BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sadia Azmat, Stand-up comedian and writer
Today’s prayer is all about giving thanks. Being in a state of thankfulness is powerful, as when we are grateful we cannot feel fear or anger.
Every evening, I write down 3 things from that day I am thankful for in my gratitude diary. It’s a practice that helps make it a habit to look out for the positives, no matter how small.
Catching the bus on time. This means SO much to me because otherwise I’m stuck waiting at the bus stop for the next one! I’m thankful for my umbrella for keeping me dry! I’m especially thankful for that zoom meeting that I didn’t want to attend that got cancelled. I’m thankful for the gym workouts that push me and my favourite chocolate!
A few other ways I stay positive is through remembering God, good deeds including charity, slowing down, helping others and self-care.
The more I practice the more I learn to be thankful for everything. The successes that God blesses me with and also the wisdom from the lessons.
, it says “Anyone who is grateful does so to the profit of his own soul”. In other words, being grateful for your life will benefit and purify your soul.
A cross party committee of MPs has warned that failure to tackle labour shortages in agriculture, ‘will permanently shrink the food sector.’ The Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee took evidence over several sessions, to hear how lack of staff are affecting farms, food-processing, and distribution, and today it publishes its report. We hear from EFRA Committee Chairman Neil Parish about his concerns.
This week we're talking about leaving farming, and another industry facing staff shortages is farm vets. A survey by the British Veterinary Association taken last autumn asked whether vets would choose to pursue a career in the veterinary profession again, ‘knowing what they know now’ - 56% said that they would, but 19% said they wouldn’t choose the same career. We hear the reasons behind why the industry is struggling to retain workers.
And the Scottish Government Agency NatureScot has launched a four year plan to boost biodiversity and manage large scale landscapes for the environment. It aims to halt nature loss and protect 30 per cent of the country’s land and sea habitats by 2030 by restoring a quarter of a million hectares of damaged peatland, reducing deer numbers, and extending its current Nature Restoration Fund to include bigger projects for landscape-scale recovery.
Craig Hartley revels in a near miss encounter with a green woodpecker while cycling along a lane for Tweet of the Day.
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Moss Hills and his wife Tracey have made a successful living as entertainers on cruises. They play guitar and sing – usually covering 60s and 70s hits – as guests dance until the early hours.
One stormy night in 1991 they were working on the Greek cruise liner Oceanos off the South African coast when the lights went out, the PA system fell silent and the ship rolled so much that just staying upright was a challenge.
Their actions in the face of extreme danger would affect almost all of the 581 people on board. Moss Hills tells Jane Garvey his life-changing story.
Is there really a gene that makes some people more violent than others? And should certain criminals get a lesser sentence because of what’s in their DNA? Dr Kat Arney investigates how the so-called “Warrior Gene” is being used as a defence to some grisly crimes, with the help of psychologist Dr Sally McSwiggan and Dr Jari Tiihonen.
Harry Parker reads his new book. Today, he turns to the developments that have been made in repairing the body, from pace-makers to brain implants. Harry also explores the high price he continues to pay after he stepped on an IED while serving in the British Army in Afghanistan.
Harry Parker was in his twenties when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan in 2009. Here he takes us on his own personal journey as he grapples with an acquired disability and a new identity. At the same time he explores the little known and fascinating history of prosthetics, and the extraordinary advances in medicine and technology designed to ameliorate the effects of disability, illness and injury, from cochlear implants to wearable robotic suits, or exoskeletons. We'll also find out about the multi-billion pound industry involved in rehabilitating the body, and how invention, art and creativity play their part.
Harry Parker is the author of the acclaimed novel, Anatomy of a Soldier. He joined the army when he was twenty-three and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009. He is now a writer and artist.
Abridged by Sarah Shaffi.
The biggest reform of divorce law for 50 years comes into force today. As ‘no-fault divorce' comes into practice Woman's Hour are opening our phone lines to listen to what YOU have to say on the changes. We want to hear your experiences of ending your marriage and what difference you think these new measures will make? Would this change have made your divorce more amicable? Have you postponed getting divorced waiting for this reform to come into force and have already booked an appointment at the solicitors? Or are you considering divorce and this conversation has made it feel a bit less daunting?
Professional dancer and twice winner of Strictly Come Dancing, Oti Mabuse, continues her journey looking at the dancers and choreographers who have made a huge impact on dance.
In this episode, Oti sits down with Strictly Come Dancing alumnus Vincent Simone. Vincent co-created the Olivier nominated show Midnight to Tango and with his dance partner Flavia Cacace, won the UK Argentine Tango Championships in 2006.
Vincent loves Argentine Tango and he credits the legendary Maria Nieves as being his inspiration. Nieves helped to bring tango to audiences around the world and made the dance visible when it was banned by the authorities.
Author Christine Denniston helps to tell the story of this talented dancer, with archive clips and music. Oti also wants to learn the dancing style of Nieves, and she joins Tango dancers Leandro Palou and Maria TsiaTsiani in the dance studio.
Our fraud expert Shari Vahl examines how Zoom, the go to communication device of the lockdown, has been used as a tool to defraud one music teacher in Bristol out of £4000. We'll look at how it happened and find out more about why you should be checking anything you have set up on a continuous payment authority. It's a type of recurring payment that a merchant sets up on a customer's card account using their debit or credit card details.
Three weeks after the government's Homes for Ukraine family scheme first launched, less than 15% of applications made have been granted with a Visa. We'll be catching up with some You and Yours listeners who signed up for the scheme and are trying to support people stuck in Ukraine.
Almost two thirds of parents say the cost of childcare is now the same or more than their rent or mortgage with one in four admitting they have had to cut down on necessary expenses such as food, heating or clothing to afford childcare. We would love to hear your experiences.
We look at the rise and rise of childcare costs and how families are struggling to pay the bills.
And just how much do the new food labelling rules for restaurants actually help owners and diners?
We use our hands to explore the world around us; to manipulate and change it; to communicate; to signify aggression, submission or gratitude; to comfort or arouse; to make music, craft and create. We point, punch, tweak and text. We ball our fists, spread our palms, give someone the thumbs up and close our hands in prayer.
In this series considers the human hand from five different angles: manipulation, creativity, gesture, communication and touch. In each programme we hear from people who have a very particular perspective on hands and the way we use them, including a surgeon, a massage therapist, a harpist, a blacksmith and the recipient of a hand transplant. Each of them takes a long look at their own hands, describes what they see and considers the relationship with the world which their hands give them.
As we encounter healing hands, steady hands, talking hands, holding hands and the laying-on of hands we come to understand just how much our hands identify and define us.
In the third episode we examine the importance of gesture, both in religious faith and in the performing arts. Sr. Gemma Simmonds of the Congregation of Jesus considers the different ways Christians use their hands in prayer and worship, while Fr. Christopher Hancock reflects on the way he uses his hands as a priest – from key moments in the Mass to the anointing of the sick and dying.
In Islam too the position of the hands in ritual prayer has particular significance. As Dr. Abdul-Azim Ahmed of the Muslim Council of Wales explains, there are also many references to the hands in the Qur’an - including the symbolism of the right and left hands.
Gesture is also an important part of the performing arts, particularly in South Asian classical dance. Acclaimed choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh considers the vocabulary of hand movements – mudras – which express meaning and emotion in the style of dance she trained in, Bharatanatyam, and how these have inspired her current work in contemporary dance.
Lady Radebe, a retired member of the Supreme Court, is appointed by HM Government to head a public inquiry. Lady Radebe plans to operate the “phased” approach employed by the late Lord Justice Taylor’s 1989 first inquiry into football stadium safety after the Hillsborough disaster earlier that year. Taylor insisted on a rapid “interim report”, making recommendations for stadium safety. These were made and implemented within six months of the deaths, with the inquiry then moving on to address culpability. Yet this model has never been applied to any subsequent inquiry - governments and institutions want inquiries to be “late and long” because they are the “long grass”, in which fault and responsibility can be forgotten. Lady Radebe says that she will insist on making rapid interim recommendations “in order to help the many public inquiries currently taking place.”. But will she be allowed?
Lady Grace Radebe ..... Cecilia Noble
Clerk to the Inquiry ..... Nickolas Grace
Witness 1 ..... Haydn Gwynne
Witness 2 ..... Tom Glenister
Witness 3 ..... Jane Slavin
Witness 4 ..... Philip Jackson
Millions of households are facing a £700 a year rise in fuel costs from now with the increase in the energy price cap. This comes on top of other hikes in the cost of living like council tax and more expensive food bills. How are people coping now the cap has been lifted? An expert panel gives advice.
The ‘Underclass’: Laurie Taylor explored a vexed concept which has engaged social scientists, philanthropists, journalists, policy makers and politicians. He’s joined by Loic Wacquant, Professor of Sociology at the University of California Berkeley, and author of a magisterial study which traces the rise and fall of a scarecrow category which, he argues, had a lemming effect on a generation of scholars of race and poverty, obscuring more than it illuminated. They're joined by Baroness Ruth Lister, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University, who charts the way in which the notion of an underclass travelled to the UK, via the New Right sociologist, Charles Murray. She describes its impact on the debate about 'welfare' dependency, across the political spectrum, and argues for a 'politics of renaming' one which accords respect and recognition to people who experience poverty.
Ira Glass is the presenter and producer behind This American Life, the first ever radio programme to win a Pulitzer Prize. Its spin off podcast, Serial, is credited with revolutionising podcasting and, in 2020, Glass sold Serial Productions to the New York Times for a reported $25 million. Ira discusses the inspiration behind his shows, the changing audio landscape, and responds to accusations of liberal bias in his journalism.
