Radio 4 Listings for 17 – 23 April 2010 Page 1 of 15 SATURDAY 17 APRIL 2010 SAT 06:30 Farming Today (b00rz61k) Smithson, reflects here with the editor of FT.Com, Robert Farming Today This Week Shrimsley. SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b00rz0nc) The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. With rural tourism now worth £15 billion a year and supporting And if you missed the debate, catch up in just a minute - with Followed by Weather. around 400,000 jobs, farmers could potentially make more no hesitation or deviation, but perhaps a little repetition. money from tourism than from farming. Charlotte Smith visits Brook Meadow in Northamptonshire, a farm that has The week has also seen the launch of the parties' manifestos. A SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b00rzlt9) transformed itself into an adventure centre for adrenaline host of proposals were reported in breathless fashion. But who Douglas Rogers - The Last Resort seekers. can remember which polices belong to which parties? Leading ad-man Barry Delaney explains how politicians can get through Episode 5 to voters who aren't paying full attention. And Dr Tim Grant of SAT 06:57 Weather (b00rz61m) the Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University 5/5 The latest weather forecast. crunches the manifestos' words and phrases in his computer. The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers, read by Jack Klaff. Finally, the campaign has been haunted by the 'elephant in the Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions. The SAT 07:00 Today (b00rz61p) room' - the subject which, some say, the two biggest parties author tells the story of his parents fight to stay on their With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports don't want to mention. It's the deficit. How can we ever pay it backpacker lodge in Zimbabwe despite the political upheaval of Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. back? And is it like a monster of horror fiction ? A question for the last decade. writer Ramsey Campbell -- a man who creates monsters for a living -- and clinical psychologist, Martin Seager, whose job The day that Douglas's parents have been dreading finally SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b00rz61r) includes helping people cope with their fears. arrives. Fi Glover is joined by the playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah . Together they'll be discussing how a social experiment became Presented by Clive Anderson, without any loose ends or a ratings winner as we head towards the final Big Brother. JP unreliable evidence. SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b00rz0nf) Devlin has been out and about with the people of Colwyn Bay The latest shipping forecast. and in the place where music meets art, Alison Goldfrapp does Producers: Peter Mulligan/ Mark D'Arcy/ Leala Padmanabhan. her Inheritance Tracks. Editor: Martin Rosenbaum. SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b00rz0nh) SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage (b00rz61t) BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 John McCarthy talks to author Douglas Rogers, whose parents SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b00rz66k) resumes at 5.20am. ran a backpackers' lodge in Zimbabwe, and to Southern Africa There's a guided tour and lunch as the new black owner shows tour operator John Berry about how tourism in the troubled us round the farm in Zimbabwe. We learn you may have to country has been faring in the years of the Mugabe regime and move fast to enjoy the sight of Ecuador's towering glaciers. SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b00rz0nk) hyperinflation, what the country can offer the traveller now and There's a moment of embarrassment for a president in a polling The latest shipping forecast. whether there is any likelihood of improvement. booth in southern Sudan. And we discover you can't go far in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh without seeing the lady with John also compares travelling in the eastern Europe of 20 years the trademark square handbag. SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b00rz0nm) ago with the present day when he asks journalist, writer and The latest news from BBC Radio 4. angler Tom Fort about a journey he made to Poland, Hungary, Flag-draped coffins.The tolling of church bells.. and flowers Czechoslovakia and Romania on the eve of the fall of strewn on hearses as they slid slowly through the streets of communism. Tom revisited many of those places and indeed Warsaw. The world has watched Poland mourn with dignity the SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b00rz0np) fishing spots recently and observes how life and fishing have catastrophic loss of its President, and many other members of Presented by the Revd Bob Fyffe, General Secretary of changed