Radio 4 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 1 of 14 SATURDAY 29 FEBRUARY 2020 Series 41 SAT 10:30 The Patch (m000fwj9) Torry, Aberdeen SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m000fq5n) The Wilberforce Way with Inderjit Bhogal National and international news from BBC Radio 4 The random postcode takes us to an extraordinary pet shop Clare Balding walks with Sikh-turned-Methodist, Inderjit where something terrible has been happening to customers. Bhogal, along part of the Wilberforce Way in East Yorkshire. SAT 00:30 The Crying Book, by Heather Christle Inderjit created this long distance walking route to honour Torry is a deprived area of Aberdeen, known for addiction (m000fq5q) Wilberforce who led the campaign against the slave trade. They issues. It's also full of dog owners. In the local pet shop we Episode 5 start at Pocklington School, where Wilberforce studied, and discover Anna who says that a number of her customers have ramble canal-side to Melbourne Ings. Inderjit Bhogal has an died recently from a fake prescription drug. We wait for her Shedding tears is a universal human experience, but why and extraordinary personal story: Born in Kenya he and his family most regular customer, Stuart, to help us get to the bottom of it how do we cry? fled, via Tanzania, to Dudley in the West Midlands in the early - but where is he? 1960s. He couldn’t find anywhere to practice his Sikh faith so American poet Heather Christle has lost a dear friend to suicide started attending his local Methodist chapel where he became Producer/presenter: Polly Weston and must now reckon with her own depression. In this personal, an unusual sight, a Christian worshipper in a turban. He went on Exec producer: Jolyon Jenkins lyrical book she faces her grief by researching the act of crying. to become a leading figure in the Methodist church and was awarded an OBE in 2005. He discusses feeling fearful while In her Ohio home, Heather assembles a “crybrary” in which she walking alone in the countryside, because of the colour of his SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (m000b5h9) investigates the science and art of tears - from their chemical skin, despite having lived here for over 50 years. Radio 4's assessment of developments at Westminster. composition to their depiction in literature. She even mines the Internet for folklore and remedies. Please scroll down to the 'Related Links' box for information about the guide book mentioned in the programme SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m000fwjc) Moving deftly between poetry and prose, she lays bare her own Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists experience. She recalls crying in a car after being dumped, lying Producer: Karen Gregor and writers from around the world. in tears on the bathroom floor after an argument with her husband, and her mother’s tears as she revisits traumatic family history. SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m000fwj1) SAT 12:00 News Summary (m000fydh) How can UK farming reach Net Zero? The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. The Crying Book is an honest, thought-provoking and surprising reflection on life, loss and mental illness. The environment and climate change have never been higher up the farming agenda. The National Farmers Union has set a SAT 12:04 Money Box (m000fwjh) In this final episode, Heather visits her friend’s grave and makes target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the New hope for leaseholders peace with her own family history of depression. whole of agriculture in England and Wales by 2040. That's in addition to the UK Government's target to reach Net Zero by People who bought leasehold homes from developers were Abridged by Joanne Rowntree 2050...and an ambition in Scotland to reach the goal by 2045. "misled". That is the damning verdict of a report by the Produced by Miranda Hinkley Competition and Markets Authority. They say its findings Assistant Producer Alexandra Quinn So how realistic are those targets for farming, how much of a support calls for a change in the law in this area and that they Read by Alexandra Metaxa, featuring Paterson Joseph, Alibe challenge will be be for farmers to meet them, and how is UK are ready to take this fight to the courts to force developers to Parsons and Oliver Soden. agriculture taking practical steps towards NET ZERO? change their ways bringing new hope to leaseholders. A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4 Caz Graham is joined in the studio by an expert panel to try and Young savers in the government-backed pension scheme called answer those questions: NEST see their money grow more slowly than older people SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m000fq5s) -Martin Lines, UK Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming because their contributions are automatically put into a low risk, The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. Network lower return fund. -Professor Myles Allen, Leader of the Climate Research Programme at Oxford University's Environmental Change And after years where hundreds of thousands of students have SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes Institute overpaid their student loans by hundreds of millions of pounds, (m000fq5v) -Edward Hanrahan, Chairman at Climate Care, which is a the Student Loans Company is starting to trial a system to BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. company that facilitates carbon offsetting automatically refund customers who have over-paid on their student loan repayments. Presented by Caz Graham SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m000fq5x) Produced by Heather Simons Presenter: Paul Lewis The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. Reporter: Dan Whitworth Producer: Alex Lewis SAT 06:57 Weather (m000fwj3) Editor: Emma Rippon SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m000fq5z) The latest weather forecast. National and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (m000fq52) SAT 07:00 Today (m000fwj5) Series 101 SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m000fq61) News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev'd Dr Rosa Thought for the Day. Contagion, Chlorination, Prevarication, Mispronunciation and Hunt, co-principal of South Wales Baptist College. Aviation SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m000fwj7) Nish Kumar examines the week's news with comedians Angela SAT 05:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry Joanna Trollope Barnes, Andy Zaltzman, Catherine Bohart and Paul Sinha. This (m000fq63) week they look at the WHO's advice on Coronavirus, the EU's Series 15 Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by Joanna Trollope stance on chlorinated chicken, the Labour leadership race, CBE, who has 22 novels to her name. A keen observer of our Trump's visit to India and the Court of Appeal's ruling on the A Cold Case Part 1 life and times, she is also the fifth-generation niece of Victorian third runway at Heathrow. novelist Anthony Trollope, has chaired awards, judged “I suppose a cold is called a cold because we catch it in the literature prizes and updated Jane Austen’s Sense and The show is produced by Sam Michell and it is a BBC Studios winter," writes Alison Evans from St Albans. "But why is it that Sensibility. Production we get more colds in winter than in the summer?” We also have Jason Watkins, the BAFTA winning actor who This week's Cold Case is all about the common cold, a set of played Harold Wilson in The Crown, also starred in Nativity!, SAT 12:57 Weather (m000fwjk) symptoms caused by hundreds of different strains of cold and W1A, Line of Duty, Being Human and now McDonald & The latest weather forecast flu viruses. Dodds, two feature length detective police dramas. He is also a patron for Child Bereavement UK, following the death of his 2 Adam uncovers the stinky history of infectious disease with year old daughter from Sepsis. SAT 13:00 News (m000fwjm) medical historian Claire Jones. The latest news from BBC Radio 4. At the age of 35, Saturday Live listener Raphaël Kopel wanted Virologists Jonathan Ball and Wendy Barclay describe how to play football, but never having played before he found he spiky viruses lock on to our cells, but why many of the was shunned on the pitch and struggled to improve. So, he SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (m000fq58) symptoms of a common cold are due to our own body's decided to learn how to play, and then trained as a coach for Kate Andrews, Frans Calje, Kevin Maguire, Faiza Shaheen overreaction. other people, like him, who never learned as a child. He joins us. Chris Mason presents political debate from the University of Plus, we delve into the science of sneezing with nose doctor Sunderland with a panel including the EO of PD Ports Frans Carl Philpott. Claire Nelson never imagined one of those terrifying stranded- Calje and the journalist Kevin Maguire. in-the-desert ordeals could happen to her. Then, hiking in Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Presenters: Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry Joshua Tree national park, she fell from a boulder and shattered Producer: Michelle Martin her hip, finding herself immobile and alone in a sun-baked wilderness. She's in the studio. SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (m000fwjp) Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m000fwhz) We have the inheritance tracks of Radio 1 presenter Clara The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at Amfo who chooses Run to the Sun by NERD and Everything is the papers.