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
UK and Washington announce more sanctions against Russia as evidence grows of alleged war crimes by Moscow's troops
Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam star in Jan Etherington’s award-winning comedy, as a couple who are passionate about life and each other. This week: Joanna feels it's time they move house - somewhere with fewer stairs, that Roger might find more manageable, since his knee op. She calls it free-upping rather than downsizing. But an unexpected twist of fate means, to her horror, that it's, suddenly, Joanna who can’t make the stairs.
Conversations from a Long Marriage won the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for Best Radio Comedy in 2020.
Conversations from a Long Marriage is written by Jan Etherington. It is produced and directed by Claire Jones. It is a BBC Studios Production.
Details of organisations offering information and support with some of the issues in this episode are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.
‘Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam have had illustrious acting careers but can they ever have done anything better than Jan Etherington’s two hander? This is a work of supreme craftsmanship.’ RADIO TIMES
‘Peppered with nostalgic 60s hits and especially written for the pair, it’s an endearing portrait of exasperation, laced with hard won tolerance – and something like love.’ THE GUARDIAN
‘The delicious fruit of the writer, Jan Etherington’s experience of writing lots of TV and radio, blessed by being acted by Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam. Treasure this one, produced by Claire Jones. Unlike many a current Radio 4 ‘comedy’, this series makes people laugh’ GILLIAN REYNOLDS. SUNDAY TIMES
‘You’ve been listening at my window, Jan’. JOANNA LUMLEY
‘The writing is spot on and Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam exquisite. So real, so entertaining. Please never stop making such terrific radio’. BBC DUTY LOG
Pat and Clarrie catch up at the veterans’ cricket practice – Pat’s delighted to see Clarrie who was a whizz at Single Wicket. Pat has snuck a chocolate Easter egg to eat away from dieting Natasha and offers Clarrie some. Taskmaster Tracy promises today’s session will be less strenuous, but the apprehensive team is still exhausted. Tracy asks Clarrie about Oliver. Clarrie admits he doesn’t seem himself, but she’s interrupted when Tracy tries to confiscate Pat’s chocolate egg – which Pat throws around the team amid much hilarity.
Vince drops in to see Josh’s egg enterprise in action and points out that linking up with Freddie should be good for business. Josh is wary of Vince, but Vince insists he’s a pussycat. Vince is impressed by Josh’s initiative and when Josh divulges some of his big ideas like investing in solar panels for Brookfield, Vince offers to look over some figures for him.
Susan tells Chris about Ruth and Stella’s proposed slurry arrangement, concerned about it disrupting the village with tankers and the smell. Noticing Chris’s stress, Susan offers to have Martha overnight so he can catch up with work. Later, Chris is shocked to learn Alice has decided to give up work and be a full time stay at home mum – she’s bound to get custody. Susan wonders how Alice can afford it but Chris contrasts the well-off Aldridges with himself. Chris decides to go for half of Alice’s assets, enabling him to employ someone at the forge and be available for childcare himself. Alice has pushed him to this and he owes it to Martha.
Ocean Vuong, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore reviewed, Southampton UK City of Culture bid, Nadifa Mohamed
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American poet whose recent works include a best-selling novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and a multi-prize-winning volume of verse, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. He talks about his latest collection of poems, Time Is A Mother, exploring themes of childhood, addiction, sexuality and the death of his mother.
The third film in the Fantastic Beasts series, The Secrets of Dumbledore, is reviewed by Anna Smith, film critic and host of Girls on Film podcast.
Front Row explores the four places competing to be UK City of Culture 2025, starting with Southampton. BBC Radio Solent’s Emily Hudson reports on Southampton’s bid.
To mark the BBC's Art That Made Us season, Front Row invites artists from across the nations of the UK to choose the piece of art that made them by shaping their artistic and cultural identity. Today we hear from the Booker Prize shortlisted author Nadifa Mohamed on the 1979 song London Calling by The Clash.
Two people who share a common experience meet for the first time. Each has a gift for the other - an object that unlocks their story. With the help of presenter Catherine Carr, they exchange personal experiences, thoughts and beliefs, as well as uncovering the differences between them.
Fran and Rashid both faced difficult decisions when their elderly parents needed care. The choices they made were different, but they grappled with a common experience that is familiar to so many.
Fran was a full-time professional living in Bristol when her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and needed care. She decided against a care home and brought her mother to live with her and her family until she died several months later. Fran now makes a two hour round trip every weekend to visit her father, who is in his 90s, has dementia and lives in his own home with support from a carer.
Rashid runs a family business in Bristol. He was a child when he arrived in the UK with his family in the early 1970s, having been expelled from Uganda, along with 50,000 Asians, on the orders of President Idi Amin. When his mother needed care after a fall, she initially went to live with her eldest son in Kenya. But she missed Rashid and her other children who were all in the UK. When she returned, the family realised her complex needs meant she needed nursing care. Rashid says they looked at all the options but, although it was an incredibly hard decision to make, he realised in the end that a nursing home was the best place for his mother to get all the care she needed.
At the heart of their exchange is the desire to do the best thing for their parent. Their conversation lays bare the difficult decisions people often have to make about caring for elderly relatives.
The pair exchange gifts which reveal their own stories and show an insight into each other’s struggles.
Lent Talks is a series of personal reflections inspired by an aspect of the story leading up to Easter. This year’s theme is the power of hospitality, based on Jesus’ encouragement in Matthew’s gospel to feed the hungry, welcome the stranger and look after the sick.
In this episode, the retired palliative care physician Dr Kathryn Mannix explores how to be a companion to the dying as she considers the words, "I was sick and you cared for me".
If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in the programme, details of organisations that can provide help and support are available here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4MmhHDSbdDmTpVJhBs2v4Py/information-and-support-bereavement
In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
2021's Booker Prize-winning novel charts the crash and burn of the Swarts, a white South African family living on a farm outside Pretoria. Told over four decades and four funerals, it is the story of family, land and a promise, set against a changing South Africa.
Today: things come to a head after Ma's funeral, when the younger generation question the loyalties and choices of their elders...
Producer ..... Sally Avens
Val has enjoyed nearly 40 years of a marriage of convenience to Alan, both happily living separate lives, so why after all this time has she decided it's time to leave?
Dame Harriet Walter can currently be seen in This Is Going to Hurt and recently Succession, The Crown and Downton Abbey. She has won several awards for her stage work.
Jon Holmes's multi-award-winning The Skewer returns to twist itself into current affairs.
This week - The Skewer: White-warshing, Bob The Qatar Builder, Lad's Army, the musical Westminster Side Story, and what happens when you say Rishi Sunak's name five times into a mirror.
Sixty years after the Algerian War of Independence - and as France prepares to elect a new President - Edward Stourton presents tales from a colonial past which still cast a shadow over the present.
In this programme, Edward tells the story of how the Algerian War came home to Paris.
On 17th October 1961, Algerians living in Paris held a demonstration against a police order to keep them off the streets at night. Tens of thousands of protestors flooded into Paris. The police were very nervous....there had been many attacks on them in recent months. Their response was merciless and what resulted is now regarded as a massacre. Protestors were beaten, shot and bodies were dumped in the River Seine.
And we hear the story of how General de Gaulle, France's wartime leader, came back to power in 1958. He was seen as a 'saviour' by both sides but by the end of the war he was regarded as public enemy number 1. There were repeated attempts to assassinate him, the most serious immortalized in the film, "The Day of the Jackal". He did, of course, dodge the bullets....and survived.
Médine - “17 Octobre”.
“Algeria Hails de Gaulle 1958” British Pathe.
“Je vous ai compris”. From “Another War, Another Peace 1940-60” BBC2.
De Gaulle 1961 speech. BBC Radio Digital Archive.
THURSDAY 07 APRIL 2022
THU 00:00 Midnight News (m00162zj)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
THU 00:30 Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker (m00162x5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m00162zn)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m00162zs)
BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m00162zx)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (m0016301)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m0016305)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sadia Azmat, Stand-up comedian and writer
Good Morning
I’ve been single for a long time! In fact, I am so single I’ve even written a book about it…
I just think that people of faith sometimes don’t talk about matters of the heart and I get that it’s a personal choice. I don’t mind talking about it especially since people tend to be quite curious about my marital status anyway! They tend to enquire if I’ve had an arranged marriage or love marriage.
If I do find ‘the one’, it would definitely be a love marriage for me.
The dating scene has always been a challenge, particularly as I wear a headscarf. So many rules on what I can and can’t do. It’s felt like a place I do not belong.
Despite this I still believe that everyone is meant to have a companion, and although at this hour the man of my dreams is probably still fast asleep, I pray to God to help me find the partner I have been waiting for, for He is the best of providers.
Someone who understands me, loves me, forgives me, betters me. A man who sustains me, cherishes me, misses me and who is faithful to me.
A friend of mine said to me it’s all in the timing, and so until that day comes I recite this prayer so our Lord may help everyone looking for a partner. Surah Yaseen verse
36:36. “Glory to Allah, Who created in pairs all things that the earth produces, as well as their own (human) kind and (other) things of which they have no knowledge”.
Ameen
Peace and blessings be upon you.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (m0016309)
07/04/22 The future of farming in Wales and Lump Sum Exit payments
Farms in Wales face a challenging future according to a new report from MPs. The all party Welsh Affairs Committee points to pressures on farms' economic viability and is calling for more information on companies buying farmland for carbon offsetting schemes. MPs say they ‘recognise the importance of woodland to tackle the climate emergency,’ but ‘that companies could be attempting to “game the system” by investing in farming land to offset emissions’. We speak to the Chair of the Welsh Affairs Committee and Conservative MP Stephen Crabb.
And we hear from the Minister for Rural Affairs in the Welsh Government, Lesley Griffiths, about Wales' new post-Brexit rural support package worth £227m, which includes funds for farmers to make environmental improvements.
