TUESDAY 20 APRIL 2010

TUE 00:00 Midnight News (b00rzq6v)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.


TUE 00:30 Book of the Week (b00rzrsn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday]


TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b00rzq9k)
The latest shipping forecast.


TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b00rzqfw)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b00rzqd2)
The latest shipping forecast.


TUE 05:30 News Briefing (b00rzqhy)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b00rzr0w)
Daily prayer and reflection, with The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of London.

Producer: Philip Billson.


TUE 05:45 Farming Today (b00rzr4w)
Anna Hill hears food imports are already being affected as planes remain grounded. But as fruit salads fail to reach UK shelves, it's jobs in Africa rather than the UK which are being cut. The National Farmers' Union say that British growers can fill the gap, while government food adviser Tim Lang describes this trade as neo-colonialist.


TUE 06:00 Today (b00rzr8v)
With Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.


TUE 09:00 Between Ourselves (b00s0cmx)
Series 5

Episode 5

How to raise a happy, well-adjusted child is one of the biggest sources of angst for modern parents. Child psychologists Laverne Antrobus and Oliver James discuss this challenge.

British society has a reputation for being intolerant towards children - they should be seen but ideally not heard. And according to sections of the media, the reason that Britain is Broken is because unruly and badly brought up children are running wild, ignored by hopeless parents. So what has gone so badly wrong with our approach towards children? How can it be improved? Should we send our children to day-care, or remain at home during their formative years? What kind of upbringing drives children to commit horrendous crimes, like the Bulger killers? On Between Ourselves today we are joined by two child psychologists who discuss all of this. Laverne Antrobus has worked on TV programmes like 'The House of Tiny Tearaways', ITV's 'This Morning' and BBC Four's 'Who Needs Dads?', she's an author, and works as an educational psychologist at the Tavistock clinic in London. Oliver James has written best-selling books including 'They F*** you Up' and 'Affluenza'. He's also appeared on 'This Morning' putting into practice his theory of 'love-bombing' as a way of coping with challenging children.


TUE 09:30 A Musical Trip to South Africa - with Lenny Henry (b00s0cmz)
Episode 4

Lenny investigates the 'lost tribes' whose music is endangered as the country modernises. He gets into township Kiba and finds disaffected young Afrikaners reviving angry punk.

The producer is Susan Marling, and this is a Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4.


TUE 09:45 Book of the Week (b00rzrsq)
Michael Chabon - Manhood for Amateurs

Episode 2

Jason Butler Harner continues to read from Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Chabon's moving, warm and witty memoir about life as a husband, father and son.

In exploring what it means to be a man today, Chabon reflects on the personal and family history that haunts him even as it's being written every day. At the centre of a large and complex family, and with four young children, Chabon evokes memories of his childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce and of moments of painful adolescent comedy.

Despite having very little in common, Michael Chabon formed a very close relationship with the father of his first wife. Today he reflects on the different world his father-in-law opened up for him, the joy he felt in being part of a much more stable family than his own, and the complex emotions both men felt when his marriage broke down.

Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven novels including The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The Yiddish Policeman's Union. He has been described by the Guardian as 'a spectacular writer' and by the New York Times as 'one of his generation's most eloquent voices'.

Jason Butler Harner has starred in films such as The Changeling with Angelina Jolie, as well as numerous TV series including Law and Order and John Adams. An accomplished stage actor, he has just appeared on the London stage in Serenading Louie at the Donmar Warehouse.

Producer: Jane Greenwood. This is a Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.


TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour (b00rzt98)
Presented by Jane Garvey.

Dr Mamphela Ramphele talks about what the future holds for South Africa. She trained in medicine and worked as an activist in the black consciousness movement alongside Steve Biko. She was the first Black South African, to hold the position of Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town and the first South African to become a managing director of The World Bank. As the London Book Fair focuses on South African fiction she joins Jane Garvey on the line from Cape Town.

