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SAT SATURDAY 19 JUNE 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00sq3h1 (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 b00snm1z (Listen) SAT Inside The Palace: Secrets At Court (700 - 950 AD), SAT Chinese Tang tomb figures SAT SAT This week Neil MacGregor is exploring life in the great SAT royal courts across the world during Europe's medieval SAT period, from the heart of Europe to Mexico and Sri Lanka. SAT Today he is in China of the Tang Dynasty around 700 AD. He SAT tells how the elite of the time chose to leave their mark on SAT the world by writing or commissioning their own obituaries. SAT He is with a curious troupe of ceramic figures that were SAT found in the tomb of a Tang general along with a stone SAT tablet proclaiming his achievements. The China scholar SAT Oliver Moore explains the growing ambitions of the dynasty SAT and journalist Anthony Howard describes the enduring power SAT of the obituary. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sq3h3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sq3h5 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sq3h7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00sq4vv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sq4vx (Listen) SAT presented by the Most Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St SAT Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish SAT Episcopal Church. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00sq4vz (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00sq4w1 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00sqfs9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00sqfsc (Listen) SAT Series 15, Episode 5 SAT SAT Clare Balding continues her walk along the South Downs Way, SAT starting at South Harting with Commander Nick Pope and Major SAT Yam Gurung of the Gurkha Regiment. Each year the Gurkhas SAT stage a fundraising event which sees teams of four complete SAT the 100 mile trail in one go. The admirably fit Gurkha SAT soldiers complete the stretch from Winchester to Eastbourne SAT in as little as ten hours. Clare gets some tips on this kind SAT of extreme walking from Nick and Yam, and meets some of the SAT participants of this year's event, who are training to make SAT the epic hike in as short a time as possible. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00sqfsf (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith, Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00sqfsh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00sqfsk (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00sqfsm (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner SAT and poet Kate Fox. Former Bay City Roller Les McKeown shares SAT his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00sqfsp (Listen) SAT John McCarthy continues his stay in Bavaria with a visit to SAT the capital, Munich. He finds a surprising blend of old and SAT new: many of the buildings look old but were faithfully SAT reconstructed after the Second World War when much of the SAT city was flattened by bombing. The ornate gilt and mirrors SAT of the former Royal Palace contrast with the modernity of SAT the Olympic Stadium and Munich's most famous motor SAT manufacturers, whilst the lederhosen and brass bands of the SAT beer gardens exist alongside the wetsuits worn by city SAT centre surfers. John finds Munich the most Mediterranean of SAT German cities. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Electric Ride b00sqfsr (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Peter Curran is going on a bold, 4500 mile, trans-European SAT journey in an electric car for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT En route, he will talk to all the major European carmakers SAT to find out how close they are to getting their electric SAT cars out on the road. He'll visit cities which are wiring up SAT charging stations and ask politicians what they're doing to SAT promote the electric cause. SAT SAT Stopping off at manufacturing plants and research centres, SAT Peter will hope that hotels and restaurants from Portugal to SAT Norway allow him to plug the car in, and that the battery SAT lasts long enough to get across Swiss mountains and the SAT coastal plain of Andalusia. SAT SAT By the end of the series he will have built up an impression SAT of the state of electric car manufacturing and policy across SAT the continent. His goal is to return to the UK in time to SAT join the Brighton to London ECO-Rally, departing on July 7th. SAT SAT Producer: Kevin Dawson SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00sqgdh (Listen) SAT Peter Riddell of The Times reflects on a week in which SAT defence issues and the BP row in the United States have SAT dominated the headlines. SAT SAT He also asks the Leader of the Commons, Sir George Young, SAT about new moves to bridge the gap hetween parliament and the SAT public - and to give backbench MPs more of a say in what is SAT debated in parliament. SAT SAT He hears from two senior backbenchers, the Conservative, SAT Patrick Mercer and Labour's Eric Joyce, about the SAT government's review of the UK's defences. SAT SAT And some observers have been shocked by the anti-British SAT rhetoric coming from the United States after the BP oil SAT spill. Two new MPs, a Conservative, Dominic Raab , and SAT Labour's Emma Reynolds, wonder if the 'special relationship' SAT will suffer. SAT SAT Finally, two Tories, Harriet Baldwin and Anna Soubry, reveal SAT just what happens when a backbencher comes up trumps in the SAT private members' bill ballot. SAT SAT Producer: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00sqgdk (Listen) SAT Many factors stand in the path of peace in the Middle East. SAT Among them is the fate of the hills above the Sea of SAT Galilee....the Golan Heights. They were captured by Israel SAT in 1967. From the high ground, Israeli soldiers look down on SAT the plains of southern Syria...and the Syrians glower back. SAT Nothing is settled. And with fresh tensions surrounding Gaza SAT radiating across the region, peace is as remote as ever. SAT Jeremy Bowen says the Syrian leader is in deeply pessimistic SAT mood... SAT SAT An "immense crisis"... That's the Red Cross's description of SAT the aftermath of the violence in the Central Asian state of SAT Kyrghyzstan. The bloodshed around the city of Osh involved SAT the Kyrghyz and Uzbek communities. There are reports of SAT hundreds of deaths. And about four-hundred-thousand more SAT were forced from their homes. But how did the killing SAT begin...? Who's to blame...? Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been SAT looking for answers on the burnt-out streets of Osh.... SAT SAT Down through history, invading armies have learnt painful SAT lessons in Afghanistan. They've found that capturing ground SAT can seem quite easy.... It's holding it that's much harder. SAT The Western troops there now certainly know this. And as SAT they fight through another dangerous summer, the Taleban are SAT not their only concern. As Mark Urban explains, the Generals SAT also worry that back home, patience is running out.... SAT SAT Almost exactly seventy years ago, in one of France's darkest SAT hours, there came a glimmer of hope. Just a day after the SAT government's capitulation to Nazi Germany, General Charles SAT De Gaulle sat down at a microphone here at the BBC in SAT London. He told his people that, in his words, the "Flame of SAT French resistance must not be extinguished".... Alan Little SAT has been reflecting on the impact of that famous speech SAT then, and now...seven decades on. SAT SAT For weeks the great European waterway, the Danube, tormented SAT those who live on its banks. Heavy rain caused much SAT flooding. More than twenty people died. Millions of dollars SAT worth of damage was caused to homes, farms and businesses. SAT But as Nick Thorpe in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, SAT explains , it wasn't just legitimate, legal business that SAT was disrupted. The Danube's smugglers were also unhappy... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00sqgdm (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT Producer: Monica Soriano. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00sq2nh (Listen) SAT Series 31, Episode 1 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis take a satirical look through SAT this week's news. Helping them along the way are Laura SAT Shavin, Mitch Benn, and special guests. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00sqgdp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00sqgdr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00sq2nk (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Alnwick SAT Playhouse in Northumberland with questions from the audience SAT for the panel including: Dr Maggie Atkinson, Children's SAT Commissioner; Chris Mullin, former Labour minister; Edwina SAT Currie, former Conservative minister and Lionel Barber, SAT Editor of the Financial Times. SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00sqgdt (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 b00sqgdw (Listen) SAT Mountain of Light SAT by Simon Bovey SAT SAT London, 1851. The worlds's largest diamond is on show at the SAT Great Exhibition. And John Rayverne must find a way to steal SAT it to save the people he loves. SAT SAT John.......Carl Prekopp SAT Emily.......Lizzy Watts SAT Hawkesworth....Ben Crowe SAT Rilke.......Harry Myers SAT Hobbs....Sam Dale SAT Galloway......Michael Shelford SAT Cobbet.....David Seddon SAT Wyatt.....Nigel Hastings SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby SAT SAT 15:30 Tag Me Amadeus b00sp19b (Listen) SAT Sue Perkins discovers her own musical doppelganger, as she SAT explores the mysterious art of 'sonic branding': the SAT micro-jingles that distil the essence of an entire SAT character, emotion or product...in mere musical seconds. SAT SAT Your soul in five notes! That's the quest of composers of SAT musical 'tags', or 'sonic logos' - ultra-condensed stings of SAT music that fill our aural world, subtly manipulating our SAT deepest emotions. SAT SAT The best are works of terse, arresting genius. Think of the SAT shark in "Jaws" - disturbing, threatening menace from the SAT depths: double basses, two notes, job done. Meanwhile, SAT corporations pay millions to hear their entire essence SAT defined in mere moments: Intel Inside, T-Mobile, Nokia: the SAT best sonic branding agencies masters of this lucrative dark SAT art. SAT SAT But how do you deliver values like "reliable" or SAT "environmentally-conscious" (or "lip-smackingly delicious") SAT in a handful of musical notes? Is it all rooted deep in the SAT human psyche? Or just a case of Emperor's New Clothes? SAT SAT Enter Sue Perkins. In her quest to unpick this enigmatic SAT industry, she's been booked into a creative session with one SAT of the world's leading sound branding agencies. Their aim? SAT To reflect all the qualities of her inner Sue-ness in a tiny SAT sting of music: her own personal sonic brand. SAT SAT But how do they do it? As the deepest details of Sue's SAT character are translated into sound for us, she discovers SAT how tiny pieces of music pervade our everyday world: from SAT film composers composing motifs to give us subtle clues SAT about the plot, to tiny stings in children's television that SAT soothe and calm viewers...ready for bed. SAT SAT The programme also features contributions from Professor SAT John Deathridge, one of the world's leading musicologists - SAT who explains to Sue how the father of the sonic brand was SAT none other than the king of Romantic opera, Herr Richard SAT Wagner. SAT SAT Can you really only sell toilet paper in C Major? Do brass SAT instruments always mean bad guys with guns? And will Sue's SAT personal musical ident truly reflect her inner being? As the SAT brand new Perkins Tag is revealed, we discover just how SAT spookily music translates into character... SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00sqh0r (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. The poet and author Jackie Kay SAT talks about finding out she was adopted as a child, our SAT balloon debate on who did most to put women on the political SAT map, deaf author Louise Stern, and singer Judith Owen talks SAT about depression and her partnership with Ruby Wax. Also, SAT why more women are converting to Islam in the UK and the SAT problem of children accessing porn via the internet and SAT mobile phones. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00sqh0t (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00sq1zd (Listen) SAT Evan Davis is joined in the studio by three top guests to SAT talk about organic growth and information technology disasters. SAT SAT Business owners have two main ways to make their companies SAT bigger. One way is to expand incrementally, bit by bit, over SAT time. The other, much faster, way is to buy up your SAT competitors. In this edition of the programme, the panel SAT weighs up the merits of organic growth versus growing by SAT acquisition. When does it make sense to go slow and steady, SAT and when do bosses decide to go on a buying spree to expand? SAT SAT Also up for debate, IT disasters. We have become so reliant SAT on information technology that it causes serious problems SAT when, for whatever reason, the computers cease to work. Our SAT guests tell their horror stories and offer some solutions SAT for tackling IT projects. SAT SAT Evan's guests are Luke Johnson, chairman of Risk Capital SAT Partners; Vincent de Rivaz, chief executive of EDF Energy; SAT and Jacqueline de Rojas, UK and Ireland vice president of SAT McAfee. