SATURDAY 01 APRIL 2023

SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m001kh7g)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 00:30 Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell (m001kh7p)
Episode 5 - Humanism is confronted by the rise of Fascism

The award-winning writer Sarah Bakewell turns to humanism's response to the rise of Fascism in the 20th century in all its horror. Yet, uplifting words from Bertrand Russell conclude our series and remind us that hope is one of humanism's central pillars. Emma Fielding reads.

Humanly Possible is the latest book from Sarah Bakewell, the award-winning author of 'How to Live' and 'At the Existentialist Cafe'. Here Bakewell delves into the lives of the thinkers who throughout history have set about understanding what it means to be human, and so created the school of thought that we know today as humanism.

In our series we encounter Petrarch and Boccaccio who look back to the ancients for models of good living based on friendship, wisdom and the power of words. Then we encounter Erasmus and find out about his views on education and civility. We'll also come across Wilhelm von Humboldt who re-designed Prussia's education system in the nineteenth century and ensured that it was founded on principles of mutual kindness and liberty. Moving on to the mid-nineteenth century we meet Darwin who with his ground breaking theories on evolution, and the writings of T.H. Huxley gave rise to scientific humanism. In the final episode, the twentieth century's humanists are compelled to confront the horrors of the WWII and it's far reaching consequences.

The abridger is Richard Hamilton
The producer is Elizabeth Allard


SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001kh7y)
The latest shipping forecast


SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001kh86)
World Service

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001kh8h)
The latest shipping forecast


SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m001kh8p)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001knw5)
Good morning. It’s that day again. Time to watch our backs and double check each newspaper story just in case we fall for an April Fool. It can be fun of course; my parents still talk about the BBC’s famous spaghetti harvest spoof in 1957 which left millions scratching their heads. But no one wants to be seen as gullible or to be the fool that falls for a trick on any day of the year.

Public debate these days seems increasingly intent on making people look foolish. Social media is awash with clips of journalists landing that “gotcha question” and verbose commentators apparently confounding any poor soul who disagrees with them. They may attract followers, but I’m not sure how often they move debates forward.

The Bible says the foolish things of the world will shame the wise. And on one occasion Jesus says that unless someone becomes like a little child, they shall not enter the kingdom of God. What is it about children that Jesus wants us to imitate? In some ways it seems a strange example to use – children are surely gullible and naïve aren’t they? Well, I’m not sure. I’ve been peppered by more questions by my own children than I ever thought possible. Not naïve may be but inquisitive and, crucially, humble because they know they don’t know all the answers.

There is great value to be had in rigorous debate, but I fear wisdom is not found in simply winning. Rather in the ability to listen and value views other than our own.

Dear Lord, forgive us for when we trust too much in our abilities or lift ourselves up by putting others down. Give us the curiosity and humility of children as we seek to work together. AMEN


SAT 05:45 Lent Talks (m001kh4t)
The People's Prayer - Deliver Us from Evil

Nadiyka Gerbish is a Ukrainian bestselling author, podcaster and human rights advocate. She knows closer than most of us the evils both of war and of totalitarianism, but she has also seen goodness and light amongst the wreckage. The hope is fragile.

And so we turn to the closing words of the Lord’s Prayer, “Deliver us from evil”, a petition resounding through the centuries and a cry that Christ on the Cross could have called out… but rather he faced the pain and the suffering inflicted upon him so that good could come from the wounds.

In this series six people reflect on Jesus' ministry, teaching and Passion from a deeply personal perspective focussing on words from The Lord's Prayer. These are words shared across Christian denominations but they go further; they are part of our culture and tradition. They express universal themes that speak to the hopes and dreams of humanity, a cry to fulfil both our spiritual and physical needs.

It could really be thought of as The People’s Prayer.

Producer: Philip Billson


SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m001kpqv)
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.


SAT 06:07 Ramblings (m001kh6g)
Great Alne, Warwickshire

Retirement villages, recently made very famous by the Thursday Murder Club series of books, are becoming a popular choice for older people who want to, and can afford to, live within a supportive community environment but still retain their independence. For this episode of Ramblings, Clare is walking with Stephen Walsh and his partner, Pat, who live at Great Alne Park retirement village not far from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. Along with the village’s visiting fitness instructor, Tania Skerritt, they lead Clare around a four mile route directly from the centre of the village into the local countryside.

Presenter: Clare Balding
Producer: Karen Gregor


SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m001kpqx)
A new Trans Pacific Trade Agreement: what will it mean for farmers and food producers in the UK?
How the farming industry is tackling the problem of waste.
For the second time in a matter of weeks it’s been revealed that the National Food Crime Unit is investigating claims of food fraud, this time a rogue meat supplier that falsely labelled huge quantities of foreign pork as British.
And a furious skylark in Norfolk.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.


SAT 06:57 Weather (m001kq9b)
The latest weather reports and forecast.


SAT 07:00 Today (m001kpqz)
A range of household bills including council tax go up from today.

Join Today's Martha Kearney and Amol Rajan as they speak to Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert and Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice.

Water companies in England could face unlimited fines for dumping sewage into rivers or the sea.

And we hear from the actor Christopher Eccleston following the closure of the Oldham Coliseum due to a loss of funding from Arts Council England.

This episode of Today was edited by Tom Smithard and Jade Bogart-Preleur. The studio director was Nathan Chamberlain.


SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m001kpr1)
Alice Roberts, Chris Howard, The Ayoub Sisters, Elizabeth Day

Broadcaster and biological anthropologist Alice Roberts reveals the secret behind the UK's fascination with castles.

Chris Howard, one of the creators of David Attenborough's Wild Isles, discusses the trials and tribulations of filming the elusive beaver.

Scottish-Egyptian musicians The Ayoub Sisters perform their revival of an old Arabic folk song; live in the studio.

Author and Broadcaster Elizabeth Day shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Presenters: Nikki Bedi and Peter Curran
Producer: Ben Mitchell


SAT 10:00 Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny (m001kr0j)
Rob Delaney: Eastern Massachusetts, USA

Rob Delaney opens with a spirited attempt to get Shaun to visit his birthplace in Eastern Massachusetts, USA, selling it on the basis that as New England is quite like England anyway, it’ll be no bother for Shaun…

Your Place Or Mine is the travel podcast that isn’t going anywhere. Join Shaun as his guests try to convince him that it’s worth getting up off the sofa and seeing the world, giving us a personal guide to their favourite place on the planet. With resident geographer, historian and comedian Iszi Lawrence on hand to share facts, each week a familiar face will try to persuade Shaun that jetting off to their favourite destination is worth the hassle.

Your Place or Mine is a BBC Audio production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Producers: Becca Bryers & Hannah Hufford


SAT 10:30 The Week in Westminster (m001kpr3)
Radio 4's weekly assessment of developments at Westminster


SAT 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent (m001kpr5)
Israel Divided on Judicial Reform

Kate Adie presents stories from Israel, the US, Nigeria, Ukraine and Austria.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a pause on his planned overhaul of Israel's justice system this week, following mass street protests. Mr Netanyahu says the changes will stop courts from over-reaching their powers, but critics say the reforms will end the independence of courts and threaten democracy. Tom Bateman reports from Tel Aviv.

In Florida, several laws have come into force that restrict what can be taught in classrooms. Led by Governor Ron DeSantis, state Republicans say the laws are necessary to shield children from liberal indoctrination around issues of race and sexual orientation. Chelsea Bailey visited one high school, where teachers say they are being scared into silence.

In northwest Nigeria, gangs of bandits have been raiding villages and kidnapping men, women and children for ransom. Villagers have become reliant on local vigilantes to help protect them, but they are ill-equipped to take them on. Alex Last was in Katsina.

On a recent visit to Ukraine, James Landale met a bartender who decided to start a new business during the middle of a war. Originally from Kharkiv, he teamed up with other bartenders to open a new bar, which shares its profits with the families of troops on the frontline.

Bethany Bell reflects on the elevated status afforded to regulars of bars and restaurants in Austria. Being recognised as 'stammgast' comes with extra privileges - but it can take years to be invited into this select circle.

Series Producer: Serena Tarling
Researcher: Bethan Ashmead
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Production Coordinator: Sabine Schreck


SAT 11:30 Money Box (m001kpn7)
Your Household Bills: Lincoln Live

In this special extended programme broadcast live from Lincoln, the Money Box team covers all you need to know as the financial year comes to an end and a new one begins. For many household bills are going up, from broadband costs and water bills to council tax - but what can you do if you're struggling? The team are joined by organisations who're supporting people every day, to find out what help is out there.

We're in Skegness to find out how local people and businesses are coping with energy costs.

We'll discuss what tax changes are coming in from April, and what allowances you're entitled to. Plus we'll mark 50 years since the introduction of VAT - Value Added Tax.

Don't miss music from the City of Lincoln Band and a special introduction from the Official Town Crier of Lincoln City too.

Presenter: Felicity Hannah
Reporter: Dan Whitworth
Researcher: Sandra Hardial
Editor: Jess Quayle

(First broadcast 1130am on Saturday 1st April, 2023)


SAT 12:30 The Now Show (m001kh5b)
Series 62

Episode 3

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. They're joined by Daliso Chaponda who is exploring the small boats crisis, Olga Koch is giving us “a girl’s guide to dating a tech bro in 2023” & Beardyman sings about the upcoming robot apocalypse.

The show is written by the cast with additional material from Jade Gebbie, Catherine Brinkworth, Carl Carzana & Kate Dehnert.

Voice actors: George Fouracres & Katie Norris

Sound: Marc Willcox & Gary Newman
Executive Producer: Pete Strauss
Producer: Sasha Bobak
Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4


SAT 12:57 Weather (m001kpr7)
The latest weather forecast


SAT 13:00 News and Weather (m001kpr9)
The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4


SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (m001kh63)
Trudy Harrison MP, Jo Lappin MBE, Lisa Nandy MP, Tommy Sheppard MP

Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Victory Hall in Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria with Minister for Natural Environment and Land Use Trudy Harrison MP, CEO of Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership Jo Lappin MBE, Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy MP and SNP MP and Constitutional Affairs Spokesperson Tommy Sheppard.
Producer: Ed Prendeville
Lead broadcast engineer: Michael Smith


SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (m001kprc)
Topical discussion posing questions to a panel of political and media personalities


SAT 14:45 Funny Bones (b06j0xfj)
Cinema Trip

A new series of original stories in which Irish writers showcase their funny bones.

In this fantastically funny series, Yasmine Akram tells a tale of young woe and magical intervention. Tara Flynn takes us into the world of competitive baking and zombie hordes in 'Fete Worse than Death'. Finally, a trip to the cinema takes a surprising turn in a new story by comedian Maeve Higgins.

Writer, Maeve Higgins
Reader, Eileen Walsh
Producer, Michael Shannon


SAT 15:00 Drama (m001kprf)
Plane Speaking

By Robert Hudson

Inventive drama which explores the circumstances that led to the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max airplanes in a five month period, and the subsequent worldwide grounding of the entire fleet of the aircraft.

We are in Seattle in 2018, where a new passenger airplane is being assembled. It is a new 737 Max, Boeing's flagship aircraft designed to compete with its rival Airbus.

The aircraft's components are eagerly anticipating their maiden flight when they hear that another new 737 Max has crashed shortly after take off in Indonesia. The plane's Black Box flight recorder suspects that there is more to the story than pilot error, and embarks on a self-appointed mission to investigate what could have caused the crash.

Black Box . . . . . Fenella Woolgar
Chip . . . . . Clare Foster
Engine . . . . . Ed Gaughan
AOA . . . . . Kymberley Cochrane
Autopilot . . . . . Georgie Glen
Wing . . . . . Ewan Bailey
Firaz . . . . . Samuel James
Ed . . . . . Gerard McDermott
News Anchor . . . . . Leah Marks

Sound design: Keith Graham and Peter Ringrose
Production co-ordinator: Hannah O'Reilly
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko


SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour (m001kprh)
Weekend Woman's Hour: Leah Williamson, Performance poet Salena Godden, Sex education in schools

The Conservative MP Miriam Cates said in the House of Commons that children were being exposed to “graphic” and "age inappropriate" material during their sex education classes. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has decided to bring forward a review of the Department for Education’s Relationships and Sex Education guidance in England. Two parents, Fiona, a listener and parent of four and Clare Page who was concerned about what her daughter was being taught discuss.

