Radio 4 Listings for 15/08/2009 - 21/08/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00lyx7v (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 b00m0lsb (Listen)
SAT       Bluestockings, Episode 5
SAT       Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the
SAT       pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a
SAT       university education.
SAT       Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at
SAT       Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked
SAT       against them. Female brains were considered too small to
SAT       compete with those of men, and the country's leading
SAT       doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs
SAT       would wither and die.
SAT       Although more and more women graduate during the 1920s and
SAT       30s, the Great Depression reinforces the pecking order,
SAT       prioritising jobs for men. While critics begin to wonder
SAT       whether academia is breeding white elephants, the
SAT       bluestockings remain undaunted. While all too many join
SAT       the teaching profession, others venture down unexplored
SAT       career paths as diplomats, aviation engineers, writers and
SAT       lawyers, all paving the way for future generations of
SAT       bright young women.
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SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lyx98 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lyx9b (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lyx9d (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00lyx9g (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lyx9j (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 Backstreet Business b008pxsz (Listen)
SAT       Episode 4
SAT       Nicola Heywood Thomas visits small businesses. Ronnie
SAT       Scott works alone in an ageing Edinburgh workshop,
SAT       repairing bowls which have lost their bias.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00lyxb2 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00m0gd1 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       06:07 Open Country b00m0gd3 (Listen)
SAT       Trouble on the Teifi
SAT       Matt Baker reports on the dispute going on between anglers
SAT       and canoeists on Welsh rivers.
SAT       The River Teifi, almost exactly in the geographical middle
SAT       of Wales, is set against a backdrop of heather moors and
SAT       rugged Cambrian mountains. Matt visits the valley town of
SAT       Llandysul in Ceredigion, which lies along the banks of the
SAT       river.
SAT       The people who use the river are in bitter dispute,
SAT       because Llandysul is one of the most popular places in
SAT       Wales both for freshwater angling and for white-water
SAT       canoeing. The anglers have to pay to fish in the river,
SAT       and the canoeists want access for free. The canoeists are
SAT       campaigning to change the law to allow full access to use
SAT       the river, and the anglers are unhappy about it.
SAT       In fact, this is not just an isolated problem - the Welsh
SAT       Assembly is conducting an inquiry into this issue across
SAT       all rivers in Wales.
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SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00m0gd5 (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       There must be a radical rethink of what we eat and how we
SAT       produce our food; some campaigners and farmers have been
SAT       saying this for years, but now the government is too. It
SAT       has launched its new long-term food strategy addressing
SAT       how we are going to feed ourselves and where that food
SAT       will come from in the light of a rising world population,
SAT       the threat of climate change and water and energy
SAT       shortages. A range of people take to the Farming Today
SAT       soapbox to tell us how we should secure food supplies over
SAT       the next 20 years.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00m0gd7 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00m0gd9 (Listen)
SAT       With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00m0gdc (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Professor
SAT       Anthony Hollander. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00m0gdf (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy explores the Lake District, interesting
SAT       British lakes and rivers and swimming holidays in Finland.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 By Jove Carruthers! b00k8lg1 (Listen)
SAT       Miles Jupp goes in search of the real Carruthers, the
SAT       character who inspired a thousand silly quips and cod
SAT       Edwardian accents. At least seven different Carruthers
SAT       crop up in Edwardian boys' tales, but who exactly was he,
SAT       what did he do, and how did he assume such a strange kind
SAT       of posthumous fame?
SAT       Miles finds out about the Carruthers who appears in the
SAT       Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Solitary
SAT       Cyclist and the one which narrates Erskine Childers' 1903
SAT       spy novel The Riddle of the Sands.
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SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00m0gr2 (Listen)
SAT       Looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster
SAT       parliament.
SAT       The average student debt is now almost 22,000 pounds, and
SAT       is set to increase as universities look to raise the cost
SAT       of tuition. Jim Hancock visits Leeds, a city with one of
SAT       the largest student populations in the country, to talk to
SAT       undergraduates who in some cases will see fees go up by 60
SAT       per cent.
SAT       With 100,000 students registered to vote in Leeds alone,
SAT       could the issue of tuition fees determine the outcome of
SAT       some seats in the next general election?
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SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00m0gr4 (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       Afghanistan's presidential elections, a visit to Delhi's
SAT       Speakers' Corner and a meal in an Iranian restaurant in
SAT       the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
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SAT       12:00 Money Box b00m0gr6 (Listen)
SAT       Money Box: Coping with the Recession, Episode 1
SAT       Penny Haslam looks for advice to help small businesses
SAT       cope with the recession. Many small firms are struggling
SAT       to survive in an economy where customers are tightening
SAT       their belts and banks are reluctant to lend.
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SAT       12:30 The Now Show b00lyx3g (Listen)
SAT       Series 28, Episode 8
SAT       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of
SAT       the week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin,
SAT       Mitch Benn and Andy Zaltzman.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00m0gr8 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00m0grb (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00lyx6c (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Rye, East Sussex.
SAT       The panellists are journalist Toby Young, general
SAT       secretary of the RMT Bob Crow, farmer Oliver Walston and
SAT       literary critic Sarah Churchwell.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00m0grd (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response
SAT       to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00m0grg (Listen)
SAT       Trumbo
SAT       Christopher Trumbo's drama about his father, the American
SAT       screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo's ordeal at the
SAT       hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee and
SAT       its anti-communist witch-hunt.
SAT       Trumbo was one of the original Hollywood Ten - those
SAT       accused in 1947 and subsequently blacklisted, ostracised
SAT       and forced into poverty, obscurity and in some cases
SAT       exile, because of their beliefs.
SAT       The play is based on transcripts of those now notorious
SAT       HUAC hearings and the extraordinary letters written by his
SAT       father during this period, both to his son and to others.
SAT       Dalton Trumbo ...... Corin Redgrave
SAT       Narrator ...... Nick Waring
SAT       Directed by Roger Mitchell.
SAT       A Catherine Bailey Limited production for BBC Radio 4.
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SAT       15:30 Tales Before the Stave b00lybns (Listen)
SAT       Francis Fyfield unpicks the hidden codes of a beautiful
SAT       11th-century manuscript that confirms that the English
SAT       were pioneers of musical notation long before the arrival
SAT       of staves.
SAT       With the help of Professor Susan Rankin and the French
SAT       performer Dominique Vellard, Francis tells the story of
SAT       the Winchester Troper, a tiny book belonging to Corpus
SAT       Christi College, Cambridge, and written in Winchester
SAT       around the year 1030, and how scholars have used it to
SAT       clarify the way musical notation developed in the 11th and
SAT       12th centuries.
SAT       The magical discovery in the Troper was that polyphony,
SAT       the use of two-part harmony, which many thought did not
SAT       appear in manuscript form before the 13th century, was
SAT       actually captured by the cantor scribbling in the Troper
SAT       at a time when Winchester was at the heart of Anglo Saxon
SAT       culture. This little book provides us with insights into
SAT       the soundscape of Edward the Confessor's England.
SAT       But it only does so thanks to the scholars like Susan and
SAT       Dominique who have deciphered what looks like modern
SAT       shorthand notation.
SAT       The programme describes the process of unravelling the
SAT       musical language and how that fits in to the broader story
SAT       of the development of musical notation in Europe. Frances
SAT       tries to get an idea of who this cantor was who managed to
SAT       preserve a golden era of Anglo Saxon music well before the
SAT       universal staves and notes were developed to simplify the
SAT       process.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00m0grj (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Sheila McClennon.
SAT       Including Sara Payne and Shy Keenan on their work to help
SAT       victims of child sex abuse; Bollywood comes to the Proms;
SAT       being positive about pessimism; a marriage made in prison;
SAT       using reminiscence to help people with dementia; the lives
SAT       of Londoners in 1950s Soho; piano duo The Labeque Sisters
SAT       on their classical repertoire.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00m0grl (Listen)
SAT       Saturday PM
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula
SAT       Shah, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 iPM b00m0grn (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m0grq (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00m0grs (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m0grv (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00m0grx (Listen)
SAT       Peter Curran presents an eclectic mix of conversation,
SAT       music and comedy.
SAT       He is joined by the actor Neil Morrissey, conductor
SAT       Charles Hazlewood, choreographer Craig Revel Horwood and
SAT       the entrepreneur and chef Levi Roots.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00m0grz (Listen)
SAT       Hamid Karzai
SAT       Lucy Ash profiles Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan
SAT       and almost certain to win the forthcoming election there.
SAT       Karzai is in a difficult position, though; he has to
SAT       appeal to Western powers embroiled in military efforts to
SAT       extend his authority across his country, but also to
SAT       war-weary Afghans, who resent foreign interference and
SAT       want a return to ancient tribal traditions and values. It
SAT       is a complex balancing act requiring courage, leadership
SAT       and character. Lucy Ash asks if he is up to it.
SAT       Featuring contributions from Christina Lamb, Rory Stewart,
SAT       Jason Amerine, Afghan friends of Karzai, Elizabeth Rubin,
SAT       Jawed Ludin and Christopher Alexander.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00m0gs1 (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe is joined by writer Louise Welsh, musician
SAT       Pat Kane and comedian Danny Robins to discuss the cultural
SAT       highlights of the week, featuring gang violence, writer's
SAT       block and some surprises from Edinburgh.
SAT       Orphans is a new play by Dennis Kelly at Edinburgh's
SAT       Traverse Theatre and opens with Danny (Jonathan
SAT       McGuinness) and Helen (Claire-Louise Cordwell) enjoying a
SAT       candlelit dinner at home. The meal is immediately
SAT       interrupted by Helen's brother Liam (Joe Armstrong) who
SAT       bursts into the room, covered with blood. As his story is
SAT       gradually revealed, Kelly asks us to consider how far we
SAT       would go and what moral compromises we would make to
SAT       protect our families.
SAT       Cary Fukunaga is a film maker who isn't afraid of some
SAT       rigourous research. Prior to making his debut feature Sin
SAT       Nombre, he made several journeys with immigrants on the
SAT       roofs of freight trains, heading north through Mexico in
SAT       search of a new life in the USA. In his film, a young
SAT       woman, Sayra, sets off from Honduras with her father and
SAT       uncle, on this same journey. On the train, they encounter
SAT       Willy, a member of the feared Mara Salvatrucha street
SAT       gang, who is there to steal from the immigrants. Part road
SAT       movie, part love story, it also evokes the marginal world
SAT       of those who risk their lives for the dream of a better
SAT       existence.
SAT       There is a lot of poetry in Nicholson Baker's novel The
SAT       Anthologist. That's because the protagonist, Paul Chowder,
SAT       is a poet who is trying to write a foreword to an
SAT       anthology of rhyming poetry. But his partner, Roz, has
SAT       left him and his life seems to be falling apart, little by
SAT       little. His endless digressions about rhyme, poets and
SAT       poetry cannot disguise the fact that the foreword remains
SAT       unwritten, he is running out of money and may be having
SAT       some kind of a breakdown.