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sqh0w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00sqh0y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sqh10 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00sqh12 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the The Fonz, otherwise known as the SAT actor, author and education campaigner Henry Winkler. SAT SAT Also around the Loose Ends table are two Irish funnymen. SAT Comedian and presenter Patrick Kielty, who fronts Channel SAT 4's latest topical stand up show and the creator of Father SAT Ted and Black Books, Graham Linehan talks about the latest SAT series of The IT Crowd. SAT SAT Gideon Coe has the rare opportunity to talk to fellow 6Music SAT presenter and ex-Catatonia front woman Cerys Matthews about SAT her latest album of Welsh songs, TIR. SAT SAT Plus there's more music from Senegalese afrobeat pioneer SAT Cheikh Lo and New York's Clare and the Reasons. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00sqh14 (Listen) SAT Series 8, Solitudinem faciunt et pacem appellant SAT SAT Continuing the series in which writers respond to the week's SAT news. SAT SAT In a week that saw the publication of the Saville Report SAT into the Bloody Sunday shootings and Israel announced the SAT setting up of an inquiry into the raid on a Gaza aid SAT flotilla, one family is undergoing its own form of truth and SAT reconciliation. In a fictional country, a retelling of the SAT Salome story by prize-winning author and historian, Marina SAT Warner. SAT SAT Mother ..... Adjoa Andoh SAT Father ..... Anthony Calf SAT Jess ..... Eloise Secker SAT SAT Director: Gemma Jenkins SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00sqh16 (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 b00sqh18 (Listen) SAT The Character Crunch SAT SAT Now the dust has settled on the election, Rory Bremner is SAT looking at the new crop of politicians that have arrived in SAT Westminster - and he's worried. He concerned about the loss SAT of larger than life characters in British politics, and not SAT just because he's the country's leading satirical SAT impressionist. SAT SAT He's wondering why the instantly recognisable generation of SAT Blair, Brown, Blunkett and Prescott has given way to the SAT Milibands, Andy Burnham, Andrew Lansley and George Osborne. SAT When he considers the new coalition partnership of Cameron SAT and Clegg, he's wondering - what really is the difference SAT between them? SAT SAT Rory is convinced that possessing too much character is now SAT seen as a liability by the main parties, and this has led to SAT a depersonalisation of politics - or a 'character crunch', SAT as he calls it. He delves back into the archive to consider SAT some of the great political characters of the past - SAT Churchill, Bevan, Macmillan, Thatcher - and considers the SAT shift from ideologically driven figures to a more SAT managerial, professional class of politicians. SAT SAT Did things begin to change with a greater concentration on SAT presentation and style in the 1980s? Or did the election of SAT Tony Blair change the political world forever, as the other SAT parties strove to find their equivalents? SAT SAT Rory wonders if satirists such as himself must take some of SAT the blame - a point he puts to former Spitting Image SAT producer John Lloyd. He also hears from historian Professor SAT Peter Hennessy, journalists Julia Langdon, John Rentoul, SAT Anthony Howard and Andrew Rawnsley as well as politicians SAT Neil Kinnock, Tony Benn & new MP Rory Stewart who many SAT believe could be one of our great political characters in SAT the future. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Jacobs SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00sn9w4 (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Secret Pilgrim, Episode 1 SAT SAT Simon Russell Beale stars as the intelligence officer George SAT Smiley and Patrick Malahide as Ned in a three-part SAT dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic novel. SAT SAT Part 1: The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but SAT the world's second oldest profession is very much alive. SAT Smiley accepts an invitation to dine at the Sarratt training SAT school with the eager young men and women of the Circus' SAT latest intake; and over coffee and brandy, by flickering SAT firelight, he beguilingly offers them his personal thoughts SAT on espionage past, present and future. In doing so, he SAT prompts Ned, one of his former Circus colleagues and the SAT pilgrim of the book's title, into a searching examination of SAT his own eventful secret life. SAT SAT Bill Haydon ..... Michael Feast SAT Toby Esterhase ..... Sam Dale SAT Stephanie ..... Ruth Gemmell SAT Ben Cavendish .... Dan Stevens SAT Personnel ..... Nigel Hastings SAT Bella ..... Keely Beresford SAT SAT Producer Patrick Rayner SAT SAT This production concludes BBC Radio 4's major undertaking of SAT dramatising all of the eight novels that feature the SAT spymaster George Smiley, played throughout by Simon Russell Beale. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00sqh1b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b00sp194 (Listen) SAT Martin Rees: Scientific Horizons: 2010, What We'll Never Know SAT SAT 3. What We'll Never Know SAT SAT In the third of this year's Reith Lectures, recorded at the SAT Royal Society during its 350th anniversary year, its SAT President Martin Rees continues to explore the challenges SAT facing science in the 21st century. He stresses there are SAT things that will always lie beyond our sphere of SAT comprehension and we should accept these limits to our SAT knowledge. On the other hand, there are things we've never SAT even dreamt of that will one day be ours to explore and SAT understand. The outcome of the quest for alien life will SAT revolutionise our sense of self in the next two decades. But SAT some things -- like travelling back in time -- will never SAT happen. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00snrk0 (Listen) SAT Series 24, Episode 13 SAT SAT (13/13) Paul Gambaccini hosts the 2010 Final of the SAT wide-ranging music quiz. Today's three competitors have won SAT both heats and semi-finals for the chance to be named the SAT 24th annual Counterpoint champion. As always, the questions SAT come from every period and genre of music, from the classics SAT to the musical stage, folk, jazz and the pop charts. SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00sn9w8 (Listen) SAT In the fifth programme in the current series of Poetry SAT Please, Roger McGough presents a seasonal selection of SAT poetry requests. Today several poems by modern female poets SAT about flowers feature alongside a trio of pastoral poems SAT from Seamus Heaney. A poem for the Solstice by Louis SAT MacNeice gets in just ahead of the season too. Readers: SAT Finbar Lynch and Jasmine Hyde. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT Poems featured in this edition SAT SAT Corinna’s Going a-Maying SAT by Robert Herrick SAT From: Poetical Works of Herrick SAT Pub: Oxford University Press SAT SAT The Swallows Move In SAT by Jo Shapcott SAT From: My Life Asleep – Jo Shapcott SAT Pub: Oxford University Press SAT SAT Digging SAT by Seamus Heaney SAT From: Seamus Heaney – New Selected Poems 1966-1987 SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT The Way Down SAT by Jean Sprackland SAT From: Tilt – Jean Sprackland SAT Pub: Cape Poetry SAT SAT Follower SAT by Seamus Heaney SAT From: Seamus Heaney – New Selected Poems 1966-1987 SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT In Modern Dress SAT by Craig Raine SAT From: Rich – Craig Raine SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT Snakeshead Frittillaries SAT by Anne Ridler SAT From: Anne Ridler – Collected Poems SAT Pub: Carcanet SAT SAT The Wife’s Tale SAT by Seamus Heaney SAT From: Opened Ground – Poems 1966-1996 SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT The Wild Iris SAT by Louise Gluck SAT From: Staying Alive – Real Poems for Unreal Times SAT Pub: Bloodaxe SAT SAT A Song for England SAT by Andrew Salkey SAT From: Poems on the Underground SAT Pub: Cassell SAT SAT Deaths of Flowers SAT by E J Scovell SAT From: E J Scovell – Selected Poems SAT Pub: Carcanet SAT SAT Solstice SAT by Louis MacNeice SAT From: Collected Poems – Louis MacNeice SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 JUNE 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00sqh34 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00d6nxs (Listen) SUN Alan Sillitoe Short Stories, No Name in the Street SUN SUN Perhaps challenging the notion that a dog is man's best SUN friend, this is a touching story of a dog so set in its ways SUN that nothing will persuade it to alter its routine - not SUN even moving house. SUN SUN Philip Jackson reads another story taken from Alan SUN Sillitoe's collected works. SUN SUN Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. SUN SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sqh6r (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sqh6t (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sqh6w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00sqh6y (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00sqh70 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Michael's Church, Mottram-in-Longdendale. SUN SUN 05:45 Learning to Love the Microphone b00l5hj0 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Anne Perkins explores how politicians at the dawn of mass SUN democracy utilised the new media of radio and newsreel. SUN SUN As mass democracy and new mass media were born in the 1920s, SUN the first spin doctors were on hand to help politicians use SUN them. Anne Perkins asks what today's politicians could learn SUN about using new media. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00sqh9v (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00sqkfk (Listen) SUN Mythos and Logos SUN SUN Mark Tully explores the difference between a scientific SUN understanding of the world and a mythological understanding; SUN between the rational language of science and the poetic SUN language of myth. SUN SUN Producer: Eley McAinsh SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00sqkfm (Listen) SUN Fishermen Choir SUN SUN Just months ago, The Fisherman's Friends, became the SUN unlikeliest chart contenders to sign to a major record SUN label. The group from Port Isaac netted a deal with SUN Universal after being spotted singing in a pub. The 10 men, SUN all involved in the fishing industry as fishermen, SUN coastguards or lifeboat men have sung together for more than SUN 15 years. This week, On Your Farm explores how the group SUN combines music with their day jobs and looks at what impact SUN the sea has had on their songs. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00sqkfp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00sqkfr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00sqkft (Listen) SUN Samira Ahmed 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 b00sqkfw (Listen) SUN Hospices of Hope SUN SUN The Duchess of Norfolk presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf SUN of the charity Hospices of Hope. SUN SUN Donations to Hospices of Hope should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Hospices of Hope. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Hospices of Hope with SUN your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation. The online and phone donation facilities are SUN not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1088475. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00sqkfy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00sqkg0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00sqkg2 (Listen) SUN On a bright Tuesday morning fifty years ago this month, an SUN explosion ripped through a section of the Arrael Griffin SUN colliery at Six Bells, Abertillery. Forty five men were SUN killed in one of Britain's last major mining disasters, SUN commemorated in Sunday Worship at ten past eight this morning. SUN Preacher The Revd Roy Jenkins was a fifteen year old cub SUN reporter on the local paper and recalls the experience of SUN losing friends he'd been at school with or who lived in the SUN same street. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00sq2nm (Listen) SUN The History of Passports SUN SUN David Cannadine reveals the colourful history of passports SUN and identity cards - the political tensions, public SUN resistance and some curious nineteenth century practices, SUN including British people acquiring French passports for the SUN purpose of travelling to France. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. 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Depite his numerous successes, though, he SUN remains haunted by the film he didn't make: he spent years SUN working with Lionel Bart and planning how Oliver! might SUN look... only for the project to slip through his fingers. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00snrk4 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 6 SUN SUN John Lloyd and Jon Richardson host. With author and SUN neuroscientist David Eagleman, author and screenwriter Neil SUN Gaiman and comedian Sarah Millican. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00sqkgb (Listen) SUN Chips, fries, wedges, micro-chip - Sheila Dillon explores SUN changing fashions in the fried potato, and asks who drives SUN these changes, and how do you make the perfect chip? SUN SUN In Britain the chip found its perfect partner in fish 'n' SUN chips. Quite when that happened is disputed, but according SUN to the fish 'n' chip fraternity 1860 is the most likely SUN date, and to celebrate they organised a workshop in London, SUN to explore every aspect of the famous pairing from beer SUN batters to mushy peas, and of course a comparison of 4 SUN different potato varieties to find out which made the SUN perfect chip. SUN SUN But today half the chips consumed in this country don't come SUN fresh from the fryer, but from the freezer cabinet. 