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

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SAT       SATURDAY 18 JULY 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00lmp9r (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ln09v (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00ln09x (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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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       
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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)
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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.
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