The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
The Brexit referendum has led to a split in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. While the Secretary of State Elizabeth Truss is supporting the campaign to stay in the EU, the Farming Minister George Eustice says he's in favour of leaving. He explains to Anna Hill why he's backing the "out" campaign.
An organisation which has campaigned for affordable rural housing in Cumbria for the last thirty years will close next month. Caz Graham finds out why. Meanwhile Anna Hill asks rural housing expert Professor Mark Shucksmith of Newcastle University what the situation is like elsewhere in the UK.
Today the National Farmers Union's annual conference gets underway in Birmingham, the theme of which is the Future of British Farming. All this week we're asking what that might look like. In this programme Anna asks Phil Bicknell, the Head of Food and Farming at the NFU, to get his crystal ball out.
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about the British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Carrion Crow. The crow is defined in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language as "a large black bird that feeds upon the carcasses of beasts." Crows have always suggested an element of foreboding. They are arch-scavengers and black mobs of them crowd our rubbish tips but they're also birds we admire for their intelligence and adaptability.
News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
Dr Nick Lane is attempting to answer one of the hardest questions in science. How did life on earth begin? You might think that question had been solved by Darwin in the 19th century. He wrote that he thought life might have started on earth "in a warm little pond", where all the necessary ingredients: water, sunlight and nutrients combined in this "primordial soup" to create the very first biomolecule of life. Others - like Fred Hoyle - thought that life came to earth from elsewhere in space. But Nick Lane has different ideas of how, and where, it happened. The place in question was deep under the sea in hydrothermal vents. Amongst other research he carries out at University College London, he's running an experiment to try to recreate this moment.
Nick Lane had an unusual route to this point in his scientific career. For some years he left his research career to become a medical journalist and write popular books. A rare opportunity took him back into the laboratory.
Mark Lawson has a problem. He is writing a memoir but he's always had the habit, when writing or broadcasting, of avoiding the first person pronoun. This rather puts him at odds with modern culture. Journalists and presenters are urged to use the one-letter vertical word. Bloggers, Vloggers and Tweeters lay their lives on-line and autobiography is an ever more crowded literary form. So in his series of One to One, Mark takes the opportunity to discuss self-revelation with artists who - in various ways - have taken themselves as their subject-matter, starting with the writer and critic Adam Mars-Jones. Long admired for his fiction and criticism, Adam has just published a work of non-fiction, Kid Gloves, which describes the experience of becoming end-of-life carer to his father, a retired judge, Sir William Mars-Jones. Mark and Adam reflect on the honesty and self knowledge needed when writing about your own life.
Paris, City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow - the city of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully nonconforming.
In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that alternative metropolis, which has all but vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city, in the culture of France itself and, by extension, throughout the world.
He draws on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and flaneurs - whose research is matched only by the vividness of Sante's narration.
"Paris, a city so beautiful that people would rather be poor there than rich somewhere else." Guy Debord.
"This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest I've ever read about Paris. Ever. " Paul Auster.
Luc Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, he has been a teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. His publications include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and Folk Photography. He currently teaches creative writing and the history of photography at Bard College in New York State.
Wendy Cope is one of Britain's bestselling contemporary poets but she is also a prose writer and her most recent book is Life, Love and the Archers. She talks to Jane about performing, writing poetry, her latest book, and the role of the Poet Laureate.
A new report by the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group says women who are trafficked to the UK with their children are being systematically overlooked by the UK authorities.
Making A Murderer is the critically acclaimed Netflix TV documentary series that follows the trial of Steven Avery who wrongly served 18 years for rape but was then convicted of murder. Jane talks to the writers and directors of the show.
Jane talks to Lynn Nottage, 38th winner of the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn prize for women playwrights.
This week Radio 4 features classic feminist novels, Fear of Flying and Life and Loves of A She-Devil. We ask what makes a feminist novel today.
New radio dramatisation of Erica Jong's uninhibited 1973 feminist classic about female sexuality.
Isadora Wing has overcome her fear of flying to travel to Vienna with husband Bennett to attend a psychoanalysts' conference. Here she meets a charming Englishman called Adrian Goodlove. Could this be the guiltless, zipless sexual encounter she has fantasized about?
President Obama in his State of the Nation address in January 2016 announced a "Moonshot" effort to beat cancer. His vice-president Joe Biden is in charge of mission control, and for Biden, it's personal - his son Beau died from brain cancer last year at the age of 46. But there's a sense of déjà-vu about this new Moonshot - President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971.
More than 40 years later, clearly the war is still not won - but what has it achieved?
GP Dr Graham Easton tells the story of philanthropist Mary Lasker whose campaigning influenced Nixon to start his War on Cancer. He hears how the Cancer Plan brought in mathematicians and physicists who had worked on the Manhattan Project and for NASA to find cures for cancer. Curing cancer turned out to be a much harder problem than landing men on the moon.
Graham Easton looks back at the treatments available in the 1970s and asks if the War on Cancer lead to improved therapies.
In the last forty years the outlook for some cancers, such as childhood leukaemia and testicular cancer, has improved markedly, but would these developments have happened without Nixon's campaign?
Stuart Barr uncovers the colourful career of British composer and transgender pioneer, Angela Morley.
In 1972, Wally Stott's transition to Angela Morley made front page news. Wally was famous. He was composer for the Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour, and music director to stars like Frankie Vaughan and Shirley Bassey. "TV Music Man changes his sex" screamed the headlines. Where would Angela go from here? Stuart talks to Angela's friends and colleagues to discover how she made her mark in the music business, as a woman and a man. And he explores the special qualities of the music she wrote and arranged, from the famous 'Hancock' tuba theme to her work alongside John Williams on blockbusters like Star Wars and Superman.
Broadcaster and DJ Nihal owns a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, a breed that is often perceived as a 'dangerous dog', though they are legal.
In the first of his two part series for One to One, Nihal meets Jordan who does have two dogs that are banned under the '1991 Dangerous Dogs Act'.
Jordan's mixed pit-bull types were taken away from him by the police as they were deemed to be 'dangerous'. He tells Nihal why he fought to keep them and how he now wants to change people's attitude towards all bull breeds.
Call You & Yours today would like you to tell us your experience of maternity services in the UK. A review commissioned by NHS England today sets out what can be done to keep babies and mothers safe. The numbers of babies who die in England has fallen in recent years, but at more than 4 stillbirths per 1000 births, rates in England remain higher than in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - and higher than in other European countries, including Germany, Sweden and Spain.
Email the programme to tell us what happened to you. The address is Youandyours@bbc.co.uk. Or call 03700 100 444 after
The chief inspector of schools in England tells us there's a growing North / South divide in secondary education. We also hear from a leading Liverpool politician.
David Cameron says the vote on the EU is a far bigger decision than the general election. We talk to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers, who is campaigning for the UK to leave, about the impact on the economy and on Northern Ireland.
Hugh Sykes reports on the whether India's BJP government is doing enough to combat religious intolerance.
Professor Sunil Khilnani explores the life and legacy of the industrialist Jamsetji Tata, one of a series of remarkable individuals who have made India what it is today. Tata played a vitally important role in establishing India's manufacturing base and went on to create the conditions for the country's future industrial development. Tata companies now constitute around five per cent of India's gross domestic product from hotels to power generation and IT. In the days of empire, the British dreamed of 'making the world England'; Tata helped to make the world more Indian.
Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website.
Second of three new plays charting British feminism through three generations of women. By Lucy Catherine. Today's drama is the story of an ambitious young career woman, whose idealism is challenged when she encounters the seedier side of politics in the 1990s.
Emma is now in her twenties and, despite her unsettled childhood, has soared academically and is now a policy advisor to New Labour. She's on course to career success and, she believes, to changing the world. But when she catches the attention of senior party figure, Mac, she has to contend with regressive attitudes to women in the workplace.
Tom is joined by Professor Marjory Harper from the University of Aberdeen and Dr Elizabeth Shlala from Harvard.
With Syria in turmoil and its largest city battered, Tom Holland is joined by Philip Mansel and Professor Jerry Brotton to discover an age when this place was a cosmopolitan cornerstone of the Middle East.
Helen Castor treks west to find out how men and women tamed the wilderness of North America both on the ground and in popular culture. She talks to Dr Karen Jones from the University of Kent.
Social historian Juliet Gardiner shares her favourite year from history - 1936.
And Dr Catherine Fletcher from the University of Swansea discusses the new breed of "hashtag historians".
How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic Sweden to find out. Kiruna is gradually sliding into Europe's biggest iron ore mine. The city has to be rebuilt two miles away. That requires an extraordinary blend of planning, architecture, technology and stoicism. If anyone can do it then it's the Swedes.
We take it for granted that we can maintain our friendships and family relationships now in so many ways: phone, voicemail, email, text, instant message, Facebook, Skype.. but do we have any idea of the effects of these very different modes of communication? Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright look at research into their emotional impact.
Leslie Seltzer is Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has tested the differing effects of a hug, a phone call and a text between mothers and daughters.
Dr Mirca Madianou is Reader in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research is into mothers from the Philippines who've come to work in the UK and then try to look after their children back home by Skype. What works best for families living on different sides of the world?
Natalie Haynes and David Greig join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books.
Writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes reveals her love of the Classics through her choice of 'The Lost Books of the Odyssey' by Zachary Mason, which describes itself as 'forty-four variations on the story of Odysseus'. The eponymous hero, liar and storyteller has familiar and repeated encounters with the Cylops and the Sirens; he travels to Troy and back to Ithaca, but there's always a twist in the telling in this magical first book written by a computer scientist Mason.
David Greig is a playwright and the recently-appointed Artistic Director at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. He recommends 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again' by David Foster Wallace, a series of dazzling, clever and funny 'essays and arguments' about American life and culture.
Junior doctors in England have announced three further strikes after ministers said they would impose new contracts on them. The BMA says it will take government to court.
In his continuing quest for somewhere to live, Ed finds himself living in an empty phoneshop, the occupation of which the council hopes will encourage the stakeholders to engage with their creativity. Far from enticing people in to attend 'slam poetry events' Ed has other things on his mind when he and his ex-wife Janet decide to attend the funeral of an old friend - together. Their children are not happy at this prospect, and neither is Elgar when he's left at a cattery called 'Southpaws'.
Josh swiftly sorts the problem with the egg-mobile that Toby spotted yesterday. Toby tries to gather information from Josh about Pip's relationship, and Josh reports that she's pining over Matthew. The Fairbrothers invite Josh to help them move Lilian out of the Dower House, but he must revise.
Ruth scolds Josh for neglecting his revision. Pip's texting Matthew every detail of life at Brookfield, while the new cows are skittish at the milking. After several attempts, Ruth, Pip and Josh finally have some success with them. But how long is it going to take to milk them all?
Jennifer drives an anxious Phoebe to college for an exam. Jennifer and Lilian discuss the Fairbrothers, and Lilian gets the impression they're helping her move because they're short of money. Jenny lends a hand as well. Later, Lilian tells the Fairbothers about her arrangements with Justin, her new tenant and boss. Toby points out that Justin was the owner of a farm that went bust, which Lilian refutes. Lilian reminisces about her life and loves as the Dower House is emptied around her. She will be seventy next year. She feels that is "awfully late" to be making a fresh start.
