Radio 4 Listings for 04/07/2009 - 10/07/2009

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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00ld6x4 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00lf4cw (Listen)
SAT       The Last Champion - The Life of Fred Perry, The Founding
SAT       of A Clothing Empire
SAT       Jamie Bamber reads from Jon Henderson's biography of
SAT       English tennis great Fred Perry, charting his
SAT       extraordinary life from his childhood in Stockport to
SAT       Wimbledon glory, the glamour of Hollywood and the founding
SAT       of a clothing empire.
SAT       Perry faces life after tennis and finds success as a
SAT       businessman.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ld6x6 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ld6x8 (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ld6xb (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00ld6xd (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ld6xg (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00ld6xj (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00ld6xl (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00ld813 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       06:07 Open Country b00ld815 (Listen)
SAT       Orkney Energy
SAT       Helen Mark drives a chip fat-powered car around the Orkney
SAT       island of Westray as she meets the pioneers determined to
SAT       turn their island into the first community in Britain to
SAT       be entirely self-sufficient in energy. The local kirk is
SAT       powered by a wind turbine, holiday homes are heated by
SAT       ground source heat-pumps and local farmers and fishermen
SAT       are making their own fuel from cattle manure and cooking
SAT       oil.
SAT       Helen also takes to the water to discover more about the
SAT       enormous energy resource contained within the tides and
SAT       currents of the Orkney Islands. Can a parade of new
SAT       gadgets harness the power without disturbing the birds and
SAT       mammals that feed in the rich waters of the Pentland Firth?
SAT       
SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00ldbhz (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       Charlotte Smith from the Showground for the Royal Show,
SAT       where marquees and stalls are being set up for the final
SAT       time, after 20 years of financial losses. It has been
SAT       going since 1839 and was once Europe's biggest
SAT       agricultural shows.
SAT       However, shows such as the Royal Highland have seen record
SAT       attendance figures, so Charlotte explores the reasons for
SAT       The Royal's failure, and investigates what the future
SAT       holds for agricultural shows across the UK.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00ldbj1 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00ldbkn (Listen)
SAT       With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
SAT       Parliament.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00ldbkq (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by the Irish
SAT       novelist John Boyne. With poetry from Luke Wright.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00ldbks (Listen)
SAT       Couch surfing is a recent travel phenomenon of the
SAT       internet age. Travellers use a website to contact people
SAT       all over the world who will put them up and give them an
SAT       introduction to local life which the ordinary tourist
SAT       would miss. Sandi Toksvig finds out from journalist Fleur
SAT       Britten about her experiences couch surfing in Russia,
SAT       China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, and what it's like to play
SAT       host to a complete stranger in her own home.
SAT       It is nearly 30 years since Jimmy Savile proclaimed, 'This
SAT       is the Age of the Train', but is it still? Sandi talks to
SAT       columnist Matthew Engel and guide writer Benedict le Vay
SAT       about the pleasures of chugging along some of Britain's
SAT       lesser-known branch lines, compared with the problems of
SAT       inconvenient timetables and high prices.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 Gurinder, The Movie b00ldblk (Listen)
SAT       On the set of her new film, director Gurinder Chadha tells
SAT       the story of her 'dual nationality'. She discusses how her
SAT       early life in Southall in west London, where she grew up
SAT       conscious of both her Asian and British inheritance, has
SAT       informed and enriched her hit films including Bend It Like
SAT       Beckham.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00ldddp (Listen)
SAT       Gordon Brown this week unveiled his latest round-up of
SAT       proposals designed to carry him through to the general
SAT       election next year. But what political impact will they
SAT       have in the longer term? And can they improve his fortunes
SAT       ?
SAT       In this programme, Steve Richards of 'The Independent'
SAT       wonders what power a sitting prime minister has at his
SAT       command to change the political weather.
SAT       He talks to a senior Labour figure, the MP Geoffrey
SAT       Robinson, and to the senior Conservative, the former
SAT       deputy Prime Minister, Michael Heseletine. They discuss
SAT       the parallels between the fall of John Major in 1997 and
SAT       the difficulties Gordon Brown is facing now.
SAT       And, in the week when the government has been forced to
SAT       abandon its hope to part-privatise the Royal Mail, Lord
SAT       Hesletine recalls how that goal eluded him too.
SAT       Also in the programme:
SAT       * The former Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies
SAT       Campbell, on his latest task - to review the future of
SAT       Trident for the Lib Dems.
SAT       * Journalist Chris Fisher and opinion pollster Andrew
SAT       Cooper look forward to the impending Norwich North
SAT       by-election
SAT       * And the Conservative, Ed Vaizey, and Labour's Steven
SAT       Pound weigh up the significance of David Cameron's
SAT       agressive tone at question time in the Commons.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00ldddr (Listen)
SAT       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
SAT       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00ldddt (Listen)
SAT       Unsolicited credit card cheques could be banned if
SAT       government plans to assist those in debt become law. Plus,
SAT       is the latest house price survey a sign of real recovery
SAT       or could there be further falls ahead? And as
SAT       investigations into Keydata Investment Services begin, we
SAT       ask what it means for investors.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The Now Show b00lclwj (Listen)
SAT       Series 28, Episode 2
SAT       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of
SAT       the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin,
SAT       Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00ldh4v (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00ldh4x (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00lcm65 (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Cranleigh
SAT       in Surrey. Panellists are historians Linda Colley and
SAT       Andrew Roberts, columnist Rod Liddle and writer Will Self.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00ldh4z (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 b00ldh51 (Listen)
SAT       Utz
SAT       Dramatisation by Gregory Norminton of the last novel
SAT       written by Bruce Chatwin.
SAT       A British academic travels to 1960s Prague to research the
SAT       art collection of Rudolf II and meets the eccentric and
SAT       dogged porcelain collector, Kaspar Joachim Utz. From this
SAT       encounter an extraordinary story of obsession and survival
SAT       emerges. For years, Utz has protected his vast collection
SAT       of Meissen figurines from Nazis, Stalinist ideologues and
SAT       the demands of communist museum curators.
SAT       Utz/Janitor ...... Jack Klaff
SAT       Marta ...... Pam Ferris
SAT       Dr Orlik/Curator ...... Sam Kelly
SAT       Narrator ...... Daniel Weyman
SAT       Oxford Don/Man/Head Waiter ...... Gregory Norminton
SAT       Elena/Teresa Kryl ...... Michaela Stonisova
SAT       Ana/Photographer ...... Dolya Gavanski
SAT       Directed by Marilyn Imrie
SAT       A Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC
SAT       Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 Settling the Score b00lbgqq (Listen)
SAT       Tim Blackmore examines the complex relationship between
SAT       composer and commissioner and asks if having boundaries
SAT       set on the creative process is a help or a hindrance.
SAT       The programme follows the progress of writing a new
SAT       musical, Feather Boy, by film composer Debbie Wiseman. She
SAT       has been commissioned by the National Theatre to write for
SAT       this musical which will performed in 'workshop' style in
SAT       July. Her commissioner is the director Anthony Banks.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00ldh71 (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       With Jane Garvey. Including an interview with CNN's
SAT       leading international correspondent Christiane Amanpour;
SAT       the gender politics behind mixed doubles in tennis;
SAT       writers Zoe Heller and Esther Freud on creating unlikeable
SAT       characters in fiction; the origins of the hunger strike,
SAT       its suffrage history and use today; women and the burkha;
SAT       the motivation behind the desire to change sex; and
SAT       novelist Sarah Dunant on convent life in Renaissance Italy.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00ldh73 (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 Bottom Line b00lbt40 (Listen)
SAT       You spend your life trying to get to the top in business.
SAT       Then, when you do, you get driven to meetings, enjoy a
SAT       wonderful expense account and all the perks of the job.
SAT       But how do you stay in touch with the people on the shop
SAT       floor? Evan Davis asks his top-rung guests to divulge how
SAT       much time they spend with those on the bottom rung, and
SAT       how important they think it is for the success of their
SAT       business.
SAT       Evan's guests are Carolyn McCall, chief executive of the
SAT       Guardian Media Group, Patrick Dempsey of Whitbread Hotels
SAT       and Restaurants and Peter Taylor, managing partner of
SAT       leading private equity group Duke Street.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ldhb6 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00ldhb8 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ldhbb (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by Weather.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00ldhbd (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson is joined by Peter Capaldi, Trisha Goddard
SAT       and Benjamin Zephaniah.
SAT       Emma Freud talks to food writer and presenter Valentine
SAT       Warner.
SAT       With comedy from Keith Farnan and music from the Hypnotic
SAT       Brass Ensemble and Hafdis Huld.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00ldhbg (Listen)
SAT       Silvio Berlusconi
SAT       Jonathan Maitland profiles Silvio Berlusconi, who hosts
SAT       the latest G8 summit in the wake of accusations of hiring
SAT       prostitutes, as well as corruption and media interference.
