Radio 4 Listings for 25/07/2009 - 31/07/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 25 JULY 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00lq9pq (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
SAT       
SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00lqnfh (Listen)
SAT       In the Valley of Mist, Episode 5
SAT       Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the
SAT       lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed
SAT       territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict.
SAT       The effects of the conflict are compounded by the 2005
SAT       earthquake. Mohammad Dar's tireless work for the relief
SAT       effort leads him to start a new career as an aid worker.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lq9ps (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lq9pv (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lq9px (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00lq9pz (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lq9q1 (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 Backstreet Business b008pvmv (Listen)
SAT       Episode 1
SAT       Nicola Heywood Thomas visits small businesses.
SAT       Situated on an estate in Cardiff, Deryck Howell's company
SAT       produces survival equipment, tested in the world's
SAT       toughest conditions.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00lqp56 (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00lqp58 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       06:07 Open Country b00lqpwl (Listen)
SAT       Firth of Lorne
SAT       Helen Mark reports on the dispute between fishermen and
SAT       conservationists over the wildlife-rich waters of the
SAT       Firth of Lorne on the west coast of Scotland.
SAT       Dotted with tiny islands, the Firth of Lorne on the west
SAT       coast of Scotland is a yachtsman's dream. Fishermen also
SAT       covet the Firth's prawns and scallops, whilst
SAT       conservationists fret over threats to the extraordinary
SAT       reefs, the sea bird colonies and the whales and dolphins
SAT       that pass between Mull and Jura.
SAT       Helen joins local wildlife biologist Tessa McGregor for a
SAT       boat trip around the Firth, meeting fishermen, farmers and
SAT       naturalists, all of whom are anxious to reach a balance
SAT       that preserves livelihoods without further threatening
SAT       this precarious natural environment.
SAT       Scallop dredging is currently banned in the Firth, much to
SAT       the displeasure of local fishermen who have to sail
SAT       further and into more dangerous waters to bring home a
SAT       profitable catch. The Scottish government may reverse the
SAT       ban, but a local diver tells Helen that such a move would
SAT       cause further damage to the sea bed, the rocky reef and
SAT       the aquatic life that depends on it.
SAT       On her voyage around the Firth's tiny islands Helen will
SAT       also be meeting the local Luing breed of cattle and seeing
SAT       the beehive huts used by the first generation of Scottish
SAT       monks.
SAT       
SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00lqpwn (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00lqpwq (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00lqpws (Listen)
SAT       With Sarah Montague and Edward Stourton. Including Sports
SAT       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00lqpwv (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Sheila
SAT       Hancock. With poetry from Elvis McGonagall.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00lqpwx (Listen)
SAT       Explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison has often made his journeys
SAT       on horseback and chose Albania for a recent trek. Although
SAT       situated in the middle of Europe, this little known nation
SAT       offers unspoilt countryside, great hospitality from locals
SAT       and a glimpse into a time and place before tourism
SAT       development takes hold.
SAT       An award from the citizenship charity, Giving Nation,
SAT       enabled pupils from Rushcliffe School in Nottingham to
SAT       travel to Cameroon to learn about the Baka people and the
SAT       work of the Rainforest Foundation. They stayed in a Baka
SAT       village - seeing how they build huts, how the local school
SAT       is run and even helped villagers with fishing.
SAT       Journalist Jane Owen, who accompanied them, and pupil Bex
SAT       Bailey say the trip gave an insight into how life is
SAT       changing for the indigenous people.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 Soho Stories b00lqz82 (Listen)
SAT       A Thousand Flowers
SAT       Television executive and broadcaster Paul Jackson charts
SAT       the rise of independent producers, from the isolated
SAT       minnows of the early 1980s to the global monoliths of
SAT       today.
SAT       Thirty years ago, virtually every home-grown programme on
SAT       British television was made by either the BBC or ITV.
SAT       Today, the biggest and most successful shows - from Big
SAT       Brother and Spooks to The Apprentice and X-Factor - are
SAT       made by independent producers.
SAT       Paul Jackson explores how the birth of Channel 4 spawned a
SAT       whole new sector and gave us both Television Scrabble and
SAT       hard news.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00lr2cm (Listen)
SAT       It's been one of the most turbulent years at Westminster
SAT       in recent history: two aborted challenges to the Prime
SAT       Minister's leadership, the scandal of MPs expenses, a
SAT       banking crisis and a deep recession. As MPs go off on
SAT       their summer break Elinor Goodman and fellow Week In
SAT       Westminster presenters Peter Riddell of The Times, Steve
SAT       Richards of The Independent and Matthew D'Ancona, Editor
SAT       of the Spectator, analyse the current state of politics.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00lqztq (Listen)
SAT       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
SAT       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00lqzts (Listen)
SAT       In a special edition of the programme, Paul Lewis and
SAT       guests discuss savings and investments. Paul talks to fund
SAT       manager Anthony Bolton and looks at Zopa, the intetrnet
SAT       service that advertises rates of over eight per cent.
SAT       His panel are Clare Francis of comparison website
SAT       Moneysupermarket, Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven
SAT       Investment Management and Adrian Lowcock, senior
SAT       investment adviser at Bestinvest.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The Now Show b00lq94c (Listen)
SAT       Series 28, Episode 5
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 Marcus Brigstocke.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00lqztv (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00lqztx (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00lq94f (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Verwood,
SAT       Dorset. The panellists are columnist Peter Hitchens,
SAT       campaigner Peter Tatchell, Minister for the South West Jim
SAT       Knight and Shadow Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00lqztz (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in
SAT       response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00773qr (Listen)
SAT       Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
SAT       By Robert Louis Stevenson.
SAT       When a London lawyer studies the last will of his old
SAT       friend Dr Jekyll, his suspicions are aroused. Why has
SAT       respectable Dr Jekyll left everything to sinister Edward
SAT       Hyde?
SAT       Dr Jekyll ...... Adam Godley
SAT       Utterson ...... David Horovitch
SAT       Enfield ...... Mark Straker
SAT       Mrs Utterson ...... Christine Kavanagh
SAT       Lanyon ...... Sam Dale
SAT       Poole ...... Joseph Kloska
SAT       Sir Danvers ...... Ian Masters
SAT       Girl/Maid ...... Emma Noakes
SAT       Housekeeper ...... Bethan Walker
SAT       Directed by Claire Grove.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 From Dots to Downloads b00lp15m (Listen)
SAT       Tim van Eyken, award-winning young singer and squeezebox
SAT       player, reveals how today's musicians are rediscovering
SAT       'tune books', small manuscript books of music that were in
SAT       use from the late-17th to the mid-19th century.
SAT       They are now sharing them, in the way that musicians
SAT       always have, but nowadays online, so that all over the
SAT       world, people are playing these tunes once again in an
SAT       ongoing global virtual session.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00lqzv1 (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       With Sheila McClennon.
SAT       Kathryn Stockett's debut novel The Help is set in Jackson,
SAT       Mississippi, in the early 1960's where two black maids and
SAT       a white woman conspire on a clandestine project that could
SAT       put their lives at risk. It has become a bestseller in
SAT       America, been praised by critics and is already a firm
SAT       favourite among book groups. Kathryn talks to Sheila
SAT       McClennon about how her own childhood inspired the
SAT       narrative and the challenges she faced as a white author
SAT       giving a voice to black characters.
SAT       Approximately a quarter of a million children in the UK
SAT       have an allergy to peanuts. It is a condition which can
SAT       cause great anxiety as the sufferers and their parents try
SAT       to ensure total avoidance of the nuts, which can be
SAT       present in tiny amounts in many everyday foods. Now
SAT       doctors in Cambridge who have been working on
SAT       de-sensitising those with the allergy have reported
SAT       favourable results from their latest trial. Sheila
SAT       Maclennon hears more about the project, its results and
SAT       the implications.
SAT       This year marks the 60th anniversary of the formation of
SAT       the modern Commonwealth. In celebration, a special
SAT       exhibition at the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace will
SAT       evoke some of the most important Commonwealth Tours
SAT       undertaken by the Queen during her reign. The exhibition
SAT       brings together 28 dresses worn by Her Majesty on
SAT       Commonwealth Tours over the past six decades and includes
SAT       over 100 gifts presented to the Queen, ranging from
SAT       Aboriginal carvings to a whale's tooth and traditional
SAT       Maori feather cloaks. Sheila McClennon visits the
SAT       exhibition.
SAT       Widows in Nepal are protesting against a government plan
SAT       to offer a cash incentive to men for marrying them. The
SAT       50,000 rupee grant - about 388pounds - was announced in
SAT       the government's annual budget. There are large numbers of
SAT       widows in the country, created by the recent 10-year
SAT       bloody conflict and critics say that a re-marriage
SAT       'bounty' is contrary to human rights laws, and supports
SAT       forced marriage, rape, and the view that women are mere
SAT       chattels. Sheila hears more about how widows in Nepal are
SAT       treated and how their status might be improved.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00lqzv3 (Listen)
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
SAT       Quinn, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 iPM b00lr09t (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00lr09y (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00lr0b0 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00lr0b2 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00lr0b4 (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson is joined by author and former Conservative
SAT       Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitken, Dragons' Den's James
SAT       Caan and former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan.
SAT       Gideon Coe talks to writer Bridget Christie about her time
SAT       at the Daily Mail.
SAT       With comedy from Sarah Millican and music from Oi Va Voi
SAT       and the Mercury Prize-nominated Lisa Hannigan.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00lr0b6 (Listen)
SAT       Peter Gabriel
SAT       Clive Coleman profiles Peter Gabriel. He came to fame -
SAT       and fortune - as the extravagantly-dressed lead singer of
SAT       Genesis, before launching a successful solo career. But
SAT       Gabriel has pushed many other frontiers, notably helping
SAT       to found the World Music festival WOMAD. He has also
SAT       experimented with new technologies, brought elder
SAT       statesmen together and campaigned for human rights.
SAT       Clive hears from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Irish
SAT       President Mary Robinson and Peter Gabriel's mother about
SAT       what makes him tick.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00lr0b8 (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00lr0bb (Listen)
SAT       On Northern Men
SAT       Kay Mellor explores the way that northern English
SAT       masculinities have been portrayed in British film and
SAT       television, reconciling issues of blatant sentimentality
SAT       with the real-life social parallels that inform the canon
SAT       of the past 50 years.
SAT       She examines fictional portrayals that have changed and
SAT       diversified, yet stayed much the same in many ways. From
SAT       the crucial age of the Angry Young Man, marked out in This
SAT       Sporting Life, she considers the contrasts and
SAT       similarities between the trapped northern masculine
SAT       identities portrayed in Kes and Billy Elliot.