Helen Simpson is one of Britain's most accomplished short story writers. Her new collection In Flight Entertainment is published in May and you can hear three of the stories on Radio 4 this week (3.30pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Unlike most fiction writers Helen Simpson has never written a novel. Her stories reveal the minutiae of everyday life and comment on big subjects such as health, old age and global warming.

The Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS) were the only female military personnel working within the combat zone during the Falklands War. One of them, Nicci Pugh, has written a book about their experiences on the Hospital Ship Uganda. Anna McNamee reports on a reunion of the nurses at Portsmouth this weekend.

The 'shampoo and set' was once the staple of hairdressing salons in the UK. In post war Britain the well groomed woman's product of choice was Amami setting lotion - there was even a saying 'Friday night is Amami night'. Now the product has been discontinued at a time when there is an increasing interest in vintage hair dos. Nina Butkovich-Budden of Nina's Hair Salon tells Jane how to get the retro look and top hairdresser Nicky Clarke talks about the latest trends in hairdressing.


TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b00s2nn6)
Writing the Century 13: Once Upon A Time

Episode 2

Amanda Whittington's drama set in 1979 about a gay teenager from a Nottinghamshire mining town tells the story of Steven and his two flamboyant best friends who live as girls.

Chrissy and Gloria have found boyfriends. Left alone, Steven turns to his diary: "I feel I must find myself but I don't know what I want to find".

Steven.....Joe Dempsie
Gloria.....Karl Davies
Chrissy....Joe Doherty
Steven's dad....Tony Bell
Billy.....Freddie Fox
With David Seddon and Nigel Hastings.


TUE 11:00 Saving Species (b00s0cn1)
Series 1

Episode 3

We catch up with the larval poets in this programme. For much of the year we're following Purple Emperor Butterflies with National Trust Lepidopterist Matthew Oates. They are still caterpillars - and all named by Matthew after famous poets to help us keep a track of individuals - we're following their fortunes which will hopefully lead to us seeing them as adults. Purple Emperor butterflies are a truly tree canopy dwelling butterfly with some pretty foul (in human value terms, not wildlife terms) habits as grown-ups - and more about that in later programmes.

And the ash cloud coming from Iceland has disrupted our plans to report from a Scottish seabird cliff but in its place we have a report from an Icelandic ornithologist. "Whooper Airport" is an area in South East Iceland coined by Whooper Swan biologists who radio tracked these migrant swans from the UK to the breeding grounds in Iceland. We report on how the fall out is impacting on migrant swans and hear that some swans are taking refuge in sheds to avoid the descending ash.

We're also back in Japan reporting one of their great wildlife spectacles - the feeding of red crowned cranes and the array of other predators that join in.

We have our usual wildlife news round-up from around the globe gathered this week by Kelvin Boot and we'll check into iSpot, the interactive biodiversity website of The Open University.

Presented by Brett Westwood
Producer: Sheena Duncan
Editor: Julian Hector.


TUE 11:30 Madwomen in the Attic (b00s0cn3)
Following on from the positive response to Vivienne Parry's 'A Nasty Case of the Vapours' in which the ailments of literature's great heroines were dissected and finally diagnosed using modern medicine (and a good deal of hindsight), 'Madwomen in the Attic' will consider bedside analysis from afar for the mad, bad and sad heroines of classic fiction through the eyes of modern medicine and psychiatry.

Aided by psychiatrists and literary critics Vivienne Parry will steer a course through classic fiction's fascinating depictions of madness and mental illness, including the first Mrs Rochester in 'Jane Eyre', Lady Glyde in Wilkie Collins' 'A Woman in White' and the (undoubtedly maddening) Emma Bovary in 'Madame Bovary'. The literary and the medical intersect and the programme draws on both strands of expertise. 'Jane Eyre' Bertha Rochester's madness is animalistic, violent and feral - the archetypal 'madwoman in the attic' whereas 'The Woman In White' evokes the asylum as a sinister place, 'bins' where women could be interred against their will. Meanwhile Freud once said that wherever his work took him, the great works of literature had got there first: some psychoanalysts read 'Madame Bovary' as close to a Freudian case history as a novel can get.