SAT       However, he still manages to remain popular with Italian
SAT       voters. Jonathan asks what is it about Berlusconi that has
SAT       made him so successful and if those talents are enough to
SAT       ensure that he survives the current controversy about his
SAT       private life.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00ldhbj (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00ldhbl (Listen)
SAT       I Did Not Interview the Dead
SAT       In 1946, psychologist Dr David Boder travelled across the
SAT       American zones of war-torn Europe to record 120 interviews
SAT       that remain unique. In Yiddish, Polish, German, Spanish
SAT       and English, mostly Jewish young men, women and orphan
SAT       children were asked to tell their personal stories of
SAT       survival and loss in the world of Nazi concentration and
SAT       death camps.
SAT       Boder also gathered from them the songs of the
SAT       ghettos.These recordings are arguably the first ever oral
SAT       histories and the only contemporary interviews with people
SAT       who had survived the worst but whose immediate fate was
SAT       unkown. Alan Dein listens to those still making sense of
SAT       their terrible experiences.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00l987f (Listen)
SAT       Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
SAT       By Lavinia Murray.
SAT       Dramatisation of Thomas De Quincey's 1821 autobiographical
SAT       account of his consumption of the liquid opiate laudanum,
SAT       a legal painkiller of the time, and his painful and
SAT       surreal descent into addiction.
SAT       Older Thomas ...... Oliver Cotton
SAT       Younger Thomas ...... James Nickerson
SAT       Brunnel/Tutor ...... Mark Chatterton
SAT       Able Big/Ong ...... Eric Potts
SAT       Betsy ...... Lisa Allen
SAT       Groaty/Wordsworth ...... David Fleeshman
SAT       Edith ...... Gemma Harvey
SAT       Ann ...... Sara Bahadori
SAT       Directed by Gary Brown.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00ldhbn (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 The Reith Lectures b00lb6bt (Listen)
SAT       The Reith Lectures 2009, A New Politics of the Common Good
SAT       Professor Michael Sandel delivers four lectures about the
SAT       prospects of a new politics of the common good. The series
SAT       is presented and chaired by Sue Lawley.
SAT       Sandel makes the case for a moral and civic renewal in
SAT       democratic politics. Recorded at George Washington
SAT       University in Washington DC, he calls for a new politics
SAT       of the common good and says that we need to think of
SAT       ourselves as citizens, not just consumers.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Quote... Unquote b00lb26y (Listen)
SAT       Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange
SAT       of quotations and anecdotes.
SAT       With guests Dame Beryl Bainbridge, Ekow Eshun, Anthony
SAT       Howard and Francesca Simon.
SAT       The reader is Peter Jefferson.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 South of My Days b00l99mk (Listen)
SAT       Greta Scacchi presents a portrait of Australian poet
SAT       Judith Wright, who died in 2000. She broke new ground in
SAT       celebrating the beauty of the Australian landscape and
SAT       brought insight into women's relationships - writing about
SAT       love, pregnancy and birth. Wright was also a trailblazing
SAT       conservationist and a campaigner for Aboriginal land
SAT       rights.
SAT       Featuring contributions from Wright's daughter, Meredith
SAT       McKinney, and friends and colleagues, plus readings by
SAT       Kerry Fox.
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SUN       SUNDAY 5 JULY 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00ldxqb (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b0085cfz (Listen)
SUN       Ones to Watch (Volume 2), Naked
SUN       A talent showcase of unpublished work from new writers.
SUN       By Nicholas Hogg, read by Nigel Anthony.
SUN       Henry finds that an Alaskan cruise to celebrate his 40th
SUN       wedding anniversary leaves him with cabin fever.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ldxqf (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ldxqh (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ldxqk (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00ldxqm (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00ldxqp (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from York Minster.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00ldhbg (Listen)
SUN       Silvio Berlusconi
SUN       Jonathan Maitland profiles Silvio Berlusconi, who hosts
SUN       the latest G8 summit in the wake of accusations of hiring
SUN       prostitutes, as well as corruption and media interference.
SUN       However, he still manages to remain popular with Italian
SUN       voters. Jonathan asks what is it about Berlusconi that has
SUN       made him so successful and if those talents are enough to
SUN       ensure that he survives the current controversy about his
SUN       private life.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00ldxqr (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00ldxqt (Listen)
SUN       Buying and Selling
SUN       Mark Tully examines the troubled relationship between
SUN       buyer and seller, talking to business guru Charles Handy.
SUN       Featuring music by Henry Purcell and Memphis Minnie and
SUN       commentary from Martin Amis and Montaigne.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00ldxqw (Listen)
SUN       Tom Heap visits the farm of pig breeder Malcolm Hicks, as
SUN       he prepares for the last ever Royal Show.
SUN       Malcolm has won many times before at The Royal and has
SUN       high hopes that Josephine, a 300 kilo pedigree Gloucester
SUN       Old Spot Sow, will not so much be bringing home the bacon
SUN       from Stoneleigh as a large silver trophy to further
SUN       enhance the reputation of his herd.
SUN       Living only a few miles from the show ground, it has
SUN       always been Malcolm's local show and he explains to Tom
SUN       the important role the event has played in building his
SUN       business, and also in the social lives of farmers and
SUN       their families.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00ldxqy (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00ldxr0 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00ldxr2 (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 b00ldxr4 (Listen)
SUN       Working Families
SUN       Lynda Bellingham appeals on behalf of Working Families.
SUN       Donations to Working Families, should be sent to FREEPOST
SUN       BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope
SUN       Working Families. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
SUN       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Working Families
SUN       with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift
SUN       Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online
SUN       and phone donation facilities are not currently available
SUN       to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 0427690.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00ldxr6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00ldxr8 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00ldxrb (Listen)
SUN       A service exploring the theme of contentment from
SUN       Highfields Church in Cardiff, led by Rev Peter Baker.
SUN       Readings: Psalm 34:4-18 and Philippians 4:8-20.
SUN       Director of Music: Phil Holt. Conductor: Huw Gareth
SUN       Williams.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lcmcq (Listen)
SUN       Songsters
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       People are not the only species who sing. Many birds do
SUN       and even another ape. What messages are conveyed in the
SUN       syllables, melodies and repeated phrases, and who is
SUN       listening?
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00ldxrd (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00ldxrg (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00ldxrj (Listen)
SUN       Harvey Goldsmith
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the impresario and promoter
SUN       Harvey Goldsmith.
SUN       From the Rolling Stones to Pavarotti, and with pretty well
SUN       every other name in music in-between, he has been one of
SUN       the country's top promoters for more than 40 years.
SUN       His career has given him a unique insight into music
SUN       history; he was there, after all, when Keith Moon threw
SUN       his first TV out of a hotel window. Always passionate
SUN       about what he listened to, he acknowledges that his own
SUN       instrument is the pocket calculator.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00lb272 (Listen)
SUN       Series 51, Episode 3
SUN       The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the
SUN       Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, with Jack Dee taking on
SUN       the chairman's role from the late Humphrey Lyttelton.
SUN       Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor
SUN       are joined by Jeremy Hardy.
SUN       With Colin Sell at the piano.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00ldxrl (Listen)
SUN       Branding
SUN       Brands - do you love them, buy them or hate them? Are they
SUN       an essential element of trust in our globalised food
SUN       system - and can local farms use them just as smartly as
SUN       multinational food corporations?
SUN       Reporter Mark Holdstock visits the launch of Fodder, the
SUN       Yorkshire Agricultural Society's new shop and cafe outside
SUN       Harrogate and talks to Deputy Chief Executive Heather
SUN       Parry and to Jenny Clarkson of Just Jenny's Ice-cream.
SUN       Sheila Dillon visits Barford Farmhouse, near Wimborne in
SUN       Dorset, and talks to Wendy Pope about their farmhouse ice
SUN       cream. She asks why they launched it and how difficult and
SUN       costly it was to develop a logo and to market it.
SUN       Sheila Dillon also talks to Julian Hunt of the Food and
SUN       Drink Federation.
SUN       And Sheila is joined in the studio by Jonathan Gabay of
SUN       Brand Forensics and Anthony Davison of Big Barn, a leading
SUN       local food website.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00ldxrn (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00ldxrq (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Peace Work b00j6xxx (Listen)
SUN       Mark Devenport finds out how Northern Ireland is sending
SUN       its politicians around the world to share their
SUN       experiences of successful conflict resolution.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lcksx (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Anne Swithinbank, John Cushnie and Matthew Wilson answer
SUN       questions posed by gardeners in East Sussex.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 The Estuary b008kf0n (Listen)
SUN       Episode 1
SUN       Peter France narrates an extraordinary story of life on
SUN       the Wash as the tides and the seasons change, set against
SUN       a backdrop of sounds recorded on location by Chris Watson.
