In a playoff at the South African Open to claim his 1st European Tour victory since 2007 sharp of Eunice to the headlines again surgeons say dozens of hospitals across the u.k. Have been forced to cancel comes operations at short notice because of the pressure on n.h.s. Beds Jeremy Corbin has said the government risks igniting a trade war with Europe after the chancellor said the u.k. Could change its economic model if it doesn't agree a deal on access to the single market after break set a number of Democrat politicians in the us have said they'll boycott Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday in a row about his treatment of a leading civil rights activist b.b.c. News with Luke Tottenham we're off to Ambridge as usual in 45 minutes where things are getting rather awkward it will over watch out Roy There's a man eater on the loose internets edition of the arches just of to 7 before that it's time for Pick of the week with do it Henderson hello now how to start this script with an arresting 1st line has anyone seen my alice band demanded the bishop petulantly now too fanciful Charles decided to stop drinking when he thought he sold a kangaroo on a pogo stick. I'll come back to that aspiring novelist Tim Key was submerged in a similar epic struggle in the early hours of Tuesday morning searching for the winning beginning let's sit ourselves beside his mood music combo and hope the neighbors don't start banging on the wall. There was a silhouette of a Beefeater on a hill. Not quite. Japhet Satam something down and was now trying to feel what it might be with his fingers in such a way that the other mourners didn't think him disrespectful. I was stood on 3 tin cans and appearing over a fence when I saw for the 1st time. Smoke filled the green I'm trying to write a novel I made the decision of a while back that it would be a good thing to do I've written a lot of poems and texts and checks but I wanted to push myself a novel would stretch me artistic make me rich and make my parents proud. I've got a bit stuck Miriam wiped tears from her past and letters into the condensation that had formed when I'd bought coffee candles and paper my pencil was desperate to get going but. I just couldn't think of a 1st lie it was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking 13 or well 984 there was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Child Jane and Fox socks box not Zeus fox inside was the best of times it was the west of times it was the age of wisdom in every book scrape journey begins with the 1st sentence so many authors have fought and won this battle and yet here I am stumped. On one problem. I must have read a 100 novels over the years and each began with the 1st line book what are these lines doing and what inspired their writers to come up with them. This is the story of my quest to unlock the secrets of the 1st line to understand its function befriend it and ultimately to construct one of my own a real pearl and then my novel will be underway Clive Stark I was almost unrecognizably bloody Clearly I needed help in my quest and if you want to hear the advice received you'll find it in Tim Key's suspended sentence on Radio 4 extra in the Peak District above the doubles your village of have a suggest is standard edge a mile long grit stone crack in places towers a vertical rock presents a beckoning challenge to serious climbers one of whom is poet Helen Mort whilst Helen's body and brain focused on the task of not falling off her imagination was free running over the evocative names given to the millstone formations and that to me Andrea anniversary erat back to school badly bitten but to crack I love being here early or late or in bad weather times when everyone else has gone home I imagine each empty reaches a small state. Cake stand carp a d.m. Cleft wing direct. Sometimes I read the guidebook out loud as if I'm reading one of my problems trying out lines did the ring frights divine providence don't fluff it fading star. And try to match the diagrams in photographs to the looming shapes of the rock gargoyle buttress gothic armpit hold your breath and hoaxes Kruk. In the Evening Standard's feels like a theater with the curtain down musical stage inverted v. Invisible maniac I imagine the climb for the 1st time the held breath of the b. Layer carob King Kong and kindergarten last ice cream Louis the loon I imagine all the great climbers who've been here before May I think of Joe Brown and Alison Hargreaves run for Senate and Lucy creamer imagine the act of naming every night for the very 1st time Marmite the mama set melancholy witless Naaman loss national breakdown nihilistic. I wonder what I'd call the great stone rate if I ever had the honor repeat my favorite names again and again paradise wall Paradise Lost paralysis Savage Amusement city direct I picture myself on routes I could never climb the unprintable the on thinkable wall of sound then I turned back to the rock my own hands and scarf knuckles were surprisingly still hot the guidebooks start with warnings climb the rock as it is Do not be tempted to shape it to suit you are not equipped scales or to Gallagher out protection placements where none exist brushing with anything other than a toothbrush to remove excess chook is rarely necessary once the hard exterior layer is removed the softer Sunday interior erodes very rapidly. If you cannot do it no problem