SAT       At the time of the 18th century Enlightenment, Edinburgh
SAT       was fizzing with ideas and questions. For its exhibition
SAT       The Enlightenments, the Edinburgh International Festival
SAT       has brought together work by nine artists, spread across
SAT       various sites in the city, which offers a contemporary
SAT       view of the concepts which were current at the time. They
SAT       include Tacita Dean's film Presentation Sisters, Joseph
SAT       Kosuth's An Interpretation of This Title, and Hark! by
SAT       Gabrielle de Vietri, in which visitors to the Dean Gallery
SAT       have the news headlines sung to them.
SAT       The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival
SAT       in the world, comprising more than 2,000 different shows.
SAT       There was only so much that Tom and his guests could see
SAT       in 24 hours, but they crammed in as much as they could.
SAT       Danny Robins had the credit crunch in mind when he went to
SAT       various events under the Festival For A Fiver banner,
SAT       Louise Welsh was charmed by NIE's My Life With The Dogs,
SAT       Pat Kane had a magical experience at Power Plant in the
SAT       Botanic Garden, and Tom went to gaze at Richard Herring's
SAT       Hitler Moustache.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00ltmpv (Listen)
SAT       Meeting Myself Coming Back, Rev Jesse Jackson
SAT       High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson,
SAT       replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a
SAT       re-examination of their lives.
SAT       Rev Jesse Jackson, a witness to the murder of Martin
SAT       Luther King and the first African-American candidate for
SAT       US President, reflects on his life in sound drawn from a
SAT       half-century of BBC archive. Being close to Dr King during
SAT       the troubled years of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was
SAT       just one of the formative experiences for Jackson. Here he
SAT       listens back to his younger self, recalls his thoughts at
SAT       the time and applies to them the self-knowledge that comes
SAT       from distance.
SAT       Other episodes in his life include addressing the first
SAT       black political rally, negotiating with President Assad of
SAT       Syria over hostages, running twice for US president,
SAT       witnessing the swearing-in of Barack Obama, and most
SAT       recently defending one of America's most controversial
SAT       black icons, Michael Jackson.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00lxwh4 (Listen)
SAT       Ruth, Episode 2
SAT       Dramatisation by Ellen Dryden of the novel by Elizabeth
SAT       Gaskell.
SAT       Abandoned in Wales, Ruth is taken in by the preacher
SAT       Benson and his reluctant sister. The cause of Ruth's
SAT       illness is established and brings with it a secret which
SAT       could destroy her unless it is kept from everyone.
SAT       Ruth ...... Laura Rees
SAT       Benson ...... Anton Lesser
SAT       Faith ...... Anne Reid
SAT       Bellingham ...... Rory Kinnear
SAT       Bradshaw ...... David Schofield
SAT       Sally ...... Marcia Warren
SAT       Jemima ...... Amy Ewbank
SAT       Mrs Bradshaw ...... Abigail Thaw
SAT       Elizabeth ...... Helen Jenkinson
SAT       Mary ...... Daisy Ashford
SAT       Richard/Hickson ...... Dudley Hinton
SAT       Directed by Ellen Dryden.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00m0gys (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Reality Check b00lynzj (Listen)
SAT       Series 2, Episode 3
SAT       Justin Rowlatt presents a discussion series involving
SAT       experts and people closely involved in the issues.
SAT       The growth of surveillance is said to have made Britain
SAT       one of the most watched nations on earth. Faced with the
SAT       threats of crime and terrorism, how do we reconcile the
SAT       demands for the protection of privacy with the benefits to
SAT       security that new surveillance techniques can bring?
SAT       Justin presents a debate between people who seek to
SAT       influence policy with those affected by such policies, and
SAT       asks if surveillance in Britain is out of control.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00lycln (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
SAT       featuring teams from the Midlands and Scotland.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00lxwh8 (Listen)
SAT       Roger McGough presents a special edition devoted to the
SAT       poetry of Tennyson, as part of the poet's bicentenary
SAT       celebrations. Tennyson is one of the most frequently
SAT       requested 19th-century poets on the programme, and this
SAT       edition features readings of his works including The Lady
SAT       of Shallot, The Throstle and Crossing the Bar.
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SUN       SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00m0h0y (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b0081191 (Listen)
SUN       Cheltenham Festival Readings, The Cruise
SUN       Five stories from the 2007 Cheltenham Literature Festival.
SUN       When Kate's parents went on a cruise, she realised they
SUN       would die. Written and read by Anne Enright.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0j4y (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0j50 (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0j52 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00m0j54 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00m0j56 (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from Durham Cathedral.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00m0grz (Listen)
SUN       Hamid Karzai
SUN       Lucy Ash profiles Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan
SUN       and almost certain to win the forthcoming election there.
SUN       Karzai is in a difficult position, though; he has to
SUN       appeal to Western powers embroiled in military efforts to
SUN       extend his authority across his country, but also to
SUN       war-weary Afghans, who resent foreign interference and
SUN       want a return to ancient tribal traditions and values. It
SUN       is a complex balancing act requiring courage, leadership
SUN       and character. Lucy Ash asks if he is up to it.
SUN       Featuring contributions from Christina Lamb, Rory Stewart,
SUN       Jason Amerine, Afghan friends of Karzai, Elizabeth Rubin,
SUN       Jawed Ludin and Christopher Alexander.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00m0j58 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00m0j5b (Listen)
SUN       Follow My Leader
SUN       Mark Tully considers great leaders and the source of their
SUN       power to galvanise the cynical and apathetic on local,
SUN       national and global levels.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 The Living World b00m0jv4 (Listen)
SUN       Cuckoos
SUN       Cuckoos are one of a small group of parasitic birds that
SUN       covertly use other birds to unknowingly rear chicks on
SUN       their behalf. Lionel Kelleway heads to Dartmoor to get
SUN       close to a juvenile cuckoo and its unwitting foster
SUN       parents.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00m0j5g (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 Weather b00m0j5j (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00m0jv6 (Listen)
SUN       Jane Little 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 b00m0jv8 (Listen)
SUN       The International Rescue Committee
SUN       John Hurt appeals on behalf of The International Rescue
SUN       Committee.
SUN       Donations to the International Rescue Committee should be
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SUN       Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax
SUN       payer, please provide the International Rescue Committee
SUN       with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift
SUN       Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation
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SUN       Registered Charity No: 1065972.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00m0jvb (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00m0jvd (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00m0jvg (Listen)
SUN       Rev Dr David Clark, Principal of the Von Hugel Institute,
SUN       Cambridge, preaches at a service from the Church of Our
SUN       Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge, marking the Feast
SUN       of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
SUN       Leader: Monsignor Tony Rogers.
SUN       Music Director: Nigel Kerry.
SUN       Organist: Joseph Fort.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lyx6f (Listen)
SUN       The Serpent's Stare
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       Underground animals are very different to the animals that
SUN       spend their life on the surface. They are a different
SUN       shape, their senses are tuned in a very different way and
SUN       they manifestly come from a different world. Does this
SUN       explain the stare of the snake?
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00m0jvj (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00m0jvl (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00m0jvn (Listen)
SUN       Roberto Alagna
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Roberto Alagna.
SUN       He is one of the most celebrated tenors in the world and
SUN       one half of opera's golden couple; his wife is the soprano
SUN       Angela Gheorghiu.
SUN       Yet, his is not a voice that was honed through early years
SUN       in a conservatoire. He was brought up in Paris in a family
SUN       of keen amateur musicians. He used to sing in nightclubs
SUN       and in those early years, he says, the world of opera was,
SUN       to him, no more than an impossible dream.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 Just a Minute b00lycz6 (Listen)
SUN       Series 55, Episode 3
SUN       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With
SUN       Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair and Charles
SUN       Collingwood.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00m0jvq (Listen)
SUN       Chefs' Choices Number 2: Cauliflowers
SUN       Yotam Ottolenghi, chef and founder of Ottolenghi's food
SUN       shops and restaurant, brings some much-needed passion to
SUN       the neglected cauliflower.
SUN       Cauliflower has fallen from culinary favour, eclipsed by
SUN       its superfood cousin broccoli. Bland, white and often
SUN       smoothered in cheese sauce, the cauliflower is no longer a
SUN       fashionable ingredient, and sales are falling. But are we
SUN       missing out?
SUN       Yotam grew up in Jewish west Jerusalem, while executive
SUN       chef and partner in the business Sami Tamimi grew up in
SUN       the Arab east Jerusalem. Both grew up eating cauliflowers,
SUN       and in this programe are trying to afford the cauliflower
SUN       its rightful place alongside the other members of the
SUN       brassica family, cabbage and brocoli.
SUN       Phillip Effingham is chairman of the British Brassicas
SUN       Association and Director of Farming and Agronomic
SUN       Development at Marshall Bros, growers of cauliflowers in
SUN       Boston, Lincolnshire. Cauliflowers are well suited to the
SUN       rich soils of the Wash, the centre of cauliflower
SUN       production today. The biggest problem for cauliflower
SUN       growers is that its peak season, during the warm summer
SUN       months, coincides with a general drop in sales as shoppers
SUN       turn to salad. Low prices used to encourage sales often
SUN       mean it is not worth growers spending the money to harvest
SUN       them, and excellent quality cauliflowers are left to rot
SUN       in the field.
SUN       But cauliflower is a perfect summer ingredient, and lends
SUN       itself to many different styles of cooking, from
SUN       traditional British to Middle Eastern and Indian. Yotam
SUN       and Sami give the cauliflower the Ottolenghi treatment in
SUN       two dishes: fritters, a dish from Sami's childhood, and
SUN       chargrilled in a salad.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00m0jvs (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00m0jvv (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Music Feature b00c67jq (Listen)
SUN       Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
SUN       Phill Jupitus follows the celebrated ensemble of
SUN       all-singing, all-strumming ukulele players who command a
SUN       cult following. Their unique blend of comedy and music
SUN       fills venues worldwide and boasts many celebrity fans.
SUN       Musicologists explain the finer nuances of their
SUN       subversive and high-quality ukulele playing and
SUN       arrangements.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lywv6 (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew answer
SUN       questions posed by members of St Ann's Allotments in
SUN       Nottingham.
SUN       Matthew introduces Britain's oldest and largest allotment
SUN       site and meets a selection of allotment-holders occupying
SUN       a 670-garden enclosure, including the owners of a
SUN       greenhouse constructed entirely from plastic bottles. He
SUN       also talks to prize-winning fruit grower Adrian Baggley,
SUN       who identifies and propagates rare heritage fruit trees as
SUN       part of the allotments' National Lottery Heritage Project.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 The Tribes of Science b00m0jvx (Listen)
SUN       The Zoologists
SUN       Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied
SUN       disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to
SUN       explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs.
SUN       Peter meets zoologists and spends time at the Institute of
SUN       Zoology at London Zoo. Are the otter specialists as
SUN       quick-witted, sociable and fun as the aquatic animals they
SUN       study? And does the office hierarchy mirror the pecking
SUN       order of the food chain?
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00m0jvz (Listen)
SUN       Ruth, Episode 3
SUN       Dramatisation by Ellen Dryden of the novel by Elizabeth
SUN       Gaskell.
SUN       The unexpected return of Bellingham presents real danger,
SUN       and a distant connection from Ruth's past threatens to
SUN       reveal the truth about Leonard. Meanwhile Mr Bradshaw's
SUN       two eldest children face very different dilemmas.
