for 20-somethings WED WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Editor: Robyn Read WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01s8xmn (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 7, Episode 3 WED WED War with the Dutch is imminent and Sam finds a posting at WED sea for Elizabeth's brother, Balty. Sam's social life WED continues to be very busy. He has a liaison with his old WED mistress, Mrs Lane, and is on his way to The Swan, with Mrs WED Knipp and Mrs Pierce, when a man warns them that it's still WED shut up with the plague. But when Elizabeth innocently WED invites her drawing teacher, Mr Brown, to stay for dinner, WED Sam is furious. Adapted from the diaries by Hattie Naylor. WED WED 11:00 Don't Log Off b01s8mnq (Listen) WED Series 3, Connection & Separation WED WED Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook & Skype, hearing WED the real life dramas of random strangers in a new series. WED WED Hooked up to a computer well into the early hours of the WED morning, Alan circumnavigates the globe online inviting WED anyone and everyone to talk to him. He never knows who he WED will be speaking to next or what secrets they will reveal. WED WED In the first programme of this new series, Alan hears WED stories of connection and separation. He connects with a man WED in Cairo as a gunfight ranges outside, a French woman WED nervously awaiting a meeting with her estranged father and a WED Brazilian man mystified at the disappearance of an online WED lover. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 Wordaholics b01s8mns (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED WED Gyles Brandreth chairs the comedy panel game where this week WED Milton Jones and Robin Ince compete against Natalie Haynes WED and Lloyd Langford to find out who is the most passionate WED and knowledgeable about words. WED WED Today the Letter of the Week is 'W'. Lloyd Langford hazards WED a guess as to what 'Welsh cricket' is while Natalie Haynes WED has to work out what 'Whistling breeches' are. WED WED In a round about Australian slang Robin Ince tries to guess WED the meaning of 'guttergripper' while Milton Jones takes a WED stab at 'shypoo'. WED WED All the panellists come up with some brilliant new toponyms WED and also reveal their pet-hate words. WED WED Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED Credits WED Panellist: Milton Jones WED Panellist: Robin Ince WED Panellist: Natalie Haynes WED Panellist: Lloyd Langford WED Presenter: Gyles Brandreth WED Producer: Claire Jones WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: James Kettle WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01s8mnv (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01s8mnx (Listen) WED Who wants to be a trader millionaire? WED WED We investigate concerns that more and more people are taking WED up trading the foreign exchange market, and stocks and WED shares, in search of well-paid careers or as a lucrative WED hobby. Expensive training courses offer the chance to learn WED the 'secrets of the trade' leaving participants to believe WED they can easily beat the market from the comfort of the WED computer in their spare bedroom or their laptop on the WED beach. With unemployment high, and interest rates low, a WED growing number of job seekers are turning themselves into WED d-i-y traders. So are all too many of those who sign up WED being fooled - or fooling themselves - into thinking that WED making money through financial trading is a pretty WED straightforward skill to acquire? WED WED Producer:Joe Kent. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01s7sb5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01s8mnz (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 In a Prince's Footsteps b01s8xmq (Listen) WED Jerusalem WED WED In the third episode in this series John arrives in WED Jerusalem. Here he considers pictures of two of the holy WED cities key locations. The Mount of Olives and the Church of WED the Holy Sepulchre. WED WED Presenter: John McCarthy WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01s8cp5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01s8mp1 (Listen) WED The Fox WED WED By Robin Brooks. WED WED Mild-mannered Englishman Michael Forwell came from a loving WED background and attended one of Britain's top schools - yet WED he became one of the most successful drug smugglers of the WED 1980's. WED WED A charming rogue, Forwell took enormous risks to feed his WED insatiable desire for adventure. But of course, the WED high-life came at a cost. WED WED Directed by Selina Ream. WED WED William Beck (as Michael Forwell) and Liz Sutherland (as WED May) WED WED Credits WED Michael: William Beck WED Bourbon: Nathan Osgood WED May: Liz Sutherland WED Sammy: Michael Shelford WED Daniels: Paul Stonehouse WED Jack: Robert Blythe WED Rod: Will Howard WED Director: Selina Ream WED Producer: Selina Ream WED Writer: Robin Brooks WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01s8mp3 (Listen) WED Financial Fraud WED WED Have you been