This week we’re talking about leaving farming - and how easy or difficult this can be. One of the government's new ideas for easing the process of retirement in England is the Lump Sum Exit Scheme, due to come online any day now. Some farmers are wary of whether the scheme will work for them; we've been speaking to young farmer Abi Irwin and her dad Michael who are in the process of a family farm handover and who have decided not to go for the Lump Sum scheme.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced for BBC Audio by Caitlin Hobbs
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b0378tmb)
Long-tailed Tit
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about the British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Michaela Strachan presents the long-tailed tit. They are sociable birds and family ties are vital. They even roost together at night, huddled in lines on a branch, and this behaviour saves lives in very cold winter weather. The nest of the Long-Tailed Tit is one of the most elaborate of any UK bird, a ball of interwoven moss, lichen, animal hair, spider's webs and feathers.
THU 06:00 Today (m00162xv)
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (m00162xz)
Polidori's The Vampyre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential novella of John Polidori (1795-1821) published in 1819 and attributed first to Lord Byron (1788-1824) who had started a version of it in 1816 at the Villa Diodati in the Year Without A Summer. There Byron, his personal physician Polidori, Mary and Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont had whiled away the weeks of miserable weather by telling ghost stories, famously giving rise to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'. Emerging soon after, 'The Vampyre' thrilled readers with its aristocratic Lord Ruthven who glutted his thirst with the blood of his victims, his status an abrupt change from the stories of peasant vampires of eastern and central Europe that had spread in the 18th Century with the expansion of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The connection with Lord Byron gave the novella a boost, and soon 'The Vampyre' spawned West End plays, penny dreadfuls such as 'Varney the Vampire', Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula', F.W Murnau's film 'Nosferatu A Symphony of Horror', and countless others.
The image above is of Bela Lugosi (1882-1956) as Count Mora in Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer's 'Vampires of Prague' (1935)
With
Nick Groom
Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau
Samantha George
Associate Professor of Research in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire
And
Martyn Rady
Professor Emeritus of Central European History at University College London
Producer: Simon Tillotson
THU 09:45 Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker (m00162y3)
Ep 4 - Raging Against the Dying of the Light
Harry Parker reads from his new book. Today, he explores the cutting edge advances in rehabilitating the body after injury and illness, and he admires the pioneers who take part in the trials, courageously risking all.
Harry Parker was in his twenties when he stepped on an IED while serving in Afghanistan in 2009 which altered his life in an instant. Here he takes us on his own personal journey as he grapples with an acquired disability and a new identity. At the same time he explores the little known and fascinating history of prosthetics, and the extraordinary advances in medicine and technology designed to ameliorate the effects of disability, illness and injury, from cochlear implants to wearable robotic suits, or exoskeletons. We'll also find out about the multi-billion pound industry involved in rehabilitating the body, and how invention, art and creativity play their part.
Harry Parker is the author of the acclaimed novel, Anatomy of a Soldier. He joined the army when he was twenty-three and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009. He is now a writer and artist.
Photo: copyright CC-BY, Steven Pocock / Wellcome Collection
Abridged by Sarah Shaffi.
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (m00162y8)
Grace Lavery, Maternity Services Nottinghamshire, Life After Divorce
Grace Lavery is an Associate Professor of English, Critical Theory, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from the West Midlands, Grace moved to the States in 2008, and transitioned in 2018. She is an activist as well as an academic, and has now written a memoir called Please Miss – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis.
This morning 100 individuals and their families have written to the Health and Social Care Secretary, Sajid Javid, asking him to appoint Donna Ockenden to conduct an independent review of maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. They are members of an online support group for those affected by unsafe maternity services and have shared harrowing accounts of their experiences. Jack and Sarah Hawkins join Emma to talk about the death of their daughter, Harriet, on 17th April 2016 as a result of a mismanaged labour. At the time both of them worked for Nottingham University Hospital Trust and their medical knowledge meant that when they were told she had "died of an infection" they knew this was inaccurate.
As we discussed in yesterday’s phone-in no fault divorce came into effect in England and Wales yesterday. More than 40% of marriages end in divorce – and most of us will have been affected by one - whether it be our own, our parents’ or our children’s. In a new series Life After Divorce our reporter Henrietta Harrison, who has recently been through a divorce herself, meets other divorcees to hear their stories and share experiences. We begin with Amanda - not her real name - who is 51 and split from her husband 12 years ago when he came out as gay.
THU 11:00 Crossing Continents (m00162yd)
Dying to hunt in France
Just before Christmas, 2021, Joel Vilard was driving his cousin home on a dual carriageway just south of Rennes in Brittany. Suddenly, a bullet flew through the window and hit the pensioner in the neck. He later died in hospital of injuries accidentally inflicted by a hunter firing a rifle from a few hundred metres away. A year earlier Morgan Keane, was shot dead in his garden, while out chopping wood. The hunter says that he mistook the 25 year old man for a wild boar.
Mila Sanchez was so shocked by her friend Morgan’s death that she collected hundreds of thousands of signatures to change the hunting laws. She gave evidence to the French Senate and put the topic on the political agenda. The Green Party is now calling for a ban on hunting on Sundays and Wednesdays. But the Federation National des Chasseurs, which licenses the 1.3 million active hunters across France, is fighting back. It argues hunting is a vital part of rural life and brings the community together. Its members were delighted when President Macron recently halved the cost of annual hunting permits.
Yet public opinion, concerned about safety and animal rights, is hardening against hunting and the battle for la France Profonde is on. On the eve of presidential elections, Lucy Ash looks at a country riven with divisions and asks if new laws are needed to ensure ramblers, families, residents and hunters can share the countryside in harmony.
Presenter, Lucy Ash. Producer, Phoebe Keane. Editor, Bridget Harney
THU 11:30 Archaeology of a Storyteller (m0015v90)
The author Alan Garner has spent all his life living within the same few square miles of Cheshire and can trace his family's history in this area back to the 16th century. Digging down into his novels, Archaeology of a Storyteller uncovers the historical inspiration behind the stories written by the man who many authors consider to be their favourite writer.
All his novels, from The Stone Book Quartet, to Treacle Walker, and his famous children's books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath, mine this area for history and legend, truth, and imagination. These stories are literally embedded in the archaeology and geology of the land - in the mysterious caves and tunnels under Alderley Edge. Although Garner is highly regarded by writers like Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman, Susan Cooper and David Almond and Frank Cottrell Boyce, he says his closest friends are archaeologists!
Since 1957, Garner has lived in an old medieval house a stone's throw from the gigantic radio telescope at Jodrell Bank. In 1972 his house was joined by the Medicine House, an old timber-framed building the Garners saved from demolition 18 miles away, now protected by their organisation The Blackden Trust.
Alan Garner knows the stories told by every stone, timber and protective mark in his home - and every inch of the surrounding land. Sifting through layers of interviews, including the archaeologists Mark Edmonds and Tim Campbell-Green, archive recordings and extracts from his work, Archaeology of a Storyteller sets out to uncover how Garner found his creative inspiration in a small patch of Cheshire.
Music composed and performed by John Dipper
Reader: Robert Powell
Producer: Andy Cartwright
A Soundscape production for BBC Radio 4
THU 12:00 News Summary (m00162yj)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:04 You and Yours (m00162yn)
You and Yours: Gap Finders - Gary Usher
Today's guest is the chef and restaurateur - Gary Usher.
Gary has worked with top chefs across the industry and has become known for his unusual was of financing his restaurants.
Following time at some of the UK’s top restaurants, Gary opened his first place - the Sticky Walnut in Hoole, Chester, in 2011 on a budget that meant he had to famously choose between a combi-oven or new tables and chairs. He chose the oven...
After a few very successful years and a couple of awards, he opened his second, Burnt Truffle, in the Wirral. What's surprising is he did this without any support from the banks - but raised the money through a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.
Thanks to 891 backers, Burnt Truffle, the name which was decided by Twitter, opened in July 2015.
Following Burnt’s success Gary opened a number of other restaurants with no or very little help from the banks but through crowdfunding. He now owns and runs 6 restaurants across the North West of England. Through strategically placing some of his restaurants, in deprived or out of the way areas, and through his unusual way of financing his ventures - we explore how Gary Usher found the funding gap in the restaurant business.
Photo: Gary Usher for Channel 4, credit Lee Brown
THU 12:32 Sliced Bread (m00162yr)
How green is switching to an electric car?
Electric Vehicles: Should you switch?
In the first of this new series Greg runs Julian’s suggested wonder-product through the evidence mill and asks whether electric vehicles (EVs) really are the best thing since sliced bread?
Julian has heard that switching his old petrol-guzzling banger for a shiny new EV will make him greener? But will it?
Electric cars are said to be ‘cleaner’ and ‘cheaper’ to run, but with a higher purchase price than their petrol equivalent - and a greater environmental footprint of manufacture - how many miles would Julian need to drive before his fuel savings off-set these initial costs - both financially and environmentally?
Greg tests one of the most popular cars in the UK and hears from experts including Mike Berners-Lee & Vicky Parrot to conclude whether electric vehicles are worth the hype, and your money.
And he wants YOUR suggestions for what to investigate next!
Is there something you keep seeing on TV - or hearing about on a podcast? Have you spotted something trending on Instagram or TikTok and you want to know if it delivers?
Send us your suggestions to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or send it to Greg direct on twitter or instagram where he’s @gregfoot
PRESENTER: GREG FOOT
PRODUCER: JULIAN PASZKIEWICZ
THU 12:57 Weather (m00162yx)
The latest weather forecast
THU 13:00 World at One (m00162z1)
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.