SUN       Ruth ...... Laura Rees
SUN       Benson ...... Anton Lesser
SUN       Faith ...... Anne Reid
SUN       Bellingham ...... Rory Kinnear
SUN       Bradshaw ...... David Schofield
SUN       Sally ...... Marcia Warren
SUN       Jemima ...... Amy Ewbank
SUN       Mrs Bradshaw ...... Abigail Thaw
SUN       Farquhar ...... Gus Brown
SUN       Mrs Pearson ...... Anna Francolini
SUN       Dr Davies ...... Tim Hardy
SUN       Leonard ...... Jordan Clarke
SUN       Directed by Ellen Dryden.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00m0jw1 (Listen)
SUN       Muriel Gray talks to novelist Diana Evans, who won the
SUN       Orange Award for New Writers in 2005 with her first book,
SUN       26a. She explains how her early experience as a dancer
SUN       inspired her new novel The Wonder, about an all-black
SUN       dance troupe in 1960s Notting Hill.
SUN       Is writing bad for your health? Peter Kemp joins Muriel to
SUN       reveal how the sedentary existence of the novelist can
SUN       conceal major risks and outlines some of the surprising
SUN       injuries caused by the literary life.
SUN       Novelist Patrick Gale offers advice to an Open Book
SUN       listener who's looking for gay fiction that isn't
SUN       depressing or about teenagers.
SUN       And reading dictionaries for fun: author of Schott's
SUN       Miscellany Ben Schott, writer Kevin Jackson and editor of
SUN       Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Camilla Rockwood
SUN       reveal why they enjoy curling up with a reference book.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Ahlberg at 70 b00bvz8x (Listen)
SUN       Janet Ellis meets children's author Allan Ahlberg to
SUN       reflect on his career and influence.
SUN       Allan Ahlberg is an institution in children's literature.
SUN       Books such as Burglar Bill, Each Peach Pear Plum, The
SUN       Jolly Postman and Peepo became immediate hits with parents
SUN       and children and have remained hugely popular ever since.
SUN       Ahlberg has been writing children's fiction for over 30
SUN       years. His popularity is such that he has sold 17 million
SUN       copies of his 150-plus titles. His books are regularly in
SUN       the chart of most-borrowed children's authors, and have
SUN       been in the top ten every year for the past decade.
SUN       Ahlberg was adopted and grew up in the Black Country. At
SUN       the age of 13 he 'became an intellectual snob and joined
SUN       three libraries'. On leaving school he worked as a
SUN       postman, a soldier, a plumber's mate and a gravedigger. It
SUN       was a superintendent of parks and cemeteries that
SUN       suggested Allan become a teacher.
SUN       He began writing in his 30s when his wife Janet asked him
SUN       to write something for her to illustrate. He sought 'to
SUN       produce William Morris books at Penguin prices'.
SUN       Janet Ellis read his books to her children. She uses
SUN       archive, readings and expert opinion to assess Ahlberg's
SUN       life and work.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 The Fraud Capital of Britain b00lyfr8 (Listen)
SUN       Thamesmead was one of the most exciting new towns to be
SUN       built in the 1960s, intended as a vibrant, riverside
SUN       community of 60,000 people in south east London. Forty
SUN       years on, the area is perhaps best known as a notorious
SUN       hub of fraud, dubbed 'Little Lagos' because of its
SUN       association with west African criminal gangs.
SUN       Phil Kemp investigates how this reputation has stuck. He
SUN       talks to a former fraudster and meets residents fighting
SUN       to turn the community around and shake off its
SUN       crime-ridden image.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00m0grz (Listen)
SUN       Hamid Karzai
SUN       Lucy Ash profiles Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan
SUN       and almost certain to win the forthcoming election there.
SUN       Karzai is in a difficult position, though; he has to
SUN       appeal to Western powers embroiled in military efforts to
SUN       extend his authority across his country, but also to
SUN       war-weary Afghans, who resent foreign interference and
SUN       want a return to ancient tribal traditions and values. It
SUN       is a complex balancing act requiring courage, leadership
SUN       and character. Lucy Ash asks if he is up to it.
SUN       Featuring contributions from Christina Lamb, Rory Stewart,
SUN       Jason Amerine, Afghan friends of Karzai, Elizabeth Rubin,
SUN       Jawed Ludin and Christopher Alexander.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m0k51 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00m0k53 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m0k55 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00m0k57 (Listen)
SUN       Clive Coleman introduces his selection of highlights from
SUN       the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       Programmes featured this week were:
SUN       Fry's English Delight - Radio 4
SUN       The Naming of Genes - Radio 4
SUN       No Triumph, No Tragedy - Radio 4
SUN       Reality Check - Radio 4
SUN       The High Price of Alder Hey - Radio 4
SUN       Great Lives - Radio 4
SUN       Archive on 4 - Radio 4
SUN       The Movie That Changed My Life - Radio 2
SUN       Selling Cheese to the Chinese - Radio 4
SUN       Bluestockings - Radio 4
SUN       The Election Agent - Radio 4
SUN       Ballet Russes- Radio 3
SUN       The Long View - Radio 4
SUN       Secrets of the Super Old - Radio 4
SUN       Classical Collection - Radio 3
SUN       The Art of Laughter - Radio 2.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00m0k59 (Listen)
SUN       The grace period is over for Lilian.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00m0k5c (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       Frei asks why communists are still banned from entering
SUN       the USA, and why Delaware is the only state in the Union
SUN       without a national park. Plus, he meets the man who can
SUN       eat a turkey in a matter or minutes when he uncovers the
SUN       world of competitive eating.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008dk9k (Listen)
SUN       An Audience with Max Wall, Foundations of a Wall
SUN       Tony Lidington plays entertainer Max Wall in a series of
SUN       shows recorded before an invited audience at the Concert
SUN       Artistes' Association in Covent Garden.
SUN       Max describes his own comedy dance routine, which
SUN       influenced Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks. He
SUN       recalls his exploits as a successful entertainer in the
SUN       nightclubs of Berlin and Paris, where he performed with
SUN       Maurice Chevalier in the late 1920s.
SUN       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 More or Less b00lyvz9 (Listen)
SUN       Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers
SUN       everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life.
SUN       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00lywv8 (Listen)
SUN       Jane Little presents the obituary series, analysing and
SUN       celebrating the life stories of people who have recently
SUN       died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and
SUN       interest from many walks of life, some famous and some
SUN       less well known.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Face the Facts b00m0k5f (Listen)
SUN       Jobcentre Plus - Not Working
SUN       At a time of record unemployment, more and more people are
SUN       visiting the Jobcentre Plus. There are now over one and a
SUN       half million people claiming Jobseekers Allowance, and
SUN       nearly twice as many people sign on at one of 747
SUN       jobcentres across the UK than since the start of the
SUN       recession.
SUN       This where the new jobless meet their Personal Advisor,
SUN       who is there to help them find a job and assess whether or
SUN       not they are entitled to benefits. It is a key service in
SUN       helping tackle unemployment. But there is concern that
SUN       advisors are not able to deliver the personalised and
SUN       professional service promised by the government because
SUN       they are so badly stretched.
SUN       John Waite asks whether the tough targets imposed on
SUN       Personal Advisors mean they don't have time to help
SUN       jobseekers look for work, only administer benefits. This
SUN       is despite assurances from the Jobcentre Plus that there
SUN       are jobs out there - it boasts that an average of 10,000
SUN       new vacancies are advertised in its offices every day.
SUN       John examines claims that Personal Advisors are
SUN       under-resourced, under-trained, under pressure and
SUN       unprepared for the demands of this growing unemployment
SUN       crisis, and asks how they can provide the personal and
SUN       professional service that is promised, and so desperately
SUN       needed, during the recession.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00m0jv8 (Listen)
SUN       The International Rescue Committee
SUN       John Hurt appeals on behalf of The International Rescue
SUN       Committee.
SUN       Donations to the International Rescue Committee should be
SUN       sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back
SUN       of your envelope the International Rescue Committee.
SUN       Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax
SUN       payer, please provide the International Rescue Committee
SUN       with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift
SUN       Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation
SUN       facilities are not currently available to listeners
SUN       without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 1065972.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00lytq4 (Listen)
SUN       Women's Work
SUN       Some business leaders think that the credit crunch crisis
SUN       marks a great opportunity for women. Peter Day asks
SUN       whether female skills can help to guide the world out of
SUN       the ruins.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00m0k5h (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00m0k5k (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       The Election Agent.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00lywvb (Listen)
SUN       British actress Jean Kent on James Mason, Stewart Granger
SUN       and why Marilyn Monroe was a bit grubby.
SUN       Christoph Walz reveals why he turned down every Nazi
SUN       officer role he has been offered, except for one Quentin
SUN       Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
SUN       Mark Gatiss picks a neglected classic from the 1960s.
SUN       Critic Jane Graham enters the fourth dimension with The
SUN       Time Traveler's Wife.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00m0j5b (Listen)
SUN       Follow My Leader
SUN       Mark Tully considers great leaders and the source of their
SUN       power to galvanise the cynical and apathetic on local,
SUN       national and global levels.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00m0rdf (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lynzd (Listen)
MON       Laurie Taylor explores the myths and enduring realities of
MON       the British police with Clive Emsley and Dick Hobbs.
MON       Robert Peel brought the Metropolitan Police Force into
MON       being in 1829; it was a centralised body of 3,000
MON       uniformed men expected to patrol designated areas. They
MON       were the original 'Bobbies on the Beat'. However, in an
MON       age of mass public protests, Chartism and agitation for
MON       electoral reform, the police were founded more as a
MON       response to a crisis in public order than in a move to
MON       protect private property. The Weekly Dispatch of 1829
MON       warned, 'The New Police is a military body employed in
MON       civil duties ... it is a powerful engine in the hands of
MON       government, and may be employed for the suppression of
MON       public freedom.' How much has changed?
MON       Laurie also discusses the worldwide influence of the
MON       Scottish diaspora and asks why such an enormous number
MON       Scots left their country of birth even when times were
MON       good. Tom Devine enlightens Laurie ahead of his talk at
MON       the Festival of Politics in Edinburgh.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00m0j56 (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from Durham Cathedral.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0rph (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0s02 (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0rzp (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00m0s59 (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m0sdz (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00m64f4 (Listen)
MON       Organic farmers in Wales say they could be forced out of
MON       business by changes to their subsidy payment. The Welsh
MON       Assembly is replacing three schemes with the new Glastir
MON       payment. Farmers say some will lose 80 per cent of their
MON       money, making it unviable to keep going.
MON       We eat more than 800 million ready meals a year in the UK,
MON       more than any other country in Europe; Caz Graham asks if
MON       we are we about to change our ways.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00m0z1k (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00m0svx (Listen)
MON       With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
MON       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Peston and the Money Men b00m0z1m (Listen)
MON       John Gieve
MON       As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown
MON       approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks
MON       to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm.
MON       Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic
MON       catastrophe and what are the long term consequences?