Sian Richardson from Pembrokeshire in Wales is Number 12 on our Woman’s Hour Power List 2023. Sian started The Blue-tit Chill Swimmers nearly 10 years ago, a cold water swimming community which now boasts an incredible 100,000 members world-wide. She explains why she’s encouraging people to get in the water and enjoy the outdoors.

Leah Williamson, who took the Lionesses to victory at the Euros in 2022, tops the Woman's Hour Power List 2023. She explains what role her mum plays in her success and talks about male allies in women’s football.

Money and Love: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life’s Big Decisions, is written by Stanford professor emeritus Myra Strober, who is an early feminist economist and Abby Davisson, one of Myra's former pupils who is now a social innovation expert. They give detailed advice about navigating the crossroads of finances within a relationship at different life stages.

Pessimism is for Lightweights is a new collection of poems by the celebrated performance poet Salena Godden. Salena discusses the collection, how poetry can confront misogyny and injustice, and why she personified death as a woman in her debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death.

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Paula McFarlane
Editor: Lucinda Montefiore


SAT 17:00 PM (m001kprk)
Full coverage of the day's news


SAT 17:30 Sliced Bread Presents (m001kh5d)
Sliced Bread - Sourdough

Is sourdough the best thing since Sliced Bread?

It’s the last episode in the current series so I thought it was about time I investigated this!

Listener Janet got in touch wanting to know whether sourdough really does live up to the hype. Is it better for our digestive health than other breads? Is it made with fewer additives? And do the cheaper sourdough loaves we can buy in the supermarket really cut it - or are they just ‘sourfaux’?

To find out, I went to a baking school to make a sourdough loaf from scratch, learning about the process and ingredients that go to make the sort of sourdough you’d find at an artisan or traditional bakers - and might cost over five pounds.

And I speak to one of the world’s leading nutritional experts on bread to find out which types we should eat for our health.

This series, we’re testing and investigating your suggested wonder-products. If you’ve seen an ad, trend or fad, and wonder if there’s any evidence to back up a claim, drop us an email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or you can send us a voice note to our WhatsApp number: 07543 306807.

PRESENTER: Greg Foot
PRODUCER: Simon Hoban


SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m001kprm)
The latest shipping forecast


SAT 17:57 Weather (m001kprp)
The latest weather forecast


SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m001kprr)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (m001kpnc)
Kathy Kiera Clarke, Nadine Shah, Gabby Best, Barnaby Jameson, Grace Savage, Billie Marten, Bidisha Mamata, Clive Anderson

Clive Anderson and Bidisha Mamata are joined by Kathy Kiera Clarke, Nadine Shah, Gabby Best, Barnaby Jameson and Grace Savage for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Billie Marten and Grace Savage.


SAT 19:00 Profile (m001kprv)
Humza Yousaf

Newly-elected leader of the SNP, Humza Yousaf, has become First Minister of Scotland at the age of just 37.

The Glaswegian showed community spirit from a young age, fundraising for charity and broadcasting for community station Radio Ramadan, before a political awakening that led to a speedy rise up the ranks of his party and into office.

Humza Yousaf has taken on some difficult government briefs, as well as some flak, but now he faces the challenge of a political lifetime: healing divisions in the SNP, improving public services and trying to deliver the party's dream of independence.

Mark Coles talks to friends, family and colleagues to try to find out more about the first ethnic-minority leader of a devolved government.

PRODUCTION TEAM

Presenter: Mark Coles
Production Team: Nathan Gower, Julie Ball, Diane Richardson
Editor: Simon Watts
Sound: James Beard
Production Co-ordinators: Maria Ogundele and Sabine Schereck


SAT 19:15 This Cultural Life (m001kppn)
Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood talks to John Wilson about the formative influences and experiences that shaped her writing. One of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed authors, Atwood has published over 60 books including novels, short stories, children’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She’s known for stories of human struggle against oppression and brutality, most famously her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian vision of America in which women are enslaved. She has twice won the Booker Prize For Fiction, in 2000 for The Blind Assassin and again in 2019 for her sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments.

Growing up in remote Canadian woodland with her scientist parents, she traces her career as a story-teller back to sagas that she invented with her older brother as a child, and her first ‘novel’ written when she was seven. She recalls an opera about fabrics that she wrote and performed at high school for a home economics project, and how she staged puppet shows for children’s parties. Margaret Atwood also discusses the huge impact that reading George Orwell had on her, and how his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four especially influenced The Handmaid’s Tale. She reveals how that novel - written whilst she was living in Berlin in 1985 - was initially conceived after the 1980 election of President Ronald Reagan and the resurgence of evangelical right-wing politics in America.

Producer: Edwina Pitman


SAT 20:00 What Kind of Scotland? (m001kprx)
Allan Little takes us on a journey into Scotland’s recent history. Fifty years ago a radical theatrical event captured the nation’s state of political and social flux, and helped fuel a growing debate about devolution and independence. As Scotland once more considers its future place in the UK and Europe, what part did 7:84 theatre company’s The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil play in shaping attitudes in the decades since?

John McGrath’s play was first performed in April 1973 at a conference in Edinburgh called ‘What Kind of Scotland?’ The audience of academics, activists and writers had gathered to debate Scotland’s economic and political future at a time when nationalism was on the rise and concern was growing about the fair distribution of North Sea oil revenues.

The play charted the exploitation of Scotland’s natural resources, starting with the Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries, when crofters were forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for more profitable Cheviot sheep. The Stag refers to the later commercialisation of deerstalking and grouse shooting for the benefit of landowners on large Highland estates. As for the oil – North Sea reserves had only recently been discovered when the play was written 50 years ago. 7:84 believed the windfall profits from oil and gas would fall into the hands of American corporations.

The show went on the road, playing at schools and community halls across the Highlands, sometimes to as few as a dozen people. Many audience members had never been to see a play before. They were farmers and fisherfolk, and often the direct descendants of families who had suffered in the Clearances. In the north-east, the show resonated with communities whose lives were rapidly changing because of the burgeoning North Sea oil boom. While many were excited by the prosperity and opportunity oil would bring, others feared that Scotland’s resources would once more be plundered, this time by American multinationals and the Westminster exchequer.

Through archive sources and fresh new interviews with cast members, historians, campaigners and writers, Allan explores the ways in which The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil influenced not just the politics of the time but cultural perceptions of Scotland and Scottishness.

Photo: Jonathan Sumberg

Producer: Hugh Costello

A Whistledown Scotland production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 21:00 GF Newman's The Corrupted (b0b7hbbt)
Series 4

Episode 3

It's the 1980s and Brian Oldman is back in jail for a crime he didn't commit. He suspects, but cannot prove, that Joseph Oldman, now Joseph Olinska MP, was the perpetrator.

GF Newman's The Corrupted weaves fiction with real characters from history, following the fortunes of the Oldman family - from small-time business and opportunistic petty crime, through gang rivalries, to their entanglement in the highest echelons of society. It's a tale revealing the nexus of crime, business and politics woven through the fabric of 20th century greed as even those with hitherto good intentions are sucked into a web of corruption.

Joey Oldman, an uneducated Jewish child immigrant from Russia, has a natural instinct for business and a love of money - coupled with a knack for acquiring it. His wife Cath is as ruthless in both the pursuit of money and the protection of her son, Brian. Joey built his empire with the help of a corrupt bank manager in the 1950s, starting with small greengrocer shops before moving into tertiary banking and property development, dealing with many corrupt policemen on the way - and befriending both Lord Goodman and Margaret Thatcher.

The characters are based on GF Newman's novels.

Produced and directed by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 21:45 The Skewer (m001kh60)
Series 8

Episode 8

Jon Holmes's award-winning satire twists itself into current affairs. This week - Laughing Gas Policeman, Death Wish Starmer, and Inflation Goes Up To 11.

Producer: Jon Holmes

An unusual production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 22:00 News (m001kprz)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 22:15 Moral Maze (m001kh4j)
AI - the end of humanity or the next evolutionary step?

AI – the end of humanity or the next evolutionary step?

Computers are becoming more powerful. Much more powerful. Last week, Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel Corporation died. A computer industry billionaire, he came up with ‘Moore’s Law’ which observed that the power of computers doubles every couple of years. Today a microchip can contain 50 billion transistors, each narrower than a strand of human DNA.

The war of the robots has begun. Microsoft’s ‘ChatGPT’ and its rival, Google’s ‘Bard’ allow you to have a conversation with a computer, much as you would with another person. But it’s not just talk. As well as writing essays, presentations, legal documents and sermons, artificial intelligence can also produce art. We’ve accepted that machines can beat us at chess, but might they soon also beat us at poetry, painting and music? Could they make Shakespeare look second rate? Or will art without human input always be worthless?

Some people are impressed by the quality of what AI can create, but others are scared. It’s one thing for computers to process our knowledge, but quite another when a machine starts to teach itself. If it behaves just like a real person, will we trust it more than we should? Can machines display morality and if not, is it safe to allow them to make decisions for us? We worry that AI might take over our jobs, but should we really be worrying that it might replace humanity altogether?

Some see AI as the next evolutionary step, the latest development by mankind, with potential to transform lives for the better. But what are the risks in asking technology, however impressive, to solve human problems? Should we be excited by AI, or could artificial intelligence mark the start of the end of humanity?

Producer: Jonathan Hallewell
Presenter: Michael Buerk
Editor: Tim Pemberton


SAT 23:00 Counterpoint (m001kgqv)
Series 36

Semi-final 3, 2023

(12/13)
The third and last of the 2023 Counterpoint semi-finals comes from MediaCityUk in Salford and features the remaining three heat winners from this year's tournament. With a place in next week's Final at stake, the competition is bound to be tough. Paul Gambaccini's questions range across all genres and eras of music, from the Pet Shop Boys to the operas of Philip Glass, from Wagner and Tchaikovsky to Motown and Philadelphia soul.

Appearing today are:
Charles Dusting from Worcester,
Diane Hallagan from Leeds,
Sally Wilson from Sale in Greater Manchester.

As well as general musical knowledge they'll also each be tested on a special musical topic they'll have to pick from a list, with no warning of the categories on offer today.

Assistant Producer: Stephen Garner
Producer: Paul Bajoria


SAT 23:30 The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed (m001kgq6)
Julie Hesmondhalgh

Julie Hesmondhalgh was born in Accrington in Lancashire and currently lives within a short drive of Simon Armitage's shed over the hills. She has won many awards for her acting performances and is well-known for having played Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street for years - until something Simon did made her rethink what she was doing and take the bold step to leave. Regular TV roles in series such as Cucumber, Happy Valley and Broadchurch followed along with being able to take on work in theatres such as The Royal Exchange in Manchester. Their lively conversation passes from the business of writing, through a discussion of accents, to treading the boards, and starting a theatre company.

Produced by Susan Roberts

SUNDAY 02 APRIL 2023

SUN 00:00 Midnight News (m001kps1)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 00:15 Understand: The Economy (m001hwx3)
Series 1

The Economy 12. Credit

Collectively, our individual financial decisions have a big impact on what the wider economy does. That includes how we manage our own money, including what we buy and how we buy it. One way we make large purchases, smooth out big bills and sometimes just spend some cash we can’t afford - is credit. In this episode Dr Victoria Bateman looks back to the Tallyman in the 19th century, a very early way of shopping with credit. We’ll explore what exactly credit is and how we use it.

Everything you need to know about the economy and what it means for you. This podcast will cut through the jargon to bring you clarity and ensure you finally understand all those complicated terms and phrases you hear on the news such as Inflation, GDP, National Debt, energy markets and more. We’ll ensure you understand what’s going on today, why your shopping is getting more expensive or why your pay doesn’t cover your bills.

Guest: Prof John Gathergood, Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham
Producer: Louise Clarke-Rowbotham
Researcher: Beth Ashmead-Latham
Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards
Editor: Clare Fordham
Theme music: Don’t Fret, Beats Fresh Music

A BBC Long Form Audio Production for BBC Radio 4.

