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SAT SATURDAY 05 APRIL 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03z3hdc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03yqwhb (Listen) SAT The Unexpected Professor, Episode 5 SAT SAT From Biggles to bee-keeping, John Carey threads together the SAT chapters of his life in books - taking in politics, social SAT history and the skirmishes of academia along the way. SAT SAT Vignettes of pre-war Hammersmith and Barnes accompany SAT affectionate accounts of Saturday jobs which he was expected SAT to do to compensate the household for staying on at school. SAT SAT The book is also partly a tribute to the grammar school SAT system. He skewers the snobbishness of Oxford in the 50s but SAT also gives us endearing portraits of the writers and SAT scholars he met and was taught by - including Graves, Larkin SAT and Heaney. SAT SAT Later in his life, his politics and his sometimes SAT controversial cultural criticism take centre stage, SAT producing a commentator who is not afraid to move between SAT genres and labels, always saying something refreshing and SAT frequently unexpected. SAT SAT Episode 5 SAT The perils of being outspoken in the national press SAT sometimes led to unhappy fractures. SAT SAT Read by Nicholas Farrell SAT Abridged and directed by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Nicholas Farrell SAT Director: Jill Waters SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Author: John Carey SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03z3hdf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03z3hdh (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03z3hdk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03z3hdm (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03zdmc9 (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most SAT Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and SAT Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03zdmcc (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03z3hdp (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03z3hdr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03zdc9x (Listen) SAT British Raj in the Peak District SAT SAT We might think we know the Peak District quite well, but in SAT reality it has many secrets and many stories still to tell, SAT such as its connection with British Imperial India. Helen SAT Mark travels with National Park Ranger Chamu Kuppuswamy as SAT they discover the Indian heritage tucked amongst the wild SAT hills of The Peak District National Park. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03zxb6w (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03z3hdt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03zxb6y (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03zxb70 (Listen) SAT Irma Kurtz SAT SAT Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir meet agony aunt, Irma Kurtz to SAT reflect on 40 years of dispensing advice, why being a SAT grandmother is so great and muse on the reasons she's ended SAT up without that special soulmate. JP Devlin talks to TV SAT presenter Kirsty Wark about inheriting a love of tapestry SAT from her mother, 10 year old Harry Hamer on missing his SAT grandparents when they moved abroad, veteran servicemen SAT Darren Swift, SWIFTY', soldier turned actor, comedian Jack SAT Whitehall shares his Inheritance Tracks. Stephen Armstrong SAT author and columnist tells us why Ibiza's always been a SAT party island and three listeners say 'thank you' for a past SAT kindness large or small. SAT SAT Producer: Maire Devine. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Irma Kurtz (2) SAT SAT MAIN GUEST :: IRMA KURTZ SAT SAT Irma Kurtz has been the agony aunt at Cosmopolitan since SAT 1975. She shares her stories of good and bad advice SAT alongside tales of her Jewish New Jersey childhood, post-war SAT adolescence and life as a single mother in the 1970s. SAT SAT EXTRAORDINARY STORY :: DARREN SWIFT SAT SAT In 1991 Lance Corporal Swift of the Royal Green Jackets was SAT on his third tour in Northern Ireland when he was involved SAT in an IRA terrorist attack. He lost both his legs aged just SAT 26. Not one to let this hold him back, ‘Swifty’ took up SAT extreme sports, went on to win gold at the British Sky SAT diving Championships, and is currently starring in the SAT Owen Sheers' SAT play ' SAT The Two Worlds of Charlie F SAT '. SAT SAT SAT SAT Photograph © Rankin SAT SAT EXTRAORDINARY STORY :: HARRY AND HIS GRANDPARENTS SAT 10-year-old Harry was struggling to cope when his SAT Grandparents to moved to France, so he set up a SAT blog SAT with his mum to help him fill the void they left. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Irma Kurtz SAT Interviewed Guest: Harry Hamer SAT Interviewed Guest: Darren Swift SAT Interviewed Guest: Jack Whitehall SAT Interviewed Guest: Stephen Armstrong SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT SAT 10:30 Zeitgeisters b03z089k (Listen) SAT Series 2, Marina Abramovic SAT SAT BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz returns for another series of SAT profiles of those entrepreneurs who through their designs SAT and cultural activities are defining the very spirit of our SAT age. SAT SAT He kicks of the series with the self-proclaimed "grandmother SAT of performance art", Marina Abramovic as she prepares for a SAT major new exhibition in London's Serpentine Gallery. She SAT recalls her early forays into performance art, including in SAT her native Yugoslavia, along the Great Wall of China, during SAT her record breaking residency at New York's Museum Of Modern SAT Art... and as a postie in London. SAT SAT And then over the next four weeks Will Gompertz will be SAT talking with the visionary masterminds who are plotting to SAT take architecture into a new future that also recognises the SAT past; who are using their own art as leverage in community SAT activism; and who are dragging mainstream theatre into the SAT 21st century. He'll be talking to Dutch architect Rem SAT Koolhaas, Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates and British SAT born impresario Sonia Friedman. SAT SAT These are not Turner Prize winners or the recipients of SAT grants from the Arts Council or the Lottery Fund. These are SAT the people whose aesthetic sense infect and influence our SAT daily lives. They know what we want, even when we do not. SAT They are the tastemakers that know what will work at the box SAT office and what will sell on the high street. Their impact SAT goes beyond mere commerce, it shapes contemporary culture. SAT They are the Zeitgeisters and it's about time we met them. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03zxhck (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03zxhcn (Listen) SAT Underneath the Mango Tree SAT SAT Despatches from foreign correspondents. Today: Tim Whewell SAT on what's caused the savage breakdown in law and order in SAT the Central African Republic. As Afghans go to the polls, SAT Lynne O'Donnell reflects on the daily threats they face from SAT the Taliban. Ritula Shah in Gujarat on how there's cake for SAT SOME Indians as their mammoth election approaches. Will SAT Grant meets migrants in Mexico preparing for a dangerous and SAT illegal desert trek into the United States and it's a SAT literary mystery that's baffled the brilliant for more than SAT a century - Simon Worrall's been to study the controversial SAT Voynich Manuscript. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03zxhcq (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance, with SAT Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b03zdm64 (Listen) SAT Series 83, Episode 8 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest SAT panellists including Kevin Day and Romesh Ranganathan. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Kevin Day SAT Panellist: Romesh Ranganathan SAT Producer: Lyndsay Fenner SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03z3hdw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03z3hdy (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03zdm6b (Listen) SAT Kirsty Williams AM, Peter Hain MP, Neil Hamilton, Jesse SAT Norman MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Drill Hall in Chepstow, Wales, with the leader of SAT the Welsh Liberal Democrats Kirsty Williams, UKIP Deputy SAT Chairman and Campaigns Director Neil Hamilton, Conservative SAT MP Jesse Norman and the former Welsh Secretary Peter Hain SAT MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03zxhcw (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b03zxhcy (Listen) SAT CS Forester's London Noir, Payment Deferred SAT SAT C. S. Forester's London Noir: SAT Payment Deferred SAT by C.S. Forester, dramatised by Paul Mendelson SAT SAT Most famous for his Hornblower series, C.S. Forester wrote SAT three seminal psychological thrillers at the start of his SAT career that took crime writing in a new direction, SAT portraying ordinary, desperate people committing monstrous SAT acts, and showing events spiralling terribly, chillingly, SAT out of control. SAT SAT In Payment Deferred set in 1926, William Marble, a bank SAT clerk living in south London with his wife Annie and their SAT two children, is desperately worried about money and is in SAT grave danger of losing his house and job. An unexpected SAT visit by a young relative with an inheritance tempts William SAT to commit a heinous crime. SAT SAT Music composed by Gary C. Newman SAT Clarinet: Samantha Baldwin SAT Producer/director: David Ian Neville. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Greg Wise SAT William Marble: Sam Dale SAT Annie Marble: Rebecca Lacey SAT Madame Collins: Teresa Gallagher SAT Jim Medland: Nick Underwood SAT Mr Saunders: David Thorpe SAT John: Sam Cummings SAT Winnie: Emily Dolbear SAT Director: David Neville SAT Producer: David Neville SAT Adaptor: Paul Mendelson SAT Author: CS Forester SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b03zb49y (Listen) SAT Series 18, Rhapsody in Blue SAT SAT "I'm convinced it's the best thing ever written and recorded SAT in the history of things written and recorded" - Moby. SAT SAT Rhapsody in Blue was first heard exactly 90 years ago when SAT it premiered on February 12, 1924, in New York's Aeolian SAT Hall. Through its use at the opening of Woody Allen's SAT 'Manhattan' it has become synonymous with the city that SAT inspired its creation. But for people around the world, SAT George Gershwin's "experiment in modern music" has become SAT imbued with the most personal of memories. SAT SAT LA based screen writer Charles Peacock reflects on how this SAT piece has become entwined with his life and how, on an SAT evening at the Hollywood Bowl this music "healed him". When SAT Adela Galasiu was growing up in communist Romania, Rhapsody SAT in Blue represented "life itself, as seen through the eyes SAT of an optimist". For world speed champion Gina Campbell, the SAT opening of that piece will forever remind her of the roar of SAT the Bluebird's ignition as it flew through the "glass like SAT stillness of the water" and brings back the memories of her SAT father, the legendary Donald Campbell - it was played at his SAT funeral when he was finally laid to rest decades after his SAT fatal record attempt on Coniston Lake. SAT SAT Featuring interviews with Professor of Music Howard Pollock SAT and musician Moby. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03zxhd2 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Courtney Love; Female friendships SAT SAT Courtney Love is known for the music she made with her band SAT Hole and for her solo career as a musician and actress. And SAT she's also known as the widow of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. It's SAT 20 years now since his suicide and Courtney discusses her SAT life, music and career, and the role she'll play when SAT Nirvana are inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. SAT SAT Actress Michelle Collins on her wide and varied career and SAT the 'Rover's Fear' phenomenon. SAT SAT Was Margaret Thatcher a political game changer? Conservative SAT MP Sarah Wollaston and Labour activist and commentator Emma SAT Burnell consider who the female game changers in British SAT politics are today? SAT SAT It's not uncommon for one feminist to tell another to 'check SAT her privilege' - a reminder that some women face other forms SAT of discrimination including racism. KimberlĂ© Crenshaw, the SAT American academic who coined the term 'intersectionality' SAT back in 1989 to describe the discrimination that Black women SAT face, explains why it's still relevant today. SAT SAT Also a genuine pioneer, the American electronic composer and SAT accordionist Pauline Oliveros. SAT SAT And does society undervalue female friendship? Writer Dawn SAT O'Porter and Baroness Shirley Williams explore the important SAT role friendship plays in a woman's life. SAT SAT Editor Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Courtney Love SAT SAT Courtney Love is back with a new single and will be touring SAT Britain next month. Since her band, Hole first came to fame SAT in the early 1990’s, Courtney Love has been a controversial SAT and striking figure. She’s known, of course, as the widow of SAT Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. But as she approaches 50, has the SAT former wild child grown up? She talks to Jane about her SAT life, her music and what's next. SAT SAT SAT SAT Courtney Love’s UK tour opens on May 11th at the Shepherds SAT Bush Empire and continues to May 20th. This will be her SAT first British tour since 2010. SAT SAT Testament of Friendship SAT When Shirley Williams’s mother Vera Britten wrote SAT Testament of Friendship SAT about her close relationship with the author Winifred SAT Holtby, she felt that female friendship had been “mocked, SAT belittled and falsely interpreted.” So, seventy-five years SAT on, what value does society place on female friendship? And SAT how is this demonstrated through popular culture? Writer SAT Dawn O’Porter writes books on friendship for young adults SAT and joins Shirley and Jenni to discuss Britten describes as SAT a “noble relationship which, far from impoverishing, SAT actually enhances the love of a girl for her lover, of a SAT wife for her husband, of a mother for her children.” SAT SAT Michelle Collins SAT Michelle joins Jane to talk about starring in two of the SAT UK’s most famous soaps and growing up in working-class SAT London with her young single mother in the 60s and 70s. SAT Michelle’s path towards acting success has included being a SAT punk and starting out as a backing singer. As a single SAT mother, Michelle says she’s been accused of being a man SAT eater and having a bad northern accent, but despite such SAT criticism, she explains how she carved out a successful SAT career in such a competitive industry and how she and her 18 SAT year old daughter are committed feminists. SAT SAT Was Britain's only female PM, Margaret Thatcher a political SAT Game Changer? SAT As Britain’s only female Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher SAT who died nearly a year ago, achieved a record that looks SAT unlikely to be beaten in the near future. But was she a SAT political game changer? Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston and SAT Labour activist and commentator Emma Burnell join Jane SAT Garvey to talk about how far Margaret Thatcher altered the SAT political landscape. With the reveal of SAT Woman’s Hour’s Power List 2014 SAT just a week away, they’ll also discuss who’s doing what to SAT game change politics today, not just to get more women SAT elected but who’s helping foster a political culture that SAT people really want to engage with. SAT SAT Why Feminism can't ignore race? SAT SAT Professor Kimberle Crenshaw is the woman who explained why SAT feminism can’t ignore race. In 1989 she coined the term SAT intersectionality to explain how a woman can experience SAT discrimination because of her race as well as her gender. SAT Many like the way it makes feminism acknowledge the pressing SAT experiences of those outside the white middle class, while SAT others criticise the approach for dividing women. Jenni SAT talks to Kimberle Crenshaw about intersectionality and the SAT how Black women are facing multiple inequalities in the US SAT today. SAT African American Policy Forum SAT SAT Pauline Oliveros SAT SAT Pauline Oliveros is an American improvisor, accordionist and SAT composer who is considered a pioneer of electronic classical SAT music in 20th century America. At 81 years old, her career SAT spans some fifty years of boundary breaking music-making, SAT and she has been the recipient of numerous awards. This SAT evening she will perform a real-time improvised performance SAT linking musicians in Stanford (California), Troy (New York) SAT and Montreal. This will be the first performance of this SAT kind in the UK at the Birmingham Conservatoire. SAT SAT The performance forms part of SAT Frontiers SAT : Extraordinary Music from Downtown New York & Birmingham SAT a major festival of music presented by Birmingham SAT Conservatoire and Third Ear. SAT SAT Phoning Home SAT Research carried out by telecommunications operator SAT TalkTalk, recently claimed the most common time to call home SAT is Monday evening at 7pm and the average natter lasts twenty SAT two minutes. It’s bound to vary hugely between individual SAT families and with the rise of social media, the phone is SAT now just one way to maintain contact. Is phoning home still SAT the institution it once was? Actress, Maureen Lipman, who SAT played ‘Beattie’ in the British Telecom TV ads, and SAT Sathnam Sanghera, author of ‘Marriage Material join Jenni to SAT discuss. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Courtney Love SAT Interviewed Guest: Michelle Collins SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Wollaston SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Burnell SAT Interviewed Guest: Kimberle Crenshaw SAT Interviewed Guest: Pauline Oliveros SAT Interviewed Guest: Dawn O'Porter SAT Interviewed Guest: Shirley Williams SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03zxhd5 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b03zdmcc (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03z3hf0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03z3hf2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03z3hf4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03zxkpl (Listen) SAT Jo Whiley, Paul McGann, Scarlet Page, Tony Law, Danny SAT Wallace, Eyes for Gertrude, Colin MacLeod SAT SAT Star of Withnail and I, Paul McGann talks to Clive about SAT starring in a searing new version of Chekhov's masterpiece, SAT 'Three Sisters', reworked for the 21st century by Anya SAT Reiss. SAT SAT Clive salutes the greatest guitar heroes with music SAT photographer Scarlet Page, daughter of Jimmy, whose new SAT exhibition 'Resonators' features Sir Paul McCartney, Slash, SAT Noel Gallagher, Brian May and Paul Weller as her subjects. SAT SAT Danny Wallace talks Cigarettes & Alcohol with broadcaster Jo SAT Whiley, who's reuniting with Steve Lamacq when their Evening SAT Session returns to celebrate 20 years since the emergence of SAT the Britpop scene. SAT SAT Following sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and SAT London's Soho Theatre, multi award-winning comedian Tony Law SAT chats to Clive about feeling small and alone in a vast SAT world, the subject of his critically acclaimed show SAT 'Nonsense Overdrive.' SAT SAT With music from Eyes for Gertrude, who perform 'Rag and SAT Bone' from their album 'Residential Bliss.' And from Colin SAT MacLeod, who performs 'California' from 'Anchor EP.' SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Jo Whiley, Paul McGann, Scarlet Page, SAT Tony Law, Danny Wallace, Eyes for Gertrude, Colin MacLeod SAT (2) SAT SAT Paul McGann SAT ‘Three Sisters’ is at Southwark Playhouse, London until SAT Saturday 3rd May. SAT SAT Scarlet Page SAT ‘Resonators’ is at London’s Royal Albert Hall until 24th SAT April. It can be seen during concerts or on selected dates. SAT Check Scarlet’s website for details. SAT SAT Jo Whiley SAT ‘Britpop at the BBC’ is a selection of programmes on BBC 6 SAT Music, Radio 2 and BBC Four from Sunday 6th April to Friday SAT 11th April. SAT SAT Tony Law SAT ‘Nonsense Overdrive’ is at Udderbelly Festival, Southbank SAT from Tuesday 15th to Saturday 19th April. SAT SAT Eyes For Gertrude SAT ‘Residential Bliss’ is available in August. SAT Eyes For Gertrude are playing at Stag and Hounds Festival, SAT Bristol on 18th, Trinity Centre, Bristol on 27th April and SAT Fishguard Folk Festival, Pembrokeshire on 23rd May. Check SAT their website for further tour dates. SAT SAT SAT Colin MacLeod SAT ‘Anchor EP’ is available now on Middle of Nowhere SAT Recordings. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03zxkpn (Listen) SAT Sir Alan Ayckbourn SAT SAT Sir Alan Ayckbourn is about to turn 75 years old and one of SAT his best-known plays is currently running at the National SAT Theatre in London. Known for his acerbic social observation SAT and exploration of human relationships, his works are as SAT thought provoking as they are funny. But who is the man SAT behind them? Notoriously reticent, he often prefers his SAT written words to speak for him. In this edition of Profile, SAT Becky Milligan speaks to Sir Alan's close friends and family SAT to find out what drives him, and why. SAT Alan Ayckbourn - Man of the Moment SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03zxkpq (Listen) SAT Noah, Olden Days, Kingston 14, emerging artists at Saatchi SAT SAT Noah is a film of biblical proportions. It's directed by SAT Darren Aronofsky and stars Russell Crowe in the title role, SAT and cost roughly $125m to make. The ambition is impressive, SAT but the execution has left some film critics and religious SAT groups underwhelmed. Is the film heaven-sent or horrible? SAT SAT Kamila Shamsie is a frequent contributor to Saturday Review, SAT her new novel " A God In Every Stone" is set in SAT pre-Partition India telling the story of a country taking SAT part in the First World War while struggling with its own SAT identity. What will our searingly honest reviewers make of SAT it? SAT SAT Drum and Bass DJ and graffiti artist Goldie is a man of many SAT talents, impressing the judges in a TV reality show with his SAT instinctive orchestral conducting skills, despite being SAT unable to read music. Now he's making his stage debut in SAT Kingston 14 a play about Jamaican gangsters by Roy Williams, SAT at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Will he convince our SAT critics that he can act? SAT SAT In Olden Days, Ian Hislop considers the British delight in SAT looking back and invoking the past and tradition to validate SAT the present. It's a three part series for BBC2 which SAT reflects his personal fascination with Britain, but will it SAT fascinate the general viewing public? SAT SAT London's Saatchi Gallery has an exhibition highlighting the SAT work of emerging young talent, called Continental Shift. SAT It's a compact display of a few artists, but is it any more SAT than a shop window for Saatchi's online art sales venture? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Andreas Whittam Smith, Catherine SAT Bott and Bidisha. SAT SAT Kingston 14 SAT Written by Roy Williams, SAT Kingston 14 SAT is at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London, until 26 SAT April 2014. Main Image Photo Credit: Robert Day. SAT SAT Noah SAT Directed by Darren Aronofsky, SAT Noah SAT is in UK cinemas from Friday 4 April 2014, certificate 12A. SAT SAT A God In Every Stone SAT A God In Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie is published by SAT Bloomsbury on 10 April 2014. SAT SAT Ian Hislop's Olden Days SAT A three part series, SAT Ian Hislop's Olden Days SAT begins on Wednesday 9 April 2014, on BBC Two, 9pm. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Andreas Whittam Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Catherine Bott SAT Interviewed Guest: Bidisha SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03zxkps (Listen) SAT Listen without Mother SAT SAT Fi Glover gets stuck in to generations of mothers in the SAT radio archive - Ambridge's Jennifer Aldridge and her SAT shockingly illegitimate baby, Kim Cotton the first official SAT surrogate mother, Nicola Horlick the billionaire hedge fund SAT supermum, and Lesley Brown the UK's first test tube mum. Fi SAT also consults motherhood experts like Penelope Leach, Dr SAT Miriam Stoppard and Gina Ford. SAT SAT This personal journey into the BBC archives critically SAT tracks the changing concept and practice of motherhood over SAT the last five decades. We hear how tone and advice have SAT changed over the years and how - eventually - mothers SAT learned to laugh at themselves and not be brow-beaten. SAT SAT The divine source, the domestic goddess, the earth mother, SAT the do-it-all superwoman, the yummy, slummy, chummy and SAT dummy mummy. And the mother of all mother images - the SAT beautiful, servile, immaculate Virgin Mary. They've all got SAT a lot to answer for. Each new generation brings with it a SAT new version of the Mother. And, over the decades, even the SAT stark biological facts have changed with surrogacy and IVF. SAT We've seen the rise and acceptance of single motherhood and SAT gay motherhood. Perhaps the single, overriding maternal SAT emotion - guilt - is the one thing that each defining epoch SAT never solves. SAT SAT The advent of Mumsnet in 2000 brought with it the benefit of SAT a kind of plurality. You could share without being SAT identified or judged. Or could you? SAT SAT With contributions from Dr Miriam Stoppard, Gillian SAT Reynolds, Irma Kurtz and Justine Roberts. SAT SAT Produced by Sarah Cuddon SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03xtvdp (Listen) SAT The Divine Comedy, Inferno SAT SAT Blake Ritson, David Warner and John Hurt star in Stephen SAT Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - the story of SAT one man's incredible journey through Hell, Purgatory and SAT Paradise. SAT SAT Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita SAT mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, SAT chĂ© la diritta via era smarrita. SAT SAT In Episode 1: Inferno, the thirty-five year old Dante (Blake SAT Ritson) finds himself in the middle of a dark wood, in SAT extreme personal and spiritual crisis. But hope of rescue SAT appears in the form of the venerable poet Virgil (David SAT Warner), now a shade himself, who offers to lead Dante on an SAT odyssey through the afterlife, that begins in the terrifying SAT depths of Hell. SAT SAT Many years later, the older Dante (John Hurt), still in SAT enforced exile from his beloved Florence, attempts to finish SAT his great poem and reflects on the events that have led him SAT to its writing. SAT SAT All other parts are played by members of the company SAT SAT The Divine Comedy is dramatised by Stephen Wyatt SAT SAT Sound design is by Cal Knightley SAT SAT Directed by Emma Harding and Marc Beeby. SAT Making Inferno SAT SAT Credits SAT Dante the Poet: Blake Ritson SAT Older Dante: John Hurt SAT Virgil: David Warner SAT Ulysses: Sam Dale SAT Giant: Sam Dale SAT Charon: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Pope Nicholas III: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Francesca da Rimini: Priyanga Burford SAT Count Ugolino: David Cann SAT Tree: Clive Hayward SAT Adam: Clive Hayward SAT Vanni Fucci: Steve Toussaint SAT Angel: Cassie Layton SAT Director: Emma Harding SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Adaptor: Stephen Wyatt SAT Author: Dante Alighieri SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03z3hf6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Would That Work Here? b03zd3jc (Listen) SAT Estonian E-Democracy SAT SAT In a new series of thought-provoking debates, Claire SAT Bolderson looks at something another country does well, or SAT differently, and asks whether it could work here. SAT SAT The last few decades have seen declining participation in SAT the electoral process, particularly among the younger SAT generation. Only 44% of 18-24 year-olds voted in 2010 SAT compared with 76% of over 65s, and the Hansard Society is SAT predicting it could be as low as 12% in the next election. SAT Could adopting an Estonian style e-democracy re-engage the SAT population? SAT SAT Estonia is credited with being the world's leading SAT e-democracy, having embraced a determined policy of SAT digitalisation, including electronic internet voting, as SAT part of the push to make itself competitive in the 21st SAT Century. The UK political system is positively antiquarian SAT by comparison. What can the UK learn from the Estonian SAT experience? SAT SAT The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, recently SAT suggested the UK might follow suit, but what would be the SAT advantages and disadvantages - and how much would it cost? SAT Is our current system fit for purpose, or is it out of touch SAT with the way we live now, already doing our shopping, SAT banking, betting and much else online? Would digitalisation SAT re-engage the young, or merely serve the established SAT political elite? SAT SAT The Estonian system relies on an ID card system. Would that SAT be a barrier to our adoption of something similar? Could SAT technology liberate us from a 19th Century political rut, or SAT would we lay ourselves open to 21st Century problems of SAT technology - fraud, insecurity and governmental control? SAT SAT Produced by Jennie Walmsley and Ruth Evans SAT A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b03z9gtg (Listen) SAT (17/17) SAT The four competitors who have come through heats and SAT semi-finals unscathed now face each other in the 2014 Final SAT - with the 61st annual Brain of Britain title at stake. SAT SAT Russell Davies asks the questions in what promises to be a SAT nail-biting contest between four of the brightest and most SAT determined quizzing minds in Britain. As usual the questions SAT fall entirely at random, and the only rule is that a SAT contestant's turn is over once he or she has answered five SAT correctly in a row. SAT SAT There's also the usual interval in which the Brains pool SAT their knowledge to tackle a pair of questions as a team SAT rather than as rivals - and, by tradition, the questions for SAT the Final have been set by the reigning Brain of Britain SAT champion. SAT SAT The programme comes from the BBC Radio Theatre in London. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THE 2014 FINALISTS ARE SAT SAT AZEEZ FESHITAN, self-employed, from Willesden in London; SAT SAT MARK GRANT, an analyst from Bromley; SAT SAT DAG GRIFFITHS, a retired teacher from Ormskirk; SAT SAT DAVID HESP, a semi-retired college lecturer from Blackpool. SAT SAT 23:30 Ask Me - The Poetry of William Stafford b03z3lbr (Listen) SAT William Stafford's achievement is extraordinary. He wrote SAT more than 20,000 poems, of which more than 4,000 have been SAT published, in more than 80 books and 2,000 periodicals. But SAT it is the quality of his work that distinguishes him. SAT Stafford was the poetry consultant to the Library of SAT Congress - the post that became the Poet Laureate of the SAT United States, for years he was Oregon's Laureate and he won SAT the National Book Award. SAT SAT Stafford was born in Kansas one hundred years ago. He grew SAT up during the Depression and, a conscientious objector, SAT spent the Second World War in camps, working in forestry. SAT Too exhausted after work he took to rising early to write, SAT and he continued this practice of daily writing until his SAT death in 1993. For Stafford it was the act of writing that SAT mattered most. Writers who got stuck he advised to, "Lower SAT your standards - and carry on." SAT SAT His poems are mostly short and accessible, but acquire great SAT depth. They can be tough, too. He was sensitive to SAT landscape, people, animals, nature and history. So it is not SAT surprising that Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were both SAT admirers. SAT SAT The poet Katrina Porteous, who also writes daily, visits to SAT Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where for SAT decades Stafford taught, wrote and developed his ideas. SAT There she meets his son, Kim, who takes her to places that SAT were important to him. She visits the huge William Stafford SAT Archive, hears recordings of his readings, meets people who SAT knew him, and students and poets he continues to influence - SAT Mary Szybist, a recent winner of the National Book Award, SAT and the highly praised young poet Matthew Dickman. And she SAT goes out into the wilderness of Oregon to investigate and SAT reflect on the life, outlook and work of this great American SAT poet. SAT SAT Producer: Julian May. SAT SAT William Stafford SAT SAT Katrina Porteous and Kim Stafford SAT Katrina Porteous interviewing William Stafford’s son, Kim, SAT in the Special Collections Room of the library at Lewis and SAT Clark College, where his father taught for many years and SAT where his archive is kept SAT SAT The poet Matthew Dickman, Katrina Porteous, and Grace and SAT Paul Merchant SAT SAT SAT SAT The cover of William Stafford's book ASK ME. A hundred of SAT his poems to mark his centenary SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 06 APRIL 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03zqxrx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Murals b01p7hdj (Listen) SUN Pomegranate SUN SUN These three stories by Morven Crumlish, commissioned SUN specially for Radio 4, are inspired by the work of the SUN artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. SUN SUN Traquair (1852-1936) was born in County Dublin and, in the SUN 1870s, moved to Edinburgh where she would later become a SUN prominent figure in the Scottish Arts and Crafts movement. SUN SUN Probably her best-known works are the vibrantly-coloured SUN murals in what was formerly the Catholic Apostolic Church in SUN Broughton Street, Edinburgh which Traquair took eight years SUN to complete (1893-1901). When the church fell out of SUN ecclesiastical use, the murals suffered badly through SUN neglect but, following the formation of the Mansfield SUN Traquair Trust, a major restoration was undertaken, SUN completed in 2005. SUN SUN While art is at the core of all three fictions, Murals also SUN mirrors the evolution of a similar building: from church, to SUN brickyard, to present-day use for visitors and as a venue SUN for events. SUN SUN 1/3. Pomegranate SUN SUN "With such an enormous task sometimes artistry had to be SUN abandoned in favour of completion." At the top of her SUN ladder, painting her mural, an artist is adding detail to SUN the robes of a priest: "a pomegranate and a bell. And a SUN pomegranate and a bell ..." SUN SUN Morven Crumlish's stories have been broadcast widely, and SUN she also contributes to the Guardian. Her work has featured SUN in four previous Sweet Talk productions for BBC Radio 4, SUN including Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs - five of her stories - SUN in 2008; and most recently 'Harold Lloyd Is Not The Man Of SUN My Dreams' (Three For My Baby, 2011). SUN SUN Morven lives in Edinburgh. 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SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03zxmyc (Listen) SUN Transience SUN SUN How should we deal with the idea of transience - in our SUN daily lives and in the natural world around us? SUN SUN Should the fact that everything and everybody we hold dear SUN (including ourselves) is impermanent and passing worry us? SUN Or should we ignore the idea of transience and get along SUN without considering the constant turmoil of change in both SUN the mundane world of the everyday and in the wider cosmos? SUN SUN Samira Ahmed explores the role of transience in our lives. SUN She looks at the various ways in which transience pops up SUN beyond the obvious cycles of birth, death and short-lived SUN lives. She considers the understanding of science and SUN examines the transience of memory and its play within the SUN rapidly achieved stages of life. SUN SUN Samira also looks at the effects of transience on the world SUN we have constructed so solidly around us - describing the SUN transience of a city she has got to know well, Berlin, as it SUN undergoes yet another transformation. SUN SUN And how central is an appreciation of transience to any SUN spiritual understanding? She looks at both the Christian and SUN Hindu traditions to see how they express ideas of SUN impermanence. With music, poetry, and extracts from key SUN thinkers on the subject throughout history, she considers SUN how we might best cope with this potentially distressing SUN reality. SUN SUN Produced by Anthony Denselow SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b03zxmyf (Listen) SUN Food and Farming Awards: Finalist Steven Jack SUN SUN Steven Jack farms on the fertile, free-draining soils along SUN the fringes of the Moray Firth, near Inverness. Specialising SUN in organic carrots and potatoes, he has established SUN successful links with major retailers and puts great SUN emphasis on freshness, getting his crop the short distance SUN from field to packhouse in as short a time as possible. SUN Travelling on a Nuffield scholarship, he has learnt from SUN other countries, such as the US, that innovation is key to SUN continuing success, and is striving to see the carrot, in SUN all its many colours and varieties, taken as the first SUN choice of snack by parents who otherwise find themselves SUN bombarded by less healthy options for their families. SUN Adam Henson and Mike Gooding, the judges of the Outstanding SUN Farmer of the Year category in the BBC Food and Farming SUN Awards, also hear about Steven's work with local schools, SUN encouraging young children to recognise what they see SUN growing in the fields around their homes and to plant - and SUN eat - their own vegetables. 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SUN SUN Mental Health Foundation SUN The Mental Health Foundation SUN helps everyone live mentally healthier lives. They carry out SUN research, develop and pilot practical solutions and promote SUN ways in which everyone can look after their own mental SUN health and wellbeing. They campaign for mental health SUN service improvements and to reduce the stigma and SUN discrimination associated with mental health. SUN SUN SUN Lily Horley SUN SUN When Lily was 19 she was living in a homeless hostel. She SUN had Bipolar Disorder. She had no hope and attempted to take SUN her own life. She then went on a course run by the Mental SUN Health Foundation for people with long term mental health SUN conditions. She is now 23, is happy, is studying Psychology SUN and is a mother. She says; “My life changed dramatically SUN because of the course - it was amazing”. SUN SUN SUN SUN Mental Health Foundation Self-Management courses SUN SUN Lily completed a ‘Self-Management’ course run by the Mental SUN Health Foundation. The course was developed through SUN extensive research and practical experience to help people SUN take control of their mental health and therefore their SUN lives. The course focuses on setting goals, reconnecting SUN with life, friends, and family and establishing hope, a SUN lifestyle and an action plan, for a fulfilling future. SUN SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03zqxsf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03zqxsh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03zxmym (Listen) SUN Inside Fear SUN SUN 'Inside fear' SUN Live from John Keble Church, Mill Hill, London SUN SUN In the fifth of Radio 4's series 'Inside Lent', Canon Chris SUN Chivers and the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, a chaplain to the SUN Queen and the Speaker of the House of Commons, explore how SUN fear and faith interact. SUN With John Keble Church Choir and the Anselm Singers SUN Music director: John Barnard SUN Organist: Martyn Noble SUN Producer: Simon Vivian SUN SUN Through programmes on Radio 4, local radio and online SUN resources for individuals and groups, BBC Religion & Ethics' SUN series 'Inside Lent', devised by Bishop Stephen Oliver, SUN invites listeners to join a journey of discovery through SUN this Christian season by reflecting on the nature of a SUN number of very human feelings. bbc.co.uk/religion SUN SUN Lent 5: Inside fear (6th April) SUN Lent 6: Inside hope (13th April) SUN Easter Day - Inside joy (20th April). SUN SUN John Keble Church, Mill Hill SUN SUN Please note: SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement: SUN SUN BBC Radio 4. It’s ten past eight and time for Sunday SUN Worship. The fifth service in our Lent series comes from SUN John Keble Church, Mill Hill in north London and is SUN introduced by the Vicar – Canon Chris Chivers. It begins SUN with the spiritual: ‘I want Jesus to walk with me’. SUN SUN Choir: I want Jesus to walk with me SUN SUN CC: SUN SUN Good morning and welcome to John Keble Church in Mill Hill SUN SUN where I'm joined by Rose Hudson-Wilkin who is a chaplain to SUN the Queen, chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons SUN and a vicar in Dalston and Haggerston in London's east end. SUN SUN RHW: SUN SUN Today is the start of Passiontide, when the Church begins to SUN move closer with Jesus towards Jerusalem and walk with him SUN the lonely, fearful road that leads to his cross and on to SUN an empty tomb. SUN SUN It's a season that invites us to get inside fear; the fear SUN that Jesus experienced at its most acute. A fear which led SUN him to question his father as loving and good. A fear which SUN saw him cry out in desperation from the cross, My God, my SUN God why have you abandoned me? SUN SUN But the flip side of this most agonised of questions is the SUN truth that, even as it was being expressed, all fear was SUN being overcome and conquered for each of us. That's what the SUN mystery of this one man's death and resurrection does for SUN the whole of humanity. SUN SUN CC: SUN SUN ‘ SUN SUN I want Jesus to walk with me’, the slaves used to sing at SUN moments when their daily lot of ritual humiliation and SUN suffering was at its worst. ‘In my trials, Lord’, their SUN voices soared, ‘when I'm in trouble, Lord, walk with me’. SUN They cried this with an intensity we can still feel in the SUN music. But as we all cry out to Jesus in our moments of SUN fear, so Passiontide teaches us that we overcome and conquer SUN fear when we survey the wondrous cross on which the prince SUN of glory died. SUN SUN Hymn: When I survey SUN SUN SUN SUN RHW: SUN SUN Love so amazing, so divine, teach us that as we accompany SUN you in your fearful suffering, so our fears and concerns, SUN our hopes and expectations find their ultimate meaning and SUN healing. SUN ALL: Amen. SUN SUN CC: SUN SUN A five year old boy stands horror-struck. He's been ushered SUN into his parent's bedroom. He clasps his four year old SUN sister's hands as tightly as he SUN SUN ’s ever clasped them. The tall figure of their parish SUN priest, Father Bennell, gently leans over the bed saying SUN words they know from the Bible and praying gently. No one SUN has explained anything to them. But they sense things aren't SUN good. They can feel it in the air. Their young mother’s been SUN ill for weeks, coughing and wheezing, entering in and out of SUN consciousness. They can see that she’s very weak. She tries SUN to say something to them. But they can't understand her SUN words except that she keeps mentioning their father. She SUN reaches out to them and then sinks into the pillow through SUN the effort of holding their hands. They feel the blood drain SUN from their faces. They sense that life is about to change. SUN Everything is being transformed around them. They don't know SUN how but they know it's happening. They’ve never experienced SUN fear like it. As they leave the bedroom, they hear Father SUN Bennell say some words that people have used at such moments SUN down the centuries. SUN SUN Reading: SUN SUN Psalm 23 SUN SUN 1 The Lord is my shepherd: SUN SUN therefore can I lack nothing. SUN SUN 2 He will make me lie down in green pastures: SUN SUN and lead me beside still waters. SUN SUN 3 He will refresh my soul: SUN SUN and guide me in right pathways for his name's sake. SUN SUN 4 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, SUN SUN I will fear no evil: SUN SUN for you are with me, your rod and your staff comfort me. SUN SUN 5 You spread a table before me SUN SUN in the face of those who trouble me: SUN SUN you have anointed my head with oil, SUN SUN and my cup shall be full. SUN SUN 6 Surely your goodness and loving-kindness SUN SUN will follow me all the days of my life: SUN SUN and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. SUN SUN SUN SUN CC: SUN SUN Standing, holding my sister's hand as we realised our 39 SUN year old mother was dying was undoubtedly the experience of SUN fear that most stands out from my childhood. As it happens, SUN she didn't die of the pneumonia and pleurisy for which she SUN couldn't receive penicillin. Miraculously, she lived and is SUN still alive over forty years later. But what got my sister SUN and I through our part in that fearful experience for such SUN young children however was the presence of our parish priest SUN Father Bennell. Was it the softness of his voice, the gentle SUN touch of his hand on our shoulders, the connection he made SUN for us with the reassuring presence of church? I'm sure it SUN was something of all three. But I realise all these years SUN later that it was also the rhythm of text and story that he SUN used. It was the way, as he recited a psalm - which down the SUN years has provided context and comfort for so many - and SUN followed this with the Lord's Prayer - that his presence SUN with us actually embodied the presence of God. SUN SUN RHW: SUN SUN It's surely significant that at the moment when Jesus was at SUN his most fearful - praying in the Garden of Gethsemane the SUN night before his death that this cup of suffering be taken SUN from him - just as his cry from the cross echoes a verse of SUN the psalms, so his prayer uses a snatch of that prayer he SUN taught us all to say - not my will but your will be done. SUN Let's remind ourselves now of that moment, recorded in SUN Luke's Gospel, chapter 22: SUN SUN Reading: SUN SUN Jesus came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of SUN Olives; and the disciples followed him. When he reached the SUN place, he said to them, SUN SUN ‘Pray that you may not come into the time of trial.’ Then he SUN withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and SUN prayed, ‘Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from SUN me; yet, not my will but yours be done.’ Then an angel from SUN heaven appeared to him and gave him strength. In his anguish SUN he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great SUN drops of blood falling down on the ground. When he got up SUN from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them SUN sleeping because of grief, and he said to them, ‘Why are you SUN sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not come into the SUN time of trial.’ SUN SUN (Luke 22: 39-46) SUN SUN Hymn: When you prayed beneath the trees SUN SUN RHW: When Jesus prayed beneath the trees he faced the SUN terrible fear of rejection. Not simply the fear of rejection SUN by his friends - a rejection that began as they deserted him SUN while he prayed - but the ultimate fear of rejection that SUN was made real the next day on the cross when, sensing that SUN everything was lost, he cried out, "My God, my God, why have SUN you abandoned me?" It's perhaps this twin fear of rejection SUN that's the hardest to deal with as a human being. SUN SUN Like most priests, throughout my ministry I SUN SUN ’ve always made every effort to visit the elderly of the SUN parish - those who are no longer able to attend church, for SUN example, because they’ve grown frail. One particular couple SUN I remember were now apart from each other because one of SUN them had needs that couldn’t be met at home. Then one day I SUN was told that one of them had died. I remember being SUN surprised that no one had contacted me about the death. So I SUN took the initiative and visited the surviving spouse. "Yes" SUN he said, " she’s died." He was clearly at a loss, I held his SUN hands, "Why didn’t you let me know?" I enquired. "What about SUN the arrangements for the funeral?" He told me that his SUN children were organising it and that they had told him I SUN couldn't do the funeral. Allegedly the Funeral Directors had SUN said the deceased didn't live in the parish so I couldn't do SUN it. Troubled by this, because I had been giving pastoral SUN care to them both, the next morning I went to see the SUN funeral directors. They told me, off the record, that the SUN family didn't want me to officiate. This would not be the SUN last time I would hear such words of rejection. SUN SUN Each time this happens it forces me to look at myself, to SUN ask what is wrong with me; the hurt and the pain that one SUN feels is difficult to get through. But in the silence of SUN prayer, I'm reminded that I am created in the image of God. SUN This gives me renewed courage to face the world, and to SUN realise that I do not need to be ashamed, I do not need to SUN lock myself away, I do not need to be fearful of the world SUN around me. I am an heir of the King of love. The pain of SUN fear need not be embraced because this is their story not SUN mine. Their rejection of me is about them not me. SUN SUN In recent years, I was again to find myself going through a SUN challenging period of my life; wrestling once more with SUN rejection, only this time in a very public way. As I SUN struggled with this, I received a letter from the head of SUN the Church Army, and in that letter there was a quote. But SUN it was no ordinary quote. It leapt at me from the page and SUN spoke to me. SUN SUN "An eagle is not disturbed by the traffic, it rises above SUN it, a whale is not disturbed by the hurricane, it dives SUN deeper." I cannot tell you anything else that was said in SUN that letter, because that just spoke to me so immediately. SUN SUN This was a seminal moment for me. God had spoken to me. I SUN was going to rise above and dive deeper. I would no longer SUN be paralysed by fear. God had given me wings to fly and SUN courage to dive deeper (even for a non-swimmer like me)! SUN SUN And that metaphor of diving reminds me of the service of SUN baptism, the initiation rite into the Christian Church. SUN There we speak of being buried with Christ and rising to new SUN life with him. Our fears find echo in the story of the SUN Passion of our Lord SUN SUN – on which we focus special attention in these coming weeks. SUN What a difference it would make if we all could recognise SUN that, in our experience of fear, we’re in effect being SUN buried with Christ in his baptism and ultimately in his SUN death. This was indeed the Psalmist's experience : ‘Yea SUN though I walk through the valley of the Shadow of death.’ In SUN the depths of fear, we’re often left feeling incapacitated, SUN helpless and sometimes without hope. The Psalmist recognised SUN however, that fear need not be the only story. ‘As long as SUN you are with me, Lord’, the Psalmist continues, ‘I will not SUN be afraid.’ So we dive deeper into the unknown with our SUN hands firmly clasping the hand of God, trusting that all SUN will be well. Christ in his death conquers all our fears and SUN fills us with hope. And it’s in that hope that we rise above SUN those deep fears, exposing them, and thus preventing them SUN from keeping us bound. SUN SUN CC: SUN SUN There's a glorious moment in the liturgy of Easter when the SUN base of the lit paschal candle is plunged into the waters of SUN baptism in the font. And then that single flickering flame SUN that has given light to the candles of all the worshippers SUN gathered to hear the story of human salvation rises high SUN above everyone. In baptism we dive deep into those waters of SUN Christ's death with all our fears and failings so as to rise SUN with him in his risen life. If only we were to immerse SUN ourselves more deeply in this passion story, this SUN experience, this deepest and highest truth of all then we SUN may realise that no fear can ever shackle us or hold us SUN back? For fear in this story of horror and hope, betrayal SUN and love, death and new life always leads to freedom. SUN Freedom to be that which we are created for SUN SUN – a people released to be fully human. So be strong and SUN courageous for the Lord your God is with you wherever you SUN go. SUN SUN Anthem: Be strong and courageous SUN SUN CC: SUN SUN Be strong and courageous, a setting by John Barnard of words SUN from the book of Joshua and from psalm 121, and leading us SUN into our prayers. SUN SUN Voice 1: SUN SUN Let us pray for all who live in fear. Fear of abuse: SUN physical, psychological or sexual. Fear of contempt: on the SUN basis of ethnicity, culture, gender or sexuality. Fear of SUN suffering: in contexts of war, natural disaster or pain. SUN SUN Voice 2: SUN SUN Let us remember all whose fear is of themselves: of the SUN dishonourable thoughts they think, the actions that come SUN from malice or jealousy, the hurt that is inflicted on loved SUN ones as well as strangers. SUN SUN RHW: SUN SUN In our moments of fear, Lord: SUN ALL: Give us your courage and SUN love. SUN SUN Voice 1: SUN SUN Let us pray for all who project their fears onto others, who SUN resent in their neighbours what they most fear in SUN themselves. SUN SUN Voice 2: SUN SUN Let us remember all at this time whose fear is real and raw SUN in places of complexity and suffering in our world - in SUN Syria, Crimea, and the Ukraine, in our own community amongst SUN the homeless who shelter in this church, the unemployed who SUN cluster around the local job centre, the hungry who use the SUN nearby food bank. SUN SUN CC: SUN SUN In our moments of fear, Lord: SUN ALL: SUN Give us your courage and SUN love. SUN SUN Voice 1: SUN SUN As we find echoes of our own fear in the Passiontide journey SUN of the one who says I am, be not afraid, let us pray for all SUN who face fear alone, that they may know that weakness is SUN their ultimate strength, and that from vulnerability courage SUN and resurrection flow: SUN SUN Voice 2: SUN SUN An ancient German prayer SUN SUN O Jesus, in your great loneliness on the Mount of Olives, SUN and in your agony, you prayed to the Heavenly Father for SUN comfort. You know that there are souls on earth who are SUN without support and without comforters. Send them an angel SUN to give them joy. Amen. SUN SUN Choir: Were you there when they crucified my Lord. SUN SUN CC: SUN SUN As we seek the presence of God to transform our own fears, SUN so Jesus seeks our presence at the foot of his cross, SUN sharing with him the prayer of perfect love which casts out SUN all fear, the prayer that helps us to bring in the fulness SUN of his kingdom, when we say together: SUN ALL: SUN Our Father, who art in heaven SUN Hallowed be thy name SUN Thy kingdom come, thy will be done SUN On earth as it is in heaven. SUN Give us this day our daily bread SUN And forgive us our trespasses, SUN As we forgive those who trespass against us. SUN And lead us not into temptation SUN But deliver us from evil. SUN For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, SUN For ever and ever. SUN Amen. SUN SUN CC: SUN SUN A prayer of Thomas Traherne: SUN SUN O Christ, I see your crown of thorns in every eye, your SUN bleeding, naked, wounded body in every soul; your death SUN lives in every memory; your crucified person is embalmed in SUN every affection; your pierced feet are bathed in everyone's SUN tears; make it my privilege to enter with you the need of SUN every soul. SUN ALL: Amen. SUN SUN SUN SUN RHW: SUN SUN Entering more fully the mystery of Passiontide as those SUN called to be God's fearful saints we pray that we will take SUN fresh courage from the divine story of our salvation and SUN that the clouds we so much dread will prove great with mercy SUN and break in blessings on our head. God moves in a SUN mysterious way his wonders to perform. SUN SUN Hymn:God moves in a mysterious way SUN SUN CC: SUN SUN Jesus taught his followers, "Let not your hearts be SUN troubled, neither let them be afraid." SUN SUN Lord Jesus Christ, constant companion and gracious guide, SUN SUN Go before us to lead us, travel behind us to guard us and be SUN above us to bless us on our journey, now and always. SUN ALL: Amen. SUN SUN Voluntary: Herzliebster Jesu (Brahms) SUN SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03zdm6d (Listen) SUN A Lenten Reflection SUN SUN Taking Lent as his starting point, William Dalrymple SUN contrasts the Christian view of Lent - with all its SUN self-discipline and self-deprivation - with that represented SUN in great Indian art. SUN SUN He visits the painted caves of Ajanta, dating from the 2nd SUN century BC, and seen as one of the most comprehensive SUN depictions of civilised classical life that we have. SUN SUN He describes their monasteries, adorned with "images of SUN attractively voluptuous women....because in the eyes of the SUN monks, this was completely appropriate decoration". SUN SUN But Christianity - he says - "has always seen the human body SUN as essentially sinful, lustful and shameful". SUN SUN He charts how - throughout India's history - the arts have SUN consistently celebrated the beauty of the human body seen, SUN "not as some tainted appendage to be whipped into SUN submission, but potentially the vehicle of divinity". SUN SUN He argues that history can make us aware of "how contingent SUN and bound by time, culture and geography so many of our SUN preconceptions actually are". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: William Dalrymple SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45tq (Listen) SUN Ring Ouzel SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Bill Oddie presents the ring ouzel. Ring ouzels are related SUN to blackbirds and because they nest in the uplands, they're SUN sometimes known as the 'mountain blackbird'. The male ring SUN ouzel is a handsome bird, sooty black with a broad white SUN ring called a 'gorget' right across his chest that stands SUN out like a beacon. Unfortunately these summer visitors are SUN becoming harder to find even in their strongholds, which SUN include the North York Moors and several Scottish and Welsh SUN mountains. SUN SUN Ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03zxmyp (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b03zxmyr (Listen) SUN David tries to help Ruth, and Dan drops a bombshell. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN William Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney SUN Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b03zxmyt (Listen) SUN The Miners' Strike SUN SUN When five hundred Yorkshire miners at Cortonwood Colliery SUN downed tools on 5th March 1984, they set in train events SUN that would lead to the longest and most bitter industrial SUN dispute in British history. SUN SUN The Miners' Strike that followed would set miner against SUN miner and transform quiet pit communities into battlefields, SUN as thousands of riot police attempted to defend the right to SUN work. The next twelve months of strife would plunge many SUN families into poverty and place a tremendous burden on the SUN country's Exchequer. SUN SUN On one side of the dispute was the National Union of SUN Mineworkers - victorious over Edward Heath in 1974 and led SUN by the charismatic militant, Arthur Scargill. SUN SUN Arraigned against them was Margaret Thatcher's Conservative SUN government, buoyed by electoral triumph and fully prepared SUN to defend their new vision for Britain against what the SUN Prime Minister called 'the shock troops of the hard left'. SUN SUN The Miners' Strike still bitterly divides opinion and the SUN legacy of the strike remains a matter of fierce debate SUN between government and miners, and even within the Union SUN itself. SUN SUN Thirty years on from the start of the strike, those divided SUN by the picket line join Sue MacGregor in The Reunion. SUN SUN Kim Howells was research officer for the South Wales NUM, SUN Mel Hepworth worked at Askern pit near Doncaster and became SUN a flying picket for much of the strike, Barbara Jackson was SUN one of the organisers of Sheffield Women Against Pit SUN Closures. Ken Clarke was a Health Minister during the strike SUN and his Nottinghamshire constituency included the Cotgrave SUN Colliery, and Bill King of Bedfordshire Police led Police SUN Support Units at the height of the strike. SUN SUN Producer: Jerome Lyte SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b03z9gmt (Listen) SUN Series 68, Episode 8 SUN SUN In the last edition this series, the panellists attempting SUN to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition & SUN deviation are Miles Jupp, Paul Merton, Graham Norton and SUN relative newcomer Holly Walsh. SUN They do so, as always, under the chairmanship of Nicholas SUN Parsons. SUN SUN Subjects include 'A Shotgun Wedding' and 'Personal Hygiene SUN in the Tenth Century' SUN SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Panellist: Richard Herring SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Josie Lawrence SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03zxmyw (Listen) SUN Milk SUN SUN With a Food Standards Agency consultation underway, Sheila SUN Dillon and guests discuss the controversial subject of raw SUN milk. Banned in Scotland in 1983, the current system in SUN England allows raw unpasteurised milk to be sold directly SUN from the farmer. Raw milk producers are subject to stringent SUN and regular laboratory tests and their products have to SUN carry a warning on the label that the milk may contain SUN properties that are harmful. But there is a growing demand SUN for raw milk in the UK and means of supply are testing the SUN current rules ; The FSA recently threatened prosecution over SUN the presence of a vending machine selling raw milk in SUN Selfridges. Advocates argue that raw milk has many positive SUN health benefits that are lost with pasteurisation. The SUN debate for some is about the right of the individual to SUN choose what risks they take. Balancing that demand with the SUN need to protect public health is the challenge the Food SUN Standards Agency faces. In America, the libertarian argument SUN is even more polarised. With the prices paid for pasteurised SUN milk being on a seemingly downward trajectory in the UK, and SUN with internet shopping making a mockery of distribution SUN rules, Sheila will get the views of all the interested SUN parties. The passion this subject stirs, and the big SUN questions it raises will make for a lively and engaging SUN listen to everyone - raw milk and non raw milk drinkers SUN alike. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN Join Ken Hom at Food Connections SUN SUN It's been 30 years since Ken Hom first appeared on our TV SUN screens. He will be in conversation with Sheila Dillon on SUN Bank Holiday Monday 5th May and YOU COULD BE IN THE SUN AUDIENCE. SUN Click here SUN to apply for tickets now. SUN SUN The recording is part of the SUN Bristol Food Connections SUN festival SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03zqxsk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03zxmyy (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis presented by Shaun Ley. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Shaun Ley SUN Editor-of-the-Day: Amanda Lewis SUN SUN 13:30 Clearing the Air b03z9gn8 (Listen) SUN Ten years ago, Ireland became the first country in the world SUN to ban smoking in the workplace. On 29 March 2004, the air SUN cleared in Ireland's bars, restaurants and other buildings - SUN and there was hardly any backlash. The pub-loving nation SUN became the model for a global health revolution. In the SUN decade since, countries across the world have passed SUN smoke-free laws of their own. In this programme, the BBC's SUN former Ireland Correspondent Denis Murray looks at the SUN impact of this type of anti-smoking legislation across SUN Europe - and considers the future of tobacco. SUN SUN Denis's journey begins in Dublin, where he recalls how SUN radical a move the smoking ban was at the time. His old SUN haunt, Mulligan's bar, used to be memorable for its blue, SUN reeking fug. And the success of the ban in Ireland made SUN international news - leading other countries to follow suit. SUN SUN So Denis travels to two very contrasting cities to compare SUN attitudes to smoking ten years on. SUN SUN The Czech Republic has the most liberal smoking laws in the SUN European Union. In Prague, going to a bar can feel like SUN stepping back in time - many of them permit smoking. SUN SUN France, so long synonymous with romantic movies featuring SUN characters speaking to each other through clouds of smoke, SUN has followed Ireland's lead and banned smoking in public SUN places. Paris is a city with a fascinating relationship with SUN tobacco - where the debate is often about philosophy as much SUN as science. SUN In a journey across three countries, with a cast list of SUN doctors, politicians and businesspeople - with the odd SUN musician and philosopher thrown in - "Clearing the Air" SUN poses and answers many questions about the effect which SUN smoke-free laws are having on health and society. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Page. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03zdktv (Listen) SUN The Edible Garden Show SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs GQT from Alexandra Palace, London. Taking SUN audience questions are Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and SUN Bunny Guinness. SUN SUN We take a tour of the Edible Garden Show in the company of SUN Pippa Greenwood, Christine Walkden and James Wong. SUN SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN Q: Could the panel recommend some exotic plants to grow on a SUN sunny, yet exposed 2nd floor fire escape? SUN A: Capers, Gherkins, Nasturtiums and either the Siegerrebe SUN or Boskoops Glory varieties of Grapevine. Rhubarb, Asparagus SUN and Seakale can also be grown in small places with limited SUN soil. SUN SUN Q: Would it by possible to grow Crocus for saffron on a SUN sunny, south-facing roof? SUN A: Yes. As long as your roof is reasonably weight bearing, SUN you could grow crocuses in pots filled with soil as deep as SUN possible. SUN SUN Q: Is it a good idea to put fresh, dry, wood ash on beds SUN growing potatoes? SUN A: Yes and no. Potatoes love potash as it improves the SUN flavour, but they don't like lime because it gives them SUN scabby skins. But it is best to be aware of the PH of your SUN soil to make sure you do not let the soil get too alkaline. SUN Invest in a soil PH testing kit and monitor the levels SUN through the year. You might consider buying high-acidy SUN compost (but be careful because this tends to be high in SUN nitrogen) or ericaceous compost to restore PH balance. You SUN could also add composted pine needles or tea bags to SUN replenish acidity levels. SUN SUN Q: Should I remove the Ivy that is taking over my shady SUN flowerbeds? SUN A: Not necessarily. If you want to encourage variety, it is SUN possible to grow Trachystemon Orientalis alongside the Ivy. SUN SUN Q: I grow the 'Cambridge Favourite' variety of Strawberry, SUN should I be growing another variety? SUN A: After a few years of growth, it is a good idea to SUN introduce new varieties to boost the health of the crop. You SUN might want to try the Malwina (Milvana) variety for later SUN fruiting plants with a strong flavour. If you are after an SUN early fruiting plant, you could try the Gariguette variety. SUN SUN Q: What can I plant to fill in the holes beneath my yellow SUN Forsythia hedge? SUN A: The easy option would be Euphorbia Robbiae, which has SUN green-yellow flowers. Fox Gloves would give a more natural SUN feel. Baltic Parsley and Epilobum Album would also be good SUN editions. If you wanted to impregnate the hedge with other SUN things, you could try a Eucalyptus Gunnii. SUN SUN Q: I have an organic garden and my next-door neighbours up SUN the hill have recently used heavy-duty weed killer. Will SUN this kill the plants in my garden? SUN A: If the weed killer was applied by a professional and SUN there hasn't been heavy rain, you're plants will be fine. SUN But if there has been 'spray-drift' then you might begin to SUN see a mottling effect on your plants. SUN SUN Q: Could the panel suggest some grains (other than wheat) SUN that could be grown in a school garden to make flour and SUN then bread from? SUN A: Sweet Corn (you could grow your own popcorn, which is SUN also very pretty!). You could also try growing Dahlia SUN flowers, and you can use the tubers to make bread flour. SUN Sweet Chestnuts can also be used to make bread along with SUN Linseed, Rye and Oats. SUN SUN Q: How does the panel feel about the use of carpets to SUN suppress weed growth? SUN A: Carpets can be very useful. There is some debate about SUN whether there are any harmful chemicals used in carpet SUN manufacturing. Be careful not to use foam-backed carpets or SUN lino, as they tend to break down and mix into the soil. An SUN alternative would be newspapers, or hand weeding. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b03zxmz0 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents the Omnibus edition of the series that SUN proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen, with SUN conversations from Carlisle, Tredegar and Leeds, about SUN marriage second time around, choosing your life's end, and SUN living a life changed by a rugby accident. 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 b03xtvtm (Listen) SUN The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio SUN SUN Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt SUN star in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - SUN the story of one man's extraordinary journey through Hell, SUN Purgatory and Paradise. SUN SUN In Episode 2: Purgatorio, Dante (Blake Ritson) is led up SUN Mount Purgatory by his guide, the shade of Virgil (David SUN Warner). On their journey, they encounter numerous souls SUN who have embarked on the difficult journey up the mountain - SUN a journey that will eventually lead to their spiritual SUN salvation. SUN SUN Many years later, the older Dante (John Hurt), still in SUN enforced exile from his beloved Florence, reflects on the SUN episodes from his life that have inspired his great poem. SUN SUN All other parts are played by members of the company SUN SUN The Divine Comedy is dramatised by Stephen Wyatt SUN SUN Sound design is by Cal Knightley SUN SUN Directed by Emma Harding and Marc Beeby. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dante the Poet: Blake Ritson SUN Older Dante: John Hurt SUN Virgil: David Warner SUN Beatrice: Hattie Morahan SUN Guardian 1: Sam Dale SUN Proud Soul: Sam Dale SUN Cato: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Casella: Steve Toussaint SUN Donati: Steve Toussaint SUN Belacqua: Clive Hayward SUN Pia of Siena: Priyanga Burford SUN Guardian 3: David Cann SUN Sapia: Carolyn Pickles SUN Girl: Cassie Layton SUN Director: Emma Harding SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Adaptor: Stephen Wyatt SUN Author: Dante Alighieri SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b03zxw0g (Listen) SUN John Banville - The Sea SUN SUN With James Naughtie. Celebrated Irish writer John Banville SUN discusses his novel The Sea which won the Man Booker prize SUN in 2005. SUN SUN In The Sea, middle-aged art historian Max Morden loses his SUN wife to cancer and is compelled to go back to the seaside SUN resort where he spent childhood holidays. It is also a SUN return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled SUN family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of SUN both love and death for the first time. SUN SUN John Banville talks about the power of revisiting places SUN from childhood, how he wanted to be a painter as a teenager SUN but found he had no talent. He explains how he painstakingly SUN writes his novels over many years, creating sentence after SUN sentence, but in the end he always feels the book is an SUN embarrassment and a failure, and that he must move on to the SUN next novel. SUN SUN May's Bookclub choice is The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN John Banville - The Sea SUN On Radio 4 Extra: John Banville - The Sea SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN "Every man is an artist when he sleeps." SUN John Banville quotes Nietzsche to describes writing SUN fiction. SUN Read more from John Banville about his writing on the Radio SUN 4 blog. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: James Naughtie SUN Interviewed Guest: John Banville SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b03zxw0j (Listen) SUN Series 3, Derek Walcott SUN SUN Paul Farley returns with Radio 4's new poetry programme. SUN Today's edition is devoted to a conversation (with poems and SUN flying fish) with Derek Walcott at home on St Lucia. Walcott SUN is now 84. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. SUN The tropical island of St Lucia has been his home and has SUN defined his work for many years yet he is reluctant to think SUN of himself as a Caribbean poet. His work has travelled far SUN away from his home and his own relationship with St Lucia SUN has been rich but not entirely comfortable. He talks about SUN why and speaks also of his love for the English poets, John SUN Clare and Edward Thomas, whilst, looking out over the SUN Caribbean sea, he recites Walter de la Mare. Producer: Tim SUN Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 The Country Formerly Known as London b03zb7dr (Listen) SUN The year is 2030. What began as a whimsical notion, floated SUN in the long aftermath of the banking crisis, has gathered SUN steam as London powered ahead and the rest of Britain SUN remained in perma-austerity. The campaign to break London SUN and the southeast away from the rest of Britain has SUN triumphed - like Singapore, London is now an independent SUN city-state. SUN SUN This new country has a population the size of Switzerland, SUN and a banking industry just as dominant. Its population is SUN among the most multicultural in the world. But the new SUN country also has world-class problems - the highest SUN inequality of any rich economy with simmering social SUN tensions to match, and house prices so high that London's SUN cleaners and baristas and firemen commute in from Hastings SUN or further afield. SUN SUN This programme is a despatch from the future, sketching out SUN the contours of independent London in 2030 - an affluent SUN country with more liberal attitudes, and far more diverse, SUN transient population than Britain, but with a lopsided SUN economy all too dependent on financial services and an SUN increasingly hollowed-out society. The programme also serves SUN as a parable about what could happen if Britain continues SUN along an economic divide between London and the rest. What SUN might the rest of the UK look like in 2030, if London SUN continues to suck in the spending? 