SAT       Kay discovers that the disintegration of traditional
SAT       northern male stereotypes in fiction leads us also to more
SAT       diverse explorations, for example, the weak men in
SAT       Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine and Keeping Up
SAT       Appearances, British-Asian northern masculinities in East
SAT       is East, the dysfunctional and proud Frank Gallagher in
SAT       Shameless, and interpretations of homosexual masculinities
SAT       in Queer as Folk and Jimmy McGovern's The Street.
SAT       The programme traces the relationship between changing
SAT       variables of social class, heroism, 'northernness' and
SAT       fictional portrayals of masculinity in film and
SAT       television, using supporting material from the radio
SAT       archive, and remembers some of the humour and creativity
SAT       that emerges from struggle and the portrayal of difficult
SAT       lives.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00ln1dj (Listen)
SAT       The Complete Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,
SAT       Episode 3
SAT       Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic
SAT       novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley.
SAT       The deadly game of deceit and betrayal reaches its climax
SAT       at the foot of the Berlin Wall.
SAT       Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SAT       Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox
SAT       Fiedler ...... Henry Goodman
SAT       Mundt ...... Sam Dale
SAT       Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell
SAT       Ashe ...... Jamie Newall
SAT       Tribunal President ...... Siobhan Redmond
SAT       Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane
SAT       Commissar ...... Liza Sadovy
SAT       Agent ...... Stephen Hogan
SAT       Miss Crail ...... Liza Sadovy
SAT       Mr Pitt ...... Philip Fox
SAT       Grocer ...... David Hargreaves
SAT       CIA Man ...... Benjamin Askew
SAT       This episode is available until 3.00pm on 26th July as
SAT       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00lr0bd (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Moral Maze b00lpc9l (Listen)
SAT       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
SAT       behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Melanie
SAT       Phillips, Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor
SAT       cross-examine witnesses.
SAT       The Moral Maze considers 'the holiday'.
SAT       It's that time of year when we can't wait to get away from
SAT       work for a couple of weeks. Our one opportunity a year to
SAT       jet off to far-flung and exotic destinations spewing
SAT       carbon all over the place, where the human rights record
SAT       is often appalling, to be waited on hand and foot by some
SAT       poor waiter who is only paid a couple of dollars a day and
SAT       to stay in a hotel where their idea of an environmental
SAT       policy is to take our rubbish to a landfill for local
SAT       people to pick over it, rather than dumping it at sea.
SAT       Is it time we re-calculated the true cost of that self
SAT       indulgent holiday? Should we stay at home to help the UK
SAT       economy? And should we think of improving the mind rather
SAT       than our tan?
SAT       The witnesses are:
SAT       Leo Hickman
SAT       Author of The Final Call: In Search of the True Cost of
SAT       our Holidays
SAT       James Panton
SAT       Manifesto Club; Campaign to Celebrate the Freedom of Flying
SAT       Cole Moreton
SAT       Journalist, currently writing a book about Englishness
SAT       Jonathan Lorie
SAT       Director of Travellers Tales Festival, an international
SAT       festival of travel writing and photography.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00lny4d (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
SAT       featuring the defending champions, the Midlands, taking on
SAT       the south of England.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00ln2df (Listen)
SAT       Roger McGough introduces requests for poems about space by
SAT       Shakespeare, Seamus Heaney and others.
SAT       
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SUN       SUNDAY 26 JULY 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00lr0lt (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b008118x (Listen)
SUN       Cheltenham Festival Readings, Love with Impediments
SUN       Five stories from the 2007 Cheltenham Literature Festival.
SUN       A futuristic story of consumerism gone mad and bad.
SUN       Written and read by Hari Kunzru.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr0lw (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr0ly (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr0m0 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00lr0m2 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00lr0m4 (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from Howden Minster.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00lr0b6 (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gabriel
SUN       Clive Coleman profiles Peter Gabriel. He came to fame -
SUN       and fortune - as the extravagantly-dressed lead singer of
SUN       Genesis, before launching a successful solo career. But
SUN       Gabriel has pushed many other frontiers, notably helping
SUN       to found the World Music festival WOMAD. He has also
SUN       experimented with new technologies, brought elder
SUN       statesmen together and campaigned for human rights.
SUN       Clive hears from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Irish
SUN       President Mary Robinson and Peter Gabriel's mother about
SUN       what makes him tick.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00lr0m6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00lr0m8 (Listen)
SUN       The Rescuers
SUN       Mark Tully explores the theme of rescue. A mainstay of
SUN       myth and fairytale, adventure and romance, why is the
SUN       longing for rescue so pervasive, and the need to rescue so
SUN       powerful?
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00lr14d (Listen)
SUN       Elinor Goodman visits a herd of ruby red cattle in the
SUN       Devon countryside. Their owner, Kate Palmer, is passionate
SUN       about the breed and about the local landscape. Elinor
SUN       finds out about conservation on the farm and Kate's flock
SUN       of black sheep, whose wool she makes into jumpers and
SUN       throws.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00lr0mb (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00lr0md (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00lr0mg (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of
SUN       the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00lr14g (Listen)
SUN       SSAFA Forces Help
SUN       Martin Bell appeals on behalf of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen
SUN       and Families Association (SSAFA) - Forces Help.
SUN       Donations to SSAFA should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4
SUN       Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SSAFA.
SUN       Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax
SUN       payer, please provide SSAFA with your full name and
SUN       address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation
SUN       worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone donation
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SUN       Registered Charity No. 210760 Est. 1885
SUN       Registered Charity (Scotland) No. SC038056.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00lr14j (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00lr14l (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00lr14n (Listen)
SUN       Faith That Works is the theme of the 2009 Keswick
SUN       Convention. Thousands come together in a big tent in the
SUN       heart of the Lake District every summer to worship God and
SUN       to grow in their faith.
SUN       Preacher: Amy Orr-Ewing
SUN       Leader: Derek Burnside
SUN       Music directors: Ray Monk and Steve James.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lq99f (Listen)
SUN       Archaeopteryx
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       Sir David recounts the remarkable story of a feather, like
SUN       any other feather from a bird - only it was 150 million
SUN       years old, and the animal that lost it lived when birds
SUN       had not yet evolved.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00lr14q (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00lr14s (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00ltn9m (Listen)
SUN       Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the food writer and cook Hugh
SUN       Fearnley-Whittingstall.
SUN       Famous for making pâté out of placenta and dining on such
SUN       delicacies as squirrel and rook in his TV programmes, he
SUN       has made a name for himself as a cook on the wild side. So
SUN       perhaps it is not surprising that his first ambition was
SUN       not to spend his life inside a kitchen but in the great
SUN       outdoors because, he says, he 'wanted to be David
SUN       Attenborough'.
SUN       A stint in the renowned River Café in London, however, set
SUN       him on his way to establishing his own waterside haven for
SUN       food lovers, his River Cottage in Dorset. From there, he
SUN       has followed his passion for the environment by
SUN       campaigning for ethically-produced food, including
SUN       championing a creature not normally given time on our
SUN       small screens - the humble supermarket chicken.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00lny4j (Listen)
SUN       Series 51, Episode 6
SUN       The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the
SUN       Theatre Royal in Newcastle, with Rob Brydon taking on the
SUN       chairman's role from the late Humphrey Lyttelton.
SUN       Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor
SUN       are joined by Phill Jupitus.
SUN       With Colin Sell at the piano.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00lr14x (Listen)
SUN       Suckling Pigs
SUN       Suckling pigs - whole month old milk fed piglets - are a
SUN       celebrated and celebratory part of Chinese, Spanish and
SUN       Italian cuisine, but fell from favour at the British table
SUN       many centuries ago as we became more urbanised - and
SUN       squeamish. But with renewed interest in where our food
SUN       comes from and how it is reared, suckling pigs are
SUN       becoming a more common feature in our restaurants. So
SUN       might they be ready for a comeback?
SUN       Sheila Dillon meets the farmers who turned around their
SUN       own failing pig rearing business 34 years ago by carving
SUN       out a new market for themselves, supplying suckling pigs
SUN       to Chinese restaurants. Reporter Ray Kershaw visits Barry,
SUN       Gillian and Richard Pugh of Pughs Piglets to find out
SUN       about their business, where now 40 per cent of their
SUN       activities are directed at the mainstream restaurant
SUN       market.
SUN       She traces our own British suckling pig heritage with food
SUN       historian Ivan Day; historically it was suckling pig we
SUN       ate, not full grown ones, and we also had a taste for many
SUN       other juvenile birds and animals.
SUN       Sheila also visits China Tang at the Dorchester Hotel,
SUN       where whole suckling pigs are a regular feature of the
SUN       dining room, and a traditional part of Chinese wedding
SUN       feasts. She speaks to Fuchsia Dunlop, a BBC journalist and
SUN       award-winning author of several books on Chinese food, and
SUN       Steve Downey, founder of Chef Direct, who supplies
SUN       suckling pigs to English restaurants, about their
SUN       potential for the future.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00lr14z (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00lr151 (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 The Ian Blair Years b00l0xxj (Listen)
SUN       Episode 2
SUN       BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw tells the inside
SUN       story of Sir Ian Blair's tenure as commissioner of the
SUN       Metropolitan Police.
SUN       This liberal Oxford-educated 'Blairite' was once seen as
SUN       the ideal candidate to modernise British policing and, in
SUN       particular, to eliminate the taint of 'institutional
SUN       racism' from the Met. But his tenure became increasingly
SUN       controversial and he was forced to step aside, dogged by
SUN       the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, accused of
SUN       racial discrimination by one of his most senior officers
SUN       and facing allegations of cronyism.
SUN       Shaw talks to those who have known Sir Ian throughout his
SUN       career and examines how Britain's highest-flying officer
SUN       came to be embroiled in a bitter dispute at the top of
SUN       Britain's biggest police force. Was Blair a victim of
SUN       politicisation or could he simply not do the job as he had
SUN       promised?
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lq945 (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Bunny Guinness, John Cushnie, Matthew Biggs and Pippa
SUN       Greenwood answer questions posed by gardeners in Hampshire.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 The Estuary b008kmqt (Listen)
SUN       Episode 4
SUN       Peter France narrates an extraordinary story of life on
SUN       the Wash as the tides and the seasons change, set against
SUN       a backdrop of sounds recorded on location by Chris Watson.