the victim of financial fraud? For advice WED about protecting your identity, spotting scams and sorting WED out the mess if you are caught out, call 03700 100 444 WED between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Fraud losses on UK cards totalled £388 million in 2012 say WED Financial Fraud Action UK (FFAUK). Consumers are either WED duped into handing over their cards and PINs or shoulder WED surfed at cash machines before their cards are stolen. WED WED While telephone banking fraud fell in 2012, £39.6million was WED lost to online banking fraud, with customers tricked into WED revealing their bank details through false websites. WED WED FFAUK have also recently given a warning about fake job WED adverts, often made online using titles such as 'Money WED Transfer Agent' or 'Payment Processing Agent'. These illegal WED schemes involve those accepting jobs in money laundering, WED exposing them to financial risk and possibly jail. WED WED If you have been the victim of a money scam or you want WED advice about how to keep your finances safe, call 03700 100 WED 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or email WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED Waiting to answer your question will be: WED WED Katy Worobec, Head of Fraud Control, Financial Fraud Action WED UK WED DCI Dave Carter, The Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit WED (DCPCU) WED James Daley, Money Expert, Which? WED WED Phone lines are open between 1pm and 3.30pm. Standard WED geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED Presenter: Vincent Duggleby WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01s8cpf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01s8mp5 (Listen) WED Middle Class Enclaves and Escapes WED WED Middle class enclaves and escapes. A special edition of WED Thinking Allowed recorded at the British Sociological WED Association's 2013 conference. WED WED Privatised neighbourhoods and lifestyle migration are a WED global phenomenon. Increasingly, it seems, middle class WED people with sufficient capital are choosing to 'opt out' of WED urban environments, or, at least, to shield themselves from WED their more 'dangerous' elements, namely the poorer WED residents. Laurie Taylor talks to a range of academics who WED have researched the various manifestation of this desire for WED enclaves, escapes and the 'good life'. Can the broader WED social dynamics and conflicts of a society be understand by WED examining evolving form of housing and urban flight? WED WED Maggy Lee talks about the the rapid expansion of residential WED tourism and 'lifestyle migration' between Hong Kong and WED mainland China, as the 'well off' buy up high end, gated WED communities. Nick Osbaldeston looks at 'lifestyle migrants' WED in Australia who move to small, mainly coastal communities, WED representing a middle class 'takeover'. And Ceren Yalcin WED explores the proliferation of 'sealed off' housing complexes WED in Istanbul. They're joined by Rowland Atkinson who has done WED extensive research into gentrification, gated communities WED and housing inequality. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01s8mp7 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01s8mp9 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s7sb7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Down the Line b01s8mq6 (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 2 WED WED The return of the ground-breaking Radio 4 show, hosted by WED the legendary Gary Bellamy and brought to you by the WED creators of The Fast Show. WED WED Starring Rhys Thomas, with Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix WED Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy Montgomery, Adil Ray, Robert WED Popper and Paul Whitehouse. WED WED Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse WED A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01s8mpc (Listen) WED Eddie's out to impress, and Matt's keeping his eyes open. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01s8mpf (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including Cultural Exchange: Booker WED Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson nominates the 1971 WED film Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols and starring WED Jack Nicholson. WED WED Producer Penny Murphy. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01s8xmn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b01s8mph (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley presents the live studio-based debate WED programme which takes the form of newspaper leader WED conferences. WED WED He is joined by five prominent journalists, who write WED leading articles or editorials for their newspapers, WED representing the press in the nations of the UK and across WED the English regions as well as the leading national WED newspapers. WED WED Three issues in the news are decided upon as subjects and WED then discussed. Two of these often reflect current events at WED home and abroad - and prompt lively and provocative WED discussion. The third subject offers some light relief. WED WED Following the discussion of each of the three subjects, WED Andrew invites one of his guests to draw up on air the WED "leader" for that subject setting out its main points. This WED important component of the programme helps ensure that WED resolution of the debate is achieved for listeners and that WED the full range of views expressed is reflected. WED WED Contributions from listeners are also encouraged throughout WED the programme and particularly at the start for the WED component they shape most: "tomorrow's top story headline" WED which is heard at the end of the programme. WED WED The leaders are posted online at the Radio 4 website WED following the programme. WED WED Producer Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01s8mpk (Listen) WED Series 4, Stewart Henderson: Poetry in Politics WED WED Stewart Henderson argues that a lack of poetry in politics WED is fuelling disengagement. He draws on past and current WED speeches from Winston Churchill to Aneurin Bevan and David WED Cameron to Ed Miliband to make the case for putting poetry WED back in political rhetoric. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas WED and personal stories. Speakers explain their latest thinking WED on the trends and ideas in culture and society in front of a WED live audience. It is recorded in front of a live audience at WED Somerset House in London. WED WED Producer: Laura Francis. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01s8bz8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01s8mnl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01s7sb9 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01s8mpm (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s8mpp (Listen) WED This Is Where I Am, Episode 13 WED WED Unbeknown to Abdi, Debs is in the refugee camp in Dadaab WED searching for news of his wife Azira. She finds a woman who WED was with them on the day the bandits attacked - with WED surprising news. WED WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01s8mpr (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED EPISODE TWO: ABOUT CAREFUL DRIVING WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, WED up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the WED first in his family to graduate from University, opted not WED to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand WED at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's WED annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' WED WED Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and WED rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving WED family as he tries to pursue his chosen career. WED WED The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with WED scenes from his family life. WED WED Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of WED the disappointed family members. At the end of the day she WED just wants the best for her son. However, she aint looking WED embarrassed for nobody! WED WED Martin a.k.a. Dad is clumsy and hard-headed and leaves WED running the house to his wife (she wouldn't allow it to be WED any other way). WED WED Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe she left the paradise WED in the West Indies and came to the freezing United Kingdom WED for a better life so that years later her grandson could WED 'tell jokes!' It's not the good Christian way! WED WED So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan WED do? Will he be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or WED will he give in to his family's interference? WED WED About Careful Driving WED WED Nathan Caton acknowledges that his Dad loves his car more WED than him. WED WED NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON WED MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH WED DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER WED GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND WED SUE ..... CHIZZY AKUDOLU WED POLICE OFFICER ..... DON GILÉT WED POLICE OFFICER 2 ..... OLA WED WED Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle WED Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 23:15 One b0090s0w (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Sketch show written by David Quantick, featuring Graeme WED Garden, Johnny Daukes, Deborah Norton, Katie Maskell, Dan WED Antopolski, David Quantick, Andrew Crawford and Gavin WED Peacock. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01s8mpt (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports on the State Opening of Parliament. WED WED THU THURSDAY 09 MAY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01s7scs (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01s5f3k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s7scx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s7sd1 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s7sd5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01s7sd7 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01sc3j6 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Revd Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01s89vv (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01s8qh4 (Listen) THU Wood Warbler THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David THU Attenborough presents the wood warbler. Their song has been THU described as "a spinning coin on a marble slab" and you're THU most likely to hear this chorister in oak or beech wood. THU THU 06:00 Today b01s8qx7 (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday THU in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01s8qx9 (Listen) THU Icelandic Saga THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic Sagas. THU First written down in the 13th century, the sagas tell the THU stories of the first settlers of Iceland, who began to THU arrive on the island in the late 9th century. They contain THU some of the richest and most extraordinary writing of the THU Middle Ages, although there is much debate as to whether THU they should be described as literature or history. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01s5g4y (Listen) THU A Sting in the Tale, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Tim McInnerny THU Producer: Joanne Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s8qxc (Listen) THU Stay-at-Home Mothers; Cat Power THU THU The increasing influence of stay-at-home mothers. Cat Power THU live in the studio. Independent midwives. Grey haired THU models. Julian of Norwich. Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU Editor: Robyn Read THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01s8xng (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 7, Episode 4 THU THU Sam goes to Greenwich Park to see if he can hear gunfire, THU now that Britain is at war with the Dutch. Then an injured THU sailor comes to tell him of the battle, and Sam takes him to THU tell his story to the King. People want to believe in a THU British victory - bonfires are lit and fireworks let off. THU But Sam is concerned that such celebrations are premature. THU He's soon proved right. Elizabeth's brother, Balty, returns THU from sea with a tearful tale. Adapted by Hattie Naylor. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01s8qxf (Listen) THU Return to Ghana's Oil City THU THU Two and a half years ago, oil started flowing from Ghana's THU first commercial offshore oilfield. Shortly after the taps THU were turned on, Rob Walker visited the hub for the new THU industry: the once sleepy port of Takoradi. He found a THU mixture of ambition and uncertainty in a rapidly expanding THU boomtown. Rob now returns to Takoradi to meet people he met THU last time and find out whether their dreams have been THU realised. THU Producer: Katharine Hodgson. THU THU 11:30 The Gatsby Factor b01s8qxh (Listen) THU The Great Gatsby has become a 'major motion picture' for the THU fourth time in its life - this time in a new version by Baz THU Luhrmann. THU THU In this programme, presented by academic and broadcaster THU Sarah Churchwell and recorded on both sides of the Atlantic, THU we account for the enduring popularity of Gatsby as a novel THU and as a source of inspiration for film and stage THU adaptations. THU THU In Britain we visit the Northern Ballet and at Wilton's THU Music Hall - both with versions of Gatsby. In New York, we THU hear about the locations for the novel - the extreme wealth THU of north shore Long Island where Gatsby has his mansion, and THU the contrasting 'valley of ashes' where the poorer THU characters live. THU THU The programme also includes luminaries at the New York Times THU considering why this novel, more than any other, has burned THU it way into American consciousness. How was Scott Fitzgerald THU in this the slimmest of novels, and with Gatsby the vaguest THU of protagonists, able to crack 'the kernel of the American THU fable'. THU THU Producer: Susan Marling THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01s8qxk (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01s7sd9 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01s8qxm (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 In a Prince's Footsteps b01s8xsx (Listen) THU West Bank THU THU In the fourth episode in this series John travels into the THU West Bank. Here he considers pictures of two villages the THU Prince of Wales visited, now called al Jib and Beit Ur THU al-Fauqa. THU THU Presenter: John McCarthy THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01s8mpc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00xb0sf (Listen) THU Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable THU THU by Marcy Kahan THU Ed Hanson didn't mean to put Penhaligon Rhinehart into a THU coma; THU after all he's a National Treasure. THU Now Ed's life is about to change forever. THU THU Directed by Sally Avens THU THU It's an important day for Ed Hanson; he has to do two THU things, present a 'vision statement' to keep hold of his job THU and propose marriage to his girlfriend, Lucinda. What isn't THU on Ed's list of things