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SAT SATURDAY 09 JULY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0128qd7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0128l70 (Listen) SAT Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar SAT Wilde, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Franny Moyle. SAT SAT When Oscar loses his libel case against Queensbury and is SAT charged with acts of indecency, Constance realizes she must SAT move quickly to protect the children. SAT SAT In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed SAT irrevocably. SAT Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for SAT homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in SAT society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular SAT children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner SAT for women's rights. A founding member of the magical society SAT the Golden Dawn, her pioneering and questioning spirit SAT encouraged her to sample some of the more controversial SAT aspects of her time. Mrs Oscar Wilde was a phenomenon in her SAT own right. SAT SAT But that spring Constance's entire life was eclipsed by SAT scandal. Forced to flee to the Continent with her two sons, SAT her glittering literary and political career ended abruptly. SAT Having changed her name, she lived in exile until her death. SAT SAT Franny Moyle's biography tells Constance's story with a SAT fresh eye and new material. Drawing on numerous unpublished SAT letters, she brings to life the story of a woman at the SAT heart of fin-de-siècle London and the Aesthetic movement. In SAT a compelling and moving tale of an unlikely couple caught up SAT in a world unsure of its moral footing, she uncovers key SAT revelations about a woman who was the victim of one of the SAT greatest betrayals of all time. SAT SAT Reader: Rachel Atkins SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0128qd9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0128qdc (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0128qdf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0128qdh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01294jq (Listen) SAT With Alison Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for SAT Developing Compassion and Wisdom. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01294js (Listen) SAT "You didn't have Playstations and TV. You didn't have a SAT toilet." An ex-prisoner speaks about what ended his criminal SAT career and his warnings to young offenders. With Eddie Mair. SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0128qdk (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0128qdm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b012f5q6 (Listen) SAT Trailblaze on the South Downs SAT SAT Why has a new scheme to encourage people onto our national SAT trails upset some people? For the first of two programmes SAT from Sussex, Helen Mark has her running shoes on along the SAT South Downs Way to find out about a project to encourage SAT long-distance runners out into the countryside. The scheme SAT has sparked controversy with a petition launched against the SAT installation of electronic boxes on several of our 15 SAT national trails. Trailblaze is a pilot project which has SAT been launched by events company Endurance Life in SAT partnership with Natural England to allow runners to take up SAT the challenge of a long distance route whenever they want to SAT rather than as part of a large event. The aim is to run as SAT far as they would like to go, whenever they choose, and SAT enter an electronic timing tag into boxes fitted at points SAT along the way which records their progress. The scheme is SAT currently operating on several of our national trails and SAT the organisers say that this has been created by a team of SAT trail runners who feel that the joy of running is increased SAT greatly when it takes place in a stunning landscape. But SAT walkers and outdoor enthusiasts are questioning the need for SAT this scheme. Many people are concerned about the aesthetics SAT of the scheme and what they see as the 'commercialisation' SAT of the countryside. The electronic boxes, which appear at SAT various points along the trails, have caused concern amongst SAT traditionalists who see them as unnecessary and ugly and SAT there is also concern about the pressure on the footpaths SAT and how much the natural environment will be affected and SAT damaged. For this week's Open Country, Helen Mark dons her SAT running shoes and heads out onto the South Down Way where SAT she meets Stuart Mills, a keen runner who has taken up the SAT Trailblaze challenge. Helen also hears from Andrew Barker of SAT Endurance Life and Tess Jackson, from Natural England who SAT are behind the scheme about their reasons for setting it up. SAT Nigel Buxton, whose home is close to the national trail and SAT who moved there specifically to enjoy walking on the chalk SAT of the Downs, tells Helen about his unhappiness with the SAT electronic boxes that are found along the South Downs Way SAT and Helen hears from outdoor writer, Mark Richards, about SAT his concern for the welfare of the paths that we walk. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b012f5q8 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT There are around 125 thousand hectares dedicated to SAT vegetable growing in the UK, valued at more than a billion SAT pounds - we produced 2.7 million tonnes of fresh veg last SAT year that's around 60% of what we consume. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith visits Jacamo Barone a baby leaf grower in SAT Evesham to see why his family changed from growing SAT vegetables like courgettes and tomatoes to salad leaves and SAT how a ride-on harvester and leaf-blower are all part of SAT getting the product to the shops in the right condition. SAT SAT Many farmers say despite the economic downturn they still SAT struggle to find British workers prepared to pick SAT vegetables. Charlotte meets some of those migrant workers to SAT see why they're happy to get their hands dirty and why SAT they'll accept the rates on offer. SAT SAT Meanwhile in Cumbria the land used for outdoor vegetable SAT production dropped by 22 per cent between 2009 and 2010 and SAT the small-scale producer is becoming something of a rare SAT breed. Charlotte hears from one farmer who says it's SAT becoming harder to stay in business and asks if you have to SAT be one of the big boys to have a stake in the future. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0128qdp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b012f5qb (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday SAT in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b012f5qd (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with singer Cerys Matthews; poet Murray SAT Lachlan Young; a woman who went to bed aged 34 and woke up SAT believing she was 15, and a man who spent his childhood SAT playing with Pablo Picasso. There's an I Was There feature SAT about DeLorean cars, and Inheritance Tracks from travel SAT writer Paul Theroux. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b012f5qg (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys SAT of travel. SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig meets journalist Colin Freeman who was SAT kidnapped by pirates in Somalia whilst investigating them. SAT He tells Sandi about how the total breakdown of law and SAT order has led to piracy on the high seas and poverty on the SAT land. David Edwards had barely arrived in Montserrat in 1995 SAT when the volcanic eruptions took place that were to cover SAT most of the island in ash. He went back 16 years later to SAT see how life has changed for both visitors and residents. SAT Language teacher Elisabeth Smith tells Sandi why the British SAT are so bad at speaking foreign languages when travelling - SAT and what they can do about it. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Found in Translation b012f5qj (Listen) SAT Former stand-up comic Anna Chen goes in search of the SAT Chinese sense of humour. Comics, historians and a Chinese SAT Elvis all give their take on what makes the Chinese laugh SAT and why. SAT SAT China isn't a nation you would automatically associate with SAT comedy and laughter, unless it's to do with badly translated SAT instructions. Anna Chen would like to change your mind. She SAT says China invented the political joke: "With 4,000 years of SAT often repressive rule, you'd need some sort of outlet". SAT SAT Texts written in the middle ages are full of mockery of SAT authority. Crosstalk was a rambunctious art form which SAT lampooned corrupt officials and country bumpkins. The SAT Communist authorities put the dampners on crosstalk by SAT requiring practitioners to "praise", rather than "satirise"- SAT a death sentence if ever there was one. SAT SAT But increased leisure time has an effect on culture and SAT we're starting to see the emergence of some sharp rebellious SAT youthful satire in China. Guo Degang has revitalised the SAT crosstalk form and now plays to packed theatres. Han Han is SAT China's most popular blogger and gets away with comments SAT such as this one about party officials: SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b012f5ql (Listen) SAT With Jackie Ashley. A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b012f5qn (Listen) SAT They are celebrating in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, SAT the world's newest country. But Fergus Nicoll, who's there, SAT says its leaders must address some of the lessons they've SAT been handed down by history. Who's visiting the great SAT archaeological sites in Libya as the conflict in that SAT country continues? Justin Marozzi's just been to one of them SAT and had little company there other than cows and goats. SAT David Willey in Rome talks about the country's much SAT respected President Giorgio Napoletano and explains how he's SAT trying to rein in some of the activities of the SAT controversial prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. India's SAT caste system was supposed to have been done away with SAT decades ago but Craig Jeffrey, in Uttar Pradesh, has found SAT that in many areas of life, it simply has not gone away. And SAT it's proving a sweltering summer in the city of Algiers and SAT Chloe Arnold, who lives there, has been finding out how a SAT Scottish firm is keen on securing a slice of the market in SAT long, cool, fizzy drinks! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b012f5qq (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b012942n (Listen) SAT Series 34, Episode 5 SAT SAT Topical stand-up, sketches and songs. Steve Punt is joined SAT by Jan Ravens, Gareth Gwynn, John Finnemore and Laura SAT Shavin, plus songs and satirical Darth Vader impressions SAT from Mitch Benn. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0128qdr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0128qdt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b012942s (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion of news and politics SAT from the English Martyrs School, Leicester, with Secretary SAT of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Caroline SAT Spelman; Labour's candidate for Mayor of London, Ken SAT Livingstone; columnist for the Independent, Steve Richards; SAT and the Times columnist, Matthew Parris. In the week News SAT International is closing down its Sunday paper News of the SAT World; a former editor and David Cameron's former SAT communications director Andy Coulson is arrested; and more SAT revelations about phone hacking come to light. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b012f5qs (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b012f5qv (Listen) SAT The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Revolution SAT SAT The French Revolution was one of the most far-reaching SAT social and political upheavals in modern history spanning 10 SAT years and involving the execution of the King, collapse of SAT monarchy and slaughter of thousands at the guillotine. SAT Starring Richard E Grant and Sally Hawkins, comedy trio The SAT Penny Dreadfuls will attempt to tell the epic story of the SAT Revolution in one hour, with jokes. SAT SAT The play's two main characters are Maximilien Robespierre SAT the dictatorial architect of the Reign of Terror, who sent SAT thousands to their death and Marie-Therese, the 16 year old SAT daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. SAT SAT Marie-Therese was incarcerated for three years by the SAT revolutionaries. When she was locked up her father, mother, SAT aunt and little brother were also with her. After the SAT execution of her father the rest of the family were moved to SAT another part of the tower and Marie-Therese was kept in SAT solitary confinement. It is recorded that Robespierre SAT visited Marie-Therese at one point in the tower but there is SAT no historical record of that conversation. This play is that SAT conversation. SAT SAT Revolution is written by comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls, SAT Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck, all successful in SAT their own rights as solo performers and all taking their own SAT shows to Edinburgh this year. Last year they wrote an SAT Afternoon Play for Radio about Guy Fawkes and they have SAT previously had two series of The Brothers Faversham SAT broadcast on Radio 7. SAT SAT Richard E Grant - Robespierre, SAT Sally Hawkins - Therese SAT David Reed, Humphrey Ker, Thom Tuck and Margaret SAT Cabourn-Smith will play all other roles in the show. SAT SAT Producer - Julia McKenzie. SAT SAT 15:30 The Bird Fancyer's Delight b0128pyp (Listen) SAT In the 18th century, musical manuals circulated showing SAT songbird keepers how to teach their birds to sing human SAT tunes. These treatises were known as the Bird Fancyer's SAT Delight, sheets of music specially written to play to a pet SAT bullfinch, linnet or canary in order that it would learn the SAT tune and sing it back. The idea was to engineer primordial SAT feathered recorders in the home, 100 years before the SAT arrival of the phonograph and the advent of recorded sound. SAT Musician and inventor Sarah Angliss explores to what extent SAT this interplay was successful and looks for its modern day SAT equivalent. SAT SAT Her journey takes her via Yorkshire's 'Champion of Champion' SAT canary fancyer Ken Westmorland, whose prize birds' rolling SAT sounds are not their natural music. She listens for song SAT during a Northumbrian dawn chorus with poet Katrina Porteous SAT and ornithologist Geoff Sample and reflects on human SAT attempts to control nature and birdsong. And she joins SAT composer Aleks Kolkowski who worked with canaries and a SAT string quartet to make some highly unusual inter-species SAT music. SAT SAT Producer: Neil McCarthy. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b012f5qx (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b012f5rp (Listen) SAT With Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01292vm (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT This week Evan asks his panel of top executives about the SAT perils and the possibilities of running a fast-growing SAT business. Many a company has spiralled out of control SAT because of a failure to manage rapid growth - but what are SAT the speed limits? They also chew over the role of the SAT business lunch. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Clive Schlee, chief SAT executive of sandwich retail chain Pret A Manger; Peter SAT Bamford, chairman of SuperGroup, the fashion retailer behind SAT the SuperDry brand; Giles Andrews, founder and chief SAT executive of Zopa, an online lending service. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0128qdw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0128qdy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0128qf0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b012f6fx (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Fashion guru Gok Wan casts a critical eye over Clive's SAT attire and brings some glitz and glamour to the Loose Ends SAT studio. He talks about how he battled with weight, race and SAT sexuality during his Leicester upbringing to becoming SAT Channel 4's darling fashionista. SAT SAT Globe-trotting radio presenter Andy Kershaw really does have SAT No Off Switch. Starting out as Billy Bragg's roadie one year SAT and presenting Live Aid to 400 million the next, Andy has SAT introduced roots and world music to millions of Radio 1 and SAT Radio 3 listeners. He's visited over 97 countries, not just SAT to satisfy his curiosity for music, but as a foreign SAT correspondent. He talks to Clive about his career, his SAT highly publicised breakdown and his return to broadcasting SAT last year with Radio 3's Music Planet. SAT SAT Operation Julie. 1976. The biggest drugs bust in British SAT History, hauling six million 'tabs' of LSD with a street SAT value of £100 million, a hundred people arrested and news SAT programmes extended to cover the event. It even inspired a SAT Clash song 'Julie's been working for the Drug's Squad'. And SAT Leaf Fielding was in the middle of it all as one of the SAT ringleaders. Reformed and reflective, Leaf tells Clive how SAT he went from hippie idealism to incarceration. SAT SAT Where fashion meets baking. Emma Freud talks to Patrick Cox. SAT He was one of the biggest names in the shoe industry, now SAT he's turned his hand to designing cakes. SAT SAT Music from Wild Beasts. Last time they were in the Loose SAT Ends studio, they had just been nominated for the 2010 SAT Mercury Prize. Will it happen again this year with the SAT release of their critically acclaimed new album 'Smother'? SAT They perform Bed of Nails and Albatross. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b012f6fz (Listen) SAT Nick Davies SAT SAT Jonathan Maitland profiles Nick Davies, the investigative SAT journalist behind the story of the News of the World SAT phone-hacking allegations that are dominating the headlines. SAT Nick Davies decided to become an investigative journalist SAT after he saw the film All the President's Men, about the US SAT journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who revealed the SAT Watergate story that brought down president Richard Nixon. SAT Thirty-five years later, Nick Davies is considered one of SAT Britain's top investigative journalists. He broke numerous SAT stories, many of them as a crime reporter for the Guardian SAT newspaper, such as the one about the nurse turned serial SAT child murderer, Beverley Allitt. SAT He is also the author of several books. The most recent, SAT Flat Earth News, earned him both admirers and critics. In it SAT he accuses many British newspapers of what he calls SAT "churnalism", churning out stories entirely based on PR, SAT press releases or wire copy, without further fact-checking. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b012f779 (Listen) SAT With Tom Sutcliffe. A review of the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b012f77c (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back, Michael Heseltine SAT SAT From backbench novice MP to the challenger for the party SAT leadership and the man credited with ousting Margaret SAT Thatcher, Michael Heseltine - now Lord Heseltine - has SAT commanded more headlines than most. SAT SAT In the 1970s he won a reputation as a maverick when he took SAT up the mace in the House of Commons after being enraged at SAT the Labour Party's voting tactics. He began the 1980s with a SAT rousing speech to the Conservative Party Conference SAT reminding members about the rights of ethnic minorities, but SAT he ended the decade on the backbenches after walking out of SAT a Cabinet meeting and resigning over the Westland Affair. In SAT 1990 he challenged Margaret Thatcher for the party SAT leadership. She eventually resigned, but Heseltine did not SAT succeed her. SAT SAT In the second programme of the series 'Meeting Myself Coming SAT Back', Lord Heseltine listens back to his younger self in SAT conversation with John Wilson. He talks frankly about the SAT mace incident and relives the moment when he walked out of SAT Cabinet. He discusses whether he could have been persuaded SAT to return if his departure had not been witnessed by a SAT cameraman outside Number 10. He also talks about the moment SAT when Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister and he SAT knew that his chances of becoming Conservative leader were SAT at an end. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Saturday Play b00vklng (Listen) SAT The Vanishing SAT SAT Tim Krabbe's cult novella dramatised by Oliver Emanuel. SAT SAT Rex and Saskia stop at a petrol station. Saskia goes in to SAT buy drinks and is never seen again. SAT SAT Eight years later, Rex is so haunted by her disappearance SAT that he sets out to discover what happened to her, SAT regardless of the cost. SAT SAT A chilling love story that takes us to the heart of the SAT perfect crime. SAT SAT Rex ... Samuel West SAT Saskia ... Melody Grove SAT Lieneke ... Ruth Gemmell SAT Lemorne ... Liam Brennan SAT Denise...Natasha Watson SAT Cashier/Woman ... Claire Knight SAT Jean-Pierre Gallo/Manager ... Robin Laing SAT SAT Directed by Kirsty Williams SAT Producer Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0128qf2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b0126d70 (Listen) SAT Securing Freedom: 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi: Dissent SAT SAT The pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, examines what SAT drives people to dissent in the second of the 2011 Reith SAT Lecture series. 'Securing Freedom'. SAT SAT Reflecting on the history of her own party, the National SAT League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, examines the meaning SAT of opposition and dissident. She also explains her reasons SAT for following the path of non-violence. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b0128ln0 (Listen) SAT The popular quotations quiz returns for a new series, hosted SAT by Nigel Rees. This week the panellists are former BBC SAT Chairman, Michael Grade, comedian Simon Munnery, poet Ian SAT McMillan and psychiatrist Dr Sandra Scott. SAT SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b0128jp5 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough with another selection of listeners' requests. SAT Subjects this week include sleeplessness and famous SAT quotations taken from poems. With specially recorded SAT readings by contemporary poets Colette Bryce and Imtiaz SAT Dharker. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 JULY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b012cwmf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00n9k0l (Listen) SUN Lyrical Ballads, Tintern Abbey and Love SUN SUN In today's episode we hear 'Lines Written A Few Miles Above SUN Tintern Abbey', Wordsworth's celebrated exploration of the SUN relationship between the contemplation of Nature and his SUN sense of the divine. And Coleridge's pseudo-medieval ballad, SUN 'Love', in which a minstrel woos his beloved with the SUN dramatic tale of a knight and his lady. Recorded on location SUN in Tintern Abbey and the Wye Valley in Monmouthshire and the SUN Quantock Hills, Somerset SUN SUN Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Julius D'Silva SUN William Wordsworth - Mark Meadows SUN SUN Adapted and produced by Emma Harding. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012cwmh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012cwmk (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012cwmm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b012cwmp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b012f7dl (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary the Virgin, Ilminster, Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b012f6fz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b012cwmr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b012f7dn (Listen) SUN In 'A Matter of Principle', Mark Tully discusses just how SUN far we should go to stand up for what we believe in. SUN Principles are usually, by definition, worth fighting for. SUN They are high-minded, honourable things and when people SUN stand up for their principles, real, positive changes are SUN often made. Yet the risk of fighting for a principle can SUN also be very great and can sometimes cause extraordinary SUN pain without achieving anything at all. SUN SUN In the company of Shami Chakrabarti, the Director of SUN 'Liberty', Mark Tully examines this paradox and asks whether SUN some principles should be more absolute than others. The SUN subject is illustrated with readings from the works of T. E SUN Lawrence, W.H. Auden, Jackie Kay and Claude McKay and with SUN music from Bob Marley, Joan Baez and Mikis Theodorakis. SUN SUN The readers are Alistair McGowan and Adjoa Andoh. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b012f7dq (Listen) SUN Getting to the heart of country life with a look at SUN individual farming endeavours. Presented by Charlotte Smith. SUN Produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b012cwmt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b012cwmw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b012f7ds (Listen) SUN William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b012f7dv (Listen) SUN The Tuberous Sclerosis Association SUN SUN Hannah Gordon presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN Tuberous Sclerosis Association. SUN SUN Donations to Tuberous Sclerosis Association should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Tuberous Sclerosis Association. Credit cards: SUN Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Tuberous Sclerosis Association with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1039549. SUN SUN Tuberous Sclerosis Association SUN SUN Tuberous Sclerosis Association providing support for today SUN and a cure for tomorrow for those with Tuberous Sclerosis. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b012cwmy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b012cwn0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b012f7dx (Listen) SUN A special programme for Sea Sunday from the Isle of Arran on SUN the west coast of Scotland, exploring the influence of the SUN sea on religious experience. Introduced by the Revd Gillean SUN Maclean, minister of Kilmory and Lamlash Parish Churches, SUN with a congregation gathered from churches all around the SUN island and singers from the Lochranza Choir and Rowan SUN Singers. Organist: Douglas Hamilton. Musical Director: Diana SUN Hamilton. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b012942v (Listen) SUN In Praise of the Zoo SUN SUN Following the birth of a baby moose in Whipsnade zoo - a SUN rare event - Alain de Botton muses on the value of exotic SUN animals in helping to give us perspective on our own lives. SUN He explains why he's rediscovered wild animals and suggests SUN a zoo trip as a perfect summer outing! SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b012f7dz (Listen) SUN With Patrick O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b012f7f1 (Listen) SUN Written by: Mary Cutler SUN Directed by: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... 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Regulars Barry SUN Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again SUN joined on the panel by Marcus Brigstocke, with Jack Dee in SUN the chair. Regular listeners will know to expect inspired SUN nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b012f7f5 (Listen) SUN Trans-fats SUN SUN Sheila Dillon investigates the issue of trans-fats in our SUN food, and asks whether a voluntary agreement by the food SUN industry to eliminate them by the end of the year is enough SUN to prevent the kind of health problems associated with a SUN diet heavy in industrial cooking fats. SUN SUN Hydrogenated oils are used as shortening for some cakes and SUN pastries SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b012cwn2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b012f7f7 (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, with an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 It's My Story b012f7f9 (Listen) SUN Boxing is supposed to be about winning, about glory, about SUN beating your man but for the journeyman losing is often the SUN game. Meet the best kept secrets in the fight game- the SUN 'professional opposition'. Veterans like the now retired SUN Birmingham legend Peter Buckley (W32-L256-D12) and the SUN hardest working journeyman today, Johnny Greaves (W3-L 64 D SUN 0). He'll be on his way to Hull when you hear this programme SUN for fight number 68 well on the way to achieving his dream SUN of 100 bouts and retirement. SUN SUN John McDonald, Boxing M.C. and fight fan remains fascinated SUN by these journeymen. They are the glue that holds boxing SUN together yet often derided and misunderstood. Without one a SUN fighter cannot begin his career, no promoter can assemble a SUN good night of boxing. The journeyman is one phone call away SUN from a fight that might even take place the same day as the SUN call. Always ready to pull on his gloves, give a good fight SUN and inevitably lose. SUN SUN You enter the ring, the local crowd hostile, part of a SUN fledgling boxer's rite of passage. Just the statistic on the SUN under card, the man who is going to be either out punched or SUN out scored. Which doesn't mean you throw the fight, take a SUN dive or hit the canvas as if it is Oscar night. And should SUN any cocky young boxer take the mickey or make it too painful SUN then there is always the chance of an upset, a boxing lesson SUN from a seasoned pro who has seen them come and go. SUN SUN John McDonald follows Greaves and his brother Frankie as SUN they prepare for bout number 68. Whilst veteran Buckley and SUN his former trainer Nobby Nobbs remember past losses and even SUN wins, in the process meet the matchmakers, managers and SUN fighters who reveal just how crucial this utterly SUN unglamorous non-champion of the ring is to the world of SUN boxing. SUN SUN Producer Mark Burman. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012942g (Listen) SUN GQT Summer Garden Party SUN SUN Join gardening pilgrims from far and wide at this SUN horticultural celebration: Bunny Guinness, Christine SUN Walkden. Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw formulate the SUN answers.Eric Robson chairs the discussion. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Mabey in the Wild b012f7mn (Listen) SUN Snake's Head Fritillary SUN SUN In a beautifully preserved ancient meadow in Suffolk, the SUN naturalist Richard Mabey encounters a marvellous swathe of SUN purple Snakes Head Fritillaries. The plants are rare in the SUN wild, especially in such numbers. SUN Richard tells their story, accounts for the name and we SUN visit the village of Ducklington in Oxfordshire where the SUN tradition of 'Fritillary Sunday' continues - not, these SUN days, to pick the plants, but to admire and photograph them. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Marling SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b012f7ms (Listen) SUN The History of Titus Groan, Titus Arrives SUN SUN By Mervyn Peake, dramatised by Brian Sibley SUN Episode One 'Titus Arrives' SUN A baby is born: Titus Groan, heir to crumbling stone and SUN ancient ritual, only son of Sepulchrave, the 76th Earl of SUN Gormenghast. Whilst the castle flies into state of high SUN excitement, change may at last come creeping through its SUN empty halls, on the heels of a sly but ambitious kitchen boy SUN named Steerpike. SUN SUN Titus...Luke Treadaway SUN Artist...David Warner SUN Steerpike...Carl Prekopp SUN Sepulchrave, Earl Of Groan...Paul Rhys SUN Gertrude, Countess Of Groan...Miranda Richardson SUN Dr Prunesquallor ...James Fleet SUN Irma Prunesquallor...Tamsin Greig SUN Clarice ...Fenella Woolgar SUN Cora ...Claudie Blakley SUN Fuchsia ...Olivia Hallinan SUN Flay ...Adrian Scarborough SUN Abiatha Swelter ...Mark Benton SUN Sourdust...James Lailey SUN Nannie Slagg ...Jane Whittenshaw SUN Keda...Susie Riddell SUN With Simon Bubb, Jonathan Forbes, Peter Polycarpou, Alun SUN Raglan, Alex Tregear SUN Music by Roger Goula SUN Directed by Gemma Jenkins SUN Produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b012f8np (Listen) SUN Part one of a history of women's writing, A Book of One's SUN Own SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup presents the first in a four part series SUN examining the history of women's writing in the last hundred SUN years. In A Book of One's Own: How Women Wrote The Twentieth SUN Century, she speaks to leading novelists, critics and SUN publishers - including AS Byatt, Carmen Calil and Kate Mosse SUN - as she traces the evolution of women's emancipation in SUN fiction. SUN SUN Mariella begins by exploring the literature of the suffrage SUN movement with the aid of Shirley Williams - daughter of the SUN iconic feminist author Vera Brittain - and asks why the SUN names of so many groundbreaking suffrage writers have been SUN erased from our literary history. SUN SUN Ross Raisin, author of God's Own Country, discusses his new SUN book Waterline. SUN SUN PRODUCER: AASIYA LODHI & ELLA-MAI ROBEY. SUN SUN 16:30 Pearl b012fbkb (Listen) SUN 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' is one of the landmarks of SUN medieval English literature and we know of it because a SUN small manuscript survived from the 14th century. Now SUN catalogued in the British Library as 'Cotton Nero A x', the SUN manuscript includes three other poems, thought to by the SUN same poet. One is a masterpiece. This is 'Pearl' and in this SUN documentary Julian May brings it out from the dark shadow of SUN Gawain's tale of beheading and questing into the light where SUN its lustre can glow. SUN SUN Pearl is the poet's two year old daughter, who has died. Her SUN grieving father falls asleep on her grave and Pearl appears SUN to him in a dream and leads him to some understanding of SUN this calamity. Yet while he takes some comfort from this he SUN not reconciled to her loss, and needs to grieve. SUN SUN In this feature Jane Draycott, who has just published a new SUN translation; Bernard O'Donoghue, the poet who teaches SUN Medieval Literature at Oxford University; the American poet SUN and critic Dana Gioia (who himself lost a child in infancy) SUN all reveal the way this ancient poem of great beauty as well SUN as sadness speaks to us today. Though a reflection on a SUN death, it is full of life; though a dream poem, it is vivid SUN and real; though an expression of orthodox Christianity, it SUN is a poem of human relationship and feeling - and not SUN without wit and humour when Pearl, as daughters do, lectures SUN her father, and he, as fathers do, complains she's getting a SUN bit uppity. SUN SUN The poem is of great formal elegance and intricacy, itself a SUN linguistic string of pearls and there readings of it by SUN James Layley, from Draycott's translation and Trevor Eaton SUN in the original Middle English. And at the British Library, SUN Julian Harrison, the curator who looks after the manuscript, SUN shows Julian May this diminutive book, no larger than a SUN paperback, for someone's personal reading and well-thumbed, SUN that contains two of the treasures of the English language. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b0128q7z (Listen) SUN Business As Usual? SUN SUN In the wake of the financial disaster, policy makers and SUN regulators around the world pledged to make banking safer SUN and more transparent. But the reality, many experts claim, SUN is proving very different. SUN For this edition of File on 4, Michael Robinson investigates SUN some of the apparently straightforward financial products SUN banks now offer and uncovers disturbing complexity. SUN One product, called Exchange Traded Funds, appears to offer SUN private individuals and pension funds a cheap and simple way SUN to invest - in anything from the top 100 companies on the SUN British stock exchange, to obscure companies in emerging SUN economies or even to baskets of commodities. SUN Beneath this apparent simplicity, the programme discovers SUN that many EFTs hide a forest of financial engineering SUN designed to increase the profits of the banks which provide SUN them. But at what risk? SUN Another product, so-called "Naked Credit Default Swaps" may SUN have an obscure name but they were at the heart of the SUN financial crisis and are still one of the most widespread SUN instruments used by banks. They are now accused by some of SUN exacerbating Europe's sovereign debt problems. SUN A leading British financial academic likens them to taking SUN out insurance on someone else's life. There is then an SUN obvious incentive, he tells the programme, to push the SUN person who's life you have insured under a bus. SUN On both sides of the Atlantic, regulators hoped to reduce SUN the risks of this massive market. But, as the programme SUN discovers, there's widespread doubt among financial SUN professionals that they've succeeded. SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b012f6fz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b012cwn4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b012cwn6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012cwn8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b012fbkd (Listen) SUN Graham Seed makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b012fbkg (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b012fbkj (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00nqbl7 (Listen) SUN The Diaries of Edith Appleton, Episode 3 SUN SUN Series of readings featuring extracts from the diaries of SUN Edith Appleton, a nurse working close to the front line SUN during the First World War. SUN SUN It is 1918 and Edie is based at a grand hotel which has been SUN turned into a military hospital, on the cliffs above SUN Treport. Anticipation is growing that the war could be SUN coming to an end. SUN SUN Read by Rachel Atkins SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b012942b (Listen) SUN Was the Today programme interview with boxer David Haye SUN below the belt? Many listeners felt robustness strayed SUN unnecessarily into rudeness. SUN SUN Listeners query whether the fashion sense of Christine SUN Lagarde, the new Head of the IMF, would have been SUN scrutinised as it was on Radio 4's Profile if she was a man. SUN SUN And Lord Patten uses his first public lecture to announce SUN the streamlining of the BBC complaints procedure, and SUN substantial cuts in the pay and perks offered to the SUN corporation's executives. SUN SUN Contact the Feedback team to let Roger Bolton know what SUN you'd like him to tackle this series about anything you've SUN heard on BBC radio. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b012942j (Listen) SUN Otto van Habsburg, Cy Twombly, Anna Massey, Robin Nash and SUN Robert Widmer SUN SUN John Wilson on SUN SUN The great American abstract expressionist painter Cy SUN Twombly. SUN SUN Otto von Habsburg, the last heir to Austro-Hungarian empire SUN who was exiled as a child and later became a campaigning SUN MEP. SUN SUN Anna Massey, star of stage, screen - and Radio 4's This SUN Sceptred Isle. SUN SUN Robert Widmer - inventor of the supersonic bomber. SUN SUN And Robin Nash, who directed some of BBC television's SUN biggest hits - including Top of the Pops - is remembered by SUN Tony Blackburn. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b012f5qq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b012f7dv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0128mly (Listen) SUN Scotland SUN SUN No university tuition fees, free personal care for the SUN elderly, reduced prescription charges. In all sorts of ways, SUN Scotland seems to have kept a level of public service the SUN rest of the UK is denied. How has this happened, and can SUN Scotland continue to enjoy this as overall UK spending is SUN cut? Will English resentment grow if Scotland is seen to be SUN enjoying an unfair advantage? Or can the SNP persuade Scots SUN that their economic vision will deliver a public service SUN paradise? And how will all this flow into the increasingly SUN urgent debate about Scotland's constitutional future after SUN the SNP's recent electoral success? Instead of all the SUN theoretical debate about Scottish independence, Anne McElvoy SUN discovers the hard bargaining already underway about who SUN gets the best UK deal, and who pays for it - a deal that SUN will be crucial in deciding whether the UK will survive. SUN SUN Presenter: Anne McElvoy SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b012fbkl (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b012fbkn (Listen) SUN Episode 60 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 Kevin Maguire of The SUN Daily Mirror takes the chair and the editor is Catherine SUN Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b012942l (Listen) SUN Terrence Malick is one of the most thrilling and charismatic SUN directors working in America. He's not prolific and his SUN films - like some wine -- only seem to be released in good SUN years. This is one of those vintage years. His new SUN feature,The Tree of Life, is in cinemas this week and SUN Francine Stock talks to one of its stars, Jessica Chastain, SUN about working with Malick. SUN Francine will also be assessing David Schwimmer's new film SUN Trust and Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier. SUN Even though the stories they tell are separated by five SUN hundred years both focus on the enduring sexual allure of SUN teenage girls and both act as cautionary tales. To round SUN things off the keyboard wizard,Neil Brand, is on hand to SUN explain how music helps to conjure the ghostly and the SUN unseen into cinematic life. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b012f7dn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 JULY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b012cwnx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01292gd (Listen) MON Comedy capital - Work's intimacy MON MON British comedy, from Music Hall to TV sitcom, was once a MON democratic medium. Humour united people otherwise divided by MON class and education. But new research finds that the MON Alternative Comedy Movement transformed comedy's place in MON our culture. It rejected the 'lowbrow' tone of earlier MON humour, creating the basis for comic taste to provide new MON forms of social distinction. The sociologist, Sam Friedman MON joins Laurie Taylor to debate comedy snobbery. Also, mobile MON communications have elided the distinction between work and MON home. The cultural studies lecturer, Melissa Gregg, and the MON Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Rosalind Gill, MON ask if the lines between our personal and professional lives MON are increasingly blurred. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b012f7dl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012cwnz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012cwp1 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012cwp3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b012cwp5 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012fbpg (Listen) MON With Alison Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for MON Developing Compassion and Wisdom. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b012fbpj (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b012cwp7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b012fbpl (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports MON Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Fry's English Delight b012fbpn (Listen) MON Series 4, The Mouth MON MON "If you were an intelligent designer, would you combine the MON food processor and the word processor in the same unit?" MON asks Stephen Fry in this intimate portrait of the most MON important part of speech. MON MON Evolutionary biologists can't agree whether the complexities MON of eating and speaking are linked. But the evolution of the MON mouth is important. It date stamps the start of language and MON of modern humanity. As soon as we had the equipment to MON speak, we started, for example, to make art. We hear from a MON lipreader, who explains why we all hear mouths with our MON eyes. Ventriloquist Nina Conti explains how she has learned MON to over-rule the automatic functions of her mouth. A facial MON surgeon gives us the tour of the inside of the mouth and a MON psychologist discusses humanity's earliest form of happy MON oral communication - or language. The smile. But are smiles MON conscious or unconscious? The psychologist and the lipreader MON also explain what distinguishes English mouths. And it's not MON the stiff upper lip. MON MON The programme gives us key information about the development MON of language. The human mouth's structure is unique among MON primates. If chimpanzee or neanderthal mouths had developed MON the same physical structure, would they be able to speak? MON The answer comes with the help of a monkey, interviewed by MON Stephen in the studio. He just happened to come along with MON Nina Conti. MON MON We also learn of a design fault unique to human mouths. The MON benefit of the power of speech has a potentially fatal MON downside. MON MON Producer: Nick Baker MON A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Blind Man's Bete Noire b012fbpq (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In his new series Blind Man's Bete Noire, Peter White MON explores some of the things which 'get up my nose' about MON blindness. The four programmes include The Countryside, MON Holidays, Being Introduced to Other Blind People and Going MON Slowly. MON MON In the first programme, Peter takes a walk in the Kent MON countryside with keen rambler Janet Street-Porter, who tries MON to help Peter find the best way for him to experience and MON enjoy the countryside. MON She suggests that Pete finds a silent walking companion, but MON they both agree they would not make an ideal partnership as MON both are too similar in disposition and like to do most of MON the talking! MON MON Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b012fbr4 (Listen) MON Ghosts by Daylight, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Janine di Giovanni. MON MON Memoir by the war correspondent Janine di Giovanni about MON meeting her husband, a French cameraman and their battle to MON settle down to a normal life in Paris after years of MON covering brutal wars around the globe. MON MON Abridged by Jane Marshall MON Read by Emma Fielding MON Produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b012fbvk (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey, who visits a new exhibition of the MON work of Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego MON Rivera. MON MON Modular GCSE Examinations MON MON The Department of Education has announced plans to abolish MON modular GCSEs examinations by September 2012. Michael Gove MON recently stated that the “culture of resits” they encouraged MON was “wrong”. He pointed out that pupils already have the MON option to take single final exams at the end of their MON courses and he urged schools to adopt the approach for all MON their GCSEs starting this September. Not everyone agrees MON with these proposals to move back to a more traditional MON model of exams. To discuss, Jane is joined by Dr Mary MON Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers MON and Lecturers (ATL). MON MON Do dads want to social network? MON MON Mums looking for parenting help on the net have plenty of MON choices. And thousands share problems and advice in online MON forums. But what about dads? Where do they go when they MON need help or a moan? There are sites out there for them, but MON - as yet - they're not as well-used as those for mums. And MON now there’s another dad site – Daddybegood. But are online MON forums the best way for dads to share their parenting MON experiences? And do they really need another site to help MON them do it? Duncan Fisher, who set up dad dot info, and Mark MON Woods, author of Pregnancy for Men, join Jane Garvey to MON discuss the issues. MON MON Depression in Children MON MON Recent research has shown that children of mothers who MON suffer from post natal depression are almost four times at MON risk of suffering from depression by the time they are MON sixteen than those of non-depressed mothers. To discuss the MON findings and the implications of the research Jane is joined MON by the author of the study Lynne Murray, Professor of MON Developmental Psychology at the University of Reading and MON Professor Mary Target, Professional Director at the Anna MON Freud Centre, dedicated to the emotional wellbeing of MON children. MON MON Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera MON MON They are one of the most mythical couples in the art world. MON But for the majority of their professional lives Frida MON Kahlo’s work was overshadowed by that of her husband, the MON celebrated Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. In later years MON however she came to be seen as a feminist icon, and her work MON received global attention. An exhibition at the Pallant MON House Gallery in Chichester displays their work together for MON the first time in this country. Jane visits the exhibition MON with the art historian Frances Borzello and the critic and MON contemporary art correspondent for The Art Newspaper Louisa MON Buck, to discuss the complex relationship between Frida MON Kahlo, her work, and her husband. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012fbvp (Listen) MON Imaginary Friends, Episode 1 MON MON Alison Lurie's comic novel of academia and alien gurus, MON dramatised by Melissa Murray. MON New York in 1968, and naive young sociology graduate, Roger MON Zimmern, has just got his first job at a university. MON MON Roger ... Jonathan Forbes MON McCann ... Nathan Osgood MON Elsie ... Barbara Barnes MON Verena ... Alex Tregear MON Bob ... Simon Bubb MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby MON MON 1968. New York State. Newly graduated sociologist Roger MON Zimmern is delighted to be asked work with his academic hero MON Tom McCann. They are to investigate the Truth Seekers, a MON small cult group who believe they are receiving spiritual MON guidance from the planet Varna. The group is run by MON middle-aged Elsie and her beautiful niece, Verena. Under MON cover, the two academics join the Truth Seekers. But things MON quickly begin to go wrong. Roger's objectivity is tested MON when he begins to fall in love with Verena. And what is MON happening to Tom McCann? Why is he behaving so strangely? MON Poor Roger, desperate to be a success, desperate to be MON noticed, doesn't know who to trust.. MON MON Imaginary Friends is a devastatingly funny look at the MON foibles of modern times. It's driven by a story that works MON brilliantly on a number of levels - in part a sharp social MON satire of the academic profession, in part a witty MON exploration of the wilder reaches of ' spirituality'. It is MON also a tender - if slightly skewed - love story, and a MON touching take on a young man's coming of age. MON MON 11:00 Happy Birthday, Neptune b012fbvt (Listen) MON On July 12th 2011, Neptune is one year old - one Neptunian MON year that is. The furthest planet from the sun it's only now MON completed one solar orbit since its discovery in 1846, MON travelling so slowly each Neptunian season lasts forty Earth MON years. MON MON Too distant to spot with the naked eye the ancients could MON never have known of Neptune's existence. Nineteenth century MON astronomers had to climb on the shoulders of scientific MON giants to see it. First a tiny blue disc now an ice giant MON whose strange atmospheric features send shivers down the MON spines of astronomers today. MON MON What twists and turns of fate, what scientific clues and MON personality clashes won the race for Neptune's discovery? MON Some say Galileo spotted it 200 years earlier, secretly MON noting its existence in a coded Latin anagram awaiting MON further proof. What secret phrase might be lurking in his MON notebooks awaiting discovery by 21st century scientific MON spoofs? MON MON It's late spring, early summer in Neptune today. It's been MON that way for decades. Astronomers can only watch and marvel MON at the weather on Neptune and the jazzy, jerky dance of its MON Great Dark Spot - first in the southern hemisphere, then in MON the north, sometimes gone altogether. What is it? Where does MON it come from? What can you ever know about a world when even MON the most advanced human telescopes have only studied it for MON a season? MON MON Written and presented by Tracey Logan. MON MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b00sgbr3 (Listen) MON Series 1, Squeaky Shoes MON MON These days Sandy finds himself doing more hospital visiting MON and attending an increasing number of funerals. At the MON latest, he finds himself singled out by the Merry Widow, MON Eileen. His children are horrified and so is his lodger MON Dolores. Son-in-law and security expert Blake keeps Sandy MON under close surveillance. Even so, Sandy finishes up in MON hospital himself. MON MON Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit comedy MON Sorry - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent - for a new sitcom. MON MON Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett MON Eileen ..... Anne Reid MON Clovis ..... Jon Glover MON Ellie ..... Tilly Vosburgh MON Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck MON Blake ..... Jonathan Aris MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b012fbvy (Listen) MON Thomson Airways is the first UK airline to fuel its planes MON between Birmingham and Palma with biofuel. The airline, MON owned by Europe's biggest tour operator TUI Travel is MON calling on the airline industry and government to review MON legislation on biofuels to allow other airlines to follow MON suit. MON MON Why predicting the economic impact of the 2012 Olympic Games MON is not an exact science MON MON How hospitals are failing to risk assess patients for DVT MON resulting in thousands dying needlessly. MON MON And should the Port of Dover be privatised? The port is MON currently run by an independent trust which is appointed by MON the department of Transport. The Chief Executive of the MON Harbour Board says that privatisation would allow the port MON to expand the business and help regenerate the local area. MON However a group calling itself the Dover People's Port Trust MON has also launched a rival bid which it says has the backing MON of the local community. MON MON Plus we celebrate the Great British Countryside and those MON who look after it and find out the sentence facing the gang MON who sold tickets online to more than ten thousand people for MON the 2008 Beijing Olympics without delivering a single one. MON MON 12:57 Weather b012cwp9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b012fbw0 (Listen) MON With David Eades. National and international news. Listeners MON can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on MON twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b012fbw4 (Listen) MON The popular quotations quiz, Quote...Unquote, returns for a MON new series hosted by Nigel Rees. This week Nigel is joined MON by a fantastic array of stars: the legendary actress, Sian MON Phillips, sports journalist James Richardson, broadcaster MON Edward Stourton and the comedian and actress, Rebecca Front. MON As well as quizzing about quotations, the guests will share MON anecdotes and nuggets of advice they've picked up over the MON years. MON MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b012fbkg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b012fbw8 (Listen) MON Torchwood: The Lost Files, The Devil and Miss Carew MON MON Martin Jarvis and Juliet Mills join the regular cast for MON this latest Torchwood adventure by Rupert Laight. MON MON When Rhys's elderly Uncle Bryn has a heart attack while MON listening to the shipping forecast, it seems like another MON routine death at Ivyday Nursing Home. But when Rhys and Gwen MON go to collect the old man's effects, Gwen's suspicions are MON roused by another elderly resident. The conversation is cut MON short, though, by a fire alarm, one of many consequences of MON the mysterious power cuts that are sweeping the nation. Gwen MON has a hunch that something is wrong and her search leads her MON to Miss Carew, a suspiciously fit and strong octogenarian MON who, despite having supposedly terminal heart disease, has MON left Ivyday and gone back to work at the Computer firm she MON used to run. Miss Carew has been offered a deal by Fitzroy, MON a wandering alien with an aversion to electricity who is MON looking for a home. It's a deal that Miss Carew can't MON refuse. But the consequences for planet Earth are MON unthinkable. MON MON Captain Jack Harkness ... John Barrowman MON Gwen Cooper ... Eve Myles MON Ianto Jones ... Gareth David-Lloyd MON Rhys Williams ... Kai Owen MON Fitzroy ... Martin Jarvis MON Miss Carew ... Juliet Mills MON Sian ... Hayley J Williams MON Uncle Bryn ... James Walsh MON Old Lady ... Shelley Rees MON MON Recorded at The Invisible Studios, by Mark Holden and mixed MON at BBC Wales by Nigel Lewis. MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b012f77c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012fbwd (Listen) MON Series 2, Twelve Hours of Democracy MON MON Martin Sixsmith continues his major series tracing 1000 MON years of Russian history. He begins part two of 'Russia: the MON Wild East' amidst the whirlwind of the 1917 revolution. MON MON At this great flashpoint in Russia's past, he concludes, as MON we saw in part one that things seem to change radically, MON only to revert to old stereotypes with spellbinding MON regularity. The next five weeks show how these recurring MON patterns help us understand modern Russia, and modern MON Russians. Sixsmith quotes Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor MON Zhivago which captures the cruelty, chaos and violence of MON 1917. It starts with positive and hopeful imagery MON anticipating a new beginning, the new order Russia had long MON yearned for - 'Freedom dropped out of the sky' writes MON Pasternak and Sixsmith reflects "It's a feeling I remember MON myself, from another turning point in Russian history 1991, MON when I witnessed the defeat of the hardline coup against the MON reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev. For the victorious MON demonstrators I mingled with on the bullet riddled Moscow MON streets, freedom did indeed seem to have dropped from the MON sky". MON MON While Pasternak captures the speed and violence with which MON expectations of a new world were crushed in 1917 Sixsmith MON reflects on the pragmatic necessity underlying Lenin's MON ruthlessness and on the fatal attraction Lenin held for a MON Russian people who naively thought he was bringing them MON freedom. In light of later Russian historiography, which MON continued to revere Lenin even as it denounced Stalin for MON the crimes of the Soviet system, Sixsmith paints a picture MON of the first Bolshevik leader. It was he, not Stalin, who MON founded the one party state, created the feared secret MON police and the Gulag system of forced labour camps and who MON first gave the order for summary executions of suspected MON political opponents MON MON Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking MON Producer: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b012f7f5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b012fc5b (Listen) MON In the first of a new series, Ernie Rea and guests discuss MON the Christian understanding of Hell. MON MON Hell appears in several mythologies and religions as a place MON of suffering and punishment after death, but it is MON Christianity which has lent it its most vivid imagery. The MON Christian understanding of hell grew out of the Jewish MON concept of Sheol, a shadowy abode of the dead. Jesus used MON graphic images to describe hell which were further MON elaborated by the early church wrestling under persecution MON with the question of how a Just God could permit such MON suffering. That the Evil will be eternally punished was one MON answer to this dilemma, although there has always been a MON minority strain within Christianity arguing that eternal MON hell is incompatible with the workings of a loving God. MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss hell are the Catholic writer and MON commentator, Peter Stanford, lecturer in patristic theology MON at Exeter University, Morwenna Ludlow, and lecturer at MON Oakhill theological college Daniel Strange. MON MON 17:00 PM b012fc5d (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012cwpc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b012fc5g (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 3 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a MON first-time visit to the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by David Mitchell, with Jack Dee in MON the chair. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b012fc5j (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b012fc5l (Listen) MON With John Wilson, including a review of Harry Potter and the MON Deathly Hollows: Part 2, the final film in the series which MON began a decade ago. MON MON Producer Ekene Akalawu. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012fbvp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Soft Power Hard News b012fc5n (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The media is a global superpower in its own right, and in MON the struggle to make the world see a nation's point of view MON the news media is king. Thanks to its power to influence, MON the battle for control of the global news media has never MON been so intense. It's the battle for 'soft power.' MON MON In this two part series, Rajan Datar examines how MON organizations in China and the Middle East are flexing their MON media muscle and spending billions of dollars to win the MON hearts and minds of people around the world. He'll MON investigate who the key players are, who the winners will be MON and why it matters to us. MON MON In part one, Rajan explores the roots of the term Soft MON Power, and examines how the Middle East has wholeheartedly MON embraced the notion that news brings influence. Crucially MON though, as the Arab Spring has proven, its influence isn't MON just one of high-level diplomacy. MON MON On the other side of the globe, China's CCTV is fast MON expanding, and now has a vast newsroom in London, and MON operations around the world. Like France 24, Russia 24, MON Press TV (Iran), Al Jazeera, and many more, CCTV is the MON latest attempt for a nation to make the world see things MON through their eyes, and it's backed by serious government MON fund. But, as Rajan discovers in part two, those funds make MON no difference without credibility and some semblance of MON independence. MON MON As the planet's diplomatic borders are re-drawn through the MON media, Soft Power Hard News examines how the new world order MON is taking shape. Former media superpowers like the BBC World MON Service are shrinking, and increasingly wealthy and powerful MON new ones are vying for their place. But who will win, and MON what will the planet's media landscape look like in five MON years time? MON MON Producer: Paul Hardy MON A Moonbeam Films production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b012fc5q (Listen) MON Unsure about Sure Start MON MON The Government says that despite budget cuts it is committed MON to Sure Start Children's Centres - one of the defining MON policies of the New Labour era. But in this week's Analysis MON Fran Abrams asks what the service - loved by parents - has MON really done for their kids. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01292vf (Listen) MON This week, Quentin Cooper hears how krill fertilise the MON Southern Ocean. He visits the Royal Society's Summer Science MON exhibition to hear about hearing, see about seeing and smell MON rotten fish. And he hears how science meets art in a new MON exhibition in which the artist is his own canvas. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Krill Fertilise the Ocean MON MON Krill, the tiny, shrimp-like creatures at the heart of the MON food chain in the Southern ocean, are normally found at MON depths of less than 300 metres. But, following observation MON of them down to 3500 metres, Katrin Schmidt of the British MON Antarctic Survey began to question that. Most had sediment MON in their stomachs, showing that they feed near the ocean MON floor. Those sediments are rich in iron, an essential MON nutrient for plankton at shallow depths. Katrin proposes MON that krill thus play a vital role in fertilising waters MON around Antarctica MON MON Royal Society Summer Exhibition MON MON After their 350th anniversary extravaganza on the South Bank MON last year, the Royal Society is ‘at home’ to host this MON year’s Summer Exhibition. But it still features 22 MON innovative science projects, ranging from an immersive MON experience among ocean plankton to a 3D study of aurora. MON Quentin speaks to the Society’s new President, Sir Paul MON Nurse, discovers how to hear above background noise thanks MON to UCL, see with bionic vision thanks to Oxford University, MON and savour the delights of rotting fish to help Leicester MON geologists interpret fossils MON MON Merging Art and Science MON MON Science is changing our world, and now it’s influencing art MON too. A new exhibition at GV Art in London brings together MON the work of 13 contemporary artists who have been inspired MON by science. Quentin is joined in the studio by co-curator of MON the exhibition, Professor Arthur Miller, and by artist MON Stelarc, who uses his own body as the basis for his art. He MON has undergone suspensions and grown an ear on his arm! For MON this exhibition he has contributed an image of the skin MON around his head, electronically stretched to fill a flat MON canvas MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b012fbpn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b012cwpf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b012fc5s (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012fc5v (Listen) MON Waterline, Episode 1 MON MON 'Waterline' is Ross Raisin's long-awaited new novel after MON the success of his prize-winning debut 'God's Own Country'. MON MON 'The sun is on his face, and he spots the postie turning in MON through the gate... He is awake, that's obvious enough, but MON he has this sense of unrealness. That it's him that's not MON real. That's aye what it feels like. As if all these goings MON on around him - the sunshine, the television still quietly MON on, the post tummelling onto the mat - they are all part of MON some other life, one that he can see, but he's no a part MON of.' MON MON After the death of his beloved wife Cathy, ex-Glasgow MON shipbuilder and union man, Mick Little, finds himself MON struggling. The shipyard's gone and with it his old way of MON life, and now his wife too. With the ties that bound him to MON his past suddenly loosened, he finds himself adrift. MON Starting out again, away from Scotland, he can leave MON somethings behind but not the guilt he feels over Cathy's MON death. MON MON Tracing Mick's journey from his old life in Glasgow to the MON harsh, alien world of a hotel kitchen, and on to the rough MON streets of London, this is an intensely moving portrait of a MON life in the balance, and a story for our times. MON MON Today: Cathy's funeral brings old family tensions to the MON surface, as Mick struggles to come to terms with his wife's MON untimely death. MON MON Reader: Alexander Morton MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b01292v7 (Listen) MON The Games People Play MON MON George Bernard Shaw reckoned that we don't stop playing MON because we're old, but we grow old because we forget to MON play. Putting that idea to test are David Goldblatt, author MON of The Ball is Round; Helen Bentley, one of the organisers MON of Igfest in Bristol - the Interesting Games Festival; and MON the man behind The Importance of Being Trivial, Mark Mason. MON Are we really as playful as we like to think, and what does MON our choice of game say about us ? The presenter is Dominic MON Arkwright, and the producer Miles Warde. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b012fc5x (Listen) MON Susan Hulme and the BBC's parliamentary team with the top MON news stories from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 JULY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b012cwq0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b012fbr4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012cwq2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012cwq4 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012cwq6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b012cwq8 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012klz7 (Listen) TUE With Alison Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for TUE Developing Compassion and Wisdom. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b012fcy1 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b012fcy3 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; TUE Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b012fcy5 (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland compares the end of the US Space Shuttle TUE programme with the decommissioning of the British TUE oceanographic survey HMS Challenger in 1876. TUE TUE As the final US Space Shuttle mission blasts off from Cape TUE Canaveral, Jonathan Freedland compares the end of the TUE shuttle programme with the decommissioning of the 1872 TUE British oceanographic survey HMS Challenger. The very boat TUE after which the shuttle, Challenger, was named. TUE TUE It's a story of high adventure at the farthest reaches of TUE the known world but also a lesson in the way that super TUE powers use state money, military prerogatives and scientific TUE research to project power and influence. TUE TUE Challenger was a British Oceanographic mission that sailed TUE from 1872-76. It was designed to chart the depths of the TUE oceans and assess the currents more accurately. This was a TUE vital aid to the efficient global navigation of British TUE warships and trade vessels. Hugely successful on its own TUE terms it was scrapped by the treasury on the grounds of TUE cost. But its work is the foundation stone of modern TUE oceanography. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Burman. TUE TUE 09:30 Britain's Labs b00shrm2 (Listen) TUE Stem Cells TUE TUE Prof Iain Stewart travels to Scotland to visit the Centre TUE for Regenerative Medicine. Here a brand new lab is being TUE built which will be linked to Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary - TUE the principle hospital in the area - so that scientists and TUE clinicians work closely in their efforts to treat diseases, TUE using stem cell technology. TUE TUE Stem cells in all living creature are characterised by their TUE ability to renew themselves through cell division - creating TUE identical cells time after time - which then differentiate TUE into a diverse range of specialized cell types. TUE TUE Iain is shown the lab by leading scientists including Ian TUE Wilmut, famous for his pioneering work in creating Dolly the TUE sheep. Iain discovers recent breakthroughs in regenerative TUE medicine involving adult stem cells, rather than the more TUE controversial embryonic stem cells. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Marling TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b012fv1t (Listen) TUE Ghosts by Daylight, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Janine di Giovanni. TUE TUE After years of an on off relationship conducted in war torn TUE countries around the globe, the author decides it's finally TUE time to settle down with the French cameraman she has come TUE to love. They set up home together on the Ivory Coast, where TUE Bruno is on assignment, but though life in Abidjan is TUE peaceful when they arrive, all of a sudden they find TUE themselves in the midst of a state of emergency. TUE TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall TUE Read by Emma Fielding TUE Produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b012fcy7 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Reinventing yourself at 40 plus - TUE Dilma Johnson on surfing. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012fvnf (Listen) TUE Imaginary Friends, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray TUE TUE Young sociologist Roger Zimmern has made contact with the TUE small cult known as the Truth Seekers. But are they crazy TUE enough for a ground breaking sociological study? TUE TUE Roger ... Jonathan Forbes TUE McCann ... Nathan Osgood TUE Elsie ... Barbara Barnes TUE Verena ... Alex Tregear TUE Sissy ... Susie Riddell TUE Bill ... Peter Polycarpou TUE Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b012fcy9 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 12 TUE TUE 12/ 30 Wild Boar are one of the icons of wildness in TUE Europe's woods - and they are on the up. There have been TUE recent reports of family's of Wild Boar running freely TUE through the suburbs of Berlin such is their success and TUE opportunistic roaming. What is leading to the flourishing TUE populations of Wild Boar and what role do they have in the TUE wild wood ecology? Saving Species is in Sweden with TUE biologist Sofie Lindblom who studies these social creatures TUE that have more in common with people than first meets the TUE eye. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Sheena Duncan TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Art Bunker b012fs6h (Listen) TUE This journey inside a mountain in Bosnia reveals the TUE unlikely location for a new festival of contemporary art, TUE which aims to help move the country on from a mindset TUE haunted by war. In May 2011, the 1st Time Machine Biennial TUE opened in what might be the strangest art-space ever: a TUE vast, underground bunker, originally built for President TUE Tito and the Yugoslavian military leadership to survive in TUE the event of nuclear attack from Russia - Yugoslavia having TUE been expelled from the Cominform group of soviet nations as TUE far back as 1948. TUE TUE The ARK bunker (the initials stand for Atomska Ratna Komanda TUE - Atomic War Command) took 26 years to build, 280 feet TUE inside a mountain overlooking the town of Konjic, near TUE Sarajevo, behind an entrance disguised by three very TUE ordinary-looking houses. The 75,000 sq ft, U-shaped, TUE concrete labyrinth contains facilities for 350 people to TUE survive for 6 months, and the fixtures and fittings are TUE perfectly preserved. TUE TUE Although a nuclear attack never happened, a technologically TUE cruder, brutal, civil war certainly did. And it was as a TUE result of that war that the previously secret bunker was TUE discovered and handed over to the Bosnian army. In 2009, a TUE committee of art historians, some from Sarajevo, some from TUE Belgrade, secured financial backing for the Biennial from TUE the Council of Europe to hold this new festival in the TUE bunker. TUE TUE Forty five artists were selected, roughly half of whom come TUE from the republics of former Yugoslavia, and the rest TUE representing Russia and the Baltic States, Germany, Austria, TUE Bulgaria, the USA and the UK. Bob Dickinson travelled to TUE Konjic for the opening, witnessed challenging examples of TUE new art from the region, and interviewed artists, organisers TUE and local people who, until recently, never knew the ARK TUE bunker existed. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b012fcyf (Listen) TUE What will restore your faith in the British press? David TUE Cameron says the News of the World hacking scandal has been TUE a wake-up call about the ethics and behaviour of the press, TUE MPs and the police. He's ordered two separate inquiries: TUE One, to be led by a judge, will look at criminal allegations TUE that the paper's journalists paid police for information and TUE hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder TUE victims and the grieving families of dead soldiers. The TUE second inquiry will examine the ethics and culture of the TUE British press and how it should be regulated. So will it get TUE to the bottom of the scandal? How confident are you that TUE things will change in the British media? Call You and Yours TUE with Winifred Robinson. Your chance to share your views on TUE the programme. Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk, text 84844 and TUE we may call you back or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b012cwqb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b012fcyh (Listen) TUE With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners TUE can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on TUE twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Late Nights at the Blue Boar b012fcyk (Listen) TUE Music journalist Pete Paphides tells the story of the M1's TUE improbable 1960s music meeting place - Blue Boar cafe at TUE Watford Gap services. TUE TUE There surely can't be any less likely rock'n'roll hangouts TUE than the M1 Blue Boar cafe at Watford Gap services. TUE Nevertheless, by the late 1960s, Britain's first ever TUE service station was a thriving meeting point for any TUE London-based musicians driving home from a show between TUE midnight and 6am. Legend has it that Jimi Hendrix thought TUE that Blue Boar was the name of a cool London club because so TUE many of his fellow rock stars would refer to it. In 1977, TUE Roy Harper paid tribute to its cuisine on his album TUE Bullinamingvase, with a song called Watford Gap -'Watford TUE Gap, Watford Gap/A plate of grease and a load of crap' - TUE although later versions of the album had the song removed as TUE a member of the EMI board was also a member of Blue Board's TUE board of directors. TUE TUE Using first-hand testimonies from musicians Francis Rossi, TUE Chas Hodges, Pete Langford, Shelia Ferguson from the 3 TUE Degrees, seminal photographer to the Rolling Stones, Philip TUE Townsend, beat poet Pete Brown, DJ Johnnie Walker, jazz TUE singer Dame Cleo Laine, and David Lawrence, author of 'Food TUE on the Move', 'Late Nights and the Blue Boar' aims to shine TUE a light on the experience of the touring musician in the TUE late 60s, before the era of air conditioned tour buses and TUE salubrious hotel stopovers. It will capture and analyse a TUE certain moment in rock history painting vivid pictures of TUE the era. Among the other participants in the programme will TUE be the original waitress charged with the job of cracking TUE open eggs for hungry rock stars and the security guard at TUE the time - shading in a picture of an improbable time and TUE place in music (and motorway) history. TUE TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt TUE A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b012fc5j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b012fcym (Listen) TUE Torchwood: The Lost Files, Submission TUE TUE In Ryan Scott's episode, Torchwood are chasing aliens down TUE the M4, when Jack accidentally blows a hole in the Severn TUE Bridge, and the SUV hits the water. Whilst submerged John, TUE Gwen and Ianto hear a strange noise, which, back at the Hub TUE they realise is a cry for help. They track the cry to its TUE source which turns out to be the deepest part of the Ocean - TUE the Mariana Trench. Ianto rings old Torchwood flame, Carlie TUE Roberts, who's an expert in marine geology, and Jack pulls TUE strings with the US government to get them all on board the TUE USS Calvin, an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, which is TUE heading for the Trench. From there they board the Octopus TUE Rock, the only submarine built to withstand the pressure at TUE