What does the depiction of their illness say about the author's, or wider societal views of madness at the time of publication? And what does their situation say to us today? These are texts situated between 19th century, physician-driven notions of mental and - by implication - moral health and the origins of mental health as a science, the (thankfully) short-lived 'mental hygiene' movement and the beginnings of modern psychoanalysis, a body of thought which has itself influenced literary criticism. Contributors include Adam Phillips, Sandra Gilbert, Professor John Sutherland and Dinesh Bhugra, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

The producer is Simon Hollis. This is a Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4.


TUE 12:00 You and Yours (b00rztrz)
The grounding of planes has been like an unscheduled experiment. What has been the impact on the environment? On health?

We'll answer more of your questions about the travel distruption - what's happening to people not able to get back from long haul destinations, to tourists in the UK wanting to get home and mail deliveries.

We're also finding out how registering to vote can improve your credit rating. Have water companies been given licence to pollute?

Plus, while the Health & Safety Executive insists that offices and other work places have first aiders - and certify people as work place first aiders - there's no official certification for any other kind of first aid. This lack of regulation means anybody can set themselves up as a first aid trainer. We discuss calls to better regulate first aid courses.

We look at a conference of international energy ministers about setting up a group - like OPEC - for liquefied gas producers. If Russia, the main pushers of such a consortium, get their way, we could see a massive hike in our gas bills.


TUE 12:57 Weather (b00rztt8)
The latest weather forecast.


TUE 13:00 World at One (b00rztvr)
National and international news with Martha Kearney.

Includes Election Call, where listeners put comments to Lord Pearson of the UK Independence Party.

The number to call is 03700 100 444. Lines are open from 11.30 on the day of the programme.

Calls cost the same as calls to 01 or 02 numbers, and mobile charges may vary.


TUE 14:00 The Archers (b00rztxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday]


TUE 14:15 Drama (b00s0cn7)
How to Make Your First Billion, part 2

Drama-documentary following the fortunes of a start-up Internet company in Silicon Valley.

Recorded on location in Silicon Valley, the story will echo many of the real life stories of entrepreneurs who started out from nothing to create iconic brands. Real life entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley will also feature in the drama, offering advice to the two characters as they try to launch their business.

Jake Armstrong.....Thomas Lazur
Subash Chakrabati.....Zafar Karachiwala
Meg Gleeson.....Katie Rubin
Nathan Ross.....Cassidy Brown
Brett Berger.....Tim Kniffin
Magnus McGinty.....Gabriel Marin
Jefferson Adams.....Peter Matthews
Ogie.....Ogie Zulueta
Uncle Ned.....Kip Baldwin
Shane McGowan.....Julia Brothers
Tony Lo.....Brian Rivera
Stacey James.....Lindsey Gates
Vera Cox.....Julia Brothers
Beth Colochi.....Arwen Anderson

Executive Producer: Jeremy Skeet
Writer: Matthew Solon
Director/Producer: John Dryden

A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4.


TUE 15:00 Home Planet (b00s0cn9)
The Earth has experienced a number of major earthquakes in the last few months - some of the worst natural disasters to strike for centuries. One Home Planet listener wants to know whether climate change might be having an unexpected effect and increasing the rate at which these deadly quakes strike.

Carbon capture and storage is touted as the way to burn fossil fuels for energy without releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But is it safe?

The programme wraps up with two totally different perspectives on sunlight. Could it be used to dispose of pernicious plastics and why is it so much hotter at the equator than at the poles?

On the panel are Dr Ros Taylor of Kingston University; Dr Nick Riley of the British Geological Survey and Professor Philip Stott, an environmental scientist from the University of London. The presenter is Richard Daniel.

Producer: Toby Murcott
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.


TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading (b00s0cxs)
Helen Simpson - In-Flight Entertainment

Squirrel

Three short stories taken from Helen Simpson's new collection, In-Flight Entertainment.