to do is put Penhaligon Rhinehart, THU author, barrister, circus clown and National Treasure into a THU coma. Ed's life will never be quite the same again. THU THU Stephen Mangan is one of our leading comic actors from THU playing roles such as 'Adrian Mole' on television and Norman THU in 'The Norman Conquests' on Stage and most recently Dirk THU Gently on BBC4 THU THU Marcy Kahan is an award winning screen and stage dramatist. THU THU Credits THU Ed Hanson: Stephen Mangan THU Lucinda: Naomi Frederick THU Penhaligon Rhinehart: Sean Baker THU Marion Spooner: Joanna Monro THU Sanjay Patel: Adeel Akhtar THU Bella McFadden: Naomi Sheldon THU Rhett Rhinehart: Lloyd Thomas THU Nick: Iain Batchelor THU Kitty: Deeivya Meir THU Ed's Mother: Christine Kavanagh THU Director: Sally Avens THU Writer: Marcy Kahan THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01s8qxr (Listen) THU Cannock Chase THU THU Jules Hudson goes to Cannock Chase in Staffordshire to find THU out about its military past. A major training camp during THU the First World War, he visits a mock-up of part of the THU Western Front that was built in order to familiarise troops THU with the concept of trench warfare, before they were sent to THU France and Flanders. Now covered in scrub, county THU archaeologists will begin clearing the site, a model of THU Messines Ridge, this summer. This is in preparation for the THU centenary commemorations next year that mark the beginning THU of the First World War. THU THU Cannock Chase as a whole can be seen as a landscape of THU commemoration. Besides the mock-up of the Trenches, the area THU is home to cemeteries for Commonwealth and German soldiers THU who died in the UK during both world wars, including the THU crews of the Zeppelins shot down over Britain during the THU First World War. Jules also visits a memorial to the Katyn THU Massacre on the Chase, which commemorates the 22,000 Polish THU soldiers who were shot by the Soviets on Stalin's orders in THU 1940. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01s7vtt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01s7xsf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01s8qxt (Listen) THU The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Jeff Nichols; Star Trek Into THU Darkness THU THU Riz Ahmed discusses his latest role in The Reluctant THU Fundamentalist. Directed by Mira Nair, it's based on the THU Booker Prize-nominated novel by Mohsin Hamid. Ahmed plays THU Changez, a young man from Pakistan who makes his fortune in THU the US as a successful financier, only to find he becomes an THU outsider after 9/11. THU The writer and director Jeff Nichols explains how he brought THU his labour of love, Mud, to the big screen. A Mississippi THU tale with echoes of Mark Twain, it stars Matthew McConaughey THU and tells the story of a fugitive man living on an island THU and his friendship with two young boys. THU And Star Trek is back with the latest instalment, Into THU Darkness, directed by JJ Abrams. Writers, producers and THU long-term collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci THU explore how they hoped to bring new life - and wit - to the THU beloved franchise that is Star Trek. THU Producer: Elaine Lester. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01s8qxw (Listen) THU Gareth Mitchell presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b01s8qxy (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s7sdc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01s8qy0 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 6 THU THU Comedian-activist Mark Thomas concludes his "People's THU Manifesto" back in the BBC Radio Theatre. Producer: Colin THU Anderson. THU THU Producer: Colin Anderson THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01s8s6q (Listen) THU Kirsty's in cheering-up mode, and Lilian tries to put things THU right. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01s8s6s (Listen) THU With John Wilson, including Cultural Exchange: Peter THU Bazalgette, chair of Arts Council England, nominates a THU portrait by writer and painter Wyndham Lewis. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01s8xng (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 A Celebration for Ascension Day b01s8s6v (Listen) THU Hundreds gather in the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields to THU celebrate Ascension Day, marking the day when Christians THU remember the departure of the risen Jesus from this earth, THU leaving his disciples with the promise of the gift of his THU Holy Spirit. Music includes extracts from J S Bach's B minor THU Mass sung by the BBC Daily Service Singers and the Choir of THU St Martin-in-the Fields directed by Richard Tanner and THU accompanied by Andrew Earis and members of Canzona. The THU preacher is the Lord Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Revd Graham THU James. The celebrant is the vicar of St Martin's, the Revd THU Dr Sam Wells. Producer: Clair Jaquiss. THU THU 21:00 The Trouble with Moody Teens b01h7cdh (Listen) THU In every