Churchill's Secret is a feature-length ITV drama that examines a period of illness in Winston Churchill's life as prime minister in the 1950s. Political Biographer Sonia Purnell reviews it for us.
British artist Jonathan Yeo discusses his new portrait of Kevin Spacey as President Francis Underwood in the TV drama series House of Cards, as he unveils the painting at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC
Set in small town America, new film King Jack, follows a fifteen year old boy, troubled by bullies, and forced to look after his young cousin over a seemingly endless summer weekend. Tim Robey reviews this coming-of-age tale.
Clare Morrall talks about her latest novel When the Floods Came. The book is a departure for the previously Man Booker shortlisted writer, as it's a set in a dystopian Britain ravaged by disease and flooding.
Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe has died age 103. Matthew Sweet tells us how he made films like Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Italian Job and Raiders Of The Lost Ark so special.
It's estimated there are around 620,000 people in England with dementia. Prime minister David Cameron says fighting the disease is a personal priority and doctors in England have been encouraged to proactively identify people with early stage dementia.
The PM says that an early diagnosis allows families to prepare for the care of a relative, but others argue there's no treatment for such a diagnosis and no robust evidence to justify a process that might lead to harm. Deborah Cohen hears from doctors who are concerned the drive to raise diagnosis rates is leading to people being misdiagnosed.
The Government has also pledged millions of pounds to help make England "the best place in the world to undertake research into dementia and other neuro-degenerative diseases". Scientists leading the research say they are making progress to find tests which could identify people at risk from the disease and develop a cure. But other researchers say money is being wasted because current directions in drug development are following the same path as those of the past which have ended in failure.
A sheltered-accommodation block for blind people run by The Thomas Pocklington Trust is due to close. It's the third residential scheme that the charity has shut. We speak to the residents affected by the closure of Pocklington Court in Roehampton, south-west London, and ask the Deputy CEO of the charity, Keith Valentine, why they've made this decision and what will happen next.
Up to half a million people in the UK could have it, but it's a condition that hardly anybody has heard about: Charles Bonnet Syndrome.
It happens to people who are losing their sight through age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, diabetic eye problems or glaucoma. They see vivid and often frightening visual hallucinations and these images are soundless. Judith Potts' mother Esme was in her 90's when she eventually admitted to her daughter that she was seeing frightening images of goblins and Victorian children all around her. Judith had never heard of the condition and as she tells Dr Mark Porter, neither had any of the health professionals taking care of her mother. Shocked that there was so little awareness about something that is so common, she set up an awareness group, Esme's Umbrella. Dr Dominic Ffytche, Clinical Senior Lecturer at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry and an expert in visual hallucinations, tells Mark that a key area of research is why some people have Charles Bonnet Syndrome and others don't.
Co-proxamol, or Distalgesic as it's better known, was a common drug for mild to moderate pain in the 1990's. But a decade ago, a review by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) decided that it wasn't a good painkiller and it had very worrying side effects. Its licence was withdrawn and doctors were urged to switch patients onto different medication (although it could still be prescribed on a "named patient" basis). Dr Andrew Green, Chair of the Clinical and Prescribing arm of the GP committee of the British Medical Association tells Mark he's disturbed that nearly ten years after the licence was withdrawn, thousands of patients are still being prescribed co-proxamol at a high cost to the NHS while Bedfordshire GP Dr John Lockley defends continued and careful prescribing for a tiny number of patients who can't get relief from other medication.
In a week in which hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for more children to receive the Meningitis B vaccine, Dr Margaret McCartney talks to Mark about the tricky decisions involved in planning immunisation programmes.
Traditional bedside paper charts, which record and monitor patients' vital signs, have been replaced in Oxford hospitals with smart PC tablets. Clinical staff enter patients' blood pressure, heart rate and temperature on the tablet and the new "smart" system provides an early warning traffic light system, alerting them if there's a deterioration in the patient's condition. This means clinicians can prioritise care and another major bonus is that the same information is available, at the touch of a button, to medical staff across Oxford's hospitals. The project is called SEND - System for Electronic Notification and Documentation - and it's a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Mark goes to Oxford and with intensive care consultant and SEND Project Leader Dr Peter Watkinson, sees how the new paperless system is working.
President Obama says he has a plan for closing down the Guantanamo - we speak to William Lietzau, the Pentagon architect of the 'detention facility'. Also Charles Lister on the Syria truce, the story of the girl who wanted to be a boy and what do people in Grimsby make of the Sacha Baren Cohen film?
Picture: President Barack Obama speaks in the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais).
The new novel by Meg Rosoff, read by Rhashan Stone. It's the story of a young man, Jonathan Trefoil who - aided by his canine companions Dante the collie and Sissy the spaniel - is struggling to navigate the responsibilities of adulthood and the demands of his new life in New York.
After his breakdown at work, Jonathan wakes up in hospital to discover that he's unable to form coherent sentences, generating random text instead. Neurologists are baffled by his case and there's little they can do except recommend strict bed rest. Julie is left responsible for the dogs and, during one of their walks, has a fateful meeting with a tall dark stranger.
Sean Curran hears angry words from the foreign secretary at Russia's role in Syria. Why the police are cautious about giving apologies. And a Conservative calls for compassion over cuts.
WEDNESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2016
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b0713p0s)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 Book of the Week (b071x0gp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b0713p0v)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b0713p0x)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b0713p0z)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b0713p11)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b072jslc)
Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster, Anna Magnusson.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b071ftsn)
NFU Conference
Farming Today reports from the annual conference of the National Farmers Union. Charlotte Smith talks to the Secretary of State of the Environment about her opinions on a possible British exit from the EU, and finds out what farmers think of her views.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell.
WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03dx2qh)
Pied Wagtail
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Martin Hughes-Games presents the Pied Wagtail. In winter, pied wagtails can often be seen roosting in towns and cities in large flocks. By day, pied wagtails are often obvious in fields feeding on insects but they're equally at home on our streets gleaning prey from pavements and road surfaces.
WED 06:00 Today (b071ftsq)
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
WED 09:00 Midweek (b07179c0)
Janet Ellis, Nina Myskow, Charles Foster, Sarah Kendall
Libby Purves meets veterinarian and barrister Charles Foster; presenter and writer Janet Ellis; journalist Nina Myskow and comedian Sarah Kendall.
Sarah Kendall is an award-winning comedian and writer. Born in Newcastle, New South Wales in Australia, she is a regular cast member of Clare in the Community on BBC Radio 4 and a frequent guest on the Now Show. A Day in October, her new show, takes audiences back to a pool party she attended in 1990 with disastrous consequences. Sarah Kendall: A Day in October is at the Soho Theatre, London.
Charles Foster is a writer, traveller, veterinarian and barrister. A keen naturalist, his new book explores what it's like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox and a swift He lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a dirt hole and eating earth worms, he came face to face with shrimps as he lived like an otter and he spent hours curled up in a back garden in East London and rooting around bins like an urban fox. Being a Beast is published by Profile Books.
Janet Ellis is a television presenter, actor and writer who is best known for presenting the children's television programmes Blue Peter and Jigsaw. A former actor, she recently attended a creative writing course and her first novel, The Butcher's Hook, is a gothic thriller set in Georgian London. The Butcher's Hook is published by Two Roads.
Nina Myskow is a journalist and former editor of Jackie magazine which launched in 1964. She's editor-in-chief of Jackie the Musical which starts touring in March. Jackie the Musical revisits the heady days of the 1970s and 1980s, and tells the story of a 50-something divorcée who revisits her stash of well-thumbed Jackie magazines for the same reason she first read them nearly 40 years ago - advice on how best to navigate the opposite sex. Jackie the Musical previews at the Gardyne Theatre in Dundee before touring the UK.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
WED 09:45 Book of the Week (b071x0v1)
The Other Paris
Episode 3
Paris, City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow - the city of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully nonconforming.
In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that alternative metropolis, which has all but vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city, in the culture of France itself and, by extension, throughout the world.
He draws on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and flaneurs - whose research is matched only by the vividness of Sante's narration.
"Paris, a city so beautiful that people would rather be poor there than rich somewhere else." Guy Debord.
"This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest I've ever read about Paris. Ever. " Paul Auster.
Luc Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, he has been a teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. His publications include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and Folk Photography. He currently teaches creative writing and the history of photography at Bard College in New York State.
Writer: Luc Sante
Abridger: Pete Nichols
Reader: Simon Russell Beale
Producer: Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b071ftss)
The life of a dancer in today's Moulin Rouge
Many years ago, author Bee Rowlatt used to be a showgirl - a professional dancer in nightclubs. She takes her friend and mentor Debbie Gills to the Moulin Rouge to find out what life as a showgirl is like today.
Between one and four percent of dads develop depression in the first year of their child's life and it's even higher if their partner's experience post natal depression. Raj shares his experience and Dr Alain Gregoire, a Perinatal Psychiatrist looks at the causes and why men are less likely to ask for help. Plus a look at what's on offer to support new fathers.
Abigail Hollick, has been visiting various cities around the country compiling a series for us called 'Women in One'. She approaches women in the street and asks them personal questions about their love life, childhood, regrets and dream. Today we hear from the first woman she met when she spent some time in Abergavenny
An estimated 41,300 three year olds are missing out on their free early education according to the latest survey from he Family and Childcare Trust. Jenni talks to their e Director of Programmes and External Affairs, Ellen Broome about what more needs to be done to ensure every child has a place.
Presented by Jenni Murray
Producer Beverley Purcell.
WED 10:41 Riot Girls (b07179c2)
Fear of Flying
Episode 3
New dramatisation of Erica Jong's seminal 1973 novel about female sexuality.
Poet Isadora Wing is in Vienna, where she keeps travelling between the beds of her husband Bennett and her new lover, the charming Englishman, Adrian Goodlove. But can Adrian offer the perfect, guiltless, zipless sexual encounter she's always fantasized about?
CAST
Isadora Wing.....Julianna Jennings
Bennett Wing.....Kevin Shen
Adrian Goodlove.....Max Bennett
Isadora's mother.....Adie Allen
Marty.....Nick Underwood
Judy.....Nicola Ferguson
Dr Reuben.....Sargon Yelda
Dr Happe.....Brian Protheroe
Dramatised by Annie Caulfield
Directed by Emma Harding.
WED 10:55 The Listening Project (b07179c4)
Isobel and James - Memories of Mum
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between young siblings about their mother who died suddenly 5 years ago and the sometimes surprising things they love about their stepmother. Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
WED 11:00 Verdun - The Sacred Wound (b07179qw)
Loss and Legacy
How do you mark the sacrifice of so many? How do you live with the dead? No other battle so defined the French experience of the Great War as Verdun, which raged from February to October 1916, and didn't truly end until the war did. In the decades that followed both the voices of the veterans and a nation's mournful sense of sacrifice played out across the landscape of Verdun, most notably in its alarming and astonishing ossuary.
This great white tower, resembling a crusaders sword or a giant, bone white, I.C.B.M. filled with the remains of German & French dead, stands amidst the garden of memory that is the national cemetery. Yet the graves are unquiet. This was where Marshall Petain, saviour of Verdun, should have been buried but can never be. Both Petain and DeGaulle were marked by Verdun and their fates would be intertwined in the inter-war years. In the 1930s German and French veterans would meet and pledge no more war but such pledges were hollow promises cynically exploited by veteran trench soldier Adolf Hitler who would soon sacrifice his own troops in a battle often likened to Verdun, Stalingrad.