THU 13:45 A Show of Hands (m000xd1w)
Communication
We use our hands to explore the world around us; to manipulate and change it; to communicate; to signify aggression, submission or gratitude; to comfort or arouse; to make music, craft and create. We point, punch, tweak and text. We ball our fists, spread our palms, give someone the thumbs up and close our hands in prayer.
More than anything else, is it our hands which make us human?
This series considers the human hand from five different angles: manipulation, creativity, gesture, communication and touch. In each programme we hear from people who have a very particular perspective on hands and the way we use them, including a surgeon, a massage therapist, a harpist, a blacksmith and the recipient of a hand transplant. Each of them takes a long look at their own hands, describes what they see and considers the relationship with the world which their hands give them.
As we encounter healing hands, steady hands, talking hands, holding hands and the laying-on of hands we come to understand just how much our hands identify and define us.
Today we explore the ways we use our hands in communication. Hand gestures are a key part of the sign languages used by Deaf people. British Sign Language is as complex as spoken English, with its own grammar and syntax. Dr. Robert Adam, head of BSL at Heriot Watt University, considers how Deaf people learn fluency and ‘diction’ with their hands to create clear, unambiguous communication.
Clear, unambiguous communication is also essential for soldiers. For infantry in combat or observing radio silence, hands are a vital tool. Former Royal Marine Gary Mapletoft talks through the hand signals infantry use in the field to signal information about patrol formations, enemy positions and ambushes. He also reflects on the many other ways a soldier’s hands are used – from handling a weapon in extreme weather conditions to 'knife hands' – a way of pointing which is characteristic of many ex-infantry soldiers.
And, of course, every time we speak we all use our hands, whether it’s the unconscious signals of everyday conversation or the carefully thought-out gestures of actors or public speakers like politicians. Body language expert Allan Pease analyses what we’re saying about ourselves when we gesture with our hands.
Producer: Jeremy Grange
Photograph courtesy of Tim Booth
THU 14:00 The Archers (m00162y7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Our Friends in the North (m00162z5)
Episode 4: 1970
Peter Flannery once famously said of Our Friends in the North, "...it's just a posh soap opera - but it's a posh soap opera with something to say."
And now he has rewritten his multi-award winning and highly acclaimed television series as an audio drama for BBC Radio 4. Ambitious in scale and scope, the drama chronicles the lives of four friends over three decades beginning in the 1964. The series tackles corporate, political and police corruption in the 1960s, the rise and fall of the Soho porn empires in the 1970s, the Miners’ Strike of the 1980s and the rise of New Labour in the 1990s. Some of the stories are directly based on the real-life controversies involving T. Dan Smith and John Poulson in Newcastle during the 60s and 70s.The series now ends with a new, tenth episode by writer Adam Usden, bringing the story up to the present day.
In episode four, it’s now 1970. Nicky and his anarchist friends are intent on bringing down Edward Heath’s government by force, Geordie is still working for Benny Barratt in Soho, and Mary and Tosker continue to grow apart. Chief Constable Roy Johnson is brought in as an outsider to investigate corruption in the London Metropolitan Police force. He faces an uphill struggle.
Cast
Felix: Trevor Fox
Helen: Eve Shotton
Nicky: James Baxter
Geordie: Luke MacGregor
Commander Harold Chapple: James Gaddas
DI Salway / Tosker: Philip Correia
Austin Donohue / Claud Seabrook / D.I. Cockburn: Tom Goodman-Hill
Sir Colin Blamire: Des Yankson
DS Conrad: Andrew Byron
Benny Barratt / Chief Constable Roy Johnson: Tony Hirst
Mary: Norah Lopez Holden
Florrie: Tracey Wilkinson
Writer: Peter Flannery
Studio Engineer: Paul Clark
Sound Design: Paul Cargill
Producer: Melanie Harris
Executive Producer: Jeremy Mortimer
A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4
THU 15:00 Open Country (m00162z9)
Husky Sledding in the Cairngorms
Helen Mark travels to the rolling hills of Aberdeenshire, home of the Cairngorms National Park. Popular with walkers, hikers, nature-lovers and 'munro-baggers' alike, these hills are undoubtedly a beautiful place to visit. But you can ditch your hiking boots for this episode of Open Country, because Helen's exploring in a different way: from the back of a husky-pulled sled!
At the reins is Wattie McDonald, husky-lover, musher, and a veteran of the extraordinary 'Iditarod': the gruelling thousand-mile sled-race across the frozen wastes of Alaska. With his team of sixteen dogs, Wattie navigated treacherous frozen lakes, snow-covered forests, and his own exhaustion to make it across Alaska in one piece: one of very few Scots ever to do so. Back in his home country, the trails are a little shorter and a lot less snowy, but Wattie's up for the challenge nevertheless. As long as his dogs are happy, so is he.
But the real stars of the show are the dogs themselves: Siberian Huskies - a whole kennel-full of them. Krash, Krazy, sweet uncle Kaspar, the veteran one-eyed Keely, and the Pandemic Pups, Kovid and Korona. They're a cuddly bunch, always up for a head-scratch or a tummy-rub, but more than anything these working dogs simply love to run. With their help, Helen speeds through the landscape. Here's hoping the brakes work!
Produced by Emily Knight
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (m00161qm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:54 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Bookclub (m00161rh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 Unreal: The VFX Revolution (m000xrzm)
Digital Realms
How visual effects changed and how they changed the movies. Oscar winner Paul Franklin explores how film entered the digital realm.
The 1970s saw the very first onscreen digital effects in films like Westworld. Those first pioneers of CGI already spoke of digital humans, indeed of entire films being made within the computer, but Hollywood was unconvinced. By 1979, some of those visionaries like Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, later founders of Pixar, were working for filmmaker George Lucas, who primarily wanted new digital tools for editing and compositing and to explore computer graphics. Their first all-digital sequence created life-from lifelessness with the Genesis effect for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Meanwhile Disney itself was creating TRON, a spectacular mix of state-of-the art animation and pioneering digital effects that took audiences into cyberspace for the first time. In their different ways these two films were the true harbingers of the digital revolution that would bring profound change to moviemaking within little more than a decade. And then came Terminator 2's chrome shape shifter-the T1000. The revolution was underway.
With the voices of Ed Catmull, Mark Dippe, Bill Kroyer, Steven Lisberger, Dennis Muren, Alvy Ray Smith, Richard Taylor & Steve Williams
Producer: Mark Burman
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (m00162zf)
Declining Data, Climate Deadlines and the Day the Dinosaurs Died
Covid-19 infections in the UK are at an all-time high. But most people in England can no longer access free Covid-19 tests, and the REACT-1 study, which has been testing more than 100,000 individuals since the pandemic began, ended last week after its funding stopped. Martin Mckee, Prof of European Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, shares his insights on what these changes might mean for ambitions to 'live with the virus'.
This week, the UN's latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has unveiled a to-do list of ways to save the planet from climate catastrophe. How do scientists reach a global consensus on climate change amid war, an energy crisis, and a pandemic? Vic Gill speaks to report co-author Jo House, University of Bristol, and Ukrainian climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska who took part in signing off every line of the report while sheltering from the war in Kyiv.
And from our planet's present and future to its ancient past. Scientists working on the Tanis fossil site in North Dakota in the US have dug up a dinosaur's leg, complete with skin and scales. Is this 66-million-year-old fossil, alongside similar nearby victims, the key to unveiling those transformative minutes after the infamous Chicxulub asteroid struck the earth and ended the era of the dinosaurs? BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos has seen the fossil and speaks with Paul Barrett of London's Natural History Museum about the significance of this un-reviewed new finds.
And from earth to Mars. After a year of analysing audio recordings from NASA's Perseverance rover, scientists have found not one but two speeds of sound on Mars. Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford, guides us through this sonic wonder, and how sound may become a key tool for exploring distant worlds.
Mars audio credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ISAE-Supaéro
THU 17:00 PM (m00162zk)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m00162zp)
The Prime Minister has defended the strategy, which aims to increase UK energy independence, and includes plans to boost nuclear, wind and hydrogen power.
THU 18:30 You Heard It Here First (m00162zt)
Chris McCausland asks a panel of comedians to live in an audio-only world, deciphering brainteaser sound cues for points and pride whilst trying not to muck about too much along the way.
In this pilot episode, contestants try and figure out exactly what it is that they’re watching on the tele and which celebrity is talking to them with a mouthful of cake.
The competing comedians are Mark Maier, Amy Gledhill, Marlon Davis and Eleanor Tiernan.
Producer: Richard Morris
Production co-ordinator: Beverly Tagg
Sound editor: David Thomas
Theme music 'Colour me Groovy' by The Rich Morton Sound
Recorded at the Backyard Comedy Club, Bethnal Green
THU 19:00 The Archers (m00162zy)
Tracy finds Freddie skulking in Grey Gables. Oliver’s emailed to notify them a special visitor is to book in at the hotel. Tracy says she and Roy reckon Oliver has a new girlfriend. Freddie decides to make the Royal Suite fancy and romantic in readiness. The guest introduces himself and Freddie realises he’s misread the situation. As the guest, Adil Shah, asks Freddie to carry his bags, Freddie pleads with an amused Tracy to remove the rose petals and chocolates from the pillow. Later, Adil asks Tracy for restaurant recommendations, keen to explore Borsetshire.