in its existing state go away and train harder or accept that you are good enough Helen Morse and often with a smile and a voice infectious radio the essay on Radio 3 staying with Radio 3 last Sunday evening I followed the painting pilgrimage Vasily Kandinsky through turbulent 20th century Europe including the Russian Revolution in 1917 debate continues as to whether convinced he was the 1st abstract expressionist However by 1921 the Soviets hanging committee certainly took a great view of his freeform primary color deviation and declared him persona non grata Sunday feature presenter Christian vi Corp spoke to Professor Rose Carroll Washington long about condensed peace formative years in Munich in the late 8090 s. His earliest works down at the turn of the century were small tempers and warmer colors often of Russian and German folk and fairy tales he really used brightly colored simply stylized forms Nick clearly revealed his disdain to traditional large scale oil paintings depicting national historical religious themes can discus rebellion against the traditional academic style was in part influenced by the folk art he encountered as a young student when he travelled to the remote province of unlocked to record the local present laws deep in the Russian countryside he was really off the beaten track here he was up in the wilds up in the deep north of Russia this was a very unwell an industrialized area was full of vast expanses of forest an area which was quite independent working and living according to very ancient traditions profile. So Christine a lot of the University of Kant is a specialist in the development of Russian modernism he talks about going into a has and that it was like being inside a painting living in a painting moving in a painting each item of furniture was brightly colored so that the form depicted dissolved into color he also encountered the notion of the Shaman at this point and I think that idea of the shaman a someone who communicates between the laity and the spiritual world was very important for Canton Skee by 910 can do you have become a leading figure in Munich's experimental artist circles developing a new visual language that later became known as expressionism and let's just pause there what does this term mean. The touristy difficult to define in the visual arts it suggests the dynamic paring down to essential of line and form. And a highly expressive rather than naturalistic use of color. During this period condensed he would divide his time between the city and the small Bavarian market town of Moore now at the foothills of the German outs. He was accompanied by other experimental artists such as Gabrielle Montoya who was also his lover and it was in his early monarch paintings that condensed took the 1st steps towards abstraction. I thought little of the houses and trees applied color stripes and spots to the canvas. Sounded the memory of. 'd the strong color saturation scale of the Munich light and atmosphere which founder deep in the shadows. The reader that was Alexander Mercury the 1st time I heard Mahler's 10th 70 his final composition one jarring court sees my attention with its vortex intensity occurring 2 thirds into the 1st movement on Wednesday afternoon classical music journalist Ivan humorous and psychoanalyst Anthony Council presented the backstory which brought this so-called shrieking cold on to the concept in the years following his death in 90. This extraordinary chord was an afterthought it was inserted into the music after he'd accidentally received a letter from the architect about a group yes it was intended for his wife Alma. This beauty of Vienna the school since young women and some 20 years younger the man she goes with very much his support to the sanatorium a sort of modern day health spa and there I think in one of the dancing classes she meets this dashing young talented architect of how to grow peers later to become the founder of the house movement they start an affair and although she had made it very clear to agree pierce that any written communications to her should come under postal form where she would think on collect the letters herself. In contradiction of her instruction he writes a letter and in a way that I suppose we analysts would think if this is the sort of parent praxis one has entered into common part. It's as the as the Freud in slip instead of addressing the on the loop to Elma he addresses it to head director manner and so a manner is going through his post he finds this letter he sits down at the piano cries out in front of the what is this he's devastated of course and the letter said to him of that group is couldn't live without her and if she had a single interest in him of any kind she should abandon manner and everything and join him so Molly give so this choice you must decide it's futile choose and whatever you choose that's it so real ultimatum. Mother insisted to our mother that she left her bedroom to her and they had joined us at night he would insist that he could see her and hear her just to hear her brief. And sometimes she would wait for Mexican night and find him standing just looking at Swinburne. And sometimes when she would go to the composing where he'd be writing she'd find him writing on the floor in tears and dank wish. Malas unfinished howl from the heart all in a cold on radio fool by his own admission presenter James Peake is not