Radio 4 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2015 Page 1 of 16 SATURDAY 11 APRIL 2015 infrastructure yet it's isolation has also made this place SAT 10:30 Hollow Earth: A Travel Guide (b05q4zmk) attractive to birds and rare wildlife. Helen Mark explores this Robin Ince takes us on a tour of a world beneath the earth's SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b05pkm3d) unique part of Kent and uncovers just some of the stories which crust, exploring the history of Hollow Earth theory through The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. exist beside the container ports and farmland. literature, legend and scientific theory. Followed by Weather. Virtually every ancient culture, and most religions worldwide, SAT 06:30 Farming Today (b05q4zmc) have shared a belief in some sort of mysterious subterranean SAT 00:30 The Story of Alice (b05qt8j8) Farming Today This Week world, often inhabited by strange and powerful creatures. To Episode 3 the Greeks and Romans it was Hades. To many early Christians, Seventeen year-old Cameron Hendry was always going to take Hell was conceived as a fiery pit deep in the centre of the earth, The Alice books prove far better than their creator at adapting over the family farm - two-and-a-half thousand acres of tough a scene most elegantly depicted by Dante in his Inferno. to the modern world. And illness begins to take its toll. hill country in the Trossachs - but the sudden death of his father, David, on Christmas Day last year has left him in charge Hollow earth narratives have also inspired many great fantasy Where did Alice stop and 'Alice' begin? much sooner than he would have wanted. Determined that he, and science fiction writers including Jules Verne, Edgar Allan his mother Marianne and brother Duncan would not lose the Poe and Tarzan creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage – a shortcut for all farm as well as their husband and father, he immediately that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, decided to leave school and put his plans to go to college on Robin Ince's tour of this world within a world, starts with the writers and politicians for 150 years. hold. Charlotte Smith talks to Cameron about the family's grief obvious question of how to get into it. Is the entrance at the for David and their determination to keep the farm running and North Pole, the South Pole or even in Newcastle? With the help But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author do him proud. Drawing enormous strength from the support of his "tour guides", including the graphic novelist Alan Moore, and his subject. The story of Charles Dodgson the quiet offered to them by the local community, the family discuss the Robin gets advice on where to descend and what he might see academic, and his second self Lewis Carroll – storyteller, changes they have had to make to the farm since David's death, once he gets down there. Is this a Dystopia full of desperate innovator and avid collector of child-friends. And also of his their plans for the future and their absolute conviction that souls, or the Utopia imagined by someone like the messianic dream-child Alice Liddell, and the fictional alter ego that would losing him was bad enough: they refuse to lose their farm as 19th century physician Cyrus Teed, who established a hollow never let her grow up. well. earth cult in Florida and whose ideas later went on briefly to inspire the Nazis. This is their secret history - one of love and loss, of innocence and ambiguity, and of one man's need to make Wonderland his SAT 06:57 Weather (b05pkm3w) On his subterranean journey, Robin also meets a classicist, a refuge in a rapidly changing world. The latest weather forecast. biblical scholar, and a literary critic. Together they explore the physical aspects of this world and consider who he might bump Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas- into. Will it be the three-headed dog Cerberus, or the Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books SAT 07:00 Today (b05q4zmf) plesiosaurs and dinosaurs of Jules Verne? Or is this voyage into against a shifting cultural landscape – the birth of photography, Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, the interior, actually just a journey into the depths of our own changing definitions of childhood and sexuality, and the Thought for the Day and Weather. minds? tensions inherent in the transition between the Victorian and modern worlds. Producer: Philippa Goodrich SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b05q4zmh) A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. Read by Simon Russell Beale. Zandra Rhodes Producer: Joanna Green Dame Zandra Rhodes is one of Britain's best-known fashion SAT 11:00 Campaign Sidebar (b05q4zmm) designers, putting London at the forefront of the international What's in a name - for the political parties? Did you know that A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April fashion scene in the 1970s. Her extensive list of clients has people with particular names are more likely to vote in 2015. included Princess Diana and Freddie Mercury. Rhodes now particular ways? And even the spelling can make a noticeable lives with her partner, the 94 year old film producer Salah difference. So who's winning the Charlottes, the Nigels and the Hassanein and former head of Warner Bros. In 2003 Zandra Annes? SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b05pkm3h) founded The Fashion and Textile Museum, the only museum in The latest shipping forecast. the UK solely dedicated to showcasing developments in Plus, how the numbers game in a future hung parliament might contemporary fashion, as well as providing inspiration, support unfold - a mathematician takes us through the equations of and training for those working in the industry. Since 2000 power, SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes Zandra's career has diversified into designing sets and costumes (b05pkm3k) for the opera. She first worked for San Diego Opera, who And after Ed Miliband's debate notes reveal he's drawing on BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 invited her to do costumes for The Magic Flute. After The Wordsworth's poem, Character of the Happy Warrior, poet and resumes at 5.20am. Magic Flute, she was asked to design both sets and costumes for performer, Ian McMillan, composes an election ode and Pittsburgh Bizet's Pearl Fishers in 2004. Still the woman with ponders the relationship between poetry and politics. the pink hair, Zandra joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles in SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b05pkm3m) the studio. Hugo Rifkind ringmasters a quirky, irreverent take on the The latest shipping forecast. election campaign - with a campaign ditty from Capital Chorus. Also in the studio is Chilly Gonzales, a classically trained pianist from Montreal, Canada. He's a composer, and self- And this is Ian McMillan's special election poem: SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b05pkm3p) proclaimed musical genius who has co-authored musicals; The latest news from BBC Radio 4. pursued an alternative rock career; set a Guinness records for THE HAPPY WARRIORS: A CAUTIONARY TALE longest-ever solo piano performance; tried his hand at rapping, soft rock, and electronic music as a solo artist; and collaborated Who are these Happy Warriors, who are they? SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b05prrjg) with Daft Punk, Bjork and rapper Drake. He has made a career Who spout poetic soundbites every day; A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd out of bridging the gap between classical and pop music. He They all campaign in poetry we're told, Andrew Martlew. lives in Cologne, Germany and has just released his new album, 'Cos governing in prose makes them feel old. Chambers. So: verse your way through this endless campaign SAT 05:45 iPM (b05prrjj) From music to mullets. Hairdresser extraordinaire Jon-Paul Twist old Red Shelley in the pouring rain: 'I had to show the police my knife.' With information on the Holt gave Kevin Keegan his curly perm, helped launch what Pretend you're Keats as you address the throng: unsolved murder of Elsie Frost, a man who lived close to the became Europe's biggest chain of hairdressing salons and even Supply-side economics done in song murder scene comes forward with an unusual offer of help. sang in a band that played at The Cavern in the '60s. After As memorable as a nightingale's Presented by Eddie Mair. Email [email protected]. leaving Liverpool for Canada where he set up two salons, he Can put the wind of victory in your sails. was awarded North American Hairdresser of the year in 1996. The voters will be friendly to your plan He set up his Avant Garde Hair Studio, where he has looked If you can make your ideas rhyme and scan! SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b05pkm3r) after the hair of film stars such as Meg Ryan and rock star The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. friends like Vancouver's own Bryan Adams. Remember, though, some poets can die young Feet falter on the very bottom rung; Mark Cockram is a book binder and has bound books for seven Shall I compare you when on polling day SAT 06:04 Weather (b05pkm3t) Man-Booker prize award ceremonies. He was elected Fellow of All your fine bardic language falls away The latest weather forecast.