Alice visits Ian. Ruairi’s there too, and chastises Alice for reading a text from Chris – her divorce is all she talks about and it brings people down, especially Brian and Jennifer. Alice concedes, and asks Ruairi for details about the apartment in Bath. Ian changes the subject to Alice and Martha – Alice is planning to stay at home with her. The tension continues when Alice grills Ruairi about his uni exams. Ruairi in turn asks how Alice is coping with sobriety. Ian tries to keep things light, and Alice mentions an upcoming family fun day event on Easter Monday, as part of her recovery. Ruairi gleefully points out that’s the weekend of Brian and Jennifer’s visit to the Bath apartment. Ruairi strongarms Alice into agreeing that her parents need the break. Alice picks at the detail of the Bath property owners, causing Ruairi to get details mixed up. Later, Alice confronts Ruairi. She knows the Bath trip isn’t all it seems – Ruairi had better not do anything to compromise Brian and Jennifer.
THU 19:15 Front Row (m0016302)
Jeremy O'Harris's play Daddy, Walt Disney exhibition & Navalny documentary reviewed; musician Kizzy Crawford
American playwright Jeremy O’Harris discusses his play Daddy, at London’s Almeida Theatre, which explores the romantic relationship between Franklin, a young black artist, and Andre, a wealthy white collector.
Front Row reviews works that are poles apart today; the exhibition Inspiring Walt Disney, which reveals how Disney’s fascination with France, especially Rococo design, animates films such as Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, and the film Navalny, about the Russian opposition leader who was poisoned with Novichok, recovered in Berlin and returned – to be immediately incarcerated. It is as much a crime thriller, a whodunnit, as a documentary. Film critic Leila Latif and John Kampfner, who began his career as a Reuters Moscow correspondent, but is also Chair of the House of Illustration, discuss these with Tom Sutcliffe.
To mark the BBC's Art That Made Us season, Front Row invites artists from across the nations of the UK to choose the piece of art that made them by shaping their artistic and cultural identity. Today we hear from the Welsh-Bajan musician Kizzy Crawford on Robert Williams Parry's poem The Fox.
Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Harry Parker
Photo: Terique Jarrett and Sharlene Whyte in Daddy at the Almeida Credit: Marc Brenner
THU 20:00 Terrorism and the Mind (m001421m)
Talking to Terrorists
What are researchers learning about the prevalence of mental illness among convicted terrorists, and the role it might play in their actions?
Raffaello Pantucci investigates a growing body of research, speaking to academics and security officers who have conducted research in the UK, Europe, the USA and Israel.
He asks if the changing nature of terrorism in the West, from planned group attacks by the likes of Al Qaeda to isolated incidents often involving lone actors, is evidence that poor mental health is a growing factor in people's behaviour.
Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith
Sound: Graham Puddifoot
Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Hugh Levinson
THU 20:30 Life Changing (m00162x3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (m00162zf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (m00162xz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (m001630b)
NATO agrees to strengthen military support for Ukraine
In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
THU 22:45 The Promise by Damon Galgut (m001630d)
4: 'Nest of vipers.'
2021's Booker Prize-winning novel charts the crash and burn of the Swarts, a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. Told over four decades and four funerals, it is the story of family, land and a promise, set against a changing South Africa.
Today: the Swart children find themselves together again when their father is struck down by a snake bite...
Reader: Jack Klaff
Writer: Damon Galgut is a novelist who has twice been nominated for the Booker Prize, for The Good Doctor and In a Stranger Room. He lives and works in Cape Town
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
THU 23:00 The Likely Dads (m001630g)
Series 2
Discipline
The Likely Dads are back for a second series to discuss parenting from the paternal perspective. Host Tim Vincent and regular panelists Mick Ferry and Russell Kane return a little older (definitely) and a little wiser (debatable) to talk about their experiences of fatherhood so far.
In the first episode of the new series Tim, Mick and Russell discuss how discipline has evolved from a time when being told off by a stranger was socially acceptable and a clip round the ear was a daily occurrence to the concept of parents not saying "no" and that modern-day gem, the naughty step.
"Mick & Russell's Dad Off" returns, where the regulars are pitted against each other in a series of hypothetical parenting situations, and a new feature sees Tim reveal an anonymous fact about one of our Likely Dads for the panel to guess who it's attributed to.
Our guests joining Tim, Mick and Russell this week are comedians Britain's Got Talent finalist Nabil Abdulrashid and award-winning Alun Cochrane.
The Producers: Kurt Brookes and Ashley Byrne
A Made In Manchester production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:30 The Shadow of Algiers (m0014pgb)
The Suitcase or the Coffin
President de Gaulle signed the Evian Accords with the Algerian Independence Movement, the FLN, sixty years ago next month.
Edward Stourton tells the story of how France greeted tens of thousands of French and Algerians who, virtually overnight, felt they had no choice but to leave Algeria. They feared for their future, and even for their lives.
But the idea that many of them were simply 'coming back' to their homeland was far from the truth.
Sound design: Peregrine Andrews
Producers: Adele Armstrong and Ellie House
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
REFERENCES
"Ceasefire in Algeria announced by de Gaulle 1962” British Pathe.
“In a Savage War of Peace” Alastair Horne.
THU 23:45 Today in Parliament (m001630k)
All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
FRIDAY 08 APRIL 2022
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (m001630m)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 00:30 Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker (m00162y3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001630p)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001630r)
BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001630t)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (m001630w)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001630y)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sadia Azmat, Stand-up comedian and writer
Good Morning
Every Friday is like a mini Eid for Muslims and they begin sunset on Thursdays through to sunset on Friday.
One of the things I do every Friday is recite Surah Kahf.
This is a special surah that provides protection and light to the reader. It is highly recommended to do this every Friday, and it gives me a much needed feeling of hope and safety. Especially amongst the uncertainty in the world post-pandemic and conflict.
One of the stories in this chapter of the Quran is about a group of people who hid in a cave fleeing persecution. They were kept safe from their persecutors in the cave due to the mercy of God.
The other things Muslims like to do on Eid is dress up, wear perfume and get ready for the weekend! This is more celebratory on Fridays in Ramadan as Muslims anticipate our big Eid at the end of the month.
In the name of Allah with Whose Name there is protection against every kind of harm in the earth or in the heaven, and he is All-Hearing and All-Knowing.
I pray for our protection.
Ameen
Peace and blessings be upon you.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (m0016310)
08/04/22 - Farming in Ukraine, global food supply, milk prices and leaving farming
Kees Huizinga has been farming in Ukraine for 20 years with 15,000 hectares of crops and 2000 dairy cows on land between the capital Kyiv and the port of Odesa. Charlotte Smith asks him how the season is progressing as the war continues.
Meanwhile, the increased price of fuel and fertiliser is beginning to bite. Dairy farmers call for consumers to pay around fifty per cent more for their milk.
And a report published by the Scottish Environment and Forestry Directorate last month outlines barriers to people leaving farming as well as barriers to new entrants - so is that a problem and if so, how do we fix it?
Presented by Charlotte Smith
Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Heather Simons
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03bkfhy)
Common Pheasant
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 Common Pheasant. The crowing of pheasants is a sound inseparable from most of the UK countryside, yet these flamboyant birds were introduced into the UK. The pheasant's coppery plumage and red face-wattles, coupled with a tail that's as long again as its body, make the cock pheasant a strikingly beautiful bird.
FRI 06:00 Today (m001637r)
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 The Reunion (m00161r0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker (m001637t)
Ep 5 - Monsters
Harry Parker reads the last episode from is new book where tells the story of how he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan and how he grappled with his new identity and disability. Today, he is confronted by disability hate crime. And he also meets Andrew, who tells the story of his amputation and rehabilitation through pole dancing, going on to win the World Pole Sports Championships.
Harry Parker was in his twenties when he stepped on an IED while serving in Afghanistan in 2009 which altered his life in an instant. Here he takes us on his own personal journey as he grapples with an acquired disability and a new identity. At the same time he explores the little known and fascinating history of prosthetics, and the extraordinary advances in medicine and technology designed to ameliorate the effects of disability, illness and injury, from cochlear implants to wearable robotic suits, or exoskeletons. We'll also find out about the multi-billion pound industry involved in rehabilitating the body, and how invention, art and creativity play their part.
Harry Parker is the author of the acclaimed novel, Anatomy of a Soldier. He joined the army when he was twenty-three and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009. He is now a writer and artist.
Photo: copyright CC-BY, Steven Pocock / Wellcome Collection
Abridged by Sarah Shaffi.
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (m001637w)
Saffron Hocking, French presidential elections, Midwives, Afghan girls and SMS education, Author Jendella Benson
The new season of Top Boy currently on Netflix, shines a light on the reality of life for those involved in London drug gangs and the people who live around them. This season covers social issues such as deportation, homophobia and child neglect, with the character Lauryn’s experience of domestic violence being a central storyline. Actor Saffron Hocking, who plays Lauryn on the show joins us to talk about her portrayal of the issue.
Sunday 10th April sees the first round of the French Presidential elections. According to the latest polls the two candidates likely to go through to the next round are the current President Emmanuel Macron and The National Rally’s Marine Le Pen. She’s rebranded her party and herself for this latest attempt. The Economist's Sophie Pedder joins us to discuss the potential first female President of France.
Just over a week ago Woman’s Hour devoted a whole programme to the long awaited and landmark Ockenden Report into maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust - in what has been described the biggest maternity scandal in the NHS's history. We had a huge response from our listeners as well as a significant number of midwives. We speak to two - Sarah and Ruth.
It’s been just over two weeks since the Taliban went back on their plans to allow girls in Afghanistan to return to school. Schools were set to open nationwide after months of but at the last minute the education ministry abruptly announced girls' secondary schools would stay shut. Sara Wahedi, a tech entrepreneur joins us to explain her new idea of helping Afghan girls get access to education - through their phones.
Do you know much about ‘farming’? Author Jendella Benson has released her debut novel, Hope and Glory, which explores the topic of private fostering - ‘farming’ - which was common amongst British West African communities during the 50s-70s and even into recent years. Jendella joins us to talk all about writing her first book and reflecting the experiences of those in her community.