school class, at least one teenager will need THU urgent treatment for clinical depression. With thousands of THU under-16s on anti-depressants, there is concern that mental THU health problems amongst youngsters are on the rise. So what THU is the difference between typical teen behaviour and THU something more serious? THU THU Presenter Miranda Sawyer hears from young people who speak THU frankly about their thoughts and feelings, often hidden from THU those around them. She talks to parents, teachers and THU experts to find out what are the first signs that a teenager THU is suffering from clinical depression - and asks why it is THU sometimes so difficult to spot those early symptoms. THU THU In this programme, teenagers speak about the increasing THU pressures of growing up today - from school, home and THU friends - and Miranda asks why do some teenagers cope with THU these pressures whilst others spiral down into depression? THU How much are social networking and today's economic climate THU to blame and how much of the illness is hereditary? THU THU At school, some teachers may dismiss early signs of THU depression as bad behaviour or lack of attention in class, THU but increasingly secondary schools like Bradley Stokes near THU Bristol have a specialist unit and strategies in place to THU identify vulnerable pupils and refer them early for THU psychological help. THU THU Often social stigma and guilt make it difficult for THU teenagers and parents to come forward and GPs may initially THU put problems down to adolescence, while child and adolescent THU mental health services (CAHMS) can be patchy and THU oversubscribed. Miranda investigates the treatment available THU and finds out how charities like Young Minds support both THU teenagers with mental health problems and worried parents. THU THU Producer: Sara Parker THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01s8qx9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01s7sdf (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01s8t7j (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s8t7l (Listen) THU This Is Where I Am, Episode 14 THU THU Back home in Glasgow for Christmas, Debs is still haunted by THU her experiences in Dadaab. What if she has left a single THU stone unturned in her hunt for Abdi's wife? THU THU Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike. THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Wireless Nights b01s8t7n (Listen) THU Series 2, Night of the Hunter THU THU Jarvis Cocker returns to Radio 4 with his award-winning THU feature series exploring the human condition after dark. THU Tonight is the 'Night of the Hunter' and Jarvis turns his THU eye to the starlit sky with his mind on hunters and their THU quarry. THU THU Taking his bearings from Orion, he follows a lamper across THU farmland hunting foxes by torchlight. A soldier takes him on THU a top secret mission behind enemy lines when the hunter THU became the hunted. He accompanies a young man nervously THU preparing for his first date, in pursuit of love. And a THU party of friends go out on the pull in Hull, with mixed THU results. THU THU Join him on an aural journey of the imagination as he tunes THU into the wireless night. THU THU Producer Neil McCarthy. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01s8t7q (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the latest news from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 MAY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01s7sf8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01s5g4y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s7sfb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s7sfd (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s7sfg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01s7sfj (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01sc3j8 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Revd Dr Peter McGrail of Liverpool Hope University. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01s89vx (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01s8vcs (Listen) FRI Nightingale, part 1 FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David FRI Attenborough presents the nightingale. (Part 1 of 2) A bird FRI whose song of rich crescendos of pure whistles and FRI breathless phrases is hailed as one of the most complex and FRI beautiful in the bird world and quite different to its plain FRI brown appearance. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01s8vcv (Listen) FRI News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday FRI in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01s7vzx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01s5gdr (Listen) FRI A Sting in the Tale, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Tim McInnerny FRI Producer: Joanne Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s8vcx (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Editor: Robyn Read FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01s8xvb (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 7, Episode 5 FRI FRI Sam is worried that the Navy offices are being blamed for FRI the battle with the Dutch going wrong. Then his house is FRI surrounded by the wives of men who were pressed into going FRI to sea to fight. They are desperate, swearing and shouting FRI that they have no money. Sam is sympathetic to their plight FRI but also worried about sending out his venison pasty to the FRI bakers in case they do damage to it. Then one woman gets FRI into his office and makes a moving appeal which touches his FRI conscience. FRI Adapted by Hattie Naylor. FRI FRI 11:00 Deeds Not Words b01s8vcz (Listen) FRI The crime writer Val McDermid has spent her career weaving FRI mysteries, and in this programme she tries to solve one: did FRI the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison intend to die when she FRI threw herself under the King's Horse at the Derby of 1913? FRI FRI Val and the experts will examine the evidence to see if they FRI can shed light on Davison's motives and state of mind. Emily FRI Wilding Davison became immortalised as a martyr after she FRI died at Epsom but did she mean to hurl herself into the path FRI of the horse, or was it a protest that went wrong? FRI FRI In her pocket was a return ticket, for many conclusive FRI evidence she meant to come home. For others that's a red FRI herring: she even had 'form' they say, having thrown herself FRI off a landing at Holloway prison to draw attention to the FRI horrors of force feeding. FRI FRI Her death was seized upon by both sides. To the opponents of FRI women's suffrage her actions were proof that women were too FRI emotional and foolish to be allowed to vote. To her FRI supporters she was a martyr. She was given their equivalent FRI of a state funeral, with thousands in attendance. As her FRI gravestone in Morpeth reads; she was a woman of 'Deeds Not FRI Words'. FRI FRI One of the most mesmerising pieces of evidence is on film; FRI Davison's last moments played over and over again. Can that FRI tell us anything? FRI FRI Contributors include Dr Lorraine Sheriden, a Forensic FRI Psychologist; retired Detective Chief Inspector Jackie FRI Malton; Michael Church, the historian of the Derby; Maureen FRI Howes, author of Emily Wilding Davison, A Suffragette Family FRI Album: Dr Krista Cowan, Professor of History at the FRI University of Lincoln; the biographer Dr Diane Atkinson; the FRI historian Irene Cockroft and Elizabeth Crawford, author of FRI The Women's Suffrage Movement, A Reference Guide. FRI FRI 11:30 Party b01mwvkw (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Grundy FRI FRI Series 3 of the satirical comedy about a group of young FRI idealists trying to make waves with their new political FRI party. This week the group visit Phoebe and 'The Grundy' in FRI hospital. Written by Tom Basden. FRI FRI Simon .... Tom Basden FRI Duncan .... Tim Key FRI Jared .... Jonny Sweet FRI Mel .... Anna Crilly FRI Phoebe .... Katy Wix FRI Male Nurse .... Jot Davies FRI FRI Producer .... Julia McKenzie. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01s8vd1 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01s8vd3 (Listen) FRI Edward and Alison - Facing the Future FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation about what the future FRI holds for 22 year old Edward, who's been blind since birth. FRI Edward and his mother prove once again that it's surprising FRI what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01s7sfl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01s8vd5 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 In a Prince's Footsteps b01s8xvd (Listen) FRI Israel: Marsaba and Sea of Galilee FRI FRI In the fifth episode in this series, John remains in Israel, FRI travelling up to the Sea of Galilee and also across the FRI desert to the remote Marsaba monastery. FRI FRI Presenter: John McCarthy FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01s8s6q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01s8vd7 (Listen) FRI The Guest of St Peter's FRI FRI Not since the Middle Ages have two Popes been alive at the FRI same time. One reason why no modern Pope until Benedict has FRI ever resigned is the danger that a living ex-Pope would FRI become an alternative locus of power and influence within FRI the Vatican. FRI FRI The Guest of St Peter's imagines just such a scenario. FRI FRI Thomas Perret is supposed to be dead. Two years ago he FRI resigned as Pope Paul VII, citing old age and illness that FRI made him incapable of carrying out his duties. He has lived FRI ever since in almost total isolation in a small monastery FRI within the grounds of the Vatican City. It was widely FRI assumed that Perret wouldn't last long, but he shows no FRI signs of dying any time soon. FRI FRI Perret's successor, Pope Leo XIV, has a big problem. A FRI hardline conservative, he has excommunicated a group of FRI liberal American Catholic priests who were offering FRI contraception advice to their parishioners. The Americans FRI have defied him, and have rapidly attracted support from FRI