SUN       As the tide begins to recede, the hundreds of thousands of
SUN       birds which had been roosting inland on the shingle banks
SUN       and lagoons return to the mud flats, providing a noisy and
SUN       wonderful spectacle.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00lr153 (Listen)
SUN       Tennyson's Maud
SUN       Joseph Millson reads Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1855 dark and
SUN       lyrical poem Maud to celebrate the 200th anniversary of
SUN       the poet's birth.
SUN       A disturbed young man roams the windswept hills, haunted
SUN       by his father's suicide and his mother's early death. He
SUN       blames his father's old friend, the lord of the Hall, for
SUN       his ruin. The young man was betrothed to Maud, the lord's
SUN       daughter, when they were children, but she and her family
SUN       left the area after the suicide. But now there are workmen
SUN       up at the Hall - Maud has come home.
SUN       With Kathryn Nutbeem.
SUN       Sound design by Christopher Shutt.
SUN       Directed by Abigail le Fleming.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00lr155 (Listen)
SUN       Chris Patten joins Mariella Frostrup to choose his Five of
SUN       the Best. The former Cabinet minister, last Governor of
SUN       Hong Kong and now Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle
SUN       Universities talks about his diverse reading tastes. He
SUN       explains how his predilection for foreign fiction reflects
SUN       a career which has often involved huge amounts of travel.
SUN       He chooses the five books which mean the most to him.
SUN       Mariella also talks to Adam Thirlwell, who was named as
SUN       one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists at the age
SUN       of 24 before his debut, Politics, had even been published.
SUN       He discusses his long-awaited second novel, The Escape.
SUN       Suzi Feay picks some recent paperbacks, both fiction and
SUN       non-fiction, ideal for taking on holiday this summer.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00lr157 (Listen)
SUN       Listeners' requests for poems lead Roger McGough to swim
SUN       with seals in icy waters, recall the wives of Thomas Hardy
SUN       and contemplate life and death while talking about a tea
SUN       tray. With readers Renu Brindle, Paul Mundell and Rupert
SUN       Wickham.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00lp32g (Listen)
SUN       Fraud is estimated to cost the UK economy upwards of 14
SUN       billion pounds a year, a figure which is expected to rise
SUN       dramatically during the recession. Gerry Northam
SUN       investigates whether some of the biggest and most
SUN       audacious corporate fraudsters are now practically immune
SUN       from prosecution.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00lr0b6 (Listen)
SUN       Peter Gabriel
SUN       Clive Coleman profiles Peter Gabriel. He came to fame -
SUN       and fortune - as the extravagantly-dressed lead singer of
SUN       Genesis, before launching a successful solo career. But
SUN       Gabriel has pushed many other frontiers, notably helping
SUN       to found the World Music festival WOMAD. He has also
SUN       experimented with new technologies, brought elder
SUN       statesmen together and campaigned for human rights.
SUN       Clive hears from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Irish
SUN       President Mary Robinson and Peter Gabriel's mother about
SUN       what makes him tick.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00lr159 (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00lr15c (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00lr15f (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00lr15h (Listen)
SUN       Miriam O'Reilly introduces her selection of highlights
SUN       from the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00lr2bx (Listen)
SUN       Annette prepares for a night on the tiles.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00lr2g6 (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       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008cnz8 (Listen)
SUN       Blake's Doors of Perception, Jerusalem
SUN       Short stories marking the 250th anniversary of William
SUN       Blake's birth, each inspired by a quote from the great
SUN       poet.
SUN       Morris and his wife visit the Holy City, but it is back
SUN       home on Hampstead Heath that Morris really begins to
SUN       experience Jerusalem.
SUN       By Neil Gaiman, read by Alexander Morton.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00lq943 (Listen)
SUN       I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue producer Jon Naismith speaks to
SUN       Roger Bolton about the experience of returning to the
SUN       airwaves without Humphrey Lyttelton. We also go behind the
SUN       scenes at Test Match Special.
SUN       On the next edition of Feedback we will be assembling a
SUN       panel of listeners to raise their concerns about the BBC
SUN       to the chairman of the BBC Trust, Sir Michael Lyons.
SUN       While Sir Michael does not run the BBC, he is the chairman
SUN       of the group which supervises the corporation on behalf of
SUN       license fee payers. Technically speaking, the BBC has to
SUN       do what the BBC Trust says, and the BBC Trust has to do
SUN       what you say. Is it doing that? If we can remind you;
SUN       Mark Damazer has already said on air that the BBC Trust is
SUN       examining the possibility of adding humanist voices to
SUN       Thought for the Day. Should they be doing that?
SUN       The BBC Trust have recently suspended bonuses for senior
SUN       BBC staff; there has been no comment about the salaries of
SUN       the on air talent though. Are presenters paid too much?
SUN       Should their salaries be made public?
SUN       The potential DAB switchover in 2015 will affect many
SUN       listeners. The Trust has vigorously opposed the suggestion
SUN       that BBC license fee should be shared with other
SUN       broadcasters to make local news. But have they said much
SUN       regarding DAB?
SUN       The Trust recently examined radio provision for young
SUN       people. Their findings were positive but are children
SUN       actually well served on radio?
SUN       Radio 2 and 6 Music's remit are being examined by the
SUN       Trust. Will this lead to change at the two stations? Would
SUN       you want it to?
SUN       If you feel strongly about these topics, or any other,
SUN       then please email us and we will be in touch.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00lq947 (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing
SUN       and celebrating the life stories of people who have
SUN       recently died. The programme reflects on people of
SUN       distinction and interest from many walks of life, some
SUN       famous and some less well known.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Face the Facts b00lr2g8 (Listen)
SUN       A Death Unnoticed
SUN       John Waite presents the investigative consumer series.
SUN       Every week, councils across the UK fund and organise
SUN       funerals for people who have nobody else to take care of
SUN       their affairs. Often these are deaths which have remained
SUN       undiscovered for weeks, months or even years. In an ageing
SUN       society, it is an issue expected to get worse. So how can
SUN       someone die and no one notice? John Waite investigates the
SUN       background to some of these desperately sad cases and asks
SUN       whether anything could be done to make them less likely.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00lr14g (Listen)
SUN       SSAFA Forces Help
SUN       Martin Bell appeals on behalf of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen
SUN       and Families Association (SSAFA) - Forces Help.
SUN       Donations to SSAFA should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4
SUN       Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SSAFA.
SUN       Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax
SUN       payer, please provide SSAFA with your full name and
SUN       address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation
SUN       worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone donation
SUN       facilities are not currently available to listeners
SUN       without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No. 210760 Est. 1885
SUN       Registered Charity (Scotland) No. SC038056.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00lpr3j (Listen)
SUN       Let's Start a Bank
SUN       Now might be a very good time to start a brand new bank,
SUN       unencumbered by the toxic loans and the government
SUN       bailouts of most of the old ones. Peter Day finds out from
SUN       the experts how to start a bank as well as how not to do
SUN       it.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00lr2gb (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00lr2gd (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.
SUN       Including Strangers in the Lobby: Former Westminster
SUN       journalist Olivia O'Leary tells the story of the small
SUN       group of Irish journalists who work alongside the lobby
SUN       correspondents of the major UK newspapers and broadcasters.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00lq949 (Listen)
SUN       Sylvia Syms discusses her adventures in motion pictures.
SUN       League Of Gentlemen member, writer and actor Mark Gatiss
SUN       presents his alternative guide to British cinema. Jane
SUN       Graham on the the thin line between love and hate in
SUN       modern romantic comedies.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00lr0m8 (Listen)
SUN       The Rescuers
SUN       Mark Tully explores the theme of rescue. A mainstay of
SUN       myth and fairytale, adventure and romance, why is the
SUN       longing for rescue so pervasive, and the need to rescue so
SUN       powerful?
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 27 JULY 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00lr2nc (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lpc8f (Listen)
MON       Most of the research into black children's experience in
MON       British education has focused on the underachievement of
MON       boys, whereas black girls are thought to be doing well.
MON       However, new research from Heidi Mirza at the Institute of
MON       Education shows that, far from being served well by the
MON       system, black girls are having to make huge efforts to
MON       overcome obstacles to their advancement and are still
MON       falling behind white girls and boys. Laurie Taylor hears
MON       about supplementary schools, retaking GCSEs and entrenched
MON       attitudes from largely white teaching staff.
MON       Laurie also hears about the secret history of roads. Joe
MON       Moran calls them, 'the most commonly-viewed and
MON       least-contemplated landscape in Britain'. He tells Laurie
MON       how our motorways are built on pulped remaindered
MON       literature and that migratory birds use our system as
MON       tools for their navigation.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00lr0m4 (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from Howden Minster.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr2ry (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr48f (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr33h (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00lr4fv (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lr4jt (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00lr4kg (Listen)
MON       Anna Hill reports how people in rural towns and villages
MON       are pulling together to beat the recession. New figures
MON       suggest that the countryside is being harder hit that
MON       urban areas when it comes to job losses and shops closing.
MON       Anna visits Reepham, a market town in Norfolk, to find out
MON       how people there are coping with the downturn.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00lrrp9 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00lr4qt (Listen)
MON       With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including Sports
MON       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 MI6: A Century in the Shadows b00lrsnk (Listen)
MON       Gadgets and Green Ink
MON       BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside
MON       Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to MI6
MON       chief Sir John Scarlett, senior intelligence officers,
MON       agents and diplomats as well as their former arch enemies
MON       about the shadowy world of espionage.
MON       Charting the early years of MI6, founded by Sir Mansfield
MON       Cumming - an eccentric and formidable figure known as 'C',
MON       who signed his name in green ink - the highs and lows of
MON       the two World Wars and details of some of the gadgets that
MON       any self-respecting agent could not do without.
MON       
MON       09:30 The Call b00lrsnm (Listen)
MON       The Siege
MON       Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made
MON       life-changing phone calls.
MON       In 1980, police negotiator Max Vernon spent five days
MON       taking brief telephone calls from the leader of the
MON       terrorists who had taken 26 people hostage inside the
MON       Iranian Embassy in London. The siege ended when the SAS
MON       stormed the building, as Max listened on the other end of
MON       the line.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00lr50t (Listen)
MON       The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 1
MON       Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history
MON       of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. It
MON       is a story of the desire to belong, the desire to make
MON       friends and the sometimes conflicting desire to make
MON       money. This dramatic narrative account is based on
MON       interviews and documentary sources.
MON       It all begins in October 2003, when Eduardo Saverin first
MON       meets Mark Zuckerberg.
MON       A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00lr73w (Listen)
MON       With Sheila McClennon. Including drama: The Help.
