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Radio 4 Listings for 23 – 29 April 2016 Page 1 Of Radio 4 Listings for 23 – 29 April 2016 Page 1 of 18 SATURDAY 23 APRIL 2016 Charlotte Smith is at a new intensive chicken farm in SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (b0785hhy) Bedfordshire to explore the UK poultry industry. The sheds Isabel Hardman of The Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b0770r0p) have been designed and built by the Applied Group, which then Westminster. The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. helps to manage the business on behalf of the farmer. Followed by Weather. We look at how the industry is tackling campylobacter and the What difference can Barack Obama's intervention make on the over-use of anti-biotics, and what role new technology will play EU debate? Plus problems with implementing the minimum in the future of the industry. wage, possible intervention in Libya, and is the government SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b077jp0z) Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally Challoner. about to water down its policy on all schools in England A House Full of Daughters becoming academies? Episode 5 SAT 06:57 Weather (b0770r16) The Editor is Marie Jessel. The latest weather forecast. Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's journey through seven generations of women, including her Flamenco dancing great SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b0770r18) great grandmother Pepita, her grandmother Vita Sackville West SAT 07:00 Today (b0780jwl) On Board Air Force One and her mother Philippa - all of whom have shaped and formed, Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in in extraordinary ways, exactly who she has become today. Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. The plane where even the paper napkins sport the presidential seal, and where exclusive little boxes of chocolate sweets We journey through the slums of 19th century Malaga to the feature a picture of Barack Obama: it's America's presidential political elite of Washington, from English boarding schools SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b0780jwn) Air Force One, and you're only allowed on board if you're in during the second world war, to London in the 60s and New Saturday Live with James Nesbitt "the bubble". In the West Bank a roundabout encapsulates York in the 80s. what's going on, and going wrong, in the Israel-Palestinian With Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles conflict. It is one woman's investigation into how her past forms and Libya has seen much chaos and suffering in the last five years. informs her future. James Nesbitt talks about going back to his childhood home to But one family now wants to embrace the future optimistically play Colin Howell in real life drama The Secret, the return of again, despite losing several of their relatives in the fighting. A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. Cold Feet and his Shakespearean roles. The beautiful trekkers' destination with tea houses and stunning mountain landscapes that was turned into a sea of rubble. For Edward Wilson-Lee has just published the book Shakespeare in the survivors of the Nepalese village obliterated by the SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b0770r0r) Swahililand, he talks about growing up in Kenya and the bard's earthquake a year ago, the suffering is still raw. The latest shipping forecast. legacy in parts of Africa. And on a trip to China to take tea in a picturesque garden and haggle with antiques dealers, our correspondent's local guide Composer and musician William Lyons will be bringing lets slip more than she had perhaps planned. SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes Shakespearean music to life- bringing the shawm, bass dulcian, (b0770r0t) recorder and renaissance flute and bagpipes to play live in the BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 studio. SAT 12:00 News Summary (b0770r1b) resumes at 5.20am. The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Listener Paul Kynaston is Assistant Head Teacher at Malvern Primary School in Liverpool. He invited JP Devlin to meet the SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b0770r0w) schoolchildren in the drama club to hear what they think about SAT 12:04 Money Box (b0770r1d) The latest shipping forecast. Shakespeare. Tree investments felled, Selling your pension annuity - will it be a good deal? And offering a distinctive celebration of Shakespeare from SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b0770r0y) Stratford-upon-Avon, JP Devlin will be hearing listener stories A so-called 'ethical' investment into sustainable forests in Costa The latest news from BBC Radio 4. about their Shakespearean triumphs and tragedies, and talking Rica is in trouble. The firm promoting it is in liquidation after to a Codpiece expert Victoria Bartels. She'll be explaining why paying the directors millions of pounds. The trees are harder to this particular pouch was de rigueur in the 15th and 16th liquidate and may still be there. But the promised returns of up SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b077jqsr) centuries and why it went out of fashion. Actor Kingsley Glover to 18% a year have vanished in the forest mist. What now for A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev'd takes centre stage to be our codpiece model. the 3000 very green investors who put up to £18,000 each into Dr Kirsty Thorpe, URC Minister. it? BBC 6 Music breakfast presenter Shaun Keaveny shares his Inheritance Tracks: The Isley Brothers, This Old Heart of Mine Brexit and your personal finances. As part of a regular series, SAT 05:45 iPM (b077jqst) and Purple Rain by Prince. Money Box jumps into the muddy waters of the EU Having children: selfish or selfless? Referendum. First up: we examine the Chancellor's claim that The Secret staring James Nesbitt begins on April 29 on ITV at leaving the EU would cause interest rates to rise. Former Bank Two iPM listeners who knew from an early age how they felt 9pm. of England economist, David Tinsley, joins the programme. about having children and took two very different courses of Shakespeare in Swahililand is out now. action. This week HM Treasury launched further details for those who Producer: Claire Bartleet want to cash in their pension annuity from next Easter for a Editor: Karen Dalziel. lump sum. Paul Lewis asks the Pensions Minister Baroness SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b0770r10) Altmann how it will work. It's estimated that The Chancellor The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. will be the big winner taking an estimated £1.25 billion over 4 SAT 10:30 World War One: The Cultural Front (b0780jwq) years from tax on the payments. But will the 300,000 people Series 3 expected to cash in their income for life and spend it on a cruise SAT 06:04 Weather (b0770r12) get good value for their guaranteed money? The latest weather forecast. Dada and Defiance A not for profit scheme to lend money to low income people is That endless, terrible year of '16. Francine Stock explores the about to close down. Sponsored by 19 social housing SAT 06:07 Open Country (b077jb6m) struggle for meaning, freedom, sanity and possibility. associations Myhomefinance.co.uk charged 98%APR but still Old Oswestry Hillfort could not make enough money to keep going. A meeting is The supreme talent of Franz Marc is snuffed out in the first imminent to wind it up and transfer its business to another Helen Mark visits the Iron-Age Hillfort in Oswestry, Shropshire days of the battle of Verdun. In Berlin you can have a day out social lender. National Housing Federation chief executive to discover why it's the "Stonehenge of the Iron Age" and how and knock a nail into a gigantic statue of war leader David Orr explains what's likely to happen. plans for housing might affect the landscape. Dr Rachel Pope Hindenburg. On a street in Stepney they are knocking up a tells Helen why the size and scale of the Western entrance parody of him. In a Zurich night club strange sounds are ramparts help make the Hillfort one of the most important Iron- conjured up by the weird magicians of a new movement - Dada. SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (b077jqpx) Age monuments in England, and why it's a symbol for Shouting defiance of the madness of war. Britain's still Series 90 community and trade rather than defence. Dr George Nash disturbed by the losses at the Battle of Jutland are stunned by explains how the site was used to train soldiers in trench the death of Kitchener, icon, recruiting poster and war hero. An Episode 2 warfare and mortar practice during World War One. John omen of terrible things to come in the months ahead? Sir Waine links this to soldier and poet Wilfred Owen who Hubert Parry takes on a commission to put the words of Blake Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Edwina Currie and Francis returned to his home-town of Oswestry for training and may to music for The Fight to Right movement and Jerusalem Wheen are Miles' guests in the long-running satirical quiz of the have written 'Storm' in the shadow of the Hillfort. Helen meets sounds for the first time. week's news. Sarah Gibson of the Shropshire Wildlife Trust and goes in search of Yellowhammers and Linnets which nest in the For the Jewish civilians of Eastern Europe there is no escape A BBC Radio Comedy Production ramparts, and finds out how the Violet Oil Beetle hitches a lift from war.
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