SUN       At low tide, the vast expanses of mud which stretch almost
SUN       as far as the eye can see are a magnet for migratory birds.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00ldzsp (Listen)
SUN       The Complete Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,
SUN       Episode 1
SUN       Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic
SUN       novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley.
SUN       Berlin, the early 1960s - the Wall is up between East and
SUN       West and the Cold War is at freezing point. Alec Leamas is
SUN       Circus Head of Station in Berlin, and his network of
SUN       agents in East Germany is in great danger.
SUN       Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SUN       Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox
SUN       Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell
SUN       Control ...... John Rowe
SUN       Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane
SUN       Elsie/Elvira ...... Siobhan Redmond
SUN       Ashe ...... Jamie Newall
SUN       Miss Crail ...... Liza Sadovy
SUN       Mr Pitt ...... Philip Fox
SUN       Grocer ...... David Hargreaves
SUN       CIA Man ...... Benjamin Askew.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Bookclub b00lf0vg (Listen)
SUN       Bernard MacLaverty
SUN       James Naughtie and readers meet Northern Irish writer
SUN       Bernard MacLaverty to discuss his Booker Prize-shortlisted
SUN       novel Grace Notes, which concerns a young female composer
SUN       very much in a man's world. Now living in Scotland,
SUN       MacLaverty returns to his native Belfast especially for
SUN       the recording of the programme.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Walking With Whitman b00lf0vj (Listen)
SUN       Stuart Maconie meets devotees of Walt Whitman in Bolton
SUN       and explores the history of the town's unlikely yet
SUN       enduring relationship with the American poet.
SUN       A group of devoted fans established the Whitman Fellowship
SUN       from 1885 onwards, and, although he never visited the
SUN       town, Whitman developed strong ties through his
SUN       correspondence with members of the group. Today, Whitman
SUN       devotees gather for the annual Whitman Walk, to recite his
SUN       works and share from Whitman's Loving Cup, a gift
SUN       presented to his followers in Bolton in 1894.
SUN       Stuart joins this happy band of walkers and Whitmanites to
SUN       discover why the poet is still celebrated there, nearly
SUN       120 years after his death.
SUN       A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00lbhtk (Listen)
SUN       With payouts in clinical negligence cases expected to
SUN       reach a record 700 million pounds in 2010, Miriam O'Reilly
SUN       investigates no-win, no-fee lawyers. Some of them are
SUN       allowed to charge up to 800 pounds per hour in bringing
SUN       claims against the NHS, enabling many law firms to earn
SUN       substantially more in fees than their clients receive in
SUN       damages.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00ldhbg (Listen)
SUN       Silvio Berlusconi
SUN       Jonathan Maitland profiles Silvio Berlusconi, who hosts
SUN       the latest G8 summit in the wake of accusations of hiring
SUN       prostitutes, as well as corruption and media interference.
SUN       However, he still manages to remain popular with Italian
SUN       voters. Jonathan asks what is it about Berlusconi that has
SUN       made him so successful and if those talents are enough to
SUN       ensure that he survives the current controversy about his
SUN       private life.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00lf54g (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00lf54j (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00lf54l (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4, followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00lf54n (Listen)
SUN       Caz Graham introduces her selection of highlights from the
SUN       past week on BBC radio.
SUN       Programmes featured this week:
SUN       Torchwood - Radio 4
SUN       Today programme, sports bulletin - Radio 4
SUN       John McEnroe's 6-Love-6 - Radio 5 Live
SUN       Book of the Week: The Last Champion - Radio 4
SUN       Stonewall: The Riots That Triggered the Gay Revolution -
SUN       Radio 2
SUN       Nightwaves - Radio 3
SUN       Glastonbury - 6Music
SUN       Mubarak's Egypt - World Service
SUN       Travelling the Great Divide - Radio 3
SUN       Alert Bay - World Service
SUN       Sitting For Fay - Radio 4
SUN       Walking With Whitman - Radio 4
SUN       Look Away Now - Radio 4
SUN       The Archers - Radio 4
SUN       Farming Today - Radio 4
SUN       Gurinder, The Movie - Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00lf54q (Listen)
SUN       Jim starts as he means to go on.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00lf54s (Listen)
SUN       Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the
SUN       stories shaping America today. Combining location reports
SUN       with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show
SUN       provides new and surprising insights into contemporary
SUN       America.
SUN       Matt celebrates Independence Day, lifts the lid on the
SUN       underside of America's capital and talks to the small-town
SUN       mayor with big plans for how to turn around America's
SUN       struggling cities. He also hears the story of an
SUN       unexpected American patriot and is joined by a very
SUN       important visitor.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008cp28 (Listen)
SUN       Blake's Doors of Perception, No Trumpets Needed
SUN       Stories inspired by poet William Blake, written and read
SUN       by Michael Morpurgo.
SUN       The story of the friendship between a cameraman filming on
SUN       the West Bank and a shepherd boy.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00lc9fc (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy, including:
SUN       Has 5live's coverage of Wimbledon focused too much on the
SUN       action around the tennis courts, as opposed to on it?
SUN       Was the coverage of the death of Michael Jackson too
SUN       extensive?
SUN       And just how fantastic was weather forecaster Tomasz
SUN       Schafernaker's slip of the tongue when he tried to
SUN       describe the muddy site of Glastonbury?
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00lcksz (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister talks to writer Carla Lane, to Trevor
SUN       Bannister who played the young salesman Mr Lucas and to
SUN       the creator of Are You Being Served? and writer and actor
SUN       Jeremy Lloyd about the actress Mollie Sugden; to the wine
SUN       writer Jancis Robinson about the wine maker Jean (Johnny)
SUN       Hugel; to regulars at the Sun Inn pub Gary Seymour and
SUN       Mark Haslam, local representative of the Campaign for Real
SUN       Ale, and to Jeremy Paxman who remembers visiting the pub
SUN       owned by landlady Florence (Flossie) Lane; to the doctor
SUN       of the England Football team Ian Beesley and to the
SUN       current director of Sports Science at the University Tim
SUN       Cable about sports scientist Prof Tom Reilly; and to
SUN       Attila the Stockbroker,
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00ldddt (Listen)
SUN       Unsolicited credit card cheques could be banned if
SUN       government plans to assist those in debt become law. Plus,
SUN       is the latest house price survey a sign of real recovery
SUN       or could there be further falls ahead? And as
SUN       investigations into Keydata Investment Services begin, we
SUN       ask what it means for investors.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00ldxr4 (Listen)
SUN       Working Families
SUN       Lynda Bellingham appeals on behalf of Working Families.
SUN       Donations to Working Families, should be sent to FREEPOST
SUN       BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope
SUN       Working Families. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
SUN       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Working Families
SUN       with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift
SUN       Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online
SUN       and phone donation facilities are not currently available
SUN       to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 0427690.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00lb5lj (Listen)
SUN       Doesn't Everyone?
SUN       Michael Blastland asks if 'group-think' is distancing
SUN       policy from the public and asks if our political elite
SUN       have forgotten how most voters live. People measure their
SUN       behaviour and beliefs by those around them, so MPs might
SUN       have thought that the expenses system was reasonable.
SUN       Might it also mean they have lost touch with what Britain
SUN       is really like?
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00lf54v (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00lf54x (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Dave's Friends in the North.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00lclqx (Listen)
SUN       Director Michael Mann discusses his gangster movie Public
SUN       Enemies, starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger. Thelma
SUN       Schoonmaker talks about the resoration of The Red Shoes,
SUN       which was directed by her husband Michael Powell. Plus
SUN       Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader on the art of
SUN       screenwriting.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00ldxqt (Listen)
SUN       Buying and Selling
SUN       Mark Tully examines the troubled relationship between
SUN       buyer and seller, talking to business guru Charles Handy.
SUN       Featuring music by Henry Purcell and Memphis Minnie and
SUN       commentary from Martin Amis and Montaigne.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 6 JULY 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00lfc7k (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lbn9y (Listen)
MON       From dizziness to chronic pain, the overstretched health
MON       service is faced with increasing numbers of patients with
MON       symptoms that defy a medical explanation. They are often
MON       subject to repeated tests and treatment yet their illness
MON       persists. Laurie Taylor is joined by Monica Greco, whose
MON       research suggests the practice of patient choice ensures
MON       that many such patients get worse rather than better.
MON       Also on the programme, Róisín Ryan-Flood, the author of
MON       Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual
MON       Citizenship, talks about the growing numbers of lesbians
MON       choosing to have children by donor insemination and the
MON       evolution of new definitions of family.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00ldxqp (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from York Minster.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lfcdq (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lfcgl (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lfcfm (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00lfch3 (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lfcj4 (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00lfcp1 (Listen)
MON       Farmers may have to remove cows and calves from any fields
MON       with a footpath in, following the case of a woman trampled
MON       by cattle. Her barrister, the National Farmer's Union and
MON       the Rambler's association reflect on the implications.