The battle and its memory have shifted in meaning over the decades, moving from national to trans-national and proving the most symbolic of staging grounds for amity and understanding between two old foes as they remade Europe after 1945.
David Reynolds stands in the shadow of the great Ossuary of Douaumont and journeys through a landscape of loss.
Producer: Mark Burman.
WED 11:30 Reluctant Persuaders (b06d2lz5)
Series 1
The Best A Man Can Get
Things are getting desperate for the staff of Hardacre's, London's worst advertising agency. The work isn't coming in and accounts chief Amanda Brook finds herself reduced to pleading for the business of old friend/nemesis, India.
Back at the office, hopeless creative team Joe and Teddy devise a campaign for an anti-aging cream for men. Worse, they must grapple with the most difficult and least glamorous form of advertising of all - radio work.
They find themselves unexpectedly assisted by creative director Rupert Hardacre who descends from on high at Amanda's instruction to give the little people the benefit of his creative wisdom. The only trouble is, he seems to have forgotten most of it. Fortunately, he wrote it all down in a book entitled Hardacre on Advertising and he sets out to find a copy for Joe and Teddy.
Rupert Hardacre ..... Nigel Havers
Amanda Brook ..... Josie Lawrence
Joe ..... Matthew Baynton
Teddy ..... Rasmus Hardiker
Director: Alan Nixon
Producer: Gordon Kennedy
An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015
WED 12:00 News Summary (b0713p13)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:04 One to One (b039px7s)
Carolyn Quinn speaks to Stephanie Slater
As a Radio 4 presenter, covering a range of stories everyday, Carolyn Quinn interviews people while the story is live but rarely gets the chance to find out what happened next.
For these editions of One to One, Carolyn wanted to find out what happens to individuals who've found themselves in the media spotlight and have had to live with intense, unsolicited scrutiny. How do they cope once the media caravan has moved on and they have to try to get on with their lives?
In this first interview, she speaks to Stephanie Slater, who survived a violent kidnapping in 1992. Michael Sams, later also convicted of murdering Julie Dart, held Stephanie for eight days. Following her release, she and her family were besieged by the media who camped in the field opposite her parents' house for 18 months. In this interview Carolyn finds out what impact the experience and subsequent media attention had on Stephanie as she attempted to come to terms with her ordeal, and rebuild her life.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
WED 12:15 You and Yours (b071fstt)
Cost of childcare, Seabass, Outlet shopping
New figures out today from the Family and Childcare Trust reveal that in ten local authorities in England there are only five childminders for every thousand children under five. Over the past five years, one in six child minders in England has left the profession and the cost of employing one has increased by a quarter. The government introduced childminder agencies in 2014, to try and encourage more people in to the profession, but to date the scheme hasn't taken off. It all means less choice for parents and contributes to the rising cost of childcare. We hear from parents, a newly registered childminder, and the Head of Research at the Family and Childcare Trust.
Stocks of wild Seabass are now so low that the Marine Conservation Society says we should stop buying and eating it. The European Commission has brought in emergency measures to curb commercial and recreational fishing of Seabass in the UK, but not everyone believes it'll solve the problem. Our reporter Shari Vahl travels to the coasts of Britain to investigate.
With Vodafone now the most complained about mobile operator in the UK, according the Ofcom, we look at the case of one customer who was charged £18,000 for one day of data roaming whilst in Moldova. Why is data roaming so expensive, and is there any more regulators and governments can do to bring down the cost?
PRODUCER: Alex Burton
PRESENTER: Winifred Robinson.
WED 12:57 Weather (b0713p15)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b071ftsv)
Is David Cameron's EU deal legally binding? Not according to his own Justice Secretary, Michael Gove. We get the view of one former Judge at the European Court of Justice.
In his first interview since the Prime Minister announced a renegotiation deal we speak to Lord Hill, the UK's EU Commissioner.
WED 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b0717b5l)
Vivekananda: Bring All Together
Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of Swami Vivekananda, a social and religious reformer who became India's first global guru, credited with introducing yoga to the west.
Vivekananda was a restless, baby-faced monk from Calcutta. And his image - arms defiantly folded, soft features hardened by a Napoleonic gaze - can be found all over that city today - on t-shirts, murals, posters and sculptures. It's a ubiquity that is testament to both his contemporary influence - and to the way his essential message has been transformed.
In his lifetime, Vivekananda was a reformer who insisted that Hinduism's moral force rested on its capacity to meet society's practical needs. In order to meet those needs Vivekananda established the Ramakrishna Mission, which had no precedent among Indian religious institutions, and continues all across the country as a dispenser of education, health and social welfare.
But despite his practical, critical, universalist thinking, Vivekananda has today become one of Hindu nationalism's leading spiritual lights.
Featuring Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president of the Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research.
Producer: Martin Williams
Executive Producer: Martin Smith.
WED 14:00 The Archers (b07178g9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Riot Girls (b0717pgp)
Katy
Third of three plays charting feminism through three generations of women. Set in 2015, Ella Hickson's play is the unflinching story of a young student's determination to make a stand on issues of consent and sexual violence. When traditional campaigning proves ineffective, she's tempted to compromise her own principles.
Directed by Emma Harding
Produced by Abigail le Fleming.
WED 15:00 Money Box (b071fstw)
Money Box Live: Self-Employment
Self-employment is at a record high, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
4.66m people work for themselves, making up 15% of the workforce.
Perhaps you're one of them.
Let us know what it's like to be self-employed. E mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Or ring 03 700 100 444 on Wednesday from
1pm.
Do you feel you get enough support, advice, protection from the State, financial institutions, the law?
A recent Government-commissioned report recommended extending state support to include starting or extending a family, increasing the flexibility and availability of mortgages, pensions and insurance, as well as introducing clarity over a legal definition of 'self-employed'. What do you think?
And what does the boom in self-employment say about our economy or how we value our workers? Is it sustainable? Get in touch.
Presenter: Ruth Alexander
Producer: Alex Lewis
Editor: Andrew Smith.
WED 15:30 Inside Health (b071fs79)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b0717b5n)
Refusing adulthood, How young people feel about being poor
Refusing adulthood. Laurie Taylor talks to Susan Neiman, the American moral philosopher, who asks, if and why, some people refuse to grow up. She argues that being an adult allows the opportunity for agency and independence rather than signalling decline. Yet a modern tendency to idolise youth prevents us from seeing the rewards of maturity. They're joined by the writer, Michael Bywater, who wonders if we inhabit a culture of creeping infantilisation.
Also, how children and young people feel about being poor. Rys Farthing, social policy researcher, explores how young people living in low-income neighbourhoods feel about their own lives, using data generated as part of a participatory policy project with five groups of young people, aged 11-21.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
WED 16:30 The Media Show (b071fsh1)
Press Awards women nominees, Lord Best on BBC inquiry, Trinity Mirror's The New Day
The shortlist for the Press Awards 2015 has been unveiled and includes just 20 women, among a total of 114 journalists. The lack of women shortlisted has caused anger amongst some journalists - in response, an alternative awards ceremony 'Words By Women' has been set up, with Kay Burley of Sky News and Lisa Markwell, Editor of the Independent on Sunday on the judging panel. Joining Steve to discuss the representation and recognition of women in journalism are Marie Le Conte, journalist & co-founder of the awards, plus judge columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, and Bob Satchwell, Executive Director of the Society of Editors & the Press Awards Chair of Judges.
Publisher Trinity Mirror is launching a new 'optimistic' and 'politically neutral' national newspaper next week. 'The New Day' will be an entirely new paper, not a sister-title or 'Daily Mirror-light' - making it the first standalone newspaper to be launched for around 30 years. Steve Hewlett talks to editor Alison Phillips about the editorial slant of the publication and how they hope to reverse the declines other papers are facing.
The House of Lords Communications Committee says the scale and scope of the BBC should not be cut back. The report, 'Reith not Revolution' - the title of which refers to Lord Reith, whose principles for broadcasting are at the heart of the corporation - follows an eight month inquiry. Steve Hewlett talks to cross party chair of the Committee Lord Best about the findings, the recommendations, and suggested changes the BBC could make.
Producer: Katy Takatsuki.
WED 17:00 PM (b071g8x0)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b0713p17)
Rotherham gang jailed for abusing teenage girls.
WED 18:30 Chain Reaction (b0717cpt)
Series 11
Ed Byrne interviews Al Murray
Two heavyweights of stand-up are in conversation as Ed Byrne interviews Al Murray.
Ed tackles Al on a vast array of topics from Thackeray's attitude to the Irish to the thorny issue of offence in comedy via how best to talk to McFly.
Ed Byrne is an Irish stand-up comedian and actor who has been a favourite on the international comedy scene for 20 years. His celebrated observational routines made him a leading light of the UK stand-up circuit in the mid nineties and he went on to tour internationally, playing festivals and theatres across the world. In 1998 he was nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival alongside eventual winner Tommy Tiernan, Peter Kay and Al Murray.
After an early foray into stand-up as a character called 'The Murderer', Al Murray created his famous Pub Landlord character in the mid nineties as part of a touring show with Harry Hill. The Pub Landlord went on to tour venues and festivals worldwide before making his own chat show and sitcom for Sky. Outside of the Pub Landlord, Al is well known as a presenter of history documentaries and stood against Nigel Farage in South Thanet during the 2015 UK General Election.
Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show where this week's interviewee becomes next week's interviewer.
Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2016.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b0717cpw)
Eddie's building a shepherd's hut for Lynda. He insists to Clarrie that it isn't wonky, it's rustic. Ed's delighted that the Grundys are back at Grange Farm. However, he is worried that he is not allowed to take cattle on, due to his tenancy agreement. Adam encourages him to talk to Oliver about the terms of their tenancy. Johnny talks to Adam about his love of modern farming, which reminds Adam of a certain someone.
Ursula and Helen assess the midwife they met yesterday, whose advice seemed rather out-dated to Helen. Ursula suggests going back to basics at the birth. She and Rob think the baby should be born at home. Although Ursula defends the NHS, she reveals she does not like hospital births because her elder son nearly died. By contrast, she describes having Rob at home as "joyful". Henry's boisterous when he gets in from school, which takes Helen aback. It's down to the chocolate Ursula keeps giving him. Helen's confused because the midwives are saying one thing about the birth, and Ursula another. Rob says that Helen must do what she wants to do.
WED 19:15 Front Row (b071fsty)
Grimsby, Dominic Dromgoole, Poems that Make Grown Women Cry
Sacha Baron Cohen plays a football hooligan and Mark Strong his brother, a top spy, in the new action comedy film Grimsby. Quentin Cooper reviews.
Shakespeare's Globe's outgoing artistic director Dominic Dromgoole looks back over his tenure and discusses his final production, The Tempest.
After Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, Anthony Holden has now collected Poems That Make Grown Women Cry. In it, women from various walks of life select poems that move them to tears, and explain why. Holden discusses the similarities and differences between the two volumes, and is joined by Joan Bakewell and Elif Shafak who reveal their choices.
Mick Herron discusses his new novel Real Tigers, a thriller which takes place behind the scenes at Britain's Security Service.
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
WED 19:45 Riot Girls (b07179c2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:41 today]
WED 20:00 Moral Maze (b0717cpy)
Who Owns Culture?