a natural musician in the past 5 to round with the Lakota and the trombone Yes with determined digits he took piano lessons with Olga his top drawl Russian Chewton in order to sit to grade one piano exam in making the grade on Radio 41 of James's fellow pupils was Carol who has Parkinson's disease the neurological disorder which affects each so for a differently but Carol didn't want her life defined by tremors and physical restriction for her learning the piano was an opportunity to develop some sort of anatomical and neurological harmony. That was fantastic how much how much practicing have you been doing about half an hour to 45 minutes a day I want to add more life to it and I can't do it because I can't get the notes correct do as many false starts as you like just show us what you can do how you practice that's all media. Would you believe. Right there like I'm flabbergasted. If your right hand is amazing and your left hand you seem to be able to control it really well I didn't know that I might have 10 could do it stewing it's but it's not as fast and it's not as strong I can see it's trembling a little but you seem to have so much more control improving things generally or just when you're. That is when I'm playing the piano. Go away from the piano and sit down for a few minutes to get enough strength to go back and practice some more once I get control over the shaking again the night I approach the piano again what I really so much impress this phrase is this musicality it's not just play in the north well done Bravo unbelievable I just want to do it because I'm damn well not going to let this disease get me down I have maybe 5 minutes who I can do something and it's almost perfect and then I start shaking and I can't do anything anymore and it drives me mad even if Carol shakes badly she keeps going keeps going and eventually she gets you stop playing while shaken and it works this or anything but you know I can bring it to make the whole process easier Colin Firth. Oh there is delighted with Carol because she says on me with a suspicious frown there is no substitute for practice. And here are the results James failed his grade one but showed brief moments of fluency and Carol past praise be. Now as a former footballer I didn't make the grade one trial with Stockwell County with the encouraging recommendation don't come back to that had me turning to Fridays we see shilled story on Radio 4 written by author Matthews in which a far from fragile x. International footballer not given to personal introspection regaled us with looking tales with showbiz mates and mocking women footballers on t.v. 20 years ago so time for the mayor culpa autobiography with the assistance of Lauren a female ghostwriter bought then came the book launch. Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear I saw gone pear shape since the book I mean. Things are going so well it was a quite launch in so of course but mulch a mates were there but my pals from save 8 and the actor friends Lauren didn't want to go to a club afterwards office wise or after all that hard work where Dr sat upright so she a great big mistake on my to coach was just and we share a taxi on the way home that having too much alcohol in the club or earlier I was actually going to quit drinking at one stage but of course Briggs he insisted on boy another bottle of champagne I must I might learn all kinds of promises about behavior myself but she degrades Again it's actually me but then well as we were bit hazy because I was drunk but she didn't really attractive a shopper to pay or part of kept there a good night kiss that's all it was she's already took it the wrong white so the next day I wake up with a hangover the size of the new Wembley Stadium and I get a phone call from my agent asked me what happened what happened what they know and they had happened. Well Lauren must have been really angry because she didn't just go on Twitter accusing me of making inappropriate bones but also leaks some want tweets which she'd been monitoring their day were up on social media for everyone to see but I still couldn't work out what all the fuss was about all they were was a bit binds I. Couldn't even really understand why Lauren thought they'd be controversial on the over phobic I'm certainly not racist it was absolute Twitter still Marco kinds of abuse thrown at me all sign me to mainly suspend my account honestly out on a stamp it will be on social media always on then there are the better to do Monica sort of kick a ball around all used to combine a voice actually interviewed by the police they said them to Masons reply to European gaming polls go in the early eighty's we go not to mouth was a goal but squiffy you know printed up quickly enough but this time distinct impression a jail term was not a question honestly up to now is only some I read about in the Piper's But these genuinely political correctness gone mad I had to apologize profusely to anyone who's trying to faints even Alcott's had I been remotely offended but things been hardest to tyke been suspended off the telly but they said they might take me back on one condition but I attend an education cosign racism sexism and homophobia I'm not sure if this means they'll be 3 lecturers or if one bloke all woman will be dealing with all 3. Back in the classroom again after all these years. Back in the claw for. I can't tell you how much