MON       Charlotte Smith reports.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00lg31j (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00lfcz2 (Listen)
MON       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
MON       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00lg31l (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr talks to Arundhati Roy about democracy and
MON       Timothy Garton Ash about subversive facts. Plus Karen
MON       Armstrong on the case for God and Hermione Lee on the
MON       shifting fashions in biography.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00lfd00 (Listen)
MON       Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 1
MON       Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of
MON       the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky,
MON       who was outmanoeuvred for the leadership of the Soviet
MON       Communist Party by Josef Stalin before being exiled,
MON       eventually going into hiding in Mexico in the home of the
MON       famous artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
MON       At the time of the Moscow trials, Leon Trotsky, the
MON       charismatic intellectual at the heart of the Russian
MON       Revolution, had been exiled from the Soviet Union and was
MON       unwelcome in almost every country in Europe. So, as 1937
MON       dawned, he found himself on a Norwegian oil tanker bound
MON       for Mexico.
MON       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00lfdy1 (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       A new survey suggests that two thirds of all expectant
MON       parents of twins and multiple births are denied access to
MON       multiple-specific parent education, which could be vital
MON       for promoting healthy outcomes for mothers and their
MON       unborn twins and triplets. As a result, they are more at
MON       risk of medical complications, less prepared for the birth
MON       experience itself and more prone to postnatal depression.
MON       Woman's Hour discusses what support these families can be
MON       given during pregnancy.
MON       Emma Johnson was once described as 'Britain's favourite
MON       clarinettist', being one of the few clarinettists to have
MON       established an international career as a soloist. Since
MON       winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in
MON       1984, Emma has been one of the UK's biggest selling
MON       classical artists ever, selling over a quarter of a
MON       million discs worldwide, and being awarded an MBE in 1996
MON       for services to music. Emma joins Jane to discuss her
MON       career and to demonstrate some Klezmer music.
MON       A mobile phone so simple it could be used by very young
MON       children will go on sale in the UK in October. But do we
MON       really want our children to be using mobiles? Critics
MON       argue that aside from the disputed health risks, mobiles
MON       put children at risk of being mugged and receiving
MON       unwanted and potentially threatening text messages.
MON       However, some parents feel it is critical to child safety.
MON       The myth of Baba Yaga is one of the most famous stories in
MON       Russian and Eastern European mythology. Baba Yaga is a
MON       witch-like character who lives in a house on chicken feet
MON       and kidnaps young children. In her latest novel, Baba Yaga
MON       Laid An Egg, the Croatian writer and academic Dubravka
MON       Ugresic tackles the myth through contemporary narratives,
MON       from the story of a woman's relationship with her mother
MON       and the tale of three ageing women on holiday at a spa.
MON       Jane talks to Dubravka about her novel and leaving her
MON       homeland of the former Yugoslavia to move to Amsterdam
MON       after being proclaimed a 'traitor', a 'public enemy' and a
MON       'witch'.
MON       
MON       11:00 The Criminal Mind b00j6lh9 (Listen)
MON       Joshua Rozenberg examines new medical insights into the
MON       criminal mind. He joins scientists as they examine the
MON       brains of violent criminals and sees startling evidence of
MON       physical brain damage caused by neglect and abuse during
MON       infancy. Joshua asks whether offenders who suffer from
MON       this kind of brain dysfunction can be held responsible for
MON       their behaviour.
MON       
MON       11:30 Newfangle b00lg72h (Listen)
MON       Trees in the Forest
MON       Sitcom by Adam Rosenthal and Viv Ambrose, set 100,000
MON       years BC among a tribe of proto-humans.
MON       Newfangle accidentally offends the elders of the tribe,
MON       who order the other hominids to savage the doubter. He
MON       hides from the mob, only to discover that his words carry
MON       a new-found power.
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       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00lff6s (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00lff9c (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00lffb0 (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Quote... Unquote b00lg72k (Listen)
MON       Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange
MON       of quotations and anecdotes.
MON       With guests Adele Geras, Conn Iggulden, Christopher
MON       Luscombe and Simon Pearsall.
MON       The reader is Peter Jefferson.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00lf54q (Listen)
MON       Jim starts as he means to go on.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00lg72m (Listen)
MON       In Mates
MON       Comedy by Sue Teddern. Michelle from Orpington sends audio
MON       tapes to her new pen pal, Randall - who is on Death Row.
MON       Michelle is a happy woman, with a lovely social life, and
MON       poor Randall could do with this outlet, surely. Or at
MON       least, that's how the relationship begins.
MON       Michelle ...... Pauline Quirke
MON       Joyce ...... Gillian Wright
MON       Kirsty ...... Lizzy Watts
MON       Pavel ...... Benjamin Askew
MON       Brian ...... Malcolm Tierney
MON       Chrissie ...... Annabelle Dowler
MON       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00ldhbl (Listen)
MON       I Did Not Interview the Dead
MON       In 1946, psychologist Dr David Boder travelled across the
MON       American zones of war-torn Europe to record 120 interviews
MON       that remain unique. In Yiddish, Polish, German, Spanish
MON       and English, mostly Jewish young men, women and orphan
MON       children were asked to tell their personal stories of
MON       survival and loss in the world of Nazi concentration and
MON       death camps.
MON       Boder also gathered from them the songs of the
MON       ghettos.These recordings are arguably the first ever oral
MON       histories and the only contemporary interviews with people
MON       who had survived the worst but whose immediate fate was
MON       unkown. Alan Dein listens to those still making sense of
MON       their terrible experiences.
MON       
MON       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00lfhkd (Listen)
MON       Sole Superpower, Edgy Americans
MON       Series charting the history of America, written and
MON       presented by David Reynolds.
MON       President Clinton presides over a grubby and divisive
MON       period in the political world, but at the same time new
MON       technology bolsters the American economy.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00ldxrl (Listen)
MON       Branding
MON       Brands - do you love them, buy them or hate them? Are they
MON       an essential element of trust in our globalised food
MON       system - and can local farms use them just as smartly as
MON       multinational food corporations?
MON       Reporter Mark Holdstock visits the launch of Fodder, the
MON       Yorkshire Agricultural Society's new shop and cafe outside
MON       Harrogate and talks to Deputy Chief Executive Heather
MON       Parry and to Jenny Clarkson of Just Jenny's Ice-cream.
MON       Sheila Dillon visits Barford Farmhouse, near Wimborne in
MON       Dorset, and talks to Wendy Pope about their farmhouse ice
MON       cream. She asks why they launched it and how difficult and
MON       costly it was to develop a logo and to market it.
MON       Sheila Dillon also talks to Julian Hunt of the Food and
MON       Drink Federation.
MON       And Sheila is joined in the studio by Jonathan Gabay of
MON       Brand Forensics and Anthony Davison of Big Barn, a leading
MON       local food website.
MON       
MON       16:30 Beyond Belief b00lg7yj (Listen)
MON       Ernie Rea and guests discuss the theological roots of the
MON       Orange Order, the largest Protestant organisation in
MON       Northern Ireland.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00lfnyt (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 b00lfpq4 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4, followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00lg8hd (Listen)
MON       Series 51, Episode 4
MON       The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the
MON       Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, with Jack Dee taking on
MON       the chairman's role from the late Humphrey Lyttelton.
MON       Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor
MON       are joined by Jeremy Hardy.
MON       With Colin Sell at the piano.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00lffyt (Listen)
MON       Lilian's cloud gets a silver lining.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00lfqkd (Listen)
MON       With Mark Lawson. Including a report on the first
MON       volunteers to appear on the empty fourth plinth in
MON       Trafalgar Square, as part of Antony Gormley's work One and
MON       Other.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lfqkg (Listen)
MON       Sacred Hearts, Miracle
MON       Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a
MON       convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been
MON       placed against her will.
MON       Suora Zuana administers a strong remedy to calm Serafina's
MON       convulsions - but is it too much?
MON       Abbess ...... Eileen Atkins
MON       Zuana ...... Geraldine James
MON       Serafina ...... Natalie Dormer
MON       Umiliana ...... Sian Thomas
MON       Magdalene ...... Helen Ryan
MON       Dramtised by Rachel Joyce.
MON       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       20:00 It's My Story b00lb2cq (Listen)
MON       The 99
MON       DJ Bobby Friction tells the story of Dr Naif Al-Mutawa,
MON       the psychologist and businessman who has created the first
MON       collection of Muslim comic book superheroes - The 99 -
MON       that are sweeping the Arab world, and arriving soon in
MON       Europe. Based on the 99 attributes of Allah in the Koran,
MON       the cartoons are not without controversy. Bobby visits
MON       Naif in Kuwait on the eve of the opening of The 99's first
MON       theme park, and tells the story of his quest to become
MON       known as 'the Walt Disney of the Arabic world'.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00lg8hg (Listen)
MON       Inspiring Green Innovation
MON       The dangers of climate change are well understood, but
MON       what innovations need to be nurtured to fight global
MON       warming? Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist, examines
MON       the different ways to inspire the creators and inventors
MON       who will lead the way in this field.