It may not have the same impact as the Elgin Marbles, but a slightly battered bronze statue of a cockerel has re-ignited a row that has potentially profound implications for our museums and opens a Pandora's Box of moral dilemmas. The statue in question sits in the dining hall of Jesus College Cambridge, but it was originally from the Benin Empire, now part of modern-day Nigeria. It was one of hundreds of artworks taken in a punitive British naval expedition in 1897 that brought the empire to an end. In the same way that Greece has pursued the return of the Elgin marbles, Nigeria has repeatedly called for all the Benin bronzes - which it says are part of its cultural heritage - to be repatriated. The students at Jesus agree with them and are demanding the cockerel be returned. But to whom? There are dozens of high profile campaigns around the world to repatriate cultural artefacts, but the legal issue of rightful ownership is complex and made more so by the value of the objects in question. Does the fact that many of the finest treasures in our museums were acquired during the height of our imperial history mean we're duty bound to return them? If we accept the principle that art looted by the Nazi's should be returned, why not, for example, the Benin Bronzes? Artefacts like the Elgin Marbles are important because they are part of the story or humanity itself. Can any one country claim ownership over that? Would artefacts that have been returned to their original setting take on a new and more authentic cultural meaning that we in the West may not be able to understand, but which is nonetheless important to those who claim ownership? Should repatriation be part of a wider cultural enterprise to re-write our national and imperialistic historical narrative? Chaired by Michael Buerk with Giles Fraser, Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips and Michael Portillo. Witnesses are Dr Tiffany Jenkins, Prof Constantine Sandis, Mark Hudson and Andrew Dismore.
WED 20:45 Lent Talks (b0717cq0)
The City
The Lent Talks are a series of essays on the different perspectives of the passion story. The location for this week's "Lent in the Landscape" talk is the iconic brick-built Victorian Gothic "All Saints Church" just behind Oxford Street in London. Maxwell reflects on Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem and his confrontation at the Temple. Producer: Amanda Hancox.
WED 21:00 Costing the Earth (b0714nhy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
15:30 on Tuesday]
WED 21:30 Midweek (b07179c0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b071fsh3)
Exclusive: 250,000 people 'at risk' of losing money in workplace pensions
World Tonight investigation into workplace pensions: One expert tells us that a quarter of a million people could lose their hard earned cash.
Bahrain's candidate for FIFA Presidency is mired in a human rights scandal ahead of Friday's vote
and why an increasing number of Asian families are using marriage detectives.
(Picture: Farmer Paul Rinder, worried about the workplace pension scheme. Credit - BBC).
WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b0717cq2)
Jonathan Unleashed
Episode 8
The new novel by Meg Rosoff, read by Rhashan Stone. It's the story of a young man, Jonathan Trefoil who - aided by his canine companions Dante the collie and Sissy the spaniel - is struggling to navigate the responsibilities of adulthood and the demands of his new life in New York.
Jonathan and Julie's wedding day arrives. With her employer Bridal-360 organising everything (including live-streaming the ceremony to an audience of 100,000 viewers) and Jonathan still unable to form coherent sentences, what could possibly go wrong?
Read by Rhashan Stone.
Written by Meg Rosoff.
Abridged by David Jackson Young.
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
WED 23:00 The Literary Adventures of Mr Brown (b0717dlt)
Episode 1
Imagine if London's genteel literary scene had a bit more swag and a gangsta's lean. You've just imagined The Literary Adventures of Mr. Brown.
With the help of his naively affable intern, Charlie, the heroic, absurd and frankly bad-ass Kurtis Brown fights for his clients in London's entertainment industry.
When you need your fights fought and your books bought, who are you going to call? The best damn literary agent in the world, Kurtis Brown. He'll solve all your problems...for 15%.
Written and performed by Chris Gau and Mike Orton-Toliver.
Performer: Lola-Rose Maxwell
Producer: Zoe Rocha
Executive Producer: Ralf Little
A Little Rock production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2016.
WED 23:15 Nurse (b03yqcx7)
Series 1
Episode 6
A new series starring Paul Whitehouse and Esther Coles, with Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Day, Cecilia Noble and Marcia Warren.
The series follows Elizabeth, a Community Psychiatric Nurse in her forties, into the homes of her patients (or Service Users in today's jargon). It recounts their humorous, sad and often bewildering daily interactions with the nurse, whose job is to assess their progress, dispense their medication and offer comfort and support.
Compassionate and caring, Elizabeth is aware that she cannot cure her patients, only help them manage their various conditions. She visits the following characters throughout the series:
Lorrie and Maurice: Lorrie, in her fifties, is of Caribbean descent and has schizophrenia. Lorrie's life is made tolerable by her unshakeable faith in Jesus, and Maurice, who has a crush on her and wants to do all he can to help. So much so that he ends up getting on everyone's nerves.
Billy: Billy feels safer in jail than outside, a state of affairs the nurse is trying to rectify. She is hampered by the ubiquitous presence of Billy's mate, Tony.
Graham: in his forties, is morbidly obese due to an eating disorder. Matters aren't helped by his mum 'treating' him to sugary and fatty snacks at all times.
Ray: is bipolar and a rock and roll survivor from the Sixties. It is not clear how much of his 'fame' is simply a product of his imagination.
Phyllis: in her seventies, has Alzheimer's. She is sweet, charming and exasperating. Her son Gary does his best but if he has to hear 'I danced for the Queen Mum once' one more time he will explode.
Herbert is an old school gentleman in his late Seventies. Herbert corresponds with many great literary figures unconcerned that they are, for the most part, dead.
Nurse is written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings, who have collaborated many time in the past, including on The Fast Show, Down the Line and Happiness.
Written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with additional material from Esther Coles
Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Tilusha Ghelani
A Down the Line production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 23:30 Today in Parliament (b071gc7y)
Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as Prime Minister's Question Time turns into a row about mothers. MPs and Peers complain that the financial deal between the UK and Scottish Parliaments is unfair to the rest of the UK. And officials tell a Commons Committee that corruption isn't rife in tennis. Editor: Rachel Byrne.
THURSDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2016
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b0713p2h)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Book of the Week (b071x0v1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b0713p2k)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b0713p2m)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b0713p2p)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b0713p2r)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b072nlk2)
Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster, Anna Magnusson.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b071fxc4)
The Battle Against Slugs
This morning we're looking at the battle against slugs - the scourge of farmers and gardeners across Britain. It's estimated that the humble slug munches its way through a hundred million pounds of crops every year. There are two battle fronts in the fight against the slug. In Eastern England, Anglian Water is paying farmers to use a new kind of slug killer which causes less pollution in the company's drinking water reservoirs and in Shropshire, scientists are fitting slugs with micro trackers to plot their every move.
This week we're looking at the future of farming and we hear about a new eighty million pound research centre that's opening in 2018 in Norwich. It will concentrate on new innovations in crops and food.
We also report from the National Farmers' Union Conference in Birmingham where Pembrokeshire farmer Meurig Raymond was re-elected as president. He faces another testing time in office as farmers tell us about the challenges that lie ahead. As well as fears over the 'in or out' EU Referendum, farmers are also worried about the prices of milk and grain, the future for Britain's young farmers and the chances of survival for farmers whose businesses are under pressure.
Presenter: Charlotte Smith
Producer: Sybil Ruscoe.
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03k5bnl)
Mute Swan
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Chris Packham presents the Mute Swan. Mute Swans are deeply embedded in our culture. They are unique among British birds because the Crown retains the rights of ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water. Since the 15th century, an annual census of mute swans has been held annually on the River Thames.
THU 06:00 Today (b071fxc6)
News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (b0717j1r)
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene is one of the best-known figures in the Bible and has been a frequent inspiration to artists and writers over the last 2000 years. According to the New Testament, she was at the foot of the cross when Jesus was crucified and was one of the first people to see Jesus after the resurrection. However, her identity has provoked a large amount of debate and in the Western Church she soon became conflated with two other figures mentioned in the Bible, a repentant sinner and Mary of Bethany. Texts discovered in the mid-20th century provoked controversy and raised further questions about the nature of her relations with Jesus.
With:
Joanne Anderson
Lecturer in Art History at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Eamon Duffy
Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College
Joan Taylor
Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King's College London
Producer: Victoria Brignell.
THU 09:45 Book of the Week (b071x1vw)
The Other Paris
Episode 4
Paris, City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow - the city of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully nonconforming.
In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that alternative metropolis, which has all but vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city, in the culture of France itself and, by extension, throughout the world.
He draws on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and flaneurs - whose research is matched only by the vividness of Sante's narration.
"Paris, a city so beautiful that people would rather be poor there than rich somewhere else." Guy Debord.
"This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest I've ever read about Paris. Ever. " Paul Auster.
Luc Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, he has been a teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. His publications include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and Folk Photography. He currently teaches creative writing and the history of photography at Bard College in New York State.
Writer: Luc Sante
Abridger: Pete Nichols
Reader: Simon Russell Beale
Producer: Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b0717gdv)
Jill Murphy; The Hemsley Sisters
2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the classic children's picture book, Five Minutes Peace by Jill Murphy. The book introduces us to a family of elephants and Mrs Large longs for a moment of quiet to read the paper in the bath. It's sold over 5 million copies worldwide and been translated into 19 languages.
Annual figures released today are expected to show a rise in the numbers of those sleeping rough. New research from the homeless charity St Mungo's looks at access to mental health support for those sleeping in the streets. They say women who are living rough are more likely than men to need support for mental health problems, and the support services available are very poor. Petra Salva from St Mungo's and Diane Cosstick from Centrepoint UK look at what lies behind this new information.
The Hemsley sisters, Jasmine and Melissa, Cook the Perfect Huevos Rancheros. Hemsley + Hemsley create recipes free of gluten, grain and sugar. Their approach to food encourages people to eat healthily and live more energised lives.
Wetting the bed can be very distressing for children and parents but it's common for five, six and seven year olds not to be dry at night. A Woman's Hour listener, talks about her son. Dry during the day from two years old but now six still wets the bed at night. Brenda Cheer a specialist continence nurse from ERIC the children's bowel and bladder charity explains the causes of night time bed wetting & how parents can help?
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Kirsty Starkey.
THU 10:45 Riot Girls (b0717gdx)
Fear of Flying
Episode 4
The radio premiere of Erica Jong's exuberantly uninhibited novel about a young woman's pursuit of the perfect, guiltless, zipless sexual encounter.
It's decision time. Will Isadora go back to New York with her husband, Bennett, or will she take off around Europe with her new lover, charming Englishman, Adrian Goodlove?
Dramatised by Annie Caulfield
Directed by Emma Harding.
THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent (b0713p2t)
Turkey Points the Finger
The stories behind the headlines. In this edition, we hear from Turkey, which is unhappy at US support for Kurdish fighters in Syria, who combat so-called Islamic State there, as Turkey fears the Syrian Kurds might make common cause with the Turkish Kurds. The complexities of the war in Syria are becoming mingled with those of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. Sri Lanka suffered almost 30 years of civil war, and many an autocratic regime, yet now the country seems set on a path of reconciliation. But will a former President and his supporters try and scupper it? In Ethiopia, our correspondent faints at the sight of eyelid surgery - performed on sufferers of an infection that risks turning them blind. The Galapagos islands are home to wondrous wildlife, but there are fears that this year's seal pups might not survive the effects of the El Nino phenomenon. And Detroit, once known for its motors and recent bankruptcy, is now reinventing itself as a place that makes bicycles, and attracts crowds of hipsters.