MON       As a senior civil servant at the home office, John Gieve
MON       had been grilled by select committees over prisoner
MON       releases and charged with investigating allegations of
MON       ministerial impropriety. But if he had hoped for a
MON       graceful denouement at the end of his 40-year career, he
MON       was out of luck.
MON       Gieve joined the Bank of England in 2006; less than two
MON       years later he would be called on to help form a rescue
MON       plan as bank after bank teetered on the brink of collapse.
MON       
MON       09:30 The Call b00m0z1p (Listen)
MON       The Transplant
MON       Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made
MON       life-changing phone calls.
MON       Tony Roth suffered his first heart attack when he was in
MON       his early 30s. Within six months he had a triple bypass
MON       operation, but two more heart attacks and more bypass
MON       surgery followed. In failing heath, he was forced to give
MON       up work, and waited for the call to tell him that a donor
MON       heart was available.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00m82z8 (Listen)
MON       My Father's Places, Episode 1
MON       Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her
MON       childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her
MON       father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin.
MON       Aeronwy and her parents move into the Boat House in
MON       Laugharne.
MON       Abridged by Jane Marshall
MON       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m0v36 (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       Including:
MON       In an attempt to win a marginal seat in September 2009's
MON       general election in Germany, the Christian Democrat
MON       candidate Vera Lengsfeld has produced billboard posters
MON       with images of herself and of German chancellor Angela
MON       Merkel displaying their generous cleavages and the
MON       strapline 'We have more to offer'. So how much cleavage
MON       should a woman show? And if you're a politician, should
MON       you be showing it off at all?
MON       Domnica Radulescu grew up under the shadow of the Romanian
MON       dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. It was an era characterised by
MON       food queues, censorship and suspicion, with the
MON       ever-present threat of 'disappearance' at the hands of the
MON       secret police. In 1981, when she was 20, she won the
MON       National Prize for Short Story Writing, but left Romania a
MON       few years later under the pretence of taking a holiday in
MON       Italy. Once there, she claimed political asylum in
MON       America, where she now teaches French and Italian
MON       literature and women's studies at Washington and Lee
MON       University in Virginia. She talks to Jane about her debut
MON       novel Train to Trieste, which is based on the events of
MON       her life.
MON       As part of a new project, families who have lost a loved
MON       one in military service have been spending their holidays
MON       together. Woman's Hour hears how from some of the women
MON       and children who have been attending the new activity
MON       break camps. Jane will be finding out just what support is
MON       available to families who lose loved ones while on active
MON       service.
MON       And reporter Jane Corbin has recently come back from
MON       another trip to Afghanistan, where she heard the stories
MON       of the women living there. She examined whether their
MON       situation has improved since the fall of the Taliban and
MON       met women who are putting their lives at risk in order to
MON       create an equal society. She talks to Jane about what she
MON       discovered.
MON       
MON       11:00 Mind Changers b00m0zz3 (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Arden House
MON       Claudia Hammond presents a series looking at the
MON       development of the science of psychology during the 20th
MON       century.
MON       She re-visits Ellen Langer and Judith Rodin's 1976 study,
MON       conducted in a New England nursing home, Arden House.
MON       When the two psychologists set up the experiment so that
MON       residents on two floors of the 360-bed home for the
MON       elderly would experience some changes in their everyday
MON       life, they had no idea that they were introducing factors
MON       which could prolong life.
MON       While residents on both floors were given plants and film
MON       shows, only those on the fourth floor had the opportunity
MON       to control these events: choosing the plant and looking
MON       after it themselves, and choosing which night of the week
MON       to view the film.
MON       Eighteen months later, when Langer and Rodin returned to
MON       the home, they were astonished to discover that twice as
MON       many of the elderly residents in this 'choices' group were
MON       alive, compared with the control group on the second
MON       floor, who had been given plants that the staff tended,
MON       and were told which was their film night. It appeared that
MON       taking control made you live longer.
MON       These findings fit in well with the work on learned
MON       helplessness in dogs which Martin Seligman had done in the
MON       late 1960s, and on Langer and Rodin's own studies on the
MON       perception of control.
MON       Claudia Hammond meets Ellen Langer, now Professor of
MON       Psychology at Harvard, and hears about Arden House and the
MON       work she has gone on to do on what she calls
MON       'mindfulness'. She visits Arden House, which is still a
MON       nursing home, and is shown around by current administrator
MON       Joanne Scafati.
MON       Dr Zelda Di Blasi, who lectures in psychology at
MON       University College, Cork, sets the study in context, and
MON       Rosalie Kane, Professor of Public Health at the University
MON       of Minnesota, and Howard Kaplan, CEO of City Club Living
MON       accommodation for the elderly, discuss the impact of
MON       Langer/Rodin on care of the elderly.
MON       
MON       11:30 Hazelbeach b00m0zz5 (Listen)
MON       Series 2, Episode 6
MON       Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford,
MON       featuring likeable conman Ronnie Hazelbeach and his
MON       hapless friend, Nick.
MON       Nick and Ronnie discover that there is a fate worse than
MON       James.
MON       Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman
MON       Nick ...... Paul Bazely
MON       James ...... Neil Stuke
MON       Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles
MON       Vince ...... David Hargreaves
MON       Joe Snow ...... David Stafford
MON       Directed by Marc Beeby.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00m0vt0 (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00m0vvc (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00m0vy6 (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00m107y (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
MON       featuring teams from Wales and Northern Ireland.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00m0k59 (Listen)
MON       The grace period is over for Lilian.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00m1082 (Listen)
MON       Rep
MON       By Jonathan Holloway. Actor George Friendly has just
MON       started work in one of Britain's last surviving seaside
MON       repertory theatres. His first part is in Clubfoot the
MON       Avenger, and he thinks he knows how the rest of the summer
MON       is going to go.
MON       George ...... Jay Villiers
MON       Florence ...... Lucy Liemann
MON       Vivian/Derek ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
MON       Rupert/Cafe owner ...... Mark Meadows
MON       Raymond/Earl ...... Paul Mundell
MON       Directed by Tim Dee.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00ltmpv (Listen)
MON       Meeting Myself Coming Back, Rev Jesse Jackson
MON       High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson,
MON       replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a
MON       re-examination of their lives.
MON       Rev Jesse Jackson, a witness to the murder of Martin
MON       Luther King and the first African-American candidate for
MON       US President, reflects on his life in sound drawn from a
MON       half-century of BBC archive. Being close to Dr King during
MON       the troubled years of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was
MON       just one of the formative experiences for Jackson. Here he
MON       listens back to his younger self, recalls his thoughts at
MON       the time and applies to them the self-knowledge that comes
MON       from distance.
MON       Other episodes in his life include addressing the first
MON       black political rally, negotiating with President Assad of
MON       Syria over hostages, running twice for US president,
MON       witnessing the swearing-in of Barack Obama, and most
MON       recently defending one of America's most controversial
MON       black icons, Michael Jackson.
MON       
MON       15:45 Tea and Biscuits b00m0w31 (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge
MON       in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
MON       Hardeep joins a group enjoying tea and biscuits before
MON       they take part in their British Citizenship ceremony at
MON       Brent Town Hall.
MON       A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00m0jvq (Listen)
MON       Chefs' Choices Number 2: Cauliflowers
MON       Yotam Ottolenghi, chef and founder of Ottolenghi's food
MON       shops and restaurant, brings some much-needed passion to
MON       the neglected cauliflower.
MON       Cauliflower has fallen from culinary favour, eclipsed by
MON       its superfood cousin broccoli. Bland, white and often
MON       smoothered in cheese sauce, the cauliflower is no longer a
MON       fashionable ingredient, and sales are falling. But are we
MON       missing out?
MON       Yotam grew up in Jewish west Jerusalem, while executive
MON       chef and partner in the business Sami Tamimi grew up in
MON       the Arab east Jerusalem. Both grew up eating cauliflowers,
MON       and in this programe are trying to afford the cauliflower
MON       its rightful place alongside the other members of the
MON       brassica family, cabbage and brocoli.
MON       Phillip Effingham is chairman of the British Brassicas
MON       Association and Director of Farming and Agronomic
MON       Development at Marshall Bros, growers of cauliflowers in
MON       Boston, Lincolnshire. Cauliflowers are well suited to the
MON       rich soils of the Wash, the centre of cauliflower
MON       production today. The biggest problem for cauliflower
MON       growers is that its peak season, during the warm summer
MON       months, coincides with a general drop in sales as shoppers
MON       turn to salad. Low prices used to encourage sales often
MON       mean it is not worth growers spending the money to harvest
MON       them, and excellent quality cauliflowers are left to rot
MON       in the field.
MON       But cauliflower is a perfect summer ingredient, and lends
MON       itself to many different styles of cooking, from
MON       traditional British to Middle Eastern and Indian. Yotam
MON       and Sami give the cauliflower the Ottolenghi treatment in
MON       two dishes: fritters, a dish from Sami's childhood, and
MON       chargrilled in a salad.
MON       
MON       16:30 Beyond Belief b00m10h7 (Listen)
MON       God and Neuroscience
MON       Ernie Rea and guests discuss what cognitive neuroscience
MON       is revealing about belief in God. What does research into
MON       our brain indicate about religious and spiritual
MON       experiences?
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00m0xwm (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 b00m0xwz (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 Just a Minute b00m10h9 (Listen)
MON       Series 55, Episode 4
MON       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The
MON       panellists are Paul Merton, Shappi Khorsandi, Gyles
MON       Brandreth and Kit Hesketh-Harvey.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00m0w08 (Listen)
MON       Helen gets back in the game with Leon.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00m0ybx (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a review
MON       of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's film about a
MON       group of Jewish-American soldiers who attack Nazis in
MON       occupied France during the Second World War.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m0v38 (Listen)
MON       Five Wedding Dresses, True Love
MON       Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for
MON       wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of
MON       the dress itself.
MON       Maggie's dress is so beautiful she can't bear to take it
MON       off.
MON       Maggie ...... Olivia Colman
MON       Eric ...... Trystan Gravelle
MON       Air Steward ...... Gunnar Cauthery
MON       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
MON       
MON       20:00 A Moment Too Soon b00l54wj (Listen)
MON       Vivienne Parry talks to the doctors, researchers and
MON       parents involved in, and who have experienced, pre-term
MON       birth to find out how the UK is going to cope with its
MON       premature future.
MON       Premature birth in the UK is costing the NHS an estimated
MON       extra one billion pounds a year, causing distress and
MON       challenges to families and doctors, but science in many
MON       cases still does not seem to know why seven per cent of
MON       babies in the UK are born prematurely.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00m9jff (Listen)
MON       VenIran
MON       Apart from being oil producers, Venezuela and Iran
MON       seemingly have little in common, but over the last five
MON       years they have grown increasingly close. The relationship
MON       has caused a good deal of international disquiet. Rumours
MON       abound about uranium sales and terrorist cells, but the
MON       Venezuelan government denies the claims and insists that
MON       it is all about economic development. Linda Pressly sifts
MON       the evidence in Caracas.