This programme has been edited to change a section of music.


SUN 00:30 I, The Flock (b08j9s0c)
Specially commissioned short stories by some of Ireland's most exciting writers.

A father tries to move on after the death of his son, an online activist. As read by Stuart Graham (The Fall).

Mike McCormack is an acclaimed Irish writer and past winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His most recent novel 'Solar Bones' was awarded the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and the Irish Book Award's Novel of the Year.

Reader, Stuart Graham
Writer, Mike McCormack
Producer, Michael Shannon


SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001kps5)
The latest shipping forecast


SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001kps7)
World Service

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001kps9)
The latest shipping forecast


SUN 05:30 News Briefing (m001kpsc)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday (m001kpnh)
St Mary’s Church in Hale, Cheshire

Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary’s Church in Hale, Cheshire. The tower houses a ring of eight bells, unique in that the heaviest six bells are made of steel instead of the usual high tin content bronze alloy resulting in a sharp hum. These steel bells were cast by Naylor Vickers and Company of Sheffield in the late 19th century, and are augmented by two bronze treble bells cast by Royal Eijisbouts of Holland in 1987. The tenor weighs eight hundredweight and is tuned to the note of A. We hear members of the Liverpool Universities Society of Change Ringers ringing Ashtead Surprise Major.


SUN 05:45 Profile (m001kprv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 News Summary (m001kpln)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 06:05 Something Understood (b00rl48k)
The Beauty of Birds

As we enter Holy Week, Mark Tully explores birds as symbols of spiritual hope in this episode of Something Understood from 2010. Soaring above the earth, for many poets and composers they have come to represent the soul, freed from the constraints of our earthly form.

Mark travels to Suffolk to Lakenheath Nature Reserve, and with hobbies soaring in the background, meets nature writer Richard Mabey, widely respected as one of the leading experts on British birds. He’s also the author of "Nature Cure", a book about his recovery from a deep depression, and he talks movingly about his mixed emotions at this time of year, as Spring arrives.

With poetry by Thomas Hardy, George Herbert and Isaac Rosenberg, and music from Handel to Miles Davis - all celebrating the unexpected joy birds can bring.

Producer: Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 06:35 Natural Histories (m0009t1w)
Chicken

How did we get from the gorgeous red junglefowl scratching away in the jungles of south-east Asia to the chicken now eaten in its millions? Brett Westwood and Joanna Pinnock trace the trail. The story's told by Greger Larson, Director of the Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network; Annie Potts, Director, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies; Dr Joanne Edgar, University of Bristol School of Veterinary Sciences and by a visit to meet real red junglefowl, the original chicken, at the Pheasantry at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire.

Producer Beth O'Dea


SUN 06:57 Weather (m001kq9d)
The latest weather reports and forecast.


SUN 07:00 News and Papers (m001kpls)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 07:10 Sunday (m001kplv)
Ramadan Recipes; Christian Nudists; Paul O'Grady and The Salvation Army

Following the sudden death of the broadcaster and comedian Paul O’Grady. Emily speaks to his mentor at the Salvation Army, Captain Jo Moir. The two remained close friends after taking part in the BBC documentary series called Paul O’Grady: The Sally Army and Me. We hear about Paul's spiritual journey, how he challenged the Salvation Army on inclusion and how he asked his mentor to "have a word with him upstairs" on his behalf.

As the UK government tries to move migrants out of hotel accommodation, they're looking to use more military bases for housing. But a new report by the Jesuit Refugee Service raises serious concerns about these plans. The former military base, Napier Barracks in Kent, is used as contingency or temporary accommodation for asylum seekers. The Jesuit Refugee Service has published a report calling for Napier Barracks to be permanently closed. The Home Office says it does not recognise the findings.

Reporter Josie Le Vay has been to Florida’s Pasco County, known as America’s nudist capital, to hear about theological developments around attitudes to the naked body and sin. You can hear her Heart and Soul documentary for BBC World Service on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4pj6

Scottish Muslims tell us what it means to have Humza Yousaf elected at SNP leader and also the country’s First Minister. He has made history as the first ethnic minority leader of a devolved government and the first Muslim to lead a major UK party.

For Muslims the holy month of Ramadan continues, with fasting from sunrise to sunset. The Leicester-based food blogger, Anisa Karolia, has written a Ramadan Cookbook for the times when eating is allowed and she demonstrates some of her mouth-watering dishes.

There was relief and emotion as Pope Francis emerged from hospital, after recovering from a respiratory condition. He will be present at Easter services, starting this Palm Sunday. The BBC’s Jenny Hill reports live from St Peter’s Square in Vatican City.

PRESENTER: Emily Buchanan
PRODUCERS: Katy Booth and Amanda Hancox
REPORTER: Josie Le Vay
STUDIO MANAGERS: Philip Halliwell, John Cole and Tom Parnell
PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR: David Baguley
EDITOR: Helen Grady


SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal (m001kplx)
AfriKids

Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of AfriKids.

To Give:
- UK Freephone 0800 404 8144
-You can donate online at bbc.co.uk/appeal/radio4
- Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. (That’s the whole address. Please do not write anything else on the front of the envelope). Mark the back of the envelope ‘AfriKids’.
- Cheques should be made payable to ‘AfriKids’.
Please note that Freephone and online donations for this charity close at 23.59 on the Saturday after the Appeal is first broadcast. However the Freepost option can be used at any time.

Registered charity number: 1141028


SUN 07:57 Weather (m001kplz)
The latest weather forecast


SUN 08:00 News and Papers (m001kq9g)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the Sunday papers.


SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship (m001kpm1)
The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory.

From a church that grew out of a community grocery initiative, a bridge between foodbanks and supermarkets for families and members in Wythenshawe, South Manchester. As Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday the adoration of the crowds soon turned to condemnation which led to his death. It's in that death and the power and glory of the Resurrection which followed that members of this, and countless other churches, place their trust. Preacher: Andy Hawthorne; Leader: Danielle Campsall, with musicians from the Message Trust. Producer: Philip Billson.


SUN 08:48 A Point of View (m001kh6c)
Insecurity

Megan Nolan says millennial adulthood feels just as uneasy as her teenage years.

Short term job contracts and expensive housing has left her generation with a permanent sense of insecurity.

As a teenager, Megan struggled to find her identity and place in the world, and felt 'wrong and different in the most profound and private of ways'.

She was told these feelings would pass. Now as an adult, however, the anxiety about her place in society has returned.

'Not knowing where your body will be from one year to the next, once you're out of your younger, wilder years, conjures a feeling not dissimilar to the nameless dread of adolescence,' she writes. This leaves Megan and her peers 'in a state of constant insecurity, certainly now, but in a deeper sense, always.'

Producer: Arlene Gregorius
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Brenda Brown
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith


SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day (b01s8qh4)
Wood Warbler

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David Attenborough presents the wood warbler. Their song has been described as "a spinning coin on a marble slab" and you're most likely to hear this chorister in oak or beech wood.


SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House (m001kpm3)
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell


SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus (m001kpm5)
Writer, Tim Stimpson
Director, Gwenda Hughes
Editor, Jeremy Howe

David Archer ….. Timothy Bentinck
Helen Archer ….. Louiza Patikas
Natasha Archer ….. Mali Harries
Tom Archer ….. William Troughton
Brian Aldridge ….. Charles Collingwood
Lilian Bellamy ….. Sunny Ormonde
Lee Bryce ….. Ryan Early
Neil Carter ….. Brian Hewlett
Alice Carter ….. Hollie Chapman
Justin Elliot ….. Simon Williams
Ed Grundy ….. Barry Farrimond
George Grundy ….. Angus Stobie
Will Grundy ….. Philip Molloy
Jim Lloyd ….. John Rowe
Elizabeth Pargetter ….. Alison Dowling
Oliver Sterling ….. Michael Cochrane


SUN 11:15 The Reunion (m001kpm7)
British Runners of the 1980s

The late 1970s and 1980s epitomised the acme of British running. A handful of UK athletes were on a winning streak, smashing world records and garnering medals from all the top competitions. Kirsty Wark hears from Steve Cram, Brendan Foster, David Moorcroft, Sebastian Coe and head coach Frank Dick.

Gruelling training, psychological one-upmanship and sheer determination created a climate of fierce competition which only served to make each man run faster. Olympic medallist Brendan Foster led the field in the 1970s providing inspiration and gold-plated advice for his young protégé Steve Cram.

The intense rivalry between Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett captured the public imagination – especially at the controversial 1981 Moscow Olympics which created not one but two great upsets. David Moorcroft watched the two races and the following year went on to become the fastest man in history when he ran the 5,000 metre race that would change his life.

Frank Dick was the British Athletics Federation's Director of Coaching at the time and helped his athletes cope with stunning wins and traumatic failures. Our guests debate what made that time so successful, share their own highs and lows and give their advice to today’s athletes.

Producer: Karen Pirie
Series Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 12:00 News Summary (m001kpqs)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 12:04 The Museum of Curiosity (m001kgrl)
Series 17

Episode 6

In this series finale of The Museum of Curiosity, John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski are joined by comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes, insect champion Bridget Nicholls and explorer Levison Wood who come armed with a wonder of the ancient world, a wonder of the natural world, and a wonderful artefact of 90s nostalgia.

The Museum’s exhibits were catalogued by Mike Turner, Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Producer: Sam Holmes & Leying Lee
Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls
Sound: David Thomas

A BBC Studios production.


SUN 12:32 The Food Programme (m001kpmc)
A Pudding Celebration

Are we still a nation of pudding lovers and does pudding still matter?

Join Sheila Dillon in her kitchen where she's joined by some of the UK's best pudding makers to share some of the secrets of great pudding, and why they matter to them.

Olia Hercules makes a pudding from her childhood in Ukraine, a cheesecake made from the "cheese of all cheeses"; Regula Ysewijn bakes an early version of a Bakewell Pudding using apricot kernels and sweetmeats; Melissa Thompson brings Jamaican nostalgia into her own pudding invention, Guinness Punch Pie; Jeremy Lee cooks his Granny's Steamed Treacle Dumpling and chef Anna Higham who's book "The Last Bite" is a celebration of seasonal fruit puddings, makes a rice pudding with a rhubarb compote.

So what it is about pudding that delights people so much? And why don't we eat them as much as we once did? Sheila speaks to food historian, Ivan Day, who has spent a lifetime researching and recreating puddings from the past, to see what he makes of our relationship with them now.

Presented by Sheila Dillon
Produced in Bristol by Natalie Donovan


SUN 12:57 Weather (m001kpmf)
The latest weather forecast


SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend (m001kpmh)
Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world.


SUN 13:30 Behind the Crime (m001kptj)
Sinem

Criminal behaviour costs the country around £60 billion every year, according to Home Office research.

Is it possible to prevent crime by understanding the root causes of offending behaviour?

Sally Tilt and Dr Kerensa Hocken are forensic psychologists who work in prisons.

Their role is to help people in prison to look at the harm they’ve caused to other people, understand why it happened and work out how to make changes to prevent further harm after they’ve been released.

In Behind the Crime, they take the time to understand the life of someone whose crimes have led to harm and, in some cases, imprisonment.

In this episode they talk to Sinem who was imprisoned for trafficking drugs into a prison while she was working as a prison officer.
This is the story of a young woman who made a catastrophic decision under the pressures of a terrifying domestic situation, and paid a heavy price. But when we dig back into her earliest experiences, we can start to see some of the reasons why she made that decision.

The job of the forensic psychologists is to dig deep into Sinem’s story, to understand the sequence of external influences that got Sinem to the point where she committed a crime.
Today, Sinem is a lecturer in criminology at the University of Westminster, and uses her own experiences to help young people understand the world of crime and justice.
For details of organisations that can provide help and support, visit bbc.co.uk/actionline

Producer: Andrew Wilkie
Editor: Clare Fordham
Behind the Crime is a co-production between BBC Long Form Audio and the Prison Radio Association


SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time (m001kh3b)
Postbag: Attingham Park

Can a single acorn produce more than one tree? What’s the difference between perennials and biennials? Do manure, rain water and weeds make good fertilisers?

