Radio 4 Listings for 28 March – 3 April 2020 Page 1 of 17 SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2020 It’s called‘Esja’- the debut album from a little-known 29 year Editor: Eleanor Garland old Polish pianist, Hania Rani. SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m000gn7k) National and international news from BBC Radio 4 The music is sublime and minimalist…solo acoustic piano SAT 10:30 The Patch (m000gt1q) inspired in part by the mountains and countryside of Iceland Elland where some of it was recorded. SAT 00:30 Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing The random postcode generator takes Producer Polly Weston to Town, by Lamorna Ash (m000gn5v) For Mark, it’s become his sanctuary….his headspace - a much Elland, Yorkshire. There's been a cinema here since pre-WWI Ep 5 Returning to Shore needed nightly respite from the cacophony of coronavirus news and it still has an interval and two organists. But in 2020, the bulletins and press conferences. Rex faces a shock. In Lamorna Ash' evocative and vivid memoir about the Cornish fishing community of Newlyn, near Land's End, there is one But who is the mystery woman behind the music? Elland is a historic, former millinery town, sandwiched between last wonder on board the fishing trawler. First of all, Lamorna Halifax and Huddersfield in the Calderdale valley. Locals say recounts a tragedy on the high seas which still reverberates Producer: Smita Patel the town has had a bit of a rough time - it has lost shops, its along Cornwall's coast. Ell Potter reads. Victorian swimming pool, and suffered from being the lesser Photo of Hania Rani by Kinga Karpati known of its neighbours along the valley. But it does have Lamorna Ash is a writer and playwright. Dark, Salt, Clear is her something people across Yorkshire recognise it for: The Rex. first book. SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m000gt17) A 300 seater cinema, which opened in 1912, and where the Abridged by Julian Wilkinson The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at layout remains largely as it was on the day it opened. Polly gets Produced by Elizabeth Allard the papers. drawn in by its individuality, its organists (80-year-old Mildred and 33-year-old Ben) its mugs of tea in the interval and its gingerbread men. The cinema faces a string of new challenges - SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m000gn7m) SAT 06:07 Ramblings (m000glnm) the multiplexes in Huddersfield and Halifax have recently The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. Herefordshire Interfaith Group on the Malverns slashed their prices to compete with the Rex's £5.50 entry, while floods have been tormenting the local infrastructure. But Clare Balding walks across a section of The Malverns, from as the days roll on, it becomes clear that something much bigger SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes Hollybush car park towards British Camp, with members of the is around the corner - something which might jeopardise the (m000gn7p) Herefordshire Interfaith Group. In a world that feels annual Laurel and Hardy evening which Ben has been preparing BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. increasingly divided, this group draws together Muslims, his score for months for. Something which might jeopardise Quakers, Buddhists, Bahá’ís, Methodists and more. It's a everything. leisurely stroll, with many pauses to reflect and share readings SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m000gn7r) on the themes of Pilgrimage and Nature. Note: when we walked Produced/presented by Polly Weston The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. this route, in early March 2020, it was affected by flooding in Exec Producer Jolyon Jenkins the lower lying sections. SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m000gn7t) In this series, Clare has walked with people and groups of many SAT 11:00 Analysis (m000gcx0) National and international news from BBC Radio 4. faiths and none to discover how being in the natural world can Command and Control? affect our inner lives. When Sajid Javid resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer in SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m000gn7w) Producer: Karen Gregor February rather than accept Boris Johnson's reported demand A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Dr Krish that he dismiss his own team of special advisers and accept a Kandiah new one drawn up in 10 Downing Street, many saw the episode SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m000gt19) as a crude attempt by the Prime Minister to wrest control of Good morning. Farming Today This Week economic policy from the Treasury. But would such a reform necessarily be a bad thing? Sunrise always feels like a holy moment. Watching the darkness Supermarket shelves are being stripped bare and veg box gradually transform to light. Listening as the birdsong breaks producers are seeing order numbers shoot through the roof. Edward Stourton considers the case for economic policy being the silence. However our circumstances may change, the Meanwhile, some farmers and food producers who until driven from the very top of government. If decision-making, in reliable solar cycle keeps faithfully delivering morning, noon recently supplied restaurants and pubs, are finding themselves arguably the most important government department, took place and night. with surplus stock. Charlotte Smith asks whether our famously on the prime minister's terms rather than having to be complicated food supply chain can shift in time, to feed people, negotiated with a powerful colleague leading a vast There is a much-loved Bible verse that has brought this comfort and avoid massive waste. And what will the long term impact be bureaucracy, would that make for quicker and more streamlined to millions of people throughout history and across the world. It on the way we deliver food from farm to fork? decision-making that gave clearer direction to the government was written during a crisis and because it is set against a overall? And has in any case the time come to clip the wings of backdrop of disaster and tragedy its beauty shines all the We answer your farming questions on everything from auction the Treasury which too often determines policy on narrowly brighter: marts to TB testing. financial grounds rather than properly allowing for the potential benefits of government spending - and which has recently “I remember my affliction and my wandering, Our Farming Today Audio Diarists give us updates from across signed off such alarmingly over-budget projects as HS2 and the bitterness and the gall. the UK - from an rural tourism business in Scotland, to a goat London's Crossrail? I well remember them, farm in Northern Ireland. and my soul is downcast within me. In seeking answers to those questions, Edward speaks to the Yet this I call to mind What's happening with farmers' markets? Some are closed, former Chancellors, Alistair Darling and Norman Lamont; to and therefore I have hope: some are going ahead...and the police are getting involved. former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair in Downing Street, Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, Jonathan Powell; to former Treasury minister, David Gauke; for his compassions never fail. And, is this a silver lining? With fewer cars on the roads and and and to ex-officials, including former top Treasury civil They are new every morning; aeroplanes in the skies, many of us are hearing the birds loud servant, Nic Macpherson. great is your faithfulness. and clear for the first time in years. We find out what you I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; should be listening for. Producer Simon Coates therefore I will wait for him.” Presented by Charlotte Smith As we approach Passion Sunday when Christians around the Produced by Heather Simons SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m000gt1s) world think about the suffering of Jesus on the cross I am Singapore's Virus Detectives reminded that it is here that the true light of God’s love was revealed to our world. Jesus willingness to undertake this SAT 06:57 Weather (m000gt1f) Singapore has been praised for its management of the pandemic suffering for the sins of the world speaks of a great The latest weather forecast. with border controls, testing and tracing of known carriers. But unconditional, unfailing, sacrificial love available to all. while government measures to keep the virus from spreading Because of this we need not be consumed by our fears, our have so far proved effective, they have also raised questions circumstances or our wrongdoing, but can live in daily hope. SAT 07:00 Today (m000gt1j) about the invasiveness of the state says Karishma Vaswani. God’s love and compassion is boundless and one day we can be News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and with him. Thought for the Day. Our correspondents are seeing the effect of Covid-19 worldwide with millions confined indoors but what if you have Lord God, Thank you for this reminder of your unfailing love. no home to go to? Michelle Quinn of Voice of America shines Just as the darkest nights always give way to a new dawn so may SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m000gt1n) a spotlight on California. The Golden State may boast the you give us hope in the dark times. We trust in your great Sir Chris Hoy world's fifth biggest economy but it has the worst homelessness faithfulness. problem in the country. Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by six time Olympic Amen Champion, Sir Chris Hoy, who discusses the inspiration behind Zeinab Badawi mourns a doctor and family member who, like his career, retirement and writing children’s books.