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Radio 4 Listings for 20 – 26 February 2016 Page 1 of 17 SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2016 Clare Balding joins Jenni Williams and her disabled three year SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (b072jwy1) old daughter, Eve, as they take their daily walk in the Surrey EU Special SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b0707w9t) Hills. These walks are the highlight of their day as both enjoy The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. being outside, admiring the views and watching the antics of Steve Richards and guests debate the implications of David Followed by Weather. their young and exuberant, golden retriever, Scout. Jenni talks Cameron's EU negotiation. candidly to Clare about how she and her husband, Steve have Producer: Peter Mulligan. come to terms with Eve's condition and how they feel blessed to SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b070hsck) have such a happy and life affirming child. Benjamin Franklin in London Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b0707wbb) A Man Dies Twice Episode 5 SAT 06:30 Farming Today (b0713f1d) Meeting the people populating the world of news. In this In the middle of the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin spent Farming Today This Week: Mental Health edition: thousands were massacred in the Bosnian town of almost two decades in London - at exactly the same time as Visegrad during the war there in 1992 - today, as Fergal Keane Mozart, Casanova and Handel. This is an enthralling biography One in four people in the UK are affected by serious mental ill- has been finding out, the authorities there want it to become a - not only of the man, but of the city when it was a hub of health, and it seems farmers are particularly at risk. The most tourist destination. Visegrad is also on Nick Thorpe's mind only Enlightenment activity. recent available government statistics show that in 2014 forty- he's talking about the town by the River Danube in Hungary, one farmers took their own lives - that's almost one a week. In where the so-called Visegrad 4, a grouping of regional nations, For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a this programme, David Gregory-Kumar visits a farm in was born. Nick says that in today's Europe, their voice can no loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in Somerset run by a charity which aims provide opportunities and longer be ignored. As the US-election spotlight turns to South Philadelphia and established his fame as a renowned experience for vulnerable groups, including those with mental Carolina and Nevada, Robert Hodierne examines gun control experimental scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to live as a health problems. He also hears about a campaign to get mental and why the laws governing it won't be changing any time soon. gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London. health onto the curriculum at agricultural colleges, and finds out Beth McLeod is in Malawi travelling on a boat built in Scotland about attempts to raise awareness through tractor "selfies"! when the country was a British protectorate which continues to From his house in Craven Street, he mixed with both the provide a vital service to local communities. And he may have brilliant and the powerful - in London coffee house clubs, at the Presented by David Gregory-Kumar and produced by Emma lived in Paris for two decades, but our man Hugh Schofield Royal Society, and on his summer travels around the British Campbell. explains why it's only now, finally, that he seems to wield a bit Isles and continental Europe. He counted David Hume, of influence! Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke and Erasmus Darwin among his friends - and, as an American SAT 06:57 Weather (b0707wb8) colonial representative, he had access to successive Prime The latest weather forecast. SAT 12:00 News Summary (b0707wbd) Ministers and even the King. The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. The early 1760s saw Britain's elevation to global superpower SAT 07:00 Today (b0713f1g) status with victory in the Seven Years War and the succession Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT 12:04 Money Box (b0713m2q) of the young, active George III. This brought a sharp new edge Weather and Thought for the Day. The East-West Energy Divide to political competition in London and redefined the relationship between Britain and its colonies. They would Why does a family in Wrexham pay more for their energy than profoundly affect Franklin himself, eventually placing him in SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b0713m2l) a family in Nottinghamshire? It's not because they use more gas opposition with his ambitious son William. Laurence Fox and electricity. It's because people in more rural areas, further away from the energy source, are charged more. The cost of Though Franklin sought to prevent the America's break with The actor Laurence Fox is best known for playing DI James sending energy down the lines and pipes is greater for more Great Britain, his own actions would finally help cause that very Hathaway in the ITV crime drama Lewis. He's now on the remote areas, pushing up household prices. But is that fair and event. London stage playing a giant of history Charles de Gaulle in why is there not a universal charge? Kevin Peachey reports. 'The Patriotic Traitor'. He is part of Britain's most famous Episode 5: acting dynasty that includes his father James, uncle Edward and Cash or pension? An NHS Trust is offering new recruits It is 1775, and Franklin is no longer of any political use in cousin Emilia. He is now carving out a career in music and has enhanced pay if they opt out of the NHS pension. Former London. He becomes Ambassador to France in the days before just released his debut album. He joins Saturday Live to talk pensions minister Steve Webb, who introduced auto-enrolment, the Revolution. about his new role, his passion for music, and his love for the tells Lesley Curwen why he thinks this is a worrying precedent. countryside. Written by George Goodwin Could property crowdfunding schemes help young people get Abridged by Barry Johnston The zoologist Lucy Cooke grew up in the English countryside on the housing ladder? The Social Market Foundation says they Read by Nickolas Grace and was fascinated with nature from an early age. Her new TV provide people with an opportunity to keep up with property series shows the length that people go to save orphaned animals. market inflation while they save for a deposit. But MoneyWeek Produced by David Roper She joins Saturday Live to talk about her own passion for editor Merryn Somerset Webb tells Lesley Curwen people need A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. animals, in particular the weird and unloved ones. to be aware of the risks. Listener Lorna Currie Thomopoulos is a collector of paper Presenter: Lesley Curwen SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b0707w9w) dolls. She describes her collection as historical, beautiful and Producer: Ruth Alexander. The latest shipping forecast. cherished fragile object d'arts. Giles Abbott has just returned from a storytelling festival in SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (b070hxsn) SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes India. He started storytelling after vision loss at the age of Series 89 (b0707w9y) twenty-five. He talks about his love for traditional stories. BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 Episode 7 resumes at 5.20am. Levi Roots shares his Inheritance Tracks: Say a Little Prayer by Aretha Franklin and To Zion by Lauryn Hill. Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests take on the SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b0707wb0) Wendy Hilling shares her experience of living with her full time big (and not so big) news events of the week. This week's panel The latest shipping forecast. carer Teddy the golden retriever. is Mark Steel, Danny Finkelstein, Holly Walsh and Vicki Pepperdine. Laurence Fox stars in 'The Patriotic Traitor' at Park theatre SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b0707wb2) London Producer: Richard Morris The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 'Nature's Miracle Orphans' presented by Lucy Cooke and A BBC Radio Comedy Production. Patrick Aryee is on BBC 1. Next episode Sunday 28th February. SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b070hxzb) 'My Life in His Paws' by Wendy Hilling is published on 25 SAT 12:57 Weather (b0707wbg) Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster, Anna February. The latest weather forecast. Magnusson. Producer: Dianne McGregor Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT 13:00 World at One (b0732184) SAT 05:45 iPM (b070w213) Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs. I write things I wouldn't tell anyone else SAT 10:30 And the Academy Award Goes To... (b0713m2n) The programme that starts with its listeners. Series 6 SAT 13:45 Any Answers? (b0713m2y) Your Say on the European Referendum Deal The French Connection SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b0707wb4) In a special 45 minute edition of the programme you have your The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. Continuing with his look at Oscar-winning films and what they say on the European Referendum. tell us about the society that gave birth to them, Paul Presented by Julian Worricker Gambaccini turns to the first R-rated movie to win the Best Producer Beverley Purcell SAT 06:04 Weather (b0707wb6) Picture Oscar and one of the earliest to show the newly Editor Karen Dalziel.
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