Kathy Clugston and the GQT panellists are in Attingham Park, Shropshire to answer a bunch of horticultural queries sent in by the audience. On hand with some tips and tricks are garden designers Matthew Wilson and Bunny Guinness, and plants woman Christine Walkden. Also, leading the team on a tour around the historic parkland is Madeleine Calder.

Producer: Bethany Hocken

Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod

Executive Producer: Hannah Newton

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 14:45 Opening Lines (m001kpmk)
Kira Georgievna

John Yorke examines Victor Nekrasov’s novel Kira Georgievna, a bestseller in 1960s Russia.

Set in Moscow, Kyiv and rural Ukraine, the eponymous Kira Georgievna is a successful middle-aged sculptor, originally from Kyiv, who must choose between three different lovers. She’s married to a much older painter while also enjoying a casual affair with a young man who’s working for her as a model. But Kira’s comfortable life is about to be turned upside down when her first love - Vadim - returns from two decades as a political prisoner in the Siberian gulags.

As John digs deeper into the novel, he discovers that it is a powerful critique of the Soviet regime, and the choices made by the people who played the Soviet system, and those who stood up to it.

Viktor Nekrasov was born into a middle-class Russian family in Kyiv, and the tensions between Russian and Ukraine in Kira Georgievna foreshadow the terrible situation today. He was seriously injured twice fighting for the Soviet army against the Nazis, and his first novel was a vivid description of the misery of the life he had experienced first-hand in the trenches at Stalingrad. His early books were approved of and promoted by the Soviets but Kira Georgievna, published in 1961, marked the turning point when Nekrasov started to break away from the regime.

John Yorke has worked in television and radio for thirty years, and he shares his experience with Radio 4 listeners as he unpacks the themes and impact of the books, plays and stories that are being dramatized in BBC Radio 4’s Sunday/Saturday Drama series.

From EastEnders to the Archers, Life on Mars to Shameless, he has been obsessed with telling big popular stories. He has spent years analysing not just how stories work but why they resonate with audiences around the globe and has brought together his experience in his bestselling book ‘Into the Woods’. As former Head of Channel Four Drama, Controller of BBC Drama Production and MD of Company Pictures, John has tested his theories during an extensive production career working on some of the world’s most lucrative, widely viewed and critically acclaimed TV drama. As founder of the hugely successful BBC Writers Academy John has trained a generation of screenwriters - his students have had 17 green-lights in the last two years alone.

Contributors:
Ming Ho, writer and adapter of Kira Georgievna for BBC Radio 4
Dr Uilleam Blacker, Associate Professor of Ukrainian and East European Culture at University College London
Reading by Ming Ho

Kira Georgievna by Victor Nekrasov, Pantheon Books, New York 1962, translated from the Russian by Walter N. Vickery

Produced by Jane Greenwood
Executive Producer: Sara Davies
Sound by Sean Kerwin
Research by Nina Semple
Production Manager: Sarah Wright

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds


SUN 15:00 Love Stories (m001kpmm)
Kira

Love, lust and loss in this daring Soviet bestseller by Viktor Nekrasov, dramatised for the first time in the UK by Ming Ho.

1959. Stalin is dead; Soviet society has started to thaw; prisoners are being freed from the labour camps no-one talks about.
Ukrainian sculptor Kira lives a gilded life in Moscow, married to a respected Russian artist. She's just been given a huge commission that involves sculpting a rather attractive young electrician. Life is good.

But then her first husband returns after twenty years in the gulag - the only man she's ever loved...
It's time for Kira and her lovers to face both the past and the future.

Nekrasov's story takes us from the plush world of privileged Moscow to sultry rural Ukraine via post-WWII Kyiv in an examination of the corrosive legacy of repressed history.

Kira....Sharon Small
Vadim....Sandy Grierson
Nikolai....Michael Bertenshaw
Yurochka....Connor Curren
Lusha/Olga....Georgie Glen
Pankratikha/Varia....Helen Belbin
Nadia/Lida/Maria....Blanche Anderson
Lyoshka/NKVD officer....Dickon Farmar
Nekrasov/Sergei....Ewan Bailey

Written by Viktor Nekrasov
Dramatised by Ming Ho
Production Co-ordination by Jenny Mendez
Sound by Ali Craig, Keith Graham, Caleb Knightley, Peter Ringrose
Directed and produced by Abigail le Fleming

A BBC Audio Production

Ming Ho writes for stage, screen, and audio. Her play The Things We Never Said (BBC R4) won WGGB Best Radio Drama Award 2018. Other credits include: Riot Girls: Male Order (BBC Radio 4); EastEnders, Casualty (BBC TV), Heartbeat, The Bill (ITV), site-specific live audio drama, Citizens of Nowhere? (Chinese Arts Now/Southbank Centre), British People (The Uncertain Kingdom anthology), Royal Court Theatre Writers’ Group, and commissions for Leeds Playhouse and Theatr Clwyd.


SUN 16:00 Bookclub (m001kpmq)
Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng talks to James Naughtie and a group of readers about The Garden of Evening Mists.
A lyrical novel set largely in 1950s Malay (now Malaysia), it tells the story of Yun Ling, imprisoned by Japanese soldiers during the Second World War, and Aritomo, a master gardener who once worked for the Emperor of Japan.
It's a complex and moving story about forgetting, forgiveness and mercy.

Our next Bookclub recordings:
(email bookclub@bbc.co.uk to join us)

Wednesday 19th April at 1300 at BBC Broadcasting House in London.
Sarah Winman will be answering questions about her novel Tin Man.

Wednesday 24 May at 1300 at BBC Broadcasting House in London
Mary Lawson on Crow Lake


SUN 16:30 Bambi: The True Story (m001kq3p)
Most of us are familiar with the figure of Bambi - the wide-eyed young fawn at the centre of Walt Disney's heart-warming 1942 animation, who finds love and friendship in the forest as he comes to terms with growing up.

However, few people are aware of Bambi's roots - as an unflinching and grisly parable about the violence of nature and the cruelty of man, which has more in common with Animal Farm than with Dumbo. It is a work red in tooth and claw, where animals discuss the experience of "being born to be killed". It is also largely forgotten. Cultural historian Christopher Frayling travels to Vienna to tell the true story of Bambi.

Disney's Bambi was based on the 1928 American translation of Austrian writer Felix Salten's Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest, originally published in Vienna in 1922. This translation toned down the darker aspects of Salten's story, to turn Bambi into a children's book about furry animals and their friends. This may have been an astute commercial move, but latest research suggests that Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest, in its original form, was an allegory of the persecution of Jews in Europe.

Over 100 years on from the publication of Salten's book, it is time to tell the true story of Bambi.

Interviewees:
Dr Marcel Atze - archivist, Vienna City Library
Dr Brigitte Timmerman - historian, Vienna Walks and Talks
Prof Jack Zipes - translator of Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest

Readings:
David Ashton
Tallulah Bond
Douglas Clarke-Wood

Film clips:
Bambi (1942)
dir. David D. Hand, James Algar, Sam Armstrong, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield & Norman Wright
Walt Disney Productions

Producer: Jane Long
Sound: Jon Calver
A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 17:00 Today (m001kpms)
The Today Debate: Policing and us - how can we fix it?

The Today Debate is about taking a subject and pulling it apart with more time than we could ever have during the Today programme in the morning.

Today presenter Mishal Husain will be joined by an expert panel in the BBC's Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House to look at the future of policing in 'The Today Debate: Policing and us - how can we fix it?'

The panel includes Baroness Louise Casey, whose year long review into the Metropolitan Police found the force suffers from "institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia".

Joining her will be Mina Smallman, whose daughters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were murdered in London in June 2020. Two Met officers were subsequently jailed for sharing images of their bodies in a WhatsApp group.

The Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley. Steve Hartshorn, National Chair for the Police Federation of England and Wales, one of the largest police staff associations in the UK representing more than 130,000 rank and file officers and Sir Peter Fahy, former Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police.


SUN 17:40 Profile (m001kprv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m001kpmv)
The latest shipping forecast


SUN 17:57 Weather (m001kpmx)
The latest weather forecast


SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m001kr0l)
Home Secretary criticises authorities who turn "a blind eye"


SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week (m001kpmz)
Chris Hawkins

Broadcaster Chris Hawkins with a personal selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio. There’s the composer who saved Dumbo or at least the music from the film. The bizarre story of a pioneering jazz musician you’ve probably never heard of. A first student debate and another student who loves life in a van. What might be greatest wind-up call ever, made by one of greatest satirists, ever. And strictly come Mambo…


SUN 19:00 The Archers (m001kpn1)
Helen presses Tom on a list of things he said he would do for their open day tomorrow. He asks if her anger is really about the twins’ modelling job but Helen doesn’t think there’s anything else to say. George is helping out with preparations too, and suggests making a film with Tom talking about organic growing that visitors can watch in his absence. George has big ideas for it. They get some of it done and then start recording in the packing shed. George gets annoyed when Helen interrupts them. Tom sends George off to get more general shots. Helen and Tom talk again about the modelling job. Helen hates that they’re taking it; she thinks it’s hypocritical. She makes it clear that she won’t be telling their parents about it. It’s not her place – this is Tom’s mess.
Alice is keen to help as Brian cooks a Sunday lunch for Adam, Kate and Alice. Afterwards, they congratulate Brian on a lovely meal. They are surprised to discover Jennifer’s will has arrived but Brian is yet to open it. Kate opens it and announces that Jennifer has left Martha £15,000, but nothing to her other grandchildren. Alice quickly leaves. Brian says he didn’t know about this bequest or when Jennifer added it to her will. As they tackle the clearing up, Adam and Kate are left stumped. Their mother must have had a good reason but they’ll never know what it is. Kate feels it’s not like her mum to disregard the rest of her grandchildren. What was she thinking?


SUN 19:15 Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You (m0001v7w)
Series 2

Domestic Bliss

Award winning comedian and super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes tackles life and love and, with the help of the audience, packs herself a fantasy coffin.

In part tribute to Angela's beloved late father - a larger than life gregarious character, he was a sex shop manager, naturist, and a big fan of caravans and pranks - Angela celebrates his carpe diem approach to life, and his motto "You Can't Take It With You".

When her father died very suddenly in 2008, Angela and her family proved him wrong and stuffed his coffin with sentimental keepsakes for his final journey. Angela now does the very same thing, nominating objects that she would choose to send on with her as mementoes of her life, and asking the audience to share items they would take with them, all acting as prompts for contemplative, heart-warming and captivating comedy.

Angela Barnes is a vivacious, critically acclaimed stand-up comic from Maidstone, Kent. After a career in health and social care, at the age of 33, she decided to pursue a long-held ambition and give comedy a go. Within a couple of years, Angela and her witty worldview had won the 2011 BBC New Comedy Award by a public vote, secured a weekly star slot in Channel 4's Stand Up For The Week and appeared on numerous radio and television shows including Loose Ends, The Now Show, The News Quiz (BBC Radio 4), Russell Howard's Good News (BBC 3), and Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo (BBC 2). She has been the host of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack for the last two series.

An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4

First broadcast in 2019.


SUN 19:45 The Chronicles of Burke Street (m001kpn3)
More Chronicles of Burke Street

1: Sueling's Story

We return to Burke Street, Port of Spain, in another brilliantly funny short story series by the Costa Award-winning author, Ingrid Persaud.

Set on a seemingly everyday street in Trinidad, 'More Chronicles of Burke Street' follows the lives and loves of its unconventional residents. Burke Street might seem ordinary, but behind its closed doors lurk secrets, superstitions and barely concealed lies.

Today, in 'Sueling's Story', a grieving young woman has the shock of her life....

Writer: Ingrid Persaud is the winner of the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award, and her novel Love After Love won the 2020 Costa First Novel Award.
Reader: Martina Laird
Producer: Justine Willett


SUN 20:00 Feedback (m001kh43)
The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience


SUN 20:30 Last Word (m001kh3q)
Paul O'Grady, Gordon Moore, Vera Selby, Simon Emmerson

Matthew Bannister on

Paul O’Grady, who made his name as the drag queen Lily Savage, and went on to become a much-loved TV and radio star.

Gordon Moore, the tech entrepreneur who founded the chip maker Intel and came up with Moore’s law which says that computer processing power doubles every two years.