'When you pass Stevenage, SUN it's like someone turned the lights out', we're told. SUN SUN Presenter: Aditya Chakrabortty SUN SUN Producer: Eve Streeter SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03zxkpn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03zqxsm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03zqxsp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03zqxsr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03zxw0l (Listen) SUN Highlights from the previous seven days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03zxw0n (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Tim FitzHigham - The Gambler b03zxw0q (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 1 SUN SUN Comedian, author and adventurer Tim FitzHigham recreates Sir SUN John Throckmorton's 1811 attempt to have a coat made from SUN scratch - going from the sheep's back to his own back in a SUN single day. SUN SUN Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham, with additional SUN material from Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne, and literal SUN material from the Derbyshire Guild of Spinners, Weavers and SUN Dyers. SUN SUN Produced by Colin Anderson. SUN SUN Clips SUN empty SUN empty SUN See all clips from Episode 1 (2) SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tim FitzHigham SUN Producer: Colin Anderson SUN Writer: Tim FitzHigham SUN Writer: Jon Hunter SUN Writer: Paul Byrne SUN SUN 19:45 Time b03zxw0s (Listen) SUN A Bagful of Stories SUN SUN These three new tales by Olga Grushin - commissioned SUN specially for BBC Radio 4 - touch upon the lives of five SUN generations and explore the effects of time on one Russian SUN family. SUN SUN " ... I found a small alarm clock with square black numbers SUN and a picture of a tiny butterfly in the middle of its round SUN face, I took it. SUN SUN "The hands didn't move at first, but my mother said you just SUN had to wind it; only when she did, I saw that it was broken, SUN because the second hand ran backward, and if you stared at SUN the clock long enough to notice, so did the minute hand." SUN SUN Programme 3. A Bagful of Stories SUN Returning to Moscow after wartime evacuation, Elena leaves SUN her bag behind on the platform of a provincial railway SUN station. But what did the bag really contain? SUN SUN Olga Grushin was born in Moscow in 1971 and spent her SUN childhood in Moscow and Prague. In 1989 she became the first SUN Soviet citizen to enrol for a full-time degree in the United SUN States while retaining Soviet citizenship. In 2006 she was SUN shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and named SUN one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. She SUN has published two novels: The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) SUN and The Concert Ticket (2010). Her story 'The Homecoming' SUN featured in the series 'Platform Three' on Radio 4 (2010) SUN and The Dream Life of Sukhanov was a Book At Bedtime in SUN 2012. Olga lives in Washington D.C. SUN SUN Reader: Ruth Gemmell SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Ruth Gemmell SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Olga Grushin SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b03zdm60 (Listen) SUN In a dramatic episode of The Archers at the end of last SUN week, Ruth Archer had a miscarriage and sought comfort from SUN her mother Heather. The moment occurred in Friday's SUN broadcast and was repeated during the omnibus on Sunday - SUN Mothering Sunday. Many Feedback listeners felt the timing of SUN the repeat was inappropriate. But others felt the storyline SUN sensitively explored an issue that affects many women. SUN SUN On Saturday, The Archers broke out of Ambridge when Lynda SUN Snell was heard on the phone to Any Answers presenter Anita SUN Anand and David Archer burst into Radio 4 continuity. They SUN were just two of the characters that popped up in the Radio SUN 4 schedule as part of Character Invasion. Other fictional SUN interrupters included Big Bird on Tweet of the Day and Roy SUN of the Rovers on Today. But for some listeners mixing SUN fiction with Radio 4's factual output fell flat. We put SUN listeners' comments to Jeremy Howe, Radio 4's Commissioning SUN Editor for Drama. SUN SUN We'll also be hearing listeners' reaction to a report SUN published on Wednesday by the House of Commons Science and SUN Technology committee. It criticises the BBC's coverage of SUN the Climate Change debate for creating 'false balance' in SUN some of its reports. These findings come as no surprise for SUN some listeners. SUN SUN Also this week, we try to find out why Radio 4 Long Wave has SUN been disappearing at just after 10 o'clock every morning and SUN returning seven hours later. The answer comes from Alan SUN Boyle, who has the intriguing title of Head of Spectrum and SUN Investigation for BBC Distribution. SUN SUN And we hitchhike with director Dirk Maggs as we go behind SUN the scenes at the live Radio 4 broadcast of The Hitchhiker's SUN Guide to the Galaxy. On Saturday morning it came home to SUN Radio 4, 36 years after the first series landed, with SUN earth-shattering effect. We'll join the original cast of SUN characters - Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, SUN Trillian - and the new Voice of the Book, John Lloyd. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Radio 4 Long Wave SUN Feedback on 4 March 2014 covers the issue of Radio 4 Long SUN Wave SUN ** Disruption to Long Wave tranmissions from March 2014** SUN The BBC's Droitwich transmitter will be subject to daily SUN shutdowns on BBC Radio 4 LW, between 10:00-17:30, from SUN Saturday 29 March until Summer 2014. There will also be SUN periods of reduced power for BBC Radio 5 Live MW. This is to SUN enable engineers to work safely, while refurbishing the long SUN wave antenna, and the two masts which support it. SUN Find out more information here SUN Full details of the latest Shipping Forecast can be read SUN here SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03zdm5y (Listen) SUN Margo MacDonald, Frankie Knuckles, Lorna Arnold, Kate SUN O'Mara, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Margo Macdonald, the leading Scottish politician who fell SUN out with the SNP and became an independent MSP. She also SUN presented programmes here on Radio 4. SUN SUN The American DJ Frankie Knuckles who was known as "The SUN Godfather of House Music"; SUN SUN Lorna Arnold, the official historian of Britain's nuclear SUN industry; SUN SUN Kate O'Mara, the actress best known for her roles in Dynasty SUN and Howard's Way; SUN SUN and the former President of Sierra Leone, Ahmad Tejan SUN Kabbah, who negotiated an end to the country's bloody civil SUN war. SUN SUN Margo MacDonald SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the BBC's Scotland political editor Brian SUN Taylor in a live interview. SUN SUN Born 19 April 1943; died 4 April 2014 aged 70. SUN SUN Frankie Knuckles SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Radio 1 presenter and club DJ, Annie Mac. SUN SUN Born 18 January 1955; died 31 March 2014 aged 59. SUN SUN Lorna Arnold SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Rosie Holdsworth of the Oxford Research SUN Group and to Professor Brian Cathcart of Exeter University. SUN SUN Born 7 December 1915; died 25 March 2014 aged 98. SUN SUN Kate O'Mara (pictured) SUN SUN Cultural commentator Matthew Sweet looks back on her life SUN and career. SUN SUN Born 10 August 1939; died 30 March 2014 aged 74. SUN SUN Ahmad Tejan Kabbah SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Umaru Fofana, BBC Correspondent for Sierra SUN Leone and to the Secretary SUN of State for International Development, Clare Short. SUN SUN Born 16 February 1932; died 13 March 2014 aged 82. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03zxhcq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03zxmyk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b03zdfgy (Listen) SUN The New Manufacturing SUN SUN UK Manufacturing has been under heavy pressure for decades SUN but now there are signs of resurgence. Peter Day reports SUN from Britain's former steel capital, Sheffield, on what it SUN takes to survive and prosper in an intensely globalising SUN world. SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Adrian Allen SUN SUN Commercial Director, University of Sheffield Advance SUN Manufacturing Research Centre SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Tim Chapman SUN SUN Communications Director, University of Sheffield Advance SUN Manufacturing Research Centre SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Mark Kirby SUN SUN Technical Director, Technicut SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Gareth Morgan SUN SUN Managing Director, Advance Manufacturing Limited SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Phil Harpham SUN SUN Group Manager, Siemens SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Craig Berry SUN SUN Research Fellow, Sheffield Political Economy Research SUN Institute, University of Sheffield SUN SUN SUN SUN Gordon Macrae and Hugh Facey SUN SUN Gripple SUN SUN SUN SUN Magna Centre SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN David Grey SUN SUN Group Managing Director, OSL Holdings SUN SUN SUN SUN David Hall SUN SUN CEO Polypipe SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Alison Bettac SUN SUN Training Director, Advance Manufacturing Research Centre SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03zxw3r (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b03zxw7c (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03zdc9z (Listen) SUN Darren Aronofsky on Noah; Mark Cousins on Children and Film SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky discusses his SUN controversial blockbuster about Noah, which has been loudly SUN condemned by some religious groups in the United States. SUN SUN Documentary film-maker Mark Cousins considers the history of SUN kids in film and why he thinks children and cinema are made SUN for each other. SUN SUN In the year that Film 4 won the Oscar for Best Film with SUN Twelve Years A Slave, the news that its controller Tessa SUN Ross has decided to leave the job stunned the British film SUN industry last week. Director Roger Michell, Charles Gant and SUN Briony Hanson reflect upon her legacy and the impact that SUN her departure will have on the business. SUN SUN Kristin Scott-Thomas reveals how she got her big break and SUN talks about the film that made her a star. SUN SUN Noah SUN Directed by Darren Aronofsky, SUN Noah SUN is in cinemas from Friday 4 April 2014, certificate 12A. SUN SUN A Story of Children and Film SUN A Story of Children and Film SUN is in cinemas from Friday 4 April, certificate PG. The film SUN is written and directed by SUN Mark Cousins SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Darren Aronofsky SUN Interviewed Guest: Mark Cousins SUN Interviewed Guest: Roger Michell SUN Interviewed Guest: Charles Gant SUN Interviewed Guest: Briony Hanson SUN Interviewed Guest: Kristin Scott-Thomas SUN Producer: Stephen Hughes SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03zxmyc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 07 APRIL 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03zqxts (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03zd3hz (Listen) MON Kissing; The British Hitman MON MON Kissing - a cultural history. How do we make sense of the MON kiss and why did it become a vital sign of romance and MON courtship? Laurie Taylor talks to Marcel Danesi, Professor MON of Linguistic Anthropology about his new book 'The History MON of the Kiss' which argues that kissing was the first act of MON "free romance" liberated from the yoke of arranged unions. MON When the kiss first appeared in poetry and songs of the MON medieval period, it was as a desirable but forbidden act. MON Since then it has evolved into the quintessential symbol of MON love-making in the popular imagination. From early poems and MON paintings to current films, its romantic incarnation MON coincides with the birth of popular culture itself. They're MON joined by Karen Harvey, Reader in Cultural History at the MON University of Sheffield, who has studied the meaning of the MON kiss across different cultures and periods. MON MON Also, hitmen for hire: David Wilson, Professor of MON Criminology, examined 27 cases of contract killing committed MON by 36 men (including accomplices) and one woman. Far from MON involving shadowy, organised criminals, the reality of MON killing for cash turned out to be surprisingly mundane. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Marcel Danesi MON MON Professor of Semiotics and Communication Theory, and MON coordinator of the University of Toronto MON MON MON Find out more about MON Marcel Danesi MON MON MON MON MON The History of the Kiss: The Birth of Popular Culture MON Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan MON ISBN-10: 1137376848 MON ISBN-13: 978-1137376848 MON MON Karen Harvey MON MON Reader in Cultural History, Department of History, MON University of Sheffield MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Karen Harvey MON MON MON MON MON The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in MON Eighteenth-Century Britain MON Publisher: OUP Oxford MON ISBN-10: 0199686130 MON ISBN-13: 978-0199686131 MON MON David Wilson MON MON Professor of Criminology, Centre for Applied Criminology, MON School of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University MON MON MON Find out more about MON David Wilson MON MON MON MON MON MON Abstract: MON The British Hitman: 1974–2013 MON Donal Macintyre, David Wilson, Elizabeth Yardley and Liam MON Brolan MON The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice MON doi: 10.1111/hojo.12063 MON MON Ethnography Award MON MON Thank you for all your entries. MON MON MON MON These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, MON Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise MON Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor MON Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). MON MON MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, MON originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The MON work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. MON MON MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. MON MON MON MON The finalists will be contacted by telephone early spring of MON 2014 and the winner of the Award will be announced at the MON BSA Annual Conference in April 2014 MON MON MON MON Please see the MON Terms & Conditions MON for all the rules. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03zxlzr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03zqxtv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03zqxtx (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03zqxtz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03zqxv1 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b040rtgw (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most MON Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and MON Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03zqzss (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anna Jones. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03zqxv3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zqzsv (Listen) MON Curlew (Spring) MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Kate Humble presents the curlew. The haunting song of the MON curlew instantly summons the spirit of wild places. By MON April, most curlews have left their winter refuge on MON estuaries and marshes and have returned to their territories MON on moorland or upland pastures. Wherever they breed you'll MON hear the male birds singing and displaying. It's often MON called the bubbling song. MON MON Curlew (Numenius arquata) MON Webpage image courtesy of Andrew Parkinson (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b03zqzsx (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03zxyfq (Listen) MON Police drama with playwright Roy Williams MON MON Tom Sutcliffe looks at both the reality of police life and MON its portrayal. The playwright Roy Williams's latest drama is MON set in a police station in Kingston, Jamaica, revealing a MON world of corruption and intrigue. TV writer Sam Bain, of MON Peep Show fame, talks about Babylon, a drama which take a MON wry look at modern policing. The former police officer MON Christian Plowman explains what life was like undercover, MON and the criminologist Jennifer Brown looks back at the MON history of policing in the UK. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Roy Williams MON Interviewed Guest: Sam Bain MON Interviewed Guest: Christian Plowman MON Interviewed Guest: Jennifer Brown MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03z8z58 (Listen) MON Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Episode 1 MON MON A definitive account by Thomas Brothers of Louis Armstrong, MON his life and legacy, during the most creative period of his MON career. MON MON Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene MON under the tutelage of Joe 'King' Oliver, Louis Armstrong is MON recognized as one of the most influential artists of the MON twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, MON and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation MON for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations. But MON his story would be incomplete without examining how he MON struggled in a society seething with brutally racist MON ideologies, laws, and practices. MON MON Episode 1: MON 'Little Louis' Armstrong makes the long journey north from MON New Orleans to Chicago to join his mentor, 'King Oliver' - MON and a new jazz era is born. MON MON Reader: Colin McFarlane MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Colin McFarlane MON Producer: Clive Brill MON Abridger: Eileen Horne MON Author: Thomas Brothers MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03zxyfs (Listen) MON Claire Goose; Dalits; Maria Miller MON MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON Actress Claire Goose MON MON Actress Claire Goose joins Jane to talk about starring in a MON brand new 2 part thriller ‘Undeniable’ which starts this MON evening.Once voted one of FHM’s top 100 sexiest women, the MON actress is now back in the acting saddle after taking a MON career break to have her children. Claire plays Jane MON Phillips, a woman who recognises her mother’s murderer- 23 MON years after the crime. MON MON Her rise to fame began as nurse Tina Seabrook in Casualty MON when she was just 22 and acting her credits include ‘Waking MON the Dead’ and playing John Simm’s lover in acclaimed MON thriller ‘Exile.’ Claire joins Jane to discuss whether she MON still minds being associated with MON those MON ‘lad’s mag’ pictures and how cancer scares change her life? MON MON Maria Miller MON MON Culture Secretary Maria Miller has apologised "unreservedly" MON to MPs for her handling of an inquiry that ordered her to MON repay £5,800 in expenses, so why is the controversy rumbling MON on? We discuss the fall out with Isabel Hardman, assistant MON editor of The Spectator and with Helen Lewis, deputy editor MON of The New Statesman. MON MON Woman's Hour Power List 2014 -Game Changers MON The Woman’s Hour Power List 2014 MON has been searching for the women who are changing the way MON power operates in Britain today. Building on Woman’s Hour’s MON inaugural Power List which named the 100 most powerful women MON in the country, this year’s list will shine a spotlight on MON ‘Game Changers’. A panel of judges have been deliberating MON and have chosen a ranked list of the top ten most powerful MON game changing women whose influence is to be felt in Britain MON today. The results will be announced on Wednesday 9 April MON to coincide with a special edition of Woman’s Hour live from MON the BBC Radio Theatre. To discuss the selection process MON Jane is joined by Emma Barnett, Chair of Judges and The MON Telegraph Women’s Editor, and by judge and non-executive MON director of the Football Association, Heather Rabbatts. MON MON Meena Kandasamy MON MON Meena Kandasamy is a poet, writer, translator and activist MON from Tamil Nadu in India. She has now published her first MON novel, The Gypsy Goddess, set in 1968 about a true-life MON massacre. The novel tells the story of landless villagers, MON communist activists and paddy owners and the events which MON led to the terrible massacre that killed 42 men, women and MON children from the village of Kilvenman in Tamil Nadu. Meena MON joins Jane in the studio to talk about her passion for MON activism and poetry and how novel writing fits into the mix. MON MON Meena Kandasamy MON MON Malaria MON MON Malaria claims the life of a child every minute, and is a MON leading cause of death and poverty in Africa. Biyi MON Bandele’s screen adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s novel MON Half of a Yellow Sun, a love story starring Chiwetel Ejiofor MON and Thandie Newton, opens in cinemas on Friday. Filming MON took place on location in Nigeria, which has a high burden MON of malaria, with 500 children dying every day. Many of the MON cast and crew got malaria during the filming in Calabar. On MON World Health Day, Jane is joined by Heather Rabbatts, Patron MON of MON Malaria No More UK, MON to discuss the problem and treatment programmes. MON MON 10:45 The Cazalets b03zxzlp (Listen) MON All Change, Episode 1 MON MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard MON Dramatised by Lin Coghlan MON MON The family are divided over what to do with the family home MON following the death of their mother. MON MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON Last year Radio 4 dramatised the four novels that made up MON The Cazalet Chronicles. The novels gave a vivid insight into MON the lives, hopes and loves of three generations during the MON Second World War and beyond. MON MON Later that year, age 90, Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote, a MON fifth and final novel in the saga, All Change. Sadly MON Elizabeth Jane died in January but was delighted that the MON BBC were to dramatise her final novel. MON MON The Cazalets tells the story of an upper-middle class family MON of the type prominent in England prior to WW2. It is now MON 1956 and the family must learn how to live in a very MON different type of world. MON MON The three brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, run the family MON timber firm that their father started. MON Their sister, Rachel, has spent her life looking after their MON parents in Sussex, but now their mother has died she may MON finally have time to spend with her best friend and lover, MON Sid, (Margot Sidney). MON MON Hugh is now Chairman of the firm. After a long time on his MON own following the death of his wife, Sibyl, he has MON remarried, his secretary, Jemima, who is a war widow. They MON have a daughter of their own, Laura. MON Polly, Hugh's daughter by Sibyl, has married into the MON aristocracy and become Lady Fakenham, but she and her MON husband spend all their time attempting to find ways to pay MON for the crumbling family Estate. MON MON Edward has left his wife, Villy, for his mistress, Diana. MON But since marrying, Diana, he finds it hard to recapture the MON joy of their affair. MON Louise, his daughter by Villy, is now divorced from Michael MON Hadleigh and is sharing a flat with her old school friend, MON Stella. Her relationship with Villy is still fraught, but MON she and her father are now on good terms. MON MON Rupert lives with his second wife, Zoe and their children. MON He hates working for the family firm and is envious of his MON old friend, Archie, who married his daughter, Clary, and MON still manages to make a living from painting. Clary is a MON writer, but is finding it increasingly hard to write and MON bring up a family. MON MON The first four Cazalet Novels have sold over a million MON copies. MON Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with MON Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her MON generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a MON freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity." MON MON Music: The theme tune to The Cazalets is 'Heading Home' by MON Debbie Wiseman. MON MON Credits MON Rachel: Naomi Frederick MON Archie: Greg Wise MON Rupert: Raymond Coulthard MON Sid: Helen Schlesinger MON Hugh: Dominic Mafham MON Edward: Pip Torrens MON Jemima: Alison Pettit MON Priest: Wilf Scolding MON Narrator: Penelope Wilton MON Director: Sally Avens MON Producer: Sally Avens MON Adaptor: Lin Coghlan MON Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b03zy1bt (Listen) MON Series 16, The Show Must Go On MON MON Alan Dein follows Pat & Hayley Mallon - a husband and wife MON singing duo - around the pubs of Bath. The show must go on - MON even as 69 year old Pat prepares for major surgery on an MON aneurysm. MON MON Bath's pub circuit is a far cry from the packed houses that MON Pat was playing with his 5 piece Country & Western band back MON in the 1980s. His has been a life well-lived. During those MON heady days, he was on two bottles of whiskey and 100 MON cigarettes a day. MON MON But now Pat's facing the prospect of major surgery. Fearing MON he may not be able to return to gigging, he's grooming wife MON Hayley - 23 years his junior - to take over. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 11:30 Secrets and Lattes b03zy1bw (Listen) MON In the Beginning MON MON Arty Trisha and sensible sister Clare open their new MON Edinburgh cafe together. Polish chef, Krzysztof, and MON uninvited waitress, Lizzie, both help and hinder - but will MON they all even get through Day 1? MON MON Hilary Lyon's new series sees erstwhile free spirit Trisha MON (played by Julie Graham) return to her native city of MON Edinburgh after years of living in London. Trisha, a MON generally relaxed and positive art teacher is coping with MON not only unexpectedly losing her job, but also trying to MON repair her bruised heart. Nonetheless, she arrives at MON Waverley Station enthusiastic and eager for the next chapter MON of her life to begin. Trisha's solvent big sister Clare MON (played by Hilary Lyon) is a non-practising qualified MON accountant, has been married for years, has two spoiled MON teenage children and has probably spent too much time on the MON school PTA. Clare struggles with a tendency towards suburban MON snobbery and an obsessive need to control but happily MON facilitates the opening of 'Cafe Culture' in leafy MON Bruntsfield, which marks the beginning of a whole new era MON for both sisters. MON MON Throw in temperamental opera-loving Polish chef, Krzysztof MON (Simon Greenall) and a strangely forward teenage customer, MON Lizzie (Pearl Appleby), and you have the perfect recipe for MON volatile relationship tension, a lot of laughs and a few MON secrets for good measure. MON MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie MON Producers: Moray Hunter and Gordon Kennedy MON An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Trish: Julie Graham MON Clare: Hilary Lyon MON Krzysztof: Simon Greenall MON Lizzie: Pearl Appleby MON School Mum: Nicola Grier MON PC: Simon Greenall MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON Writer: Hilary Lyon MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03zy1by (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03zqxv5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03zqxv7 (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 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03zy1c0 (Listen) MON Testaments of Friendship MON MON Dr Thomas Dixon brings his timely new history of the MON changing face of friendship into the era immediately after MON the First World War, when the international friendship MON movement flourished. MON Episode 11: Testaments of Friendship MON MON At the centre of this episode is the story of Vera Brittain, MON author of the ever-popular memoirs, Testament of Youth and MON Testament of Friendship. Thomas Dixon traces Brittain's life MON through her pre-war loves, the heart-breaking war-time MON losses of her brother, her two closest male friends and her MON fiancee, and her post-war friendship with the writer, MON Winifred Holtby. MON MON Thomas Dixon hears from Brittain's daughter, Baroness MON Shirley Williams, about her mother's passionate belief in MON the ability of women to sustain profound friendships even MON during a period when they were frequently depicted in films, MON books and newspaper articles as being hostile to one MON another. MON MON He also speaks with Professor Seth Koven about Muriel MON Lester, whose friendships both with a poor East End girl, MON Nellie Dowell, and with Mahatma Gandhi, represented a drive MON for international peace and reconciliation after the horrors MON of the First World War. MON MON Producer: Beaty Rubens. MON MON Related Reading MON MON Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study MON of the Years 1900-1925 (Victor Gollancz,1933) MON MON MON MON Vera Brittain, Testament of Friendship: The Story of MON Winifred Holtby (Macmillan, 1940) MON MON MON MON Vera Brittain, The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some MON Pioneer Peace-Makers (Allen & Unwin, 1964) MON MON MON MON Barbara Caine (ed.), Friendship: A History (Equinox, 2009), MON Chapter 7, ‘Class, Sex and Friendship: The Long Nineteenth MON Century’, by Marc Brodie and Barbara Caine MON MON MON MON Leela Gandhi, Affective Communities: Anti-Colonial Thought, MON Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism and the Politics of Friendship MON (Duke University Press, 2006) MON MON MON MON Seth Koven, The Match Girl and the Heiress (Princeton MON University Press, forthcoming) MON MON The History of Emotions blog MON MON Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this MON series. MON MON Seth Koven, ‘The Matchgirl and the heiress’ MON MON MON Sue Morgan, ‘Maude Royden, friendship, and faith’ MON MON MON James Ellison, ‘Friends across the ocean’ MON MON MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03zxw0n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01cwwld (Listen) MON Waiting for the Boatman MON MON By Stephen Wakelam MON MON The painter Mario Minniti has travelled to Naples to seek MON out his old friend and former mentor Caravaggio. But on MON arrival, the great painter is nowhere to be found. In a bid MON to track him down, Mario retraces Caravaggio's last known MON movements. His search reveals a life lived dangerously. MON MON Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. MON MON Peter Hamilton Dyer, Stephen Wakelam and David Tennant MON MON Credits MON Mario Minniti: David Tennant MON Piero: Anton Lesser MON Abraham Vinck: Peter Hamilton-Dyer MON Cecco: Joe Dempsie MON Marchesa di Colonna: Tracy Wiles MON Guard: Harry Livingstone MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko MON Writer: Stephen Wakelam MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b03zy1c4 (Listen) MON Series 4, The University of Bristol MON MON A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three MON University students take on a team of three of their MON professors. MON MON Coming this week from the University of Bristol, "The 3rd MON Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at MON cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst MON delighting the current ones. MON MON The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Religion & MON Theology, English Literature to 1700 and Physics, and the MON questions range from the Book of Job to the books of Raymond MON Chandler via scalar bosons & Grumpy Cat MON MON The show is recorded on location at a different University MON each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of MON their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on MON an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course MON meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but MON with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes MON posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union MON buildings, cafĂ©s and lecture halls of six universities MON across the UK. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the MON 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and One Direction... In addition, the MON Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their MON Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, MON and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both MON sides... MON MON The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit MON surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly MON rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more MON than just glanced at that reading list... MON MON In this series, the universities are Bristol, Kent, MON Bedfordshire, Birmingham, Nottingham & Aberystwyth. MON MON Overflow (incl Cast Lists) MON The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on MON The Now Show is also someone who delights in all facets of MON knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational MON background) but in the sciences as well. As well as "The Now MON Show" he has made a number of documentaries for Radio 4, on MON subjects as varied as "The Poet Unwound - The History Of The MON Spleen" and "Getting The Gongs" - an investigation into MON awards ceremonies - as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio MON 4's 2008 Big Bang Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, MON called "The Genuine Particle". This makes him the perfect MON host for a show which aims to be an intellectual, fulfilling MON and informative quiz, but with wit and a genuine delight in MON exploring the subjects at hand. MON MON The 3rd Degree is a Pozzitive production, produced by David MON Tyler. His radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm MON Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, The Brig Society, MON Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, MON Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes MON Off, The 99p Challenge, My First Planet, The Castle and MON even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include MON Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The MON Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony MON Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's MON dinnerladies. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03zxmyw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics b03zy1c6 (Listen) MON Virgil MON MON A fresh look at the ancient world. MON MON Natalie Haynes, critic, writer and reformed stand-up MON comedian, brings the ancient world entertainingly up to MON date. In each of the four programmes she profiles a figure MON from ancient Greece or Rome and creates a stand-up routine MON around them. She then goes in search of the links which make MON the ancient world still very relevant in the 21st century. MON MON Episode 3: Virgil. Natalie Haynes considers the work of the MON Roman poet Virgil, ranging from his hints on bee-keeping to MON his great work The Aeneid. Dido is the classic wronged woman MON and the Aeneid contains the best ding-dong between a man and MON a woman in all Latin literature, culminating in Dido's MON memorable promise "If you go I'm going to kill myself and MON then I will pursue you from beyond death with black fires!" MON Natalie is joined by Pamela Helen Stephen who has sung Dido MON in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, bee-keeper Gordon Cutting and MON Dr Llewelyn Morgan to talk about the greatest poet in the MON Roman world. MON MON Producer: Christine Hall. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b03zy1c8 (Listen) MON Series 5, Time MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores the technology of time keeping. As MON clocks get more accurate and time becomes more abstract what MON does that mean for how we experience it? MON MON The accurate keeping of time allows our technological world MON to keep spinning and since earliest times has been central MON to how civilisation has developed. From the earliest MON mechanical clocks, the supercomputers of their day to the MON first wearable technology or pocket watch they've been at MON the forefront of technological advancement. MON MON But what has 'clock time' done to how we experience the MON passage of time? Aleks will find out as she visits the MON earliest time recording device ever discovered, in a muddy MON Aberdeen-shire field some 5000 years older than Stone Henge. MON In contrast she sees how modern time is produced by the MON atomic clocks of the BIPM in Paris, its here that time for MON the world is produced, sychronising everything from power MON grids to GPS satellites and the internet. She also explores MON how we experience time subjectively and what that means for MON how we perceive the world. Finally she hears from someone MON who tried to live without clocks and what that meant for his MON experience of time. MON MON Contributors: Prof. Vince Gaffney, Artist Cathy Haynes, MON Neuroscientist David Eagleman, Professional base jumper MON Karina Holkeim and writer and software developer Steve MON Corona. MON MON Producer: Peter McManus. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 17:00 PM b03zy1cb (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03zqxv9 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b03zy1cd (Listen) MON Series 13, Episode 1 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 Alex Horne, Lucy Beaumont, John Finnemore and Jack Dee are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as birds, witches, pubs and shoes. 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 MON A Random production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Alex Horne MON Panellist: Lucy Beaumont MON Panellist: John Finnemore MON Panellist: Jack Dee MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03zy1fm (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03zy1fp (Listen) MON Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, MON literature, film, media and music. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kirsty Lang MON MON 19:45 The Cazalets b03zxzlp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Thatcher's Mad Monk or True Prophet? b03zy1fr (Listen) MON Forty years ago, Sir Keith Joseph, a leading Conservative MON politician, began a radical re-think that paved the way for MON Thatcherism. James Landale examines how an unconventional MON politician challenged conventional wisdom and changed the MON course of British politics. MON MON In all the comment after Baroness Thatcher's death, only MON passing mention was made of Keith Joseph. However, Joseph MON played a key role in making Thatcherism possible. The defeat MON of the Heath Government in early 1974 had an especially MON profound effect on Joseph, who had served in Heath's MON Cabinet. He came to a startling conclusion: 'it was only in MON April 1974 that I was converted to Conservatism', he MON confessed, 'I had thought that I was a Conservative but I MON now see that I was not really one at all.' MON MON Joseph's radical re-think led him to challenge the economic MON and political consensus on which British politics had been MON based for thirty years. Since 1945, British governments had MON sought to maintain full employment by intervening in the MON economy, but Joseph rejected this approach. He began a MON series of major speeches by declaring that, 'This is not the MON time to be mealy-mouthed: intervention is destroying us.' In MON September 1974, he argued that inflation was caused by MON governments themselves. MON MON Joseph was seen as a challenger for the Tory leadership, but MON after making controversial comments on social deprivation MON and contraception, he declined to challenge Heath. Instead, MON Margaret Thatcher stood for the leadership in February 1975 MON and defeated Heath. She put Joseph in charge of policy. MON Little more than two years after Joseph had first challenged MON the old consensus, his ideas for tackling inflation as a MON priority and accepting the prospect of higher unemployment MON were becoming mainstream. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b03zdbrd (Listen) MON Ukraine: The Paper Trail to Corruption MON MON When the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych jumped MON into a helicopter and flew into hiding in mid-February, the MON Kiev protest movement that had opposed him flung open the MON gates of his abandoned estate. MON MON Ordinary Ukrainians poured in to visit the 140-hectare MON grounds and to catch a first glimpse of the luxurious MON lifestyle Yanukovych had enjoyed at his country's expense. MON Many gawped at the extraordinary opulence from the gold MON fittings to the marble floors and the private zoo. But a MON group of journalists were more excited by a different kind MON of treasure floating in the nearby lake. Thousands of MON documents had been dumped in the water by staff when their MON boss fled. The papers contained proof - not just of MON Yanukovych's wildly extravagant tastes - but also of MON systematic bribery, corruption, nepotism and state sponsored MON violence. MON MON Investigative reporters immediately realised these MON waterlogged documents could provide crucial evidence for MON future criminal proceedings. Anxious to preserve them, they MON worked around the clock painstakingly drying and sorting MON each sheet of paper. Since then other incriminating papers MON have been found around the Kiev's city centre. Lucy Ash MON talks to the journalists on the paper trail and asks why MON divers, archivists, lawyers, accountants and so many MON ordinary volunteers are eager to help them. MON Ukraine's HIV/Aids Epidemic MON MON 21:00 The Great Space Hunt b03ynts6 (Listen) MON Last year, an asteroid with the explosive power of 40 MON nuclear bombs exploded in the sky over the Russian city of MON Chelyabinsk. No one saw it coming, because it was one of the MON smaller asteroids, and it was approaching from the wrong MON direction. Luckily, it exploded high up in the atmosphere, MON and the only injuries were from the flying glass of MON thousands of broken windows. If it had exploded lower down, MON it could have been a different story. MON MON Subsequent research suggested that there are 10 times more MON asteroids out there like the Chelyabinsk one than we MON previously thought. Hardly any of them have been found. NASA MON is trying to find all the big asteroids that could MON potentially wipe out life on earth, and is making good MON progress, but the smaller ones are virtually unknown. MON MON So what is Britain doing about the asteroid threat? At the MON top of a hill in mid-Wales is an observatory called MON Spaceguard UK. It's run by a retired army major called Jay MON Tate. Despite being officially designated as the "National MON Near Earth Objects Information Centre", it gets no state MON funding and subsists only from Mr Tate's pension, and the MON sales of keyrings and pencils in the gift shop. Mr Tate is MON one of an army of amateur astronomers who scans the skies MON looking for asteroids that might come close to the earth. MON The safety of the earth is in these amateurs' hands, he MON says. MON MON One of the most prolific asteroid observers in the world is MON Peter Birtwhistle, who operates from a hut in his Berkshire MON garden. He spends over 100 nights a year looking for MON asteroids, often barely sleeping. When he finds one, he MON sends his observations to the Minor Planets Centre at MON Harvard, which logs known asteroids. Despite this, only two MON incoming asteroids have ever been detected before they MON arrived. One exploded over the Sudanese desert in 2008; the MON world got a few hours' warning because Gareth Williams at MON the Minor Planets Centre was woken in the night by his dog MON needing to go outside, and happened to check his computer. MON MON Jolyon Jenkins speaks to the unsung army of people who are MON trying to keep us safe from the threat from outer space, and MON asks whether it's right that we depend so much on MON enthusiasts. MON MON Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03zxyfq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03zqxvc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03zqzvz (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03zy1k0 (Listen) MON Unexploded, Episode 6 MON MON A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. MON MON "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off MON the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was MON immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an MON enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and MON Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an MON excellent place to land." MON MON In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, MON anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. MON Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment MON camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by MON fear and then quiet but growing desperation. MON MON A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. MON MON Episode 6: MON Evelyn has become interested in the fate of internee Otto MON Gottlieb. But according to Geoffrey, there's more to Otto MON than meets the eye. MON MON Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for MON the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story MON 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in MON the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her MON previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of MON Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize MON in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the MON University of Chichester. MON MON Reader: Emma Fielding MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Emma Fielding MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Author: Alison MacLeod MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b03zb4bb (Listen) MON Creating Characters MON MON Michael Rosen gathers a gaggle of writers and directors to MON discuss what makes a great character in a book, on the stage MON and on the radio. Recorded in front of an audience at MON Arnolfini Centre in Bristol, as part of Radio 4 Character MON Invasion Day. MON MON Contributors: Andrew Hilton, Founder & Artistic Director of MON Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory. MON MON Helen Cross, author of radio plays, novels and screenplays. MON Her first novel, My Summer of Love, became a BAFTA award MON winning feature film. MON MON Paul Dodgson, writer and director of radio dramas, and also MON a composer and teacher. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03zqzv9 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 08 APRIL 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03zqxw6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03z8z58 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03zqxw8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03zqxwb (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03zqxwd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03zqxwg (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b040rth4 (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most TUE Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and TUE Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03zr00c (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Lucy Bickerton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zr00f (Listen) TUE Bittern TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Kate Humble presents the bittern. As the first shoots of TUE spring appear in the reed-beds, you might hear the booming TUE sound of a bittern. The bittern's boom is lower pitched than TUE any other UK bird and sounds more like a distant foghorn TUE than a bird. Today these birds are on the increase, thanks TUE to the creation of large reed-beds. TUE TUE Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03zr00h (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b03zr00k (Listen) TUE Julia Slingo TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili's guest this week is Dame Julia Slingo, the TUE chief scientist at the Met Office. The conversation ranges TUE from her childhood wonder of clouds to climate change's part TUE in this winter's floods. TUE TUE Julia Slingo's fascination with meteorology began as she, as TUE a sixth former, gazed out of her bedroom window and wondered TUE what controlled the shapes of clouds and why the clouds TUE usually came from the west. In the 1970s she was one of the TUE few women scientists at the British Meteorological Office TUE and worked in the early days of computer modelling of TUE weather and climate. As the first female professor of TUE Meteorology in the UK, she crusaded for greater computing TUE power and capacity to improve both weather forecasting and TUE global climate models. TUE TUE Julia Slingo took up the job of the chief scientist at the TUE Met Office in 2009. Her profile has been high in the last TUE few months following her remarks that the persistent heavy TUE rains and storminess of Winter 2013 to 2014 were likely to TUE be linked to anthropogenic climate change. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b03zy22n (Listen) TUE Jane Hill meets John Jennings TUE TUE More from the series where broadcasters follow their TUE personal passions by talking to the people whose stories TUE interest them most. BBC newsreader Jane Hill's father and TUE uncle both lived with Parkinson's disease, and in this TUE series she talks to people from families with an inherited TUE genetic disorder. In the second of two programmes she talks TUE to John Jennings, who has a high chance of inheriting a rare TUE form of early onset Alzheimer's disease. They discuss the TUE emotional impact of having this disease in the family and TUE his decision whether or not to get tested for the gene. TUE Producer: Sally Heaven. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03zb49r (Listen) TUE Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Episode 2 TUE TUE A definitive account by Thomas Brothers of Louis Armstrong, TUE his life and legacy, during the most creative period of his TUE career. TUE TUE Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene TUE under the tutelage of Joe 'King' Oliver, Louis Armstrong is TUE recognized as one of the most influential artists of the TUE twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, TUE and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation TUE for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations. But TUE his story would be incomplete without examining how he TUE struggled in a society seething with brutally racist TUE ideologies, laws, and practices. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE As his career in Chicago continues to blossom, Louis grows TUE close to Lil Hardin, a beautiful pianist, and starts to TUE distance himself from his long-time mentor, Joe 'King' TUE Oliver. TUE TUE Reader: Colin McFarlane TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Colin McFarlane TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE Abridger: Eileen Horne TUE Author: Thomas Brothers TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03zy22q (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 The Cazalets b03zy22s (Listen) TUE All Change, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Elizabeth Jane Howard TUE dramatised by Lin Coghlan TUE TUE Edward attempts to make Diana happy with the purchase of a TUE new house. TUE TUE Directed by Sally Avens TUE TUE Last year Radio 4 dramatised the four novels that made up TUE The Cazalet Chronicles. The novels gave a vivid insight into TUE lives, hopes and loves of three generations during the TUE Second World War and beyond. TUE Later that year, age 90, Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote, a TUE fifth and final novel in the saga, All Change. Sadly TUE Elizabeth Jane died in January but was delighted that the TUE BBC were to dramatise her final novel. TUE TUE The Cazalets tells the story of an upper-middle class family TUE of the type prominent in England prior to WW2. It is now TUE 1956 and the family must learn how to live in a very TUE different type of world. TUE TUE The three brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, run the family TUE timber firm that their father started. TUE Their sister, Rachel, has spent her life looking after their TUE parents in Sussex, but now their mother has died she may TUE finally have time to spend with her best friend and lover, TUE Sid, (Margot Sidney). TUE TUE Hugh is now Chairman of the firm. After a long time on his TUE own following the death of his wife, Sibyl, he has TUE remarried, his secretary, Jemima, who is a war widow. They TUE have a daughter of their own, Laura. TUE Polly, Hugh's daughter by Sibyl, has married into the TUE aristocracy and become Lady Fakenham, but she and her TUE husband spend all their time attempting to find ways to pay TUE for the crumbling family Estate. TUE TUE Edward has left his wife, Villy, for his mistress, Diana. TUE But since marrying, Diana, he finds it hard to recapture the TUE joy of their affair. TUE Louise, his daughter by Villy, is now divorced from Michael TUE Hadleigh and is sharing a flat with her old school friend, TUE Stella. Her relationship with Villy is still fraught, but TUE she and her father are now on good terms. TUE TUE Rupert lives with his second wife, Zoe and their children. TUE He hates working for the family firm and is envious of his TUE old friend, Archie, who married his daughter, Clary, and TUE still manages to make a living from painting. Clary is a TUE writer, but is finding it increasingly hard to write and TUE bring up a family. TUE The first four Cazalet Novels have sold over a million TUE copies. TUE TUE Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with TUE Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her TUE generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a TUE freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity.". TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Penelope Wilton TUE Diana: Emily Joyce TUE Edward: Pip Torrens TUE Villy: Ruth Gemmell TUE Louise: Alix Wilton Regan TUE Miss Milliment: Carol Macready TUE Clary: Georgia Groome TUE Archie: Greg Wise TUE Hugh: Dominic Mafham TUE Bertie: Leo Hart TUE Harriet: Nell Herrin TUE Mr Twine: David Cann TUE Director: Sally Avens TUE Producer: Sally Avens TUE Adaptor: Lin Coghlan TUE Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard TUE TUE 11:00 Chrysanthemum b03zy22v (Listen) TUE Gorgeous, medicinal and edible, Chrysanthemums come with TUE whole worlds in their blossoms. Jools Gilson pursues these TUE remarkable plants from her Grandad's garden in the 1930s to TUE the latest National Chrysanthemum Show in Stafford. Along TUE the way, she visits championship grower Ivor Mace's TUE greenhouse in the Rhondda Valley and sips chrysanthemum tea TUE ceremoniously in London. TUE TUE What is it that drives people to tend their chrysanthemums TUE as if they were newborn babies? And what is the connection TUE between these floral shenanigans and the chrysanthemums used TUE as ancient Chinese herbal remedies for calming itchy eyes TUE and lowering blood pressure? TUE TUE Jools returns to her roots, to ask her aunties how her TUE Grandfather found time to grow something just because it was TUE beautiful - between factory shifts, growing vegetables and TUE trapping rabbits to feed his ten children. TUE TUE What blossoms is a story of survival, and the pursuit of TUE perfection. TUE TUE Producer: Adam Fowler TUE A Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b03zy246 (Listen) TUE Series 18, Crazy TUE TUE "It's the kind of music that makes you feel like you're just TUE hurting so good" TUE TUE People of different ages reflect on why the pop country TUE classic 'Crazy' made famous by Patsy Cline brings out such TUE strong emotions in them, including a young woman mourning TUE the loss of a father's love after divorce, broadcaster Fiona TUE Phillips on losing her father to Alzheimers and 87 year old TUE Wayne Rethford who as a young man in 1961 met Patsy Cline TUE and two years later happened upon the crash site where she TUE died after her plane came down in a heavy storm in TUE Tennessee. TUE TUE "That music becomes embedded in your soul" he says. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03zy248 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03zqxwj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03zqxwl (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 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03zy24b (Listen) TUE The Suburbs of the Heart TUE TUE Continuing his history of friendship over the last five TUE hundred years, Dr Thomas Dixon explores how friendship was TUE changed by a new form of technology and a new type of TUE science in the early years of the twentieth century. TUE TUE Episode 12: The Suburbs of the Heart TUE TUE Just as the internet has been seen as an enemy of TUE friendship, so the new technology of the early twentieth TUE century - the telephone - was initially viewed with TUE mistrust. Magazines and newspaper articles listed it along TUE with the telegram and the motor car as potentially TUE detrimental to the art of friendship. TUE TUE One author wrote: "we live, alas in the suburbs of each TUE other's hearts". TUE TUE Meanwhile, as the real suburbs were extended, the new TUE science of psychology began to advise lonely city-dwellers TUE on how to form new alliances and friendships. TUE TUE Dr Thomas Dixon hears from Professor Mark Peel about the TUE impact of urbanisation on friendship, and is won over by his TUE surprisingly passionate defence of Dale Carnegie's often TUE mocked best-seller, How to Make Friends and Influence TUE People. TUE TUE Producer: Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE Related Reading TUE TUE Barbara Caine (ed.), Friendship: A History (Equinox, 2009), TUE Chapter 8, ‘New Worlds of Friendship: The Early Twentieth TUE Century’, by Mark Peel TUE TUE TUE TUE Claude S. Fischer, America Calling: A Social History of the TUE Telephone to 1940 (University of California Press, 1994) TUE TUE TUE TUE Juliet Gardiner, The Thirties: An Intimate History (Harper TUE Press, 2011) TUE TUE The History of Emotions blog TUE TUE Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this TUE series. TUE TUE Michael Kay, ‘Phone a friend?’ TUE TUE TUE TUE Mark Peel, ‘New worlds of friendship’ TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03zy1fm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03zy2k4 (Listen) TUE Silk: The Clerks' Room, Bethany TUE TUE By Janice Okoh TUE TUE Based on the BBC1 series Silk, the radio series tells of the TUE adventure and mishap in the Clerks' Room at the Shoe Lane TUE chambers. TUE TUE As a junior clerk in a male-dominated clerks' room, Bethany TUE doesn't need reminding that her dream to become a barrister TUE should remain a closely-held secret. But when she finds TUE herself in hot water after unknowingly giving a must-win TUE case to a pitifully under-performing barrister, her passion TUE for the law comes into its own. TUE TUE BBC1's Silk created by Peter Moffat TUE TUE Executive producer: Hilary Salmon TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE Credits TUE Bethany: Amy Wren TUE Billy: Neil Stuke TUE Mr Lewis: Charles Edwards TUE Harriet: Miranda Raison TUE Jake: Theo Barklem-Biggs TUE Mrs Adjoran: Flaminia Cinque TUE Lisa: Priyanga Burford TUE Rebecca: Carolyn Pickles TUE Ms Spoons: Tracy Wiles TUE Judge: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Official: Matthew Watson TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Writer: Janice Okoh TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b03zy2k6 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Trespass TUE TUE Josie Long ventures where she shouldn't with this sequence TUE of brief encounters, true stories and radio adventures about TUE acts of trespass. TUE TUE Stories of stolen waxworks, formal letters severing TUE friendships, and travels into unknown territory. TUE TUE Urban Exploration TUE Feat. Bradley Garrett TUE http://www.bradleygarrett.com/stills/ TUE TUE Stealing Snowdon TUE Produced by Olivia Humphreys TUE TUE Crown the King TUE Produced by Adam Kampe TUE Originally produced for the Third Coast International Audio TUE Festival 'ShortDocs' competition TUE http://thirdcoastfestival.org/library/collections/4-shortdoc TUE TUE TUE The Disavowal TUE Produced by Katie Burningham TUE TUE Munich TUE Feat. Phillip Bull Bruckner TUE Produced by Hana Walker-Brown TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b03zy2k8 (Listen) TUE Flight from Disaster TUE TUE When millions of litres of poisonous sludge poured out of a TUE zinc mine in Andalucia in 1998 wildlife was devastated for TUE miles around. As the tidal wave of filth headed for the TUE marshlands of Donana National Park it became a disaster for TUE Europe as well as Spain. The prime route for birds migrating TUE between Africa and Northern Europe seemed certain to be TUE poisoned for decades to come. TUE TUE Sixteen years on from Spain's worst environmental disaster TUE Julian Rush returns to the region to discover how nature, TUE with a little help, has reclaimed much of the devastated TUE area. The birds have returned and flocks of British TUE birdwatchers are enthusiastically following the Imperial TUE Eagles, Griffon Vultures and millions of birds on their TUE spring migration back to the UK. Laurence Rose of the RSPB TUE shares his memories of the disaster and shows Julian the TUE path of the pollution which has become a lush, green feeding TUE ground for resting birds. TUE TUE The idyll, however, may be short-lived. Illegal boreholes TUE dug to water enormous strawberry farms that export their TUE produce to Northern Europe are sucking the life out of the TUE marshes. Tourism is impinging on the wilderness and there TUE are even advanced plans to resume mining at the site of the TUE accident. With Andalucia desperate for jobs and foreign TUE currency the local government is anxious to boost the TUE region's industrial sector. Finding the best balance between TUE industry and nature is vital for the future prosperity of TUE this stunning area and for the exhausted birds that make TUE their way across the Sahara to Britain's shores. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b03zy2kb (Listen) TUE Why are thugs always vile, market towns always bustling, TUE blondes bubbly and tirades foul mouthed? With the help of ex TUE Editor Eve Pollard, journalist Robert Hutton and Professor TUE John Mullan, Michael Rosen takes a look at the language and TUE the cliches of news journalism TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b03zy2kd (Listen) TUE Series 33, Sarah Vine on Dante TUE TUE "Whenever I have too much to drink, I bang on about Dante TUE ...." Sarah Vine makes a choice from the heart - the great TUE Italian writer Dante Alighieri, father of the Italian TUE language and author of the Divine Comedy. "I'm not an TUE expert," she says, "mine is more of a romantic infatuation." TUE Joining the outspoken Daily Mail columnist - listed recently TUE with her husband on a 'most wanted' dinner party guest list TUE - is Claire Honess, professor of Italian studies at Leeds TUE University. Together they piece together an extraordinary TUE life. Includes extracts from Radio 4's current production of TUE the Divine Comedy starring John Hurt. TUE Matthew Parris presents, the producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Sarah Vine TUE Interviewed Guest: Claire Honess TUE Producer: Miles Warde TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03zy4hg (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03zqxwn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b0100241 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 4 TUE TUE The return of the ground-breaking, Radio 4 show, hosted by TUE the legendary Gary Bellamy; brought to you by the creators TUE of The Fast Show. TUE TUE Down The Line stars Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy, with Amelia TUE Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy TUE Montgomery, and Paul Whitehouse. TUE TUE Special guests are Rosie Cavaliero, Robert Popper, Adil Ray TUE and Louis Vause. TUE TUE Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse TUE A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03zy4hj (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03zy4hl (Listen) TUE Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, TUE literature, film, media and music. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Kirsty Lang TUE Interviewed Guest: Jean-Paul Gaultier TUE TUE 19:45 The Cazalets b03zy22s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Rubbish: The Great Waste Crisis b03zy4hn (Listen) TUE Political diarist Chris Mullin became fascinated with how we TUE manage our refuse whilst an Environment Minister. Now he TUE goes on a quest to discover what really happens to our TUE rubbish, and meets the recyclers making millions from the TUE waste we throw away. TUE TUE Producer: Jonathan Brunert. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03zy4hq (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b03zy4hs (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b03zr00k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03zy4hv (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03zy4hx (Listen) TUE Unexploded, Episode 7 TUE TUE A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. TUE TUE "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off TUE the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was TUE immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an TUE enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and TUE Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an TUE excellent place to land." TUE TUE In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, TUE anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. TUE Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment TUE camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by TUE fear and then quiet but growing desperation. TUE TUE A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. TUE TUE Episode 7: TUE Things come to a head between Geoffrey and Evelyn. And TUE Orson's brother Hal comes home 'on leave'. TUE TUE Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for TUE the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story TUE 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in TUE the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her TUE previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of TUE Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize TUE in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the TUE University of Chichester. TUE TUE Reader: Emma Fielding TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Emma Fielding TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Author: Alison MacLeod TUE TUE 23:00 Shedtown b03zy4hz (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Washed up by a storm, and life, the Shedists clamber onto a TUE pier. In the middle of the sea. TUE TUE Lights flashing, wheels spinning. Connected to nothing. TUE TUE There, with its lunatic rides and its candyfloss stalls, TUE they have found a new place. One that might finally deliver TUE them not from temptation, but save them from starvation. TUE TUE A salty salvation. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Jimmy................... Stephen Mangan TUE Barry.................... Tony Pitts TUE Wes..................... Warren Brown TUE Father Michael......James Quinn TUE Dave.................... Shaun Keaveny TUE Diane................... Rosina Carbone TUE Diane (in wigs)......Debra Stephenson TUE William................ ..Seymour Mace TUE Deborah.............. ..Emma Fryer TUE Eugenius............. ..Neil Maskell TUE Norma No Rules.....Juliet Oldfield TUE TUE Narrated by Maxine Peake TUE Written and Directed by Tony Pitts TUE Music by Richard Hawley and Paul Heaton TUE TUE Produced by Sally Harrison TUE A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Maxine Peake TUE Director: Tony Pitts TUE Producer: Sally Harrison TUE Writer: Tony Pitts TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03zy4j1 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 09 APRIL 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03zqxxh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03zb49r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03zqxxk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03zqxxm (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03zqxxp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03zqxxr (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b040rthq (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most WED Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and WED Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03zr0lw (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anna Jones. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zr0ly (Listen) WED Grasshopper Warbler WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Kate Humble presents the grasshopper warbler. The reeling WED song of the grasshopper warbler sounds more like an insect WED than a bird. Like the paying out of an angler's line from a WED reel, the grasshopper warbler's song spills out from the WED bush or bramble clump in which he sits. You'll hear it most WED often at dawn or dusk in overgrown scrubby or marshy areas. WED WED Grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b03zr0w0 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03zy4m3 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03zbv05 (Listen) WED Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Episode 3 WED WED A definitive account by Thomas Brothers of Louis Armstrong, WED his life and legacy, during the most creative period of his WED career. WED WED Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene WED under the tutelage of Joe 'King' Oliver, Louis Armstrong is WED recognized as one of the most influential artists of the WED twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, WED and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation WED for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations. But WED his story would be incomplete without examining how he WED struggled in a society seething with brutally racist WED ideologies, laws, and practices. WED WED Episode 3: WED Louis is offered a big break with a jazz band in New York WED and, although he much prefers life in Chicago, his New York WED adventure will bring a whole new dimension to his music. WED WED Reader: Colin McFarlane WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Colin McFarlane WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Abridger: Eileen Horne WED Author: Thomas Brothers WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03zy4m5 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the female perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:45 The Cazalets b03zy4m7 (Listen) WED All Change, Episode 3 WED WED By Elizabeth Jane Howard WED dramatised by Lin Coghlan WED WED Louise accompanies her father and Diana on a trip to Italy WED but the holiday is fraught with tension. WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED Last year Radio 4 dramatised the four novels that made up WED The Cazalet Chronicles. The novels gave a vivid insight into WED lives, hopes and loves of three generations during the WED Second World War and beyond. WED Later that year, age 90, Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote, a WED fifth and final novel in the saga, All Change. Sadly WED Elizabeth Jane died in January but was delighted that the WED BBC were to dramatise her final novel. WED WED The Cazalets tells the story of an upper-middle class family WED of the type prominent in England prior to WW2. It is now WED 1956 and the family must learn how to live in a very WED different type of world. WED The three brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, run the family WED timber firm that their father started. WED WED Their sister, Rachel, has spent her life looking after their WED parents in Sussex, but now their mother has died she may WED finally have time to spend with her best friend and lover, WED Sid, (Margot Sidney). WED WED Hugh is now Chairman of the firm. After a long time on his WED own following the death of his wife, Sibyl, he has WED remarried, his secretary, Jemima, who is a war widow. They WED have a daughter of their own, Laura. WED Polly, Hugh's daughter by Sibyl, has married into the WED aristocracy and become Lady Fakenham, but she and her WED husband spend all their time attempting to find ways to pay WED for the crumbling family Estate. WED WED Edward has left his wife, Villy, for his mistress, Diana. WED But since marrying, Diana, he finds it hard to recapture the WED joy of their affair. WED Louise, his daughter by Villy, is now divorced from Michael WED Hadleigh and is sharing a flat with her old school friend, WED Stella. Her relationship with Villy is still fraught, but WED she and her father are now on good terms. WED WED Rupert lives with his second wife, Zoe and their children. WED He hates working for the family firm and is envious of his WED old friend, Archie, who married his daughter, Clary, and WED still manages to make a living from painting. Clary is a WED writer, but is finding it increasingly hard to write and WED bring up a family. WED WED The first four Cazalet Novels have sold over a million WED copies. WED Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with WED Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her WED generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a WED freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity.". WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Penelope Wilton WED Edward: Pip Torrens WED Louise: Alix Wilton Regan WED Diana: Emily Joyce WED Stella: Hannah Taylor-Gordon WED Joseph: Jonathan Keeble WED Director: Sally Avens WED Producer: Sally Avens WED Adaptor: Lin Coghlan WED Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard WED WED 11:00 Anti-Establishment and Uber-Capitalist b03zy4m9 (Listen) WED From the so-called Silicon Roundabout in east London to WED Silicon Canal in Birmingham, young tech entrepreneurs are WED driving a radical shift in the UK's economy, calling WED themselves disrupters of outdated institutions. WED WED Going beneath the hype and rhetoric, Georgia Catt explores WED what makes the scene so different from the traditional WED business world the tech founders are keen to avoid. WED WED Many of the youngsters behind the boom came of age against WED the backdrop of high-profile Occupy and G20 protests. WED WED Speaking to these keen and fresh-faced entrepreneurs, WED Georgia discovers that today they're trying to keep the WED radicalism alive but at the same time - and here's the rub - WED turn a profit. But how to make money and not sell out? WED WED For every Snapchat, Whatsapp, Google and Facebook, there are WED myriad enterprises that never make the big time. For those WED that survive, the challenge is retaining the start-up edge WED and youthful idealism as their businesses grow. WED WED Many of them say they've already witnessed many of their WED role models ditch their principles in the pursuit of hard WED cash - and they are keen to avoid going the same way. But is WED that inevitable? WED WED Producer: Georgia Catt. WED WED 11:30 Gloomsbury b040014b (Listen) WED Series 2, Desperate for a Thumbs-Up WED WED At last, Ginny Fox has finished her rewrite of Borlando and WED rushes it off to her friend and confidante, Vera WED Sackcloth-Vest, for appraisal. Meanwhile, DH Lollipop has WED just completed a rewrite of Lady Hattersley's Plover and is WED nervously awaiting the critical verdict of Lionel Fox. WED WED Never have two literary giants been so eager to have their WED geniuses confirmed, but self-doubt plagues their every WED waking hour. WED WED Due to a series of unfortunate coincidences, involving WED Lionel's inability to remember addresses and Vera's WED obsession with creating a new Blue Garden at Sizzlinghust, WED which involves her sending off for hundreds of new plants by WED mail order and storing them in Gosling's shed, the WED manuscripts go missing. WED WED What the writers interpret as a literary thumbs-down from WED their readers is nothing more than misdirected-mail. WED Friendships are strained to breaking point, while Ginny and WED Vera try to guess what the other is thinking and Mrs Gosling WED burns DH Lollipop's filthy manuscript when she accidentally WED comes across it and reads it from cover to cover. WED WED Producer: Jamie Rix WED A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes WED Mrs Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman WED Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd-Pack WED Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy WED Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks WED DH Lollipop: John Sessions WED Gosling: Roger Lloyd-Pack WED Mrs Gosling: Alison Steadman WED Producer: Jamie Rix WED Writer: Sue Limb WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b040014d (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b0409fkt (Listen) WED Little in Reserve? WED WED John Waite investigates why so few reservists are signing up WED to the British Army. Last year more left than joined - but WED 11,000 extra part-time soldiers are needed to plug the gap WED left by large-scale redundancies prompted by budget cuts. WED Officials have admitted a flawed application system is WED partly to blame but Face the Facts has learned that many WED companies are reluctant to let their staff sign up. They WED believe the compensation for releasing employees simply WED isn't enough. An author of the original review which set out WED the plans for reservists, Sir Graeme Lamb, tells John that WED he's disappointed with how slowly his vision has been WED implemented. And John visits the US, where reservists have WED long formed an important part of the country's military WED strength. So why is Britain failing to replicate the success WED of countries like America and Australia - whose systems WED helped inspired the changes to British Army? WED WED Producer: Dan O'Brien WED Editor: Andrew Smith. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03zqxxt (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 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b040014g (Listen) WED In Need, in Deed, by Post WED WED Dr Thomas Dixon continues to trace the changing meaning of WED friendship over the last five hundred years. WED WED Episode 13: In Need, In Deed, By Post WED WED Mass Observation and the archive of the Co-Operative WED Correspondence Club provide intimate evidence for friendship WED during the Second World War. WED WED Dr Clare Langhamer discusses how, in 1935, one lonely mother WED in County Wicklow began a correspondence network that WED continued through to the 1990s, long preceding today's WED MumsNet and NetMums. WED WED She also shares some revealing evidence from the vast Mass WED Observation archive at the University of Sussex about how WED women's friendships were affected by their war-work. WED WED Thomas Dixon also considers how men on active service formed WED new bonds across the class divide, and, in one extraordinary WED case from the BBC Sound Archive, not only with other human WED beings: "I have a passion for tanks," begins Captain Michael WED Halstead's account of life on the front line. WED WED Producer: Beaty Rubens. WED WED Related Reading WED WED Jenna Bailey, Can Any Mother Help Me? (Faber and Faber, WED 2007) WED WED WED WED Barbara Caine (ed.), Friendship: A History (Equinox, 2009), WED Chapter 8, ‘New Worlds of Friendship: The Early Twentieth WED Century’, by Mark Peel WED WED WED WED James Hinton, Nine Wartime Lives: Mass-Observation and the WED Making of the Modern Self (Oxford University Press, 2010) WED WED WED WED Margaretta Jolly (ed.), Dear Laughing Motorbyke: Letters WED from Women Welders in the Second World War (Scarlet Press, WED 1997) WED WED WED WED Clare Langhamer, The English in Love: The Intimate Story of WED an Emotional Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2013) WED WED WED WED Mass Observation, War Factory: A Report (Faber and Faber, WED 1943) WED WED The History of Emotions blog WED WED Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this WED series. WED WED Jenna Bailey, ‘Can any mother help me?’ WED WED WED James Ellison, ‘Friends across the ocean’ WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03zy4hj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0156n74 (Listen) WED The Kneebone Cadillac WED WED by Carl Grose. United Downs is a little known area of WED Cornwall with derelict engine-houses, vast scrap yards and WED apocalyptic dumping grounds. It is also the home of the WED legendary Boneshaker Stock Car Races. Scrap dealer Jed WED Kneebone has left his prized 1956 Cadillac Eldorado, to his WED children. When one of them decides to enter it in the WED Boneshaker the family are set on a collision course. WED WED Directed by Claire Grove WED WED The Kneebones have hard lives, weird vehicles and a love of WED Country and Western music. When scrap dealer Jed Kneebone WED dies his three children are left in serious trouble. Could WED the legendary Boneshaker Stock Car Races be the answer? The WED Kneebone Cadillac is a wry Cornish comedy about family, WED death, love and hope by outstanding Cornish writer Carl WED Grose. WED WED The United Downs Stock Car Races near St Day in Cornwall WED really does exist. Lots of old bangers, armoured trucks and WED souped-up hearses enter the Blockbuster . The play takes a WED little license in terms of the prize-money but everything WED else is for real. And the Kneebone Cadillac has a WED predominantly Cornish cast including Amanda Lawrence WED (Government Inspector, Young Vic), Ed Gaughan (Bafta WED nominated film Skeletons) and Charles Barnecut and Carl WED Grose from Kneehigh Theatre Company. WED WED Credits WED Maddy: Alex Tregear WED Slick: Carl Grose WED Dwight: Ed Gaughan WED Hooper Munroe: Charles Barnecut WED Phylis Vanloo: Amanda Lawrence WED Ennis: Joseph Kloska WED Writer: Carl Grose WED Director: Claire Grove WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b040014j (Listen) WED Employment Rights WED WED Clear about your employment rights, pay and conditions? Call WED 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED questions to moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED To answer your questions presenter Presenter Ruth Alexander WED is joined by: WED WED Andrew Cowler, Conciliator, ACAS. WED Sarah Veale , Head of Equality and Employment Rights, TUC. WED Sian Keall, Employment Partner, Travers Smith. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b03zy4hs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04001kg (Listen) WED The End of Capitalism; Reforming Capitalism WED WED Capitalism - renewal or decline? Laurie Taylor explores the WED future of our market driven economy. He's joined by David WED Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and WED Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of WED New York and Colin Crouch, Professor Emeritus in Sociology WED at the University of Warwick. Professor Harvey examines the WED contradictions at the heart of capitalism arguing that it's WED far from being the permanent or only way of organising human WED life. Professor Crouch, conversely, suggests that only WED Capitalism can provide us with an efficient and innovative WED economy but it should be re-shaped to better fit a social WED democratic society. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED David Harvey WED WED Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the WED Graduate Center of the City University of New York WED WED WED Find out more about WED David Harvey WED WED WED WED WED WED Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism WED Publisher: Profile Books WED ISBN-10: 1781251614 WED ISBN-13: 978-1781251614 WED WED Colin Crouch WED WED Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Warwick WED WED WED Find out more about WED Colin Crouch WED WED WED WED WED WED Making Capitalism Fit for Society WED Publisher: Polity Press WED ISBN-10: 0745672221 WED ISBN-13: 978-0745672229 WED WED Ethnography Award WED WED Thank you for all your entries. WED WED WED WED These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, WED Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise WED Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor WED Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). WED WED WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, WED originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The WED work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. WED WED WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED WED WED The finalists will be contacted by telephone early spring of WED 2014 and the winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference in April 2014 WED WED WED WED Please see the WED Terms & Conditions WED for all the rules. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04001kj (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 17:00 PM b04001kl (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather WED at 5.57pm. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03zqxxw (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Susan Calman Is Convicted b04001kn (Listen) WED Series 2, Appearance WED WED Susan Calman explores issues on which she has strong WED opinions. This week, she looks at society's obsession with WED appearance and explains why it has taken her so many years WED to feel happy with the way she looks. WED WED Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Susan Calman WED Producer: Lyndsay Fenner WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04003kv (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04003kx (Listen) WED Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, WED literature, film, media and music. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Wilson WED Interviewed Guest: Chiwetel Ejiofor WED WED 19:45 The Cazalets b03zy4m7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Would That Work Here? b04003kz (Listen) WED New Zealand's Faultless Fix WED WED In a new series of thought-provoking debates, Claire WED Bolderson looks at something another country does well, or WED differently, and asks whether it could work here. WED The trend towards a US-style litigation culture in the UK in WED recent years has been a growing cause for concern. The costs WED - both financial and social - of legal claims against public WED services such as heath and education is escalating WED year-on-year. But the cases that make it to court are only WED the tip of the iceberg, with countless others taking up WED precious resources, time and bureaucracy. Is there an WED alternative to this name, blame and claim culture? WED WED Is demanding compensation for accidents now seen as a the WED only way of holding public services to account? What does WED the threat of litigation do to transparency and WED accountability? Is the fear of litigation damaging to the WED professionalism of doctors, nurses and teachers and the WED delivery of services? Do we need to take a long, hard look WED at this trend and where it is likely to lead us? WED WED In New Zealand, patients get compensation for all personal WED injuries and accidents through a no-fault government-funded WED compensation system. In turn, they relinquish the right to WED sue for damages arising from personal injury, except in rare WED cases of misconduct. WED WED Advocates of New Zealand's no-fault system claim that it is WED cheaper to run and provides more-timely compensation to a WED greater number of patients, as well as a less stressful WED process for resolving disputes. Straightforward claims are WED processed in weeks, with a fixed award structure ensuring WED that similar injuries receive similar compensation. The WED system is funded through general taxation and employer WED levies and is mandatory and universal. WED WED Would a similar system work in the UK? What would be the WED advantages and disadvantages? WED WED Producers: Ruth Evans and Jennie Walmsley WED A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b04003l1 (Listen) WED Marina Warner WED WED The Power and the Passion - Marina Warner on the power of WED places. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b03zy2k8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03zy4m3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03zqxxy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04003l3 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04003l5 (Listen) WED Unexploded, Episode 8 WED WED A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. WED WED "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off WED the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was WED immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an WED enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and WED Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an WED excellent place to land." WED WED In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, WED anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. WED Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment WED camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by WED fear and then quiet but growing desperation. WED WED A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. WED WED Episode 8: WED Otto has started work on a fresco in a local church. The WED internment camp has closed, but Geoffrey now has observer WED duties with the UXB unit. WED WED Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for WED the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story WED 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in WED the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her WED previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of WED Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize WED in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the WED University of Chichester. WED WED Reader: Emma Fielding WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Emma Fielding WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Author: Alison MacLeod WED WED 23:00 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b04003l7 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED The only radio comedy programme to give you an accurate WED overview of the science of space travel. WED WED This episode examines humanity's enduring obsession with WED UFOs. How long have we been seeing them? What might they WED really be? And what questions might their possible occupants WED be asking about us? WED WED Starring Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Helen Keen WED Performer: Peter Serafinowicz WED Performer: Susy Kane WED Producer: Gareth Edwards WED Writer: Helen Keen WED Writer: Miriam Underhill WED WED 23:15 Bunk Bed b03zr0w2 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not WED applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. WED Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts WED which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be WED followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, WED in the dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander. WED This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and WED Peter Curran. WED WED Here they endeavour to get the heart of things in an WED entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place WED for typical male banter. WED WED From under the bed clothes they play each other music from WED The Residents and Gerry Rafferty, archive of JG Ballard and WED Virginia Woolf. Life, death, work and family are their WED slightly warped conversational currency. WED WED Writers/Performers: WED WED PETER CURRAN is a publisher, writer and documentary maker. A WED former carpenter, his work ranges from directing films about WED culture in Africa, America and Brazil to writing and WED presenting numerous Arts and culture programmes for both WED radio and television. WED WED PATRICK MARBER co-wrote and performed in On The Hour and WED Knowing Me, Knowing You..with Alan Partridge. His plays WED include Dealer's Choice, After Miss Julie, Closer and Don WED Juan in Soho. Marber also wrote the Oscar-nominated WED screenplay for the film Notes on a Scandal. WED Writers/Performers: WED WED Producer: Peter Curran. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03zr0w4 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 APRIL 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03zqxyw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03zbv05 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03zqxyy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03zqxz0 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03zqxz2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03zqxz4 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b040rtjb (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most THU Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and THU Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03zr0qk (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Anna Jones and produced by Anna Varle. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zr0qn (Listen) THU Great Grey Shrike THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Kate Humble presents the great grey shrike. Great grey THU shrikes feed on small birds, which they can catch in flight. THU They also eat mice, voles and shrews and, as spring THU approaches, they'll include bees and larger beetles in their THU diet. Shrikes are also known as "butcher birds" because of THU their habit of impaling their prey on thorns, just as a THU butcher hangs his meat on hooks. THU THU Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) THU Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling (rspb-images.com) THU THU Recording sourced from The Macaulay Library at the Cornell THU Lab of Ornithology. THU THU This programme contains an audio recording of the Great Grey THU Shrike which was kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at THU the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. THU THU THU THU Source credit: ML130991: The Macaulay Library at the Cornell THU Lab of Ornithology, recorded by Gerrit Vyn on 07 Jun 2006. THU THU 06:00 Today b03zr0qs (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03zr11t (Listen) THU Strabo's Geographica THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica. THU Written almost exactly two thousand years ago by a Greek THU scholar living in Rome, the Geographica is an ambitious THU attempt to describe the entire world known to the Romans and THU Greeks at that time. One of the earliest systematic works of THU geography, Strabo's book offers a revealing insight into the THU state of ancient scholarship, and remained influential for THU many centuries after the author's death. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03zdbr6 (Listen) THU Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Episode 4 THU THU A definitive account by Thomas Brothers of Louis Armstrong, THU his life and legacy, during the most creative period of his THU career. THU THU Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene THU under the tutelage of Joe 'King' Oliver, Louis Armstrong is THU recognized as one of the most influential artists of the THU twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, THU and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation THU for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations. But THU his story would be incomplete without examining how he THU struggled in a society seething with brutally racist THU ideologies, laws, and practices. THU THU Episode 4: THU Louis brings his new style back to Chicago, making some of THU his first great recordings and also moving into a new THU entertainment sphere - working and playing in the theatre. THU THU Reader: Colin McFarlane THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Colin McFarlane THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Abridger: Eileen Horne THU Author: Thomas Brothers THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04009bw (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 The Cazalets b04009by (Listen) THU All Change, Episode 4 THU THU By Elizabeth Jane Howard THU dramatised by Lin Coghlan THU THU Dinner at Edward and Diana's provides an awkward evening for THU Sid and Rachel whilst Villy battles with Miss Milliment's THU growing dementia. THU THU Directed by Sally Avens THU THU Last year Radio 4 dramatised the four novels that made up THU The Cazalet Chronicles. The novels gave a vivid insight into THU lives, hopes and loves of three generations during the THU Second World War and beyond. THU Later that year, age 90, Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote, a THU fifth and final novel in the saga, All Change. Sadly THU Elizabeth Jane died in January but was delighted that the THU BBC were to dramatise her final novel. THU THU The Cazalets tells the story of an upper-middle class family THU of the type prominent in England prior to WW2. It is now THU 1956 and the family must learn how to live in a very THU different type of world. THU THU The three brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, run the family THU timber firm that their father started. THU Their sister, Rachel, has spent her life looking after their THU parents in Sussex, but now their mother has died she may THU finally have time to spend with her best friend and lover, THU Sid, (Margot Sidney). THU THU Hugh is now Chairman of the firm. After a long time on his THU own following the death of his wife, Sibyl, he has THU remarried, his secretary, Jemima, who is a war widow. They THU have a daughter of their own, Laura. THU Polly, Hugh's daughter by Sibyl, has married into the THU aristocracy and become Lady Fakenham, but she and her THU husband spend all their time attempting to find ways to pay THU for the crumbling family Estate. THU THU Edward has left his wife, Villy, for his mistress, Diana. THU But since marrying, Diana, he finds it hard to recapture the THU joy of their affair. THU Louise, his daughter by Villy, is now divorced from Michael THU Hadleigh and is sharing a flat with her old school friend, THU Stella. Her relationship with Villy is still fraught, but THU she and her father are now on good terms. THU THU Rupert lives with his second wife, Zoe and their children. THU He hates working for the family firm and is envious of his THU old friend, Archie, who married his daughter, Clary, and THU still manages to make a living from painting. Clary is a THU writer, but is finding it increasingly hard to write and THU bring up a family. THU THU The first four Cazalet Novels have sold over a million THU copies. THU Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with THU Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her THU generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a THU freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity.". THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Penelope Wilton THU Polly: Flora Spencer-Longhurst THU Jemima: Alison Pettit THU Hugh: Dominic Mafham THU Villy: Ruth Gemmell THU Miss Milliment: Carol Macready THU Diana: Emily Joyce THU Edward: Pip Torrens THU Sid: Helen Schlesinger THU Rachel: Naomi Frederick THU Director: Sally Avens THU Producer: Sally Avens THU Adaptor: Lin Coghlan THU Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04009c0 (Listen) THU Central African Republic: A Road Through Hatred THU THU How do you restore peace to a country now being torn apart THU by a vicious campaign of ethnic and religious cleansing? Two THU men in the Central African Republic believe they have the THU answer - friendship. Tim Whewell joins the Catholic THU Archbishop of Bangui, Dieudonne Nzapalainga and the THU country's Chief Imam, Oumar Kobine Layama as they travel THU across the country trying to reconcile Christian and Muslim THU communities. THU THU 11:30 Blind Date with Don Camillo b04009c2 (Listen) THU Peter White goes in search of one of his childhood's THU favourite comic heroes, the buffoonish figure of Don THU Camillo. Whilst at the National Blind School, Peter lapped THU up the braille books that described the antics of this angry THU Italian Catholic priest who was always pitted against THU Peppone, the Communist mayor. THU THU Peter discovers that the author Giovannino Guareschi's comic THU creations provide a fascinating road map to the bitter THU rivalries and huge political instability of post-war Italy. THU This was a time when the battle-scarred country was THU recovering from 20 years of Mussolini's fascism, from Nazi THU occupation, and the Allied campaign to seize the country. THU The internationally popular Don Camillo books are a snapshot THU of the early Cold War years when the Communist Party was THU riding high, and entirely at odds with the conservatism of THU the Catholic church. THU THU Meeting Guareschi's descendants, Italian satirists today, a THU publisher and academics, Peter discovers that the short THU stories he so enjoyed as a teenager unlock a passionate and THU pivotal time in Italy's history. Arrested and imprisoned by THU three different successive regimes, first by Mussolini, then THU made a POW by the Nazis, only to fall foul of the post-war THU Christian Democrat government, we'll hear that Guareschi THU continued to hone his satire, always using humour to poke THU fun at authority, in whatever shape or form it presented THU itself. He certainly knew how to make life hard for himself, THU but nearly 50 years after his death Guareschi's characters THU live on: the Don Camillo films remain a staple of Italian THU television. But, Peter asks, do the antics and rivalries of THU Don Camillo and Peppone still speak to us today, and if so, THU what do they tell us? THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b04009c4 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03zqxz6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03zqxz8 (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 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b04009c6 (Listen) THU Families of Choice THU THU Dr Thomas Dixon brings his major history of friendship up to THU the 1970s, when gender politics began to change friendships THU once again, and considers how popular culture both reflected THU and influenced this change. THU THU Episode 14: Families of Choice. THU THU Professor Barbara Taylor shares with Thomas Dixon her THU personal memories of how the second-wave feminist movement THU of the 1970s altered women's friendships in the way that THU Mary Wolstonecraft had discussed right back in the THU eighteenth century. THU THU Thomas Dixon also explores the growing freedom of gay men THU and lesbian women to establish their own "families of THU choice". THU THU And - somewhat excitedly - he debates with the cultural THU critic Matthew Sweet how television reflected friendships THU between men. While Thomas confesses to an erstwhile love of THU the phenomenally successful American sit-com, Friends, THU Matthew Sweet makes an expansive claim for British THU television's The Likely Lads, comparing the depth of Terry THU and Bob's friendship to that of Tennyson and Hallam. THU THU Meanwhile, slightly extending a quotation of the 17th THU Century poet, George Herbert, Thomas declares: "David had THU his Jonathan, Christ his John, Eric had his little Ern, Ant THU his Dec." THU THU Producer; Beaty Rubens. THU THU Related Reading THU THU Rebecca G. Adams and Graham Allan (eds), Placing Friendship THU in Context (Cambridge Unviersity Press, 2009). THU THU THU THU Barbara Caine (ed.), Friendship: A History (Equinox, 2009), THU Chapter 9, ‘The Importance of Friends: The Most Recent THU Past’, by Mark Peel with Liz Reed and James Walter THU THU THU THU Catherine Donovan, Brian Heaphy, and Jeffrey Weeks, Same Sex THU Intimacies: Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments THU (Routledge, 2001) THU THU THU THU Margaretta Jolly, In Love and Struggle: Letters in THU Contemporary Feminism (Columbia University Press, 2008) THU THU THU THU Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum, Bittersweet: Facing up to THU Feelings of Love, Envy and Competition in Women’s THU Friendships (Century, 1987) THU THU THU THU Liz Spencer and Ray Pahl, Rethinking Friendship: Hidden THU Solidarities Today (Princeton University Press, 2006) THU THU THU The History of Emotions blog THU THU Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this THU series. THU THU Thomas Dixon, ‘Thank God we can choose our friends’ THU THU THU THU Barbara Taylor, ‘Friendship trumped madness’ THU THU THU Mark Peel, ‘New worlds of friendship’ THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04003kv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0156n2y (Listen) THU The Falcon and the Hawk THU THU Helen Macdonald is a falconer and poet. She keeps a goshawk THU called Mabel. As a child she fell in love with a rare book THU of intense nature writing, J.A. Baker's The Peregrine, which THU records a winter watching wild peregrines on the Essex THU coast. Her new play brings her birds and his together. Baker THU tramps the bleak coastal marshes scanning the skies for THU fleeting moments of bloody drama as a peregrine stoops at THU immense speed after a plover or a pigeon. Helen woos her THU captive-bred goshawk in her spare bedroom - acclimatising it THU to human noise and human movement. Baker crouches over a THU half-dead pigeon and finishes it off for the wild falcon; THU Helen walks the city street with a goshawk on her fist. The THU stories begin to fly closer to one one another. THU THU Part recorded on location on The Bird of Prey Centre at THU Newent, Gloucestershire. THU Producer: Tim Dee. THU THU Credits THU JA Baker: David Birrell THU Young Helen: Gemma Lawrence THU Helen: Helen MacDonald THU Writer: Helen MacDonald THU Producer: Tim Dee THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04009c8 (Listen) THU Brecon Beacons, Waterfall Country THU THU Felicity Evans visits the waterfalls and swallow holes at THU the western end of the Brecon Beacons, and discovers that THU besides its natural beauty, it's an area with a rich THU industrial heritage. Today its deep, mossy ravines are of THU great interest to walkers and potholers. But the waterfalls, THU Felicity discovers, gave rise to local industries - THU including a gunpowder works, and the silica mines provided THU firebricks that were shipped around the world. THU THU She even walks behind one of the waterfalls, Sgwd Y Eira, THU the waterfall of snow. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03zxmyk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b03zxw0g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04009cb (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b04009cd (Listen) THU Tracey Logan investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04009cg (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03zqxzb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Cabin Pressure b01ptztf (Listen) THU Series 4, Uskerty THU THU Comedy by John Finnemore about the wing and a prayer world THU of a tiny, one plane, charter airline staffed by two pilots: THU one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. THU Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, metal sheets to THU Mozambique, or an oil exec's cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too THU small - but many, many jobs are too difficult. THU THU Episode 2: THU As Carolyn and Martin turn a short hop into a long climb, THU Douglas and Arthur get to play with an airport. THU THU Written by John Finnemore THU Produced and directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Carolyn Knapp-Shappey: Stephanie Cole THU First Officer Douglas Richardson: Roger Allam THU Capt Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch THU Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore THU Breeda: Marian McLoughlin THU Gerry: Robert Wilfort THU Farmer Fisher: John O'Mahony THU Writer: John Finnemore THU Director: David Tyler THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04009cj (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04009cl (Listen) THU Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, THU literature, film, media and music. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Wilson THU Interviewed Guest: Emma Thompson THU THU 19:45 The Cazalets b04009by (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04009cn (Listen) THU The truth about statins THU THU The vast majority of men in their 50s, and most women over THU 60, could soon be offered statins - cholesterol-lowering THU drugs - to reduce the risk of heart disease. That would mean THU that a 59 year old man who doesn't smoke, has no history of THU heart disease and has healthy weight, blood pressure and THU cholesterol levels could find himself taking a statin a day THU for life. The National Institute for Health and Care THU Excellence proposes that up to twelve million people - one THU in four adults - should take the medication. THU THU Critics argue against such mass medication and claim that THU there is a high incidence of side affects including muscle THU aches, sleep problems and diabetes. They also question the THU drugs' effectiveness in reducing the number of heart THU attacks. THU THU But the defenders of statins say that this is scaremongering THU and risks unnecessary deaths. THU THU Tom Esslemont investigates how the UK has become the so THU called 'statins capital' of Europe and explores the THU arguments for and against. THU THU Producer: Emma Rippon THU Researcher: Ben Weisz. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04009cq (Listen) THU The Veneto THU THU Crisi is the Italian word for "crisis" and the country has THU been living through political and economic upheaval for THU several years. It has meant hard times for Italy's family THU businesses serving a global marketplace. From the Veneto THU region north of Venice, Peter Day finds out how these THU distinctive Italian companies are hanging on. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b04009cd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03zr11t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03zqxzd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04009cs (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04009cv (Listen) THU Unexploded, Episode 9 THU THU A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. THU THU "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off THU the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was THU immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an THU enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and THU Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an THU excellent place to land." THU THU In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, THU anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. THU Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment THU camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by THU fear and then quiet but growing desperation. THU THU A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. THU THU Episode 9: THU Stung by Otto's off-handedness, Evelyn has thrown herself THU into her work with the WI and at home. But can it last? THU THU Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for THU the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story THU 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in THU the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her THU previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of THU Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize THU in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the THU University of Chichester. THU THU Reader: Emma Fielding THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Emma Fielding THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Author: Alison MacLeod THU THU 23:00 So Wrong It's Right b0106v13 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 6 THU THU Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show that sees comics THU Lee Mack, Sarah Millican and Graham Linehan battle to supply THU the finest wrong answers. THU THU Charlie's tests see the guests recall 'the worst thing THU they've done on their own'. Who will win between Lee Mack's THU story of avoiding Anthea Turner, Sarah Millican's tale of THU woe whilst stuck on the side of motorway, or Graham THU Linehan's calamity in a hotel shower? THU THU Added to this are the panel's ideas for a terrible new THU gameshow. Will anyone spot the fatal flaw in Graham's pitch THU - the futuristic word quiz 'Scrabble 2000'? THU THU The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also THU writes for The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series THU Newswipe & Screenwipe as well as Channel 4's 10 O'Clock THU Live. He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009 THU and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards THU for his Guardian newspaper columns. THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Charlie Brooker THU Panellist: Lee Mack THU Panellist: Sarah Millican THU Panellist: Graham Linehan THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b04009cx (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 APRIL 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03zqy0b (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03zdbr6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03zqy0d (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03zqy0g (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03zqy0j (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03zqy0l (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b040rtgj (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most FRI Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and FRI Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03zr1zd (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anna Jones. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zr1zj (Listen) FRI Common Whitethroat FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Kate Humble presents the common whitethroat. Whitethroats FRI are warblers which winter in the Sahel region south of the FRI Sahara desert and spend spring and summer in Europe. When FRI they arrive in April the males establish a territory by FRI singing that scratchy song from hedgerow perches or by FRI launching themselves into the air. FRI FRI Common Whitethroat (Sylvia communis) FRI Webpage image courtesy of Malcolm Hunt (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03zr1zl (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b03zxmyt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03zdkjz (Listen) FRI Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Episode 5 FRI FRI A definitive account by Thomas Brothers of Louis Armstrong, FRI his life and legacy, during the most creative period of his FRI career. FRI FRI Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene FRI under the tutelage of Joe 'King' Oliver, Louis Armstrong is FRI recognized as one of the most influential artists of the FRI twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, FRI and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation FRI for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations. But FRI his story would be incomplete without examining how he FRI struggled in a society seething with brutally racist FRI ideologies, laws, and practices. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Louis befriends Al Capone. He's singing and dancing for FRI white audiences, and embracing the popular big band sound, FRI but is he selling out? FRI FRI Reader: Colin McFarlane FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Colin McFarlane FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI Abridger: Eileen Horne FRI Author: Thomas Brothers FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0400l5l (Listen) FRI The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 The Cazalets b0400l5n (Listen) FRI All Change, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Elizabeth Jane Howard FRI Dramatised by Lin Coghlan FRI FRI Both Clary and Sid find their world's turned upside down. FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI Last year Radio 4 dramatised the four novels that made up FRI The Cazalet Chronicles. The novels gave a vivid insight into FRI lives, hopes and loves of three generations during the FRI Second World War and beyond. FRI Later that year, age 90, Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote, a FRI fifth and final novel in the saga, All Change. Sadly FRI Elizabeth Jane died in January but was delighted that the FRI BBC were to dramatise her final novel. FRI FRI The Cazalets tells the story of an upper-middle class family FRI of the type prominent in England prior to WW2. It is now FRI 1956 and the family must learn how to live in a very FRI different type of world. FRI FRI The three brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, run the family FRI timber firm that their father started. FRI Their sister, Rachel, has spent her life looking after their FRI parents in Sussex, but now their mother has died she may FRI finally have time to spend with her best friend and lover, FRI Sid, (Margot Sidney). FRI FRI Hugh is now Chairman of the firm. After a long time on his FRI own following the death of his wife, Sibyl, he has FRI remarried, his secretary, Jemima, who is a war widow. They FRI have a daughter of their own, Laura. FRI Polly, Hugh's daughter by Sibyl, has married into the FRI aristocracy and become Lady Fakenham, but she and her FRI husband spend all their time attempting to find ways to pay FRI for the crumbling family Estate. FRI FRI Edward has left his wife, Villy, for his mistress, Diana. FRI But since marrying, Diana, he finds it hard to recapture the FRI joy of their affair. FRI Louise, his daughter by Villy, is now divorced from Michael FRI Hadleigh and is sharing a flat with her old school friend, FRI Stella. Her relationship with Villy is still fraught, but FRI she and her father are now on good terms. FRI FRI Rupert lives with his second wife, Zoe and their children. FRI He hates working for the family firm and is envious of his FRI old friend, Archie, who married his daughter, Clary, and FRI still manages to make a living from painting. Clary is a FRI writer, but is finding it increasingly hard to write and FRI bring up a family. FRI FRI The first four Cazalet Novels have sold over a million FRI copies. FRI FRI Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with FRI Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her FRI generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a FRI freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity.". FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Penelope Wilton FRI Clary: Georgia Groome FRI Sid: Helen Schlesinger FRI Archie: Greg Wise FRI Rachel: Naomi Frederick FRI Dr Plunkett: Clive Hayward FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI Producer: Sally Avens FRI Adaptor: Lin Coghlan FRI Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard FRI FRI 11:00 Podcasting - The First Ten Years b0400l5q (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Podcasters Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann trace the origins of FRI on-demand radio. FRI FRI 11:30 Hobby Bobbies b036l2ld (Listen) FRI Dangerous Minds FRI FRI New sitcom where Britain's longest serving PCSO and its FRI laziest make quite a pairing. FRI FRI Written by Dave Lamb (voice of Come Dine With Me) and FRI starring Richie Webb (Horrible Histories), Nick Walker and FRI Noddy Holder (yes - that Noddy Holder). FRI FRI Episode 1: Dangerous Minds FRI Geoff's decision to finally rebel against his domineering FRI Dad doesn't go quite as he'd have liked. FRI FRI Writer: Dave Lamb FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Geoff: Richie Webb FRI Nigel: Nick Walker FRI The Guv: Sinead Keenan FRI Jermain: Leon Herbert FRI Bernie: Chris Emmett FRI Geoff's Dad: Noddy Holder FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI Writer: Dave Lamb FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0400mgx (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b0400mh1 (Listen) FRI Wendi and Alison - Who's Derek Hackney? FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between teenage friends FRI who lost touch and re-connected decades later through music FRI and art, inspired by two Davids - Bowie and Hockney, proving FRI once again that it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. 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 b03zqy0n (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03zqy0q (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 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b0400mh3 (Listen) FRI The Lonely Cyborg FRI FRI Dr Thomas Dixon brings his major new series on the changing FRI face of friendship to a close with a look at how the old and FRI the young are navigating their friendships today through FRI technologies old and new, and at how friendship might look FRI in the future. FRI FRI Episode 15: The Lonely Cyborg FRI FRI A group of Birmingham schoolgirls prove themselves FRI thoughtful and self-aware about how to conduct their FRI friendships online and about the differences between online FRI and face-to-face friendships. Professor Deborah Chambers, an FRI authority on social media and personal relationships from FRI the University of Newcastle, confirms that fears about FRI children's online friendships with strangers have been FRI exaggerated. FRI FRI At the other end of the life-span, Thomas Dixon speaks with FRI the writer Penelope Lively about friendship in her ninth FRI decade, and about why she likes to consider herself part of FRI "the landline generation". FRI FRI Closing the series, Thomas Dixon emphasizes the importance FRI of physical touch and presence for friendship, and presents FRI a final montage of the voices which have featured throughout FRI the series, sharing stories of their own friendships. FRI FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI Related Reading FRI FRI danah boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked FRI Teens (Yale University Press, 2014) FRI Deborah Chambers, Social Media and Personal Relationships: FRI Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship (Palgrave FRI Macmillan, 2013) FRI Penelope Lively, Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time FRI (Fig Tree, 2013) FRI Tom Standage, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First FRI 2,000 Years (Bloomsbury, 2013) FRI FRI The History of Emotions blog FRI FRI Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this FRI series. FRI FRI Deborah Chambers, ‘Online friendship’ FRI FRI FRI FRI Beaty Rubens, ‘What makes friendships last?’ FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04009cj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0400mh7 (Listen) FRI Blood Count FRI FRI A day in the musical life and relationship of Duke Ellington FRI and Billy Strayhorn as they record Strayhorn's final FRI composition, 'Blood Count'. An interview with Time Magazine FRI reveals some truths about their working methods and the FRI question of artistic credit. The action takes place during a FRI recording session, and is based on extensive research into FRI the working relationship of the two men. By Ian Smith. FRI FRI Musicians: Matt Home (drums) Andrew Cleyndert (bass) Dave FRI Newton (piano) Ian Smith (trumpet) and Alan Barnes (reeds) FRI FRI Directed by Martin Smith FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Duke Ellington: Clarke Peters FRI Billy Strayhorn: Don Gilet FRI Elaine Robillard: Ashleigh Haddad FRI Harry Carney: Steve Toussaint FRI Writer: Ian Smith FRI Producer: Martin Smith FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0400qdx (Listen) FRI Chard, Somerset FRI FRI Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Chard, Somerset. Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and FRI Christine Walkden take the questions from an audience of FRI local gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Sailors' Knots b01jwfx5 (Listen) FRI Keeping Up Appearances FRI FRI Written by W.W. Jacobs. FRI FRI Published in 1909, Sailors' Knots is an anthology of comic FRI stories set around London and the Thames Estuary at the turn FRI of the last century. The 'knots' are the various mix-ups FRI that occur between sailors on shore leave and the local FRI residents. The tales are great fun, full of entertaining FRI characters (with names like Silas Winch, Sam Small and FRI Ginger Dick) and often deal with marital spats, FRI misunderstandings, and rascals getting their just rewards. FRI FRI In this second episode, Mark Williams reads the story of FRI Bill Buttenshaw, who is put off drink for life by the FRI terrifying ghost of an old shipmate. FRI FRI W.W. Jacobs is best known for his horror story, The Monkey's FRI Paw (1902), but the majority of his writing is comic. He was FRI born in Wapping in 1863, where his father was wharf manager FRI at the South Devon Wharf at Lower East Smithfield, and his FRI early observation of merchant ships and the behaviour of FRI their crews informed his many humorous tales. FRI FRI Mark Williams is well-known as one of the stars of BBC TV's FRI The Fast Show ("Suits you, sir..!!") and for the role of Ron FRI Weasley's father in the Harry Potter films. FRI FRI Abridged by Roy Apps FRI FRI Producer: David Blount FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Mark Williams FRI Producer: David Blount FRI Abridger: Roy Apps FRI Author: WW Jacobs FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0400qdz (Listen) FRI Obituary series with Matthew Bannister, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Matthew Bannister FRI Producer: Neil George FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b0400qf1 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b0400qf3 (Listen) FRI Catherine and Kevin - Our Fat-Free Future FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about how gastric FRI surgery changed the lives of a couple whose weight problems FRI had threatened their health and well-being, proving once FRI again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen. 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 b0400qf5 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03zqy0s (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b0400qf7 (Listen) FRI Series 83, Episode 9 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Susan FRI Calman (standing in for Sandi Toksvig), with regular FRI panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest panellists Andrew Maxwell, FRI Tom Wrigglesworth and Holly Walsh. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Andrew Maxwell FRI Panellist: Tom Wrigglesworth FRI Panellist: Holly Walsh FRI Producer: Lyndsay Fenner FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0406rqx (Listen) FRI Dan's having fun, and Tom and Kirsty see their new home. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Christopher Carter: William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Justin Elliot: Terence Harvey FRI Gerry Moreton: Mark Perry FRI Annabelle Schrivener: Julia Hills FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0400qfc (Listen) FRI Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, FRI literature, film, media and music. FRI FRI Credits FRI Interviewed Guest: Michael Palin FRI FRI 19:45 The Cazalets b0400l5n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0400qff (Listen) FRI Dr Liam Fox MP, Elfyn Llwyd MP, Norman Lamb MP, Baroness FRI Royall FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from St Mary's Church in Chard, Somerset, with former FRI Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox MP, and Care Minister Norman FRI Lamb MP, the leader of Plaid Cymru at Westminster Elfyn FRI Llwyd MP and Baroness Royall Labour Leader in the House of FRI Lords. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0400qfh (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b0400qfk (Listen) FRI Five Hundred Years of Friendship: Omnibus, Episode 3 FRI FRI Thomas Dixon concludes his major new history of friendship FRI in a final omnibus edition covering the 20th and the FRI beginning of the 21st centuries. FRI FRI Historian Thomas Dixon considers the First World War, the FRI Depression and growing urbanisation, the Second World War, FRI the sexual revolution and the arrival of new technology in FRI this closing omnibus edition of Five Hundred Years of FRI Friendship. FRI FRI Baroness Shirley Williams, Penelope Lively, Professor FRI Barbara Taylor, Matthew Sweet and a group of Birmingham FRI schoolgirls all share their thoughts and stories of FRI friendships past, present and future. FRI FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03zqy0v (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0400qfm (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0400qfp (Listen) FRI Unexploded, Episode 10 FRI FRI A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. FRI FRI "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off FRI the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was FRI immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an FRI enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and FRI Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an FRI excellent place to land." FRI FRI In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, FRI anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. FRI Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment FRI camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by FRI fear and then quiet but growing desperation. FRI FRI A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. FRI FRI Episode 10: FRI Evelyn is not at home. Prompted by Philip's anxiety and FRI suspicions, Geoffrey has gone looking for her. And why is FRI there smoke coming from No. 5? FRI FRI Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for FRI the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story FRI 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in FRI the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her FRI previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of FRI Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize FRI in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the FRI University of Chichester. FRI FRI Reader: Emma Fielding FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Emma Fielding FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Author: Alison MacLeod FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b03zy2kd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0400qfr (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b0400qft (Listen) FRI Shaun and Kim - The Wildman and the Wolves FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about the extreme FRI experience of living in the wild with wolves, and the impact FRI it's had on subsequent family life, proving once again that FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. 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
04 April, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 05/04/2014 - 11/04/2014
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