MON       
MON       11:00 Mind Changers b00lny48 (Listen)
MON       Series 4, The Pseudo-Patient Study
MON       Claudia Hammond revisits another classic psychology
MON       experiment, David Rosenhan's Pseudo-Patient Study, gaining
MON       access to his unpublished personal papers to discover how
MON       it changed our understanding of the human mind, and its
MON       impact 40 years on.
MON       Between 1969 and 1972, the clinical psychologist David
MON       Rosenhan and seven other people - none of whom had a
MON       psychiatric diagnosis - got themselves admitted to 12
MON       different psychiatric hospitals around the United States.
MON       They did this by presenting with a single symptom, saying
MON       that they heard a voice which said words such as 'empty',
MON       'dull' and 'thud.' Once admitted, they acted completely
MON       normally. Nevertheless, they were kept in for periods of
MON       between 8 and 52 days. Seven of them were diagnosed with
MON       schizophrenia and were released as being 'in remission';
MON       not one of them was judged to be sane.
MON       After Rosenhan published On Being Sane in Insane Places in
MON       the journal Science in 1973, the psychiatric profession
MON       went on the defensive to protest its diagnostic
MON       competence. The study struck at the heart of their
MON       attempts to medicalise psychiatry and be accepted as
MON       proper doctors. Its impact was felt when the third edition
MON       of the profession's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical
MON       Manual, came out in 1980: changes had been made which
MON       brought more rigour to the diagnostic process.
MON       However, as Claudia discovers from Rosenhan's unpublished
MON       papers, for him the study was less an experiment of
MON       diagnostic efficacy than an anthropological survey of
MON       psychiatric wards. In a chapter of the book he never
MON       finished, she reads his poignant account of his own first
MON       admission, and his sense that 'minimal attention was paid
MON       to my presence, as if I hardly existed'.
MON       Now suffering ill health and unable to speak, Rosenhan
MON       delegates his friends and colleagues professor of social
MON       psychology at Stanford University Lee Ross and clinical
MON       psychologist Florence Keller to speak to Claudia and show
MON       her the box containing previously unpublished material
MON       which throws new light on one of the most controversial
MON       and famous psychology experiments.
MON       
MON       11:30 Hazelbeach b00lrsnp (Listen)
MON       Series 2, Episode 3
MON       Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford,
MON       featuring likeable conman Ronnie Hazelbeach and his
MON       hapless friend Nick.
MON       Ronnie organises a raffle and James has a bad hair day.
MON       Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman
MON       Nick ...... Paul Bazely
MON       James ...... Neil Stuke
MON       Directed by Marc Beeby.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00lrcqp (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00lrl92 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00lrl9l (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00lrsnr (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
MON       featuring teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00l36zj (Listen)
MON       Family loyalties are tested at the Stables.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00lrt1j (Listen)
MON       Antimacassars and Ylang Ylang Conditioner
MON       Comedy by Ian Potter. Eighty-year-old Frank is obsessed
MON       with coffee. One day, when he thinks he has run out, a
MON       trip to the shops turns into an odyssey.
MON       Frank ...... Russell Dixon
MON       Ewan ...... Stephen Hoyle
MON       Nick ...... Reece Noi
MON       Mrs Johnson ...... Sue Ryding
MON       Shopkeeper ...... Balvinder Sopal
MON       Dave ...... Greg Wood
MON       Jiri/Rob ...... Matt McGuirk
MON       Directed by Gary Brown.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00lr0bb (Listen)
MON       On Northern Men
MON       Kay Mellor explores the way that northern English
MON       masculinities have been portrayed in British film and
MON       television, reconciling issues of blatant sentimentality
MON       with the real-life social parallels that inform the canon
MON       of the past 50 years.
MON       She examines fictional portrayals that have changed and
MON       diversified, yet stayed much the same in many ways. From
MON       the crucial age of the Angry Young Man, marked out in This
MON       Sporting Life, she considers the contrasts and
MON       similarities between the trapped northern masculine
MON       identities portrayed in Kes and Billy Elliot.
MON       Kay discovers that the disintegration of traditional
MON       northern male stereotypes in fiction leads us also to more
MON       diverse explorations, for example, the weak men in
MON       Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine and Keeping Up
MON       Appearances, British-Asian northern masculinities in East
MON       is East, the dysfunctional and proud Frank Gallagher in
MON       Shameless, and interpretations of homosexual masculinities
MON       in Queer as Folk and Jimmy McGovern's The Street.
MON       The programme traces the relationship between changing
MON       variables of social class, heroism, 'northernness' and
MON       fictional portrayals of masculinity in film and
MON       television, using supporting material from the radio
MON       archive, and remembers some of the humour and creativity
MON       that emerges from struggle and the portrayal of difficult
MON       lives.
MON       
MON       15:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists b00lrmkn (Listen)
MON       Mark Knopfler
MON       Singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading talks to
MON       leading guitarists about their music and guitar technique.
MON       Joan talks to Mark Knopfler, lead guitarist of Dire
MON       Straits. Knopfler is considered by many to be the most
MON       respected intricate 'fingerstyle' guitarist of the modern
MON       rock era. He brings his old Gibson and National steel
MON       guitar to the studio.
MON       A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00lr14x (Listen)
MON       Suckling Pigs
MON       Suckling pigs - whole month old milk fed piglets - are a
MON       celebrated and celebratory part of Chinese, Spanish and
MON       Italian cuisine, but fell from favour at the British table
MON       many centuries ago as we became more urbanised - and
MON       squeamish. But with renewed interest in where our food
MON       comes from and how it is reared, suckling pigs are
MON       becoming a more common feature in our restaurants. So
MON       might they be ready for a comeback?
MON       Sheila Dillon meets the farmers who turned around their
MON       own failing pig rearing business 34 years ago by carving
MON       out a new market for themselves, supplying suckling pigs
MON       to Chinese restaurants. Reporter Ray Kershaw visits Barry,
MON       Gillian and Richard Pugh of Pughs Piglets to find out
MON       about their business, where now 40 per cent of their
MON       activities are directed at the mainstream restaurant
MON       market.
MON       She traces our own British suckling pig heritage with food
MON       historian Ivan Day; historically it was suckling pig we
MON       ate, not full grown ones, and we also had a taste for many
MON       other juvenile birds and animals.
MON       Sheila also visits China Tang at the Dorchester Hotel,
MON       where whole suckling pigs are a regular feature of the
MON       dining room, and a traditional part of Chinese wedding
MON       feasts. She speaks to Fuchsia Dunlop, a BBC journalist and
MON       award-winning author of several books on Chinese food, and
MON       Steve Downey, founder of Chef Direct, who supplies
MON       suckling pigs to English restaurants, about their
MON       potential for the future.
MON       
MON       16:30 Beyond Belief b00lrt1m (Listen)
MON       Witchcraft
MON       Ernie Rea and guests discuss the beliefs underpinning
MON       witchcraft. Do modern witches have anything in common with
MON       their forebears? And, have the Harry Potter books and
MON       films inspired greater interest in the craft?
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00lrq0v (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 b00lrq2g (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 Just a Minute b00lrt1q (Listen)
MON       Series 55, Episode 1
MON       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with
MON       panellists Sue Perkins, Pam Ayres, Tony Hawks and Tim Rice.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00lrlv0 (Listen)
MON       Brenda is the bearer of bad tidings for Mike.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00lrq3c (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsqcm (Listen)
MON       The Help, Episode 6
MON       Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson,
MON       Mississippi in 1962, about three brave women who dare to
MON       cross the racial lines.
MON       Skeeter and Aibileen wait nervously to find out how much
MON       Miss Hilly has discovered about their secret project.
MON       Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons
MON       Minny ...... Octavia Spencer
MON       Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow
MON       Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker
MON       Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter
MON       Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston
MON       Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan
MON       Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout
MON       Adapted by Penny Leicester.
MON       
MON       20:00 Calling Time on the Binge Drinkers b00jzy2s (Listen)
MON       Frenchman, former Millennium Dome supremo and giant of the
MON       UK leisure industry PY Gerbeau examines our cultural
MON       obsession with drinking to excess and tries to find
MON       solutions to the problem.
MON       The French businessman first came to prominence in 2000
MON       when PY was brought in by the government to run the
MON       troubled Millennium Dome. A huge fan of Britain then and
MON       now, he is still puzzled by one national trait - the habit
MON       of binge drinking.
MON       PY remembers the shock of his first encounter with the
MON       British weakness for excessive boozing. Shortly after
MON       arriving in London he came across a group of teenagers
MON       reeling about in the street surrounded by dozens of empty
MON       bottles. He soon discovered that drinking to excess is
MON       commonplace in towns and cities across the UK. It came as
MON       a double shock for Gerbeau because, despite his Gallic
MON       roots, PY himself rarely drinks, preferring to limit his
MON       own alcohol consumption to the occasional glass of dessert
MON       wine or champagne.
MON       But now the issue of binge drinking is very much on PY's
MON       own doorstep. The Frenchman heads X-Leisure, the largest
MON       leisure owner in the UK. Every Friday and Saturday night,
MON       thousands of people visit bars and restaurants at
MON       operators inside his entertainment complexes. His team has
MON       worked closely with tenants to limit alcohol promotions,
MON       trying to achieve a best code of practice, but PY admits
MON       they have had limited success.
MON       He now has broader concerns about the regulation of
MON       alcohol use and says: 'It's time for a prise de conscience
MON       - an awakening. The government has proved the case for
MON       tobacco, but the same needs to be done for binge drinking'.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00lygvy (Listen)
MON       Pakistan
MON       Bill Law investigates if Pakistani youngsters are in
MON       danger of joining the ranks of the Taliban or if they are
MON       fighting back against the extremists. Two-thirds of the
MON       Pakistani population is under the age of 25. In a country
MON       under siege from the forces of religious extremism, this
MON       youth bulge serves as a ticking time bomb.
MON       
MON       21:00 Biomimicry: Inspired by Nature b00lrt1s (Listen)
MON       Scientist and broadcaster Prof Trevor Cox explores a new
MON       wave of biomimicry - copying nature - which aims to
MON       recreate the processes and systems, from self-cleaning
MON       lotus leaves to the Namibian fog-basking beetle, which can
MON       harvest moisture from the dry desert air.
MON       Trevor meets the people attempting to emulate nature's
MON       genius. Their goal is not just to copy nature's
MON       structures, but to recreate the processes and systems that
MON       evolution has taken billions of years to perfect.