Vera Selby who challenged sexist prejudice to become the women’s world snooker champion – twice.

And Simon Emmerson who put together two hugely influential bands – the Afro Celt Sound System and the Imagined Village. Eliza Carthy pays tribute.

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Interviewee: Zoe Kleinman
Interviewee: Harvey Fineberg
Interviewee: Eliza Carthy
Interviewee: Johnny Kalsi
Interviewee: Hector Nunns
Interviewee: Keith Green

Archive clips used:
Paul O’Grady show, BBC Radio 2 03/06/2018; YouTube, uploaded; Lily Savage at the Filth concert in aid of the Terence Higgins Trust, Youtube uploaded 23/09/2014 ; Parkinson, BBC ONE, 28/02/2004; Paul O’Grady on Royal Vauxhall Tavern Raid, Peter Tatchell Foundation, YouTube, uploaded 29/03/2023; Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 28/12/2003; Inheritance Tracks, BBC Radio 4, 04/01/2020; Vera Selby on Ladies Day, World Snooker Tour, Youtube uploaded 26/04/2016; Vera Selby: How to play snooker, Youtube uploaded 26/03/2009; Gordon Moore, Frontiers, BBC Radio 4, 01/10/2010; Oral History of Gordon Moore, Computer History magazine, Youtube, uploaded 24/03/2008; A Discussion with Gordon Moore and Harvey Fineberg, Moore Foundation, Youtube uploaded 24/08/2016


SUN 21:00 Money Box (m001kpn7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Saturday]


SUN 21:25 Radio 4 Appeal (m001kplx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today]


SUN 21:30 Analysis (m001kgs3)
Can the Met police change?

How difficult is it for a police force to change? A review of the Metropolitan police by Baroness Louise Casey says racism, misogyny, and homophobia are at the heart of the force. The Met's commissioner Sir Mark Rowley admits 'we have let Londoners down'. Everyone agrees change must happen – but where to start?

Margaret Heffernan meets experts on police reform and former senior officers to explore the organisational challenge that faces any force which wants to transform itself and re-establish public trust. She hears from those involved in establishing the Police Service of Northern Ireland, following the Good Friday Agreement. What were the political and organisational challenges that faced the PSNI in terms of recruitment from two different communities? What lessons might that process offer to the transformation that is needed across other forces? And how would organisational psychologists suggest tackling and turning round long established cultures?

Presenter: Margaret Heffernan
Producer: Philip Reevell
Editor: Clare Fordham


SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour (m001kpn9)
Nick Watt discusses the government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda and new proposals to tackle child grooming gangs, with the Conservative MP Edward Timpson; Labour's Dame Meg Hillier; and Munira Wilson from the Liberal Democrats. Katy Balls - political editor of The Specatator - brings additional insight and analysis. The programme also includes an interview with pollster and Conservative peer, Lord Hayward, previewing the local elections in England.


SUN 23:00 Loose Ends (m001kpnc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Saturday]


SUN 23:30 Something Understood (b00rl48k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today]

MONDAY 03 APRIL 2023

MON 00:00 Midnight News (m001kpnf)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


MON 00:15 Arthur Briggs: The Brit Who Brought Jazz to Europe (m001kh4k)
Arthur Briggs played with some of the biggest names in jazz, witnessed some extraordinary moments in history and survived a Nazi internment camp. Yet, apart from among the most diehard jazz fans, he's virtually unknown today.

Born at the turn of the last century on the Caribbean island of Grenada, then part of the British Empire, Briggs learned to play trumpet in Harlem and is believed to be the only British subject to have participated in the creation of jazz. But for his entire life, Arthur said he was American.

In archive recordings broadcast for the first time, Briggs tells of his adventures as a black man leading a band of musicians around the cities of Europe in the 1920s and 30s. Memories include the aftermath of race riots in Liverpool, the execution of Turkish opposition leaders in Ankara, and four years in a Nazi camp.

Hugh tries to uncover why this pioneer of jazz is virtually absent from the history books.

Presenter: Hugh Schofield
Producer: Paul Pradier
Sound design: Peregrine Andrews
Executive Producer: Adele Armstrong

Archive courtesy of Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies
Photo credit: Barbara Pierrat-Briggs


MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday (m001kpnh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday]


MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001kpnk)
The latest shipping forecast


MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001kpnm)
World Service

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001kpnp)
The latest shipping forecast


MON 05:30 News Briefing (m001kpnr)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001kpnt)
Good morning. I love this time of year. Each day the darkness retreats further against the unstoppable march of Spring. For so long the winter gloom persisted and now, 10 days or so since British Summer Time began, it feels like there is a gathering momentum of life and light and colour.

But the sun that we now see early in our mornings was not absent whilst hid from our sight. And for many weeks there have been signs of spring even on the darkest days. It is often just a case of knowing where to look. I think of the simple snowdrop, brought to these shores by medieval monks and long cherished as a symbol of the resurrection. For when the earth is black and cold, out comes a radiant bell of white defying the forces of winter.

I think too of the prayer of the Venerable Bede. It’s writ large in gold letters above his tomb in Durham cathedral. In it he describes Jesus as the morning star and the reason, for me, is quite beautiful. Bede was far more than a historian and writer; he was scientist too. He knew the night sky. The morning star is the planet Venus which rises in the same part of the sky as the sun but hours before there is any hint of dawn. So, the night may be as black as midnight and yet for those who know what they’re looking at it’s a sure sign of what’s to follow – that dawn will surely come. Christ is our morning star because those who see his resurrection, have the assurance of hope.

Bright Morning Star, as we approach Easter remind us again of your presence with us in the dark seasons of our lives and help us to lift our eyes to the magnificent hope of your resurrection. AMEN


MON 05:45 Farming Today (m001kpnw)
Incidents like the food fraud allegations that hit the headlines last week can make shoppers really question the value of labels on food. What’s the point in believing a label that says meat is British, if it might not be? All this week we’re going to be looking into labelling and how well it serves us.

Natural England has launched a new 18 million pound Species Recovery Grant Scheme. It aims to help protect rare and endangered species like the Ladies Slipper Orchid and water voles through things like habitat restoration and by relocating some species to new areas.

From next year consumers won’t be able to buy bags of compost that contain peat. Now the government has confirmed that it is phasing out peat for the professional growing sector from 2026 - with a complete ban from 2030. Conservationists say that’s not soon enough, but the horticultural industry says it needs more time to find alternatives.

Presenter = Caz Graham
Producer = Rebecca Rooney


MON 05:56 Weather (m001kpny)
The latest weather forecast for farmers.


MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03bks90)
Jack Snipe

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 Jack Snipe. The song of the Jack snipe has been likened to the sound of a distant horse cantering along a road. To hear it though, you need to visit Scandinavian bogs and mires where these small waders breed. When the ice seals their northern breeding areas jack snipes head south and west and many winter in the British Isles.


MON 06:00 Today (m001kpp0)
Join Today's Mishal Husain and Justin Webb as residents in a south London block of flats consider legal action against a housing association, after their neighbour lay dead for two and a half years before her body was found. Hear the first in our series looking at how Sheila Seleoane remained undiscovered for so long.

The water regulator, OFWAT, has announced plans to cut the amount of raw sewage dumped into rivers and seas in England and Wales.

Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh tells us why she is taking time away from the television to explore the world of Richard III.

And we look at authenticity versus artistic licence and creativity in adaptations of the works of Charles Dickens, from a Muppet Christmas Carol to the latest version of Great Expectations by Steven Knight.

This episode of Today was edited by Tom Feilden and Victoria Gardiner. The studio director was Sharmini Ashton Griffiths.


MON 09:00 Start the Week (m001kpp2)
Mastering a new skill

How do people learn new skills and become real experts? These were the questions the author Adam Gopnik wanted to answer in his new book, The Real Work – a term magicians use for their accumulated craft. He apprenticed himself to an artist, a dancer, a boxer, and even a driving instructor to see if could get to the bottom of the mystery of mastery, and better himself.

Rebecca Struthers is a true master of her profession – horology. In Hands of Time, A Watchmaker's History of Time she reveals the inner cogs and workings of clocks, and explores the ways in which they have helped shape human history. But she also regrets the endangered art of traditional watchmaking and the loss of heritage skills.

The neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow explains what’s happening in our brains when we learn new things, especially later in life. And she argues that two heads may be better than one. In her latest book, Joined Up Thinking, she extols the virtues of working and learning together.

Producer: Katy Hickman

Image Credit: Rebecca Struthers for Hands of Time


MON 09:45 The Crowning of Everest (m001gk7h)
A Nation Waits

In 1953 Queen Elizabeth II is crowned. It's also the year that the British expedition makes an attempt to climb to the summit of the highest mountain in the world.

The story of Mount Everest spans the life of the new Queen and beyond, from the height of the British Empire to the rebirth of Britain as a nation.

In this episode, Wade Davis, explorer and anthropologist, looks at events taking place in Britain in 1953 and how the nation was poised for news of an Everest success as it planned for the coronation of a new monarch.

Presenter: Wade Davis
Series producer: Louise Clarke-Rowbotham
Sound design: Richard Hannaford
Editor: Tara McDermott
Production co-ordinators: Siobhan Reed and Helena Warwick-Cross


MON 10:00 Woman's Hour (m001kpp4)
The rise of right-wing female leaders in Europe.

Nuala McGovern talks to Costanza Hermanin from the European University Institute in Florence and Sarah De Lange from the University of Amsterdam about the success of this new breed of female leader.

In Afghanistan, the new school year has started. But for the second year running, a Taliban ban is keeping teenage girls out of school. The BBC World Service has launched a brand-new education series for children in the country aged 11-16 who are deprived from school, including girls whose secondary education has been stopped by the ruling Taliban. It's called Dars, which means 'lesson' in Dari and Pashto, the two national languages in Afghanistan. It is the first multi-platform educational programme for Afghan youth. We hear from one of the presenters of the programme Shazia Haya and one of its producers, Mariam Amam.

Are you afraid of the big, bad wolf? Where does this fear come from? Author Erica Berry was determined to find out after researching wild wolves in her home state of Oregon. In her book ‘Wolfish’ she searches through folklore and literature to see how wolves have become the symbol of predatory men and how that has shaped our fear.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Manager: Bob Nettles


MON 11:00 Serendipity (m001kpp6)
Derry Boys

This is the story of two Derry Boys who were never supposed to be friends.

Approaching the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement and with Northern Ireland making headlines again this is a unique audio record of a 50-year-old friendship which defied the odds.

In the 1970s, a remarkable couple in Holland decided to change the lives of two little Derry boys for ever. Donna and Danny De Vries signed up to bring working-class Catholic and Protestant children from Northern Ireland into their home. Their first young visitors were Patrick O‘Doherty and Raymond Hamilton. Memories and remarkable moments from that original visit were captured on tape by Danny, a sound recordist.

Producer Proinsias O’Coinn has unearthed the De Vries tapes and goes to Derry to reunite Patrick and Raymond as they listen and reflect on that visit and how it changed them. The trip derailed the odds of geography, history and destiny. How did they sound then and what do they think now… 50 years on?

The illuminating audio recordings of their trips will take listeners – and the boys - to Derry during the height of The Troubles in the '70s and to Holland, a world away from their lives in Northern Ireland. Both will share how being brought together, away from home, changed their lives, their minds and the hopes they now have for the place they call home.


MON 11:30 Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley (p0f7pyq2)
13. Elizabeth Taylor

Lucy Worsley looks at the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective.

In this episode, Lucy is joined by Deborah Frances-White, women’s rights campaigner, comedian and host of The Guilty Feminist podcast, to explore the case of Elizabeth Taylor, a backstreet abortionist in late 19th century Melbourne, Australia who spent decades playing cat and mouse with the law. They consider Elizabeth Taylor’s story in the context of women’s rights in 19th century Australia and the subsequent campaign for legal, safe abortion around the world.

Lucy is also joined by historian Rosalind Crone, Professor of History at the Open University, who has searched immigration, court and prison records to give new insights into Elizabeth Taylor’s life.

When the Taylor family emigrates from Manchester to Melbourne, Australia in 1872, Elizabeth begins to advertise in the classified columns of the newspapers as a ‘midwife and ladies’ nurse’. These are thinly veiled adverts for her extremely profitable, and completely illegal, abortion clinic.