MON       
MON       21:00 Frontiers b00lg8hj (Listen)
MON       Nuclear Fusion
MON       Gareth Mitchell asks if nuclear fusion could at last be
MON       close to generating energy.
MON       Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of alternative energy. It
MON       is clean, green and could supply limitless energy to the
MON       world, but despite decades of research in some of the most
MON       expensive science facilities in the world, it has remained
MON       an elusive goal. Scientists working at a new experimental
MON       facility in California are set to use giant laser beams to
MON       try and initiate nuclear fusion. If it works, nuclear
MON       fusion could become a real solution to our energy needs.
MON       If nuclear fusion could be made to work commercially, the
MON       energy released will be of stellar proportions; this,
MON       after all, is the process that powers the Sun. The total
MON       energy that could ever be created using wind, wave and
MON       solar power is ridiculously small by comparison. Nuclear
MON       power, which is generated by fission not fusion, requires
MON       uranium - which will run out - and, of course, generates
MON       radioactive waste.
MON       Gareth witnesses the start of a new era of nuclear fusion
MON       experiments. He finds out just how difficult it was to
MON       build a facility where this kind of experiment could take
MON       place and double checks that there is no danger of
MON       starting a hydrogen bomb. He also asks, if they can get
MON       nuclear fusion to work in this experimental setting, how
MON       long it will be before this process could supply the world
MON       with the energy it so desperately needs?
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00lg31l (Listen)
MON       Andrew Marr talks to Arundhati Roy about democracy and
MON       Timothy Garton Ash about subversive facts. Plus Karen
MON       Armstrong on the case for God and Hermione Lee on the
MON       shifting fashions in biography.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00lfrd2 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00lfrdg (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lft9k (Listen)
MON       To Heaven By Water, Episode 1
MON       Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright,
MON       about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a
MON       wife and mother.
MON       Now that his wife is dead and he has retired from his job
MON       as anchorman for a 24-hour news channel, David Cross is
MON       building a new life. But his children are uncomfortable
MON       with his new image.
MON       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
MON       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 Off the Page b00lbt3r (Listen)
MON       Falling on Your Sword
MON       Has something happened to the ideas of honour, dignity,
MON       duty and virtue? Are people less willing to fall on their
MON       swords than they used to do? Is it admirable, anyway, to
MON       admit defeat?
MON       Political journalist Anthony Howard, author and
MON       broadcaster Anne Atkins and journalist Toby Young join
MON       Dominic Arkwright to explore the subject through their
MON       writing.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00lg2vg (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with David Wilby.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 7 JULY 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00lfc06 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00lfd00 (Listen)
TUE       Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 1
TUE       Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of
TUE       the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky,
TUE       who was outmanoeuvred for the leadership of the Soviet
TUE       Communist Party by Josef Stalin before being exiled,
TUE       eventually going into hiding in Mexico in the home of the
TUE       famous artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
TUE       At the time of the Moscow trials, Leon Trotsky, the
TUE       charismatic intellectual at the heart of the Russian
TUE       Revolution, had been exiled from the Soviet Union and was
TUE       unwelcome in almost every country in Europe. So, as 1937
TUE       dawned, he found himself on a Norwegian oil tanker bound
TUE       for Mexico.
TUE       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lfc7p (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lfcfp (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lfcds (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00lfcgn (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lfcj6 (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00lfcm5 (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00lfcry (Listen)
TUE       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
TUE       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
TUE       Parliament.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The Long View b00ljymw (Listen)
TUE       Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the
TUE       past behind the present.
TUE       Jonathan and his guests ask how governments can best help
TUE       the unemployed and visit the site of a 1930s labour camp
TUE       set up to 'recondition' unemployed men and prepare them
TUE       for a return to work.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Musical Migrants b00b4mhx (Listen)
TUE       Series 1, From Japan to Chicago
TUE       Stories of people who relocated to other countries,
TUE       influenced by music.
TUE       Japanese singer Yoko Noge became passionate about the
TUE       blues as a schoolgirl. After her mother's suicide, she set
TUE       off for Chicago, the capital of blues music. Her first
TUE       stop was a Westside joint, where master bluesman Willie
TUE       Kent was playing. When Yoko told him she had come so far
TUE       just for the music, he asked her to sing.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00lk4ly (Listen)
TUE       Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 2
TUE       Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of
TUE       the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky.
TUE       Leon Trotsky, exiled from the Soviet Union and in fear of
TUE       his life, settles into the Blue House, home of artist
TUE       Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo, in a Mexican
TUE       village. Now he faces the hearings which he hopes will
TUE       clear his name.
TUE       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00lfdlp (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Sacred Hearts.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 The Royal Show in Crisis b00k175r (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Tom Heap gains exclusive access in the battle to save The
TUE       Royal Show.
TUE       Britain's most prestigious agricultural event has been the
TUE       showcase for the farming industry for 160 years, but the
TUE       Royal show hasn't made a profit in more than two decades.
TUE       It's been the victim of foot and mouth, atrocious weather
TUE       and bluetongue.
TUE       Tom has been following the team at its home in Stoneleigh
TUE       Park in Warwickshire as they try to ensure that the 2009
TUE       show will once more establish the Royal as a premier
TUE       event. But in April the plug was pulled and the Royal
TUE       Agricultural Society announced 2009 would be the last
TUE       event.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 Morris and the Muslims b00lg9y0 (Listen)
TUE       Navid Akhtar examines the influence of Islamic design and
TUE       values on the life of the Victorian designer, poet,
TUE       craftsman and socialist radical William Morris.
TUE       Morris was inspired by Turkish ceramics and Persian
TUE       carpets to create a new movement in British design. For
TUE       him, the Muslim world had managed to preserve the art of
TUE       the craftsman and avoid the ills of industrial production.
TUE       He espoused the philosophy that art should be affordable
TUE       and hand made; this was already a reality in the Islamic
TUE       world.
TUE       Not stopping at arts and crafts, he was a passionate
TUE       advocate of social utopianism and believed in the rights
TUE       of the worker. Today, these ideals have profoundly
TUE       influenced a new generation of British-born Muslim
TUE       artists, as they rediscover Morris and look to his
TUE       artistic work and socialist ideas for inspiration.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00lff2d (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00lff6v (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00lff9f (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 John Mayall's Blues Adventures b00lg9y2 (Listen)
TUE       Blues musician John Mayall presents a homage to the rhythm
TUE       and blues scene which exploded in Britain in the early
TUE       1960s. With contributions from Bill Wyman, Zoot Money and
TUE       Eric Burdon.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00lffyt (Listen)
TUE       Lilian's cloud gets a silver lining.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b008fgjr (Listen)
TUE       Chameleon
TUE       Comedy thriller by Vicky Meer.
TUE       Mo is being relocated under a witness protection scheme,
TUE       his previous identity totally eradicated. How will a
TUE       Porsche-driving London drug dealer adapt to life as a
TUE       vegetarian postman living in a former council semi in
TUE       Gretna?
TUE       Mo ...... Navin Chowdhry
TUE       Vadim Andreyev ...... Serge Soric
TUE       Charles ...... James Quinn
TUE       Shahanah ...... Thushani Weerasekera
TUE       Donna Marie ...... Hilary MacLean
TUE       Jimmy ...... Glenn Cunningham
TUE       Svetlana/MrsC ...... Christine Brennan
TUE       Directed by Sue Roberts.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00lgfqp (Listen)
TUE       Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions
TUE       about the world we inhabit and our interaction with it,
TUE       from astronomy to geology, biology to environmental
TUE       science.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lgfqr (Listen)
TUE       Bears of England, Spirit Bears
TUE       Series of three eccentric stories by Mick Jackson, which
TUE       mix fantasy with folk tale and myth with history.
TUE       In the days before electric light and oil lamps, most of
TUE       England was troubled by spirit bears. But one particular
TUE       village believed itself to be plagued by an especially
TUE       wicked gang of spirit bears.
TUE       Read by Ian Holm.
TUE       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00lfhjw (Listen)
TUE       Multiculturalism or Disintegration?
TUE       Series charting the history of America, written and
TUE       presented by David Reynolds.
TUE       America grapples with new racial realities as new waves of
TUE       immigration from Latin America change the country's ethnic
TUE       makeup.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Law in Action b00lgj39 (Listen)
TUE       As more evidence emerges of child abuse by religious
TUE       institutions in Ireland, Clive Coleman examines a scheme
TUE       set up to provide justice and compensation for victims.