MON       
MON       21:00 Why Do the British Love Wildlife? b008m7zk (Listen)
MON       Francesco Da Mosto leaves his native Italy to explore the
MON       apparent special relationship between the British and the
MON       natural world. From buzzards to hedgehogs or dormice to
MON       snails, we seem to love them all, but why? Francesco
MON       discovers that the answer seems to lie in the 19th century.
MON       
MON       21:30 Peston and the Money Men b00m0z1m (Listen)
MON       John Gieve
MON       As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown
MON       approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks
MON       to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm.
MON       Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic
MON       catastrophe and what are the long term consequences?
MON       As a senior civil servant at the home office, John Gieve
MON       had been grilled by select committees over prisoner
MON       releases and charged with investigating allegations of
MON       ministerial impropriety. But if he had hoped for a
MON       graceful denouement at the end of his 40-year career, he
MON       was out of luck.
MON       Gieve joined the Bank of England in 2006; less than two
MON       years later he would be called on to help form a rescue
MON       plan as bank after bank teetered on the brink of collapse.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00m0ydg (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00m0yrr (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lrqhw (Listen)
MON       Travels Through France and Italy, Episode 1
MON       Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias
MON       Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey,
MON       determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy
MON       with what he found there.
MON       The road from Dover to Calais provides endless opportunity
MON       to be lodged uncomfortably, fed indifferent food and
MON       robbed on every occasion.
MON       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 Word of Mouth b00lyfm6 (Listen)
MON       The dentist's chair, the taxi rear seat, the hairdresser's
MON       salon; just what are the rules of conversational
MON       engagement for these everyday encounters? Chris Ledgard
MON       goes for a ride, a trim and a filling to find out.
MON       
MON       23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00f9k6n (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Five Units on Fazeley Street
MON       Documentary series telling original stories about real
MON       lives in Britain today.
MON       Alan Dein meets the diverse group of people that work in
MON       the units of Birmingham's Fazeley Street industrial
MON       estate, where every unit tells a story.
MON       As the sun rises over this ramshackle grouping of
MON       canalside workshops, warehouses and offices, an unexpected
MON       array of characters set about their diverse businesses.
MON       Whatever their line, industry is very firmly the name of
MON       the game here. At 7.30am sharp, workaholic Roger opens up
MON       Clifton Steel and starts his daily rounds checking stock.
MON       Surveying his vast stockyard and reflecting on life in the
MON       steel business, he proudly proclaims, 'I'm an
MON       industrialist'.
MON       Next door, young Adam is starting his first car window
MON       tinting job of the day, a blue VW. Heatgun in hand, he
MON       talks of the skill required to do it properly, declaring,
MON       'I'm an artist'. Upstairs, solitary Derek - a real Mr
MON       Fixit - is slowly but assiduously drilling 300 precision
MON       steel components, alone in his workshop save for the
MON       accompaniment of classical music.
MON       Their businesses are different but their hopes and fears
MON       strikingly similar. They talk of the influence of their
MON       fathers - for good or ill - their fears for the future and
MON       their pride in a job well done.
MON       But as night settles and the industry ceases, Fazeley
MON       Street shifts gear. Adam finishes his last tint of the
MON       day, Derek drills his final hole and next door a group of
MON       20 African evangelists don white gowns and prepare to
MON       praise God, while slick young rockers Copter rehearse at
MON       full volume for their next gig.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 18 AUGUST 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00m0rdh (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00m82z8 (Listen)
TUE       My Father's Places, Episode 1
TUE       Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her
TUE       childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her
TUE       father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin.
TUE       Aeronwy and her parents move into the Boat House in
TUE       Laugharne.
TUE       Abridged by Jane Marshall
TUE       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0rmx (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0rzr (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0rpk (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00m0s51 (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m0s7w (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00m0sf1 (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00m0sq6 (Listen)
TUE       With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
TUE       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 Fry's English Delight b00m15v8 (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Speaking Proper
TUE       Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the
TUE       English language.
TUE       It may be that elocution classes for children are being
TUE       replaced with 'presentation skills' courses for adults,
TUE       but we still see effective communication as the key to
TUE       success. Stephen announces a field day for pedants in his
TUE       investigation into what nowadays counts as 'speaking
TUE       proper'.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00m17q8 (Listen)
TUE       The Lost Career of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
TUE       Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick
TUE       Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very
TUE       different missing works of art.
TUE       Architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh
TUE       is internationally celebrated as one of the most
TUE       significant talents of the late-19th and early-20th
TUE       centuries. His creative genius and contribution to modern
TUE       architecture and design is unquestioned, with his design
TUE       for the Glasgow School of Art undoubtedly his masterpiece.
TUE       But commissions were few and support for his work limited.
TUE       Rick examines Mackintosh's life and work and asks why he
TUE       received so little support during his lifetime.
TUE       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00m82yr (Listen)
TUE       My Father's Places, Episode 2
TUE       Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her
TUE       childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her
TUE       father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin.
TUE       While her father composes Under Milk Wood in the garden
TUE       shed, Aeronwy makes as much noise as she can outside.
TUE       Abridged by Jane Marshall
TUE       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m0tzh (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Five Wedding Dresses.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00m17qb (Listen)
TUE       Series 3, Episode 1
TUE       Brett Westwood encounters the large blue butterfly on the
TUE       Somerset Downs, which was reintroduced 25 years ago after
TUE       being declared extinct in 1979. It has become established
TUE       there with the help of scientists who have unravelled its
TUE       bizarre, carnivorous life cycle. The large blue's
TUE       caterpillar spends most of its life in the nests of ants
TUE       who milk it for its sweet honeydew, but as Brett
TUE       discovers, the ants get more than they bargained for.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 With Great Pleasure b00m17qd (Listen)
TUE       Stuart Maconie
TUE       Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing.
TUE       Writer and DJ Stuart Maconie presents a selection of
TUE       favourite verse and prose illustrating some personal
TUE       memories, in front of an audience at the Latitude
TUE       Festival. The readers are Michael Maloney and Lucy Briers.
TUE       Stuart has a wide-ranging fan base thanks to his eclectic
TUE       body of work; in addition to having written several books
TUE       on music and travel, he is a frequent contributor to
TUE       magazines including the Radio Times, a regular guest on
TUE       television programmes and an established part of the radio
TUE       schedules on Radio 2 and 6 Music.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00m0vqz (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00m0vt2 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00m0vxv (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Luting the Past b00m17qg (Listen)
TUE       Celebrated soprano Emma Kirkby tells the story of a unique
TUE       musical instrument, a 400 year old lute whose ancient wood
TUE       presents a vivid window into a golden age of music making.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00m0w08 (Listen)
TUE       Helen gets back in the game with Leon.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00bw01g (Listen)
TUE       The Highest Tide
TUE       Jim Lynch's coming-of-age adventure story set on the
TUE       Pacific Coast, adapted by Rebecca Trick-Walker.
TUE       Thirteen-year-old Miles escapes the fallout of his
TUE       parents' impending divorce by taking his kayak out on the
TUE       mudflats at night, looking for rare sea creatures to sell
TUE       to the local aquarium. One night, he comes across a
TUE       remarkable sight.
TUE       Miles ...... Forrest Landis
TUE       Florence ...... Katherine Helmond
TUE       Angie ...... Missy Yager
TUE       Professor Kramer ...... David Selby
TUE       Mom ...... Shannon Cochran
TUE       TV Reporter ...... Kirsten Potter
TUE       Directed by Kate McAll.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00m17qj (Listen)
TUE       A good night's sleep is one of life's simple pleasures,
TUE       and a lack of sleep can cause all sorts of problems from
TUE       simple irritation to dramatic hallucinations. Give a
TUE       thought, then, to animals who are often on the go for long
TUE       periods of time. Do they suffer from sleep deprivation or
TUE       have they developed ways of avoiding the consequences of
TUE       too little rest?
TUE       Sadly, many of the UK's rivers carry a burden of rubbish,
TUE       plastics, supermarket trolleys and the like. Is there, you
TUE       ask, a system that filters out this debris and stops it
TUE       heading out to see, or will those floating plastic bottles
TUE       one day make it to the ocean?
TUE       Plus the puzzle of the water-smooth pebbles buried deep in
TUE       a clay bed, the possible fishery-protection role of
TUE       windfarms and when will new types of new energy production
TUE       technologies be up and running?
TUE       Answering theSE questions are marine biologist Prof Graham
TUE       Underwood, alternative energy expert Dr Nick Riley and
TUE       Prof Philip Stott. As always we want to hear your comments
TUE       on the topics discussed and any questions you might want
TUE       to put to future programmes.
TUE       Don't forget we want to hear your observations of House
TUE       Martins; have they returned this year and when, and have
TUE       they bred successfully?
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m175f (Listen)
TUE       Pavilion Pieces, The Prince's Favourite
TUE       Short stories by new writers.
TUE       By Emma Barnes.
TUE       In 1820s Brighton an elderly lady, on a tour of the Royal
TUE       Pavilion with her nieces, has a very particular story to
TUE       tell.
TUE       Read by Claire Skinner.
TUE       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 Tea and Biscuits b00m5qjb (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge
TUE       in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
TUE       After you give blood at one of the National Blood Service
TUE       Centres, tea and biscuits are on the menu to restore the
TUE       donors. Hardeep meets those about to offer their own
TUE       life-giving liquid, and enjoy the warm offering afterwards.
TUE       A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Word of Mouth b00m17ql (Listen)
TUE       The Plain English Campaign is 30 years old this summer,
TUE       but are they champions of common sense and clarity, or a
TUE       self-appointed censor? Chris Ledgard talks to their
TUE       founder and gets some lessons in language.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00m17y6 (Listen)
TUE       Series 19, John Cornford
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       George Galloway chooses British poet and political
TUE       activist John Cornford, who died at the age of 21 fighting
TUE       fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Professor Stan Smith
TUE       joins in the discussion.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00m0xt4 (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 b00m0xwq (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Laurence & Gus: Hearts and Minds b00m17y8 (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 6
TUE       Comic sketches starring Laurence Howarth and Gus Brown.
TUE       Sketches on the theme of 'Remembering and Forgetting'.
TUE       With Duncan Wisbey, Isy Suttie and Kate Fleetwood.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00m0vzt (Listen)
TUE       Jim opts for life in the fast lane.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00m0y9f (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an
TUE       interview with dialect coach Penny Dyer, who reveals the
TUE       secrets to perfecting an accent.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m0vh7 (Listen)
TUE       Five Wedding Dresses, The Rescue
TUE       Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for
TUE       wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of
TUE       the dress itself.
TUE       Lauren resorts to drastic measures to stop her sister
TUE       getting married.
TUE       Lauren ...... Bethany Filler
TUE       Dwayne ...... Verelle Roberts
TUE       Charlene ...... Jade Williams
TUE       Jackie ...... Elaine Lordan
TUE       Patrick ...... Alex Lanipekun
TUE       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 It's My Story b00m15s8 (Listen)
TUE       Father Farewell
TUE       Since the age of 16, Tinu Adeniji Adele has shared her
TUE       life with the Radio 4 audience, including her quest to
TUE       meet the Nigerian father she never knew. Finally reunited
TUE       in 2002, she confronted him with many questions and began
TUE       to come to terms with her Nigerian legacy.