Many desperate women with unwanted pregnancies find their way to her door. But sadly, not all of them survive the abortions Elizabeth Taylor performs and, over three decades, she is in and out of court - twice on murder charges and facing the death penalty.

Lucy wants to know why Elizabeth Taylor worked for so many years as an illegal abortionist knowing that she was risking her own life. Was she acting out of compassion for desperate women or cashing in on their terrible situations? What light does her story shine on the abortion debate today, with the overthrow of Roe vs Wade in the USA? How much do 19th century views, and laws, about the rights of women over their bodies resonate now? What does the case of Elizabeth Taylor tell us about women’s lives in the late 19th century and women’s lives today?

Producer: Jane Greenwood
Readers: Susan Dean, Clare Corbett and Jonathan Keeble
Sound Design: Chris Maclean
Series Producer: Julia Hayball

A StoryHunter production for BBC Radio 4


MON 12:00 News Summary (m001kpp9)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


MON 12:04 You and Yours (m001kppc)
Buying medication online

More of us are turning to the internet to buy medication - but what are the rules and how is the online market regulated? We'll hear from the bodies involved. Also: 50 years after the first mobile phone call was made, why Gen Z are turning to retro handsets like flip phones. We'll talk about what April means for our energy bills - are fixed tariffs back?

PRESENTER: SHARI VAHL
PRODUCER: TOM MOSELEY


MON 12:57 Weather (m001kppf)
The latest weather forecast


MON 13:00 World at One (m001kpph)
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.


MON 13:45 The Shankill Gold Rush (m001kppk)
The Find

In the summer of 1969, weeks before the Troubles would ignite, children playing in the rubble of a demolition site struck gold! While searching for treasure hundreds, maybe thousands of gold sovereigns, hidden and forgotten years before, tumbled to the ground from a chimney stack. More than 50 years later, author Glenn Patterson visits the Lower Shankill Road to find out who the coins belonged to. Why were they hidden? And where are they now?

Written and presented by Glenn Patterson
Sound by Bill Maul
Producer Sarah McGlinchey
Executive Editor Andy Martin
A BBC Northern Ireland Production for Radio 4


MON 14:00 The Archers (m001kpn1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday]


MON 14:15 This Cultural Life (m001kppn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:15 on Saturday]


MON 15:00 Counterpoint (m001kq3m)
Series 36

The Final, 2023

(13/13)
The 2023 season of the ultimate music quiz reaches its climax, as Paul Gambaccini welcomes back the three most formidable music brains of the year. The winner will take home the silver Counterpoint trophy and be named the 36th BBC Counterpoint champion. They've already proved they know their music, so the competition promises to be tight, and every dropped point could be crucial.

Questions on Pink Floyd, Chopin, Bernstein and Beyonce are just appetite whetters... the contenders will also have to pick a special musical topic in which to answer more in-depth questions, with no advance warning of the categories on offer. As always there are plenty of musical extracts to identify, representing all musical genres and eras.

The Finalists are:
Anthony Fish from Pontypool
Kathryn Johnson from Northwood in Middlesex
Sally Wilson from Sale in Greater Manchester

Assistant Producer: Stephen Garner
Producer: Paul Bajoria


MON 15:30 The Food Programme (m001kpmc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday]


MON 16:00 The Invention of... (m001gx4h)
Russia

A Tale of Two Ivans

Countries look so cohesive on the map - sturdy borders, familiar shapes. Don't be misled; they didn't always look like this. This is the story of Russia, biggest contiguous country on the planet, told from the time when it was very small.

"In my producer's history textbook it says here, page 18, that Russia as a political entity did not exist."

With contributions across the series from Janet Hartley, author of a history of the Volga; Rhodric Braithwaite, former ambassador to Moscow; historian and sociologist, Mischa Gabowitsch; Anthony Beevor; Natalia Antelava; Kateryna Khinkulova; Dominic Lieven; Olesya Khromeychuk; and James Hill of the New York Times.

This is the latest in the How to Invent a Country series which has previously been to Poland, Brazil, Germany and the USA.

Presenter Misha Glenny is the author of McMafia and former BBC Central Europe correspondent
The producer for BBC audio in Bristol is Miles Warde


MON 16:30 Beyond Belief (m001kppr)
Grief

Rabbi Jonathan Romain's son, Benedict, died tragically and suddenly in January. In the grieving process his faith, community and the rituals of Judaism have all played a part. He speaks to Aleem Maqbool about his experience and his response to bereavement.

His story leads to a panel discussion on the place of faith, religion and ritual within the grieving process, whether it is a help or a hindrance and whether belief in an afterlife makes it easier to deal with loss.

Maggie Doherty is the Director of the Centre for the Art of Dying Well at St Mary’s University. The Centre’s mission is to help people to live and die well and be supported in their grief. She is also a trustee of St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney and is a student in Digital Health.

Louise Blyth was 33 when her husband George died from bowel cancer, leaving her with one and three year old boys. At a time like that many lose their faith, but Louise found it, becoming a Christian. A year later she quit her dream job in operations for Mars to write a book “Hope is Coming” all about her experiences. Louise currently juggles being a Mum with trying to write her second book.

Jusna Begum supports bereaved Muslim families by washing the bodies of those they have lost; an essential part of the grieving process. She is also the director of a domestic violence charity in east London.

PRODUCER: KATHARINE LONGWORTH


MON 17:00 PM (m001kppt)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines


MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m001kq9j)
Teachers in England are planning more strikes after rejecting the government's pay offer.


MON 18:30 Just a Minute (m001kppw)
Series 91

1. Quicksand, A Damp Squib, and Why I Could Win ‘The Traitors’

Sue Perkins challenges Paul Merton, Jennifer Saunders, Julian Clary and Lucy Porter to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation.

The long-running Radio 4 national treasure of a parlour game is back for a new series with subjects this week ranging from Quicksand to Why I Could Win ‘The Traitors’.

Production co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow
Sound editor: Marc Willcox
Producer: Rajiv Karia

A BBC Studios Production


MON 19:00 The Archers (m001kppz)
At the Bridge Farm Open Day Pat is eager to impress Adil; he’s a potential valued customer. At the last minute she’s called away and has to postpone giving Adil a tour. George steps in. He wants to impress Adil with the film he’s made of Tom. But the QR code won’t work. Having memorised Tom’s words, George rises to Adil’s challenge of giving the talk himself. After George has talked to a small crowd about Bridge Farm produce, Adil congratulates him. George asks Adil about his job role. Adil warns a sceptical George that while ambition can get you some way, it’s hard work that matters most.
A steady stream of interested visitors have been asking lots of questions through the new dairy window. Susan finds a private moment to ask Adam about his search for Paddy Redmond. Adam says Brian has been very good about him seeking out Paddy. Just as another family arrives at the window, something goes wrong with the cheese-making machinery. Susan takes a look while Adam entertains the visitors with information about yoghurt and ice-cream making. Helen is grateful to Susan for fixing the machine.
Later Helen, Pat, Susan and George reflect on the busy day. It’s been hard work but it’s been a success. Helen mentions giving Susan proper recognition for saving the day. George becomes the focus of attention for overcoming the failed film. Pat’s confident that their new attractions and a decent spring is going to put Bridge Farm on the map.


MON 19:15 Front Row (m001kpq1)
The Beatles at Stowe School, Hugh Laurie on Agatha Christie

Samira discovers a previously unheard recording of The Beatles historic gig for the boys at Stowe School on 4 April 1963. She visits the school to mark the 60th anniversary and talks to former pupil John Bloomfield, who was fifteen when he recorded the concert, the current headmaster Anthony Wallersteiner, and Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn.

Hugh Laurie discusses his TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?" Based on Christie’s 1934 novel, Hugh Laurie also directs the drama which stars Will Poulter and Lucy Boynton as a vicar’s son and socialite turned duo of detectives.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Paul Waters


MON 20:00 Disaster Trolls (m001jmsl)
Remember my name

Marianna Spring returns to her investigation into conspiracy theories about UK terror attack victims, and reports on moves to hold those responsible for spreading them to account.

Disaster Trolls revealed how people caught up in the Manchester Arena bombing suffered years of online abuse and threats as a result of false claims that they were “crisis actors” who faked the attack.

In this new episode, Marianna discovers what has changed for some of the people who featured in the original series.

She also reports on developments in efforts to hold to account those who spread extreme conspiracy theories, and asks questions about how to tackle harmful disinformation while protecting freedom of expression at the same time.

This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence.

Presenter: Marianna Spring
Producer: Olivia Lace-Evans
Editor: Ed Main


MON 20:30 Analysis (m001kpq3)
Lessons from the vaccine task force

In May 2020 a group of experts came together, at speed, to form the UK’s Vaccine Task Force. Born in the teeth of a crisis, its efforts were responsible for allowing Britain to be among the first countries in the world to roll out vaccines against Covid-19. But as memories of the pandemic fade, the urgency it brought to its work has subsided as well. In this edition of Analysis, Sandra Kanthal asks what lessons have been learned from the success of the Vaccine Task Force and if we should be prepared to allocate the time, energy and expense required to be permanently prepared for the next global health emergency.

Presenter: Sandra Kanthal
Producer: Sandra Kanthal
Editor: Clare Fordham


MON 21:00 Science Stories (m0007qdv)
Series 9

Madame Lavoisier's Translation of Oxygen

Philip Ball tells the story of Madame Lavoisier; translator of oxygen. At a time when science was almost a closed book to women, Madame Marie Anne Lavoisier’s skills were indispensable. A translator, illustrator and critic of scientific papers, she learnt chemistry herself and helped her husband Antoine Lavoisier develop his theory of the role played by oxygen in combustion. As modern science was taking shape it lacked any universal language, so communication in many tongues was vital to stay ahead of the game. Even today there is debate as to who can really be considered the discoverer of oxygen, but Madame Lavoisier’s gift for translation helped her husband compete against English rivals and banish their theories. Come the French Revolution however, Anton was branded a traitor to the state and sentenced to death. By a cruel twist of fate Marie lost both husband and father to the guillotine on the same day.

Philip Ball talks to Patricia Fara at the University of Cambridge, about the largely unrecognised contribution that women like Marie Anne Lavoisier made to the early days of modern science, and to Michael Gordin of Princeton University about the importance of scientific translation in the past and how it features today,


MON 21:30 Start the Week (m001kpp2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 22:00 The World Tonight (m001kpq6)
In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective


MON 22:45 Magpie by Elizabeth Day (p0dqjzyr)
Episode 1 - A New Start

From the novelist, podcaster and journalist Elizabeth Day comes Magpie, an exhilarating psychological story about jealousy, motherhood and power.

A happy couple are trying for a baby when a young woman enters their lives. It isn’t long before her presence upends everything and their dreams unravel.

Elizabeth Day is an award-winning novelist, journalist and podcaster. Her memoir How To Fail was a best-seller, and her podcast, How to Fail With Elizabeth Day is a chart-topping podcast.

Abridged by Rowan Routh
Produced by Elizabeth Allard


MON 23:00 I Feel Therefore I Am (m001jkrq)
The Multiverse of Truth

Where once facts, evidence and rationality were the path to knowledge, now the logic of feeling, of ‘my truth’ and ‘lived experience’ offers an alternative. Do we know our world through objective facts, or through subjective feelings?

In the final programme in the series, Professor Abigail Williams tackles the idea that a single objective truth is now being replaced by the idea of multiple truths. This investigation into the multiverse of truth takes us on a journey from Descartes to Derrida via the parallel worlds of science-fiction and the online multiverse.

How do we know things, how do we value both 'my truth' and 'your truth' and is the new focus on personal feeling and subjective truths something to celebrate or fear?

Producer: Julia Johnson
Presenter: Abigail Williams
Executive Producer: Samir Shah

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4


MON 23:30 Limelight (m00146p6)
Siege

Siege - Episode 1

By Katherine Jakeways, Eno Mfon and Darragh Mortell.

Everybody remembers the Siege, when for 24 hours the whole world was watching a small South London branch of a global supermarket chain. You’ve seen the news, the crazy conspiracy blogs and Naomi’s infamous Snap. Now for the first time the hostages tell the inside story of what really happened on those two dark days in December.

