17 July, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 18/07/2009 - 24/07/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 18 JULY 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00lmp9r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00ljmx9 (Listen) SAT You're Coming With Me Lad, Episode 5 SAT Graham Fellows reads from Mike Pannett's account of his SAT experiences as a rural policeman, having swapped a post SAT with the Metropolitan Police for a return to his native SAT North Yorkshire. SAT Mike confronts two kinds of explosive devices: one in the SAT hands of children is dealt with by the constable; the SAT other, dispatched to North Yorkshire by Herr Hitler, is SAT best left to the Army. SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lmp9t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lmp9w (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lmp9y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00lmpb0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lmpb2 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Richard Hill. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00lmpb4 (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00lmpk6 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00lmpk8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00lmpkb (Listen) SAT Doggerland SAT Helen Mark explores a land lost beneath the waves off the SAT Northumbrian coast. SAT ‘Doggerland’ is the name for a huge area that, ten SAT thousand years ago, before the end of the last Ice Age, SAT linked the British Isles with Denmark and Northern SAT Germany, a time when the Thames was a tributary of the SAT Rhine. Besides speaking to archaeologists who are SAT investigating Doggerland, she is joined by the storyteller SAT Hugh Lupton who imagines the myths of those long-lost SAT hunter-gatherers. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00lmpkz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00lmpl1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00lms6h (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00lmz4h (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Tobias Jones. SAT With poetry from Lemn Sissay. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00lmz4k (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig explores London's City Wall and other Roman SAT remains around the City, and discovers that there is much SAT of the wall hidden from the public eye. SAT She also examines the popularity of 'laughter yoga' in the SAT frenetic city of Mumbai in India, where she takes a tour SAT around the eclectic, cosmopolitan and fascinating city SAT that is one of India's leading commercial and artistic SAT centres. SAT SAT 10:30 Tarantino's Jukebox b00lnczw (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Composer and film music historian Robert Ziegler talks to SAT American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino about the music he SAT has used to soundtrack his films. SAT Music plays a key role in Tarantino's films, including SAT Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, and he SAT reveals to Robert his musical influences and the way in SAT which he plunders his own backstory, remembering the SAT tracks of his youth and making references to - and SAT featuring music from - cult films and television. SAT Recorded on location in Tarantino's favourite virtual Los SAT Angeles diner, the programme also provides an insight into SAT the way music can infuse a film, and the way a film can SAT bring music back to life from the dusty vaults. It not SAT only forages in the annals of great popular music, but SAT focuses on the new styles of music Quentin has found for SAT his latest movie, Inglourious Basterds. SAT The programme also features contributions from Mary Wilson SAT of the Supremes, the Dusty Springfield's manager Vicki SAT Wickham, film producer Laurence Bender, music and film SAT critic Paul Gambaccini, film editor Sally Menke and music SAT supervisors Mary Ramos and Karyn Rachtman. SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00ln096 (Listen) SAT In this programme, Steve Richards of The Independent SAT assesses the political prospects of two Cabinet ministers SAT involved in the big stories of the week. SAT They happen to be brothers. Ed Miliband announced the SAT government's latest climate change plans. David Miliband SAT defended the conduct of the campaign in Afghanistan. SAT But how are they each performing? And what's the view of SAT them inside the Westminster village? Fraser Nelson of the SAT Spectator and Andy Grice of the Independent reflect on SAT their progress. SAT Also in the programme: SAT * The chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, SAT Jonathan Porritt, gives a favourable reaction to the SAT government's plans on climate change SAT * The Conservative, Patrick Mercer, and Labour's Mike SAT Gapes assess a difficult week for ministers after more SAT British troops are killed in Afghanistan SAT * And Professor Anthony King reveals that he is to conduct SAT research into why governments seem to be making more and SAT more mistakes. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00ln099 (Listen) SAT Rupert Wingfield Hayes considers the story of Natalya SAT Estemirova, the human rights worker in Chechnya who became SAT a victim of the brutality she worked so fearlessly to SAT document. SAT Lucy Williamson on why the people of Jakarta weren't SAT surprised that their city this week came under attack from SAT suicide bombers. SAT Chris Hogg examines the reaction in a Chinese village as SAT news comes through of a recovery in the country's economic SAT fortunes. SAT Guy Delauney on the Cambodian family unhappy that they're SAT closing down the rubbish tip in the capital Phnom Penh. SAT And why was our man Steve Gibbs handed a letter for The SAT Queen when he dodged the howler monkeys and parakeets on SAT Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast? SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00ln09d (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT The government's plans for social care reform are examined SAT in detail. SAT Will a new code of practice for comparison sites really SAT benefit consumers? SAT Plus concern that saving in a Child Trust Fund might SAT affect the help children with disabilities get from the SAT state when they turn 18. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00lmdh0 (Listen) SAT Series 28, Episode 4 SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of SAT the week's news, recorded at the Latitude Festival, with SAT help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes, Marcus SAT Brigstocke. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00ln09g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00ln09j (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00lmdh2 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Norwich. SAT The panellists are deputy leader of the Labour Party SAT Harriet Harman, shadow secretary of state for energy and SAT climate change Greg Clark, Liberal Democrat foreign SAT affairs spokesman Ed Davey and writer and chairman of the SAT National Trust Simon Jenkins. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00ln09l (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 b00ln09n (Listen) SAT Statement of Regret SAT By Kwame Kwei-Armah. SAT The Year of Obama should be an opportunity for Kwaku's SAT black policy think-tank to flourish. But Kwaku is still SAT grieving for his father and his latest misjudged proposal SAT is about to explode. SAT Kwaku ...... Don Warrington SAT Michael ...... Colin McFarlane SAT Idrissa ...... Nyasha Hatendi SAT Adrian ...... Damian Lynch SAT Issi ...... Janice Acquah SAT Junior ...... Jimmy Akingbola SAT Lola ...... Ellen Thomas SAT Val ...... Trevor Laird SAT Soby ...... Oscar James SAT Directed by Alison Hindell. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00ln09q (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Weekend Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. SAT Including an interview with the first female helicopter SAT pilot to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross medal SAT after her mission in Iraq. SAT Plus the impact of the murders of Peter Sutcliffe on the SAT families left behind; learning disabilities and the SAT Woman's Hour drama; a debate on whether feminism failed SAT the 'ordinary women'; co-parenting classes for divorcees; SAT the romantic letters of John Keats and Fanny Brawne; and SAT an exclusive performance by one of the world's leading SAT violinists. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00ln09s (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 Bottom Line b00lk30m (Listen) SAT It's the end of term and summer is here, so what advice SAT would Evan Davis's successful business guests give to SAT youngsters just leaving school now? SAT Entrepreneur James Dyson took five years to develop the SAT bagless vacuum cleaner, Martha Lane Fox went on a 'crazy SAT journey' to set up lastminute.com, and Adrian Ringrose SAT still isn't sure he has grown up, even though he is chief SAT executive of a company with 50,000 employees. Evan asks SAT them all about creativity in business and how important it SAT is. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ln09v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00ln09x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ln09z (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00ln0b1 (Listen) SAT Loose Ends just cannot keep away from the Latitude SAT Festival! SAT Recorded in front of an audience at Suffolk's music and SAT arts festival, Clive Anderson presides over the usual mix SAT of live music, conversation and comedy. SAT Joining Clive on stage is the British film director SAT Stephen Frears, the actor, musician and comedian Keith SAT Allen and the American actor Janeane Garofalo. SAT Rachael Stirling talks to British human beatbox artist SAT Shlomo. SAT With comedy from Seann Walsh and music from The Airborne SAT Toxic Event and Alela Diane. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00ln0b3 (Listen) SAT Sonia Sotomayor SAT Claire Bolderson profiles Sonia Sotomayor. Nominated to SAT the Supreme Court by President Obama, Sotomayor would, if SAT confirmed by the Senate, become the first Hispanic - and SAT only the third woman - to hold a seat in the highest court SAT in the United States. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00ln0b5 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by historian Tristram Hunt, SAT playwright Julia Pascal and writer Michael Carlson to SAT discuss the cultural highlights of the week, featuring SAT lunar loneliness, anarchy in Wiltshire and some very small SAT clothes. SAT In the midst of the celebrations to mark the 40th SAT anniversary of the first lunar landing, Duncan Jones' SAT directorial debut, Moon, presents a stark contrast to the SAT brave new world of Apollo 11. Sam Jones (played by Sam SAT Rockwell) is the only employee at a plant on the far side SAT of the Moon which mines Helium-3 to solve Earth's energy SAT problems. Nearing the end of his three-year tour of duty, SAT he suddenly finds that he has far more than loneliness and SAT boredom to deal with. SAT Jez Butterworth's new play Jerusalem is at the Royal Court SAT in London and features a bravura central performance by SAT Mark Rylance, playing Johnny 'Rooster' Byron. As St SAT George's Day dawns in a Wiltshire village, Johnny faces SAT eviction from the encampment in the woods where he has SAT lived for 27 years. He's a lord of misrule, a supplier of SAT drugs to local teenagers, and possibly deeply connected to SAT an older, more mystical England. Will Saint George come to SAT his rescue? SAT In his third novel, Menage, Ewan Morrison aims his pen at SAT the rise of the Young British Artists in the early 90s and SAT the commodification of art which accompanied it. His three SAT protagonists - Owen, Dot and Saul - who comprise the SAT menage of the title, find themselves in a Hoxton-based SAT cross between Withnail and I and Jules et Jim. Plenty of SAT squalor, lots of sex and critical essays (with footnotes) SAT on nine video installations. SAT The Young British Artists of the Victorian era didn't have SAT video cameras, but, if Desperate Romantics on BBC2 is to SAT be believed, the pre-Raphaelites shared their Hoxton SAT counterparts' interest in capturing real life, boozing and SAT getting it on. Aidan Turner cuts a Jagger-esque Rossetti, SAT strutting around town with Hunt and Millais in his wake, SAT blowing raspberries at the Royal Academy and searching for SAT the perfect model. Apparently, the aim of the series is to SAT create Entourage with easels. SAT Charles LeDray is a Manhattan-based artist whose SAT meticulous work means that his exhibitions take years to SAT prepare. Mens Suits - his first major exhibition in SAT Europe, arranged by Artangel - is an installation in an SAT old Victorian fire station in London which features an SAT entire wardrobe of tiny, hand-stitched clothes in three SAT separate areas, redolent of thrift shops and mens' SAT outfitters. Perfectly crafted, he even brought his own SAT dust. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00ln0b7 (Listen) SAT Soho SAT The singer Suggs returns to London's Soho, where he spent SAT much of his unconventional childhood and where his jazz SAT singer mother still lives. He was introduced to the SAT delights of the Colony Club as a six-year-old, and as a SAT musician he continued to haunt the district. Recording on SAT location and mining the BBC archive, Suggs investigates SAT how this unique community, complete with red-light SAT district and village school, functions today, and whether SAT it is still, or indeed ever was, a source of inspiration SAT or merely a creative vacuum. SAT For decades, Soho was regarded as Britain's capital of SAT sleaze and vice, but also a place where artists, writers, SAT musicians and actors came to drink and philosophise. Tales SAT of the area and its inhabitants abound, from painter SAT Francis Bacon and George Melly at Muriel Belcher's SAT infamous Colony Club to Jeffrey Bernard and Keith SAT Waterhouse at the Coach and Horses and Dylan Thomas at The SAT French House. Soho was the birthplace of British pop, with SAT the skifflers, jazzers and early rock 'n' rollers all SAT making their names in the coffee bars of the 1950s. It was SAT also the home of refugees of every type, includng SAT political dissidents, foreigners and homosexuals, from SAT Casanova to Karl Marx, and Quentin Crisp t SAT Yet in the 1950s, a new phrase was coined: 'Soho-itis'. It SAT was said that if you enter Soho you will never get any SAT work done, and you will never, ever leave. Many books, SAT poems, songs and indeed careers were washed away with SAT drink, but some artists, musicians and writers did survive SAT the late nights, the fights and the booze, and took great SAT inspiration from the place. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00ljhml (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, SAT Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic SAT novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley. SAT The trap is set to catch the East German spymaster who has SAT ruthlessly destroyed Alec Leamas's Berlin network - and SAT the bait is Leamas himself. SAT Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox SAT Fiedler ...... Henry Goodman SAT Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell SAT Control ...... John Rowe SAT Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SAT Mundt ...... Sam Dale SAT Ashe ...... Jamie Newall SAT Doorman ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Miss Crail ...... Liza Sadovy SAT Mr Pitt ...... Philip Fox SAT Grocer ...... David Hargreaves SAT CIA Man ...... Benjamin Askew SAT This episode is available until 3.00pm on 26th July as SAT part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00ln0b9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00lk12w (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions SAT behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Melanie SAT Phillips, Claire Fox and Matthew Taylor cross-examine SAT witnesses. SAT Who to send to war and why is one of the most morally SAT difficult decisions any politician will have to make. If SAT we don't have a clear and legally-justifiable set of SAT goals, is it ever morally right to send young men - and SAT increasingly women - to face death? With the images of the SAT latest members of our forces to be killed all over the SAT front pages of the papers, it is a question that all of SAT us, not just politicians, have to face up to. SAT The goal of the Afghan campaign has variously been SAT described as fighting Al-Qaeda terrorists, freeing the SAT country from the despotic Taleban regime and fighting the SAT drugs trade, but do any of them add up to a moral SAT justification? What is our moral obligation to Afghanistan SAT and is it challenged by the rising number of casualties? SAT Is the current disquiet at home over the high rate of SAT casualties because we no longer believe in this war? Or SAT have we become so risk averse that we have forgotten that SAT the enemy will shoot back and that people get killed? Do SAT we still have the moral courage and moral authority to SAT send our armed forces in to battle on our behalf? SAT Canon Dr Alan Billings SAT Anglican priest and chaplain in the British armed forces, SAT teaching military ethics SAT John Rees SAT Writer and political activist, co-founder of the Stop the SAT War Coalition SAT Zarghona Rassa SAT Chairperson of the British Afghan Women's Society. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00ljy26 (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange SAT of quotations and anecdotes. SAT With guests Paul Bailey, Marcus du Sautoy, Lucy Mangan and SAT Michael Simkins. SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00ljhrs (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces poems including works by Milton, SAT Ben Okri and Mary Oliver. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 JULY 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00ln0hc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0085dpd (Listen) SUN Ones to Watch (Volume 2), The Sand Monster SUN A talent showcase of unpublished work from new writers. SUN By Judith Allnatt, read by Jordan Clarke. SUN A family visit to the seaside is described by a young boy, SUN who is acutely aware of how difficult his parents find it SUN to deal with his disability. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ln0hg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ln0hk (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ln0hm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00ln0hp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00ln0qv (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Peter's Church, South SUN Petherton, in Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00ln0b3 (Listen) SUN Sonia Sotomayor SUN Claire Bolderson profiles Sonia Sotomayor. Nominated to SUN the Supreme Court by President Obama, Sotomayor would, if SUN confirmed by the Senate, become the first Hispanic - and SUN only the third woman - to hold a seat in the highest court SUN in the United States. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00ln0qx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00ln0qz (Listen) SUN Genius SUN Mark Tully explores the nature of genius. Are geniuses SUN born or made, what sets them above the merely excellent, SUN what conditions do they need to reach their full potential SUN and what are they like to live with? SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00ln0r1 (Listen) SUN Caz Graham meets Daisy, an 11-year-old with a thriving SUN chicken and egg enterprise and a flock of rare breed SUN sheep. When Daisy's teacher brought a broody bantam into SUN her reception class, it was love at first sight for her, SUN then aged five, with the world of farming. Caz Graham SUN finds out what sparked her passion for livestock and her SUN ambition to spend her life looking after animals. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00ln100 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00ln102 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00ln104 (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 b00ln106 (Listen) SUN ACE Africa SUN Sir Trevor McDonald appeals on behalf of ACE Africa. SUN Donations to ACE Africa, should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope ACE SUN Africa. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are SUN a UK tax payer, please provide ACE Africa with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone SUN donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1111283. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00ln108 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00ln10b (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00ln10d (Listen) SUN Festival Eucharist from St John's Church, Buxton, sung by SUN the Buxton Madrigal Singers to Haydn's Missa Brevis in F. SUN The celebrant is the Rev John Hudghton and the homily is SUN given by Dame Janet Smith, chairman of the Buxton Festival SUN and a Court of Appeal judge. SUN Director of music: Michael Williams. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lmdh4 (Listen) SUN Dragons SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN What did Sir David do when he was confronted by a SUN ten-foot-long grey-scaled reptile, with a long yellow SUN forked tongue whipping in and out of its mouth? He didn't SUN run and, in fact, was one of the first to film it: the SUN Komodo dragon. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00ln10g (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00ln10j (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00ln1b2 (Listen) SUN David Mitchell SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian David Mitchell. SUN He has won two Bafta awards and, as a sitcom actor, sketch SUN show writer and humorous columnist, has never been in SUN greater demand. SUN But as a child he was sure he wasn't funny and it was only SUN when he was at university, he says, that he learnt how to SUN have fun. It is now just the rest of his life that he SUN needs to address - beginning, he says, by tidying up his SUN flat and then, maybe, even getting a girlfriend. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00ljy2b (Listen) SUN Series 51, Episode 5 SUN The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the SUN Theatre Royal in Newcastle, with Rob Brydon taking on the SUN chairman's role from the late Humphrey Lyttelton. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined by Phill Jupitus. SUN With Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00ln1b5 (Listen) SUN Watercress SUN Watercress has been dubbed a 'superfood' in the media SUN following scientific research that suggests a link between SUN the consumption of watercress and health. But is there SUN anything special about it or is it a case of marketing SUN hype? SUN Sheila Dillon visits Vitacress Salads Ltd in Hampshire, SUN which has for several years funded scientific research SUN into the potential health benefits of watercress. Why did SUN it do this? And how much did it spend? SUN Much research into diet and health is funded by industry. SUN What does the food industry get out of it? What does it SUN say about the state of science research and how does it SUN benefit us? SUN Sheila interviews Prof Ian Rowland of the Department of SUN Food and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Reading SUN and is joined in the studio by Prof Martin Wiseman, SUN medical and scientific director of the World Cancer SUN Research Fund. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00ln1b7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00ln1b9 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Ian Blair Years b00ksvt7 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw tells the inside SUN story of Sir Ian Blair's tenure as commissioner of the SUN Metropolitan Police. SUN This liberal Oxford-educated 'Blairite' was once seen as SUN the ideal candidate to modernise British policing and, in SUN particular, to eliminate the taint of 'institutional SUN racism' from the Met. But his tenure became increasingly SUN controversial and he was forced to step aside: dogged by SUN the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, accused of SUN racial discrimination by one of his most senior officers SUN and facing allegations of cronyism. SUN Danny Shaw talks to those who have known Sir Ian SUN throughout his career and examines how Britain's SUN highest-flying officer came to be embroiled in a bitter SUN dispute at the top of Britain's biggest police force. Was SUN Blair a victim of politicisation or could he simply not do SUN the job as he had promised? SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lmd9b (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer SUN questions posed by gardeners in Northamptonshire. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 The Estuary b008kllk (Listen) SUN Episode 3 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 The birds have been pushed across the mud flats by the SUN advancing tide. They soon run out of space and are forced SUN into the air in one of Britain's greatest natural SUN spectacles. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00ln1dj (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, SUN Episode 3 SUN Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic SUN novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley. SUN The deadly game of deceit and betrayal reaches its climax SUN at the foot of the Berlin Wall. SUN Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SUN Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox SUN Fiedler ...... Henry Goodman SUN Mundt ...... Sam Dale SUN Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell SUN Ashe ...... Jamie Newall SUN Tribunal President ...... Siobhan Redmond SUN Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SUN Commissar ...... Liza Sadovy SUN Agent ...... Stephen Hogan SUN Miss Crail ...... Liza Sadovy SUN Mr Pitt ...... Philip Fox SUN Grocer ...... David Hargreaves SUN CIA Man ...... Benjamin Askew SUN This episode is available until 3.00pm on 26th July as SUN part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00ln2dc (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Aravind Adiga about his new SUN novel Between the Assassinations, written before his first SUN book, the Booker Prize -winning novel The White Tiger. The SUN title refers to the period between the two assassinations SUN of two former prime ministers of India, Indira and her son SUN Rajiv Gandhi, and is a sequence of fictional stories set SUN in a fictional seaside town Kittur. SUN 75 years after JB Priestly's English Journey was SUN published, novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge discusses SUN Priestly's love of England and the impact of the book, 25 SUN years on, from following in Priestly's footstep herself - SUN documented as a film and in the book, English Journey or SUN the Road to Milton Keynes. SUN Also, European writers and their literary love affair with SUN the Carribbean, from Jean Rhys's The Wide Sargasso Sea to SUN the present, with two new Trinidadian writers Amanda Smyth SUN and Monique Roffey, and Carole Angier biographer of Jean SUN Rhys. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00ln2df (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces requests for poems about space by SUN Shakespeare, Seamus Heaney and others. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00lk028 (Listen) SUN With an inquiry underway into the mid-air explosion in SUN 2006 aboard a Nimrod aircraft, which killed 14 service SUN personnel, Angus Stickler examines the safety record of SUN the RAF in recent conflicts. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00ln0b3 (Listen) SUN Sonia Sotomayor SUN Claire Bolderson profiles Sonia Sotomayor. Nominated to SUN the Supreme Court by President Obama, Sotomayor would, if SUN confirmed by the Senate, become the first Hispanic - and SUN only the third woman - to hold a seat in the highest court SUN in the United States. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ln2dh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00ln2dk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ln2dm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00lnd6q (Listen) SUN Val McDermid introduces her selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN Angel of Harlem: the Billie Holiday Story - Radio 2 SUN The Inconstant Moon - Radio 4 SUN Death Diminishes Me - World Service SUN Fiery Cross - Radio Scotland SUN The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles - Radio 4 SUN In Living Memory: The Contraceptive Train - Radio 4 SUN Gay Life After Saddam - Radio 5 Live SUN The Today Programme - Radio 4 SUN On Your Farm - Radio 4 SUN I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Radio 4 SUN The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Radio 4 SUN The Call in the Middle of the Night - Radio 4 SUN The Political Club - Radio 4 SUN The Grand Masquerade - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00lnd6s (Listen) SUN Lilian's finances go astray. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00lnd6v (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 talks to Jane Roe; she gave her name to the most SUN famous legal decision in American history, Roe versus SUN Wade. But now Norma McCorvey is a full-time anti-abortion SUN activist, and she was arrested in the Senate for SUN protesting at the hearings to select Supreme Court nominee SUN Sonia Sottormayor. We hear about her extraordinary journey. SUN It has stopped raining in Texas, in the worst drought SUN since 1885. Cattle farmers fear they will soon have to SUN slaughter their herds. Why has the rain stopped falling in SUN the Lone Star State? SUN And how would you like to be told you are a genius and SUN handed half a million dollars? The programme examines the SUN secretive MacArthur Foundation and their 'genius grants'. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008cnz7 (Listen) SUN Blake's Doors of Perception, Waiting for the 'elicopter SUN Short stories marking the 250th anniversary of William SUN Blake's birth, each inspired by a quote from the great SUN poet. SUN Written and read by Jack Shepherd. SUN A group of young boys in Leeds is inspired to prospect for SUN bauxite, convinced by an older lad that the clay can be SUN traded for real guns and ammunition. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00lk9dy (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN Today editor Ceri Thomas discusses BBC coverage of SUN Afghanistan and we take a look at the surprisingly SUN extensive criminal underworld of Ambridge. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00lmd9d (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00ln09d (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN The government's plans for social care reform are examined SUN in detail. SUN Will a new code of practice for comparison sites really SUN benefit consumers? SUN Plus concern that saving in a Child Trust Fund might SUN affect the help children with disabilities get from the SUN state when they turn 18. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00ln106 (Listen) SUN ACE Africa SUN Sir Trevor McDonald appeals on behalf of ACE Africa. SUN Donations to ACE Africa, should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope ACE SUN Africa. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are SUN a UK tax payer, please provide ACE Africa with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone SUN donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1111283. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00ljy2d (Listen) SUN Preserving Pakistan SUN International leaders have warned that the survival of SUN Pakistan's government could be threatened by Islamic SUN radicals. Owen Bennett-Jones discovers who the radicals SUN are, why they have made such an impact and whether SUN military action alone can ever defeat them. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00lnd6x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00lnd6z (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN The Call in the Middle of the Night. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00lmd9g (Listen) SUN Lars Von Trier defends his controversial drama Antichrist, SUN which was booed at its premiere at the Cannes Film SUN Festival. Duncan Jones talks about his space drama Moon, SUN 70s science fiction, and life with his father David Bowie. SUN Sir Christopher Frayling reviews a Marlene Dietrich SUN documentary and Kissese director Lance Daly reveals the SUN difficulties of working with child actors. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00ln0qz (Listen) SUN Genius SUN Mark Tully explores the nature of genius. Are geniuses SUN born or made, what sets them above the merely excellent, SUN what conditions do they need to reach their full potential SUN and what are they like to live with? SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 JULY 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00lnd9w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lk12r (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how MON society works. MON Research has shown that health and social problems become MON more acute in an unequal society, where the gap between MON the richest and poorest is greatest. For most of us, MON respect is measured in money, and lack of it or low pay MON tells us that we are worth very little. But given the MON chance, would we as a society be prepared to rebalance? MON Laurie Taylor discusses these issues with Professor MON Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, authors of The Spirit MON Level: Why Equal Societies Almost Always So Better, and MON Sunder Katwala from The Fabian Society, on a new paper on MON underlying motivation. MON Also teddy bears; how did a real hunting story become a MON political myth which left Theodore Roosevelt forever MON credited as the namesake of the teddy bear, symbolic of MON childhood innocence? MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00ln0qv (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Peter's Church, South MON Petherton, in Somerset. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lndg0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lndjd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lndh3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00lndm3 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lndt5 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Richard Hill. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00lndx8 (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. MON Bird scarers, the ones which sound a bit like a gunshot, MON divide opinion, and now the National Farmers Union is MON revising its advice to farmers on how and when they should MON be used. They are designed to keep birds off crops, but MON farmers are now being told to never use the noisy scarers MON near buildings where people sleep and when it's dark. MON Charlotte investigates whether the gloom in the dairy MON industry is over, after news that 97 per cent of Dairy MON Farmers of Britain producers have now found new buyers for MON their milk. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00lny44 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00lnfk9 (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and Edward Stourton. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00lny46 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. MON He is joined by the former cabinet minister James Purnell MON on the future of the Left in Britain, the writer Hanif MON Kureishi on the theatre adaptation of his novel The Black MON Album, doctor David Haslam on a cultural history of MON obesity and Tristram Stuart on wastefulness. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00lnfkc (Listen) MON In the Valley of Mist, Episode 1 MON Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the MON lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed MON territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict. MON Mohammad Dar's family and Rafiq, a Hindu tailor, reveal MON how the early days of the conflict changed the shape of MON their everyday lives, and also their futures. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lnfxk (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey MON In Christian, Muslim and Jewish religions they are MON messengers from God. Translated from the Greek word, MON angellos, impressions of angels range from the Archangel MON Gabriel to celestial beings with feathered wings, or the MON idea of the Guardian angel as a personal guide. They are MON currently a popular cultural phenomenon, with a MON proliferation of books, websites and workshops available MON on the subject. Jane Garvey is joined by broadcaster MON Gloria Hunniford, who presents a new TV series on the MON subject, and Dr. Juliette Wood, from the University of MON Cardiff who specialises in mythology, to discuss the MON history of and belief in Angels. MON Anna Del Conte was born in pre-war Milan. Her family moved MON to the Italian countryside when the Second World War made MON city life too dangerous and in 1949 she moved to England MON as an au pair. She married an Englishman, stayed in MON Britain and began writing cookery books. Her writing has MON won her many awards and she is credited with introducing MON Italian food to England at a time when pasta meant nothing MON more than a tin of spaghetti. She has now written her MON memoirs and joins Jane to talk about how the food of her MON childhood has affected the whole of her life. MON After the coup in Honduras last month we speak to those MON who are concerned that the unstable situation is going to MON set back fledgling campaigns to improve the welfare of MON women in this poor Central American country. MON Plus, the soprano Elizabeth Watts talks about her work and MON appearance at this year's Proms. MON MON 11:00 Planning for Pandemic b00lqcll (Listen) MON With access to the Health Protection Agency, Winifred MON Robinson follows the work of doctors, scientists and MON officials as they attempt to limit possible damage from MON the swine flu pandemic. MON The programme goes behind the scenes with health MON professionals at the Health Protection Agency as they MON coordinate a national response to the flu pandemic. Data MON comes in from around the world to be interpreted and used MON to inform decisions that are likely to affect all of us. MON The HPA's hope is that a vaccine can be developed by MON autumn, and so in regional flu centres, health service MON volunteers are being trained to deal with hundreds of MON calls from those suspected of having the virus. MON All the information is being coordinated on a national MON database called Welcome to Flu Zone, which tracks how the MON UK moved from attempts at containment to a policy of MON mitigating the effects of the virus on those most MON vulnerable to it. MON In Australia, with the flu season well underway, a policy MON of containment has been quickly abandoned in the face of a MON pressing need for treatment as cases increase. In MON makeshift medical centres, doctors are taking samples from MON people turning up sick and the virus is spreading fast. MON A major concern is that swine flu will recombine in those MON with seasonal flu, thereby unleashing a far more virulent MON strain that might reach us just as schools reopen and the MON weather cools. MON MON 11:30 Hazelbeach b00lny4b (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford, MON featuring likeable conman Ronnie Hazelbeach and his MON hapless friend Nick. MON An unsuitable film is made and Nick has a whirlwind MON romance. MON Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman MON Nick ...... Paul Bazely MON James ...... Neil Stuke MON Polly ...... Lizzy Watts MON Berlin Phil ...... Stephen Hogan MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00lnfy0 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00lng42 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00lng6n (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00lny4d (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring the defending champions, the Midlands, taking on MON the south of England. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00kwn9v (Listen) MON Mike and Vicky take the plunge. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lc9ff (Listen) MON The King of Sootland MON By Richard Hurford. In the early days of Queen Victoria's MON reign, a boy and a teenage girl - who he assumes to be a MON new maidservant but is in fact the young Victoria - go on MON an adventure through the chimneys of Buckingham Palace. MON Queen Victoria ...... Daisy Marsden MON Boy Cotton ...... Aidan Parsons MON Duchess Of Kent ...... Olwen May MON Sir John Conroy ...... Jonathan Keeble MON Mr Diggle ...... Malcolm Raeburn MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00ln0b7 (Listen) MON Soho MON The singer Suggs returns to London's Soho, where he spent MON much of his unconventional childhood and where his jazz MON singer mother still lives. He was introduced to the MON delights of the Colony Club as a six-year-old, and as a MON musician he continued to haunt the district. Recording on MON location and mining the BBC archive, Suggs investigates MON how this unique community, complete with red-light MON district and village school, functions today, and whether MON it is still, or indeed ever was, a source of inspiration MON or merely a creative vacuum. MON For decades, Soho was regarded as Britain's capital of MON sleaze and vice, but also a place where artists, writers, MON musicians and actors came to drink and philosophise. Tales MON of the area and its inhabitants abound, from painter MON Francis Bacon and George Melly at Muriel Belcher's MON infamous Colony Club to Jeffrey Bernard and Keith MON Waterhouse at the Coach and Horses and Dylan Thomas at The MON French House. Soho was the birthplace of British pop, with MON the skifflers, jazzers and early rock 'n' rollers all MON making their names in the coffee bars of the 1950s. It was MON also the home of refugees of every type, includng MON political dissidents, foreigners and homosexuals, from MON Casanova to Karl Marx, and Quentin Crisp t MON Yet in the 1950s, a new phrase was coined: 'Soho-itis'. It MON was said that if you enter Soho you will never get any MON work done, and you will never, ever leave. Many books, MON poems, songs and indeed careers were washed away with MON drink, but some artists, musicians and writers did survive MON the late nights, the fights and the booze, and took great MON inspiration from the place. MON MON 15:45 The Inconstant Moon b00lnkb2 (Listen) MON The Women's Moon MON Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, author Jeanette MON Winterson offers a series of reflective readings about the MON moon. MON Why the male-conquered moon is still a woman's moon. MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00ln1b5 (Listen) MON Watercress MON Watercress has been dubbed a 'superfood' in the media MON following scientific research that suggests a link between MON the consumption of watercress and health. But is there MON anything special about it or is it a case of marketing MON hype? MON Sheila Dillon visits Vitacress Salads Ltd in Hampshire, MON which has for several years funded scientific research MON into the potential health benefits of watercress. Why did MON it do this? And how much did it spend? MON Much research into diet and health is funded by industry. MON What does the food industry get out of it? What does it MON say about the state of science research and how does it MON benefit us? MON Sheila interviews Prof Ian Rowland of the Department of MON Food and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Reading MON and is joined in the studio by Prof Martin Wiseman, MON medical and scientific director of the World Cancer MON Research Fund. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00lny4g (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and guests discusses whether the internet is a MON gift to humanity or a threat to civilized values. Is there MON a place for virtual churches or synagogues online, or are MON such attempts simply data connections between like-minded MON people? To what extent are real-world relationships MON threatened by virtual relationships, internet addiction MON and constant interruptions from mobile phones, emails and MON online communities? MON MON 17:00 PM b00lnknr (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 b00lnkq5 (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 b00lny4j (Listen) MON Series 51, Episode 6 MON The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the MON Theatre Royal in Newcastle, with Rob Brydon taking on the MON chairman's role from the late Humphrey Lyttelton. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined by Phill Jupitus. MON With Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00lng7p (Listen) MON The gulf increases between Matt and Lilian. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00lnkqh (Listen) MON Presented by Kirsty Lang, including an interview with MON Charlotte Gainsbourg, who stars in Lars von Trier's MON graphic new film Antichrist, which divided critics at MON Cannes. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lnkr6 (Listen) MON The Help, Episode 1 MON Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, MON Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to MON cross the racial lines. MON Three very different women come together for a clandestine MON project that will put them all at risk: black maid MON Aibileen, her closest friend Minny, the best cook in MON Mississippi, and Skeeter, who is 22 and just home from MON college. MON Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons MON Minny ...... Octavia Spencer MON Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow MON Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker MON Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter MON Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston MON Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan MON Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout MON Adapted by Penny Leicester. MON MON 20:00 Iraq United b00lny4l (Listen) MON Hugh Sykes follows the Iraqi football team as they hope to MON unite their country through football. MON In 2007, the team surprised the world by winning the Asian MON Cup. Thousands celebrated, religious differences were MON forgotten and a football team united a troubled country. MON It qualified them for the Confederations Cup in South MON Africa, a competition that brings together the best teams MON in the world, including Spain, Italy and Brazil. MON Hugh, who has been reporting from Iraq for the past six MON years, follows the team and their supporters as they MON compete in Africa's first international football MON competition. Travelling with the team and supporters as MON Iraq take on the likes of Spain, Hugh learns the MON importance of football to Iraqis as a reminder of days MON past, before sectarianism ripped the country apart. MON The team has lost loved ones and faced death threats, but MON survived the years of abuse and torture they suffered at MON the hands of Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Saddam who MON took direct control of the team for a time. After a series MON of coaching changes and poor performances, the team now MON faces its biggest test as it hopes to show the world that MON Iraq remains united, and not only in football. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00lygwz (Listen) MON Chechnya MON A prominent human rights worker called Natalya Estemirova MON has been shot dead in the Russian republic of Chechnya. MON She was one of the people interviewed by Lucy Ash during MON her investigation of the treatment of women in Chechnya. MON There are reports of the police failing to investigate the MON common practice of the abduction of women, and of a series MON of murders and disappearances of women allegedly because MON of their immoral lifestyle. MON Lucy Ash asks what the uneasy peace there means for MON Chechen women. MON MON 21:00 Give Me the MoonLITE b00lnycv (Listen) MON To mark the fortieth anniversary of the moon landings, MON Richard Hollingham tells the story of the British MoonLITE MON project and the lunar ambitions and achievements of the MON other space-exploring nations. MON Forty years ago, there was talk of frequent missions, MON permanent moon bases and even lunar factories. But still MON only 12 people have walked on the moon and there have been MON no soft landings since the 1970s. But all that could soon MON change. MON Already, the USA, Europe, China, Japan and India have sent MON orbiters and there seems to be a rush, if not a race, back MON to the moon. Leading it, with the first instruments at the MON lunar poles and far side, could be the UK's MoonLITE MON mission. MON Richard Hollingham discovers how, by using small, low cost MON components, British space scientists hope to set up a MON network of instruments to monitor moonquakes and probe the MON lunar interior and one or more orbiting satellites that MON could establish communications and navigation systems for MON other human and robotic missions. MON Professor Sir Martin Sweeting of MoonLITE's prime MON contractor, SSTL, hopes it will be commercial; he likens MON it to the hoteliers and ironmongers who profited from the MON Californian gold rush. It will also, he says, give the UK MON a seat at the table when it comes to selecting MON international astronauts who might return to the moon. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00lny46 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. MON He is joined by the former cabinet minister James Purnell MON on the future of the Left in Britain, the writer Hanif MON Kureishi on the theatre adaptation of his novel The Black MON Album, doctor David Haslam on a cultural history of MON obesity and Tristram Stuart on wastefulness. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00lnl3r (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00lnl78 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Carolyn MON Quinn. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lnmxy (Listen) MON The First Men in the Moon, Episode 1 MON Tim Pigott-Smith reads from the 1901 novel by HG Wells. MON Penniless businessman Mr Bedford meets the brilliant MON Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of MON developing a material that can negate the power of MON gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments and tells MON a stunned Bedford that the invention makes possible one of MON the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. MON Abridged by Neville Teller. MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00ljzdh (Listen) MON Chris Ledgard looks into the words we use to talk about MON music. Is it even possible to pin music down in language? MON Stuart Maconie thinks we should try, and he talks us MON through the various genres into which music is categorised. MON Where did the word 'jazz' come from? What exactly is MON 'garage', and how has the meaning of R&B changed so MON dramatically? MON We go to a recording studio to sit in with a band in MON session, and hear how they communicate their ideas. Chris MON also talks to Norman Lebrecht about the art of describing MON classical music. MON Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, author of This is Your MON Brain on Music, talks about his years as a record MON producer, working with Stevie Wonder and Carlos Santana - MON who wanted his guitar to sound 'more orange'. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00lnnhw (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 JULY 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00lnd8q (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00lnfkc (Listen) TUE In the Valley of Mist, Episode 1 TUE Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the TUE lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed TUE territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict. TUE Mohammad Dar's family and Rafiq, a Hindu tailor, reveal TUE how the early days of the conflict changed the shape of TUE their everyday lives, and also their futures. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lnd9y (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lndh5 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lndg2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00lndjg (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lndrh (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Richard Hill. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00lndt7 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00lnfbs (Listen) TUE With Sarah Montague and Edward Stourton. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in TUE Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Expenses: The MPs' Story b00lvl1s (Listen) TUE In May 2009, a media cyclone hit Westminster. From duck TUE houses to phantom mortgages, stories of MPs' expense TUE claims dominated the news agenda for weeks. The reputation TUE and integrity of parliamentarians - and indeed our system TUE of democracy - was called into question as never before. TUE Faced with unprecedented public anger, most MPs retreated TUE away from the spotlight, aware that public sympathy for TUE their cause, however just, was going to be hard to come by. TUE Becky Milligan reports from inside Parliament about what TUE it was like being an MP during this period, caught in the TUE eye of the expenses hurricane. Speaking candidly, MPs TUE reveal the impact the crisis has had on their political TUE and domestic lives. From disillusionment to death threats, TUE the human fallout has been severe. TUE TUE 09:30 Musical Migrants b00b4nsn (Listen) TUE Series 1, From New York to Rio de Janeiro TUE Stories of people who relocated to other countries, TUE influenced by music. TUE In the early 90s, Scott Feiner was a successful jazz TUE guitarist on the highly competitive New York circuit TUE before he became disillusioned and gave up. Then he TUE discovered Brazilian music. He became entranced and TUE visited Rio de Janeiro, where a brief encounter changed TUE his life. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00lqnfp (Listen) TUE In the Valley of Mist, Episode 2 TUE Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the TUE lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed TUE territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict. TUE The fate of the Pandits, the Kashmiri Hindus, many of whom TUE were forced to flee the valley as the conflict took hold. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lnfsf (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Help. TUE TUE 11:00 The Chambers b00lnzq9 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE First of two programmes which go behind the elegant TUE facades of legal London to meet the barristers, clerks and TUE staff of Outer Temple Chambers, one of London's leading TUE law chambers, as they prepare for the biggest upheaval in TUE their history: the full implementation of the 2007 Legal TUE Services Act. TUE Due to be fully implemented in 2012, the Act will produce TUE greater competition in who can provide legal services. TUE Many of the cosy arrangements of the past will be swept TUE away, and barristers will need to show that they can TUE provide the service and value for money that the public TUE wants. TUE TUE 11:30 Macavity's Not There: TS Eliot in the 21st Century TUE b00lp043 (Listen) TUE As a major project begins to edit the works of TS Eliot, TUE author and critic Michael Alexander explores the place of TUE Eliot, and of poetry in general, in national culture. TUE Eliot may be regarded by some as the most significant poet TUE in the English language over the past 100 years, but how TUE much does he mean to modern readers? Only now are his TUE complete writings undergoing full critical editing, and TUE yet times have changed to a point where poets are regarded TUE as barely relevant by many people, and where Eliot himself TUE is probably best known for the poems which provided the TUE inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. TUE Michael Alexander enlists the help of Eliot scholar TUE Christopher Ricks and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr TUE Rowan Williams to assess Eliot's influence and the role of TUE poetry in the modern world. Including TS Eliot reading TUE from his own work. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00lnfxm (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00lnfzy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00lng44 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 From Dots to Downloads b00lp15m (Listen) TUE Tim van Eyken, award-winning young singer and squeezebox TUE player, reveals how today's musicians are rediscovering TUE 'tune books', small manuscript books of music that were in TUE use from the late-17th to the mid-19th century. TUE They are now sharing them, in the way that musicians TUE always have, but nowadays online, so that all over the TUE world, people are playing these tunes once again in an TUE ongoing global virtual session. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00lng7p (Listen) TUE The gulf increases between Matt and Lilian. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00h6zby (Listen) TUE McLevy - Series 5, Picture of Innocence TUE Stories about David Ashton's Victorian detective based on TUE real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James McLevy. TUE A high court judge is dead and suspicion falls on his TUE wife. Her alleged adultery with a fashionable portrait TUE painter suggests a strong motive for murder, but she TUE protests her innocence and turns to McLevy for help. TUE McLevy ...... Brian Cox TUE Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond TUE Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell TUE Roach ...... David Ashton TUE Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil TUE Boothroyd ...... Andrew Clark TUE Judith ...... Emma Currie TUE Dunsmore ...... Simon Tait TUE Alec ...... Steven McNicoll TUE Minnie ...... Irene Allan TUE Directed by Patrick Rayner. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00lp15p (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and a panel discuss listeners' questions. TUE On the panel are Dr Ros Taylor of Kingston University; TUE Professor Denis Murphy, of the University of Glamorgan; TUE and Professor Philip Stott, Environmental Scientist at the TUE University of London. TUE Is planting German oaks in British woods likely to be a TUE problem? TUE Has anyone shown the relationship between individual TUE wealth and the emission of greenhouse gases? TUE Why do cold oceans support more life than warm seas? TUE Can we plant more forests to reduce the risk of flooding? TUE Do large animals have bigger cells than smaller ones, or TUE do they have more of the same size? TUE Plus a request for your observations of House Martins - TUE have they returned in 2009 and have they bred successfully? TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lp15r (Listen) TUE Stories with Latitude, Drink Nothing TUE Series of three stories, recorded on stage at the Latitude TUE Festival in Suffolk. TUE By Emma Kennedy. Emma's memories of accompanying her TUE parents to hear the Rolling Stones at a rock festival when TUE she was nine offer a hilarious child's-eye view of the TUE event, from the sanitary facilities and the TUE inaccessibility of the ice cream van to the motley crowd TUE of festival goers, the sight of a male streaker and the TUE thrilling arrival of Mick Jagger strutting onto the stage. TUE TUE 15:45 The Inconstant Moon b00lnk9t (Listen) TUE The Earth's Moon TUE Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, author Jeanette TUE Winterson offers a series of reflective readings about the TUE moon. TUE The moon's imprint on our crops, our weather and our tides. TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00lp2hl (Listen) TUE Chris Ledgard considers the use of words to control minds, TUE exploring hypnosis, brainwashing and the recruiting TUE language of cults to find out just how influenced we are TUE by language. TUE Chris is put into an altered state of consciousness by the TUE soothing words of a hypnotherapist, to find out what kind TUE of words are used to do this and how. Some in the medical TUE profession are calling for hypnosis to be used for pain TUE relief during medical procedures such as bone marrow TUE transplantation and cancer treatment. They say that as TUE hypnosis has no side effects it makes the operation TUE quicker, the recovery faster and the cost less than with TUE the use conventional anaesthetic. But does it really work, TUE and if so, how? Chris talks to the scientists currently TUE working on a systematic review to find out. TUE Can talk also be used to control and manipulate us into TUE doing things that we would otherwise not do? Stories of TUE people being indoctrinated into cults usually involve TUE descriptions of brainwashing, corruption and manipulation. TUE But are words really powerful enough to control the mind? TUE Chris talks to an ex-cult member turned rhetorical TUE theorist about how language is used. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00lp2hn (Listen) TUE Kate Mosse talks to gardener and broadcaster Alys Fowler TUE and physicist Prof Athene Donald about their favourite TUE books. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00lnklr (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 b00lnknt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Laurence & Gus: Hearts and Minds b00lp2hq (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE Episode 2: Lying and Honesty TUE Running Order with Writers TUE 1. Lying and Honesty Intro - Laurence Howarth & Gus Brown TUE 2. On the Menu - Lydia Parker and Maureen Oakeley TUE 3. Lying Hat - John-Luke Roberts TUE 4. Fire - Gareth Gwynn TUE 5. Stand and Deliver - Jon Hunter and Holly Walsh TUE 6. Fatty and Baldie - John Finnemore TUE 7. Do Not Be Alarmed 1 - John Finnemore TUE 8. Medieval Song - ISY SUTTIE TUE 9. The Dads Lying - Laurence Howarth TUE 10. Overdose - Jon Hunter and Holly Walsh TUE 11. Eskimos - Gareth Gwynn TUE 12. Do Not Be Alarmed 2 - John Finnemore TUE 13. Cuckoo Interrupted - Jon Lynes and Dan O'Donoghue TUE 14. Lying to my Parents - Jon Hunter and Holly Walsh TUE 15. The Junction - Jon Hunter and Holly Walsh TUE 16. Do Not Be Alarmed 3 - John Finnemore TUE The script editor was Will Ing and the producer was Colin TUE Anderson. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00lng6q (Listen) TUE Fallon's musical dreams hit a duff note. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00lnkq7 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including news of the nominations for TUE the Mercury Prize for album of the year. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsq6v (Listen) TUE The Help, Episode 2 TUE Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, TUE Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to TUE cross the racial lines. TUE Skeeter tries to find out what has happened to her beloved TUE maid Constantine, and Minny settles into her new position TUE as Celia Foote's help. TUE Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons TUE Minny ...... Octavia Spencer TUE Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow TUE Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker TUE Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter TUE Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston TUE Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan TUE Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout TUE Adapted by Penny Leicester. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00lp32g (Listen) TUE Fraud is estimated to cost the UK economy upwards of 14 TUE billion pounds a year, a figure which is expected to rise TUE dramatically during the recession. Gerry Northam TUE investigates whether some of the biggest and most TUE audacious corporate fraudsters are now practically immune TUE from prosecution. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00lp32j (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00lp32l (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter explores how to improve communication TUE between the medical profession and patients. TUE There are always times when a diagnosis is bad news or a TUE treatment has failed. Some doctors have an excellent TUE bedside manner and can talk about the worst with TUE compassion, but there are many who don't naturally have TUE that skill. Mark Porter joins cancer specialist Dr Pauline TUE Leonard as she runs a course for other cancer doctors to TUE train them to give bad news in a more caring way. He finds TUE out if doing role play with actors can change senior TUE specialists' approaches to patients. TUE The experience of being in hospital and undergoing lots of TUE procedures can be daunting for anyone, but particularly TUE for children. They may not understand what the doctors and TUE nurses are telling them. The Chelsea and Westminster TUE Hospital in London is giving each child who is having an TUE operation an age-appropriate DVD that explains what is TUE going to happen to them. The youngest children receive a TUE cartoon and the older ones are given a film presented by TUE other children who have been through the operation in TUE question. Mark talks to the children and the paediatric TUE medical teams to see if the scheme is working. TUE And what happens when patients or their families don't TUE understand English well? Mark sits in on a consultation TUE with an advocate who has to translate both the language TUE and the medical terms. TUE TUE 21:30 Expenses: The MPs' Story b00lvl1s (Listen) TUE In May 2009, a media cyclone hit Westminster. From duck TUE houses to phantom mortgages, stories of MPs' expense TUE claims dominated the news agenda for weeks. The reputation TUE and integrity of parliamentarians - and indeed our system TUE of democracy - was called into question as never before. TUE Faced with unprecedented public anger, most MPs retreated TUE away from the spotlight, aware that public sympathy for TUE their cause, however just, was going to be hard to come by. TUE Becky Milligan reports from inside Parliament about what TUE it was like being an MP during this period, caught in the TUE eye of the expenses hurricane. Speaking candidly, MPs TUE reveal the impact the crisis has had on their political TUE and domestic lives. From disillusionment to death threats, TUE the human fallout has been severe. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00lnkws (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00lnl3t (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Carolyn TUE Quinn. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lnnhk (Listen) TUE The First Men in the Moon, Episode 2 TUE Tim Pigott-Smith reads from the 1901 novel by HG Wells. TUE Cavor and Bedford travel to the moon in a sphere covered TUE with a new material that blocks the effect of gravity, and TUE they encounter a strange new world and new life forms. TUE Abridged by Neville Teller. TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00lp32n (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Arthur Smith invites an audience into his home for music TUE and comedy. TUE Arthur plays host to bright new comedians Nat Luurtsema TUE and Seann Walsh, while rising star Micky Flanagan TUE headlines his front room. In the kitchen, Arthur learns a TUE thing or two about rock 'n' roll from guest band Alabama 3. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00lnnhm (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00lnd8s (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00lqnfp (Listen) WED In the Valley of Mist, Episode 2 WED Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the WED lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed WED territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict. WED The fate of the Pandits, the Kashmiri Hindus, many of whom WED were forced to flee the valley as the conflict took hold. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lndb0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lndh7 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lndg4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00lndjj (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lndrk (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Richard Hill. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00lndt9 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00lnfbv (Listen) WED With Sarah Montague and Edward Stourton. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00lp5gn (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Bill Kenwright. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00lqnfc (Listen) WED In the Valley of Mist, Episode 3 WED Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the WED lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed WED territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict. WED Arshad recounts the unsettling memory of an armed attack WED by militants on his family home. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lnfsh (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Help. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b00lp6dm (Listen) WED Series 10, T Dan Smith WED Contemporary history series. WED T Dan Smith was a political star of the 1960s. As Labour WED leader of Newcastle city council he had plans to turn the WED city into the 'Brasilia of the north' through slum WED clearance, inner city motorways and exciting new WED industries. In 1974, he was jailed for corruption along WED with architect John Poulson. But if he was such a crook, WED why do so many people in the north east still cherish his WED memory? WED WED 11:30 Baggage b00lp6dp (Listen) WED Series 4, The Father, the Mother, the Dead Friend and Her WED Lover WED Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh. WED It's autumn, but life in the flat is still hotting up. An WED unplanned dinner party sets the scene for some serious WED seduction tactics, Hector's secret is finally revealed and WED there is nothing cool about Caroline's temper. WED Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon WED Fiona ...... Phyllis Logan WED Ruth ...... Adie Allen WED Roddy ...... Robin Cameron WED Hector ...... David Rintoul WED Gladys ...... June Watson WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00lnfxp (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Peter White. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00lng00 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00lng46 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00lp6dr (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00lng6q (Listen) WED Fallon's musical dreams hit a duff note. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lp85p (Listen) WED Chronicles of Ait WED By Michael Butt. In the east coast settlement of Ait, a WED young girl is upsetting a normal life with her claims to WED second sight. Psychologist Alice Pyper arrives with WED tried-and-tested solutions but finds that what works WED elsewhere is dangerously ineffectual in Ait. WED Linus Scott ...... Greg Wise WED Alice Pyper ...... Hattie Morahan WED Linny Custer ...... Lydia Fewell WED Maddie Custer ...... Lisa Ellis WED Mrs Flowers ...... Patience Tomlinson WED Alan ...... Bruno Skapensky WED Directed by John Taylor WED A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00lp85r (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer listeners' personal finance WED questions on the subject of divorce and separation. He is WED joined by Liz Welsh, Chair of the Scottish Family Law WED Association; Janet Tresman, a consultant at Piper Smith WED Watton; and Simon Piggot, a partner at Levison, Meltzer, WED Piggot. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lpp9g (Listen) WED Stories with Latitude, Scott Hardy's Queensway Sessions WED Series of three stories, recorded on stage at the Latitude WED Festival in Suffolk. WED By Matt Thorne. Photographer Reuben Cantarini becomes WED obsessed with the work of a brilliant musician called WED Scott Hardy, whose music only exists on the internet until WED Reuben clandestinely tapes a private session. When Hardy's WED death is announced, his cult following grows. Reuben never WED divulges the existence of his bootleg recording, until an WED email from another music collector starts to unravel the WED mystery of his hero's death. WED WED 15:45 The Inconstant Moon b00lnk9w (Listen) WED The Magic Moon WED Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, author Jeanette WED Winterson offers a series of reflective readings about the WED moon. WED Jeanette wonders at spells and futurology, alchemy and WED broomsticks. WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00lpc8f (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00lp32l (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter explores how to improve communication WED between the medical profession and patients. WED There are always times when a diagnosis is bad news or a WED treatment has failed. Some doctors have an excellent WED bedside manner and can talk about the worst with WED compassion, but there are many who don't naturally have WED that skill. Mark Porter joins cancer specialist Dr Pauline WED Leonard as she runs a course for other cancer doctors to WED train them to give bad news in a more caring way. He finds WED out if doing role play with actors can change senior WED specialists' approaches to patients. WED The experience of being in hospital and undergoing lots of WED procedures can be daunting for anyone, but particularly WED for children. They may not understand what the doctors and WED nurses are telling them. The Chelsea and Westminster WED Hospital in London is giving each child who is having an WED operation an age-appropriate DVD that explains what is WED going to happen to them. The youngest children receive a WED cartoon and the older ones are given a film presented by WED other children who have been through the operation in WED question. Mark talks to the children and the paediatric WED medical teams to see if the scheme is working. WED And what happens when patients or their families don't WED understand English well? Mark sits in on a consultation WED with an advocate who has to translate both the language WED and the medical terms. WED WED 17:00 PM b00lnklt (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 b00lnknw (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 4 in a Field b00lpc8h (Listen) WED Stand-up comedy hosted by Australian comic Adam Hills, WED featuring the best comic talent at the 2009 Latitude WED Festival, including Stephen K Amos, Janeane Garofalo, Rob WED Rouse and Rob Deering. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00lng6s (Listen) WED The happy couple return to Ambridge. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00lnkq9 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including a report from the opening WED night of a new stage version of Hanif Kureishi's 1995 WED novel The Black Album. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsq6n (Listen) WED The Help, Episode 3 WED Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, WED Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to WED cross the racial lines. WED Skeeter pursues her potentially explosive idea for a book WED about the daily lives of black maids in Jackson. But will WED anyone agree to be interviewed? WED Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons WED Minny ...... Octavia Spencer WED Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow WED Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker WED Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter WED Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston WED Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan WED Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout WED Adapted by Penny Leicester. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00lpc9l (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Melanie WED Phillips, Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor WED cross-examine witnesses. WED WED 20:45 The Call in the Middle of the Night b00lpc9z (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Who makes the decision to wake presidents and prime WED ministers in the middle of the night to tell them bad WED news? Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former chief of staff, WED interviews key advisers to American presidents and British WED prime ministers to find out whether it is better to wake WED the leader or let sleeping politicians lie. WED WED 21:00 A Life With ... b00lpkd7 (Listen) WED Series 5, Loons WED Writer and naturalist Paul Evans goes to Maine to meet WED David Evers, a conservation biologist who has spent a life WED with loons, the enigmatic bird of northern lakes known in WED the UK as the Great Northern Diver. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00lp5gn (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Bill Kenwright. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00lnkwv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00lnl3x (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lnng2 (Listen) WED The First Men in the Moon, Episode 3 WED Tim Pigott-Smith reads from the 1901 novel by HG Wells. WED The intrepid explorers encounter advanced, intelligent WED beings on the moon, but it is a meeting of worlds that WED proves far from harmonious. WED Abridged by Neville Teller. WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Act Your Age b00fr1tp (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic WED generations against each other to find out which is the WED funniest. With team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter WED and Roy Walker. WED WED 23:30 Whatever Happened To The Working Class b00hkl7g (Listen) WED From Engels to Oasis WED Sarfraz Manzoor examines the forces that have had an WED impact on the traditional 'working class' in Britain. WED After a decade of supposed 'classlessness', the issue of WED class is back on the agenda. Once again, it matters if you WED identify yourself as working class, especially, it seems, WED if you are white. WED Sarfraz visits Manchester, the site of the world's first WED industrial proletariat, where he spent his student years, WED to examine the origins and the modern reality of the WED working class. WED Featuring contributions from Hazel Blears MP, photographer WED Shirley Baker, Leslie Holmes of Salford Lads' Club, author WED Andrew Davies, football fan Colin Hendry, historian Selina WED Todd and resident of the Gorton area of Manchester Audrey WED Hurley. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 JULY 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00lnd8v (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00lqnfc (Listen) THU In the Valley of Mist, Episode 3 THU Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the THU lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed THU territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict. THU Arshad recounts the unsettling memory of an armed attack THU by militants on his family home. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lndb2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lndh9 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lndg6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00lndjl (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lndrm (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Richard Hill. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00lndtc (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. THU THU 06:00 Today b00lnfbx (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lpkfb (Listen) THU Series 5, Transplant THU Series in which Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of THU experts to tackle the ethics involved in a real hospital THU case. THU Charlotte is a young woman in her thirties. Since her THU kidneys failed a few years ago, she spends every night THU attached to a dialysis machine, which cleans the toxins THU from her blood. Dialysis is a life line, but is by no THU means perfect and her long-term outlook is bleak. Doctors THU don't expect her to be alive in a decade: her only hope is THU a kidney transplant from a living donor. THU But Charlotte is an extremely high risk patient. She THU suffers from a severe form of 'sticky blood syndrome', THU where life-threatening clots can form in her circulatory THU system at any time, causing anything from deep vein THU thrombosis to a stroke. THU Charlotte had lost her own kidneys to blood clots, and the THU risk of a donor kidney failing, both during and after the THU operation, are considerable. Family members or a spouse THU could donate if found to be a tissue match. But is it THU ethical to put a healthy person under anaesthetic, and THU remove one of their kidneys, when it could easily fail THU once transplanted into Charlotte? Is this the best use of THU a precious resource? THU One person close to Charlotte is found to be a perfect THU match. But given Charlotte so desperately needs this THU operation, how can the medical team be sure that they THU really wants to donate? How can they ensure that coercive THU forces are not at play? Can a living donor ever be truly THU altruistic? THU If the operation goes ahead, Charlotte's doctor wants to THU try out an experimental procedure to help reduce the risk THU of fatal blood clots during the operation itself, but it THU has never been used in transplant operations before. When THU is it appropriate to use experimental procedures on THU patients? Does the high risk of the organ failing, or THU indeed Charlotte losing her life, make it more ethically THU acceptable? THU Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss THU the thorny ethical issues in this case. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00lqnff (Listen) THU In the Valley of Mist, Episode 4 THU Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the THU lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed THU territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict. THU How the lives of Kashmir's women were altered by the THU conflict. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lnfsk (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Help. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00lygvy (Listen) THU Pakistan THU Bill Law investigates if Pakistani youngsters are in THU danger of joining the ranks of the Taliban or if they are THU fighting back against the extremists. Two-thirds of the THU Pakistani population is under the age of 25. In a country THU under siege from the forces of religious extremism, this THU youth bulge serves as a ticking time bomb. THU THU 11:30 Journey to Armenia: Mandelstam - The Long Desired THU for Voyage b00lpl8p (Listen) THU British writer Toby Litt scours the mountains, lakes and THU capital city of Armenia for traces of a great forebear, THU the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. THU Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight THU months of his stay rediscovered his long-lost poetic voice THU and was inspired to write a prose masterpiece, Journey to THU Armenia. This essay, which is a beautiful, almost Cubist, THU meditation on the country and its ancient culture, forms THU the basis of Toby's quest and his dialogue with the dead THU poet. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00lnfxr (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Shari Vahl. Including Face THU the Facts, presented by John Waite. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00lng02 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00lng48 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00lpl8r (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from THU everyday life. THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00lng6s (Listen) THU The happy couple return to Ambridge. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lpl8t (Listen) THU A Second Life THU Comic drama by Adam Beeson, adapted from a short story by THU the 19th-century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. THU Anxious to avoid all the mistakes in his life, a man THU appeals to Heaven to allow him to be born again with THU 'experience'. But in his second life this precious THU knowledge proves no use at all. THU Father Caldos ...... John Bett THU Jose Maria ...... Richard Conlon THU Dona Clemencia ...... Lucy Paterson THU Lucas ...... John Macaulay THU Prophet Job ...... Mark McDonnell THU Other parts played by the cast. THU Directed by Bruce Young. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00lmpkb (Listen) THU Doggerland THU Helen Mark explores a land lost beneath the waves off the THU Northumbrian coast. THU ‘Doggerland’ is the name for a huge area that, ten THU thousand years ago, before the end of the last Ice Age, THU linked the British Isles with Denmark and Northern THU Germany, a time when the Thames was a tributary of the THU Rhine. Besides speaking to archaeologists who are THU investigating Doggerland, she is joined by the storyteller THU Hugh Lupton who imagines the myths of those long-lost THU hunter-gatherers. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00ln106 (Listen) THU ACE Africa THU Sir Trevor McDonald appeals on behalf of ACE Africa. THU Donations to ACE Africa, should be sent to FREEPOST BBC THU Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope ACE THU Africa. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are THU a UK tax payer, please provide ACE Africa with your full THU name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your THU donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone THU donation facilities are not currently available to THU listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1111283. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lpp9l (Listen) THU Stories with Latitude, Grandfather THU Series of three stories, recorded on stage at the Latitude THU Festival in Suffolk. THU A story written and performed by stand-up comedian Stephen THU K Amos about how a family heirloom has the power to take THU him back to his childhood and a very special relationship. THU THU 15:45 The Inconstant Moon b00lnk9y (Listen) THU The Inconstant Moon THU Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, author Jeanette THU Winterson offers a series of reflective readings about the THU moon. THU The moon in medieval and Renaissance thought. THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00ln2dc (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to Aravind Adiga about his new THU novel Between the Assassinations, written before his first THU book, the Booker Prize -winning novel The White Tiger. The THU title refers to the period between the two assassinations THU of two former prime ministers of India, Indira and her son THU Rajiv Gandhi, and is a sequence of fictional stories set THU in a fictional seaside town Kittur. THU 75 years after JB Priestly's English Journey was THU published, novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge discusses THU Priestly's love of England and the impact of the book, 25 THU years on, from following in Priestly's footstep herself - THU documented as a film and in the book, English Journey or THU the Road to Milton Keynes. THU Also, European writers and their literary love affair with THU the Carribbean, from Jean Rhys's The Wide Sargasso Sea to THU the present, with two new Trinidadian writers Amanda Smyth THU and Monique Roffey, and Carole Angier biographer of Jean THU Rhys. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00lpm1s (Listen) THU Among the cargo Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took to the THU Moon on Apollo 11 in 1969 was an array of mirrors that are THU still, 40 years on, at the forefront of science. By THU bouncing laser beams of light off the mirrors, scientists THU are now able to measure the Moon's position to an accuracy THU of one millimetre. They have already shown that the Moon THU is receding at a speed of nearly four centimetres every THU year. But with these more precise measurements they can THU even test whether Einstein got his theory of gravity THU absolutely right. THU THU 17:00 PM b00lnklw (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 b00lnkny (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Shappi Talk b00lpmz7 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU Comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi examines what it THU is like growing up in multi-cultural families. THU Shappi discusses religion with Bengali comic Paul Sinha THU and chats to former mayor of London Ken Livingstone. THU Plus a song from comedian Hils Barker. THU An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00lng6v (Listen) THU The new Mrs Tucker settles into her role. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00lnkqc (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsq6q (Listen) THU The Help, Episode 4 THU Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, THU Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to THU cross the racial lines. THU Aibileen begins to wonder whether she should take part in THU Skeeter's clandestine writing project, regardless of the THU risks involved. THU Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons THU Minny ...... Octavia Spencer THU Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow THU Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker THU Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter THU Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston THU Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan THU Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout THU Adapted by Penny Leicester. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00lpp1f (Listen) THU British homes for British people: planned changes to the THU way social housing is allocated would give greater THU priority to those waiting the longest. Phil Kemp THU investigates whether this represents a fairer system or THU 'dog whistle' politics. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00lpr3j (Listen) THU Let's Start a Bank THU Now might be a very good time to start a brand new bank, THU unencumbered by the toxic loans and the government THU bailouts of most of the old ones. Peter Day finds out from THU the experts how to start a bank as well as how not to do THU it. THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lpkfb (Listen) THU Series 5, Transplant THU Series in which Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of THU experts to tackle the ethics involved in a real hospital THU case. THU Charlotte is a young woman in her thirties. Since her THU kidneys failed a few years ago, she spends every night THU attached to a dialysis machine, which cleans the toxins THU from her blood. Dialysis is a life line, but is by no THU means perfect and her long-term outlook is bleak. Doctors THU don't expect her to be alive in a decade: her only hope is THU a kidney transplant from a living donor. THU But Charlotte is an extremely high risk patient. She THU suffers from a severe form of 'sticky blood syndrome', THU where life-threatening clots can form in her circulatory THU system at any time, causing anything from deep vein THU thrombosis to a stroke. THU Charlotte had lost her own kidneys to blood clots, and the THU risk of a donor kidney failing, both during and after the THU operation, are considerable. Family members or a spouse THU could donate if found to be a tissue match. But is it THU ethical to put a healthy person under anaesthetic, and THU remove one of their kidneys, when it could easily fail THU once transplanted into Charlotte? Is this the best use of THU a precious resource? THU One person close to Charlotte is found to be a perfect THU match. But given Charlotte so desperately needs this THU operation, how can the medical team be sure that they THU really wants to donate? How can they ensure that coercive THU forces are not at play? Can a living donor ever be truly THU altruistic? THU If the operation goes ahead, Charlotte's doctor wants to THU try out an experimental procedure to help reduce the risk THU of fatal blood clots during the operation itself, but it THU has never been used in transplant operations before. When THU is it appropriate to use experimental procedures on THU patients? Does the high risk of the organ failing, or THU indeed Charlotte losing her life, make it more ethically THU acceptable? THU Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss THU the thorny ethical issues in this case. THU THU 21:45 Top of the Class b00ct9bk (Listen) THU Tasmin Little THU John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and THU takes them back to the places and people they left behind THU but who influenced their later success. THU Internationally acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little returns THU to the Yehudi Menuhin School where she began her musical THU education as a young prodigy at the age of 8. She is THU reunited with her teacher Pauline Scott, who nurtured her THU talent and helped her become the player she is today. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00lnkwx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00lnl3z (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lnng4 (Listen) THU The First Men in the Moon, Episode 4 THU Tim Pigott-Smith reads from the 1901 novel by HG Wells. THU Bedford and Cavor are now fugitives from the moon's THU inhabitants, the Selenites. They discover a new, THU terrifying aspect to life there as they feverishly search THU for their spaceship in order to escape. THU Abridged by Neville Teller. THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Bigipedia b00lpr29 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU The omniscient friend you know from your computer and THU laser watch takes over Radio 4 for 30 minutes in a unique THU experiment in broadwebcasting. THU Written by Nick Doody and Matt Kirshen with Carey Marx, THU Neil Edmond and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. THU Featuring Ewan Bailey, Sam Battersea, Margaret THU Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, THU Melanie Hudson, Lewis MacLeod, Gareth Tunley. THU THU 23:30 Whatever Happened To The Working Class b00hq0n9 (Listen) THU A Taste of Money THU Sarfraz Manzoor examines the forces that have had an THU impact on the traditional 'working class' in Britain. THU After a decade of supposed 'classlessness', the issue of THU class is back on the agenda. Once again, it matters if you THU identify yourself as working class, especially, it seems, THU if you are white. THU Sarfraz is taken on a tour of musical Manchester by DJ THU Dave Haslam, who reveals how the city has reinvigorated THU itself through an association with working class youth THU culture. THU He also talks to a theatre group that creates plays for THU the working people of the city and to Gerald Kaufman MP THU about the role of education in his journey into THU 'classlessness'. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 JULY 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00lnd8x (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00lqnff (Listen) FRI In the Valley of Mist, Episode 4 FRI Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the FRI lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed FRI territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict. FRI How the lives of Kashmir's women were altered by the FRI conflict. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lndb4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lndhc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lndg8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00lndjn (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lndrp (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Richard Hill. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00lndtf (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00lnfbz (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00ln1b2 (Listen) FRI David Mitchell FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian David Mitchell. FRI He has won two Bafta awards and, as a sitcom actor, sketch FRI show writer and humorous columnist, has never been in FRI greater demand. FRI But as a child he was sure he wasn't funny and it was only FRI when he was at university, he says, that he learnt how to FRI have fun. It is now just the rest of his life that he FRI needs to address - beginning, he says, by tidying up his FRI flat and then, maybe, even getting a girlfriend. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00lqnfh (Listen) FRI In the Valley of Mist, Episode 5 FRI Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the FRI lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed FRI territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict. FRI The effects of the conflict are compounded by the 2005 FRI earthquake. Mohammad Dar's tireless work for the relief FRI effort leads him to start a new career as an aid worker. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lnfsm (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Help. FRI FRI 11:00 Blondin of Niagara Falls and Ealing b00lg72f (Listen) FRI Hardeep Singh Kohli walks in the footsteps of the famous FRI tightrope walker Blondin to mark his first crossing of FRI Niagara Falls 150 years ago. FRI Hardeep discovers the continuing appeal of defying gravity FRI from the experiences of circus acrobat Chico, the FRI celebrated 'man on wire' Philippe Petit and the FRI slack-liner Jon Ritson. FRI Tightrope walking hit the big time 150 years ago when FRI Blondin made 16 crossings over the Niagara River. His FRI career lasted until he was 73, when he retired to Niagara FRI House in Ealing, west London. FRI A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b00lq8lk (Listen) FRI Series 2, Gdansk FRI Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny FRI charter airline for whom no job is too small and many jobs FRI are too difficult. FRI When MJN Air is chartered to ferry a chamber orchestra, FRI Carolyn has to deal with the mysterious Case of the FRI Poisoned Cashews, while Martin gets to run through all of FRI the Seven Deadly Sins. FRI Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole FRI First Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam FRI Capt Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore FRI Madame Szyszko-Bohusz ...... Britta Gartner FRI Amsterdam ATC ...... Matt Green FRI Maestro ...... Simon Greenall. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00lnfxt (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00lng04 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00lng4b (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00lq943 (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00lng6v (Listen) FRI The new Mrs Tucker settles into her role. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b0093ws6 (Listen) FRI Investigating Mr Thomas FRI Based on a true story, Rob Gittins's play draws on archive FRI material. FRI When Time magazine printed a warts-and-all article about FRI Dylan Thomas in 1953, the poet sued them for libel. FRI Needing to gather more evidence, the magazine hired a FRI private detective to shadow Thomas in New York. FRI Detective ...... Trevor White FRI Editor ...... Doug Ballard FRI Beth ...... Genevieve Adam FRI Nora ...... Laurel Lefkow FRI Taxi Driver ...... Rhys Parry Jones FRI Guard ...... Richard Elfyn. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lq945 (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Bunny Guinness, John Cushnie, Matthew Biggs and Pippa FRI Greenwood answer questions posed by gardeners in Hampshire. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 The Inconstant Moon b00lnkb0 (Listen) FRI The Mock Moon FRI Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, author Jeanette FRI Winterson offers a series of reflective readings about the FRI moon. FRI Conspiracy theories, James Bond and the great moon hoax. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00lq947 (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. The programme reflects on people of FRI distinction and interest from many walks of life, some FRI famous and some less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00lq949 (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet talks to Sylvia Syms about her career, FRI including roles that range from Ice Cold in Alex to The FRI Queen. Writer, actor and League of Gentlemen member Mark FRI Gatiss presents the first part of his alternative guide to FRI British cinema. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00lnkly (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 b00lnkp0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00lq94c (Listen) FRI Series 28, Episode 5 FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of FRI the week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, FRI Mitch Benn and Marcus Brigstocke. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00lng6x (Listen) FRI Annette shows her animal magnetism. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00lnkqf (Listen) FRI Presented by Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the FRI psychiatrist and director Avie Luthra, whose film Mad, Sad FRI & Bad stars Meera Syal. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsq6s (Listen) FRI The Help, Episode 5 FRI Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, FRI Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to FRI cross the racial lines. FRI Aibileen attempts to persuade Minny to contribute to FRI Skeeter's clandestine writing project. But Minny is going FRI to take some convincing. FRI Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons FRI Minny ...... Octavia Spencer FRI Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow FRI Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker FRI Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter FRI Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston FRI Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan FRI Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout FRI Adapted by Penny Leicester. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00lq94f (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Verwood, FRI Dorset. The panellists are columnist Peter Hitchens, FRI campaigner Peter Tatchell, Minister for the South West Jim FRI Knight and Shadow Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lq99f (Listen) FRI Archaeopteryx FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI Sir David recounts the remarkable story of a feather, like FRI any other feather from a bird - only it was 150 million FRI years old, and the animal that lost it lived when birds FRI had not yet evolved. FRI FRI 21:00 The Inconstant Moon Omnibus b00lq99h (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Omnibus edition of the second half of Jeanette Winterson's FRI series of artistic reflections on the moon. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00lnkwz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00lnl41 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lnng6 (Listen) FRI The First Men in the Moon, Episode 5 FRI Tim Pigott-Smith reads from the 1901 novel by HG Wells. FRI The first moon mission comes to a surprising and FRI unexpected conclusion. FRI Abridged by Neville Teller. FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00lp2hn (Listen) FRI Kate Mosse talks to gardener and broadcaster Alys Fowler FRI and physicist Prof Athene Donald about their favourite FRI books. FRI FRI 23:30 Whatever Happened To The Working Class b00htvd9 (Listen) FRI From Heroes to Zeroes FRI Sarfraz Manzoor examines the forces that have had an FRI impact on the traditional 'working class' in Britain. FRI After a decade of supposed 'classlessness', the issue of FRI class is back on the agenda. Once again, it matters if you FRI identify yourself as working class, especially, it seems, FRI if you are white. FRI The working class may have historically been aligned with FRI the labour movement, but Margaret Thatcher's astute FRI recognition of strong individualistic aspirations - such FRI as the desire to own a home - changed the political FRI landscape in ways that are still evident nearly 30 years FRI on. FRI Sarfraz visits housing estates in Manchester and talks to FRI schoolchildren, academics and politicians about the future FRI of the working class. FRI FRI FRI

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