TUE       She faces the realisation that she is both a London girl
TUE       and a true Princess of Lagos. Returning to the bustle of
TUE       Lagos, she now marks his passing and closes a chapter of
TUE       her life.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00m18n1 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00m18n3 (Listen)
TUE       Blood Clots
TUE       Up to 25,000 hospital patients die every year in England,
TUE       of which only around 1,500 are from hospital superbugs.
TUE       Doctors at King's College hospital in London are leading
TUE       the way in trying to cut the number of deaths by assessing
TUE       the risk to surgical patients and giving preventative
TUE       treatments.
TUE       Dr Mark Porter hears from patients who have had clots in
TUE       their legs travel up to their lungs, known as a pulmonary
TUE       embolism, and finds out what you should do to prevent risk
TUE       if you end up in hospital.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 Forbidden Families b00cxr1k (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Bettany Hughes tells the stories of remarkable women
TUE       denied their families by the march of history.
TUE       Destined to live the life of a rural housewife in Tudor
TUE       England, Anne Askew married and had two children. But a
TUE       new religious faith, Protestantism, came between her and
TUE       her staunchly Catholic husband.
TUE       Her new-found faith tore her family apart, causing her to
TUE       leave her children to follow her God and to enter the
TUE       deadly games of the Tudor court. Bettany follows her
TUE       transformation from mother to martyr.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00m0ybz (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00m0ydj (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0yrt (Listen)
TUE       Travels Through France and Italy, Episode 2
TUE       Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias
TUE       Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey,
TUE       determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy
TUE       with what he found there.
TUE       It seems impossible to find the right kind of coach in
TUE       France, and Smollett is unimpressed with both Versailles
TUE       and Paris fashion.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Heresy b00bzdgj (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 5
TUE       Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges
TUE       established ideas. Guests are Sue Perkins, Rev Richard
TUE       Coles and Simon Evans.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 The Hollow Men b0089k4c (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 3
TUE       Comic sketch show written and performed by David Armand,
TUE       Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner, with Katy
TUE       Brand.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 19 AUGUST 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00m0rdk (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00m82yr (Listen)
WED       My Father's Places, Episode 2
WED       Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her
WED       childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her
WED       father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin.
WED       While her father composes Under Milk Wood in the garden
WED       shed, Aeronwy makes as much noise as she can outside.
WED       Abridged by Jane Marshall
WED       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0rmz (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0rzt (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0rpm (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00m0s53 (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m0s7y (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00m0sf3 (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00m0sq8 (Listen)
WED       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Between Ourselves b00m195y (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Episode 3
WED       Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together
WED       two people who have had profound and similar experiences,
WED       to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term
WED       effects on each of their lives.
WED       Olivia talks to two chefs about their careers: Michael
WED       Caines, a Michelin-starred chef who lost his right arm in
WED       a car accident, and Irish chef Darina Allen, who runs the
WED       famous Ballymaloe cookery school in Cork. They reveal
WED       their worst days in the kitchen - involving an undercooked
WED       duck and a temperamental French chef with a cold - and
WED       discuss how fine restaurants can survive in the recession.
WED       
WED       09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A
WED       b00m19m2 (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Rosie Goldsmith goes behind the scenes at London's
WED       Victoria and Albert Museum as it attempts to transform
WED       itself from 'the nation's attic' to a 'very amazing'
WED       modern museum.
WED       Rosie goes backstage to examine the concept of the
WED       blockbuster exhibition.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00m82yt (Listen)
WED       My Father's Places, Episode 3
WED       Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her
WED       childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her
WED       father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin.
WED       When life gets too much at the Boat House for the young
WED       Aeronwy, she finds sanctuary with her grandmother at the
WED       Pelican.
WED       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
WED       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m0tzk (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Five Wedding Dresses.
WED       
WED       11:00 Written in Stone b00lyfl3 (Listen)
WED       Llewelyn Morgan tells the story of how an ancient stone
WED       inscription came to the National Museum of Afghanistan in
WED       Kabul.
WED       The journey that the Rabatak Inscription took is a tale of
WED       determination and bravery, passing through the hands of an
WED       Afghan warlord called Sayad Jafar Naderi, British
WED       archaeologist Jonathan Lee and also the Taliban. It is now
WED       the job of Omar Khan Masoudi, director of the National
WED       Museum, to keep it safe and reunite it with other Afghan
WED       treasures that are currently abroad.
WED       The programme explores the lengths to which people have
WED       gone to protect the archaeological and cultural heritage
WED       of Afghanistan, and the role that history may play in the
WED       country's future.
WED       
WED       11:30 Ayres on the Air b00m19m6 (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Passion
WED       Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry,
WED       anecdotes and sketches.
WED       Featuring poems about the difficulty of getting a new
WED       mattress up the stairs - the heartfelt plea Don't Ask Me
WED       to the Wedding - and a poem dedicated to her husband,
WED       entitled I Still Haven't Given Up Hope.
WED       Pam is joined on stage by actors Geoffrey Whitehead and
WED       Felicity Montagu for sketches about speed dating, trying
WED       to inject a bit of excitement into a relationship and how
WED       to pay your husband back when he interrupts your favourite
WED       Bruce Springsteen DVD.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00m0vr1 (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00m0vt4 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00m0vxx (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00m1dn9 (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00m0vzt (Listen)
WED       Jim opts for life in the fast lane.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b009y1st (Listen)
WED       Hudson and Pepperdine Save the Planet
WED       Comedy about climate change and how to combat it. The
WED       Department for Culture, Media and Sport has set up a
WED       working party from within the broadcasting industries to
WED       brainstorm solutions to the current crisis. Hudson and
WED       Pepperdine are on the the Comedy sub-list, above the
WED       Chuckle Brothers, but below Jimmy Carr.
WED       Can Hudson and Pepperdine save the planet? Can they even
WED       get to the first meeting? More importantly, will they be
WED       back in time for the school run?
WED       Mel/Lily Allen/Vanessa Feltz ...... Mel Hudson
WED       Vicki ...... Vicki Pepperdine
WED       Announcer/Bus driver/Phil ...... Felix Dexter
WED       Marina/Carol Smillie ...... Samantha Holland
WED       Russell T Davies ...... Rupert Degas
WED       Bruce Parry ...... Dave Lamb
WED       Rob/Policeman/DCMS Minister ...... Ben Crowe.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box b00m0gr6 (Listen)
WED       Money Box: Coping with the Recession, Episode 1
WED       Penny Haslam looks for advice to help small businesses
WED       cope with the recession. Many small firms are struggling
WED       to survive in an economy where customers are tightening
WED       their belts and banks are reluctant to lend.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m17ft (Listen)
WED       Pavilion Pieces, The Indian Hospital
WED       Short stories by new writers.
WED       By Kellie Jackson.
WED       It is 1915 and Brighton's Royal Pavilion has been
WED       transformed into a hospital for Indian Soldiers. A
WED       goodwill visit from the King and Queen has a disturbing
WED       impact on two young Gurkha brothers.
WED       Read by Judy Parfitt.
WED       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:45 Tea and Biscuits b00m5qjd (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge
WED       in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
WED       John Chapple keeps thousands of bees in his garden and
WED       looks after hives all over London, from the Royal Parks to
WED       housetops in Hackney. But at least twice a day, everything
WED       stops for a cup of tea and a biscuit. Ringing a bell to
WED       alert his neighbour that the kettle is on the boil, John
WED       invites Hardeep to join him and neighbour Dennis in his
WED       daily ritual.
WED       A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00m1nlh (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00m18n3 (Listen)
WED       Blood Clots
WED       Up to 25,000 hospital patients die every year in England,
WED       of which only around 1,500 are from hospital superbugs.
WED       Doctors at King's College hospital in London are leading
WED       the way in trying to cut the number of deaths by assessing
WED       the risk to surgical patients and giving preventative
WED       treatments.
WED       Dr Mark Porter hears from patients who have had clots in
WED       their legs travel up to their lungs, known as a pulmonary
WED       embolism, and finds out what you should do to prevent risk
WED       if you end up in hospital.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00m0xt6 (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 b00m0xws (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00m1nlk (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Sketch show show for anyone who is beginning to find this
WED       exciting new century a bit too much like all the rubbish
WED       previous centuries.
WED       What it's like to own your own Hadron Collider and how a
WED       spelling mistake landed a man in court.
WED       With Stephen K Amos, Jason Byrne, Justin Edwards and
WED       Katherine Parkinson.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00m0vzw (Listen)
WED       Joe gives Ed a lesson in motivation.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00m0y9h (Listen)
WED       Mark Lawson presents a special edition from the Edinburgh
WED       Festival, including an interview with impressionist
WED       Alistair McGowan, who is returning to the Fringe after 10
WED       years.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m0vgz (Listen)
WED       Five Wedding Dresses, The Scarecrow
WED       Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for
WED       wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of
WED       the dress itself.
WED       Carla suddenly finds herself the object of attention for
WED       all the village men.
WED       Carla ...... Claudie Blakley
WED       Victor ...... Sam Dale
WED       Darren ...... Benjamin Askew
WED       Peter ...... Paul Rider
WED       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
WED       
WED       20:00 The Atheist and the Bishop b00m1nlm (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to
WED       apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people
WED       they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion.
WED       Public debates between those who believe in God and those
WED       who resolutely do not appear more polarised than ever,
WED       often obscuring central human questions about how we
WED       should live and how modern ethics should work.
WED       In this programme, atheist philosopher Dr Miranda Fricker
WED       and Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of
WED       Oxford, tackle suffering and death.
WED       
WED       20:45 The Election Agent b00m1nq9 (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Shaun Ley finds out what really goes on behind the scenes
WED       of an election campaign. For 50 years election agents have
WED       been central figures in the political drama, but their
WED       profession is dying out. Shaun hears their stories.
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00m17qb (Listen)
WED       Series 3, Episode 1
WED       Brett Westwood encounters the large blue butterfly on the
WED       Somerset Downs, which was reintroduced 25 years ago after
WED       being declared extinct in 1979. It has become established
WED       there with the help of scientists who have unravelled its
WED       bizarre, carnivorous life cycle. The large blue's
WED       caterpillar spends most of its life in the nests of ants
WED       who milk it for its sweet honeydew, but as Brett
WED       discovers, the ants get more than they bargained for.
WED       
WED       21:30 Between Ourselves b00m195y (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Episode 3
WED       Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together
WED       two people who have had profound and similar experiences,
WED       to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term
WED       effects on each of their lives.
WED       Olivia talks to two chefs about their careers: Michael
WED       Caines, a Michelin-starred chef who lost his right arm in
WED       a car accident, and Irish chef Darina Allen, who runs the
WED       famous Ballymaloe cookery school in Cork. They reveal
WED       their worst days in the kitchen - involving an undercooked
WED       duck and a temperamental French chef with a cold - and
WED       discuss how fine restaurants can survive in the recession.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00m0yc1 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00m0ydl (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0yrw (Listen)
WED       Travels Through France and Italy, Episode 3
WED       Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias
WED       Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey,
WED       determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy
WED       with what he found there.
