Radio4lists: Radio 4 Listings for 30/05/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 30 MAY 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00kkfq6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00klbsg (Listen) SAT Radio Head, Episode 5 SAT Lee Ingleby reads from John Osborne's exploration of the SAT radio stations of Britain. SAT John explores the future of radio - is it digital, is it SAT online and what will it sound like? SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kkfq8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kkfqb (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kkfqd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00kkfqg (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kkfqj (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00kkfql (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00kkfqn (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00kkg60 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00kmg2r (Listen) SAT Series 12, Episode 2 SAT Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind, SAT body and soul. SAT Clare joins blind walker Rob Davies at Hulne Park - part SAT of the Duke of Northumberland's estate - where he shares SAT his love of birdsong. Rob regularly joins Alnwick Health SAT Walks in Northumberland and delights fellow walkers by SAT sharing his extensive knowledge of birdsong, something he SAT developed through an online group called 'blind-birders'. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00kmg2t (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Caz Graham finds Yorkshire cucumbers growing in what looks SAT like loft insulation, Lincolnshire strawberries packed so SAT cleverly they still taste of English summer after a flight SAT to Saudi Arabia, and we witness the highest of hi-tech SAT horticulture, under glass and spread over a site the size SAT of 80 football pitches in Kent. SAT But is all this British know-how and innovation about to SAT shrivel in a drought caused by a lack of funding for SAT research and development? Caz Graham visits Warwick SAT University to find out. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00kmg2w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00kmg2y (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00kmgrs (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by journalist and SAT broadcaster Ed Stourton. With poetry from Susan Richardson. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00kmgrv (Listen) SAT Homo sapiens originated in Africa but about 70,000 years SAT ago, a small group left the continent and became the rest SAT of the globe's ancestors. With Alice Roberts, John SAT McCarthy discusses how early man migrated round the globe, SAT overcoming climatic and geographic obstacles, and how SAT those early travels resulted in the different races. SAT Surinam used to be known as Dutch Guyana and, despite SAT being the smallest country in South America, is home to SAT some of the most unspoiled rainforest in the world. Andrew SAT Westoll used to study monkeys there and returned more SAT recently to look at the country as a whole. He discovered SAT a fascinating mix of peoples, cultures and environments SAT and explains how the Surinamese hope ecotourism is the SAT answer to protecting their forest. SAT SAT 10:30 Hunting Haydn's Head b00kmgrx (Listen) SAT Simon Townley tells the story of the theft of the skull of SAT composer Joseph Haydn by over-zealous fans, shortly after SAT his death in 1809. SAT The man who gave the world The Creation, over a hundred SAT symphonies and the blueprint for the string quartet, had SAT his head stolen by Karl Rosenbaum, the secretary of SAT Haydn's employers, the Esterhazy family, and Johann SAT Nepomuk Peter, governor of the provincial prison. Their SAT motivation for stealing the skull was, it is believed, SAT 'scientific': there was at the time a great interest in SAT phrenology, a now-discredited scientific movement that SAT attempted to associate mental capacities with aspects of SAT cranial anatomy. SAT Simon tracks down what happened to the famous head in the SAT next 145 years, through being displayed for years at the SAT Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde in Vienna in a specially SAT made black wooden casket, until it was finally reunited in SAT 1954 with Haydn's other remains in a marble tomb in the SAT Bergkirche in Eisenstadt. SAT He finds out exactly what the phrenologists were hoping to SAT achieve with the head of the late composer and ponders the SAT curious enthusiasm that fans of classical music have for SAT busts of their favourite composers. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00kmgrz (Listen) SAT After the Parliamentary expenses crisis, Elinor Goodman SAT asks why people want to be involved in politics and if SAT they can persuade electors that the battle for votes still SAT matters. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00kmgs1 (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00kmgs3 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with reports on how the faster electronic SAT payments system is working one year on; more complaints SAT over financial services; and further planned pension SAT protests. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00kkd97 (Listen) SAT Series 68, Episode 5 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists SAT include Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay and Danielle Ward. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00kmgs5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00kmgs7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00kkdq8 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion programme SAT in Dartmouth, Devon. SAT The broadcaster Esther Rantzen, the Shadow Justice SAT Secretary Dominic Grieve, the Secretary of State for SAT Universities, Innovation and Skills, John Denham, and the SAT Liberal Democrat Julia Goldsworthy join the panel for live SAT debate, with questions from the audience. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00kmgs9 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00kmh7k (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - A Murder of Quality SAT Dramatisation of the novel by John le Carré, his second to SAT feature spymaster George Smiley, set in a public school in SAT the early 1960s. SAT When the wife of one of the masters is found bludgeoned to SAT death, Smiley, out of loyalty to an old friend, finds SAT himself investigating her death - an investigation that SAT lifts the lid on a world of hidden passions and murderous SAT hatreds. SAT George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Fielding ...... Geoffrey Palmer SAT Ailsa ...... Marcia Warren SAT Rigby ...... Sam Dale SAT Rode ...... Geoffrey Streatfeild SAT Ann Snow ...... Alison Pettitt SAT Janie ...... Amanda Lawrence SAT Shane Hecht ...... Liza Sadovy SAT Snow ...... Matt Addis SAT D'Arcy ...... Philip Fox SAT Hecht/Vicar ...... Malcolm Tierney SAT Perkins ...... Benjamin Askew SAT Girl ...... Lizzy Watts SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00kmh7m (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Jane Garvey visits the home of Marguerite Patten, the SAT doyenne of British cookery for more than 60 years. She SAT shares some old and contemporary cooking tips. SAT The number of MPs standing down at the next election SAT appears to grow by the day - but who will take their SAT place? To discuss what characteristics are needed to SAT embrace and survive a term or more in Parliament, Jane is SAT joined by Clare Short, Amanda Platell and Lynn Faulds Wood. SAT Biographer Claire Tomalin had always known her mother, SAT Muriel Herbert, had been a published composer in the SAT 1920s. But it was only after Muriel died that Claire SAT discovered just what a formidable talent she had SAT possessed, and how prolific she had been. Her 'art songs' SAT were highly regarded in her day - James Joyce and WB Yeats SAT let her set their work to music. Now Claire has put SAT together a new recording of her mother's work. SAT Roma Tearne was only ten when she fled Sri Lanka with her SAT parents. Open war had broken out on the island, and her SAT Sinhalese mother had been outcast by her family for SAT marrying a Tamil man. The family came to England in search SAT of safety. But her parents never managed to integrate SAT successfully into British society. In her new novel, Roma SAT explores the themes which have marked the lives of her own SAT family: identity, homeland and loss. SAT For many pregnancies, couples 'go public' at around 12 SAT weeks. But if a woman has kept quiet about her pregnancy SAT and miscarries, how do you deal with the loss without SAT friends, family and colleagues' support? Woman's Hour SAT explores why women tend to keep quiet about early SAT pregnancy and what impact this has if they miscarry. SAT Plus another chance to hear a live performance by Little SAT Boots. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00kmh7p (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 Bottom Line b00kk226 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis and his guests discuss how businesses can SAT survive a recession, MPs expenses and the pros and cons of SAT having a positive mental attitude in the workplace. SAT Evan is joined by Charlotte Hogg, managing director of SAT Experian in the UK and Ireland, Dr Mike Lynch, chief SAT executive of Autonomy, and Simon Woodroffe, founder of Yo! SAT Sushi and Yotel. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00kmh7r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00kmh7t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kmh7w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00kmh7y (Listen) SAT An eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. SAT Peter Curran is joined by Helen Baxendale, Suggs and Nitin SAT Ganatra. SAT Jo Bunting finds out about the often perplexing and SAT somewhat hilarious government films used to promote SAT Britain in the sixties to the eighties with documentary SAT maker Jeff Simpson. SAT There's comedy from political satirist Andy Zaltzman. SAT And music from Madness and Rokia Traore. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00kmh80 (Listen) SAT Series 6, Parliament of Rooks SAT Party leaders are promising to give power to the people, SAT and scientists have discovered that rooks aren't so SAT bird-brained. With a nod to Chaucer, playwright Steve SAT Waters takes us to the Parliament of Rooks, where the SAT birds are having their own crisis of leadership. SAT With David Hargreaves, Alex MacQueen, Sophie Stanton and SAT Paul Rider. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00kmh82 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by historian Tristram Hunt, writer SAT Kathryn Hughes and director of the ICA Ekow Eshun to SAT discuss the cultural highlights of the week - featuring a SAT haunted house, a shrinking room and some intimate SAT animation. SAT The Little Stranger is a new novel by Sarah Waters and SAT takes us back to the austere world of late 1940s Britain. SAT A crumbling stately home in Warwickshire and the family SAT which lives in straightened circumstances there become SAT objects of increasing fascination for a local doctor. But SAT his belief in the rational, scientific world is shaken by SAT some strange goings on at the old house. SAT Four mathematicians in a room may sound like the set-up SAT for a geeky gag, but it's also the starting point for the SAT Spanish thriller Fermat's Room, written and directed by SAT Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopena. The four boffins have SAT been brought together by the mysterious Fermat, but soon SAT discover that their host plans to crush them in an SAT ever-shrinking room unless they can solve a succession of SAT puzzles. SAT Apart from his work as an actor, Wallace Shawn is also a SAT distinguished playwright. A current season of his plays at SAT the Royal Court includes a revival of Aunt Dan and Lemon, SAT a play which was originally premiered there in 1985. Lemon SAT is a reclusive young woman who reminisces about the SAT powerful influence that family friend Aunt Dan had on her SAT as child. A charismatic academic, Dan's legacy may not be SAT what Lemon's liberal parents would have wished for. SAT Tracey Emin's first show of new work for four years is SAT called Those who suffer Love. The show is intimate both in SAT the revealing nature of pages from Emin's diaries and also SAT in the content of her drawings. Although she describes it SAT as 'essentially a drawings show', the exhibition also SAT features animation, neon and sewn work. SAT Hope Springs is a family drama on BBC1. Alex Kingston's SAT Ellie persuades her gang of four female ex-cons to lie low SAT with their swag in a picturesque Highland village until SAT they can leave for a life of ill-gotten leisure in SAT Barbados. Inevitably nothing goes quite to plan and the SAT village isn't quite as sleepy as it seems. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00kmhl4 (Listen) SAT Lynne Truss - Did I Really Ask That? SAT Lynne Truss shares her personal treasure trove of SAT interviews with world famous writers. SAT Between 1980 and 1990, Lynne was a part-time arts SAT journalist, meeting and interviewing many giants of the SAT theatre, including Arthur Miller, Tom Stoppard, Simon SAT Gray, Athol Fugard and Anthony Minghella. For over 20 SAT years these cassettes gathered dust in her garage, but now SAT Lynne airs them and finds out, with horror and humour, SAT what her younger self was like as an interviewer, and what SAT she learnt from meeting these great talents. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00khky8 (Listen) SAT Mugsborough, 1917 SAT Dramatisation by Andrew Lynch featuring the characters of SAT Robert Tressell's novel The Ragged Trousered SAT Philanthropists, picking up the story 10 years on. SAT The residents of Mugsborough hold wildly differing views SAT of the Great War. The politically aware favour peaceful SAT solutions, others are determined to avoid being sent to SAT the Western Front. One returns from Flanders terribly SAT injured and cannot find work and one child is still SAT unaware of the tragic circumstances of her parentage. SAT Easton ...... Johnny Vegas SAT Old Misery/Hunter ...... Paul Whitehouse SAT Ruth ...... Shirley Henderson SAT Nora ...... Raquel Cassidy SAT Frankie ...... Iain McKee SAT Bert White ...... Des O'Malley SAT Bundy ...... Tom Pitts SAT Barrington ...... Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Charlie Linden ...... Carl Rice SAT Elsie ...... Nicola Stephenson SAT Sweater ...... Rupert Degas SAT Slyme ...... Kevin Eldon SAT Crass ...... Arthur Smith SAT Rushton ...... Bill Bailey SAT Young Elizabeth ...... Yasmin Gerrard SAT Freddie ...... Jody Latham SAT Older Elizabeth ...... Joanna Neary SAT Mrs Meadows ...... Anne Waggott SAT Directed by Dirk Maggs. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00kmhl6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00kjk0p (Listen) SAT The Law and Climate Change SAT Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal SAT issues of the day. SAT Are our environmental laws robust enough to save the SAT planet for humankind? The Climate Change Act 2008 commits SAT the UK to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent SAT by 2050, but can this be legally enforced? What law and SAT penalties are available to force industry, individuals and SAT even the government to reduce their carbon footprint? SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00kj2f2 (Listen) SAT Series 23, Episode 12 SAT Paul Gambaccini chairs the last semi final of the music SAT quiz. The contestants are Andrew Feltham from Kent, SAT Richard Grothusen from Lancashire and David Roy from SAT Hertfordshire. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00khm90 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces a reading of Samuel Taylor SAT Coleridge's classic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, SAT read by Finbar Lynch. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 31 MAY 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00kmkp2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b007s1vf (Listen) SUN Murder She Thought - Series 1, Have a Nice Death SUN Compelling crime stories by women writers. SUN Antonia Fraser's psychological thriller, in which a SUN best-selling author has a wonderful time in New York - SUN until he receives a strange phone call. SUN Read by Rosalind Ayres. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmkp6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmkp8 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmkpb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00kmmf1 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00kmn39 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from Tavistock Parish Church. SUN SUN 05:45 Letters to Mary b00kjk4b (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN Series in which three writers send an informal letter to SUN the influential British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, SUN updating her on the progress of her often radical ideas in SUN the 250 years since her birth. SUN Writer and feminist Natasha Walter looks at SUN Wollstonecraft's central work, A Vindication of the Rights SUN of Woman. SUN This was a book written in a hurry, during the turbulent SUN years at the end of the 18th century when it seemed to SUN some that the Revolution in France might truly be ushering SUN in a new age of freedom and equality. Mary completed it in SUN just six weeks, taking pages to the printers before the SUN book was finished. Loosely argued and sometimes showing SUN signs of the speed with which it was composed, her central SUN argument is nevertheless as simple and powerful as ever - SUN that the existence of inequality between the sexes did not SUN prove that women were intrinsically inferior. SUN Natasha happily updates Mary on the immense advances that SUN have been made in equality of the sexes since her day, SUN considering how delighted she would be with the many SUN opportunities which women now rightly take for granted in SUN terms of education, careers and political engagement. But SUN she also looks at Mary's own experience of family life and SUN considers how, in this key area, there is still some way SUN to go before Mary's dreams are truly achieved. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00kmn3c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00kmn3f (Listen) SUN Ordinary Time SUN Mark Tully celebrates what award-winning novelist SUN Marilynne Robinson has called 'the dear ordinary', and SUN what GK Chesterton described as, 'the ecstasy of being SUN ordinary'. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00kmn3h (Listen) SUN Grass Snakes SUN Lionel Kelleway tries to get close to the grass snake and SUN find out a little more about its private life. Grass SUN snakes grow to a surprising five feet long; they are SUN Britain's largest native snake, and yet we hear very SUN little about them. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00kmn6y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00kmn70 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00kmn72 (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of SUN the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00kmndk (Listen) SUN Treloar Trust SUN Richard Stilgoe appeals on behalf of Treloar Trust. SUN Treloar Trust provides education, care, therapy, medical SUN support and independence training to young people with SUN physical disabilities from all over the UK and overseas. SUN Donations to Treloar Trust, should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your envelope SUN Treloar Trust. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144 If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Treloar Trust with SUN your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid SUN on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and SUN phone donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1092857. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00kmndm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00kmndp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00kmndr (Listen) SUN The Marvellous Work Behold Amazed SUN A service from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London, SUN for the Feast of Pentecost. SUN Featuring music from Haydn's Creation to mark the 200th SUN anniversary of the composer's death. SUN Led by Rev Alan Gyle and Rev Richard Coles. SUN Director of Music: Stephen Farr. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00kkdqb (Listen) SUN Clive James observes that while democracy is the right SUN system for governing a country, it's the wrong system for SUN choosing a professor of poetry. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00kmndt (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00kmndw (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00kmndy (Listen) SUN Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook. SUN Caroline has travelled the world to see how different zoos SUN worked, spent years living in the jungle and, when she SUN returned to Britain, taught herself how to be a farmer. SUN She has become a champion of the countryside and, when a SUN supermarket giant announced plans to open a store on her SUN doorstep, she decided to take them on. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00kj9yv (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three SUN guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary SUN museum. With John Hodgman, Oliver James and Charlotte SUN Uhlenbroek. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00kmv0x (Listen) SUN School Food SUN In September nutrient-based standards - already operating SUN in primary schools- will be extended to all secondary SUN school food. The aim is to continue the improvement in our SUN children's diets started by Jamie Oliver five years ago, SUN by ensuring school menus contain a prescribed balance of SUN vitamins, minerals and energy sources. However, the Local SUN Authority Caterers Association, who provide 90 per cent of SUN the meals served in schools, fear it is overcomplicated SUN and will create meals so unappealing that they will drive SUN even more secondary school pupils out of the school gates SUN and into the chippy. SUN Sheila Dillon joins delegates at the LACA summit to hear SUN both sides of the argument. Previous Chair of LACA Pat SUN Fellows puts the case against the nutrient standards. Joe SUN Harvey, Director of the Health Education Trust and Chair SUN of the Caroline Walker Trust (the body which devised the SUN guidelines on which the nutrient standards are based) SUN defends this attempt to improve children's diets. SUN Professor Jack Winkler and Sarah Sinclair, of the SUN Nutrition Unit at London's Metropolitan University, SUN recently undertook what appears to be the only independent SUN research ever done in Britain on what school children eat SUN outside the school gates ('fringe eating') - where SUN children graze freely on chips, fizzy drinks and sweets. SUN Sheila and Jack visit a north London high street to SUN observe the fringe and find out what children don't like SUN about school dinners - not, it turns out, the food, but SUN the dining areas, the queues, or the lack of freedom. SUN What is the alternative? Professor Winkler provides SUN examples of successful schemes to provide healthier school SUN fringe food. Eileen Steinbock, Head Nutritionist for SUN Brakes, a catering company who supply restaurants and SUN schools with meals and ingredients, suggests making the SUN types of food children want, but with good ingredients. SUN So are nutrient standards workable? Judy Hargadon, Chief SUN Exec of the School Food Trust, set up by the government in SUN 2005 to promote the education and health of children by SUN improving the quality of food in schools, and the body SUN charged with implementing the new school meal standards, SUN defends the nutrient standards. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00kmv8j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00kmv8l (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Britain In Their Sites b00kmv8n (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Tristram Hunt tells the story of architectural change in SUN Britain over 60 years, tracing the country's changing idea SUN of itself through three controversial public building SUN projects. SUN In 1961, London's Euston Station and its famous Arch faced SUN demolition. A landmark building in the history of railway SUN architecture, battle raged over Euston's future. Prime SUN Minister Harold Macmillan was lobbied, banners were SUN unfurled and British Rail architects drew up plans for a SUN new, more modern station. SUN As he looks back at Euston's troubled reinvention, SUN Tristram dissects the furious debates sparked by the SUN demolition and asks what Euston tells us about the SUN changing value of Britain's past and our enthusiasm for SUN the future. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00kkd91 (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness are SUN guests of Middleton Cheney Garden Club near Banbury. SUN The final instalment in our sustainable gardening series SUN looks at why rain water is such an invaluable resource. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 A Guide to Water Birds b00kmv8q (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Brett Westwood presents a series of entertaining and SUN practical guides to identifying many of the birds found on SUN or near freshwater, aided by sound recordist Chris Watson. SUN Brett is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss on the SUN Somerset Levels to identify wet meadow waders including SUN lapwing, redshank, curlew and snipe. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00kmw7b (Listen) SUN Mugsborough, 1926 SUN Dramatisation by Andrew Lynch featuring the characters of SUN Robert Tressell's novel The Ragged Trousered SUN Philanthropists. SUN The threat of civil unrest is gripping the country. SUN Socialist ideas and talk of revolution are in the air as SUN workers and managers come to blows, and an illegitimate SUN child with a tragic secret is used as a pawn in a bigger SUN game. SUN Easton ...... Johnny Vegas SUN Old Misery/Hunter ...... Paul Whitehouse SUN Ruth ...... Shirley Henderson SUN Nora ...... Raquel Cassidy SUN Frankie ...... Iain McKee SUN Bert White ...... Des O'Malley SUN Bundy ...... Tom Pitts SUN Barrington ...... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Charlie Linden ...... Carl Rice SUN Elsie ...... Nicola Stephenson SUN Sweater ...... Rupert Degas SUN Slyme ...... Kevin Eldon SUN Crass ...... Arthur Smith SUN Rushton ...... Bill Bailey SUN Young Elizabeth ...... Yasmin Gerrard SUN Freddie ...... Jody Latham SUN Older Elizabeth ...... Joanna Neary SUN Directed by Dirk Maggs. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00kmw7d (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup meets an engaging mix of authors at the SUN Hay Festival and hears from Monty Don about his five best SUN books. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00kmz2c (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces requests for poems by Robert SUN Frost and Edward Thomas. Read by Peter Marinker and Philip SUN Franks. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00kjjpf (Listen) SUN Allan Urry investigates more claims of bad behaviour on SUN the part of bankers, and follows the David and Goliath SUN struggle of a group of small business owners who are SUN battling to force one of the high street giants to take SUN responsibility for the decisions that they claim left them SUN in ruins. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00kmh80 (Listen) SUN Series 6, Parliament of Rooks SUN Party leaders are promising to give power to the people, SUN and scientists have discovered that rooks aren't so SUN bird-brained. With a nod to Chaucer, playwright Steve SUN Waters takes us to the Parliament of Rooks, where the SUN birds are having their own crisis of leadership. SUN With David Hargreaves, Alex MacQueen, Sophie Stanton and SUN Paul Rider. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00kmz2f (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00kmz2h (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kmz2k (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00kmz2m (Listen) SUN Frank Cottrell-Boyce introduces his selection of SUN highlights from the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00kmz2p (Listen) SUN There is big news at Bridge Farm. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00kmz2r (Listen) SUN A new series to Radio 4, hosted by Matt Frei from the BBC SUN studio in Washington, DC. Americana gets off the beaten SUN track to present an insider's guide to the people and the SUN ideas shaping the United States today. SUN In the first programme, Matt gauges the health of the SUN nation in an interview with one of America's top agony SUN aunts, and reveals the city you'd least expect to be SUN beating America's economic blues, by attracting some of SUN the country's top entrepreneurial talent. SUN And as politicians in Washington argue over who knew what SUN about the use of torture, Americana goes to the grassroots SUN and asks what happens when the soldiers who carried out SUN the abuse return home to civilian life. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b0082b6y (Listen) SUN The Closed Door, Wednesday SUN Series of stories by Dorothy Whipple, an often overlooked SUN writer of the interwar years who was described by JB SUN Priestley as 'the Jane Austen of her age'. SUN A divorced mother prepares for another painful meeting SUN with her estranged children. Read by Stella Gonet. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00kk36n (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. Topics include MPs expenses and BBC pay; the SUN end of Go4It, a tribute to Clement Freud and Bono's poetry. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00kkd93 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister talks to Dr Harold Brown and Rachel York SUN about the life of physicist Herbert York; Bill Smith about SUN diver Carl Spencer; Ken Livingstone, Tony Benn and Nick SUN Jones about trade union leader Ken Gill and Professor SUN David Bradbury and Pamela Howard about the life of French SUN theatre director Roger Planchon. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00kmgs3 (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with reports on how the faster electronic SUN payments system is working one year on; more complaints SUN over financial services; and further planned pension SUN protests. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00kmndk (Listen) SUN Treloar Trust SUN Richard Stilgoe appeals on behalf of Treloar Trust. SUN Treloar Trust provides education, care, therapy, medical SUN support and independence training to young people with SUN physical disabilities from all over the UK and overseas. SUN Donations to Treloar Trust, should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your envelope SUN Treloar Trust. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144 If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Treloar Trust with SUN your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid SUN on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and SUN phone donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1092857. SUN SUN 21:30 The Report b00kk0xr (Listen) SUN Simon Cox gets behind the headlines engulfing MPs about SUN their expenses and explores how the system of allowances SUN was allowed to get out of control. The programme charts SUN the origin of the row back to the enactment of freedom of SUN information laws and reveals how proposed changes, which SUN could have averted the crisis, were repeatedly thwarted by SUN MPs themselves. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00kmz3s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00kmz3v (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN Including The Condensed History of Big Ben: SUN The Great Clock of the Palace of Westminster is SUN celebrating 150 years of almost continuous time telling. SUN To mark the occasion Adam Long, co-founder of the Reduced SUN Shakespeare Company, and his two friends Simon Jermond and SUN Giles Terera take a whirlwind musical tour of all things SUN Ben. SUN It's a story of arduous neo-Gothic design, bells that kept SUN cracking and the invention of something called a double SUN three-legged gravity escapement mechanism. SUN So join Adam for a quirky look back at a century and a SUN half of faithful ticking. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00kkd95 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock takes a look back at the 1960s with a man SUN who gave us some of its defining images - director Richard SUN Lester. He made the Beatles' films Help and Hard Day's SUN Night and the quintessential 60s sex comedy The Knack. SUN But by the end of the decade, it was all very different. SUN And two of Lester's films - Petulia and The Bed Sitting SUN Room - dared to say that. Now, after years of neglect, SUN those films are available again. Lester revisits the 60s SUN as they lost their swing. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00kmn3f (Listen) SUN Ordinary Time SUN Mark Tully celebrates what award-winning novelist SUN Marilynne Robinson has called 'the dear ordinary', and SUN what GK Chesterton described as, 'the ecstasy of being SUN ordinary'. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 1 JUNE 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00kmz6j (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00kjjyw (Listen) MON The betting shop is an egalitarian space; unlike pubs MON there is no necessity to buy, and as long as your MON behaviour does not impact on anyone else's you can do what MON you want. It also brings people of different backgrounds MON and ethnicities together in a unique way. Although MON gambling carries a stigma and people often campaign MON against opening more betting shops in their communities, MON Rebecca Cassidy tells Laurie that they are incredibly MON cosmopolitan and tolerant, and are emblematic of changes MON that are happening in Britain. MON Laurie also hears from Miriam Glucksmann, who has updated MON a study of women working on assembly lines which she first MON published anonymously nearly 30 years ago. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00kmn39 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from Tavistock Parish Church. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmz7t (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmzbn (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmz97 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00kmzcy (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kmzdb (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00kmzk2 (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Caz Graham. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00kn8vw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00kmztq (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00knpc9 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His MON guests include historian Antony Beevor on his new book, D MON Day; creator of the hit TV series The Wire, David Simon; MON and leading physicist Michio Kaku on 'The Physics of the MON Impossible'. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00kmzyv (Listen) MON Jane's Fame, Episode 1 MON Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane MON Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family MON scribblings to Hollywood movies. MON The myth of Jane Austen is of a demure spinster, MON unobtrusively writing masterpieces in the corner of the MON family sitting room. The reality was of an ambitious and MON spirited young woman who was part of a lively, bookish MON family and keenly attuned to the literary world of her MON time. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00kn0kj (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON Millions watched the final of Britain's Got Talent with MON Susan Boyle. But is the way in which women are portrayed MON on such TV shows always fair? Is there too much emphasis MON on appearance and does the media demand more of female MON participants? Jane is joined by TV critic Andrew Billen MON and psychologist Professor David Wilson to discuss these MON questions. MON Jane is also joined by the all-girl, electric string MON quartet Escala, who first appeared on Britain's Got Talent MON in 2008. They tell Jane about their mission to break down MON the barriers to classical music and perform live in the MON studio. MON Honey bees play a crucial role in biodiversity with their MON vital task of pollinating plants. But the UK is losing its MON bee population at an increasing rate. At their AGM, MON members of the Women's Institute will debate a resolution MON - SOS For Honey Bees - calling for increased funding for MON research into bee health. Jane finds out about the MON mysterious disappearance of our bees, and what can be done MON about it. MON We hear about Hanan Al-Shaykh's new book The Locust and MON the Bird: My Mother's Story. MON And Jayne Zito, whose husband, Jonathan was stabbed to MON death nearly 17 years ago by a schizophrenic, talks about MON why the Trust set up in his name is closing. MON Including drama: Writing the Century. MON MON 11:00 Governors Needed b00knpcc (Listen) MON State Schools MON Reeta Chakrabati sets out to discover what is involved in MON being a school governor and how influential their work is MON on the success or failure of a school. They are the MON largest volunteer body in the UK but in certain areas MON there is a severe shortage; it involves a lot of work and MON its commitment in unpaid and largely unseen. MON Reeta examines the role of governors in state schools. She MON talks to Phil Revell, chief executive of the National MON Governors Association, who is deeply concerned about the MON number of governing bodies who do not operate as MON effectively as they should. Reeta visits several schools MON to find out how the system works and whether it always MON follows that a successful school has a successful MON governing body. MON MON 11:30 Newfangle b00knpvw (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Sitcom by Adam Rosenthal and Viv Ambrose, set hundreds of MON thousands of years ago among a tribe of proto-humans. MON Newfangle is bottom of the tree; despised by his mother, MON savaged by alpha male Alf on a daily basis and ignored by MON Snaggle, his favourite female. But Newfangle is a hominid MON with big ideas. He invents language, which he hopes will MON transform his situation, only to find that words have a MON way of being twisted to new and unpleasant uses. MON Newfangle ...... Russell Tovey MON Snaggle ...... Pippa Evans MON Crag ...... Gabriel Vick MON Coco ...... Maureen Lipman MON Alf ...... Hugh Bonneville MON Lucy ...... Amy Shindler MON An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00kn0kv (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00kn1bb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00kn1bq (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00knqp7 (Listen) MON Series 23, Episode 13 MON Paul Gambaccini chairs the final of the music quiz. The MON contestants are Alan Douglas from Worcestershire, David MON Roy from Hertfordshire and Peter Whitehead from Kent. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00kmz2p (Listen) MON There is big news at Bridge Farm. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00knv8n (Listen) MON The Tent MON Comedy by Tom Green. Gavin and Fay bravely attempt to plan MON their long-overdue wedding. It could be in a 19th century MON 'medieval' castle or it could be the zoo, but it MON definitely won't be the church. MON Fay ...... Sian Reeves MON Gavin ...... Jeremy Swift MON Anna ...... Joanna Scanlan MON Rebecca ...... Janice Acquah MON Ukulele played by Hester Goodman MON Directed by Toby Swift. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00kmhl4 (Listen) MON Lynne Truss - Did I Really Ask That? MON Lynne Truss shares her personal treasure trove of MON interviews with world famous writers. MON Between 1980 and 1990, Lynne was a part-time arts MON journalist, meeting and interviewing many giants of the MON theatre, including Arthur Miller, Tom Stoppard, Simon MON Gray, Athol Fugard and Anthony Minghella. For over 20 MON years these cassettes gathered dust in her garage, but now MON Lynne airs them and finds out, with horror and humour, MON what her younger self was like as an interviewer, and what MON she learnt from meeting these great talents. MON MON 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00kn2xs (Listen) MON Red or Dead? MON Series charting the history of America, written and MON presented by David Reynolds. MON How the powerful Second World War alliance between the MON United States and the Soviet Union hardened into the Cold MON War. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00kmv0x (Listen) MON School Food MON In September nutrient-based standards - already operating MON in primary schools- will be extended to all secondary MON school food. The aim is to continue the improvement in our MON children's diets started by Jamie Oliver five years ago, MON by ensuring school menus contain a prescribed balance of MON vitamins, minerals and energy sources. However, the Local MON Authority Caterers Association, who provide 90 per cent of MON the meals served in schools, fear it is overcomplicated MON and will create meals so unappealing that they will drive MON even more secondary school pupils out of the school gates MON and into the chippy. MON Sheila Dillon joins delegates at the LACA summit to hear MON both sides of the argument. Previous Chair of LACA Pat MON Fellows puts the case against the nutrient standards. Joe MON Harvey, Director of the Health Education Trust and Chair MON of the Caroline Walker Trust (the body which devised the MON guidelines on which the nutrient standards are based) MON defends this attempt to improve children's diets. MON Professor Jack Winkler and Sarah Sinclair, of the MON Nutrition Unit at London's Metropolitan University, MON recently undertook what appears to be the only independent MON research ever done in Britain on what school children eat MON outside the school gates ('fringe eating') - where MON children graze freely on chips, fizzy drinks and sweets. MON Sheila and Jack visit a north London high street to MON observe the fringe and find out what children don't like MON about school dinners - not, it turns out, the food, but MON the dining areas, the queues, or the lack of freedom. MON What is the alternative? Professor Winkler provides MON examples of successful schemes to provide healthier school MON fringe food. Eileen Steinbock, Head Nutritionist for MON Brakes, a catering company who supply restaurants and MON schools with meals and ingredients, suggests making the MON types of food children want, but with good ingredients. MON So are nutrient standards workable? Judy Hargadon, Chief MON Exec of the School Food Trust, set up by the government in MON 2005 to promote the education and health of children by MON improving the quality of food in schools, and the body MON charged with implementing the new school meal standards, MON defends the nutrient standards. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00knv8q (Listen) MON As British troops are withdrawn from Iraq, Ernie Rea MON discusses whether Just War Theory, expounded by St MON Augustine, is rendered null and void by modern forms of MON warfare. MON MON 17:00 PM b00kn32d (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kn342 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b00knwyq (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three MON guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary MON museum. With Kate Adie, Jon Richardson and Roger Law. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00kn2wk (Listen) MON Matt's conscience takes a battering. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00kn34g (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the MON verdict on the fourth Terminator film, starring Christian MON Bale. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kn3s7 (Listen) MON Writing the Century 9, Episode 1 MON Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and MON correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa MON Rosenthal. MON Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor MON of The Yorkshire Post. MON It is 1954, and Linton's rise from provincial to national MON prominence continues through his work as chairman of the MON Press Council and his respected editorials. But his wife MON Pinkie hankers after the quieter life of retirement. MON Linton ...... Russell Dixon MON Pinkie ...... Alexandra Mathie MON Rebecca West ...... Ann Rye MON Renate ...... Szilvi Naray-Davey MON Henry Bate ...... Martin Oldfield MON Stan ...... Matt McGuirk MON Directed by Gary Brown. MON MON 20:00 Hearts and Minds b00knxmx (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Nick Fraser considers the proper role of intellectuals in MON relation to world events and world conflict. MON The Cold War was fought on intellectual as well as MON strategic grounds, but did intellectuals abandon their own MON standards in the battle for 'hearts and minds'? Nick MON considers the matter in the run-up to the centenary of the MON birth of Isaiah Berlin, one of Britain's foremost MON political philosophers and opponents of Soviet communism, MON and takes the figures known as 'liberal anti-communists' MON during the Cold War as an historic peak of the Western MON intellectual's power and influence. MON A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00kp7yg (Listen) MON No Escape MON Richard Weight asks why prison policy is so difficult to MON unlock and whether anyone has the key. Crime is not MON getting any worse but the number of inmates has almost MON doubled in the last 20 years. What is more, the majority MON of prisoners reoffend, with an annual cost to the Treasury MON of more than 12 billion pounds. MON Featuring contributions from: MON Jonathan Aitken, former MP and prison inmate MON Professor Andrew Coyle, Professor of Prison Studies MON Baroness Corston, author of the Corston report on women's MON prisons MON Frances Crook, Director, Howard League for Penal Reform MON David Hanson MP, prisons minister MON Kenny MacAskill MSP, Scottish cabinet secretary for justice MON Ex-offenders from the Open Book Project, Goldsmith's MON College. MON MON 21:00 Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means MON Business b00kp806 (Listen) MON Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open MON source' computer software. Much has been said about the MON likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system MON Linux, but little about how thousands of programmers MON scattered around the world collaborate in a 'virtual MON anthill' to create products that rival more commercial MON offerings. Gerry finds out how it is done and shows how MON its ethos is being applied to other kinds of business, MON with some startling results. MON A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00knpc9 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His MON guests include historian Antony Beevor on his new book, D MON Day; creator of the hit TV series The Wire, David Simon; MON and leading physicist Michio Kaku on 'The Physics of the MON Impossible'. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00kn54c (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00kn62h (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kn6hb (Listen) MON The Outlander, Episode 6 MON Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in MON Canada in 1903. MON Widowed by her own hand, Mary Boulton is a fugitive. For MON now she has stopped running, in the care of Rev MON Bonnycastle. But her brothers-in-law are still on her MON trail. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00cm9p8 (Listen) MON Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover MON Dominic Arkwright chairs the lively discussion series. MON Studio guests are Catherine Townsend, author of the MON Sleeping Around column in the Independent, the Telegraph's MON music critic Neil McCormick and Australian novelist Kathy MON Lette, author of How to Kill Your Husband and Other Handy MON Household Hints. They discuss all aspects of relationship MON heartache and liberation. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00kn7ty (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Susan Hulme. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00kmz56 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00kmzyv (Listen) TUE Jane's Fame, Episode 1 TUE Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane TUE Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family TUE scribblings to Hollywood movies. TUE The myth of Jane Austen is of a demure spinster, TUE unobtrusively writing masterpieces in the corner of the TUE family sitting room. The reality was of an ambitious and TUE spirited young woman who was part of a lively, bookish TUE family and keenly attuned to the literary world of her TUE time. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmz6l (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmz99 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmz7w (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00kmzbq (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kmzd0 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00kmzjl (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00kmztd (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in TUE Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 What's the Point of ... b00kp822 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The British Zoo TUE Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at TUE the British Zoo. TUE TUE 09:30 The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On TUE b00gkrty (Listen) TUE Sister, Guard Your Veil TUE Exiles from the Iranian revolution talk to British-Iranian TUE writer David Mattin about leaving their homeland and TUE family behind to make a new life in Britain. TUE David hears how women's lives changed dramatically under TUE the Ayatollah's regime and why, with modifications to TUE family law and enforced adoption of the hijab in public, TUE some women felt they had to leave. That included a bookish TUE young girl who had been educated abroad and found herself TUE on trial when she applied for a job at the university. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9l (Listen) TUE Jane's Fame, Episode 2 TUE Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane TUE Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family TUE scribblings to Hollywood movies. TUE The last years of Jane Austen's life were a period of TUE concentrated writing and business with publishers. Though TUE largely cut off from the fashionable literary world, her TUE fame was nonetheless beginning to spread. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00kn0gc (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Writing The Century. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00kp9jc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Seabirds - Canaries on the Cliffs TUE Chris Sperring explores declining seabird numbers and asks TUE if it represents a crisis or just a blip. TUE Visit any windy, spray laden seabird colony in the spring TUE and early summer and every sense is fired by the sound, TUE sight and smell of thousands upon thousand of birds flying TUE to and fro with fish to feed their young that are perched TUE precariously on every ledge. TUE Or that is how it should be. In many seabird colonies it TUE is now much quieter and many traditional nesting ledges TUE are empty. Seabird ecologists are increasingly concerned TUE about how many species are fledging young, and in some TUE areas none are successful in raising chicks at all. TUE These worrying signs are increased by looking at the TUE number of birds that are washed up dead on beaches during TUE the winter months. Once the seabirds have left the cliffs TUE in the summer they spend the rest of the year out at sea. TUE But many are now succumbing to starvation and end up TUE washed ashore. There are definitely signs that the North TUE Sea is changing and that seabirds are finding it harder to TUE cope. TUE TUE 11:30 Vienna and the Shadow of The Third Man b00kp9jk (Listen) TUE Sixty years on from the release of The Third Man, tour TUE guide Dr Brigitte Timmermann uncovers Graham Greene's TUE Vienna and takes us in the footsteps of his film. TUE Walking through the city, she tells the stories that have TUE fascinated generations of film buffs, from Soviet master TUE spy Kim Philby's role in the film to tales of Sir Carol TUE Reed and Graham Greene's late night visits to Vienna's TUE seediest bars. TUE With the help of fellow devotees, Brigitte explores TUE Vienna's hidden history and examines why The Third Man has TUE remained largely unpopular in the place which inspired it. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00kn0kl (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00kn0qm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00kn1bd (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Performing to the Red Light b00kp9jy (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Terence Curran goes behind the scenes to experience the TUE recording process as different classical performers TUE prepare for the studio. Among them is the pianist Kathryn TUE Stott. There are also interviews with notable performers TUE including Emma Johnson and Stephen Hough, producers and TUE record company executives who discuss the little-known TUE psychological aspects behind making a classical recording. TUE Terence explores how performers cope with the demands of TUE making their first recording. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00kn2wk (Listen) TUE Matt's conscience takes a battering. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00kphpk (Listen) TUE On Ego TUE Collaboration between neuropsychologist Paul Broks and TUE theatre director and writer Mick Gordon. TUE Lecturer Alex is convinced that people are just a bundle TUE of neurons. When his wife falls ill, he finds he has basic TUE questions to answer about what it really means to be a TUE person. But that is just part of an unfolding experience TUE that questions not only his identity but his very TUE existence. TUE Derek ...... Henry Goodman TUE Alex ...... Elliot Levey TUE Alice ...... Susan Lynch TUE Directed by Mick Gordon. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00kpjhs (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring TUE ordinary people's links with the past. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kpv72 (Listen) TUE Three Stories By Giovanni Verga, Gramigna's Mistress TUE Series of stories about farming folk by the Sicilian TUE writer of the 1870s, laced with dry humour. TUE Peppa is due to marry Finu, then runs off to join some TUE hot-shot she has never even met. Apparently it's his TUE reputation that does it! TUE Read by Dermot Crowley. TUE TUE 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00kn2yk (Listen) TUE A World Half-Slave, Half-Free TUE Series charting the history of America, written and TUE presented by David Reynolds. TUE Truman and Stalin square off over the Berlin blockade and TUE the Soviet Union tests a nuclear bomb. TUE TUE 16:00 The Eureka Years b007yvyq (Listen) TUE Series 3, 1905 TUE Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the history TUE of science. Albert Einstein develops a theory of TUE relativity with some help from his shaving mirror and a TUE passing train. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00kpvbq (Listen) TUE Kate Mosse's guests are comedian Natalie Haynes, whose TUE performances at places like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival TUE have made her a must-see act, and Monty Halls, the marine TUE biologist and explorer who has presented television TUE programmes about land and sea, most recently Monty Hall's TUE Great Escape about the remote west coast of Scotland. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00kn301 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kn32g (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b00ks4hl (Listen) TUE Another chance to hear the late Sir Clement Freud TUE entertain an audience at the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe TUE Festival with reminiscences, jokes and anecdotes. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00kn2w5 (Listen) TUE Ruth lays down the law for Joe. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00kn344 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an TUE interview with Canadian writer Anne Michaels, best known TUE for her novel Fugitive Pieces, which has been adapted for TUE the cinema. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kn4km (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 9, Episode 2 TUE Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and TUE correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa TUE Rosenthal. TUE Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor TUE of The Yorkshire Post. TUE Linton has an important engagement in London, and hearty TUE celebrations are in order. TUE Linton ...... Russell Dixon TUE Pinkie ...... Alexandra Mathie TUE Renate ...... Szilvi Naray-Davey TUE The Queen ...... Victoria Brazier TUE Edith/Mrs Mann ...... Martine Dunn TUE Arthur Mann/Hugh Cudlip ...... Martin Oldfield TUE Courtier ...... Matt McGuirk TUE Directed by Gary Brown. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00kpvfs (Listen) TUE Jenny Cuffe asks if the government policy of tightening TUE immigration rules to help preserve jobs for British TUE workers is being undermined by employers who are intent on TUE bringing overseas workers as a way of driving down pay. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00kpvfv (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00kpvfx (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond speaks to the UK's first Mental Health TUE Liaison Officer, Richard Harwin, to see how he can help TUE those with mental health problems to have better TUE experiences when dealing with the police. TUE People with mental health problems are often reluctant to TUE report crimes. Richard Harwin discusses examples of TUE vulnerable people having their houses taken over by drug TUE dealers. They are often bullied and intimidated into not TUE reporting to the police, or fear they may be held TUE accountable for the crimes taking place in their homes. TUE Richard's job is to work with the police and those with TUE mental health problems in the Hackney area of London. He TUE was a psychiatric nurse before becoming a police officer TUE and he trains other officers about mental illness. TUE TUE 21:30 What's the Point of ... b00kp822 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The British Zoo TUE Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought provoking look at TUE the British Zoo. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00kn53j (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00kn5zd (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kn6f9 (Listen) TUE The Outlander, Episode 7 TUE Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in TUE Canada in 1903. With horse dealers from Montana in town, TUE Mary and McEchern hit upon a new business venture. TUE TUE 23:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better TUE b00d0sjl (Listen) TUE Series 2, Patience TUE Mark Watson turns his wit to the subject of virtue, with TUE stand-up comedy on patience. Assistants Tim Key and Tom TUE Basden wait politely in line to perform their poems and TUE songs. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00kn7v0 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with David Wilby. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00kmz58 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00kvg9l (Listen) WED Jane's Fame, Episode 2 WED Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane WED Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family WED scribblings to Hollywood movies. WED The last years of Jane Austen's life were a period of WED concentrated writing and business with publishers. Though WED largely cut off from the fashionable literary world, her WED fame was nonetheless beginning to spread. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmz6n (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmz9c (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmz7y (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00kmzbs (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kmzd3 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00kmzjp (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00kmztg (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00kpw1x (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves, and WED guests including Jerry Springer and Mary Portas. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9d (Listen) WED Jane's Fame, Episode 3 WED Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane WED Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family WED scribblings to Hollywood movies. WED The 19th century taste for the great, sprawling novels of WED Dickens, Thackeray and others left Jane Austen in relative WED obscurity for some decades. But public interest flared up WED again with her nephew's publication of the first biography WED in 1870, and gained a momentum that was now unstoppable. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00kn0gf (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing The Century. WED WED 11:00 The Race To Dover b00kpw1z (Listen) WED BBC cricket correspondent and keen pilot Jonathan Agnew WED tells the story of the competition held in July 1909 to WED become the first pilot to fly across the English Channel. WED Louis Bleriot, a 37-year-old engineer with a badly burned WED foot, took the prize offered by Lord Northcliffe, owner of WED the Daily Mail. Jonathan finds out what happened to the WED favourite, the young international playboy and sportsman WED Hubert Latham, and climbs into the cockpit of the first WED flying machine to make the crossing, the Bleriot XI. WED WED 11:30 Spread A Little Happiness b00knp6s (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a WED Yorkshire sandwich bar. WED Another day at the breadface, but now Jodie's anxieties WED aren't just about her sandwich business. Though she rather WED likes having Hope around, her husband Dave isn't so keen. WED Hope ...... Suranne Jones WED Jodie ...... Susan Cookson WED Dave ...... Neil Dudgeon WED Milkman ...... Shaun Prendergast WED Workman ...... Ben Crowe WED Directed by Chris Wallis. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00kn0kn (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00kn0qw (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00kn1bg (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00kpw5b (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00kn2w5 (Listen) WED Ruth lays down the law for Joe. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jz0xj (Listen) WED Places Where They Sing WED Written and directed by Ellen Dryden. WED Thomas has composed his first work for the amateur choir WED he founded. The performance is imminent. Thomas' WED unpredictable behaviour is upsetting the choir - and his WED wife Joanna. WED Thomas ...... Anton Lesser WED Joanna ...... Phoebe Nicholls WED Vicky ...... Claire Rushbrook WED Angela ...... Abigail Thaw WED Matthew ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor WED Music composed by Derek Bourgeois. WED A First Writes Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00kpw5d (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kvh1x (Listen) WED Three Stories By Giovanni Verga, Getting to Know The King WED Series of stories about farming folk by the Sicilian WED writer of the 1870s, laced with dry humour. WED It should be an honour taking the King in your wagon, but WED after the fireworks and trumpets die down and the journey WED beckons, Cosimo begins to worry. Read by Dermot Crowley WED Read by Dermot Crowley. WED WED 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00kn2ym (Listen) WED The Suburban Republic WED By David Reynolds. After the war, Americans turn their WED attentions back home, building homes and highways and WED creating suburbs. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00kpw9j (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00kpvfx (Listen) WED Claudia Hammond speaks to the UK's first Mental Health WED Liaison Officer, Richard Harwin, to see how he can help WED those with mental health problems to have better WED experiences when dealing with the police. WED People with mental health problems are often reluctant to WED report crimes. Richard Harwin discusses examples of WED vulnerable people having their houses taken over by drug WED dealers. They are often bullied and intimidated into not WED reporting to the police, or fear they may be held WED accountable for the crimes taking place in their homes. WED Richard's job is to work with the police and those with WED mental health problems in the Hackney area of London. He WED was a psychiatric nurse before becoming a police officer WED and he trains other officers about mental illness. WED WED 17:00 PM b00kn303 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kn32j (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 Elvenquest b00kpw9l (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. WED The Quest seems near its end as the noble band reach the WED Rock of Sorrows. But Sam is tempted by Lord Darkness and WED has to decide between his friends and his home. WED Vidar ...... Darren Boyd WED Dean the Dwarf/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon WED Amis ...... Dave Lamb WED Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan WED Sam ...... Stephen Mangan WED Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00kn2w7 (Listen) WED Clarrie keeps Eddie's conscience in check. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00kn346 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an WED interview with the Barcelona-born writer Carlos Ruiz WED Zafon, who won international fame with his best-selling WED novel The Shadow of the Wind. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kn4kp (Listen) WED Writing the Century 9, Episode 3 WED Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and WED correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa WED Rosenthal. WED Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor WED of The Yorkshire Post. WED Linton is insensitive about Pinkie's loss, which creates WED tension when they visit Downing Street. WED Linton ...... Russell Dixon WED Pinkie ...... Alexandra Mathie WED Renate ...... Szilvi Naray-Davey WED Dr Hawbrook ...... Malcolm Raeburn WED Edith/Mrs Mann ...... Martine Dunn WED Anthony Eden ...... Martin Oldfield WED Lady Eden ...... Victoria Brazier WED Directed by Gary Brown. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00kpw9n (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. With Claire Fox, Melanie Philips, WED Clifford Longley and Kenan Malik. WED WED 20:45 Bong! The Condensed History of Big Ben b00ksk4j (Listen) WED The Great Clock of the Palace of Westminster is WED celebrating 150 years of almost continuous time telling. WED To mark the occasion Adam Long, co-founder of the Reduced WED Shakespeare Company, and his two friends Simon Jermond and WED Giles Terera, take a whirlwind musical tour of all things WED Ben. WED It's a story of arduous neo-Gothic design, bells that kept WED cracking and the invention of something called a double WED three-legged gravity escapement mechanism. WED So join Adam for a quirky look back at a century and a WED half of faithful ticking. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00kp9jc (Listen) WED Series 2, Seabirds - Canaries on the Cliffs WED Chris Sperring explores declining seabird numbers and asks WED if it represents a crisis or just a blip. WED Visit any windy, spray laden seabird colony in the spring WED and early summer and every sense is fired by the sound, WED sight and smell of thousands upon thousand of birds flying WED to and fro with fish to feed their young that are perched WED precariously on every ledge. WED Or that is how it should be. In many seabird colonies it WED is now much quieter and many traditional nesting ledges WED are empty. Seabird ecologists are increasingly concerned WED about how many species are fledging young, and in some WED areas none are successful in raising chicks at all. WED These worrying signs are increased by looking at the WED number of birds that are washed up dead on beaches during WED the winter months. Once the seabirds have left the cliffs WED in the summer they spend the rest of the year out at sea. WED But many are now succumbing to starvation and end up WED washed ashore. There are definitely signs that the North WED Sea is changing and that seabirds are finding it harder to WED cope. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00kpw1x (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves, and WED guests including Jerry Springer and Mary Portas. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00kn53l (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00kn5zh (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kn6fc (Listen) WED The Outlander, Episode 8 WED Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in WED Canada in 1903. The landslide has left the town in ruins; WED who has survived and who has perished? WED WED 23:00 Self-Storage b00807r1 (Listen) WED Series 1, Job Hunting WED Sitcom by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power. WED Dave tries to get his life back on track by getting a job, WED but help from fellow Storage Garden tenant Geoff makes it WED harder than he expected. WED Dave ...... Reece Shearsmith WED Geoff ...... Mark Heap WED Ron ...... Tom Goodman-Hill WED Judy ...... Rosie Cavaliero WED Sarah ...... Susan Earl. WED WED 23:15 Peacefully in their Sleeps b007ycdm (Listen) WED Sister Cecilia of Caracas WED Spoof obituary series by Chris Chantler and Howard Read. WED Roydon Postlethwaite charts the many munificent WED achievements of the lifelong humanitarian peace worker who WED campaigned tirelessly against landmines yet smoked like a WED chimney. WED Roydon Postlethwaite ...... Geoff McGivern WED Sister Cecilia ...... Liza Sadovy WED Actor ...... Chris Chantler WED Colin ...... Dan Antopolski WED David Something ...... Howard Read WED Gloria Blamly ...... Janice Connolly WED Stanley Cashew ...... Geoffrey Whitehead. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00kn7v2 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Sean Curran. WED WED THU THURSDAY 4 JUNE 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00kmz5b (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00kvg9d (Listen) THU Jane's Fame, Episode 3 THU Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane THU Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family THU scribblings to Hollywood movies. THU The 19th century taste for the great, sprawling novels of THU Dickens, Thackeray and others left Jane Austen in relative THU obscurity for some decades. But public interest flared up THU again with her nephew's publication of the first biography THU in 1870, and gained a momentum that was now unstoppable. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmz6q (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmz9f (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmz80 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00kmzbv (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kmzd5 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00kmzjr (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00kmztj (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00kpzd6 (Listen) THU The Trial of Charles I THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the English Civil War THU culminated in courtroom drama. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9g (Listen) THU Jane's Fame, Episode 4 THU Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane THU Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family THU scribblings to Hollywood movies. THU By the early years of the 20th century, the cult of THU 'Divine Jane' had seized Britain and America. For the THU soldiers of the First World War, she came to represent an THU Englishness that was far removed from the terrible THU realities of life in the trenches. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00kn0gh (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing The Century. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00kpzd8 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Scum b00kpzdb (Listen) THU Critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode examines the history THU of and controversy surrounding the film Scum. THU Originally made by the BBC in 1977, its brutal depiction THU of life in the borstal system was deemed to be too THU controversial for broadcast and it was banned by the THU Corporation. However, it was then re-made for the cinema THU two years later and became one of the most infamous THU British films of the 1980s. Mark investigates the accuracy THU of the film and offers a portrait of its uncompromising THU director Alan Clarke. THU Featuring new interviews, including screenwriter Roy THU Minton, actor Mick Ford, former director of BBC television THU Alasdair Milne and the producers of both the BBC and THU theatrical versions. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00kn0kq (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00kn0r0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00kn1bj (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00kpzdd (Listen) THU Welcome to the Real World THU Dominic Arkwright is joined by clinical psychologist THU Oliver James, author of The Selfish Capitalist and Britain THU on the Couch; French journalist Agnes Poirier; and Annie THU Caulfield, creator of the Radio 4 series Reasons to be THU Cheerful, to discuss why people avoid confronting reality, THU and what happens when they do. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00kn2w7 (Listen) THU Clarrie keeps Eddie's conscience in check. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00kpzdg (Listen) THU Avenues of Eternal Peace THU By Lucy Caldwell. Kai-Liang and Chang Li meet and fall in THU love in their first year at university. Becoming THU increasingly involved in the world of student politics, THU they join the protests in Tiananmen Square, where their THU passions and ideas are put to the ultimate test. THU Kai-Liang ...... David Tse THU Student Kai-Liang ...... David Lee THU Chang Li ...... Ping Ping Wong THU Xie Huan Yue ...... Gabby Wong THU Zhao Ziyang ...... Richard Woo THU Mother/Woman ...... Su Lin Looi THU Grandmother ...... Pik-Sen Lim THU Young Kai-Liang ...... James Ang THU Documentary Producer ...... Nick Hardin THU Students played by May Chan, Jonathan Chan-Pensley, Steven THU Lim, Monica Sayer, Alan Wai THU Directed by Heather Larmour. THU THU 15:02 Ramblings b00kmg2r (Listen) THU Series 12, Episode 2 THU Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind, THU body and soul. THU Clare joins blind walker Rob Davies at Hulne Park - part THU of the Duke of Northumberland's estate - where he shares THU his love of birdsong. Rob regularly joins Alnwick Health THU Walks in Northumberland and delights fellow walkers by THU sharing his extensive knowledge of birdsong, something he THU developed through an online group called 'blind-birders'. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00kmndk (Listen) THU Treloar Trust THU Richard Stilgoe appeals on behalf of Treloar Trust. THU Treloar Trust provides education, care, therapy, medical THU support and independence training to young people with THU physical disabilities from all over the UK and overseas. THU Donations to Treloar Trust, should be sent to FREEPOST BBC THU Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your envelope THU Treloar Trust. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144 If THU you are a UK tax payer, please provide Treloar Trust with THU your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid THU on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and THU phone donation facilities are not currently available to THU listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1092857. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00kvh1q (Listen) THU Three Stories By Giovanni Verga, Wolf-hunt THU Series of stories about farming folk by the Sicilian THU writer of the 1870s, laced with dry humour. THU Lollo says he is setting a trap for a local animal but THU really it will be for a human, someone close to his heart. THU Read by Dermot Crowley. THU THU 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00kn2yp (Listen) THU Korea - The Cold War Turns Hot THU Series charting the history of America, written and THU presented by David Reynolds. THU The US army clashes with Chinese and Soviet-backed forces THU in Korea, while Senator Joseph McCarthy stokes up fears of THU communist spies back in America. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00kmw7d (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup meets an engaging mix of authors at the THU Hay Festival and hears from Monty Don about his five best THU books. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00kpzdj (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper reports from the Cheltenham Science THU Festival. From the origins of evolution to the future of THU computing, by way of happiness and heresy, the Festival is THU a feast from the frontiers of research. THU THU 17:00 PM b00kn305 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kn32l (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Hut 33 b00bz9z8 (Listen) THU Series 2, Where Boffins Dare THU Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941. THU Three code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden THU hut as they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, THU they hate each other. THU Having made a total hash of a message, Hut 33 are THU threatened with being posted to Burma. When a message THU indicates that a German spy is going to be parachuted THU nearby, they see a chance to redeem themselves. But the THU spy turns out to be an old friend of Charles. THU Charles ...... Robert Bathurst THU Archie ...... Tom Goodman-Hill THU Minka...... Olivia Colman THU Gordon ...... Fergus Craig THU Mrs Best ...... Lill Roughley THU Joshua ...... Alex MacQueen. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00kn2wb (Listen) THU Matt gets caught in the act. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00kn348 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kn4kr (Listen) THU Writing the Century 9, Episode 4 THU Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and THU correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa THU Rosenthal. THU Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor THU of The Yorkshire Post. THU Linton worries about the situation in Hungary and Suez, THU while Pinkie argues for his retirement from The Yorkshire THU Post. THU Linton ...... Russell Dixon THU Pinkie ...... Alexandra Mathie THU Dr Hawbrook ...... Malcolm Raeburn THU Annie ...... Ann Rye THU Scott ...... Lloyd Peters THU Directed by Gary Brown. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00kq560 (Listen) THU Rob Walker travels to Somaliland to uncover the truth THU behind the hijack and ransom of a Danish ship, and asks THU who benefits from modern-day piracy. THU THU 20:30 Bottom Line b00kq562 (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs THU and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to THU their companies and their customers. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00kq564 (Listen) THU Geoff Watts examines attitudes to Darwin and his theory of THU evolution, both during his own time and now. Even today, THU 150 years after it was first published, Darwin's theory of THU evolution by natural selection arouses passions. Indeed, THU for some it seems just as controversial now as it was in THU Victorian times. THU Including reports from a Darwin exhibition in Turkey and a THU creationist museum in the USA. We hear reactions to Darwin THU in his own time and how nervous he was about offending the THU Church and even his own wife. THU Plus news of an initiative this year to 'rescue Darwin' THU and his theory from the cross-fire between atheists and THU creationists. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00kpzd6 (Listen) THU The Trial of Charles I THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the English Civil War THU culminated in courtroom drama. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00kn53n (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00kn5zl (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with David THU Eades. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kn6fh (Listen) THU The Outlander, Episode 9 THU Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in THU Canada in 1903. THU The railroad is up and running again after the landslide THU and, rifles across their backs, Mary's brothers-in-law are THU in town. THU THU 23:00 Down the Line b008xh43 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 6 THU Spoof phone-in show starring Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy. THU With Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie THU Higson, Lucy Montgomery and Paul Whitehouse. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00kn7v4 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Robert Orchard. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 5 JUNE 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00kmz5d (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00kvg9g (Listen) FRI Jane's Fame, Episode 4 FRI Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane FRI Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family FRI scribblings to Hollywood movies. FRI By the early years of the 20th century, the cult of FRI 'Divine Jane' had seized Britain and America. For the FRI soldiers of the First World War, she came to represent an FRI Englishness that was far removed from the terrible FRI realities of life in the trenches. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00kmz6s (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00kmz9h (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00kmz82 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00kmzbx (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00kmzd7 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Katherine Meyer. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00kmzjt (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00kmztl (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00kmndy (Listen) FRI Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook. FRI Caroline has travelled the world to see how different zoos FRI worked, spent years living in the jungle and, when she FRI returned to Britain, taught herself how to be a farmer. FRI She has become a champion of the countryside and, when a FRI supermarket giant announced plans to open a store on her FRI doorstep, she decided to take them on. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9j (Listen) FRI Jane's Fame, Episode 5 FRI Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane FRI Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family FRI scribblings to Hollywood movies. FRI The use of Jane Austen's name knows no generic boundaries. FRI At the beginning of the 21st century we are witness to the FRI spectacle of the young woman who happily limited her scope FRI to 'three or four families in a country village' being FRI marketed as a global brand. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00kn0gk (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing The Century. FRI FRI 11:00 The Shock of the Knee b00gmdxp (Listen) FRI Fashion writer Colin McDowell recalls the rise of the FRI miniskirt and Yves Saint Laurent's 1959 House of Dior FRI collection, which introduced hemlines above the knee, and FRI the shocked reactions of society. FRI The press were agog at these developments, and even some FRI Dior staff thought that Saint Laurent's designs had gone FRI too far. At the same time in Britain, short skirts became FRI increasingly popular with young women. FRI McDowell talks to one of the most important designers of FRI the period, Mary Quant, as well as representatives of FRI today's fashion industry, and wonders if womenswear will FRI ever be as shocking again. FRI An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Electric Ink b00kq62n (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new FRI media in the newspaper industry. FRI Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay FRI Oliver ...... Alex Jennings FRI Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington FRI Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar FRI Masha ...... Debbie Chazen FRI Freddy ...... Ben Willbond FRI Press Officer (Barry) ...... Stephen Hogan FRI Announcer ...... Matt Addis FRI With additional material by Tom Mitchelson. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00kn0ks (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00kn0r6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00kn1bl (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00kn2wb (Listen) FRI Matt gets caught in the act. FRI FRI 14:15 On Mardle Fen b00kr6hj (Listen) FRI Series 2, Top Dog FRI Series of four plays by Nick Warburton, set in an FRI idiosyncratic restaurant in the Fens. FRI A well-dressed stranger turns up with an unusual request. FRI He is a rough diamond, the salt of the earth, but Jack FRI doesn't like the look of him. FRI Warwick ...... Trevor Peacock FRI Jack ...... Sam Dale FRI Marcia ...... Kate Buffery FRI Samuel ...... John Rowe FRI Zofia ...... Helen Longworth FRI Mulloway ...... Malcolm Tierney FRI Bernard ...... Paul Rider FRI Directed by Claire Grove. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00kr7bc (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Bob Flowerdew, Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood answer FRI questions sent in by post and email. FRI Including 3.40 Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00kn2yr (Listen) FRI Defended to Death FRI Series charting the history of America, written and FRI presented by David Reynolds. FRI In the 1950s the country enters a period of unprecedented FRI prosperity, despite the growing threat of nuclear war. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00kr7bf (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. The programme reflects on people of FRI distinction and interest from many walks of life, some FRI famous and some less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00kr7bh (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Hollywood star Dustin Hoffman. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00kn307 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00kn32n (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00kr7bk (Listen) FRI Series 68, Episode 6 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists FRI are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Andy Hamilton and Sue FRI Perkins. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00kn2wf (Listen) FRI Jazzer finds the new girl in town. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00kn34b (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00kn4kt (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 9, Episode 5 FRI Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and FRI correspondence of real people, dramatised by Vanessa FRI Rosenthal. FRI Returning to the 1950s diaries of Linton Andrews, editor FRI of The Yorkshire Post. FRI It is 1957 and Linton is finally resigned to retiring. FRI Pinkie is delighted and relieved, but then something FRI happens to ruin their plans. FRI Linton ...... Russell Dixon FRI Pinkie ...... Alexandra Mathie FRI Dr Hawbrook ...... Malcolm Raeburn FRI Commander Colville ...... Martin Oldfield FRI Directed by Gary Brown. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00kr7bm (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in FRI Billingshurst, West Sussex. Panellists include the FRI Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00kr7bp (Listen) FRI Sloths FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI David muses on the natural history of the sloth - perhaps FRI the most lethargic beast in the animal world, and one that FRI he has admitted to wanting to be. FRI FRI 21:00 America, Empire of Liberty Omnibus b00kr7br (Listen) FRI Red or Dead? FRI Omnibus edition of the series charting the history of FRI America, written and presented by David Reynolds. FRI After Second World War, America rebuilds its economy and FRI moves out into the suburbs, while facing up to Soviet FRI communism and the threat of nuclear war. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00kn53q (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00kn5zn (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with David FRI Eades. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00kn6fk (Listen) FRI The Outlander, Episode 10 FRI Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in FRI Canada in 1903. Pregnant, arraigned for murder and certain FRI to hang, surely Mary is beyond help? FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00kpvbq (Listen) FRI Kate Mosse's guests are comedian Natalie Haynes, whose FRI performances at places like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival FRI have made her a must-see act, and Monty Halls, the marine FRI biologist and explorer who has presented television FRI programmes about land and sea, most recently Monty Hall's FRI Great Escape about the remote west coast of Scotland. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00kn7v6 (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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29 May, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 30/05/2009 - 05/06/2009

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