THU 11:30 The Art of Adultery (b0717gdz)
For centuries, popular culture has been enthralled by infidelity, moving from the ancient tales of Helen of Troy and Medea through to the popularity of modern day dramas like 'The Affair' and 'Doctor Foster'; along the way, few artists of note seem to have been able to avoid its dramatic appeal, whether Chaucer in Miller's Tale, Shakespeare in 'Othello' or Tolstoy in 'Anna Karenina' and 'War and Peace'. In 'The Art of Adultery', Natalie Haynes sets out to find out what the nature of that appeal might be, and also considers whether the way the basic story of unfaithful partners tells us anything about the times and places from where the particular stories are born. Along the way, she meets author Julian Barnes to talk about his own novel 'Talking it Over' as well as attitudes to infidelity in 19th century France; she visits Tate Britain to find out how attitudes on this side of the Channel were changing during the same period; filmaker Jane Gillooly talks about her documentary 'Suitcase of Love and Shame' featuring recordings made by a straying couple for each other in 1960s America, and hears from novelist Stella Duffy about how recent changes in attitudes have affected how gay and lesbian literature has tackled the subject.
THU 12:00 News Summary (b0713p2w)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:04 One to One (b03b0wml)
Carolyn Quinn speaks to Gillian Duffy
As a Radio 4 presenter, covering a range of stories everyday, Carolyn Quinn interviews people while the story is live but rarely gets the chance to find out what happened next.
For these editions of One to One, Carolyn wanted to find out what happens to individuals who've found themselves in the media spotlight and have had to live with intense, unsolicited scrutiny. How do they cope once the media caravan has moved on and they have to try to get on with their lives?.
In this, her second interview, Carolyn hears from the woman who hit the headlines during the general election campaign of 2010 when Gordon Brown infamously called her a "bigoted woman". That remark, and the subsequent apology from the then Prime Minister, made Gillian Duffy a household name. Three years on, Carolyn Quinn talks to Gillian Duffy to find out how she dealt with persistent doorstepping newshounds, how she regards the experience now and whether her relationship with the Labour party survived the experience.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
THU 12:15 You and Yours (b071fxc8)
Care home fees, Fast cars, Scottish tea
A charity for older people, Independent Age, says many families are paying over the odds for their relative's care home, because local authorities are flouting new legislation. The rules, brought in last year under the Care Act, meant that families who were eligible for local authority funded care should not have to pay extra, when their relative's care needs change. The charity says nearly half of councils in England who answered a Freedom of Information request aren't complying with the changes. As a result, some families are being charged fees to pay for basic care, that should be funded by their local authority.
The father of a young woman who was killed by a car which had reached speeds of over 100 mph, tells us that the car industry advertises cars in a way that encourages them to be driven too fast. He's calling for a ban on car adverts that promote speed and power, and has told MPs that high performance cars designed for racing should not be allowed on public roads.
In Britain we spent more than £650m on tea last year, most of it produced in China and India. But if you fancy an alternative cuppa, how about tea grown in Scotland? Some of the newest commercial tea plantations are to be found in Scotland and there's now even a Scottish Tea Growers Association.
Producer: Jonathan Hallewell
Presenter: Winifred Robinson.
THU 12:57 Weather (b0713p2y)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b071fxcb)
Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney.
THU 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b0717gf1)
Annie Besant: An Indian Tomtom
Sunil Khilnani explores the journey of Annie Besant, from late Victorian campaigner and social reformer in England to leader of India's Congress Party.
Possessed of a self-belief some thought inappropriate for a woman, Annie Besant's struggle against convention would make her an object of ridicule to many of her compatriots. So she escaped them: embarking on a life that would ultimately stretch across three continents and leave a mark on each of them
She became a polemicist for an array of ideas that challenged the complacencies of the Victorian age: atheism, the rights of workers and of women, birth control, free speech, Fabian socialism, Irish Home Rule. She became the first woman to study for a science degree at University College, London. She organized an infamous match girls strike. She advocated for more women in local government.
By the time she was forty, critics were calling her "Red Annie" and admirers were calling her one of the most remarkable women in nineteenth-century Britain.
By the time she had reached eighty, she had become one of the most remarkable women in twentieth-century India.
Producer: Martin Williams
Executive Producer: Martin Smith
Original music composed by Talvin Singh.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b0717cpw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b06fpbxf)
Cuttin' It
Charlene James' multi award-winning drama set in South London.
Winner of 'Best Single Drama' in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2016, winner of the Alfred Fagon Award for 'Best Play' and the George Devine Award for 'Most Promising Playwright' in 2015.
Two Somali teenagers, Muna and Iqra, go to the same school. They are from the same place but they are strangers; strangers who share a secret embedded in their culture.
Producer/Director ..... Jessica Brown.
THU 15:00 Ramblings (b0717j1t)
Series 32
Loughrigg Fell - Simon Ingram
Clare Balding explores Loughrigg Fell, in Cumbria with the writer and journalist, Simon Ingram. With all the passion of a convert, he explains to Clare how he became bitten by the mountain climbing bug and why he wants to pass on his obsession to anyone who'll listen. In the space of a morning they are hit with torrential rain and howling winds but nothing deters them from their walk and Simon also explains how to stay safe while enjoying the mountains of Britain, no matter what the weather.
Producer Lucy Lunt.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b0713rtk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:54 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Open Book (b0713vvw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b0717j1w)
The Oscars, A video shop in Greenland
With Antonia Quirke.
Clare Binns and Tim Robey assess the runners and riders in this year's Academy Awards
Antonia talks to Nikolene, an Inuit in Greenland, about why her local video shop is still popular, especially in Winter, and hears from Simon Brzeskwinski, whose decision to close his video shop, Video City, in Notting Hill led to very public displays of grief.
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b0713p30)
UK science and the EU, Sex of organs, Artificial colon, Gorillas call when eating
Britain faces a referendum on whether to leave Europe. Science, and scientists, often cross borders in collaborations, so what would the implications be for a British exit from the EU? The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee have an ongoing inquiry into how EU membership influences British science. Inside Science condenses the pertinent points.
The stem cells that make up our organs 'know' whether they are 'male' or 'female', and that this sexual identity could influence how they grow and behave. Dr Irene Miguel-Aliaga, at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre at Imperial College London, wanted to ask a very basic question: whether it is just the cells of the sex organs of a fully developed organism that 'know' their sexual identity, or whether this is true of cells in other organs too - and whether that matters. It was previously thought that non-reproductive organs are the same in both sexes, and function differently because of the differences in circulating hormones, but her new research suggests that cells know their sex.
At Birmingham University, chemical engineers have built a working prototype of an artificial human colon, the first of its kind. The colon does the last bit of moving your food out of your body, mixing it, squeezing the last few nutrients and excess water out of it. The team want to use it to measure drug delivery to the colon.
Talking with your mouth full is an unattractive trait, but for other, non-human, great apes it is a normal part of meal time. The noises recorded by a team at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology are from the silverback Western lowland Gorilla. Primatologist Eva Luef explains that this humming and singing during meal time is a way of signalling without wasting valuable eating time.
THU 17:00 PM (b071g8yh)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b0713p32)
Inquiry says BBC failings allowed abuse by Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall to go undetected
THU 18:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On (b073j5cg)
Series 1
Hillwalking with Muriel Gray
Susan Calman is the least relaxed person she knows. She has no down time, no hobbies (unless you count dressing up your cats in silly outfits) and her idea of relaxation is to play Grand Theft Auto, an hour into which she is in a murderous rage with sky high blood pressure. Her wife had to threaten to divorce her to make her go on holiday last year. Her first for four years. But she's been told by the same long-suffering wife, that unless she finds a way to switch off, and soon, she's going to be unbearable.
So Susan is looking at her options to try and immerse herself in the pursuits that her friends find relaxing, to find her inner zen and outer tranquillity. Can she ditch the old Susan Calman and attempt to find the new Susan Calm?
For the first attempt, Susan tries to learn how to unwind, by going hillwalking with Muriel Gray.
Keep Calman Carry On is an audience stand up show in which Susan reports on how successful she's been - both at relaxing and at the pursuit itself - as well as playing in and discussing a handful of illustrative clips from her efforts. It's an attempt to find out how people find solace or sanctuary in these worlds and how Susan can negotiate her own place in them.
Producer: Lyndsay Fenner.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2016.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b0717j20)
Tony helps Johnny out with some last-minute revision before his Level 2 farming exam. Later, Johnny returns having passed, so it's onwards and upwards to Level 3!
Tom minds the shop alone because Rob, Helen and Henry have had another disturbed night. Pat tells Tom that Helen and Kirsty have seemingly patched things up. Although, Helen didn't return Kirsty's call on Sunday. They wonder if Ursula forgot to pass on the message. Rob apologises, telling Tom that Henry has been boisterous with fragile, pregnant Helen. Rob also reports that Henry is feeling neglected because of the new baby.
Pat cooks a roast for the family to mark Tom's birthday. Helen says Ursula has been a huge help, but she does wish she would stop hyping Henry up on chocolate. Rob turns up with the scan photo, pointing out that Helen forgot to bring it. Pat is surprised that, after the pre-eclampsia, Helen has decided to give birth at home. Rob says they talked it through and this is their decision. During the meal, Helen starts sobbing and rushes out. Rob says he will follow her but Tom insists that he goes instead. They talk about John - it is eighteen years since he died. Tom tells Helen that if she ever needs to talk, he is here.
THU 19:15 Front Row (b071fxcd)
The Maids, Tim Parks, Shetland weaving
Kirsty Lang talks to actresses Uzo Aduba, Laura Carmichael and Zawe Ashton, who are starring in Jean Genet's play The Maids.
Tim Parks discusses his new novel Thomas and Mary - A Love Story, about a middle aged couple going through a difficult time in their relationship.
Lois Walpole is an artist who has gathered nets and ropes washed up onto the shores of Shetland and woven them into baskets and sculptures for her new exhibition at Shetland Museum in Lerwick.
THU 19:45 Riot Girls (b0717gdx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
THU 20:00 The Report (b0717j22)
Jimmy Savile and the BBC
How did Jimmy Savile get away with it when so many people appear to have known so much?
Media and Arts Correspondent David Sillito tracks down former presenters, producers and BBC executives who worked with Savile. On the day that the Dame Janet Smith Review is published, some speak publicly for the first time and reveal a shocking list of missed warning signs.
Producers: Steven Wright
Researcher: Kirsteen Knight
You can find details of organisations which offer advice and support with sexual abuse by visiting bbc.co.uk/actionline.
THU 20:30 The Bottom Line (b0717j24)
Now We Are Ten
The Bottom Line first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2006. At the time, Tony Blair was Prime Minister, interest rates were 4.5%, petrol was 90 pence a litre and a first class stamp cost 32p (half today's price). In a special edition, to mark ten years since the programme came on air, Evan Davis and guests discuss some of the big changes that have happened in the past decade, including: the global recession, record high and record low oil prices, a technology boom and China's extraordinary economic growth. How have businesses adapted to the changing world?
Guests:
Nicola Horlick, CEO, Money & Co
Sir Ian Cheshire, Chairman, Debenhams
Nicola Shaw, CEO, HS1
Ken Olisa, Founder and Chairman, Restoration Partners
Producer: Sally Abrahams.
THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (b0713p30)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (b0717j1r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b071fxcg)
Row over Europe's migrant crisis
Will the influx of refugees change how people vote in the UK referendum? Image: Migrants arriving in Greece. Picture credit: Getty.
THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b0717j26)
Jonathan Unleashed
Episode 9
The new novel by Meg Rosoff, author of the bestselling "How I Live Now". It's the story of a young man, Jonathan Trefoil who - assisted by his canine companions Dante the collie and Sissy the spaniel - is struggling to navigate the responsibilities of adulthood and the demands of his new life in New York.
Cured of his speech problems after being jilted at the altar by Julie, Jonathan is ready to return to work at Comrade - despite the misgivings of his friend Max and work colleague Greeley.
Read by Rhashan Stone.
Written by Meg Rosoff.
Abridged by David Jackson Young.
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
THU 23:00 Talking to Strangers (b0717j28)
Episode 4
Comic monologues in which a range of characters find themselves engaging in that most un-British of activities: talking to a stranger.
Each piece is a character study: funny, frank, absurd, moving... Characters include a sex councillor who loves to draw, a spy who loves to share, a woman who likes to help too much ('I'm a serial helpist...'), a frustrated falconer, and a cheater who has to call her cheatee the morning after. And in this show, the listener themselves 'plays' the silent stranger in the piece...
Written and performed by Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan.
With guest stars including Emma Thompson, Olivia Coleman, Jessica Hynes, Steve Evets, Sinead Matthews and Joel Fry.
Producer: Sam Bryan
A BBC Comedy Production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2016.
THU 23:30 Today in Parliament (b0717j2b)
Sean Curran reports from Westminster as MPs reveal where they stand in the European referendum debate, while they welcome moves to claim EU funds to help areas hit by flooding.
The Government defends its decision to block councils from boycotting Israeli goods, action is urged over litter and the Commons Speaker warns MPs about their behaviour.
FRIDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2016
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b0713p40)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Book of the Week (b071x1vw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b0713p42)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b0713p44)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b0713p46)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b0713p48)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b072rsrs)
Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster, Anna Magnusson.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b071fqfn)
Farm Safety, Rural Broadband, Pasta made from Crickets!
Dozens of people die every year while working on farms in the UK, with thousands more injured. Farming remains one of the most dangerous occupations in the country, despite many initiatives to try and make a difference. Now a hands-on course is preparing the farmers of the future for possible accidents they might encounter.
The Rural Services Network gives its reaction to Ofcom's decision to force BT to open up its cable network to competition. Will it make a real difference to rural areas where broadband is slow or non-existent?
And would you eat pasta made not from flour but from ground-up crickets? We hear about a new product being marketed by a company based in Thailand.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell.
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b01sbyj8)
Tawny Owl
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David Attenborough presents young Tawny Owls. Most of us know the "hoot" and "too-wit" of Tawny Owls but might be puzzled if we heard wheezing in the woods, the sound of the young.
FRI 06:00 Today (b0717jsl)
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b0713rtr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Book of the Week (b071x1yy)
The Other Paris
Episode 5
Paris, City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow - the city of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully nonconforming.
In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that alternative metropolis, which has all but vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city, in the culture of France itself and, by extension, throughout the world.
He draws on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and flaneurs - whose research is matched only by the vividness of Sante's narration.
"Paris, a city so beautiful that people would rather be poor there than rich somewhere else." Guy Debord.
"This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest I've ever read about Paris. Ever. " Paul Auster.
Luc Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, he has been a teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. His publications include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and Folk Photography. He currently teaches creative writing and the history of photography at Bard College in New York State.
Writer: Luc Sante
Abridger: Pete Nichols
Reader: Simon Russell Beale
Producer: Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b071fnw4)
Lindsay Duncan; The Savile Review; Aoife Duffin
Lindsay Duncan joins Jenni to discuss her role as Clementine Churchill in a new TV drama.
Jimmy Savile Review. Following the publication of Dame Janet Smith's review into the BBC's culture and practices during the Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall years we hear the response from a Savile survivor and from Nicole Westmarland Professor of Criminology at Durham University. Why is it so difficult to report abuse in large organisations like the BBC, what is the impact of a "macho culture" identified by Dame Janet Smith and what lessons can be learned?
Do you have just too much to do? Do you live in a blur of meetings, deadlines and appointments? In an extract from Late Night Woman's Hour to be broadcast tonight we hear about the drastic measures taken by two women to gain control of their lives.
And the actor Aoife Duffin currently performing in a Girl is A Half-formed Thing at the Young Vic.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Caroline Donne.
FRI 10:45 Riot Girls (b0717jsn)
Fear of Flying
Episode 5
Erica Jong's frank and funny 1973 novel about female sexuality.
Isadora Wing has left her husband, Bennett, and run off with her new lover, Adrian Goodlove, to tour the campsites of Europe. But will this new relationship provide the sexual liberation and fulfilment she's always fantasised about?
Dramatised by Annie Caulfield
Directed by Emma Harding.
FRI 11:00 Six Degrees of Connection (b0717kvf)
Is everyone in the world really connected by only six links? A famous experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s claimed that it took on average only six steps for a message to pass between two strangers in America. Since then the idea has become part of popular culture. But is it true? And if so, does it matter? Julia Hobsbawm investigates how social networks work, whether we should all pay more attention to our network connections, and whether governments can use social networks to promote - for instance - messages about health. Maybe, she discovers, it's not the six degrees of separation that matter, but the three degrees of influence.
Presenter: Julia Hobsbawm
Producer: Jolyon Jenkins.
FRI 11:30 Dilemma (b03ts4fp)
Series 3
Episode 2
Sue Perkins puts Tony Law, Isy Suttie, Gemma Cairney and Tim Harford through the moral and ethical wringer.
The panellists collectively attempt to resolve dilemmas based around footballing allegiance, supermarket deliveries, getting free 4G technology and a career in statistics.
Devised by Danielle Ward.
Producer: Ed Morrish.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2014.
FRI 12:00 News Summary (b0713p4j)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:04 One to One (b03bdpl7)
Carolyn Quinn speaks to Claire Derry
As a Radio 4 presenter, covering a range of stories everyday, Carolyn Quinn interviews people while the story is live but rarely gets the chance to find out what happened next.
For these editions of One to One, Carolyn wanted to find out what happens to individuals who've found themselves in the media spotlight and have had to live with intense, unsolicited scrutiny. How do they cope once the media caravan has moved on and they have to try to get on with their lives
This week, Carolyn speaks to Claire Derry, the mother of Samuel Woodhead, the British teenager who went missing in the Australian outback in February 2013.
Samuel Woodhead was working on a cattle station in rural Queensland - just a few days into his gap year in Australia - when he decided to go for a run. He failed to return and was reported missing. A land and air search eventually found him three days later: three stone lighter, severely dehydrated and apparently 'hours from death'.
In this interview Claire Derry describes what it was like to cope with what had happened to her son, at the same time as dealing with intense media interest which - at one stage - turned against her son, accusing him of deliberately getting lost. And has she been able to return to "life as normal" after the experience?
Producer: Karen Gregor.
FRI 12:15 You and Yours (b071fnw6)
Holiday refunds, Needy marketing emails, Court closures
We investigate the case of the You and Yours listener who fractured her hip just after she booked her holiday and is housebound. We hear how she's not able to get the refund she is due because the travel agent is insisting that she visit the high street shop where she bought the holiday. What are your rights to a refund in this case and what would've happened if she'd bought the holiday online from the same company?
The government's announced that eighty six courts and tribunals across England and Wales are to close over the next two years with the aim of cutting costs and modernising the system. Campaigners say that many people, especially in rural areas, will face far longer and costlier journeys to their next nearest court.
More 25 to 34 year olds are living with their parents than any time in the past 20 years, according to official figures this week. What's driving them to it, how does it work out and what's the problem with enduring less-than-ideal circumstances for a few years until you can afford to buy? Didn't young people always do that?
FRI 12:57 Weather (b0713p4l)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b071fnw8)
The Chancellor says if Britain votes to leave the European Union it would be a profound economic shock. But a former Treasury Minister isn't convinced.
In Rotherham, the gang convicted of grooming and sexually abusing children are sentenced. We speak to a lawyer of some of the victims and South Yorkshire police.
Iran goes to the polls We hear the hopes of one man campaigning for reform.
FRI 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b0717kvm)
Chidambaram Pillai: Swadeshi Steam
Sunil Khilnani explores the thwarted revolutionary ambitions of Chidambaram Pillai.
Chidambaram Pillai was a feisty baby-faced lawyer from Tuticorin in southern India. His is one of the many, largely forgotten stories of failure that litter the path to independence. But it's also a fascinating story, of an up-country lawyer without economic resource, social status or political power taking on the might of Empire. And he chose an unlikely way to resist the British: steam ships.
Featuring historian David Washbrook.
Producer: Martin Williams.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b0717j20)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Drama (b06kgvc4)
Julian Simpson - Fugue State
In the heart of the English countryside in a specialist residential hospital. A man, a government agent, is in a fugue state - a psychological shutdown - the result of something seemingly threatening that has taken place in a remote village.
Needing to act before the situation escalates and believing the patient can still hear, Doctor Fallon uses sound recordings to recreate events leading up to the point of shutdown, to prompt the patient's brain into remembering what has happened.
Julian Simpson's original drama was inspired by a series of talks and workshops at the Wellcome Trust, based around the latest thinking on how the human brain processes inputs - how it builds a model of the world, which we call reality, based on sensory information and our prediction of what we are expecting to see, hear or feel.
Scientific Advisor: Paul Fletcher
Director: Julian Simpson
Producer: Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b0717lrx)
Royal Academy of Arts
Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from the Royal Academy of Arts in London, coinciding with the Painting the Modern Garden exhibition.
Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and James Wong answer the gardeners' questions - including how to get the most out of your artichokes, how to puppy-proof gardens, and the recommended fruit bushes for a front garden.
We also follow James Wong as he takes in the Painting the Modern Garden exhibition at the Academy.
Produced by Howard Shannon
Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:45 Imagining Chekhov (b0717lrz)
Chekhov's Telescope by Alison MacLeod
A set of three stories, commissioned specially for Radio 4. Alison MacLeod explores the life and work of one of the finest short story writers of them all - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.
In this tale, Chekhov and his lover - the actress Olga Knipper - take a holiday in Yalta, unaware that a news reporter is stalking their every move.
A note on the letters between Chekhov and Olga:
These are fictional composites of the writer’s own words and Chekhov’s actual letters from the volume Dear Writer, Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper, translated by Jean Benedetti.
Reader: Peter Firth
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2016.
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b071fnwb)
Alex Timpson, Lord Avebury, Douglas Slocombe, Umberto Eco, Pascal Bentoiu
Matthew Bannister on
Alex Timpson, who fostered ninety children over thirty years and helped shape the ethos of the family key cutting and shoe repair business.
Douglas Slocombe, the Oscar nominated cinematographer who shot films from Kind and Hearts and Coronets to Indiana Jones.
Umberto Eco the Italian academic and best selling author whose works include "The Name Of The Rose".
And the liberal peer Lord Avebury who, as Eric Lubbock, won a famous by election victory in Orpington and devoted his life to campaigning for human rights.