MON       
MON       21:30 MI6: A Century in the Shadows b00lrsnk (Listen)
MON       Gadgets and Green Ink
MON       BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside
MON       Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to MI6
MON       chief Sir John Scarlett, senior intelligence officers,
MON       agents and diplomats as well as their former arch enemies
MON       about the shadowy world of espionage.
MON       Charting the early years of MI6, founded by Sir Mansfield
MON       Cumming - an eccentric and formidable figure known as 'C',
MON       who signed his name in green ink - the highs and lows of
MON       the two World Wars and details of some of the gadgets that
MON       any self-respecting agent could not do without.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00lrqb2 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00lrqht (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Carolyn
MON       Quinn.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lt1pb (Listen)
MON       The Rapture, Episode 1
MON       Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller.
MON       In a world on the brink of destruction, Gabrielle Fox
MON       arrives at an adolescent secure pyschiatric hospital,
MON       where a new patient is assigned to her. Sixteen-year-old
MON       Bethany Krall has committed an appalling crime and seems
MON       to know more about her new therapist that she ought to.
MON       Abridged by Fiona McAlpine.
MON       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 Word of Mouth b00lp2hl (Listen)
MON       Chris Ledgard considers the use of words to control minds,
MON       exploring hypnosis, brainwashing and the recruiting
MON       language of cults to find out just how influenced we are
MON       by language.
MON       Chris is put into an altered state of consciousness by the
MON       soothing words of a hypnotherapist, to find out what kind
MON       of words are used to do this and how. Some in the medical
MON       profession are calling for hypnosis to be used for pain
MON       relief during medical procedures such as bone marrow
MON       transplantation and cancer treatment. They say that as
MON       hypnosis has no side effects it makes the operation
MON       quicker, the recovery faster and the cost less than with
MON       the use conventional anaesthetic. But does it really work,
MON       and if so, how? Chris talks to the scientists currently
MON       working on a systematic review to find out.
MON       Can talk also be used to control and manipulate us into
MON       doing things that we would otherwise not do? Stories of
MON       people being indoctrinated into cults usually involve
MON       descriptions of brainwashing, corruption and manipulation.
MON       But are words really powerful enough to control the mind?
MON       Chris talks to an ex-cult member turned rhetorical
MON       theorist about how language is used.
MON       
MON       23:30 Hairspray and Harmonies b00hr5kt (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the Birmingham-based ladies
MON       barbershop chorus Second City Sound as it prepares to
MON       compete in the Ladies Association of British Barbershop
MON       Singers in Harrogate.
MON       Kit attends rehearsals in Birmingham, where he meets the
MON       60-strong chorus of singers - and they put him through his
MON       musical paces.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 28 JULY 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00lr2m6 (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00lr50t (Listen)
TUE       The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 1
TUE       Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history
TUE       of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. It
TUE       is a story of the desire to belong, the desire to make
TUE       friends and the sometimes conflicting desire to make
TUE       money. This dramatic narrative account is based on
TUE       interviews and documentary sources.
TUE       It all begins in October 2003, when Eduardo Saverin first
TUE       meets Mark Zuckerberg.
TUE       A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr2nf (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr485 (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr2s0 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00lr4br (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lr4fx (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00lr4jw (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00lr4qk (Listen)
TUE       With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including Sports
TUE       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The Long View b00lnync (Listen)
TUE       Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the
TUE       past behind the present.
TUE       Jonathan examines the policing of demonstrations and asks
TUE       what lessons can be learned in our own time from the 1855
TUE       Hyde Park disturbances. The newly established police force
TUE       was criticised in Parliament and the press for using
TUE       excessive force to control the crowd, goading the public
TUE       and coralling the protestors into a confined space.
TUE       Jonathan and guests compare that controversy with the
TUE       criticisms being levelled at the police force today in
TUE       light of the G20 protests.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Musical Migrants b00b4nsq (Listen)
TUE       Series 1, From Belgium to Buenos Aires
TUE       Stories of people who relocated to other countries,
TUE       influenced by music.
TUE       Despite having little interest in Argentina or tango
TUE       music, Belgian bandoneon player Eva Wolff won a
TUE       scholarship and arrived in Buenos Aires in 2002, soon
TUE       after Argentina's catastrophic economic meltdown. The
TUE       slump triggered a post-crisis tango renaissance and, as
TUE       Eva relates, the tango scene is now more vital than at any
TUE       time since it first developed in the city's slums.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00lwrln (Listen)
TUE       The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 2
TUE       Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history
TUE       of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook.
TUE       Some weeks after Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin meet
TUE       and become friends in October 2003, Mark finds himself
TUE       hacking into the college networks. It is the beginning of
TUE       a historic enterprise.
TUE       A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00lr6lw (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Help.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 The Chambers b00lrv4w (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Second of two programmes which go behind the elegant
TUE       facades of legal London to meet the barristers, clerks and
TUE       staff of Outer Temple Chambers, one of London's leading
TUE       law chambers.
TUE       The new management structure is firmly in place and
TUE       commercial director Christine is leading the work to get
TUE       Chambers in shape for the implementation of the new Legal
TUE       Services Act. Meanwhile, Chambers's big winter PR social
TUE       event at the Royal Courts of Justice is nearly scuppered
TUE       by a taxi strike coinciding with a foot of snow.
TUE       Barrister Cara is back at work after maternity leave, but
TUE       when her nanny is called back to Poland she finds herself
TUE       struggling to juggle work and home. New recruits are
TUE       joining Chambers: Ali represents part of the business's
TUE       ambitious plans for Middle East expansion, while Michael's
TUE       tax expertise is put to good use at a tribunal in
TUE       Manchester.
TUE       On QC Richard's farm, spring arrives as his new role as
TUE       head of strategic development begins to take shape, while
TUE       by July, the nerves of Chambers's pupils (trainee
TUE       barristers) are shredded as decision day approaches for
TUE       whether they are going to be kept on or unceremoniously
TUE       'let go'.
TUE       But at least it's summer and there is the annual party to
TUE       look forward to.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 With Great Pleasure b00lrv4y (Listen)
TUE       Honor Blackman
TUE       Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing.
TUE       Honor Blackman introduces a selection of the poetry and
TUE       prose which has inspired her through her long acting
TUE       career. The pieces are read by Eleanor David, Nickolas
TUE       Grace and Honor herself.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00lrcq5 (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00lrl4c (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00lrl94 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields b00lrv50 (Listen)
TUE       Robin Denselow tells the story of Cambodia's rock and roll
TUE       stars who emerged during the late 1960s with a new sound
TUE       known as Khmer Rock. Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge,
TUE       almost all these singers and musicians were killed, but
TUE       they are still revered by Cambodians today.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00lrlv0 (Listen)
TUE       Brenda is the bearer of bad tidings for Mike.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00hd3j8 (Listen)
TUE       McLevy - Series 5, The Chosen One
TUE       Stories about David Ashton's Victorian detective based on
TUE       real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James McLevy.
TUE       Marianna Eagle, the 'Princess of the Occult', is a
TUE       sell-out at the Usher Hall. Do her powers transcend mortal
TUE       understanding, or is she a fraud? McLevy takes his place
TUE       in the stalls.
TUE       McLevy ...... Brian Cox
TUE       Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond
TUE       Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell
TUE       Roach ...... David Ashton
TUE       Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil
TUE       Marianna ...... Claire Knight
TUE       Cyrus ...... Angus Macinnes
TUE       Donald ...... Andrew Neil
TUE       Mrs Gulliver ...... Sheila Donald
TUE       Craigie ...... Robin Laing
TUE       Directed by Patrick Rayner.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00lrv52 (Listen)
TUE       Should we be constructing artificial reefs as havens for
TUE       harried marine life? Why does no-one talk about cement
TUE       when discussing climate change yet it is one of the
TUE       biggest emitters of carbon dioxide? And just how much
TUE       carbon dioxide is there in the atmosphere and can human
TUE       activity really effect it? Also, how well is the message
TUE       about environmental degradation being transmitted and why
TUE       do larger animals live longer than small ones?
TUE       On the panel are marine biologist Dr Helen Scales,
TUE       Professor Andrew Watkinson, Director of Living With
TUE       Environmental Change, and Professor Philip Stott,
TUE       environmental scientist at the University of London.
TUE       As always we want to hear your comments on the topics
TUE       discussed and any questions you might want to put to
TUE       future programmes.
TUE       House Martins. We want to hear your observations of House
TUE       Martins; have they returned this year and when, and have
TUE       they bred successfully?
TUE       Finally, Home Planet will be at the British Birdwatching
TUE       Fair at Rutland Water to record a programme on the evening
TUE       of Friday 21 August. Listeners are invited to come to the
TUE       recording, and if you want to ask a question, please let
TUE       the programme know in advance by clicking on the Contact
TUE       Us link above.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ls1vk (Listen)
TUE       Three Women in a Motorhome, Pam's Story
TUE       Series of stories by Sue Teddern about three women who
TUE       take a short but eventful trip in a mobile home, written
TUE       to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jerome
TUE       K Jerome.
TUE       Pam's husband died recently. The couple had bought a motor
TUE       home and dreamt of enjoying their retirement on the open
TUE       road, but it has been parked in the driveway ever since
TUE       his death - too symbolic to sell, too precious to use.
TUE       She is cajoled by her daughter into taking it for a trip
TUE       along the Severn, and on the way they pick up an eccentric
TUE       elderly relative. Pam is grieving, but also learning to
TUE       assert herself with a daughter whose concern manifests
TUE       itself as control.
TUE       Read by Lynda Bellingham.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists b00lrms2 (Listen)
TUE       Bonnie Raitt
TUE       Singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading talks to
TUE       leading guitarists about their music and guitar technique.
TUE       Joan talks to American blues singer and songwriter Bonnie
TUE       Raitt, one of the few women to achieve fame as a blues
TUE       guitarist. Joan hears how the young Bonnie dropped out of
TUE       Harvard and hung out with the greatest bluesmen, learning
TUE       slide guitar and techniques that have sustained her long
TUE       and varied career.
TUE       A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Word of Mouth b00ls65t (Listen)
TUE       Chris Ledgard looks at new research showing that we really
TUE       are different when it comes to languages.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 A Good Read b00ls65w (Listen)
TUE       Kate Mosse talks to singer Imelda May and poet John Hegley
TUE       about their favourite books: two classics set in WWI and a
TUE       poetic Japanese travelogue.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00lrpvm (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 b00lrq0x (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Laurence & Gus: Hearts and Minds b00ls65y (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 3
TUE       Comic sketches starring Laurence Howarth and Gus Brown.