I'm not looking forward to it. And what I'm on. A chip off the old block was read by Simon day and in the modern world of the late 1960 s. Danniella Rue was the beaded gallant Empress of the West and elegant bodie and box office bounty in review cabaret and extended run pantomimes on Tuesday on Radio 2 Danny root was honored by fellow showstopping friend Barbara Windsor the accounts of his final years made for plaintive listening but when Dame Danny was in his waspish cops mass Garda wink moments as when he complained about staff problems with his manager and long term companion Jack Kemp's and Barbara tells all. The trouble taken to make Danny look as amazing as he did was immense in a typical Danny show would be a dozen costume changes and it was all top quality stuff when I went to see my feather lady lovely lovely lady in Bruce Strait and said to her we need some feather any Galbraith Oh she said I tell all my clients I haven't even told her that it was done in a room that point should I tell all my clients I do 3 qualities a feather boa standard Deluxe and Danielle wrote. Well you're in luck because it's for Daniel Rose So we'll have the Danny Leroux quality there was sometimes Ultimates about dressin in which it he was going on Shirley Temple and I pulled as pop and the dress split in front of me and he runs on the stage and he comes off after his knees slams in and won't speak to me for the rest of the show storms of up stairs. To go. And I go up says and I can hear him saying to Jack Hansen. Well I mean it's ridiculous it's absolutely ridiculous and Jack said well if he isn't any goods we'll have to get rid of him and Johnny said good love have you seen those wigs I've never looked better in my life know what it is easy it's got problems with his eyes he can't see the zip. So I went and I said there is absolutely nothing wrong with my eyes and so so what is it then us do clothes don't fit. So Jack of course cowers in the corner and Dan said Well. I'll have to have 2 inches put in everything. So I go to the water and this is horrified because all that b.s. Ing and all. She had and she puts 2 inches in everything and 2 weeks later he looks in the mirror and he says to me. Lawson what. Shape is a real medial on the side and you. Just look at me and. Meanwhile across town and also experimenting with eyeliner David Bowie was a fledgling songwriter working away on songs such as changes on life on Mars which featured on his 971 hunky dorey album on Monday night radio to mark the passing of Bowie one year on the words melody and derivations of the enigmatic life on Mars was celebrated with some propositional head scratching thrown in as to the songs lyrical influences theories were offered from Lewis Carroll through to a 960 novelty record alley with an authentic I was the testimony Bowie's music publisher Bob Grace listened to an early demo of life on Mars played to him by presenter trysts Pena. It's longer for. You. To. Feel hearing them for all those years brings but huge amount of memories David always was so encouraging because he was so super pretty Milly confident that he was going to be an enormous success there wasn't any shadow of a doubt you know you can hear the song now we know we know what's happened to it but at the time you're thinking well it's a bit left field for a single What do we do with it and p. Does record it could reach the note that he didn't do and so I wasn't as confident as he was even though I remembered as being in a special song. To . This day. In 171 described life on Mars I was a sensitive young girls reaction to the media Nicholas pag we've got this girl who escapes from her quarrelling parents in some fairly ordinary suburban setting and she wanders out to the cinema and sits down and loses a self in the world of films. We also get a mention of Grettir Garbo in quicksand which is one of the other songs in which he also sings I'm living in a silent film. The World. A normal color photo of hunky dory looks rather like a sort of hunting to be caught from an old cinema poster of course to go over well Lauren Bacall or something like that I guess the idea was to capture that rather camp a con a graphic for tos thing my all female didn't really matter I was into Oxford bags adopting a kind of I what I presumed was kind of an Evelyn Waugh Oxbridge look. Going from pre-Raphaelite to Evelyn Waugh the wild wardrobes and songcraft of David Bowie who would have been 70 this week I'm listening hole join me in appreciation writing just say that this program is a must. Space Oddity s. The final frontier presents a hell in the Merryman posed the Into go back to question this week how prepared are we if or when contact is made with alien life forms what is the form if you discover a curious extraterrestrial taken your lawnmower apart in the gotten jet astronomer and Foma chief historian at NASA Dr Steven Dick provided Festing counts of possibilities and present state of a less procedure there certainly no systematic program in the us government or any other government I know of to prepare for the impact of discovering life and he should know because for a few years Steven Dick was the alien life preparation program he was funded by NASA to look at the impact of making contact with alien life and what he discovered is that there are some protocols in place for example instructions on how not to contaminate earth with any samples