WED       The horses in France seem uncontrollable; even more so
WED       when Smollet decides to demonstrate his blunderbuss.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 Dave Podmore's Ashes b00m2z4q (Listen)
WED       Comedy written and performed by Christopher Douglas and
WED       Andrew Nickolds, with Nick Newman.
WED       While England's cricketers do battle with Australia, where
WED       is Dave Podmore, the game's laziest bits-and-pieces
WED       player, to be found?
WED       Dave Podmore ...... Christopher Douglas
WED       Andy Hamer ...... Andrew Nickolds
WED       With Nicola Sanderson and Simon Greenall.
WED       A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:30 Kicking the Habit b007w2w4 (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Barrow Rage
WED       Comedy drama by Christopher Lee, set in a Carmelite
WED       monastery where the brown habit is no protection against
WED       the problems and temptations of the modern world.
WED       Brother Luke's past continues to catch up with him and
WED       Father Athanasius' carbon footprint has an impact on the
WED       friary's weeding and watering policies.
WED       Father Bertie ...... Alfred Molina
WED       Brother Martin ...... Roy Dotrice
WED       Father Michael ...... Martin Jarvis
WED       Brother Luke ...... Darren Richardson
WED       Mave ...... Rosalind Ayres
WED       Gemma ...... Moira Quirk
WED       Friars played by Kenneth Danziger and Alan Shearman
WED       Directed by Pete Atkin.
WED       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00m0rdm (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00m82yt (Listen)
THU       My Father's Places, Episode 3
THU       Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her
THU       childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her
THU       father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin.
THU       When life gets too much at the Boat House for the young
THU       Aeronwy, she finds sanctuary with her grandmother at the
THU       Pelican.
THU       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
THU       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0rn1 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0rzw (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0rpp (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00m0s55 (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m0s80 (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00m0sf5 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00m0sqb (Listen)
THU       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00m33n1 (Listen)
THU       Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the
THU       odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of
THU       fields.
THU       Peter interviews the blind Zimbabwean cricket commentator
THU       Dean du Plessis about his eventful journey from creating
THU       make-believe matches to commentating on real ones.
THU       Dean uses his intimate knowledge of the foibles of the
THU       players and the sound effects of well-placed microphones
THU       around the grounds to inform and captivate radio and
THU       television audiences. But his broadcasts have also got him
THU       into trouble, and as one of the dwindling number of white
THU       people still in Zimbabwe, he has been and intimidated by
THU       Mugabe supporters for his outspoken comments.
THU       Dean's career is not what those teaching him at South
THU       Africa's world-famous Worcester School for the Blind would
THU       have imagined. He admits he was an umpromising student,
THU       but he has relentlessly pursued what really interested him
THU       and is still building a career as a cricket pundit. He now
THU       has to make a decision about whether he can carry on
THU       living in Zimbabwe or whether he might have to leave the
THU       country of his birth in order to continue pursuing his
THU       dream.
THU       
THU       09:30 Islam, Mullahs and the Media b00m36bg (Listen)
THU       Episode 2
THU       Writer Kenan Malik explores how perceptions of Islam have
THU       been shaped by the media.
THU       Kenan explores the popular perception of Muslim women and
THU       compares the debate that surrounds the wearing of the
THU       hijab with that of hoodies. He talks to Maryam Namazie,
THU       spokesperson for One Law for All Campaign, an organisation
THU       that works against Sharia Law in Britain, and Greater
THU       London Authority culture tsar Munira Mirza.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00m82yw (Listen)
THU       My Father's Places, Episode 4
THU       Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her
THU       childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her
THU       father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin.
THU       Dylan flies out to America for the first of his tours, and
THU       Aeronwy and Caitlin settle into a new routine without him.
THU       Abridged by Jane Marshall
THU       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m0tzm (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Five Wedding Dresses.
THU       
THU       11:00 Crossing Continents b00m36bj (Listen)
THU       Afghanistan
THU       Eight years into the war in Afghanistan, many fear it is
THU       unwinnable. In response, the US-led international force
THU       has decided to adopt a counter-insurgency strategy,
THU       abandoning 40 years of military doctrine. It emphasises
THU       security and development for the civilian population
THU       rather than simply battling the Taliban.
THU       Lyse Doucet investigates if the US army can embrace a
THU       radical new strategy and if it will be successful.
THU       
THU       11:30 Henry Cyril Paget: Lord of the Dance b00m36bl (Listen)
THU       As a child Sheila McClennon spent her summer holidays in
THU       Anglesey, where she became obsessed with the story of the
THU       Fifth Marquis, Henry Cyril Paget, an extravagant eccentric
THU       who converted the chapel at his stately home into a a
THU       theatre and spent enough to bankrupt the family in the
THU       space of six years.
THU       His was a life of jaw-dropping excess. After the
THU       bankruptcy, a series of auctions held to recoup some of
THU       the money he had spent lasted several months and consisted
THU       of 17,000 lots, including some of the most lavish costumes
THU       in existence and jewels worth millions of pounds in
THU       today's money.
THU       The family was keen to erase him from their history, and
THU       little has been known about him until now, as Sheila
THU       returns to the scene of her family holidays to find out
THU       more about the man dubbed by locals, 'The Mad Marquis'.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00m0vr3 (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Carolyn Atkinson. Including
THU       Face the Facts, presented by John Waite.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00m0vt6 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00m0vy0 (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Questions, Questions b00m36bn (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 b00m0vzw (Listen)
THU       Joe gives Ed a lesson in motivation.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00m38hv (Listen)
THU       Higher - Partners
THU       Satire on tertiary education by Joyce Bryant, chronicling
THU       the chaos of the Geography department at the fictional
THU       Hayborough University, ranked 132nd in the academic league
THU       table.
THU       The buzzword is 'partners' - get out into the real world
THU       and work with industry. This will develop money spinning
THU       initiatives and share costs. That's the theory, at least.
THU       So when neurotic and emotionally-stunted lecturer David
THU       Poll is delegated the task of finding partners, he
THU       blunders into a scheme which doesn't quite benefit the
THU       department.
THU       Karen ...... Sophie Thompson
THU       David ...... Robert Daws
THU       Jim ...... Jonathan Keeble
THU       Alannah ...... Kathryn Hunt
THU       Fiona ....... Lisa Allen
THU       Joselyn ...... Natasha Byrne.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00m0gd3 (Listen)
THU       Trouble on the Teifi
THU       Matt Baker reports on the dispute going on between anglers
THU       and canoeists on Welsh rivers.
THU       The River Teifi, almost exactly in the geographical middle
THU       of Wales, is set against a backdrop of heather moors and
THU       rugged Cambrian mountains. Matt visits the valley town of
THU       Llandysul in Ceredigion, which lies along the banks of the
THU       river.
THU       The people who use the river are in bitter dispute,
THU       because Llandysul is one of the most popular places in
THU       Wales both for freshwater angling and for white-water
THU       canoeing. The anglers have to pay to fish in the river,
THU       and the canoeists want access for free. The canoeists are
THU       campaigning to change the law to allow full access to use
THU       the river, and the anglers are unhappy about it.
THU       In fact, this is not just an isolated problem - the Welsh
THU       Assembly is conducting an inquiry into this issue across
THU       all rivers in Wales.
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00m0jv8 (Listen)
THU       The International Rescue Committee
THU       John Hurt appeals on behalf of The International Rescue
THU       Committee.
THU       Donations to the International Rescue Committee should be
THU       sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back
THU       of your envelope the International Rescue Committee.
THU       Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax
THU       payer, please provide the International Rescue Committee
THU       with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift
THU       Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation
THU       facilities are not currently available to listeners
THU       without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 1065972.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m17fx (Listen)
THU       Pavilion Pieces, Youthful Folly
THU       Short stories by new writers.
THU       By Sylvestra Le Touzel Teale.
THU       Frances, on tour at the Theatre Royal, in love and about
THU       to make her West End debut, is captivated by the glory and
THU       romance of Brighton's Pavilion. Revisiting the baroque
THU       palace awakens old ghosts for Frances, who is now on a
THU       different journey.
THU       Read by Sophie Thompson.
THU       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:45 Tea and Biscuits b00m5qjg (Listen)
THU       Episode 4
THU       Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge
THU       in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
THU       The sounds of the waltz, jive and rumba bring couples to
THU       their feet as they glide round the ballroom. But it is the
THU       tea break when the conversation really flows, as Hardeep
THU       finds out when he visits the Bushey Tea Dance Club.
THU       A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00m0jw1 (Listen)
THU       Muriel Gray talks to novelist Diana Evans, who won the
THU       Orange Award for New Writers in 2005 with her first book,
THU       26a. She explains how her early experience as a dancer
THU       inspired her new novel The Wonder, about an all-black
THU       dance troupe in 1960s Notting Hill.
THU       Is writing bad for your health? Peter Kemp joins Muriel to
THU       reveal how the sedentary existence of the novelist can
THU       conceal major risks and outlines some of the surprising
THU       injuries caused by the literary life.
THU       Novelist Patrick Gale offers advice to an Open Book
THU       listener who's looking for gay fiction that isn't
THU       depressing or about teenagers.
THU       And reading dictionaries for fun: author of Schott's
THU       Miscellany Ben Schott, writer Kevin Jackson and editor of
THU       Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Camilla Rockwood
THU       reveal why they enjoy curling up with a reference book.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00m40wd (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00m0xt8 (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 b00m0xwv (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Electric Ink b00l1w9t (Listen)
THU       Episode 3
THU       Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new
THU       media in the newspaper industry.
THU       Using Twitter as a source, Freddy inadvertently breaks a
THU       top story in the Treasury.
THU       Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay
THU       Oliver ...... Alex Jennings
THU       Freddy ...... Ben Willbond
THU       Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington
THU       Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar
THU       Masha ...... Debbie Chazen
THU       Man ...... Matt Addis
THU       With additional material by Tom Mitchelson.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00m0vzy (Listen)
THU       Ed goes into the Dragon's Den.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00m0y9k (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m0vh1 (Listen)
THU       Five Wedding Dresses, Janey's Big Day
THU       Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for
THU       wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of
THU       the dress itself.
THU       Janey is unprepared for quite how involved her mother is
THU       in her wedding plans.
THU       Janey ...... Lizzy Watts
THU       David ...... Hogan
THU       Valerie ...... Caroline Guthrie
THU       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00m40wg (Listen)
THU       Within days of the government announcing its new renewable
THU       energy policy promising a massive expansion of wind power
THU       and the creation of 400,000 new jobs, the UK's only
THU       factory making wind turbine blades closed and put 600
THU       people out of work. Simon Cox investigates whether Britain
THU       will ever develop a viable wind energy industry and how
THU       our European neighbours are profiting from our failures.
THU       
THU       20:30 In Business b00m40wj (Listen)
THU       Battery Power
THU       The world may soon need huge supplies of the lightest
THU       metal, lithium, if plug-in cars really are a future
THU       replacement for the internal combustion engine. Half the
THU       world's supplies of lithium are high up in the Andes in
THU       the landlocked country of Bolivia. Peter Day asks if
THU       Bolivia really could become what experts are calling 'the
THU       Saudi Arabia of lithium'.
