Radio 4 Listings for 29 September – 5 October 2018 Page 1 of 13 SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2018 spanning 5 decades and her return to the Theatre Royal Drury Producer: Richard Morris Lane where it all began aged 7. A BBC Studios Production SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b0bkpjvp) The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Aged 15 George Green was a talented footballer and signed by Followed by Weather. Everton. Money and success at such a young age led him to SAT 12:57 Weather (b0bkpjwg) drug and alcohol abuse, and 4 years later he was let go. He joins The latest weather forecast. us to tell his story of pulling himself back from the brink. SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b0bkv4dz) The Spy and the Traitor Previous Shed of the year winner Joel Bird extolls the virtues of SAT 13:00 News (b0bkpjwj) Episode 5 carpentry for mindfulness. The latest news from BBC Radio 4. Ben Macintyre's thrilling account of a KGB double agent operating at the height of the Cold War concludes with a breath Karen Gibson shot to worldwide fame after she appeared taking sequence of events that entail ingenuity, duplicity and conducting The Kingdom Choir at this year's Royal Wedding of SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (b0bkv5rd) fearlessness. Tim McInnerny reads. Harry and Meghan. She joins us to talk about career highlights Sian Berry, Iain Dale, Margot James MP, Chris Williamson MP which also include singing for Nelson Mandela. Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Brooklands Abridged by Richard Hamilton College in Weybridge, Surrey with a panel including the new co Produced by Elizabeth Allard. Farmer and Countryfile presenter Adam Henson chooses The leader of the Green Party for England & Wales Sian Berry, the Strangler’s Golden Brown and Live on Mars by David Bowie commentator and LBC radio presenter Iain Dale, the Digital and we have a listener's Thank you. and Creative Industries Minister Margot James MP and the SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b0bkpjvr) Labour MP and Corbyn ally Chris Williamson MP. The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. Producer: Corinna Jones Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Editor: Eleanor Garland SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (b0bkpjwn) (b0bkpjvt) SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet (b0bl6n8v) Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Series 22 Questions? SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b0bkpjvw) Welwyn Garden City The latest shipping forecast. Jay Rayner and the panel are in Welwyn Garden City. Andi Oliver, Tim Anderson, Sophie Wright and Dr Annie Gray SAT 14:30 Drama (b0bl6s2v) answer the culinary questions. Pearl: Two Fathers, Two Daughters SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b0bkpjvy) Pearl The latest news from BBC Radio 4. The panel discuss the food of garden cities, bacon sandwiches and how to celebrate Michaelmas. Reflections on loss and consolation. SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b0bkv650) Produced by Miranda Hinkley A programme about the special relationship between father's A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon Assistant Producer: Hester Cant and daughters , weaving together two voices of grief, one from Patrick Thomas, vicar of Christ Church in Carmarthen. six hundred years ago and one very much of the present day. A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. In the heart-breaking medieval poem Pearl a father laments the SAT 05:45 iPM (b0bkpjw0) loss of his daughter, who returns to him in a dream to help him Married, divorced, married SAT 11:00 The Forum (b0bl6n8x) come to terms with her absence. The poem frames the first in- A couple on why their divorce was almost too amicable. The Tales of Timbuktu depth interview with Gerry McCann whose daughter Madeleine The fabled city of Timbuktu is a curiosity. To 16th century disappeared from an Algarve holiday apartment in May 2007. Plus iPM listener Charlotte on why childcare meant she couldn't Muslim scholars, it was the cosmopolitan hub of Islamic In honest, personal and sometimes painful terms, Gerry reflects go back to work and how that impacted her life. learning in West Africa, to European explorers 300 years later, on the special bond between fathers and daughters, the it was a place of mystery whose name remains synonymous with difficulties men have in articulating sorrow, and his absolute Mariella Frostrup reads our bulletin of your news. Email being at the end of the earth. Most recently in 2013, Timbuktu determination to keep looking for Madeleine. The anonymous [email protected] was at the centre of the world’s attention again after Islamist Pearl poet confirms to us that grief for loved ones is the hardest militants threatened thousands of valuable historic manuscripts