Episode 1.
For 5 shoppers and a security guard, it’s just another day in the supermarket until a masked man walks in with a gun.


CAST
NAOMI - Danielle Vitalis
JACKSON - Kwabena Ansah
KEMI - Layo-Christina Akinlude
PENNY - Jasmine Hyde
MAGGIE - Stacey Abalogun


SOUND DESIGN – Catherine Robinson
DIRECTOR - John Norton
PRODUCED by John Norton and James Robinson

A BBC Cymru Wales Production


Siege is the latest drama in the Limelight strand and will also be available in full on BBC Sounds from Monday 7 February as a 5-part podcast

TUESDAY 04 APRIL 2023

TUE 00:00 Midnight News (m001kpqb)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 00:30 The Crowning of Everest (m001gk7h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday]


TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001kpqd)
The latest shipping forecast


TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001kpqg)
World Service

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001kpqj)
The latest shipping forecast


TUE 05:30 News Briefing (m001kpql)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001kpqn)
“Early evening, April four. A shot rings out in the Memphis sky”. Famous words from the U2 Song “Pride in the name of love”, reflecting on this day 55 years ago when Martin Luther King was assassinated. That night and for days following, the death of the man who had so passionately championed non-violence provoked some of the worst riots America had ever seen.

It is said that when news reached Memphis’ most famous resident, Elvis Presley, he wept uncontrollably. He had met King many times and admired him greatly. And then, through his tears, he started to sing an old hymn, perhaps the only song that was as much treasured by his tradition as by the cause King had died for. “Amazing Grace! How Sweet the sound. That saved a wretch like me”.

Amazing Grace was written almost exactly 250 years ago, and few songs have had such reach and impact across the world. The author, John Newton, was a former slave trader which makes it all the more remarkable that his hymn should become an anthem for the civil rights movement. But Newton knew he had received grace, the undeserved love and mercy of God could transform even a wretch like him. Martin Luther King knew it too, he once preached “The whole of life hinges on the ever-flowing power and ever-flowing stream of God’s grace.” And he knew that when grace is deployed against injustice it is a very powerful weapon, one that can break cycles of hatred and revenge.

Heavenly Father, reveal to us again your Amazing Grace. And help us to be people of grace, to stand for justice and whatever reactions we encounter to always strive to respond with love. AMEN


TUE 05:45 Farming Today (m001kpqq)
04/04/23 Red Tractor and environmental certification; sky larks

River Action, the charity that campaigns about river pollution, is making a formal complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority about Red Tractor after an internal Environment Agency Report, seen by the Times newspaper, concluded that Red Tractor membership was “not a good indicator of environmental protection”. The river charity says Red Tractor ads are misleading because they claim to be a world-leading standard and their environmental standards aren't good enough. However, Red Tractor says that the analysis of the data is misleading. It insists that farms that belong to its scheme fare much better in inspections than those that don't. It says it inspects all its farmers and anyone found causing pollution would be reported and taken to task.

A farmer who recorded a skylark using a microphone tied to a fishing rod and suspended from a weather balloon really did get a recording of the bird this way - it wasn't an April fool!

Presenter = Caz Graham
Producer = Rebecca Rooney


TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b08z9p9t)
Nadia Archer on the Peregrine

Nadia Archer of the RSPB recalls volunteering in Manchester on a peregrine watch at the Arndale Centre for Tweet of the Day, where the call of the wild could bring relaxation to a busy city centre.

Producer Tom Bonnett.


TUE 06:00 Today (m001kpww)
Join Justin Webb and Mishal Husain as they hear about renewed calls to force criminals to attend sentencing.

Donald Trump's been meeting his lawyers ahead of a court appearance in New York where he'll face criminal charges.

This episode was edited by Tom Feilden and Kirsty Mackenzie. The studio director was Adrian Bhargava.


TUE 09:00 The New Gurus (m001g9sp)
1. The Birth of the New Guru

In 2011, some mourners at Steve Jobs’ memorial service were confused by his final gift to them – a book called Autobiography of A Yogi. Others understood his message perfectly - the Apple founder had spent his entire life searching for his own guru. Instead, by creating the iPhone, he became one. But did Jobs’ personal quest for enlightenment also help create the modern guru?

The New Gurus is a series about looking for enlightenment in the digital world.

Written and presented by Helen Lewis

Series Producers: Morgan Childs and Tom Pooley
Story consultant: Geoff Bird
Original music composed by Paper Tiger
Sound design and mix: Rob Speight
Editor: Craig Templeton Smith

A Tempo & Talker production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds


TUE 09:30 Magic Consultants (m001kpwy)
The History

Adam Shaw peeks behind the curtain of the consultancy industry.

Worth hundreds of billions of pounds, consultants stretch across almost every industry, government department and international border.

Since the pandemic there’s been an unprecedented demand for their services and many believe our future is determined by what they think and do. Yet little is known about these largely hidden influencers. They are magnetic and mesmerizing yet, to many of us, shrouded in mystery.

Adam asks who are these wizards, what do they do and how much do they influence our lives.

On the one hand, they're talked of as genius solvers of the world’s greatest problems and masters of the machinery of management. On other, some think of them in more shadowy terms, whispering their guidance into the ears of the rich and powerful. Adam sets off with missionary zeal to detangle two very different stereotypes.

Across the series he hunts for the first ever consultant, finds out how they shape our language and politics and discovers how they bounce back from appalling scandals. He joins a consultancy fair to meet aspirant consultants, hears stories from the glass towers of late nights and rewards, explores FOMO and addition, turnarounds and triumphs.

In this episode he charts the history of the industry from its early pioneers: scientific time managers on the factory floors of industrializing America, in pursuit of greater efficiency. He hears how the industry evolved on both sides of the Atlantic and how governments and businesses alike began relying on them for advice.

With contributions from: Andrew Sturdy, Professor in Management at The University of Bristol, Dr Chris McKenna, Reader in Business History and Strategy at the Said Business School, public services consultant and historian Dr Antonio Weiss and Rosie Collington, co-author of The Big Con,

Produced by Neil McCarthy


TUE 09:45 The Crowning of Everest (m001gksr)
The Allure of Everest

Britain has tried and failed to reach the top of Everest for decades.

George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared on the mountain in 1924.

There were various British expeditions during the 1930s - all unmitigated failures.

The Second World War interrupted the race to conquer Everest. But by 1951, with Tibet closed by communist China, a new unexplored route through Nepal was available.

The Swiss expedition had nearly succeeded in 1952. The French are scheduled to climb in 1954. For John Hunt's British team in 1953 the pressure is on. It is now or never.

Meanwhile, back in London, a different race begins. If the British get to the top it's the scoop of the century for whichever newspaper can report the story first. The Times pays £10,000 to have its reporter James Morris, later Jan Morris, embedded with the expedition.

Presenter: Wade Davis
Series producer: Louise Clarke-Rowbotham
Sound design: Richard Hannaford
Editor: Tara McDermott
Production co-ordinators: Siobhan Reed and Helena Warwick-Cross


TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour (m001kpx2)
WH Power list sports journalist Fiona Tomas, Climate justice activist Mikaela Loach, Narcissistic mothers, WASPI women

On the Woman’s Hour Power List this year, sports reporter Fiona Tomas joins Nuala to discuss the change in kits for the England Women’s football team and her work as a journalist.
Climate justice activist Mikaela Loach took the UK government to court for giving tax breaks to fossil fuel companies. Her urgent new book ‘It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World’ makes the case for tackling the climate crisis in tandem with other inequalities, offering a more hopeful future through practical action.
Women affected by the state pension age changes have scored what's been hailed as a major victory in their legal challenge for more compensation.
The Government watchdog conceded that part of the investigation into how increases to the state pension age were communicated was flawed and must be reconsidered. The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign represents the 3.6 million women who, in lots of cases, only got 12 months' notice of a six year increase to their State Pension age. Angela Madden, the chair of WASPI joins Nuala.
In the next in our series about narcissistic mothers we hear the story of a woman we are calling 'Scarlett'. She cut off all contact with the mother she believes is a narcissist and has no regrets.
Alison Kinnaird was rejected by Edinburgh Art School when she applied as a teenager. Now she’s one of the world’s leading glass artists – and says that rejection was the best thing that ever happened to her. She joins Nuala to explain why and to talk about some of the remarkable things she’s created.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore


TUE 11:00 Science Stories (m0007qdv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday]


TUE 11:30 My Amey and Me (m000g3fh)
The bond between mother and child is perhaps the most natural and the most profound relationship we can experience. But for Zakia Sewell and her mother - who she's always called Amey - this relationship has been far from straight-forward.

Now, after many years of disconnection and words unspoken, they're collaborating on a theatre piece, a kind of 'curated conversation', to understand better the issues they have had to overcome.

Some are near, intimate and specific to the two of them - Amey's mental health and her own experience of motherhood - but they are entwined with stories from the past, submerged deep beneath the surface, evoking the ghosts of distant ancestors whose experiences under the brutal tyranny of slavery in the Caribbean find expression through the generations.

With contributions from theatre-maker Cathy Sloan and Sonya Welch-Moring, a specialist in trans-generational therapeutic practice.

Presented by Zakia Sewell
Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 12:00 News Summary (m001kpyn)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 12:04 You and Yours (m001kpxb)
Call You and Yours: How are you coping with rising prices?

On today's Call You and Yours, we're asking - how are you coping with rising prices?
It's the start of the new financial year, and with it comes lots of annual increases including mobile phones contracts, broadband, and council tax to name a few. We'd like to know how you're getting on. Call us now on 03700 100 444.
New research out today says three in four people in the UK are worse off financially than a year ago.
More people are struggling to pay off their loans. And a third are now have to borrow because of the cost of living crisis.
Are you stuck in a cycle of borrowing? Is there anything left you can cut back on?
We'd like to hear what you're doing to make sure you have enough to live on and pay the bills. How are you coping with rising prices?
Call us now on 03700 100 444. Lines are open at 11 am on Tuesday April 4th. You can also email us now at youandyours@bbc.co.uk
Don't forget to include a phone number so we can call you back.

Presenter: Shari Vahl
Producer: Tara Holmes.


TUE 12:57 Weather (m001kpxg)
The latest weather forecast


TUE 13:00 World at One (m001kpxk)
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.


TUE 13:45 The Shankill Gold Rush (m001kpxn)
The Rush

In the summer of 1969, weeks before the Troubles would ignite, children playing in the rubble of a demolition site struck gold! While searching for treasure hundreds, maybe thousands of gold sovereigns, hidden and forgotten years before, tumbled to the ground from a chimney stack. More than 50 years later, author Glenn Patterson visits the Lower Shankill Road to find out who the coins belonged to. Why were they hidden? And where are they now?

Written and presented by Glenn Patterson
Sound by Bill Maul
Producer Sarah McGlinchey
Executive Editor Andy Martin
A BBC Northern Ireland Production for Radio 4


TUE 14:00 The Archers (m001kppz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday]


TUE 14:15 Life Lines (m000zml2)
Series 5

Part One

By Al Smith

Carrie ..... Sarah Ridgeway
Will ..... Rick Warden
Ian ..... Michael Jibson
Abbas ..... Sharif Dorani
Joyce ..... Helen Norton
Angelica ..... Saffron Coomber
Devin ..... Justice Ritchie
Tom ..... Sam Dale
Jo ..... Grace Cooper Milton
Paul ..... Luke Nunn
Andy ..... Shaun Mason
Chris ..... Joseph Ayre
Gwen ..... Christine Kavanagh

Director ..... Sally Avens

The award-winning drama series set in an ambulance control centre returns. Carrie faces a series of heart-stopping emergencies at work. But when her judgement is called into question over a patient who later died, she finds her work and personal life colliding dangerously.


TUE 15:00 Short Cuts (m001kpxq)
Series 34

Invitations

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that invite a listener to participate. From a musical performance to sinking into the perspective of your wall.

Your Wall
Produced by Sharon Mashihi
Originally created for the audio issue of McSweeney’s magazine, in collaboration with Radiotopia
Sharon’s editor at McSweeney’s was Claire Boyle. Additional notes were provided by Audrey Mardavich and Julie Shapiro.