TUE       What lessons does it offer in dealing with institutional
TUE       abuse - and why does it insist on protecting the identity
TUE       of alleged abusers?
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00lgj3c (Listen)
TUE       Kate Mosse talks to actor Clive Swift and Indarjit Singh,
TUE       a regular contributor to Thought for the Day, about their
TUE       favourite books. They discuss works that take them from
TUE       London's 'Wrong Set' to northern India and Saudi Arabia.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00lfnt3 (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 b00lfnyw (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4, followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 The Secret World b00kf11f (Listen)
TUE       Episode 6
TUE       Comedy series that offers an insight into the private
TUE       lives of the famous.
TUE       Bill Gates wants a friend.
TUE       With Jon Culshaw, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Julian Dutton,
TUE       Lewis MacLeod, Jess Robinson and Duncan Wisbey.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00lffyc (Listen)
TUE       Jim aims for life in the fast lane.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00lfq2n (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report
TUE       on the pleasures and perils of producing live television
TUE       plays.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lfqkj (Listen)
TUE       Sacred Hearts, Penance
TUE       Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a
TUE       convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been
TUE       placed against her will.
TUE       The novice Serafina is given penance and starves herself
TUE       for the host. It seems that all hope is lost.
TUE       Abbess ...... Eileen Atkins
TUE       Zuana ...... Geraldine James
TUE       Serafina ...... Natalie Dormer
TUE       Umiliana ...... Sian Thomas
TUE       Letizia ...... Ayesha Antoine
TUE       Dramtised by Rachel Joyce.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00lgj3h (Listen)
TUE       Following a series of blunders by the justice authorities,
TUE       who left a dangerous criminal free to torture and murder
TUE       two French students in London, Allan Urry asks whether
TUE       government ministers can still justify their claim that
TUE       Britain's system of public protection from violent
TUE       offenders and sex abusers is among the best in the world.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00lgj3k (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 All in the Mind b00lgj3m (Listen)
TUE       To mark Dementia Awareness Week, Claudia Hammond asks how
TUE       we are placed to deal with the fact that, in just 20
TUE       years, one and a half million of us will have a fatal
TUE       brain disease.
TUE       There is no cure, and no treatment that can even slow it
TUE       down; dementia is the health challenge of our generation.
TUE       Claudia talks to the British scientists at the forefront
TUE       of the global race to find a way to treat Alzheimer's
TUE       disease and asks why so many people's dementia remains
TUE       undiagnosed.
TUE       Patients and carers state what improvements in health and
TUE       social care they want to see and Claudia visits one of the
TUE       government's flagship new memory services, which is
TUE       modelling the improvements contained in the government's
TUE       new National Dementia Strategy.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The Long View b00ljymw (Listen)
TUE       Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the
TUE       past behind the present.
TUE       Jonathan and his guests ask how governments can best help
TUE       the unemployed and visit the site of a 1930s labour camp
TUE       set up to 'recondition' unemployed men and prepare them
TUE       for a return to work.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00lfqs1 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00lfrd4 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Robin
TUE       Lustig.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lft97 (Listen)
TUE       To Heaven By Water, Episode 2
TUE       Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright,
TUE       about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a
TUE       wife and mother.
TUE       Ed and Lucy Cross are concerned about their newly-widowed
TUE       and retired father. He is too thin, and he has started
TUE       going to the gym.
TUE       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
TUE       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00lgj3p (Listen)
TUE       Episode 1
TUE       Arthur Smith invites an audience into his home for music
TUE       and comedy.
TUE       Paul Sinha in the lounge, Milton Jones in the bedroom and
TUE       Glenn Tilbrook in the kitchen provide music and
TUE       nourishment in the shape of Welsh rarebit, and Pippa Evans
TUE       - as singer-songwriter Loretta Maine - lends a hand.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Today in Parliament b00lg2v4 (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with Sean Curran.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00lfc08 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00lk4ly (Listen)
WED       Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 2
WED       Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of
WED       the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky.
WED       Leon Trotsky, exiled from the Soviet Union and in fear of
WED       his life, settles into the Blue House, home of artist
WED       Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo, in a Mexican
WED       village. Now he faces the hearings which he hopes will
WED       clear his name.
WED       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lfc7t (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lfcfr (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lfcdv (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00lfcgq (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lfcj8 (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00lfcm7 (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00lfcs0 (Listen)
WED       With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00lglr4 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including linguist Professor David Crystal.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00lk4dm (Listen)
WED       Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 3
WED       Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of
WED       the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky.
WED       Trotsky has fallen out with Diego Rivera and has to move
WED       to a new house in Mexico City. His staff locate a run-down
WED       house in the Avenue Viena and begin to turn it into a
WED       fortress.
WED       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00lfdlr (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Sacred Hearts.
WED       
WED       11:00 The Garden Room Girls b00lgm1r (Listen)
WED       Some of the elite band of secretaries who have worked at
WED       Downing Street over the last 50 years reveal their untold
WED       stories of life at Number 10 and how it operates.
WED       Interviewed for the first time, they talk to Naomi Grimley
WED       about working for Prime Ministers since Churchill, and
WED       Tony Blair discloses how the PM's office could not work
WED       without them.
WED       
WED       11:30 Baggage b00lgm1t (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Ashes to Auld Reekie
WED       Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh.
WED       It is a year since Caroline's best friend, Fiona, died,
WED       but an unexpected visitor, a skinny dip in a Highland loch
WED       and an illicit kiss mean that scattering her ashes doesn't
WED       quite go according to plan.
WED       Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon
WED       Fiona ...... Phyllis Logan
WED       Ruth ...... Adie Allen
WED       Roddy ...... Robin Cameron
WED       Gladys ...... June Watson
WED       Nicholas ...... Moray Hunter
WED       Directed by Marilyn Imrie.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00lff2g (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00lff6x (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00lff9h (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00lgm6q (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00lffyc (Listen)
WED       Jim aims for life in the fast lane.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00lh1km (Listen)
WED       Chameleon in Town
WED       By Vicky Meer. The continuing adventures of witness
WED       protection couple Mo and Donna Marie.
WED       Mo is back from the dead, trying to stay out of trouble
WED       and build a life with Donna Marie, the woman he fell in
WED       love with in his previous witness protection incarnation.
WED       But the police require his testimony in another high
WED       profile case and the couple are embedded in the bustle of
WED       life in East London and the local mosque. Mo has never
WED       found it easy to keep a low profile, and when he takes on
WED       the gangster Simeon Gideon he puts himself and Donna Marie
WED       in grave danger.
WED       Mo ...... Navin Chowdhry
WED       Donna Marie ...... Hilary MacLean
WED       Charles Baldico ...... James Quinn
WED       Ms Assumpta Young/Frieda ...... Kate Layden
WED       Tariq /Simeon Gideon ...... Seamus O'Neill
WED       Aftab ...... Archie Lal
WED       Sgt Adabie ...... Declan Wilson
WED       Directed by Stefan Escreet.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00lh221 (Listen)
WED       Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial
WED       issues.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lgg8y (Listen)
WED       Bears of England, Circus Bears
WED       Series of three eccentric stories by Mick Jackson, which
WED       mix fantasy with folk tale and myth with history.
WED       The circus bears are deeply disgruntled at the extra risks
WED       being incorporated into their performance, and things come
WED       to a head at the annual circus convention in Bristol.
WED       Read by Ian Holm.
WED       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00lfhjy (Listen)
WED       'America is Under Attack'
WED       Series charting the history of America, written and
WED       presented by David Reynolds.
WED       The era of relative peace following the Cold War comes to
WED       a violent end on September 11, 2001.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00lh223 (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 All in the Mind b00lgj3m (Listen)
WED       To mark Dementia Awareness Week, Claudia Hammond asks how
WED       we are placed to deal with the fact that, in just 20
WED       years, one and a half million of us will have a fatal
WED       brain disease.
WED       There is no cure, and no treatment that can even slow it
WED       down; dementia is the health challenge of our generation.
WED       Claudia talks to the British scientists at the forefront
WED       of the global race to find a way to treat Alzheimer's
WED       disease and asks why so many people's dementia remains
WED       undiagnosed.
WED       Patients and carers state what improvements in health and
WED       social care they want to see and Claudia visits one of the
WED       government's flagship new memory services, which is
WED       modelling the improvements contained in the government's
WED       new National Dementia Strategy.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00lfnt5 (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 b00lfnyy (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4, followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       18:30 Look Away Now b00lh225 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Episode 2
WED       Garry Richardson presents a topical comedy show looking at
WED       the week's sporting news, featuring sketches, spoof
WED       interviews, highly inexpert analysis and music.
WED       With Laurence Howarth, Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Katherine
WED       Jakeways and special guests.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00lffyf (Listen)
WED       The prodigal returns to Home Farm.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00lfq2q (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lfqkl (Listen)
WED       Sacred Hearts, Termites
WED       Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a
WED       convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been
WED       placed against her will.