FRI 16:30 Feedback (b0717ls1)
EU coverage, Diversity
Roger Bolton with listener questions and comments on the EU referendum coverage, BBC diversity, stultifying sport and the continued furore over Rob and Helen in The Archers.
With the EU referendum date set and the battle between 'leave' and 'remain' set to dominate the headlines until June, the BBC's Chief Political Adviser Ric Bailey joins Feedback to address listeners' questions about how the referendum is being covered. Is the BBC biased on EU membership? Is the story being told too much as a battle in the Conservative party? And should pollsters be trusted now after failures at the general election?
Gaile Walters and Keon West first appeared on Feedback 18 months ago, when they were being trained as part of the BBC's Expert Voices scheme, which aimed to get experts from more diverse backgrounds into BBC programmes. They return to the programme this week to discuss how they've faired since the training, and whether the BBC is doing enough to improve the diversity of its radio output.
Commentators on radio sport often find themselves in the position of having to keep listeners entertained even when the game is not delivering any action. Feedback reporter Rob Crossan speaks to Test Match Special's Jonathan Agnew and 5 Live football commentator Ian Dennis to discover how they find ways to fill air time even if on field events are not up to scratch.
And finally, in last week's programme Roger asked listeners for their views on the ongoing Archers' story about Rob Titchener's abuse of his wife Helen. The response has been enormous, as listeners grapple with the question of whether the story is too important to miss, or too unsettling to air.
Producer: Kate Dixon
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:55 The Listening Project (b0717ls3)
Katherine and Finlay - Making Dad Proud
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between an 11 year old and his mum about life without his dad, who took his own life, and how rugby has forged a link between them. Organised through Child Bereavement UK, this is another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
FRI 17:00 PM (b071fnwd)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b0713p4n)
Three brothers - who abused girls as young as eleven in Rotherham over a fifteen year period - have been given long prison sentences.
FRI 18:30 The News Quiz (b0717m14)
Series 89
Episode 8
Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests take on the big (and not so big) news events of the week. The line-up for this, the final show of the current series is Jeremy Hardy, Lucy Porter, Hugo Rifkind and Kerry Godliman.
Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Radio Comedy Production.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b0717m19)
The final batch of David and Ruth's herd are arriving. Lynda admires the new livestock and informs them about the commemorative service to mark the flood. Lynda is also planning a pageant to mark both Easter and the re-opening of the Village Hall. David won't be taking part as they'll be up to their necks in calves, so Lynda must look elsewhere for her 'cast'. David's nervous about calving with the new cows, but is pleased that it's a whole new chapter in the history of Brookfield.
Helen suggests to Rob they hire someone else at the shop. Her parents keep helping out but they're supposed to be retired. Rob talks of tightening their belts, and thinks it's mad that Johnny has been promised a full-time job at Bridge Farm when he finishes studying. Helen even suggests Rob could get a job elsewhere, but he insists he must be close to her, to help her. Kirsty declines to take part in Lynda's pageant, and heads off to meet Helen. Helen can't remember getting Kirsty's message from Ursula. Kirsty's suspicious of Helen's behaviour, and wonders if Ursula did actually pass the message on. Kirsty finally asks if Rob is mistreating Helen. Helen tries to eject her from the house. Rob walks in and gives Kirsty her marching orders.
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b071fnwh)
Woodstock, Birger Larsen on Murder, Hacks in the spotlight, Trouble at the opera
When most people think of Woodstock their mind immediately turns to the 1969 festival - but Woodstock is 60 miles away from the site of the festival. Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskyns provides an insight into the lives of the stars who lived there including Bob Dylan, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Van Morrison.
The Killing director Birger Larsen discusses his latest film, The Third Voice. This is the first episode of Murder, a three-part BBC Two drama, in which the characters speak exclusively to the camera.
Spotlight is rare among recent films, in that it treats reporters as other than corrupt and venal. Adam Smith considers cinema's changing portrayal of newspaper journalists, from bold crusaders for truth to greedy slime-balls, and everything in between.
And, on the day the chorus voted to go on strike...what exactly is going on at the English National Opera.
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Julian May.
FRI 19:45 Riot Girls (b0717jsn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b0717n94)
Therese Coffey MP, Paul Nuttall MEP, Brendan O Neill, Lucy Powell MP
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Thistley Hough Academy in Penkhull Stoke on Trent with a panel including the Deputy Leader of the House of Commons Therese Coffey MP, the Deputy Leader of UKIP Paul Nuttall MEP, the Editor of Spiked on Line Brendan O Neill, and the Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell MP. Topics include the EU referendum, dress code for politicians, teacher recruitment and retainment, social mobility and Boris Johnson and Donald Trump as future political leaders.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b0717n96)
Moral Futures
Adam Gopnik thinks future generations will be as appalled by some practices that are accepted today as we are by aspects of the past.
"Even as we condemn our moral ancestors, we need to hold our ears to the wind, and listen for the faint sounds of our descendants telling their melancholy truths about us."
Producer: Sheila Cook.
FRI 21:00 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b0717n98)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives - Omnibus
Deen Dayal, Jamsetji Tata, Swami Vivekananda, Annie Besant, Chidambaram Pillai
Sunil Khilnani presents an omnibus edition of Incarnations: India in 50 Lives.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b0713p4q)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b071fnwp)
Osborne: more austerity 'may be needed'
The Chancellor, George Osborne, says worsening economic conditions further spending cuts may be needed. We speak to the Institute for Fiscal Studies director, Paul Johnson. Also on the programme the Fifa election, Iran's 'blogfather' Hossein Derakhshan, and why doesn't Spain have a government 10 weeks after the election?
FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b0717n9x)
Jonathan Unleashed
Episode 10
Final instalment of the ten part abridgement of the new novel by Meg Rosoff, read by Rhashan Stone.
Unemployed, single and starting to despair, Jonathan has asked his former colleague Greeley to help him find a new direction for his life. Accompanied by Dante the collie and Sissy the spaniel, the four leave New York behind for a weekend spent deep in the forest. While there, Jonathan receives a series of texts that suggest all is not lost with Dr Clare.
Read by Rhashan Stone.
Written by Meg Rosoff.
Abridged by David Jackson Young.
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
FRI 23:00 Woman's Hour (b0717nwy)
Late Night Woman's Hour - A Brief History of Me Time
Do you have just too much to do? Do you live in a blur of meetings, to do lists, deadlines and appointments? Then make time to listen to Lauren Laverne and guests Katharine Whitehorn, Madeleine Bunting, Mags MacKean and Amanda Owen as they discuss the brief history of "me time". Who invented leisure time? Who gets it? Who wants it? How much? What do women do with theirs and what should they be doing with it?
Katharine Whitehorn has been a working journalist since the 1950s. She writes a regular column in The Observer.
Amanda Owen has written several books about her life as a working farmer with eight children. Her most recent book is A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess.
Mags MacKean gave up a high powered job ion journalism to climb full time. Her book about how these experiences changed her is called The Upside Down Mountain.
Author Madeleine Bunting's most recent book was 'The Plot - A biography of an English Nature'. She is currently working on a book on mindfulness.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament (b0717nx0)
TIP: Moves are underway to give up to six million expatriates the vote. The Big Issue founder Lord Bird gives an unusual maiden speech in the House of Lords. And the view of the UK's EU deal from the European Parliament. Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.
FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b0717nx2)
Ann and Jane - Our Sons
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two mothers whose sons took their own lives and who have drawn strength from their shared experience. Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
A Good Read
16:30 TUE (b07178g6)
A Point of View
08:48 SUN (b070hxsv)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b0717n96)
Analysis
21:30 SUN (b070d28w)
Analysis
20:30 MON (b071459c)
And the Academy Award Goes To...
10:30 SAT (b0713m2n)
Any Answers?
13:45 SAT (b0713m2y)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b0717n94)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b0713m3h)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (b0713p30)
BBC Inside Science
21:00 THU (b0713p30)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b0713pqw)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b0713pqw)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 MON (b07145y0)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 TUE (b07178gg)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 WED (b0717cq2)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 THU (b0717j26)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 FRI (b0717n9x)
Book of the Week
00:30 SAT (b070hsck)
Book of the Week
09:45 MON (b0713zf3)
Book of the Week
00:30 TUE (b0713zf3)
Book of the Week
09:45 TUE (b071x0gp)
Book of the Week
00:30 WED (b071x0gp)
Book of the Week
09:45 WED (b071x0v1)
Book of the Week
00:30 THU (b071x0v1)
Book of the Week
09:45 THU (b071x1vw)
Book of the Week
00:30 FRI (b071x1vw)
Book of the Week
09:45 FRI (b071x1yy)
Brain of Britain
23:00 SAT (b070cxy8)
Brain of Britain
15:00 MON (b07142lq)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (b0713nvs)
Cancer Moonshot
11:00 TUE (b0714mbw)
Chain Reaction
18:30 WED (b0717cpt)
Costing the Earth
15:30 TUE (b0714nhy)
Costing the Earth
21:00 WED (b0714nhy)
Desert Island Discs
11:15 SUN (b0713rtr)
Desert Island Discs
09:00 FRI (b0713rtr)
Dilemma
11:30 FRI (b03ts4fp)
Dot
11:30 MON (b0714033)
Drama
14:15 THU (b06fpbxf)
Drama
14:15 FRI (b06kgvc4)