Three Layer Score
Produced by Kalli Anderson
Engineer: Chad Bernhard
Composer and Narrator: Elizandro Garcia Montoya
Performers: Kalli Anderson, Theo Carroll, Minna Finkelstein, Elwyn Finkelstein, Zack Finkelstein, Jacob Krupnick, Lu Olkowski, Jess Shane, Carly Stone, Kate Sutherland and Zoe Tennant

Late night, with headphones, in a completely, utterly, dark room, with some space to move
by Hofesh Shechter
From Everyday Moments, produced by Fuel
To hear more, visit Fuel Digital at https://fueltheatre.com/projects/everyday-moments/

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth (m001kqzy)
Energy Lessons

After a winter of spiralling energy prices, Tom Heap asks whether our attitudes to energy consumption have changed. What lessons have we learned in the last twelve months, both as individual consumers and as a society - or are we putting our heads in the sand and carrying on as normal? Last week the government announced its plans to update the UK’s net zero strategy, but what do its announcements tell us about its priorities when it comes to our energy use? Fuel poverty is hitting many people hard, but some environmentalists argue that the invasion of Ukraine and everything which has followed could prove to be a turning point for environmental change. In this programme Tom hosts a panel discussion on how the energy landscape is changing.

Producer: Emma Campbell


TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth (m001kpxs)
The Life Inside: Philosophy in Prison

Andy West talks to Michael Rosen about his work discussing philosophy in prisons around England. His book The Life Inside is a memoir of his own experience of the justice system through his family. His father, brother and uncle all spent long stretches in jail. Andy talks about the various meanings words such as 'freedom' 'hope' and 'time' have to prisoners. The conversations he has with them as part of the philosophy course are revealing as well as often poignant and humorous.

Producer: Maggie Ayre for BBC Audio Bristol


TUE 16:30 Great Lives (m001kpv6)
Arthur Ashe

New series - Arthur Ashe was born in Richmond, Virginia, a state in the US that in 1943 was still part of the segregated south. If Arthur wanted to compete with white players, he had to leave for St Louis and then California to play. His story is staggering, and not just his success in a notoriously elitist sport. His mother died when he was six, he had a heart attack when he was 36, and he died of AIDS when he was just 49, contracted from a tainted blood transfusion.

Film maker and broadcaster Qasa Alom grew up loving Rafa Nadal. Then Ashe's story blew him away.
"In a world where we have so many demonstrative heroes, in sport, in politics, the extrovert who is shouting the loudest often gets heard. There's a really good opportunity here to showcase other ways of being a champion, and Arthur Ashe for me is certainly that person."

Programme contains historic interviews, including Arthur Ashe talking to Anthony Clare for In The Psychiatrists Chair shortly after his first heart attack.
Also includes a new interview with Raymond Arsenault, American author of Arthur Ashe: A Life.

The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde.

Future episodes include Frederick the Great of Prussia and Frank Zappa with The Mothers of Invention


TUE 17:00 PM (m001kpxv)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines


TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m001kq9l)
Trump Arrives At Court To Face Arrest

Donald Trump arrives at court to be arrested and charged with a criminal offence


TUE 18:30 You Heard It Here First (m001kpxz)
Series 1

Episode 2

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 episode, contestants try to figure out what on earth is being advertised on the TV, guess what famous objects or locations children are trying to describe, and even work out what chocolate bars are being eaten based on sound alone.

The competing comedians are Alan Davies and Jess Fostekew taking on Suzi Ruffell and Paul Chowdhry.

Producer: Sasha Bobak
Executive Producer: Pete Strauss
Production Co-ordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries
Sound editor: Jerry Peal

Theme music ‘Colour me Groovy’ by The Rich Morton Sound

Recorded at the Backyard Comedy Club, Bethnal Green


TUE 19:00 The Archers (m001kpt0)
Henry and Jack have set a treasure hunt for Lee to help cheer him up, because they know he’s missing his daughters. Helen and Lee work through the clues but with Henry and Jack away on their bikes, Helen suggests skipping ahead to the final clue. Susan helps them solve it and Lee unwraps his gift, a guidebook to San Francisco. They don’t have dates for their visit yet but can now get planning. Susan says she thought the parcel would have held an engagement ring. She reminds Helen about the recognition for the changed nature of her job that she’d mentioned yesterday. Susan was thinking a pay rise, whereas Helen thought it would be a blog post on her and Clarrie’s efforts. They agree to fix a meeting to discuss. Helen and Lee laugh at Susan’s engagement ring suggestion. Lee thinks the guidebook is perfect.
Brian finally speaks to Alice. He knows she’s not been answering Kate and Adam’s calls. Alice insists she’s busy but Brian is keen to talk after the revelation of Jennifer’s will on Sunday. Alice can’t stop thinking about why Jennifer only left money to Martha. Brian thinks it’s a lovely gesture. Alice sees it as insurance against her being an absent mother. Brian assures Alice that Jennifer was full of admiration for what she’s achieved, but nothing he says makes things better for Alice. Even though Jennifer saw her reach sobriety, Alice believes that her mother didn’t trust her. Brian comforts Alice as she cries.


TUE 19:15 Front Row (m001kpy1)
Joe Pearlman on his Lewis Capaldi film, author Craig Brown, Tartan at the V&A

BAFTA-winning director Joe Pearlman talks about his new Netflix documentary on Scottish pop superstar Lewis Capaldi, which is out tomorrow. In Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now, Joe follows Lewis as he struggles with his mental health and writing his second album during the pandemic.

Tartan, the textile of tradition and rebellion is celebrated at the Victoria & Albert Museum in Dundee, which is apt - Queen Victoria loved tartan and Prince Albert designed several tartan setts. BBC Scotland arts correspondent Pauline McLean reports on the exhibition which tells the story of tartan and how the rules of the grid have inspired creativity around the world.

Continuing Front Row's series of interviews with all the authors shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction ‘winner of winners’ award, Tom Sutcliffe speaks to Craig Brown about his book, One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles In Time.

The renowned Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto died at the weekend. In an interview for Front Row from 2018 Sakamoto reveals the inspirations behind some of his most famous film scores.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Julian May


TUE 20:00 File on 4 (m001kpy3)
Probation in peril

The Probation Service is meant to protect the public by monitoring released prisoners and offenders on community sentences - helping them to stay out of trouble and rebuild their lives. But a series of catastrophic failures have led to the murders of two women who were killed by men who should have been monitored more closely.
File on 4 analyses the case of Damien Bendall who killed his pregnant partner Terri Harris and three children in 2021 while on probation. The Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell has said Bendall’s supervision “fell far below the quality that the public has a right to expect”. The programme hears from the families of Bendall's victims and from those probation officers on the front line who say the service is at breaking point.

Reporter: Danny Shaw
Producer: Fergus Hewison
Assistant Producer: Patrick Kiteley
Technical Producer: Richard Hannaford
Editor: Carl Johnston


TUE 20:40 In Touch (m001kpy5)
Technology Training and Rehab Services; You Heard It Here First

Where do you go if you are seeking training on how to use the various technology? We look at whether the training provided by rehabilitation services goes deep enough and what alternatives are available to you. We speak to Simon Labbett, who is a rehab officer and Chair of the Rehabilitation Workers Professional Network, to Scott Wood who is a team leader at the RNIB's Technology for Life service and to Mike Townsend, who is representing the Technology Association of Visually Impaired People.

Blind stand-up comedian Chris McCausland has a new four part show, that airs on Radio 4's Tuesday night comedy slot. It's called You Heard it Here First and panellists have to decipher what is going on in a variety of audio clips. We review the first episode with visually impaired comedy writer and Assistant TV Producer, Reece Finnegan. On the episode in question, Chris' panellists were: Rhys James, Donna Preston, Alasdair Beckett-King and Ria Lina.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Beth Hemmings
Production Coordinator: Liz Poole
Website image description: Peter White sits smiling in the centre of the image, wearing a dark green jumper. Above Peter's head is the BBC logo (three individual white squares house each of the three letters). Bottom centre and overlaying the image are the words "In Touch" and the Radio 4 logo (the word Radio in a bold white font, with the number 4 inside a white circle). The background is a bright mid-blue with two rectangles angled diagonally to the right. Both are behind Peter, one of a darker blue and the other is a lighter blue.


TUE 21:00 Troubled Water (m001k0dq)
Are We Running Out of Water? Episode 1

Are we running out of water? Britain may be known for its rain but, as our climate changes, there are warnings we could be closer than we think to our taps running dry. In this episode of Troubled Water, James Gallagher asks why our pipes are being pushed to the brink and what can be done about it, all from the comfort of his bathroom. Huddled in the loo, he talks to Professor Hannah Cloke, OBE, who predicts rainfall events through her work at the University of Reading, Dr Francis Hassard, from the Water Science Institute at Cranfield University, Andrew Tucker who manages water demand at Thames Water and inventor Garry Moore who shows how he's hoping to revolutionise our loos with his air-pressurised Velocity toilet.

Presenter: James Gallagher
Producer: Tom Bonnett


TUE 21:30 The New Gurus (m001g9sp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


TUE 22:00 The World Tonight (m001kpy7)
Donald Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony charges

In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective


TUE 22:45 Magpie by Elizabeth Day (p0dqk17c)
Episode 2 - The Lodger

Marisa has moved in with Jake and life is going well, but a new arrival unsettles her new found happiness. Pippa Nixon reads.

Magpie by Elizabeth Day is, an exhilarating psychological story about jealousy, motherhood and power. A happy couple are trying for a baby when a young woman enters their lives. It isn’t long before her presence upends everything and their lives implode.

Elizabeth Day is an award-winning novelist, journalist and podcaster. Her memoir How To Fail was a best-seller, and her podcast, How to Fail With Elizabeth Day is a chart-topping podcast.

Abridged by Rowan Routh
Produced by Elizabeth Allard


TUE 23:00 Please Use Other Door (m0014p8w)
Series 1

Episode 3

From Bill Dare (Dead Ringers, The Secret World), sketches satirising life as we know it. Naturalistic sketches taking a sometimes dark look at the world of work, relationships, institutions and families.

Performed by: Gabby Best, Will Hartley, Chris Ryman, Rebecca Shorrocks, Witney White and Toby Williams

The series of four is written by; Kat Butterfield and Dan Audritt, Sophie Dickson, Laura Major, Rob Darke, Alex Nash and Sam South, Ed Amsden and Tom Coles, Cody Dahler, Toby Williams, Ed Tew, Anna Goodman, Imogen Andrews, Matt Harrison, Carwyn Blayney, Natasha Dhanraj, Alice Etches and Nathalie Antonia, Chris Ryman, Simon Alcock, Leigh Douglas, Chazz Redhead, Paul F Taylor, Jo Wiggins, Cameron Loxdale, Lewis Cook, Owen Petty, Tom Oxenham, Rebecca Heitlinger and Bill Dare.

Production Co-ordinators Beverly Tagg and Sarah Sharpe
Sound Design Rich Evans
Music composed by Bill Dare and produced by Iona C Vallance
Artwork Lucy Jagger

Produced and created by Bill Dare
BBC Studios Production


TUE 23:30 Limelight (m00146wp)
Siege

Siege - Episode 2

By Katherine Jakeways, Eno Mfon and Darragh Mortell.

Everybody remembers the Siege, when for 24 hours the whole world was watching a small South London branch of a global supermarket chain. You’ve seen the news, the crazy conspiracy blogs and Naomi’s infamous Snap. Now for the first time the hostages tell the inside story of what really happened on those two dark days in December.

Episode 2
The manager is badly wounded, the police have arrived, and the armed robbery has now become a siege.


CAST
NAOMI - Danielle Vitalis
JACKSON - Kwabena Ansah
PENNY - Jasmine Hyde
MAGGIE - Stacey Abalogun

SOUND DESIGN – Catherine Robinson
DIRECTOR - John Norton
PRODUCED by John Norton and James Robinson

A BBC Cymru Wales Production


Siege is the latest drama in the Limelight strand and will also be available in full on BBC Sounds from Monday 7 February as a 5-part podcast