TUE       Sketches about Industry and Laziness, with perspectives
TUE       from Stalin's PA, a man with an awful lot of tortoises and
TUE       the Pied Piper of Hamlyn.
TUE       With Kate Fleetwood, Isy Suttie and Duncan Wisbey.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00lrltn (Listen)
TUE       Matt sees how the other half live.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00lrq2j (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsqc8 (Listen)
TUE       The Help, Episode 7
TUE       Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson,
TUE       Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to
TUE       cross the racial lines.
TUE       After the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers,
TUE       Skeeter fears that she won't find any other black maids
TUE       willing to tell her their story.
TUE       Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons
TUE       Minny ...... Octavia Spencer
TUE       Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow
TUE       Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker
TUE       Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter
TUE       Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston
TUE       Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan
TUE       Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout
TUE       Adapted by Penny Leicester.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00ls660 (Listen)
TUE       As evidence continues to emerge about the CIA's secret
TUE       detention and interrogation programme, calls grow on this
TUE       side of the Atlantic for an inquiry into claims that
TUE       Britain colluded in the torture of suspects. Stephen Grey
TUE       investigates the relationship between the US and the UK
TUE       security services in the hidden War on Terror.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00ls662 (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00ls6bq (Listen)
TUE       Dr Mark Porter explores the diagnosis and treatment of
TUE       Barrett's oesophagus. Barrett's oesophagus is a condition
TUE       that affects some people who have had severe heartburn for
TUE       a long time. Mark finds out how it is dealt with at
TUE       Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The Long View b00lnync (Listen)
TUE       Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the
TUE       past behind the present.
TUE       Jonathan examines the policing of demonstrations and asks
TUE       what lessons can be learned in our own time from the 1855
TUE       Hyde Park disturbances. The newly established police force
TUE       was criticised in Parliament and the press for using
TUE       excessive force to control the crowd, goading the public
TUE       and coralling the protestors into a confined space.
TUE       Jonathan and guests compare that controversy with the
TUE       criticisms being levelled at the police force today in
TUE       light of the G20 protests.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00lrq7m (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00lrqb4 (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Carolyn
TUE       Quinn.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lw03q (Listen)
TUE       The Rapture, Episode 2
TUE       Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller.
TUE       Bethany Krall, a troubled psychiatric patient, appears to
TUE       possess prophetic powers brought on by electro-therapy and
TUE       terrible nightmares. Her therapist Gabrielle Fox seeks
TUE       advice from a scientist she meets at a charity ball.
TUE       Abridged by Fiona McAlpine.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00ls6bt (Listen)
TUE       Episode 4
TUE       Arthur Smith invites an audience into his home for music
TUE       and comedy. With Stewart Lee, Reginald D Hunter and Sophie
TUE       Ellis-Bextor.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Hairspray and Harmonies b00hv33b (Listen)
TUE       Episode 2
TUE       Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the Birmingham-based ladies
TUE       barbershop chorus Second City Sound.
TUE       Kit meets up with the group in Harrogate as it prepares to
TUE       compete in the Ladies Association of British Barbershop
TUE       Singers.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00lr2m8 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00lwrln (Listen)
WED       The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 2
WED       Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history
WED       of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook.
WED       Some weeks after Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin meet
WED       and become friends in October 2003, Mark finds himself
WED       hacking into the college networks. It is the beginning of
WED       a historic enterprise.
WED       A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr2nh (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr487 (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr2s2 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00lr4bt (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lr4fz (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00lr4jy (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00lr4qm (Listen)
WED       With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00lxc6g (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including celebrity photographer Terry O'Neill.
WED       
WED       09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A
WED       b00ls6wp (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
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       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00lwtsj (Listen)
WED       The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 3
WED       Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history
WED       of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook.
WED       Mark acquires a certain campus notoriety in the aftermath
WED       of his aborted website Harvard Facemash in the winter of
WED       2003. But there are some perceptive young entrepreneurs
WED       who recognise his talent and want to harness it to their
WED       own web projects.
WED       A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00lr6m6 (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Help.
WED       
WED       11:00 In Living Memory b00ls6xg (Listen)
WED       Series 10, Oil in Dorset
WED       Contemporary history series.
WED       Chris Ledgard tells the story of the battle to extract
WED       Dorset's oil, after geologists discovered the biggest
WED       offshore oilfield in western Europe there in the late
WED       1970s.
WED       The oilmen were faced with the dilemma of how to open up a
WED       major oilfield around the Isle of Purbeck and Poole
WED       Harbour, one of the most important and protected stretches
WED       of landscape in the British Isles. But BP was determined
WED       to do so and, after a long battle to persuade people that
WED       it could drill for oil without destroying the environment,
WED       its plans were passed.
WED       
WED       11:30 Baggage b00ls77k (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Tales of the Unexpected
WED       Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh.
WED       It's December in Edinburgh and the Christmas spirit is in
WED       short supply. The spirit of whisky, however, features
WED       heavily, as Ruth decides whether or not to risk falling
WED       off the wagon and Caroline and Roddy risk seriously
WED       falling out.
WED       Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon
WED       Fiona ...... Phyllis Logan
WED       Ruth ...... Adie Allen
WED       Roddy ...... Robin Cameron
WED       Hector ...... David Rintoul
WED       Nicholas ...... Moray Hunter
WED       Miriam ...... Nicola Grier
WED       Directed by Marilyn Imrie.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00lrcq7 (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00lrl4f (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00lrl96 (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00ls7fp (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00lrltn (Listen)
WED       Matt sees how the other half live.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00lslgh (Listen)
WED       Ladies' Day
WED       By Amanda Whittington. To celebrate her early retirement,
WED       Pearl takes her two best friends from work for a day at
WED       the races. The outing becomes a rollercoaster ride of
WED       emotions, changing fortunes and some unexpected
WED       revelations.
WED       Pearl ...... Katharine Rogers
WED       Jan ...... Lynda Rooke
WED       Shelley ...... Louise Kempton
WED       Kevin ...... John McAndrew
WED       Jack ...... Robert Gwilym
WED       Announcer ...... Charlie Parkin
WED       Directed by Sara Davies.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box b00lqzts (Listen)
WED       In a special edition of the programme, Paul Lewis and
WED       guests discuss savings and investments. Paul talks to fund
WED       manager Anthony Bolton and looks at Zopa, the intetrnet
WED       service that advertises rates of over eight per cent.
WED       His panel are Clare Francis of comparison website
WED       Moneysupermarket, Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven
WED       Investment Management and Adrian Lowcock, senior
WED       investment adviser at Bestinvest.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ls21t (Listen)
WED       Three Women in a Motorhome, Rosemary's Story
WED       Series of stories by Sue Teddern about three women who
WED       take a short but eventful trip in a mobile home, written
WED       to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jerome
WED       K Jerome.
WED       Rosemary is an 84-year-old who doesn't care too much for
WED       convention. She meets a young 'hoodie' called Gavin in a
WED       launderette in Chepstow, as her two travelling companions
WED       charge her with looking after 'the smalls' while they
WED       stock up at the supermarket. As she gradually wins Gavin's
WED       trust, she hits on a very unusual gift idea for her friend
WED       back at The Beeches retirement home.
WED       Read by Marcia Warren.
WED       
WED       15:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists b00lrms4 (Listen)
WED       John Williams
WED       Singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading talks to
WED       leading guitarists about their music and guitar technique.
WED       Joan meets classical guitarist John Williams. Regarded as
WED       the one of the finest classical guitarists of his
WED       generation, Williams has explored many different musical
WED       traditions including Spanish and jazz guitar. He plays
WED       Joan different music across from the centuries to
WED       illustrate the differences between classical and other
WED       forms of guitar music.
WED       A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00lsxgy (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00ls6bq (Listen)
WED       Dr Mark Porter explores the diagnosis and treatment of
WED       Barrett's oesophagus. Barrett's oesophagus is a condition
WED       that affects some people who have had severe heartburn for
WED       a long time. Mark finds out how it is dealt with at
WED       Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00lrpvp (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 b00lrq0z (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons
WED       b00lsxh0 (Listen)
WED       Bob Dylan
WED       Occasional series of comic profiles celebrating the living
WED       artists deemed to be 'iconic icons'.
WED       Written by and starring Patrick Barlow, with additional
WED       material by John Ramm.
WED       A CPL production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00lrltq (Listen)
WED       Lynda works on her social network.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00lrq2l (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsqcb (Listen)
WED       The Help, Episode 8
WED       Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson,
WED       Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to
WED       cross the racial lines.
WED       Skeeter's crossing of the fearsome Miss Hilly results in
WED       her almost total exclusion from the Jackson social set.
WED       Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons
WED       Minny ...... Octavia Spencer
WED       Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow
WED       Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker
WED       Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter
WED       Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston
WED       Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan
WED       Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout
WED       Adapted by Penny Leicester.
WED       
WED       20:00 Reality Check b00lsyd2 (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Episode 1
WED       Justin Rowlatt presents a series of discussions with
WED       experts and people closely involved with the issues.
WED       Those who seek to influence university policy are joined
WED       by students at the sharp end of the government's higher
WED       education policy to ask if the UK needs to send so many
WED       people to university.
WED       Around 300,000 university students finish their studies in
WED       summer 2009, only to join one of the worst employment
WED       markets for years, and questions continue to be asked
WED       about the quality of education provided by some
WED       institutions.
WED       
WED       20:45 Strangers in the Lobby b00lsyfw (Listen)
WED       Olivia O'Leary tells the story of the only 'foreign'
WED       journalists allowed into the heart of Westminster: the
WED       Irish lobby. When Irish nationalists planted dynamite
WED       inside the House of Commons in 1885, their attack was
WED       foiled but the action led, indirectly, to the setting up
WED       of the modern lobby system. Today, all the major UK
WED       newspapers and broadcasters have lobby correspondents but
WED       it is a little-known fact that a small group of Irish
WED       journalists work alongside them.
WED       
WED       21:00 A Life With ... b00lsyql (Listen)
WED       Series 5, Ospreys
WED       Writer and naturalist Paul Evans goes to the Highlands of
WED       Scotland to meet Roy Dennis OBE, statesman of British
WED       conservation, who has spent a life with ospreys - the
WED       iconic fish hawks which are slowly returning to Britain.
WED       Paul asks Roy what other creatures he would like to see
WED       back in the British countryside.
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00lxc6g (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and
WED       guests including celebrity photographer Terry O'Neill.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00lrq7p (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00lrqb6 (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with David
WED       Eades.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lw09s (Listen)
WED       The Rapture, Episode 3
WED       Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller.
