Radio 4 Listings for 9 – 15 April 2016 Page 1 of 17 SATURDAY 09 APRIL 2016 another few barrels of oil are drawn up from 1500m shaped wound & verses to match. Americans like Edith underground. The nodding donkeys aren't bad neighbours, it Wharton wrote fiction & fact in support of France's war, SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b075mf37) seems. 'I think they're wonderful' says Paul Hildreth. including The Book of the Homeless for which Stravinsky The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. contributed an anti-German march. Followed by Weather. Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. Henri Barbusse, recovering from his wounds, broke new ground with his novel Under Fire. At the Musee de L'Armee hangs a SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b075tddr) SAT 06:30 Farming Today (b07650vz) remarkable canvas unlike any other created in the career of Beethoven for a Later Age Farming Today This Week: Rural Services 'Nabi' painter Felix Vallotton. 'Verdun' is a boiling world of destruction with no place for man, pierced by deathly Convalescence Sybil Ruscoe is at the Brockweir and Hewelsfield Village Shop searchlights of colour & power. in the Forest of Dean - built and run by local people to fill the The Takacs Quartet's first violinist Edward Dusinberre reflects gaps left when local services disappeared. It's one of a growing Fernand Leger recorded his frontline experiences mainly in on his career with his fellow players; taking a leap of faith, and number of community enterprises springing up in rural areas. It letters, able only to sketch not paint, but his watercolour La Beethoven's late and transcendent music. also provides a cafe, wifi, office space and some postal Cocarde shows the crumpled & broken aircraft that littered the services. battlefield. Some of those aircraft had carried aces, the new Read by Tim McMullan heroes of the war to either glory or destruction or both. Their Abridged by Sara Davies We also meet people in Derbyshire who've bought their local deeds were vital morale boosters for both publics & Produced by Elizabeth Allard. pub; campaigners in Somerset who fought to save the town's governments. The flying Americans of the Lafayette Escadrille last bank and a man in Northumberland who put his own money were instrumental in selling a good, clean war back home to a into starting up a rural bus service when existing routes were reluctant American public & young men eager for adventure. SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b075mf3c) lost. The latest shipping forecast. Producer: Mark Burman. Producer: Sally Challoner. SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes SAT 11:00 The Forum (b076nwps) (b075mf3f) SAT 06:57 Weather (b075mf3t) The Hidden Power of Noise BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 The latest weather forecast. resumes at 5.20am. Bridget Kendall and guests explore the unseen and often un- noticed power which noise has over us. With writer Garret SAT 07:00 Today (b07650w3) Keizer who is interested in the social and economic dimensions SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b075mf3h) Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, of noise; sound artist Jana Winderen who records sounds made The latest shipping forecast. Weather and Thought for the Day. by underwater creatures; and Cambridge Professor of English Steven Connor who focuses on the 'ums, ahs, ohs, and ahems', expressive language noises that are often dismissed as marginal SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b075mf3k) SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b07652n3) or trivial. The latest news from BBC Radio 4. Stuart Maconie, Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Radzi Chinyanganya, Frederick Forsyth (Photo: Illustration showing computer wave-forms spelling 'noise'. Credit: Shan Pillay). SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b075thvw) Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by DJ and writer A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Stuart Maconie. Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b07654q6) Stuart's new paperback 'The Pie at Night', is an exploration of The Babylon Brigade "what the North does for fun" and a defence of northerners who SAT 05:45 iPM (b075thvy) make the effort to get dressed up for a glam night out. Stuart In this edition: a greyish sticky dough called fufu from the Why stalkers stalk reveals the little-known corners of northern towns and Democratic Republic of Congo; pesto Genovese from Italy, countryside where old or quirky customs still live on. made as it used to be, with a pestle and mortar; there's a dish of After our listener's experience of being stalked for 10 years, smoked puffin from Iceland and some of the finest cannabis Jennifer Tracey speaks to a woman who's worked with Saba Douglas-Hamilton met her first wild elephant