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SAT SATURDAY 22 MAY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00sdj69 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz7 (Listen) SAT Empire Builders (300 BC - 1 AD), Head of Augustus SAT SAT Neil MacGregor concludes the first week of the second part SAT of his global history as told through objects from the SAT British Museum. This week he has been exploring the lives SAT and methods of powerful rulers around the world about 2000 SAT years ago, from Alexander the Great in Egypt to Asoka in SAT India. Today he introduces us to the great Roman emperor SAT Augustus, whose powerful, God-like status is brilliantly SAT enshrined in a larger than life bronze head with striking eyes. SAT Neil MacGregor describes how Augustus dramatically enlarged SAT the Roman Empire, establishing his image as one of its most SAT familiar objects. The historian Susan Walker and the SAT politician Boris Johnson help explain the power and SAT methodology of Augustus. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sdj8k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sdj8m (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sdj8p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00sds2j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sds2l (Listen) SAT with The Revd Mark Wakelin. SAT SAT 05:45 A View Through a Lens b00gsv4v (Listen) SAT Poyang Lake SAT SAT Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal view of SAT life as he finds himself in isolated and often dangerous SAT locations across the globe filming wildlife. SAT SAT Having set up his hide at the edge of Poyang Lake in China, SAT John waits for dawn and watches the birds nearby as he SAT reflects on everyday miracles like feathers, boatmen and SAT Chinese worms. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00sds2n (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00sds2q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00sds2s (Listen) SAT Series 15, Episode 1 SAT SAT Clare Balding walks the South Downs Way. Starting at the SAT coast near Eastbourne, she meets a group of disabled SAT ramblers with a passion for the countryside of East Sussex. SAT SAT Map of the South Downs Way SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00sds2v (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00sds2x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00sds2z (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00sds31 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by poet Murray Lachlan Young. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00sds33 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy talks to art historian and conservator Cathy SAT Giangrande about her visits to many of China's museums. They SAT cover an astonishing range of subjects, from the more SAT typical of China like jade, silk, tea, calligraphy and of SAT course the Terracotta Army to less obvious themes such as SAT kites, cigarettes, Jackie Chan, tap water and eunuchs. SAT There's even a Jewish museum. Cathy explains how museums are SAT enjoying a boom time as the Chinese discover their SAT historical and cultural heritage. SAT SAT Since the volcanic eruptions started in Iceland at the end SAT of March, travel arrangements all over the world have been SAT disrupted. But how has tourism in Iceland itself been SAT affected? John McCarthy asks Jon Magnusson, who runs SAT adventure holidays there, whether the volcano is keeping SAT travellers away or drawing them in. And he hears from SAT British photographer John Beatty, who was one of the first SAT to visit the initial eruption, about his impressions of SAT getting up close to the lava flow. SAT SAT 10:30 Ten Rare Men b00sds35 (Listen) SAT Anybody who sees a rare bird has a dilemma. How does you SAT confirm that it's correctly identified and, most SAT importantly, how can you be sure that someone will believe SAT you? In the latter case, the ultimate arbiters are the Ten SAT Rare Men, more properly known as the British Birds Rarities SAT Committee. SAT SAT Howard Stableford, a keen but by no means expert naturalist, SAT celebrates 50 years of the Ten Rare Men by setting out to SAT find his own rarity with the help of writer and birder SAT Stephen Moss. On the way he meets the experts whose job it SAT is to review and ratify records of rare birds they've SAT received from all over the UK. As he discovers this isn't SAT just about birds, but concerns hard-won reputations and SAT diplomacy: a rejection is in the public eye and has to be SAT handled carefully. SAT SAT After 50 years the list of nearly 600 species seen in the UK SAT is still growing. Some birds still pose knotty problems SAT beyond their identification involving international SAT research, questions about provenance, and even whether the SAT bird was ship-assisted or not. Talking to past and present SAT "rare men" Howard reviews some tricky cases from the SAT archives including the never-to-be-repeated Slender-billed SAT Curlew of 1998, which may now be extinct, and the fraudulent SAT case of the Chipping Ongar hermit thrush. He also explores SAT the future for the Ten Rare Men. As molecular analysis SAT reveals more hidden species, and digital photography and the SAT internet allow instant identification, is there a continuing SAT role for the Ten Rare Men? Most important of all, will there SAT ever be a Rare Woman? SAT SAT Presented by Howard Stableford SAT Produced by Brett Westwood. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00sds37 (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of the Daily Mail reviews the coalition SAT government's second week in office in which grand plans were SAT laid before the public and backbench Conservative unease at SAT David Cameron's management style came to the surface. SAT SAT With six billion pounds of cuts in public spending due to be SAT announced on Monday, the former Tory cabinet minister, John SAT Redwood, and the newly-elected Labour MP and top union man, SAT Jack Dromey, weigh the likely impact. They reflect too on SAT the state of their own parties. SAT SAT A big minority of Tory MPs reacted angrily when David SAT Cameron changed the rules to allow ministers into the most SAT influential backbench forum - the famous '1922 committee'. SAT Some are now questioning his style of party management. SAT SAT The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, meanwhile, unveiled a SAT host of proposals to take power away from the state and give SAT it back to the individual. ID cards are to be scrapped, the SAT use of CCTV is to be reviewed and the DNA database SAT restricted. The former Labour chairman of the Home Affairs SAT Committee, Keith Vaz, wonders if all the proposals will SAT become law. The Conservative, Douglas Carswell, gives them a SAT wholehearted welcome. SAT SAT Finally, the Labour Party is staging its leadership contest SAT - described here by the politcal editor of The Independent SAT newspaper, Andrew Grice. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00sds39 (Listen) SAT Drinking, dancing and youthful frustration: From Our Own SAT Correspondent takes to the streets of Tehran to discover how SAT young people have fun in the Islamic Republic of Iran. SAT SAT There's talk of grand scandal and conspiracy as climate SAT change skeptics vent their wrath SAT SAT Thailand's violent politics tear apart life on a quiet SAT street in Bangkok. SAT SAT And the secrets of the Seine: the dark past of Paris's great SAT river. SAT SAT There are few places where it's tougher to be a journalist SAT than Iran. Around forty newspapers have reportedly been shut SAT in recent months, and many journalists are in jail. SAT International press freedom campaigners describe Iran as one SAT of the world's most repressive countries. And in this SAT climate it's hard to build up a full picture of life in the SAT Islamic Republic. But a recent visitor..who, under the SAT circumstances, can't be named.. has just spent time trying SAT to guage the mood among the vast and ever expanding ranks of SAT Iran's young people. The picture that emerged was one of SAT profound frustration... SAT SAT Bangkok is finally returning to something like normality. SAT For weeks the city centre was a battleground. The Thai army SAT fought and eventually overwhelmed anti-government protestors SAT manning huge barricades. But the great majority of Bangkok's SAT people weren't protesting. Chris Hogg has been talking to SAT people who were appalled to watch their neighbourhoods SAT descend into violent chaos. But as they piece together their SAT lives again, they can't help wondering how long the calm SAT will last.... SAT SAT It's become one of the greatest issues of our time. How is SAT our climate changing? What might this mean for life on SAT earth? And how much are we to blame? The major international SAT body monitoring the climate says average temperatures are SAT certainly rising. And it says most of the waming is likely SAT to be caused by man. But this view is coming under SAT increasingly vociferous criticism. And when the sceptics SAT gathered in strength recently, our environment analyst, SAT Roger Harrabin, was there to hear what they had to say.. SAT SAT The novels of the great writer, Graham Greene are set in SAT difficult places, at difficult times. His characters wrestle SAT with moral dilemmas in steamy tropical cities... Saigon, SAT Havana, Port-au-Prince and elsewhere. He brilliantly evoked SAT the atmosphere in settings like opium dens, and particular SAT bars, cafes and hotels. Greene conjured a world so SAT convincing and distinctive that his readers sometimes called SAT it "Greene-land".. Tim Butcher has been following Greene's SAT trail in West Africa, but there was real disappointment when SAT he went in search of one of the writer's favourite haunts.. SAT SAT The River Seine flows through the world's image of Paris. On SAT its banks sit some of the city's most majestic SAT monuments.Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre and the Eiffel SAT Tower among them. For visitors, the Seine's quays and SAT bridges capture much of the romance of the place. But at SAT times in Paris's turbulent past the great river has played a SAT dark role. And Emma-Jane Kirby says that today.in some SAT ways.the Seine divides Paris. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00sds3c (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00sdgml (Listen) SAT Series 71, Episode 6 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Phill Jupitus SAT and Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00sds3f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00sds3h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00sdgmn (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Gowerton SAT School on the Gower Peninsula in Wales with questions from SAT the audience for the panel including: John McDonnell MP, who SAT is hoping to gain enough nominations to stand in the Labour SAT leadership contest; Grant Shapps MP, Minister for Housing SAT and Local Government; the Chairman of the National Trust and SAT Guardian columnist, Simon Jenkins; and Anastasia de Waal, SAT deputy director of the thinktank Civitas. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00sdz2x (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 b00by4xh (Listen) SAT Sacred Statues SAT SAT By William Trevor. SAT SAT Gifted Sculptor Corry is struggling to make ends meet for SAT his pregnant wife Nuala and their children. He may be left SAT with no choice but to sacrifice his beautiful statue carving SAT and take a labouring job. Surely, Nuala reckons, there must SAT be a way to safeguard his talent? She must find a way... SAT SAT Nuala ..... Eileen Walsh SAT Corry ..... Gary Lydon SAT Mrs Falloway ..... Judy Parfitt SAT Etty ..... Ger Ryan SAT Mr Renne ..... Kieran Lagan SAT Boys ..... Adam Maul and Davis Best. SAT SAT 15:30 The Music Group b00scjx4 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 6 SAT SAT Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks three SAT guests to play the track of their choice for the delight or SAT disdain of the others. SAT SAT Journalist John Harris joins comedian Sarah Millican and SAT ex-army captain Patrick Hennessey to explain why they've SAT brought a swampy Cajun blues number, a TV soundtrack staple SAT and an infamous song about mortality to the final group in SAT the series. SAT SAT In a wide ranging debate that takes in the impenetrable SAT nature of Captain Beefheart and the emotional blackmail of SAT bands like Coldplay, John describes a moment of epiphany SAT outside a Leominster service station, Sarah revels in her SAT taste for "mother-in-law" music and Patrick reveals what SAT made his troops cry in Afghanistan. It wasn't always the SAT hard combat and the casualties. SAT SAT The music choices are: SAT Clear Spot by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band SAT Chocolate by Snow Patrol SAT The Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd SAT SAT Producer: Tamsin Hughes SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00sf0sw (Listen) SAT Jane Garvey with the week's highlights when we discuss SAT attitudes to women who leave the family home and their SAT children. The first television advertisement for pregnancy SAT advice - is it encouraging women to have abortions? Miranda SAT Raison talks about life after Spooks and playing two very SAT different Ann Boleyns. SAT Is s it possible to look good in plaits as a grown-up and SAT how do you fit a harp in a taxi? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00sf0sy (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00sf0t0 (Listen) SAT iPM, the programme that starts with its listeners. This SAT week, Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey hear about sibling SAT rivalry from two brothers who rowed on opposing teams in the SAT closest ever Oxford and Cambridge boat race. Also, the deep SAT solar minimum the Earth is experiencing and why it means SAT there are fewer sunspots. Plus contagious yawning and the SAT power of suggestion. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sf0t2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00sf0t4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sf0t6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00sf0t8 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the comedy actor Nick Frost, known for SAT his appearances with long time collaborator Simon Pegg in SAT Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Spaced as well as the series SAT Man Stroke Woman and Hyperdrive. Nick takes the lead role of SAT John Self in the BBC Two adaption of martin Amis's black SAT comedy novel, Money. SAT SAT Novelist and historian Robert Lacey talks about the film SAT Arabia 3D, a visual extravaganza of one of the worlds most SAT extraordinary and mysterious countries with no cinemas or SAT film industry of its own, Saudi Arabia. SAT SAT Plus Richard Coyle on the latest Terry Pratchett adaption SAT for Sky 1, Going Postal. SAT SAT Jo Bunting talks to the man given a whole Radio 4 series for SAT his working class / middle class angst, Micky Flanagan. SAT SAT With comedy from the comedians' comedian Stephen Carlin. SAT SAT And music from double Ivor Novello winner and Squeeze SAT co-founder Chris Difford and the haunting folk of Lone Wolf. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00sf0tb (Listen) SAT Series 8, Menace SAT SAT By Kate Clanchy. With Warren Mitchell and Peter Marinker. SAT When care home residents Dennis and Walter encounter a gang SAT of young boys, they're reminded of their own tearaway youth. SAT SAT Cast SAT SAT Walter ..... Peter Marinker SAT Dennis ..... Warren Mitchell SAT SAT Director: Emma Harding. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00sf0td (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00sf0tg (Listen) SAT Priestley's Postscripts SAT SAT Archive on Four marks the 70th anniversary of a broadcasting SAT phenomenon - the story of how Yorkshire man J.B. Priestley SAT became the voice of the nation during the darkest days of SAT the Second World War. Using original broadcasts, information SAT stored in BBC files and interviews with his son Tom SAT Priestley and step son Nicolas Hawkes, Archive on Four SAT revisits these extraordinary broadcasts and asks why, in SAT spite of their astonishing popularity, Priestley was taken SAT off air. SAT Presented by Martin Wainwright. SAT Producers: Catherine Plane and Phil Pegum. SAT SAT 21:00 Saturday Play b0076jqf (Listen) SAT The Mouse That Roared SAT SAT Mark McDonnell and Steven McNicoll's dramatisation of SAT Leonard Wibberley's famous comic novel. It is 1956, and the SAT Cold War is at its chilliest. But one European country is SAT blissfully detached from the struggles of the Super Powers. SAT The Duchy of Grand Fenwick and is just five miles long and SAT three miles wide. Under the benign rule of Grand Duchess SAT Gloriana it is a rural idyll almost untouched by the SAT twentieth century, and happy to remain so. But its economy SAT is entirely dependent on the export of a famously exquisite SAT wine. So when this vital trade is threatened by an SAT unscrupulous foreign rival, it's time for action. Gloriana - SAT a wise head on young shoulders - proposes a solution long SAT recognised as acceptable to all nations - that is, to SAT declare war on their much richer enemy, lose, then sit back SAT and wait for the inevitable billions in post-war aid to roll SAT in. So, led by the valiant Tully Bascomb, the twenty SAT men-at-arms that make up the army of Grand Fenwick strap on SAT their chain mail, dust off their longbows, and set sail to SAT wage a deliberately hopeless war on... the United States of SAT America. The only problem is that no one has told Tully that SAT he's meant to lose - and as a result of his remarkable SAT escapades, Gloriana bizarrely finds herself the most SAT powerful political leader in Europe... SAT SAT Gloriana ..... Julie Austin SAT Tully ..... Mark McDonnell SAT Mountjoy ..... Crawford Logan SAT Sec. of State ..... Lou Hirsch SAT Kokintz ..... Simon Tait SAT Will ..... Jamie Newall SAT Benter ..... Steven McNicoll SAT SAT ProducerPatrick Rayner SAT SAT Leonard Wibberley (1915-1983) was a prolific author and SAT journalist. He wrote over fifty books for children, and SAT several historical novels. But he is best remembered for The SAT Mouse That Roared, first serialised in the Saturday Evening SAT Post in 1954. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00sf0vk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The World Tonight b00sgzsy (Listen) SAT Special Debate SAT SAT From climate change to state breakdown, from inequalities in SAT wealth to nuclear proliferation and Islamic militancy - as SAT the global balance of power shifts from west to the east, SAT what role can and should Britain play in a world faced by SAT serious global challenges? SAT SAT To mark The World Tonight's 40th anniversary, Robin Lustig SAT chairs a special debate on Britain's future role in the SAT world with a panel of global experts at the leading foreign SAT policy think tank, Chatham House. SAT SAT With Robin Lustig are SAT Lord Hurd, former Foreign Secretary SAT Dr Robin Niblett, Director of Chatham House SAT Monika Griefahn, former German SPD MP SAT Dr Stefan Halper, University of Cambridge SAT Professor Kanti Bajpai, University of Oxford. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00scgxy (Listen) SAT Series 24, Episode 9 SAT SAT (9/13) The ninth and last heat of the 2010 contest comes SAT from Manchester, with Paul Gambaccini welcoming three SAT contestants from Scotland and the North of England to the SAT general knowledge music quiz. One of them will win the last SAT remaining place in the semi-finals, which begin next week. SAT The musical extracts in the programme encompass classical SAT composers old and modern, jazz, rock and pop, and musical SAT theatre. SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S CONTESTANTS SAT SAT GEORGE KERR, a secondary school teacher, now retired, from SAT Glasgow SAT SAT THOMAS LEEMING, a waiter from Adlington in Lancashire SAT SAT MICHAEL UNSWORTH, a university Associate Tutor from Wigan SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00sbcj3 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces requests for poems learnt by heart SAT while at school. Including classic works by AA Milne, Thomas SAT Hardy and 'Anon'. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT SAT The King’s Breakfast SAT by AA Milne SAT From: Classic Poems to Read Aloud SAT Pub: Kingfisher SAT SAT Sea Fever SAT by John Masefield SAT From: Old Chestnuts Warmed Up SAT Pub: John Murray SAT SAT The Donkey SAT by G K Chesterton SAT From: The Words of G K Chesterton SAT Pub: Wordsworth Poetry Library SAT SAT Dulce et Decorum est SAT by Wilfred Owen SAT From: The Oxford Book of War Poetry SAT Pub: Oxford University Press SAT SAT O Sweet Spontaneous SAT by ee cummings SAT From: Complete Poems 1904-1962 – E E Cummings SAT Pub: Liveright SAT SAT The Admiral’s Ghost SAT by Alfred Noyes SAT From: Ballads and Poems – Alfred Noyes SAT Pub: William Blackwood and Sons Ltd SAT SAT Bees Cannot Fly SAT by Roger McGough SAT From: Roger McGough – Collected Poems SAT Published by Viking SAT SAT He Fell Among Thieves SAT by Henry Newbolt SAT From: Poems New and Old by Henry Newbolt SAT Pub: John Murray SAT SAT How the Camel Got His Hump SAT by Rudyard Kipling SAT From: The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse SAT Pub: Hodder and Stoughton SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 23 MAY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00sf0z3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00bf6ms (Listen) SUN Anger, So Many Things SUN SUN Stories about rage and its different manifestations. Martina SUN Cole reveals how her anger at injustice inspired her to take SUN direct positive action. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sf0z5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sf1j8 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sf1jb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00sf1jd (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00sf1l8 (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints Church, Harpole in Northants. SUN SUN 05:45 I'd Like to Thank the Returning Officer b00sbpk5 (Listen) SUN If you're a newly-elected MP, how do you contain your joy? SUN What do you say if you've just lost? SUN SUN Phil Collins reviews fifty years of election night speeches SUN - the moving, the inspirational, and the truly terrible. He SUN talks to the MPs and their unsuccessful rivals who have had SUN to give them. And as a former speechwriter himself, he SUN offers some pointers for future candidates: who should you SUN thank, who should you praise, and who - or what - should you SUN just ignore? And how best to win or lose graciously? SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00sf1v0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00sf1v2 (Listen) SUN Translation SUN SUN Mark Tully presents a programme on the theme of translation SUN to mark Pentecost, when Jesus' disciples spoke in different SUN tongues. SUN SUN He talks to Bible translator Father Nicholas King about the SUN process of translating the New Testament: what is the most SUN impossible passage? Does it matter if people find spiritual SUN inspiration from texts which are actually mis-translations? SUN SUN The programme includes poems and thoughts on translation by SUN Keats, A.S.Byatt, Eva Hoffman, Vesna Goldsworthy and Kei SUN Miller. The music comes from Allegri, John Tavener, JS Bach, SUN and Ella Fitzgerald - "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off". SUN SUN Producer: Elizabeth Burke SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00sf1v4 (Listen) SUN Junipers SUN SUN 1/18. If you like gin, you should be interested in Junipers. SUN Its aromatic berries give gin its characteristic flavour; SUN they are considered medicinal and are delicious in cooking. SUN And it lives in the UK. Juniper is one of only three native SUN British conifers, and one of the first to recolonise Britain SUN after the ice age. SUN SUN The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the SUN Ministry of Defence civilian science centre, has about a SUN fifth of the UK population of Juniper at its Porton Down SUN site near Salisbury. However, there's a problem. The bushes SUN here are either middle aged or close to the end of their SUN lives, at over a hundred. There are no youngsters as the SUN seedlings get eaten by millions of rabbits which share the SUN range. As a result, the Juniper here could be extinct in 50 SUN years. SUN SUN Lionel Kelleway ventures out onto Porton Down to find out SUN more. He talks first to Lena Ward, who has studied them for SUN 41 years, and then meets Carl Mayers, Dstl Project Leader. SUN SUN Lena is clearly fascinated with Juniper and reveals that on SUN Porton Down 19 species of invertebrates rely on it. She SUN explains that as a plant which prefers impoverished soils, SUN it could thrive here. But, because its seedlings are being SUN mown down by rabbits and surrounded by other plants like SUN Blackthorn, it's in trouble. Which is where Carl Mayers SUN comes in. SUN SUN Carl explains how Dstl is working with Plantlife to collect SUN berries, check seed fertility and process seeds. The seeds SUN are then sown on the Porton Down range and protected with SUN special rabbit-proof cages to give them a head start. If SUN successful, this technique could secure the future not only SUN of the Juniper on Porton Down but elsewhere in Britain. I'll SUN drink to that. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Tania Dorrity. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00sf7hb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00sf7hd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00sf7hg (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00sf7hj (Listen) SUN Carrie Grant presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity National Association for Colitis & Crohn's Disease. SUN SUN Donations to National Association for Colitis & Crohn's SUN Disease should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, SUN please mark the back of your envelope NACC. Credit cards: SUN Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please SUN provide NACC with your full name and address so they can SUN claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone SUN donation facilities are not currently available to listeners SUN without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1117148. SUN SUN NACC SUN SUN The National Association for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease SUN (NACC) improves lives for people affected by these SUN inflammatory bowel diseases which can have a devastating SUN impact on education, work, social and family life. They can SUN strike at any age and there is no known cure. NACC provides SUN information and support, raises much-needed awareness and SUN funds vital research. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00sf7hl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00sf7hn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00sf7hq (Listen) SUN Moved by the Spirit: SUN Our worship this morning celebrates the work of the Holy SUN Spirit in the Christian church. Hinde Street Methodist SUN Church in London has been a centre for work among the poor SUN for 200 years. From the early days of Methodism John Wesley SUN had felt God's power calling him to change his life and to SUN live and preach the gospel and people continue in that work SUN to this day. SUN SUN The service is led by Giles Wilson with ministers and people SUN from the church. The preacher is the Assistant Secretary of SUN the Methodist conference, the Revd Ken Howcroft, once SUN minister at the church. The multinational congregation is SUN joined by the British Methodist Youth Choir, directed by SUN Heidi Cottrell and the organist is Alex Chaplin. Producer: SUN Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00sdgmq (Listen) SUN Coalitions Then and Now SUN SUN In the first of ten programmes, the historian Professor Sir SUN David Cannadine delivers his weekly view on current events. SUN This week he recalls Britain's forgotten history of SUN coalition government, reflecting that the so-called "new SUN politics" has plenty of antecedents. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. 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RYAN KELLY SUN PAUL MORGAN ..... MICHAEL FENTON STEVENS. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00sf7hx (Listen) SUN Dame Stephanie Shirley SUN SUN Entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley joins Kirsty Young on SUN Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN As a child, she escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport SUN - travelling across Europe for two days in a train with a SUN thousand children and just two adults. She went on to set up SUN a computer programming company which made her a millionaire SUN many times over. But she has given away most of her fortune SUN and now is an ambassador for philanthropy. Her determination SUN throughout it all, she says, has been to prove that hers was SUN a life worth saving. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00schhg (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 2 SUN SUN While Jon Richardson is detained by the volcano SUN Eyjafjallajokull, John Lloyd is joined by emergency guest SUN curator Dave Gorman to welcome poet Ruth Padel, Madness SUN frontman Suggs and Bo Selecta comedian Leigh Francis, who SUN are offering us the Great Exhibition of 1851, a tiger SUN reserve and some Spidermans, and all for public display. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00sf7hz (Listen) SUN Taste - what exactly is it, how do we taste and how does it SUN develop? Since it declines with age, what is being done to SUN improve meals for the elderly? If, on the other hand, you SUN are a 'super taster' does that make you the dinner guest SUN from Hell? If you've experienced chemotherapy, what effect SUN has that had on your taste buds, and what is happening at SUN the Royal Marsden Hospital in London to improve meals for SUN cancer patients? SUN SUN What are the tastes that have assailed our senses through SUN the ages? Was the arrival of spices one of the most SUN significant events in culinary history? Sheila Dillon SUN explores these issues and is joined in the studio by Prof SUN Paul Freedman, editor of 'Food: a History of Taste' and SUN author of 'Out of the East' - and by chef Gerard Baker who SUN experiments with a blend of fresh spices. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00sf7j1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00sf7j3 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Greed Imperative b00sf7j5 (Listen) SUN Having worked in the City before becoming an academic and a SUN nun, Dr Catherine Cowley is well acquainted with the SUN temptations and the financial risks that city workers face SUN each day. Dr Cowley questions whether money is the only SUN motivation for those who work in the City and discusses SUN whether greed is in fact a necessary and vital dynamic SUN behind a successful economy. SUN SUN Is greed linked to the endless growth demanded by our SUN capitalist society? Dr Edward Skidelsky, lecturer in SUN Philosophy at Exeter University, says that the economists in SUN the past assumed that growth was a process with an end, and SUN once that end came, people would enjoy the fruits of wealth. SUN And as Karl Marx put it, "we'd hunt in the morning, fish in SUN the afternoon and discuss poetry in the evening". SUN SUN Although the finance sector at the moment is being SUN characterised as a hotbed of greed, would any of us, given SUN the opportunity and the circumstances, act any differently? SUN Are we focusing on bankers' greed so we don't have to look SUN at our own? SUN SUN Producer: Rosemary Foxcroft SUN A Glass Mirror production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00sdgmd (Listen) SUN Local gardening expert Carole Baxter joins Bob Flowerdew, SUN Anne Swithinbank and Peter Gibbs in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. SUN Peter Gibbs explores woodland flora. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's SUN Escape to the Country b00sf8ky (Listen) SUN The Brotherhood of Ruralists SUN SUN Fed up with the frenzy of Swinging London, the artist Peter SUN Blake founded the Brotherhood of Ruralists on 21st March SUN 1975, having decamped from London to the countryside near SUN Bath. With his former wife, Jan Haworth, Blake converted the SUN disused Wellow railway station into a house, which soon SUN became the bustling hub of the Ruralists' activities. SUN Infused by a quasi-hippie faith in the inspirational SUN qualities of Mother Nature, the Ruralists turned to the SUN countryside to fulfil one of its ancient functions - that of SUN a Muse. SUN SUN The Ruralists aimed to revive and update the tradition of SUN imaginative painting of romantic figures in idyllic rural SUN settings. Blake and his cohorts brought a realism and SUN precision to depicting the compendium of myths, folk tales SUN and legends associated with the countryside. Thus Blake's SUN series of paintings from Alice In Wonderland, that SUN quintessential text of eccentric English imagination, see SUN Alice and her surreal encounters depicted as though Blake SUN had been there to see them. The Ruralists' paintings SUN crystallized their intuition that in the country there lies SUN a potent source of inspiration and imagery that they as SUN artists should not ignore. SUN SUN Presented by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Bland SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00sf8l0 (Listen) SUN Neglected Classics: The Snow Goose SUN by Paul Gallico SUN Dramatised by Nick Warburton SUN Introduced by Michael Morpurgo SUN SUN A wounded bird brings together a disfigured artist and a SUN young girl SUN and helps in a courageous act of bravery in World War II. SUN SUN Philip Rhayader ..... Steven Mackintosh SUN Fritha ..... Georgia Groome SUN Mrs Farnes ..... Deborah Findlay SUN Storyteller ..... Sam Dale SUN Private Potton ..... Michael Shelford SUN Commander Brill-Oudener ..... Malcolm Tierney SUN Jock ..... David Seddon SUN SUN Composer ..... Roger Goula SUN Director ..... Sally Avens SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00sf8l2 (Listen) SUN Last November, Radio 4 listeners voted The Snow Goose their SUN favourite Neglected Classic. Paul Gallico's novella tells SUN the touching story of a teenage girl and a solitary artist, SUN brought together by a wounded goose. In the week the book is SUN dramatised as a Classic Serial, Mariella Frostrup and the SUN writer who nominated it, Michael Morpurgo, visit the SUN Lincolnshire lighthouse that inspired the story. They SUN discover how the man who illustrated The Snow Goose, the SUN artist and naturalist Peter Scott, influenced Gallico - and SUN the modern-day resident of the lighthouse previously SUN inhabited by Scott, David Joel, introduces Mariella to the SUN snow geese he keeps there as a tribute to the book. Mariella SUN also speaks to the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard - Scott's SUN first wife - who remembers her own encounters with Paul SUN Gallico, and explains how she came to be the model for an SUN iconic illustration of Fritha, the book's heroine. SUN SUN Producer: Thomas Morris. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00sf8l4 (Listen) SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 The Whites Who Fought Apartheid b00scvxz (Listen) SUN In South Africa at the beginning of the 1960s a group of SUN mostly white liberals - students, post-graduates and young SUN professionals - formed a network dedicated to opposing the SUN regime, the African Resistance Movement. Their aim: to halt SUN apartheid by making South Africa ungovernable. They were SUN prepared to use violence - blowing up pylons and SUN communications equipment. This countered the jibes that, SUN while communists, who dominated the ANC, were prepared to SUN die for the struggle, the white liberals would not fight. In SUN fact the African Resistance Movement was active before SUN Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC's armed wing, and was the first SUN group to use military action against the apartheid regime. SUN But its members were adamant that people should not be SUN targeted and human life not be endangered.The people SUN involved, once the flowering of South Africa's radical SUN youth, went on to become writers, journalists and academics SUN - many rising to the top of their professions. SUN SUN The charismatic president of the National Union of South SUN African Students, Adrian Leftwich, was one of their leaders. SUN Arrested by the police in July 1964, and terrified, he gave SUN the names of ARM members and later became a state witness, SUN giving evidence against them in court. As the organisation SUN imploded in a welter of , arrests, a new member, John SUN Harris, planted a bomb in a Johannesburg station to prove SUN the campaign was not over. He alerted newspapers and the SUN police, but they had little time to act and did not evacuate SUN the building. The bomb went off wounding 24 people, SUN including a 77 year old woman, who later died. Harris was SUN executed for this in 1965. SUN SUN Almost half a century after the end of their struggle the SUN writer Horatio Clare seeks out survivors of the African SUN Resistance Movement. He interviews Eddie Daniels, one of the SUN few black members, who was sentenced to fifteen years on SUN Robben Island, and takes him back to the site of one of his SUN sabotage operations. He meets Hugh Lewin, who served seven SUN years, Neville Rubin and the leader, Randolph Vigne, who SUN managed to escape. Myrtle Berman, now 85, describes how, SUN while she and her husband were in prison, they conceived the SUN idea of the group. (She was also the jazz trumpeter Hugh SUN Masekela's foster-mother). Sholto Cross, who was working SUN with Umkhonte We Sizwe and R. W. Johnson, South Africa's SUN pre-eminent contemporary historian, give views of the ARM SUN from outside the organisation. On the steps of the campus of SUN the University of Cape Town, Horatio interviews his father SUN who as a student there knew several ARM members. Such was SUN the secrecy surrounding the ARM that he did not know that SUN the woman he married was involved. Horatio meets, too, the SUN widow of John Harris, and his son, now a human rights SUN lawyer. They reflect on his what he did and how he is now SUN commemorated in South Africa. SUN SUN The programme follows the movement from its genesis through SUN training, the sabotage operations, and finally to the SUN melt-down; imprisonment, exile, execution. All the SUN contributors consider those days, their actions and the SUN impact the ARM had on South Africa's history. One thing they SUN agree on is that their contribution to the liberation SUN struggle, as the first people to strike a blow against SUN apartheid, has been overlooked. But, now, that might SUN beginning to change. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00sf0tb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sf8l6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00sf8l8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sf8lb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00sf8ld (Listen) SUN John Waite makes his selection from the last seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN FAX: 0161 244 4243 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00sf8n4 (Listen) SUN Matt has a lot he wants to say to Paul, and Pip is hoping SUN all is well between her and Jude. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00sf8n6 (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today, featuring location reports, SUN lively discussion and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00c50wy (Listen) SUN Classical Assassins, Schubert and Me SUN SUN 1.Schubert and Me: SUN A young woman reveals the cruel revenge she took on the SUN composer who failed to keep his promise to her. SUN Read by Jenny Harrold. SUN Produced by Sara Davies. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00sdgmb (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the team return with the first in a new SUN series of More or Less, looking at the maths of voting and SUN whether the outcome of the fairest democratic model of them SUN all - the Eurovision Song Contest - can be forecasted. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00sdgmg (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week SUN Major General Khattiya Sawasdipol - otherwise known as "Sae SUN Daeng" or Red Commander. The flamboyant security chief of SUN the red shirted anti-government protesters was shot dead in SUN Bangkok last week. SUN Also Professor Richard Gregory, the eminent psychologist who SUN increased our understanding of human perception SUN Hank Jones - the revered jazz pianist who played with most SUN of the top names of the twentieth century SUN The political columnist Alan Watkins - one of the last SUN greats of Fleet Street SUN And: never knowingly overdressed: the nude pin up of the SUN fifties and sixties, Pamela Green. SUN SUN Richard Gregory SUN SUN Experimental psychologist who has died aged 86. SUN SUN Professor Richard Gregory was an experimental psychologist SUN who made a major contribution to our understanding of human SUN perception and optical illusions. He was also a great SUN communicator who was passionate about involving the public SUN in science. He set up the UK’s first hands on science SUN centre, the Bristol Exploratory, where visitors were SUN encouraged to take part in experiments for themselves. SUN SUN Matthew speaks to his partner and colleague, Dr Priscilla SUN Heard and to the presenter of Radio 4’s All In the Mind, SUN Claudia Hammond. SUN SUN Richard Gregory CBE was born July 24, 1923 and died on May SUN 17, 2010. SUN SUN General Khattiya Sawasdipol SUN SUN Thai general who has died aged 58. SUN SUN General Khattiya Sawasdipol, also known by the title Seh SUN Daeng, or Red Commander, was the security chief for the red SUN shirted protesters who occupied parts of Bangkok. He was SUN shot whilst giving an interview to a journalist last week. SUN Sae Daeng was a colourful figure, a career army officer who SUN had written books about his daring exploits in combat and SUN undercover. He was suspended from the Thai army in January. SUN He recruited three hundred armed men to provide security to SUN the anti government protesters’ makeshift barricades in SUN downtown Bangkok. SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Professor Duncan McCargo at Leeds SUN University, to Tom Fawthrop, a freelance journalist based in SUN Bangkok and to Nirmal Ghosh, the Thai correspondent of the SUN Straits Times. SUN SUN Khattiya Sawasdipol was born June 2, 1951 and died May 17, SUN 2010. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00sds3c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00sf7hj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00sdcfh (Listen) SUN Ticking Over SUN SUN Can the Isle of Man create a revival in British watch SUN making? Precision time pieces are proving recession proof SUN but with so few watchmakers left in this country Peter Day SUN finds out if we can really wind the clock back for a British SUN tradition. SUN Producer: Clare Walker. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00sf8vb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00sf8vd (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00shgq4 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Election Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. Each SUN programme will see a leading political journalist take a wry SUN look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest SUN stories of the campaign. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00sdgmj (Listen) SUN Francine Stock reports on the British film industry during SUN the New Labour years with director Roger Michell, Film SUN Council Chair Tim Bevan, and novelist Deborah Moggach. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00sf1v2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 24 MAY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00sf9cn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00scxbv (Listen) MON Genealogical research has become a passion for a growing MON number of people. Programmes like Who Do You Think You Are? MON and websites like Genes Reunited feed a voracious interest MON in family origins and the lives of ancestors. But what MON impact does this kind of research have on the families which MON are being studied? Hidden pregnancies...mental MON illnesses...shunned relatives... Laurie Taylor talks to MON sociologist Anne-Marie Kramer, whose research has unveiled MON some of the conflicts which arise when family skeletons are MON dragged into the light, and to the cartoonist Martin Rowson MON who has performed some geneaological research of his own. MON Also, how did a Danish stew of left-over vegetables and MON scrag end of lamb come to epitomise a proud and enduring MON British city culture? Ciara Kierans discusses a cultural MON history of Scouse. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00sf1l8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sf9q0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sfb0y (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sf9xv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00sfb30 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sfbll (Listen) MON with The Revd Mark Wakelin. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00sfbx7 (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Fran Barnes. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00sfw48 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00sff9c (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00sfw4b (Listen) MON On Start the Week on Monday the psychologist Dorothy Rowe MON asks why we lie. Andrew Marr confronts death with the MON neuroscientist David Eagleman, who has written a series of MON stories about the afterlife. Ian Buruma reflects on MON democracy and religion around the world, and viewing it all MON from the sidelines is Simon Baker, co-curator of an MON exhibition about voyeurism and photography. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgxd (Listen) MON Ancient Pleasures, Modern Spice (1 - 600 AD), Warren Cup MON MON Throughout this week Neil MacGregor, the director of the MON British Museum in London, is exploring the ways in which MON people were seeking pleasure around the world 2000 years MON ago, from pipe smoking in North America to court etiquette MON in China. He starts with the Roman Empire and a silver cup MON that offers a rare glimpse into the world of sex in ancient MON Rome. The cup features such explicit images of homosexual MON acts that it was once banned from America and museums MON refused to buy it. The Warren Cup is now one of the British MON Museum's better known objects. In today's programme Neil MON examines the sexual climate of Rome. Just how was sexuality MON viewed at this time, and why were the Romans so keen to copy MON the Greeks? The historians Bettany Hughes and James Davidson MON help provide the answers. MON MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sfj0l (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON Diane Abbott MP talks about her bid to become leader of the MON Labour Party. WAG culture and role models for young women MON today. As the Miliband brothers contend for the leadership MON of the Labour Party we look at the issue of sibling rivalry MON within a family. What makes the perfect vinaigrette? Chef MON Allegra McEvedy helps Jane find out and there's music from MON Natalie Merchant. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sfj0n (Listen) MON The Private Patient, Episode 1 MON MON PD James's latest Dalgliesh mystery, dramatised by Neville MON Teller. MON MON Journalist Rhoda Gradwyn checks into Cheverell Manor, an MON exclusive cosmetic surgery clinic in Dorset. MON Chandler-Powell, the owner, is faced with his right-hand MON man, Marcus Westhall and his sister Candace trying to MON persuade him that it may not be a good idea to admit such a MON well-known investigative writer. Meanwhile, Rhoda is told a MON dark secret about the stone circle next to the clinic. MON MON The Private Patient is the latest in the long-running MON Dalgliesh series, and the first to be dramatised on radio MON before television. The entire serial will be released on CD MON by BBCAudiobooks in June, and repeated on Radio 7 in August MON as part of a PD James season. MON MON The dramatiser is Neville Teller, who also dramatised the MON previous Dalgliesh serial featuring Richard Derrington and MON Deborah McAndrew, A Taste For Death. MON MON Narrator . . . . . . Carolyn Pickles MON Rhoda Gradwyn . . . . . Christine Kavanagh MON George Chandler-Powell . . . . . Jonathan Keeble MON Candace Westhall . . . . . Alison Pettitt MON Marcus Westhall . . . . . Adrian Grove MON Robin Boyton . . . . . Bertie Carvel MON Sharon Bateman/Mary Keyte . . . . . . Charlotte Worthing MON MON Dramatised by Neville Teller. MON MON 11:00 Football Fights Back b00sfwmh (Listen) MON When the former professional football player Leroy Rosenior MON made his debut for Fulham football club as a teenager in the MON 1980s, he was one of the few professional black football MON players. He remembers the racist abuse as threatening and MON uncontrolled. In this programme he talks to Hardeep Singh MON Kohli about the progress that has been made since that time, MON but also emphasises that there is work still to be done. MON MON Hardeep also attends an educational event organised for MON local schoolchildren by Show Racism The Red Card, and finds MON out how the organisation takes its message to the youngest MON fans. MON MON Also in the programme, Kick It Out director Piara Powar MON talks about one of the latest cooperative ventures between MON Kick It Out and the Football Association - the short film MON aiming to show the ugliness of homophobic abuse. Hardeep MON questions the value of this kind of initiative, and meets MON Ivor Baddiel, who together with his brother David Baddiel, MON is launching later this year a similar film which attacks MON anti-semitism. MON MON Hardeep visits Sue Law, Head of Equality at the FA, and to MON gain a European perspective he also talks to Rafal MON Pankowsky, who has made a study of far right-wing and MON neo-Nazi influences on football behaviour, and who has MON worked with FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) to take MON his message further afield. MON MON Producer: Richard Bannerman MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00nkb2s (Listen) MON Series 2, Ride With Me MON MON Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in the finest, feistiest, MON family-run record shop in Birmingham. MON MON Adam takes his mortality a little too seriously, and finds MON himself confronted with a little too much lycra. MON MON Adam ...... Lenny Henry MON Rudy ...... Larrington Walker MON Richie ...... Joe Jacobs MON Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey MON Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon MON DJ Karel ...... Andrew Brooke. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00sfj5h (Listen) MON Julian Worricker talks to the Chief Executive of the Food MON Standards Agency about some of the most serious food scares MON that have dented consumer trust: salmonella; contaminated MON produce and food fraud. MON MON And we report on the future of housing for councils and MON housing associations. We investigate the lie detector MON machines used by local authorities to eliminate benefit MON fraud: are they value for money? MON MON And ivy. We invite you to take a peak into Julian's back MON garden to find out whether ivy climbing along walls is MON really as bad as we think. MON MON 12:53 Moments of Genius b00sl98q (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Stephen Fry describes his favourite moment in the history of MON science: a moment of genius that transformed public health. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00sfj66 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00sfkhh (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00sfwmk (Listen) MON Series 24, Episode 10 MON MON (10/13) Three contestants who have won their respective MON heats return to face Paul Gambaccini's questions on all MON aspects of music, in the first semi-final of the 2010 MON competition. Paul will have plenty of musical clues and MON anecdotes, and, as always, the competitors will have to MON choose from an eclectic selection of 'special subjects' on MON which to answer individual questions. MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00sf8n4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sg77z (Listen) MON Lennon: A Week in the Life MON MON By Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais, adapted by Lizzie MON Nunnery MON MON December 1980. When just forty people turn up to John MON Lennon's memorial service in Liverpool, his old friend and MON promoter Sam Leach is forced to act. MON MON Cast MON Sam Leach ..... Tony Maudsley MON Joan Leach ..... Joanna Monro MON Debbie Leach ..... Lauren O'Neil MON Janine Hobday ..... Laura dos Santos MON Morris Tate ..... Bruce Alexander MON Clive Inch ..... Craige Els MON Kenny Stratton ..... John Shortell MON Carol Stratton ..... Alison Pettitt MON Billy Butler ..... Billy Butler MON Traynor ..... John Biggins MON Jonesy ..... David Seddon MON Homeless man ..... Rufus Wright MON Wooldridge ..... Nigel Hastings MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00sf0tg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 A Musical Trip to South Africa - with Lenny Henry b00rmr66 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In this series of five programmes Lenny Henry is in South MON Africa to enjoy and experience the country through its music. MON South Africa has one of the richest musical traditions on MON the planet with a wealth of talent to match. Lenny meets the MON cream of that talent - from the legendary trumpeter Hugh MON Masekela (whose new show 'Songs of Migration' Lenny enjoys MON in Johannesburg) to S Africa's best selling recording MON artists, the Queen of Gospel, Rebecca Malope. MON MON Lenny begins the whole series centre pitch at Soccer City in MON Jo'burg to the accompaniment of a chorus of Vuvuzelas - the MON deafening trumpets that blast out at football matches! He's MON invited onto YFM youth radio station to hear about Kwaito MON aka 'township house' music and finds himself in a recording MON studio with some of the country's hottest bands. MON MON Producer: Susan Marling. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00sf7hz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Traveller's Tree b00sfwmm (Listen) MON Series 6, Pilgrimage MON MON Pilgrimages are a fast-growing phenomenon. In Europe and MON beyond, shrines associated with healing, beauty, peace and MON prayer are attracting record numbers of visitors, and people MON are increasingly taking time out of their busy lives for a MON journey of enlightenment. MON MON Over 2 million people are expected to visit the Turin Shroud MON this year, and the Spanish pilgrimage centre of Santiago de MON Compostela is celebrating a Holy Year with over 250,000 MON expected on July 25th. MON MON Katie Derham travels to Santiago where she talks to the MON pilgrims, shares their stories, and touches the cloak of St MON James, as so many have done before. MON MON She also gets advice on sustaining the pilgrim's appetite MON from Rick Stein, and meets the man who runs Santiago's MON pilgrims website. MON MON We hear from listeners Duncan and Christopher Neil as they MON take a very special father and son pilgrimage to Iona. MON MON And we also consider what is involved in the modern MON pilgrimage and how secular pilgrimages can in their own way MON be just as fulfilling. MON MON 16:55 Moments of Genius b00skwv4 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Music producer, Brian Eno, describes his favourite moment in MON the history of science. MON MON In 1970, the British mathematician John Conway worked out MON the Game of Life. "I'm not a mathematician but this idea MON made immediate sense to me", says Brian. MON MON The Game of Life proves that incredibly complex things can MON be generated from something startlingly simple. MON MON It's like a board game that has a very simple set of rules. MON You expect to be able to predict the outcome but you MON absolutely can't. "You just have to keep watching it happen MON to believe it, " says Brian who has spent many many hours MON doing just that. MON MON The Game of Life is deeply counter-intuitive. It sheds light MON on what makes evolution possible and has had a huge MON influence on Brian Eno's music. MON MON 17:00 PM b00sftsc (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 b00sfv47 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b00sfwmp (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 3 MON MON John Lloyd and Jon Richardson host a panel show in which MON three distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a MON vast imaginary museum. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00sfkj0 (Listen) MON Lilian confides in Jennifer about Paul, and Harry is moving MON in at The Bull. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00sfv62 (Listen) MON Kirsty Lang reports on the latest art-work to appear on the MON fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square: the Anglo-Nigerian artist MON Yinka Shonibare has created Nelson's Ship in a Bottle. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgxd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Truth About Goldman Sachs b00sg1nj (Listen) MON Goldman Sachs is one of the most profitable, powerful and MON respected financial institutions in the world. But to many MON it has become one of the most reviled. Money Box's Paul MON Lewis tries to find out the truth about Goldman Sachs. MON Producer: Sandra Kanthal. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00sfwtc (Listen) MON Doomed by Democracy? MON MON Governments might legitimately exercise emergency powers in MON wartime so, argues Prof James Lovelock, they should have MON similar powers to deal with the threat of global warming - MON even if that means abandoning democracy. MON MON The BBC's "Ethical Man" Justin Rowlatt looks at whether Prof MON Lovelock is right to be so pessimistic about democratic MON societies' ability to act in the interests of future generations. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00sdcfc (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. This week he hears about the novel MON techniques that are being used to clean up the oil spill in MON the Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Richard Pike, from the Royal Society MON of Chemistry, tells us how these methods should work as many MON of them have not been tested before. MON MON The International Day for Biological Diversity in the UK is MON almost upon us; joining Material World this week Dr. Bob MON Bloomfield from the Natural History Museum and Dr. Ben MON Collen, from the Zoological Society of London, to discuss MON how humans are impacting on species loss and to explain why MON biodiversity needs to be taken as seriously as climate MON change. MON MON Could tree rings from conifer trees that are thousands of MON years old tell us what the climate used to be like? MON Professor Chris Turney from Exeter University has been MON studying these ancient trees which have been preserved in MON peat bogs in New Zealand. MON MON And what is a quantum kilogram? It does not exist yet! The MON kilogram is the only standard unit that is still based on an MON artefact. Jonathan Williams from the National Physical MON Laboratory explains how scientists are trying to redefine MON the kilogram. He also tells Quentin about the importance of MON standard measurements in science and engineering, all this MON on World Metrology Day. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00sfw4b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00sfv7q (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00sfvrv (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00sfvvh (Listen) MON A Vision of Loveliness, Episode 1 MON MON Jane James knows that she must have been born to better MON things than a dingy bedroom in her Aunt Doreen's house in MON Norbury and evenings spent eating gala pie and Heinz tinned MON potato salad in their 'sitting-cum-dining room'. So, armed MON with her well-thumbed copy of Lady Be Good, she practises MON her French turns, her killer smile and precisely how much MON thigh to show when crossing her legs, and dreams of a time MON when she can be a part of the world she glimpses through the MON Mayfair windows of the cashmere shop where she works. MON MON When she finds a crocodile handbag left in a pub, it leads MON her to Suzy St John, a girl-about-town with the glamour, MON confidence and irresistible allure that Jane has been MON practising for so long. Suzy takes Jane under her wing, and MON Jane becomes Janey, a near carbon-copy of her new best MON friend and a delighted adventurer in an easy, sleazy, MON sixties West-End world of part-time modelling and full-time MON man-trapping. MON MON Her new, improved self catwalks confidently through MON nightclubs, rag trade showrooms and luxury Mayfair flats but MON Jane finds that she can never quite drown out the carping MON voice of her past - or the nagging doubt that there might be MON slightly more to life than a mutation mink jacket or an MON engagement ring. MON MON When a shocking act of violence threatens to bring Jane's MON glittering new life crashing down around her she must call MON on all her powers of reinvention if her dyed-to-match MON stilettos are to carry her away unscathed. MON MON Written by Louise Levene, read by Emilia Fox. MON MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00ryg40 (Listen) MON Chris Ledgard goes to Soho to meet the people that work in MON voiceoverland. He hears the American actor Kerry Shale MON dubbing over Peter Kay's voice for a cartoon about to be MON exported to the States. He talks to the people who produce MON the messages that we hear when we 'phone our banks. He asks MON a voiceover talent agent (whose own voice people who watch MON The Weakest Link will recognise) about the changes that have MON occurred in the industry over the years and he explores what MON it is that makes a particular voice grab our attention. MON Producer Sarah Langan. MON MON 23:30 Payola, The Pluggers and the Father of Rock and Roll b00nwyqn (Listen) MON Continuing his fascination with maverick American radio DJs, MON Nick Barraclough tells the story of Alan Freed, the Pluggers MON and the Payola scandal which blew up in the late 1950s. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 25 MAY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00sf94m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgxd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sf9jp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sf9xx (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sf9q2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00sfb10 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sfb32 (Listen) TUE with The Revd Mark Wakelin. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00sfbsd (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anna Varle. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00sfbx9 (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Democracy on Trial b00sfwwr (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Michael Portillo losing his parliamentary seat was voted TUE Britain's third favourite TV moment. As a man who has felt TUE the sharp end of the democratic process, Michael sets off to TUE examine and interrogate the development of the fragile TUE entity that we know as democracy. TUE TUE Before 1900, there were no genuinely democratic countries in TUE the world - and never had been. By 1943 only a handful of TUE countries were still democratically run. Today there are TUE democracies on every continent and democracy is seen by many TUE as the gold standard of government, an ideal worth fighting TUE and dying for. But not everyone is convinced that democracy TUE has triumphed. TUE TUE In the final edition of 'Democracy On Trial', Michael asks TUE whether democracy has passed a high-water mark and is now TUE entering a long period of retreat. In conversation with TUE policy makers, pollsters and philosophers, Michael explores TUE the paradoxes inherent in contemporary democracy and TUE compares very different attittudes towards the democratic TUE process in Russia, China, Iraq, Britain and across the world. TUE TUE Producer: Julia Johnson. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx2 (Listen) TUE Ancient Pleasures, Modern Spice (1 - 600 AD), North American Otter Pipe TUE TUE The history of the world as explained through objects TUE arrives in North America 2000 years ago and a stone pipe TUE used in ritual. It is one of hundreds of pipes shaped as TUE animals that were found in huge mounds in present day Ohio. TUE Neil MacGregor pieces together the evidence for how these TUE pipes were used. Tony Benn and the artist Maggie Hambling TUE consider the allure of smoking from a modern perspective TUE while Native American historian Gabrielle Tayac describes TUE how the pipe formed a central role in traditional ritual and TUE religious life. TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sfhs0 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. American Soprano Renee Fleming. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sgb9h (Listen) TUE The Private Patient, Episode 2 TUE TUE PD James's latest Dalgliesh mystery, dramatised by Neville TUE Teller. TUE TUE A murder has taken place at an exclusive cosmetic surgery TUE clinic in Dorset, and Dalgliesh and his team are called in TUE to investigate. The arrogant owner of the clinic, George TUE Chandler-Powell has just split up with his mistress and is TUE facing the loss of his assistant surgeon Marcus Westhall. TUE TUE Narrator . . . . . . Carolyn Pickles TUE Dalgliesh . . . . . Richard Derrington TUE Kate Miskin . . . . . Deborah McAndrew TUE Rhoda Gradwyn . . . . . Christine Kavanagh TUE George Chandler-Powell . . . . . Jonathan Keeble TUE Flavia Holland . . . . . Vineeta Rishi TUE Harkness . . . . . Robert Lister TUE Whetstone . . . . . Mark Carey TUE Dr Glenister . . . . . Charlotte West-Oram TUE TUE Dramatised by Neville Teller TUE TUE Producer/Director . . . . . Peter Leslie Wild. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00sfy5d (Listen) TUE Episode 8 TUE TUE 8/40. Howard Stableford is in the presenter seat for this TUE programme and he presides over a particularly birdy programme. TUE TUE Saving Species is going large on British seabirds. TUE Naturalist and broadcaster Michael Scott is joining TUE biologists from Edinburgh University on the Isle of May in TUE the Firth of Forth. The Isle of May is a small dumpy island, TUE eclipsed in grandeur slightly by the nearby Bass Rock - "the TUE rock" is the breeding site for Britain's largest seabird, TUE the Gannet. The gannets will be plunge diving in the seas TUE around the Isle of May, but it's the Puffins, the Guillemots TUE and the Kittiwakes that Michael is going to see together TUE with the rather dinosaurian shags. Over the recent three TUE years Britain's seabirds have had a tough time surviving TUE themselves let alone raising young. Their fortunes seem to TUE be different depending where they breed and feed and it's TUE this complex picture Michael will unpack on the Isle of May. TUE TUE Seabird ecologist Bob Swann is live into the programme from TUE a seabird Colony near Tain, much further north than the Isle TUE of May - a colony he has monitored daily over the last 40 TUE years. TUE TUE Our other bird species this week is the Spoon-billed TUE Sandpiper. This bird, which breeds in Myanmar (formally TUE Burma) is down to less than 300 pairs in the world. The TUE British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has mounted a major TUE research expedition to find out more about their habits and TUE migration. They have been to SE Asia catching the birds TUE having practised the scientific techniques on our own wading TUE birds in the Wash Estuary. We have been out with them and TUE report the latest. TUE TUE Presented by Howard Stableford TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Sidekick b00sfy5g (Listen) TUE The sidekick is not, by definition, the focus of our TUE attention. They are destined to be overshadowed by their TUE better half, the hero who will save Gotham, solve the TUE uncrackable case or rescue the girl from the bad guys... TUE TUE But without the sidekick these heroes would often remain too TUE distant, too powerful or just too brilliant for us to ever TUE really love them. So in steps the earthy, flawed and loyal TUE sidekick to provide the audience with someone to connect to, TUE a character who knows how the world really works to help the TUE hero off tilting at windmills. TUE TUE Whether it's in countless children's films - think Eddie TUE Murphy's Donkey to Mike Myers's Shrek - or a hundred comic TUE books and cartoons - or high literature from Cervantes to TUE Sterne and Shakespeare to Verne - the sidekick provides the TUE laughs, the pratfall and the focus of our empathy. TUE TUE Frank Cottrell Boyce talks with those who've created TUE sidekicks, those who've played the parts and those who've TUE studied just how essential these charcters really are to TUE making the fiction seem believable and offer a human face to TUE the often inhuman character supposedly at the centre of the TUE show. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00sfj2j (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker - An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme call 03700 100 444 or TUE email youandyours@bbc.co.uk. TUE TUE 12:53 Moments of Genius b00skwz3 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Nobel prize winning scientist, Sir Tim Hunt describes his TUE favourite moment in the history of science. TUE TUE The experimental German biologist, Theodore Boveri, is one TUE of Tim Hunt's heros: "He isn't exactly a household name but TUE he should be". TUE TUE In 1902, Boveri knew nothing about DNA and yet, in a TUE beautiful set of experiments on sea urchin eggs, he worked TUE out what happens when cells divide. This was fifty years TUE before Watson and Crick and others confirmed that Boveri's TUE theory of chromsomes was absolutely spot on. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00sfj5k (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00sfk9l (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00sfkj0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sfykg (Listen) TUE Scorched TUE TUE Nicola Jones's tense, fast-moving thriller follows a man TUE trying to re-interpret his memories of the long hot summer TUE of 1976. Who is to blame for his sister's disappearance, and TUE what really happened to her? TUE TUE In 1976, Mike's sixteen year old sister, Evie, walked out of TUE the house and never came back. There didn't seem to be any TUE explanation, but Mike was thirteen at the time and didn't TUE want to upset his Mum by asking too many questions. Now Mike TUE is in his forties, his Mum is dead and a rare visit to his TUE home town provides him with an opportunity to investigate TUE the events of that scorching summer and reinterpret them TUE from an adult perspective. TUE TUE A meeting with an old school friend forces Mike to question TUE his father more closely. Is he guarding a dark family TUE secret? Is he telling the whole truth? TUE TUE Written by Nicola Jones. TUE TUE Mike - Tom Roberts TUE Bern - Kim Wall TUE Young Mike - Gabriel Towell TUE Evie - Chandeep Uppal TUE Sylvia - Bharti Patel TUE Jason - Robert Wilkinson TUE Taxi driver - Sean Connolly TUE TUE Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild TUE TUE Nicola Jones has written one previous radio play, "Angels in TUE Disguise" for Radio 7's Man in Black series. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00sfykj (Listen) TUE A listener's search for the answer to a television quiz TUE programme reveals how a new philosophy changed the physical TUE face of Edinburgh back in the eighteenth century. Dylan TUE Winter travels to North Wales and Somerset to discover the TUE history of lager in the UK 100 years before the lager lout, TUE and we learn about a new English Heritage project that hopes TUE to capture memories of the evacuation of Dunkirk. TUE TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the popular history programme TUE in which listeners' questions and research help offer new TUE insights into the past. TUE TUE You can send us questions or an outline of your own TUE research. TUE TUE Email: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE Write to Making History. BBC Radio 4. PO Box 3096. Brighton TUE BN1 1PL TUE Join the conversation on our Facebook page or find out more TUE from the Radio 4 website: bbc.co.uk/radio4/makinghistory TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00sfyzs (Listen) TUE More Actors' Words, The Love of Order TUE TUE Anna Massey tells the story of a young woman finding her way TUE in 1950s bohemian London. TUE TUE More Actors' Words is a second series of stories written and TUE read by three actors. A favourite actor's voice can become a TUE familiar friend, so to hear such familiar actors reading TUE their own work, revealing their own imaginations is a rare TUE and entertaining privilege. TUE TUE Anna Massey, James Dreyfus and Tracy-Ann Oberman take us to TUE three varied worlds. As you listen to each actor read their TUE story, you will be struck by how true their writing is to TUE their voice and, at the same time, how surprisingly TUE different each story is from any perception you had of that TUE performer before the story started. TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 A Musical Trip to South Africa - with Lenny Henry b00rt8nl (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Apartheid had a lasting effect on music in South Africa. TUE Songs expressed political revolt. With Hugh Masekela Lenny TUE explores the legacy of the struggle and nostalgia for those TUE days. TUE TUE The producer is Susan Marling, and the programme is a Just TUE Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 It's My Story b00sjcv2 (Listen) TUE Ladies on The Door TUE TUE Karole Seaby is 55 years old, a grandmother and a female TUE bouncer. She's spent the last two decades working the doors TUE of some of London's toughest venues, meeting the good, the TUE bad, and the punchy along the way. TUE TUE In Ladies On The Door, Karole tells us what it's like for TUE women who work in the world of pub and club security. TUE TUE With the help of Dr Kate O'Brien, a lecturer in Criminology TUE who's worked as a door supervisor for her research, the TUE programme follows Karole as she searches and manages TUE hundreds of drunk and noisy teenagers during an average TUE night on the job. TUE TUE From scuffles at the door to finding hidden drugs and TUE alcohol, Karole and security staff like her across the UK TUE rarely get a quiet night. The programme hears how they TUE handle the increasing menace of drunken girls who 'kick TUE off', and reflects on why there has been such an increase in TUE drunkenness and violence among some young women. TUE TUE Away from the singing, shouting, pushing and shoving, Karole TUE looks back at on over twenty years in door security, how the TUE rules have changed for the people managing the public and TUE how that same public has changed too. TUE TUE Producer: Russell Crewe TUE A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00sg13b (Listen) TUE Series 21, Arthur Wharton TUE TUE Viv Anderson, the first black footballer to play for TUE England, talks to Matthew Parris about the life of Arthur TUE Wharton, the first black professional player. TUE TUE Arthur Wharton was born in Ghana in 1865. He came to England TUE to study, but he very quickly started to gain a reputation TUE as an athlete, winning the 100 metres in a world record time TUE of ten seconds. He was a superb all-round athlete, and TUE excelled in football and cricket. TUE TUE In his career he played for Preston North End, Sheffield TUE United, Rotherham Town, Stalybridge Celtic and Ashton North TUE End. He ended his career at Stockport County in Division TUE Two, and, for the remainder of his working life, he laboured TUE as a colliery haulage hand in the pits. TUE TUE Wharton came from a middle class background, but his choice TUE of a life of sport meant that a career in civil service TUE administration was quickly closed to him, He chose to do TUE what he loved to do, but paid a terrible price. As his TUE playing career collapsed, he developed a drink problem, and TUE died a penniless alcoholic. TUE TUE 16:55 Moments of Genius b00skx24 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Actor Samuel West describes his favourite moment in the TUE history of science. TUE TUE Why things burn, why we have any weather at all, why TUE everything living tends to die: these are just a few of the TUE questions that are answered by the rather prosaically named, TUE Second Law of Thermodynamics. TUE TUE The Second Law states that, energy-wise, everything tends to TUE chaos. TUE TUE It's a law of physics but also a personal motto for actor, TUE Samuel West. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00sftrn (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 b00sfv2k (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? b00sg13d (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Micky Flanagan, Cockney geezer, regales us with the story of TUE his journey from tabloid to broadsheet; from Sunblest to TUE Panini; from the street party to the dinner party; from TUE apples and pears to stocks and shares; Well you've got the idea. TUE TUE This story is mainly told through stand up comedy. Each TUE episode is largely composed of Micky's stand up, telling his TUE own personal history in comedy form, full of observations we TUE can all relate to. In between the stand up, the programmes TUE goes 'behind the scenes' with short features that give an TUE insight into where Micky's comedy comes from. In the series TUE Micky talks to his mum and dad, his wife, his old school TUE friends and other people who can shed light on his TUE experiences. These include Sociologist Paul Willis and TUE comedian Sean Lock. TUE TUE Each week's episode focuses on a different decade of Micky's TUE life: the 70's 80's 90's ad 00's. Micky's transition from TUE the mean streets of the East End, working as a Billingsgate TUE Fish Porter to an entertainer living in the leafy lanes of TUE Dulwich is a fascinating story, all the better for being TUE told through jokes. The issue of class in modern UK society TUE is a crucial theme in Micky's stand up. However it is framed TUE less as "Do we now have a classless society?" and more as TUE "Is it ok to ask for Tomato sauce in a fancy French TUE restaurant?" Surely the answer is yes if one is having the TUE risotto. "cause they've taken all the juice out of it." As a TUE result of his outsiders view, he is able to deconstruct TUE middle class mores with razor sharp observational wit. TUE TUE Micky's first radio series is about his progression from TUE working-class Herbert to middle-class intellectual, and TUE being caught awkwardly between the two, told through TUE reflective interviews, but mainly, Micky's acclaimed stand TUE up comedy. TUE TUE In this opening episode Micky talks about growing up in the TUE East End in the 1970's. He chats to his school friends about TUE their experiences of school, leaving with no qualifications TUE to work at Billingsgate Fish Market. He also interviews TUE Sociology Professor Paul Willis about his research on TUE working class boys in a 1970's school. TUE TUE The series is written and performed by Micky Flanagan. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00sfkhk (Listen) TUE Pip makes a mistake, and Elizabeth tries to help. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00sfv49 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the acclaimed TUE Korean-American writer Chang-rae Lee, whose new novel TUE reflects on the aftermath of the Korean war. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00sg13g (Listen) TUE For years Britain has been criticised for failing to TUE investigate and punish companies who use bribery and TUE corruption to win contracts overseas. TUE TUE Just before the General Election, Parliament approved a new TUE Bribery law. And in recent months the Serious Fraud Office TUE has adopted a new strategy, prosecuting a string of TUE British-based firms and managers who have pleaded guilty to TUE corrupt practices abroad. It seemed that prosecutors were TUE finally beginning to get results. TUE TUE But now English judges are objecting to the American-style TUE plea bargains which have encouraged guilty companies to TUE confess to past illegality. One senior judge has warned TUE prosecutors they have no power to strike such deals, which TUE tend to offer a more lenient sentence in return for an TUE admission of guilt. And in another case, an executive who TUE cooperated with prosecutors has been sentenced to a year in TUE prison for helping to bribe officials in the Greek health TUE service to buy his company's medical equipment. TUE TUE In the first of a new series of 'File on 4', Allan Urry TUE investigates bribery by British firms abroad, and serious TUE disarray in the court system which should be bringing them TUE to justice. TUE Producer: Andy Denwood. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00sg13j (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00sg13l (Listen) TUE In a new seres of All In the Mind, Claudia Hammond gathers TUE together users of mental health services as well as key TUE professionals in the field, to discuss the future of mental TUE health care. With a new government installed, how will TUE ministers balance demands for improved access to mental TUE health services with demands for budget cuts to balance the TUE books. TUE TUE 21:30 Democracy on Trial b00sfwwr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00sfv64 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00sfv7s (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00sfvrx (Listen) TUE A Vision of Loveliness, Episode 2 TUE TUE After making friends with Suzy, Jane James finds herself at TUE a dubious London nightclub. TUE TUE Emila Fox reads Louise Levene's black comedy. TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 So Wrong It's Right b00sg13n (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Charlie Brooker hosts the new comedy panel show that revels TUE in glorious failure. He is joined for this edition by comics TUE Richard Herring and Holly Walsh plus Iain Morris - the TUE writer of hit TV sitcom The Inbetweeners. TUE TUE So Wrong It's Right is a comedy contest to give the wrongest TUE answer to each of Charlie's challenges. The worst idea for TUE an internet business (including Richard Herring's 'life TUE comparison' website, ranking the entire human race in order TUE of success), and the problem with Richard Hammond are just TUE two of the targets that come under the wrong examination in TUE this edition. TUE TUE Producer: Aled Evans TUE A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sfvvm (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 26 MAY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00sf94p (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sf9jr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sf9xz (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sf9q4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00sfb12 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sfb34 (Listen) WED with The Revd Mark Wakelin. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00sfbsg (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b00sfbxc (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00sg147 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx4 (Listen) WED Ancient Pleasures, Modern Spice (1 - 600 AD), Ceremonial Ballgame Belt WED WED Neil MacGregor's history of humanity as told through one WED hundred objects that time has left behind. This week he is WED looking at objects of leisure and pleasure around the world WED about 2000 years ago. How were we amusing ourselves back WED then? Today's object is a large stone belt, a heavyweight WED ceremonial version of the leather and fibre padding that was WED used in an ancient ball game in central America. This was a WED game with a rubber ball that dates back as far as three and WED a half thousand years ago - the world's oldest known WED organised sport. Neil offers up the rules of the game and WED describes how it connected players to the realm of their WED gods. The historian Michael Whittington considers the ritual WED aspects of the game while the writer Nick Hornby describes WED how sport straddles the emotional territory between the WED sacred and the profane. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sfhs2 (Listen) WED Are social networking sites taking over your children's WED lives? Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sgb97 (Listen) WED The Private Patient, Episode 3 WED WED PD James's latest Dalgliesh mystery, dramatised by Neville WED Teller. WED WED A famous investigative journalist has been murdered at an WED exclusive cosmetic surgery clinic in Dorset. Commander WED Dalgliesh and his colleague DI Kate Miskin are called in WED because of some of the clinic's high-profile clients. WED WED Dalgliesh . . . . . Richard Derrington WED Kate Miskin . . . . . Deborah McAndrew WED George Chandler-Powell . . . . . Jonathan Keeble WED Dr Glenister . . . . . Charlotte West-Oram WED Mrs Skeffington . . . . Kate Layden WED Marcus Westhall . . . . Adrian Grove WED Robin Boyton . . . . . Bertie Carvell WED WED Dramatised by Neville Teller WED WED Producer/Director . . . . . Peter Leslie Wild. WED WED 11:00 Latch-Key Kids b00sg1hf (Listen) WED Actress Jessica Hynes a latch-key kid from the age of six WED hears the stories of others over the generations who too had WED to let themselves in to an empty house after school. How has WED this shaped and influenced the way she and others bring up WED their children? WED The term "latch- key kid" came to prominence during the WED Second World War when children as young as five years old WED were being left as their Dads were away fighting and their WED mothers became part of the labour force. Sandra now a WED grandmother in her 70's, was along with her parents 'bombed WED out' of their home in Sheffield. They lost everything and WED her mum had to go out to work; throughout her entire school WED life Sandra was a latch--key kid. Later on in life when she WED too got married and had kids she made a secret pact - she WED was going to be around for her kids but in doing so what WED were the consequences? WED Decades later the term became synonymous with neglect and WED was dropped but the practice continues to this day. John WED Amaechi defends rigorously his upbringing - having to be WED responsible and independent made him into who he is today - WED his success and they way he has raised his own family WED mirrors his own experience. But 80's child Lizzie who became WED a delinquent teenager says she was "at times WED overlooked"....brought up on Pot Noodles and stale things WED she's opted for a different life for her two boys.Whose got WED it right ? WED WED 11:30 Miracles R Us b00sg1hh (Listen) WED Domestic Arrangements WED WED The man lurking outside turns out not to be the private WED detective Sylvia supposes, but a potential client. He has WED inadvertently encouraged a middle-aged American academic, in WED whom he has no romantic interest, to have hopes of a shared WED future. She is arriving next week, expecting to stay with WED him. He doesn't want to be brutal but is desperate to be WED rid of her. Can MiraclesRus help? WED WED Caroline says it's not what they're there for. Sylvia says WED it is. She suggests that Caroline should pretend to be his WED wife. Caroline refuses, she's had her fill of being a WED wife. It is decided instead that Sylvia will pretend to be WED his resident mother. Unfortunately, the American warms to WED Sylvia and her presence in the household is seen to be an WED asset. So Caroline is called upon to act the wife after WED all, to retrieve a dangerous situation and the promised fee. WED The plan works, the academic returns to America and WED Caroline finds she has enjoyed herself - she and the client WED have an unexpected rapport. But, to Sylvia's WED disappointment, Caroline backs away. The last thing she WED needs in her life is another duplicitous man. WED WED Caroline...............................Deborah Findlay WED Sylvia...............................Anna Massey WED James Linnet ...........................David Horovitch WED Mary Beth Haldeman............... Laura Shavin WED Pianist...............................Jeremy Limb WED WED Written by Lesley Bruce. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00sfj2l (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:53 Moments of Genius b00sl9c6 (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED WED The first Green MP, Caroline Lucas, describes her favourite WED moment in the history of science: the invention of the WED contraceptive pill. WED WED The maverick scientist, Gregory Pincus, is often credited WED with the invention of the first contraceptive pill but, WED without the direction and commitment of two influential WED women, he may never have pursued this line of scientific WED research. WED WED "There's more to a moment of scientific genius than getting WED the science right", argues Caroline Lucas. And it's time the WED credit for this moment was shared between Margaret Sanger, WED who dreamed of a magic pill to prevent pregnancy; the WED biologist Katherine McCormick who hired Pincus to do the WED work; and the scientist who worked it out, Gregory Pincus. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00sfj5m (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00sfk9n (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00sg1hk (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00sfkhk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sg1hm (Listen) WED The Line WED WED By Kris Kenway WED WED Taline is a young Turkish student fleeing an assassination WED attempt and seeking asylum in the UK. But, first she has to WED get through her screening interview with Carl. WED WED Carl ..... Toby Jones WED Taline ..... Marina Koem WED WED Directed by James Robinson. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00sg1hp (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests are on hand to answer your WED personal finance questions. WED Subject: Student Finance WED Keith Houghton, Head of Student Funding Service, Kingston WED University WED David Malcolm, Student Finance Researcher, National Union of WED Students WED Miriam Craven, Communications & Training Manager, SAAS WED You can call the programme when lines open on Wednesday at WED 1330 BST. WED The number is 03700 100 444. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00sfyzv (Listen) WED More Actors' Words, The Accident WED WED James Dreyfus tells the story of grieving parents on a WED country estate. Part of a series of stories written and read WED by actors. WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 A Musical Trip to South Africa - with Lenny Henry b00ryf1b (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Lenny meets the Queen of Gospel, the mega-recording artist WED Rebecca Malope, he is blown away by a choir in Soweto and WED the choir boy who's now South Africa's sexiest singing star. WED WED The producer is Susan Marling, and this is a Just Radio WED production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00sg1hr (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00sg13l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:55 Moments of Genius b00skwz3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:53 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00sftrr (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 b00sfv2m (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b00sg1vh (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 2 WED WED Victoria Coren presents the programme which attempts to WED prove our most deeply held beliefs, the assumptions on which WED we base our view of the world, are all plain wrong. Helping WED Victoria commit heresy are comedians Marcus Brigstocke and WED Natalie Haynes, and Church of England priest and former WED member of 80s band The Communards, the Rev Richard Coles. WED WED They'll be challenging, among other things, the received WED wisdom that: WED WED Atheism is a more rational position than faith. WED Transport strikes are terrible for commuters. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00sfkhm (Listen) WED David gets annoyed with Elizabeth and Helen discovers some WED news. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00sfv4c (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the writer WED Tony Parsons, who continues his focus on the dilemmas of WED modern fatherhood in his new novel Men from the Boys. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Devil's Advocate b00sg1wg (Listen) WED Fashion and Feminism WED WED David Aaronovitch invites two guest speakers to turn their WED established views on their head and debate the contrary WED position. Speakers are given two weeks to research their WED arguments before appearing in the debate in front of an WED invited audience at Cambridge University. WED WED In this final programme in the series, the motion is: WED WED "The fashion industry has been bad for feminism." WED WED The fashion industry has produced female icons like Coco WED Chanel and Vivienne Westwood, but has it helped or hindered WED the cause of feminism? WED WED The speakers are fashion expert, designer and former Clothes WED Show presenter Caryn Franklin and Feminist author, Guardian WED journalist and co-founder of the group Justice for Women, WED Julie Bindel. WED WED The programme is recorded at Judge Business School in WED Cambridge. WED WED Producer: David Prest WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Real Life Party Animals b00sh3hc (Listen) WED They are at the bottom of the political heap, but they have WED the most fun. Comedian Dom Joly (once a political researcher WED himself) meets the researchers who keep Westminster on the WED rails and hears about their bad behaviour. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00sg2my (Listen) WED Cleaning Up the Ganges WED WED "The Ganges, above all is the river of India, which has held WED India's heart captive and drawn uncounted millions to her WED banks since the dawn of history. The story of the Ganges, WED from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the WED story of India's civilization and culture, of the rise and WED fall of empires, of great and proud cities, of adventures of WED man". So said India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal WED Nehru. WED WED The Ganges holds a sacred place in the Hindu religion. It is WED a requirement for the 830 million Hindus in the world today WED to bathe in its waters at least once in their lifetime. WED WED Today the Ganges is a filthy shadow of its former majesty WED but all that is about to change. The World Bank is lending WED the Indian government $1.5 billion to help clean the river, WED but it is 10 times the length of the Thames and many argue WED that its distance from the sea, its proximity to so many WED fast-growing cities, as well as India's lack of a sewage WED system mean that it is an impossible task. WED WED Efforts to clean-up the Ganges tributary, the Yamuna, have WED failed and scientists argue that more money is needed to WED expand treatment plants in Lucknow, Allahabad and Kanpur but WED sewage first needs to reach these plants. Some argue that WED water management is the source of the problem and that this WED is where money should be spent. Climate change and dam WED building are drying up the river at its source and they WED argue the only way to clean it is to increase the flow of WED clean supply. WED WED Tom Heap travels the banks of the river to find out if the WED Holy Ganges can be saved. WED WED Producer: Helen Lennard. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00sg147 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00sfv66 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00sfv7v (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00sfvrz (Listen) WED A Vision of Loveliness, Episode 3 WED WED Jane makes her debut as a showroom model... only to discover WED that the job is not as glamorous as she first thought. WED WED Louise Levene's black comedy is read by Emilia Fox. WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Shuttleworths b00sg2n0 (Listen) WED Series 5, A Gig With Billy Joel WED WED When agent Ken Worthington offers John and unpaid gig in a WED remote village hall, John refuses. But the promise of his WED own designated parking space causes a serious rethink. WED WED John is created and performed by Graham Fellows, and the WED series is produced by Dawn Ellis. WED WED 23:15 One b00n8pdm (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item WED features more than one voice. WED WED With Graeme Garden, Dan Maier, Johnny Daukes, Deborah WED Norton, Katie Davies, Dan Antopolski, Andrew Crawford and WED David Quantick. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sfvvp (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. WED WED THU THURSDAY 27 MAY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00sf94r (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sf9jt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sf9y1 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sf9q6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00sfb14 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sfb36 (Listen) THU with The Revd Mark Wakelin. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00sfbsj (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Martin THU Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 06:00 Today b00sfbxf (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00sg2y4 (Listen) THU Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists THU THU Melvyn Bragg discusses 'Lives of the Artists' - the great THU biographer Giorgio Vasari's study of Renaissance painters, THU sculptors and architects. THU THU Producer: Phil Tinline. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx6 (Listen) THU Ancient Pleasures, Modern Spice (1 - 600 AD), Admonitions Scroll THU THU Throughout this week, Neil MacGregor has been exploring THU pleasure and recreation across the world of 200 years ago. THU Today he arrives in China to explore a painting based on a THU poem that attempts to define the proper behaviour for women THU during the tumultuous time that followed the collapse of the THU Han Empire. This eleven foot long scroll offers a guide to THU manners along well established Confucian principles. Neil THU MacGregor tells the story of the scroll and finds out what THU it is was about women's behaviour that was so worrying men THU of the period. The historian Shane McCausland, the THU politician Charles Powell, and the Chinese art expert Jan THU Stuart help paint the picture. THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sfhs4 (Listen) THU Women's magazine programme. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sgb99 (Listen) THU The Private Patient, Episode 4 THU THU PD James's latest Dalgliesh mystery, dramatised by Neville THU Teller. Having set up base at the Cheverell manor Clinic in THU Dorset, Dalgliesh and his colleagues take a trip back to THU London to have a look at Rhoda Gradwyn's house. They make an THU important discovery among her papers. THU THU Narrator . . . . . Carolyn Pickles THU Dalgliesh . . . . . Richard Derrington THU Kate Miskin . . . . . Deborah McAndrew THU George Chandler-Powell . . . . . Jonathan Keeble THU Candace Westhall . . . . . Alison Pettitt THU Marcus Westhall . . . . Adrian Grove THU Flavia Holland . . . . . Vineeta Rishi THU Sharon Bateman . . . . . Charlotte Worthing THU THU Dramatised by Neville Teller THU THU Producer/Director . . . . . Peter Leslie Wild. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00sgbcp (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Wonderful Weightless World THU of the Flexidisc b00sgbcr (Listen) THU Long before the invention of the MP3, there was a way of THU getting hold of music, speech, and other audio sensations, THU free of charge, in the form of flexidiscs. Originally THU developed in the 1930s to play at 78rpm, by the 1960s, THU seven-inch, 45rpm flexidiscs were so cheap to produce, and THU so light and bendy, that they were often given away free THU with a magazine. In the Soviet Union, though, where THU flexidiscs were called roentgenizdat, and were recorded on THU disused medical x-ray sheets, the audio was usually of an THU illegal nature, such as jazz music, or, later, punk rock. In THU telling the story of the flexidisc, we'll hear plenty of THU music, some of which is now valuable (such as the Rolling THU Stones Exit on Mainstreet Blues, given away with New Musical THU Express in 1972). THU THU In tracking down the story of flexidiscs, presenter Paul THU Bayley meets collector Jez Randall, journalist Ian Shirley, THU and the novelist Tim Lott, who co-founded Flexipop magazine THU in the early 1980s (which gave away a free flexi with every THU issue). The programme includes extracts from flexidiscs THU galore, including several advertisements for products as THU diverse as crisps, hair pieces and rat poison, music from THU big band jazz to beat groups to punk rock, and some of the THU most famous recordings made on flexidisc including Beatles THU fanclub records, Private Eye's satirical flexidiscs and the THU sound of humpback whales, from the world's biggest THU circulation flexidisc ever. THU THU Presenter Paul Bayley previously presented The Strange THU Parallel World of Chistian Pop for Radio 4, which THU subsequently inspired Frank Cottrell Boyce's radio play The THU Believers. The producer is Bob Dickinson. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00sfj2n (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:53 Moments of Genius b00skx24 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:55 on Tuesday] THU THU 12:57 Weather b00sfj5p (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00sfk9q (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00sg2my (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00sfkhm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sgbct (Listen) THU Waves Breaking on a Shore, part 1 THU THU Period drama by Michael Eaton and Neil Brand. THU THU At the turn of the twentieth century two vaudevillians - one THU Irish, the other Jewish - are trying to achieve success as THU Music Hall double act Cohen and Cohan, when they find THU themselves bitten by the bug of cinematography at the birth THU of film. THU THU Performing in the small halls of London's poverty stricken THU East End, both would consider themselves to be loyal sons of THU the British Empire. Above all, they believe that laughter THU and song can bring different folk together. THU THU Though their act is popular in the East End, they have their THU sights set on the big time. A chance meeting leads them down THU a path of new technology, performing their act for the new THU Edison phonograph, recording comic turns and melodramatic THU scenes. THU THU But the flickers are a whole new territory, and Danny and THU Manny learn the hard way that this new form means big THU business to the people calling the shots. THU THU Manny Cohen ..... Simon Schatzberger THU Danny Cohan ..... Andrew Scott THU Nettie Truman ..... Hayley Atwell THU Uncle Max ..... Jonathan Tafler THU Eugene ..... Jim Norton THU Barraclough ..... Sean Chapman THU Thief ..... Jason Maza THU THU Music composed and performed by Neil Brand. THU THU Directed by John Burgess THU Produced by Nicholas Newton THU A Promenade production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00sds2s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00sf7hj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00sfyzx (Listen) THU More Actors' Words, Girl on an Island THU THU Tracy-Ann Oberman tells the story of Augustus Caesar's THU daughter in Imperial Rome. THU THU Part of a series of stories written and read by actors. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 A Musical Trip to South Africa - with Lenny Henry b00s0cmz (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Lenny investigates the 'lost tribes' whose music is THU endangered as the country modernises. He gets into township THU Kiba and finds disaffected young Afrikaners reviving angry THU punk. THU THU The producer is Susan Marling, and this is a Just Radio THU production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00sf8l2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00sgbgs (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 16:55 Moments of Genius b00sl9c6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 12:53 on Wednesday] THU THU 17:00 PM b00sftrv (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 b00sfv2p (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00p94fm (Listen) THU Series 5, Beer Cruise THU THU Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur THU Strong is an expert in everything from the world of THU entertainment to the origins of the species, all false THU starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a delicate THU sheen of bravado and self-assurance. THU THU It's an early start for Arthur as he sets off on a day trip THU to France with his old friends Wilf, Sally and Geoffrey. THU Having brushed up on his French the night before, Arthur THU shows them all just how to communicate in a foreign tongue. THU Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be many French people THU about to converse with. Still, there's always the wine! THU THU With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and THU Alastair Kerr. THU THU A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for BBC THU Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00sfkhp (Listen) THU Tom and Jazzer have trouble with the pigs, and Helen talks THU to Ian. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00sfv4f (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the THU best-selling crime writer Peter James, creator of the THU detective Roy Grace. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00sgbgv (Listen) THU As the political fallout from the Deepwater Horizon oil THU slick in the Gulf of Mexico tarnishes BP's reputation in the THU United States, Simon Cox asks whether the British oil giant THU could have done more to ensure the safety of its operations. THU THU Five years after BP were landed multi-million dollar fines THU for a catastrophic explosion at a refinery in Texas, some THU politicians and environmentalists think BP has not done THU enough to clean up its act in the US. THU THU The Report also asks whether American federal agencies THU responsible for policing offshore drilling have given the THU oil industry too easy a ride. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00sgbgx (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine, where business THU leaders discuss the issues that matter - from the boardroom THU to the shop floor, from building success to handling failure. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00sfy5d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00sg2y4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00sfv68 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00sfv7x (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00sfvs3 (Listen) THU A Vision of Loveliness, Episode 4 THU THU Jane has moved into a Mayfair flat with Suzy...but all is THU not straightforward. THU THU Emilia Fox reads Louise Levene's black comedy. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Music Teacher b00sgbh0 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Shut away in a tiny windowless practice room in a regional THU arts centre, Nigel endures his usual succession of bizarre THU pupils whilst wrestling with the latest curveball thrown at THU him by panicked Arts Centre manager, Belinda. THU THU Nigel is faced with the usual bizarre array of pupils: the THU Midlands' answer to Bob Dylan, a homemade keyboard hobbyist THU and a singing dog prove to be fairly hard going. But it is THU Arts Centre manager Belinda - so often the cause of much of THU his misery - who offers Nigel the chance of a lifetime: to THU write a jingle advertising the Arts Centre to feature on THU local radio. THU THU This is the chance Nigel has been looking for. This is his THU way out. This is his ticket to the fame and fortune that he THU so nearly tasted as a Young Musician of the Year Finalist in THU 1975. If only he could get The Beatles' Eight Days A Week THU out of his head, he'd be fine. But he can't. And the THU deadline is approaching fast. THU THU Nigel Penny ..... Richie Webb THU Belinda ..... Vicki Pepperdine THU Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson THU THU Directed by Nick Walker THU Written by Richie Webb THU THU The producer is Richie Webb, and this is a Top Dog THU production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:15 My Teenage Diary b00jtpwm (Listen) THU Steve Hall THU THU Host Rufus Hound is joined by Steve Hall, member of the THU comedy sketch group We Are Klang. Steve reveals what it was THU like to grow up as a proper mummy's boy, and the nightmare THU situations he encountered because of it. THU THU Part of a comedy series in which comedians read out selected THU passages from their teenage diaries. THU THU Producer: Victoria Payne THU A talkbackTHAMES production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sfvvr (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 28 MAY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00sf94t (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sf9jw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sf9y3 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sf9q8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00sfb16 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sfb38 (Listen) FRI with The Revd Mark Wakelin. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00sfbsm (Listen) FRI Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00sfbxh (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00sf7hx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx8 (Listen) FRI Ancient Pleasures, Modern Spice (1 - 600 AD), Hoxne Pepper Pot FRI FRI Neil MacGregor's world history told through objects at the FRI British Museum arrives in Britain at the time of the Roman FRI collapse. Throughout this week he has been looking at how FRI different cultures around the globe were pursuing pleasure, FRI roughly 2000 years ago, from smoking in North America to FRI team sports in Central America. FRI FRI Today, Neil looks at how the elite of Roman Britain FRI sustained their appetite for luxury goods and good living in FRI the years before their demise. He tells the story through a FRI silver pepper pot that was discovered as part of a buried FRI hoard - hidden possibly by Romans on the run. He describes FRI the ambitions of the elite in Roman Britain and how they FRI satisfied their particular taste for pepper, with FRI contributions from the food writer Christine McFadden and FRI historian Roberta Tomber. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sfhs6 (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sgb9c (Listen) FRI The Private Patient, Episode 5 FRI FRI PD James's latest Dalgliesh mystery, dramatised by Neville FRI Teller. FRI FRI After their discovery at Rhoda Gradwyn's flat in London, the FRI trail leads Dalgliesh and Kate further north in search of FRI the owner of a car seen parked near the scene of the crime. FRI Have they discovered the culprit, or is there a darker FRI secret waiting to be revealed? FRI FRI Narrator . . . . . Carolyn Pickles FRI Dalgliesh . . . . . Richard Derrington FRI Kate Miskin . . . . . Deborah McAndrew FRI Benton-Smith . . . . . Johndeep More FRI Robin Boyton . . . . Bertie Carvel FRI Stephen Collinsby . . . .Andy Hockley FRI FRI Dramatised by Neville Teller FRI FRI Producer/Director . . . . . Peter Leslie Wild. FRI FRI 11:00 Skip b00sgbl8 (Listen) FRI The secret life of the rubbish skip. They are such a FRI familiar sight on our streets that most of us take the FRI common-or-garden skip for granted. FRI FRI But to some people they are the focal point of their lives, FRI whether for survival, inspiration for art, or the subject of FRI a university Garbology degree. And what is our fascination FRI with not only keeping an eye on what other people put in FRI them, but also maybe having a rummage, or best of all, FRI spiriting away a discarded piece of treasure? FRI FRI Writer and gardening expert Alys Fowler, herself no stranger FRI to "liberating" skipped curios for her garden and home, FRI builds a picture of our behaviour in and around these metal FRI Aladdin's caves and unearths amusing and amazing tales to FRI add to skip folklore of recent years. FRI FRI Forget the old floorboards and broken sofas, afficionados FRI see skips as a source of everything from priceless antiques FRI to free food. And if your community needs affordable extra FRI amenities such as a swimming pool or skateboard park, FRI there's an artist who has created these very things - from FRI old skips. FRI FRI As Alys looks in a fresh way at skips throughout the land, FRI what secrets and treasures are they about to reveal? FRI FRI Producer: Neil Cargill FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 When The Dog Dies b00sgbr3 (Listen) FRI Squeaky Shoes FRI FRI These days Sandy finds himself doing more hospital visiting FRI and attending an increasing number of funerals. At the FRI latest, he finds himself singled out by the Merry Widow, FRI Eileen. His children are horrified and so is his lodger FRI Dolores. Son-in-law and security expert Blake keeps Sandy FRI under close surveillance. Even so, Sandy finishes up in FRI hospital himself. FRI FRI Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit comedy FRI Sorry - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent - for a new sitcom. FRI FRI Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett FRI Eileen ..... Anne Reid FRI Clovis ..... Jon Glover FRI Ellie ..... Tilly Vosburgh FRI Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck FRI Blake ..... Jonathan Aris FRI FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00sfj2q (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:53 Moments of Genius b00skwv4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:55 on Monday] FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00sfj5r (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00sfk9s (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00sgbr5 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the More or Less team explain the numbers in FRI the news, look out for misused statistics and use maths to FRI explore the world around us. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00sfkhp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sgbt7 (Listen) FRI Waves Breaking on a Shore, part 2 FRI FRI Drama set in 1902, written by Michael Eaton and Neil Brand. FRI FRI The vaudevillian double act Cohen and Cohan have made the FRI leap from East End Music Halls into the new world of film. FRI Their first foray ended badly as the daughter of the FRI producer who discovered them puts them through the arduous FRI task of performing in a film. FRI FRI But with their eyes opened to the possibility of film, Manny FRI and Danny quickly realise that in this new high-risk world FRI the returns can be bountiful. FRI FRI Whilst they consider themselves to be loyal sons of the FRI British Empire, as first generation immigrants they want to FRI tell the story of the world in which they grew up. But in FRI London's East End, with racial tensions mounting and where FRI many support the British Brotherhood League, Danny and Manny FRI find their first effort subverted by Colonel Truman, FRI proprietor of Trufilms, to suit his right wing views against FRI immigrants. FRI FRI Manny Cohen ..... Simon Schatzberger FRI Danny Cohan ..... Andrew Scott FRI Nettie Truman ..... Hayley Atwell FRI Uncle Max ..... Jonathan Tafler FRI Eugene ..... Jim Norton FRI Barraclough/Colonel Truman ..... Sean Chapman FRI FRI Music composed and performed by Neil Brand. FRI FRI Directed by John Burgess FRI Produced by Nicholas Newton FRI A Promenade production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00sgcw2 (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the programme from Garden Show Ireland, FRI at Hillsborough Castle, County Down. He is joined by Chris FRI Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew. FRI FRI Also, part four of Behind the Scenes at Chelsea: Judgement FRI Day - how does everyone fare on the opening day of the FRI flower show? FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 A Musical Trip to South Africa - with Lenny Henry b00s2ws4 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Paul Simon's mega-album Graceland showcased South Africa's FRI huge musical talent. Now many more stars are going global. FRI Lenny meets astonishing Buskaid violinists and pop diva, Lira. FRI FRI The producer is Susan Marling. This is a Just Radio FRI production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00sgcw4 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on FRI the lives of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00sgdg0 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to director Michael Winterbottom about FRI the latest Jim Thompson adaptation The Killer Inside Me. FRI FRI 16:55 Moments of Genius b00sl98q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 12:53 on Monday] FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00sftrx (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 b00sfv2r (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00sgdg2 (Listen) FRI Series 71, Episode 7 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week are David Mitchell, FRI Jeremy Hardy, Fred Macaulay and Susan Calman. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00sfkhr (Listen) FRI WRITTEN BY ..... MARY CUTLER FRI DIRECTED BY ..... ROSEMARY WATTS FRI EDITOR ..... VANESSA WHITBURN FRI FRI DAVID ARCHER ..... TIMOTHY BENTINCK FRI RUTH ARCHER ..... FELICITY FINCH FRI PIP ARCHER ..... HELEN MONKS FRI NIGEL PARGETTER ..... GRAHAM SEED FRI ELIZABETH PARGETTER ..... ALISON DOWLING FRI TONY ARCHER ..... COLIN SKIPP FRI PAT ARCHER - PATRICIA GALLIMORE FRI HELEN ARCHER - LOUIZA PATIKAS FRI TOM ARCHER - TOM GRAHAM FRI BRIAN ALDRIDGE ..... CHARLES COLLINGWOOD FRI JENNIFER ALDRIDGE ..... ANGELA PIPER FRI IAN CRAIG ..... STEPHEN KENNEDY FRI MATT CRAWFORD ..... KIM DURHAM FRI LILIAN BELLAMY ..... SUNNY ORMONDE FRI FALLON ROGERS ..... JOANNA VAN KAMPEN FRI NICK HANSON ..... BECKY WRIGHT FRI SUSAN CARTER ..... CHARLOTTE MARTIN FRI BRENDA TUCKER ..... AMY SHINDLER FRI JAZZER MCCREARY ..... RYAN KELLY FRI ALAN FRANKS ..... JOHN TELFER FRI JUDE SIMPSON ..... PIERS WEHNER FRI PAUL MORGAN..... MICHAEL FENTON STEVENS FRI HARRY MASON..... MICHAEL SHELFORD. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00sfv4h (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the writer FRI Joseph O'Connor, whose new novel draws on the relationship FRI between the renowned Irish playwright J M Synge and the FRI young actress Molly Allgood. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sfgx8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00sgdg4 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Sir FRI Williams Perkins's School in Chertsey. FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00sgdg6 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from David Cannadine. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00sgdg8 (Listen) FRI The Private Patient, Omnibus FRI FRI P D James's latest novel, dramatised by Neville Teller, FRI finds Commander Dalgliesh (once again played by Richard FRI Derrington) and DI Kate Miskin (Deborah McAndrew) FRI investigating a mysterious death at a top cosmetic surgery FRI clinic, Cheverell Manor, in Dorset. The clinic lies close to FRI an ancient stone circle - the Cheverell Stones - where a FRI young woman accused of witchcraft, Mary Keyte, was burned to FRI death in the 17th century. One of the staff at the Manor FRI believes the ghost of Mary Keyte is not at rest, while FRI others may have a grudge against the clinic's arrogant FRI owner. Added to this, there is an argument over a disputed FRI inheritance which may or may not have a bearing on the crime. FRI FRI The Private Patient is the latest in the long-running FRI Dalgliesh series, and the first to be dramatised on radio FRI before television. The entire serial will be released on CD FRI by BBC Audiobooks in June, and repeated on Radio 7 in August FRI as part of a PD James season. FRI FRI The dramatiser is Neville Teller, who also dramatised the FRI previous Dalgliesh serial featuring Richard Derrington and FRI Deborah McAndrew, A Taste For Death. FRI FRI Narrator . . . . . Carolyn Pickles FRI Cdr Adam Dalgliesh . . . . . Richard Derrington FRI DI Kate Miskin . . . .Deborah McAndrew FRI DS Francis Benton-Smith . . . . . Johndeep More FRI George Chandler-Powell . . . . . Jonathan Keeble FRI Rhoda Gradwyn . . . . . Christine Kavanagh FRI Marcus Westhall . . . . . . Adrian Grove FRI Candace Westhall . . . . . Alison Pettitt FRI Robin Boyton . . . . . . Bertie Carvel FRI Sharon Bateman / Mary Keyte . . . . . . Charlotte Worthing FRI Flavia Holland . . . . . Vineeta Rishi FRI Dr Edith Glenister . . . . . Charlotte West-Oram FRI Stephen Collinsby . . . . . Andy Hockley FRI Mrs Skeffington . . . . . Kate Layden FRI DCI Whetstone . . . . . Mark Carey FRI Asst Comm Harkness . . . . . Robert Lister FRI FRI Dramatised by Neville Teller FRI FRI Producer/Director . . . . . Peter Leslie Wild. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00sfv6b (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00sfv7z (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00sfvs5 (Listen) FRI A Vision of Loveliness, Episode 5 FRI FRI Suzy and Jane are fooling around in a sports car when they FRI crash it into Jane's boyfriend, Johnny Hullavington... and FRI kill him. FRI FRI The final episode of this black comedy by Louise Levene, FRI read by Emilia Fox. FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00sg13b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sfvvt (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. FRI
21 May, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 22/05/2010 - 28/05/2010
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