in the intervening years. its political elite.They all died when their plane ploughed into a Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. Russian forest in thick fog. Our correspondent, Oana Lungescu has been watching Poles gradually come to terms with this latest SAT 10:30 Rocking the Blitz Club (b00rz61w) traumatic episode in their national story.. SAT 05:45 Ankle High History (b00jc3t2) Midge Ure takes us back to the Blitz Club in London's Covent Mull Garden where the 'New Romantics' came of age. A senior official in Robert Mugabe's government this week made it clear the Zimbabwean authorities would continue with Mark Stephen uncovers Scotland's lost archaeological history. The club first opened its doors in 1979 at the height of another their plans to transfer the country's foreign-owned businesses to recession and Midge explores how the flamboyant Blitz scene local black control. In Strathconon, now an empty wilderness, amateur offered an escape from the hard economic reality that he and archaeologists have uncovered the remains of dozens of illicit his contemporaries were facing. Opposition lawmakers had argued that the plans were stills. Mark hears stories from a time when mountains and glens discouraging foreign investment at a time when the authorities were full of whisky smugglers. Midge remembers how "walking into the Blitz was like stepping were trying to attract funds to revive an economy which has out of time, you never knew what period it was set in. It was a suffered a decade of decline. total mish-mash of styles, full of blurred genders and make-up It's been 10 years now since Zimbabwe first launched a policy SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b00rz0nr) for girls and boys". The Blitz crowd were christened the 'New of land reform, the transfer of farmland from white to black The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. Romantics' because of what Midge calls their "nostalgia for the ownership. In that time, more than four thousand white farmers future". have been forcibly evicted, and the farms allocated to new owners. SAT 06:04 Weather (b00rz5vr) The Blitz was a seedbed for creative talent, full of musicians, The latest weather forecast. designers, photographers and stylists. John Galliano first We have often heard the stories of those white farmers, how flaunted his ideas there, Spandau Ballet played their early gigs they fled their farms in fear of their lives, and how the collapse and a young Boy George took the coats. in agricultural production has devastated the country's economy. SAT 06:07 Open Country (b00rz5vt) But rarely do we hear the voices of Zimbabwe's new farmers, Brecon Beacons A new sound emerged from the club - the synthesizer-based the black Zimbabweans who took over the land. So Dan Isaacs electropop pioneered by Midge in his bands Visage and went to one farm to meet them. Matt Baker visits the Brecon Beacons in Wales and learns some Ultravox. The success of the Blitz bands brought wealth and survival skills with an ex military trainer who teaches him how fame, but the "extreme hedonism" of the 'New Romantic' Ever since the German ecologist Alexander Von Humboldt to light a fire and set traps. movement led many into very dark places. visited Ecuador in 1802 foreign visitors have been drawn to its majestic volcanoes and the glaciers which crown them. On a freezing cold day where he's battered by the elements, the Finally, Midge explores why the 1980s 'New Romantic' synth bush tucker meal prepared by Adrian Bream of fried squirrel sound has seen a revival in the current recession. But the scientists studying them are reluctant to predict how and local herbs is a welcome energy boost as he learns the much longer visitors have left to see them. These tropical basics of bushcraft in one of Britain's harshest environments. Midge meets former Blitz Kids including: Gary Kemp (Spandau glaciers, many more than five thousand metres high, are Ballet), Gary Numan, Robert Elms, Rusty Egan, Steve Strange shrinking. He meets some of the residents of the villages in the National (Visage), Stephen Jones (milliner) and Dylan Jones, to revisit Park who are aiming to be carbon negative in five years' time what was undoubtedly a golden era of British pop music. Their gradual disappearance is causing concern in a number of by involving the whole community in several green schemes Andean cities thought to be dependent on the glaciers for part that make use of some of Wales' greatest natural resources, its Producer: Melissa FitzGerald of their water supply. James Painter travelled with a leading rivers, waterfalls and woodlands. glaciologists to one of Ecuador's highest glaciers on the dormant A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in volcano of Antizana, a couple of hours' drive from the capital The Welsh hill pony is also viewed by conservationists as a vital April 2010.