at the age of lollipops in the American west. All this culinary exotica comes hundreds of stalkers, trying to work out why they do it. six weeks. She's now a conservationist and raising her own as part of this weekly insight, analysis, colour and description children amidst wild elephants in Kenya. She's also a wildlife served up by reporters covering major stories around the world. Photo credit: Nicky J Sims/Getty Images. documentary maker and presenter of 'This Wild Life' and 'Big Cat Diaries'. She talks about waking up with a bull elephant looming over her and coping with a spitting cobra in the SAT 12:00 News Summary (b075mf3y) SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b075mf3m) bathroom. The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. Radzi Chinyanganya is the classic adrenalin-fulled 'Blue Peter' presenter and has competed in karate and skeleton bob. But SAT 12:04 Money Box (b075mf40) SAT 06:04 Weather (b075mf3p) perhaps his most dangerous stunt was running on custard. Tax havens - 'sunny places for shady people'? The latest weather forecast. (Listen to find out why.) In a change from the usual content, Radzi has made a special programme called 'The Walk That Offshore, tax avoidance, trusts. Words of the week as 11 Changed The World', in which he retraces the route of the 1965 million confidential documents from the Panama based lawyers SAT 06:07 Open Country (b075t6kj) Selma to Montgomery civil rights march led by his hero Martin Mossack Fonseca were leaked to a German newspaper Gainsborough's Nodding Donkeys Luther King Jr. Suddeutsche Zeitung and analysed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The 215,000 trusts, Forget Texas! There's oil in the plains of Lincolnshire. But not Bestselling thriller writer Frederick Forsyth shares his companies, and foundations identified are not all owned by many people seem to notice. Inheritance Tracks. He inherits 'Ol' Man River' sung by Paul world leaders, celebrities, and politicians. There are unknown Robeson and passes on 'Fallen Soldier' sung by Melissa. people of fairly modest wealth there too. What should we do if Helen Mark travels to the market town of Gainsborough to an accountant or adviser suggests to us that offshore is not as discover more about the nodding donkeys that pepper its Following on from last week's thank you to Deirdre, a cabin foreign as it sounds? landscape. Oil wells sit comfortably fringed by a housing estate, crew member who saved a child in a hijacking, and then the leisure centre and the golf course. disregarded her own safety to reboard the plane - we hear from More than six million people who are members of a workplace Deirdre herself. pension scheme will find they pay more National Insurance It turns out that the East Midlands is the UK's second largest from this week. It's been described by some as a 'stealth tax inshore oil producing area, courtesy of the Gainsborough Listeners tell us how they spend their Saturdays working as raid' which will net the Treasury £5.5bn a year. Why is it Trough, once a deep and dirty patch of sea. Now it produces Special Constables. And we're live from the jockeys' weighing happening? twelve hundred barrels of high quality oil a day, mostly pumped room at Aintree ahead of the Grand National. up by nodding donkeys. How much should a £415 washing machine cost? You could Producer: Paul Waters. pay £1248 if you rent-to-own it through a firm called Whereas fracking attracts protest and controversy, local people Brighthouse. But through one cheaper alternative, you could pay seem quite content to live alongside these nodding pumps, just £648 and own the washing machine nearly 18 months perhaps because they look so benign - friendly even - and work SAT 10:30 World War One: The Cultural Front (b07654q4) sooner. The FCA is investigating the sector and recently away quietly with apparently little human intervention. Series 3 ordered another, quite separate, rent-to-own firm to pay £939,000 redress to 59,000 customers for unfair practice. Helen meets local teacher and long-distance runner Nigel Bleeding France Should more be being done to stop these firms levying Bowler, for whom the donkeys are a landmark on his running excessive charges on customers who have no other way of routes. There's artist Verity Barrett, who loved the pumps as a Francine Stock continues her annual exploration of the culture buying such expensive items? child, part of the 'scenic route' on trips to visit her granddad. made in the years of war. 1916. A year of slaughter on an industrial scale at Verdun & The Somme. Paris, the city of This week saw yet another new ISA launched. The Innovative Julie Barlow from i-gas explains the business of oil extraction eternal light was now darker, greyer & more French than before Finance ISA allows peer-to-peer investments to be put into an and geologists Malcom Fry and Paul Hildreth slice through the 1914.