Presenter: Andrea Catherwood
Producer: Claire Fox
Photo Credit: Joseph Sinclair
FRI 11:00 Three Pounds in My Pocket (m001637y)
Series 5
Episode 1
Kavita Puri hears stories from British South Asians about life in the early noughties. For almost a decade Kavita has been charting the social history of these communities in post-war Britain. Many of the pioneers arrived with as little as £3, due to strict currency controls.
The fifth series picks up where the last one ended: the aftermath of 9/11. The world was changing fast. The revolution in communication technology meant the Indian subcontinent felt closer than ever. The £3 generation and their descendants could now call family on the Indian subcontinent whenever they wanted - rather than just a few times a year. And 24-hour global TV news meant that events on the Indian subcontinent, like the Gujarat riots of 2002, could be beamed into living rooms in Britain.
However, the pull to Britain was getting deeper as the pioneer generation were entering retirement, and their children were having their own children. The British South Asian community, complex in its voices and experiences, was telling its own stories its own way, including the pioneering Silver Street, the first daily Asian soap opera. But violent clashes by a minority of protesters over the play Behzti, resulted in the cancellation of the run. It made national headlines and would become “the Sikhs' Rushdie moment,” raising difficult questions about Britain’s commitment to free speech and about offence to religious minorities.
Producer: Ant Adeane
Editor: Hugh Levinson
Historical consultants:
Dr Florian Stadtler, University of Bristol
Dr Edward Anderson, Northumbria University
Professor Gurharpal Singh, School of Oriental and African Studies
FRI 11:30 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen? (m0016381)
Series 1
Episode 1
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders star as respected novelist Florence and movie star Selina, in a sparkling comedy series about two sisters at war, by Veep writer David Quantick.
Florence (Dawn French) and Selina (Jennifer Saunders) are nominated for a writer’s prize and the contest becomes a battle between the two sisters. Florence is invited to the Hay Book Festival as she’s been nominated for the prestigious Bronte shield – but Florence’s joy and delight turn to anger and disappointment when Selina is also nominated, for her kiss and tell autobiography, Kiss And Tell. As every female author in Britain, and Lionel Shriver, drop out in protest, the contest for the award becomes a battle between the two sisters.
Critical reaction when the first episode in this series was originally broadcast in December 2020:
“The leads’ natural chemistry, plus David Quantick’s witty script… make for an enjoyable comedy with series potential” The Observer
“It’s as slick, dark and funny as one would expect – but surely this cannot be a one-off? The ending alone leaves us begging for a series” Radio Times
“French and Saunders sparkle with a magic that is so rarely heard in new radio comedies that I’d almost forgotten it was possible” Daily Telegraph
And now Dawn, Jennifer and David return with the rest of the series…
Cast:
Florence - Dawn French
Selina - Jennifer Saunders
Mrs Ragnarrok – Rebecca Front
Lucy - Lisa McGrillis
All the men - Alistair McGowan
Written by David Quantick
Producer: Liz Anstee
A CPL production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:00 News Summary (m0016384)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:04 Archive on 4 (m00161mf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 on Saturday]
FRI 12:57 Weather (m0016387)
The latest weather forecast
FRI 13:00 World at One (m0016389)
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond.
FRI 13:45 A Show of Hands (m000xrzc)
Touch
We use our hands to explore the world around us; to manipulate and change it; to communicate; to signify aggression, submission or gratitude; to comfort or arouse; to make music, craft and create. We point, punch, tweak and text. We ball our fists, spread our palms, give someone the thumbs up and close our hands in prayer.
More than anything else, is it our hands which make us human?
This series considers the human hand from five different angles: manipulation, creativity, gesture, communication and touch. In each programme we hear from people who have a very particular perspective on hands and the way we use them, including a harpist, a blacksmith, a former infantry soldier and the recipient of a hand transplant. Each of them takes a long look at their own hands, describes what they see and considers the relationship with the world which their hands give them.
As we encounter healing hands, steady hands, talking hands, holding hands and the laying-on of hands we come to understand just how much our hands identify and define us.
In the final programme we explore the power of touch with massage therapist Cathy Hagan and her client Gill Tate. Cathy reflects on the way she uses her thumbs, palms and the heel of her hand to sense and locate areas of tension in her clients’ bodies - and then how her hands work to relax those knotted muscles.
A very different insight into touch comes from ‘The Man of Steal’ - magician and pickpocket James Freedman. He talks about the deftness, dexterity and sleight of hand that are the tools of his trade - and how he uses touch to deceive and misdirect when he’s picking someone’s pocket during his stage show.
We also hear from hand surgeon Professor Simon Kay and photographer Tim Booth who has spent over twenty years creating portraits of people’s hands. They consider the extraordinary power of hand-holding and touch to comfort and communicate.
Producer: Jeremy Grange
Featuring excerpt from 'James Freedman: Secrets from a Professional Pickpocket' - courtesy of TED Talks
Photograph courtesy of Tim Booth: ‘A Show of Hands’ Project
FRI 14:00 The Archers (m00162zy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Limelight (m001638c)
Dead Hand
Dead Hand – Episode 2: Zero Sum
A contemporary thriller set in Northern Ireland written by Stuart Drennan.
Greg is the host of a true crime podcast dedicated to uncovering the identity of a serial killer, last active over twenty years ago, known only as Dead Hand. A killer named after a mysterious radio transmission which has been broadcasting an indecipherable code in the years since Dead Hand vanished. A code told in the voices of Dead Hand’s victims; including Greg’s missing father. However, when a new voice is added to the code, Greg realises that Dead Hand is active again. With time already running out, can he finally crack the code and catch the killer?
Cast:
Greg ... Paul Mallon
DS Murray … Michelle Fairley
Kate … Roísín Gallagher
Lucy … Hannah Eggleton
Stacey … Eimear Fearon
May … Julia Dearden
Thomas … Patrick Fitzsymons
Daniel … Desmond Eastwood
Assistant Jo … Nicky Harley
Control … Louise Parker
Police Officer … Andrew McCracken
TSG lead … Patrick Buchanan
All other roles played by members of the cast.
Writer … Stuart Drennan
Script Editor … Philip Palmer
Producer … Michael Shannon
Executive Editor … Andy Martin
A BBC Northern Ireland production for Radio 4.
FRI 14:45 Living with the Gods (b099xhmj)
The Beginnings of Belief
Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum, begins this series about the role and expression of shared beliefs with the Lion Man, a small ivory sculpture which is about 40 000 years old. The figure has a human body and the head of a lion - it is a being that cannot exist in nature. While we shall never know what the Lion Man meant to the community in which it was created, we do know that it mattered enough for the group to allow someone to spend about 400 hours carving it.
The programme visits the cave in southern Germany where fragments of ivory were discovered in 1939. These fragments were gradually pieced together by archaeologists decades later to re-assemble the figure. Some smoothing on the torso suggests that the Lion Man was passed from person to person in the cave.
Neil MacGregor begins the series with this object because, in his words, 'what the archaeologists did as they pieced together the Lion Man is what societies have always done: work with fragmentary evidence to build a picture of the world. You could say that it's when a group agrees on how the fragments of the cosmic puzzle fit together that you truly have a community - one that endures, encompassing the living, the dead and the yet unborn. What this whole series is about is the role that such systems of belief - and perhaps even more the rituals that express those beliefs - have played in the creation, and sometimes in the destruction, of societies. Are we humans distinguished not just by a capacity to think, but by our need to believe - in a context where the search is not so much for my place in the world, but for our place in the cosmos - where believing is almost synonymous with belonging?'
Producer Paul Kobrak
The series is produced in partnership with the British Museum, with the assistance of Dr Christopher Harding, University of Edinburgh.
Photograph: (c) Museum Ulm, photo: Oleg Kuchar, Ulm.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (m001638f)
GQT from the Archive: 75th Celebration
Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. This week, Kathy, Ashley Edwards, Pippa Greenwood and James Wong unite to celebrate 75 years of Gardeners' Question Time.
Through the mists of time and a smoky room in Ashton-under-Lyne, the team hear a snippet from GQT's first broadcast, reflecting on changing attitudes, and looking toward exciting horticultural developments.
From the archive, Eric Robson talks to veterans at the walled allotments in Ayrshire.
Producer: Daniel Cocker
Assistant Producer: Bethany Hocken
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 15:45 Short Works (m001638h)
Oestrogen City
An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the writer Rosemary Jenkinson. As read by Séainín Brennan.
Rosemary Jenkinson is a playwright and short story writer from Belfast. She has published several short story collections and her work for radio includes 'Castlereagh to Kandahar' (BBC Radio 3) and 'Lives in Transit' (BBC Radio 4).
Writer: Rosemary Jenkinson
Reader: Séainín Brennan
Producer: Michael Shannon
A BBC Northern Ireland production.
FRI 16:00 Last Word (m001638k)
Derek Mack (pictured), June Brown, Doris Derby, Dave Sales
Matthew Bannister on
Derek Mack, the rocket engineer who helped Britain enter the space age
June Brown, the actor best known as Dot Cotton in Eastenders
Dr Doris A. Derby, the American civil rights activist and photographer who took historic pictures of the struggle for equality
Dave Sales, the Dorset fisherman who fought a 23 year campaign to protect the sea bed in Lyme Bay.
Producer: Neil George
Interviewed guest: Dion Mack
Interviewed guest: Ken MacTaggart
Interviewed guest: Bob Banks
Interviewed guest: Hannah Collins
Interviewed guest: Gill Sales
Archive clips used: British Pathé, The Black Knight Rocket 1958; BBC One, The One Show - The Rocket Men 25/01/2019; BBC TV Archive, Black Arrow Project - 24 Hours 27/10/1971; BBC One, Eastenders, 1985-2020; BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs - June Brown 17/02/2017; British Movietone, V E Day in London 1945; Granada TV, Coronation Street, 19/08/1970; Library of Congress, Southern Oral History Program in North Carolina - Doris Derby Interview 2011; Storylines, Guardians of the Reef Project - Interview with David Sales 27/07/2017.