Ed Reardon's Week
18:30 TUE (b05w000p)
Europe: Strangers on My Doorstep
20:00 MON (b07143dx)
Farming Today
06:30 SAT (b0713f1d)
Farming Today
05:45 MON (b0713zdx)
Farming Today
05:45 TUE (b0714mbh)
Farming Today
05:45 WED (b071ftsn)
Farming Today
05:45 THU (b071fxc4)
Farming Today
05:45 FRI (b071fqfn)
Feedback
20:00 SUN (b070hxsj)
Feedback
16:30 FRI (b0717ls1)
File on 4
17:00 SUN (b070dq8f)
File on 4
20:00 TUE (b07178gc)
Friday Drama
21:00 SAT (b040yvdq)
From Fact to Fiction
19:00 SAT (b0713m38)
From Fact to Fiction
17:40 SUN (b0713m38)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (b0707wbb)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:00 THU (b0713p2t)
Front Row
19:15 MON (b071fyq9)
Front Row
19:15 TUE (b071fv0f)
Front Row
19:15 WED (b071fsty)
Front Row
19:15 THU (b071fxcd)
Front Row
19:15 FRI (b071fnwh)
Gardeners' Question Time
14:00 SUN (b070hxsb)
Gardeners' Question Time
15:00 FRI (b0717lrx)
Ian Rankin - Rebus
14:30 SAT (b0713m30)
Imagining Chekhov
15:45 FRI (b0717lrz)
In Our Time
09:00 THU (b0717j1r)
In Our Time
21:30 THU (b0717j1r)
In Touch
20:40 TUE (b0713nzw)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
13:45 MON (b07142ll)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
13:45 TUE (b0714nht)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
13:45 WED (b0717b5l)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
13:45 THU (b0717gf1)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
13:45 FRI (b0717kvm)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
21:00 FRI (b0717n98)
Inside Health
21:00 TUE (b071fs79)
Inside Health
15:30 WED (b071fs79)
Just a Minute
18:30 MON (b07142lx)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (b070hxsg)
Last Word
16:00 FRI (b071fnwb)
Lent Talks
05:45 SUN (b070fn20)
Lent Talks
20:45 WED (b0717cq0)
Loose Ends
18:30 SAT (b0713m36)
Making History
15:00 TUE (b0714nhw)
Midnight News
00:00 SAT (b0707w9t)
Midnight News
00:00 SUN (b0713ntz)
Midnight News
00:00 MON (b0713nxj)
Midnight News
00:00 TUE (b0713nz4)
Midnight News
00:00 WED (b0713p0s)
Midnight News
00:00 THU (b0713p2h)
Midnight News
00:00 FRI (b0713p40)
Midweek
09:00 WED (b07179c0)
Midweek
21:30 WED (b07179c0)
Money Box
12:04 SAT (b0713m2q)
Money Box
21:00 SUN (b0713m2q)
Money Box
15:00 WED (b071fstw)
Moral Maze
22:15 SAT (b070fn1y)
Moral Maze
20:00 WED (b0717cpy)
Musical Variations: The Life of Angela Morley
11:30 TUE (b0714nhm)
News Briefing
05:30 SAT (b0707wb2)
News Briefing
05:30 SUN (b0713nv7)
News Briefing
05:30 MON (b0713nxs)
News Briefing
05:30 TUE (b0713nzl)
News Briefing
05:30 WED (b0713p11)
News Briefing
05:30 THU (b0713p2r)
News Briefing
05:30 FRI (b0713p48)
News Headlines
06:00 SUN (b0713nv9)
News Summary
12:00 SAT (b0707wbd)
News Summary
12:00 SUN (b0713nvx)
News Summary
12:00 MON (b0713nxx)
News Summary
12:00 TUE (b0713nzn)
News Summary
12:00 WED (b0713p13)
News Summary
12:00 THU (b0713p2w)
News Summary
12:00 FRI (b0713p4j)
News and Papers
06:00 SAT (b0707wb4)
News and Papers
07:00 SUN (b0713nvf)
News and Papers
08:00 SUN (b0713nvl)
News and Weather
22:00 SAT (b0707wbv)
Nurse
23:15 WED (b03yqcx7)
On Your Farm
06:35 SUN (b0713rtf)
One to One
12:04 MON (b05pn3sw)
One to One
09:30 TUE (b0714mbp)
One to One
12:04 TUE (b04n31vy)
One to One
12:04 WED (b039px7s)
One to One
12:04 THU (b03b0wml)
One to One
12:04 FRI (b03bdpl7)
Open Book
16:00 SUN (b0713vvw)
Open Book
15:30 THU (b0713vvw)
PM
17:00 SAT (b0713m34)
PM
17:00 MON (b07142lv)
PM
17:00 TUE (b071g8lk)
PM
17:00 WED (b071g8x0)
PM
17:00 THU (b071g8yh)
PM
17:00 FRI (b071fnwd)
Pick of the Week
18:15 SUN (b0713wlr)
Poetry Please
23:30 SAT (b070cgkk)
Poetry Please
16:30 SUN (b0713vvy)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 SAT (b070hxzb)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 MON (b0726p96)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 TUE (b072b0nh)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 WED (b072jslc)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 THU (b072nlk2)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 FRI (b072rsrs)
Radio 4 Appeal
07:54 SUN (b0713rtk)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:26 SUN (b0713rtk)
Radio 4 Appeal
15:27 THU (b0713rtk)
Ramblings
06:07 SAT (b070hktk)
Ramblings
15:00 THU (b0717j1t)
Reluctant Persuaders
11:30 WED (b06d2lz5)
Riot Girls
15:00 SUN (b0713vvt)
Riot Girls
10:45 MON (b0713zf7)
Riot Girls
14:15 MON (b07142ln)
Riot Girls
19:45 MON (b0713zf7)
Riot Girls
10:45 TUE (b0714mbt)
Riot Girls
14:15 TUE (b0717q6v)
Riot Girls
19:45 TUE (b0714mbt)
Riot Girls
10:41 WED (b07179c2)
Riot Girls
14:15 WED (b0717pgp)
Riot Girls
19:45 WED (b07179c2)
Riot Girls
10:45 THU (b0717gdx)
Riot Girls
19:45 THU (b0717gdx)
Riot Girls
10:45 FRI (b0717jsn)
Riot Girls
19:45 FRI (b0717jsn)
Saturday Live
09:00 SAT (b0713m2l)
Saturday Review
19:15 SAT (b0707wbs)
Say Yes by Tobias Wolff
19:45 SUN (b0713x9k)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SAT (b0707w9y)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SUN (b0713nv3)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 MON (b0713nxn)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 TUE (b0713nzc)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 WED (b0713p0x)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 THU (b0713p2m)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 FRI (b0713p44)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SAT (b0707w9w)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SAT (b0707wb0)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SAT (b0707wbl)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SUN (b0713nv1)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SUN (b0713nv5)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SUN (b0713nw7)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 MON (b0713nxl)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 MON (b0713nxq)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 TUE (b0713nz9)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 TUE (b0713nzj)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 WED (b0713p0v)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 WED (b0713p0z)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 THU (b0713p2k)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 THU (b0713p2p)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 FRI (b0713p42)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 FRI (b0713p46)
Six Degrees of Connection
11:00 FRI (b0717kvf)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SAT (b0707wbq)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SUN (b0713nwc)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 MON (b0713ny1)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 TUE (b0713nzs)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 WED (b0713p17)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 THU (b0713p32)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (b0713p4n)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b0713rtc)
Something Understood
23:30 SUN (b0713rtc)
Start the Week
09:00 MON (b0713zf1)
Start the Week
21:30 MON (b0713zf1)
Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b0713rtm)
Sunday
07:10 SUN (b0713rth)
Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On
18:30 THU (b073j5cg)
Talking to Strangers
23:00 THU (b0717j28)
The Archers Omnibus
10:00 SUN (b0713rtp)
The Archers
19:00 SUN (b0713wlt)
The Archers
14:00 MON (b0713wlt)
The Archers
19:00 MON (b07143dv)
The Archers
14:00 TUE (b07143dv)
The Archers
19:00 TUE (b07178g9)
The Archers
14:00 WED (b07178g9)
The Archers
19:00 WED (b0717cpw)
The Archers
14:00 THU (b0717cpw)
The Archers
19:00 THU (b0717j20)
The Archers
14:00 FRI (b0717j20)
The Archers
19:00 FRI (b0717m19)
The Art of Adultery
11:30 THU (b0717gdz)
The Beat Women
15:30 SAT (b06084ks)
The Bottom Line
17:30 SAT (b070hns6)
The Bottom Line
20:30 THU (b0717j24)
The Film Programme
23:00 SUN (b070hkyc)
The Film Programme
16:00 THU (b0717j1w)
The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (b0713rtt)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (b0713rtt)
The Gospel Truth
16:00 MON (b06z2kyc)
The Infinite Monkey Cage
16:30 MON (b07142ls)
The Infinite Monkey Cage
23:00 TUE (b07142ls)
The Life Scientific
09:00 TUE (b0714mbm)
The Life Scientific
21:30 TUE (b0714mbm)
The Listening Project
14:45 SUN (b0713rtz)
The Listening Project
10:55 WED (b07179c4)
The Listening Project
16:55 FRI (b0717ls3)
The Listening Project
23:55 FRI (b0717nx2)
The Literary Adventures of Mr Brown
23:00 WED (b0717dlt)
The Media Show
16:30 WED (b071fsh1)
The Museum of Curiosity
12:04 SUN (b06zqq9d)
The News Quiz
12:30 SAT (b070hxsn)
The News Quiz
18:30 FRI (b0717m14)
The Report
20:00 THU (b0717j22)
The Spoken Image
13:30 SUN (b068tsvg)
The Stories
00:30 SUN (b0713pqt)
The Untold
11:00 MON (b06yr6vh)
The Week in Westminster
11:00 SAT (b072jwy1)
The World This Weekend
13:00 SUN (b0713nw5)
The World Tonight
22:00 MON (b07145xy)
The World Tonight
22:00 TUE (b071fs7f)
The World Tonight
22:00 WED (b071fsh3)
The World Tonight
22:00 THU (b071fxcg)
The World Tonight
22:00 FRI (b071fnwp)
Thinking Allowed
00:15 MON (b070fft5)
Thinking Allowed
16:00 WED (b0717b5n)
Today in Parliament
23:30 MON (b07145y2)
Today in Parliament
23:30 TUE (b071gc06)
Today in Parliament
23:30 WED (b071gc7y)
Today in Parliament
23:30 THU (b0717j2b)
Today in Parliament
23:30 FRI (b0717nx0)
Today
07:00 SAT (b0713f1g)
Today
06:00 MON (b0713zdz)
Today
06:00 TUE (b0714mbk)
Today
06:00 WED (b071ftsq)
Today
06:00 THU (b071fxc6)
Today
06:00 FRI (b0717jsl)
Tweet of the Day
08:58 SUN (b03mhyzf)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 MON (b0378srp)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 TUE (b03bkgqv)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 WED (b03dx2qh)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 THU (b03k5bnl)
Tweet of the Day
05:58 FRI (b01sbyj8)
Unhappy Child, Unhealthy Adult
21:00 MON (b070dksr)
Verdun - The Sacred Wound
11:00 WED (b07179qw)
Weather
06:04 SAT (b0707wb6)
Weather
06:57 SAT (b0707wb8)
Weather
12:57 SAT (b0707wbg)
Weather
17:57 SAT (b0707wbn)
Weather
06:57 SUN (b0713nvc)
Weather
07:57 SUN (b0713nvj)
Weather
12:57 SUN (b0713nw1)
Weather
17:57 SUN (b0713nw9)
Weather
05:56 MON (b0713nxv)
Weather
12:57 MON (b0713nxz)
Weather
21:58 MON (b0713ny3)
Weather
12:57 TUE (b0713nzq)
Weather
21:58 TUE (b0713nzy)
Weather
12:57 WED (b0713p15)
Weather
12:57 THU (b0713p2y)
Weather
12:57 FRI (b0713p4l)
Weather
21:58 FRI (b0713p4q)
Westminster Hour
22:00 SUN (b0713nwf)
What the Papers Say
22:45 SUN (b0713x9m)
Woman's Hour
16:00 SAT (b0713m32)
Woman's Hour
10:00 MON (b0713zf5)
Woman's Hour
10:00 TUE (b0714mbr)
Woman's Hour
10:00 WED (b071ftss)
Woman's Hour
10:00 THU (b0717gdv)
Woman's Hour
10:00 FRI (b071fnw4)
Woman's Hour
23:00 FRI (b0717nwy)
Word of Mouth
23:00 MON (b070dnqr)
Word of Mouth
16:00 TUE (b0714nj0)
Wordaholics
19:15 SUN (b01rlmpt)
World at One
13:00 SAT (b0732184)
World at One
13:00 MON (b07142lj)
World at One
13:00 TUE (b0714nhr)
World at One
13:00 WED (b071ftsv)
World at One
13:00 THU (b071fxcb)
World at One
13:00 FRI (b071fnw8)
You and Yours
12:15 MON (b07142lg)
You and Yours
12:15 TUE (b0714nhp)
You and Yours
12:15 WED (b071fstt)
You and Yours
12:15 THU (b071fxc8)
You and Yours
12:15 FRI (b071fnw6)
iPM
05:45 SAT (b070w213)