WED       Gabrielle and physicist Frazer Melville begin an affair,
WED       and Gabrielle's unsettling patient Bethany makes an
WED       accurate prediction concerning a natural disaster.
WED       Abridged by Fiona McAlpine.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 Act Your Age b00ftb87 (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Host Simon Mayo pits the comic generations against each
WED       other. With team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and
WED       Roy Walker and guests Mick Miller, Ed Byrne and Josie Long.
WED       
WED       23:30 Kicking the Habit b007tcmd (Listen)
WED       Series 1, If the Boot Fits, Share It
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       Noisy boots, an electric bath chair and a sexy redhead are
WED       all hazards along the quirky path to righteousness. And
WED       while dutiful Father Michael seeks spiritual guidance, his
WED       capable administrator Mave is possibly the real power
WED       behind the shrine.
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       Friars and pilgrims played by Kenneth Danziger, Tracy
WED       Pattin, Moira Quirk and Alan Shearman.
WED       Directed by Pete Atkin
WED       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 30 JULY 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00lr2mb (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00lwtsj (Listen)
THU       The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 3
THU       Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history
THU       of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook.
THU       Mark acquires a certain campus notoriety in the aftermath
THU       of his aborted website Harvard Facemash in the winter of
THU       2003. But there are some perceptive young entrepreneurs
THU       who recognise his talent and want to harness it to their
THU       own web projects.
THU       A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr2nk (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr489 (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr2s4 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00lr4bw (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lr4g1 (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00lr4k0 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00lr4qp (Listen)
THU       With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lszh4 (Listen)
THU       Series 5, Episode 3
THU       Series in which Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of
THU       experts to tackle the ethics involved in a real hospital
THU       case.
THU       They examine the case of Ayesha and her bid to receive
THU       fertility treatment. Ayesha has a genetic condition which
THU       causes muscle weakness and curvature of the spine. She is
THU       in a wheelchair and heavily reliant on her husband and
THU       others for day-to-day tasks such as getting out of bed,
THU       having a shower and going to the toilet.
THU       By law, the welfare of any child born through fertilty
THU       treatment has to be assessed, and Ayesha's case is no
THU       exception. But how does her disability and future health
THU       affect the welfare of a child? Is it ethical to put the
THU       needs of someone who doesn't exist yet above those of
THU       someone who does? Should a fertility treatment request be
THU       treated any differently if one of the parents has a
THU       disability rather than a life-threatening illness like
THU       cancer? Whose job is it to decide what makes someone
THU       adequate parents?
THU       There is a 50 per cent chance that her condition will be
THU       passed on to any future child. It is possible to screen
THU       out the condition in affected embryos. But Ayesha says she
THU       would accept any child regardless of its condition and
THU       wouldn't want any screening. The law says you cannot
THU       screen in a disability, but says nothing about screening
THU       one out. Is it ethical to consider screening for embryos
THU       in effect with the same conditon as Ayesha's if she was
THU       offered fertility treatment?
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00lwttk (Listen)
THU       The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 4
THU       Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history
THU       of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. It
THU       is a story of the desire to belong, the desire to make
THU       friends and the sometimes conflicting desire to make
THU       money. This dramatic narrative account is based on
THU       interviews and documentary sources.
THU       In the summer of 2004, Mark moves the team to Silicon
THU       Valley, but Eduardo remains behind in New York and Harvard.
THU       A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00lr6mb (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Help.
THU       
THU       11:00 Crossing Continents b00lszh6 (Listen)
THU       A Journey Without Maps
THU       Humphrey Hawksley retraces the extraordinary journey
THU       undertaken on foot by the novelist Graham Greene from
THU       Sierra Leone across Liberia in 1935. He feasts on sardines
THU       and luncheon meat, meets the lightning makers and devil
THU       dancers and is involved in a near-fatal car crash. How has
THU       West Africa changed? Is it better or worse than it was 70
THU       years ago?
THU       
THU       11:30 Frequently Asked Questions b00lszh8 (Listen)
THU       Ian Samson traces the relationship between authors and
THU       their readers through the changing nature of the
THU       correspondence between them. He asks his fellow writers
THU       whether festivals, promotional tours and the advent of the
THU       internet have altered their role.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00lrcq9 (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Shari Vahl. Including Face
THU       the Facts, presented by John Waite.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00lrl4h (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00lrl98 (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Questions, Questions b00lszhb (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 b00lrltq (Listen)
THU       Lynda works on her social network.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00lszhd (Listen)
THU       Marmalade for Comrade Philby
THU       Black comedy by Christopher William Hill. When mediocre
THU       novelist Patrick Bradyn discovers that his French
THU       translator has reworked his latest spy novel as
THU       autobiography, he finds himself with a profound moral
THU       conundrum.
THU       Patrick Bradyn ...... Bill Nighy
THU       Hannah Olrod ...... Penelope Wilton
THU       Delphine Barbret ...... Rachel Atkins
THU       Ken ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
THU       Lottie ...... Claudia Elmhirst
THU       Barlow ...... Adrian Scarborough
THU       With original music by Lucinda Mason Brown.
THU       A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:02 Open Country b00lqpwl (Listen)
THU       Firth of Lorne
THU       Helen Mark reports on the dispute between fishermen and
THU       conservationists over the wildlife-rich waters of the
THU       Firth of Lorne on the west coast of Scotland.
THU       Dotted with tiny islands, the Firth of Lorne on the west
THU       coast of Scotland is a yachtsman's dream. Fishermen also
THU       covet the Firth's prawns and scallops, whilst
THU       conservationists fret over threats to the extraordinary
THU       reefs, the sea bird colonies and the whales and dolphins
THU       that pass between Mull and Jura.
THU       Helen joins local wildlife biologist Tessa McGregor for a
THU       boat trip around the Firth, meeting fishermen, farmers and
THU       naturalists, all of whom are anxious to reach a balance
THU       that preserves livelihoods without further threatening
THU       this precarious natural environment.
THU       Scallop dredging is currently banned in the Firth, much to
THU       the displeasure of local fishermen who have to sail
THU       further and into more dangerous waters to bring home a
THU       profitable catch. The Scottish government may reverse the
THU       ban, but a local diver tells Helen that such a move would
THU       cause further damage to the sea bed, the rocky reef and
THU       the aquatic life that depends on it.
THU       On her voyage around the Firth's tiny islands Helen will
THU       also be meeting the local Luing breed of cattle and seeing
THU       the beehive huts used by the first generation of Scottish
THU       monks.
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00lr14g (Listen)
THU       SSAFA Forces Help
THU       Martin Bell appeals on behalf of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen
THU       and Families Association (SSAFA) - Forces Help.
THU       Donations to SSAFA should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4
THU       Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SSAFA.
THU       Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax
THU       payer, please provide SSAFA with your full name and
THU       address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation
THU       worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone donation
THU       facilities are not currently available to listeners
THU       without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No. 210760 Est. 1885
THU       Registered Charity (Scotland) No. SC038056.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ls21w (Listen)
THU       Three Women in a Motorhome, Kate's Story
THU       Series of stories by Sue Teddern about three women who
THU       take a short but eventful trip in a mobile home, written
THU       to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jerome
THU       K Jerome.
THU       Kate has given her mother Pam an ultimatum about the motor
THU       home: one 'grand tour' before selling it. The intention
THU       was for them to spend some quality time together on the
THU       road, away from the pressures of her work. But plans go
THU       awry as a phone call from a colleague turns everything on
THU       its head.
THU       Read by Rebecca Smart.
THU       
THU       15:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists b00lrms6 (Listen)
THU       Russell Lissack
THU       Singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading talks to
THU       leading guitarists about their music and guitar technique.
THU       Joan meets Russell Lissack, lead guitarist of indie-rock
THU       band Bloc Party and her youngest guitar favourite. Using
THU       his ever-expanding array of electronic effects, Russell is
THU       able to make his guitar sound like nothing else on earth.
THU       Be it spiky power chords, immersive walls of sound or the
THU       whoosh of an aeroplane taking off, he shows how far modern
THU       technology has influenced guitar playing in the wake of
THU       the psychedelic experiments of the 1960s.
THU       A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00lr155 (Listen)
THU       Chris Patten joins Mariella Frostrup to choose his Five of
THU       the Best. The former Cabinet minister, last Governor of
THU       Hong Kong and now Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle
THU       Universities talks about his diverse reading tastes. He
THU       explains how his predilection for foreign fiction reflects
THU       a career which has often involved huge amounts of travel.
THU       He chooses the five books which mean the most to him.
THU       Mariella also talks to Adam Thirlwell, who was named as
THU       one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists at the age
THU       of 24 before his debut, Politics, had even been published.
THU       He discusses his long-awaited second novel, The Escape.
THU       Suzi Feay picks some recent paperbacks, both fiction and
THU       non-fiction, ideal for taking on holiday this summer.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00lszhg (Listen)
THU       The discovery 20 years ago of the gene responsible for
THU       cystic fibrosis was a milestone in human genetics. One of
THU       the discoverers, Francis Collins, went on to run the Human
THU       Genome Project. A single gene was tracked down using
THU       genetic clues, and the expectation was that a treatment
THU       based on replacing the gene would follow soon. Quentin
THU       Cooper hears why the therapy has proved so hard to develop.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00lrpvr (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 b00lrq11 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Shappi Talk b00lszhj (Listen)
THU       Episode 4
THU       Comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi examines what it
THU       is like growing up in multi-cultural families.
THU       Shappi discusses growing up in the UK with black comedian
THU       Ava Vidal and chats to author Ben Okri, who tells stories
THU       from his childhood with a very alternative father and
THU       discusses some childhood challenges.
THU       Plus a song from comedian Hils Barker.
THU       An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00lrlts (Listen)
THU       Helen loses her sense of diplomacy.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00lrq2n (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsqcf (Listen)
THU       The Help, Episode 9
THU       Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson,
THU       Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to
THU       cross the racial lines.
THU       Minny worries that Miss Celia is about to make a fool of
THU       herself at the Jackson Junior League Annual Benefit.
THU       Meanwhile, Skeeter has a deadline to meet.
THU       Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons
THU       Minny ...... Octavia Spencer
THU       Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow
THU       Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker
THU       Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter
THU       Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston
THU       Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan
THU       Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout
THU       Adapted by Penny Leicester.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00lszhl (Listen)
THU       Organised dog fighting is believed to be on the increase
THU       among some young British Asians. Dog fighting is a
THU       long-established tradition in parts of Pakistan but here
THU       in the UK, it is being linked to other violent criminality
THU       - with drug money being used to wage bets on the outcome
THU       of the fight. Amardeep Bassey investigates.
