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SAT SATURDAY 19 MARCH 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0735qml (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b073b18m (Listen) SAT Quicksand, Episode 5 SAT SAT Henning Mankell was creator of Wallander, the fictional SAT detective. His posthumous essays, translated by Laurie SAT Thompson with Marlaine Delargy, and abridged by Katrin SAT Williams, refer to his illness and explore much more SAT besides: SAT SAT He was a novelist, who also ran a theatre in Maputo, SAT Mozambique. One of his 'happiest times' was staging a Greek SAT drama, performed by local people. It all began in October SAT 1992.. SAT SAT Reader Tim Pigott-Smith SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT Author: Henning Mankell SAT Abridger: Katrin Williams SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0735qmn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0735qmq (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0735qms (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0735qmv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b073bblb (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Right Reverend Marcus Stock, Bishop of Leeds. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b073bblf (Listen) SAT 'I Can't Die' SAT SAT 'Who will look after him when I'm gone?' Listener Brenda SAT Boyd explains the emotional and practical difficulties she's SAT facing as her disabled son turns 21. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0735qmx (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0735qmz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b0739rfm (Listen) SAT Series 32, Oxfordshire: In Memory of Catherine SAT SAT Clare Balding joins a group of women in Oxfordshire, who SAT meet every year to remember their friend Catherine, who died SAT of breast cancer at forty-five. Some in the group knew each SAT other before Catherine's death; others have met, and become SAT good friends since. There are her friends from her school SAT days, her book club and from her career as a nurse. SAT Catherine would have been fifty this year and her daughter SAT Sarah now sixteen explains how she has derived comfort from SAT helping to raise money for research into the disease and by SAT getting together with her mother's friends to share memories SAT while walking together. SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b073rg4f (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Animal Feed Production SAT SAT Sybil Ruscoe looks into a vital aspect of farming - the SAT production of animal feed, from silage to compound feeds and SAT supplements. The UK animal feed industry is worth nearly SAT four and a half billion pounds to the economy, with SAT businesses producing about 11 million tonnes of animal feed SAT every year. SAT SAT Sybil visits Henry Cole Feeds near Cirencester in SAT Gloucestershire, a firm run by Alan Christie that works SAT closely with local arable farmer Neville Crook who grows the SAT wheat, beans and peas that go into their animal feed SAT products. SAT SAT In the programme, Caz Graham visits County Durham to report SAT on the county's annual silage competition, revealing that SAT there's more to 'pickling' grass than meets the eye. Also, SAT we hear a call from a vet who argues that the EU should SAT reconsider its ban on the use of pig swill (human food SAT waste), following the outbreak of foot and mouth in the UK SAT in 2001, which was traced back to the use of raw swill on an SAT English farm. SAT SAT Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0735qn1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b073rg4h (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT Today's running order SAT 0710 SAT "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SAT SAT Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions SAT secretary, denouncing £4bn of planned cuts to disability SAT benefits as "indefensible". Chris Mason and Bernard Jenkin SAT are Conservative MPs and friends of Iain Duncan Smith. SAT 0715 SAT SAT A passenger jet crashed in the southern Russian city of SAT Rostov-on-Don killing all 55 passengers and seven crew on SAT board. Steve Rosenberg the BBC’s Moscow correspondent joins SAT us live from Moscow. SAT 0720 SAT SAT An exceptionally bright meteor spotted in the skies above SAT the UK in the early hours of Thursday morning was between SAT the size of a basketball and family-car sized, weighing SAT 109kg. Richard Kacarek is co-founder of the UK Meteor SAT Network. SAT 0725 SAT SAT Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions SAT secretary, denouncing £4bn of planned cuts to disability SAT benefits as "indefensible". Jonathan Portes is from the SAT National Institute of Economic and Social Research and used SAT to be Chief Economist at the Department for Work and SAT Pensions. SAT 0730 SAT SAT On February the 20th, eight people in the small town of SAT Kalamazoo, west of Detroit, were shot in a gun rampage SAT blamed on an Uber driver who was picking up passengers in SAT between the attacks. Gene Kopf, is victim Abigail Kopf’s SAT father. SAT 0740 SAT SAT In our new weekly Meet the Author interview, Jim Naughtie SAT speaks to novelist Sophie Hannah. SAT 0750 SAT SAT Salah Abdeslam was the ringleader of the deadly attacks on SAT Paris four months ago. He was caught in the Molenbeek area SAT of Brussels, the area suspected of harbouring so many SAT radical Muslims over the years. Michel Eylenbosch, chairman SAT of the Molenbeek city council joins us live from Brussels. SAT 0810 SAT SAT Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions SAT secretary, denouncing £4bn of planned cuts to disability SAT benefits as "indefensible". SAT Baroness Phillipa Stroud SAT who worked with Iain Duncan Smith for five years and is now SAT Executive Director of the Centre for Social Justice which SAT Iain Duncan Smith founded, joins us live in the studio. SAT 0820 SAT SAT Kevin Connolly is the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent and SAT has been travelling through the Moroccan capital Rabat where SAT a new centre has opened for the training of Imams from West SAT Africa whose job will be to return to their homes and preach SAT against violence and extremism. SAT 0830 SAT Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions SAT secretary, denouncing £4bn of planned cuts to disability SAT benefits as "indefensible". Laura Keunssberg is the BBC’s SAT political editor and Michael Fallon is the Defence SAT Secretary. SAT 0840 SAT SAT Pope Francis is marking the third anniversary of his SAT election today by joining Instagram. Dr Mariann Hardey from SAT Durham University specialises in marketing at the Business SAT School in Durham University and Mike Wendling is a SAT journalist with BBC Trending. SAT 0850 SAT SAT Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions SAT secretary, denouncing £4bn of planned cuts to disability SAT benefits as "indefensible". Isabel Oakeshott is the SAT political editor at Large at the Daily Mail. Matthew SAT D’Ancona is Guardian and Evening Standard columnist. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b073rg4k (Listen) SAT Mel Giedroyc SAT SAT With the Rev. Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir SAT SAT Mel Giedroyc is taking on her most serious acting role, SAT playing an American mother dealing with the potentially SAT troubling actions of her son, in the play Luce. Mel also SAT discusses the importance of her name, her relationship with SAT Sue Perkins and The Great British Bake Off. SAT SAT Chinese sportswoman Lijia Xu left her parents to become a SAT full time sailor aged ten and in 2012 became an Olympic Gold SAT medallist. She talks about her path to success- and the SAT obstacles she had to overcome. SAT SAT Listener Richie Tattersall played the ukulele on Labi SAT Siffre's It must be Love, chosen as one of David Troughton's SAT Inheritance Tracks. Richie reveals that whilst he was an SAT experienced session musician, he had never previously played SAT the ukulele. SAT SAT As part of the Sport Relief weekend, reporter JP Devlin has SAT been to Jamie's farm, which encourages children at risk of SAT social and academic exclusion to re-engage and thrive. SAT SAT Singer Will Young shares his Inheritance Tracks: Taxman by SAT The Beatles and Joan Armatrading- Love and Affection. SAT SAT The financial crash in 2008 meant Dinah Jefferies was unable SAT to complete her plan of retiring in Spain. To make money she SAT turned to writing and is now a best-selling author. SAT SAT Luce runs at the Southwark Playhouse in London until the 2nd SAT April. SAT Golden Lily by Lijia Xu is out now. SAT Will Young's latest album 85% Proof is out now. SAT The Silk Merchant's Daughter by Dinah Jefferies is out now. SAT SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Mel Giedroyc SAT Interviewed Guest: Lijia Xu SAT Interviewed Guest: Richie Tattersall SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Will Young SAT Interviewed Guest: Dinah Jefferies SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 Laura Barton's Notes from a Musical Island b073rg4m (Listen) SAT Floorboards and the Blues SAT SAT The music writer Laura Barton visits four corners of Britain SAT and listens closely to the music found in different SAT landscapes. SAT SAT Long ago, the city of Birmingham was dubbed "the home of SAT heavy metal", suggesting a connection between the SAT manufacturing industries of the Black Country and the music SAT of Black Sabbath and others. Now James and Jibs of SAT 'metalcore' group Oceans Ate Alaska have inherited - and SAT trumped - their own fathers' heavy tastes. SAT SAT And in a programme as much about community as cults, Laura SAT talks with Birmingham's celebrated R&B singer Jaki Graham SAT and traces the story of music in the clubs and on the SAT streets of city. SAT SAT Then, Laura heads west to South Wales to experience how SAT another musical tradition associated with established SAT industrial communities has been reinvented for modern times. SAT During a rehearsal, conductor Richard Vaughan explains how SAT Côr y Gleision - the Cardiff Blues Choir - has found a new SAT home for famed Welsh singing. SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b073rg4p (Listen) SAT Jim Waterson of Buzzfeed examines the Tory row over SAT disability cuts. How powerful is the shadow chancellor, John SAT McDonnell? Can social media campaigns change minds over SAT Europe? And why dreaming up a political joke can pay SAT dividends. SAT SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0735qn5 (Listen) SAT Dancing in Damascus SAT SAT There's dancing in a nightclub in Damascus, though some SAT remain seated during the songs played in honour of the SAT leaders of Syria and Hezbollah. And not much dancing in the SAT suburbs. How are locals coping after five years of war? He SAT started out as a caring psychiatrist, and before his capture SAT he lived as an alternative healer. Yes, it's the Bosnian SAT Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. who may be convicted of SAT genocide next week. Playing chess with God - or rather, in a SAT stunning part of Ethiopia called the Chess pieces of God, is SAT it check mate for some very rare animals, or the local SAT mountain people? In Romania, shepherds cloaked in sheep SAT skins are on the war path, and we sail past the remotest SAT island in the world, Bouvetoya. It is only inhabited by SAT penguins, but has its own internet domain. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b0735qn7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b0735qn9 (Listen) SAT Has cash had its salad days? SAT SAT The salad bar Tossed have opened the UK's first entirely SAT cashless restaurant. SAT SAT Hundreds of people in north England and Scotland who lost SAT their possessions and homes to the floods earlier this year SAT have had their insurance claims voided because their their SAT properties have been declared too close - less than 400m - SAT to the river. SAT SAT One of the big announcements of the Budget was the creation SAT of the Lifetime ISA for the under 40's. How will it work and SAT what does it means for the future of pensions? SAT SAT And we look at how everything from changes to the personal SAT tax thresholds to the new ebay tax allowance could impact on SAT family finances. SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Reporter: Ruth Alexander SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT SAT Related links SAT SAT SAT Gov.UK: Budget 2016 SAT Gov.UK: Budget 2016: some of the things we've announced SAT SAT SAT Gov.UK: Tax information and impact note on Income and SAT Corporation Tax: trading income received in non-monetary SAT form SAT SAT SAT Gov.UK: Budget 2016: Topical Events SAT Gov.UK: Personal Savings Allowance: latest information SAT BBC News: New savings allowance to boost income for millions SAT from April SAT SAT SAT Gov.UK: Income tax: personal allowance and basic rate limit SAT for 2017 to 2018 SAT Gov.UK: Self Assessment SAT BBC News: Budget 2016: New personal tax-free allowance of SAT £11,500 SAT SAT SAT Gov.UK: Lifetime ISA – explained SAT Gov.UK: The new Lifetime ISA SAT BBC News: Budget 2016: New Lifetime Isa for homebuyers and SAT retirement SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b073bb5c (Listen) SAT Series 48, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Andy Zaltzman, Lucy SAT Porter, Mitch Benn and Freya Parker to present the week in SAT news through stand-up and sketches. SAT SAT This week the gang take a look at the winners and losers SAT from the Budget 2016, Andy Zaltzman makes an argument for SAT sport to save us all, Lucy Porter lays out her plans to open SAT an academy school and Steve and Hugh discuss how the SAT impending EU referendum is viewed from across the English SAT Channel with the UK Correspondent for De Spiegel magazine SAT Christoph Scheuermann. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Andy Zaltzman SAT Performer: Lucy Porter SAT Performer: Mitch Benn SAT Performer: Freya Parker SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0735qnc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0735qnf (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b073bb5h (Listen) SAT Heather McGregor, Chuka Umunna MP, Mick Whelan, Nadhim SAT Zahawi MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Sheffield Cathedral with a panel including Heather SAT McGregor, better known as "Mrs Moneypenny" who has a weekly SAT column with the Financial Times, the former Shadow Business SAT Secretary Chuka Umunna MP, the General Secretary of the SAT train union ASLEF, Mick Whelan, and the Conservative MP SAT Nadhim Zahawi. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0735qnh (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b04dh091 (Listen) SAT Murder Under Trust: The Massacre at Glencoe SAT SAT In 1692 soldiers billeted in the homes of the MacDonald clan SAT in Glencoe rose up and killed their hosts. Was this Highland SAT massacre the inevitable outcome of a long-standing clan SAT feud? Or were there other factors behind this infamous SAT betrayal? Adrian Bean's play - based on the contemporary SAT parliamentary Commission Of Enquiry into the massacre and on SAT historian John Prebble's seminal book, Glencoe - dramatises SAT these tragic 17th century events. SAT SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Tamara Kennedy SAT Marquis of Tweeddale: John Buick SAT Colonel Hill: Brian Pettifer SAT Lt Col Hamilton: Jordan Young SAT Laird of Glenlyon: Matthew Zajac SAT Alasdair MacIain: Paul Young SAT Lt Lindsay: Martin McBride SAT Eiblin MacDonald: Julie Duncanson SAT Duncan Campbell: Iain Robertson SAT Helen MacDonald: Anne Lacey SAT Neil McDonald: Stewart Campbell SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT Writer: Adrian Bean SAT SAT 15:30 Turntable Tales b07378ct (Listen) SAT Turntablists and Turntable Survival SAT SAT In the second part of her history of the Record Turntable DJ SAT and broadcaster Colleen Murphy brings the story up to the SAT present. After the war there was a steady improvement in the SAT quality of Turntables and their attendant amps and speakers SAT but the biggest step was the introduction of small, SAT self-contained units that allowed teenagers to find and SAT refine their musical tastes in the relative seclusion of SAT their bedrooms. SAT SAT Colleen also tracks the recent rise in Turntable sales and SAT visits a surviving and now thriving niche producer, SAT Nottingham Analogue, to see how they go about creating the SAT perfect Deck. SAT SAT But there's been another revolution in the Turntable story SAT which began on a very particular day in 1975 when DJ Grand SAT Wizzard Theodore, with the help of his mother, developed the SAT 'scratch'. Colleen chats to Grand Wizzard about his SAT scratching discovery and the Turntablism which developed SAT from it. She also hears from JFB, the UK DJ who's a three SAT times British DMC Turntablist champion and the master of a SAT myriad of scratching techniques. SAT As well as their own DJ world, of which Colleen is a part, SAT the likes of JFB have also inspired classical compositions SAT using Turntables. Gabriel Prokofiev talks to her about his SAT concerto that's now on a list of pieces recommended for SAT Secondary Schools. SAT SAT It was the DJ's who, back in the nineties helped sustain the SAT production of vinyl. Now it's the audiophiles who lead the SAT charge. Turntable sales have turned a corner and the SAT Turntable Tale is very far from over. SAT SAT In searching for the magic of what the Turntable is, can be SAT and has been, Colleen hears again from the Antiques SAT Roadshow's Paul Atterbury about a memorable moment during SAT his time on the show involving an old, wind-up Gramophone. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0735qnk (Listen) SAT Advice on what to do if you baby just won't sleep. SAT SAT Should all parents follow a sleep routine to help get their SAT baby to sleep? We discuss what, if anything, works best with SAT parenting expert Sarah Ockwell-Smith and Lynne Murray, SAT Professor in Developmental Psychopathology at the University SAT of Reading. Sex Educator Emily Nagoski on why she believes SAT there's no such thing as a sex drive. We discuss the SAT techniques and work of the Queen of Tie Die Marian Clayden SAT with curator and textile historian Mary Schoeser SAT SAT 1.3 million older people in the UK suffer from malnutrition. SAT We hear from on a carer Kathryn about her struggles to get SAT her elderly mother to eat, and Lesley Carter of the SAT Malnutrition Task Force. SAT SAT Sophie Sabbage tells us how she's chosen to deal with a SAT diagnosis of incurable lung cancer and why her book The SAT Cancer Whisperer is part memoir and part self help book. SAT SAT Plus Jane visits Styal Prison to see how things have changed SAT following since a Review into o vulnerable women in the SAT criminal justice system, speaking to the prison governor SAT Mahala McGuffie and prisoner's Teresa and Marie . And who SAT were the women involved in Ireland's Easter Uprising 100 SAT years ago. What impact have they had on Women's place in the SAT politics of Ireland. SAT SAT Presented by Jenny Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Ockwell-Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Lynne Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Emily Nagoski SAT Interviewed Guest: Mary Schoeser SAT Interviewed Guest: Kathryn SAT Interviewed Guest: Sophie Sabbage SAT Interviewed Guest: Jane SAT Interviewed Guest: Mahala McGuffie SAT Interviewed Guest: Teresa SAT Interviewed Guest: Marie SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0735qnm (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b0739rfv (Listen) SAT Lonely at the Top? SAT SAT Many senior executives now employ personal coaches to help SAT them through their toughest business challenges. Coaches can SAT provide confidential, independent support for senior SAT managers who find life lonely at the top. But shouldn't the SAT boss be capable of making decisions on his or her own? And SAT are coaches sometimes the hidden power behind the senior SAT executive throne? SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Gavin Patterson, CEO of BT Group SAT SAT Melanie Richards, Vice Chairman and Partner of KPMG UK SAT SAT Jonathan Bowman-Perks, Coach and Mentor SAT SAT Producer: Ruth Edwards. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0735qnp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0735qnr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0735qnt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b073rh48 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Sara Cox, Eddie Izzard, Victoria Melody, SAT Andrew Maxwell, Badly Drawn Boy, YolanDa Brown, Mica Paris SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Eddie Izzard, SAT Tanya Franks, Victoria Melody and Andrew Maxwell for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Badly Drawn Boy and YolanDa Brown and Mica Paris. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Eddie Izzard SAT BBC Three is exclusively covering Eddie’s journey from his SAT first marathon to his last, which is planned for Sunday 20 SAT March. SAT SAT Tanya Franks SAT ‘The Truth’ is at the Menier Chocolate Factory London until SAT the 7th May SAT SAT YolanDa Brown and Mica Paris SAT YolanDa Brown is touring her show 'Reggae Love Songs' with SAT various special guests until 15th November. SAT SAT Badly Drawn Boy SAT The 15th anniversary deluxe re-release of ‘Hour Of The SAT Bewilderbeast’ is out now on XL Recordings. Badly Drawn Boy SAT is also playing at Lunar Festival this Summer. SAT SAT Victoria Melody SAT SAT Victoria is touring 'Hair Peace' until 25th June. Further SAT details can be found on her website. SAT SAT Andrew Maxwell SAT 'Andrew Maxwell's Late Agenda' is on Monday 21st March at SAT 11pm on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Sara Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: Eddie Izzard SAT Interviewed Guest: Tanya Franks SAT Interviewed Guest: Victoria Melody SAT Interviewed Guest: Andrew Maxwell SAT Performer: Badly Drawn Boy SAT Performer: YolanDa Brown SAT Performer: Mica Paris SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b073rh4b (Listen) SAT Frauke Petry SAT SAT "Ambitious", "cold-hearted" and "calculating"; just some of SAT the words used to describe Frauke Petry, leader of Germany's SAT Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party. She has suggested SAT German border police should be allowed to use firearms to SAT deter illegal immigrants. SAT SAT The populist, right-wing AfD has, under her controversial SAT leadership, jumped from winning just a few percent of the SAT vote at the 2013 federal elections, to more than 20 percent SAT in some parts of Germany in last weekend's regional SAT elections. The results surprised many. SAT SAT But is her brand of politics sincere, or - as some say - SAT pure opportunism? And how far could she take the AfD? Ed SAT Stourton finds out. SAT SAT Producer: Wesley Stephenson. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0735qnw (Listen) SAT Better Living through Criticism, High-Rise, Jane Horrocks, SAT Charlotte Bronte, Russia and the arts SAT SAT A O Scott's book Better Living through Criticism looks at SAT the very stuff of Saturday Review - who needs critics SAT nowadays? SAT Ben Wheatley's film High-Rise is an adaptation ofthe 1972 SAT novel by JG Ballard - an urban dystopia set in a brutalist SAT tower block. SAT Jane Horrocks' newest production is a genre hybrid; "a SAT theatrical experience with music" . If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me SAT at London's Young Vic is her tribute to the music she loved SAT as a teenager SAT Charlotte Bronte came to London from Yorkshire five times in SAT her life. A small exhibition at The John Soane's Museum SAT commemorates her visits. SAT London's National Portrait Gallery has an unprecedented SAT exhibition of Russian works normally displayed at The State SAT Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. It's part of a cultural SAT exchange between the two museums, both founded 160 years SAT ago. SAT Sarah Crompton's guests are Tiffany Jenkins, Francis SAT Spufford and Louise Doughty. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT High Rise SAT SAT High Rise is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT A O Scott SAT SAT Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, SAT Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth by A O Scott is available in SAT hardback and ebook. SAT SAT Russia and the Arts SAT Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky SAT is at the National Portrail Gallery in London until the 26 SAT June 2016 SAT SAT Image: Modest Mussorgsky by Ilia Repin, 1881 © State SAT Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. SAT SAT Charlotte Brontë at the Soane SAT Charlotte Brontë at the Soane SAT is at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London until 7 May 2016 SAT SAT Image: Courtesy of Sir John Soane's Museum, Photo credit: SAT Gareth Gardner. SAT SAT SAT If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me SAT If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me SAT is at the Young Vic in London, until 16 April 2016. SAT SAT Image: © Johan Persson SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sarah Crompton SAT Interviewed Guest: Tiffany Jenkins SAT Interviewed Guest: Francis Spufford SAT Interviewed Guest: Louise Doughty SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b074zbxg (Listen) SAT How to Go Straight SAT SAT What makes an ex-convict renounce a life of crime? With SAT staggering levels of re-offending, this is a vital question SAT for our criminal justice system. One little-known radio SAT programme has been providing some answers, through some SAT powerful and intimate personal stories. "Outside In" is a SAT collaboration between the BBC and National Prison Radio, SAT presented by former prisoners. It focusses on the stories of SAT ex-criminals who have turned their lives around. Sitting in SAT the studio and talking to fellow ex-cons, they reveal SAT themselves in a way that is rarely heard elsewhere. They SAT talk about the turning points when they decided to resist SAT returning to their old ways, sometimes after several SAT drearily repetitive spells inside. Often the real change is SAT developing a sense of self-worth. For a lifetime they have SAT been told they are worth nothing. To go straight, they have SAT to believe they are worth something. SAT SAT Outside In presenter Hilary introduces some of the most SAT powerful moments from the programme. He talks to Andrew SAT Wilkie from National Prison Radio who explains why hearing SAT these stories in cells across the country is helping to SAT change minds. And we hear from some of the talented former SAT prisoners who have performed on the programme - singing and SAT rapping with a fierce conviction. SAT SAT Producer: Shabnam Grewal. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b0736566 (Listen) SAT Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell, Episode 2 SAT SAT Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell SAT Dramatised by Ellen Dryden SAT Sylvia marries Philip, believing Charlie to be dead. But SAT chaos descends when Charlie returns, and Sylvia discovers SAT Philip has lied to her. Set in Yorkshire in the 1790's - the SAT time of the Napoleonic wars, in Monkshaven (ie.Whitby), SAT during the time of the Press Gangs, who intercepted the SAT fishing boats, seized the men and pressed them into service SAT with the Royal Navy to fight the French. SAT SAT Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris SAT SAT Further info: This was Gaskell's last (completed) and only SAT historical novel, set in 1790's Whitby. SAT SAT Credits SAT Elizabeth Gaskell: Barbara Flynn SAT Sylvia: Jodie Comer SAT Philip: Graeme Hawley SAT Bell: Siobhan Finneran SAT Daniel: Paul Copley SAT Charlie: Chris Connel SAT Kester: Jonathan Keeble SAT Duncan: Jonathan Keeble SAT Molly: Nichola Burley SAT Hester: Verity Henry SAT Mrs Kinraid: Verity Henry SAT Director: Pauline Harris SAT Producer: Pauline Harris SAT Author: Elizabeth Gaskell SAT Adaptor: Ellen Dryden SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0735qny (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b0738kq4 (Listen) SAT Morality and the EU Referendum SAT SAT Claim and counter claim in the EU referendum debate have SAT filled the air waves and packed the papers and there are SAT still 14 weeks left to the actual vote. The atmosphere is SAT already highly charged and the political stakes couldn't be SAT much higher. The way we vote on June 23rd will have profound SAT implications for generations to come. We've heard a lot SAT about the political and economic arguments that we should SAT consider when casting that vote, but what are the moral SAT considerations? Is preserving our national cultural identity SAT behind strict border controls a moral priority? Do we have a SAT wider duty as good citizens of Europe and the world? Is fear SAT of immigration and fear of an uncertain economic future a SAT defendable moral position? Is it a moral argument to say our SAT choice should be a utilitarian calculation of where we SAT personally and as a nation will be financially better off? SAT Is sovereignty the moral trump card? Morality and the EU SAT referendum. Chaired by Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, SAT Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor and Anne McElvoy. Witnesses SAT are Anthony O'Hear, Kirsty Hughes, Brian Denny and Sebastian SAT Farquhar. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b0736vtw (Listen) SAT Heat 10, 2016 SAT SAT (10/17) SAT Russell Davies puts four more would-be Brains of Britain SAT through the toughest of general knowledge tests, at the SAT Radio Theatre in London. SAT SAT Why is the chemical element argon so named? In which TV SAT series did the heroes have to defeat the lumbering SAT Cybernauts, even before the Cybermen made their first SAT appearance in Dr Who? Who, according to the title of the SAT play in which they feature, were Bob Acres and Captain Jack SAT Absolute? SAT SAT The winner today will win a place in the semi-finals in a SAT few week's time, but there could be a chance for a runner-up SAT to go through too, if any of them scores highly enough to be SAT one of the top scorers of the series. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT TONY ALPE, currently unemployed, from South East London SAT SAT LIZ NOBLE, a children's explainer and puppet maker from SAT Twickenham SAT SAT MARY ROE, a teacher from North London SAT SAT JOHN TALLON, a theatre nurse from Sutton Coldfield. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b073656b (Listen) SAT George Mackay Brown SAT SAT Roger McGough with a programme dedicated to the Orkney poet SAT and prose writer George Mackay Brown, who died twenty years SAT ago this year. He wrote poems full of wonderful imagery, SAT capturing the life and characters of those islands. Reader SAT John Mackay. Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT SAT Prologue to 'The Storm' SAT SAT Hamnavoe SAT SAT The Death of Peter Esson SAT SAT Peat Cutting SAT SAT The Old Women SAT SAT Hamnavoe Market SAT SAT Beachcomber SAT SAT Stella Cartwright (for her birthday - 15 May 1982) SAT SAT Further Than Hoy SAT SAT The Poet SAT SAT Kirkyard SAT SAT Countryman SAT SAT SAT SAT All by George Mackay Brown SAT SAT Taken from The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown SAT SAT Published by John Murray SAT SAT SAT SAT The Horses SAT SAT By Edwin Muir SAT SAT From Edwin Muir – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: John MacKay SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 MARCH 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0741468 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Modern Welsh Voices b03nrry0 (Listen) SUN Our Sickness SUN SUN Our Sickness by Joe Dunthorne SUN SUN When a young woman wakes to find her eyes won't open, she SUN and her boyfriend embark on a quest to find a cure. The SUN fourth of five original stories by writers from Wales. SUN SUN Read by Ceri Murphy SUN SUN Directed by James Robinson SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Ceri Murphy SUN Director: James Robinson SUN Writer: Joe Dunthorne SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b074146b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b074146d (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b074146g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b074146j (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0741713 (Listen) SUN Holy Trinity, Penn, Buckinghamshire SUN SUN From Holy Trinity Church Penn, Buckinghamshire. SUN The tower contains a peel of 6 bells, 3 of which (including SUN the tenor weighing 10 hundredweight in the key of G sharp) SUN were cast by Samuel Knight of Holborn in 1702. The three SUN other bells are from the Whitechapel Foundry of Mears and SUN Stainbank and were cast between 1894 and 1919. In 1883, the SUN Vicar proudly reported that with the tower being 600 feet SUN above sea level, thirteen counties could be seen. This week SUN we hear them ringing Plain Bob Doubles. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b0738kq6 (Listen) SUN The Execution - The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, at SUN the Tower of London SUN SUN In the fifth edition of "Lent in the Landscape", a series of SUN talks on different perspectives of the passion story, SUN Cristina Odone visits the Chapel Royal of Saint Peter Ad SUN Vincula at the Tower of London. She reflects on the figure SUN of Mary, the mother of Jesus, at the foot of the cross as SUN her son is crucified. Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Transcript SUN SUN Is it blasphemous to suggest that God asked more of Mary SUN than of Jesus? Jesus is to sacrifice his life, but Mary must SUN sacrifice the son she loves more than life itself. SUN SUN I am standing in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the SUN Tower of London. It is known as the saddest place on earth. SUN This is the final resting place of three queens of England SUN Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard and Jane Grey, and two saints SUN of the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and John Fisher. SUN Their headless bodies were buried under the nave or chancel SUN without memorial until the 19th century when remains found SUN in the nave were re-interred in the crypt. In the adjacent SUN Tower thousands were imprisoned and beheaded. I don’t SUN believe in ghosts, but in this place, the shadows cast by SUN violent deaths more than 500 years ago are everywhere. SUN SUN The chapel has been restored to its Tudor origins. For Lent SUN the altar has been stripped bare and the cross draped in a SUN purple cloth of mourning. This adds to the atmosphere of SUN stark simplicity, and of melancholic devotion. SUN SUN A fitting site then for the harrowing sculpture of the SUN crucifixion that hangs before me. Suspended high above, SUN between two pillars, the emaciated figure of Jesus Christ. SUN It is a modern work by Guy Reid that is part of a stations SUN of the cross art trail in central London. It portrays a SUN skeletal figure, stretched out in suffering, with gaping SUN wounds, marked by the stigmata. This is Jesus the man at his SUN most vulnerable. SUN SUN I can picture the scene in Golgotha, on a hill outside the SUN city walls of Jerusalem. While passers-by jeer and mock, I SUN imagine Mary watching her son being whipped, kicked, spat SUN at. The crucifixion was a public spectacle. How his mother SUN must have suffered, seeing him splayed out like a common SUN criminal. He was humiliated and tortured, a warning for SUN others. This is the fate that awaits the rebel, the SUN blasphemer, the rule-breaker. SUN SUN I wonder if at that moment she asked herself – will God His SUN Father intervene, as he did with Abraham – and free his son SUN in a flash of blinding light, scattering his persecutors? SUN Did she hope against hope that Jesus would be spared at the SUN last minute? SUN SUN But he is not. Mary has to witness the worst – the death of SUN a child. SUN SUN We glimpse Mary’s motherhood in only a few brief accounts in SUN the Gospel. The annunciation, when an Angel asks this SUN innocent maiden to carry the Son of God; her visit to her SUN cousin Elizabeth, the two mothers-to-be seeking comfort from SUN one another. These intimate vignettes in the Gospels raise SUN a smile. She is so human, so ordinary. Every incident SUN captures a moment of the everyday relationship between a SUN doting mother and her special son. It’s a scant but loving SUN picture of domesticity, and contributes to the image of SUN Mary, accessible to all. SUN SUN THIS Mary, the loving and mild mannered mother, is the SUN Madonna of countless paintings, sculptures and plastic SUN figurines. I remember as a little girl saying the rosary and SUN thinking of this Mary. Growing up in Italy, she was all SUN around us. SUN SUN But with the passing of the years, as I grew into womanhood, SUN I began to find Mary a bit of a reproach. The four pillars SUN on which she stands, being born free of Original Sin, being SUN the Mother of God, being a Virgin throughout her life and SUN her body being raised up to the heavens … these dogmas SUN lifted her far above us ordinary women. She was the too SUN perfect mother who filled her daughters with awe but not a SUN little incomprehension and even resignation: I can never SUN hope to be like her. Her purity was calculated to make me SUN feel a little sullied by my base appetites. Her innocence SUN made me feel sinful. SUN SUN She, this most marvellous of women, made me feel inadequate. SUN SUN Inadequate and also out of synch. She was the SUN personification of obedience, selflessness, patience, SUN powerlessness. These are not qualities we focus on today. SUN They are not character traits we particularly admire, SUN either. We hold up instead self-determination, grit, and SUN self confidence. SUN SUN In the 21st century, Mary’s extraordinary obedience goes SUN against the grain. Who is this woman, who accepts a fate SUN worse than death without so much as a murmur? No wonder that SUN when the Irish novelist Colm Toibin wrote about Mary he SUN makes her out to be angry and bitter. In The testament of SUN Mary he picks up her story, years after Jesus’s death and SUN resurrection, in Ephesus – which lies in modern day Turkey. SUN Here, according to legend, she went to live with the apostle SUN John. SUN SUN For Colm Toibin, Mary here grew embittered and cynical, SUN incapable of believing her son’s divine nature. She berates SUN the apostles who come to visit and berates her son’s memory. SUN Toibin’s portrait of a desperate man-hater makes sense in SUN the 21st century. It is far easier for us to picture Mary SUN railing against her destiny than accepting meekly whatever SUN the Lord sends her. Women’s emancipation, their new SUN equality, cannot be squared with Mary the Handmaiden of the SUN Lord. SUN SUN Maybe that explains why I felt more at ease with Mary the SUN suffering mother. She who stands at the foot of the cross, SUN her head bowed in grief. SUN SUN And the knowledge that she suffered this tragedy made me SUN seek her -- in my times of trouble. SUN I move to the Tower green where the scaffold for the SUN execution stood. Today a glass cushion marks the spot for SUN visitors: the condemned men and women of the 16th century SUN knelt here on a proper cushion and then lowered their head SUN before the blade fell. SUN SUN The curious who had gathered round to witness the beheadings SUN may have prayed too. The condemned were meeting their Maker SUN now – but they believed that the Hour of Judgement was SUN coming for us all. They may have intoned the prayer that SUN Geoffrey Chaucer wrote, translating from the French. In its SUN verses, the poet of the Canterbury Tales tells of how SUN sinners sought consolation from Mary. SUN SUN Marian devotion, so widespread in the late Middle Ages, was SUN fuelled by the pain and grief that were part of everyday SUN life even for the more fortunate. Today we may be spared SUN some of the tragedies our 16th century ancestors endured. SUN Most of us will also thankfully be spared, too, the ultimate SUN sacrifice of losing a child – but losing work; losing a SUN parent; a terrifying diagnosis: any of these will afford us SUN a glimpse of Mary’s ordeal at the foot of that cross. It is SUN because of that suffering that we feel able to turn to her SUN during our dark night of the soul. SUN SUN This, at least, was how it was for me, in my own hour of SUN need. SUN SUN The doctor sounds mechanical when he rings. He tells me that SUN my daughter’s blood test result is ‘reason for concern’. He SUN advises me to bring her immediately to a consultant. ‘Don’t SUN Google this condition’ he warns. I somehow manage to keep SUN breathing. Somehow find the phone to share the diagnosis SUN with my husband. Somehow manage to walk home and – later -- SUN to hold back the tears when we explain to Izzy that she is SUN to undergo a biopsy. SUN SUN I pray to Mary as I have never done before. Hail, holy SUN Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness and our SUN hope. I cling to her for succour: she knows my suffering. SUN She has experienced this helpless pain. Even as I mouth the SUN prayers, I think that if the worst happens to my daughter, SUN my spirit will be broken and my faith will not survive. SUN SUN Grief holds me for days. It tightens its fist around me and SUN won’t let me go. At times, all I can feel is bitterness and SUN anger. I rail against God, fate, the world. In other SUN moments, the need to pray overwhelms me and I beseech Mary. SUN She feels closer than God the Father or God the Son. She is SUN human. She is mother. SUN And then suddenly I am released. The drugs are working. My SUN daughter is reacting brilliantly to the treatment. I can SUN start living again. SUN It was no miracle, of course I know that. There is a SUN perfectly rational explanation for the glorious results. And SUN yet in some recess of my mind Mary has answered my prayers. SUN My daughter is thriving, again, with Mary’s blessing. SUN I marvel at the woman wrapped in her veil, witness to her SUN child’s suffering. I contrast her submission to my SUN rebellious anger, her perfect humility to my furious SUN resentment. SUN I, who failed the first test, am full of awe. SUN I misinterpreted her lack of ego as lack of strength, her SUN refusal to defy her fate as mere passivity. SUN Instead, I now know that the woman who transformed the worst SUN suffering into an act of supreme sacrifice for the love of SUN God has the strength of a heroine. She is a true servant SUN leader. To be the role model of men and women. SUN SUN SUN Now I am walking up the center aisle towards the altar. SUN Beneath me stretches a beautifully decorated pavement – it SUN was under these flagstones that the Victorians who restored SUN the chapel found the remains of 1500 bodies. Among them, SUN they claimed, were those of Anne Boleyn Catherine Howard and SUN Jane Grey. The three queens were reburied here just in front SUN of the altar. SUN As royals they had been accorded the dignity of a private SUN execution. Purported heretics and traitors like Thomas More SUN and John Fisher instead were beheaded a few paces away on SUN Tower Hill, under the curious gaze of passers-by. They too SUN lie buried, with the young Queens, here in the Chapel of St SUN Peter’s ad Vincula. SUN SUN SUN The martyrs gave up their lives for their beliefs. In their SUN eyes, when Henry renounced the Pope in Rome, he risked SUN dragging their country away from the one true Church. They SUN preferred death to appeasement. Even if their stance meant SUN being branded a traitor. ‘I die the king’s faithful servant’ SUN Thomas More said, ‘but God’s first.’ SUN The division between Protestants and Catholics was just SUN beginning – and the figure of Mary became a controversial SUN one. Martin Luther shared the devotion for Mary that was so SUN common in the late Middle Ages; as did Calvin. But by the SUN 18th century some Protestants were complaining about SUN Mariolatry and its excessive reverence of a mere woman. They SUN looked at Scriptures, which had next to nothing about Mary: SUN if she was relegated to a walk on part by the Gospel SUN writers, who were we to make her so prominent? For SUN Catholics, she was the mediator, who interceded on our SUN behalf, asking for God’s clemency in our regard. SUN SUN Yet the figure of Mary transcends our differences. Today, SUN she continues to draw the faithful. She is why six million SUN pilgrims make their way to Lourdes each year, to visit the SUN grotto where Bernadette saw her in a series of visions. She SUN is why Christians in the Middle East for 1500 years have SUN flocked to Saydnaya in Syria. Here upon a high mountain SUN rises the Convent of Our Lady with its icon of the Virgin SUN Mary and the child Jesus, painted – it is said -- by Luke SUN the Evangelist. Pilgrims today risk their lives by making SUN the trek to Saydnaya. The town of 20,000 mostly Christians SUN is under fire from the militias and IS. Yet the pilgrims SUN keep coming. Certain of Mary’s love, protection and SUN leadership. SUN SUN SUN The 40 days of Lent are nearly over. For the faithful our SUN fasting, our small acts of self- denial, our prayers, have SUN offered a modest glimpse of Mary’s endurance at the foot of SUN the cross. We cannot hope to replicate her serenity in the SUN face of sacrifice; but we can try to love, as she did, the SUN God who redeemed us. SUN SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b074146l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0741715 (Listen) SUN The Last Waltz SUN SUN Alan Hall reflects on how facing the end of something can SUN often take us back to its beginnings. SUN SUN The Irish writer Flann O'Brien pointed out in At SUN Swim-Two-birds that he didn't agree with the idea of "one SUN beginning and one ending for a book". And certainly, endings SUN - and not just in literature - can become confused with a SUN sense of where something started or the likelihood of SUN various start points which suggest the possibility of more SUN than one ending. SUN SUN In this edition of Something Understood, Alan dances through SUN ideas of what is retained, what is reawakened and what might SUN be left behind when we approach an ending, with the help of SUN writers - including O'Brien and Keith Douglas, Lydia Davis SUN and Kazuo Ishiguro - and music that ranges from a late SUN Schubert piano sonata, to Persian singer Aida Shahghasemi SUN Beman's Stay, to The National's account of renewal after an SUN end (Pink Rabbits) and Elly Stone's What I Loved. SUN SUN Produced by Eleanor McDowall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: The End of the Story SUN SUN Author: Lydia Davis SUN SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN Title: At Swim-Two-Birds SUN SUN Author: Flann O’Brien SUN SUN Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics SUN Title: Canoe (from The Complete Poems) SUN SUN Author: Keith Douglas SUN SUN Publisher: Faber and Faber SUN Title: Giovanni’s Room SUN SUN Author: James Baldwin SUN SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN Title: A Valediction – Forbidding Mourning SUN SUN Author: John Donne SUN SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN Title: The Snow Queen SUN SUN Author: Michael Cunningham SUN SUN Publisher: Fourth Estate SUN Title: Never Let Me Go SUN SUN Author: Kazuo Ishiguro SUN SUN Publisher: Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0741717 (Listen) SUN Herdwicks of Grasmere SUN SUN Herdwick sheep, the icons of the Lake District, are proving SUN popular with gourmet diners. Caz Graham meets Will and Emma SUN Benson, two Grasmere farmers hoping to sell their meat to SUN the restaurants of Hong Kong. SUN SUN Producer: Alasdair Cross. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b074146q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b074146s (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0741719 (Listen) SUN Judas, Druids, Child abuse and the church SUN SUN The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has SUN written to the government expressing his shock and concern SUN about rising reports of anti-Semitism at UK universities. SUN Bob Walker reports. SUN SUN On Good Friday, The Reverend Kate Bottley re-opens the case SUN against the Bible's greatest villain, Judas Iscariot in a SUN BBC 1 documentary. She joins Edward Stourton and Peter SUN Stanford author of a book on Judas to discuss the question: SUN Can Judas be forgiven? SUN SUN Are the abuse scandals that affect the church essentially SUN the same as those that affect other institutions or is there SUN something peculiar to church structures and culture that SUN makes it difficult for the church to tackle the issue of SUN child abuse? Rachel Mann, Justin Humphreys and Richard SUN Scorer discuss. SUN SUN For many years, the hand carved tunnels at Gilmerton Cove in SUN Edinburgh have been a source of contention. Are they only a SUN few hundred years old or do they date back to a time when SUN they formed a sacred Druid temple used for human sacrifice? SUN Bronwen Livingston reports. SUN SUN The UK's Muslim Women's Council has announced it will be SUN revealing its fundraising plans to build a women's mosque in SUN Bradford. In Denmark, however, there is already a women's SUN mosque. Edward Stourton talks to one of its founders and SUN Imam Sherin Khankan. SUN SUN Not content with 27 million followers on twitter, this SUN weekend Pope Francis embraces another social media platform SUN - Instagram. So why has social media proved to be so SUN successful for the Pope and how does it benefit other SUN religions? We hear the views of Catholic author Michael J. SUN O'Loughlin, Muslim author Shelina Mohamed and Andy Robertson SUN who writes on technology and spirituality. SUN SUN Producer: Helen Lee SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b074171c (Listen) SUN Sport Relief SUN SUN Clare Balding presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Sport Relief SUN Reg Charity: Sport Relief is an initiative of Comic Relief, SUN registered charity 326568 (England/Wales); SC039730 SUN (Scotland) SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Sport Relief 2016'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Sport Relief 2016'. SUN SUN Sport Relief SUN Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get SUN active, raise cash and change lives. Half of all the money SUN the public raises is spent by Comic Relief right here at SUN home in the UK, with the other half used to make a SUN difference in the world’s poorest communities. SUN SUN In the Kenyan city of Kisumu.... SUN SUN ... hundreds of young children are forced to survive alone SUN on the streets often gathering plastic bottles to sell for a SUN little food. SUN SUN When night falls they sleep rough... SUN ... often in the sacks they use to collect the bottles, left SUN incredibly exposed, lonely and vulnerable. SUN SUN The Sport Relief funded Hovic (‘Hope for Victoria Children’) SUN project... SUN ... in the city gives these kids the chance to obtain the SUN most valuable tool of all to help them leave the streets and SUN ultimately poverty behind them - an education. SUN SUN But Hovic also gives these youngsters a chance... SUN ... to play and laugh as well as learn, a chance within its SUN safe walls to be children again. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b074146v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b074146x (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b074171f (Listen) SUN Lent Pilgrimage 6: Sacred Encounter SUN SUN On Palm Sunday, the mystery of God at the heart of Christian SUN experience. What does the approaching passion of Christ SUN reveal about human suffering? SUN Live from the Memorial Chapel of Glasgow University, with SUN the Rev Stuart MacQuarrie and the Rev Canon Charlotte SUN Methuen. SUN Chapel Choir directed by Katy Cooper. Organist: Kevin SUN Bowyer. SUN A link to online resources from Churches Together in Britain SUN and Ireland is on the Sunday Worship web page. Producer: Mo SUN McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b073bb5l (Listen) SUN Resolutions SUN SUN Adam Gopnik struggles to keep his New Year's resolutions to SUN find a "monastic moment" in the day to meditate and listen SUN to good music. SUN SUN "What gets in the way of our dream of practising SUN detachment..is our daily practice of attachment, which may SUN be the most human thing about us." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03tht7c (Listen) SUN Skylark 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 John Aitchison tells the story of the skylark. No other UK SUN bird is capable of sustaining such a loud and complex song SUN while hovering high above the ground, rapidly beating its SUN wings to stay aloft. Some songs can last 20 minutes or more SUN and their performance is likely to be as much a territorial SUN display as an exhibition of the male's physical fitness to SUN impress a female. SUN SUN Skylark (Alauda arvensis) SUN Webpage image curtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b074146z (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 b07418qs (Listen) SUN Mr Grundy goes to college, and Rob is thinking about the SUN future. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Gwenda Hughes SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Alf Grundy: David Hargreaves SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Wayne Tucson: Clive Wood SUN Lauren: Polly Lister SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b07418qw (Listen) SUN Gloria Steinem SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer, feminist & activist, SUN Gloria Steinem. SUN SUN At the forefront of the second wave of feminism, she came to SUN prominence after publishing an article entitled "After Black SUN Power, Women's Liberation" in 1969. Two years later she SUN co-founded the feminist magazine Ms. As an activist, she has SUN spent much of her life travelling, giving talks and SUN lecturing. SUN SUN Born in 1934 in Ohio, her father was a businessman who ran a SUN lake-side resort in the summer and packed up his family at SUN the first sign of frost to travel cross-country in a caravan SUN selling antiques. Her mother had been a newspaper journalist SUN and later suffered a nervous breakdown before Gloria was SUN born. She became her mother's sole carer aged eleven when SUN her parents divorced. It was only following their SUN separation, having settled down in a house in Toledo, that SUN she spent her first full year at school. SUN SUN After high school, she read politics and government and then SUN traveled around India for two years on a fellowship. On her SUN return, she established herself as a writer in 1960s New SUN York and co-founded Ms. magazine in 1971. Since then, her SUN writing has appeared in innumerable magazines, newspapers, SUN anthologies, television commentaries, political campaigns, SUN and film documentaries in America and internationally. In SUN 2013 she was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the SUN United States' highest honour, by Barack Obama. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Gloria Steinem SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b0741471 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b0736vv2 (Listen) SUN Series 74, Episode 4 SUN SUN Graham Norton, Rufus Hound, Paul Merton and Pam Ayres join SUN host Nicholas Parsons, and attempt to speak without SUN repetition, deviation or hesitation. Produced by Victoria SUN Lloyd. SUN SUN On the cards today Copernicus, The Rat Pack, and Toast. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Graham Norton SUN Panellist: Rufus Hound SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Pam Ayres SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b07418qy (Listen) SUN The Pizza SUN SUN Dan Saladino charts the rise, fall and rise of traditional SUN Neapolitan pizza. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Becky Ripley SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0741473 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0741475 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 The Perfect Strangers b07418r0 (Listen) SUN Pensioners Maurice Benton and Joanne Goody-Orris (better SUN known as Mo and Jo) have a story to tell. For 10 years they SUN sent thousands of parcels to soldiers containing small but SUN essential gifts and personal letters written by Jo. In SUN return the couple received thousands of letters back, SUN thanking them for their support and sometimes detailing what SUN life in Afghanistan was like. One letter dubbed them 'the SUN perfect strangers'. SUN Alan Dein spends a day with Mo and Jo, and talks to them SUN about what has driven them to make this extraordinary SUN gesture to the soldiers overseas. We hear the letters they SUN wrote, and introduce them to some of the soldiers who SUN received their letters. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b073bb51 (Listen) SUN Edible Garden Show SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from the SUN Edible Garden Show in Warwickshire. SUN SUN Christine Walkden, Pippa Greenwood and James Wong are this SUN week's panellists, answering audience questions on edible SUN flowers, which varieties of strawberries can offer longer SUN succession, how to get Cucamelons to fruit, and much more. SUN SUN The panellists also take a turn around the show itself, SUN speaking to stall-holders and guests at the event. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – I enjoy making and decorating cakes – apart from herbs SUN what edible flowers can I use for decoration and flavour? SUN SUN SUN Pippa – I think lawn daisies look lovely in salads and you SUN could put them in a daisy-chain around a cake SUN SUN James – Things that are most commonly mentioned are Violas SUN and Carnations because they look very nice but they don’t SUN taste very nice. I’d go for Begonias. Or *Acca sellowiana* SUN – the ‘Pineapple Guava’ – it does need a long summer but it SUN will produce sweet, edible flowers. And finally, go for an SUN ‘Electric Daisy’. SUN SUN SUN Q – Can we start crops off later than the growing guides and SUN seed packets tell us? SUN SUN SUN SUN Christine – Totally ignore them! Look at Mother Nature – SUN she’ll give you the best indication of when to get started. SUN As soon as the perennials start growing they’ll be enough SUN temperature in the soil to motivate new seeds to start SUN growing. SUN SUN SUN Q – How soon is it safe to mow the grass after a winter like SUN we’ve had? SUN SUN SUN Pippa – It depends what the local conditions are – the most SUN important thing is what your soil type is like. I am on SUN heavy clay so for me I wait a lot longer as it’s completely SUN slippy still. SUN It’s better to let it grow a bit too long, and then set the SUN blades quite high for the first cut, than go in too early. SUN SUN SUN Q – What varieties of strawberries can you recommend for a SUN longer succession? SUN SUN SUN Christine – Top of the list is a variety called SUN ‘Christine’! ‘Cambridge Favourite’ and some of the SUN Cambridge varieties are very good too. SUN SUN Pippa – Grow several different varieties SUN SUN James – I’d go for a wild or alpine version of a SUN strawberry. They produce any time there isn’t frost – they SUN are smaller/lighter but the flavour is great. I like the red SUN ones but there are various white forms that are almost SUN invisible to birds – because they are looking for red fruit SUN – so you don’t have to protect them as much. SUN SUN Q – Do you have any tips on how to get Cucamelons to produce SUN fruit? Last year I had lots of foliage but no fruit. SUN SUN SUN James – I’ve only ever grown them outdoors. But what I’ve SUN noticed with people who grow indoors is they lack SUN pollinators, much like cucumbers. You need ventilation and SUN to allow bees to get in and around. Outdoors – make sure SUN you don’t get frost damage. The Cucamelon and the ‘Shark’s SUN Fin’ Melon (*Cucurbita ficifolia*) are the two hardiest and SUN most reliable Cucurbits. Also, they are such small, spindly SUN plants that you can almost treat them like a pea and plant SUN them very close together around a small wigwam and that can SUN work well. SUN SUN Pippa – When plants like these get stressed they tend to SUN produce more male flowers than female flowers and therefore SUN you won’t get the fruits. So I’d make sure the temperature SUN doesn’t get too high or too dry. SUN SUN SUN Q – I live in a block of flats with a communal garden in SUN need of some more trees. We have an Apple, Magnolia, and SUN Flowering Cherry already – what else can you recommend? SUN SUN SUN Christine – The ‘Snowy Mespilus’ (*Amelanchier lamarckii*). SUN They produce edible fruits – the *lamarckii*, *canadensis*, SUN *pumila* – are good to have. SUN SUN James – I’d go for a quince SUN SUN Pippa – I’d sneak in a second apple – to use as a SUN pollinator. Also, try and get a damson in there too. And a SUN plum or two. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b074194z (Listen) SUN Fi Glover hears from friends who share a love of gaming, a SUN father and daughter who used to, and a teenager sharing with SUN her mother her experience of day-to-day harassment, in the SUN Omnibus of the series that proves it's surprising what you SUN hear when 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 learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b07419gj (Listen) SUN The Magus, Episode 1 SUN SUN Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate runs away from his SUN monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the small SUN Greek island of Phraxos. There he meets the enigmatic figure SUN of Maurice Conchis and slowly gets drawn into a world full SUN of strange encounters and elaborate tricks on Conchis's SUN estate at Bourani. When Conchis introduces Nicholas to the SUN enchanting and mysterious Lily Montgomery who bears a SUN striking resemblance to Conchis's long dead fiancée, reality SUN and illusion begin to intertwine, but what strange game is SUN Conchis playing with Nicholas? Moreover, in this world SUN coloured by artifice and deception, who is really telling SUN him the truth? SUN SUN First published in 1965 John Fowles's novel 'The Magus' soon SUN achieved cult status, but has only been dramatized once SUN before in a film of 1968. Now acclaimed dramatist and SUN screenwriter Adrian Hodges (My Week with Marilyn, The SUN Go-Between, Peter and Wendy, The Musketeers, Survivors, SUN Primeval,) has adapted the novel for this new three-part SUN dramatisation starring Tom Burke (War and Peace, The SUN Musketeers) as Nicholas Urfe, Charles Dance (And Then There SUN Were None, Game of Thrones) as Maurice Conchis, and Hayley SUN Atwell (Agent Carter, Brideshead Revisited) as Lily. SUN SUN Harpsichordist ..... Maggie Cole SUN Recorder player ..... Martin Feinstein SUN SUN Writer ..... John Fowles SUN Adapted by ..... Adrian Hodges SUN Producer/Director ..... Heather Larmour. SUN SUN Credits SUN Nick: Tom Burke SUN Conchis: Charles Dance SUN Lily: Hayley Atwell SUN Alison: Anna Skellern SUN Margaret: Josie Taylor SUN Mitford: David Seddon SUN Meli: Chris Pavlo SUN Rowena: Lynsey-Anne Moffat SUN Author: John Fowles SUN Adaptor: Adrian Hodges SUN Director: Heather Larmour SUN Producer: Heather Larmour SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0741b8t (Listen) SUN Ayelet Gundar-Goshen on Waking Lions SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Israeli novelist Ayelet SUN Gundar-Goshen. Her new book Waking Lions is a morality tale SUN about a doctor who kills a man in a hit and run accident. SUN While Melissa Harrison and Amy Liptrot discuss their SUN chronicling of landscape in their nature writing. Michiel SUN Heyns, author of The Typewriter's Tale, ponders why he and SUN so many writers fictionalise Henry James in their novels. SUN And we hear from Alison McLeod about her new role as a SUN Eccles British Library Writer- in- Residence. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen SUN Interviewed Guest: Melissa Harrison SUN Interviewed Guest: Amy Liptrot SUN Interviewed Guest: Michiel Heynes SUN Interviewed Guest: Alison MacLeod SUN SUN 16:30 Lord Byron and the Hebrew Melodies b0741b8w (Listen) SUN Michael Rosen explores why some of Byron's best loved works, SUN including She Walks in Beauty, first appeared not as poems SUN but as lyrics to Jewish melodies by composer Isaac Nathan. SUN SUN He visits a Synagogue in Central London to hear the songs SUN performed and meets some of those who've recently brought SUN this little known story to public attention. How did Lord SUN Byron become associated with such an important document in SUN the history of Jewish music? SUN SUN In 1815, Lord Byron published one of his most famous pieces, SUN She Walks in Beauty. But it didn't appear as part of a SUN collection of poems - in fact it was produced as one of a SUN number of songs in the collection Hebrew Melodies. Byron, SUN tiring of the formula that had brought him huge success in SUN earlier works like Childe Harold's Progress and The Corsair, SUN was approached by Jewish composer Isaac Nathan, who asked SUN him to write religious lyrics to musical settings that were SUN a mixture of contemporary and ancient Synagogue tunes. SUN SUN Excited by the prospect of examining the Hebrew culture and SUN putting his own deep knowledge of the Old Testament to good SUN use, Byron took up the challenge. He was also keen to SUN impress his future wife, a deeply religious woman who SUN disapproved of his insalubrious lifestyle. SUN SUN Byron and Nathan struck up a strong relationship and, over SUN the course of the collaboration, produced 29 songs. SUN SUN Unfortunately for Nathan, Byron's standard publisher, John SUN Murray, wasn't keen to lose their grip on the poet whose SUN work was funding their expansion and, as Michael Rosen SUN discovers, took steps to minimise public recognition of the SUN musical venture, leaving Nathan out of pocket and - for a SUN long time - written out of the Byron story. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b07378dc (Listen) SUN Tennis: The Italian Files SUN SUN Two months ago a File on 4 investigation into match-fixing SUN in tennis made headlines around the world. SUN The programme revealed how tennis authorities had received SUN repeated alerts in the past decade about 16 players, all of SUN whom have been in the top 50. SUN It also questioned the effectiveness of the sport's SUN watchdog, the Tennis Integrity Unit. SUN Now, in a follow up programme, Simon Cox reveals new SUN allegations of corruption and further evidence of the SUN involvement of gambling syndicates in trying to influence SUN the outcome of matches. SUN Officials from the governing bodies of tennis have already SUN been interviewed by MPs about the findings of the original SUN programme. They have also appointed a prominent London SUN barrister to head an independent review into anti-corruption SUN policies and practices. SUN Reporter: Simon Cox Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b073rh4b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0741477 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0741479 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b074147c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0741f9q (Listen) SUN Peter Curran SUN SUN The highlights of BBC Radio this week chosen by Peter SUN Curran. There's Mindfulness and Madness, Life inside Islamic SUN State, Easter 1916, and Chris De Burgh - that's the dark SUN stuff but also sunshine with a Kestrel, Iggy Pop, actor Tim SUN Robbins, some cracking comedy, the redemptive power of lost SUN civilisations and the dedicated pursuit of idleness. All you SUN have to do is listen... SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0741f9s (Listen) SUN Elizabeth has good news, and Alf is turning on the charm. SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01s8mns (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 5 SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth chairs the comedy panel game where this week SUN Milton Jones and Robin Ince compete against Natalie Haynes SUN and Lloyd Langford to find out who is the most passionate SUN and knowledgeable about words. SUN SUN Today the Letter of the Week is 'W'. Lloyd Langford hazards SUN a guess as to what 'Welsh cricket' is while Natalie Haynes SUN has to work out what 'Whistling breeches' are. SUN SUN In a round about Australian slang Robin Ince tries to guess SUN the meaning of 'guttergripper' while Milton Jones takes a SUN stab at 'shypoo'. SUN SUN All the panellists come up with some brilliant new toponyms SUN and also reveal their pet-hate words. SUN SUN Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Gyles Brandreth SUN Writer: Jon Hunter SUN Writer: James Kettle SUN Producer: Claire Jones SUN Panellist: Milton Jones SUN Panellist: Robin Ince SUN Panellist: Natalie Haynes SUN Panellist: Lloyd Langford SUN SUN 19:45 Reader, I Married Him b0741gdp (Listen) SUN Reader, I Had a Better Idea SUN SUN To celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth SUN three writers provide their own take on the famous ending to SUN Jane Eyre, 'Reader, I Married Him'. SUN SUN Isy Suttie has Jane do battle with the ghost of Bertha, SUN Philip Hensher sends her into the capitalist clamour of SUN nineteenth-century Manchester and Elizabeth Kuti introduces SUN an extra gothic twist with the appearance of another famous SUN Victorian novelist... SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Philip Hensher SUN Reader: Amelia Lowdell SUN Producer: Jenny Thompson SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b073bb57 (Listen) SUN Desert Island discussion, Radio 2 country SUN SUN Roger Bolton asks if Desert Island Discs allowed itself to SUN become too political when it invited nuclear scientist Dame SUN Sue Ion to be a castaway. SUN SUN Dame Sue Ion has long been a campaigner for nuclear energy, SUN and some listeners felt that the much loved Radio 4 stalwart SUN Desert Island Discs was the wrong platform for her to talk SUN about that political belief. Editor Rebecca Stratford joins SUN Roger to discuss whether Kirsty Young should have posed SUN stronger challenges to Dame Sue Ion on the subject, and how SUN a programme dedicated to one interviewee can maintain SUN impartiality. SUN SUN A recent episode of Out of the Ordinary on the subject of SUN so-called "Men Going Their Own Way", who claim to have SUN thrown off the shackles of alleged female oppression, SUN received a large listener response. Presenter Jolyon Jenkins SUN discusses whether he dealt fairly with the men he SUN interviewed. SUN SUN And why has country music become so popular that Radio 2 has SUN just organised a pop-up station devoted to it? In these SUN times of cutbacks, how can the BBC afford it? Radio 2 SUN controller Bob Shennan speaks to Roger about the future of SUN country music on his network. SUN SUN Finally, listeners respond to the technical issues raised in SUN last week's programme - one gives Roger a telling off, while SUN another suggests that it's when lines go dead that Radio 4 SUN comes to life. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Dixon SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b073bb55 (Listen) SUN Paul Daniels, Anita Brookner, Sylvia Anderson, Sir Peter SUN Maxwell Davies, Cliff Michelmore SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Cliff Michelmore who brought a relaxed informality to SUN presenting TV programmes like Tonight and 24 Hours, without SUN losing intelligence or authority. SUN SUN Sylvia Anderson who - with her husband Gerry - produced TV SUN puppet series like Thunderbirds and Stingray. She was also SUN the voice of Lady Penelope. SUN SUN Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the composer and former Master of SUN the Queen's Music who made his home in a remote part of SUN Orkney. SUN SUN The author Anita Brookner who won the Booker prize for her SUN novel Hotel du Lac. SUN SUN And the magician Paul Daniels,, whose catch phrase was SUN "You'll like this - not a lot - but you'll like it.". SUN SUN Paul Daniels SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Paul's son, Gary Daniels. SUN SUN Born 6 April 1938; died 17 March 2016, aged 77 SUN SUN Anita Brookner CBE SUN Last Word spoke to Telegraph journalist; Mick Brown and Dr SUN Sarah Symmons. SUN Born 16 July 1928; died 10 March 2016, aged 87 SUN SUN Sylvia Anderson (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Sylvia's daughter Dee Anderson. SUN SUN Born 27 March 1927; died 15 March 2016, aged 88 SUN SUN Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to composer, Judith Weir. SUN SUN Born 8 September 1934; died 14 March 2016, aged 81 SUN SUN Cliff Michelmore CBE SUN Matthew spoke to Broadcaster, Julian Pettifer. SUN Born 11 December 1919; died 16 March 2016, aged 96 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0735qn9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b074171c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b072j3g6 (Listen) SUN The End of Free SUN SUN Andrew Brown of The Guardian asks if the dramatic rise of SUN ad-blocking software will undermine the commercial model SUN behind most free news on the internet. He finds an industry SUN in deep concern over the "Ad-blockalypse" - with these new SUN programmes meaning that advertisers may refuse to continue SUN to subsidise online news providers if consumers are now no SUN longer seeing their online adverts. Can the industry SUN persuade people to pay for what was previously available at SUN no charge? And if not, can commercial online news services SUN survive? SUN Producer: Katie Inman. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b074147h (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn presents a look ahead to the week's politics SUN with MPs and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b0741fq6 (Listen) SUN Andrew Gimson analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN big stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0739rfp (Listen) SUN Ben Wheatley on High-Rise SUN SUN With Antonia Quirke. SUN SUN Director Ben Wheatley discusses his adaptation of J.G. SUN Ballard's dystopian satire High-Rise and why he's literally SUN terrified of the 70s. Producer Jeremy Thomas explains why SUN it's taken him 40 years to get the novel to the screen. SUN SUN Special effects pioneer Roy Pace explains how he made the SUN world turn backwards in Superman using a globe he bought in SUN Woolworths. SUN SUN Antonia attends the Into Film awards ceremony for young SUN film-makers and hears from judge Michael Sheen. SUN SUN Into Film Awards SUN SUN The winners of the Into Film Awards were announced earlier SUN this week. You can watch all the nominees’ films SUN here SUN SUN SUN Roy Pace SUN SUN The special effects pioneer talks to The Film Programme. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Antonia Quirke SUN Interviewed Guest: Ben Wheatley SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Thomas SUN Interviewed Guest: Roy Pace SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Sheen SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0741715 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 MARCH 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0741490 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0738k6v (Listen) MON Philanthropy - Charity MON MON Philanthropy & charitable giving: Is there such a thing as a MON free gift? Laurie Taylor talks to Linsey McGoey, Senior MON Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex and author MON of a study of contemporary philanthropy. The amount of money MON placed in philanthropic trusts helps make the charitable MON sector one of the fastest growing global industries. Is this MON a new 'golden age' of giving which promises to replace the MON role of government as provider of social welfare? What are MON the potential conflicts between good deeds and hard profit? MON They're joined by Tom Hughes Hallett, philanthropist and Non MON Executive Chair of the Marshall Institute at the London MON School of Economics and Political Science. MON MON Also, John Mohan, Professor of Social Policy at the MON University of Birmingham, discusses his British study into MON the logic of charity in 'hard times'. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Linsey McGoey at the University of Essex MON Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett, The King's Fund MON John Mohan at the Third Sector Research Centre at Birmingham MON University MON READING LIST MON Linsey McGoey, *No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates MON Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy* (Verso, 2015) MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0741713 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0741492 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0741494 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0741496 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0741498 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0741jl0 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Right Reverend Marcus Stock, Bishop of Leeds. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0741jl2 (Listen) MON The government recommends we eat less dairy MON MON The Government has cut the recommended daily intake of dairy MON in our diet by a half - from 15% to 8%. It's part of their MON aim to reduce the amount of sugar and fat we eat. But the MON dairy industry says it's disappointed by the guidance, and MON that dairy products are an important part of a healthy diet. MON And a South Wales farmer brings together all the experts and MON companies she works with - to illustrate just how much value MON a successful farm business adds to the local economy. MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sally Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b074149b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zdbr0 (Listen) MON Willow Warbler MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Kate Humble presents the willow warbler. The first willow MON warblers return from Africa in late March. Willow warblers MON were once the commonest and most widespread summer migrant MON to the UK but in the last two decades numbers in the south MON and east of England have dropped by two thirds. Fortunately MON in Scotland, Ireland and the west, numbers seem to be MON holding up. MON MON Willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b0741kp6 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0741kp8 (Listen) MON Is Faster Better? MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at the pace of life with MON the writer Robert Colvile who celebrates today's MON accelerating flow of change and argues that we are MON hard-wired to crave novelty, speed and convenience. But Carl MON Honoré challenges this cult of speed in his praise of MON slowness. The scientist Steve Jones looks back at another MON period of history where the pace of change was revolutionary MON impacting scientifically, socially and politically - the MON French Revolution. And the writer Sarah Dunant focuses on MON 16th century Italy at a time when ideas in politics, MON religion and art were gathering pace. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Robert Colvile MON Interviewed Guest: Carl Honore MON Interviewed Guest: Sarah Dunant MON Interviewed Guest: Steve Jones MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0741kpb (Listen) MON But You Did Not Come Back, Auschwitz-Birkenau MON MON Marceline Loridan-Ivens searingly honest memoir is written MON as an intimate letter to her lost father. In 1944 and aged MON just fifteen she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau along MON with her father. While she survived the horror he never came MON back. Here she tells the man she would never know as an MON adult about the terrible events that continue to haunt her, MON and she also reveals the profound sense of loss that his MON death brought her. MON MON The actress, screenwriter and director Marceline MON Loridan-Ivens was born in 1928 and lives in Paris. MON MON Read by Sara Kestelman MON Translated by Sandra Smith MON Abridged by Penny Leicester MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Sara Kestelman MON Author: Marceline Loridan-Ivens MON Abridger: Penny Leicester MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b074149d (Listen) MON Betty Jackson, Justice Nasira Iqbal, Denise Gough, Domestic MON violence statistics MON MON Betty Jackson CBE is a British fashion designer with an MON extraordinary CV. She found success working with Ossie Clark MON in the 1970s before setting up her own label in the 1980s. MON In 2000 she launched the Autograph Collection for Marks and MON Spencer and now works on the Betty Jackson Black label for MON Debenhams. Betty tells Jane about presenting the inaugural MON Anne Tyrrell Student Design Award and introduces us to the MON winner and runner-up. MON MON Justice Nasira Iqbal was one of the first five women to be MON appointed to the Lahore High Court and served from 1994 MON until 2002. She was a full time mother until she decided to MON retrain after seeing an advert for a local law examination. MON Married to Justice Javid Iqbal, the Former Chief Justice of MON Lahore High Court and a judge of the Supreme Court, she MON decided to wait until he had retired before embarking on her MON own judicial career to avoid complaints of nepotism. Jane MON speaks to her about her remarkable career and her hopes for MON the future of Pakistan. MON The National Theatre's play People, Place and Things takes MON an unflinching look at addiction. Now transferred to MON London's West End, Denise Gough stars as its recovering MON addict. She joins Jane to discuss a gripping, demanding but MON award-winning role. MON MON After a number of recent items on the programme looking at MON domestic violence there was some debate as to the accuracy MON of statistics around this issue. Charlotte McDonald from the MON World Service programme, More or Less, has investigated MON further and reveals her findings. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Kirsty Starkey MON Interviewed Guest: Betty Jackson MON Interviewed Guest: Wendy Leong MON Interviewed Guest: Eleana Burrows MON Interviewed Guest: Nasira Iqbal MON Interviewed Guest: Denise Gough MON Interviewed Guest: Charlotte McDonald MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b074l8g0 (Listen) MON Hollywood Endings, Episode 1 MON MON Kathleen Turner stars as Detective Anna Caceres of the LAPD. MON MON When Transaviation Flight 179 from Boston crashes into the MON Sierra Nevada on its approach to to LAX, killing everyone on MON board, it seems at first like a simple but tragic case of MON human error. MON MON But when Caceres discovers that Curtis Wexler (Nathan MON Osborn), a limo driver who was due to meet a wealthy MON businessman from the flight, is now dating this MON businessman's widow, she gets the feeling there may be more MON to this disaster than first appears. MON MON Hollywood Endings starts with the seemingly straightforward, MON if tragic, loss of the incoming plane. But as Caceres MON gradually unpicks a complex web of anger, lust and revenge, MON the story takes us to some dark and wholly unexpected MON places. MON MON A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Detective Caceres: Kathleen Turner MON Curtis Wexler: Nathan Osgood MON Sarah Howard: Laurel Lefkow MON Jerry Howard: Eric Loren MON Kim Lee: Patrick Bailey MON Ben: Colin Stinton MON Martha: Barbara Barnes MON Abby: Amaka Okafor MON Director: Eoin O'Callaghan MON Writer: Ron Hutchinson MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06yr7q9 (Listen) MON No Fixed Abode MON MON Grace Dent presents untold stories of modern Britain. Today, MON a tale of homelessness in Poole as we follow the life of MON Mel. MON MON From a career in high finance, Mel has ended up sleeping MON rough in the stairwell of a multi storey car park. We follow MON her daily - and nightly - routine as she tries to survive MON with no fixed abode. MON MON Events conspire to raise the stakes for Mel and the need for MON a roof over her head becomes more urgent than ever. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 11:30 Boswell's Lives b0741lv3 (Listen) MON Series 2, Boswell's Life of Muhammad Ali MON MON by Jon Canter MON MON Comedy as James Boswell becomes a time travelling biographer MON doing for other celebrities what he did for Dr Johnson. MON Today he meets Muhammad Ali, banned from boxing and in the MON wilderness can Boswell help him out of it and make The MON Greatest - Greatester. MON MON Jon Canter is an award winning comedy writer for both MON television and radio. He penned the radio series 'Believe MON It' starring Richard Wilson but his work goes back to MON Spitting Image. He is also the author of several books and MON has been called our greatest living comic novelist. MON The first series of Boswell's Lives went on to win the Prix MON Europa for Drama. MON MON Other celebrities that will have their lives penned by James MON Boswell for this series include - Karl Marx (Julian MON Rhind-Tutt), Madonna (Debra Stephenson) and Alan Bennett MON (Alistair McGowan) MON Jon Canter is an award winning comedy writer for both MON television and radio. He recently penned the radio series MON 'Believe It' starring Richard Wilson but his work goes back MON to Spitting Image. He is also the author of several books MON and has been called our greatest living comic novelist. MON MON Miles Jupp is an actor, stand up and presenter of The News MON Quiz. MON MON Credits MON James Boswell: Miles Jupp MON Muhammad Ali: Lenny Henry MON Writer: Jon Canter MON MON 12:00 News Summary b074149g (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Witness b074w137 (Listen) MON The Poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko MON MON In 2004, the Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor MON Yushchenko was mysteriously poisoned during his election MON campaign. He has spoken to Witness about the night he was MON taken ill and the symptoms he suffered. Badly disfigured, he MON managed to carry on campaigning and win the Presidency MON against his Moscow-backed rival. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b074149j (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b074149l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0741lv5 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0741lv7 (Listen) MON Indira Gandhi: The Centre of Everything MON MON Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in MON London, looks at the life of Indira Gandhi, India's first MON woman prime minister, whose darkest moment was a two year MON period known as "the emergency". Jails filled up with her MON critics while journalists and editors were detained MON alongside the political opposition. Those arrested could be MON held without trial and and she attempted to reduce the birth MON rate by offering men incentives to be sterilized. "Indira MON Gandhi in many ways issued the greatest threat to democracy MON in independent India's history," says Professor Khilnani, MON "weakening constitutional regularities established by her MON father. Yet the enduring effect of her rule was to open the MON state to a deeper and more accessible democracy". MON Producer: Mark Savage MON Music: Talvin Singh. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0741f9s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03ttmdp (Listen) MON Bowen and Betjeman MON MON Award winning novelist, John Banville, imagines an encounter MON between Elizabeth Bowen and John Betjeman as they meet for MON luncheon in a Dublin hotel during the Second World War. As MON their conversation ranges over their lives, their loves, MON their politics, we are given a portrait of wartime Dublin MON and London and of the place of the artist in a world at war. MON MON Writer ..... John Banville MON Director ..... Gemma McMullan MON Producer ..... Gemma McMullan. MON MON Credits MON Elizabeth Bowen: Miranda Richardson MON John Betjeman: Toby Jones MON Isaiah Berlin: Nick Dunning MON Goronwy Rees: Nicholas Murchie MON Maurice Bowra: Gerard McDermott MON Dermot: Miche Doherty MON Noreen Colley: Sophie Harkness MON Rosamond Lehmann: Maggie Cronin MON Writer: John Banville MON Director: Gemma McMullan MON Producer: Gemma McMullan MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b0741lvb (Listen) MON Heat 11, 2016 MON MON (11/17) MON The All England club at Wimbledon officially caters for MON tennis and which other sport? What are the first two prime MON numbers you come to when counting upwards from 100? Which MON border is the setting for author Cormac McCarthy's so-called MON 'Border Trilogy'? MON MON These are just three of the questions the competitors have MON to face in the penultimate heat of this year's Brain of MON Britain contest. Russell Davies is in the chair, at Media MON City UK in Salford. The winner will go through to the MON semi-finals next month. MON MON There's also a chance for a listener to 'Beat the Brains' MON and win a prize with devious questions of his or her own. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b07418qy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Dance Your Life Away b0741lvd (Listen) MON The story of contemporary community dance in Oxford, and the MON extraordinary woman who launched it thirty years ago. MON MON Cecilia Macfarlane believes that we are all dancers from the MON cradle to the grave. More than that, really: she thinks that MON we dance from our first kick in the womb to our very last MON blink - and, perhaps, beyond. MON MON At her convent school in Bath, when she declared that she MON was going to be a dancer, the Head Mistress told Cecilia: MON "Go dance your life away!". MON MON When she came to Oxford as a young mother, she found only MON ballet was available for children, and started up Oxford MON Youth Dance for her own son and daughter. Thirty years on, MON Oxford - a city better known for more prestigious art-forms MON - has the longest-running and perhaps most vibrant community MON dance scene in the country. MON MON You can be two or 92, in a wheelchair or able-bodied, a MON middle-aged office worker or a young man planning a MON professional career in dance - in Oxford, you really can MON "dance your life away". MON MON Presented and produced by Beaty Rubens. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b0741n3w (Listen) MON Fixed Easter MON MON The Archbishop of Canterbury is working with other Christian MON churches to agree on a fixed date for Easter, which he hopes MON would happen "in between five and 10 years time". The first MON attempt to make such a change was in the 10th Century. The MON date, which is different in the Eastern and Western MON Christian traditions, is also intrinsically linked to the MON Jewish celebration of Passover and Christian church liturgy MON is steeped in its Jewish origins. Why historically has the MON date been different among Christians? What would it take to MON agree on a fixed date? Why does it matter? What could a MON change to a fixed date mean for Christians and Jews? MON MON Producer: Dan Tierney MON Series producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b074149n (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b074149q (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b0741n3y (Listen) MON Series 74, Episode 5 MON MON Nicholas Parsons asks Gyles Brandreth, Esther Rantzen, Paul MON Merton & Tim Rice to speak on the topic of his choosing, MON without deviation, repetition or hesitation for Just a MON Minute. MON MON This week's topics include: Bubble & Squeak, A Leap Year and MON A Mission to Mars. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Tim Rice MON Panellist: Esther Rantzen MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0741n40 (Listen) MON Johnny is out to impress, and Toby has a brainwave. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b074149s (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b074l8g0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Sport and Fitness: Running in Circles b0736vv6 (Listen) MON The Olympic legacy has failed to translate into greater MON sporting opportunities for our children and in this MON programme Peter White hears from them and their counterparts MON in the United States. In Britain there is still a mismatch MON between funding for elite sports and the fitness and MON activity that health experts say youngsters need. With audio MON diaries tracking the weekly activity of pupils, Peter MON unpicks what was promised in the run up to the Olympics and MON what has actually transpired: asking what more, if anything, MON could be done? MON MON Billboards across the country tell us: "This girl can", to MON encourage younger women to participate in sport. But why MON should this succeed when, according to the former Minister MON for the Olympics, Tessa Jowell, the billions spent on the MON 2012 Games failed to deliver a legacy of sporting MON engagement? MON MON She believes that we squandered a once in a lifetime MON opportunity. But perhaps the writing was already on the wall MON even before the cheers for Farah, Ennis, Rutherford and co MON had died on our lips. A Freedom of Information request MON revealed in September 2012 that one-third of Councils in the MON UK said they had recently cut grass-roots sports facilities, MON or raised charges for them: playing-fields, parks and sports MON centres. Meanwhile, according to numerous head teachers, MON sport hardly gets a look-in when the Ofsted inspector comes MON calling. MON MON Although the chief Medical Officer of Health has said he MON wants children to be taking five or six hours of exercise MON each week, PE lessons are struggling to reach two hours; MON there's also evidence that the numbers of disadvantaged MON children taking part in sport is falling. And yet every week MON there are headlines about the crisis in childhood obesity. MON MON As Rio approaches Peter asks why we should believe that an MON Olympic gold medallist will encourage a thirteen-year-old MON boy to set aside his play station on a wet December evening MON and go for a run? Some, such as former Olympic coach Tom MON McNab, claim that we are mired in a very fundamental MON confusion about elite sport and elite sporting competition, MON both of which actually have little to do with health-related MON fitness: to assume that one will influence the other is MON misguided. MON MON He feels that Government stats which group together MON dedicated club athletes with people who like a run round the MON block now and again are just misleading. Local authorities MON and schools could do much more to encourage health and MON fitness, but this has nothing to do with elite sport, and MON most national sporting bodies are aimed at national MON competitors, not people who want to lose a bit of weight or MON improve their general health. MON MON So can this ever be untangled? If we're hoping to tackle our MON predicted obesity epidemic through exercise, then some MON solutions are absolutely necessary. This programme seeks MON answers through recordings with sports scientists, MON administrators, doctors, politicians, and children; and by MON exploring whether other countries, like the United States, MON are doing better at navigating the current gaps in provision MON and performance. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b0741nql (Listen) MON Corporate Amnesia MON MON Phil Tinline finds out what happens when institutions lose MON their memory and how they can best capture and share the MON lessons of the past. MON MON 21:00 Saving Science from the Scientists b07378cr (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Is science quite as scientific as it's supposed to be? ITV MON Science Correspondent Alok Jha takes a look at how science MON research is really carried out, to find out if it is really MON as rigorous as scientists would like us to think. MON MON In the second and concluding part of this series, Alok looks MON at the practices and cultures undermining the integrity of MON scientific research. MON MON Are scientists being pushed into shortcuts and unethical MON behaviour by the competitiveness of their field? MON MON Producer: Faizal Farook. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0741kp8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b074149v (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b074149x (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0741n45 (Listen) MON Hot Milk, Episode 1 MON MON Hot Milk is the latest novel by Man Booker shortlisted MON author Deborah Levy. Set it Southern Spain it explores MON female rage and sexuality and the stubborn primal bond that MON exists between a hypochondriac mother and her daughter. MON MON Sophia, a young anthropologist, has 'been sleuthing her MON mother's symptoms' for as long as she can remember as Rose, MON the older woman, is suffering from a form of paralysis that MON might or might not be imagined. Driven to find a cure beyond MON the realms of conventional medicine, they have come to MON Almeria in Southern Spain to visit the clinic of Dr Gomez. MON His methods appear to have little to do with physical MON medicine and he prompts both women to confront the true MON nature of their relationship. Why is Sophia unable to escape MON her mother's constant complaints? Are Rose's symptoms MON psychosomatic? MON MON The oppressive desert heat pushes both to examine the root MON of Rose's illness and the cause of Sofia's fractured MON identity. And Sofia discovers the sting of desire, and the MON need to be vital and alive. MON MON Today: Dr Gomez welcomes Rose to the unconventional methods MON of his clinic. MON MON The reader is Indira Varma and Hot Milk is abridged by Sally MON Marmion. MON The producer is Julian Wilkinson. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Indira Varma MON Author: Deborah Levy MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Julian Wilkinson MON MON 23:00 Andrew Maxwell's Late Agenda b075b00f (Listen) MON Topical comedy show. Comedian Andrew Maxwell takes a deeper MON look behind the headlines. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0741nqn (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 MARCH 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b07414cm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0741kpb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07414cp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07414cr (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07414ct (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b07414cw (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0742hqr (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Right Reverend Marcus Stock, Bishop of Leeds. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b07425y3 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyxy (Listen) TUE Redshank TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David TUE Attenborough presents the Redshank. Redshanks are one of our TUE commonest wading birds at home in freshwater marshes and on TUE estuaries where you can easily recognise them from their TUE combination of long scarlet legs, white rumps and wing-bars TUE and greyish brown bodies. TUE TUE Redshank (Tringa totanus) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB TUE TUE 06:00 Today b07426hh (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 b07428bk (Listen) TUE Carolyn Roberts TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to environmental scientist Prof Carolyn TUE Roberts about what water science can reveal about flooding TUE and how a river can be the silent witness at a crime scene. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b07428bm (Listen) TUE Sathnam Sanghera explores class. As the son of an illiterate TUE factory worker who ended up going to Cambridge and working TUE for The Times, he now regards himself as firmly middle TUE class. TUE In the first of his two programmes for One to One, he TUE interviews Janice Turner, a fellow journalist from The TUE Times, at her home in South London. She had a similar TUE journey to Sathnam: she moved from working class Doncaster TUE to the London media establishment, but she feels very TUE differently about which class she belongs to. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0759wfk (Listen) TUE But You Did Not Come Back, The Return TUE TUE Marceline Loridan-Ivens's searingly honest memoir is about TUE how she survived the Holocaust and is written as a letter to TUE her father who did not survive the horrors and who she would TUE never know as an adult. In today's episode she recalls the TUE return home from the concentration camps without her beloved TUE father, and tells how her memories of the horrors she TUE experienced in the concentration camps have haunted her. TUE Sara Kestelman reads. TUE TUE Translated by Sandra Smith TUE Abridged by Penny Leicester TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Sara Kestelman TUE Author: Marceline Loridan-Ivens TUE Abridger: Penny Leicester TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b07414cy (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b074l9lg (Listen) TUE Hollywood Endings, Episode 2 TUE TUE Kathleen Turner stars as Detective Anna Caceres of the LAPD. TUE TUE When Transaviation Flight 179 from Boston crashes into the TUE Sierra Nevada on its approach to to LAX, killing everyone on TUE board, it seems at first like a simple but tragic case of TUE human error. TUE TUE But when Caceres discovers that Curtis Wexler (Nathan TUE Osborn), a limo driver who was due to meet a wealthy TUE businessman from the flight, is now dating this TUE businessman's widow, she gets the feeling there may be more TUE to this disaster than first appears. TUE TUE Hollywood Endings starts with the seemingly straightforward, TUE if tragic, loss of the incoming plane. But as Caceres TUE gradually unpicks a complex web of anger, lust and revenge, TUE the story takes us to some dark and wholly unexpected TUE places. TUE TUE A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Detective Caceres: Kathleen Turner TUE Curtis Wexler: Nathan Osgood TUE Sarah Howard: Laurel Lefkow TUE Jerry Howard: Eric Loren TUE Kim Lee: Patrick Bailey TUE Ben: Colin Stinton TUE Martha: Barbara Barnes TUE Abby: Amaka Okafor TUE Director: Eoin O'Callaghan TUE Writer: Ron Hutchinson TUE TUE 11:00 The Horns of a Dilemma b07428br (Listen) TUE The majority of white and black rhinoceros are found in TUE South Africa. This stronghold for these magnificent TUE creatures is now being threatened by poachers killing rhino TUE for their horns. TUE TUE Rhino horn, traded illegally in parts of Asia, is thought to TUE be a cooling agent in traditional Chinese medicine. It's TUE recently been hailed as a cure for cancer, and is seen as a TUE status symbol in Vietnam. Made from keratin, the same stuff TUE as hair or fingernails rhino horn has negligible medical TUE properties, yet people are willing to pay up to £40,000 a TUE kilogramme for it. TUE TUE International trade in rhino horn has been banned under TUE CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered TUE Species) since the 1990s. Trade in horn was banned within TUE South Africa in 2009. Since then, poaching has increased TUE exponentially, reaching more than 1300 rhino poached in TUE 2015. TUE TUE Protecting the rhino in National and Provincial parks and TUE privately owned reserves is a very dangerous and expensive TUE undertaking. The government-run parks, such as Kruger TUE National Park have about 75% of the South African rhino and TUE are losing the most animals to poachers. The best protected TUE rhino tend to be in the privately owned farms. TUE TUE Many private rhino owners want the ban on the sale of rhino TUE horn to be lifted. TUE TUE This is because, unlike elephant ivory, pangolin scales and TUE the bones from lions, rhinos can be dehorned without harming TUE the animal. Many rhino owners are already removing the horns TUE from their animals to stop them attracting poachers so they TUE are sitting on stockpiles of harvested horn. TUE TUE With education and demand-reduction schemes not working TUE quickly enough rhino owners hope to satisfy the demand by TUE legally selling harvested horn. Some just want to trade TUE within South Africa while others want CITES to allow a trade TUE agreement between South Africa and China or Vietnam. They TUE say they would use the money earned to put back into TUE conserving and protecting rhino. TUE TUE Others worry that this would just increase demand for horn TUE and that by making trade legal, you are making people think TUE that it has medical benefit. TUE TUE It's a huge dilemma. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Roberts. TUE TUE 11:30 The Women Who Wrote Rock b07428bt (Listen) TUE Kate Mossman tells the story of the long-overlooked female TUE pop and rock writers of the 1960s. TUE TUE As a music journalist herself, when Kate entered the TUE profession she found herself surrounded by men - men who had TUE very definite ideas about how it should be done... writing TUE for monthly magazines that were aimed at men and covering TUE artist who were mainly men. The whole industry of writing TUE about 'serious' popular music seemed to have been TUE established in the late 1960s and the mid-1970s with the TUE writer-characters of Rolling Stone and our own New Musical TUE Express. TUE TUE But there was a time before all this - a time when the newly TUE invented teenagers were finding their feet... and a new kind TUE of journalism was emerging to chronicle the rapidly changing TUE time. A journalism spearheaded by women. TUE TUE There was Nancy Lewis, who wrote for Fabulous and the NME; TUE June Harris, who wrote for Disc, then went to New York and TUE contributed to Rave (as well as marring legendary rock agent TUE and promoter Frank Barsalona); Maureen O'Grady who began her TUE career as a music journalist at Boyfriend and progressed TUE onto Rave, where she also joined Dawn James. And the TUE doyennes of them all was the Evening Standard's Maureen TUE Cleave, to whom John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were TUE bigger than Jesus. TUE TUE Kate Mossman meets them and celebrates the tone of their TUE writing that was so fascinatingly different from rock TUE journalism as we came to know it, and yet captured all the TUE confusion, excitement and social changes of the time. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b07414d0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Witness b074w35k (Listen) TUE Fidel Castro Takes Havana TUE TUE In January 1959 the rebel leader entered Cuba's capital TUE city. The US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista had fled and TUE Castro immediately set about establishing his left-wing TUE revolution. Carlos Alzugaray was then a teenager, and one of TUE thousands of people who turned out to greet him. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b07414d2 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b07414d4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b07428bw (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b07428by (Listen) TUE A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0741n40 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b0742d2w (Listen) TUE This Is Not a Banksy TUE TUE By Alan Harris TUE TUE Sam's life is turned upside down when his girlfriend, Molly, TUE discovers a Banksy on his bottom. Molly insists they make it TUE permanent down the tattoo parlour and before long Sam has TUE become a living work of art. And that's when his problems TUE really begin. TUE TUE A comedy about the madness of the international art market, TUE starring Elis James (Crims), Kimberley Nixon (Fresh Meat), TUE Steffan Rhodri (Gavin and Stacey) and Tim Key (Alpha Papa). TUE Writer Alan Harris lives and works in Cardiff, he was a TUE runner-up in the 2014 BBC Wales Drama Award and won the TUE judges' award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize. TUE TUE Directed by James Robinson TUE A BBC Cymru Wales Production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sam: Elis James TUE Molly: Kimberley Nixon TUE Jan: Eiry Hughes TUE Philida: Eiry Hughes TUE Tattooist: Steffan Rhodri TUE Eddy: Tim Key TUE Phil: Aled Pugh TUE Herself: Kirsty Lang TUE Producer: James Robinson TUE Writer: Alan Harris TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0742d2y (Listen) TUE Tom Holland presents the latest historical and TUE archaeological research. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b0742d31 (Listen) TUE Litter TUE TUE The government in Westminster has promised England a new, TUE national anti-litter strategy. But how do you persuade a TUE throwaway society to use a bin? Chris Ledgard reports on TUE anti-littering campaigns, from the litter ambassadors in the TUE Swiss mountains, to litter enforcement officers in TUE Wolverhampton. And he meets David Sedaris, a man dedicated TUE to cleaning up the streets where he lives. TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b0742d34 (Listen) TUE Mental-Health Offenders TUE TUE Precise numbers are difficult to pin point but prisons in TUE England and Wales are full of people with mental health TUE problems and are increasing. This week, Joshua Rozenberg TUE looks at mental health and the criminal justice system and TUE asks how joined up is mental health system and the criminal TUE justice system? Are they in tune with each other? TUE TUE Joshua spends the morning with the Norfolk Police and one of TUE their new custody centres to see what happens when someone TUE is first brought into the criminal justice system. What do TUE the Police do if they arrest offenders with mental health TUE problems and what happens to them? And Joshua talks to a TUE local solicitor who specialises in crime and one of the TUE country's top forensic psychiatrists who express concerns TUE about the numbers of people with mental health issues who TUE are sent to prison. TUE TUE Producer: Jim Frank. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b0742d38 (Listen) TUE Marian Keyes and Nikki Bedi TUE TUE Bestselling author Marian Keyes and broadcaster Nikki Bedi TUE talk about their favourite reads with Harriett Gilbert. TUE They've chosen The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver's TUE tale of American missionaries in the Congo, Nick Hornby's TUE first novel High Fidelity, and Imtiaz Dharker's poetry TUE collection Over the Moon, which deals with themes of grief TUE and loss. But which protagonist does Marian Keyes realise TUE she identifies with? Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Marian Keyes TUE Interviewed Guest: Nikki Bedi TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b07414d6 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07414d8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b0612n9l (Listen) TUE Series 10, My Kinda Town TUE TUE Episode One - My Kind Of Town TUE TUE Clare gets involved with a devious TV producer who's making TUE a documentary about the Sparrowhawk estate. Brian has gone TUE on a fitness kick and joined a men's group, which is TUE threatened by the arrival of a new member. TUE TUE Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all TUE the right jargon but never a practical solution. TUE TUE A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering TUE in other people's lives on both a professional and personal TUE basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and TUE heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of TUE discomfort to her. TUE TUE Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control TUE both her professional and private life In today's Big TUE Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an TUE involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. TUE TUE Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden TUE Producer Alexandra Smith. TUE TUE Credits TUE Clare: Sally Phillips TUE Brian: Alex Lowe TUE Alan: Richard Lumsden TUE Carl: Richard Lumsden TUE Simon: Andrew Wincott TUE Libby: Sarah Kendall TUE Lou: Lizzie Roper TUE Caspar: Karl Theobald TUE Malcolm: Anil Goutam TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Writer: David Ramsden TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0742hlc (Listen) TUE Bert is indulging in some garden therapy, and the TUE Fairbrothers welcome their new house guests. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b07414db (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b074l9lg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Returnees b0742hlf (Listen) TUE On an August bank holiday in 2014, Shiraz Maher at the TUE International Centre for Study of Radicalisation at Kings TUE College London received an email sent by a disillusioned TUE British jihadist from Syria. TUE TUE "We came to fight the regime and instead we are involved in TUE gang warfare. It's not what we came for but if we go back to TUE Britain we will go to jail. Right now we are being forced to TUE fight - what option do we have?" TUE TUE The man in his twenties claimed to represent dozens of other TUE jihadists' desperate to return to the UK but fearing long TUE prison sentences. TUE TUE Gordon Corera explores the British government's response to TUE managing returnees. In the last two years Britain has TUE brought in temporary exclusion orders and is able to TUE confiscate passports to prevent people preparing to travel TUE to Syria. TUE TUE France has gone one step further - since the Paris attacks TUE in November police has placed over 400 citizens under house TUE arrest and can strip French born dual nationals of TUE citizenship. Denmark and Germany have taken a different TUE approach and instead try to rehabilitate rather than TUE imprison; helping young men and women get jobs, housing and TUE education. TUE TUE The Home Office estimates that around 800 British nationals TUE have travelled to Syria since the start of the conflict and TUE that around half of those have returned, though experts say TUE these are conservative figures. What's the best way to deal TUE with this growing threat, particularly when returnees are TUE responsible for attacks such as those in Paris last TUE November? TUE TUE Gordon Corera speaks with former head of counter terrorism TUE at MI6 Richard Barrett, solicitor Gareth Peirce, Hanif Qadir TUE of the Active Change Foundation and counter-terrorism TUE officer DAC Helen Ball. We also hear from a returnee. TUE TUE Producer: Caitlin Smith. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b07414dd (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b07414dg (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b07428bk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b07414dj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b07414dl (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0742hlh (Listen) TUE Hot Milk, Episode 2 TUE TUE Hot Milk is the latest novel by Man Booker shortlisted TUE author Deborah Levy. Set it Southern Spain it explores TUE female rage and sexuality and the stubborn primal bond that TUE exists between a hypochondriac mother and her daughter. TUE TUE Sophia, a young anthropologist, has 'been sleuthing her TUE mother's symptoms' for as long as she can remember as Rose, TUE the older woman, is suffering from a form of paralysis that TUE might or might not be imagined. Driven to find a cure beyond TUE the realms of conventional medicine, they have come to TUE Almeria in Southern Spain to visit the clinic of Dr Gomez. TUE His methods appear to have little to do with physical TUE medicine and he prompts both women to confront the true TUE nature of their relationship. Why is Sophia unable to escape TUE her mother's constant complaints? Are Rose's symptoms TUE psychosomatic? TUE The oppressive desert heat pushes both to examine the root TUE of Rose's illness and the cause of Sofia's fractured TUE identity. And Sofia discovers the sting of desire, and the TUE need to be vital and alive. TUE TUE Today: Sofia vows to release a German shepherd and receives TUE a persistent late night caller. TUE TUE The reader is Indira Varma and Hot Milk is abridged by Sally TUE Marmion. TUE The producer is Julian Wilkinson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Indira Varma TUE Author: Deborah Levy TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Julian Wilkinson TUE TUE 23:00 Love in Recovery b0742hlk (Listen) TUE Series 2, Gillian TUE TUE Second series of the award-nominated comedy drama set in TUE Alcoholics Anonymous, written by Pete Jackson and inspired TUE by his own road to recovery. Stars Sue Johnston, John TUE Hannah, Eddie Marsan, Rebecca Front, Paul Kaye and Julia TUE Deakin - with Samantha Bond. TUE TUE Love in Recovery follows the lives of five very different TUE recovering alcoholics. Taking place entirely at their weekly TUE meetings, we hear them moan, argue, laugh, fall apart, fall TUE in love and - most importantly - tell their stories. TUE TUE In this second episode of the series, the group have a TUE visitor with a story to tell. Gillian (Samantha Bond) TUE doesn't want to join their group, she doesn't want to wait TUE her turn, she doesn't even want a biscuit - she just wants TUE to be listened to. TUE TUE Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent TUE time in Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found support TUE from the unlikeliest group of disparate souls - with one TUE common bond. As well as offering the support he needed TUE throughout a difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, TUE sometimes daily, dose of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and TUE friendship. TUE TUE There are lots of different kinds of AA meetings. Love in TUE Recovery is about meetings where people tell their stories. TUE There are funny stories, sad stories, stories of small TUE victories and milestones, stories of loss, stories of hope, TUE and those stories that you really shouldn't laugh at - but TUE still do, along with the storyteller. TUE TUE Written and created by Pete Jackson TUE TUE Producer/Director: Ben Worsfield TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Gillian: Samantha Bond TUE Marion: Julia Deakin TUE Fiona: Rebecca Front TUE Simon: John Hannah TUE Julie: Sue Johnston TUE Danno: Paul Kaye TUE Andy: Eddie Marsan TUE Writer: Pete Jackson TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE Director: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0742hp2 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b07414g9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0759wfk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07414gc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07414gf (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07414gh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b07414gk (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0742jt0 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Right Reverend Marcus Stock, Bishop of Leeds. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0742jt2 (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 b020tp6d (Listen) WED Goldfinch 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 Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Goldfinch. With its WED bright yellow wing-flashes and face painted black, white and WED red, the goldfinch is one of our most colourful birds. WED WED Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) WED Image courtesy of RSPB WED WED 06:00 Today b0742jt4 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0742jt6 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0742jt8 (Listen) WED But You Did Not Come Back, The Final Days WED WED Marceline Loridan-Ivens searingly honest acount of how she WED survived the Holocaust is written in the form of a letter to WED her father who did not survive the horrors, and who she has WED never known as an adult. In today's episode she recalls her WED final and terrible days in the concentration camps, and WED tries to imagine what happened to her father as he was WED forcibly marched hundreds of kilometres, away from the WED advancing Allies. Sara Kestelman reads. WED WED Translated by Sandra Smith WED Abridged by Penny Leicester WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Sara Kestelman WED Author: Marceline Loridan-Ivens WED Abridger: Penny Leicester WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b07414gn (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b074lc9w (Listen) WED Hollywood Endings, Episode 3 WED WED Kathleen Turner stars as Detective Anna Caceres of the LAPD. WED WED When Transaviation Flight 179 from Boston crashes into the WED Sierra Nevada on its approach to to LAX, killing everyone on WED board, it seems at first like a simple but tragic case of WED human error. WED WED But when Caceres discovers that Curtis Wexler (Nathan WED Osborn), a limo driver who was due to meet a wealthy WED businessman from the flight, is now dating this WED businessman's widow, she gets the feeling there may be more WED to this disaster than first appears. WED WED Hollywood Endings starts with the seemingly straightforward, WED if tragic, loss of the incoming plane. But as Caceres WED gradually unpicks a complex web of anger, lust and revenge, WED the story takes us to some dark and wholly unexpected WED places. WED WED A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Detective Caceres: Kathleen Turner WED Curtis Wexler: Nathan Osgood WED Sarah Howard: Laurel Lefkow WED Jerry Howard: Eric Loren WED Kim Lee: Patrick Bailey WED Ben: Colin Stinton WED Martha: Barbara Barnes WED Abby: Amaka Okafor WED Director: Eoin O'Callaghan WED Writer: Ron Hutchinson WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b0742kvw (Listen) WED Mel and Andy - The University of Life WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who are WED considering the world of work after gaining a degree and who WED know that their future in uncertain. Another in the series WED that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. 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 Out of the Ordinary b0742kvy (Listen) WED Series 4, A Better Mousetrap WED WED Build a better mousetrap, so the saying goes, and the world WED will beat a path to your door. But is it true? There are WED over 4,500 mousetrap patents but this doesn't stop inventors WED coming up with new designs - even though the basic WED spring-loaded trap was designed in the nineteenth century WED and, you might think, is unimprovable. Jolyon Jenkins talks WED to people who dream of riches from mousetraps, and one who WED has even managed it. And he invents his own, ultra-humane, WED hi-tech trap. Will it impress the professionals? WED WED Presenter/Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. WED WED 11:30 Charles Paris Mystery b0742kw0 (Listen) WED A Decent Interval, Episode 3 WED WED by Jeremy Front WED based on Simon Brett's novel WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED Charles has eventually got a job in Hamlet but within a week WED the reality star playing Hamlet has been hospitalized and WED the one playing Ophelia found dead. WED Charles may not have been a fan of their acting abilities WED but he doesn't want the show to close and he suspects foul WED play, but who would want to kill them? WED WED Credits WED Charles: Bill Nighy WED Frances: Suzanne Burden WED Maurice: Jon Glover WED Geraldine: Amelia Bullmore WED Milly: Rebecca Hamilton WED Sam: George Watkins WED Tony: Ewan Bailey WED Will: Caolan McCarthy WED Doug: Richard Pepple WED DI Hadlow: Debra Baker WED Director: Sally Avens WED Author: Simon Brett WED Adaptor: Jeremy Front WED WED 12:00 News Summary b07414gq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Witness b074w141 (Listen) WED The Death of Jan Palach WED WED In January 1969 a student set himself alight in protest at WED the crushing of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia. Soviet WED tanks had rolled into the country the year before to bring WED an end to liberalising reforms. Jan Palach's funeral became, WED briefly, a rallying point for opposition to Soviet rule. WED WED This is a Made in Manchester Production for the BBC. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b0742kw2 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b07414gs (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0742kw4 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0742kw6 (Listen) WED Charan Singh: A Common Cause WED WED Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in WED London, explores the life and legacy of Charan Singh, the WED lawyer turned politician who championed the cause of India's WED farmers. Singh is remembered today as the politician who WED took on Indira Gandhi in the Congress Party's heartland WED state. Uttar Pradesh. He redistributed power and altered the WED social structure of Northwest India, non violently. And he WED helped the world see the potential of the Indian farmer a WED bit more clearly. He succeeded in becoming India's first WED peasant prime minister but went from the highest office in a WED flash, replaced by his nemesis Indira Gandhi. Although today WED he is most often remembered for being a leader of his own WED caste, Professor Khilnani argues that Charan Singh has a WED unique status in Indian history. WED Producer: Mark Savage. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0742hlc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b0742mq5 (Listen) WED Blake in Lambeth WED WED One night in present-day Lambeth a rootless young woman WED meets a wild-eyed man who sees things others can't. What she WED doesn't know is that this is none other than the poet and WED visionary William Blake, out of place and out of time. WED WED Lambeth, South London in 1794. William Blake is in the WED middle of composing his first illuminated work of biblical WED prophesy, The Book of Urizen. It's a turning point in his WED career - or rather the point where Blake begins to realise WED he has no career at all, just a series of mindless, WED cash-in-hand engraving jobs. He's in his mid-30s and it's WED becoming clear he's not going to be a great society painter, WED his poetry isn't going to make him famous or rich, and his WED political and religious beliefs are entirely out of step WED with the establishment. He needs to choose between making a WED basic living, settling down and starting a family or WED retreating fully and firmly into his own visionary world, WED dedicating himself entirely to his art and condemning his WED wife Catherine to a life of poverty and childlessness. WED WED Blake in Lambeth was made on location in Lambeth, with some WED scenes recorded in the Blake Garden of Roots and Shoots, a WED charity which provides vocational training for young people WED from the inner city, mainly from the London boroughs of WED Lambeth and Southwark. WED WED Written by Tim Wright WED WED Sound design by Alisdair McGregor WED Directed by Jeremy Mortimer WED Executive Producer: Joby Waldman WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED William Blake: Toby Jones WED Catherine Blake: Jo Joyner WED Hope: Kirsty Oswald WED Henry: Tom Hanson WED Writer: Tim Wright WED Director: Jeremy Mortimer WED WED 15:00 Money Box b0742mq8 (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b07414dg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0742mqb (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b07414gv (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b07414gx (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07414h0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b0742mqd (Listen) WED Series 11, Sandi Toksvig interviews Roy Hudd WED WED Series 11 of the show where one week's interviewee becomes WED the next week's interviewer. The first episode of Chain WED Reaction was broadcast on BBC Radio Five in 1991 when John WED Cleese was the first comedian in the hot seat. Now, 25 years WED on, a new series sees another raft of the world's best-loved WED comedians talking to each other about their lives and work. WED This week, the writer, broadcaster and erstwhile News Quiz WED host Sandi Toksvig turns interviewer as she chats to comedy WED icon, Roy Hudd. WED WED Sandi Toksvig is a prolific writer and broadcaster who WED chaired the News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 for nine years and over WED 220 episodes. In 2015 she was a founder member of the WED Women's Equality Party and, later that year was announced as WED the new host of the long-running BBC television series, QI. WED WED Roy Hudd has clocked up more than 50 years in showbusiness, WED starting out as a Butlins redcoat in the 1950s and then WED developing a stellar career through numerous successes on WED stage, radio and screen. BBC Radio listeners know him best WED as the host of the much loved News Huddlines on Radio 2 for WED 26 years. More recently, Roy gained plaudits for his moving WED portrayal of Bud Flanagan in the BBC drama 'We're Doomed! WED The Dad's Army Story'. WED WED In this the year of his 80th birthday, Roy tells Sandi about WED his beginnings in showbusiness, reveals how Arthur Askey WED gave him a leg up in the early days and shares his favourite WED pantomime story courtesy of Tom O'Connor. WED WED Producer: Richard Morris WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0742mqg (Listen) WED It is all getting a bit much for Lynda, and Clarrie makes a WED shocking discovery. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b07414h2 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b074lc9w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0742mqj (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Melanie Phillips, Anne McElvoy, Claire WED Fox and Giles Fraser. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b0742mql (Listen) WED The Tomb WED WED Dr Julian Litten is author of "The English Way of Death: The WED Common Funeral Since 1450". This final "Lent in the WED Landscape" is from one of Britain's greatest Victorian WED cemeteries - Kensal Green in north-west London. It contains WED a host of memorials of the great and good and is still a WED working cemetery. Dr Litten will take us to the site of his WED last resting place which he has reserved there. Producer: WED Phil Pegum. Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b0742d31 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0742jt6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b07414h4 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0742mqn (Listen) WED Hot Milk, Episode 3 WED WED Hot Milk is the latest novel by Man Booker shortlisted WED author Deborah Levy. Set it Southern Spain it explores WED female rage and sexuality and the stubborn primal bond that WED exists between a hypochondriac mother and her daughter. WED WED Sophia, a young anthropologist, has 'been sleuthing her WED mother's symptoms' for as long as she can remember as Rose, WED the older woman, is suffering from a form of paralysis that WED might or might not be imagined. Driven to find a cure beyond WED the realms of conventional medicine, they have come to WED Almeria in Southern Spain to visit the clinic of Dr Gomez. WED His methods appear to have little to do with physical WED medicine and he prompts both women to confront the true WED nature of their relationship. Why is Sophia unable to escape WED her mother's constant complaints? Are Rose's symptoms WED psychosomatic? WED The oppressive desert heat pushes both to examine the root WED of Rose's illness and the cause of Sofia's fractured WED identity. And Sofia discovers the sting of desire, and the WED need to be vital and alive. WED WED Today: Dr Gomez takes Rose and Sofia out for lunch and WED graffiti is spray-painted onto the walls of the clinic. WED WED The reader is Indira Varma and Hot Milk is abridged by Sally WED Marmion. WED The producer is Julian Wilkinson. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Indira Varma WED Author: Deborah Levy WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Julian Wilkinson WED WED 23:00 The Croft & Pearce Show b0742mqq (Listen) WED A brand new sketch show from award-winning duo Croft and WED Pearce, rising stars of the UK comedy scene. WED WED These Edinburgh Fringe favourites were the break-out hit of WED BBC Radio 4's Sketchorama and have performed sell-out shows WED in London, New York and around the UK. WED WED Packed with sharply observed characters, this debut from WED writer-performers Hannah Croft and Fiona Pearce is not to be WED missed. WED WED In the third episode, highly-strung ladies June and Jean WED have a meltdown in John Lewis, a bullish Brown Owl teaches WED her Brownies troop the importance of stealing, and Jeannette WED starts to wonder if her cranky 90-year-old Momma will ever WED die. WED WED Written and performed by Hannah Croft and Fiona Pearce WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Hannah Croft WED Performer: Fiona Pearce WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED Writer: Hannah Croft WED Writer: Fiona Pearce WED WED 23:15 History Retweeted b03xf1k0 (Listen) WED The Fall of the Berlin Wall WED WED The programme that sends us back in time as we hear people WED from the past comment on a series of major world events, in WED less than 140 characters. WED WED In The Fall of The Berlin Wall, East meets West in the field WED of online dating, 80's children's programming pops up on WED your screen, and Tim Berners-Lee tweets about his WED world-changing new invention. WED WED Turning statuses into sounds, History Retweeted transports WED us to timelines gone by, feeding hashtags, trolls and WED trending topics into moments from history. WED WED Featuring the voices of Tim Barnes and Simon Berry, Wayne WED Forester and Annabelle Llewellyn, Peter Temple and Jelly WED Macintosh. With Lucy Beaumont as the voice of The Computer. WED WED Written by Tim Barnes and Simon Berry WED Produced by Sally Harrison WED WED A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Tim Barnes WED Actor: Simon Berry WED Actor: Wayne Forester WED Actor: Annabelle Llewellyn WED Actor: Peter Temple WED Actor: Jelly Macintosh WED The Computer: Lucy Beaumont WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED Writer: Tim Barnes WED Writer: Simon Berry WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0742mqs (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 MARCH 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b07414jt (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0742jt8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07414jw (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07414jy (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07414k0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b07414k2 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0756dl9 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Right Reverend Marcus Stock, Bishop of Leeds. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0745d32 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020vp98 (Listen) THU Common Sandpiper 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 Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Common Sandpiper. This THU bird can look slightly pot-bellied as it bobs nervously on THU the edge of an upland lake or on a midstream boulder. Get THU too close though and it will be off - flickering low over THU the surface on bowed wings. THU THU Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) THU Image courtesy of Steve Austin (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b074b8hh (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in THU Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b0745d37 (Listen) THU Aurora Leigh THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Barrett Browning's THU epic "Aurora Leigh" which was published in 1856. It is the THU story of an orphan, Aurora, born in Italy to an English THU father and Tuscan mother, who is brought up by an aunt in THU rural Shropshire. She has a successful career as a poet in THU London and, when living in Florence, is reunited with her THU cousin, Romney Leigh, whose proposal she turned down a THU decade before. The poem was celebrated by other poets and THU was Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most commercially THU successful. Over 11,000 lines, she addressed many Victorian THU social issues, including reform, illegitimacy, the pressure THU to marry and what women must overcome to be independent, THU successful writers, in a world dominated by men. THU THU With THU THU Margaret Reynolds THU Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London THU THU Daniel Karlin THU Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the THU University of Bristol THU THU And THU THU Karen O'Brien THU Professor of English Literature at King's College London THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Margaret Reynolds THU Interviewed Guest: Daniel Karlin THU Interviewed Guest: Karen O'Brien THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0745d39 (Listen) THU But You Did Not Come Back, Living with the Past THU THU Marceline Loridan-Ivens's searingly honest memoir about THU surviving the Holocaust is written in the form of a letter THU to her father who did not survive the concentration camps. THU In today's episode she reflects on how the loss of her THU father and the horrors she experienced and witnessed as a THU fifteeen year old have shaped her adult life. Sara Kestelman THU reads. THU THU Translated by Sandra Smith THU Abridged by Penny Leicester THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Sara Kestelman THU Author: Marceline Loridan-Ivens THU Abridger: Penny Leicester THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b07414k6 (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b074lch8 (Listen) THU Hollywood Endings, Episode 4 THU THU Kathleen Turner stars as Detective Anna Caceres of the LAPD. THU THU When Transaviation Flight 179 from Boston crashes into the THU Sierra Nevada on its approach to to LAX, killing everyone on THU board, it seems at first like a simple but tragic case of THU human error. THU THU But when Caceres discovers that Curtis Wexler (Nathan THU Osborn), a limo driver who was due to meet a wealthy THU businessman from the flight, is now dating this THU businessman's widow, she gets the feeling there may be more THU to this disaster than first appears. THU THU Hollywood Endings starts with the seemingly straightforward, THU if tragic, loss of the incoming plane. But as Caceres THU gradually unpicks a complex web of anger, lust and revenge, THU the story takes us to some dark and wholly unexpected THU places. THU THU A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Detective Caceres: Kathleen Turner THU Curtis Wexler: Nathan Osgood THU Sarah Howard: Laurel Lefkow THU Jerry Howard: Eric Loren THU Kim Lee: Patrick Bailey THU Ben: Colin Stinton THU Martha: Barbara Barnes THU Abby: Amaka Okafor THU Director: Eoin O'Callaghan THU Writer: Ron Hutchinson THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b074lmsm (Listen) THU Romania: The Shepherds Revolt THU THU Lucy Ash asks why thousands of angry Romanian shepherds THU recently stormed the parliament in Bucharest. Sparked by an THU amendment to Romania's hunting law, the unprecedented THU protest was over plans to limit numbers of sheepdogs and THU restrict grazing rights. The increasing size of flocks is THU leading to growing conflict with both hunters and THU conservationists over land use. Romania has an influential THU hunting lobby - around two thirds of MPs are hunters - and THU they accuse shepherds dogs of scaring off or sometimes even THU killing their quarry. They also claim overgrazing is THU damaging the natural habitat of the deer, the boar and other THU wild animals they hunt. Environmental campaigners are THU concerned that winter grazing by ever larger flocks is THU having a catastrophic effect on biodiversity. At heart this THU is an argument about what the countryside is for. Is its THU main purpose an economic one? Is it primarily for leisure? THU Or should it be about the people who live there? Shepherds THU insist the law is an attack on centuries of sheep-rearing THU and their culture and traditions. THU THU 11:30 Setting the Past Free b0745d3c (Listen) THU Part II, Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner, the THU Jew who negotiated with Eichmann, continues to be retold THU THU For some Rudolf Kastner is a hero, for others a traitor. THU Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of a story that THU began in Nazi occupied Hungary in 1944. At the time Kastner, THU a lawyer and a journalist, was deputy chairman of the Relief THU and Rescue Committee. His negotiations with Adolf Eichmann, THU the man responsible for the deportation and extermination of THU the Jewish communities in Europe, saved Jewish lives but did THU he pay for them with other Jewish lives? THU THU This question has been the subject of court trials, books, THU poetry, documentaries, television dramas, and plays - each THU one retelling Kastner's story from a new perspective. Two of THU those cultural retellings, one in the UK - the 1987 play THU Perdition, and the other in Israel - the 1994 television THU drama The Kastner Trial, managed to make headlines of their THU own. THU THU And still the retellings continue with one of Israel's most THU celebrated playwrights, Motti Lerner, in the process of THU writing a new version of Kastner's story. The new play will THU be staged at Israel's National Theatre in 2017, thirty years THU after Jim Allen's play, Perdition, led to one of the most THU incendiary episodes in British theatre history. THU THU In part 2, Mark Lawson talks to those, within Israel - THU including the playwright Motti Lerner, the Chief Historian THU of Yad Vashem Professor Dina Porat, and the literary critic THU Professor Dan Laor - who have wrestled with Kastner's story THU and the issues it raises. THU THU Presenter - Mark Lawson THU THU Interviewed Guest - Motti Lerner THU THU Interviewed Guest - Ilan Ronen THU THU Interviewed Guest - Professor Dan Laor THU THU Interviewed Guest - Professor Dina Porat THU THU Interviewed Guest - Gaylen Ross THU THU Actor - James Puddephatt THU THU Actor - Gemma Paige North THU THU Actor - Cokey Falkow THU THU Producer - Ekene Akalawu. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b07414kb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Witness b074w397 (Listen) THU Battle of Tora Bora THU THU Series looking at key events in history, featuring archive THU accounts from the people who were there. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b07414kd (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b07414kg (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0745d3g (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0745d3j (Listen) THU MF Husain: Hindustan Is Free THU THU Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in THU London, looks at controversy over the Indian artist MF THU Husain, who spent the last days of his life in exile. Husain THU is considered by some to be the face of modern art in India THU but not necessarily by people in India itself. Husain died THU in his nineties having completed around ten thousand works. THU His paintings often attracted high prices but he became a THU target for mob anger over his portraits of Hindu goddesses THU and Indian feminine icons. Female deities had often shown THU nude in traditional art, but what enraged right-wing Hindus THU was that these images were created by a Muslim artist. "Had THU Husain been less popular beforehand, he probably would have THU been less hated." says Professor Khilnani. THU Producer: Mark Savage. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0742mqg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b0745d3l (Listen) THU A Sudden Surge THU THU by Jack Dickson THU THU A 58-year old Glaswegian discovers the unexpected benefits THU of a sudden surge of hormones. THU THU Gary McGuire likes a drink, is suspicious of hugging and THU never, ever, talks about his feelings. He's ripe for a THU life-changing experience and when he begins a course of THU anti-androgen therapy to shrink his prostate tumour, that's THU exactly what he gets. But how will his family and friends THU react when the hormones flood his system and this ordinary THU Scottish male begins to 'feel' - for the first time in his THU unreconstructed life? THU THU Directed By Eilidh Mccreadie. THU THU Credits THU Gary: Gary Lewis THU Mags: Alexandra Mathie THU Peter: Simon Donaldson THU Alison: Rosalind Sydney THU Bobbo: Simon Tait THU Shona: Wendy Seager THU Mr Matheson: Kenny Blyth THU Director: Eilidh McCreadie THU Writer: Jack Dickson THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b0745gt3 (Listen) THU Series 32, Eyam, Derbyshire THU THU Clare Balding walks to Eyam this week - the Derbyshire THU village best known for its heroic approach to the bubonic THU plague in the 17th century. She rambles along the brand-new THU Peak Pilgrimage long distance footpath, devised to THU commemorate the 350th anniversary of the plague, during THU which Eyam famously put itself into quarantine to stop the THU disease spreading further. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b074171c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0741b8t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b07414kj (Listen) THU Ben Affleck THU THU With Antonia Quirke THU THU Ben Affleck on playing Batman. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Antonia Quirke THU Interviewed Guest: Ben Affleck THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b07414kl (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b07414kn (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07414kq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Hal b04pr6sy (Listen) THU Death THU THU Hal Cruttenden stars as a forty-something husband and father THU who, years ago, decided to give up his job and become a stay THU at home father. His wife, Sam, has a successful business THU career which makes her travel more and more. His children, THU Lilly and Molly, are growing up fast, and his role as their THU father and mentor is diminishing by the day. THU THU So what can Hal do as he reaches a crossroads in his life? THU Help is (sort of) at hand in the form of his eager mates - THU Doug, Fergus and Barry - who regularly meet at their local THU curry house for mind expanding conversations that sadly THU never give Hal the core advice he so desperately needs. THU THU Hal is confused even further as he regularly has visions of THU his long dead and highly macho father, who he's forced to THU engage in increasingly frustrating conversations. THU THU In this second episode, Hal faces a horrifying thought - he THU might have testicular cancer. So he tries to look mortality THU in the face - not easy for an overly sensitive and emotional THU man. He tries to bond with his entrepreneurial stepson Jack, THU but a visit to a football match doesn't work out as Hal THU planned. THU THU An unlikely form of salvation arrives when it's suggested THU that Hal takes part in a charity run. Things take an THU unexpected turn and Hal actually surprises himself - but not THU in the way he planned. THU THU The cast includes co-writer Dominic Holland, Ed Byrne, Anna THU Crilly, Gavin Webster, Dominic Frisby and Samuel Caseley. THU THU Produced by Paul Russell THU An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Hal: Hal Cruttenden THU Actor: Dominic Holland THU Actor: Ed Byrne THU Actor: Anna Crilly THU Actor: Gavin Webster THU Actor: Dominic Frisby THU Actor: Samuel Caseley THU Writer: Hal Cruttenden THU Writer: Dominic Holland THU Producer: Paul Russell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0745gt5 (Listen) THU Lynda has a proposition for Bert, and Henry reveals a THU secret. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b07414ks (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b074lch8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b0742d34 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b0745q4l (Listen) THU Life after a Blockbuster THU THU Whether it's creating Angry Birds, the best-selling mobile THU app, or developing the best-selling Alzheimer's drug or THU discovering one of the world's biggest oil fields in recent THU years, every company dreams of blockbuster success. THU THU But what happens after you hit the jackpot? How do you THU sustain that level of success? And what's needed to adapt THU from small start-up to big business? THU THU Evan Davis and guests share the secrets of success and THU explore their experiences of trying to maintain their market THU position. THU THU Guests: THU THU Kati Levoranta, CEO, Rovio Entertainment (creators of Angry THU Birds) THU THU Dr David Jefferys, Global Senior Vice President, Eisai THU Pharmaceuticals THU THU Jón Ferrier, CEO, Gulf Keystone Petroleum THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b07414kl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0745d37 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b07414kv (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0745q53 (Listen) THU Hot Milk, Episode 4 THU THU Hot Milk is the latest novel by Man Booker shortlisted THU author Deborah Levy. Set it Southern Spain it explores THU female rage and sexuality and the stubborn primal bond that THU exists between a hypochondriac mother and her daughter. THU THU Sophia, a young anthropologist, has 'been sleuthing her THU mother's symptoms' for as long as she can remember as Rose, THU the older woman, is suffering from a form of paralysis that THU might or might not be imagined. Driven to find a cure beyond THU the realms of conventional medicine, they have come to THU Almeria in Southern Spain to visit the clinic of Dr Gomez. THU His methods appear to have little to do with physical THU medicine and he prompts both women to confront the true THU nature of their relationship. Why is Sophia unable to escape THU her mother's constant complaints? Are Rose's symptoms THU psychosomatic? THU The oppressive desert heat pushes both to examine the root THU of Rose's illness and the cause of Sofia's fractured THU identity. And Sofia discovers the sting of desire, and the THU need to be vital and alive. THU THU Today: Ingrid Bauer proves to be deft with both an arrow and THU a needle, and Sofia endures more Medusa stings. THU THU The reader is Indira Varma and Hot Milk is abridged by Sally THU Marmion. THU The producer is Julian Wilkinson. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Indira Varma THU Author: Deborah Levy THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Julian Wilkinson THU THU 23:00 Small Scenes b0745q59 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU THU Award-winning sketch series starring Daniel Rigby, Mike THU Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker and Jessica Ransom. THU Featuring more overblown, melodramatic scenes from modern THU life, such as a woman who uncovers the conspiracy behind THU cryptic crosswords, a captain who's inappropriately cool in THU a crisis and the perils of dating a banker. THU THU Written by Benjamin Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak, THU with additional material from the cast. THU THU Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Daniel Rigby THU Performer: Mike Wozniak THU Performer: Cariad Lloyd THU Performer: Henry Paker THU Performer: Jessica Ransom THU Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer THU Writer: Benjamin Partridge THU Writer: Henry Paker THU Writer: Mike Wozniak THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b0745q5n (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 MARCH 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b07414mm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0745d39 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07414mp (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07414mr (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07414mt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b07414mx (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0756cgt (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Right Reverend Marcus Stock, Bishop of Leeds. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0745xkm (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby1j (Listen) FRI Blackcap FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David FRI Attenborough presents the Blackcap. Many Blackcaps winter in FRI sub-Saharan Africa, but increasingly birds have been FRI wintering in the Mediterranean and over the last few decades FRI spent the winter in the UK. FRI FRI Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) FRI Image by Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0756cgy (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b07418qw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0745xkq (Listen) FRI The Onlooker FRI FRI Paris at the outbreak of World War Two. Hugo is a classic FRI dandy in the European tradition. He spends his time dining FRI with aristocrats, enjoying all the delicacies and fine art FRI Paris has to offer. But he is an outsider, an American with FRI an international heritage. It's a status he enjoys and that FRI he believes - along with his wealth - insulates him from the FRI imminent war. But that war eventually comes to get him. FRI FRI Irene Némirovsky is best known for her novel Suite FRI Francaise. She was also a highly accomplished short story FRI writer, and this is an example of her mastery of the form. A FRI story of exquisite taste with a sting in its tale, made even FRI more poignant in the knowledge that Némirovsky herself FRI perished in a Nazi death camp. FRI FRI Author: Irene Némirovsky FRI Reader: David Suchet FRI Translator: Bridget Patterson FRI Abridger: Lisa Martinson FRI Producer: Simon Richardson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: David Suchet FRI Author: Irene Nemirovsky FRI Abridger: Lisa Martinson FRI Producer: Simon Richardson FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b07414n2 (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0741kpd (Listen) FRI Hollywood Endings, Episode 5 FRI FRI Kathleen Turner stars as Detective Anna Caceres of the LAPD. FRI FRI When Transaviation Flight 179 from Boston crashes into the FRI Sierra Nevada on its approach to to LAX, killing everyone on FRI board, it seems at first like a simple but tragic case of FRI human error. FRI FRI But when Caceres discovers that Curtis Wexler (Nathan FRI Osborn), a limo driver who was due to meet a wealthy FRI businessman from the flight, is now dating this FRI businessman's widow, she gets the feeling there may be more FRI to this disaster than first appears. FRI FRI Hollywood Endings starts with the seemingly straightforward, FRI if tragic, loss of the incoming plane. But as Caceres FRI gradually unpicks a complex web of anger, lust and revenge, FRI the story takes us to some dark and wholly unexpected FRI places. FRI FRI A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Detective Caceres: Kathleen Turner FRI Curtis Wexler: Nathan Osgood FRI Sarah Howard: Laurel Lefkow FRI Jerry Howard: Eric Loren FRI Kim Lee: Patrick Bailey FRI Ben: Colin Stinton FRI Martha: Barbara Barnes FRI Abby: Amaka Okafor FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Writer: Ron Hutchinson FRI FRI 11:00 The Easter Rising 1916 b0745xks (Listen) FRI 'Changed Utterly' FRI FRI This spring Ireland will commemorate the centenary of the FRI Easter Rising - the insurrection against British rule in FRI 1916 which triggered the secession of 26 Irish counties from FRI the United Kingdom into an independent state. But FRI commemoration raises awkward questions, not least, the fact FRI that the rebels' aspiration for a 32-county independent FRI Irish Republic was not achieved. North and South, the Rising FRI commemoration requires the Irish to engage with the violent FRI nature of the uprising, its lack of mandate and its FRI mythologization as a moment of national rebirth as well as FRI with the memory of brutal British repression. How can such a FRI traumatic and complex event be sensitively commemorated? And FRI what will be the lessons of this years commemorations for FRI Ireland north and south? FRI FRI 11:30 Dilemma b03w0j4d (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 4 FRI FRI Sue Perkins presents a third series of Dilemma, the panel FRI show where she puts four guests through the moral and FRI ethical wringer by posing a series of finely-balanced FRI dilemmas and then cross-examining them on their answers. FRI FRI This week, Sue is joined by comedians Nick Doody and Angela FRI Barnes, who confront issues regarding horses and awkward FRI family situations; award-winning actor Cush Jumbo reveals a FRI real-life dilemma about identity; and journalist Dominic FRI Lawson helps an audience member with affairs of the heart. FRI FRI The show was devised by the actor and award-winning comedian FRI Danielle Ward. FRI FRI "A non-irritating, hilarious panel show" (Radio Times) FRI FRI Presenter ... Sue Perkins FRI Devised by ... Danielle Ward FRI Producer ... Ed Morrish. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sue Perkins FRI Panellist: Nick Doody FRI Panellist: Cush Jumbo FRI Panellist: Dominic Lawson FRI Panellist: Angela Barnes FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b07414n4 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Witness b074w4br (Listen) FRI Last of the Red Hot Mamas FRI FRI Sophie Tucker was a singer, a comedian and a radio and FRI recording star. She was funny and outspoken, and in the FRI early part of the 20th century she was one of America's most FRI popular celebrities. Hear from two people who knew her, FRI alongside interviews from the BBC archives. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b07414n6 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b07414n8 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0745xkw (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b07466kv (Listen) FRI Dhirubhai Ambani: Fins FRI FRI Professor Sunil Khilnani from the King's India Institute in FRI London, on the life and legacy of the Indian business tycoon FRI Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of Reliance Industries. The son of FRI a penurious schoolteacher, Ambani credited himself with an FRI almost animal instinct for trading, coupled with a steel FRI trap memory and an appetite for audacious risk. Today FRI fifteen per cent of all India's exports go out in his FRI company's name. It's the ultimate rag to riches story, mixed FRI with street cunning and dazzling deals. In one case, which FRI began with a tip from an underworld don, Ambani executives FRI were accused of violating the Official Secrets Act by FRI possessing sensitive Cabinet documents, including a draft FRI national budget. A joke quickly did the Delhi rounds: the FRI budget wasn't leaked to Reliance; Reliance had leaked the FRI budget to the ministry. FRI Producer: Mark Savage FRI Editor: Hugh Levinson. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0745gt5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04nvbpc (Listen) FRI Planning Permission FRI FRI by Sarah Wooley FRI FRI A comedy about neighbours, architecture, tradition versus FRI modernism - and James Bond. FRI FRI In the 1930s the Brutalist architect Erno Goldfinger bought FRI a row of Georgian terrace houses in Hampstead. His plan was FRI to knock down the houses and build a modernist dream home FRI for his family to live in. The only problem was - the FRI neighbours. FRI FRI Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI Credits FRI Erno Goldfinger: Justin Salinger FRI Ursula Blackwell: Melody Grove FRI Cecil: Michael Maloney FRI Audrey: Sylvestra Le Touzel FRI Charles: Karl Johnson FRI Roland Penrose: Simon Harrison FRI Henry Brooke: David Seddon FRI George: Shaun Mason FRI Evelyn Fleming: Elaine Claxton FRI Ian Fleming: Monty d'Inverno FRI Writer: Sarah Wooley FRI Director: Gaynor Macfarlane FRI FRI 15:00 Good Friday Meditation b07466l6 (Listen) FRI As believers everywhere mark the most solemn moment of the FRI Christian year, and in the 400th anniversary year of FRI Shakespeare's death, Canon Mark Oakley meets Shakespearean FRI actor David Bradley, who has played roles and characters the FRI bard has based on The Good, the Bad and the Redeemed. These FRI 'everyman' types of humanity are to be found in the Passion FRI narrative, either on - or at the foot of - Golgotha's three FRI Crosses. At the Shakespeare Hospice in Stratford-upon-Avon, FRI a place close to David's and many RSC actors' hearts, we FRI meet people facing their own deaths - and those who love and FRI care for them. Informed by an understanding of 'what a piece FRI of work' is a man or woman, how we contemplate mortality and FRI eternity is common to us all - and it's something FRI Shakespeare himself understood deeply and intimately within FRI his characters and in his own family. With music reflecting FRI the story of the Passion which is told in the language of FRI the Geneva Bible, the translation to which Shakespeare's own FRI language owed so much; this will be a Good Friday Meditation FRI to remember. Producer: Rowan Morton-Gledhill. FRI FRI 15:30 An Image of Sound b051w066 (Listen) FRI Photographer Andrew Heptinstall is embarking on a quest to FRI see whether a photograph can deliver information over and FRI above a pure image; details of the sound of a place that FRI only the photographer could have known at the time of its FRI capture. FRI FRI He spends a day on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland with FRI blind contemporary photographer Rosita McKenzie and meets FRI Professor Fiona Macpherson, a philosopher from Glasgow FRI University to gain an insight into human senses and FRI perception. FRI FRI His many attempts over 6 months to capture the quality of FRI sound within his images take him on a journey as far as FRI Australia; yet he is only at the beginning of his journey as FRI he continues to search for An Image of Sound. FRI FRI Presenter: Andrew Heptinstall FRI Producer: Andrew Dawes. FRI FRI Andrew Heptinstall FRI Andrew Heptinstall FRI has more than 30 years experience as a commercial FRI photographer in both studio and live settings and has worked FRI on assignments in different environments all over the world. FRI During his spare time Andrew creates images as he explores FRI not only his native North of England but both nationwide and FRI around the world as he seeks new and inventive ways of FRI creating imagery, as demonstrated in his blog FRI Wanderings of a Photographer FRI He mentors young photographers in the Newcastle area where FRI he lives and hosts regular ‘workshop sessions’, aimed at all FRI levels of photographic knowledge and experience for both FRI adults and children. FRI Twitter: FRI @aheptinstall FRI Picture: Andrew Heptinstall FRI FRI Rosita McKenzie FRI Rosita McKenzie FRI is a blind photographer interested in the multiple qualities FRI of light and its ability to transform and colour, shape, FRI intensify and shadow our physical world, influenced by her FRI experience as a blind person. FRI FRI She is guided by her hearing, sense of touch, taste and FRI smell and overwhelming curiosity, not merely physical sight. FRI FRI She finds the sound of every movement is different. The FRI sound of every environment is different, as well as people, FRI objects and things of nature. She uses these sounds, along FRI with other people’s verbal descriptions, to build up a vast FRI store of memories and mental images. This way, she is able FRI to simultaneously experience and document her life and FRI engage with the unseen world around her. FRI FRI Fiona Macpherson FRI FRI Fiona Macpherson's research concerns the nature of FRI consciousness, perception and perceptual experience, FRI introspection, imagination and the metaphysics of mind. FRI FRI Topics she has worked on include: cognitive penetration, the FRI nature and individuation of the senses, cross-modal FRI intersensory phenomena, sensory substitution and FRI augmentation, hallucination, illusion, delusion, novel FRI colours, inverted spectra, ambiguous and impossible figures, FRI synaesthesia, the admissible contents of experience, FRI disjunctivism and representational theories of phenomenal FRI character. FRI FRI Valeria Carullo FRI Valeria Carullo is co-curator of the FRI Robert Elwall Photographs Collection FRI at the FRI RIBA British Architectural Library FRI She has a Master’s Degree in Architecture and several years’ FRI work experience with architectural photographer Richard FRI Bryant. FRI Valeria has given numerous talks and written several FRI articles on both architectural and photographic subjects. FRI She has curated the exhibitions FRI Art Deco Triumphant: The Exposition Internationale des Arts FRI Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris 1925 FRI at the RIBA, FRI John Pantlin: Photographing the Mid-Century Home FRI at the FRI Geffrye Museum FRI and co-curated FRI Framing Modernism: Architecture and Photography in Italy FRI 1926-1965 FRI at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art and FRI Ordinary Beauty: The Photography of Edwin Smith FRI at the RIBA. FRI FRI FRI 15:45 Friday Firsts b07466lb (Listen) FRI Series 3, Re-enactment FRI FRI In Re-enactment by Tea Obreht, an outsider called Marko FRI lands a job at The Well Digger's Wallet Saloon, where mock FRI shoot-outs are staged. Shoot-outs, that is, with enigmatic FRI endings.. FRI FRI Reader Patrick Kennedy FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tea Obreht FRI Reader: Patrick Kennedy FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b07414nb (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b07466ld (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b07466lg (Listen) FRI Gillian and Ian - Healing the Sick FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between GPs who find FRI that more and more of their time is consumed with data, when FRI what they want is contact with their patients. Another in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b07414nd (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07414ng (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b07466lj (Listen) FRI Series 48, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b07466ll (Listen) FRI Clarrie has an epiphany, and Helen makes a call. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Alf Grundy: David Hargreaves FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Richard Locke: William Gaminara FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Mr Anand: Sartaj Garewal FRI Anita: Bharti Patel FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b07414nj (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0741kpd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b07466ln (Listen) FRI Laura Bates, Minette Batters, Frederick Forsyth, John King FRI FRI Ritula Shah presents topical debate and discussion from the FRI Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London, with Laura FRI Bates from the Everyday Sexism Project, Deputy President of FRI the National Farmers' Union Minette Batters, the the authors FRI Frederick Forsyth and John King. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b07466lq (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b07466ls (Listen) FRI Incarnations India in 50 Lives - Omnibus, Episode 5 FRI FRI A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b07414nl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b07414nn (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07466lv (Listen) FRI Hot Milk, Episode 5 FRI FRI Hot Milk is the latest novel by Man Booker shortlisted FRI author Deborah Levy. Set it Southern Spain it explores FRI female rage and sexuality and the stubborn primal bond that FRI exists between a hypochondriac mother and her daughter. FRI FRI Sophia, a young anthropologist, has 'been sleuthing her FRI mother's symptoms' for as long as she can remember as Rose, FRI the older woman, is suffering from a form of paralysis that FRI might or might not be imagined. Driven to find a cure beyond FRI the realms of conventional medicine, they have come to FRI Almeria in Southern Spain to visit the clinic of Dr Gomez. FRI His methods appear to have little to do with physical FRI medicine and he prompts both women to confront the true FRI nature of their relationship. Why is Sophia unable to escape FRI her mother's constant complaints? Are Rose's symptoms FRI psychosomatic? FRI The oppressive desert heat pushes both to examine the root FRI of Rose's illness and the cause of Sofia's fractured FRI identity. And Sofia discovers the sting of desire, and the FRI need to be vital and alive. FRI FRI Today: Rose insists on buying a watch of fake diamonds and FRI Sofia guesses the identity of the graffiti artist. FRI FRI The reader is Indira Varma and Hot Milk is abridged by Sally FRI Marmion. FRI FRI The producer is Julian Wilkinson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Indira Varma FRI Author: Deborah Levy FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Julian Wilkinson FRI FRI 23:00 Woman's Hour b07466ly (Listen) FRI Late Night Woman's Hour - Forgiveness FRI FRI Lauren Laverne and guests discuss forgiveness. FRI FRI Presenter: Lauren Laverne FRI Producer: Luke Mulhall. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Lauren Laverne FRI Producer: Luke Mulhall FRI FRI 23:30 A Good Read b0742d38 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b07468l6 (Listen) FRI Sharon and Jonathan - Job for Life, or Not FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a British Library FRI employee of over 40 years, and a recent graduate employee FRI she manages; their working lives will bear little FRI resemblance. Another in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
19 March, 2016
Radio 4 listings for 19/03/2016 - 25/03/2016
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