FRI 16:30 Feedback (m001638m)
The BBC has just published its Annual Plan in which it talks ominously of reducing its so called “audience offer”. In Feedback this week, Roger Bolton asks a member of the Corporation’s Executive board, Rhodri Talfan Davies, what that means for radio listeners.
Also, Simon Mayo explains why he's leaving the BBC after 40 years, and what he will and won’t miss.
And rugby fans attending a Premiership match say what they think of 5 Live’s sports coverage.
Presenter: Roger Bolton
Producer: Kate Dixon
Executive Producer: Samir Shah
A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 17:00 PM (m001638p)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m001638r)
There has been international condemnation after dozens of people died in an apparent Russian missile attack on a railway station, packed with families trying to flee the fighting.
FRI 18:30 The Now Show (m001638t)
Series 60
Episode 5
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by the voices of Chiara Goldsmith and Luke Kempner. Laura Smyth details her experience working as a remote teacher, and Chris Thorburn looks into the Grammys. Music is provided by Tim Sutton and Sooz Kempner.
FRI 19:00 Letter from Ukraine (m00165wm)
About the war and 'dead' books
Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov gives a personal account of daily life in war-torn Ukraine. This week he considers meter-readings and the reading of Ukrainian literature.
Translated by Elizabeth Sharp
Produced by Emma Harding
Production co-ordinator Eleri McAuliffe
Sound by Catherine Robinson
An Audio Drama Wales production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 19:15 Screenshot (m001638w)
Trains on screen
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode jump on board to explore the role of trains on our screens.
This week sees the release of Compartment No 6 - a strange and touching romance set on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Trains have played a recurring role in film, right from the inception of the genre. Mark is joined by silent film specialist Bryony Dixon and composer Neil Brand to talk about the appeal of the railway for the pioneers of cinema.
And Ellen talks to Compartment No 6 director Juho Kuosmanen and critic Anna Smith about the cinematic opportunities for connection, contemplation and romance while riding the rails.
Screenshot is Radio 4’s guide through the ever-expanding universe of the moving image. Every episode, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode journey through the main streets and back roads connecting film, television and streaming over the last hundred years.
Producer: Freya Hellier
A Prospect Street production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (m001638y)
Minette Batters, David TC Davies MP, Liz Saville Roberts MP, Jo Stevens MP
Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from St Mary's Church in Ross-on-Wye with a panel which includes President of the National Farmers' Union Minette Batters, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Jo Stevens, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales David TC Davies, and Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster Liz Saville Roberts.
Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton
Lead broadcast engineer: Jacques Sweeney
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (m0016390)
A View From Russia: All I Have To Say
The everyday repression of life in Russia, as experienced by an anonymous dissident playwright.
In this essay, she reflects on the war in Ukraine and asks what role she and her fellow Russians might have played in it, what they might have done to stop it - and what Ukrainians must think of them now.
In turn, she explains how the Russian state is actively controlling the narrative about the war - and reveals the harsh consequences for those who dare veer from the approved 'truth'.
"They arrest protestors for carrying blank sheets of paper. It doesn’t matter what’s written on it, only that you are carrying it. If you are suspected of opposing the government, then you must be guilty."
Reflecting on Russia's history, she weighs up how life today both mirrors and is profoundly different to the harshest days of Stalinist rule, while pointing out the numerous violations of the country's constitution.
The essay is translated and read by poet and translator Sasha Dugdale.
Producer: Sheila Cook
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
FRI 21:00 The Museums That Make Us (m0015bc9)
Week Two
Neil MacGregor presents a new series for BBC Radio Four celebrating the museums to be found in all corners of Britain. The ambition is to explore local, regional and city museums across the length and breadth of the country, and in the process to answer the question ‘What are Museums For in 2022’.
In the second week of his series, Neil visits museums who have to deal with the allure of a thriving past, particularly through the industrial revolution. Very often the vestiges of that past encourage a spirit of loss and longing, but in Derby, Bishop Auckland, Stowmarket, Wakefield and Brighton, museums are managing to deliver a message of civic pride and ambition for the future, without dismissing the history.
Museums have always been telescopes trained on the past to help locate a sense of place in the present. Neil believes that role is an active one, responding to changes in the people museums serve and the shifting social and cultural landscape they inhabit. After spending much of his life at the centre of our national Museum life in London, Neil is taking to the road to discover more about the extraordinary work being done in cherished Museums outside the capital, from Stornoway to Stowmarket, and Belfast to Birmingham.
In each episode he visits a single museum, inviting them to choose an object from their collections which they feel best illustrates their civic role, and the way they relate and want to relate to their local audience. Very rarely have they chosen a crown jewel from their often priceless collections. More often it's an object with a particular local resonance, or which helps tackle episodes from the past which are being viewed very differently by citizens in the 21st century.
He’ll be visiting the great national museums of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, as well as major city institutions in Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and elsewhere. And in spite of the challenges of the last two years, everywhere he meets passionate teams who are dedicated to providing a unique experience for both local audiences and visitors from further afield.
Neil writes: “What’s going on in our museums is at once challenging and exciting and it can only really be understood by visiting as many as possible and finding out how they have approached what is a vital role in providing a sense of local, regional and national identity.”
Producer - Tom Alban
Original music composed by Phil Channell
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (m0016392)
In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective
FRI 22:45 The Promise by Damon Galgut (m0016394)
5: 'That old story.'
2021's Booker Prize-winning novel charts the crash and burn of the Swarts, a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. Told over four decades and four funerals, it is the story of three siblings, land and a promise, set against a changing South Africa.
Today: after Pa's funeral and the reading of the will, the thorny matter of the promise re-emerges....
Reader: Jack Klaff
Writer: Damon Galgut
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
FRI 23:00 Great Lives (m00162v6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 on Tuesday]
FRI 23:30 The Shadow of Algiers (m0014qdb)
The Black Box of History
President Macron wants to leave his mark on Franco-Algerian relations.
Sixty years after the Algerian War of Independence - and as France prepares to elect a new President - Edward Stourton concludes his series of stories from a colonial past which still cast a shadow over the present.
In this programme, Edward reveals how the wounds left by the Algerian War remain very close to the surface.
Benjamin Stora, the historian charged with producing a report on the war and its legacy for the French government, says the enormity of the challenge is clear....but, after sixty years, the process has finally begun.
Zorah Drif, who planted a bomb in Algiers at the age of 20 and who was immortalized in the film "The Battle of Algiers" tells us that one of the last great joys of her life is seeing young people determined to carry on the struggle. Now 87, she remains unrepentant.
But Algeria's leading novelist, Kamel Daoud, says the country's constant reliving of the past is a curse, not a blessing and says keeping the old wounds so raw is catastrophic.
Sound design: Peregrine Andrews
Producers: Ellie House and Adele Armstrong
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
REFERENCES
Paul Aussaresses - "Last Word", Radio 4.
Médine - “Grand Paris”.
FRI 23:45 Witness (b01lsts7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Tuesday]
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
1922: The Birth of Now
14:45 SUN (m0013rbg)
A Point of View
08:48 SUN (m0015vmh)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (m0016390)
A Show of Hands
13:45 MON (m000wrjw)
A Show of Hands
13:45 TUE (m000wyz8)
A Show of Hands
13:45 WED (m000x6b1)
A Show of Hands
13:45 THU (m000xd1w)
A Show of Hands
13:45 FRI (m000xrzc)
Am I That Guy?
20:30 MON (m0015mgx)
Analysis
21:30 SUN (b09sn5f8)
Any Answers?
14:00 SAT (m00161lv)
Any Questions?