THU       
THU       20:30 In Business b00lszhn (Listen)
THU       Learning Curve
THU       A 21st-century corporation needs a different kind of
THU       organisational structure from the old command and control
THU       mechanisms that built the world's biggest companies. Peter
THU       Day finds out how people can create learning organisations
THU       without commanding and controlling.
THU       
THU       21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lszh4 (Listen)
THU       Series 5, Episode 3
THU       Series in which Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of
THU       experts to tackle the ethics involved in a real hospital
THU       case.
THU       They examine the case of Ayesha and her bid to receive
THU       fertility treatment. Ayesha has a genetic condition which
THU       causes muscle weakness and curvature of the spine. She is
THU       in a wheelchair and heavily reliant on her husband and
THU       others for day-to-day tasks such as getting out of bed,
THU       having a shower and going to the toilet.
THU       By law, the welfare of any child born through fertilty
THU       treatment has to be assessed, and Ayesha's case is no
THU       exception. But how does her disability and future health
THU       affect the welfare of a child? Is it ethical to put the
THU       needs of someone who doesn't exist yet above those of
THU       someone who does? Should a fertility treatment request be
THU       treated any differently if one of the parents has a
THU       disability rather than a life-threatening illness like
THU       cancer? Whose job is it to decide what makes someone
THU       adequate parents?
THU       There is a 50 per cent chance that her condition will be
THU       passed on to any future child. It is possible to screen
THU       out the condition in affected embryos. But Ayesha says she
THU       would accept any child regardless of its condition and
THU       wouldn't want any screening. The law says you cannot
THU       screen in a disability, but says nothing about screening
THU       one out. Is it ethical to consider screening for embryos
THU       in effect with the same conditon as Ayesha's if she was
THU       offered fertility treatment?
THU       
THU       21:45 Top of the Class b00cq602 (Listen)
THU       Bill Morris
THU       John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and
THU       takes them back to the places and people they left behind
THU       but who influenced their later success.
THU       Former trade union leader Bill Morris returns to the car
THU       component manufacturer in Birmingham where he began work
THU       as an 18-year-old in overalls on the factory floor in 1954.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00lrq7r (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00lrqb8 (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with David
THU       Eades.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lw0cb (Listen)
THU       The Rapture, Episode 4
THU       Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller.
THU       Bethany predicts a powerful earthquake in Turkey, and
THU       Gabrielle has a disturbing encounter with her predecessor
THU       at the psychiatric hospital.
THU       Abridged by Fiona McAlpine.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 Bigipedia b00lszss (Listen)
THU       Episode 2
THU       The omniscient friend you know from your computer and
THU       laser watch takes over Radio 4 for 30 minutes in a unique
THU       experiment in broadwebcasting.
THU       Written by Nick Doody and Matt Kirshen with Carey Marx and
THU       Sarah Morgan.
THU       Featuring Ewan Bailey, Sam Battersea, Margaret
THU       Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, Kobna
THU       Holdbrook-Smith and Lewis MacLeod.
THU       
THU       23:30 Series 1 b007tz8w (Listen)
THU       Episode 1
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 seeks justice.
THU       With Adam Buxton, John Nettles, Matt Holness, Simon
THU       Greenall, Dan Tetsell.
THU       Written by Will Smith and Roger Drew.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 31 JULY 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00lr2md (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00lwttk (Listen)
FRI       The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 4
FRI       Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history
FRI       of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. It
FRI       is a story of the desire to belong, the desire to make
FRI       friends and the sometimes conflicting desire to make
FRI       money. This dramatic narrative account is based on
FRI       interviews and documentary sources.
FRI       In the summer of 2004, Mark moves the team to Silicon
FRI       Valley, but Eduardo remains behind in New York and Harvard.
FRI       A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr2nm (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr48c (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr2s6 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00lr4by (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lr4g3 (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00lr4k2 (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00lr4qr (Listen)
FRI       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
FRI       Weather; Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00lr14v (Listen)
FRI       Nicky Haslam
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is interior designer Nicky Haslam.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00lwtv6 (Listen)
FRI       The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 5
FRI       Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history
FRI       of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook.
FRI       As Facebook's users begin to grow exponentially, the sums
FRI       of money being bandied around by prospective investors
FRI       also grow. So do the egos and anxieties of those involved
FRI       with the company.
FRI       A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00lr6ml (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Help.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Anatomy of a Car Crash b00f4ryn (Listen)
FRI       The Sony Radio Academy Award-winning documentary about a
FRI       fatal car crash in Cornwall involving a nursery nurse and
FRI       a former policeman.
FRI       In their own words, the survivors explain the
FRI       life-changing consequences of the sort of car crash which
FRI       happens every day in the UK but which is often overlooked.
FRI       Their story shows how a moment's inattention can trigger
FRI       traumatic physical and psychological effects, exploring
FRI       the chain of events set in motion from the moment of the
FRI       collision to the conclusion of legal proceedings.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 Cabin Pressure b00lt16c (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, Ipswich
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       Ipswich. When the crew have to go on a refresher safety
FRI       and emergency procedures course, it spells trouble for
FRI       Douglas's inner dog and Martin's inner ear.
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       Mr Sargent ...... Phil Davis
FRI       Dr Peter Duncan ...... Alex Macqueen
FRI       A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00lrcqc (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00lrl4k (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00lrl9b (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00lt16f (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00lrlts (Listen)
FRI       Helen loses her sense of diplomacy.
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00lt16h (Listen)
FRI       Telling the Bees
FRI       By Rebecca Trick-Walker.
FRI       After the death of her husband, May struggles to come to
FRI       terms with her grief. Solace is at hand, but from an
FRI       unexpected quarter - and only if May can summon the
FRI       courage to face some long-held fears.
FRI       May ...... Kika Markham
FRI       Alex ...... Victoria John
FRI       Ed ...... Howell Evans
FRI       The Story of the Bees ...... Dorian Thomas
FRI       Music by Jane Watkins.
FRI       Directed by Sam Hoyle.
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FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lt16k (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank answer
FRI       questions posed by members of Letchworth District
FRI       Gardeners Association.
FRI       Letchworth was the world's first garden city, founded in
FRI       1903 by social reformer Ebenezer Howard. Planners gave its
FRI       citizens a generous space for each garden, and one of the
FRI       founding principles was that the town should have the
FRI       space to grow its own food. The panel find out whether
FRI       Letchworth's history gives its gardeners an advantage
FRI       today, given that the concept of self-sufficiency and the
FRI       'grow your own' movement are increasingly popular.
FRI       Also, pest expert Pippa Greenwood unearths a local colony
FRI       of rare - but temperamental - black squirrels.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists b00lrms9 (Listen)
FRI       Bert Jansch
FRI       Singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading talks to
FRI       leading guitarists about their music and guitar technique.
FRI       Joan meets Bert Jansch, widely acknowledged as one of the
FRI       most influential musicians of all time. Since the
FRI       mid-1960s, every generation has been held spellbound by
FRI       his extraordinary fingerpicking and stringbending
FRI       techniques. He continues to be revered as the master
FRI       guitarist of folk music.
FRI       A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00lt16m (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 b00lt16p (Listen)
FRI       Matthew Sweet talks to Vincent Cassel about Mesrine, in
FRI       which he stars as France's public enemy number one Jacques
FRI       Mesrine. David Warner looks back on Cassel's career,
FRI       including roles in Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment,
FRI       Straw Dogs and The Omen.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00lrpvt (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 b00lrq13 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The Now Show b00lt16r (Listen)
FRI       Series 28, Episode 6
FRI       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of
FRI       the week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin,
FRI       Mitch Benn and Marcus Brigstocke.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00lrltv (Listen)
FRI       Four is a crowd at Brenda's graduation.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00lrq2q (Listen)
FRI       Arts news and reviews.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsqcj (Listen)
FRI       The Help, Episode 10
FRI       Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson,
FRI       Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to
FRI       cross the racial lines.
FRI       The collaborators hold their breath as their book reaches
FRI       the bookstores. Will the ladies of Jackson recognise
FRI       themselves as described by their maids?
FRI       Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons
FRI       Minny ...... Octavia Spencer
FRI       Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow
FRI       Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker
FRI       Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter
FRI       Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston
FRI       Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan
FRI       Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout
FRI       Adapted by Penny Leicester.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00lt16t (Listen)
FRI       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Fishguard,
FRI       Pembrokeshire. Panellists include secretary of state for
FRI       Wales Peter Hain, columnist Tanya Gold and campaigner Tony
FRI       Sewell.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lt16w (Listen)
FRI       Salamander
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       Sir David's first pet was a fire salamander, given to him
FRI       by his father on his eighth birthday. He also gave his own
FRI       son a salamander on his eighth birthday, the legacy of
FRI       which is very much alive and kicking today.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b00lt16y (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, The Prodigal Fraudster
FRI       Second series of three political dramas.
FRI       By Mike Harris.
FRI       MP Bobby Khan has his sights set on a ministerial post,
FRI       but things don't go quite to plan. Bobby's mother
FRI       Elizabeth is also delivered a shock which changes the
FRI       family dynamics forever. An unexpected visitor brings
FRI       danger to the Khan household as the murky world of fraud
FRI       and double dealings are brought to the fore.
FRI       Bobby Khan ...... Zubin Varla
FRI       Elizabeth Khan ...... Barbara Marten
FRI       Lucy Khan ...... Nicola Stephenson
FRI       Imran Khan ...... Bhasker Patel
FRI       Mike Winters ...... Michael Feast
FRI       Wasim ...... Christopher Bisson
FRI       Barry ...... Lee Boardman
FRI       Isabella ...... Fiona Clarke
FRI       David Hart ...... James Quinn
FRI       Sara Khan ...... Millie Rose Kinsey
FRI       Directed by Pauline Harris.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00lrq7t (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00lrqbb (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Roger
FRI       Hearing.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lw1bs (Listen)
FRI       The Rapture, Episode 5
FRI       Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller.
FRI       Gabrielle confronts Leonard Krall, Bethany's father.
FRI       Bethany's predictions are turning out to be disturbingly
FRI       and destructively accurate.
FRI       Abridged by Fiona McAlpine.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 A Good Read b00ls65w (Listen)
FRI       Kate Mosse talks to singer Imelda May and poet John Hegley
FRI       about their favourite books: two classics set in WWI and a
FRI       poetic Japanese travelogue.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Listen Against b0088nnz (Listen)
FRI       Series 1, Episode 1
FRI       Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back
FRI       over the past week of radio.
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