THU       
THU       21:00 A Problem With Noise b00m42tw (Listen)
THU       Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson investigates the
THU       man-made noise pollution which is becoming increasingly
THU       invasive in our lives and in our environment, affecting
THU       both humans and wildlife. He explores what noise is, the
THU       impact of man-made noise and the possible long-term
THU       consequences if we don't turn the volume down.
THU       In the oceans, increasing levels of background noise is
THU       disrupting long-distance communication among whales. On
THU       land, studies of Great Tits have revealed how birds near
THU       busy roads sing at higher frequencies than those in nearby
THU       quieter woodlands.
THU       In 1996 the European Commission issued a Green Paper which
THU       stated that an estimated 20 per cent of all EU citizens
THU       were exposed to noise levels that scientists and health
THU       experts considered to be unacceptable, at which most
THU       people become annoyed, sleep is disturbed and health may
THU       be at risk. Noise is a health issue as well as a nuisance.
THU       Recent studies have demonstrated excessive risks of
THU       hypertension in people living near airports, even when
THU       asleep.
THU       Following the Green Paper, the European Commission issued
THU       a directive for member states to map noise levels of major
THU       cities. Today, noise, like air and water pollution, is an
THU       environmental issue which governments and policy makers
THU       cannot ignore.
THU       Chris discovers that education is the first step in taking
THU       personal responsibility when he explores the potential
THU       damage of exposure to loud music in public venues or on
THU       personal listening devices.
THU       
THU       21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00m33n1 (Listen)
THU       Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the
THU       odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of
THU       fields.
THU       Peter interviews the blind Zimbabwean cricket commentator
THU       Dean du Plessis about his eventful journey from creating
THU       make-believe matches to commentating on real ones.
THU       Dean uses his intimate knowledge of the foibles of the
THU       players and the sound effects of well-placed microphones
THU       around the grounds to inform and captivate radio and
THU       television audiences. But his broadcasts have also got him
THU       into trouble, and as one of the dwindling number of white
THU       people still in Zimbabwe, he has been and intimidated by
THU       Mugabe supporters for his outspoken comments.
THU       Dean's career is not what those teaching him at South
THU       Africa's world-famous Worcester School for the Blind would
THU       have imagined. He admits he was an umpromising student,
THU       but he has relentlessly pursued what really interested him
THU       and is still building a career as a cricket pundit. He now
THU       has to make a decision about whether he can carry on
THU       living in Zimbabwe or whether he might have to leave the
THU       country of his birth in order to continue pursuing his
THU       dream.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00m0yc3 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00m0ydn (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0yry (Listen)
THU       Travels Through France and Italy, Episode 4
THU       Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias
THU       Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey,
THU       determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy
THU       with what he found there.
THU       It is snowing in the south of France, which gives Smollett
THU       only one option - to head to Italy. Will the Italians
THU       impress him more than the French? It seems unlikely.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00dgjn6 (Listen)
THU       Series 1, Phill Jupitus
THU       Marcus Brigstocke invites Phill Jupitus to try new
THU       experiences.
THU       
THU       23:30 Will Smith Presents The Tao of Bergerac b007wh7j (Listen)
THU       Episode 4
THU       Comedian Will Smith is obsessed with 1980s detective
THU       series Bergerac, so uses an audio book of its star, John
THU       Nettles, reading the Tao, to navigate the minefield of his
THU       life with the help of a special guest.
THU       Will wonders how he can defend his machismo when he is
THU       scared of his builders.
THU       With Ewan Bailey, John Nettles, Dan Tetsell, Roger Drew
THU       and Rachel Bavidge.
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FRI       FRIDAY 21 AUGUST 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00m0rdp (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00m82yw (Listen)
FRI       My Father's Places, Episode 4
FRI       Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her
FRI       childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her
FRI       father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin.
FRI       Dylan flies out to America for the first of his tours, and
FRI       Aeronwy and Caitlin settle into a new routine without him.
FRI       Abridged by Jane Marshall
FRI       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0rn3 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0rzy (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0rpr (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00m0s57 (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m0s82 (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00m0sf7 (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00m0sqd (Listen)
FRI       With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
FRI       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00m0jvn (Listen)
FRI       Roberto Alagna
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Roberto Alagna.
FRI       He is one of the most celebrated tenors in the world and
FRI       one half of opera's golden couple; his wife is the soprano
FRI       Angela Gheorghiu.
FRI       Yet, his is not a voice that was honed through early years
FRI       in a conservatoire. He was brought up in Paris in a family
FRI       of keen amateur musicians. He used to sing in nightclubs
FRI       and in those early years, he says, the world of opera was,
FRI       to him, no more than an impossible dream.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00m82yy (Listen)
FRI       My Father's Places, Episode 5
FRI       Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her
FRI       childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her
FRI       father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin.
FRI       The cracks in Dylan and Caitlin's marriage begin to show
FRI       and Aeronwy feels the effects.
FRI       Abridged by Jane Marshall.
FRI       A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00m0tzp (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Five Wedding Dresses.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 How to Write An Instruction Manual b00m4470 (Listen)
FRI       Engineer Mark Miodownik presents an instruction manual on
FRI       how to write an instruction manual, exploring the history
FRI       and the future of product guides and how they chart our
FRI       changing relationship with technology.
FRI       He looks at how product guides have changed over the
FRI       centuries, from the very first examples, written by James
FRI       Watt on his new 'copying' machine, to the latest Ikea
FRI       pictograms.
FRI       In the first half of the 20th century, manuals not only
FRI       described how to use your television, but also how to fix
FRI       it. Now, the first few pages of any TV manual contain
FRI       stern health and safety warnings about the dangers of
FRI       tinkering inside the TV.
FRI       Mark travels to Yeovil to visit Mr Haynes, of Haynes car
FRI       and motorcycle manuals, to ask whether people still need a
FRI       manual to fix their vehicle. As our products get more
FRI       sophisticated, is the instruction manual becoming extinct?
FRI       
FRI       11:30 Cabin Pressure b00m4472 (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, Limerick
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       An interminable flight with a very baffling cargo gives
FRI       the crew the opportunity to pass the time by alternately
FRI       opening their hearts up to each other and persuading
FRI       Arthur not to play charades.
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       A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00m0vr5 (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00m0vt8 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00m0vy2 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 More or Less b00m44rq (Listen)
FRI       Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers
FRI       everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life.
FRI       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00m0vzy (Listen)
FRI       Ed goes into the Dragon's Den.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00m44rs (Listen)
FRI       Higher - Inspection
FRI       Satire on tertiary education by Joyce Bryant, chronicling
FRI       the chaos of the Geography department at the fictional
FRI       Hayborough University, ranked 132nd in the academic league
FRI       table.
FRI       In these straightened times there have to be cuts. So it
FRI       does seem a bit of a coincidence that when David Poll is
FRI       earmarked for disciplinary measures leading to possible
FRI       dismissal, the Quality Assurance Inspectorate should turn
FRI       up.
FRI       Karen ...... Sophie Thompson
FRI       David ...... Robert Daws
FRI       Jim ...... Jonathan Keeble
FRI       Maura ...... Maggie Fox
FRI       Sadie ...... Fiona Clarke
FRI       Dick ...... Malcolm Raeburn.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00m44rv (Listen)
FRI       Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer
FRI       questions posed by members of Much Marcle, near Ledbury in
FRI       Herefordshire.
FRI       Bunny draws inspiration from a medieval knot garden,
FRI       adapting forgotten gardening techniques to the modern
FRI       kitchen garden, and Bob wanders the ancient woodland of
FRI       Hallwood, investigating the wealth of native British
FRI       trees. Also, Peter gives his definitive guide to
FRI       micro-climates, with examples from the Hereford area.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 Tea and Biscuits b00m5qjj (Listen)
FRI       Episode 5
FRI       Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge
FRI       in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
FRI       Specialist palliative care is offered at the Peace
FRI       Hospice, and on the social side that includes the chance
FRI       to chat over a cup of tea and a biscuit. Hardeep joins the
FRI       patients, staff and volunteers.
FRI       A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00m44rx (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 b00m44rz (Listen)
FRI       Matthew Sweet talks to Pedro Almodovar about his new film,
FRI       Broken Embraces.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00m0xtb (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 b00m0xwx (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00m44s1 (Listen)
FRI       Episode 1
FRI       Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two
FRI       teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The
FRI       show asks both the big and the little questions, and
FRI       provides thoroughly silly answers to both.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00m0w00 (Listen)
FRI       Alan and Usha camp it up at the Vicarage.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00m0y9m (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m0vh3 (Listen)
FRI       Five Wedding Dresses, The Perfect Dress
FRI       Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for
FRI       wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of
FRI       the dress itself.
FRI       Nell loves the stories behind the second-hand wedding
FRI       dresses she sells, until Julia tells her story.
FRI       Nell ...... Chipo Chung
FRI       Carla ...... Claudie Blakley
FRI       Eric ...... Trystan Gravelle
FRI       Julia ...... Rosalind Philips
FRI       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00m45d0 (Listen)
FRI       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Middle Wallop,
FRI       Hampshire. The panellists are writer Kate Mosse,
FRI       environmental campaigner Jonathon Porritt, writer and
FRI       broadcaster James Delingpole and lawyer Mark Stephens.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00m45d2 (Listen)
FRI       Faking Fossils
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       Sir David recalls a key moment in his life, when he broke
FRI       open a piece of Leicestershire limestone and there in his
FRI       hand was an ammonite. Over the intervening years, fossils
FRI       have fascinated him and he has become a great collector,
FRI       even of the odd fake.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b00m45d4 (Listen)
FRI       Flesh and Blood
FRI       Poignant drama by Gillies Mackinnon, set and recorded in
FRI       Glasgow.
FRI       Three generations of men have continually failed to
FRI       understand one another. Kenny's teenage son leaves home
FRI       without explanation. Kenny does not tell his own elderly
FRI       father, Roddy, who he visits every day. But the old man,
FRI       an ex-cop, smells a rat, and is determined to find his
FRI       only grandchild.
FRI       Kenny ...... Gary Lewis
FRI       Roddy ...... David Hayman
FRI       Callum ...... Anthony Martin
FRI       Fiona ...... Kate Donnelly
FRI       Luke ...... Scott McKay
FRI       Tony ...... Kenny Blyth
FRI       Mags ...... Natalie McConnon.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00m0yc5 (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00m0ydq (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Robin
FRI       Lustig.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0ys0 (Listen)
FRI       Travels Through France and Italy, Episode 5
FRI       Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias
FRI       Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey,
FRI       determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy
FRI       with what he found there.
FRI       Having given Rome the most cursory of glances, Smollett
FRI       thinks he will fare better in Florence. But with a broken
FRI       carriage he is forced to walk the last five miles. And
FRI       will the great city gates stay open to receive him?
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00m17y6 (Listen)
FRI       Series 19, John Cornford
FRI       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
FRI       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
FRI       George Galloway chooses British poet and political
FRI       activist John Cornford, who died at the age of 21 fighting
FRI       fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Professor Stan Smith
FRI       joins in the discussion.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Listen Against b008drpb (Listen)
FRI       Series 1, Episode 4
FRI       Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back
FRI       over the last week of radio.
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