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SAT SATURDAY 21 MARCH 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b055dh4l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b059jjn6 (Listen) SAT The Utopia Experiment, Episode 5 SAT SAT A true story that you couldn't make up - one man's attempt SAT to survive a global catastrophe by setting up a commune in SAT Scotland. SAT SAT While lecturing in robotics, academic Dylan Evans became SAT increasingly concerned by the visible impacts of global SAT warming, population increase, terrorism - and by our SAT inability to cope with a doomsday scenario in a world SAT engineered to just-in-time living. SAT SAT The concern became an obsession and Evans left his post to SAT run an experiment. He set up a camp that would create the SAT conditions for a post-apocalyptic world. It was established SAT in the Scottish Highlands with a collection of people chosen SAT for talents and skills necessary in a life without SAT technology or comforts. SAT SAT The resulting story is a Lord of the Flies for the modern SAT day, treating serious and normally sombre topics with dark SAT humour. At its heart, however, is one man's well-intentioned SAT dream and the price he paid for trying to do something good. SAT SAT In this final episode, Dylan finds himself sectioned in a SAT hospital's psychiatric unit. It's not quite dystopia, but SAT it's certainly not the future he had imagined. SAT SAT Written and read by Dylan Evans SAT Abridged by Barry Johnston SAT SAT Produced by David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Dylan Evans SAT Author: Dylan Evans SAT Abridger: Barry Johnston SAT Producer: David Roper SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b055dh4n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b055dh4q (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b055dh4s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b055dh4v (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b055jz28 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Steve SAT Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b059jqng (Listen) SAT A listener who works at Edinburgh Zoo goes to lunch with SAT reporter Becky Milligan to talk about his favourite animals, SAT diffusing fights and appearing on Stars in Their Eyes. Email SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b055dh4x (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b055dh4z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b055jpnk (Listen) SAT Series 29, Nordic Walking in Bramcote Park, Nottingham SAT SAT Clare Balding takes a lesson in Nordic Walking as she joins SAT national coach, Catherine Hughes, in one of her classes in SAT Bramcote Park in Nottingham. Some of those who regularly SAT attend, are a group of mothers with their daughters, all of SAT whom have learning difficulties. Nordic walking has proved SAT to be an ideal activity for them all to enjoy. The poles SAT give confidence to those who find walking difficult, the SAT fresh air is beneficial to all and the chance for mothers SAT and daughters to be able to exercise together has made the SAT group very popular. SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT The Nottingham Ninjas Nordic walking group SAT SAT In conversation with Clare. SAT SAT Nordic walking in Bramcote park SAT SAT Stevie and Nicola stride ahead... SAT SAT Clare with Dawn and her daughter SAT SAT Walking in Nottingham SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Catherine Hughes SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05j92lt (Listen) SAT Pig Farming SAT SAT Views on the British pig industry as seen by Wiltshire pig SAT farmer Cameron Naughton in Wiltshire. He shows Charlotte SAT Smith his open air production unit up on the Marlborough SAT Downs. There are contributions from others about pig farming SAT across the EU, fluctuating markets and dealing with the risk SAT of disease. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b055dh51 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05j92lw (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 b05j92ly (Listen) SAT Dr Christian Jessen SAT SAT Presenter and health expert, Dr Christian Jessen, joins SAT Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. SAT SAT Well known for programmes such as ''Embarrassing Bodies' and SAT 'Supersize Vs Superskinny', Dr Christian also works closely SAT with health charities to educate people in health matters. SAT Most important to him is to raise medical awareness amongst SAT hard to reach groups. SAT SAT Actor Hugh Maynard, currently playing the role of John in SAT the West End's Miss Saigon, has dealt with abandonment and SAT rejection most of his life after being given up by his SAT mother when just a few weeks old. He explains how this SAT spurred him on to the successful career he now enjoys and SAT why it is important to know where you come from. SAT SAT JP Devlin talks with Barbara Taylor Bradford about her SAT collection of vintage bags. SAT SAT Jackie Hagan is a comedian whose trip to hospital with a SAT sore toe back in 2013, ended with her having a leg SAT amputated. The experience forced her to grow up and take SAT control of her life something she now hopes to pass on SAT through school workshop around the country. SAT SAT London based Imam, Mohammed al Hussaini tells us how he SAT became a traditional Irish folk singer. SAT SAT Former soap star, Pam St Clement who played Pat Butcher in SAT Eastenders shares her inheritance tracks, - Cast Diva by SAT Maria Callas and Accentuate the Positive by Bing Crosby & SAT The Andrews Sisters. SAT SAT Dr Christian's Guide to Growing Up, published by Scholastic SAT is available now. SAT Hugh Maynard is currently appearing in Miss Saigon at the SAT Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End. SAT Jackie Hagan is currently touring the UK with her show, SAT 'Some People Have Too Many Legs'. SAT The Cavendon Women by Barbara Taylor Bradford published by SAT Harper Fiction is out 24th March. SAT Pam St Clement's autobiography 'The End of an Earing' SAT published by Headline, available now. SAT SAT Producer: Pete Ross SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Christian Jessen SAT Interviewed Guest: Hugh Maynard SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: jackie Hagan SAT Interviewed Guest: Mohammed al Hussaini SAT Interviewed Guest: Pam St Clement SAT Producer: Pete Ross SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 Hunting for Prince's Vault b05j92m0 (Listen) SAT Mobeen Azhar attempts to solve one of pop music's great SAT mysteries: does Prince really have thousands of unreleased SAT tracks squirreled away? And what do they sound like? SAT This is a journey into the creative impulses which animate SAT one of pop music's most respected and idiosyncratic figures. SAT Mobeen talks to musicians, dancers, protégés and engineers SAT who portray the purple one as a modern day Mozart with an SAT unrelenting urge to make music. They provide clues as to SAT what hidden gems Prince has hidden away in his vault at his SAT Paisley Park HQ, give insight about why a lot of that SAT material remains unreleased and offer theories as to how SAT bootleg copies were leaked during the '80s and '90s. SAT Interviewees include: SAT Susan Rogers, Prince's studio engineer from 1985-1989 SAT Matt (Dr) Fink, keyboard player SAT Catherine (Cat) Glover, part of Prince's Sign O The Times SAT and Lovesexy bands SAT Eric Leeds, saxophonist SAT Michael Bland, drummer with the New Power Generation SAT Alan Leeds, tour manager and head of Paisley Park Records SAT from 1986-1992 SAT Hans Martin Buff, Prince's former sound engineer SAT SAT Producers: Ben Carter and Mobeen Azhar. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b05j92m2 (Listen) SAT Helen Lewis of The New Statesman looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT The George Osborne and Ed Balls story. The future of the Lib SAT Dems. Life after leadership. An old problem that hits the SAT young. And why child abuse revelations will get worse. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b055dh53 (Listen) SAT A Dramatic Turnaround SAT SAT Colouring in the spaces between the headlines. In this SAT edition: from elected government to Death Row, the change in SAT fortunes of the Muslim Brotherhood is creating ripples SAT throughout the Middle East; livelihoods devastated by a SAT cyclone - Vanuatu is the kind of place that only makes the SAT news when it's bad news; the Cubans and Americans are SAT talking at last, historic announcements seem imminent, but SAT on the ground in Havana, it's clear the process of change is SAT already well underway; 'it's lean, fast and elegant,' not a SAT racing car, but the Danube Salmon, a fish whose very future, SAT we hear, is under threat and the only grand piano in Gaza SAT has been located. We tell the story of how it was found and SAT how it's being lovingly restored. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b055dh55 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b05j92m4 (Listen) SAT The Revolutionary Budget SAT SAT Paul Lewis and guests discuss the best bits of Budget 2015 SAT and what it will mean for the money in your pocket. SAT SAT It's been billed as a 'savings revolution.' From April 2016 SAT most people will no longer pay tax on their savings outside SAT an ISA. Up to £1000 of the interest on savings will be tax SAT free. Sylvia Waycot from Money Facts and Andrew Oxlade from SAT the Telegraph unpick the details. SAT SAT There's savings help for first time buyers. A "Help to Buy SAT ISA" will be launched in the autumn to encourage those SAT looking to buy their first home to save up for a deposit. SAT The Government will chip in too. SAT SAT The end of the paper tax return was announced by the SAT Chancellor. And it was also 'goodbye' to class 2 National SAT Insurance Contributions. For detail on those and other tax SAT changes Robin Williamson from the Low Incomes Tax Reform SAT Group speaks to the programme. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b055jyzj (Listen) SAT Series 86, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Jeremy SAT Hardy. With Bob Mills, Hugo Rifkind, Elis James and Samira SAT Ahmed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Bob Mills SAT Panellist: Elis James SAT Panellist: Samira Ahmed SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b055dh57 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b055dh59 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b055jyzn (Listen) SAT Chris Leslie MP, Mark Littlewood, Patrick McLoughlin MP, SAT Tessa Munt MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby with political debate from Aston SAT University in Birmingham. with Shadow Chief Secretary to the SAT Treasury Chris Leslie MP, Director General of the the SAT Institute for Economic Affairs, Mark Littlewood, Transport SAT Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin MP, and Liberal Democrat MP SAT Tessa Munt MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b05j92px (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b05j92t3 (Listen) SAT The Norman Conquests, Table Manners SAT SAT The Norman Conquests are considered the masterworks of Alan SAT Ayckbourn, our foremost comedy dramatist. Julian Rhind-Tutt, SAT as a sex-obsessed philanderer, and Helen Baxendale, his SAT prey, lead a stellar cast through these three interlinked SAT comedies, broadcast over three Saturdays. They can be heard SAT in any order, or one play enjoyed on its own. SAT SAT Music arranged and performed by Stephen Benham SAT SAT Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT Credits SAT Norman: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Annie: Helen Baxendale SAT Tom: Nigel Planer SAT Reg: Jeff Rawle SAT Sarah: Clare Lawrence-Moody SAT Ruth: Tracy-Ann Oberman SAT Director: Peter Kavanagh SAT Writer: Alan Ayckbourn SAT Composer: Stephen Benham SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b05jb86q (Listen) SAT Caitlin Moran, Marjane Satrapi SAT SAT Sisters Caitlin and Caroline Moran talk about their new SAT sitcom, Raised by Wolves, based on their teenage years SAT growing up on a Wolverhampton council estate. SAT We discuss what impact the current debate about immigration SAT is having on black, Asian and minority ethnic women and how SAT they feel about how politicians using the immigration issue SAT to win votes. SAT As part of the BBC News School Report we hear from Caitlin SAT and her little sister Charlotte who is autistic. SAT Jill Leovy spent nine years working as a reporter for the LA SAT Times embedded with the Los Angeles Police Department, she SAT talks about what it was like following detectives in her SAT book Ghettoside. SAT Three young Scottish women discuss the impact of the SAT Scottish referendum and their engagement with politics and SAT the forthcoming general election. SAT As a major department store launches a collection of SAT gender-neutral clothing: is it just a marketing ploy or SAT could it have serious implications for the fashion industry? SAT The writer and director Majane Satrapi talks about her new SAT film The Voices. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Caitlin and Caroline Moran SAT Caitlin and Caroline Moran tell Jane about Raised by Wolves SAT - the new sitcom they’ve written together. It’s a SAT fictionalised modern-day version of their own teenage years SAT growing up on a Wolverhampton council estate; one sister a SAT gobby extrovert, the other a bookish introvert. Back then SAT they were home-schooled, so rarely left the house, and drove SAT each other bonkers. Has anything changed? SAT SAT Immigration Debate SAT SAT In a poll carried out by TNS on behalf of the programme to SAT indicate how voters feel ahead of the General SAT Election immigration came fourth, behind the NHS, housing SAT and caring for your family. What impact is the current SAT debate about immigration having on BAME (Black, Asian SAT Minority Ethnic) women? Jenni talks to Pragna Patel from SAT Southall Black Sisters SAT and SAT Alina Rzepnikowska, SAT who’s lived here for over a decade and is originally from SAT Poland, about how they’re feeling about the rhetoric SAT surrounding immigration. SAT Click here SAT to read key findings from research about Home Office SAT immigration campaigns. SAT SAT BBC School Report: Autism SAT As part of SAT BBC News School Report 2015 SAT we hear from 13 year old Caitlin, who discusses what it's SAT like to have a little sister who is autistic. SAT SAT JilI Leovy SAT Jill Leovy spent nine years working as a reporter for the LA SAT Times embedded with the Los Angeles Police Department. Her SAT book, Ghettoside follows the investigation into the murder SAT of a police detective’s 18 year old son, and the police work SAT done to bring his killers to justice. We speak to her about SAT her work following the detectives, the mothers devastated by SAT loss on a shocking scale, and some of the women brave enough SAT to testify against killers despite putting themselves in SAT danger. SAT SAT Are young voters more engaged in Scotland? SAT At last year’s Scottish Referendum for Independence turn-out SAT was 85%, and voters as young as 16 cast their ballots. So, SAT just eight months later are young women in Scotland any more SAT likely to turn out to vote than those in the rest of the UK? SAT Jane talks to some of the young women of the SAT BBC’s Generation 2014 SAT and Cohort about how they and their friends feel about the SAT election – and about using their vote. SAT SAT Gender Neutral Clothing SAT A leading department store has launched a new project called SAT ‘Agender,’ which includes a gender neutral clothing range. SAT The aim is to challenge gender stereotypes. What does this SAT say about the future of fashion and its industry? Reporter SAT Anna Bailey spoke to the designers behind the clothes. SAT And Jenni speaks to fashion journalist Kenya Hunt, to SAT discuss the concept of agender fashion. SAT SAT Marjane Satrapi SAT SAT Marjane Satrapi is best known for her autobiographical SAT graphic novel SAT * SAT Persepolis SAT which was turned into an award winning film. The Iranian SAT born writer and director, who now lives in Paris, discusses SAT her new project The Voices – a horror-comedy film about *a SAT serial killer factory worker, played by Ryan Reynolds, who SAT takes advice from his talking cat and dog. Marjane tells SAT Jenni what attracted her to the film, why she likes her lead SAT character and whether she would like to go back to Iran. SAT SAT The Voices is out on Friday, certificate 15 SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Interviewed Guest: Caitlin Moran SAT Interviewed Guest: Caroline Moran SAT Interviewed Guest: Pragna Patel SAT Interviewed Guest: Alina Jenikovska SAT Interviewed Guest: Jill Leovy SAT Interviewed Guest: Linda Hewson SAT Interviewed Guest: Faye Toogood SAT Interviewed Guest: Kenya Hunt SAT Interviewed Guest: Marjane Satrapi SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b05jb86t (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b055jsls (Listen) SAT Football's Billions SAT SAT Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore joins Evan SAT Davis and guests to discuss the economics and business of SAT football. SAT SAT In light of the recent Premier League TV deal, worth a SAT staggering £5 billion pounds, this week Evan and guests SAT discuss its implications for football both in the UK and in SAT other markets. Whilst the top players can expect even bigger SAT salaries, how will the deal impact on fans and clubs outside SAT the top division? Three top football executives discuss SAT including Premier League Chief Executive, Richard Scudamore. SAT SAT Producer: Jim Frank. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b055dh5c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b055dh5f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b055dh5h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b05jb86w (Listen) SAT Danny Wallace, Tab Hunter, Christian O'Connell, Andy de la SAT Tour, Isis Thompson, Young Fathers, Phil Manzanera SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Danny Wallace, Tab Hunter, SAT Christian O'Connell, Andy de la Tour and Isis Thompson for SAT an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With SAT music from Young Fathers and Phil Manzanera. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Christian O'Connell SAT ‘Breaking Dad’ is touring until 16th May. It’s at Norden SAT Farm, Maidenhead on 17th, Cambridge Junction on 24th and SAT Glee Club, Birmingham on 30th April. Check Christian’s SAT website for details. SAT SAT Tab Hunter SAT 1950s heart throb Tab Hunter stars in ‘Tab Hunter SAT Confidential’ on Sunday 22nd March at 18.10 as part of BFI SAT Flare: London LGBT Film Festival. SAT SAT Isis Thompson SAT ‘My Name Is Isis’ on Wednesday 25 March at 11.00 on BBC SAT Radio 4. SAT SAT Andy de la Tour SAT ‘The Cut Of The Cloth’ is at London’s Southwark Playhouse SAT until Saturday 4th April. SAT SAT Young Fathers SAT ‘White Men Are Black Men Too’ is available on 6th April on SAT Big Dada. SAT Young Fathers are playing at Art School, Glasgow on 20th, SAT Riverside, Newcastle on 21st and Brudenell Social Club, SAT Leeds on 22nd May. Check their website for further dates. SAT SAT SAT Phil Manzanera SAT ‘The Sound of Blue’ is available now on Expression Records. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Danny Wallace SAT Interviewed Guest: Tab Hunter SAT Interviewed Guest: Christian O'Connell SAT Interviewed Guest: Andy de la Tour SAT Interviewed Guest: Isis Thompson SAT Performer: Young Fathers SAT Performer: Phil Manzanera SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b05jb86y (Listen) SAT Dolce & Gabbana SAT SAT Italy's famous couture couple Dolce & Gabbana have fallen SAT out with Elton John over off-colour comments they made about SAT IVF babies and gay families. But they have no shortage of SAT fans. Becky Milligan profiles the characters behind one of SAT the world's greatest - and most valuable - fashion empires. SAT SAT Producer: Chloe Hadjimatheou. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b05jb870 (Listen) SAT Richard Diebenkorn, Mommy, Frozen, The Shore, Coalition SAT SAT The first major retrospective of Richard Diebenkorn's work SAT for 25 years opens at London's Royal Academy. Derided by SAT some for making abstract art popular, does this new show, SAT which includes his figurative paintings too, restore his SAT reputation as a serious artist? SAT A new Channel 4 drama "Coalition" dramatises the SAT negotiations which took place immediately after the last SAT general election and is based on first hand research by SAT writer James Graham, whose past work includes Privacy, Tory SAT Boyz and the Olivier-nominated This House. With Mark Gatiss SAT as Peter Mandelson, how much of a behind the scenes insight SAT does Coalition give us about this historic moment in British SAT politics? And how well does it work as a drama? SAT A revival of Bryony Lavery's award winning play Frozen opens SAT at the Park Theatre in London tells the story of the SAT disappearance of a 10-year-old girl, Rhona, through three SAT protagonists: the girl's killer, her mother and a New York SAT psychiatrist researching why people commit such crimes. How SAT does Frozen negotiate such a controversial and complex SAT subject as child killers? SAT Set on a collection of islands off the coast of Virginia, SAT Bailey longlisted debut novel "The Shore" by Sara Taylor SAT interweaves stories that trace different generations of the SAT same family over the course of 150 years. SAT In "Mommy" 25 year old Canadian director Xavier Dolan SAT returns to the theme of mothers and sons, first explored in SAT his debut feature "I Killed My Mother." Casting Anne Dorval SAT as a strong, independent woman overwhelmed with the task of SAT caring for a teenage tyrant, how does he portray the SAT pressures inflicted by the chaotic, testosterone fuelled SAT madness of a 15 year old boy. SAT SAT Mommy SAT Directed by Xavier Dolan, the film SAT Mommy SAT is in cinemas from Friday 20 March, certificate 15. SAT SAT Frozen SAT Written by Bryony Lavery and directed by Ian Brown, the play SAT Frozen SAT is at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park in London, until 11 SAT April 2015. SAT SAT Coalition SAT The feature length drama SAT Coalition SAT is on Saturday 28 March, 9pm on Channel 4. SAT SAT The Shore SAT The book SAT The Shore SAT by Sara Taylor is published by William Heinemann. SAT SAT Richard Diebenkorn SAT The exhibition SAT Richard Diebenkorn SAT is at the Royal Academy in London until 7 June 2015. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b05jbcf7 (Listen) SAT Remembering Sue Townsend, Aged 68 3/4 SAT SAT "Went out to feed the pig, and saw Townsend being driven SAT along the lane, in her vulgar purple Rolls Royce. She waved, SAT I didn't wave back." @AdrianMole, Jan 19, 2012 SAT SAT In 1970, Sue Townsend was a single mother of three with SAT three jobs. While her children were asleep she secretly SAT wrote semi-autobiographical prose and poetry, which she SAT showed no-one. SAT SAT In 1980, a young actor asked Sue Townsend if she had SAT anything he could use in an audition for 'Huckleberry Finn' SAT - she gave him some handwritten entries of a diary of Nigel SAT Mole SAT SAT By 1990 Sue Townsend had become the bestselling author of SAT the 1980's in terms of individual books - out-stripping SAT Jeffrey Archer, Jackie Collins and Barbara Taylor Bradford SAT SAT A year on from her death, the legacy of one of the country's SAT greatest comic writers is explored through her own SAT interviews and through her many works (from her 1979 play SAT 'Womberang' to her 2012 bestselling novel 'The Woman Who SAT Went To Bed For A Year'). Excerpts include unpublished and SAT previously unperformed TV soap, 'The Spinney' SAT SAT Also on hand are: her first and last publishers, Geoffrey SAT Strachan and Louise Moore; theatre director and co-writer SAT Carole Hayman; friend and agent Jane Villiers; and the man SAT who since 1978 stood by her but consistently shunned her SAT limelight, her husband - the normally silent Colin Broadway SAT SAT Presented by Pearce Quigley, the most recent Adrian Mole on SAT the BBC - the "representative voice from Middle England" who SAT in 2007 was commissioned to present a feature on Tony SAT Blair's ten years as prime minister. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b055f2lg (Listen) SAT John Gabriel Borkman, Episode 2 SAT SAT Henrik Ibsen's rarely-performed but all-too-pertinent play SAT about the dangerous pursuit of power. A new production from SAT a version by David Eldridge Part 2. SAT SAT David Threlfall stars as the disgraced banker finally being SAT made to atone for his sins. Now reunited with his first SAT love, will he be able to find real happiness? Or will the SAT continued pursuit of his ambitions lead to his final SAT destruction? SAT SAT Directed by Helen Perry SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT John Gabriel Borkman: David Threlfall SAT Miss Ella Rentheim: Susannah Harker SAT Mrs Gunhild Borkman: Gillian Bevan SAT Vilhelm Foldal: Philip Jackson SAT Erhart Borkman: Luke Newberry SAT Mrs Fanny Wilton: Jenny Rainsford SAT Malene: Claire Cage SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT Author: Henrik Ibsen SAT Adaptor: David Eldridge SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b055dh5k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b055gccb (Listen) SAT Sex Education SAT SAT Teaching children about sex is a moral, ethical and SAT emotional minefield, as the latest guidance from the SAT Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education Association SAT has this week so clearly demonstrated. The government had SAT announced that it wanted pupils as young as 11 to be taught SAT about sexual consent and had commissioned the PSHE SAT Association to come up with lesson plans. They've just been SAT published and they include topics such as pornography, SAT sexual images, sexual consent, rape myths and SAT victim-blaming. One suggested lesson asks pupils to imagine SAT what an alien, from a planet where there is no sex, would SAT learn about human sexual relationships from watching SAT pornography. Among other things they'll be asked to discuss SAT whether pornography realistically depicts consent: "Is SAT everyone acting in pornography consenting to the situation?" SAT and "Does getting paid change the situation?" The new SAT lessons could be taught in schools after the Easter holiday, SAT although parents would have the right to withdraw their SAT children from the classes and pornography wouldn't be shown SAT to pupils. It's argued that we want our children to be able SAT to deal with a highly sexualised society, where pornography SAT is easily available and schools help build character in many SAT ways, so why not build it in such an important field as SAT sexual relations? On the other hand, critics have been SAT attacking the proposals; they say the subject is being SAT introduced too early, at an age when children are often SAT emotionally vulnerable. Are these frank - some would say SAT explicit - topics just contributing to the very problem - SAT sexualisation - that they're partly designed to address? SAT Schools are increasingly being expected to teach so-called SAT "life lessons" alongside academic subjects. Are these latest SAT plans outside the proper remit of education or should SAT parents be left to teach their children about such sensitive SAT issues? What should children be taught about sex in school? SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b055g12p (Listen) SAT Heat 12, 2015 SAT SAT (12/17) SAT The 2015 season of the nationwide general knowledge quiz SAT reaches the last of the heats, with Russell Davies in the SAT questionmaster's chair. With just one more automatic place SAT in the semi-finals to be decided, and four places available SAT to the top-scoring runners-up of the series, it all hinges SAT on the outcome of today's contest. SAT SAT Russell's unpredictable questions include which three words SAT appear in the centre of the Brazilian flag, and what type of SAT motion is described by the Navier-Stokes equations. SAT SAT The contestants in this final heat are from London, Oxford, SAT High Wycombe and Bristol. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT PHILIP BOULT, a headteacher from Bristol SAT SAT DAVID GOOD, a software developer from High Wycombe SAT SAT CHRIS HARRISON, a maths teacher from Wimbledon SAT SAT JULIA SPRAGG, a consultant and scientific editor from SAT Oxford. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b055f2ll (Listen) SAT Poetry and Religion SAT SAT Roger McGough explores a wide range of poetry about SAT religion, with musings by George Herbert, Jalal al-Din Rumi, SAT William Blake, Billy Collins and Roger McGough. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Love III SAT SAT By George Herbert SAT SAT From George Herbert – The Complete English Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT My Garden SAT SAT By TE Brown SAT SAT From the Collected Poems of T E Brown SAT SAT Published by Macmillan and Co Limited SAT SAT SAT SAT Questions About Angels SAT SAT By Billy Collins SAT SAT From Questions About Angels SAT SAT Published by The University of Pittsburgh Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Granma and the Angels SAT SAT By Roger McGough SAT SAT From As Far as I Know SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT The Angel that Presided O'er My Birth SAT SAT By William Blake SAT SAT From Blake’s Poetical Works SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Listening SAT SAT By Rumi SAT SAT Translated by Coleman Barks SAT SAT From The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting SAT SAT Published by Viking Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT God's Funeral SAT SAT By Thomas Hardy SAT SAT From Thomas Hardy – A Critical Selection of His Finest SAT Poetry SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT A Hindu to his Body SAT SAT by AK Ramanujan SAT SAT From The Collected Poems of A K Ramanujan SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press. 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SAT SAT SAT SAT God's World SAT SAT By Edna St Vincent Millay SAT SAT From Collected Poems of Edna St.Vincent Millay SAT SAT Published by Harper Perennial SAT SAT SAT SAT I Thank You God SAT SAT By ee cummings SAT SAT From E.E Cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962 SAT SAT Published by Liveright SAT SAT SAT SAT As Kingfishers Catch Fire SAT SAT By Gerald Manley Hopkins SAT SAT From Hopkins SAT SAT Published by Everyman’s Library SAT SAT SAT SAT The Red Koran SAT SAT By Mena Abdullah SAT SAT From Songs for All Seasons: 100 Poems for Young People SAT SAT Published by Angus and Robertson SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Psalm 139 SAT SAT Taken from the King James Bible SAT SAT SAT SAT Psalm 92 SAT SAT Taken from the King James Bible and track 3 from the CD SAT ‘Music of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue’ SAT SAT Label: Folkways Records SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 MARCH 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b05mpp5j (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Beautiful Thing b05mpwf1 (Listen) SUN A short story about emigration, backstory and new beginnings SUN by Kit de Waal. Read by Burt Caesar. SUN SUN "I met my father in 1969 when I was ten, I don't mean we SUN were estranged; he lived with us, I saw him every day. But SUN one evening, at the kitchen table, while he polished his SUN heavy winter boots, he started talking about coming to SUN England and the day he got off the boat and I saw then he SUN had a life that stretched back before I was born. So that's SUN how I met him and this is what he told me..." SUN SUN Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and SUN Kittian father. She worked for fifteen years in criminal and SUN family law and writes about the urban underbelly, the SUN forgotten and overlooked. Kit de Waal's short stories have SUN been shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Prize 2014 , the SUN Bath Short Story Prize 2014 and longlisted for the Bristol SUN Prize 2014. She won the Readers' Prize at the Leeds Literary SUN Prize 2014 and the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction 2014. SUN Her first novel 'My Name is Leon' will be published by SUN Penguin in Spring 2016. SUN SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Burt Caesar SUN Writer: Kit de Waal SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05mpp5q (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05mpp5x (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05mpp61 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b05mpp65 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b05mpwf3 (Listen) SUN The bells of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wambrook SUN in Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b055gccd (Listen) SUN Quentin Letts SUN SUN Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Transcript SUN SUN LENT TALK SUN SUN SUN SUN GLOOMY Lent is a time of arid introspection and self-denial. SUN But are we missing a sentimental trick? The arts, SUN particularly theatre, can lure us to a more tangible, earthy SUN understanding of what is, after all, a dramatic story. SUN SUN This time last year our parish in Herefordshire was in SUN panicky late rehearsals for a medieval-style Mystery play. SUN The village of How Caple has 100 souls and my amateur SUN production used 30 of them. By the time of our performance SUN on Holy Saturday most of us had, I think, a greater grasp of SUN the humanity of the Biblical narrative from Eden to the SUN Resurrection. SUN SUN Dairy farmer Will and his wife Debbie played Adam and Eve, SUN scampering round our English country graveyard in nude suits SUN with Velcro fig leaves. Lucifer was one of our church SUN wardens, Charles. Caroline, head of sixth form at a local SUN school, gave a tender interpretation of Mary Magdalene. SUN Jesus was played by my skinny teenage son Claud. SUN SUN Centuries ago, Mystery or Miracle plays were performed SUN outdoors in towns such as Wakefield and Chester. Staged by SUN the guilds, they broke down the Bible into domestic scenes, SUN told in rhyme with slapstick and melodrama. Crowds would SUN gasp as they beheld Abraham about to slit the throat of his SUN boy Isaac; later came the sacrifice by God of His own Son. SUN Fourteenth century citizens swooned at the visceral thrill – SUN crucifixion victims groaning on their crosses, stage blood SUN dripped from Our Lord's wounds. SUN SUN Gullible medievalites, you may say. Some people consider SUN vivid renditions of the Passion to be somehow vulgar, as Mel SUN Gibson discovered with the critical hammering given to his SUN 2004 film, The Passion of The Christ. Dramatisation can be SUN potent, though. And is Lent not a season with innately SUN theatrical rhythms? SUN SUN A few years ago I attended a Mystery play in the ruins of SUN Coventry cathedral. Spectators wept as Christ’s limp body SUN was lowered from the Cross. I wept with them. We had seen SUN raw suffering amid Lent's bony intellectualism. SUN SUN Then there was a Holy Week in Santiago de Compostela, SUN northern Spain. At dusk the city's narrow streets filled for SUN a strange spectacle: a procession of white-hooded figures. SUN Sacred statues were carried through the throng amid incense SUN and a susurration of prayers. Staves were struck on cobbles SUN as the procession stopped for the Stations of the Cross. SUN That procession seized one's innards, accentuating the SUN mystery of late Lent. SUN SUN The English Mystery genre allows a writer to depart SUN Scriptural orthodoxy to flesh out minor characters. SUN Battleaxe Mrs Noah makes us consider afresh the doggedness SUN of her husband. Then there is Procula, wife of Pontius SUN Pilate. Troubled by a nightmare on the eve of the SUN Crucifixion, she frets. Her trembling fingers run over her SUN chin as she begs her husband to show clemency to the SUN prisoner Christ. Writing our village show, I saw how holy SUN text could spring off the page, take a detour and become all SUN the more involving. SUN SUN Our show had rudimentary production values yet it worked. SUN Gill, a stalwart of a neighbouring parish, made a tremendous SUN Mrs Noah, a real Norah Batty. When the Bible story reached SUN the Gospels, something more doleful took grip. The story of SUN Jesus follows the arc of a classic stage tragedy. The SUN inescapability of his fate acquires a force of its own. SUN SUN There is a foreboding from the Abraham/Isaac story in SUN Genesis. Shakespeare's Hamlet offers us a scarcely more SUN cheerful father-son story. The closer young Hamlet edges to SUN his demise, the bleaker Elsinore becomes. Ophelia drowns, SUN war beckons, Denmark rots. Shakespeare understood the SUN dramatic force of gathering gloom. As the hymn writer puts SUN it, 'the darkness falls at Thy behest'. SUN SUN In the Church year, Lent becomes increasingly dank. Altars SUN are stripped back to cold stone. The Gloria is omitted. SUN Priests wear black and psalms become penitential dirges. The SUN longer this lasts, the more our senses tingle to a dramatic SUN pitch. The spare, ascetic nature of Lent makes Easter's joy SUN all the more blindingly radiant. SUN SUN By happy chance, this suits our climate's seasons: with the SUN end of winter's siege, flowers appear, the daffodils and SUN 'Easter’s primrose tide of praise' as John Betjeman put it. SUN They are less fortunate in southern hemisphere countries. It SUN must be an odd thing to celebrate Easter in autumn. SUN SUN Is it disrespectful to compare Holy Week to a drama? I hope SUN not. Drama can be a form of high art, illustrating elusive SUN truths by means of plot and personality. From Palm Sunday to SUN Easter morning, the Passion has everything required of great SUN theatre. Misfortune's screw tightens. There is betrayal, SUN political manipulation, heroic determination, death. Christ SUN gives up the ghost at Golgotha - the field of skulls, which SUN may take us back to poor Yorick. And then, if we can hop to SUN another Shakespeare tragedy, there is a storm, cataracts and SUN hurricanoes, the heavens opening. This was the moment in SUN that 1965 film, 'The Greatest Story Ever Told', that John SUN Wayne says 'truly, this man was the son of God'. Hollywood SUN may have hijacked the line but it is there in Matthew and SUN Mark, albeit without the Texan accent. SUN SUN Dramatic plots tend to be sparked by an arrival. Holy Week SUN opens with Palm Sunday, Christ entering the city on SUN horseback – on a ‘colt’, the King James version tells us. SUN The Gospel writers scratch away with their inky quills but SUN the dramatist can show us Jesus’s hand patting that colt and SUN dust rising from its coat. It would not be the only dust He SUN disturbed that week. SUN SUN We churchgoers treasure the Bible – to ‘treasure’ it seems SUN more Anglican than a vehement ‘revere’ – but the Good Book's SUN account of first-century Jerusalem is a little dry. The SUN writing is more FT than middle-market tabloid. The Bible SUN does not give us much ‘colour’ – the sights and smells of SUN the city, the clamour of the tradesmen’s calls, the dung and SUN detritus in the streets. SUN SUN Depicting this story in a theatrical way can emphasise the SUN teeming disorder of the world Christ came to save. Ancient SUN Jerusalem did not have beeping taxis and traffic jams but it SUN must have been pungent and cacophonous. Christ's message SUN provides dramatic contrast. Amid the bleating goats and SUN spice stalls and the rough-armed soldiers, this prophet SUN talks soothingly of peace and love. SUN SUN Theatre is not the only art that can help us. What of the SUN Last Supper? The Gospels only go so far. Take, eat, this is SUN my Body. Jesus lifts the cup and says - we hear it every SUN time in the Prayer Book communion service - 'drink ye all of SUN this'. I never know if that means all should drink it, or SUN knock back the lot, lads. Today's priests drain the last of SUN the wine. An ignoble part of us watches to see if they smack SUN their lips afterwards. SUN SUN The Last Supper's most celebrated depiction in art, by SUN Leonardo da Vinci, conveys little drama. Leonardo's upstairs SUN room has the rigid lines of a multi-storey carpark. I prefer SUN Tintoretto’s bustling Last Supper. A kitchen helper is in SUN the foreground, packing dishes. A cat pokes its whiskers SUN into the dirty plates. SUN SUN Tintoretto's painting says 'this happened, this was human'. SUN The Passion should not be muffled by hesitant politeness. SUN Let it surge, pulsate, brim with life. These disciples must SUN have been excited and fearful about the discreet rendezvous. SUN Imagining those days, re-creating them in drama or art, can SUN help us see the Passion anew. SUN SUN In our village mystery play I indulged in speculation about SUN the food served at that last supper: olives, hummus, baked SUN lamb. Rough Galileans would not have had twee table manners. SUN They might not even have had a table but probably squatted SUN on the floor. They had arrived for a feast yet Jesus told SUN them He was leaving. Were their beards still dripping with SUN wine when the awful news hit them? Did they claw at his SUN robes, begging him to stay? SUN SUN Betrayal is a boost to any theatrical plot. Holy Week has SUN Judas Iscariot, his name a byword for treachery. A shrewd SUN dramatist will not caricature Judas as evil. Merely to ham SUN him up, eyes a-gleam as he fingers his slivers of silver, SUN would be to throw away the character. It would not be SUN truthful to human nature. Judas had believed in Jesus but he SUN suffered doubts. Though Judas is now reviled, what Christian SUN can claim never to have had doubts? One of the worse SUN slanders on churchgoers of late has been this notion of SUN swivel-eyed certitude, this coarse, clumsy idea that 'faith' SUN pings on like an electric light bulb and that anyone who SUN attends church is ‘devout’. Tosh. Many of us go to church SUN hoping to believe, or because we are curious, or because we SUN enjoy the old hymns and the proper prayers. Belief may take SUN hold slowly, unevenly. SUN SUN Uncertainty is essential to faith. Without doubt, belief SUN becomes nothing more than factual obligation. Faith demands SUN a leap across a gap. Judas baulked at that gap, poor man. A SUN theatre director has a chance to show us this truth in SUN Iscariot. How long does it take Judas to realise that he had SUN made a ghastly mistake? How long does it take the Apostles SUN to forgive him? The Bible does not tell us. SUN SUN And then the mob scene – it appeals to the political sketch SUN writer in me – when the calculating Pilate bends to local SUN pressure. He ignores his wife and allows Jesus to be sent to SUN his death while petty criminal Barabbas walks free. In our SUN village play Pilate was played by John, a retired SUN businessman, who gave him a languid air, almost like Sgt SUN Wilson in Dad's Army, a man wearied by the heartless SUN populace. Today we might talk of politician Pilate operating SUN an ‘arms’-length principle’. A shrug. A sideways throw of SUN the eyes. Not his problem. What of Barabbas? The Gospels do SUN not tell us his expression when he is reprieved. What sort SUN of face is it: runtish, relieved, furtively guilty or coldly SUN careless of this Jesus who will be crucified in his place? SUN SUN There is an appetite for imaginative expansion on the SUN Gospels. Mystery plays have made a strong comeback in the SUN past decade. Recently I saw a Simon Callow one-man show SUN which gave dramatic life to various characters from Christ's SUN life. Novelist Colm Toibin in his short novel 'The Testament SUN of Mary' also indulges in this poetic licence. SUN SUN Toibin imagines Mary, mother of Christ, and the thoughts SUN that race through her mind. His Mary is a rustic. She SUN resents the followers who want to make her son a public SUN figure. Orthodox devotees might insist that, as a saint, SUN Mary would have been above such emotions. Yet I found SUN Toibin's humanisation of Mary terribly moving. SUN SUN Toibin's book was dramatised in a London production starring SUN the remarkable Fiona Shaw. She showed us a Mary puzzled, SUN pained by, the lifelong worries of motherhood. We are used SUN to images of the Virgin Mary with a halo, the Pieta with its SUN stoical forbearance. Toibin's more anguished representation SUN was gripping, believable, human. SUN SUN Our village play had two performers play Mary, one in SUN middle-age, one in her younger days. The latter was played – SUN nepotistic casting! - by my daughter Eveleen, then 15. Mary SUN at Bethlehem was not much older. My heart churned as I SUN watched my daughter's performance, just as it did during SUN Fiona Shaw's. Theatre, amateur and professional, took the SUN Gospels to another level. The Passion had become personal. SUN SUN Each year, Easter affects me more and it is the arts, with SUN their ability to humanise the spiritual, that have deepened SUN its meaning for me. Christmas may be a festival for children SUN but Easter - despite those chocolate eggs - is for older SUN people. In recent years, near the end of Lent, my wife and I SUN have joined a nearby choir to sing Stainer's 'The SUN Crucifixion'. It includes the tumultuous Fling Wide the SUN Gates as Christ enters Jerusalem. SUN SUN We Englishmen are not supposed to course with emotions, I SUN know, but, boy, my chin crumples during some of those SUN stirring Stainer choruses. Art, this time music, had done it SUN again. SUN SUN My parents used to run a Passiontide service of lessons and SUN hymns. My father always read the last lesson, from St John, SUN in which the women go down to the tomb the morning after the SUN Crucifixion. The village playwright in me imagines a dawn SUN mist mixing with the previous night's cooking fires. Is SUN there perhaps some birdsong? A dew on the grass? SUN SUN Mary Magdalene is distressed that the body has gone. Jesus SUN appears and says 'woman, why weepest thou?' In the words of SUN the Authorised Version, she, supposing Him to be the SUN gardener, says 'Sir, if thou has borne him hence, tell me SUN where thou hast laid him.' Jesus utters a single word: SUN 'Mary.' Recognising the inflexion of his voice, Mary lets SUN forth a cry of emotion, '"Rabboni", which is to say Master'. SUN What a scene. I can never hear the lesson read without SUN myself hearing the voice of my late father. At this height SUN of the Christian testament, the personal intervenes, SUN intertwines, accentuates. SUN SUN Lent's misery ends. 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SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b05mpp6t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b05mpp6w (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b05mpwff (Listen) SUN God's Grace Is Freely Given SUN SUN 'God's Grace Is Freely Given'. The fifth in a series of Lent SUN services, based on this year's Archbishop of Canterbury's SUN Lent Book - Desmond Tutu's, 'In God's Hands'. As Leicester SUN Cathedral prepares to lay to rest the mortal remains of King SUN Richard III, the service explores how - through Adam - sin SUN and death came into the world through one man; but it is SUN also through one man - Jesus Christ - that the free gift of SUN grace is given for all to gain eternal life. Worship is led SUN by the Dean, The Very Revd David Monteith, the preacher is SUN the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Tim Stevens. Young SUN singers from Leicester Cathedral's choirs are directed by SUN Christopher Johns and the producer is Rowan Morton-Gledhill. SUN Lent resources for individuals and groups complementing the SUN programmes are available on the Sunday Worship web pages. SUN SUN Leicester Cathedral 22/03/2015 SUN SUN BBC RADIO 4 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT: SUN “A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!” It’s 10 past 8 SUN and time to go live to Leicester Cathedral for Sunday SUN Worship, which marks the beginning of a historic week for SUN the city. The service is led by the Dean of Leicester, The SUN Very Revd David Monteith and begins with a chorus from SUN Handel’s ‘Messiah’. SUN SUN CHOIR INTROIT: SUN Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection SUN of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ SUN shall all be made alive. SUN SUN from The Messiah by GF Handel (1685-1759) 1 Corinthians SUN 15:21-22 SUN SUN THE DEAN: SUN Welcome to our Lenten morning worship from the Cathedral SUN Church of St Martin. Later today we will receive into this SUN cathedral the mortal remains of King Richard III who died in SUN this county at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 –famously SUN unhorsed as he was certainly by Shakespeare. His remains SUN were discovered in what has become known as ‘the Leicester SUN car-park’ but in fact these were the remains of the SUN Greyfriars Friary where he was hurriedly buried. SUN SUN English cathedrals convey a sense of history and an anointed SUN king like all God’s children deserves burial with dignity SUN and honour. But what does all this mean today? Why here? SUN And why now? SUN SUN Prior to public announcements two years ago the University SUN of Leicester carefully explained their findings and showed SUN me the many marks of battle on the King’s bones. That day I SUN returned to the cathedral moved by my proximity to history SUN yet disturbed by the evidence of the sheer brutality of SUN medieval war. SUN As I parked my car a man in a wheelchair asked me SUN directions. We chatted a little. He had lost a leg. He told SUN me that he was a returnee from Afghanistan. SUN SUN Suddenly the 500 year old experience of a medieval warrior SUN king and the life of our battle scarred contemporary SUN community came face to face. Facing death and injury, might SUN talk of hope be credible? SUN SUN Our first hymn speaks of the flesh and blood which fails in SUN Adam yet which prevails through the presence of God’s very SUN self in the life and death of Jesus. SUN SUN HYMN: Praise to the Holiest in the height SUN SUN SUN SUN DEAN: Let us pray: SUN SUN Most merciful God, SUN who by the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ SUN delivered and saved the world: SUN grant that by faith in him who suffered on the cross SUN we may triumph in the power of his victory; SUN through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, SUN who is alive and reigns with you, SUN in the unity of the Holy Spirit, SUN one God, now and for ever. SUN ALL: Amen SUN SUN DEAN: SUN In making ready the grave for King Richard we have SUN discovered that every day we walk over many human burials in SUN our medieval building. We are about to receive more human SUN remains into the heart of our community life. They will be SUN memorialised by a beautiful stone tomb which will be SUN revealed on Friday. SUN SUN This stone records a life (a man who was husband, brother, SUN father and king) yet it marks a death and the end of a SUN dynasty. Christians from earliest days understood death to SUN be part of life. So they brought their dead into the midst SUN of their churches. Death was part of the reality of being SUN Adam’s descendants, created yet vulnerable, destined for SUN eternity yet subject to decay. SUN Professor Sarah Hainsworth from the Engineering Department SUN at Leicester University helped us to understand much more SUN about King Richard’s battle wounds. She now reads from St SUN Paul’s Letter to the Romans chapter 5. SUN SUN SARAH HAINSWORTH: SUN Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, SUN and death came through sin, and so death spread to all SUN because all have sinned 13 sin was indeed in the world SUN before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no SUN law. 14 Yet death exercised dominion from Adam to Moses, SUN even over those whose sins were not like the transgression SUN of Adam, who is a type of the one who was to come. SUN 15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if the SUN many died through the one man’s trespass, much more surely SUN have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the SUN one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many. SUN 18 Therefore just as one man’s trespass led to condemnation SUN for all, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to SUN justification and life for all. 19 For just as by the one SUN man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one SUN man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. 