WED       The great statue of Christ has fallen, and Zuana receives
WED       an unexpected visitor who presents her with a terrible
WED       predicament.
WED       Abbess ...... Eileen Atkins
WED       Zuana ...... Geraldine James
WED       Serafina ...... Natalie Dormer
WED       Umiliana ...... Sian Thomas
WED       Appolonia ...... Hannah Waddingham
WED       Dramtised by Rachel Joyce.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00lh227 (Listen)
WED       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
WED       behind the week's news. Claire Fox, Michael Portillo,
WED       Clifford Longley and Kenan Malik cross-examine witnesses.
WED       
WED       20:45 Dave's Friends in the North b00lh229 (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       Anne McElvoy examines whether the Conservatives can shake
WED       off their southern image in order to win a general
WED       election.
WED       As a native north-easterner, Anne remembers the animosity
WED       toward the Conservative Party in the north during the
WED       Thatcher era. But now the Tories have set their sights on
WED       a revival in the north as a means of clinching an election
WED       victory.
WED       In this programme, Anne asks why Cameron's Tories need the
WED       north. She argues that it goes beyond a blunt electoral
WED       need to win back seats held under Margaret Thatcher in the
WED       1980s. Cameron wants to be a One Nation Tory, so this is
WED       also a matter of culture and credibility. But is forging a
WED       One Nation party a losing battle, particularly for a
WED       leader based firmly in a metropolitan elite? Or could he
WED       emulate that other well-heeled public school southerner,
WED       Harold Macmillan, who used his Stockton seat as a
WED       launchpad to power by identifying with the north?
WED       Interviewees include William Hague, Michael Gove, Alan
WED       Duncan, Hazel Blears, Nick Clegg and Professor John
WED       Curtice.
WED       
WED       21:00 The Mystery of the Marine Strandings b00lh2dm (Listen)
WED       Sue Broom investigates why 26 dolphins were stranded and
WED       died in Falmouth Harbour in June 2008, with the results of
WED       the autopsies due to be published.
WED       Dave Jarvis, of British Divers Marine Life Rescue,
WED       received a phone call early on the morning of the 9th of
WED       June 2008. The Coast Guard had received a report of a
WED       dolphin stranding near St Mawes in Cornwall. As he made
WED       his way to save the animal, he heard of more and more
WED       dolphins sighted in and around Falmouth Harbour. By the
WED       end of the day Dave and his team had saved about 70
WED       dolphins, but 26 died.
WED       Scientists from the Institute of Zoology, as part of the
WED       UK Cetacean Stranding Programme, were on site by the end
WED       of the day, and over the last year have carried out
WED       autopsies on all 26 animals. Their report is due out
WED       imminently.
WED       At the time of the stranding there was a large
WED       international naval exercise going on in the bay, leading
WED       many local people to be convinced that sonar could have
WED       been a factor in the deaths of the dolphins.
WED       Sue investigates whether or not the science supports the
WED       rumours, and asks what could have caused such an unusual
WED       and tragic event.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00lglr4 (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including linguist Professor David Crystal.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00lfqs3 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00lfrd6 (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lft99 (Listen)
WED       To Heaven By Water, Episode 3
WED       Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright,
WED       about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a
WED       wife and mother.
WED       David meets up with his old friend Robin, senior partner
WED       in the law firm where his son Ed now works, and receives
WED       some unsettling news.
WED       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
WED       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 Bespoken Word b00lh2dp (Listen)
WED       Mr Gee presents the performance poetry series. Scroobius
WED       Pip gives his update on a classic theme with his poem Mr
WED       Otis Regrets. Also appearing are Dockers MC and Matthew
WED       Duffy.
WED       
WED       23:15 Strangers on Trains b00dkgrx (Listen)
WED       Episode 5
WED       Series of character comedies by Nat Segnit and Stewart
WED       Wright, in which Nat talks to people sitting alone on
WED       trains. He asks strange men about death.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00lg2v6 (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with Robert Orchard.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 9 JULY 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00lfc0b (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00lk4dm (Listen)
THU       Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 3
THU       Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of
THU       the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky.
THU       Trotsky has fallen out with Diego Rivera and has to move
THU       to a new house in Mexico City. His staff locate a run-down
THU       house in the Avenue Viena and begin to turn it into a
THU       fortress.
THU       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lfc7w (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lfcft (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lfcdx (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00lfcgs (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lfcjb (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00lfcm9 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00lfcs2 (Listen)
THU       With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00lh2s3 (Listen)
THU       Ediacara Biota
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Martin Brasier, Richard Corfield
THU       and Rachel Wood discuss the Ediacara Biota. These
THU       mysterious life forms died out 542 million years ago;
THU       their discovery has proved Darwin right in a way he never
THU       imagined.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00lk4dp (Listen)
THU       Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 4
THU       Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of
THU       the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky.
THU       In the early hours of May 24th 1940, Trotsky awakes to the
THU       sound of gunfire inside his fortress in Mexico City.
THU       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00lfdlt (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Sacred Hearts.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00lh37b (Listen)
THU       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
THU       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
THU       
THU       11:30 The Wreck of the Alba b00lh37d (Listen)
THU       Michael Bird, an art historian and surfer, uncovers the
THU       universal and local significance of one of the most
THU       popular pictures in the Tate, St Ives - The Wreck of the
THU       Alba by Alfred Wallis.
THU       He interviews people in St Ives who remember the disaster,
THU       when the steamer's crew was wrecked on Porthmeor beach in
THU       January 1938. Michael also gains access to many recordings
THU       of people who knew Wallis, made in the 1960s by Dr Roger
THU       Slack, a St Ives GP, and speaks to Chris Stephens, senior
THU       curator at the Tate, and to people looking at the painting
THU       and surfers on the beach.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00lff2j (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00lff6z (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00lff9k (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Off the Page b00lh453 (Listen)
THU       You're Fired!
THU       Whether it is dressed up as 'downsizing', 'delayering',
THU       'realigning the business' or simply having to 'let people
THU       go', firing or being fired is still a painful process.
THU       Broadcaster Anna Raeburn, writer Jeremy Clarke and
THU       psychologist Linda Blair join Dominic Arkwright to discuss
THU       the consequences of being sacked.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00lffyf (Listen)
THU       The prodigal returns to Home Farm.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00lh4yh (Listen)
THU       The Night Horse
THU       By Catrin Clarke, set on the outskirts of Cardiff.
THU       Tensions grow as a mother and daughter wait for a soldier
THU       to come back from Afghanistan.
THU       Sian ...... Eiry Thomas
THU       Dee ...... Carli Hughes
THU       Nansi ...... Catrin Stewart
THU       Riding Instructor ...... Keiron Self
THU       Directed by Polly Thomas.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00ld815 (Listen)
THU       Orkney Energy
THU       Helen Mark drives a chip fat-powered car around the Orkney
THU       island of Westray as she meets the pioneers determined to
THU       turn their island into the first community in Britain to
THU       be entirely self-sufficient in energy. The local kirk is
THU       powered by a wind turbine, holiday homes are heated by
THU       ground source heat-pumps and local farmers and fishermen
THU       are making their own fuel from cattle manure and cooking
THU       oil.
THU       Helen also takes to the water to discover more about the
THU       enormous energy resource contained within the tides and
THU       currents of the Orkney Islands. Can a parade of new
THU       gadgets harness the power without disturbing the birds and
THU       mammals that feed in the rich waters of the Pentland Firth?
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00ldxr4 (Listen)
THU       Working Families
THU       Lynda Bellingham appeals on behalf of Working Families.
THU       Donations to Working Families, should be sent to FREEPOST
THU       BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope
THU       Working Families. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.
THU       If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Working Families
THU       with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift
THU       Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online
THU       and phone donation facilities are not currently available
THU       to listeners without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 0427690.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lgg90 (Listen)
THU       Bears of England, Sewer Bears
THU       Series of three eccentric stories by Mick Jackson, which
THU       mix fantasy with folk tale and myth with history.
THU       For many years in the 19th century, several dozen bears
THU       were held in London's sewers, where they served as the
THU       city's unpaid flushers and toshers.
THU       Read by Ian Holm.
THU       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00lfhk1 (Listen)
THU       Iraq and the 'Axis of Evil'
THU       Series charting the history of America, written and
THU       presented by David Reynolds.
THU       The September 11 attacks propel President Bush and America
THU       in to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
THU       
THU       16:00 Bookclub b00lf0vg (Listen)
THU       Bernard MacLaverty
THU       James Naughtie and readers meet Northern Irish writer
THU       Bernard MacLaverty to discuss his Booker Prize-shortlisted
THU       novel Grace Notes, which concerns a young female composer
THU       very much in a man's world. Now living in Scotland,
THU       MacLaverty returns to his native Belfast especially for
THU       the recording of the programme.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00lh4yk (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00lfnt7 (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 b00lfnz1 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4, followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       18:30 Shappi Talk b00lh4yp (Listen)
THU       Episode 1
THU       Comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi examines what it
THU       is like growing up in multi-cultural families.