brought back from other planets but those are very short term they don't tell you what to do in the medium to longer term of course the 1st question on of our minds whether or not with Saif I guess is whether when that moment of 1st contact happens we'd be instantly obliterated Well that's right we can't take it for granted that we're going to be good even at the microbial level you know there's the famous scenario where bacteria comes from outer space and infects the earth but also we don't know whether the extra terrestrials are going to be good or bad you know we've evolved altruism on the earth so would altruism have evolved in outer space would they be altruistic or not is there a particular scenario that were easy well of course the the he is sort are you know that you hear about most in science fiction and the one that would be have the most impact would be a direct contact if they actually land on earth you know that would be. We worrisome from the point of view that we have very little time to react which is not a reason troop to prepare for a direct contact like that and you think that since that scenario is possible that some kind of intelligent life could turn up unannounced that we wouldn't see it coming it's certainly logically possible that extra terrestrials could arrive on the earth with little warning sure keep your eyes peeled Is there anybody out there an episode from the inquiry on the World Service up to the year ending April 26th seen incredibly there were over $1200.00 knife attacks in London many of the victims young men on the $25.00 on Monday Winifred Robinson brought shocking stories from a complex visceral culture Bush all is not despair through the youth intervention program in the Trauma Center hospitals the train counselors of holistic health charity red thread are by the bedside to comfort the wounded and assist consultants such as Dr ema Sutherland one young victim Liam was known to read thread team leader Becky Kalman she had ministered what she hoped would be some teachable moments in the Roar aftermath of yes another assault. This is a 24 hour helpline that Monday night of the. Sit in the southeast but you can. You kind of in the crazy helped sooner or later not sure enough to the power of a red sky pilot and I. Haven't had such a stay of. Constant paranoia constantly feeling frustrated constantly exhausted because his are so troubled by his own paranoia and fear and fear the world hates him physically his state of health is appalling he doesn't a properly slate properly because he's out on I when he comes back when he is able to sleep it's grabbed bits of slate interrupted by nightmares and all these terrible things that are on the whole way of being just plummets and this is enjoying this hasn't been as a result of an incident a week ago there's been years and years of injured harm and harassment and violence you know Czeslaw. Person who is in the midst of this after a while so if they were going to make a little plan now work guys see the doctor. I'm going to be involved we know that there's a lot of really good work being done in other areas but at the end of the day sometimes the young people just reach a point of crisis and when they reach a point of crisis the physical treatment is often only a tiny part of what's needed compassion and cooperation in on a knife edge on Radio 4 confession time I have never ever skied given my shambles coordination This means I have delivered lower limb surgeons and gets booed from a hopeless repair job no such reluctance for the mean gay a sporting pioneer from Senegal whose unique appearance on the competitive slopes some 30 years ago and showed lasting family pride as Lamine told all too present tyo pool my i Player pick this week. Thank you your 1st Winter Olympics where in Sarajevo as the sole representative of Senegal sandwiched between athletes from Russia and the United States and the opening ceremony if I remembered to close I would cry but the thing is it was so important for me to be there because the 1st thought to me was directly to my grandfather and the very interesting thing was the way the athletes from USA and Russia looked at me because they see what is this one men team one flag of black men as you doing here. The crowd they were making so much more noise for from me or for my country than for the others to see what's happening and I was looking behind me there was no no it was for me and in Iraq right I cried I couldn't stop trying before the fall before marching with my with my flag I was crying like a baby like I was 5 years old. At the $78.00 lympics which events did you take part in well Team Senegal participate to all even meaning started in slalom even if it was the worst lot of research possible giant slalom and downhill but I'm also one man team as an office. And talking about Syria where there was something very funny they came to me and this is I would like you to validate the national anthem from Senegal I said Why do you want to do that and they said well if you win we will play with national anthems. And then I started to last I said Oh I would love so much that thing to happen and I thought myself this is probably the very 1st time that and Tim is played under the snow because the snow was falling that day. Remember there are 5 of the final Alpine every day. And you also took part in the slalom even though you say yourself that you were