30 years SUN ago McCains introduced the oven chip to Britain and now, SUN according to the company, 70% of households would have a SUN packet of their chips in the freezer. Sheila Dillon visited SUN their largest factory in Peterborough to follow those chips SUN through the process from potato to freezer bag. SUN SUN In Belgium the oven chip hasn't caught on. Instead friterie SUN shops proliferate, and Belgians take their chips very SUN seriously. How the potato arrived in Europe remains SUN contentious, but the Belgians are confident that it was SUN them, and not the French, who invented the "French" fry. Ray SUN Kershaw visited the Friet Museum in Bruges established to SUN celebrate their national fry with director Eddie Van Belle. SUN SUN Produced by Rebecca Moore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00sqkgd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00sqkgg (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 13:30 The Big Noise b00sqkgj (Listen) SUN A music project in Scotland is aiming to improve life for SUN the kids of Stirling. SUN SUN The Simon Bolivar National Youth Orchestra under conductor SUN Gustavo Dudamel stole the show at both the Proms and the SUN Edinburgh Festival, offering real proof of the talent and SUN virtuosity that has emerged from the El Sistema programme in SUN Venezuela. SUN Can Scotland's version of El Sistema - dubbed The Big Noise SUN - achieve as much in the deprived area of The Raploch near SUN Stirling? Lesley Riddoch finds out. SUN SUN In June 2008, Sistema Scotland, the brainchild of former SUN bishop and current chair of Creative Scotland Richard SUN Holloway, got underway in the Raploch. Its aim - to inspire SUN and galvanise the education and motivation of children from SUN all backgrounds through involvement in orchestral SUN musicianship. Ability is irrelevant. Anyone can join. SUN SUN It's a project that's not lacked critics. Some argue it SUN takes attention and money away from existing outreach SUN projects. Others resent the insistence on classical music. SUN Richard Holloway is convinced it will boost confidence, SUN pride and empathy, and thereby articulacy and educational SUN ability, both in children and in the wider community. SUN SUN Two years on, the Big Noise's first full orchestra is SUN launched and Lesley Riddoch takes stock to analyse what the SUN Venezuelan initiative can do in a UK context. SUN SUN Producers: Amanda Hargreaves and Bronwen Tulloch. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00sq2n9 (Listen) SUN Anne Swithinbank, Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood answer SUN the questions posed by visitors of Gardeners' World Live in SUN Birmingham. SUN SUN We visit the event's 'plant creche' and take stock of which SUN plants are proving popular with the public. SUN SUN Producers: Lucy Dichmont & Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Doon The Watta b00sqkqr (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons continues his journey to Clydebank in SUN Glasgow to rediscover his time as a wartime apprentice in SUN the shipbuilding industry. SUN SUN He also reveals how, whilst working by day, he explored his SUN love for performing in the theatre at night - against his SUN parents' wishes. And in doing so, Nicholas took those SUN formative steps to becoming the actor and broadcaster he's SUN known and loved as to this day. SUN SUN Producer: Lyndon Saunders SUN An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00sqsmz (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Secret Pilgrim, Episode 2 SUN SUN Simon Russell Beale stars as the intelligence officer George SUN Smiley and Patrick Malahide as Ned in a three-part SUN dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic novel SUN SUN The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over. Smiley SUN emerges from retirement to accept an invitation to dine at SUN the Sarratt training school. Over coffee and brandy he SUN beguilingly and provocatively offers the eager young men and SUN women of the Circus' latest intake his thoughts on espionage SUN past, present and future. In doing so, he prompts Ned, one SUN of his former Circus colleagues and the pilgrim of the SUN book's title, into a profound examination of his own SUN eventful secret life. SUN SUN Part 2: Ned's search for meaning in his thirty-five year SUN career as an intelligence officer takes him back to the SUN killing fields of Cambodia and to a torturer's cellar in Gdansk. SUN SUN Colonel Jerzy ..... Alexander Morton SUN Hansen ..... Angus Wright SUN Saul Enderby ..... James Laurenson SUN Rumbelow ..... Jamie Newall SUN Henry ..... Paul Courtenay Hyu SUN Marie ..... Alisa Anderson SUN Aid Worker ..... Alison Pettitt SUN Student ..... Angelo Paragoso SUN SUN Producer Patrick Rayner SUN SUN This production concludes BBC Radio 4's major undertaking of SUN dramatising all of the eight novels that feature the SUN spymaster George Smiley, played throughout by Simon Russell Beale. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00sqsn1 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Allison Pearson, the columnist SUN and author whose fiction debut I Don't Know How She Does It, SUN about the challenges of juggling parenthood and a career, SUN was a runaway bestseller. She discusses her latest novel I SUN Think I Love You, about a woman who meets the singer David SUN Cassidy, her idol as a teenager. SUN SUN And James Robertson explains why he's translated A A Milne's SUN much-loved children's classic The House at Pooh Corner into SUN Scots. SUN SUN Producer: Aasiya Lodhi. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00sqsn3 (Listen) SUN Programme 6 of 6. Roger McGough presents some of the 154 SUN sonnets of Shakespeare, masterpieces all of compressed SUN emotion. And to keep them company a selection from some SUN other Seventeenth Century masters: John Donne, Andrew SUN Marvell and Henry Vaughan. Readers: Jasmine Hyde, Finbar SUN Lynch & Paul Mundell. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00sp1rv (Listen) SUN New research plays down claims of an epidemic of mental SUN illness among soldiers who've served in Afghanistan. But do SUN the official figures tell the full story? Julian O'Halloran SUN investigates and speaks to veterans who warn of a huge SUN hidden problem and a culture that still pressurises soldiers SUN to get on with the job rather than seek help. SUN And he reports from The Netherlands on efforts there to SUN discover the extent of the psychological damage their SUN military personnel may be suffering. SUN Producer Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00sqh14 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sqsn5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00sqsn7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sqsn9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00sqsnc (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past 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 Producer: Cecile wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00sqsv5 (Listen) SUN Jude has his nose to the grindstone while Chris and Alice SUN make plans. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00sqsv7 (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 b00c50x8 (Listen) SUN Classical Assassins, Warlock and Me SUN SUN Five monologues from the bit-players in musical history who SUN have been implicated in the deaths of great composers. SUN SUN Philip Heseltine, known as the composer Philip Warlock, is SUN dreading facing Christmas alone. SUN SUN Read by Carl Prekopp SUN Producer Sara Davies. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00sq2n5 (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team explain numbers in the SUN news, look out for misused statistics and use maths to SUN explore the world around us. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00sq2nc (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of: SUN SUN Egon Ronay - the Hungarian born gourmet who led a SUN transformation of British food. SUN SUN Sir Harold Haywood. He was the Director of the National SUN Association of Youth Clubs who stepped in to stop the mods SUN and rockers fighting on Brighton beach. SUN SUN The German artist Sigmar Polke who satirised American pop SUN art and experimented with unusual materials - AS Byatt pays SUN tribute. SUN SUN The neurologist Dr Fred Plum who coined the terms SUN 'persistent vegetative state' and 'locked in syndrome' to SUN describe different types of coma. SUN SUN And the BBC commentator Robert Hudson, who first suggested SUN the idea of ball by ball cricket coverage on radio. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00sqgdm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00sqkfw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00sny2h (Listen) SUN Britishness SUN SUN Gordon Brown's government attempted to create a shared SUN British identity based on values. The project was dismissed SUN as too top down by the Conservatives. But now they too are SUN advocating state-directed measures to inspire patriotism: SUN Education Secretary Michael Gove has called on schools to SUN teach traditional British history as a means of reinforcing SUN a sense of British identity, with British Empire expert SUN Niall Ferguson to guide them. Historian John Bew asks SUN whether such a strategy can really be a force for social cohesion. SUN SUN Dr John Bew is lecturer in War Studies and deputy director SUN of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation SUN and Political Violence at King's College London. SUN SUN Producer: Helen Grady SUN Editor: Innes Bowen. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00sqsv9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00sqsvc (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00sqsvf (Listen) SUN Episode 6 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week the FT's George Parker SUN takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00sq2nf (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to the actress Rebecca Hall, about her SUN latest role in Nicole Holofcener's new film, Please Give. SUN SUN Neil Brand deconstructs the man with the golden theme tune, SUN John Barry. SUN SUN The Palestinian director Scandar Copti and his Israeli SUN counterpart Yaron Shani discuss their Oscar-nominated film, SUN Ajami, set in the religiously-divided, and crime-ridden SUN neighbourhood of Jaffa, Tel Aviv. SUN SUN A guide to the fast-growing world of instant online film SUN rentals - where to find them, how it works and what the SUN future holds. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00sqkfk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 JUNE 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00sqv5w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00sp5cm (Listen) MON Fanaticism MON MON How much does Robespierre have in common with Bin Laden? Can MON you equate Stalin with Savonarola? The term 'fanatic' is MON often applied to those who criticise the status quo, and a MON new book by Alberto Toscano explores the question of whether MON fanaticism ever means more than the ideas of which the West MON does not approve. In 'Fanaticism', Toscano traces the MON development of the idea from the reaction to the 16th MON century Peasants War in Germany through to contemporary MON ideas about Islamism. In Thinking Allowed he will tell MON Laurie Taylor that movements which we call 'fanatical' are MON often revealed by history to be dedicated to freedom. MON Laurie's other guest, the philosopher John Gray, will beg to MON differ. MON Also the myths that make sense of life in a high crime area: MON Kaye Haw talks about her study of young people. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00sqh70 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sqv7z (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sqvcd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sqv9j (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00sqvgv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sqvk4 (Listen) MON presented by the Most Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St MON Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish MON Episcopal Church. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00sqvnl (Listen) MON Three council tenant farmers have been given notice to quit MON and a further 78 farms could be sold off in Somerset. The MON County Council is looking at selling the land to help reduce MON its multi-million pound deficit but it could also block an MON entry route into farming. Charlotte Smith hears concerns MON more councils could also follow suit and whether they have MON any alternatives. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00srhdz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00sqvxt (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00srhrz (Listen) MON Start The Week with Andrew Marr and the actor Tom Hollander MON who reveals what it's like to play a vicar in the Church of MON England. The ceramicist Edmund de Waal inherited 264 tiny MON wood and ivory carvings, and explains why he had to travel MON the world to unlock their history. Mike Poulton adapts the MON stories of King Arthur - from the sword in the stone to the MON quest for the Holy Grail - for the stage, and Ruth Harris MON looks back at the scandal that shook France - the Dreyfus MON affair. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sqw6p (Listen) MON Pilgrims, Raiders and Traders (900 - 1300 AD), MON Vale of York Hoard MON MON The history of the world as told through objects that MON history has left behind. This week Neil MacGregor, the MON director of the British Museum, has chosen objects that MON bring life to the traders, pilgrims and raiders who swept MON across the vast expanse of Europe and Asia between the 9th MON and 13th centuries. MON Today he is with a great Viking treasure hoard that was MON discovered by metal detectors in a field in North Yorkshire. MON This dramatic, recent discovery, consisting of over 600 MON coins buried in a silver cup, dates back to the 10th century MON and reveals the astonishing range of Viking activity. There MON are coins here minted as far away as Afghanistan and Iraq! MON Neil describes what the England of the early 900's was MON really like. He unravels the cliches that abound about the MON Vikings. The historian Michael Wood helps set the scene and MON the father and son team who found the hoard, David and MON Andrew Whelan, recall the excitement of the discovery. MON MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sqx35 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey.The Budget: Family benefits - what MON could be cut? Strawberries and jam making, coping with sleep MON problems and dealing with the horror of your child being the MON victim of sexual abuse. MON MON The Budget: Family benefits - what could be cut? MON MON The Chancellor announces his emergency budget in the House MON of Commons tomorrow. This government has committed to MON tackling the £156 bn public deficit through spending cuts MON rather than tax rises. Some commentators are expecting it to MON be the most austere for 30 years. MON So what is likely to be the impact on families? Jane MON discusses the issus with Dr. Samantha Callan, Chair, Family MON and Early Years Work Centre for Social Justice; and Kitty MON Ussher, Chief Economist, Demos. MON MON Adult Sleeping Problems MON MON Jane talks to two authors, about what stops people getting a MON good night’s sleep, and what practical steps can be taken to MON improve things: from preparing your cave and breath surfing; MON to hypnotism and psychotherapy. Patricia Morrisroe set out MON to find a solution to her chronic insomnia, while MON investigating the history and meaning of sleep; while Dr MON Nerina Ramlakhan has developed what she calls an essential MON sleep toolkit in her book Tired But Wired. MON Tired by Wired - Dr Nerina Ramlakhan MON Wide Awake, A Memoir of Insomnia - by Patricia Morrisroe MON MON Child sexual abuse – how parents cope MON MON Nothing can prepare a parent for the discovery that their MON child has been sexually abused. Many find themselves thrown MON into a situation that they have no idea how to handle, and MON struggle to cope with their own devastation as well as being MON unsure how best to help their child start to recover. Julia MON Webb-Harvey worked as a volunteer for Mosac, a charity that MON supports non-abusing parents in this situation, and has MON written a book about some of their experiences. She talks to MON Jane along with Consultant Child Psychiatrist Eileen Vizard MON about how parents can best help their child and their family MON overcome the trauma of sexual abuse. Jane also talks to MON Lauren, whose daughters were sexually abused by her former MON partner. MON Hurt, by Julia Webb-Harvey, is published by Live It MON Publishing MON MON Strawberry and other jams - the pleasures of preserving MON MON It’s that time of the year again – Wimbledon, strawberries MON and perhaps some sunshine. The food writer and cook Ghillie MON James is in the studio to tell us how to transform MON strawberries, raspberries and other seasonal produce into MON jams, jellies, relishes and much more. MON Book: Jam, Jelly & Relish Simple Preserves, Pickles & MON Chutneys & Creative Ways to Cook with Them. MON ISBN 978-1-85626-909-4 MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sqx37 (Listen) MON The House of Mercy, Episode 6 MON MON Victorian murder mystery set in London in 1860. As Sergeant MON Wylie of the Metropolitan Police begins his investigation - MON the chief suspect arrives at Eliza's door. Dramatised by MON Chris Dolan from a storyline by Bruce Young. MON Eliza .....Melody Grove MON Stewart ..... David Rintoul MON Brookes ..... Sam Dale MON Arnott..... Timothy West MON Wylie.....Alexander Morton MON Milly .....Tracy Wiles MON Mary .....Laura dos Santos MON Murray..... Tony Bell MON Alice ..... Alison Pettitt MON Nance...Keely Beresford MON MON Other parts played by the cast. MON MON Producer/director: Bruce Young. MON MON 11:00 I Was A Teenage Dotcom Millionaire b00qhrpk (Listen) MON Ten years ago, Benjamin Cohen was at the heart of the MON British dotcom boom. Aged seventeen, he became the youngest MON ever director of a publicly quoted company when his website MON Jewish Net merged with the London Jewish News. He then went MON on to run a search engine company Cyberbritain, which MON eventually embroiled him in some controversial publicity. MON MON No longer an entrepreneur, Benjamin now looks back at his MON involvement in the internet investment bubble. MON MON Producer: Russell Finch MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Clare in the Community b00srjdd (Listen) MON Series 6, Clare v God MON MON Clare doesn't like people on her patch especially if they're MON an interfering Vicar. MON MON Clare ..... Sally Phillips MON Brian ..... Alex Lowe MON Ray ..... Richard Lumsden MON Helen ..... Liza Tarbuck MON Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti MON Libby ..... Sarah Kendall MON MON Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00sr2r6 (Listen) MON As an investigation is launched to see if public bodies are MON doing enough to stop disabled people being harassed and MON abused. Julian Worricker speaks to a woman whose experience MON led her to campaign against disability hate crime and be MON awarded an MBE for her achievements. We'll ask why some MON people are reluctant to treat this type of crime seriously. MON MON Plus, are we about to see the end of unlimited downloads on MON mobile phones? O2 has put a cap on what customers can do MON with their smartphones and industry experts think other MON firms could follow. MON MON And, are dentists risking patients' oral health by offering MON them treatments that are not approved by the NHS? We've got MON evidence that metal, other than gold, is being offered for MON tooth caps despite it not being allowed on the Health Service. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00sr30s (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00sr31k (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00srjdg (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON MON As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he MON quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and MON asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they MON have personally collected on a variety of subjects. MON MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00sqsv5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00g0532 (Listen) MON Pilgrim, 'Gainst All Disaster MON MON By Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON MON Pilgrim's toughest adventure. Joseph of Arimethea, guardian MON of the sleeping Knights who will wake only in Britain's hour MON of greatest need, is being held captive by Malachai Styler - MON a very malevolent angel. Styler is bent on the destruction MON of the Greyfolk, the Knights and the balance between the MON worlds. If Pilgrim is to save Joseph, it will be at the most MON terrible cost to himself. MON MON Pilgrim ..... Paul Hilton MON Styler ..... Paul Rider MON Joseph ..... David Calder MON Sylvie ..... Anna Wing MON Doris ..... Susan Engel MON Freya ..... Alex Tregear MON Arianhad ..... Helen Schlesinger MON Guard ..... Gunnar Cauthery MON Girl ..... Agnes Bateman MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00sqh18 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss1jg (Listen) MON The mathematicians who helped Einstein MON MON This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the MON present day, reveals the personalities behind the MON calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians MON struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du MON Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in MON the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving MON force behind modern science. MON MON Today, the pioneering nineteenth century mathematicians who MON helped Albert Einstien with his maths: Jonas Bolyai, Nicolas MON Loachevski and Bernhard Riemann. Without the mathematics to MON describe curved space and multiple dimensions, the theory of MON relativity doesn't really work. MON MON Producer: Anna Buckley. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00sqkgb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00srjdj (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON MON Trust me I'm a Scientist: MON Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince continue their MON witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world MON according to science. Brian and Robin are joined by special MON guests Ben Goldacre and comedian Dave Gorman to discuss the MON notion of trust in science. Why are people prepared to MON believe in magic and pseudoscience rather than empirical MON evidence, and does it matter? Science often appears open MON ended and evolving, a reason to mistrust it, especially when MON it can feel like we are bombarded with so much contradictory MON information. So is the scientific method the only way to MON truly test if something works, and why should we trust the MON scientists over alternative practitioners who many people MON would argue have helped them more than anything that comes MON out of a laboratory. MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b00sr3k5 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn MON Quinn. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sr3ll (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00srjdl (Listen) MON Series 53, Episode 1 MON MON The 53rd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more quality, desk-based entertainment MON for all the family, as the series starts its run from the MON Centaur in Cheltenham. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden MON and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by programme MON favourite Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee as the programme's MON reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect MON inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the MON piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00sr3fp (Listen) MON Brian's on his best behaviour and Brenda receives a MON surprising offer. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00sr3p3 (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with actor and MON former Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston, who discusses MON playing John Lennon in a new TV drama set in 1967-71. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sqw6p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 SlapDash Britain b00srjwq (Listen) MON Whatever Next? MON MON Britain was once regarded as the best-run in the world, but MON not any more. Contemporary historian Dominic Sandbrook asks MON if we are now becoming a country that can no longer deliver; MON are we turning into Slapdash Britain? MON MON Dominic turns his attention to how things could improve. MON MON Can we go back to the old ways: a less presidential style of MON leadership, stronger advice from the Civil Service and MON greater parliamentary scrutiny? Or is it time for a radical MON re-think? MON MON Should ministers be taken from a wider pool of talent? The MON Civil Service restructured? And at a local level are there MON less complicated, more customer-friendly ways of doing their MON business? MON MON Dominic looks to the future with those who have been MON involved at the heart of government, like Blair's former MON Chief of Staff Jonathan Powell, top civil servant Michael MON Bichard, former CBI DG Digby Jones, businessman Gerry MON Robinson, commentator Harriet Sargeant and professor Anthony MON King. They give their candid assessments. MON MON He also visits the London Borough of Lewisham, where they MON are starting to put some radical ideas into practice. MON MON Producer: Glynn Jones MON A Jolt production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00srkkb (Listen) MON Baby Boomers on Trial MON MON Should the seemingly privileged generation born after the MON Second World War bear the brunt of cuts in government MON spending? Conservative Minister David Willetts, one of the MON Conservative Party's leading thinkers, believes that baby MON boomers, aged between 45-65, have led a privileged life at MON the expense of their children's future. He wants them to MON give it back. Michael Blastland questions whether we are in MON danger of focusing on the wrong target. MON MON Written and presented by Michael Blastland. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00sq1vz (Listen) MON "Science, Uncertainty, Evidence and Policy", that's the MON title of an event, this week in Parliament, organised by the MON Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology. The purpose: MON to get together experienced politicians that have dealt with MON science issues, scientists and - new MPs, that are MON interested in science but don't know too much about it. MON Quentin Cooper discusses the issue of science literacy MON amongst MPs with Phil Willis, now Lord Willis, former MP and MON chair of the Science and Technology Committee and Stephen MON Mosley, the new MP for the City of Chester. MON MON Hailed as the "Bionic Bulldog", 8 year old Roly now lives MON with a prosthetic implant that replaces his cancerous femur. MON Veterinary surgeon Dr Noel Fitzpatrick performed the MON surgery, and managed to reattach the tendons to the metal MON implant by using a new technique: The tendons are allowed to MON grow into a mesh-like structure inside the transplant. MON Veterinary surgeon Dr Noel Fitzpatrick performed the MON surgery, and explains how both animals and humans can MON benefit from it. MON MON Experiments in which animals are used for human purposes are MON controversial, even more so if the experiments involve MON genetic engineering, say pigs with glowing noses or ones MON that develop diseases after their genes have been altered. MON Two scientists outline the controversy in a meeting at MON Edinburgh Zoo and join Quentin for the programme: Peter MON Sandoe, director of the Danish centre for bioethics and risk MON assessment, and Bruce Whitelaw, leading scientist at the MON Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, where the cloned sheep Dolly MON was born. MON MON A new type of blast-proof curtain made from what is called MON an auxetic material that gets thicker, not thinner, when MON stretched is being developed to provide better protection MON from the effects of bomb explosions. The new curtain is MON designed to remain intact and capture debris such as flying MON glass when windows are blown in. Julian Wright of Exeter MON University tells Quentin that the scientists are also MON developing similar materials to be used in medicine - for MON instance bandages that change colour when they have been MON applied too tightly. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00srhrz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00sr3r5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00sr4bv (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00sr4bx (Listen) MON In Office Hours, Episode 6 MON MON In Office Hours is the new novel by Lucy Kellaway about men MON and women at work, and illicit love. Today, for Stella and MON Bella passions continue to run high, and when the oil giant MON they work for is hit hard by the financial crisis the MON fragility of their situations is put under the spotlight. MON MON The latest novel from the columnist, Lucy Kellaway, is a MON witty and sharply observed exploration of today's MON contemporary corporate world, and what happens when passions MON run high. The economist Stella Bradberry is at the top of MON her game, juggling a high powered career with motherhood. MON Bella Chambers is a bright and pretty single mother who was MON forced to drop out of college, and is working as a PA to MON make ends meet. Both women work for Atlantic Energy, a MON global oil company based in London, where risk taking is a MON way of life. When the Head of Press resigns unexpectedly, MON new opportunities and challenges open up for Stella and MON Bella, which ultimately lead them both to embark on MON obsessive and destructive affairs. MON MON Abridged by Sally Marmion MON Producer Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00sq1vx (Listen) MON Poetry Schmoetry MON MON Provocative and thoughtful new writing and discussion, MON presented by Dominic Arkwright. The title for this week's MON programme is 'Poetry Schmoetry.' The guests are the former MON Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, the writer Guy Browning and MON performance poet, Rachel Pantechnicon. MON Andrew talks about the elemental power of poetry; 'Poetry is MON for the most humane, as well as the most humanising aspect MON of the self.' Guy describes poetry as a 'tattered umbrella MON between you and the sun', and Rachel tells of her doomed MON attempt to retrace the wanderings of the Ancient Mariner. MON Andrew also indulges us with a reading from a contender for MON the 'worst poem ever written' award. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sr4g3 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 JUNE 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00sqv3z (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 b00sqw6p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sqv5y (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sqv9l (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sqv81 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00sqvcg (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sqvgx (Listen) TUE presented by the Most Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St TUE Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish TUE Episcopal Church. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00sqvk7 (Listen) TUE Presenter: Anna Hill, Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00sqvnn (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b00srktg (Listen) TUE Martin Rees: Scientific Horizons: 2010, The Runaway World TUE TUE 4. The Runaway World TUE TUE In the last Reith Lecture of 2010, Martin Rees, President of TUE the Royal Society and Astronomer Royal, explores how fast TUE our world is moving in the 21st century. Speaking at the TUE Open University in Milton Keynes, the home of online TUE learning, he acknowledges how the internet and other TUE technologies have transformed our lives. Now he calls on TUE politicians and other authorities to provide the funding TUE that will keep the UK among the world's front runners in TUE scientific research and discovery. Without money and without TUE education to attract young people into science, the UK is in TUE danger of falling behind China and other countries in the TUE Far East that are investing heavily in their science and TUE technology sectors. Professor Rees ends his series of TUE lectures evoking memories of the 'glorious' Ely Cathedral, TUE near Cambridge, a monument built to last a thousand years. TUE If we, like the cathedral builders, redirect our energies TUE and focus on the long-term, he believes together we can TUE solve the problems that face our planet, and secure its TUE future for billions of people worldwide and for generations TUE to come. TUE Producer: Kirsten Lass TUE Editor: Sue Ellis. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sqw6c (Listen) TUE Pilgrims, Raiders and Traders (900 - 1300 AD), TUE Hedwig glass beaker TUE TUE Neil MacGregor's world history as told through objects at TUE the British Museum. This week he is looking at how objects TUE moved around the medieval world in the context of war, trade TUE and faith and the quite incredible degree of contact between TUE Asia, Europe and Africa that existed around a thousand years TUE ago. Today's object is a large glass beaker made at a time TUE when Christians were warring with Muslims in the great TUE crusades - a time, curiously enough, connected with a great TUE flourishing of trade. This object was most likely made by TUE Islamic glass workers but became associated with the TUE miracles of a Christian saint, Hedwig. This glass container, TUE or one of the few just like it, was what Hedwig famously TUE used to turn water into wine! Neil describes the story of TUE the Hedwig beaker with help from the economic historian TUE David Abulafia and the historian of the Crusades Jonathan TUE Riley-Smith. He also sees what happens when he pours water TUE into this beautifully decorated vessel. TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sqwz3 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey.What does current policy reveal TUE about how we view pregnant women? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sqx39 (Listen) TUE The House of Mercy, Episode 7 TUE TUE Victorian murder mystery set in London in 1860. As the TUE police investigation continues, Eliza and her barrister, TUE Henry Brookes, decide to look into the background of the TUE detective in charge of the case. Dramatised by Chris Dolan TUE from a storyline by Bruce Young. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00srktj (Listen) TUE Episode 12 TUE TUE 12/40 We go to India in this edition of Saving Species to TUE report on the last ditch efforts to save the [Griffon-like] TUE Long-billed Vulture. Gillian Rice, our reporter in India, TUE was told that this vulture has declined from millions of TUE birds in the 1980s to just a handful today. Three species of TUE vultures have disappeared from whole areas of India, Nepal TUE and Pakistan. There's now a programme to literally seize the TUE remaining few from the cliffs and bring them into captivity TUE for safety whilst Bombay Natural History Society and the TUE RSPB work on the causes and design a recovery plan to save TUE the species. We'll bring you the story from India. TUE TUE We have been keeping an eye on Nightingales for many weeks TUE now with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). These TUE night time songsters, who live in scrubby areas often near TUE water, winter in Africa. The BTO fitted data loggers onto TUE individuals last summer and have re-captured those TUE individuals this spring. The BTO are crunching the data and TUE we hope to report the first ever evidence of where our TUE British Nightingales go for the winter. This information TUE will be invaluable for their conservation. TUE TUE We hope to catch up with our Black Bears in Minnesota, we TUE might have a new report in from the Great Barrier Reef and TUE we'll have our news hound Kelvin Boot with the latest TUE conservation stories from around the world. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Paris Bouquinistes b00srktl (Listen) TUE Paris has many grand monuments dominating its skyline, but TUE for regular visitors to the 'city of light' there is a sight TUE every bit as ingrained into its terroir as the Eiffel Tower, TUE the Arc de Triomphe and Sacre Coeur - that of the riverside TUE booksellers who for centuries have plied their trade on the TUE banks of the River Seine. Les Bouquinistes can count TUE Presidents (including Mitterand and Thomas Jefferson) as TUE regular customers, and boast a proud history of providing a TUE source of literatures thought subversive to the prevailing TUE authorities of the day. More recently, many have branched TUE out from books to supplement their income, offering plastic TUE souvenirs instead of Balzac, plastic tat in place of TUE Monserrat - a practice the city council, worried about TUE tarnishing the image of playground Paris, has fought TUE against. In 'The Paris Bouquinistes' Kirsty Lang takes a TUE long stroll along the Seine to meet some of the current crop TUE and discover how confident they feel about the future TUE prosperity of their time-honoured trade. TUE TUE 12:00 Budget Special b00756zd (Listen) TUE TUE 13:57 Weather b00sr2y4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00sr3fp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00srnf0 (Listen) TUE Two Pipe Problem 2010, Right Old Charlie TUE TUE Written by Michael Chaplin. TUE TUE We revisit The Old Beeches retirement home for members of TUE the theatrical profession and discover that new odd job man TUE Geordie is making care assistant Karen's heart beat faster, TUE but is he hiding something from her? TUE TUE Ageing, once-famous stand up comic Charlie Fisher regales TUE the inmates with a few too many very old gags, but when his TUE joke book and a large sum of money go missing, resident TUE sleuths Sandy and William have a few tough questions to ask TUE of the inmates, the new odd job man, and Charlie himself. TUE TUE The story is spiced up delightfully with some really vintage TUE gags in a classic stand up routine from Radio 4's much loved TUE comedian Barry Cryer, joining Richard Briers, Stanley TUE Baxter, Edna Dore and all the regular inmates in a new set TUE of two pipe problems. TUE TUE Cast TUE William Parnes ..... Richard Briers TUE Sandy Boyle ..... Stanley Baxter TUE Charlie Fisher ..... Barry Cryer TUE Karen ..... Teresa Gallagher TUE Hatty Doran ..... Edna Dore TUE Mary Winter (Matron) ..... Jillie Meers TUE Edgar ..... David Shaw-Parker TUE Geordie ..... Joe Caffrey TUE TUE Director: Marilyn Imrie TUE A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00dvw1q (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary TUE people's links with the past. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00srnm1 (Listen) TUE Welsh Accent, While The Fire Still Smoulders TUE TUE Niall Griffith's story is set in Aberystwyth, West Wales and TUE showcases one of the many voices of the nation. After Adam's TUE cremation, his friends retire to the pub and, nursing their TUE drinks, reflect on their favourite pastime. TUE TUE Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool, now lives in TUE Aberystwyth, West Wales He cites Welsh writer Ron Berry as a TUE major influence, "I remember reading Berry and thinking, "My TUE God, you can write worthwhile novels set in your own TUE community." TUE Novels include Grits (2000) Sheepshagger (2001) Wreckage TUE (2005) Stump (2003) Runt (2007). TUE TUE Read by Rhys Ap William TUE Director Nigel Lewis TUE Producer Kate McAll TUE BBC Wales Radio Drama. TUE TUE 15:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss1j0 (Listen) TUE Georg Cantor TUE TUE This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the TUE present day, reveals the personalities behind the TUE calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians TUE struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du TUE Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in TUE the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving TUE force behind modern science. TUE TUE Today, Georg Cantor, the mathematician who showed us how to TUE carry on counting when the numbers run out. An insight into TUE the nature of infinity that Roger Penrose believes helps to TUE explain why the human brain will always be cleverer than TUE artificial intelligence. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00srnzx (Listen) TUE At the half way stage of the World Cup, police forces across TUE the UK are paying unsolicited visits to men with a record of TUE domestic violence. It's a strategy recommended by the TUE Association of Chief Police Officers. According to ACPO, TUE research shows that domestic violence peaks during big TUE sporting events like the World Cup. Many police forces have TUE therefore concluded that it makes sense to let potential TUE perpetrators know they are being watched. Joshua Rozenberg TUE visits Nottinghamshire to see how such a strategy works in TUE practice and investigates whether it is the best way to TUE protect potential victims. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00srnzz (Listen) TUE Tim Key and Susan Calman TUE TUE Comedy performer and poet Tim Key, who won the main prize at TUE the Edinburgh comedy awards - known for many years as the TUE Perrier - and stand-up comedian Susan Calman talk to Sue TUE MacGregor about their favourite books. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00sr3hw (Listen) TUE Carolyn Quinn brings you the entire budget live. This TUE special edition of the PM programme will include expert TUE analysis, number crunching and interviews with the big TUE political players. Plus live sections from Radio 4's You and TUE Yours. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sr3k7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00fbn96 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Beansy, Beansy, Beansy, Beansy, Beansy TUE TUE More shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, TUE courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. TUE TUE Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli. TUE This 2nd series sees guest appearances from Nina Wadia, TUE currently starring in Eastenders, and even Sanjeev's brother TUE Hardeep Singh Kohli making an appearance in one episode as a TUE fellow shop owner. Gerard Kelly also reprises his role as TUE Father Henderson. TUE TUE Ramesh Mahju has built it up over the course of 30 years, TUE and is a firmly entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh TUE is ably assisted by his shop sidekick Dave, a TUE forty-something underachiever who shares Ramesh's love of TUE the art of shopkeeping, even if he is treated like a slave. TUE TUE Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both TUE surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach TUE to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business, and TUE Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them TUE whether they like it or not. TUE TUE Ramesh ... Sanjeev Kohli TUE Dave ... Donald McLeary TUE Alok ... Susheel Kumar TUE Sanjay ... Omar Raza TUE Father Henderson ... Gerard Kelly TUE Lovely Sue ... Julie Wilson Nimmo TUE Colin the Cobbler ... Greg Haiste TUE Geoff Selkirk ... Sean Scanlan TUE Geoff Muncie ... Steven McNicoll TUE Hilly Bewerdine ... Kate Brailsford TUE TUE Director: Iain Davidson TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00sr3dj (Listen) TUE Brenda has a confession to make and will Kate get the result TUE she wants? TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00sr3ln (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the dramatist TUE Howard Brenton, who discusses his new play about the life TUE and death of Anne Boleyn, and his new adaptation of Robert TUE Tressell's novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sqw6c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00srp6v (Listen) TUE Described as the modern-day face of slavery, scores of TUE foreign workers are being brought into the UK to work in TUE domestic servitude. They work long hours - often under TUE physical duress and for low or non-existent pay. File on 4 TUE investigates whether the authorities are doing enough to TUE protect these workers - and to prosecute the people who've TUE exploited them. TUE TUE Reporter: Jenny Cuffe TUE Producer: Nicola Dowling. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00srp9f (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00srp9h (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond explores the latest scientific research TUE about the brain and the mind. TUE TUE 21:30 In Living Memory b00p2hy4 (Listen) TUE Series 11, The 1975 Moorgate tube disaster TUE TUE In February 1975 a London Underground driver drove his train TUE at full speed into a brick wall at Moorgate station in TUE central London. 43 people died, in what remains the worst TUE ever accident on the Underground. There was nothing wrong TUE with the train, so why did he do it? Could it have been TUE suicide? Or did he just get confused about where he was? TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00sr3p5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00sr3r7 (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00sr4bz (Listen) TUE In Office Hours, Episode 7 TUE TUE In Office Hours is the new novel by Lucy Kellaway about men TUE and women at work, and illicit love. Today, tensions are TUE running high as Stella is compelled to take more and more TUE risks to be with Rhys, and Bella considers the high cost of TUE the happiness her affair brings her. TUE TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion TUE Producer Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 23:00 The Odd Half Hour b00lv5hh (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Another chance to hear the sketch show for anyone who's TUE beginning to find this exciting new century a bit too much TUE like all the rubbish previous centuries. TUE TUE The opening episode looks at how the recession is affecting TUE supermarkets, the conspiracy behind celebrity gossip TUE magazines and how Radio 4 is going to rebrand itself. TUE TUE Starring brilliant stand-up comedians, Stephen K Amos and TUE Jason Byrne and the fantastic comic actors, Justin Edwards TUE and Katherine Parkinson. TUE TUE Produced by Alex Walsh-Taylor. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sr4fn (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme and the BBC's parliamentary team report on TUE chancellor George Osborne's first Budget and Nick Clegg's TUE first question time as deputy prime minister. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 JUNE 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00sqv41 (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 b00sqw6c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sqv60 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sqv9n (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sqv83 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00sqvcj (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sqvgz (Listen) WED presented by the Most Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St WED Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish WED Episcopal Church. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00sqvk9 (Listen) WED Presenter: Anna Hill, Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b00sqvnq (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00srpbb (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sqw6f (Listen) WED Pilgrims, Raiders and Traders (900 - 1300 AD), WED Japanese bronze mirror WED WED The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects WED from the British Museum in London. This week Neil MacGregor WED is looking at objects from Tanzania, Britain, Java and WED central Europe, exploring the great arcs of trade that WED connected Africa, Europe and Asia around a thousand years WED ago. Today he arrives in Japan with an object that offers a WED dramatic twist on the week's theme. This small mirror from WED the bottom of a sacred pond comes from a time when the WED Japanese suddenly cut themselves off from the outside world WED and stopped all official contact with China, a country it WED had frequently borrowed ideas from. Neil tells the story of WED the Heian period of Japanese history, a moment of great WED cultural awakening in Japan, especially in literature. The WED object is a small mirror that was found at the bottom of a WED sacred pond. The writer Ian Buruma and the archaeologist WED Harada Masayuki help describe the Japan of this time. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sqwz5 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Who decides what constitutes a WED "perfect" body? WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sqx3c (Listen) WED The House of Mercy, Episode 8 WED WED Victorian murder mystery set in London in 1860. As Wylie's WED investigation begins to focus on Eliza's alibi on the night WED of the murder she decides to reveal shocking facts about her WED past to her barrister. Dramatised by Chris Dolan from a WED storyline by Bruce Young. WED WED 11:00 Edward the Black Prince b00ss2cn (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, was known as the Black WED Prince. Peter and Dan Snow follow in his footsteps to trace WED the start of the 100 Years' War between England and France, WED and to find out more about this great figure in 14th century WED chivalry. WED WED Starting at his tomb in Canterbury they follow his footsteps WED to Normandy, where he was knighted at 16 and took part in WED the siege of Caen and the Battle of Crecy. In this great WED English victory, he commanded the English army, while his WED father Edward III looked on. WED WED With the help of medieval historians Mark Ormrod and Craig WED Taylor, and the words of the chroniclers, Peter and Dan WED discover fascinating details about life in the middle ages WED at times of war, and about the early life of this great WED military commander. WED WED Producer: Alyn Shipton WED A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 North By Northamptonshire b00ss2cq (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie WED Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon. WED This is a clever, funny and touching series about a small WED town in the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a WED talent night. It is written by and also stars Katherine WED Jakeways. WED WED Rehearsals for the town talent night are well underway, with WED some of the worst acts ever seen on stage. WED WED Recently divorced Jan has a surprise visit from neighbour WED and ex-teacher Mary and finds they have more than an untidy WED hedge in commmon. WED WED Jan's ex, Frank, thinks his new love Angela may be eating WED too many peanuts. WED WED Esther knocks Jan to the floor in her self-defence class but WED wait - could this be Jonathan coming to Jan's rescue? WED WED And meanwhile supermarket manager Rod (Mackenzie Crook) gets WED trapped in an upturned shopping trolley. WED WED Narrator..... Sheila Hancock WED Rod..... Mackenzie Crook WED Mary..... Penelope Wilton WED Jan..... Felicity Montagu WED Jonathan..... Kevin Eldon WED Esther.....Katherine Jakeways WED Keith..... John Biggins WED Frank..... Rufus Wright WED Angela... Lizzie Roper WED WED Written by Katherine Jakeways WED Produced by Claire Jones. WED WED 12:04 You and Yours b00sr2p8 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00sr2y6 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00sr30x (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00ss2cs (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00sr3dj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00ss2cv (Listen) WED Two Pipe Problem 2010, The Memory Man Forgets WED WED Written by Michael Chaplin. WED WED Billy Small (played by David Holt) is a rare talent; one of WED the few surviving "Memory Men" Music Hall variety acts who WED had total recall of a huge range of entertaining facts. WED Billy is 85, and after a trip home to his native Yorkshire, WED he returns to The Old Beeches totally devoid of any memory WED of who he is or of any of the amazing facts he used to be so WED proud to display. WED WED Our resident sleuths William and Sandy fancy a mini break WED away from the Home, and take Billy back to Little Fell, the WED old mining town where he grew up. There they meet his WED daughter and his granddaughter, but discover that Billy not WED only alienated the whole mining community during the last WED miners' strike by supporting his pitman son in returning to WED work, but appears now to have lost the love and support of WED his daughter. Can William and Sandy solve the problem? WED WED Cast WED William Parnes ..... Richard Briers WED Sandy Boyle ..... Stanley Baxter WED Billy Small ..... David Holt WED Karen/Shelley ..... Teresa Gallagher WED Railway Man/Harry ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Myra ..... Julia Ford WED Rose ..... Anne Reid WED WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00ss2cx (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal WED finance questions. WED You can call the programme when lines open on Wednesday at WED 1330 BST. The number is 03700 100 444. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00srnv8 (Listen) WED Welsh Accent, St Therese's Bone WED WED Jane Saotome's story, set on the Llyn Peninsula in North WED West Wales, showcases one of the many voices of the nation. WED WED Sian was homeless in London, but having inherited her WED mother's derelict cottage in North Wales, she returns to her WED Welsh roots. WED WED Jane Saotome was brought up in the Black Country but WED identified with her Mother's Welsh rural heritage. She is an WED artist working in mental health in the NHS. This her first WED broadcast for radio. WED WED Read by Sharon Morgan WED Director Nigel Lewis WED Producer Kate McAll WED BBC Wales Radio Drama. WED WED 15:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss1j2 (Listen) WED Henri Poincare WED WED This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the WED present day, reveals the personalities behind the WED calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians WED struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du WED Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in WED the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving WED force behind modern science. WED WED Today Henri Poincare, the man who proved there are certain WED problems that mathematics will never be able to answer: a WED mathematical insight that gave rise to chaos theory. WED WED Producer: Anna Buckley. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00ss2q6 (Listen) WED Social Capital WED WED A new concept came along, 'social capital', and it WED revolutionised the way people are governed and communities WED are planned. The only trouble is ...it's completely wrong. WED That is the contention of sociologist Ben Fine. He claims WED that 'social capital' is part of a mindset that sees WED everything as quantifiable assets akin to money or WED commercial resources. Are communities, neighbourhoods and WED the people more complicated than that? Laurie Taylor WED discusses an idea which has had a huge impact on social WED science and beyond, and asks whether it is time to abandon WED the assumption that people have social qualities that can be WED weighed and measured. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00srp9h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00sr3hy (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn WED Quinn. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sr3k9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b00ss2q8 (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 6 WED WED Victoria Coren presents the programme which loves to commit WED heresy. WED WED Arguing against the received wisdom that it's okay to WED download a bit of film and music without paying, guests WED Clive Anderson, Rufus Hound and Fern Britton find themselves WED slightly out-manoeuvred by a member of the audience. In WED response to the accusation, by barrister Clive Anderson, WED that downloading of music is effectively theft, he replies WED "but when I take it, it's still there". WED WED Fern Britton, married to television chef Phil Vickery, has WED no problem arguing against the proposition that there are WED too many celebrity chefs, and all three guests find reasons WED to believe that model Jordan's marriage to cage fighter Alex WED Reid will last longer than three rounds. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00sr3dl (Listen) WED There's a frosty atmosphere at the airport and Jude makes a WED snap decision. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00sr3lq (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including a re-assessment of the music, WED life and legacy of composer Gustav Mahler, in the light of a WED new biography by Norman Lebrecht. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sqw6f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00ss2qb (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging live debate examining WED the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. WED Michael Buerk chairs with Kenan Malik, Michael Portillo, WED Claire Fox and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 Home Thoughts From Abroad b00ss2rh (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED John F Jungclaussen, commentator for "Die Zeit" magazine, WED explains what Britain can learn from German politics and WED vice versa. In the last of an "ideas swap" series, Mr WED Jungclaussen argues that Britain is an increasingly WED authoritarian society, compared to laid-back Germany. He WED also explains what the Germans could learn from the British WED tradition of celebrating Guy Fawkes night. Producer: Leala WED Padmanabhan. WED WED 21:00 The Age of the Genome b00ss2rk (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED In a new four part series, evolutionary biologist Professor WED Richard Dawkins decodes the discoveries and mysteries WED surrounding of the genome. WED WED Ten years ago this June, an international army of scientists WED announced that they had succeeded in completing their first WED draft of the genetic book of human life. WED WED They had read most of the three billion genetic letters of WED the DNA instruction manual which resides in our chromosomes. WED It was an achievement worthy of an international press WED conference with President Bill Clinton in the White House. WED WED The Human Genome Project involved thousands of scientists in WED many different countries, cost hundreds of millions of WED pounds and took more than ten years. It was the first big WED science project for biology. WED WED But what have been the benefits and advances a decade on? WED WED The human genome sequence has led researchers to discover WED hundreds of genes implicated in our risk of common ailments WED such as heart disease, diabetes and schizophrenia. Before WED the sequence they knew of only a handful. Other discoveries WED are providing clues to novel therapies to treat inherited WED diseases which are currently incurable. WED WED Extraordinary advances in genome sequencing technology are WED accelerating the medical progress. Your genome could now be WED fully sequenced in just three weeks for less than £10 000. WED It will not be long before it will cost no more than a WED hospital scan. A full genomic screen may become part of our WED routine health care within the next ten years. WED WED In spite of the advances, there have been some surprises and WED deepened mysteries. One of the greatest shocks was the WED finding that we have far fewer genes than scientists had WED assumed before they read out our genetic instructions. It WED takes no more genes to make a person than it does to make a WED simple microscopic worm. What makes a man different from a WED worm lies more in what researchers now calling the Dark WED Matter of the genome - 300 million letters of genetic code WED which work in currently mysterious ways. WED WED Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00srpbb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00sr3p7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00sr3r9 (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00sr4c1 (Listen) WED In Office Hours, Episode 8 WED WED In Office Hours is the new novel by Lucy Kellaway about men WED and women at work, and illicit love. Today, hard choices WED confront Stella and Bella. WED WED Abridged by Sally Marmion WED Producer Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 23:00 The Odd Half Hour b00lynzg (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Another chance to hear the sketch show for anyone who's WED beginning to find this exciting new century a bit too much WED like all the rubbish previous centuries. WED WED Discover how to name your baby and if there's anything WED "easier done than said" in tonight's show. Starring WED brilliant stand-up comedians, Stephen K Amos and Jason Byrne WED and the fantastic comic actors, Justin Edwards and Katherine WED Parkinson. WED WED Produced by Alex Walsh-Taylor. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sr4fq (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 JUNE 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00sqv43 (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 b00sqw6f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sqv62 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sqv9q (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sqv85 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00sqvcl (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sqvh1 (Listen) THU presented by the Most Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St THU Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish THU Episcopal Church. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00sqvkc (Listen) THU Presenter: Charlotte Smith, Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 06:00 Today b00sqvns (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00ss2th (Listen) THU Antarctica THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of THU Antarctica: its geology and physical geography, and the THU story of human exploration of the continent. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sqw6h (Listen) THU Pilgrims, Raiders and Traders (900 - 1300 AD), THU Borobudur Buddha head THU THU A history of the World in one hundred objects arrives on the THU Indonesian island of Java. This is the series that offers a THU new history of humanity through the individual objects that THU time has left behind. These items are all in the British THU Museum and the series is presented by the museum's director, THU Neil MacGregor. Throughout this week Neil is tracing the THU great arcs of trade linking Asia, Europe and Africa around a THU thousand years ago. Today he has chosen a stone head of the THU Buddha that comes from one of the world's greatest THU monuments, the giant Buddhist stupa of Borobudur. Borobudur THU rises from a volcanic plain in the middle of Java, built THU from one and a half million blocks of stone and devised as THU an architectural aid to spiritual practice. Neil MacGregor THU reports from the various levels of Borobudur and describes THU the trade routes that brought Buddhism to South East Asia. THU He also explores the impact the discovery of Borobodur had THU on the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles and his THU ideas about the importance of Javanese civilization. The THU anthropologist Nigel Barley celebrates the life and work of THU Stamford Raffles while the writer and Buddhist teacher THU Stephen Batchelor sums up the spiritual significance of Borobudur THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sqwz7 (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. How designers are working with THU textiles of the future. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sqx3f (Listen) THU The House of Mercy, Episode 9 THU THU Victorian murder mystery set in London in 1860. Sergeant THU Wylie's chief suspect for the murder has disappeared - and THU Eliza is taken into custody by the police. Dramatised by THU Chris Dolan from a storyline by Bruce Young. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00ss466 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 'The Black CNN': When Hip Hop Took Control b00ss468 (Listen) THU How important was the politics of "Fear of a Black Planet" THU in shaping the America of today? Where has the political rap THU message gone in 2010 and what is its legacy? Soul II Soul's THU Jazzie B looks back at a music Public Enemy frontman Chuck D THU has always described as "The Black CNN". THU THU It's been twenty years since Public Enemy's Hip Hop THU masterpiece "Fight the Power" exploded onto the music scene. THU Controversial and political, it would later form part of THU their defining album "Fear of a Black Planet". It soon THU became the benchmark album of activist rap. Many would say THU it was the best the genre has ever produced. THU THU Combining the lyrics of Chuck D and sidekick Flavor Flav, THU backed by a series of the finest East Coast producers THU (including The Shocklee brothers), Fear of a Black Planet THU was a rallying cry against African-American communities for THU their political indifference. THU THU With help from Spike Lee (who would use the "Fight the THU Power" throughout his film Do the Right Thing), Public Enemy THU and their message helped scare the hell out of white middle THU America, insulting a few Elvis and John Wayne fans along the THU way. THU THU Now, two decades later, "Fight the Power" is seen as one of THU the best Rap tracks ever made, while so significant is "Fear THU of a Black Planet" to American popular culture, it was one THU of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be THU added to the National Recording Registry. To date it is the THU only Hip Hop album in the collection. THU THU Producer: Rob Alexander THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00sr2pb (Listen) THU Consumer news with Julian Worricker. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00sr2y8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00sr30z (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00ss46b (Listen) THU Le Tour de France THU THU Le Tour de France is the world's biggest annual sports THU event, bathed in history and controversy. It began as a THU publicity stunt organised by a struggling French newspaper, THU and now millions line the route every year. Academics claim THU the race taught the French what their country actually THU looked like. Contributors to the programme include Johnny THU Green, former road manager of The Clash and cycling nut, who THU sees the participants as rock and roll gods; Agnes Poirier THU who remembers being dragged to watch the race every year and THU wonders if the French will ever win again; and Michael THU Simkins, author of Detour de France, a journey in search of THU sophistication. The presenter is Dominic Arkwright, the THU producer Miles Warde. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00sr3dl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00ss46d (Listen) THU I Am I Said THU THU By Paul Mendelson. THU THU When Sandy Morrison, a celebrated Scottish head-teacher, THU media pundit, and turner-around of a failing school has a THU minor stroke, his voice changes completely. Due to a THU disorder called Foreign Accent Syndrome, he is left sounding THU like an Englishman. Suddenly Sandy's life and career are in THU freefall. He hardly dares open his mouth. How does this once THU outspoken man claw his way back to who he was? In THU desperation he turns to a speech therapist - ex-pupil, Kirstie Newton. THU THU This is the story of a charismatic but seriously troubled THU man, who is only now discovering the truth about himself - THU and the state of his relationships with his long-suffering THU wife, son, and the hundreds of kids he has taught. Ah yes - THU the kids. Pushed and bullied towards an escape from THU impoverishment - whatever the cost. THU THU Ironically Kirstie was one of these kids. His 'speechie'. THU The one person he believes can restore his old familiar THU voice. Because she can remember exactly how 'Mr. Morrison THU sir' used to sound. THU THU Cast: THU THU Sandy Morrison ..... Alexander Morton THU Kirstie Newton ..... Cathleen McCarron THU Laura Morrison ..... Siobhan Redmond THU Gourlay/Father/Specialist ..... Sean Scanlan THU Struan ..... Richard Madden THU Mrs. Gemmell/Aileen McCormick ..... Carolyn Bonnyman THU THU Directed by David Ian Neville. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00sqfsc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00sqkfw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00srnty (Listen) THU Welsh Accent, A Giant's Tears THU THU Math Bird's story, set near Rhyl in North East Wales, THU showcases one of the many voices of the nation. THU THU A teenage friendship between two boys over the summer THU holidays has a powerful and lasting effect on one of them. THU THU Math Bird is from North East Wales close to the border with THU England. His work has appeared in a number of magazines and THU short-story anthologies. THU THU Read by Craig Ryder THU Director Nigel Lewis THU Producer Kate McAll THU BBC Wales Radio Drama. THU THU 15:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss1j4 (Listen) THU Hardy and Ramanujan THU THU This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the THU present day, reveals the personalities behind the THU calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians THU struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du THU Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in THU the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving THU force behind modern science. THU THU Today, G.H.Hardy, the mathematician who insisted he had THU never done anything useful. And yet his work on the THU "diabolical malice" inherent in prime numbers inspired the THU millions of codes that now help to keep the internet safe. THU THU Producer: Anna Buckley. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00sqsn1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00ss46g (Listen) THU Could Venus actually be very similar to Earth? That is a hot THU topic of discussion at the International Venus Conference. THU On this week's Material World, Quentin Cooper finds out if THU the two planets may at one time have been almost identical. THU THU Also in the programme, the weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b00sr3j0 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn THU Quinn. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sr3kc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Look Away Now b00ss46j (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 3 THU THU Garry Richardson presents a topical sports comedy show. With THU Laurence Howarth, Richie Webb, Dave Lamb. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00sr3dn (Listen) THU Everything's changed for Fallon and Matt seals the deal. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00sr3ls (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sqw6h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00srnzx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00ss46l (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 b00srktj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00ss2th (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00sr3p9 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00sr3rc (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00sr4c3 (Listen) THU In Office Hours, Episode 9 THU THU In Office Hours is the new novel by Lucy Kellaway about men THU and women at work, and illicit love. Today, Bella's hand is THU forced, and Stella is up for a prize. THU THU Abridged by Sally Marmion THU Producer Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 23:00 Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up! b00nvhld (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Jo Caulfield is back with her glorious mixture of bitchy THU friendliness and foot-in-mouth populism. This week, Jo THU Caulfield is failing to shut up about the Daily Express, the THU Leicester Herald, cheese & onion crisps and Zsa Zsa Gabor. THU THU Starring Jo Caulfield, with Zoe Lyons, Nick Revell and Simon THU Greenall. THU THU Written by Jo Caulfield & Kevin Anderson. THU THU Additional material by Michael Beck, James Branch, Dan THU Evans, Brian Mitchell, Joseph Nixon, Nick Revell and Matt Ross. THU THU Producer: David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sr4fs (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 JUNE 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00sqv45 (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 b00sqw6h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sqv64 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sqv9s (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sqv87 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00sqvcn (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sqvh3 (Listen) FRI presented by the Most Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St FRI Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish FRI Episcopal Church. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00sqvkf (Listen) FRI Presenter: Charlotte Smith, Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00sqvnv (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00sqkg8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sqw6k (Listen) FRI Pilgrims, Raiders and Traders (900 - 1300 AD), FRI Kilwa pot sherds FRI FRI This week Neil MacGregor has been looking at objects from FRI Japan, Britain, Java and central Europe, exploring the great FRI arcs of trade that connected Africa, Europe and Asia a FRI thousand years ago. Today he sifts through a selection of FRI broken pots, found on a beach in East Africa, to see what FRI they might tell us. Smashed pottery, it seems, can be FRI astonishingly durable and can offer powerful historical FRI insights. These ceramic bits - in a variety of glazes and FRI decorations - were found on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani off FRI Tanzania. Neil uses the fragments to tell the story of a FRI string of thriving communities along the East African coast FRI with links across the Indian Ocean and beyond. The historian FRI Bertram Mapunda and the writer Abdulrazak Gurnah describe FRI the significance of these broken pieces and help piece FRI together the great cross-cultural mix that produced the FRI Swahili culture and language. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sqwz9 (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sqx3h (Listen) FRI The House of Mercy, Episode 10 FRI FRI Victorian murder mystery set in London in 1860. Sergeant FRI Wylie secures a confession - but a final stunning revelation FRI exposes the many secrets and lies surrounding the night of FRI the murder. Dramatised by Chris Dolan from a storyline by FRI Bruce Young. FRI FRI Eliza .....Melody Grove FRI Stewart ..... David Rintoul FRI Brookes ..... Sam Dale FRI Arnott..... Timothy West FRI Wylie.....Alexander Morton FRI Milly .....Tracy Wiles FRI Mary .....Laura dos Santos FRI Murray..... Tony Bell FRI Alice ..... Alison Pettitt FRI Nance...Keely Beresford FRI FRI Other parts played by the cast. FRI FRI Producer/director: Bruce Young. FRI FRI 11:00 Women of the New Wave b00r8hhz (Listen) FRI Singer Pauline black meets some of the women who were in the FRI vanguard of punk and new wave music, and asks what their FRI legacy is for today's female artists. Punk offered women the FRI chance to get on stage and be themselves, free from the FRI constraints of a previously male dominated music industry. FRI Artists such as Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene and Gaye Advert FRI started their own bands and expressed themselves in ways FRI that female musicians hadn't been allowed to previously. FRI They refused to be judged on their looks and asserted the FRI right to sing about subjects that interested them rather FRI than about broken hearts and lost loves. As punk evolved FRI into a wider musical spectrum that encompassed New Wave and FRI Two Tone, bands such as The Selecter emerged through which FRI singers such as Pauline Black tackled issues of racism and FRI sexism in their lyrics. Thirty years on, she asks some of FRI those groundbreaking women what they think they've achieved FRI for women of their and subsequent generations. FRI FRI Producer: Maggie Ayre. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and Steve b00ss4tc (Listen) FRI Presenting Ed Bellamy FRI FRI A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple FRI and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns FRI refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate FRI the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind FRI in post-war London. FRI FRI Paul finds himself at cocktail party for two with the FRI attractive and strangely watchful widow Mrs Forester, while FRI Steve goes out on an eventful shopping expedition. But FRI husband and wife are back together arm in arm later for an FRI evening of intrigue and excitement at one of London's most FRI fashionable night spots, the Machicha Club in Berkeley Square. FRI FRI Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan FRI Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas FRI Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood FRI Worth ..... Greg Powrie FRI Nelson ..... Jimmy Chisholm FRI Insp. Perry ..... Michael Mackenzie FRI Joseph ..... Richard Greenwood FRI Mrs Forester ..... Candida Benson FRI Ed Bellamy ..... Robin Laing FRI FRI Produced by Patrick Rayner. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00sr2pd (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00sr2yb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00sr311 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Brian Hanrahan. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00ss4tf (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the More or Less team explain numbers in the FRI news, look out for misused statistics and use maths to FRI explore the world around us. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00sr3dl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00ss4th (Listen) FRI Bell in the Ball FRI FRI Bell in The Ball FRI FRI Danny was blinded in a fight on New Year's Eve 2008. He's FRI angry about it - in fact he's angry about everything. So his FRI long suffering girlfriend suggests he joins a blind cricket FRI team. It's surprisingly competitive and skilful. There's FRI only one problem - Danny hates cricket. Comedy drama by FRI Lloyd Peters. FRI FRI Danny.....................................Jason Done FRI Beth........................................Victoria Brazier FRI Floyd.......................................Marlon G Day FRI Lucy........................................Julia Rounthwaite FRI Brian........................................Robert Hudson FRI Derek.......................................David Acton FRI Roger.......................................Greg Wood FRI FRI Producer Gary Brown FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00ss4tk (Listen) FRI The panel join gardeners in Amber Valley, Derbyshire. FRI FRI Pippa Greenwood explores the ancient art of dressing wells FRI with flower petals, and Anne Swithinbank presents a guide on FRI how to get the most out of your greenhouse. FRI FRI The presenter is Eric Robson. FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00stcgv (Listen) FRI Nicolas Bourbaki FRI FRI ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present FRI day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the FRI passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get FRI their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how FRI these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world FRI and proves that mathematics is the driving force behind FRI modern science. FRI FRI Today, the mathematician that never was, Nicolas Bourbaki. A FRI group of French mathematicians, working between the two FRI world wars and writing under the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki FRI transformed their discipline and paved the way for several FRI mathematical breakthroughs in the 21st century. FRI FRI Producer: Anna Buckley. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00ss560 (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 b00ss5c5 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock presents a special edition from The Edinburgh FRI Film Festival with Stephen Frears and Mike Hodges. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00sr3j2 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn FRI Quinn. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sr3kf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00ss5c7 (Listen) FRI Series 31, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt takes a satirical look through this week's news. FRI Helping him along the way are Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes, John FRI Finnemore and special guests. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00sr3dq (Listen) FRI WRITTEN BY ..... ADRIAN FLYNN FRI DIRECTED BY ..... JULIE BECKETT FRI EDITOR ..... VANESSA WHITBURN FRI FRI JILL ARCHER ... PATRICIA GREENE FRI KENTON ARCHER ... RICHARD ATTLEE FRI DAVID ARCHER ... TIMOTHY BENTINCK FRI RUTH ARCHER ... FELICITY FINCH FRI PIP ARCHER ... HELEN MONKS FRI JOSH ARCHER ... CIAN CHEESBROUGH FRI PAT ARCHER ... PATRICIA GALLIMORE FRI TOM ARCHER ... TOM GRAHAM FRI BRIAN ALDRIDGE ... CHARLES COLLINGWOOD FRI JENNIFER ALDRIDGE ... ANGELA PIPER FRI KATE ALDRIDGE ... KELLIE BRIGHT FRI ALICE ALDRIDGE ... HOLLIE CHAPMAN FRI MATT CRAWFORD ... KIM DURHAM FRI LILIAN BELLAMY ... SUNNY ORMONDE FRI FALLON ROGERS ... JOANNA VAN KAMPEN FRI KATHY PERKS ... HEDLI NIKLAUS FRI JAMIE PERKS ... DAN CIOTKOWSKI FRI CHRISTOPHER CARTER ... WILL SANDERSON-THWAITE FRI BRENDA TUCKER ... AMY SHINDLER FRI KIRSTY MILLER ... ANNABELLE DOWLER FRI JAZZER McCREARY ... RYAN KELLY FRI JUDE SIMPSON ... PIERS WEHNER FRI HARRY MORGAN ... MICHAEL SHELFORD FRI BENEDICT WHEELER ... SAM DALE FRI AMANDA WHEELER ... ALISON PETTITT. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00sr3lv (Listen) FRI With Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer FRI Catherine O'Flynn, who won the Costa First Novel award in FRI 2008, and whose new novel focuses on a local TV news presenter. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sqw6k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00ss5c9 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from the FRI Maldon festival in Essex. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00ss5cc (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from David Cannadine. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00ss5cf (Listen) FRI The House of Mercy, Omnibus FRI FRI London, 1860. A leading MP and a successful female novelist FRI fall in love but the secrets they both harbour lead to FRI blackmail and murder. As Sergeant Wylie begins his FRI investigation, the chief suspect arrives at Eliza's door. FRI Eliza must decide how much to reveal about her past life in FRI Paris to her barrister - before a final stunning revelation FRI exposes the many secrets and lies surrounding the night of FRI the murder. Omnibus edition. Dramatised by Chris Dolan FRI from a storyline by Bruce Young FRI FRI Eliza .....Melody Grove FRI Stewart ..... David Rintoul FRI Brookes ..... Sam Dale FRI Arnott..... Timothy West FRI Wylie.....Alexander Morton FRI Milly .....Tracy Wiles FRI Mary .....Laura dos Santos FRI Murray..... Tony Bell FRI Alice ..... Alison Pettitt FRI Nance...Keely Beresford FRI FRI Other parts played by the cast. FRI FRI Producer/director: Bruce Young. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00sr3pc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00sr3rf (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00sr4c5 (Listen) FRI In Office Hours, Episode 10 FRI FRI In Office Hours is the new novel by Lucy Kellaway about men FRI and women at work, and illicit love. In the concluding FRI episode, personally and professionally things unravel for FRI Stella and Bella. FRI FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion FRI Producer Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00srnzz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sr4fv (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. FRI
18 June, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 19/06/2010 - 25/06/2010
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