20 But law SUN came in, with the result that the trespass multiplied; but SUN where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so SUN that, just as sin exercised dominion in death, so grace SUN might also exercise dominion through justification[f] SUN leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. SUN SUN CHOIR: Thou wilt keep him SUN Isaiah 26:3a, Psalm 119:11, 1 John 1:5b, Psalm 119:175a, SUN Matthew 6:13 SUN S.S. Wesley (1810-1876) SUN SUN DEAN: SUN SS Wesley’s anthem that we have just heard included these SUN words from the psalms – ‘the darkness is no darkness with SUN thee’. Death is our ultimate darkness. Tim Stevens, the SUN Bishop of Leicester now reflects on the death and reburial SUN of King Richard III. SUN SUN SERMON - PART 1 - THE BISHOP: SUN Terry Pratchett, who died last week, made Death into a comic SUN creation in his Disc World novels. Death wears a black SUN cloak, carries a scythe, and at the end of a day’s work SUN loves to murder a curry! Pratchett was realistic about his SUN own mortality as he came to terms with early onset SUN Alzheimer’s disease. He looked Death in the eye and invited SUN his readers to do the same. SUN SUN Today’s journey to retrace the last hours of King Richard’s SUN life, will remind us constantly of the nearness of death. SUN In the villages where many of the fallen in the Battle of SUN Bosworth are buried, we will be remembering the hundreds of SUN young men who lost their lives that day. SUN SUN At the Battlefield we will be painfully alert to the cruelty SUN and savagery of hand to hand combat in which limbs and bones SUN were severed and mutilated. Five hundred years later, SUN murderous beheadings and tragic downward spiral into civil SUN war remain all too familiar on our TV screens. SUN SUN St Paul was uncomfortably realistic about death. He sees SUN sin and death as built into our nature: an essential feature SUN of what makes us human. Whereas the archaeologists who SUN discovered Richard’s remains traced his descendants forward SUN seventeen generations to establish his identity, Paul traces SUN ours back to the beginnings of the human story. Adam is the SUN example of all human beings and the ancestor of all of us – SUN predisposed to self interest, the neglect of others and SUN ultimately the neglect of God which goes with it. These SUN built-in instincts lead to death – to rejection of the SUN abundant life for which God made us. SUN SUN When King Richard’s remains are carried into this Cathedral SUN this evening we shall be powerfully reminded of that. The SUN Service of Compline begins with the words “The Lord Almighty SUN grant us a quiet night and a perfect end”. Whether we are SUN kings and queens, whether powerful, wealthy, famous or (like SUN the great majority of humankind) unknown, uncelebrated and SUN unremarkable, our destination is precisely the same. To SUN pray the Service of Compline (as I did by the bedside of a SUN dying loved one recently) is to acknowledge the utter and SUN complete vulnerability of each of us in the face of death. SUN The words spoken on Ash Wednesday, at the beginning of this SUN Season of Lent: “Remember you are dust, and to dust you SUN shall return”, apply as much to fallen kings as they do to SUN you and me. SUN SUN The King will lie in repose in our Cathedral for three days SUN by the font – as a reminder of his status as a baptised SUN Christian. Some have questioned whether this is appropriate SUN for a controversial figure upon whom suspicion falls, not SUN least for the deaths of the Princes in the Tower. The fact SUN is that baptism is not a badge of superiority or even of SUN special virtue. Rather it is a sign of dying to self in SUN order to become open to other people and the life of Jesus SUN Christ. As Rowan Williams has written: “The gathering of SUN the baptised is not a convocation of those who are SUN privileged, elite and separate, but of those who have SUN accepted what it means to be in the heart of a needy, SUN contaminated, messy world. To put it another way, you don’t SUN go down into the waters of the Jordan without stirring up a SUN great deal of mud!” SUN SUN The words of Psalm 23 remind us now of the reality of death, SUN but point us also towards an unshakeable hope in God to SUN which we shall turn after the hymn. SUN SUN HYMN: The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want SUN Words: Psalm 23, Scottish Psalter, 1650 SUN Music: Brother James’s Air, James Leith Macbeth Bain SUN SERMON - PART 2 – THE BISHOP: SUN When Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Envoy, was SUN held hostage in Beirut in the 1980s, he received one SUN postcard during his five year’s of solitary confinement. It SUN showed a picture of John Bunyan, the seventeenth century SUN writer and prisoner of conscience, with a quotation from St SUN Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians: “My Grace is all you need, SUN power is most fully seen in weakness.” The reminder of the SUN Grace of God sustained the solitary hostage for years. SUN SUN King Richard’s path to the throne involved conflict and the SUN removal of competitors, just as his desire to protect the SUN Crown led him to battle and death. It is natural for us to SUN imagine that God’s power is like human power only in a SUN greatly magnified version: as if God behaves as we would do SUN if we were running the universe. SUN This is the greatest mistake religious people can make about SUN God. It is a widespread, tragic and sometimes deadly SUN error. Indeed Rowan Williams again has written: “The death SUN of Jesus is the price paid to abolish and uproot that SUN fantasy.” In this season of Passiontide we keep returning SUN to a troubling, even devastating picture of Jesus’s kingship SUN – riding on a donkey into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and SUN eventually nailed to a cross wearing a crown of thorns. SUN This image recalls us again and again to what Christians SUN believe is the heart of God’s nature – declaring himself to SUN us in the dying, failed and abandoned Jesus. SUN SUN The words sung by the choir at the start of our service: SUN “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made SUN alive” lie at the heart of Paul’s understanding of death and SUN resurrection. In the Letter to the Romans he contrasts SUN human sinfulness, focussed in Adam, with God’s grace SUN focussed in Jesus Christ. Paul is saying that the gift of SUN Jesus is God’s answer to all the accumulated sins and guilt SUN of all the ages. SUN This means that it is not just the Battle of Bosworth, nor SUN the bombing of Dresden, nor the rape and abuse of innocent SUN people in Syria, nor the savage deaths of Christians at SUN worship in Pakistan, nor any other human wickedness that SUN shall ultimately be answered by judgement rather than God’s SUN grace. Miracle of miracles, God’s grace is infinitely more SUN effective than human sin. SUN SUN Paul goes on to say that the unspeakable generosity of SUN divine grace will not just end the reign of death, but it SUN will actually make those who receive its riches to become SUN kings themselves, to live the truly kingly life planned by SUN God for all of us. SUN SUN As the dead King’s coffin lies at the place of baptism in SUN this Cathedral during this week, we hope that those who come SUN to pay respects will reflect on this. All through history SUN God has tended to choose people who were spectacularly SUN unholy, even weak, for His purposes. Abraham, Moses, King SUN David were all flawed characters. In the New Testament we SUN find Jesus eating and drinking with prostitutes and tax SUN collectors with a reputation for being a friend of sinners. SUN SUN It has therefore never been, nor will it ever be through SUN merit that we are chosen to share God’s life, but simply, SUN purely and breathtakingly through God’s grace. It is all SUN gift, unmerited, unlimited and extravagant. As Paul puts it SUN “One man’s act of righteousness, leads to justification and SUN life for all.” SUN SUN Our life’s work is the daily conversion to the acceptance of SUN this truth. As we pray for King Richard’s soul today and SUN commend him to God’s mercy this week, it is in that faith SUN and in that faith alone that we do so. SUN SUN CHOIR ANTHEM: God so loved the world SUN God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, SUN that whoso believeth in him should not perish but have SUN everlasting life. SUN Bob Chilcott (b.1955) John 3.16 SUN SUN DEAN: SUN God so loved the world - familiar words from John’s Gospel SUN set to music by Bob Chilcott. SUN Vera Britten wrote an account of her young life. Her memoire SUN - Testament of Youth is now a film. We meet a beautiful SUN young woman full of promise. But then we meet a life SUN completely turned upside down by the First World War. SUN She volunteered as a nurse and saw the brutal effects of SUN battle. She lost her lover, her brother and those dearest to SUN her. Like many who survived the War to end all wars she had SUN no illusions about it and so became a pacifist as more SUN conflict loomed in the 1930’s. One hundred years after the SUN start of World War 1 and five hundred years since the Battle SUN of Bosworth we still have not learnt the cost of war. SUN King Richard III died at Bosworth but so did countless of SUN his Yorkist men as did so many of Henry Tudor’s SUN Lancastrians. All now lie in the dust of the earth as SUN Richard will do again. In our prayers we remember the pain SUN of war and our suffering world. Listeners are following SUN Desmond Tutu’s Lent book – and you can find resources for SUN individuals and groups complementing the broadcasts on the SUN ‘Sunday Worship’ web page. SUN And so we use a South African Xhosa chorus which means ‘your SUN will be done’: SUN Let us place our concerns ‘In God’s hands’: SUN SUN DIANA BELTON: SUN God of our story, we give thanks for our history; the good SUN and the bad that has shaped our national life. Help us to SUN learn and grow as we understand it better. We pray for your SUN blessing on all who will gather here as we rebury Richard, SUN Duke of Gloucester and former king. Guide Her Majesty the SUN Queen and all who govern us today. We pray for God’s grace: SUN SUN CHOIR: Mayenziwe ’ntando yakho SUN SUN ANNE REDDECLIFFE: SUN God of our suffering, we pray for all who are physically or SUN emotionally scarred from battle and for those who have lost SUN loved ones in active service and modern day conflicts SUN (including….). We pray for reconciliation between people, SUN faiths, cultures and traditions that the rivalries and SUN bitterness of the past might be healed. We pray for God’s SUN grace: SUN SUN CHOIR: Mayenziwe ’ntando yakho SUN SUN SUN DIANA BELTON: SUN God of our future, we entrust our lives to your SUN compassionate heart. We pray that we might live more in the SUN light of your Son’s mercy than in the shadows of our own SUN failures. When our strength wearies, meet us through your SUN Spirit and help us to trust the loyalty which binds all SUN together, Jesus Christ, the one who makes grace available SUN freely to us all. SUN SUN ANN REDDECLIFFE: SUN So as the friends of Jesus throughout time have said, we SUN pray: SUN SUN Our Father who art in heaven, SUN hallowed be thy name. SUN Thy kingdom come. SUN 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, SUN and the power, and the glory, SUN for ever and ever. Amen. SUN SUN SUN DEAN: SUN In the middle of the 20th century, Canon WH Vanstone SUN ministered on housing estates in the North West of England. SUN He sought to find a faith and a way of speaking about it SUN which connected with people desperate for community and SUN hope. He wanted to speak of a suffering God who was SUN alongside his people rather than sitting far from them; a SUN God who knew the pain of Adam yet who could promise grace SUN and redemption. SUN Vanstone summed up this passionate God in a hymn, by SUN speaking of one who was not enthroned in easy state to reign SUN but instead with aching arms of love reached out in embrace. SUN As we bury a monarch here we sing of Christ the suffering SUN King. SUN SUN HYMN Morning Glory, starlit sky SUN SUN Words: WH Vanstone (1923-1999) SUN Music: Song 13 Melody and bass by Orlando Gibbons SUN (1583-1625) SUN SUN DEAN: SUN King Richard will be buried here with dignity and honour, SUN just across the road from where he has lain silently for SUN centuries. His story now speaks again. We are re-examining SUN his and our past. But this propels us to the present – not SUN just to his remarkable discovery and identification but to SUN the brutality of war, the need for reconciliation and to SUN trustworthy hope to carry us all to life eternal. SUN SUN + May all who died in the Wars of the Roses and all the SUN faithful departed through the love and mercy of God rest in SUN peace SUN SUN ALL: and rise in glory. Amen. SUN BISHOP: The Lord be with you. SUN ALL: And also with you. SUN SUN BISHOP: SUN God who from the death of sin raised you to new life in SUN Christ, keep you from falling and set you in the presence of SUN his glory; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the SUN Son and the Holy Spirit rest upon you this day and always. SUN ALL: Amen SUN SUN ORGAN: Song 13 Percy Whitlock (1903-46) SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b05j5r8l (Listen) SUN Trial by Select Committee SUN SUN Tom Shakespeare thinks our reformed Select Committees have SUN revitalised Parliament but he warns against the temptation SUN to play to the gallery and to cross examine unfairly. SUN "Their main business is the worthy task of holding the SUN government and the civil service to account, even if it's SUN more fun holding unpopular public figures' feet to the SUN fire." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tom Shakespeare SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03zr0ly (Listen) SUN Grasshopper Warbler 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 Kate Humble presents the grasshopper warbler. The reeling SUN song of the grasshopper warbler sounds more like an insect SUN than a bird. Like the paying out of an angler's line from a SUN reel, the grasshopper warbler's song spills out from the SUN bush or bramble clump in which he sits. You'll hear it most SUN often at dawn or dusk in overgrown scrubby or marshy areas. SUN SUN Grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b05mpx0c (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 b05mpx0f (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN SUN 11:16 Desert Island Discs b05mpx0h (Listen) SUN Pat Albeck SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer Pat SUN Albeck. SUN SUN Born in Hull, Pat went to art school there when she was 16. SUN In 1950, she earned a place at The Royal College of Art to SUN study textile design and moved to London. As Britain emerged SUN from the austerity of the war years, Pat began her career SUN designing bold and exciting fabrics for the fashionable SUN dress design company of the time, Horrocks. In the 60 years SUN that have followed, her designs have graced pottery, paper, SUN furnishing fabrics as well as over 300 tea towels - a record SUN which has brought her the unofficial title 'Queen of the Tea SUN Towel'. SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Pat Albeck SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b05mpp78 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b055g10q (Listen) SUN Series 71, Episode 6 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b05mpx0k (Listen) SUN Food Waste Pioneers SUN SUN Dan Saladino hears how three individuals are reimagining SUN 'food waste' - solving problems, discovering flavours, and SUN changing lives. SUN SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b05mpp7d (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b05mpx0p (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Young Behind Bars b05mpy9f (Listen) SUN The 2014 Government Paper 'Transforming Youth Custody' laid SUN out plans for the first Pathfinder Secure College next to SUN the Glen Parva Prison in Leicestershire. There will be a SUN head teacher at the helm and other fortified colleges will SUN follow, eventually replacing all existing youth offending SUN provision apart from the secure children's homes SUN SUN At present in the UK young people receive about 12 hours of SUN education a week, with research showing that over half of SUN the 15-17 year olds had literacy and numeracy levels of 7-11 SUN year old children. More than 80 per cent had been excluded SUN from school at some point and re-offending rates are around SUN 71 per cent 12 months after release SUN SUN Claims that education could be the key to reducing this come SUN from researchers in Missouri, where residential training SUN centres provide intensive education alongside life skills SUN and mentoring. Winifred hears from offenders there, who move SUN between different secure categories linked around a college SUN education. It isn't a cheap option, at £42,000 a head, but SUN the re-offending rate in follow up studies has been found to SUN be 16 per cent. SUN SUN America is one of the only countries with an incarceration SUN rate higher than the UK's: here we lock up less young people SUN now than we did a decade ago, but still have about 1,300 in SUN custody. In Finland, with just a dozen prisoners under 18, SUN there has always been a much bigger emphasis on education, SUN provided in six state run reformatories. It's a similar SUN picture in Norway, with youth centres introduced in 2011 for SUN those committing serious crimes. SUN SUN With access to the education currently going on in prisons SUN Winifred Robinson considers how the changes will work. SUN There's a year to get the UK's first fortified college up SUN and running but what do those most directly affected - the SUN young offenders and their families - feel about what is SUN planned and how have pressure groups and even local people, SUN reacted? SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b055jykf (Listen) SUN Oxford SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs this week's episode of the horticultural SUN panel programme from Oxford. Chris Beardshaw, Matt Biggs and SUN Pippa Greenwood answer questions from an audience of local SUN gardeners. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Chris Beardshaw with Raymond Blanc in the gardens at Le SUN Manoir, Oxfordshire SUN SUN SUN This Week’s Questions SUN Q. I have a dry and shady woodland area that is very SUN colourful in spring but struggles during the summer. How can SUN I relieve the gloom? SUN A. Pippa – It is not going to be easy for a lot of plants SUN once the trees are in leaf. Waldsteinia ternate with its SUN gorgeous bright yellow flowers may work there. Also try the SUN Lamiums such as Silver Beacon and White Nancy. SUN Matt – The Lamium album is lovely. Brunnera macrophylla or SUN Jackfrost could also work, providing blue flowers and heart SUN shaped leaves. They will need watering in and some care SUN beforehand. SUN Chris – Blechnums such as Chilensee are worth playing with. SUN Geranium nodosum climbs up many plants. The Martagon lily is SUN also wonderful. SUN SUN Q. Could the panel make some suggestions for a spreading SUN climber that will provide year round screening? It will be SUN on a north south-facing fence. It needs to be partly SUN self-supporting. SUN A. Matt - Clematis cirrhosa has evergreen, fern-like leaves SUN and lime green bells. Some of the Ivies, such as Hedera SUN colchica ‘Dentate’, would work and be easy to trim. SUN Chris – Itea ilicifolia has a fresh green colour with long SUN green tassles. Garrya elliptica has dark green leaves with SUN tassles and is winter flowering. SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b03kpkys (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations ranging from whether to SUN bring up your child as a vegetarian to whether to bring him SUN up with wolves. And then there's whether to be a father in SUN the first place, and the sacrifices and thrills involved if SUN you decide you will. The Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series SUN proves once again that it's surprising what you hear when SUN you listen. 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 15:00 Drama b05mq8wr (Listen) SUN A Fine Balance, Episode 1 SUN SUN Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about SUN India's underclass. SUN SUN Two tailors - uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om - come to the SUN city to escape from the caste violence in their native SUN village. They are employed by a Parsi woman, Dina Dalal, who SUN runs a sweatshop from her apartment and is struggling to SUN preserve her independence. She has a lodger too - a SUN reluctant student, Maneck, from the mountains. SUN SUN As their initial suspicion of each other turns to friendship SUN and then love, their lives take dramatic and often shocking SUN turns against a backdrop of India in crisis, during "the SUN Emergency" of the mid-1970s - a period marked by huge SUN political unrest and human rights violations. SUN SUN A comedy, a tragedy, and a story of the triumph of the human SUN spirit under inhuman conditions. SUN SUN Music: Sacha Putnam SUN Sound Design: Steve Bond SUN SUN Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel SUN by Rohinton Mistry SUN SUN Producer: Nadir Khan SUN Director: John Dryden SUN SUN A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dina: Shernaz Patel SUN Ishvar: Kenneth Desai SUN Om: Anand Tiwari SUN Maneck: Neil Bhoopalam SUN Rustom: Zafar Karachiwala SUN Ibrahim: Rajit Kapur SUN The Thakur: Jayant Kripalani SUN Ashraf: Darshan Jariwala SUN Nusswan: Farid Currim SUN Ruby: Anahita Uberoi SUN Narayan: Vivek Madan SUN Young Dina: Tirtha Kotrial SUN Young Ishvar: Eshan Savla SUN Young Narayan: Samar Uraizee SUN Ensemble: Jim Sarbh SUN Ensemble: Abhishek Saha SUN Ensemble: Meherangiz Acharya-Dar SUN Ensemble: Faezeh Jalali SUN Ensemble: Shivani Tanksale SUN Ensemble: Nadir Khan SUN Author: Rohinton Mistry SUN Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon SUN Adaptor: Kewel Karim SUN Producer: Nadir Khan SUN Director: John Dryden SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b05mq8wt (Listen) SUN Chigozie Obioma SUN SUN Alice Munro and Lydia Davis are two formidable masters of SUN the short story, but this month sees the re-issue of their SUN only novels, Lives of Girls and Women and The End of the SUN Story. Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature at SUN the University of East Anglia joins Mariella to discuss the SUN merits of their longer form fiction. SUN SUN We visit Paris in the springtime with a literary postcard SUN from the writer and publisher Paul Fournel. SUN SUN The young Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma talks about his SUN debut novel The Fishermen. Set in a small town in western SUN Nigeria, it combines the traditions of African storytelling SUN with a contemporary narrative of family, politics and SUN history. SUN SUN And as we looked to the skies on Friday, Open Book asked SUN astronomer turned writer Pippa Goldschmidt to gather SUN together the writers who have found inspiration in the SUN extraordinary celestial event of the solar eclipse. SUN SUN Read the first chapter of 'The Fishermen' by Chigozie Obioma SUN 'The Fishermen' Chapter 1 SUN by Chigozie Obioma SUN SUN Booklist SUN The Fishermen SUN by Chigozie Obioma SUN Lives of Girls and Women SUN by Alice Munro SUN The End of the Story SUN by Lydia Davis SUN The Reader SUN by Paul Fournel SUN SUN Next Week's Close Reading: 'The Garden Party' by Katherine SUN Mansfield SUN It's all the fault, she decided, as the tall fellow drew SUN something on the back of an envelope, something that was to SUN be looped up or left to hang, of these absurd class SUN distinctions. Well, for her part, she didn't feel them. Not SUN a bit, not an atom... And now there came the chock-chock of SUN wooden hammers. Some one whistled, some one sang out, "Are SUN you right there, matey?" "Matey!" The friendliness of it, SUN the - the - Just to prove how happy she was, just to show SUN the tall fellow how at home she felt, and how she despised SUN stupid conventions, Laura took a big bite of her SUN bread-and-butter as she stared at the little drawing. She SUN felt just like a work-girl. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Sarah Churchwell SUN Interviewed Guest: Paul Fournel SUN Interviewed Guest: Chigozie Obioma SUN Interviewed Guest: Pippa Goldschmidt SUN SUN 16:30 A Story I Am In b05mq8ww (Listen) SUN Hannah Lowe looks at the poetry of James Berry OBE, who came SUN to the UK from Jamaica in 1948. SUN SUN Berry started to write about his experiences and came to SUN play a key role in bringing Caribbean voices into British SUN poetry, editing two seminal anthologies, "Bluefoot SUN Traveller" and "News for Babylon". Now just turned 90, he is SUN slipping into the hidden depths of Alzheimer's Disease but, SUN as A Story I Am In shows, he is aware of people and nature SUN around him. SUN SUN Next Generation poet and academic Hannah Lowe, herself of SUN part-Jamaican origin, explores how James Berry's poems look SUN to his childhood in rural Jamaica, and reflect on the shock SUN of an England that didn't always know how to accept him. In SUN 1981, he won the Poetry Society's National Poetry SUN Competition for the best poem of the year. SUN SUN Fellow poets John Agard, Grace Nichols and Linton Kwesi SUN Johnson explain how Berry's work and the man himself came to SUN have such a strong influence on them, while Hannah Lowe SUN finds that the poems have helped her trace her own father's SUN journey from Jamaica to London. SUN SUN As James Berry developed ways to talk of his experiences SUN both in Standard English and Jamaican Patois, the poets SUN discuss how these ways of writing express different feelings SUN and outlooks. SUN SUN Using archive of Berry reading his own poems and talking SUN about how he came to write poetry, Hannah Lowe seeks out the SUN man and poet. What shines through is a man of great mental SUN strength - genial, kind and acutely aware of the flash SUN points between people. SUN SUN Producer: Emma-Louise Williams SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b055g8zh (Listen) SUN Sick of School SUN SUN Is the pressure on teachers reaching crisis point? SUN Record numbers are leaving the classroom and thousands of SUN teachers recently responded to the Government's workload SUN survey to say they were struggling with their workload. They SUN blamed the pressure of Ofsted inspections and pressure from SUN school management. SUN Official absence statistics are silent on the causes of sick SUN leave - but now File on 4 reveals new figures on the number SUN of teachers off long-term because of stress. SUN Jane Deith hears from those who say they were pushed to the SUN brink by the pressure - some suicidal and others SUN hospitalized or diagnosed with depression. SUN Teaching has always involved long hours and heavy workloads SUN but, with schools' performance open to unprecedented SUN scrutiny, some education academics argue that the SUN 'surveillance culture' is now seriously harming teacher's SUN health and their ability to provide high quality education. SUN Are they right? How alarmed should we be about the mental SUN well-being of our children's teachers? SUN Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Matt Precey. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b05jb86y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05mpp7z (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b05mpp83 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05mpp85 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b05mq8wy (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Sheila's picks this week include an Oscar winning sound SUN editor recreating a spacewalk, the World's Quietest New SUN Year's Day in Bali, an experiment to build Utopia that goes SUN a bit Lord of the Flies under darkening Scottish skies and SUN egg and chips - reggae style, as someone from a Reality SUN Cookery Show attempts to sing their recipes. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b05mq8x0 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:16 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01mx27b (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 SUN SUN John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, SUN regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things SUN like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his SUN hit sketch show. SUN SUN The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by SUN The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny SUN sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It SUN featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive SUN relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people SUN who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr SUN Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. SUN SUN This episode doesn't feature any of those things, but it SUN does feature a sketch about messengers, a sketch about the SUN history of alchemy and a sketch... Sketch? "Sketch"? Sorry, SUN you know when you repeat a word so often it starts to go SUN weird? "Sketch". Sketch! Ssssssketch. That's got it, better SUN now. Anyway, there's a sketch about that. SUN SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars SUN John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, SUN Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced SUN by Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Copenhagen Curios b05mq8x2 (Listen) SUN The Tallboy SUN SUN In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi SUN Amsinck, Copenhagen is a place of twilight and shadow. And SUN its antique shops are full of curiosity - and strangeness. SUN SUN Episode 2 (of 3): The Tallboy SUN Why is a rich woman so keen to offload her precious antique SUN tallboy at any price? SUN SUN Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, SUN has written numerous short stories for radio including Radio SUN 4's three-story set Copenhagen Confidential in 2012. A SUN graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, SUN University of London, Heidi lives in Surrey. SUN SUN Writer: Heidi Amsinck SUN Reader: Tim McInnerny SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Tim McInnerny SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Heidi Amsinck SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b055k3r4 (Listen) SUN On this week's programme with Roger Bolton: the BBC's Moscow SUN Correspondent Sarah Rainsford on reporting from Putin's SUN Russia, the Trust's review of BBC music radio and Radio 4's SUN Listeners' Elections. SUN SUN It's less than 50 days to go until this year's General SUN Election and BBC Newsrooms are delving into the big issues SUN of the economy and immigration. But now, Radio 4 wants to SUN break down the election issues that matter most to its SUN audience. The station is launching 'The Listener's SUN Election'. It calls for listeners to submit stories that put SUN the election campaigns into a more personal context. The SUN BBC's Political Correspondent Chris Mason, who's behind the SUN project, tells Roger how he hopes to reflect the UK's key SUN concerns. SUN SUN Should Radio 1 and 1xtra be making moves towards including SUN more speech in their output? Does Radio 2 need to vary its SUN specialist music programming? And is Radio 3 starting to SUN sound like Classic FM? These are some of the points raised SUN in the BBC Trust's review of all six music stations. The SUN findings of the review have now been published and Roger SUN talks to BBC Trustee Nick Prettejohn about the review. SUN SUN The journalists' lobby group Reporters Without Borders ranks SUN Russia at 152nd out of 176 countries in its Press Freedom SUN Index and the Russian authorities seldom if ever talk to SUN foreign press reporters, so how hard is it for the BBC's SUN Russian correspondent to report accurately? Sarah Rainsford SUN talks about the challenges of her job. SUN SUN And the BBC's School Report set a group of Sussex school SUN children the challenge of turning a newspaper headline into SUN a radio drama. We get a sneak preview of a Royal Pain in the SUN Parkside which finds Prince Harry pursuing a new career - on SUN a caravan site. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b055k3r2 (Listen) SUN Shaw Taylor, Arthur Wyatt, Naty Revuelta Clews, Malcolm SUN Fraser, Andy Fraser SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Shaw Taylor, the pioneering presenter of Police 5 and other SUN TV programmes about true crimes. SUN SUN Arthur Wyatt, the British diplomat in Iran who helped six SUN Americans to escape the siege of their embassy in 1979. SUN SUN Naty Revuelta Clews, the Cuban socialite who had a daughter SUN with Fidel Castro. SUN SUN The Australian Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser who SUN came to power after a constitutional crisis. SUN SUN And the bass player Andy Fraser, who co-wrote Free's hit SUN "All Right Now". SUN SUN Shaw Taylor SUN SUN Matthew spoke live to John Stalker, former Deputy Chief SUN Constable of Greater Manchester Police. SUN SUN Born 26 October 1924; died 17 March 2015 aged 90. SUN SUN Arthur Wyatt SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his daughter, Patricia Wyatt and to SUN Martin Williams, who knew Arthur Wyatt and was in the SUN American embassy at the time of the revolution. SUN SUN Born 12 October 1929; died 4 March 2015 aged 85. SUN SUN Naty Revuelta Clews SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Jonathan Hansen, a historian at Harvard SUN University who is writing a book about Castro’s younger SUN years. SUN SUN Born 6 December 1925; died 27 February 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN Malcolm Fraser SUN SUN Matthew spoke live in the studio to Megan Clement, former SUN political Editor of Conversation in Australia, now deputy SUN editor of The Conversation in the UK. SUN Born SUN 21 May 1930; died 20 March 2015 aged 84. SUN SUN Andy Fraser (pictured) SUN SUN Born 3 July 1952; died 16 March 2015 aged 62. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: John Stalker SUN Interviewed Guest: Patricia Wyatt SUN Interviewed Guest: Martin Williams SUN Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Hansen SUN Interviewed Guest: Megan Clement SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b05j92m4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b05mpwfc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b055g1jv (Listen) SUN Caring in the New Old Age SUN SUN Is it time to rethink how we care for older people, to SUN enable them to have fulfilling lives? SUN In recent years the media has highlighted terrible cases of SUN paid carers abusing and neglecting vulnerable, older people. SUN Is it now time for a more fundamental re-examination of how SUN society should care for older people? Much is made of the SUN poor status, low wages and lack of training of workers in SUN the care system. Why are older people entrusted to them in a SUN way which we would never allow for children? Should we SUN tackle the view that old age is simply a period of decline SUN that has to be managed rather than an opportunity for a SUN fulfilling final chapter of life? Sonia Sodha examines new SUN thinking from Japan, the US and closer to home about how SUN care might be done differently. And she considers whether we SUN need to change our approach to how we look after the elders SUN in our society. SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b05mq8x4 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b05mq8x6 (Listen) SUN Dan Hodges of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 TED Radio Hour b05mq8x8 (Listen) SUN Making Mistakes SUN SUN Guy Raz investigates why it is sometimes necessary to make SUN mistakes and face them head-on. With Brian Goldman. SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b05j5r8l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:48 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 MARCH 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b05mppb5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b055gbt8 (Listen) MON Love, Money and HIV in Kenya, Microbreweries MON MON Love, Money and HIV in Kenya. Laurie Taylor talks to Sanyu MON Mojola, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University MON of Colorado, and author of a study exploring how modern MON women in developing countries experience sexuality and love. MON Drawing on a rich variety of interview, ethnographic and MON survey data from her native country of Kenya, she examines MON how young African women, who suffer disproportionate rates MON of HIV infection compared to young African men, navigate MON their relationships, schooling, employment and financial MON access in the context of a devastating HIV epidemic and MON economic inequality. MON MON Also, Thomas Thurnell-Read, Lecturer in Sociology at MON Coventry University, discusses his study of microbreweries MON and the revival of traditional beer in the UK. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Thomas Thurnell-Read MON MON Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Coventry University MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Thomas Thurnell-Read MON MON Abstract: MON *Craft, tangibility and affect at work in the microbrewery MON * MON Emotion, Space and Society MON Volume 13, November 2014, Pages 46–54 MON doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2014.03.001 MON MON MON Sanyu A Mojola MON MON Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado MON Boulder MON MON Find out more from MON Sanyu A Mojola MON MON *Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the MON Age of AIDS MON *Publisher: University of California Press MON ISBN-10: 0520280946 MON ISBN-13: 978-0520280946 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b05mpwf3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05mppbb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05mppbd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05mppbg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b05mppbj (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05ndw0f (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Steve MON Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b05mqlpd (Listen) MON Rural political agena, RPA MON MON Labour MP and shadow secretary of state for the Environment MON Maria Eagle calls for more honesty from the government over MON the future of the sidelined new Rural Payments Scheme. She MON wants to know when the system will be working, or whether it MON might be scrapped altogether. Anne McIntosh is the MON Chairperson of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs MON committee. They'll be questioning both the Rural Payments MON Agency and DEFRA ministers on Wednesday about the RPA's MON computer problems. Anne says its a good time to rethink how MON the government roll out future IT systems when there are MON still gaps in England's broadband coverage. BBC Technology MON correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones tells Charlotte Smith that MON the government has run in to some big problems before with MON this sort of roll out.All week Farming Today will be talking MON to the main government parties about their rural agenda MON ahead of Mays general election, today its the turn of the MON Liberal Democrats Dan Rogerson. Presented by Charlotte MON Smith. Produced in Bristol by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:56 Weather b05mppbl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x46sm (Listen) MON Treecreeper 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 Bill Oddie presents the treecreeper. Treecreepers are common MON woodland birds but because their high-pitched almost MON whispering song, is often drowned out by the dawn chorus, MON they're often overlooked. The first glimpse may be a MON silhouette, its belly close to the bark, braced by stiff MON tail feathers. It has a curved, tweezer-like bill with with MON which it delicately probes for hidden insects and spiders MON deep in the crevices of the bark. MON MON Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) MON Webpage image courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b05mqpg8 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b05mqpgb (Listen) MON Susan Pinker on the benefits of face-to-face contact MON MON On Start the Week Susan Pinker argues that face-to-face MON contact increases longevity and reduces the risks of MON illness. She tells Anne McElvoy that although new technology MON connects more people, it can often leave us more MON disconnected. However the writer and gamer Nicholas Lovell MON explains that online gamers have their own sense of MON community. The philosopher Daniel Dennett considers whether MON it's possible to create a robot that can rival the human MON brain, and the poet Sam Riviere has used and manipulated the MON results of search-engines to compose his new collection: 72 MON poems marking the 72 days of Kim Kardashian's marriage in MON 2011. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Anne McElvoy MON Interviewed Guest: Susan Pinker MON Interviewed Guest: Nicholas Lovell MON Interviewed Guest: Sam Riviere MON Interviewed Guest: Daniel Dennett MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b05mqpgd (Listen) MON Boundless, Episode 1 MON MON Teresa Gallagher reads Kathleen Winter's story of her MON journey as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling MON through the Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as MON much an exploration of her own roots as a venture into the MON arctic ice fields. MON MON Episode 1: When a man called Noah invites you on a boat MON trip... MON MON Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When MON she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. MON Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and MON a newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short MON stories. Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was MON published in 2007 and her first novel 'Annabel' came out MON three years later. MON MON 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian MON literary prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the MON Rogers' Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's MON Award. This year, Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC MON Taylor Award for non-fiction. MON MON Abridged by Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b05mqpgg (Listen) MON Alexander McQueen, Gender Pay Reporting, Stylish Maternity MON Dressing MON MON Fashion designer Alexander McQueen through the eyes of his MON sister Janet, how to have the best dressed bump without MON spending a fortune, Helen Forrester's story of her 1930's MON Merseyside family and how it's become a musical and a now MON stage play, and are differences in pay between men women MON about to become more transparent? MON MON Alexander McQueen MON "I want people to be afraid of the women I dress” said MON fashion designer Alexander McQueen, whose work is the MON subject of the V&A’s major new exhibition, ‘Alexander MON McQueen: Savage Beauty’. MON Known to his family as ‘Lee’, Alexander McQueen’s career – MON first as chief designer at Givenchy, later going on to found MON his own label – saw the East End boy and unlikely darling of MON the fashion world become as well known for his ability to MON shock and provoke as for his creations. His extravagant MON runway shows featured Gothic makeup, dresses made from fresh MON flowers, towering heels, butterflies and amputee models, MON while his designs exaggerated silhouettes and made low-slung MON jeans fashionable. But the shows also invited controversy - MON with names like 'Cocaine Nights' and 'Highland Rape', MON critics labelled his work ‘misogynistic' – something he MON always denied. In February 2010, on the eve of his MON mother's funeral, he took his own life, aged just 40. MON Jane speaks to his sister Janet McQueen, and Andrew Wilson MON who has written a biography of the designer. MON ‘Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin’ by Andrew Wilson MON is out now, published by Simon & Schuster UK MON MON MON Equal Pay Audits MON MON How much women are paid in comparison to men working for the MON same organisation should become more transparent as a result MON of new legislation going through parliament this week. In MON future, companies employing more than 250 people will be MON forced to publish information about the difference in pay MON between men and women. Under the current voluntary system, MON companies aren’t obliged to publish gender pay gap MON information and only five have done so. TUC Head of Equality MON and Employment Rights Sarah Veale joins Jane to discuss what MON the law will mean in practice. MON MON Twopence to Cross the Mersey MON Best-selling author Helen Forrester’s book Twopence To Cross MON The Mersey told the story of her family, who were thrown MON into poverty during the Great Depression of the 1930s. After MON creating a successful musical, Rob Fennah has just written a MON play adaptation of the book. Rob talks to Jane about the MON appeal of the book, getting to know Helen Forrester and how MON the play differs from the original text. MON MON MON The Art of Maternity Dressing MON You’re over the moon, you’re having a baby. But thinking MON about not being able to fit into that little black dress you MON truly love and giving up all your trendy clothes is making MON you cry. You try to forget your partner’s advice about MON stocking up on some tents from IKEA which according to him MON would be just perfect… Do you need to change your entire MON wardrobe to feel and look good during pregnancy? Not MON anymore. The Duchess of Cambridge made headlines last week MON in a black and white polka dot maternity dress costing £35 – MON it was reported to have sold out online within minutes. Jane MON is joined by maternity fashion blogger Jessica Clark and MON stylist Melissa Murrell to discuss how to dress well during MON pregnancy and avoid spending a fortune on new garments. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05mqpgj (Listen) MON How Does That Make You Feel?, Episode 1 MON MON In 'How Does that Make You Feel?' we visit a group of people MON who all share one thing in common, a therapist called Martha MON and a growing set of neuroses which appear to be overtaking MON their wholly imperfect lives. MON MON A video clip of Richard Fallon MP sitting on and killing a MON Jack Russell Terrier has gone viral. People are barking at MON him in the street. So he's hired a new PR person named MON Genevieve and has developed a crush on her, even though MON she's a terrible bully, shouts at him, and has put him on a MON diet where he can only eat solid food three days a week. MON MON Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of MON Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio MON 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory MON of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her MON plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. MON She wrote Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and MON Shirley (the Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2 . She is MON currently writing a number of feature films and TV series MON for BBC 1. MON MON Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson MON Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON Credits MON Richard Fallon: Roger Allam MON Martha: Frances Tomelty MON Writer: Shelagh Stephenson MON Director: Eoin O'Callaghan MON MON 11:00 The 'Gay Cake' Affair b054ps0n (Listen) MON William Crawley tells the story of the so-called 'Gay Cake' MON row and the resulting 'Conscience Clause' proposal to amend MON Northern Ireland's equality legislation. MON MON It began last year when Ashers Baking Company in Belfast MON refused to make a cake bearing the legend 'Support Gay MON Marriage.' The firm defended their decision, stating the MON message on the cake was contrary to their Christian beliefs. MON The Northern Ireland Equality Commission responded by MON supporting an anti-discrimination case against the bakery. MON At the Stormont Assembly, a draft Private Member's Bill MON proposed a 'Conscience Clause' that would allow the refusal MON of goods and services on the grounds of strongly held MON religious beliefs. Opposition took to the streets of Belfast MON led mainly by gay activists and Sinn Féin. MON MON In a place where religion and sectarianism has dominated the MON debate for so long, new battle lines had been drawn between MON conservative and liberal voices in a changing Northern MON Ireland society. MON MON As the debate over the Conscience Clause intensifies and the MON case against Ashers goes to court, William Crawley asks how MON cases can be negotiated where there are competing sets of MON 'rights' at stake and if 'reasonable accommodation' can ever MON be achieved. MON MON Producer: Stan Ferguson. MON MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b01q8n0l (Listen) MON Series 3, Full Fathom Five MON MON Ronnie Corbett returns to Radio 4 for a third series of his MON popular sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. MON MON Ronnie plays Sandy Hopper, who is growing old happily along MON with his dog Henry. His grown up children - both married to MON people Sandy doesn't approve of at all - would like him to MON move out of the family home so they can get their hands on MON their money earlier. But Sandy's not having this. He's not MON moving until the dog dies. And not just that, how can he MON move if he's got a lodger? His daughter is convinced that MON his too attractive lodger Dolores is after Sandy and his MON money. MON MON Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a MON friendly word, a kindly hand on the shoulder, can really MON help a Grandad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog MON together face a complicated world. There's every chance MON they'll make it more so. MON MON Episode Four: Full Fathom Five MON Son-in-law Blake has secretly fitted Sandy's new wrist watch MON with a tiny transponder so that he knows exactly where Sandy MON is spending the family money. But when the watch is stolen, MON he jumps to the wrong conclusion. MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Sandy: Ronnie Corbett MON Dolores: Liza Tarbuck MON Ellie: Tilly Vosburgh MON Suki: Claire-Marie Hall MON Tyson: Daniel Bridle MON Writer: Ian Davidson MON Writer: Peter Vincent MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON MON 12:00 News Summary b05mppbn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b05mqqks (Listen) MON 23 March 1915 - Luke Lyle MON MON Joyce confronts two of her demons. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell MON Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron MON Josseff al-Assadi: Paul Chahidi MON Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell MON Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 12:16 You and Yours b05mqqkv (Listen) MON 118 numbers, National parks, Richard III MON MON The whopping bill run up by bureaucrats for a service that's MON free online. MON MON The hoarder who's opened a charity shop to sell the stuff he MON just couldn't throw away. MON MON How far should the 'friends' and voluntary support MON organisations go to help National Parks make ends meet- MON stump up for chunks of land? MON MON Has a new cap on a consumers liability for calls made on a MON stolen mobile phone been set too high? MON MON How good are the apps that can control heating in your home MON when you are not in MON MON As Richard the Third is laid to rest in Leicester - where MON else can see Monarchs tombs outside London. MON MON Hoarder's Shop MON Many of us are reluctant to throw things away if there's a MON chance they'll come in handy later. Godfrey Bennett from MON Newton Aycliffe in County Durham is like that. For the past MON fifty years his house, loft and garage have become MON increasingly cluttered with all sorts of odds and ends, MON but after an ultimatum from his wife, Godfrey has opened his MON own charity shop to dispose of it. MON MON 12:57 Weather b05mppbq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b05mqqkx (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Soundstage b05mtcrk (Listen) MON Midnight at the Oasis MON MON Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson introduces the first MON of five audio postcards, each of which is a time MON compression; a spectacular natural event which has been MON recorded over hours, days, weeks or even months but which is MON heard here, in less than 15minutes. The series begins in the MON Kalahari Desert. Between November and February summer MON temperatures reach over 40 degrees centigrade. To avoid the MON dry, desiccating heat much of the wildlife has developed MON nocturnal habits. Chris wanted to capture the sounds of this MON extreme and ancient environment at a time when he could see MON very little, but could hear everything. This meant recording MON the sounds of the Kalahari Desert from dusk until dawn. MON First we hear the sounds of the sand, as grains are driven MON up the sand dunes and over the summit by the scouring winds. MON As the afternoon passes, sidewinder snakes slither across MON the desert surface. Flash rainfalls create pools of water in MON the dry riverbed hollows which are exploited by flocks of MON namaqua sandgrouse. As the light fades there's a brief MON evening chorus of birdsong. After sunset, the dunes, grasses MON and thorn bushes are patrolled by an emerging alien empire; MON the insects, producing an astonishing wall of sound. Baked MON hard by the sun, the red sand and soil of the Kalahari acts MON as a sounding board at night for the far carrying and MON chilling calls of brown hyenas, and before sunrise Chris MON records the powerful territorial calls of a desert lion MON which he can hear but cannot see. Sunrise is rapid, MON accompanied by the displays of clapper larks, calling and MON beating their wings together. And after sunrise, the MON temperature soars once again and the animals retreat leaving MON the voice of the prevailing winds as they scour across the MON Kalahari desert. Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON Chris Watson MON MON Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School MON and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the MON influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret MON Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound MON recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees MON Television. Since then he has developed a particular and MON passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of MON animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As MON a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, MON Watson specialises in natural history and documentary MON location sound together with sound design in MON post-production. MON MON His television work includes many programmes in the David MON Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ MON which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. MON More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with MON David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which MON also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). MON MON Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio MON productions including; ‘ MON The Listeners MON ’ and ‘The Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press MON Guild’s Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012), NATURE, Tweet MON of the Day, and MON The Cliff MON http://www.chriswatson.net/ MON MON 14:00 The Archers b05mq8x0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b05mqrcv (Listen) MON Recent Events at Collington House, Episode 2 MON MON A battle of beliefs in a return to Collington House, a MON secondary school in the Midlands with a large proportion of MON students from Muslim families. MON MON Part 1 (first broadcast in August 2014 and to be repeated on MON Friday 20th March 2015) saw new head Roz Taylor's inclusive MON multi-faith approach at odds with the beliefs of Abdul MON Lateef Shah, one of the Muslim parent governors. MON MON Part 2 returns to the school some months later where the MON school governors are becoming increasingly polarised. MON MON This is a fictional drama that attempts to gets behind the MON news headlines, examines what is actually meant by MON "Islamisation" and considers how different faiths can MON co-exist in our schools on a day-to-day level. MON MON Written by Matthew Solon MON MON Researcher: Eva Kryslak MON Sound: Steve Bond MON MON Producer: Emma Hearn MON Director: John Dryden MON A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Roz Taylor: Heather Craney MON Abdul Lateef Shah: Neil D'Souza MON Jaffer n Sadiq: Sam Dastor MON John Roberts: Philip Jackson MON Mrs Barlow: Becci Gemmell MON PC Khan: Jaz Deol MON Mr Noorani: Rez Kempton MON PC Khan: Rez Kempton MON Ashik Naseer: Michael Karim MON Darren Barlow: Harry Kirton MON Director: John Dryden MON Producer: Emma Hearn MON Writer: Matthew Solon MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b05mqrcx (Listen) MON Semi-Final 1, 2015 MON MON (13/17) MON MON Which chemical element discovered by the Curies in 1898 is MON five thousand times as radio-active as radium? Russell MON Davies has the answer - but do the competitors in this MON week's Brain of Britain? MON MON It's the first of the 2015 semi-finals, with three winners MON from the heats, and one of the top-scoring runners-up over MON the past three months, returning to play for a place in the MON Final. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b05mpx0k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Snow White and the Seven Signs of Ageing b05mqrcz (Listen) MON The Wicked Queen responds to grey hair and crow's feet by MON trying to take her competition out of the running with a MON poison apple. Cathy FitzGerald investigates whether there MON are more productive ways to deal with ageing. Can she rescue MON the Queen from the mirror's spell? MON MON Produced by Cathy FitzGerald MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b05mqrd1 (Listen) MON Confucianism MON MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss the revival of Confucianism in MON China. MON MON In 1966 the Red Guard in China sent a telegram to Mao tse MON Tung. "Dearest Chairman Mao," it read. "We have rebelled. We MON have torn down the plaque extolling "The teacher of ten MON thousand generations;" we have levelled Confucius' grave; MON and we have obliterated the statues in the Confucius MON Temple." By the time the Cultural Revolution had done its MON work, Confucianism which had dominated the religious and MON cultural life of China for over a millennium, seemed almost MON obliterated. But today it is making a comeback. The Chinese MON government is encouraging its study. What is going on? How MON can it be that a philosophy which was thought to be the MON embodiment of reaction is being hailed as a force of MON progress, MON Joining Ernie to discuss the New Confucianism are Dr Joachim MON Gentz, Chair of Chinese Philosophy and Religion at Edinburgh MON University: Thomas Chan, a member of ASHA, a group which MON focuses on inter faith dialogue: and Isobel Hilton, a MON journalist and editor of Chinadialogue.com MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b05mqrkh (Listen) MON With the latest news interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05mppbt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b05mqtj5 (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 7 MON MON Nicholas Parsons asks Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince, Paul MON Merton and Graham Norton to play Just a Minute this week. MON Subjects include 'Death and Taxes', The count of Monte MON Cristo' and 'Why We are Here'. They are here to attempt to MON speak without hesitation, repetition or deviation of course! MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Sheila Hancock MON Panellist: Robin Ince MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Graham Norton MON MON 19:00 The Archers b05mr9m5 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:16 Front Row b05mr9m7 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05mqpgj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 California: Paradise Lost b05mr9m9 (Listen) MON Historian Adam Smith discovers how the Golden State has long MON been shaped by conflicting visions of paradise - and what MON this can tell us about America. MON MON Adam visits the site of a gun battle, where, in 1880, a MON local farmers' land dispute with a railroad company exploded MON in bloody violence. MON MON The settlers were trying to defend their hard-won 'little MON Eden'. Railroad magnate Leland Stanford had a grand vision MON of an interconnected America. MON MON Each was a version of the American Dream - a vision of a MON better existence, won through hard work. But in California's MON golden land, these two dreams clashed. MON MON Adam argues that this is a story that has played out in the MON state ever since, because ever since its 19th century birth, MON it has been seen as the ultimate place for Americans to go MON to make a new, better life. But one person's version of the MON good life is not always compatible with another's. MON MON And if you can't hold on to paradise in California, what's MON left? MON MON Adam explores how, through the twentieth century, millions MON moved to California and created new 'little Edens' in the MON suburbs - but how these were often based on racial MON exclusion. MON MON He meets Dorothy Mulkey, an African-American woman whose MON dream of a new apartment in 1960s Orange County led her to MON spend years battling against legalised racism in housing - MON ending in victory in the Supreme Court. MON MON Meanwhile, a radically different version of paradise was MON conceived in the hippie enclaves of San Francisco - and MON rapidly found itself at war with the suburban version of the MON good life. MON MON Adam discovers how, in today's San Francisco, two legacies MON of the city's revolution are banging into each other. It has MON long been home to many kinds of 'outsiders' - not least gay MON people. MON MON But now many feel the tech boom, based in Silicon Valley, is MON challenging the ecosystem that makes the city special. MON MON And finally, moving between opposed groups of protestors in MON a square in Santa Barbara, each yelling slogans at the MON other, Adam explores how new laws making life easier for MON illegal immigrants are stirring a debate about the very MON nature of California, and America, drawing on centuries of MON history. MON MON Is the hope so long invested in America in general and in MON California in particular, he asks, one reason why MON disagreements there can take on such intensity? MON MON Contributors include: Robin Hvidston, Isabel James, Tommi MON Avicolli Mecca, Lisa McGirr, Dorothy Mulkey, Becky MON Nicolaides, Rick Perlstein, Stephen Schwartz, Sonja Trauss. MON MON Dr Adam Smith is a British historian of America, based at MON University College London. MON MON PRODUCER: PHIL TINLINE. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b05mr9mc (Listen) MON Two-Nation Britain MON MON Jeremy Cliffe of The Economist asks if our real political MON divide is between those who feel comfortable in liberal, MON diverse, urban Britain and those who do not - the MON cosmopolitans vs the rest. He argues that the success of MON UKIP is one sign of this division. At one end are the MON cosmopolitans - comfortable in diverse Britain, urban and MON socially liberal. At the other end are the MON non-cosmopolitans, who tend to be older, white, and socially MON conservative, This new divide poses a serious problem for MON the established political parties. How can they appeal to MON one side without alienating the other? And what role does MON the traditional left-right split play? MON Producer: Lucy Proctor. MON MON 21:00 Restarting the Antibiotic Pipeline b055g5j9 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In the first part of this two part series, science MON journalist Roland Pease looks at the key scientific issues MON behind why increasing numbers of antibiotic drugs are MON becoming useless. He examines the disturbing lack of new MON drugs that are becoming available to doctors to replace the MON obsolete ones. MON MON The discovery and deployment of antibiotic drugs in the mid MON twentieth century led some medics to predict the end of MON infectious diseases. But the bacteria fought and continue to MON fight back, evolving resistance to many of the drugs that MON used to kill them. MON MON Public health officials warn that without new drugs, MON medicine will return to the days where 'a cut finger on MON Monday leads to death of Friday'. Without protective MON antibiotics to keep infections at bay, scores of standard MON surgical operations, chemotherapy for cancer, organ MON transplants and kidney dialysis will become too risky. Sally MON Davies, the chief medical officer for England, has described MON this scenario as the end of modern medicine and has compared MON the dangers of the antibiotic crisis to threat from MON international terrorism. MON MON The injudicious use of these drugs means that MON antibiotic-resistant forms are now everywhere. Human bodies, MON rivers and soils are environments where antibiotic-resistant MON forms can flourish in the absence of drug-susceptible MON bacterial brethren. MON MON The problem is a global one and the conditions which MON encourage the emergence of resistant bugs exist in many MON environments, not just in patients and on unclean hospital MON floors. Liz Wellington of the University of Warwick monitors MON the prevalence of antibiotic resistant bugs lurking in the MON mud of rivers in the UK. They've got there from us via the MON UK's sewage systems. MON MON Prevalence of some drug-resistant bugs is high enough in MON British rivers but the situation in rivers such as India and MON China is "horrendous" according to Liz Wellington. One MON pharmaceutical factory in China was found to be flushing MON extraordinary amounts of the antibiotic fluoroquinolone into MON a local river. The quantity dumped by this one factory every MON day was equal to the amount consumed by all the patients in MON Scandinavia in a year. MON MON With international air travel, resistant bacteria which MON emerged after this level of exposure in China could be in MON Copenhagen, Stockholm or London within 24 hours. MON MON While the wider world is awash in antibiotics and antibiotic MON resistance is on the rise, there is little comfort to be MON gained from looking at the prospects for new drugs coming to MON the market. The last new class of antibiotic was discovered MON in a lab the 1980s and it took almost 30 years to get to the MON clinic. Most new drugs coming to market are chemical MON variants of existing types of drugs. MON MON After his young son almost died of a multidrug-resistant MON infection following appendicitis, medicinal chemist Michael MON Kinch looked at the historical trends in antibiotic MON invention by the pharmaceutical industry since the mid 20th MON century. There was a sharp decline 15 years ago. From the MON 1950s through to the end of the 1990s, three new antibiotic MON medicines came onto the market every year. In the first MON decade of the 21st century, the number plummeted to one new MON drug every other year - a sixfold decrease. Even worse, MON antibiotics are falling out of use at twice the rate of new MON ones are becoming available to doctors. MON MON More bad news comes from Professor Laura Piddock at the MON University of Birmingham, the scientific task of inventing MON novel kinds of antibiotics is much more challenging than it MON once was: "The low hanging fruit has been picked". MON MON (The second part of the series will look at why MON pharmaceutical companies have turned away from antibiotic MON research and development, and ideas now being discussed by MON government and industry to restart the antibiotic pipeline MON and avert the looming resistance crisis.). MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b05mqpgb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b05n89qn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b05mrc53 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05mrdn7 (Listen) MON The Leipzig Affair, Episode 6 MON MON A tale of love, betrayal and redemption in the dying days of MON the Cold War. Set in Germany both in the years before the MON fall of the Berlin Wall as well as post-unification, and MON encompassing the excesses of life in 1980's Britain. MON MON Bob McPherson is Scottish and unemployed. He lost his MON highly-paid job in the City because of his alcoholism. His MON counsellor at the Alcohol Advisory Service suggests he look MON back to a pivotal point in his life - Leipzig in the 1980s, MON when the GDR held its citizens in an iron grip. MON MON Naive, and innocent of the machinations of the East German MON state, Bob embraces life as a PhD student at Leipzig MON University. There he falls in love with Magda Reinsch, a MON student with secret plans to escape to the West. MON MON As their love affair deepens, Magda and Bob are drawn into a MON web of deception and betrayal. In a country where the Stasi MON is always watching, no-one is quite who they seem and MON everyone has their price. MON MON Bob leaves the GDR thinking he is responsible for a man's MON death and that he lost Magda because of it. Now, in MON revisiting the past, Bob may be able to uncover the truth of MON his Leipzig Affair. MON MON Episode 6: MON Bob uncovers more of Magda's past but she is still keeping MON secrets from him and life in the GDR is getting dangerous MON for them all. MON MON Fiona Rintoul is a financial journalist and translator. The MON Leipzig Affair is her first novel, and won the 2013 Virginia MON prize for the best new fiction by a woman writing in MON English. MON MON Readers: Douglas Henshall and Indira Varma MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Douglas Henshall MON Reader: Indira Varma MON Author: Fiona Rintoul MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON MON 23:00 Couples b05mrdn9 (Listen) MON A new semi-improvised comedy show written and performed by MON Julia Davis and Marc Wootton. They portray a series of MON couples in therapy with the renowned therapist Dr Tanya MON Ray-Harding, as played by Vicki Pepperdine. MON MON Written and Performed by Julia Davis and Marc Wootton. With MON Vicki Pepperdine. MON MON Produced by Ashley Blaker MON A Black Hat production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Julia Davis MON Actor: Marc Wootton MON Dr Tanya Ray-Harding: Vicki Pepperdine MON Producer: Ashley Blaker MON Writer: Julia Davis MON Writer: Marc Wootton MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b05mrm50 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 MARCH 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b05mppd0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b05mqpgd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05mppd2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05mppd4 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05mppd6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b05mppd8 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05mrmft (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Steve TUE Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05mrmfw (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x472x (Listen) TUE Peregrine 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 Bill Oddie presents the peregrine. The peregrine is a truly TUE awesome predator and a bird that we associate with wild TUE places where, with wings flickering like knife-blades, it TUE chases its prey in thrilling pursuits and breath-taking TUE dives. Our city churches, cathedrals and other tall TUE buildings are a perfect substitute for cliffs and quarries TUE where they like to nest and with a plentiful supply of town TUE pigeons they're thriving in these artificial eyries. TUE TUE Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05mrn27 (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 b05mrn29 (Listen) TUE Sarah-Jayne Blakemore TUE TUE Until recently, it was thought that human brain development TUE was all over by early childhood but research in the last TUE decade has shown that the adolescent brain is still changing TUE into early adulthood. Jim Al-Khalili talks to pioneering TUE cognitive neuroscientist Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore who TUE is responsible for much of the research which shows that our TUE brains continue to develop through the teenage years. She TUE discusses why teenagers take risks and are so susceptible to TUE influence from their peers as well as her childhood growing TUE up with the constant threat of attacks from animal rights TUE groups. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b055g5j3 (Listen) TUE Christina Lamb talks to Adam Hargreaves TUE TUE Christina Lamb is an author and foreign correspondent for TUE the Sunday Times. TUE TUE Her career kicked off when she met Pakistan's then TUE opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. Christina was fascinated TUE by the fact that she had no choice but to take over her TUE father's party when she was just 24 years old after he was TUE arrested and then executed. TUE TUE In this series of One to One, Christina explores the idea of TUE family legacy. TUE TUE Almost everyone is familiar with the Mr Men, the pocket-size TUE books that have caught the imagination of children over the TUE past 40 years. TUE TUE In the first of three programmes, Christina talks to Adam TUE Hargreaves, whose father was Roger Hargreaves, the creator TUE of the Mr Men and Little Miss series. What was it like TUE growing up with his father's fame and fortune? And she finds TUE out how he made the decision to continue his father's TUE legacy. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05nv8l1 (Listen) TUE Boundless, Episode 2 TUE TUE Teresa Gallagher reads Kathleen Winter's story of her TUE journey as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling TUE through the Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as TUE much an exploration of her own roots as a venture into the TUE arctic ice fields. TUE TUE Episode 2: A Viking Funeral. TUE TUE Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When TUE she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. TUE Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and TUE a newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short TUE stories. Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was TUE published in 2007 and her first novel 'Annabel' came out TUE three years later. TUE TUE 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian TUE literary prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the TUE Rogers' Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's TUE Award. This year, Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC TUE Taylor Award for non-fiction. TUE TUE Abridged by Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Teresa Gallagher TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE Author: Kathleen Winter TUE Abridger: Pete Nichols TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05mrn2d (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05mrn2g (Listen) TUE How Does That Make You Feel?, Tony TUE TUE In 'How Does that Make You Feel?' we visit a group of people TUE who all share one thing in common, a therapist called Martha TUE and a growing set of neuroses which appear to be overtaking TUE their wholly imperfect lives. TUE TUE In today's session Martha is expecting Howard for his TUE session but is astonished to find that a man named Tony has TUE turned up instead. TUE TUE Tony is Howard's boss at the restaurant and his wife thinks TUE he needs therapy. He has no idea why. Mostly he wants to TUE talk about why women are so weird and why he has absolutely TUE no need of a therapist. However he would like Martha to give TUE him a certificate proving his sanity, if possible. TUE TUE Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of TUE Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio TUE 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory TUE of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her TUE plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote TUE Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the TUE Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2 . She is currently writing a TUE number of feature films and TV series for BBC 1. TUE TUE Tony ..... Tim McInnerny TUE Martha ..... Frances Tomelty TUE TUE Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson TUE Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE TUE Credits TUE Richard Fallon: Roger Allam TUE Martha: Frances Tomelty TUE Writer: Shelagh Stephenson TUE Director: Eoin O'Callaghan TUE TUE 11:00 Restarting the Antibiotic Pipeline b05mrptb (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Infectious bacteria are becoming resistant to the drugs that TUE used to kill them. The last new class of antibiotics was TUE discovered in the 1980s. There is little in the development TUE pipelines of the world's pharmaceutical industry. Drug TUE companies got out of antibiotics as their attention switched TUE to much more lucrative daily medicines for chronic diseases. TUE Public funding on antibiotic research has also withered. TUE TUE Now that the gathering crisis of antibiotic resistance is TUE becoming recognised by politicians, what are the options? TUE Roland Pease explores how business, academia and governments TUE might work together to avert a return to the medical dark TUE ages. TUE TUE 11:30 Same Tune, Different Song b05mrptd (Listen) TUE In Same Tune, Different Song, composer Debbie Wiseman TUE explores the world of the song lyricist, providing a rare TUE window into an age-old industry. With the lyricist Don TUE Black, famed for many songs including Diamonds Are For Ever, TUE Born Free and Thunderball, and also the lyricist Gary TUE Osborne who has regularly collaborated with artists such as TUE Elton John, Cliff Richard and Alice Cooper, we delve into TUE the processes of collaboration between the composer and the TUE lyricist. TUE TUE Debbie begins this exploration by presenting a standard song TUE melody she has written especially for this programme, to TUE both lyricists. Don Black and Gary Osborne then work on this TUE brand new song totally independent of each other. What TUE follows is an opportunity to see how different lyricists TUE from differing backgrounds work, and what problems they TUE encounter along the way. During the programme there is also TUE an opportunity to hear the results from each lyricist, TUE including a performance by Mica Paris. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b05mppdb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b05mrptg (Listen) TUE 24 March 1915 - Johnnie Marshall TUE TUE A man's job and a woman's honour hang in the balance. TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready TUE Alan Lowther: David Seddon TUE Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones TUE Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont TUE Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman TUE Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham TUE Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:16 You and Yours b05mrptj (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b05mppdd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05mrptl (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Soundstage b05mrptn (Listen) TUE St James' Park TUE TUE Our urban parks and gardens create green lanes and oases of TUE open spaces within our towns and cities. They are also TUE conduits for wildlife as well as for people. St James' Park TUE in Newcastle upon Tyne does have lush green turf but it is TUE less of an oasis and more of a battlefield because since TUE 1892 it has been the home of Newcastle United football club, TUE and so regularly pounds with the clamour of human voices. At TUE these times its anything but tranquil! On the northern TUE boundary is Leazes Park a formal Victorian park opened in TUE 1873. In this programme, Chris was keen to record the TUE changing soundscape across these two connected parks over TUE the course of a single day, match day. The recordings begin TUE at 3am in the city centre as revellers start to leave the TUE night clubs and make their way home; many of them crossing TUE Leazes Park. A trail of food cartons provide rich pickings TUE for mice which in turn are preyed upon by the park's tawny TUE owls and foxes. At 4am, a robin sings stimulated by the glow TUE of the street light. The first light of the day brings TUE joggers and then parents with children to the park, where TUE their excited chatter mingles with the calls of mallards and TUE coots on the lake. Over the next few hours the park and city TUE are transformed as fans gather for the match. Many arrive at TUE Newcastle Central Station where their enthusiastic and TUE almost deafening chants, are punctuated by the growls and TUE barks of police dogs. The fans are escorted to the stadium. TUE Inside, the match is an orchestra of sound as the voices of TUE the fans ring out with excitement and anticipation, TUE despondency and joy until the final whistle is blown. After TUE the match, the fans disperse, and then the real magpies, TUE return to the park to their night roost; their wild sounds TUE filling the air. Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE Chris Watson TUE TUE Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School TUE and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the TUE influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret TUE Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound TUE recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees TUE Television. Since then he has developed a particular and TUE passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of TUE animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As TUE a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, TUE Watson specialises in natural history and documentary TUE location sound together with sound design in TUE post-production. TUE TUE His television work includes many programmes in the David TUE Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ TUE which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. TUE More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with TUE David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which TUE also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). TUE TUE Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio TUE productions including; ‘ TUE The Listeners TUE ’ and ‘The Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press TUE Guild’s Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012), NATURE, Tweet TUE of the Day, and ' TUE The Cliff TUE '. TUE http://www.chriswatson.net/ TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b05mr9m5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00zf340 (Listen) TUE McLevy - Series 7, Prince of Darkness TUE TUE Brian Cox, Siobhan Redmond and David Hayman star in the TUE latest episode of the detective series set in Victorian TUE Edinburgh and Leith. Written by David Ashton. TUE TUE 3/4. Episode Three: Prince Of Darkness. Jean Brash is TUE confronted by a former lover back from the dead. She had TUE once poisoned him - fatally, or so she thought - and now he TUE is out for revenge. Meanwhile, McLevy dreams of death by TUE drowning. Is it a premonition or just the result of drinking TUE too much coffee? TUE TUE McLevy...............................................BRIAN TUE COX TUE Jean Brash............................SIOBHAN REDMOND TUE Preger..........................................DAVID HAYMAN TUE Mulholland............MICHAEL PERCEVAL-MAXWELL TUE Hannah........................................COLETTE O'NEIL TUE Roach...........................................DAVID ASHTON TUE Mary.......................................EDITH MACARTHUR TUE Col Moncrieff.............................GRANT O'ROURKE TUE Louis................................................KIM TUE GERARD TUE TUE Producer/Director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b05mrr16 (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b05mrr18 (Listen) TUE The Price of Cheap Oil TUE TUE In this week's Costing The Earth Tom Heap asks what the TUE falling price of oil means for the environment. TUE TUE First thoughts would be 'not good'. Lower prices mean that TUE people don't need to be so careful how much fuel they use so TUE what will the consequences of this be? Will this halt the TUE steady decline in car sales? Will people turn their heating TUE up a notch when they're feeling chilly? TUE TUE Those are the direct impacts on people, but look further and TUE could the drop in oil prices spell disaster for the TUE renewable energy industry? TUE TUE And what will oil companies do? Will production rise, TUE pushing prices down further? Or with prices falling, will TUE oil companies find it increasingly expensive and barely cost TUE effective to reach those hard to reach oil reserves? TUE TUE But it's far more complicated than that. Political TUE insecurities and tensions around the world in oil producing TUE states all help to paint a very complicated picture. TUE TUE Tom Heap tries to find his way through the political and TUE economic maze to find out what hope there is for the TUE environment should prices continue to drop. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 A Wing and a Prayer b05nczjl (Listen) TUE Fighter pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain, all TUE in their 90s, recall the daily reality of the summer of 1940 TUE when they formed the country's last defence against Nazi TUE invasion. Presented by Misha Glenny, their interviews TUE provide matter-of-fact accounts of how flashes of TUE extraordinary bravery interspersed daily routines. TUE TUE Speaking in the twilight of their lives, the interviewees TUE talk with the benefit of a lifetime of reflection on the TUE events of the War. They come across as courageous, but also TUE as bold independent spirits - as they had to be, fighting TUE alone in the sky, frequently defying orders just to survive. TUE TUE The programme is recorded at The Wing, a new heritage TUE memorial centre on the white cliffs above Folkestone, which TUE is officially opened on Thursday 26th March. The new TUE building is constructed in the shape of a Spitfire wing and TUE aims to explain for future generations the airborne battle TUE which dominated the skies 75 years ago. The Wing is not a TUE museum, since it has few exhibits, but it does bring the TUE Battle of Britain to life in a uniquely 21st century style. TUE This programme provides the first public glimpse of what is TUE inside. TUE TUE Producer: Penny Wrout TUE A LandSky production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b05mt3gk (Listen) TUE Christopher Frayling and Abi Morgan TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert talks about favourite books, including A TUE Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, with TUE award-winning screenwriter Abi Morgan and cultural historian TUE Christopher Frayling. TUE His choice is The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, a TUE collection of short stories in which he actually features.. TUE And Harriett has recently discovered the darkly comic TUE Mortdecai novels, including the first one, Don't Point that TUE Thing at Me, by Kyril Bonfiglioli. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Christopher Frayling TUE Interviewed Guest: Abi Morgan TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05mt3gm (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05mppdg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ayres on the Air b03sb0lq (Listen) TUE Series 5, Self-Sufficiency TUE TUE Pam Ayres regales her Radio 4 audience with poems, stories TUE and sketches, this week on a subject close to her heart: TUE self-sufficiency. TUE She is joined on stage by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey TUE Whitehead, with Geoffrey playing her long-suffering husband TUE 'Gordon'. TUE This week Pam talks about her love of allotments, knitting TUE and her more recent love of beekeeping. TUE Poems include: The Allotment Rustler, Over-Penguinisation, TUE Behold My Bold Provider, Stuck on You and The Litter Moron. TUE Sketch writers: James Bugg, Grainne McGuire, Andy Wolton and TUE Tom Neenan. TUE Producer: Claire Jones. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05mt3gp (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:16 Front Row b05mt3gr (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05mrn2g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b05mt3gt (Listen) TUE With Britain on heightened alert following Islamist TUE shootings in Paris and Copenhagen, how well prepared are we TUE to deal with a similar attack? TUE TUE Allan Urry discovers how extremists in neighbouring European TUE countries were able to get access to guns and hears concerns TUE about the ready availability of illegal weapons from Eastern TUE Europe and North Africa. TUE TUE So what risk does that pose for the UK? Britain prides TUE itself on tough gun control, but is that enough to prevent TUE determined would-be terrorists getting access to firearms? TUE TUE Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05mt3gw (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b05mt3gy (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 b05mrn29 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b05mppdj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05mt3h0 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05mt3h2 (Listen) TUE The Leipzig Affair, Episode 7 TUE TUE A tale of love, betrayal and redemption in the dying days of TUE the Cold War. Set in Germany both in the years before the TUE fall of the Berlin Wall as well as post-unification, and TUE encompassing the excesses of life in 1980's Britain. TUE TUE Bob McPherson is Scottish and unemployed. He lost his TUE highly-paid job in the City because of his alcoholism. His TUE counsellor at the Alcohol Advisory Service suggests he look TUE back to a pivotal point in his life - Leipzig in the 1980s, TUE when the GDR held its citizens in an iron grip. TUE TUE Naive, and innocent of the machinations of the East German TUE state, Bob embraces life as a PhD student at Leipzig TUE University. There he falls in love with Magda Reinsch, a TUE student with secret plans to escape to the West. TUE TUE As their love affair deepens, Magda and Bob are drawn into a TUE web of deception and betrayal. In a country where the Stasi TUE is always watching, no-one is quite who they seem and TUE everyone has their price. TUE TUE Bob leaves the GDR thinking he is responsible for a man's TUE death and that he lost Magda because of it. Now, in TUE revisiting the past, Bob may be able to uncover the truth of TUE his Leipzig Affair. TUE TUE Episode 7: TUE Magda and Bob are each picked up by the Stasi who seem to TUE know everything about them. Bob makes a decision he will TUE regret. TUE TUE Fiona Rintoul is a financial journalist and translator. The TUE Leipzig Affair is her first novel, and won the 2013 Virginia TUE prize for the best new fiction by a woman writing in TUE English. TUE TUE Readers: Douglas Henshall and Indira Varma TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Douglas Henshall TUE Reader: Indira Varma TUE Author: Fiona Rintoul TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE TUE 23:00 The Hot Kid b05mt3h4 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE By Elmore Leonard TUE Adapted by Katie Hims TUE TUE Elmore Leonard's enthralling criminal odyssey is set against TUE the dusty, sun-kissed backdrop of Oklahoma and Kansas during TUE America's Great Depression. TUE TUE As far as Jack Belmont sees it, the only thing standing TUE between him and realising his dream of becoming America's TUE most wanted criminal is Deputy Marshal Carl Webster. A TUE chance encounter in prison enables Jack to formulate a plan TUE that will put an end to his nemesis once and for all. TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Credits TUE Tony Antonelli: Nathan Osgood TUE Jack Belmont: Adam Gillen TUE Carl Webster: Luke Norris TUE Louly Brown: Samantha Dakin TUE Oris Belmont: John Chancer TUE Nancy Polis: Roslyn Hill TUE Cecil Guyton: Ian Conningham TUE Virgil Webster: David Acton TUE Walter: Shaun Mason TUE Cellmate: Paul Heath TUE Author: Elmore Leonard TUE Adaptor: Katie Hims TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b05mt3w0 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b05mppfc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05nv8l1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05mppff (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05mppfh (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05mppfk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b05mppfm (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05mt3wg (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Steve WED Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05mt3wj (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x474w (Listen) WED Rook 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 Bill Oddie presents the rook. High in the treetops buffeted WED by March winds, rooks are gathering twigs to build their WED untidy nests. The bustle of a rookery is one of the classic WED sounds of the UK countryside, especially in farming areas, WED where rooks are in their element, probing the pastures and WED ploughed fields with long pickaxe bills. WED WED Rook (Corvus frugilegus) WED Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b05mt49b (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 b05mt49d (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b05nv8sd (Listen) WED Boundless, Episode 3 WED WED Teresa Gallagher reads Kathleen Winter's story of her WED journey as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling WED through the Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as WED much an exploration of her own roots as a venture into the WED arctic ice fields. WED WED Episode 3: In the Sermermuit Valley, the author is thrilled WED by a symphony of ice. WED WED Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When WED she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. WED Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and WED a newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short WED stories. Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was WED published in 2007 and her first novel 'Annabel' came out WED three years later. WED WED 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian WED literary prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the WED Rogers' Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's WED Award. This year, Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC WED Taylor Award for non-fiction. WED WED Abridged by Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Teresa Gallagher WED Producer: Karen Rose WED Author: Kathleen Winter WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b05mt4l2 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b05mt4l4 (Listen) WED How Does That Make You Feel?, Caroline WED WED In 'How Does that Make You Feel?' we visit a group of people WED who all share one thing in common, a therapist called Martha WED and a growing set of neuroses which appear to be overtaking WED their wholly imperfect lives. WED WED Caroline's husband has, not surprisingly, not returned home. WED Her son Edmund has decided he wants to be a dress designer. WED However this has been overshadowed by the fact that Derek WED Fisher, Head of Human Resources, whom Caroline encountered WED at the Finchley Satanist's Circle, has tracked her down. WED WED Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of WED Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio WED 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory WED of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her WED plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote WED Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the WED Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2 . She is currently writing a WED number of feature films and a TV series for BBC 1. WED WED Caroline ..... Rebecca Saire WED Martha ..... Frances Tomelty WED WED Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson WED Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED Credits WED Richard Fallon: Roger Allam WED Martha: Frances Tomelty WED Writer: Shelagh Stephenson WED Director: Eoin O'Callaghan WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b05mt50w (Listen) WED Alison, Sheila and Thomas - How Do You Do It? WED WED A granddaughter in conversation with her grandparents about WED their lives and their long and happy marriage, introduced by WED Fi Glover. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 My Name Is Isis b05mt525 (Listen) WED Filmmaker Isis Thompson talks to others around the world who WED share their name with the Jihadist group Islamic State, WED finding out how its actions have impacted on their lives. WED WED In the last 12 months, the name Isis has gone from being a WED slightly obscure but pretty name associated with ancient WED Egypt, Bob Dylan and the dog off Downton Abbey to something WED a great deal darker. For Isis Thompson it's been WED uncomfortable, "Many is the time that I find myself breaking WED into a little bit of a sweat when I have to introduce WED myself. It's like having to say "Hi my name is Nazi WED Thompson". And then there is the inevitable reply, 'That's WED unfortunate.'" WED WED Hearing the experiences of others of the same name - from WED the chat up lines of Nottingham night clubs to Syrian WED refugee camps - Isis considers how a global news story can WED impact on an individual because of something as apparently WED arbitrary as their name. WED WED Presenter / Producer: Isis Thompson WED Executive Producer: Russell Finch WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Miles Jupp Is Insufficiently Belgian b05mt5c8 (Listen) WED Miles Jupp's family descends from Belgian stock, and he has WED long been proud of his continental ancestry. But as Miles WED prepares to go home to meet the relatives, he is about to WED discover that he is insufficiently Belgian. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Miles Jupp WED WED 12:00 News Summary b05mppfp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b05mt5cb (Listen) WED 25 March 1915 - Marion Wardle WED WED Fraser has got the wrong idea about Marion altogether. WED WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone WED Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont WED Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman WED Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell WED Ray Wardle: Scarlet Bell WED Stella Wardle: Ava Bell WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:16 You and Yours b05mt5cd (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b05mppfr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b05mt6m0 (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Soundstage b05mt6m2 (Listen) WED The Wash WED WED The Wash is a large rectangular-shaped tidal estuary in East WED Anglia bordering Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Wildlife sound WED recordist Chris Watson has long been fascinated by both the WED mystery of King John's treasure which it's claimed was lost WED and buried in the mud here, and the wildlife of the Wash. WED This is a strange and haunting habitat; a no man's land WED where twice each day the tide sweeps in across the mud and WED drives tens of thousands of wading birds off their feeding WED grounds and onto a temporary roost by the shingle and gravel WED pits at the R.S.P.B. reserve at Snettisham in Norfolk. It's WED a bewitching spectacle, especially on a spring tide. At low WED tide the birds disperse and only the feint roar of the WED distant sea can be heard across the vast expanses of exposed WED mud. Beneath the mud however there are the sounds of WED crustaceans and worms; a rich food supply and the reason why WED so many thousands of birds are attracted to The Wash. As the WED tide turns, rivulets of water trickle across the mud. The WED tide gathers pace, and as it does it so, it forces the birds WED towards the shore and into the air. Huge flocks numbering WED hundreds then thousands of birds are pushed off the mud and WED onto the gravel pits. When Chris visited, the birds were WED roosting well away from the water and in complete darkness. WED Yet soon after the tide turned and by some unknown signal WED the knots' chattering calls increased and then the leading WED edge of the flock suddenly took off and thousands of birds WED departed creating a huge wave of sound rather like the WED take-off of a large jet aircraft. Within a few minutes quiet WED and calm was restored to the gravel pits. For Chris, it's WED these wild sounds of the birds revealed as the tides ebb and WED flow which are the real hidden treasures of The Wash. WED Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED Chris Watson WED WED Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School WED and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the WED influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret WED Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound WED recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees WED Television. Since then he has developed a particular and WED passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of WED animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As WED a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, WED Watson specialises in natural history and documentary WED location sound together with sound design in WED post-production. WED WED His television work includes many programmes in the David WED Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ WED which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. WED More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with WED David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which WED also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). WED WED Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio WED productions including; ‘ WED The Listeners WED ’ and ‘The Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press WED Guild’s Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012), NATURE, Tweet WED of the Day, and ' WED The Cliff WED '. WED http://www.chriswatson.net/ WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05mt3gp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00zm08b (Listen) WED McLevy - Series 7, A Distant Death WED WED Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond star in the latest episode of WED the detective series set in Victorian Edinburgh and Leith. WED Written by David Ashton. WED WED 4/4. Episode Four: A Distant Death. McLevy's dreams of death WED by drowning are about to become a reality when he and Jean WED Brash are trapped in a sea cave while the tide rushes in. WED Outside the cave a rifle marksman is ready to shoot them if WED they try to escape. WED WED McLevy................................................BRIAN WED COX WED Jean Brash.............................SIOBHAN REDMOND WED Mulholland............MICHAEL PERCEVAL-MAXWELL WED Lamb..... ..............................CRAWFORD LOGAN WED Roach...........................................DAVID ASHTON WED Olivia................................................KIM WED GERARD WED Jethro Barr...............................STEWART PORTER WED Ship's Officer ..................................KENNY BLYTH WED WED Other parts played by the cast. WED WED Producer/Director: Bruce Young. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b05mt7hr (Listen) WED Tax WED WED Chancellor George Osborne announced a number of tax cuts and WED changes in his pre-election Budget. To find out if your tax WED is affected or to ask for help with any other taxing issue, WED call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED Changes to the personal allowance, tax on savings and a new WED marriage allowance are scheduled. WED WED Corporation tax is being reduced and National Insurance WED Contributions are being reformed. WED WED The Chancellor also announced plans to transform the tax WED system by introducing digital tax accounts, removing the WED need for annual tax returns. WED WED Whether you run a small business or have a question about WED tax on your personal income, investments or property, WED presenter Ruth Alexander and guests will be ready with WED advice. WED WED Joining Ruth will be: WED WED Jane Moore, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England WED and Wales. WED Dawn Register, Partner, BDO, Tax Dispute Resolution. WED Paula Tallon, Managing Partner, Gabelle Tax. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic WED call charges apply. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b05mt3gy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b05mt8vh (Listen) WED Global Clothing and Poverty; Fur Inheritance in Poland WED WED Jeans on a journey: Laurie Taylor talks to Andrew Brooks, WED Lecturer in Development Geography at Kings College London, WED about his study of the hidden world of fast fashion and WED second hand clothes. WED Following a pair of jeans in an around-the-world tour, this WED research reveals the commodity chains which perpetuate WED poverty - from Mozambican markets to London's vintage WED clothing scene. WED WED Fur, family and inheritance. Siobhan Magee, Postdoctoral WED Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, discusses WED her research into the convention of passing down fur clothes WED from grandmother to granddaughter in the Polish middle WED class. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Andrew Brooks WED WED Lecturer in Development Geography at Kings College London WED WED Find our more about Dr WED Andrew Brooks WED *Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and WED Second-hand Clothes WED *Publisher: Zed Books Ltd WED ISBN-10: 1783600675 WED ISBN-13: 978-1783600670 WED WED Siobhan Magee WED WED Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Siobhan Magee WED WED Abstract: WED *Of love and fur: grandmothers, class, and pre-mortem WED inheritance in a southern Polish city WED * WED Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute WED 21: 66–85. doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.12148 WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b05mtcjk (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b05mtcjm (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05mppft (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b05mtcjp (Listen) WED Series 10, Sharon Horgan talks to Dennis Kelly WED WED Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show WED where last week's interviewee becomes this week's WED interviewer. WED WED In the 6th episode of the series actress Sharon Horgan talks WED to BAFTA nominated & Tony Award winning writer Dennis Kelly- WED creator of shows as varied as "Pulling," "Utopia," and WED "Matilda the Musical." WED WED Producer: Arnab Chanda. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b05mtcjr (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:16 Front Row b05mtcjw (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05mt4l4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b05mtcwt (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips, Michael WED Portillo and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b05n00dl (Listen) WED Sarah Perry WED WED Producer: Phil Pegum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b05mrr18 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b05mt49d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b05n00dn (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05n00dv (Listen) WED The Leipzig Affair, Episode 8 WED WED A tale of love, betrayal and redemption in the dying days of WED the Cold War. Set in Germany both in the years before the WED fall of the Berlin Wall as well as post-unification, and WED encompassing the excesses of life in 1980's Britain. WED WED Bob McPherson is Scottish and unemployed. He lost his WED highly-paid job in the City because of his alcoholism. His WED counsellor at the Alcohol Advisory Service suggests he look WED back to a pivotal point in his life - Leipzig in the 1980s, WED when the GDR held its citizens in an iron grip. WED WED Naive, and innocent of the machinations of the East German WED state, Bob embraces life as a PhD student at Leipzig WED University. There he falls in love with Magda Reinsch, a WED student with secret plans to escape to the West. WED WED As their love affair deepens, Magda and Bob are drawn into a WED web of deception and betrayal. In a country where the Stasi WED is always watching, no-one is quite who they seem and WED everyone has their price. WED WED Bob leaves the GDR thinking he is responsible for a man's WED death and that he lost Magda because of it. Now, in WED revisiting the past, Bob may be able to uncover the truth of WED his Leipzig Affair. WED WED Episode 8: WED Magda's interrogation by the Stasi continues. Back in WED Scotland, Bob is forced to put Leipzig behind him and move WED on with his life. WED WED Fiona Rintoul is a financial journalist and translator. The WED Leipzig Affair is her first novel, and won the 2013 Virginia WED prize for the best new fiction by a woman writing in WED English. WED WED Readers: Douglas Henshall and Indira Varma WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Douglas Henshall WED Reader: Indira Varma WED Author: Fiona Rintoul WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED WED 23:00 Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown b05n00f1 (Listen) WED Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon WED WED Art historian Hannah Gadsby continues her radio series of WED comedy lectures about four masterpieces. This week she looks WED at Michelangelo's 'David', the 17ft statue he created WED between 1501 and 1504. WED WED Born in Tasmania, Hannah got to know a lot about art from WED books. But it was only in her 20s when she visited Europe WED for the first time, that she saw the art she'd studied 'in WED the flesh', so to speak. WED WED There in Florence she fell in love with David and in this WED programme she shares her affection for and knowledge of him, WED with all his imperfections. WED WED Hannah is joined on stage by her very own 'Quotebot' who is WED inputted with every quote that's ever been written about WED art. WED WED Quotebot sounds remarkably like comedy legend and all-round WED boffin John Lloyd. WED WED Written by Hannah Gadsby WED Performed by Hannah Gadsby with her Quotebot aka John Lloyd WED Script edited by Jon Hunter WED Produced by Claire Jones. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Hannah Gadsby WED Performer: John Lloyd WED Producer: Claire Jones WED Writer: Hannah Gadsby WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b05n17yz (Listen) WED Series 3, Horror WED WED This week Tim gets to the bottom of the concept of horror, WED by attempting to scare the wits out of his long-suffering WED musician, Tom Basden. And by reading poems. Last in the WED series. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden and Katy Wix WED WED Produced by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Tim Key WED Performer: Tim Key WED Performer: Tom Basden WED Performer: Katy Wix WED Producer: James Robinson WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b05n17z1 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 MARCH 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b05mppgr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b05nv8sd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05mppgt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05mppgw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05mppgy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b05mpph0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05n1dmf (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Steve THU Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b05n1dmm (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x4769 (Listen) THU Cetti's Warbler 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 Bill Oddie presents the Cetti's warbler. Until the 1960s, THU Cetti's warblers were unknown in the UK but on the Continent THU they were common in marshy areas, especially dense scrub and THU the edge of reed-beds and ditches. They first bred in these THU habitats in south-east England in the early 1970s and by the THU end of the century their loud and sudden song-bursts were THU startling people from southern England and South Wales and THU northwards as far as Yorkshire. THU THU Cetti's warbler (Cettia cetti) THU Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b05nd4yl (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 b05n1dmt (Listen) THU The Curies THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific THU achievements of the Curie family. In 1903 Marie and Pierre THU Curie shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Henri Becquerel THU for their work on radioactivity, a term which Marie coined. THU Marie went on to win a Nobel in Chemistry eight years later; THU remarkably, her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie would later THU share a Nobel with her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie for THU their discovery that it was possible to create radioactive THU materials in the laboratory. The work of the Curies added THU immensely to our knowledge of fundamental physics and paved THU the way for modern treatments for cancer and other THU illnesses. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b05nvb23 (Listen) THU Boundless, Episode 4 THU THU Teresa Gallagher reads Kathleen Winter's story of her THU journey as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling THU through the Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as THU much an exploration of her own roots as a venture into the THU arctic ice fields. THU THU Episode 4: On Dundas Island, the arctic animals lay claim to THU their habitat. THU THU Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When THU she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. THU Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and THU a newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short THU stories. Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was THU published in 2007 and her first novel 'Annabel' came out THU three years later. THU THU 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian THU literary prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the THU Rogers' Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's THU Award. This year, Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC THU Taylor Award for non-fiction. THU THU Abridged by Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Teresa Gallagher THU Producer: Karen Rose THU Author: Kathleen Winter THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b05nd4yn (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05n1dn5 (Listen) THU How Does That Make You Feel?, Philip THU THU In 'How Does that Make You Feel?' we visit a group of people THU who all share one thing in common, a therapist called Martha THU and a growing set of neuroses which appear to be overtaking THU their wholly imperfect lives. THU THU Former TV presenter Philip is using his time frantically THU writing novels and screenplays, all of which involve a much THU younger woman, who may or may not be a version of Carmen THU with whom he is obsessed, regretting that she has abandoned THU a much older man, who may or may not be a version of Philip. THU Meanwhile Philip's old mum has moved in to look after him THU and ensure he's taking his medication, though he is THU convinced that it's he who's doing her a favour. THU THU Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of THU Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio THU 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory THU of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her THU plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote THU Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the THU Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2 . She is currently writing a THU number of feature films and TV series for BBC 1. THU THU Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson THU Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU Credits THU Philip: Tim McInnerny THU Martha: Frances Tomelty THU Writer: Shelagh Stephenson THU Director: Eoin O'Callaghan THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b05n1dnc (Listen) THU Saving Gaza's Grand Piano THU THU It's been hidden away in a dusty corner of an abandoned THU theatre, unplayed and almost forgotten - a magnificent THU instrument allowed to moulder away in a territory whose THU Islamist rulers banned public performances of music. But now THU Gaza's only grand piano is getting a new lease of life. A THU small Brussels-based charity is restoring it to its former THU glory and at the same time is working to bring music back THU into schools. With Hamas control steadily weakening the THU charity has begun a unique project to train teachers in Gaza THU to re-introduce music into the curriculum - not through THU music classes but through subjects such as mathematics and THU geography. It's helping disturbed children in this war torn THU territory to concentrate - and it's exciting teachers. Tim THU Whewell gets exclusive access to the story of Gaza and it's THU grand piano. THU THU 11:30 Inconspicuous Consumption b05n1dnx (Listen) THU Jack Monroe delves into cupboards and kitchen cabinets to THU find out how we consume and care about our crockery. THU THU This is no trivial matter. Tableware is the result of a THU negotiation involving your household rituals, attitudes to THU food and aesthetics. The relationship between cup and lip THU can get obsessional. It's a delicate subject and one which, THU as Jack discovers, goes deeper than you might imagine. THU THU She talks to people at home in kitchens, in restaurants and THU in warehouses. She speaks to one man who lives in his car THU about his experiments with tableware when he doesn't THU actually have a table, and learns how the choices we make THU about our crockery and the way we treat it can offer vital THU clues to the health of a marriage. THU THU Jack also hears how one woman turned her addiction to THU vintage crockery into a business venture, and meets the THU ceramicist Alison Britton who prefers to drink tea from a THU white cup. THU THU Children are conditioned to tableware sensibility from the THU word go - the reward for eating it all up is the picture at THU the bottom of the bowl. Some stuff is too good to eat from - THU but in Greece they ritually smash their plates on the most THU important occasions. Why? THU THU And then there's the office mug collection and the tense THU negotiations of personality and status - as Jack, who THU remembers days in the emergency services, knows only too THU well. THU THU Producer: Sarah Cuddon THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b05mpph4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b05n1dp4 (Listen) THU 26 March 1915 - Adeline Lumley THU THU A day of arrivals and departures in Collingwood Park. THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille THU Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor THU Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones THU Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford THU Kitty Wilson: Ami Metcalf THU Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom THU Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 12:16 You and Yours b05n1dpg (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues. THU THU 12:57 Weather b05mpph6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b05nd4yq (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Soundstage b05n1dpv (Listen) THU Glacial Melt THU THU Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson first visited THU Antarctica in January 2010 and on his first morning, he was THU woken up by a howling blizzard. It's the sound of arguably THU the most hostile environment on the planet. Whilst Chris was THU in Antarctica he was really keen to record one of the THU greatest transitional events on the planet, the sounds of a THU glacier being transformed over the antarctic summer from a THU solid mountain of freshwater ice into the salt water of the THU Ross sea. The place where he began recording was Cape Evans THU on Ross island and by the hut 'Terra Nova' which was used by THU Capt Scott and his party during their ill-fated expedition THU to the South Pole in 1911.The cinematographer Herbert THU Ponting who remained at Cape Evans later produced a film THU called "The Great White Silence". But this landscape is far THU from silent. Looking west from 'Terra Nova' Chris could see THU the Barne glacier, a massive river of ice which flows down THU the slopes of Mount Erebus to the Ross sea. The recordings THU Chris made follow a journey which begins inside the glacier THU with low, deep, powerful thumping sounds before it calves THU and huge blocks of ice crash onto the frozen Ross sea. The THU sea ice buckles and cracks under the weight of these blocks THU producing extraordinary musical tones. Blocks of ice break THU off under pressure to form icebergs. Then there's a gradual THU reduction as the sea ice undergoes its annual melt. Standing THU near a patch of open water Chris has an astonishing THU encounter with a minke whale which surfaces unexpectedly to THU breathe, and records Adelie penguins and the captivating THU scales of weddell seals. With the transformation complete, THU Chris watches and listens as Orcas break the surface of the THU waters to breathe in the air of the 'Great White Silence'. THU Producer Sarah Blunt. THU THU Chris Watson THU THU Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School THU and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the THU influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret THU Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound THU recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees THU Television. Since then he has developed a particular and THU passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of THU animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As THU a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, THU Watson specialises in natural history and documentary THU location sound together with sound design in THU post-production. THU THU His television work includes many programmes in the David THU Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ THU which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. THU More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with THU David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which THU also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). THU THU Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio THU productions including; ‘ THU The Listeners THU ’ and ‘The Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press THU Guild’s Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012), NATURE, Tweet THU of the Day, and ' THU The Cliff THU '. THU http://www.chriswatson.net/ THU THU 14:00 The Archers b05mtcjr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b05n1dpz (Listen) THU Monster THU THU An intense drama featuring Neil Maskell, Shaun Dooley and THU Richard Hawley. Monster is an exploration of male anger, how THU men become victims of victims, and how the baton is passed THU from man to boy. THU THU There's an unspoken code that says lives must not be lived THU to the limit of their possibilities, but rather corralled THU into a narrow, numb, wilfully limited definition of THU acceptable male behaviour. THU THU Sounds are guttural, adrenalin fuelled. We hear tension THU building, boys breathing, working hard to fulfil THU expectations of masculinity - and a sense of release fills THU us as we move through the story. THU THU Written and Directed by Tony Pitts THU Producer: Sally Harrison THU A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Tony Pitts THU Dan: Neil Maskell THU Wendy: Rosina Carbone THU Tommy: Harvey Chaisty THU Vanessa: Claire Fox THU Roger: Richard Hawley THU Lewis: Danny Hawley THU Lily: Lily Jones THU Scott: Shaun Dooley THU Counsellor: Eleanor Samson THU Margaret: Rita May THU Referee: John Wray THU Writer: Tony Pitts THU Director: Tony Pitts THU Producer: Sally Harrison THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b05n1dq1 (Listen) THU Series 29, Derbyshire - Family Walk THU THU Clare Balding travels to Derbyshire this week to ramble with THU a group of families who gather once a month for a long walk THU and a pub lunch. Paul Cotton, along with his wife and THU children, meet with up to seventeen other families - THU neighbours, colleagues and friends - in any weather, all THU year round, to share their mutual love of the outdoors. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Paul Cotton THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b05mpwfc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b05mq8wt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b05nd4ys (Listen) THU Kenneth Branagh, Noah Baumbach THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Kenneth Branagh on Cinderella. Noah Baumbach on While We're THU Young. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Kenneth Branagh THU Interviewed Guest: Noah Baumbach THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b05nd4yv (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b05nd4yx (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05mpph9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03gvqlz (Listen) THU Series 9, The Personal Statement THU THU Episode 1: "The Personal Statement" THU THU He's back. Despite many thwarted attempts at literary THU success and a lifetime of scrimping and scraping to keep THU mind, soul and cat together, the curmudgeon's curmudgeon can THU never be kept down for long and returns to Radio 4 for a new THU series. THU THU Ed Reardon once more finds himself grabbing at whatever THU scraps his agent, Ping, throws his way, with his only source THU of regular income coming from teaching the increasingly THU savvy and adventurous pensioners their module in short story THU writing. Jaz Milvane continues to be his nemesis, somehow THU making money out of mad schemes whilst Ed makes nothing and THU his love life remains, like his payment of utility bills, THU erratic to say the least. THU THU As we renew our acquaintance with Ed we find him grovelling THU to his former girlfriend Fiona, claiming to be a 'changed THU man'. But as she quite rightly points out, he's still THU wearing the same socks and sandals. As Ed tries to get back THU into her good books, he finds himself retiring from the THU writing trade and applying for real jobs. So it is, he THU writes a personal statement and attends his first interview THU for a salaried position since, well, ever........ THU THU Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU THU Credits THU Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas THU Fiona: Jenny Agutter THU Olive: Stephanie Cole THU Jaz Milvain: Philip Jackson THU Pearl: Alison Steadman THU Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Interviewer: Melanie Hudson THU Waitress: Nicola Sanderson THU Writer: Christopher Douglas THU Writer: Andrew Nickolds THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU THU 19:00 The Archers b05n1fsk (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:16 Front Row b05nd4yz (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05n1dn5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b05n1fsm (Listen) THU Tony Blair: Farewell to the Quartet THU THU As Tony Blair steps down from his Middle East peace envoy THU role, Simon Cox asks why the former Prime Minister is going THU and what he has achieved. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b05n1fsp (Listen) THU Corporate Scandal THU THU Phone hacking, financial mis-selling and fraud: How do THU companies recover from scandal and negative headlines? Evan THU Davis and guests discuss the skills and strategy required to THU bounce back. THU THU Guests: THU THU Niall Booker, CEO, Co-operative Bank THU THU Mike Darcey, CEO, News UK THU THU Stephen Hester, CEO, RSA THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b05nd4yv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b05n1dmt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b05nd4z1 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05n1fsr (Listen) THU The Leipzig Affair, Episode 9 THU THU A tale of love, betrayal and redemption in the dying days of THU the Cold War. Set in Germany both in the years before the THU fall of the Berlin Wall as well as post-unification, and THU encompassing the excesses of life in 1980's Britain. THU THU Bob McPherson is Scottish and unemployed. He lost his THU highly-paid job in the City because of his alcoholism. His THU counsellor at the Alcohol Advisory Service suggests he look THU back to a pivotal point in his life - Leipzig in the 1980s, THU when the GDR held its citizens in an iron grip. THU THU Naive, and innocent of the machinations of the East German THU state, Bob embraces life as a PhD student at Leipzig THU University. There he falls in love with Magda Reinsch, a THU student with secret plans to escape to the West. THU THU As their love affair deepens, Magda and Bob are drawn into a THU web of deception and betrayal. In a country where the Stasi THU is always watching, no-one is quite who they seem and THU everyone has their price. THU THU Bob leaves the GDR thinking he is responsible for a man's THU death and that he lost Magda because of it. Now, in THU revisiting the past, Bob may be able to uncover the truth of THU his Leipzig Affair. THU THU Episode 9: THU Magda's life in East Germany changes unexpectedly. Bob is THU forced to confront his alcoholism and then to reassess the THU events in Leipzig. THU THU Fiona Rintoul is a financial journalist and translator. The THU Leipzig Affair is her first novel, and won the 2013 Virginia THU prize for the best new fiction by a woman writing in THU English. THU THU Readers: Douglas Henshall and Indira Varma THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Douglas Henshall THU Reader: Indira Varma THU Author: Fiona Rintoul THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU THU 23:00 Chat Show Roulette b05n1gb0 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Justin Edwards is the host of the new improvised chat show. THU His guests are Mel Giedroyc, Max and Ivan, and Nick Mohammed THU - with musical accompaniment from James Sherwood. THU THU Devised by Ashley Blaker and Justin Edwards. THU THU Produced by Ashley Blaker THU A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Justin Edwards THU Interviewed Guest: Mel Giedroyc THU Interviewed Guest: Nick Mohammed THU Performer: James Sherwood THU Producer: Ashley Blaker THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b05n1gb2 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 MARCH 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b05mppj9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b05nvb23 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05mppjc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05mppjf (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05mppjh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b05mppjk (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05ndw1x (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Steve FRI Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b05n1v6s (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x478r (Listen) FRI Woodlark 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 Bill Oddie presents the woodlark. Woodlarks are closely FRI related to skylarks, but they're much rarer in the UK, where FRI they're mainly confined, as breeding birds, to southern FRI England. Unlike the skylark, the male woodlark will sing FRI from trees but his piece de resistance is the song-flight in FRI which he flies slowly in a broad loop, often very high above FRI his territory. FRI FRI Woodlark (Lullula arborea) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b05n1v6v (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b05mpx0h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:16 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b05nvb6f (Listen) FRI Boundless, Episode 5 FRI FRI Teresa Gallagher reads Kathleen Winter's story of her FRI journey as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling FRI through the Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as FRI much an exploration of her own roots as a venture into the FRI arctic ice fields. FRI FRI Episode 5: As the passengers prepare for journey's end, FRI there is an unscheduled stop. FRI FRI Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When FRI she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. FRI Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and FRI a newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short FRI stories. Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was FRI published in 2007 and her first novel 'Annabel' came out FRI three years later. FRI FRI 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian FRI literary prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the FRI Rogers' Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's FRI Award. This year, Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC FRI Taylor Award for non-fiction. FRI FRI Abridged by Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Teresa Gallagher FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI Author: Kathleen Winter FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b05n1v6x (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05n1hwl (Listen) FRI How Does That Make You Feel?, Richard Fallon MP FRI FRI In 'How Does that Make You Feel?' we visit a group of people FRI who all share one thing in common, a therapist called Martha FRI and a growing set of neuroses which appear to be overtaking FRI their wholly imperfect lives. FRI FRI MP Richard Fallon has been held hostage by a constituent for FRI eight hours. The woman claimed Richard was an embarrassment FRI to humanity and called for him to resign. His subsequent FRI attempts to bribe the police to suppress the incident have FRI ended in further opprobrium. And, to top it all off, he's FRI had to take out a bank loan to pay for the removal of his FRI son Toby's Wayne Rooney tattoo. FRI FRI Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of FRI Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio FRI 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory FRI of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her FRI plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote FRI Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the FRI Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2 . She is currently writing a FRI number of feature films and TV series for BBC 1. FRI FRI Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson FRI Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Richard Fallon: Roger Allam FRI Martha: Frances Tomelty FRI Writer: Shelagh Stephenson FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI FRI 11:00 Jane Russell and the Springtown Mother b05n1hwn (Listen) FRI The adopted son of Hollywood bombshell Jane Russell returns FRI to Derry-Londonderry for the first time in almost 60 years FRI to discover his biological roots. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b036kscn (Listen) FRI Introducing Sir Donald Murdo FRI FRI Part 2 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. FRI FRI From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave FRI amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve FRI solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most FRI popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures FRI survive in the archives. FRI FRI In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to FRI life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and FRI Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and FRI recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the FRI production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to FRI sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have FRI done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so FRI popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, FRI Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, FRI and A Case for Paul Temple. FRI FRI Now, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory FRI Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the FRI mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory. FRI FRI Episode 2: Introducing Sir Donald Murdo FRI FRI Paul and Steve take a walk to a lonely clifftop cottage. FRI FRI Producer Patrick Rayner FRI FRI Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in FRI Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most FRI successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his FRI day. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paul Temple: Crawford Logan FRI Steve: Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas FRI Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie FRI Edward Day: Nick Underwood FRI Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood FRI Charlie: Greg Powrie FRI Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser FRI Producer: Patrick Rayner FRI Writer: Francis Durbridge FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b05mppjm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b05n1hwq (Listen) FRI 27 March 1915 - Kitty Lumley FRI FRI In the last episode of the current season, Marshalls loses FRI two of its best female employees. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Ray Wardle: Scarlet Bell FRI Stella Wardle: Ava Bell FRI Guard: Simon Harrison FRI Ticket Collector: Shaun Mason FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 12:16 You and Yours b05ndwl9 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b05mppjp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b05ndwlc (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Soundstage b05n1hws (Listen) FRI Dawn Chorus FRI FRI As a wildlife sound recordist, Chris Watson has been lucky FRI enough to travel around the world listening to bird song, FRI and is convinced that the very best dawn chorus in the world FRI is here in Britain. From late March until mid-June, between FRI 3am and 6am, there is a tremendous outpouring of song in FRI woodlands between latitudes 50 to 55 degrees north. Resident FRI birds are joined by migrant birds from Africa and Eastern FRI Europe whose voices coalesce into an international chorus FRI which fills our woodlands well before sunrise. Chris decided FRI to try and capture a dawn chorus in a landscape he knew well FRI as he would have to set up microphones in the dark, so he FRI chose Suffolk. It was early May when he set out one evening FRI down the old railway path which links Aldeburgh with FRI Thorpeness. He arranged his microphones by a likely looking FRI area of birch and alder trees, although the first sounds he FRI heard were not birds but the bells of Aldeburgh parish FRI church nearly two miles to the south. The bells faded under FRI the sounds rooks, jackdaws and pheasants returning to their FRI roost. There then followed the sounds of the night; owls, FRI deer and foxes. At 2.30am Chris heard the first bird song, FRI when a nightingale began to sing. This was a beautiful solo FRI voice in the darkness. Soon other birds joined the FRI Nightingale; Robin, Song thrush, Blackbird and Wren, until FRI at 4am the chorus had developed to the extent that it was FRI difficult to pick out any individual. With the first rays of FRI daylight, the chorus began to subside and the pattern of FRI song was changed by the late arrivals. As Chris returned FRI back along the footpath, he was accompanied by the cries of FRI curlew rising off the marshes and heading inland - a perfect FRI end to a wonderful dawn chorus. Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI Chris Watson FRI FRI Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School FRI and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the FRI influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret FRI Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound FRI recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees FRI Television. Since then he has developed a particular and FRI passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of FRI animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As FRI a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, FRI Watson specialises in natural history and documentary FRI location sound together with sound design in FRI post-production. FRI FRI His television work includes many programmes in the David FRI Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ FRI which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. FRI More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with FRI David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which FRI also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). FRI FRI Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio FRI productions including; ‘ FRI The Listeners FRI ’ and ‘The Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press FRI Guild’s Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012), NATURE, FRI Tweet of the Day FRI and ' FRI The Cliff FRI '. FRI http://www.chriswatson.net/ FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b05n1fsk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b05n1mhm (Listen) FRI Frankie Takes a Trip FRI FRI Frankie Takes a Trip. FRI Comedy Drama by Martyn Hesford. FRI During his long showbiz career, Frankie Howerd had quite a FRI few ups and downs. It was during one of these 'down' FRI periods, in 1962, that Frankie decided to take a trip. Not FRI to Clacton - but to the other side of his consciousness as FRI he tried to deal with his depression through the FRI controversial, though legal, use of LSD. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Martyn Hesford FRI "For me the writing of any character whether famous or not FRI is the pyschology. That's where I come from. Why did a FRI person, in this situation, behave like this...and then do FRI that." FRI FRI David Benson FRI "Our job is to go behind the public image... what are the FRI connections we all have... I think with performing these FRI characters you are looking for resonances in your own life." FRI FRI Credits FRI Frankie: David Benson FRI Dennis: Tim Downie FRI Mother: Emily Pithon FRI HM the Queen: Emily Pithon FRI Father: Conrad Nelson FRI Producer: Conrad Nelson FRI Rada Examiner: Hugh Simon FRI Doctor: Hugh Simon FRI Agent: Roger Morlidge FRI Soldier: Roger Morlidge FRI Young Frankie: Sam Hattersley FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Martyn Hesford FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05n1l3k (Listen) FRI Buckingham Palace FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the programme from Buckingham Palace. FRI FRI Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Christine Walkden and FRI questions from The Queen's Gallery. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Shorts b05n1l3m (Listen) FRI New Irish Writing, Me and the Devil FRI FRI A new series of original stories from some of Ireland's most FRI exciting writers. FRI FRI Donal Ryan (The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December) FRI brings us to Limerick where a young writer befriends a local FRI octogenarian, Tommy, and discovers the beauty within the FRI man. Eimear McBride (A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) takes us FRI into a world of dark family secrets and revenge, while FRI playwright Rosemary Jenkinson reflects on the changing FRI landscape of Belfast and its mythology as a young girl FRI believes she's discovered the fairy folk in the hill behind FRI her home. FRI FRI Writer ..... Eimear McBride FRI Reader ..... Damien Molony FRI Producer ..... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Eimear McBride FRI Reader: Damien Molony FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b05ns9mp (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b05ns9mr (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b05n1lrl (Listen) FRI Tara and Anna - Funeral Food FRI FRI A love of food is a driving force in their lives, and they FRI know what they'd like served after their deaths. But FRI ultimately all they want is to preserve the natural order of FRI things, as Fi Glover introduces another conversation in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b05ndwqq (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05mppjr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b05n1lrn (Listen) FRI Series 86, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest FRI panellists including Fred Macaulay and Hugo Rifkind. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Fred MacAulay FRI Panellist: Hugo Rifkind FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b05n1lrq (Listen) FRI Rob has a confession to make, while PC Burns offers help. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI FRI 19:16 Front Row b05ndwvr (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05n1hwl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b05n1lrs (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Hill House School in Doncaster. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b05ns9mt (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b05n1m96 (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 23-27 March 1915 FRI FRI Amid appeals for more women to join the workforce, Marshalls FRI loses two of its best employees. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Josseff al-Assadi: Paul Chahidi FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Alan Lowther: David Seddon FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille FRI Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron FRI Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Ray Wardle: Scarlet Bell FRI Stella Wardle: Ava Bell FRI Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Guard: Simon Harrison FRI Ticket Collector: Shaun Mason FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05ns9mw (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05n1m98 (Listen) FRI The Leipzig Affair, Episode 10 FRI FRI A tale of love, betrayal and redemption in the dying days of FRI the Cold War. Set in Germany both in the years before the FRI fall of the Berlin Wall as well as post-unification, and FRI encompassing the excesses of life in 1980's Britain. FRI FRI Bob McPherson is Scottish and unemployed. He lost his FRI highly-paid job in the City because of his alcoholism. His FRI counsellor at the Alcohol Advisory Service suggests he look FRI back to a pivotal point in his life - Leipzig in the 1980s, FRI when the GDR held its citizens in an iron grip. FRI FRI Naive, and innocent of the machinations of the East German FRI state, Bob embraces life as a PhD student at Leipzig FRI University. There he falls in love with Magda Reinsch, a FRI student with secret plans to escape to the West. FRI FRI As their love affair deepens, Magda and Bob are drawn into a FRI web of deception and betrayal. In a country where the Stasi FRI is always watching, no-one is quite who they seem and FRI everyone has their price. FRI FRI Bob leaves the GDR thinking he is responsible for a man's FRI death and that he lost Magda because of it. Now, in FRI revisiting the past, Bob may be able to uncover the truth of FRI his Leipzig Affair. FRI FRI Episode 10 FRI Bob returns to Leipzig and uncovers some shocking FRI revelations. Magda has some surprising news of her own. FRI FRI Fiona Rintoul is a financial journalist and translator. The FRI Leipzig Affair is her first novel, and won the 2013 Virginia FRI prize for the best new fiction by a woman writing in FRI English. FRI FRI Readers: Douglas Henshall and Indira Varma FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Douglas Henshall FRI Reader: Indira Varma FRI Author: Fiona Rintoul FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b05mt3gk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b05n1m9b (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05n1m9h (Listen) FRI Lindsay and Elizabeth - A Different Childhood FRI FRI A mother who was illegitimate contrasts her own lonely FRI childhood with her daughter's, who is the youngest of eight, FRI in this conversation introduced by Fi Glover. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
21 March, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 21/03/2015 - 27/03/2015
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