grief of all as he seeks consolation in the idea of heaven the Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth. stored in the city’s famous libraries. Believed to be the richest power of prayer. person in history, it was Mansa Musa - the emperor of the vast Mali Empire - who first developed the desert settlement into a "As a family we'd worked with Simon Armitage before and SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b0bkpjw2) place of intellectual debate in the 1300s. The Golden Age of know what a sensitive, thoughtful writer he is. When I read the The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at Islamic learning he began, still survives today. Pearl poem, I could see echoes in it with Madeleine's situation the papers. and our loss. I decided it was a good opportunity to say Joining Bridget Kendall to discuss the importance of Timbuktu something about the special bond between fathers and in Islamic history are Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of the daughters, thinking that speaking openly might help other men SAT 06:07 Ramblings (b0bkv1v6) Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, in similar positions. It feels like the right time." Gerry McCann Series 40 D.C. who has recently published a Ladybird Expert book about . Centurion Way, Chichester the city; Dr. Susana Molins-Lliteras, a researcher at the Clare Balding hears the uplifting story of how walking helped a Tombouctou Manuscripts Project and postdoctoral fellow at the Pearl is translated and adapted for radio by the poet Simon young man recover from a brain injury. Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town; Armitage and read by Iain Glen and Grace Doherty . and Dr. Lansiné Kaba, Professor of History and Thomas M. Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. At the age of 23, Matt Masson fell off a roof during a night out. Kerr Distinguished Career Professor at Carnegie Mellon He was in a coma for six weeks and, when he awoke, couldn't University in Qatar. walk, talk or sit-up. When his voice returned, so did a SAT 15:30 Sound Lines (b0bkrcs2) determination to return to his previously active life. Walking Photo: Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali (Getty Images) Series 1 formed a central part of his rehab; his first goal was to walk just 33 Degrees North 300 metres but by 2014 Matt had walked the Amsterdam Music broadcaster Verity Sharp listens to the world in a Marathon which took 9 hours and 37 minutes. SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b0bkpjwb) different way. We eavesdrop with her along latitudinal lines, The 'Tropical Trump' topping the polls in Brazil hearing local stories that are having a direct impact on music In this edition of Ramblings, Matt and his mother, Anne, walk a Reports from writers and journalists around the world. and musicians. Could there be echoes along these sound lines? stretch of the Centurion Way in Chichester and recall his many Presented by Kate Adie. Might different music that's created thousands of miles apart, endeavours. The Centurion Way is a route between Chichester but on the same latitude, share common ground? And could and West Dean which follows the line of part of the disused listening in this way allow us to glimpse the effect of the vast Chichester to Midhurst Railway. SAT 12:00 News Summary (b0bkpjwd) and often immeasurable forces that are sweeping change across The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. our planet? Producer: Karen Gregor. This third episode circumnavigates the globe along the 33rd SAT 12:04 Money Box (b0bl6n8z) parallel. Halfway between the Equator and the Arctic Circle, SAT 06:30 Farming Today (b0bkpjw4) Reforming leasehold law - the Scottish way this latitude falls within a narrow, densely populated band in Farming Today This Week: Young People and the Countryside Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of personal which a quarter of the world's humans live. It's here that the The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. finance. Fertile Crescent, a region between the Nile, Euphrates and Tigris rivers, gave rise to some of the earth's earliest civilisations - and the latitude runs close to several of the SAT 06:57 Weather (b0bkpjw6) SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (b0bkv5r8) planet's major cities, including Atlanta, Casablanca, Beirut, The latest weather forecast. Series 97 Baghdad and Shanghai. Episode 5 A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by guest host Around the circle, we hear three stories. SAT 07:00 Today (b0bl6n8s) Bridget Christie. News and current affairs including Sports Desk, Weather and Journalist and sometime musician Zeina Shahla shares her Thought for the Day. On the panel this week, Mark Steel, Daliso Chaponda, Danielle experiences living through the Syrian conflict in Damascus, and Ward and Deborah Frances-White.