THU       Shappi is joined by comedians Felix Dexter and Meera Syal
THU       to discuss the theme of racism.
THU       Plus a song from comedian Hils Barker.
THU       An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00lffyh (Listen)
THU       Mike and Vicky get down to details.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00lfq2s (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lfqkn (Listen)
THU       Sacred Hearts, Letter
THU       Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a
THU       convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been
THU       placed against her will.
THU       Suora Zuana begins her remedy to cure a spiritual disease
THU       and solve the convent's greatest problem.
THU       Abbess ...... Eileen Atkins
THU       Zuana ...... Geraldine James
THU       Serafina ...... Natalie Dormer
THU       Umiliana ...... Sian Thomas
THU       Dramtised by Rachel Joyce.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       20:00 Law in Action b00lgj39 (Listen)
THU       As more evidence emerges of child abuse by religious
THU       institutions in Ireland, Clive Coleman examines a scheme
THU       set up to provide justice and compensation for victims.
THU       What lessons does it offer in dealing with institutional
THU       abuse - and why does it insist on protecting the identity
THU       of alleged abusers?
THU       
THU       20:30 Bottom Line b00lh4zj (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 b00lh5gv (Listen)
THU       Geoff Watts reports on the latest news in the world of
THU       science.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00lh2s3 (Listen)
THU       Ediacara Biota
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Martin Brasier, Richard Corfield
THU       and Rachel Wood discuss the Ediacara Biota. These
THU       mysterious life forms died out 542 million years ago;
THU       their discovery has proved Darwin right in a way he never
THU       imagined.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00lfqs5 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00lfrd8 (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lft9c (Listen)
THU       To Heaven By Water, Episode 4
THU       Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright,
THU       about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a
THU       wife and mother.
THU       David feels constrained by his house, now that he lives
THU       there alone, but his children still regard it as the
THU       family home.
THU       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
THU       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 Look Away Now b00lh225 (Listen)
THU       Series 3, Episode 2
THU       Garry Richardson presents a topical comedy show looking at
THU       the week's sporting news, featuring sketches, spoof
THU       interviews, highly inexpert analysis and music.
THU       With Laurence Howarth, Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Katherine
THU       Jakeways and special guests.
THU       
THU       23:30 Today in Parliament b00lg2v8 (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with David Wilby.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 10 JULY 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00lfc0d (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00lk4dp (Listen)
FRI       Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 4
FRI       Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of
FRI       the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky.
FRI       In the early hours of May 24th 1940, Trotsky awakes to the
FRI       sound of gunfire inside his fortress in Mexico City.
FRI       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lfc80 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lfcfw (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lfcdz (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00lfcgv (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lfcjd (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00lfcmc (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00lfcs4 (Listen)
FRI       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00ldxrj (Listen)
FRI       Harvey Goldsmith
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is the impresario and promoter
FRI       Harvey Goldsmith.
FRI       From the Rolling Stones to Pavarotti, and with pretty well
FRI       every other name in music in-between, he has been one of
FRI       the country's top promoters for more than 40 years.
FRI       His career has given him a unique insight into music
FRI       history; he was there, after all, when Keith Moon threw
FRI       his first TV out of a hotel window. Always passionate
FRI       about what he listened to, he acknowledges that his own
FRI       instrument is the pocket calculator.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00lk4dr (Listen)
FRI       Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 5
FRI       Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of
FRI       the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky.
FRI       On August 17th 1940 at 4.35pm, the iron doors of Trotsky's
FRI       safe haven gave way and a man known to Trotsky as Frank
FRI       Jacson, a Canadian businessman, was admitted to the patio.
FRI       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00lfdlw (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Sacred Hearts.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Three Rivers b00lh5pb (Listen)
FRI       The Liffey
FRI       Hardeep Singh Kohli travels from source to sea of three
FRI       major rivers that are being regenerated after years of
FRI       neglect and industrial use.
FRI       The Liffey, a river beloved of Irish writers -
FRI       particularly James Joyce, winds its way from the Wicklow
FRI       Mountains into the heart of Dublin and under 14 bridges.
FRI       It has also provided power and clean water for those along
FRI       its path, and at its outer edges encouraged trade with the
FRI       wider world beyond.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 Electric Ink b00lh5pd (Listen)
FRI       Episode 6
FRI       Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new
FRI       media in the newspaper industry.
FRI       With newspaper circulation dropping, a round of swingeing
FRI       job cuts are predicted. But who will survive the bloodbath?
FRI       Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay
FRI       Oliver ...... Alex Jennings
FRI       Freddy ...... Ben Willbond
FRI       Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington
FRI       Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar
FRI       Masha ...... Debbie Chazen
FRI       With additional material by Tom Mitchelson.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00lff2l (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00lff71 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00lff9m (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00lh6dy (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00lffyh (Listen)
FRI       Mike and Vicky get down to details.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b0090rcf (Listen)
FRI       Poetry for Beginners
FRI       Comedy drama by Kathryn Simmonds.
FRI       During a residential writing course deep in the Shropshire
FRI       countryside, poetry gives rise to lustful urges, ruthless
FRI       artistic ambition and simmering rivalries.
FRI       Celia ...... Joanna Tope
FRI       Fran ...... Emma Currie
FRI       William ...... Crawford Logan
FRI       Moira ...... Ann Scott Jones
FRI       Nick ...... Nick Farr
FRI       Directed by David Jackson Young.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lj1n5 (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer
FRI       questions posed by gardeners in Berkshire.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00lfhk4 (Listen)
FRI       'To Shape an Uncertain Destiny'
FRI       Series charting the history of America, written and
FRI       presented by David Reynolds.
FRI       Economic issues overshadow foreign conflicts as change
FRI       once again transforms American politics during the 2008
FRI       presidential election.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00lh4m8 (Listen)
FRI       John Wilson presents the obituaries programme.
FRI       
FRI       16:30 The Film Programme b00lj1n7 (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to Rebecca Miller about her latest
FRI       film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00lfnt9 (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 b00lfnz3 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4, followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The Now Show b00lj1n9 (Listen)
FRI       Series 28, Episode 3
FRI       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of
FRI       the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin,
FRI       Jon Holmes and Carrie Quinlan.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00lffyk (Listen)
FRI       Joe and Jim get creative.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00lfq2w (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on the
FRI       continuing success of celebrity memoirs, with guests
FRI       including Julie Walters, Paul O'Grady, Michael Parkinson
FRI       and Alan Carr.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lfqkq (Listen)
FRI       Sacred Hearts, Living Saint
FRI       Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a
FRI       convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been
FRI       placed against her will.
FRI       Serafina has been found senseless, presumed dead. If the
FRI       convent is to survive, it is time to make sacrifices.
FRI       Abbess ...... Eileen Atkins
FRI       Zuana ...... Geraldine James
FRI       Serafina ...... Natalie Dormer
FRI       Umiliana ...... Sian Thomas
FRI       Letizia ...... Ayesha Antoine
FRI       Dramtised by Rachel Joyce.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00lj1nc (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Consett,
FRI       County Durham. Panellists include literary critic Dr Sarah
FRI       Churchwell.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lj1nf (Listen)
FRI       Bower Birds
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       One of the most extraordinary structures in the animal
FRI       world is constructed by a Bower Bird. Sir David tells the
FRI       life story of the Vogelkopf Bower Bird, the one that
FRI       raises the bar higher than the rest.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 America, Empire of Liberty Omnibus b00lj1nh (Listen)
FRI       Pride and Prejudice
FRI       Omnibus edition of the series charting the history of
FRI       America, written and presented by David Reynolds.
FRI       The post-Cold War promise of peace evaporates as the
FRI       September 11 attacks lead to foreign wars and the divisive
FRI       politics of the Clinton and Bush years culminate in the
FRI       epic 2008 presidential election.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00lfqs7 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00lfrdb (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
FRI       Shah.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lft9f (Listen)
FRI       To Heaven By Water, Episode 5
FRI       Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright,
FRI       about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a
FRI       wife and mother.
FRI       Since her mother died and with her brother married and her
FRI       father showing no sign of filling the breach, Lucy feels
FRI       as if she has been cast adrift.
FRI       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
FRI       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00lgj3c (Listen)
FRI       Kate Mosse talks to actor Clive Swift and Indarjit Singh,
FRI       a regular contributor to Thought for the Day, about their
FRI       favourite books. They discuss works that take them from
FRI       London's 'Wrong Set' to northern India and Saudi Arabia.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00lg2vb (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
FRI       
FRI       
FRI