13:10 SAT (m0015vmf)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (m001638y)
Archaeology of a Storyteller
11:30 THU (m0015v90)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (m00161mf)
Archive on 4
12:04 FRI (m00161mf)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (m00162zf)
BBC Inside Science
21:00 THU (m00162zf)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (m00161mw)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (m00161mw)
Beyond Belief
16:30 MON (m00162mp)
Bookclub
16:00 SUN (m00161rh)
Bookclub
15:30 THU (m00161rh)
Border Crossing
21:45 SAT (b07bb4bv)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (m00161qw)
Conversations from a Long Marriage
18:30 WED (m00162y4)
Costing the Earth
15:30 TUE (m00162v2)
Costing the Earth
21:00 WED (m00162v2)
Crossing Continents
11:00 THU (m00162yd)
Desolation Jests
19:15 SUN (b0858k3l)
Dirty Work
17:00 SUN (m0015vct)
Drama
14:15 MON (m00162mj)
Drama
14:15 TUE (m00162v0)
Drama
14:15 WED (m000ptbn)
Farming Today
06:30 SAT (m00161l1)
Farming Today
05:45 MON (m00161t1)
Farming Today
05:45 TUE (m00162nr)
Farming Today
05:45 WED (m00162wb)
Farming Today
05:45 THU (m0016309)
Farming Today
05:45 FRI (m0016310)
Feedback
20:00 SUN (m0015vm1)
Feedback
16:30 FRI (m001638m)
Fortunately... with Fi and Jane
23:00 TUE (m00162vt)
From Fact to Fiction
14:45 SAT (m00159qj)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (m00161lj)
Front Row
19:15 MON (m00162n1)
Front Row
19:15 TUE (m00162vh)
Front Row
19:15 WED (m00162yc)
Front Row
19:15 THU (m0016302)
Fungi: The New Frontier
21:00 TUE (m00132xm)
GF Newman's The Corrupted
21:00 SAT (b04yb5fn)
Gardeners' Question Time
14:00 SUN (m0015vlv)
Gardeners' Question Time
15:00 FRI (m001638f)
Great Lives
16:30 TUE (m00162v6)
Great Lives
23:00 FRI (m00162v6)
Homework
11:30 MON (b0b0prtg)
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker
09:45 MON (m00162m1)
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker
00:30 TUE (m00162m1)
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker
09:45 TUE (m00162td)
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker
00:30 WED (m00162td)
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker
09:45 WED (m00162x5)
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker
00:30 THU (m00162x5)
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker
09:45 THU (m00162y3)
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker
00:30 FRI (m00162y3)
Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker
09:45 FRI (m001637t)
In Our Time
09:00 THU (m00162xz)
In Our Time
21:30 THU (m00162xz)
In Touch
20:40 TUE (m00162vm)
Ingenious
09:30 WED (m000y0k5)
Just a Minute
12:04 SUN (m0015v98)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (m0015vlz)
Last Word
16:00 FRI (m001638k)
Lent Talks
05:45 SAT (m0015vg1)
Lent Talks
11:45 SUN (m0015vg1)
Lent Talks
20:45 WED (m00162ym)
Letter from Ukraine
00:15 SUN (m00165v1)
Letter from Ukraine
19:00 FRI (m00165wm)
Life Changing
09:00 WED (m00162x3)
Life Changing
20:30 THU (m00162x3)
Limelight
14:15 FRI (m001638c)
Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair
23:00 WED (m00162z0)
Living with the Gods
14:45 FRI (b099xhmj)
Loose Ends
18:15 SAT (m00161m7)
Loose Ends
23:00 SUN (m00161m7)
Midnight News
00:00 SAT (m0015vmr)
Midnight News
00:00 SUN (m00161mk)
Midnight News
00:00 MON (m00161sg)
Midnight News
00:00 TUE (m00162nc)
Midnight News
00:00 WED (m00162vy)
Midnight News
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Midnight News
00:00 FRI (m001630m)
Money Box
12:04 SAT (m00161ln)
Money Box
21:00 SUN (m00161ln)
Money Box
15:00 WED (m00162xm)
Natural Histories
06:35 SUN (b0938p7q)
News Briefing
05:30 TUE (m00162nm)
News Briefing
05:30 WED (m00162w6)
News Briefing
05:30 THU (m0016301)
News Briefing
05:30 FRI (m001630w)
News Summary
12:00 SAT (m00161my)
News Summary
06:00 SUN (m00161qb)
News Summary
12:00 SUN (m00161vd)
News Summary
12:00 MON (m00162m8)
News Summary
12:00 TUE (m00162tp)
News Summary
12:00 WED (m00162xc)
News Summary
12:00 THU (m00162yj)
News Summary
12:00 FRI (m0016384)
News and Papers
06:00 SAT (m00161kz)
News and Papers
07:00 SUN (m00161qh)
News and Papers
08:00 SUN (m00161qr)
News and Weather
13:00 SAT (m00161ls)
News
22:00 SAT (m00161mh)
Open Country
15:00 THU (m00162z9)
Oti Mabuse's Dancing Legends
11:30 WED (m00162x9)
Our Friends in the North
14:15 THU (m00162z5)
PM
17:00 SAT (m00161lz)
PM
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PM
17:00 TUE (m00162v9)
PM
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PM
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PM
17:00 FRI (m001638p)
Papageno and the poetry of disquiet
23:30 SAT (m0015tpl)
Pick of the Week
18:15 SUN (m00161rv)
Positive Thinking
09:00 TUE (m00162tb)
Positive Thinking
21:30 TUE (m00162tb)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 SAT (m0015vn4)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 MON (m00161sz)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 TUE (m00162np)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 WED (m00162w8)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 THU (m0016305)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 FRI (m001630y)
Profile
19:00 SAT (m00161m9)
Profile
05:45 SUN (m00161m9)
Profile
17:40 SUN (m00161m9)
Putin
11:00 TUE (m00162tj)
Radio 4 Appeal
07:54 SUN (m00161qm)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:25 SUN (m00161qm)
Radio 4 Appeal
15:27 THU (m00161qm)
Ramblings
06:07 SAT (m0015vj1)
Rap Gets Real
15:30 SAT (m001549k)
Rossum's Universal Robots
15:00 SUN (m00161rd)
Round Britain Quiz
23:00 SAT (m0015v8x)
Round Britain Quiz
15:00 MON (m00162ml)
Saturday Live
09:00 SAT (m00161l9)
Screenshot
19:15 FRI (m001638w)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SAT (m0015vmy)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SUN (m00161mp)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 MON (m00161sq)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 TUE (m00162nh)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 WED (m00162w2)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 THU (m00162zs)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 FRI (m001630r)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SAT (m0015vmw)
Shipping Forecast
05:33 SAT (m0015vn0)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SAT (m00161m1)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SUN (m00161mm)
Shipping Forecast
05:34 SUN (m00161mr)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SUN (m00161rm)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 MON (m00161sl)
Shipping Forecast
05:33 MON (m00161st)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 TUE (m00162nf)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 TUE (m00162nk)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 WED (m00162w0)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 WED (m00162w4)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 THU (m00162zn)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 THU (m00162zx)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 FRI (m001630p)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 FRI (m001630t)
Short Works
00:30 SUN (m0015vlx)
Short Works
15:45 FRI (m001638h)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SAT (m00161m5)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SUN (m00161rr)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 MON (m00162mt)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 TUE (m00162vc)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 WED (m00162y0)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 THU (m00162zp)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (m001638r)
Sliced Bread
12:32 THU (m00162yr)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b01cvg3z)
Something Understood
23:30 SUN (b01cvg3z)
Spring Stories
19:45 SUN (m00161s2)
Stalked
20:00 MON (m00159z2)
Stalked
11:00 WED (m00159z2)
Start the Week
09:00 MON (m00162lz)
Start the Week
21:30 MON (m00162lz)
Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (m00161qt)
Sunday
07:10 SUN (m00161qk)
Teatime
18:30 TUE (m000fghv)
Terrorism and the Mind
20:00 THU (m001421m)
The Anatomy of Kindness
21:00 MON (m0015vdq)
The Archers Omnibus
10:00 SUN (m00161qy)
The Archers
19:00 SUN (m00161ry)
The Archers
14:00 MON (m00161ry)
The Archers
19:00 MON (m00162mz)
The Archers
14:00 TUE (m00162mz)
The Archers
19:00 TUE (m00162vf)
The Archers
14:00 WED (m00162vf)
The Archers
19:00 WED (m00162y7)
The Archers
14:00 THU (m00162y7)
The Archers
19:00 THU (m00162zy)
The Archers
14:00 FRI (m00162zy)
The Bottom Line
17:30 SAT (m0014ph0)
The Caretakers
11:30 TUE (m00162tl)
The Exchange
20:00 WED (m00162yh)
The Falklands Now
20:00 TUE (m00162vk)
The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (m00161r4)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (m00161r4)
The Godfather And Me
16:00 MON (m0015vhj)
The Invention of...
11:00 MON (m00162m6)
The Invention of...
15:30 WED (m00162m6)
The Kitchen Cabinet
10:30 SAT (m00161lc)
The Kitchen Cabinet
15:00 TUE (m00161lc)
The Likely Dads
23:00 THU (m001630g)
The Listening Project
13:30 SUN (m00161rb)
The Lullaby Project
00:15 MON (m00139c5)
The Media Show
16:30 WED (m00162xr)
The Media Show
21:30 WED (m00162xr)
The Museums That Make Us
21:00 FRI (m0015bc9)
The Now Show
12:30 SAT (m0015vm9)
The Now Show
18:30 FRI (m001638t)
The Open Box
16:30 SUN (m00161rk)
The P Word
23:00 MON (m0015vdx)
The Promise by Damon Galgut
22:45 MON (m00162n6)
The Promise by Damon Galgut
22:45 TUE (m00162vr)
The Promise by Damon Galgut
22:45 WED (m00162yw)
The Promise by Damon Galgut
22:45 THU (m001630d)
The Promise by Damon Galgut
22:45 FRI (m0016394)
The Reunion
11:00 SUN (m00161r0)
The Reunion
09:00 FRI (m00161r0)
The Shadow of Algiers
23:30 MON (m0014pt2)
The Shadow of Algiers
23:30 TUE (m0014p7r)
The Shadow of Algiers
23:30 WED (m0014pcm)
The Shadow of Algiers
23:30 THU (m0014pgb)
The Shadow of Algiers
23:30 FRI (m0014qdb)
The Skewer
23:15 WED (m00162z6)
The Unbelievable Truth
18:30 MON (m00162mw)
The Week in Westminster
11:00 SAT (m00161lg)
The World This Weekend
13:00 SUN (m00161r8)
The World Tonight
22:00 MON (m00162n4)
The World Tonight
22:00 TUE (m00162vp)
The World Tonight
22:00 WED (m00162ys)
The World Tonight
22:00 THU (m001630b)
The World Tonight
22:00 FRI (m0016392)
Things Fell Apart
22:15 SAT (m0015vfz)
Thinking Allowed
16:00 WED (m00162xp)
This Cultural Life
19:15 SAT (m00161mc)
Three Pounds in My Pocket
11:00 FRI (m001637y)
Today in Parliament
23:45 MON (m00162n9)
Today in Parliament
23:45 TUE (m00162vw)
Today in Parliament
23:45 WED (m00162zd)
Today in Parliament
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Tweet of the Day
08:58 SUN (b08v8hbd)
Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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