never very good at the slalom What was that experience like it was definitely not my speciality I was probably too told to be a good racer and I had just another technique and I enjoyed. Speed and not a technical term so it was it was tricky but the good thing is that it was not dangerous in Sarajevo game managed 57th in the slalom and a creditable 51st out of 61 competitors in the downhill in a time of just under 2 minutes. Snow Glory's on the b.b.c. Radio I player in the week that director general Tony whole pledge to make the i Player the primary online t.v. And radio service in the u.k. a Former inhabitants of this neck of the freezing Woods was on master tapes on Monday Graeme Nash Obi a Grammy winner and most impressive of all back in 156 a member of sulphide lapse club after decamping to California Graham Nash subsequently recorded his 1st solo album Songs for beginners the opening track military madness becoming an anthem of dissent joining the Vietnam War Both as he explained to present to John Wilson this song had its roots in a previous conflict in which the home front soundtrack was one of rate sirens combining with that of a later family humiliation. The 1st one takes us back to a very different time and place. In a upstairs room in Blackpool by the side of a northern city. By. The Army I had my father. My mother was having. That take she stuck to your own birth your father was in the army at the time that's true pregnant ladies were evacuated outside the bombing area to have the children in peace and Manchester and Liverpool were being bombed heavily because of the Manchester ship canal I didn't understand the wisdom of evacuating all the pregnant ladies out of town for. 2 weeks and then moving the new baby and the kid back into the bombing area again I never quite understood that and sulphur was seriously blitz as well as a seriously yeah. There's an event you've written about it in your autobiography there's an event which almost defines your childhood and then goes on to resonate I guess through your adult life and this is the arrest and imprisonment of your father something to do with receiving stolen goods What did you know of that at the time and how did it affect you one day the police knocked on our door they told my father that the camera that he had bought from his friend at work had been stolen and who was his friend everybody here knows you don't grass on your friends to the police and I think he trying to make an example of a man for a $30.00 camera he spent a year in prison in strange ways and it broke he died at $46.00. You're only what 15 years old at the time I was 14 and was a couple things that resonate from that story through your life the camera that he had he wanted to give to you didn't he I mean because he knew you were interested in photography we see it there on the cover of the songs for beginners album is the self-portrait his but also you must at that age 14 years old you have to then help look after your mother and the rest of your family that sense of burning injustice is that what then fed in to a lot of those songs absolute. Hell is it. Because it always interested me how when you go to California you arrived there at the height of the protest Vietnam was going on the counterculture but you were already fully formed as an angry young man I guess when you yeah I don't like injustice and I like the underdog. A solid body of appreciated work is a prerequisite for appearing on must the tapes so what happens if your an earnest 18th century German composer by the name of Johann Packard Bell eager to perform your daring new pieces at select gatherings yet your patron and punters only want to hear your wand big infuriating hit musical cannon fodder for the masses a success of chuckling listeners Ruth McFarlane David Jeffrey Christine say Trevor Masters Clive Bellamy and Jenny Chittenden have requested this from John Fennimore souvenir program thank you for listening go on Yohann one more. Thank you thank you I couldn't be happier. Now or to have me here Oh my goodness what an incredibly futuristic instrument you have here in 1705 I still and child gets ahead of it yes I think I got it I all right then. It's neat. That everyone loves so much. They leave a. Few walls meet the the. Breeze soiree a breeze sat alone. I'm not too late though I. Told my son might. I see the old nonstop. Since it seems I can could join a local to knock yourselves out people here is your carry on a little bit chill too high try to set a smorgasbord on some good play basketball that you'll love and Jason I love to say Make way to. Make an endless cable pulse a pulse of the whole of the phrase summed up by soon enough about sitcoms of. Cisco to. Be due to be dooby dooby dooby bear I. Know all of. These won't you let me. Know. All you one too small own cause. If you call. 8. 150 year old. Used car. It's the vehicle. To be dooby dooby dooby stealing my brain with. Sleep in same would be to be. The way they were they know they're still high from the people rebuild but Soul that they seized or do we. Will be doing it. If we. Have. The be. The brilliance John for them are ending this edition of Pick of the week presented by Stuart Henderson and produced and so by Stephen and as well as well as many of the selections in today's program you can hear pick of the week on the b.b.c. Radio website. 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