A family discussion over the fate of a trapped squirrel veers unexpectedly close to revealing a shocking truth

Reader: Sian Thomas.

Abridged and Produced by Joanna Green.

This is a Pier production for BBC Radio 4.


TUE 15:45 In The Footsteps of Giants (b00rzvfm)
Paul Davies on Carl Sagan

Within a series of passionate explorations, Paul Davies looks back on the life of Carl Sagan. Sagan's public lectures laid the groundwork for Davies' own fascination with the universe. Both scientists have played key roles in SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) and both have championed the popularisation of science.

Paul Davies returns to the Boyd Orr Lecture Hall at Glasgow University where Sagan delivered his Gifford lecture 'The Search for Who We Are', meeting up with Martin Hendry, Senior Lecturer in Astronomy at Glasgow University who also attended the lecture and was similarly inspired. Looking back at Carl's work, he reflects on the similarities to his own life and career.

Producer: Lucy Adam.


TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth (b00s0d1d)
Chris Ledgard looks at the Chinese and English languages, and the meeting point between the two. Will the Chinese language be affected by the growing influence of English? Pinyin is the Chinese method of writing Chinese characters in our alphabet. It produces a simplified version of Chinese for children to learn, and is also used for texting, slang and to make it possible to type on a keyboard. It also helps the rest of the world to understand Chinese words. Beijing is a pinyin word, for example. Will the use of Chinese characters eventually die out as the influence of pinyin and English is felt there? And we hear about the language war raging in Singapore, the only country in Asia with English as its first language, between standard English and Singlish, the local variant. Contributors include William Zhou, Chen "Cathy" Liu,"Pinyin Joe"- Joe Katz, Victor Mair and Singaporean podcaster extraordinaire "mr brown", aka Kin Mun Lee.


TUE 16:30 Great Lives (b00s0d1g)
Series 21

Douglas Jardine

The controversial England cricket captain, Douglas Jardine, who was responsible for the infamous 1932 Bodyline tour of Australia, is Peter White's chioce of a Great Life.

Matthew Parris, who is sceptical about cricket to say the least, presents, while Christopher Douglas (who co-writes and presents Ed Reardon on Radio 4, the disaffected, failed 50-something hack writer) fills in the biographical gaps.

Producer: Mark Smalley.


TUE 17:00 PM (b00rzvgl)
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. Plus Weather.


TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b00rzvk5)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 18:30 Baggage (b00lk12h)
Series 4

Carping Diem

Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh.

It's Festival time and Caroline is in love: great timing for her best friend Ruth to habitually invade her privacy, her toddler daughter April to be teething and her larger-than-life dad Hector to turn up unannounced.

Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon
Fiona ...... Phyllis Logan
Ruth ...... Adie Allen
Roddy ...... Robin Cameron
Hector ...... David Rintoul
Polly ...... Nicola Grier

Directed by Marilyn Imrie.


TUE 19:00 The Archers (b00rztx3)
Brian is flat out at Home Farm, what with Adam trying to drum up strawberry planters and Jeff nowhere to be found. David apologises for not being able to help because he's covering milking.

Jude accompanies Pip on the quad bike to Brookfield to work on her project. After Pip has completed her research, Jude persuades her to let him drive the bike back. On the way, Pip spots David's pick-up, and shouts to Jude to drive away to avoid being seen. Jude swerves too rapidly, and they crash. David runs to Pip, who is lying on the ground. She is only winded, but as David saw her bump her head, he insists they go to Casualty. David doesn't let Jude come too.

At the hospital, David is relieved to hear from Pip that she's been given the all clear. Whilst Pip is in the loo, Jude turns up, anxious to see her. David is still furious with Jude, and says if he ever sees Jude's face at Brookfield again, he's not going to hold back.


TUE 19:15 Front Row (b00rzvpr)
Five Daughters is a new 3-part series from BBC One which portrays the events surrounding the murder of five young women in Ipswich in 2006. It's based on the personal testimonies of various people closely involved in the tragedy. Crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell joins Mark Lawson to review.

