22 April, 2016

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SAT SATURDAY 23 APRIL 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0770r0p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b077jp0z (Listen) SAT A House Full of Daughters, Episode 5 SAT SAT Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's journey through SAT seven generations of women, including her Flamenco dancing SAT great great grandmother Pepita, her grandmother Vita SAT Sackville West and her mother Philippa - all of whom have SAT shaped and formed, in extraordinary ways, exactly who she SAT has become today. SAT SAT We journey through the slums of 19th century Malaga to the SAT political elite of Washington, from English boarding schools SAT during the second world war, to London in the 60s and New SAT York in the 80s. SAT SAT It is one woman's investigation into how her past forms and SAT informs her future. SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Juliet Stevenson SAT Author: Juliet Nicolson SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0770r0r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0770r0t (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0770r0w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0770r0y (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b077jqsr (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Rev'd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, URC Minister. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b077jqst (Listen) SAT Having children: selfish or selfless? SAT SAT Two iPM listeners who knew from an early age how they felt SAT about having children and took two very different courses of SAT action. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0770r10 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0770r12 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b077jb6m (Listen) SAT Old Oswestry Hillfort SAT SAT Helen Mark visits the Iron-Age Hillfort in Oswestry, SAT Shropshire to discover why it's the "Stonehenge of the Iron SAT Age" and how plans for housing might affect the landscape. SAT Dr Rachel Pope tells Helen why the size and scale of the SAT Western entrance ramparts help make the Hillfort one of the SAT most important Iron-Age monuments in England, and why it's a SAT symbol for community and trade rather than defence. Dr SAT George Nash explains how the site was used to train soldiers SAT in trench warfare and mortar practice during World War One. SAT John Waine links this to soldier and poet Wilfred Owen who SAT returned to his home-town of Oswestry for training and may SAT have written 'Storm' in the shadow of the Hillfort. Helen SAT meets Sarah Gibson of the Shropshire Wildlife Trust and goes SAT in search of Yellowhammers and Linnets which nest in the SAT ramparts, and finds out how the Violet Oil Beetle hitches a SAT lift on the backs of bees. Following Shropshire Council's SAT decision to include a piece of land near the Hillfort in SAT their plan for development, Bill Klemperer of Historic SAT England explains how they hope to minimise its impact should SAT an application for housing be made. But for Rachel Pope the SAT Hillfort has so many tales to tell that any erosion to the SAT landscape around it would devalue its setting. SAT SAT Producer: Toby Field. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0780jwj (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Poultry industry SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Andrew Dawes. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0770r16 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0780jwl (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0780jwn (Listen) SAT James Nesbitt SAT SAT With Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles SAT SAT James Nesbitt talks about going back to his childhood home SAT to play Colin Howell in real life drama The Secret, the SAT return of Cold Feet and his Shakespearean roles. SAT SAT Edward Wilson-Lee has just published the book Shakespeare in SAT Swahililand, he talks about growing up in Kenya and the SAT bard's legacy in parts of Africa. SAT SAT Composer and musician William Lyons will be bringing SAT Shakespearean music to life- bringing the shawm, bass SAT dulcian, recorder and renaissance flute and bagpipes to play SAT live in the studio. SAT SAT Listener Paul Kynaston is Assistant Head Teacher at Malvern SAT Primary School in Liverpool. He invited JP Devlin to meet SAT the schoolchildren in the drama club to hear what they think SAT about Shakespeare. SAT SAT And offering a distinctive celebration of Shakespeare from SAT Stratford-upon-Avon, JP Devlin will be hearing listener SAT stories about their Shakespearean triumphs and tragedies, SAT and talking to a Codpiece expert Victoria Bartels. She'll be SAT explaining why this particular pouch was de rigueur in the SAT 15th and 16th centuries and why it went out of fashion. SAT Actor Kingsley Glover takes centre stage to be our codpiece SAT model. SAT SAT BBC 6 Music breakfast presenter Shaun Keaveny shares his SAT Inheritance Tracks: Isley brothers, This Old Heart of Mine SAT and Purple Rain by Prince. SAT SAT The Secret staring James Nesbitt begins on April 29 on ITV SAT at 9pm. SAT Shakespeare in Swahililand is out now. SAT SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: James Nesbitt SAT Interviewed Guest: Edward Wilson-Lee SAT Interviewed Guest: William Lyons SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Kynaston SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Victoria Bartels SAT Interviewed Guest: Kingsley Glover SAT Interviewed Guest: Shaun Keaveny SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 World War One: The Cultural Front b0780jwq (Listen) SAT Series 3, Dada and Defiance SAT SAT That endless, terrible year of '16. Francine Stock explores SAT the struggle for meaning, freedom, sanity and possibility. SAT SAT The supreme talent of Franz Marc is snuffed out in the first SAT days of the battle of Verdun. In Berlin you can have a day SAT out and knock a nail into a gigantic statue of war leader SAT Hindenburg. On a street in Stepney they are knocking up a SAT parody of him. In a Zurich night club strange sounds are SAT conjured up by the weird magicians of a new movement - Dada. SAT Shouting defiance of the madness of war. Britain's still SAT disturbed by the losses at the Battle of Jutland are stunned SAT by the death of Kitchener, icon, recruiting poster and war SAT hero. An omen of terrible things to come in the months SAT ahead? Sir Hubert Parry takes on a commission to put the SAT words of Blake to music for The Fight to Right movement and SAT Jerusalem sounds for the first time. SAT SAT For the Jewish civilians of Eastern Europe there is no SAT escape from war. Drafted into the armies of the Czar in SAT disproportionate numbers, surrounded by anti-Semitism, SAT displaced either by their own side or by invading German or SAT Austro-Hungarian armies. The writings of Sholom Alecheim had SAT brought the old world of the Shtetl to new, international SAT audiences. His passing that year is marked by thousands in a SAT grand funeral in New York. But back home all is disaster. SAT Ethnologist S.Ansky travels from St Petersburg to the Pale SAT of Settlement in a desperate attempt to document this SAT disappearing world and bring aid and relief. Back in St SAT Petersburg Maxim Gorky, Russia's senior literary figure, SAT gathers together a host of writers in The Shield, to condemn SAT the continued persecution of the Jews & celebrate their role SAT in helping create the possibility of a new Russia to emerge SAT from the chaos of the old. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0785hhy (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of The Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT What difference can Barack Obama's intervention make on the SAT EU debate? problems with the implementing the minimum wage, SAT possible intervention in Libya and is the government about SAT to water down its policy on all schools becoming academies. SAT SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0770r18 (Listen) SAT Correspondents around the world tell stories and examine SAT news developments in their region. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b0770r1b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b0770r1d (Listen) SAT Tree investments felled, Selling your pension annuity - will SAT it be a good deal? SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT SAT Ethical investing SAT SAT Ethical savings and investing - The Money Advice Service SAT https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/ethical-sa SAT ing-and-investing SAT SAT The Pensions Regulator SAT http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/individuals/dangers-o SAT -pension-scams.aspx SAT SAT FCA Policy Statement Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) SAT Operators SAT https://www.fca.org.uk/your-fca/documents/policy-statements/ SAT s14-12 SAT SAT Ethical Forestry (site updated with notice from company SAT liquidators) SAT http://www.ethicalforestry.com/ SAT http://ethicalinvestment.org.uk/about-the-eia/ SAT SAT SAT EU referendum SAT http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36110822 SAT SAT SAT Pensions SAT https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm SAT nt_data/file/517370/Creating_secondary_annuity_market-tax_fr SAT mework.pdf SAT https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/categories/pensions SAT and-retirement SAT SAT My home Finance SAT http://myhomefinance.org.uk/ SAT http://www.findyourcreditunion.co.uk/home SAT SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b077jqpx (Listen) SAT Series 90, Episode 2 SAT SAT Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Edwina Currie and Francis Wheen SAT are Miles' guests in the long-running satirical quiz of the SAT week's news. SAT SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production SAT Producer: Richard Morris. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Rebecca Front SAT Panellist: Edwina Currie SAT Panellist: Francis Wheen SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0770r1g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0770r1j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b077jqq1 (Listen) SAT Hilary Benn MP, Mick Cash, Nigel Farage MEP, Justine SAT Greening MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Tunbridge Wells in Kent with a panel including the SAT Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP, the General SAT Secretary of the RMT Mick Cash, the Leader of UKIP Nigel SAT Farage MEP and the Secretary of State for International SAT Development Justine Greening MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0770r1l (Listen) SAT Call 03 700 100 444. Lines are open from 1230-1430 on SAT Saturday.The email address; any.answers@bbc.co.uk. Hashtag SAT BBCAQ for those of you who are Tweeting. And you can follow SAT us @bbcanyquestions. SAT SAT 14:30 The Forsyte Saga b0780jy8 (Listen) SAT The Forsytes Continues, Episode 7 SAT SAT John Galsworthy's epic family saga of love, money and SAT betrayal. SAT Dramatised for radio by Lin Coghlan SAT SAT Faced with the consequences of flirting with danger, Fleur SAT must make a choice. In the changing world of high finance SAT where honesty no longer appears to be in fashion, Soames SAT decides to make a stand. Away from the glittering lights of SAT London's smart set, Bicket and Victorine's dreams of SAT escaping to a better life in Australia are no closer to SAT coming true. SAT SAT Original music composed by Neil Brand SAT SAT Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins SAT SAT Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new SAT dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The SAT Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the SAT lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 SAT years from 1886 to 1936. SAT SAT Today's play concludes the fourth novel in the series, The SAT White Monkey. We pick up the story again in September. SAT SAT Credits SAT Fleur Forsyte: Jessica Raine SAT Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson SAT Michael Mont: Ben Lambert SAT Wilfred Desert: Max Bennett SAT Sir Lawrence Mont: Brian Protheroe SAT Bicket: Sam Alexander SAT Aubrey Green: Sam Alexander SAT Victorine: Evie Killip SAT Elderson: Ewan Bailey SAT Annette Forsyte: Aurelie Amblard SAT Holly Dartie: Katie Redford SAT Butterfield: Caolan McCarthy SAT Miss Perren: Rebecca Hamilton SAT Station Porter: Gerard McDermott SAT Night Porter: Sean Baker SAT Shareholder: George Watkins SAT Shareholder: Debra Baker SAT Shareholder: Leo Wan SAT Author: John Galsworthy SAT Adaptor: Lin Coghlan SAT Director: Gemma Jenkins SAT Producer: Gemma Jenkins SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b077gd5b (Listen) SAT Series 22, The Way You Look Tonight SAT SAT 'The Way You Look Tonight' was written by Jerome Kern and SAT Dorothy Fields for the 1936 film 'Swing Time'. Sung by Fred SAT Astaire to Ginger Rodgers while she was washing her hair, SAT the song won an Oscar. It's been recorded by Frank Sinatra SAT and Billie Holiday. Sarah Woodward, daughter of actor SAT Edward, recalls how age seven, she watched him sing it on SAT The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show with his 'angelic' SAT voice; theatre director Michael Bawtree remembers the song SAT being his father's favourite, and being distraught when he SAT broke the gramophone record as a five year old; and SAT Glaswegian singer Eddie Toal describes making an album of SAT jazz songs, including 'The Way You Look Tonight' to remember SAT his late wife, Irene. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0770r1n (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Attending an assessment meeting for mediation if divorce SAT proceedings were initiated became law two years ago but a SAT recent freedom of information requestion has shown few SAT couples are made to attend. So why is the law not being SAT imposed? Jane Robey the CEO of National Family Mediation and SAT Emma Nash a solicitor with The International Family Law SAT Group discuss. SAT SAT When the assistant editor of the Spectator, Isabel Hardman, SAT was called 'totty' by an MP she complained to the Whips. But SAT should we always call out sexism in every situation? The SAT Former MP Edwina Currie and the writer Laura Bates discuss. SAT SAT Who should shoulder the responsibility for ethics on the SAT high street? This week sees the launch of the hashtag Who SAT Made My Clothes? So where do most of our clothes come from? SAT The MP Mary Creagh who is the Chair of Fashion Question Time SAT for Fashion Revolution at the Houses of Parliament and Liz SAT Leffman the Director of Cothesource discuss. SAT SAT Why do women prisoners seem to contravene prison rules more SAT often than men? Martha Gill the Home Affairs Correspondent SAT at The Economist and author of a recent report on women's SAT behaviour behind bars argues women should not face the same SAT rules as men in prison and she's joined by Tania Bassett SAT from Napo the Trade Union for Probation and Family Court SAT staff. SAT SAT Sylvia Day is the best-selling author of the Crossfire SAT series. She talks about the sex and romance in her novels. SAT SAT Attending an assessment meeting for mediation if divorce SAT proceedings were initiated became law two years ago but a SAT recent freedom of information requestion has shown few SAT couples are made to attend. So why is the law not being SAT imposed? Jane Robey the CEO of National Family Mediation and SAT Emma Nash a solicitor with The International Family Law SAT Group discuss. SAT SAT As the birthday celebrations for the Queen who turned 90 SAT this week continue we hear from two nonagenarians about SAT their lives. Jackie Marcus is 90 and Honour Harlow is 99 - SAT what is their secret to a long life? SAT SAT When the London Marathon takes place on Sunday 39 per cent SAT of the field will be female compared to just five per cent SAT when it first took place in 1981. So why are women attracted SAT to the sport of running? Runner and writer Bridget Minamore SAT and Elizabeth Hufton the editor of Women's Running discuss. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Interviewed Guest: Jane Robey SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Nash SAT Interviewed Guest: Edwina Currie SAT Interviewed Guest: Laura Bates SAT Interviewed Guest: Mary Creagh SAT Interviewed Guest: Liz Leffman SAT Interviewed Guest: Martha Gill SAT Interviewed Guest: Tania Bassett SAT Interviewed Guest: Sylvia Day SAT Interviewed Guest: Jackie Marcus SAT Interviewed Guest: Bridget Minamore SAT Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Hufton SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0770r1q (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b077jqst (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0770r1s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0770r1v (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0770r1x (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0780jzv (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Sara Cox, Donna Leon, Phil Davis, Devon SAT Glover, The Rosellys, Richmond Fontaine SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Donna Leon, Phil SAT Davis and Devon Glover for an eclectic mix of conversation, SAT music and comedy. With music from Richmond Fontaine and The SAT Rosellys. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Phil Davis SAT SAT ‘Golden Years’ is in cinemas from the 29th April. SAT SAT The Rosellys SAT SAT The Rosellys ‘The Granary Sessions’ is out now on Clubhouse SAT Records. The Rosellys will be playing The Golden Lion, SAT Bristol on 26th April, Fat Lil's in Whitney 28th April SAT and The Green Note in Camden 20th May. SAT SAT Donna Leon SAT SAT 'The Waters of Eternal Youth' is published by Atlantic SAT Monthly Press and available now. SAT SAT Mary Beard SAT SAT ‘Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit’ is on SAT Wednesday 27th April at 21.00 on BBC Two. SAT SAT Devon Glover SAT SAT ‘Sonnet Marathon’ is on Sunday 24th April at 10.30 at SAT Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Henley Street, Stratford. SAT SAT Richmond Fontaine SAT SAT ‘You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To’ is out SAT now on Décor. Richmond Fontaine are playing the Budenell SAT Social Club in Leeds on April 24th, The Cluny in Newcastle SAT on April 26th and The Art School in Glasgow on April 27th. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Sara Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: Donna Leon SAT Interviewed Guest: Phil Davis SAT Interviewed Guest: Devon Glover SAT Performer: The Rosellys SAT Performer: Richmond Fontaine SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0783kvs (Listen) SAT Sir Martin Sorrell SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0770r1z (Listen) SAT Arabian Nights, The Flick, Garth Greenwell, Sicily at the SAT British Museum, All the World's a Screen SAT SAT Portuguese film director Miguel Gomes has created a trilogy SAT based on The Arabian Nights. We've watched the first volume SAT of the 6 hour epic SAT SAT The Flick is a transfer from Broadway to London's Dorfman SAT Theatre. Set in a rundown movie theatre, it explores the SAT dynamics of the relationships among an increasingly SAT unmotivated staff SAT SAT Garth Greenwell describes his novel What Belongs To You like SAT this; "I'm a queer writer writing in the queer literary SAT tradition for queer people". Is it a straightforward book? SAT SAT The British Museum in London has a new exhibition: Sicily, SAT Culture and Conquest. It looks at the island at the toe of SAT the boot of Italy, whose strategic position and rich soil SAT means that - over the centuries - it has been ruled by many SAT different nations and absorbed many different cultures SAT SAT BBC TV's All The World's a Screen is an Arena special on the SAT global history of Shakespeare's work as seen on the silver SAT screen SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Christopher Grayling, Helen Lewis SAT and Lynn Nead. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT The Flick SAT The Flick SAT is at the National Theatre in London until 15 June 2016. SAT SAT Image above and right: LOUISA KRAUSE (Rose), JAYGANN AYEH SAT (Avery) in The Flick. Photo credit: Mark Douet SAT SAT SAT Arabian Nights SAT Arabian Nights Volume 1: The Restless One SAT is in cinemas now. SAT SAT Volume 2: The Desolate One will be in cinemas from 29 April SAT and Volume 3: The Enchanted One will be in cinemas from 6 SAT May. SAT SAT SAT Sicily SAT Sicily: Culture and Conquest SAT is at the British Museum in London until 14 August 2016. SAT SAT Terracotta roof ornament with head of a gorgon, Gela, SAT Sicily, c.500 BC Museo Archeologico Regionale Di Agrigento © SAT Regione Siciliana. SAT SAT SAT Garth Greenwell SAT SAT What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell is available in SAT hardback and ebook. SAT SAT All the World's a Screen SAT Arena: All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film SAT is on BBC Four on Sunday 24 April at 9pm. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Christopher Grayling SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Lewis SAT Interviewed Guest: Lynn Nead SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0783kvv (Listen) SAT Rising Voices SAT SAT On Easter Monday 1916, the teacher and poet Patrick Pearse SAT stood on the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin and SAT delivered the Proclamation of the Irish Republic to a SAT bemused public. It was a moment prepared for not just SAT through military drills and revolutionary conspiracy. From SAT late in the previous century a cultural revival was underway SAT in Ireland. SAT SAT For Archive on 4, renowned journalist and broadcaster Fergal SAT Keane explores the roots of a cultural revival which stoked SAT the fires of revolutionary fervour among a small group of SAT poets, musicians, and political activists, many of whom went SAT on to lead and fight in the Rising. SAT SAT Using rarely broadcast archive of men and women who SAT witnessed and fought in the Rising, Fergal examines the SAT sources of their revolutionary ambitions. SAT SAT He discovers a Dublin bristling with ideas, where a new SAT passion for Irish language, music and mythology sat SAT alongside the literary revival of W.B Yeats and Lady SAT Gregory. Fiery plays like Cathleen Ni Houlihan evoked SAT emotions of noble sacrifice. The city crackled with debates SAT on feminism, pacifism and equality. SAT SAT Fergal explores the work of the men known as the Rising's SAT Poets - Pearse, Plunkett, MacDonagh - and uncovers themes of SAT blood sacrifice, Celtic mythology and Catholic mysticism. He SAT examines the seismic shift in Ireland after the Rising, SAT immortalised in W.B Yeats' poem 'Easter 1916' and Sean SAT O'Casey's play 'The Plough and the Stars', which challenged SAT notions of romantic idealism and led to riots. SAT SAT With contributions from Prof Declan Kiberd, Dr Lucy Collins SAT and Prof Roy Foster, and archive recordings from the BBC and SAT the Irish National Bureau of Military History, Fergal SAT demonstrates how language, poetry, drama and song helped to SAT shape both the Rising and its legacy. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b0773ldq (Listen) SAT Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Episode 2 SAT SAT Adapted for radio by Jeanette Winterson from her acclaimed SAT novel. SAT SAT A unique coming of age story and a darkly funny tale of SAT religious excess and human obsession. SAT SAT Now 16, Jeanette's future as a budding missionary is called SAT into question when she falls in love with one of her SAT converts, Melanie. It's not long before Mrs Winterson SAT discovers her daughter's 'unnatural passions'. As the SAT congregation determine to exorcise her demons, Jeanette is SAT forced to choose between her church, home and family or the SAT woman she loves. SAT SAT Piano performed by David Thomas SAT SAT From the award winning novel by Jeanette Winterson SAT Dramatised for radio by Jeanette Winterson SAT SAT Directed by Helen Perry SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales Production SAT SAT Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, SAT Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is Jeanette Winterson's SAT semi-autobiographical novel. Her subsequent novels, SAT including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the SAT Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great SAT international acclaim and Jeanette Winterson's honours SAT include England's Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy' SAT s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d'argent at the SAT Cannes Film Festival. SAT SAT Lesley Sharp is an award-winning stage, film and television SAT actress, particularly well known for her variety of British SAT television roles including Clocking Off, Scott & Bailey, Bob SAT & Rose and Afterlife. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mrs Winterson: Lesley Sharp SAT Jeanette: Katie West SAT Pastor Spratt: Vincent Franklin SAT Miss Jewsbury: Pauline Lynch SAT Melanie: Nicola Ferguson SAT Mrs White: Susan Jameson SAT May: Adie Allen SAT Elsie Norris: Angela Pleasance SAT Louie: Claire Cage SAT Mrs Arkwright: Vicky Licorish SAT The Demon: Sam Rix SAT Author: Jeanette Winterson SAT Adaptor: Jeanette Winterson SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0770r21 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Agree to Differ b077gtvz (Listen) SAT Series 2, Artificial Intelligence SAT SAT We are witnessing a momentous speed up in Artificial SAT Intelligence - in the power of machines to learn, SAT communicate and interact with us. On any day, AI provides SAT hundreds of millions of people with search results, traffic SAT predictions, translations in real time and it speeds up the SAT operation of our laptops by guessing what we'll do next. SAT Several companies are working on cars that can drive SAT themselves? and AI techniques are playing a major role in SAT science and medicine. SAT While the potential benefits of AI are thought to be huge, SAT there have been increasing warnings from prominent figures SAT in science and technology about the potential dangers. Just SAT how 'intelligent' might the machines become? Will they be SAT able to 'think' for themselves? Could they ever be SAT 'conscious' - or is that just the stuff of science-fiction? SAT And would we want them to be? Matthew Taylor is joined by SAT Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial SAT College and Mark Bishop, Professor of Cognitive Computing, SAT Goldsmiths, University of London. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b07756bb (Listen) SAT Semi-Final 3, 2016 SAT SAT (15/17) SAT The third of this year's semi-finals features competitors SAT from London, Merseyside, Lincolnshire and the West Midlands. SAT Russell Davies asks the questions. SAT SAT As well as being a football ground, Stamford Bridge is a SAT village where a battle took place in 1066 - in which SAT present-day English county? What was the name of the US Air SAT Force base in California where Space Shuttle landings took SAT place from 1981-2001? Which building was described in the SAT Architectural Review in 1932 as 'the new Tower of London'? SAT SAT Today's winner will go through to the 63rd Brain of Britain SAT Final in two weeks' time. There'll also be a chance for a SAT listener to win a prize by devising questions to stump the SAT competitors. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT IAN FENNELL, a software developer from Worcestershire; SAT SAT PAMELA HOLT, a retired solicitor from Greenwich in London; SAT SAT CHRIS QUINN, a database administrator from Liverpool; SAT SAT IAN WELHAM, a retired teacher from Middle Rasen in SAT Lincolnshire. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b0773msq (Listen) SAT Poetry by Heart SAT SAT Roger McGough is back with the first in a new series of the SAT poetry requests show. This programme comes from the annual SAT Poetry by Heart competition. Students learn and recite a SAT variety of poems, from Sylvia Plath's Morning Song to A SAT Satirical Elegy by Jonathan Swift. There's a wealth of SAT talent on display, but who will be crowned winner? SAT If you fancy making a request then get in touch at SAT poetryplease@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @bbcpoetryplease. SAT Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT St Kevin and the Blackbird SAT SAT by Seamus Heaney SAT SAT From Opened Ground: Poems 1966 – 1996 SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Concert Party: Busseboom SAT SAT by Edmund Blunden SAT SAT From The Faber Book of War Poetry SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Easter Monday SAT SAT by Eleanor Farjeon SAT SAT From Peace and War; a Collection of Poems SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Morning Song SAT SAT by Sylvia Plath SAT SAT From Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT The Chimney Sweeper SAT SAT by William Blake SAT SAT From Poetry By Heart – Poems for Learning and Reciting SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Two Pages SAT SAT by Choman Hardi SAT SAT From ‘Life For Us’ SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe Books SAT SAT SAT SAT A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a Late Famous General SAT SAT by Jonathan Swift SAT SAT From Poetry By Heart – Poems for Learning and Reciting SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Envy SAT SAT by Adelaide Ann Procter SAT SAT From Poetry By Heart – Poems for Learning and Reciting SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Invitation to Love SAT SAT by Paul Dunbar SAT SAT From Poetry By Heart – Poems for Learning and Reciting SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from The Ballad of Reading Gaol SAT SAT by Oscar Wilde SAT SAT From Poetry By Heart – Poems for Learning and Reciting SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Machines SAT SAT by Michael Donaghy SAT SAT From Conjure SAT SAT Published by Picador SAT SAT SAT SAT My Grandfather at the Pool SAT SAT by Glyn Maxwell SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/my-grandfather-at-the- SAT ool/ SAT SAT Glyn Maxwell is published by Picador SAT SAT SAT SAT In Parenthesis SAT SAT by David Jones SAT SAT From In Parenthesis SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0783l8c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Shorts b03vzwc1 (Listen) SUN Series 13, Bethlehem House SUN SUN Scottish Shorts, the best writing from Scotland SUN Bethlehem House by Merryn Glover SUN A return to a childhood location brings back painful SUN memories for an ex-pat. Reader Ann Louise Ross. Produced by SUN Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN Australian by passport, born and brought up in South Asia SUN and now living in Scotland, Merryn Glover's stories have SUN been widely published and her plays have been performed on SUN stage and on radio. Her debut novel A HOUSE CALLED ASKIVAL SUN is set in India and spans 70 years of its recent history. SUN More information can be found at www.merrynglover.com. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Annie Louise Ross SUN Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SUN Writer: Merryn Glover SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0783l8m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0783l8t (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0783l92 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0783l96 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0783m41 (Listen) SUN All Saints Church, Harpole in Northamptonshire SUN SUN This week's Bells on Sunday comes from All Saints Church, SUN Harpole in Northamptonshire. There are 6 bells, the back 5 SUN were cast in 1930 to replace the original 5 bells. In 1995 a SUN treble was added. This week we hear them ringing Beverley SUN Surprise Minor. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0783kvs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0783l9j (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0783m43 (Listen) SUN Changing the Climate SUN SUN Mark Tully asks if climate change offers an opportunity for SUN us to improve our lives - not just by consuming less and SUN respecting nature more, but by finding a deeper relationship SUN with nature and each other. SUN SUN Mark discusses the prevailing economic wisdom of ever SUN increasing growth, and ever increasing demand to feed that SUN growth, with leading Indian economist Rajiv Kumar who SUN believes that economics can and must change to reduce our SUN impact on the climate. SUN SUN But Mark also acknowledges the benefits of human ingenuity SUN and curiosity which have led to so many technological SUN advances, as well as enhancements in our lives. 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Naked SUN Title: The Moment SUN SUN Author: Margaret Atwood SUN SUN From Earth Shattering published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0783m45 (Listen) SUN Future Food: Our Cow Molly SUN SUN Dan Saladino visits a dairy farm that's on one of SUN Sheffield's seven hills. Our Cow Molly is run by Eddie SUN Andrew and his brother Dan, and the milking is overseen by SUN their father Graham. After milking each evening, when many SUN dairy farms would be finishing for the day, the on-farm SUN bottling plant is getting to work, processing the day's milk SUN ready for delivery the next morning. SUN SUN The Our Cow Molly label on each bottle makes a point of SUN emphasising the freshness and local origins of this SUN 'Sheffield milk'. Eddie had a light-bulb moment when a SUN barista explained the benefits of using fresher milk when SUN making coffee - and realised that by controlling the supply SUN chain and shouting about freshness and local production, SUN that this could be a real selling point and give his product SUN more value. Through a contract with the University and new SUN facilities on farm, he hopes this could be a blueprint for SUN other dairy farms - so many of which are struggling. SUN SUN This is the last in a special series of programmes, SUN profiling the three finalists in the 'Future Food' category SUN in the 2016 BBC Food and Farming Awards. Joining Dan are SUN this year's judges, farmer Mike Gooding and Managing Editor SUN of The Grocer magazine, Julia Glotz. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0783l9s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0783l9z (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0783lb5 (Listen) SUN Is sushi permitted at Passover? Prince the Jehovah's SUN Witness, The row over religious education in the UK SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b0783m47 (Listen) SUN Renewable World SUN SUN Levison Wood presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN Renewable World SUN Registered Charity No 1119467 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Renewable World' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Renewable World' SUN SUN Photo Credit: Tom McShane. SUN SUN Renewable World SUN SUN Renewable World is committed to tackling poverty through SUN renewable energy. They provide remote communities in South SUN Asia, East Africa and Central America with a clean and SUN sustainable source of energy, giving them the training and SUN resources they need to lift themselves out of poverty. Find SUN out more at the SUN renewable world website SUN SUN Sushmita SUN SUN Sushmita (who you hear about in the appeal) used to spend SUN four backbreaking hours every day collecting water for her SUN family in Surabari village in Nepal. Now, thanks to the SUN solar-powered water pump Renewable World installed in her SUN village, it takes her just 15 minutes. SUN SUN Harnessing the power of the sun to pump water SUN SUN These solar panels are life-changing; they power the pump SUN bringing clean water to Sushmita’s village. With access to a SUN clean and sustainable source of energy, her community now SUN has tools and resources they need to lift themselves out of SUN poverty. SUN SUN A little energy, a lot of change SUN SUN Access to solar-pumped water has transformed life in SUN Sirubari. Each family can now access water from a tap no SUN more than a few metres from their house, and all the SUN villagers grow crops, even during the dry season. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0783lb9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0783lbc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0783m49 (Listen) SUN From Grief to Glory - Shakespeare 400 SUN SUN 'From Grief to Glory' - On the 400th anniversary of the SUN death of William Shakespeare, Sunday Worship visits Holy SUN Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon, where the playwright is SUN buried. The Revd Patrick Taylor, Vicar of Holy Trinity, and SUN the Revd Dr Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare scholar, lead a SUN service which reflects on Shakespeare's profound sense of SUN relationship with the divine, including a specially composed SUN Sonnet set to music by Philip Stopford. With members of the SUN Royal Shakespeare Company, the Choir of Holy Trinity Church SUN and the Chamber Choir and Orchestra of the Swan directed by SUN David Curtis and Benedict Wilson. Producer Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b077jqq3 (Listen) SUN Reading Renaissance art SUN SUN A reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03zr1zj (Listen) SUN Common Whitethroat SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Kate Humble presents the common whitethroat. Whitethroats SUN are warblers which winter in the Sahel region south of the SUN Sahara desert and spend spring and summer in Europe. When SUN they arrive in April the males establish a territory by SUN singing that scratchy song from hedgerow perches or by SUN launching themselves into the air. SUN SUN Common Whitethroat (Sylvia communis) SUN Webpage image courtesy of Malcolm Hunt (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0783lbf (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 b0783m5m (Listen) SUN There is just no pleasing Lynda, and the Brookfield Archers SUN raise a glass. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Paul Brodrick SUN Director: Rosemary Watts 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 Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones SUN Joanne Madeley: Alison Newman SUN Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b0783m5p (Listen) SUN Maastricht Treaty SUN SUN Former Ministers, backbench rebels and government advisors SUN join Sue MacGregor to recall the dramas of the Maastricht SUN Treaty negotiations. SUN SUN The Maastricht Treaty is one of the most famous and SUN controversial pieces of European legislation, forming the SUN blueprint for economic and monetary union, and granting free SUN movement to the citizens of the countries who signed it. But SUN its path to signing was tortuous, causing deep divisions SUN within the Conservative Party, turmoil on the economic SUN markets, and friction between member states. SUN SUN The summit at Maastricht was one of the first and most SUN important tasks facing John Major when he took over the SUN Premiership from Margaret Thatcher in 1990. Europe was SUN already a highly divisive issue within the party, but Major SUN was keen to be pragmatic, and less combative than his SUN predecessor. But it cost him dear. Two-and-a-half years SUN later he had twice considered resigning over the issue, SUN faced severe rebellion from his own backbenches and crashed SUN out of membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism amid SUN turmoil on the financial markets on Black Wednesday. But SUN finally the legislation was signed. SUN SUN Sue MacGregor is joined by two former Chancellors of the SUN Exchequer - Lord, then Norman, Lamont who, after losing his SUN job, became a fierce critic of Government policy, and SUN Kenneth Clarke who replaced him. The guests also include the SUN Government Whip responsible for Europe, David Davies, and SUN Conservative backbencher Sir Bill Cash, a prominent SUN Euro-rebel, as well as John Major's Private Secretary for SUN Foreign Affairs and later the Official Historian on SUN Britain's Relationship with Europe, Sir Stephen Wall. SUN SUN Producer: Deborah Dudgeon SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b0783lbh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b07756bj (Listen) SUN Series 16, Episode 3 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Elis James, Reginald D Hunter, Maeve Higgins and David SUN O'Doherty are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as the 1970s, toys, the SUN moon and electricity. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. SUN SUN Produced by Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Elis James SUN Panellist: Reginald D Hunter SUN Panellist: Maeve Higgins SUN Panellist: David O'Doherty SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0783m9w (Listen) SUN Bristol: The Story of a City Through Its Food SUN SUN What does Bristol have that other cities don't when it comes SUN to food? It's gained something of a reputation for being a SUN 'food hub' so what has it done to deserve that title? Sheila SUN Dillon is no stranger to the city but is invited to delve a SUN bit deeper with resident and Food Writer Genevieve Taylor to SUN uncover some of its secrets. SUN SUN From its history as a bustling port city bringing in sugar, SUN chocolate and coffee and exotic fare to today's vast range SUN of restaurants, cafes and start ups with a 'come one come SUN all' atmosphere, residents and visitors are spoilt for SUN choice. It's even been nicknamed 'bread city' for its range SUN of quality bakeries which still can't meet the high demand. SUN Food Critic Mark Taylor says its approach to collaboration, SUN community and doing things its own way mirrors its music SUN scene. SUN But beyond pleasure, taste and innovation, Bristol has SUN researched carefully how its people eat and where its 1.5 SUN million meals a day come from and set out a 'Good Food SUN Plan'. Sheila meets the young people who've designed an SUN interactive fridge to find out what people need from their SUN city to eat better and joins the 91 Ways project (named SUN after the 91 languages, including Bristolian, which are SUN spoken in the city) to see how shared food leads to shared SUN stories and understanding. SUN SUN The forthcoming 'Bristol Food Connections' festival aims to SUN capture the essence of inclusiveness and collaboration to SUN reach across class and generations, Sheila and Genevieve ask SUN how they plan to do this and mirror the 'come one, come all' SUN its food venues claim. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon with Genevieve Taylor SUN Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0783lbk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0783lbm (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Why I Changed My Mind b078hlsz (Listen) SUN Series 2, Trevor Phillips SUN SUN Trevor Phillips was for nine years head of the Commission SUN for Racial Equality and then the Equality and Human Rights SUN Commission. But he became deeply unpopular with some former SUN colleagues and supporters after he revealed he had become SUN convinced there were deep problems with the policy of SUN multi-culturalism. SUN SUN Dominic Lawson asks him why he altered his views and what he SUN felt about the reaction it provoked. In an emotional SUN interview they discuss child protection and the murder of SUN Victoria Climbie, trans-racial adoption, the expression of SUN prejudice, the use of racial epithets, Britishness and SUN integration. SUN SUN "Why I Changed My Mind" is a series in which Dominic SUN explores how and why prominent individuals have modified SUN their views on controversial topics. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b077jq34 (Listen) SUN Bushey SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Bushey in Hertfordshire. Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and SUN Pippa Greenwood answer the questions from an audience of SUN local gardeners. SUN SUN Produced by Hannah Newton SUN Assistant Producer: Laurence Bassett SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – What can I do to get ‘Snake’s-head Fritillary’ SUN established in my garden? SUN SUN Bob – They are a native plant found most in sunny, open SUN meadows that are moist. If you’re on heavy clay, you’ll SUN want to lighten it with loam. SUN SUN Pippa – Improve your drainage dramatically – they’ll be SUN rotting out in the winter months SUN SUN SUN Q – I was given a beautiful red Amaryllis for Christmas. SUN How do I keep it and get a blossom next year? SUN SUN Anne – It is possible to keep them in growth all year round SUN – keep it in good light, well watered, with some feed and it SUN will carry on being green and lapse into a summer flowering SUN pattern. Or you could let the bulb dry off in the summer SUN and then get it going again in early autumn. Keep it SUN indoors. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’m looking for small shrubs or perennials that will SUN tolerate wet winters but will handle a good summer too. SUN Recommendations? SUN SUN SUN Bob – Make sure the drainage is good for a start. When SUN you’re planting dig the hole two or three times wider and SUN deeper than you’d imagine, use a fork to make holes in the SUN bottom of it, and then mix in something loose (gravel, sand, SUN compost etc) with the soil when planting. Also, plant on a SUN slight mound. Get the conditions right and you can grow SUN almost anything you want. SUN SUN Pippa – *Sarcococca confusa* (the ‘Winter Box’) does well in SUN these conditions. Japanese Anemones seem to like it too. SUN *Iris unguicularis* is good, as are Peonies. SUN SUN Bob – Buy smaller plants. It’s easier to establish smaller SUN plants. SUN SUN Pippa – Also it’s worth applying foliar feeds when SUN establishing – for some reason feeding through the leaves SUN stimulates root growth. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’ve been growing Cosmos from seed for the last two or SUN three years but they always come up thin and lanky. How can SUN I make them more bushy? SUN SUN Bob – If you’re growing under glass it can get very hot SUN unless you have good ventilation and that could be the SUN cause. SUN SUN Anne – Sow them into a seed tray and spread them out. Then SUN when they germinate you can get round each one easily. When SUN you can handle them I would dibble each one out and put each SUN one into its own 9cm (3.5 inch) pot. To transplant a SUN seedling hold it by its seed leaf and if it has a long stem SUN you can sink it into the ground. Or sow direct at the SUN beginning of May. Leave a foot (30cm) between each plant. SUN SUN Pippa – They need a bit of rough and tumble to replicate SUN outdoor conditions. If you do it under glass again get a SUN sheet of paper and brush across the top of the seedlings to SUN replicate the movement of the wind. SUN SUN SUN Q – My Salvia ‘Hot Lips’ is getting a bit thick. Should I SUN prune it vigorously or continue to just trim the top of it? SUN SUN Anne – I think you can go down a good two-thirds without SUN causing them any damage. I grow a Salvia called ‘Lemon Pie’ SUN and I take that down by two-thirds to stop it becoming SUN woody. Now is the time to do it too. SUN SUN Pippa – If you get any more be a bit more brutal sooner on SUN in its life SUN SUN SUN Q – I have a small Rhododendron bush which has flowered well SUN for the past seven years. Overnight the leaves drooped and SUN lost their shine and colour although the bush is full of SUN buds. The roots are not dry – what can I do to save it? SUN SUN Pippa – When something dramatic like this happens I always SUN think something has happened at the base of the plant. Take SUN a look at the roots because I think you’re either going to SUN find dead roots or perhaps Vine Weevil grubs, which love SUN Rhododendron roots. SUN SUN Anne – I think that we’ve had bad conditions for SUN Rhododendrons this year – dry autumn, wet winter, cold SUN spring – and that could have had an impact SUN SUN SUN Q – What are the best roses to grow in containers? SUN SUN Anne – They need big containers and lots of pruning. Things SUN like ‘Flower Carpet’ or ‘Ballerina’ would be full but they SUN don’t have any scent. Don’t go for a climber as it’d be too SUN much work. SUN SUN Pippa – Go to a specialist nursery and get top quality SUN plants SUN SUN SUN Q – How do I grow good size onions? SUN SUN Bob – I start mine off in late-February in little cells to SUN get the roots going and plant them out in March. The number SUN of leaves you’ve got by May will determine how big the SUN onions are going to be. Also, space them well – 6 inches SUN (15cm) apart each way will do. They don’t like a loose soil SUN and I’d feed them with blood fish and bone meal or pelleted SUN chicken manure and rake it into the top bit of the soil. SUN SUN Anne – Try growing them in shallow pots with big tops (60cm SUN (23.5 inches) diameter) with lots of compost. SUN SUN Bob – Or use a wheelbarrow! SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b0783n0z (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces two conversations about the SUN reverberations of last April's earthquake in Nepal on some SUN who experienced it, and one about failing to reach a SUN fund-raising goal. All in the Omnibus edition of the series SUN that proves it's surprising what you 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 b07856ls (Listen) SUN Missing Presumed Dead: The Odyssey, Episode 1 SUN SUN In Simon Armitage's new version of Homer's Odyssey, a high SUN ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on SUN a delicate diplomatic mission to Istanbul. When his trip SUN ends up in a horrific bar room brawl, social media explodes SUN and the enigmatic darling of a political party becomes SUN Europe's most wanted man overnight. Chased by the SUN authorities, damned by religious leaders, pursued by those SUN looking for vengeance and head-hunted by fanatics, his SUN Odyssey begins. SUN SUN Plunged into the ancient past Odysseus must now contend with SUN all the unworldly beings and unnatural phenomena that stand SUN in his way. In part one, The Lotus Flowers, Cyclops and SUN Circe must all be overcome in the struggle for survival and SUN the long voyage back to the present day. Here reality and SUN mythology are blurred SUN SUN At home, with her husband missing presumed dead, his wife SUN Penelope and their young son are besieged by the press, SUN ravenous for the full story. SUN SUN The music was composed by James Fortune SUN SUN Missing Presumed Dead was originally directed for the stage SUN by Nick Bagnall and co-produced by The Liverpool Everyman SUN and the English Touring Theatre SUN SUN Directed for radio in Salford by Susan Roberts. SUN SUN Credits SUN Smith: Colin Tierney SUN Odysseus: Colin Tierney SUN Prime Minister: Simon Dutton SUN Cyclops: Simon Dutton SUN Anthea: Polly Frame SUN Athene: Polly Frame SUN Penelope: Susie Trayling SUN Magnus: Lee Armstrong SUN Mcgill: Roger Evans SUN Eurylochus: Roger Evans SUN Kite: David Hartley SUN Reynolds: Ranjit Krishnamma SUN Fenton: Chris Reilly SUN Perimedes: Chris Reilly SUN Soli: Sule Rimi SUN Polites: Sule Rimi SUN Circe: Danusia Samal SUN Briseis: Danusia Samal SUN Author: Homer SUN Adaptor: Simon Armitage SUN Director: Susan Roberts SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b07856lv (Listen) SUN Being a Man: David Szalay and Ted Hodgkinson SUN SUN On Open Book - men and fiction: award winning writer David SUN Szalay's new book, All That Man Is, is a collection of SUN stories about men, young to old, all living away from home SUN and struggling to make sense of their lives. He, and Ted SUN Hodgkinson literature programmer at London's Southbank, talk SUN to Mariella Frostrup about what it is to be a man in the the SUN 21st century, and how that's currently being explored in SUN fiction. SUN Dr Sarah Dillon examines the prose of that most masculine of SUN novelists - the hard boiled detective fiction writer Raymond SUN Chandler and, in our Reading Clinic, John Mullan offers SUN advice to a listener who wants to read novels about 'doing SUN the right thing'. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: David Szalay SUN Interviewed Guest: Ted Hodgkinson SUN Interviewed Guest: Sarah Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: John Mullan SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b07856lx (Listen) SUN Time, Memory and Remembrance SUN SUN Roger McGough marks a series of poetic anniversaries with a SUN programme on the theme of time, memory and remembrance. SUN Shakespeare, of course, makes an appearance, as does SUN Charlotte Bronte. It's also a century since the Easter SUN Rising in Dublin inspired WB Yeats and others to put pen to SUN paper. More reflections on time and memory come from poets SUN including TS Eliot and Thomas Hardy. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN All the World's a Stage SUN SUN By William Shakespeare SUN SUN From The Portable Shakespeare SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN The Self Unseeing SUN SUN by Thomas Hardy SUN SUN From The Oxford Authors: Thomas Hardy SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Home is So Sad SUN SUN by Philip Larkin SUN SUN From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Parting SUN SUN by Charlotte Bronte SUN SUN From The Brontes SUN SUN Published by Everyman Poetry SUN SUN SUN SUN Water SUN SUN by Fleur Adcock SUN SUN From Being Human SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN Vertical Realities SUN SUN by Luljeta Lleshanaku SUN SUN Translated by Henry Israeli and Shpresa Qatipi SUN SUN From Being Human SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN A Memory SUN SUN by Rupert Brooke SUN SUN From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke SUN SUN Published by Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN Perhaps SUN SUN by Vera Brittain SUN SUN From Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of The First World SUN War and After by Vera Brittain SUN SUN Published by Virago SUN SUN SUN SUN Burnt Norton (Extract from Four Quartets) SUN SUN by T S Eliot SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Beyond the Last Lamp SUN SUN by Thomas Hardy SUN SUN From The Oxford Authors: Thomas Hardy SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN The Wayfarer SUN SUN by Padraic Pearse SUN SUN From The Oxford Book of Irish Verse; XVIIth Century–XXth SUN Century SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from The Spring in Ireland, 1916 SUN SUN by James Stephens SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://allpoetry.com/The-Spring-In-Ireland:-1916 SUN SUN SUN SUN Easter 1916 SUN SUN by W.B. Yeats SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of W.B Yeats SUN SUN Published by Palgrave SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Cymbeline SUN SUN By William Shakespeare SUN SUN From The Portable Shakespeare SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 Held Hostage in Syria b077kkgn (Listen) SUN Speaking together for the first time, four European hostages SUN of so-called Islamic State talk to Lyse Doucet about their SUN period of incarceration between March 2013 and June 2014. SUN Aid worker Federico Motka, journalists Didier Francois and SUN Daniel Rye, and blogger Pierre Torres were all held for SUN between 10 and 14 months each. SUN SUN Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0783kvs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0783lbp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0783lbr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0783lbt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b07856lz (Listen) SUN Gerry Northam SUN SUN In part of Shakespeare week, we hear about troupes of SUN travelling actors that used to perform in saloons for SUN gunslingers in the Wild West - and that Hollywood put a SUN production of Hamlet into a film of the shootout at the OK SUN Corral, with Victor Mature tackling the famous soliloquy... SUN rather well. We also heard:two momentous encounters on the SUN London tube;four people who survived being held captive by SUN Islamic terrorists;two groundbreaking comedians, Lenny Bruce SUN and Spike Milligan; SUN and the man who beat David Mitchell in a trial by pedantry. SUN SUN Production team Kevin Mousley, Kay Bishton & Elodie SUN Chatelain. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b07858b7 (Listen) SUN Pat is taken by surprise, and Pip gives Rex guidance. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rest Is History b07858bs (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN SUN Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of SUN it. So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to SUN find out more about it. SUN SUN Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate SUN Williams, Frank is joined by a selection of celebrity guests SUN who help him navigate his way through the annals of time, SUN picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and most SUN interesting moments in history. SUN SUN The guests are Chris Addison and Alun Cochrane, who discuss SUN the three wise men, Jack Straw (not that one), Henry Austen SUN and a weaponry timeline. SUN SUN Produced by Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard SUN An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Frank Skinner SUN Panellist: Chris Addison SUN Panellist: Alun Cochrane SUN Panellist: Kate Williams SUN Producer: Mark Augustyn SUN Producer: Justin Pollard SUN SUN 19:45 Border Crossing b0785gjw (Listen) SUN A Good Soldier & Handsome Daddy SUN SUN A series of programmes that sets up a unique pairing between SUN writers from countries challenged by refugee and migration SUN issues with short story writers from Britain. Each foreign SUN story was given to a British writer who wrote their own SUN response, in an exchange of fiction that aims to explode SUN myths, explore shared concerns and extend the boundaries of SUN the short story. SUN SUN In A Good Soldier by Maaza Mengiste, the brutality of the SUN past pursues an Ethiopian father into exile and shockingly SUN marks his relationship with his young son. The reader is SUN Amir El Masry. SUN SUN In Helen Dunmore's response, Handsome Daddy, an alert dinner SUN lady notices worrying signs of abuse as a young boy lines up SUN in the lunch queue. The reader is Sara Markland. SUN SUN Maaza Mengiste is an Ethiopian-American novelist, essayist SUN and photographer whose debut novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze SUN was one of The Guardian's ten best contemporary African SUN books. Helen Dunmore is a prize-winning British novelist, SUN short-story writer and poet whose latest novel, Exposure, SUN was published in January. SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Amir El Masry SUN Reader: Sara Markland SUN Writer: Maaza Mengiste SUN Writer: Helen Dunmore SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b077jqps (Listen) SUN Brexit Numbers SUN SUN EU Treasury report SUN SUN This week there was much debate over the Treasury report SUN which modelled how leaving the EU would affect the economy. SUN Tim Harford speaks to the Spectator's Fraser Nelson about SUN how the document was presented to the public, and how it was SUN reported. Chris Giles of the Financial Times explains that SUN there are useful points to take from the Treasury's SUN analysis. SUN SUN Hinckley Point nuclear power station SUN SUN What is the most expensive "object" ever built? The SUN environmental charity Greenpeace has claimed it is set to be SUN the most expensive object on Earth. But could it really cost SUN more to build than the Great Pyramids? We take a look at SUN some of the most costly building projects on the planet. SUN SUN Chances of serving on a jury SUN SUN A listener in Scotland is curious to know what the chances SUN are of being selected for jury service. Several of his SUN family members have received summons, but he has not. We SUN look at who is eligible to serve, and what your odds are of SUN receiving a summons. SUN SUN European Girls Maths Olympiad SUN SUN Last week we told the story of how the European Girls Maths SUN Olympiad (EGMO) came into being. We followed the UK team on SUN their recent journey to Romania to compete against 38 other SUN teams from Europe and around the world. SUN SUN Life expectancy of a Pope SUN SUN In 2014 Pope Francis alluded to the fact he didn't expect to SUN live more than another two or three years. A group of SUN statisticians have taken a look at the life expectancy of SUN popes over the centuries and decided that he may have been SUN rather pessimistic. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Charlotte McDonald. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0770qy6 (Listen) SUN Prince, Ray Fitzwalter, Victoria Wood, June Jolly, Phil SUN Sayer SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Rock superstar Prince - we recall his intimate gig for a SUN handful of people here in Broadcasting House. SUN SUN Ray Fitzwalter the Editor of ITV's World In Action who SUN championed investigative journalism. SUN SUN Victoria Wood - we have a tribute in song from the young SUN comedian she inspired. SUN SUN The nurse June Jolly who transformed the treatment of SUN children in hospital - she once brought a baby elephant and SUN a lion on to the ward to entertain her patients. SUN SUN And - Mind The Gap - the voice of hundreds of station SUN announcements Phil Sayer. SUN SUN Interviewed guest: Fergus Dudley SUN Interviewed guest: Paul Gambaccini SUN Interviewed guest: Roger Corke SUN Interviewed guest: Vikki Stone SUN Interviewed guest: Margaretta Jolly SUN Interviewed guest: Sue Burr SUN Interviewed guest: Elinor Hamilton. SUN SUN Prince SUN SUN Iconic singer and musician. Matthew spoke to BBC producer SUN Fergus Dudley and live in the studio to Paul Gambaccini. SUN SUN Born 7 June 1958; died 21 April 2016 aged 57. SUN SUN Ray Fitzwalter SUN SUN Editor of ITV's World In Action who championed investigative SUN journalism. Last Word spoke to Roger Corke who worked with SUN him on World in Action. SUN SUN Born 21 February 1944; died 4 April 2016 aged 72. SUN SUN Victoria Wood SUN SUN Last Word spoke to fellow musical comedian, Vikki Stone who SUN performed in Victoria’s play ‘Talent’. SUN SUN Born 19 May 1953; died 20 April 2016 aged 62. SUN SUN June Jolly SUN SUN Nurse who transformed the treatment of children in SUN hospital. Matthew spoke to her niece Margaretta Jolly and SUN to her friend and former colleague, Sue Burr. SUN SUN Born 28 September 1928; died 12 March 2016 aged 87. SUN SUN Phil Sayer SUN SUN Voice-over artist. Matthew spoke to his wife, Elinor SUN Hamilton. SUN SUN Born 18 May 1953; died 14 April 2016 aged 62. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Fergus Dudley SUN Interviewed Guest: Paul Gambaccini SUN Interviewed Guest: Roger Corke SUN Interviewed Guest: Vikki Stone SUN Interviewed Guest: Margaretta Jolly SUN Interviewed Guest: Sue Burr SUN Interviewed Guest: Elinor Hamilton SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0770r1d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0783m47 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b077jb7j (Listen) SUN Selling Shakespeare SUN SUN As part of the festivities for the 400th anniversary of SUN William Shakespeare's death, In Business asks how the Bard SUN has had an impact on the corporate world. As well as being a SUN profitable part of the British economy, particularly for the SUN tourist sector in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's plays SUN have been exported to almost every country there is. In SUN Neuss, Germany, a replica of the Globe has stood since 1991. SUN In Bollywood, Shakespeare's stories have been retold since SUN the dawn of Indian cinema, and become major money-spinners SUN courtesy of movies such as Omkara (Othello) and Haider SUN (Hamlet). In corporate America, his plays have been seized SUN upon by executive training teams. And in China, SUN Shakespeare's works are being marketed to a new generation SUN of domestic consumers, eager for a taste of historical SUN culture. SUN Author and critic Andrew Dickson goes on a globe-trotting SUN journey to find out how the Bard is still very much in SUN business - and discovers one of the most successful and SUN flexible cultural brands there is. Produced by Nina SUN Robinson. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0783lbw (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0770qv5 (Listen) SUN Bastille Day, Flatpack Film Festival SUN SUN Francine Stock visits the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham SUN and tries out Blind Cinema, where she is blindfolded as a SUN small child whispers in her ear, describing the action on SUN the screen. SUN SUN The director of the record-breaking Woman In Black, James SUN Watkins explains why the release of his new film, Bastille SUN Day, a violent thriller set in Paris, was delayed after the SUN terrorist attacks in the French capital. SUN SUN Projection Project SUN SUN Learn more about the Projection Project SUN here SUN SUN The Projectionists, an exhibition of Richard Nicholson’s SUN photographs, is at The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art SUN Gallery, 20-24 April 2016, as part of the SUN Flatpack Film Festival. SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0783m43 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 APRIL 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0783ldd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b077gt3g (Listen) MON Happiness and government, Good parenting MON MON Happiness - Should the government promote it? Danny Dorling, MON Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University MON of Oxford, talks to Laurie Taylor about the necessity to MON inspire a better politics with new measures of what matters MON most to us. These would include the avoidance of misery, the MON gaining of long term life satisfaction, the feeling of MON fulfilment, of worth, of kindness, of usefulness and love. MON Politicians, he contends, should promote a collective good MON which incorporates these priorities. They're joined by Paul MON Ormerod, economist and Visiting Professor at UCL Centre for MON Decision Making Uncertainty, who contends that policymakers MON should not claim that they can increase happiness through MON public policy decisions. MON MON Also, do dominant ideals of 'good' parenting contain a class MON bias? Esther Dermott. Professor of Sociology, argues that MON the activities of the most educationally advantaged parents MON are accepted as the benchmark against whom others are MON assessed. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Professor Esther Dermott at the University of Bristol MON Professor Danny Dorling at the University of Oxford MON Danny Dorling's personal website MON Professor Paul Omerod's personal website MON READING LIST MON Danny Dorling,* A Better Politics: How Government Can Make MON Us Happier*, (LPP, 2016) MON Paul Ormerod, *Positive Linking: How Networks can MON Revolutionise the World*, (Faber and Faber, 2012) MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0783m41 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0783ldg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0783ldj (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0783ldl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0783ldn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0791qt7 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Rev'd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, URC Minister. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0785mzp (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0783ldq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp38 (Listen) MON Puffin 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 Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Puffin. Far better-known MON for its comical looks than its calls, the puffin is a bird MON that that is recognised by many and has earned the nickname MON "sea-parrot" or "clown of the sea". MON MON Puffin (Fratercula arctica) MON Image courtesy of RSPB MON MON 06:00 Today b0785nl5 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0785nl7 (Listen) MON Anish Kapoor on Light and Dark MON MON On Start the Week the sculptor Anish Kapoor talks to Andrew MON Marr about his fascination with voids and black holes, and MON his excitement at the latest technological advances in MON deepest black: vantablack. The astrophysicist Martin Ward MON explains his research into supermassive black holes and why MON we're finding more of them, while the solar physicist Lucie MON Green journeys to the centre of the sun where each photon MON takes hundreds of thousands of years to reach the surface, MON but just eight minutes to shine as light on the Earth. MON Writer Ann Wroe walks on the Downs to experience how light MON affects Nature, and she turns to the artists to meditate on MON the nature of light. MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON Picture credit: Anish Kapoor. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Anish Kapoor MON Interviewed Guest: Lucie Green MON Interviewed Guest: Ann Wroe MON Interviewed Guest: Martin Ward MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0785nl9 (Listen) MON Respectable, This Is My Truth MON MON Journalist Lynsey Hanley's personal exploration of the MON experience of class in Britain over the past four decades. MON MON "Changing class is like emigrating from one side of the MON world to the other, where you have to rescind your old MON passport, learn a new language and make gargantuan efforts MON if you are not to completely lose touch with the people and MON habits of your old life, even if they are the relationships MON and things that are dearest to your heart." MON MON Class is a subject we're all aware of but rarely talk about MON - aside from the insidious line that 'we're all middle class MON now'. Hanley examines class aspiration and social mobility MON through the lens of her own life; providing a fascinating MON insight into what it took to leave her home in Chelmsley MON Wood, a vast council estate near Birmingham, and make her MON way against the odds through sixth form college, university MON and on into the world of professional journalism. MON MON Received wisdom tells us social mobility is an unequivocally MON positive phenomenon, for individuals and for society. Yet MON changing class can be a lonely, anxious, psychologically MON disruptive process, which leaves people divided between the MON place they left and the place they have to inhabit in order MON to get on. MON MON Written and read by Lynsey Hanley MON MON Abridged by Sian Preece. MON MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Lynsey Hanley MON Author: Lynsey Hanley MON Abridger: Sian Preece MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0783lds (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0785pdt (Listen) MON A Girl Called Jack, Episode 1 MON MON Jack Monroe is an unusual food writer, gaining celebrity MON from her unique blog about existing on the breadline. During MON that time, she hit rock bottom but kept fighting to eat well MON and give her son proper food, rather than live on processed, MON cheap products. Now successful and no longer on the MON breadline, she continues to campaign passionately for decent MON food and standards of living. MON MON This new drama, starring Jaime Winstone and June Whitfield, MON revisits her past and her relationship with her beloved MON Grandma. MON MON Jack's blog started in 2012 after a Southend local MON councillor attacked single mothers. Jack lived in a small MON flat with her young son. Having been made redundant from a MON well-paid job, she found herself struggling to get by on MON benefits while applying unsuccessfully for jobs. Her blog MON documented the difficulties of living on welfare and, MON particularly, how to feed her son a nutritious and enjoyable MON diet on just £10 a week. It became a huge hit, Jack became a MON journalist, published food writer and social campaigner. MON MON Sarah Daniels is an award winning radio writer. In 2014, she MON dramatised Nigel Slater's food memoir, Eating for England, MON for BBC Radio 4. She has drawn on Jack Monroe's written MON recipe books, blogs and direct conversations to reveal the MON personal story behind Jack's years of struggling and MON subsequent fame. MON MON "Poverty isn't just having no heating, or not quite enough MON food, or unplugging your fridge and turning your hot water MON off. It's not a tourism trade, it's not cool, and it's not MON something that MPs on a salary of £65k a year plus expenses MON can understand, let alone our PM who states that we're all MON in this together. MON MON Poverty is the sinking feeling when your small boy finishes MON his one weetabix and says 'more mummy, bread and jam please MON mummy' as you're wondering whether to take the TV or the MON guitar to the pawn shop first, and how to tell him that MON there is no bread or jam." MON Jack Monroe, 30 July 2012 Hunger Hurts blog MON MON Episode 1: MON We find out why Grandma isn't talking to Jack and why soda MON bread is her favourite recipe. MON MON Guitar playing by Dan Cocker MON Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Kenny MON Sound design: Eloise Whitmore MON MON Producer: Polly Thomas MON Executive Producer: Joby Waldman MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Jack Monroe: Jaime Winstone MON Grandma: June Whitfield MON Gary: Sam Troughton MON Producer: Polly Thomas MON Author: Jack Monroe MON Adaptor: Sarah Daniels MON MON 11:00 The Business of Music with Matt Everitt b0785ppx (Listen) MON The Stream Age MON MON In the final part of this series, journalist and broadcaster MON Matt Everett asks what life is like for an artist making MON music in the streaming age. With so many ways to create, MON listen to and distribute music, why are artists doing so MON badly? We hear from Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, MON Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and The Kindness's Adam Bainbridge. MON MON For those artists who have built a fan base, the live music MON industry can be healthy, but promoters and managers complain MON of a diminishing number of headline acts. Many of the UK's MON small music venues are under threat and, while the British MON music industry is worth £3.8bn, much of that money comes MON from artists stepping on to the stage. If the music industry MON is broken, who is going to save it? MON MON Launched in Sweden in 2008, we talk to Spotify about how it MON managed to make piracy unfashionable but why it still faces MON accusations of ripping off artists. Faced with such MON criticism, we hear how they have paid out some $3bn of MON royalties. But how is that money shared out? Why do some MON artists receive small royalty cheques for songs that have MON been streamed thousands of times? MON MON Last year, music sales in the UK rose for the first time in MON more than a decade, but how much of the growth can be MON attributed to Adele? We hear how CDs still make up half of MON the market and talk to Adele's label boss, Richard Russell MON from XL. MON MON YouTube is now the world's most popular digital music MON service, used frequently by hundreds of millions. But the MON viability of free, on-demand streaming services is facing MON increasing scrutiny. We ask YouTube's Robert Kyncl why the MON UK labels make less money from his company than from vinyl MON sales. MON MON Producer: Barney Rowntree MON A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b0785pts (Listen) MON Series 6, Schrodinger's Birkenstock Interface Situation MON MON The hit series returns for a sixth series with more shop MON based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, courtesy MON of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. Written by and MON starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli. MON MON Set in a Scots-Asian corner shop, the award winning Fags, MON Mags & Bags sees a return of all the shop regular MON characters, and some guest appearances along the way, from MON the likes of Julia Deakin and Mina Anwar. MON MON In this episode, tempers are frayed as Lovely Sue and Mrs MON Birkett set up competing choirs for The West of Scotland MON community choir-off, and Sanjay and his mate Grebo make Mrs MON Begg an internet star. MON MON Join the staff of Fags, Mags and Bags in their tireless MON quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke MON with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh MON Mahju has built it up over the course of over 30 years and MON is a firmly entrenched, friendly presence in the local area. MON He is joined by his shop sidekick, Dave. MON MON Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both MON surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach MON to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business. MON Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them - MON whether they like it or not! MON MON Written by Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli MON MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli MON Dave: Donald McLeary MON Sanjay: Omar Raza MON Alok: Susheel Kumar MON Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson Nimmo MON Mrs Birkett: Stewart Cairns MON Bishop Briggs: Michael Redmond MON Mrs Begg: Marjory Hogarth MON Grebo: Manjot Sumal MON Terry Wogan: Lewis Macleod MON Duncan Norvelle: Lewis Macleod MON Writer: Donald McLeary MON Writer: Sanjeev Kohli MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b0783ldv (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b076c009 (Listen) MON 25 April 1916 - Adam Wilson MON MON On this day in 1916, German cruisers bombarded Lowestoft, MON damaging 200 homes, and an unexpected visitor shatters the MON peace at Halecot Farm. MON MON Written by Lucy Catherine MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy MON Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer MON Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables MON Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams MON Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf MON Morris Battley: Sean Baker MON Rose Fairweather: Helen Longworth MON Writer: Lucy Catherine MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b0783ldx (Listen) MON Degree fraud, Amazon grocery, Nuisance callers MON MON The job applicants using fake degree certificates to mislead MON employers - we ask why the certificates are freely available MON online for just a few pounds. MON MON The giant online retailer Amazon has started selling MON groceries in the UK. It's new competition for Britain's big MON four supermarkets, when they are already engaged in a tough MON battle for customers. We ask if Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and MON Morrisons have anything to fear from Amazon. MON MON Few things annoy You & Yours listeners as much as nuisance MON calls. We hear about a change in the law, which the MON government believes could really help to crackdown on MON unscrupulous companies who bombard people with calls. MON MON Producer: Jonathan Hallewell MON Presenter: Melanie Abbott. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0783ldz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0785q28 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 Scenes from Student Life b0785q2b (Listen) MON Stuffed Crocodiles and the Chrysler Building MON MON Royal College Holloway 1896 and 2016. What does the choice MON of interior design of a student bedroom there reveal about MON who the students are and how they behave? Or were supposed MON to behave? MON MON Presenter Ellie Cawthorne examines a remarkable set of MON nineteenth century photographs of student study rooms with MON college archivist Annabel Valentine, and visits some of the MON students living in exactly the same study rooms in the 21st MON century. MON MON She discovers how fears of female education and emancipation MON affected the design of student living quarters, and how MON students past and present transformed their private living MON quarters into public display spaces. MON MON Hand made lightshades, Japanese fans, taxidermy, generic MON posters of Pulp Fiction and the New York Skyline, the MON student bedroom was - and still is - the canvas for MON generations of students to construct and communicate their MON new student identities. MON MON Producer: Lucy Dichmont MON Series Producer: Nick Baker MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b07858b7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b0785r0q (Listen) MON The Sensitive, Heart of Darkness, Part 1 MON MON 1/2. By Alastair Jessiman. MON MON A religious retreat in the Scottish Highlands becomes the MON venue for the final investigation by the psychic Thomas MON Soutar. He travels north, accompanied by his girlfriend Kat, MON but they discover that the extreme views of their host have MON alienated many people in the community, and a quiet few days MON away become unexpectedly life-changing when Thomas feels the MON full force of local resentment and has a fateful reckoning MON with his psychic abilities. MON MON Other parts played by the cast. MON MON Producer/director: Bruce Young MON MON BBC Scotland. MON MON Credits MON Thomas Soutar: Robin Laing MON Kat Logan: Julie Duncanson MON Rollo Caldwell: Steven Duffy MON Aaron Caldwell: Sean Biggerstaff MON Fraser Mackinnon: Sean Scanlan MON Suzanne Glenn: Molly Innes MON Director: Bruce Young MON Producer: Bruce Young MON Writer: Alastair Jessiman MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b0785r0s (Listen) MON Semi-Final 4, 2016 MON MON (16/17) MON The last of the 2016 Finalists will be decided this week as MON Russell Davies welcomes the last four semi-finalists of the MON tournament. They're from Stirling, Southampton, Tunbridge MON Wells and Sheffield. MON MON Which Israeli political party has a name meaning MON 'consolidation'? In which year did divorce become legal in MON the Republic of Ireland? Which country's national flag MON includes a stylised representation of a yurt? MON MON The semi-finalists will also be pooling their knowledge to MON tackle questions from a Brain of Britain listener, who'll MON win a prize if they can't answer them successfully. MON MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b0783m9w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics b0785rmr (Listen) MON Series 2, Plato MON MON Join Natalie Haynes and guests for half an hour of comedy MON and the Classics from the BBC Radio Theatre in London. MON MON Natalie is a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive MON about Ancient Greece and Rome. MON MON Today she stands up in the name of one of the world's MON greatest thinkers, Plato, with the help of psychotherapist MON Philippa Perry and classicist Professor Edith Hall. MON MON Plato wasn't perfect, even though he talks about perfection MON all the time. Turns out he was on the chunky side and had MON bad eyesight. On the other hand, he was very good at MON wrestling. MON MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b0785rmt (Listen) MON Series 9, Wayfinding MON MON Aleks Krotoski compares our intuitive wayfinding skills to MON those of the digital world and explores how finding the best MON way from A to B, C and D still poses problems for tech. MON MON 17:00 PM b0783lf1 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0783lf3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b078xpfg (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 4 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Joe Lycett, Sam Simmons, Richard Osman and Aisling Bea are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as jokes, ghosts, Lego and reality TV. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Joe Lycett MON Panellist: Sam Simmons MON Panellist: Richard Osman MON Panellist: Aisling Bea MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0785sv4 (Listen) MON Tom has got his hands full, and Jazzer is not having any MON luck. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0783lf5 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0785pdt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Are Human Rights Really Universal? b0785sv6 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In the aftermath of the Second World War, the 1948 the MON Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed a set of MON rights for all humankind, belonging to each of us, simply by MON virtue of being human. Universalism - that they belong to MON everyone, everywhere - is the key idea that grounds human MON rights, it gives them meaning, application and authority. MON MON Talking to legal philosophers, historians, sceptics and MON advocates, Helena Kennedy QC explores the philosophical and MON historical foundations of human rights. Are they really MON universal - or is this just moral posturing on a grand MON scale, a legal fiction, a philosophical sleight of hand? MON MON Human rights are routinely ignored by states around the MON world. They may aspire to be universal in their application MON but, instead, they are universally broken. MON MON There are lots of claimed universalisms in the world - MON religions, political creeds, ideas of the common good - why MON should this one, the language of universal human rights, be MON adhered to above all others? What are universal human MON rights, really - are they a moral, legal or political idea? MON And where did they come from - were they created or MON discovered? MON MON Going back to ideas of justice in the ancient world, Helena MON Kennedy explores the case for the defence - that human MON rights tap into the deeper threads that bind us, a universal MON humanity that finds its expression as political community MON through the idea of human rights and that, far from being a MON post-war Western construct, their roots are indeed MON universal, embedded across space and time. MON MON Presenter: Helena Kennedy MON Producer: Simon Hollis MON MON A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b077j4z1 (Listen) MON 'Islamic State's' Most Wanted MON MON Chloe Hadjimatheou tells the astonishing story of a group of MON young men from Raqqa in Syria who chose to resist the MON so-called Islamic State, which occupied their city in 2014 MON and made it the capital of their "Caliphate". These MON extraordinary activists have risked everything to oppose IS; MON several have been killed, or had family members murdered. IS MON has put a bounty on the resistance leaders' heads. But the MON group continues its work, under the banner 'Raqqa Is Being MON Slaughtered Silently'. Chloe meets the group's founders, MON some of whom are now organising activists in Raqqa from the MON relative safety of other countries. MON MON 21:00 All in the Womb b077gd58 (Listen) MON Can Post Traumatic Stress Disorder be passed from mother to MON child? Evidence is growing that the anxiety and mood MON disorders of PTSD can indeed be passed on from mothers to MON their offspring. In other words, the environment in which a MON child is raised - including the environment in the womb - MON can affect that child's stress response, hard-wiring it for MON life. MON MON This idea challenges one of the cornerstones of biology - MON that inheritance is controlled solely by genes. Welcome to MON the field of "epigenetics" (meaning literally "beyond the MON genes"), the mechanism by which chemical switches control MON how the genes actually work, turning them on or off as MON appropriate and moderating how strongly they act. MON MON Science writer Sue Armstrong explores the phenomenon as it MON relates to stress with researchers on the front line in MON Edinburgh and New York, and with the people who are the MON focus of their studies - survivors of the Holocaust and the MON collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11 and their MON families. She asks what prospects our greater understanding MON of the physical impact of mental trauma holds for better MON treatment of PTSD, and whether there are lessons here for MON addressing the needs of people caught up in the traumatic MON events of today. MON MON Producer: Ruth Evans MON A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0785nl7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0783lf7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0783lf9 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0788c8q (Listen) MON 10 Days, Episode 6 MON MON A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author MON Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from MON a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being MON made or ruined, lives are at stake. MON MON Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and MON the hard realities of living in London collide. MON MON Episode 6: MON On a dark and stormy night, matters come to a head when the MON police finally discover where their missing officer is MON hiding - just as Cathy Mason does the same. MON MON Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Jasmine Hyde MON Reader: Ben Onwukwe MON Author: Gillian Slovo MON Abridger: Eileen Horne MON Producer: Clive Brill MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b077ggvc (Listen) MON Metaphors for the Past: From Dinosaurs to Victorian Values MON MON Michael Rosen and Dr. Laura Wright talk to Dr Ross Wilson MON about how we talk about historical eras in order to define MON the way we live now, and how we've progressed. Ross Wilson MON is a historian at the University of Chichester who's written MON a book called The Language of the Past delving into the MON origins of terms about periods in history - Stone Age, MON mediaeval, Victorian Values - when we came up with them and MON why we use them. How historically accurate are they and does MON it matter? MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0785sv8 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 APRIL 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0783lgt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0785nl9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0783lgw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0783lgy (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0783lh0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0783lh2 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07877d2 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Rev'd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, URC Minister. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b07861qf (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp50 (Listen) TUE Razorbill TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Razorbill. Smart as a TUE dinner-jacketed waiter and with a deep blunt patterned bill, TUE the razorbill is a striking bird - though its looks could be TUE compensation for its voice. TUE TUE Razorbill (Alca torda) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB TUE TUE 06:00 Today b07862q5 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Shakespeare and the American Dream b078641s (Listen) TUE Shakespeare in Obama's America TUE TUE Robert McCrum goes in search of Shakespeare in 21st century TUE America, what does he mean to Americans today? He visits the TUE US seat of power Washington DC to discover that TUE Shakespeare's plays are used to discuss ideas of power and TUE politics among Washington's elite. He meets Stephen Sondheim TUE and talks to Alec Baldwin about the prevalence of TUE Shakespeare in American popular culture TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 09:30 The Ideas That Make Us b04v30zq (Listen) TUE Series 3, Psyche TUE TUE Bettany Hughes examines her psyche in her archaeology of TUE philosophy. TUE TUE The surprising and invigorating history of the most TUE influential ideas in the story of civilisation, described as TUE 'a double espresso shot of philosophy, history, science and TUE the arts'. Award--winning historian and broadcaster Bettany TUE Hughes begins each programme with the first, extant evidence TUE of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels TUE both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these TUE ideas have been moulded by history, and how they've shaped TUE us. TUE TUE In this programme Bettany investigates her psyche and those TUE of philosopher Angie Hobbs, Byzantinist TUE Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos, writer and broadcaster Lisa TUE Appignanesi and neuroscientist Patrick Haggard. Bettany TUE travels to Athens to see where these ideas were born and TUE then explores the street markets, churches, offices and TUE homes where they continue to morph and influence our daily TUE lives. TUE TUE Other ideas examined in series include idea, desire, agony, TUE fame, justice, wisdom, comedy, liberty, peace, hospitality, TUE charisma, irony, nemesis and virtue. TUE TUE Series Producer: Dixi Stewart. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b07865gz (Listen) TUE Respectable, Respectable in the Eighties TUE TUE Journalist Lynsey Hanley's personal exploration of the TUE experience of class in Britain over the past four decades. TUE TUE "I can draw an outline of the landscape that shaped us with TUE words such as Nice biscuits, pornography, underpasses, 2p TUE bus fares." TUE TUE Hanley's childhood spanned the 1980s; when she discovered TUE early on the joys and consolations of music, and gained TUE political awareness by observing the ways in which different TUE newspapers covered the Miners' Strike. TUE TUE She offers a fascinating insight into what it took to leave TUE her home in Chelmsley Wood, a vast council estate near TUE Birmingham, and make her way against the odds through sixth TUE form college, university and on into the world of TUE professional journalism. TUE TUE Written and read by Lynsey Hanley. TUE TUE Abridged by Sian Preece. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Lynsey Hanley TUE Author: Lynsey Hanley TUE Abridger: Sian Preece TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0783lh4 (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07865h1 (Listen) TUE A Girl Called Jack, Episode 2 TUE TUE Jack Monroe is an unusual food writer, gaining celebrity TUE from her unique blog about existing on the breadline. During TUE that time, she hit rock bottom but kept fighting to eat well TUE and give her son proper food, rather than live on processed, TUE cheap products. Now successful and no longer on the TUE breadline, she continues to campaign passionately for decent TUE food and standards of living. TUE TUE This new drama, starring Jaime Winstone and June Whitfield, TUE revisits her past and her relationship with her beloved TUE Grandma. TUE TUE Jack's blog started in 2012 after a Southend local TUE councillor attacked single mothers. Jack lived in a small TUE flat with her young son. Having been made redundant from a TUE well-paid job, she found herself struggling to get by on TUE benefits while applying unsuccessfully for jobs. Her blog TUE documented the difficulties of living on welfare and, TUE particularly, how to feed her son a nutritious and enjoyable TUE diet on just £10 a week. It became a huge hit, Jack became a TUE journalist, published food writer and social campaigner. TUE TUE Sarah Daniels is an award winning radio writer. In 2014, she TUE dramatised Nigel Slater's food memoir, Eating for England, TUE for BBC Radio 4. She has drawn on Jack Monroe's written TUE recipe books, blogs and direct conversations to reveal the TUE personal story behind Jack's years of struggling and TUE subsequent fame. TUE TUE "Poverty isn't just having no heating, or not quite enough TUE food, or unplugging your fridge and turning your hot water TUE off. It's not a tourism trade, it's not cool, and it's not TUE something that MPs on a salary of £65k a year plus expenses TUE can understand, let alone our PM who states that we're all TUE in this together. TUE TUE Poverty is the sinking feeling when your small boy finishes TUE his one weetabix and says 'more mummy, bread and jam please TUE mummy' as you're wondering whether to take the TV or the TUE guitar to the pawn shop first, and how to tell him that TUE there is no bread or jam." TUE Jack Monroe, 30 July 2012 Hunger Hurts blog TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Jack meets one of Southend's few on-off vegetarians, while TUE her Grandma despairs of her granddaughter ever settling TUE down. TUE TUE Guitar playing by Dan Cocker TUE Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Kenny TUE Sound design: Eloise Whitmore TUE TUE Producer: Polly Thomas TUE Executive Producer: Joby Waldman TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jack Monroe: Jaime Winstone TUE Grandma: June Whitfield TUE Gary: Sam Troughton TUE Producer: Polly Thomas TUE Author: Jack Monroe TUE Adaptor: Sarah Daniels TUE TUE 11:00 The Impostors' Survival Guide b07865h3 (Listen) TUE Oliver Burkeman explores the imposter phenomenon. That TUE inexplicable feeling of fraudulence that plagues the working TUE lives of so many people. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b07865h5 (Listen) TUE Series 22, Mozart's Requiem TUE TUE How Mozart's Requiem, written when he was dying, has touched TUE and changed people's lives. TUE TUE Crime writer Val McDermid recalls how this music helped her TUE after the loss of her father. Hypnotist Athanasios Komianos TUE recounts how the piece took him to the darker side of the TUE spirit world. And a friend of ballet dancer Edward Stierle, TUE Lissette Salgado-Lucas, explains how Eddie turned his TUE struggle with HIV into a ballet inspired by Mozart's music. TUE TUE Basement Jaxx used the Requiem in their live shows and on TUE their album Scars - Felix Dexter reveals his love for Mozart TUE and the divine nature of the Requiem. TUE TUE And Mozart expert Cliff Eisen takes us inside the composer's TUE world: how the orchestra and choir conjure visions of TUE funerals, beauty, hellfire and the confusion of death. He TUE recounts how Mozart was commissioned to write the piece by a TUE nobleman who may have intended to pass off the work as his TUE own. The stern challenge faced by people trying to complete TUE the piece are described by composer Michael Finnissy, who TUE himself wrote a completion of the work. TUE TUE The Requiem was performed at the funerals of many heroic TUE figures - Beethoven, Napoleon and J F Kennedy, among others. TUE Gordana Blazinovic remembers one extraordinary performance TUE during the horrors of the Bosnian war - a show of defiance TUE and grief from the ruins of Sarajevo City Hall. TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b0783lh6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b076c036 (Listen) TUE 26 April 1916 - Emily Colville TUE TUE On this day in 1916 the Conference of the Independent Labour TUE Party resolved that 'socialists of all nations should refuse TUE support to every war entered into by any government.' And in TUE Ashburton, Emily is losing her resolve under Edwin's spell. TUE TUE Written by Lucy Catherine TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes TUE Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog TUE Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett TUE Molly Dyer: Stevie Thompson TUE Oswald Dyer: Dean Nolan TUE Simeon Dyer: Josh Darcy TUE Writer: Lucy Catherine TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b0783lh8 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0783lhb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b07865h7 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 Scenes from Student Life b07865h9 (Listen) TUE The Curious Incident of the Brown Dog TUE TUE The seemingly innocuous statue of a small dog, in Battersea TUE Park in London, was the focus of some of the most vocal and TUE violent anti-vivisection protests. Ellie Cawthorne explores TUE the infamous Brown Dog Riots, when anti-vivisectionists TUE fought students in a row over the methodology of training TUE medical students. TUE TUE On 10 December 1907, 1,000 medical students marched through TUE London waving effigies of a brown dog, clashing with TUE suffragettes, trade unionists and police. The protest was TUE triggered by allegations that, in February 1903, William TUE Bayliss of the Department of Physiology at University TUE College London cruelly performed an allegedly illegal TUE dissection, before an audience of 60 medical students, on an TUE inadequately anaesthetised brown terrier dog. TUE TUE This was just one of the series of infamous and influential TUE Brown Dog riots which continued over seven years. They TUE changed the shaped of scientific education and research, and TUE transformed how medical students are trained. TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Dichmont TUE Series Producer: Nick Baker TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0785sv4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b07865hc (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, Heart of Darkness, Part 2 TUE TUE 2 / 2. By Alastair Jessiman. TUE TUE During a visit to a religious retreat in the Highlands, TUE psychic Thomas Soutar is seriously injured by a hit-and run TUE driver. He's convinced that the hit-and-run was attempted TUE murder but that it was his host, Rollo Caldwell, who was the TUE real target. When Rollo later goes missing, Thomas fears the TUE worst and starts enquiries into what will prove to be his TUE final case. TUE TUE Other parts played by the cast. TUE TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young TUE BBC Scotland. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas Soutar: Robin Laing TUE Kat Logan: Julie Duncanson TUE Rollo Caldwell: Steven Duffy TUE Aaron Caldwell: Sean Biggerstaff TUE Fraser Mackinnon: Sean Scanlan TUE Suzanne Glenn: Molly Innes TUE David Glenn: Liam Brennan TUE DI Slater: Douglas Russell TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE TUE 15:00 The Design Dimension b0787336 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Panic Button TUE TUE Tom Dyckhoff considers how we protect our personal space TUE through design. TUE TUE He asks whether increasingly sophisticated security makes us TUE feel more fearful or more secure, looking at virtual systems TUE which can let us see everything from who is at our front TUE door using our smart phone to an alarm which alerts the TUE police and neighbours to exactly what is happening if we are TUE attacked. But at what cost? TUE TUE Tom also looks at systems which monitor chronic illnesses, TUE alerting health professionals if treatment is needed - and TUE asks whether we really need the security of the Smart Home TUE to keep us feeling safe when the mechanism of an 18th TUE century lock invented by Joseph Bramah is still virtually TUE unpickable. TUE TUE Produced by Sara Parker TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b07875z3 (Listen) TUE After Chernobyl TUE TUE When radioactive particles from the Chernobyl disaster TUE landed in Germany's Black Forest one woman decided to change TUE her country's relationship with nuclear energy forever. TUE TUE Julian Rush meets Ursula Sladek, founder of EWS Energy and TUE prime mover in Germany's abandonment of nuclear energy. TUE TUE Produced by Alasdair Cross and Melanie Brown. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b07875z5 (Listen) TUE PR - How Not To Do It TUE TUE Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright talk PR with Public TUE Relations practitioner Hamish Thompson. He's collated TUE examples of the words and phrases used in PR that people TUE find most annoying, and is on a mission to root them out. TUE Epic..or epic fail? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b07875z7 (Listen) TUE Series 39, Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal TUE TUE She was known as 'the grand old lady of Indian cinema' who TUE starred in many Bollywood films famous in India, but not at TUE first in Britain. We got to know her best in her later years TUE when Zohra Sehgal starred in the TV series - 'The Jewel in TUE The Crown' and films such as 'Bend it like Beckham'. When TUE interviewed aged 101 and asked what she had enjoyed most in TUE her life she said 'Sex, sex and more sex '. TUE Nominating this week's Great Life is actress and playwright TUE Sudha Bhuchar who along with the expert witness, Film TUE Historian Lalit Mohan Joshi, tell the presenter Matthew TUE Parris, how Sehgal broke boundaries to become the first TUE Indian actor to have an international career. The producer TUE is Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Sudha Bhuchar TUE Interviewed Guest: Lalit Mohan Joshi TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0783lhd (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0783lhg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b0650619 (Listen) TUE Series 10, Party On TUE TUE Episode Six - Party On TUE TUE The Sparrowhawk team hold a leaving do, and take the TUE opportunity to reminisce. 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 Megan: Nina Conti TUE Ray: Richard Lumsden TUE Helen: Pippa Haywood TUE Libby: Sarah Kendall TUE Joan: Sarah Thom TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Writer: David Ramsden TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b07875z9 (Listen) TUE Helen has a lot on her mind, and Lilian seeks support. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0783lhj (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07865h1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Force of Google b07875zc (Listen) TUE Google dominates internet searching across most parts of the TUE globe. The algorithm which produces its search results is TUE highly secret and always changing, but is crucial in TUE influencing the information we all obtain, the viewpoints we TUE read, the people we find out about, and the products we buy. TUE TUE It dominates the market because it's so effective. Rivals TUE find it difficult to compete. But however good the TUE algorithm, however carefully crafted to give us what Google TUE thinks we actually want, is it really healthy for one search TUE engine, and one company, to have so much impact? TUE TUE Rory Cellan-Jones explores Google's uniquely powerful role TUE at the centre of today's information society. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0783lhl (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b078774b (Listen) TUE In this new series of All in the Mind Claudia Hammond meets TUE the finalists for the All in the Mind Awards and in June TUE will host the award ceremony at the Wellcome Collection in TUE London. In the first of the series she will also be TUE discovering why film directors are turning to psychologists. TUE TUE 21:30 Shakespeare and the American Dream b078641s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0783lhn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0783lhq (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0787338 (Listen) TUE 10 Days, Episode 7 TUE TUE A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author TUE Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from TUE a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being TUE made or ruined, lives are at stake. TUE TUE Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and TUE the hard realities of living in London collide. TUE TUE Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Jasmine Hyde TUE Reader: Ben Onwukwe TUE Author: Gillian Slovo TUE Abridger: Eileen Horne TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE TUE 23:00 Radio 4 at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival with Elis TUE James b078774d (Listen) TUE As the seventh Machynlleth Comedy Festival approaches, TUE comedian Elis James takes a look back at the first six years TUE and asks what makes the intimate festival in the ancient TUE capital of Wales such a special event in the comedy TUE calendar. TUE TUE With interviews and stand-up from Josh Widdicombe, Tim Key, TUE Josie Long, Rhod Gilbert, Nick Helm, Isy Suttie, Pappy's, TUE Nish Kumar, David Elms, Stuart Laws and Henry Widdicombe. TUE TUE A Little Wander production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b078733b (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 APRIL 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0783lk4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b07865gz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0783lk6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0783lk8 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0783lkb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0783lkd (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b078dc11 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Rev'd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, URC Minister. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b07877j4 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyzk (Listen) WED Guillemot WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David WED Attenborough presents the Guillemot. Guillemots breed on WED cliff ledges and the chick is encouraged to make its first WED flight at the pointing of fledging by being encouraged to WED jump by its mother or father calling from the sea below. WED WED Guillemot (Uria aalge) WED Image courtesy of RSPB WED WED 06:00 Today b078781j (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 b0787c25 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0787c27 (Listen) WED Respectable, Respectable in the Nineties WED WED Journalist Lynsey Hanley's personal exploration of the WED experience of class in Britain over the past four decades. WED WED Growing up in Chelmsley Wood, a vast council estate near WED Birmingham, she found school to be a mostly disappointing WED experience. Instead, she found solace in the local library WED and gained knowledge through the pages of music magazines WED and broadsheet newspapers. WED WED "Getting hold of the NME for the first time was one of the WED best investments in my future cultural capital I could have WED made: another of those threads I'd grabbed unwittingly, WED making a connection between the world I lived in and another WED world of which I was barely aware." WED WED Hanley struggled with the move from comprehensive school to WED a well-regarded suburban sixth-form college and had to fight WED the urge to drop out. Received wisdom tells us social WED mobility is an unequivocally positive phenomenon, for WED individuals and for society. Yet changing class can be a WED lonely, anxious, psychologically disruptive process, which WED leaves people divided between the place they left and the WED place they have to inhabit in order to get on. WED WED Written and read by Lynsey Hanley. WED WED Abridged by Sian Preece. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Lynsey Hanley WED Author: Lynsey Hanley WED Abridger: Sian Preece WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0783lkg (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b0787c29 (Listen) WED A Girl Called Jack, Episode 3 WED WED Jack Monroe is an unusual food writer, gaining celebrity WED from her unique blog about existing on the breadline. During WED that time, she hit rock bottom but kept fighting to eat well WED and give her son proper food, rather than live on processed, WED cheap products. Now successful and no longer on the WED breadline, she continues to campaign passionately for decent WED food and standards of living. WED WED This new drama, starring Jaime Winstone and June Whitfield, WED revisits her past and her relationship with her beloved WED Grandma. WED WED Jack's blog started in 2012 after a Southend local WED councillor attacked single mothers. Jack lived in a small WED flat with her young son. Having been made redundant from a WED well-paid job, she found herself struggling to get by on WED benefits while applying unsuccessfully for jobs. Her blog WED documented the difficulties of living on welfare and, WED particularly, how to feed her son a nutritious and enjoyable WED diet on just £10 a week. It became a huge hit, Jack became a WED journalist, published food writer and social campaigner. WED WED Sarah Daniels is an award winning radio writer. In 2014, she WED dramatised Nigel Slater's food memoir, Eating for England, WED for BBC Radio 4. She has drawn on Jack Monroe's written WED recipe books, blogs and direct conversations to reveal the WED personal story behind Jack's years of struggling and WED subsequent fame. WED WED "Poverty isn't just having no heating, or not quite enough WED food, or unplugging your fridge and turning your hot water WED off. It's not a tourism trade, it's not cool, and it's not WED something that MPs on a salary of £65k a year plus expenses WED can understand, let alone our PM who states that we're all WED in this together. WED WED Poverty is the sinking feeling when your small boy finishes WED his one weetabix and says 'more mummy, bread and jam please WED mummy' as you're wondering whether to take the TV or the WED guitar to the pawn shop first, and how to tell him that WED there is no bread or jam." WED Jack Monroe, 30 July 2012 Hunger Hurts blog WED WED Episode 3: WED Jack's first blog about life on the breadline goes viral. WED WED Guitar playing by Dan Cocker WED Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Kenny WED Sound design: Eloise Whitmore WED WED Producer: Polly Thomas WED Executive Producer: Joby Waldman WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Jack Monroe: Jaime Winstone WED Grandma: June Whitfield WED Gary: Sam Troughton WED Producer: Polly Thomas WED Author: Jack Monroe WED Adaptor: Sarah Daniels WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b0787djp (Listen) WED Ray and Paul - Chrysanthemums and Pumpkins WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation about growing prize WED flowers and vegetables, and the lengths to which some WED gardeners go to ensure the prize is theirs. Another in the WED series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you WED 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 Are Human Rights Really Universal? b0785sv6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] WED WED 11:30 Chain Reaction b03s71cz (Listen) WED Series 9, Graham Linehan talks to Adam Buxton WED WED Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show WED where last week's interviewee becomes this week's WED interviewer. WED WED The final episode in the series sees Father Ted and IT crowd WED writer Graham Linehan talking to comedian, actor and one WED half of Adam and Joe, Adam Buxton. WED WED Producer ... Carl Cooper. WED WED 12:00 News Summary b0783lkj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b076c07v (Listen) WED 27 April 1916 - Johnnie Marshall WED WED On this day in 1916, Irish rebels stormed the town of WED Enniscorthy, and in Buckfast, Johnnie is a man on a mission. WED WED Written by Lucy Catherine WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready WED Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe WED Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant WED Dom Anscar Vonier: Kenneth Collard WED Councillor Ellis: Stephen Tomlin WED Writer: Lucy Catherine WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b0783lkl (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0783lkn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0787djr (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 Scenes from Student Life b0787djt (Listen) WED A Letter from the Trenches WED WED Ellie Cawthorne looks at student life during wartime. The WED experience of students as soldiers, and soldiers as WED students, transformed individuals and institutions. WED WED Herbert Eckersley, a Manchester history undergraduate, WED writes a letter to his professor from the trenches. He was WED killed in action near Ypres in November 1917 and the last WED letter he wrote to Professor Tout just 15 days before he WED died expresses the hope that he will soon be back in WED Manchester and working on his thesis. An irony - this WED history student died making history. WED WED Professor Trout was especially close to his students. We WED have unrivalled access to this rare archive of letters to WED him from the front lines, from male and female students WED serving in the forces and support services in World War I. WED It gives an insight into the impact of war on students, the WED aspirations of individuals, and the bonds within their WED communities in the institutions they were part of. WED WED Remarkably, the letters escaped the censor's pen, so reveal WED details of World War I scrubbed out from much other WED correspondence. WED WED Learning from its mistakes, and the disproportionate loss of WED life and scientific and academic talent in WW1, the WED government had a more strategic approach to the use of WED students and university premises in the Second World War. A WED veteran shares his memories of the post-war university boom, WED and historian William Whyte explains how higher education WED was part of a post-war Allied plan for the 'deNazifacation ' WED of education. WED WED A new breed of universities began to emerge, designed to WED prevent a World War III. WED WED Producer: Lucy Dichmont WED Series Producer: Nick Baker WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b07875z9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b0787dm6 (Listen) WED All Mouth and Trousers WED WED Between 1966 and 1971, TV's first ecclesiastical comedy, All WED Gas and Gaiters was regularly enjoyed by over 10 million WED viewers. The series starred veteran farce actor Robertson WED Hare as the sherry-tippling Archdeacon, William Mervyn as WED the bombastic Bishop wedded to his comforts, Derek Nimmo in WED the role that made him a star as the Bishop's twittish WED Chaplain Noote, and John Barron as the stern, rule-bound WED Dean. WED WED Mark Burgess's comedy features Pauline Devaney (78) and WED Edwin Apps (84) playing themselves. They recall being asked WED to submit a script to BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse slot by WED their friend, fledgling TV director Stuart Allen, and their WED subsequent struggle to create the fictional world of St. WED Ogg's Cathedral Close and its eccentric inhabitants. The WED pilot episode of what was to become All Gas and Gaiters was WED titled The Bishop Rides Again. WED WED Not least of Pauline's problems was her concern that the WED almost exclusively male-dominated world of BBC Television in WED the 1960s would not take the comedic writing talents of a WED young woman seriously. For this reason (and the fact that WED both she and Edwin wished to keep acting careers and writing WED work separate), The Bishop Rides Again was submitted to the WED BBC under the pseudonym, John Wraith. WED WED Frank Muir - then Head of Comedy - knew Wraith's true WED identity, but the eventual revelation of Pauline's WED significant contribution to the creative process was greeted WED with surprised amazement by BBC Light Entertainment WED executives and cast members alike. WED WED Written by Mark Burgess WED Director: David Blount WED WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Young Pauline: Lily-Fleur Bradbury WED Young Edwin: James Joyce WED Frank Muir: John Sessions WED Stuart Allen: Nicholas Boulton WED William Mervyn: Gareth Williams WED Robertson Hare: Trevor Littledale WED Derek Nimmo: Zeb Soanes WED John Barron: David Collings WED Writer: Mark Burgess WED Director: David Blount WED WED 15:00 Money Box b0787dm8 (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b078774b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0787dmb (Listen) WED The Flaneur - Walking in the City WED WED Walking in the city: The flaneur and flaneuse. Laurie Taylor WED presents a themed programme which explores the history and WED meaning of the urban stroller, past and present. WED Keith Tester, Professor of Sociology at the University of WED Hull charts the origins of the 'Flaneur'; the "man of the WED crowd" of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and one of WED the heroes of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. WED Matthew Beamont, co-director of University College London's WED Urban Lab, contends that the city idler isn't simply a by WED product of modernism, illuminating London's past via the WED nocturnal wanderings of poets, novelists and thinkers. WED And Lauren Elkin, lecturer in the department of English and WED Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris, WED counters the implicit assumption that the city belongs to a WED figure of masculine privilege and leisure. She introduces us WED to the transgressive 'flaneuse' who claims the right to city WED space. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED RELATED LINKS WED Matthew Beaumont at University College London WED Lauren Elkin at the American University of Paris WED Keith Tester at the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds WED WED WED WED Matthew Beaumont, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of WED London, Chaucer to Dickens (Verso, 2015) WED WED The Flaneur - a collection of essays, edited by Keith WED Tester, (London Routledge, 1994) WED WED Lauren Elkin, Flaneuse: The (Feminine) Art of Walking in WED Cities (Chatto and Windus, 2016) WED WED WED WED WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0783lkq (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0783lks (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0783lkv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04n6010 (Listen) WED Series 2, CTRL-ALT-DEL WED WED 4/6: CTRL-ALT-DEL. The Computer catches a virus - in fact, WED it's probably the most common virus on Earth. With WED Uljabaan's sole method of control, analysis and WED communication now compromised, the invasion is doomed in WED more ways than one. WED WED Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is a sitcom WED about an alien race that have noticed that those all-at-once WED invasions of Earth never work out that well. So they've WED locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green WED behind an impenetrable force field in order to study human WED behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading. WED WED The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new WED alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the WED weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when WED the force field went up. So along with Lucy Alexander (the WED only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against WED whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to WED the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish WED she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, and much to the WED annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his WED unintelligible minions and The Computer (his WED hyperintelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run WED the invasion. WED WED Written by Eddie Robson WED Script-edited by Arthur Mathews WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Katrina Lyons: Hattie Morahan WED Richard Lyons: Peter Davison WED Margaret Lyons: Jan Francis WED Lucy Alexander: Hannah Murray WED Field Commander Uljabaan: Charles Edwards WED The Computer: John-Luke Roberts WED The Virus: Cerrie Burnell WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0787dmd (Listen) WED Johnny is making an extra effort, and Tom is catching up. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0783lkx (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0787c29 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 FutureProofing b0787dyz (Listen) WED Ageing WED WED Should we retire the concept of 'ageing'? WED WED The first episode of the new series of FutureProofing WED explores the technology and demography which herald a WED revolution in our ideas about ageing, and a fundamental WED shift in the expectations we all have for the course our WED lives might take. WED WED Presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson travel to WED California to meet the scientists at the cutting edge of the WED quest to stop age-related illness and decline. And they WED explore the ideas that will have to change if we all live to WED 150 and beyond. WED WED Even conservative estimates now place human lifespan for WED new-borns today in a developed country at more than 100. WED FutureProofing examines the fundamental changes to our WED expectations, hopes and dreams which ensue from the WED scientific work taking place now to postpone, or even end, WED ageing. WED WED FutureProofing is a six part series which explores the ideas WED that will shape our future. Episodes in the second series WED for April-June 2016 include programmes on the future of WED Ageing, Crime, Energy, Memory, Language and War. WED WED Producer: Jonathan Brunert. WED WED 20:45 Why I Changed My Mind b078hlsz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b07875z3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0787c25 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0783lkz (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0787j2d (Listen) WED 10 Days, Episode 8 WED WED A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author WED Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from WED a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being WED made or ruined, lives are at stake. WED WED Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and WED the hard realities of living in London collide. WED WED Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Jasmine Hyde WED Reader: Ben Onwukwe WED Author: Gillian Slovo WED Abridger: Eileen Horne WED Producer: Clive Brill WED WED 23:00 Nurse b0787j2g (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED A bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health WED nurse created by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings. WED Written by David Cummings and Paul Whitehouse, with WED additional material by Esther Coles. WED WED Liz (played by Esther Coles), the community psychiatric WED nurse of the title makes her rounds to visit "service users" WED in their homes. Most of those patients are played by comedy WED chameleon Paul Whitehouse himself - with supporting roles WED for Rosie Cavaliero, Vilma Hollingbery and Cecilia Noble. WED WED Whitehouse brings us an obese bed-bound mummy's boy, an WED agoraphobic ex-con, a manic ex-glam rock star, ageing rake WED Herbert who hoards his house with possessions and memories, WED a Jewish chatterbox in unrequited love with his Jamaican WED neighbour, and a long-suffering carer and his WED Alzheimer's-afflicted mother. WED WED There are new characters too in the guise of a WED self-proclaimed DJ and a Geordie struggling with his wife's WED job in the world's oldest profession. WED WED We follow their humorous, sometimes sad and occasionally WED moving interactions with Liz, whose job is to assess their WED progress, dispense medication and offer support. WED WED Nurse gives a sympathetic insight into the world of some of WED society's more marginalised people in a heartfelt and WED considered way. WED WED A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Liz: Esther Coles WED Actor: Paul Whitehouse WED Actor: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Actor: Rosie Cavaliero WED Actor: Sue Elliott-Nicholls WED Actor: Charlie Higson WED Actor: Vilma Hollingbery WED Actor: Jason Maza WED Actor: Cecilia Noble WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b03szv8f (Listen) WED Series 2, Music WED WED This week comedian Tim Key explores the concept of music WED with a poem about an ambitious songbird called Patrick. Tom WED Basden attempts to accompany the poet, but Tim threatens to WED hire a proper musician. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden, Katy Wix and Diane Morgan WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim Key WED Performer: Tom Basden WED Performer: Katy Wix WED Performer: Diane Morgan WED Producer: James Robinson WED Writer: Tim Key WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0787j30 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 APRIL 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0783lmh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0787c27 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0783lmk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0783lmm (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0783lmp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0783lmr (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b078d479 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Rev'd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, URC Minister. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0791ppt (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyh9 (Listen) THU Shag THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David THU Attenborough presents the Shag. Perhaps the least vocal of THU all British birds they hiss and belch to warn off THU interlopers getting too close to their nest. They are THU seabirds and their name comes from the shaggy crest on the THU top of their head. THU THU Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) THU Image courtesy of RSPB THU THU 06:00 Today b078d47c (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b07881kn (Listen) THU Euclid's Elements THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euclid's Elements, a THU mathematical text book attributed to Euclid and in use from THU its appearance in Alexandria, Egypt around 300 BC until THU modern times, dealing with geometry and number theory. It THU has been described as the most influential text book ever THU written. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b07881kq (Listen) THU Respectable, Snakes and Ladders THU THU Lynsey Hanley explores the experience of class and social THU mobility in Britain over the past four decades. She provides THU a personal insight into the psychological cost of leaving THU her working-class upbringing behind to pursue further THU education; moving from her home in Chelmsley Wood, a vast THU council estate near Birmingham, to sixth-form college, to THU university and on to a career in journalism. THU THU In this episode, Hanley looks at the process of applying for THU university - and of how many students make educational THU decisions based on their backgrounds: 'old' universities for THU the middle-class, 'new' for the working-class, limiting THU potential advantages for the latter. THU THU Written and read by Lynsey Hanley. THU THU Abridged by Sian Preece. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Lynsey Hanley THU Author: Lynsey Hanley THU Abridger: Sian Preece THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0783lmt (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07881kv (Listen) THU A Girl Called Jack, Episode 4 THU THU Jack Monroe is an unusual food writer, gaining celebrity THU from her unique blog about existing on the breadline. During THU that time, she hit rock bottom but kept fighting to eat well THU and give her son proper food, rather than live on processed, THU cheap products. Now successful and no longer on the THU breadline, she continues to campaign passionately for decent THU food and standards of living. THU THU This new drama, starring Jaime Winstone and June Whitfield, THU revisits her past and her relationship with her beloved THU Grandma. THU THU Jack's blog started in 2012 after a Southend local THU councillor attacked single mothers. Jack lived in a small THU flat with her young son. Having been made redundant from a THU well-paid job, she found herself struggling to get by on THU benefits while applying unsuccessfully for jobs. Her blog THU documented the difficulties of living on welfare and, THU particularly, how to feed her son a nutritious and enjoyable THU diet on just £10 a week. It became a huge hit, Jack became a THU journalist, published food writer and social campaigner. THU THU Sarah Daniels is an award winning radio writer. In 2014, she THU dramatised Nigel Slater's food memoir, Eating for England, THU for BBC Radio 4. She has drawn on Jack Monroe's written THU recipe books, blogs and direct conversations to reveal the THU personal story behind Jack's years of struggling and THU subsequent fame. THU THU "Poverty isn't just having no heating, or not quite enough THU food, or unplugging your fridge and turning your hot water THU off. It's not a tourism trade, it's not cool, and it's not THU something that MPs on a salary of £65k a year plus expenses THU can understand, let alone our PM who states that we're all THU in this together. THU THU Poverty is the sinking feeling when your small boy finishes THU his one weetabix and says 'more mummy, bread and jam please THU mummy' as you're wondering whether to take the TV or the THU guitar to the pawn shop first, and how to tell him that THU there is no bread or jam." THU Jack Monroe, 30 July 2012 Hunger Hurts blog THU THU Episode 4: THU Jack and Grandma clash, despite Jack's improving fortunes as THU her blog begins to earn her money. THU THU Guitar playing by Dan Cocker THU Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Kenny THU Sound design: Eloise Whitmore THU THU Producer: Polly Thomas THU Executive Producer: Joby Waldman THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Jack Monroe: Jaime Winstone THU Grandma: June Whitfield THU Gary: Sam Troughton THU Producer: Polly Thomas THU Author: Jack Monroe THU Adaptor: Sarah Daniels THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b07881kx (Listen) THU Forgetting Igbo THU THU Nkem Ifejika cant speak the language of his forefathers. THU Nkem is British of Nigerian descent and comes from one of THU Nigeria's biggest ethnic groups the Igbo. He's one of the THU millions of Nigerians, who live in the diaspora - almost two THU hundred thousand of them living here in Britain. Nkem wants THU to know why he was never taught Igbo as a child and why the THU United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural THU Organisation, UNESCO, has warned that Igbo faces extinction THU in the next fifty years. THU THU In this week's Crossing Continents, Nkem travels to the Igbo THU heartland in the southeast of Nigeria to explore the demise THU of a once proud language. He discovers that recent history THU has had profound effects on Igbo culture and identity. He THU discovers too that some Igbos are seeking to reassert their THU language and culture. Part of this is a resurgence of Igbo THU identity under a new 'Biafran' movement. Is this likely to THU find traction or will it ignite painful divisions from the THU past and lead to renewed tensions across Nigeria. From THU Nkem's own London-based family - where his wife is teaching THU both him and their son to speak Igbo - to the ancestral THU villages of Anambra State, 'Forgetting Igbo' reveals THU shifting perspectives on Nigeria's colonial past, emerging THU new ambitions for its future - and deep fault lines at the THU heart of its society. THU THU Produced by Michael Gallagher. THU THU 11:30 Will Gompertz Gets Creative b063xz5j (Listen) THU Hit Songs and Love Songs THU THU For the final programme in the series, the BBC Arts Editor THU drops in on songwriting group in the Midlands to see how THU easy it is to create a hit love song. Plenty try but few THU succeed - so joining him for a special masterclass are the THU Mercury and Brit nominated artists Kathryn Williams and Tom THU McRae who have both written songs with and for other artists THU - ranging from John Martyn and Marianne Faithful to Nadine THU Coyle and Matt Cardle. Can they help the members of the THU Coventry Singer Songwriting group create a hit of their own? THU THU If you are inspired to get involved in songwriting - or THU indeed any other areas of artistic endeavour - there's lots THU to discover at the BBC's Get Creative website THU http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/sections/get-creative THU THU Series produced by Clare Walker, Kate Lamble and Paul THU Kobrak. THU THU The Coventry Singer Songwriters at work THU THU Collaborating on a song with Tom McRae THU THU 12:00 News Summary b0783lmw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b076c06y (Listen) THU 28 April 1916 - Isaac Cox THU THU On this day in 1916, all men between 33 and 41 who had THU attested were called to report for service, and in THU Ashburton, Isaac discovers Lewis hasn't been working at THU Halecot Farm. THU THU Written by Lucy Catherine THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Isaac Cox: James Lailey THU Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables THU Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams THU Hetty Cox: Adie Allen THU John Rossiter: Mark Carey THU Lewis Cox: Dylan Edwards THU Writer: Lucy Catherine THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b0783lmy (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0783ln0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b07881kz (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 Scenes from Student Life b07881l1 (Listen) THU A Very Essex Protest THU THU Ellie Cawthorne tells the story of the Inch Affair at Essex THU University in 1968. Its impact influenced generations of THU students and how universities treated them. THU THU In 1968, a series of guest lectures led to vocal and violent THU protests in the newly established University of Essex. Enoch THU Powell's visit lit the touch paper, but it was the visit of THU Dr Inch, a scientist at Porton Down specialising in chemical THU weapons, which led to a full scale riot, arrests, expulsions THU and an occupation of the university by students and staff. THU THU The unexpected protest and its resolution had a big effect THU on student politics, and the futures of the individuals THU concerned - some of whom went into radical politics, direct THU action and jail, others into big business and the House of THU Lords. THU THU One of the key protest instigators, Peter Archard, recalls THU the incident and its lasting impact in Britain and abroad. THU We trace how the events in Essex linked with the bigger THU political picture of 1968, and changed the outlook and make THU up of student politics, eventually reshaping how THU universities were run. THU THU We also speak to student activists today to explore how much THU the so-called consumerisation of universities has affected THU students' politicisation, and changed the focus, if not the THU fervour, of many student protests in 2016. THU THU Producer: Lucy Dichmont THU Series Producer: Nick Baker THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0787dmd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b07882k7 (Listen) THU North THU THU Written by Jennifer Schlueter & conceived by Christina THU Ritter THU THU When her husband asks her to meet the author of "The Little THU Prince", celebrated aviator Anne Morrow Lindberg is THU terrified. But the two form a connection which will affect THU the rest of their lives. THU THU Director: Marion Nancarrow THU THU Constructed entirely from the writings of The Little Prince THU author, Antoine de Saint Exupery and the celebrated aviators THU Charles and Anne Morrow Lindberg, this off-Broadway hit is THU the story of their meeting and its consequences and has been THU re-imagined for radio. It stars its original cast member, THU Christina Ritter, in her radio debut with actor Samuel West, THU who saw the production off-Broadway. Delicate and touching, THU it tells the behind-the-scenes story of one the most THU celebrated couples in America, the famous and shocking THU kidnap of their baby and the conflicts which flying, family THU and writing brought to their lives. This was further THU complicated by their meeting with one of France's most THU iconic writers. THU THU Credits THU Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Christina Ritter THU Antoine de Saint Exupery: Samuel West THU Charles Lindbergh: Ian Conningham THU Director: Marion Nancarrow THU Writer: Jennifer Schlueter THU THU 15:00 Open Country b07882k9 (Listen) THU Southwell Races, Nottinghamshire THU THU Helen Mark spends a day at Southwell Races in rural THU Nottinghamshire. It's one of the smallest and most rural THU racetracks in Britain, but it's also one of the busiest. THU THU Helen meets some of the people behind the scenes, including THU the Clerk of the Course, who is 'in charge of everything THU green', jockeys, the race vet, stable hands, trainers and THU punters. THU THU She also gets to watch a racehorse take a swim in a pool. THU Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0783m47 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b07856lv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b0783ln2 (Listen) THU Son of Saul, The Sound Barrier, 1916 v 2016 THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU Laszlo Nemes discusses Son Of Saul, his Oscar winning film THU about life and death in a Nazi concentration camp. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Laszlo Nemes THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b0783ln4 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b0783ln6 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0783ln8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Don't Make Me Laugh b07882z6 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU David Baddiel hosts the second series of the provocative THU panel show where some of the funniest comedians have to go THU against all their instincts and try not to make an audience THU laugh. THU THU Featuring Lee Mack, Joe Lycett, Katherine Ryan and Tom THU Parry. THU THU A So Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Baddiel THU Panellist: Lee Mack THU Panellist: Joe Lycett THU Panellist: Katherine Ryan THU Panellist: Tom Parry THU THU 19:00 The Archers b07882z8 (Listen) THU Jim needs to make up his mind, and Joe has a bright idea. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0783lnb (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07881kv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Borders, An Odyssey b078834c (Listen) THU The Return THU THU Do borders enhance or diminish our lives? In this final THU episode, as Homer's Odysseus reaches Ithaka at last, Frances THU Stonor Saunders examines the impact of the borders we cross THU and asks, how we prepare for death, the final border THU crossing. With Judith Kerr, Juliet Mitchell, Jonathan THU Meades, Edith Hall, Helen Sharman. Readings by Sam West. THU THU Producer: Fiona Leach THU Researcher: Ruth Edwards. THU THU 20:30 In Business b0788889 (Listen) THU Colorado's Big Marijuana Experiment THU THU Marijuana is now legal in some US states and a fast-growing THU industry has emerged, especially in Colorado which was the THU first state to embrace the drug. But according to federal THU law marijuana is still illegal. This means that many THU companies can't get banking services, advertise their wares THU or pay tax in the way that other companies do. THU THU So how do they survive and thrive? And in what direction is THU the US moving? Will marijuana soon become a legal drug, like THU alcohol, across the US? Or will law-makers decide that THU Colorado's big marijuana experiment has gone too far? And THU what is it like to run a company in one of the world's THU riskiest business sectors? THU THU Presenter : Peter Day THU Producer : Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b0783ln4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b07881kn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b079vmrt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0783lnd (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b078888f (Listen) THU 10 Days, Episode 9 THU THU A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author THU Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from THU a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being THU made or ruined, lives are at stake. THU THU Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and THU the hard realities of living in London collide. THU THU Episode 9: THU The aftermath of the storm requires a clean-up - not only of THU the London's streets but of the mess created by political THU schemes and broken hearts. THU THU Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Jasmine Hyde THU Reader: Ben Onwukwe THU Author: Gillian Slovo THU Abridger: Eileen Horne THU Producer: Clive Brill THU THU 23:00 Down the Line b02yjbx2 (Listen) THU Olympic Legacy Special THU THU The ground-breaking Radio 4 phone-in show presents a one-off THU special on the Olympics, hosted by the legendary Gary THU Bellamy and brought to you by the creators of The Fast Show. THU THU Starring Rhys Thomas, with Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix THU Dexter, Charlie Higson, THU Lucy Montgomery and Paul Whitehouse. THU THU Special guests: Esther Coles, Robert Popper and Adil Ray THU THU Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse THU A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Gary Bellamy: Thomas Rhys THU Actor: Amelia Bullmore THU Actor: Simon Day THU Actor: Felix Dexter THU Actor: Charlie Higson THU Actor: Lucy Montgomery THU Actor: Paul Whitehouse THU Actor: Esther Coles THU Actor: Robert Popper THU Actor: Adil Ray THU Producer: Charlie Higson THU Producer: Paul Whitehouse THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b078888h (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0783lpz (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b07881kq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0783lq1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0783lq3 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0783lq5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0783lq7 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b079vp1d (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Rev'd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, URC Minister. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0791b37 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Alun Beach. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tpqx (Listen) FRI Gannet FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Gannet. The North FRI Atlantic is the international stronghold for this impressive FRI seabird - with its wingspan of nearly 2 metres, remorseless FRI expression and dagger-like bill. FRI FRI Gannet (Morus bassanus) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0791b39 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b0783m5p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b07889g4 (Listen) FRI Respectable, Who's Respectable Now? FRI FRI Lynsey Hanley explores the experience of class and social FRI mobility in Britain over the past four decades. She offers a FRI personal insight into the psychological cost of leaving her FRI working-class upbringing behind; moving from her home in FRI Chelmsley Wood, a vast council estate near Birmingham, to FRI sixth-form college, to university and on to a career in FRI journalism. FRI FRI In this final episode, she looks at the divisive notion, FRI encouraged by politicians of all parties over the past two FRI decades, that we're all middle-class now. FRI FRI Written and read by Lynsey Hanley. FRI FRI Abridged by Sian Preece. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Lynsey Hanley FRI Author: Lynsey Hanley FRI Abridger: Sian Preece FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0783lq9 (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07889g6 (Listen) FRI A Girl Called Jack, Episode 5 FRI FRI Jack Monroe is an unusual food writer, gaining celebrity FRI from her unique blog about existing on the breadline. During FRI that time, she hit rock bottom but kept fighting to eat well FRI and give her son proper food, rather than live on processed, FRI cheap products. Now successful and no longer on the FRI breadline, she continues to campaign passionately for decent FRI food and standards of living. FRI FRI This new drama, starring Jaime Winstone and June Whitfield, FRI revisits her past and her relationship with her beloved FRI Grandma. FRI FRI Jack's blog started in 2012 after a Southend local FRI councillor attacked single mothers. Jack lived in a small FRI flat with her young son. Having been made redundant from a FRI well-paid job, she found herself struggling to get by on FRI benefits while applying unsuccessfully for jobs. Her blog FRI documented the difficulties of living on welfare and, FRI particularly, how to feed her son a nutritious and enjoyable FRI diet on just £10 a week. It became a huge hit, Jack became a FRI journalist, published food writer and social campaigner. FRI FRI Sarah Daniels is an award winning radio writer. In 2014, she FRI dramatised Nigel Slater's food memoir, Eating for England, FRI for BBC Radio 4. She has drawn on Jack Monroe's written FRI recipe books, blogs and direct conversations to reveal the FRI personal story behind Jack's years of struggling and FRI subsequent fame. FRI FRI "Poverty isn't just having no heating, or not quite enough FRI food, or unplugging your fridge and turning your hot water FRI off. It's not a tourism trade, it's not cool, and it's not FRI something that MPs on a salary of £65k a year plus expenses FRI can understand, let alone our PM who states that we're all FRI in this together. FRI FRI Poverty is the sinking feeling when your small boy finishes FRI his one weetabix and says 'more mummy, bread and jam please FRI mummy' as you're wondering whether to take the TV or the FRI guitar to the pawn shop first, and how to tell him that FRI there is no bread or jam." FRI Jack Monroe, 30 July 2012 Hunger Hurts blog FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Jack is nominated for the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink FRI Awards and invites her Grandma to be her guest. FRI FRI Guitar playing by Dan Cocker FRI Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Kenny FRI Sound design: Eloise Whitmore FRI FRI Producer: Polly Thomas FRI Executive Producer: Joby Waldman FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jack Monroe: Jaime Winstone FRI Grandma: June Whitfield FRI Gary: Sam Troughton FRI Producer: Polly Thomas FRI Author: Jack Monroe FRI Adaptor: Sarah Daniels FRI FRI 11:00 The Anglo-Irish Century b07889g8 (Listen) FRI Shadow Language and Shape Shifting FRI FRI In the second programme in his series looking at the last FRI hundred years of Anglo-Irish history historian Diarmaid FRI Ferriter covers the period following the Anglo-Irish FRI agreement of 1921 which brought into being the Irish Free FRI State and saw then saw it descend, within a year, into a FRI bitter civil war. Although the British were now observers FRI from the sidelines letters from Churchill to Michael Collins FRI reveal that there was an understanding between the two men FRI that had survived the settlement negotiations of the FRI previous year. In the event Collins was the most significant FRI casualty of the war which ended with the anti-treaty forces FRI defeated and their leader Eamon de Valera in the political FRI wilderness. FRI Under a new leader W.T.Cosgrave the Free State established a FRI degree of stability in its dealings with Britain, although FRI it was a period described by one of his ministerial FRI colleagues, Kevin O'Higgins as "simply eight young men in FRI city hall standing amidst the ruins of one administration FRI with the foundations of another not yet laid and with wild FRI men screaming through the keyholes.." FRI Diarmaid carries the story through the Irish engagement with FRI the other Dominions in forging new freedoms in the form of FRI the Statue of Westminster of 1931. And then, a year later, FRI de Valera's return and subsequent progress towards complete FRI Irish independence which saw changes in the country's name, FRI the return of Irish ports to Irish control and, with an FRI agreement in 1938, all but the most minimal British FRI involvement. It would allow de Valera to achieve his FRI ambition in the war that threatened Europe, to maintain FRI Irish neutrality. FRI The results of that stance, Churchill's reaction to it at FRI the end of the war and de Valera's response bring this FRI period of The Anglo-Irish Century to a close. FRI FRI Producer: Tom Alban. FRI FRI 11:30 Barry's Lunch Club b07889gb (Listen) FRI Travel FRI FRI Alex Lowe is 82 year old Barry, who invites an audience to FRI his weekly lunch club where he scrutinises themes close to FRI his heart. With club secretary Hilary (Stephanie Cole) to FRI rein him in, and club treasurer Peter (Philip Pope) FRI providing support on the civic hall piano, this is the FRI ultimate life-style guide for an ageing nation. FRI FRI Episode 1: Travel FRI Barry responds to a question about travel for the over 60s FRI and relates his disastrous holiday experiences on a cruise FRI ship and at an activity holiday. FRI FRI Barry is a cockney moved to the suburbs during the war. He FRI is not given to looking at the old days through rose FRI coloured spectacles, and is well up to speed with current FRI trends. A seemingly harmless old boy, he lures people into a FRI false sense of security, delivering hilariously stinging FRI rebukes or erudite assessments of how the world is treating FRI the over 60s. FRI FRI Stand-up comedy crossed with sitcom, the show plays out in FRI real time as if we are eavesdropping on a civic hall meeting FRI group. FRI FRI Written by Alex Lowe and Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI Executive Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Barry: Alex Lowe FRI Hilary: Stephanie Cole FRI Peter: Philip Pope FRI Writer: Alex Lowe FRI Writer: Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b0783lqc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b076c070 (Listen) FRI 29 April 1916 - Alexander Gidley FRI FRI On this day in 1916, General Townshend surrendered, ending FRI the Siege of Kut, and in Deanscombe Quarry, Alexander gets FRI his first taste of being foreman. FRI FRI Written by Lucy Catherine FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Moses Wickens: Ben Callon FRI Pat McCrory: Jonny Holden FRI Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant FRI Writer: Lucy Catherine FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b0783lqf (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0783lqh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b078d599 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 Scenes from Student Life b07889gd (Listen) FRI Home and Away FRI FRI Ellie Cawthorne finds out about the changing experiences of FRI students studying away from their native countries on the FRI global campus - foreign students in the UK, and UK students FRI abroad. FRI FRI A British student abroad in 2014 describes his first day at FRI his Dutch University. Indira describes the culture shock of FRI the 'real' Britain outside the international student halls. FRI The culture shock. FRI FRI The number of British students studying abroad is rising FRI rapidly, as the increase in tuition fees makes the prospect FRI of studying at European universities increasingly FRI attractive. Simultaneously, international students who gain FRI degrees at British Universities enjoy increased status in FRI their home country. FRI FRI This ebb and flow within academic communities is not new. FRI Travel and the exchange of ideas and of students, says FRI academic Hillary Perraton, has been one of defining factors FRI of university education since the 12th century. FRI FRI We compare the experiences of foreign students today with FRI those of their predecessors, documented through diaries, FRI letters and autobiographies. Why have so many world leaders FRI of the 20th Century, from Nehru to Bill Clinton, emerged FRI from British universities? FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Dichmont FRI Series Producer: Nick Baker FRI A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b07882z8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03zby8c (Listen) FRI The Great British Bridge Scandal FRI FRI By Deborah Davis FRI It is 1965, at the World Bridge Championships in Buenos FRI Aires, and the American team believe they have cracked a FRI code. Could it be true that two British players are guilty FRI of cheating? FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale FRI FRI The Story: FRI FRI In 1965, at the World Bridge Championships in Buenos Aires, FRI the American team led by Dorothy Hayden observed Britain's FRI top players, Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro, using finger FRI signals during bidding. Hayden cracked the code: the British FRI pair were signalling the number of cards they held in their FRI hearts suits. Ralph Swimer, Britain's non-playing Captain, FRI was informed. He observed his team playing and confirmed FRI Hayden's suspicions. They reported their findings to the FRI World Bridge Federation. Reese and Schapiro were summoned to FRI defend the accusations and chose to remain silent. The WBF FRI found them guilty of cheating. Swimer conceded the FRI championship on behalf of Great Britain. Reese and Schapiro FRI returned to London, their international reputations FRI destroyed. FRI FRI But for the four participants, the drama had only just FRI begun. The British Bridge League set up its own inquiry FRI under Sir John Foster QC who imposed a criminal burden of FRI proof; the prosecution was required to prove its case beyond FRI reasonable doubt. FRI FRI Deborah Davis picks up the story as the case unfolds and the FRI battle for the truth begins. FRI FRI The Writer: FRI FRI Deborah Davis, a qualified lawyer and freelance journalist, FRI has written five plays for Radio 4 and a stage play, Court FRI Pastoral, selected for the International Playwriting FRI Festival. Her radio drama, Balance of Power, was selected FRI for the Brit List in 2009 coming in joint 4th place. The FRI script is now in film development. FRI FRI Credits FRI Terence Reese: Nick Waring FRI Boris Schapiro: Stephen Critchlow FRI Dorothy Hayden: Laurel Lefkow FRI Ralph Swimer: Clive Hayward FRI Leonard Caplan: David Cann FRI Sir John Foster: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Simon Goldblatt: Joe Davies FRI Writer: Deborah Davis FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0788bc6 (Listen) FRI York FRI FRI A panel of experts answer listeners' horticultural queries. FRI FRI 15:45 Tips for the Barmaid b0788bc8 (Listen) FRI By Claire Powell. A forty-something single mum works behind FRI the bar at the local sports club. The members of the FRI veterans football team are her favourites, and one player in FRI particular. What starts as smiles across the bar turns into FRI something more. FRI FRI Claire Powell was born and brought up in south-east London. FRI She graduated from UEA's Creative Writing (Prose) MA in FRI 2012, where she received the year's highest mark for a FRI dissertation, and was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial FRI Bursary and Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Grant. Her first FRI radio story, Marathon, appeared as part of The Time Being FRI (Series 6) in 2013. FRI FRI Writer: Claire Powell FRI Reader: Lorraine Ashbourne FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Claire Powell FRI Reader: Lorraine Ashbourne FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0783lqk (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b0788bcb (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b0788bcd (Listen) FRI Joyce and Bill - We're Really Alright FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple who FRI find retirement isn't all they'd hoped it would be, but who FRI recognise things could be a lot worse. Another conversation FRI in 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 b0783lqm (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0783lqp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b0788bcg (Listen) FRI Series 90, Episode 3 FRI FRI Susan Calman, Zoe Lyons and Andy Hamilton are amongst Miles' FRI guests in the long-running satirical quiz of the week's FRI news. FRI FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Zoe Lyons FRI Panellist: Andy Hamilton FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0788bcj (Listen) FRI Helen wants to be alone, and Pip has a deal to make. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton FRI Lawyer: Richard Pepple FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0783lqr (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07889g6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0788bcl (Listen) FRI Jon Ashworth MP, Claire Fox, Chris Grayling MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Corby in Northamptonshire with Shadow Minister without FRI Portfolio Jon Ashworth MP, Claire Fox from the Institute of FRI Ideas, and the Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling FRI MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0788bcn (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b076c0cj (Listen) FRI 25-29 April 1916 FRI FRI In the week that General Townshend surrendered, ending the FRI Siege of Kut al Amara, there are calls to courage throughout FRI the social scale in Ashburton. FRI FRI Written by Lucy Catherine FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Richard Monks FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI Credits FRI Hetty Cox: Adie Allen FRI Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer FRI Morris Battley: Sean Baker FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett FRI Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes FRI Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant FRI Moses Wickens: Ben Callon FRI John Rossiter: Mark Carey FRI Dom Anscar Vonier: Kenneth Collard FRI Simeon Dyer: Josh Darcy FRI Lewis Cox: Dylan Edwards FRI Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog FRI Pat McCrory: Jonny Holden FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Isaac Cox: James Lailey FRI Rose Fairweather: Helen Longworth FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro FRI Oswald Dyer: Dean Nolan FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables FRI Molly Dyer: Stevie Thompson FRI Councillor Ellis: Stephen Tomlin FRI Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams FRI Writer: Lucy Catherine FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0783lqt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0783lqw (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0788bcq (Listen) FRI 10 Days, Episode 10 FRI FRI A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author FRI Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from FRI a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being FRI made or ruined, lives are at stake. FRI FRI Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and FRI the hard realities of living in London collide. FRI FRI Episode 10: FRI The riots and the political storm are over and order has FRI been restored - but at what cost to careers, parents and FRI children from all walks of London life? FRI FRI Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jasmine Hyde FRI Reader: Ben Onwukwe FRI Author: Gillian Slovo FRI Abridger: Eileen Horne FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI FRI 23:00 Woman's Hour b0788bcs (Listen) FRI Late Night Woman's Hour - Clothes FRI FRI Lauren Laverne and guests discuss clothes: what we wear and FRI what it means FRI FRI Producer: Luke Mulhall. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Lauren Laverne FRI Producer: Luke Mulhall FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0791b3c (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b0788bcv (Listen) FRI Russ and Louis - What's in a Name FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between prospective FRI parents about the weighty considerations required when FRI naming a baby. 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