progressive Catholics all over the western world. Leo's FRI authoritarian stance has backfired. Decades of FRI disillusionment with the Vatican's unwillingness to change FRI has boiled over, and Leo now faces the very real risk of a FRI split. At the very least, the absolute authority of the FRI papacy has been gravely undermined. It needs desperately to FRI be shored up. FRI FRI Cardinal Sastre, the Vatican secretary of state, has a plan. FRI He visits the old Pope in his monastery and appeals to him FRI to make an intervention. FRI As sides are taken and battle lines drawn, Sastre realises FRI that he has embarked in a dangerous course. The Vatican, FRI after all, is a house of cards, and his actions are in FRI danger of bringing the whole thing crashing down... FRI FRI Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Cardinal Luis Sastre: David Warner FRI Hannah Cox: Amaka Okafor FRI Pope Leo XIV: Anton Lesser FRI Cardinal Neal Cooke: Guy Paul FRI Cardinal John Ankrah: Jude Akuwudike FRI The old Pope Paul VII: Andrew Sachs FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Writer: Hugh Costello FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01s8vd9 (Listen) FRI The Food and Environment Research Agency, York FRI FRI Eric Robson is in the chair, with gardeners at The Food and FRI Environment Research Agency in York. On the panel are FRI Matthew Wilson, Pippa Greenwood and Alison Pringle. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 David Pownall at 75 b01s8vvq (Listen) FRI Concorde FRI FRI Episode 1 (of 3): FRI Concorde by David Pownall FRI Read by Bernard Cribbins FRI FRI The first of three specially commissioned stories marking FRI the 75th birthday of David Pownall, the distinguished FRI playwright, novelist and poet. FRI FRI Determined to win a race in his catamaran, an elderly sailor FRI weighs up a newly arrived visitor. FRI FRI Director: Martin Jenkins FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01s8vvs (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Presenter: Matthew Bannister FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01s8vvv (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01s8vvx (Listen) FRI Alison and Caitlin - Remembering Nana FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between Alison and her FRI daughter Caitlin, about their bittersweet memories of the FRI difficult woman who was Alison's mum and Caitlin's FRI grandmother, in the series that proves it's surprising what FRI you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01s8vvz (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s7sfn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01s8vw1 (Listen) FRI Series 80, Episode 5 FRI FRI Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI Producer: Sam Bryant FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01s8vw3 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Mary Cutler FRI Director ..... Peter Leslie Wild FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Grace ..... Jenny Johns FRI Jonathan ..... James Howard. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01s8vw5 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. FRI FRI Producer Stephen Hughes. FRI Editor: John Goudie FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01s8xvb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01s8vw7 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Keele University, Staffordshire, with Secretary of FRI State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin MP, Lord Digby Jones. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01s8vw9 (Listen) FRI John Gray presents a weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI Editor: Richard Knight FRI Producer: Sheila Cook FRI FRI 21:00 In a Prince's Footsteps - Omnibus b01s8vwf (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Presenter: John McCarthy FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01s7sfq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01s8vwh (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s8vwk (Listen) FRI This Is Where I Am, Episode 15 FRI FRI Abdi is preparing for Christmas Day and has no idea that FRI Debs has astonishing news for him. When she tells him, he FRI must decide whether it's a cause for celebration or further FRI devastating heartache. FRI FRI Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike. FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01s8cnz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01s8vwm (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with all the news from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01s8vwp (Listen) FRI Marsha and Cali - Keeping Mum? FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between two mothers who FRI have both been addicted to drugs and who now reflect on how FRI they will talk to their own children about drug abuse, FRI proving once again that it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
03 May, 2013
Radio 4 listings for 04/05/2013 - 10/05/2013
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