Actor Toby Stephens discusses the revival of Tom Stoppard's 1983 play, The Real Thing in which he stars. Directed by Anna Mackim, the play examines the complicated relationship between love, art and reality.

Italian Renaissance Drawings is a major new exhibition at the British Museum which features works by artists including Raphael, Michelangelo and Fra Angelico. Art Historian Martin Kemp reviews.

And with the return of musical teen comedy Glee, Front Row looks at the success of the series which follows the story of an oddball group of students as they form a school show choir.


TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b00s2nn6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]


TUE 20:00 Biometrics: An Identity Crisis (b00s0djj)
Gerry Northam investigates the reliability of the science behind biometrics and explores how this technology is being deployed in the UK to protect and preserve our identity and security.

Biometrics or bio-identification is the science and technology employed to verify your identity using a biological trait that is unique to you, such as your face, your iris, a set of fingerprints, the way you sign your name or even the sound of your voice. For politicians, the term 'biometrics' has become something of a panacea - universal short hand for safe, reliable and secure: 'don't worry about the details - it's biometric, meaning, its complex science and therefore impossible to crack. Unsurprisingly, scientists who work on biometric systems don't agree.

Biometrics also lie at the heart of a confused and controversial debate around identity politics in the UK. Increasingly, it seems, biometrics will be the means by which you will need to identify yourself in world, to prove who you are not just at airports when you go on holiday (with biometric fingerprint passports from 2012), but, in the not too distant future, commentators are painting scenarios where biometrics will allow you to vote, get a mortgage, shop, access benefits and even healthcare. But what we're lacking, say critics, is any real public debate about how these systems are being deployed and in whose interest.

The UK's policy on identity and the use of biometric technologies seems strangely undercooked given that this has been on the agenda since at least 2002, if not before. In recent years the issue has been mired in (at times) furious arguments about privacy, data theft and data sharing. The central controversy is the creation of a national identity register containing the fingerprint and detailed biographical information of millions of British citizens. This could ultimately be shared with agencies in the UK and around the world, something lobbyists are unhappy with. But some scientists believe that the technology being deployed in the UK to underpin this database - fingerprint biometrics - is the wrong choice. It's a system far less reliable than, say, iris scanning, probably the least error prone of all the systems but which was rejected on the grounds of cost and whose benefits may have even been mis-represented to Parliament. We'll talk to one academic who claims this is the case as well as another whose research seems to show that it is possible to reconstruct meaningful data about an individual from the encrypted fingerprint 'code' (called the minutae points) that would be embedded into a typical biometric ID card - something that is supposed to be impossible.

After a two year hiatus and on the eve of a general election, the Labour Government have come out firmly in favour of implementing a voluntary ID card scheme along with a national ID register that they hope will grow exponentially after 2012 once biometric passports come into force. They see the creation of a biometric ID card as a means of liberation and certainty for millions of people, and perhaps it is. Meanwhile neither Tories nor Lib Dems have yet to make a clear statement about how they might proceed should the election go their way, but it's clear that some elements of the whole scheme could be dismantled whilst others stay in place.

With governments around the world investing billions in these systems and the UK moving towards more widespread use in the next decade, Gerry Northam investigates the myths and realities around biometrics, where both the science and the policy seems to be experiencing an identity crisis.


TUE 20:40 In Touch (b00s0djl)
Sarah Newman talks to Peter from her hotel room where she has been stranded for the past few days, as a result of volcanic ash. She talks of the problems she faces in a country where she speaks only a smattering of Japanese and can't read any of the signs.
Ellen Bassani is blind but was raised as a sighted child, because her parents were unable to accept her disability. She tells Peter her extraordinary story, including the incident that made her decide to use a white cane: Ellen went to her dentist and was used to following the white blur which was the dental nurse, taking her into the surgery, where she would hear the dentist say hello and then track his voice to find her way to the chair.
On this occasion, she followed the white blur, but then heard nothing.
Assuming the dentist had popped out of the surgery for a moment, she stood still. Eventually an angry voice said 'well aren't you going to sit down?' Ellen apologised and explained she couldn't see. The dentist then told her he thought that from her demeanour she was either a bit odd or a bit shifty. At that point, Ellen decided to use a cane as she'd rather be seen as blind.
Mani Djazmi reports from Hereford on the draw for the blind world championships.


TUE 21:00 Case Notes (b00s0djn)
Vitamin D

After a cold winter with little sunlight lack of vitamin D is common, but how do you know if your levels are too low? Traditionally lack of Vitamin D is linked with poor bone health, but new studies suggest that milder deficiency may also be linked to asthma, some cancers and diabetes. Dr Mark Porter investigates and hears from a night shift worker who had such excruciating pain in her hands she thought that she had arthritis - when her doctor checked for vitamin D levels, 3 weeks of supplements cured the pain.


TUE 21:30 Between Ourselves (b00s0cmx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


TUE 21:58 Weather (b00rzvx2)
The latest weather forecast.


TUE 22:00 The World Tonight (b00rzvxz)
On the World Tonight this evening with Robin Lustig and Ritula Shah

Volcano flight chaos - are the skies still effectively closed?

Goldman Sachs announces big profits - but will Obama be able to reform banks?

The election battle in Keighley.


TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b00rzw2w)
Naomi Alderman - The Lessons

A Wedding

Rory Kinnear reads the Orange New Writer's Award Winner, Naomi Alderman's, second novel, 'The Lessons', a story of ambition, friendship, betrayal and desire. Today: For James and Jess, Franny and Simon real life begins, but for Mark there is a new fantasy to play out.

Reader Rory Kinnear
Abridger Sally Marmion
Producer Di Speirs

The Lessons is the second novel from Naomi Alderman, winner of the Orange New Writer's Award and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Set among the dreaming spires of Oxford, it follows the progress of a gilded group of under-graduates drawn together by their dazzling and mercurial fellow student Mark Winters. Fuelled by his trust-fund and resident in his Georgian mansion, they live a charmed life of learning and parties and love-affairs. But university is no grounding for real life and none of the friends will be prepared, some years later, when tragedy strikes.

The Lessons is a novel about friendship, ambition, betrayal and desire, and the fact that only life can teach the lessons you really need to learn.

Naomi Alderman won the Orange New Writers Award for her first novel Disobedience and has subsequently been named as the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She is a graduate of Lincoln College, Oxford.

Rory Kinnear, fresh from playing Angelo at the Almeida and about to play Hamlet at the National Theatre studied at Balliol College, Oxford and reads his first Book at Bedtime.


TUE 23:00 The Vote Now Show (b00s0dlq)
Series 1

Episode 5

Punt and Dennis present a nightly satirical round up of election news and comment from comedians, journalists and commentators. Recorded in front of an audience at the Radio Theatre about 4 hours before transmission, this is a very topical comedy show.


TUE 23:30 And the Academy Award Goes To... (b00qy1k5)
Series 3

Gigi

In April 1959 the musical Gigi, starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan, won nine Oscars including the Best Picture Award, breaking the previous record of eight awards which went to Gone With The Wind in 1940. Paul Gambaccini discovers how the combination of Gallic charm and memorable songs, including The Night They Invented Champagne, Gigi and I Remember It Well, sanitised Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's risque novella for the big screen.

Considered to be the last of MGM's great musicals, Gigi tells the story of a young girl being groomed as a courtesan, and the movie's producers battled with the censors to get it made. Director Vincente Minnelli's lavish film, which was shot mostly in Paris, sugar-coated the subject matter, and Caron's gamine performance melted Hollywood cinemagoers.

The programme also explores how Gigi represented the passionate early days of the on-off American love affair with France - a relationship that has come under strain in recent years following the war in Iraq.