that depth, and follow the signal. But when the Submarine TUE crashes, the team are left at the mercy of a hungry alien. TUE TUE Captain Jack Harkness ... John Barrowman TUE Gwen Cooper ... Eve Myles TUE Ianto Jones ... Gareth David-Lloyd TUE Carlie Roberts ... Erin Bennett TUE Sam Doyle ... Angelo Tiffe TUE Captain Cudlow ... John Francis Harries TUE Henry Goddard ... John Lee TUE TUE Recorded at The Invisible Studios, by Mark Holden and mixed TUE at BBC Wales by Nigel Lewis. TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b012fcyp (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00rb372 (Listen) TUE An Elegy for Easterly, The Mupandawana Dancing Champion TUE TUE The Mupandawana Dancing Champion is the first of three TUE stories selected from An Elegy for Easterly, Zimbabwean TUE writer Petina Gappah's debut collection and winner of the TUE Guardian First Book Award for 2009. Today - just outside TUE Harare, in Mupandawana, a nimble footed coffin maker enjoys TUE a little local celebrity, and some relief from the daily TUE struggle to make ends meets. However, a political TUE intervention cramps his style. TUE TUE Each of the three stories selected from An Elegy For TUE Easterly are acutely observed, powerful and poignant. They TUE are populated by characters struggling to live in Mugabe's TUE Zimbabwe, who despite the hardships of their everyday lives, TUE are also resilient and imaginative, and not without a wry TUE sense of humour. TUE TUE Writer: Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law TUE degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University TUE of Zimbabwe. Her short fiction and essays have been TUE published in eight countries. TUE TUE Reader: Reader: Lucian Msamati has been appearing in TUE Clybourne Park in London's West End. TUE TUE 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012fv9f (Listen) TUE Series 2, Murder of the Royal Family TUE TUE In the second programme of Part 2 of 'Russia- the Wild East' TUE Martin Sixsmith outlines the growing menace facing the TUE Bolsheviks at home. TUE TUE The tsarist regime may have toppled, but supporters of the TUE old order wanted revenge. Even before the war with Germany TUE ended, a violent civil war was threatening to erupt. The TUE conflict between Bolshevik Reds and Tsarist Whites was TUE immensely bloody, the atrocities committed by both sides TUE appalling and its consequences terrible. Sixsmith stands at TUE the spot in Yekaterinburg where the last tsar of Russia met TUE his fate and draws on an eyewitness account of the execution TUE by an ad hoc firing squad. Recent research suggests the TUE decision was taken personally by Lenin to prevent Nicholas TUE II being rescued and used as a rallying point for the White TUE cause. TUE TUE The Red's were surrounded and outnumbered but Lenin stirred TUE up his forces with passionate speeches and Trotsky pulled TUE off an incredible volte face when he routed the White Army TUE stationed at Gatchina 30 miles North of Petrograd. The TUE defence of Petrograd made Trotsky an iconic, terrifying TUE figure, but his own memoirs quoted by Sixsmith, suggest it TUE was a close run thing. Petrograd was renamed in his honour TUE and was called Trotsk until he fell from grace in 1929. TUE Germany's defeat in the World War allowed the Bolsheviks to TUE recoup much of the territory they'd ceded when they withdrew TUE from the war, although the Bolsheviks had to appeal to old TUE fashioned Russian nationalism to defeat the advancing Poles. TUE After peace with Poland Trotsky was able to annihilate the TUE remains of the White Army in the Crimea, immortalised in TUE Bulgakov's play Flight in which two departing White officers TUE discuss the destruction of the old Russia, and the utter TUE failure of the struggle to save her from the Bolshevik yoke. TUE TUE Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Debating Animals b00yz3t2 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Kestrel and Red Kite TUE TUE Rod Liddle turns his attentions skywards to catch 'morning's TUE minion', that most familiar of British birds of prey, the TUE Kestrel. It's an animal that gets a nod rather than a TUE Hopkins-like 'thrill' from those interested in these things. TUE By contrast, the Red Kite is the darling of bird TUE conservation and Britain is now the home of one of the only TUE growing populations of the bird. TUE TUE Rod takes a stroll with Chris Packham, a Kestrel enthusiast TUE from his youth, to talk about our reactions to these birds, TUE animals that remain a cut above the ordinary traffic. TUE TUE Again the literature, from Chaucer's parliament of fowls to TUE Hopkins' eulogy, has much to do with our reaction to these TUE creatures but why is there an inevitable unease about the TUE familiar and common Kestrel when set against the fragile, TUE needy Kite? TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b012fcyr (Listen) TUE Juliet Barker, John O'Farrell TUE TUE Satirical writer John O'Farrell and historian Juliet Barker TUE talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books - all TUE of which use an unusual blend of fact and fiction. They TUE evoke the lives of the Brontes, the worst civilian disaster TUE of World War II and the British mandate in Palestine. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: Panther in the Basement by Amos TUE Oz TUE Publ. Vintage TUE TUE Juliet Barker's choice: The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan TUE Publ. Headline Review TUE TUE John O'Farrell's choice: The Report by Jessica Francis Kane TUE Publ. Portobello Books TUE TUE 17:00 PM b012fcyt (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012cwqd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group b011j6lq (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE TUE Award winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second TUE series playing Sarah, modern day agony aunt dishing out real TUE advice for real people. TUE TUE Solving the nations problems with her Support Group, she TUE wants you to live life to the utmost, and she's got tons of TUE ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of TUE the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self TUE qualified counsellor Marion - Sarah tackles the nation's TUE problems head on and has a solution for everything, (which TUE normally encompasses cake, tea and hugs). TUE TUE This week the team tackle two problems - "Sibling Rivalry: TUE The grass is always greener in my brother's massive garden" TUE and "I'm a mother in need of quiet - do drum kits have a TUE mute button?" TUE TUE Sarah Millican Sarah TUE Ruth Bratt Marion TUE Simon Day Terry TUE Isabel Fay Melissa TUE Miles Jupp Michael TUE Annie Aldington Janet. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b012fcyw (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b012hpb5 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, who talks to Johnny Vegas as he opens a TUE new stage show, inspired by TV shopping channels, as part of TUE the Manchester International Festival. TUE TUE Producer Ekene Akalawu. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012fvnf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b012fdwj (Listen) TUE The Border Agency is charged with preventing drugs, weapons TUE and would-be illegal immigrants from getting to the UK. But TUE three years after being created, the Agency has been accused TUE by MPs of failing to enforce immigration rules. Faced with TUE cuts to its budget and the loss of around one-fifth of its TUE staff over the next four years, the Agency is looking to new TUE technology to improve its effectiveness. But with delays to TUE the e-borders project and problems with existing computer TUE systems, Morland Sanders investigates whether the strategy TUE will work. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b012fdwl (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b012fdwn (Listen) TUE Understanding Arsonists TUE TUE What makes somebody become an arsonist ? Every week in TUE England and Wales sixty five people are either killed or TUE injured by somebody who has deliberately started a fire. But TUE surprisingly little is known about the different kinds of TUE arsonists, apart from the worrying fact that once they've TUE shown an interest in fire, they then tend to carry on TUE risking life and property by starting more. Claudia Hammond TUE hears from "firesetters" as they're formally known, and TUE talks to one of the leading experts in the field, Dr Theresa TUE Gannon from the University of Kent. Dr Gannon's research is TUE aiming to fill the gaps in our knowledge about arsonists - TUE mostly men - and from this develop the country's first TUE treatment programme. TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b012fcy5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b012cwqg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b012ff7r (Listen) TUE With Ritula Shah. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012ff7t (Listen) TUE Waterline, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: alone now after his in-laws and sons have returned TUE home, Mick sets about getting back to normality. But nothing TUE is normal now. TUE TUE Reader: Alexander Morton TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 23:00 Bigipedia b012ff7w (Listen) TUE Series 2, What's New In Bigipedia 2.0? TUE TUE At last, the long-awaited release of Bigipedia 2. 0 - the TUE infallible, ever-present cyberfriend is back! Now with all TUE errors mistake TUE TUE Bigipedia was conceived by Nick Doody, and written by Nick TUE Doody, Matt Kirshen and Sarah Morgan, with Carey Marx. TUE TUE It features Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, TUE Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, Martha Howe-Douglas, Lewis Macleod TUE and Jess Robinson. Occasionally you can hear Matt Kirshen. TUE TUE Guy Jackson has done some music and that. TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b012ff7y (Listen) TUE Sean Curran and the BBC's parliamentary team with the top TUE news stories from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b012cwr1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b012fv1t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012cwr3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012cwr5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012cwr7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b012cwr9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012klzk (Listen) WED With Alison Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for WED Developing Compassion and Wisdom. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b012fqmy (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b012fqn0 (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b012fqn2 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Anita Anand and guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b012fvbs (Listen) WED Ghosts by Daylight, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Janine di Giovanni. WED WED Married and pregnant Janine di Giovanni is in London WED awaiting her husband's return from the war torn Ivory Coast. WED But though she is longing for them to start their new life WED together in Paris, she discovers the ghosts of other wars WED playing on her mind. WED WED Abridged by Jane Marshall WED Read by Emma Fielding WED Produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b012fqn4 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Slut Walks - the male WED perspective. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012fqn6 (Listen) WED Imaginary Friends, Episode 3 WED WED By Alison Lurie, dramatised by Melissa Murray WED WED Sociologists Roger Zimmern and his boss, Tom McCann, have WED managed to infiltrate the small cult of the Truth Seekers. WED But now their reasons for being there are about to be WED exposed. WED WED Roger ... Jonathan Forbes WED McCann ... Nathan Osgood WED Elsie ... Barbara Barnes WED Verena ... Alex Tregear WED Ken ... Simon Bubb WED Bill ... Peter Polycarpou WED Felicia... Susie Riddell WED Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 11:00 The Disappeared b012fqn8 (Listen) WED Eighty year old Margaret McKinney lives in leafy, quiet WED Harrogate. This unlikely looking campaigner took on a WED terrorist organisation, and won. WED WED Her son Brian disappeared in 1978. He was 23, but had WED special needs, and was barely literate. He'd gone missing a WED few days beforehand, but returned 48 hours later beaten and WED distraught, having admitted his part in the robbery of an WED IRA-run bar. His parents helped him repay the money and WED thought the matter resolved. But he failed to come home from WED work a few days later, and Margaret knew he'd been abducted. WED WED She could ask no one for help. Attempts to question the IRA WED were met with intimidation. WED For 17 years she lived in silence and fear. She knew Brian WED was dead, but that was all. WED WED As the political talks of the 90s gained pace, Margaret WED approached a community organisation dealing with the WED traumatic aftermath of 'the troubles' - WAVE - and asked WED them to help her. Margaret met politicians, Prime Ministers WED and, eventually, President Clinton to ask for help. She WED also, gradually, found the 16 other families with similar WED stories to her. WED WED Legislation was rushed through parliament so that anyone WED coming forward with information about where the bodies lay WED could not be prosecuted, and The Commission for the Location WED of Victims Remains was set up. Huge excavations began, and WED finally Margaret was able to find and bury her son. WED WED Bodies are still being found - the latest last November - WED but the money is running out to continue the searches. WED Margaret has seen two of her friends die before their sons' WED bodies were recovered - she wants the last six families to WED be able to bury their children too. WED WED Producer: Rachel Hooper WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b012fqnb (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser WED WED Sitcom by Justin Moorhouse & Jim Poyser starring Justin, WED Anne Reid and Paul Copley. A Manchester DJ tries to balance WED love, work, life and everything else without much success. WED This week an untimely death causes a rethink. WED WED Anne Reid ..... Gran WED Bernard Wrigley ..... Sven WED Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa WED Jim Poyser ..... Vicar WED Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin WED Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn WED Paul Copley ..... Ray WED Rachel Austin ..... Receptionist WED Susan Cookson ..... Tanya WED WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b012fqnd (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b012fqss (Listen) WED Ten of Millions of pounds in compensation is being paid out WED to patients who develop blood clots in hospital. Most are WED preventable. And yet government guidelines to tackle the WED problem are being ignored by dozens of hospitals. John Waite WED investigates why. WED WED 12:57 Weather b012cwrc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b012fqsv (Listen) WED National and international news, with Shaun Ley. Listeners WED can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on WED twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b012fqsx (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b012fcyw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b012fqsz (Listen) WED Torchwood: The Lost Files, The House of the Dead WED WED The brewery have called 'time' and it's the last night at WED The House of the Dead - the most haunted pub in Wales. Barry WED the barman has invited renowned psychic, Mrs Wintergreen, to WED hold a special seance to mark the occasion, and there's a WED big crowd hoping for the chance of seeing their deceased WED loved ones for one last time. But when Jack arrives on the WED scene, he's determined to stop them. Ianto is puzzled by WED Jack's behaviour, and Gwen is suspicious. Why is Jack acting WED so strangely? Then the ghosts start arriving - and all hell WED breaks loose. WED WED By James Goss. WED WED Captain Jack Harkness ... John Barrowman WED Gwen Cooper ... Eve Myles WED Ianto Jones ... Gareth David-Lloyd WED Mrs Wintergreen ... Rosalind Ayres WED Barry ... Bradley Freegard WED Mr Jones/Tony ... John Francis Harries WED Helen ... Lucy Davis WED Ness ... Moira Quirk WED Late Arrival ... Shelley Rees WED WED Recorded at The Invisible Studios, by Mark Holden and mixed WED at BBC Wales by Nigel Lewis. WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b012fqt3 (Listen) WED Are you are frustrated by faulty goods, poor service or WED hidden charges? WED WED Whether you want to know about refunds, returns or handling WED disputes, you can put your consumer rights questions to Paul WED Lewis and guests on Money Box Live. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00rb374 (Listen) WED An Elegy for Easterly, My Cousin-Sister Rambanai WED WED My Cousin-Sister Rambanai is the next selected story from An WED Elegy for Easterly, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah's debut WED collection and winner of the Guardian First Book Award for WED 2009. Today - when Rambanai returns from Dallas to Harare WED her exuberant sparkle is irresistible, but a new search for WED a bigger world has unexpected outcomes. WED WED Each of the three stories selected from An Elegy For WED Easterly are acutely observed, powerful and poignant. They WED are populated by characters struggling to live in Mugabe's WED Zimbabwe, who despite the hardships of their everyday lives, WED are also resilient and imaginative, and not without a wry WED sense of humour. WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012hh0n (Listen) WED Series 2, Terror WED WED Gunshots ring out in a dramatic black and white Soviet WED feature film while Martin Sixsmith stands at the spot where WED Fanny Kaplan tried to kill Lenin in August 1918. It WED unleashed the 'Red Terror' in which 100's maybe 1000's of WED so-called class enemies were executed for no other crime WED than their social origin. WED WED In the name of Lenin's future Utopia, an estimated half a WED million people were eliminated in 3 years. Famine, conflict, WED typhus and economic devastation were bringing the country WED close to collapse and shortly before he himself starved to WED death, the philosopher Vasily Razanov wrote presciently: WED "With a clank, a squeal and a groan, an iron curtain has WED descended over Russian history". With his regime tottering, WED Lenin was quick to abandon his promises of freedom, justice WED and self-determination, replacing them with what came to be WED known as War Communism - harsh, enslaving and repressive. WED Forced labour was systematically imposed on the population; WED industry nationalized, private enterprise banned; food WED rationed and Russian society transformed into an WED increasingly militarized dictatorship. WED WED The Bolsheviks rallied the masses - no longer seen as agents WED of the revolution but as an expendable resource to be WED exploited in the great experiment of building socialism - to WED their cause by giving them the licence to plunder and murder WED the castigated richer peasants or kulaks who had kept the WED rural economy going. Agriculture regressed, cities starved & WED a 70,000 strong Peasant Army emerged, (reminiscent of the WED great historical revolts of Razin and Pugachev) prepared to WED fight for freedom and the right to the land. It took 100,000 WED troops to massacre the rebels with poison gas as they hid in WED the forests. But things were getting to the point where WED terror alone could not solve the problem. WED WED Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking WED WED Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b012fqt5 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b012fdwn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b012fqt7 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012cwrf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00xpkw7 (Listen) WED Series 7, Become a Successful Writer WED WED Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back for a new series, WED complete with his trusty companion Elgar, his pipe and his WED never ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever WED scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and WED cat together. WED WED This week sees Ed enrolled on a writing course which WED endeavours to teach him how to 'write successfully'. He WED naturally feels he's already mastered this art, as testified WED to in the 1976 issue of Films and Filming, and the fact that WED he teaches his own course at the local leisure centre. WED However, much persuasion by Ping and the mention of free WED food and drink for three days finally sways Ed into WED attendance. In the event, Ed does learn a thing or two about WED setting up his very own 'Script Doctor' service at £25 a WED consultation. WED WED Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas WED Mort Rich ..... Henry Goodman WED Dave Wang ..... Geoff McGivern WED Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy WED Municipal woman ..... Nicola Sanderson WED Sorting Officer ..... Martin Hyder WED Pearl ..... Rita May WED Olive ..... Stephanie Cole WED Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas WED Produced by Dawn Ellis. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b012g0zx (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b012hp9s (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012fqn6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b012fr7m (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED 2/4. In a new series, Andrew Rawnsley chairs a live debate WED with fellow journalists in the style of a newspaper leader WED conference. They discuss which three top news stories at WED home and abroad should be the subject of leading articles WED and what points those editorials ought to make and why. WED WED From tabloids to broadsheets, from London to Edinburgh, from WED left, right and centre the gamut of journalistic opinions WED are on offer as the newspaper leader conference comes to the WED air. Top writers on Britain's newspapers distil the complex WED events of the week into a concise, easily digested summary WED and seek to put it all into perspective. WED WED Among those taking part in this week's edition are: Lorraine WED Davidson of The Times in Scotland; Alan Qualtrough WED [qual-tro] of the Western Morning News in Plymouth; Iain WED Martin of the Daily Mail; and Philip Stephens of the WED Financial Times. WED WED Producer Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01292gl (Listen) WED Series 2, Matthew Engel WED WED Matthew Engel charts the growth of Americanisms in the WED English language and explains why, as a former Washington WED correspondent, he thinks this is now a serious problem WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience at the RSA (the Royal Society for the WED encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, WED speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on WED the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our WED culture and society. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 An Idea Whose Time Has Come b012fr7p (Listen) WED "If Newton hadn't lived, his laws would have been elaborated WED by someone else. If Shakespeare hadn't lived, no one would WED have written his plays." What is it about science that WED throws up so many examples of simultaneous discovery, or WED indeed invention, from Newton and Leibniz, to Wallace and WED Darwin. Another field in which this sort of parallelism WED seems to be common is music, and also for that matter, the WED history of technology. WED WED But the field in which it is increasingly clear that WED simultaneous invention is much more common than previously WED thought, is life itself. Convergent evolution is famously WED exemplified in the similarity of eye structure in unrelated WED species. But other instances are myriad and it also happens WED on all scales, from large population dynamics, down to WED fundamental molecular patterns. WED WED Our question is: Are the same processes of change at work in WED science as in evolutionary biology itself? WED Through discussions with a wide variety of practitioners and WED commentators in diverse fields, including Lynn Margulis, WED Paulien Hogeweg, Barry Cunliffe, Dan Dennett, Lewis Wolpert, WED Eva Jablonka Denis Noble, Rupert Sheldrake, Lucy Duran and WED Simon Conway-Morris, it appears that something like a WED revolution in evolutionary theory is underway and it's WED happening very fast. WED WED Symbiogenesis, bioinformatics, epigenetics and the WED reinvestigation of Lamarckism are all extending what we WED understand to be the processes by which evolution promotes WED change, throwing light on the astonishing sophistication of WED cooperative and collaborative patterns in nature, in WED contrast to the harsh competition in neo-Darwinian theory. WED This emerging variety of evolutionary pathways provokes WED strong opinions on whether patterns in the development of WED music, science and life itself, can appear to be inevitable. WED WED Presenter: Richard Collins WED Producer: Mike Greenwood WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b012fqn2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b012cwrh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b012fr7t (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012fr7w (Listen) WED Waterline, Episode 3 WED WED Today: Mick finds that his home holds too many painful WED memories and is haunted by the part he might have played in WED Cathy's death... WED WED Reader: Alexander Morton WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 23:00 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00n1s1c (Listen) WED Harlequinade WED WED Lynne Truss' comedy drama about celebrity policeman WED Inspector Steine. Brunswick is in mortal danger, but WED Inspector Steine is more interested in setting up a road WED safety demonstration. Can Twitten and Mrs Groynes save WED Brunswick before it's too late? WED WED Written by Lynne Truss. WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b012fr7y (Listen) WED Susan Hulme and the BBC's parliamentary team with the top WED news stories from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 JULY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b012cws4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b012fvbs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012cws6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012cws8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012cwsb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b012cwsd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012klzy (Listen) THU With Alison Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for THU Developing Compassion and Wisdom. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b012fs63 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b012fs65 (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather, Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b012fs67 (Listen) THU Series 7, Unconscious and Pregnant THU THU Anne is brought into Accident and Emergency unconscious, THU having suffered a cardiac arrest. She is thirty five years THU old and pregnant. THU THU Within hours of Anne's admission to intensive care, she has THU another cardiac arrest and starts to have seizures. On THU several occasions over the next few days, the medical team THU think they might lose her. But each time she survives. THU THU As Anne's life hangs in the balance, how much should her THU pregnancy influence the decisions the medical team need to THU make about Anne? THU THU Producer Beth Eastwood THU Presenter Joan Bakewell. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b012fvcp (Listen) THU Ghosts by Daylight, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Janine di Giovanni. THU THU Luca is born seven weeks prematurely and Bruno takes to THU fatherhood with ease but for his mother, Janine di Giovanni, THU the road to motherhood is beset with anxiety and disturbing THU memories. THU THU Abridged by Jane Marshall THU Read by Emma Fielding THU Produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b012fs69 (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Cook the Perfect... Summer THU Pudding. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012fs6c (Listen) THU Imaginary Friends, Episode 4 THU THU By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray THU THU Verena, leader of the Truth Seekers, seems to have lost her THU way. Her aunt Elsie has persuaded professor Tom McCann to THU speak to her. But McCann has an agenda of his own. THU THU Roger ... Jonathan Forbes THU McCann ... Nathan Osgood THU Elsie ... Barbara Barnes THU Verena ... Alex Tregear THU Bill ... Peter Polycarpou THU Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b012fs6f (Listen) THU On the road with Hillary Clinton THU THU The BBC's Kim Ghattas has gained exclusive, behind the THU scenes access to the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton THU during one of her recent overseas visits. Code named THU "Special Air Mission 883", the trip took eight days, covered THU thirty thousand miles and touched down in four countries in THU the Middle East and Africa. THU THU Kim joins what is affectionately known as "the bubble", the THU travelling band of diplomatic staffers, special security THU detail, international press and handlers that accompany the THU Secretary, or "S" as she is known, on the trip. THU THU We share their thoughts and hopes, priorities and THU frustrations as Hillary Clinton pursues United States THU foreign policy goals. There are meetings of high diplomacy THU with kings and rulers as well as more grass roots events THU like the promotion of democracy and good governance at an THU African womens collective. THU THU A surprisingly intimate portrait of the Secretary and her THU closest aides. THU THU Producer: Jane Beresford. THU THU 11:30 Under Jacques Demy's Umbrella b012fcyc (Listen) THU For many cinema-goers, it's not the music of The Beatles but THU the films of Jacques Demy that define the 60s. The poet THU Sarah Cuddon's love for them developed a generation later. THU THU In collaboration with the composer Michel Legrand, Demy THU re-invented musical-cinema, and introduced whimsical ideas THU such as having all the dialogue sung and the design THU colour-coded in pastel pinks, blues and yellows.' THU THU The heart-breaking romance 'Les Parapluies de Cherbourg' THU starred Catherine Deneuve and its more playful sequel, 'Les THU Desmoiselles de Rochefort', paired her with her sister THU Francoise Dorleac, as well as George Chakiris and Gene THU Kelly. These films were described as being 'en couleurs et THU en chante'. And their tales of love lost and found retain THU the power enchant still. THU THU Will Gregory, one half of the pop duo Goldfrapp, is a huge THU fan, as is the poet Sean Street who was living in Paris when THU 'Les Desmoiselles' was released in the summer of 1967 THU shortly after Dorleac's tragic death in a car crash. Geoff THU Andrew of the British Film Institute places these films in THU context and Sarah Cuddon evokes Demy's bringing of Hollywood THU to these French Atlantic resorts. THU THU The programme also includes contributions from archive by THU Catherine Deneuve, Michel Legrand and the late Jacques Demy THU himself. THU THU Producer: Alan Hall THU A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b012fs6k (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU A report published by the House of Commons Health Committee THU is calling for a review of the NHS Complaints System. It THU suggests that the role of the Health Service Ombudsman needs THU a complete change and says that commissioners, including GP THU commissioners, should be key players in this move towards a THU better complaints system. THU THU The Forestry Commission has drawn up plans to persuade THU thousands of homes and businesses to install wood-burning THU stoves and boilers. This would involve ten million more THU trees being cut down each year in England and as a result THU would treble the amount of wood being burnt as fuel by 2020. THU However some conservationists fear that we might end up THU having to import woodchip from abroad to meet the demand. THU THU 12:57 Weather b012cwsj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b012fs6m (Listen) THU With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners THU can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on THU twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b012fs6p (Listen) THU Neighbours THU THU When Guy Browning decided to make a film, he roped in his THU entire village to help keep the costs down. Which makes you THU wonder - is this the Big Society finally at work ? Also THU joining presenter Dominic Arkwright to discuss the support THU network of neighbours, both nasty and nice, are Laurie Penny THU the writer of the Penny Red blog; and Dr Edson Burton, who THU recalls when living in bedsits didn't just mean your THU neighbours were in the same street, but under the same roof. THU The producer is Miles Warde. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b012g0zx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b012fs6r (Listen) THU Best Interests THU THU by Sasha Hails. THU THU To accompany today's new series of Inside The Ethics THU Committee, the Afternoon Play presents two new dramas which THU get inside the emotional realities of dealing with ethical THU dilemmas. THU When a confused young man with no I.D. and a Dr. Who THU fixation is brought into hospital, the staff have clear THU rules about how decisions can be made on his behalf. But THU when he starts to make his own wishes clear, are they right THU to listen? THU THU Benji ... Gunnar Cauthery THU Fay ... Clare Perkins THU Iain ... Simon Bubb THU James ... Carl Prekopp THU THU with Peter Polycarpou, Gerard McDermott, Jonathan Forbes, THU James Lailey, Alex Tregear, Susie Riddell and Elaine THU Claxton. THU THU Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting THU THU Inside The Ethics Committee, presented by Joan Bakewell, THU continues on Thursdays at 09.00 and 21.00. THU THU The second play in the series, Positive by Tina Pepler, is THU on Thursday 21st July at 14.15. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b012f5q6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b012f7dv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00rb376 (Listen) THU An Elegy for Easterly, Our Man in Geneva Wins a Million THU Euros THU THU Our Man in Geneva Wins a Million Euros is the next selected THU story from An Elegy for Easterly, Zimbabwean writer Petina THU Gappah's debut collection and winner of the Guardian First THU Book Award for 2009. THU Today an embassy official posted to Geneva sets out to claim THU his lottery winnings. THU THU Each of the three stories selected from An Elegy For THU Easterly are acutely observed, powerful and poignant. They THU are populated by characters struggling to live in Mugabe's THU Zimbabwe, who despite the hardships of their everyday lives, THU are also resilient and imaginative, and not without a wry THU sense of humour. THU THU 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012hj9v (Listen) THU Series 2, The People's Revolt THU THU With the party divided, workers and peasants disaffected, THU and food running out, Russia was teetering on the brink of THU another revolution, and in March 1921 an event of such THU colossal importance forced the Bolsheviks to rethink the THU whole way they exercised power. Martin Sixsmith picks his THU way through the "crumbling, deserted and rather eerie THU warren" of massive stone fortifications on an island in the THU Gulf of Finland: Kronshtadt. THU THU In the 1917 revolution, the Kronshtadt sailors rose up and THU murdered their tsarist officers and helped storm the Winter THU Palace. But by 1921, things had changed. The mood was ugly THU and the sailors' anger was directed against the Bolsheviks. THU They drew up a manifesto claiming the Communists had lost THU the trust of the people, demanding the release of political THU prisoners, freedom of speech and free elections open to all THU parties. Lenin realised it was make or break for the THU Bolsheviks and sent Trotsky to crush the Kronshtadt revolt THU whatever the cost. The fortress eventually fell to the THU Bolsheviks, and fifteen thousand rebels were taken prisoner, THU to face immediate execution or a lifetime in the camps. The THU immediate crisis was over, but Kronshtadt was a warning that THU Lenin could not ignore. THU THU When he addressed the Party Congress just days after the THU Kronshtadt rebellion, Lenin promised a new era of milder, THU more humane government. His New Economic Policy - or NEP as THU it became known - would soften the dictatorial control of THU the state, reintroducing some elements of capitalism to try THU to improve the nation's disastrous economic conditions. In THU economic terms it was the only way to placate the people, THU and although it was an ideological bombshell that split the THU party, it gave Lenin the precious time he needed to THU consolidate his hold on power. THU THU Historical Consultant - Professor Geoffrey Hosking THU Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b012f8np (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b012fs6t (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b012fs6w (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012cwsl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Sinha Test b012fs6y (Listen) THU In April 1990, Norman Tebbit suggested that immigrants who THU supported their country of origin over the England at THU cricket were unpatriotic. The "Tebbit Test", as it became THU known, was always an over-simplification; there are lots of THU reasons why the immigrant community in Britain may not THU support England: apparently racist selection policies; THU leading players taking part in sanctions-busting tours of THU Apartheid-era South Africa; Britain's complicated and not THU always flattering colonial history; the fact that for THU fifteen years, England were simply rubbish. But is any of THU this still relevant? THU THU In July 2011, the Indian cricket team will arrive in England THU as the number one ranked team in the world. Over the course THU of five weeks an ageing but brilliant team containing the THU likes of Zaheer Khan, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and THU possibly the greatest batsman to have ever played, Sachin THU Tendulkar, will compete against the young, improving team THU that includes Alistair Cook, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad THU and Kevin Pietersen. THU THU In The Sinha Test stand-up comedian and cricket obsessive THU Paul Sinha - born in London to Indian parents - examines why THU he has been a lifelong India fan, despite considering THU himself "as British as a pub fight". Between the jokes he THU speaks to experts - a sociologist and a former Test THU cricketer - to see if he's alone in not always cheering on THU the country of his birth when it comes to cricket. THU THU Written and performed by Paul Sinha. THU Producer: Ed Morrish. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b012fs70 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b012hp9v (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reports on new works by the often THU controversial artists Jake and Dinos Chapman. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012fs6c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b012fs72 (Listen) THU On June 7, after discovering 6 exam paper errors, the THU examination regulator OFQUAL wrote to all the examination THU boards to ask them to double check the remaining exam papers THU to make sure there were no more errors. They replied THU assuring the regulator that thorough quality checks had been THU done to "make sure there are no undetected errors in the THU remaining papers". The regulator then made a public THU statement to students that "everything that can be done has THU been done to prevent any further errors on question papers". THU Following this statement three more errors were discovered. THU 10 mistakes in total, affecting up to 250,000 students. The THU Report asks what is going on with the UK exam system and how THU can students be reassured that in August they will get the THU grades that they deserve? THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b012fs74 (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b012fs67 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:45 Talking to the Enemy b00tdn7z (Listen) THU First Contact THU THU Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, took part in THU the negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement in THU Northern Ireland. Here he takes us into the negotiating room THU and explains how negotiations with men of violence come THU about, work or fail, and can lead to peace. THU THU 21:58 Weather b012cwsn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b012fs76 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012fs78 (Listen) THU Waterline, Episode 4 THU THU Today: deciding that the only way to survive is to leave the THU past behind, Mick sets out for London. THU THU Reader: Alexander Morton THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b012fs7b (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU A new audience sketch show set in a call centre. Today is THU appraisal day in the offices of Smile5, the catalogue THU company that sells anything and everything. Only Sailesh has THU prepared, the others plan to use various other crackpot THU methods to sail through. THU THU Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu THU Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith THU Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Paul sharma THU Various ..... Philip Fox THU Script editor ..... Dan Tetsell THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b012fs7d (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 JULY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b012cwt7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b012fvcp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012cwt9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012cwtc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012cwtf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b012cwth (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012kmdd (Listen) FRI With Alison Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for FRI Developing Compassion and Wisdom. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b012ftrg (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie FRI Bullock. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b012ftrj (Listen) FRI With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b012f7f3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b012fvcy (Listen) FRI Ghosts by Daylight, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Janine di Giovanni. FRI FRI Whilst Janine di Giovanni was struggling with her anxieties FRI over motherhood and coming to terms with the ghosts of her FRI past her husband Bruno was her greatest support, but just as FRI she finally relaxes into her new life, his back breaks. FRI FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall FRI Read by Emma Fielding FRI Produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b012ftrl (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012ftrn (Listen) FRI Imaginary Friends, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray FRI FRI Sociologist Tom McCann is behaving increasingly strangely, FRI much to the frustration of his young assistant Roger. But FRI they're about to hear some news that will make things a FRI great deal stranger. FRI FRI Roger ... Jonathan Forbes FRI McCann ... Nathan Osgood FRI Elsie ... Barbara Barnes FRI Verena ... Alex Tregear FRI Sissy ... Susie Riddell FRI Bill ... Peter Polycarpou FRI Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 11:00 The Hunt for Bin Laden b012ftrq (Listen) FRI From Khartoum to Kabul FRI FRI Thirty eight minutes in Abbottabad marked the dramatic end FRI to the hunt for a man who had eluded the world's super power FRI for more than 15 years. Osama bin Laden's name had surfaced FRI during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan but was of FRI little interest to the Americans because he had been FRI fighting the Russians. FRI FRI The Saudi militant later moved to Khartoum in Sudan, where FRI he acted like a respectable businessman. Beneath the veneer FRI was a man who led a sophisticated terrorist operation with FRI its own banking wing and accountants. FRI FRI Cofer Black, the CIA's head of station, tells how the CIA FRI kept an eye on bin Laden and his followers who became so FRI alarmed by the American's presence that they hatched an FRI unsuccessful plan to kill him. Pressure was put on the FRI Sudanese government and in 1996 the al-Qaeda leader was FRI forced to return to Afghanistan where he made plain his FRI intentions by declaring war on America. FRI FRI When the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya were FRI bombed in 1998, John Anticev, from the FBI, was sent to FRI investigate. He describes how one of the bombers confirmed FRI their suspicions by handing over the number of a satellite FRI phone. It belonged to bin Laden. FRI FRI By now the CIA had set up a special bin Laden unit which FRI came up with several plans to eliminate the al-Qaeda leader FRI but they were rejected by the White House. One of the FRI problems was that bin Laden never stayed in the same place FRI twice. FRI FRI Senior figures charged with monitoring bin Laden's FRI activities say they repeatedly attempted to warn the FRI incoming Bush administration of the growing threat. Just how FRI serious that threat was became clear on September 11th 2001. FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b012ftrs (Listen) FRI Series 3, Newcastle FRI FRI In this show, love is in the air, but also unfortunately in FRI a small airport in Birmingham - and Martin has to choose FRI between career, romance and fixing a very small tail-light. FRI And Carolyn meets a rather dashing pilot whilst Arthur meets FRI a rather boring board game. FRI FRI With special guests Anthony Head & Mark Williams FRI FRI Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole FRI 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam FRI Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Tom Goodman-Hill FRI Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore FRI Capt. Herc Shipwright ..... Anthony Head FRI Eddie ..... Mark Williams FRI 1st Officer Linda Fairburn ..... Anna Crilly FRI FRI Written by John Finnemore FRI Producer/Director: David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b012ftrv (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b012cwtk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b012ftrx (Listen) FRI With Edward Stourton. National and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b012ftrz (Listen) FRI Listeners' champion Roger Bolton is back with a new series FRI of Feedback to put your criticisms, queries and concerns to FRI BBC radio's top dogs. FRI FRI It will be a long hot summer as BBC management chew over FRI where the axe will fall to make savings needed - and staff FRI at 5Live prepare to move to Salford but will the listeners FRI hear any difference? FRI FRI And Roger investigates threatened changes to BBC local radio FRI and spends a morning with the Today team - can he get a word FRI in edgeways? FRI FRI Contact the Feedback team to let Roger know what you'd like FRI him to tackle this series about anything you've heard on BBC FRI radio. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b012fs70 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b012fts1 (Listen) FRI The Day We Caught the Train FRI FRI By Nick Payne. FRI FRI It's a big day for Sally, and she's been planning it for FRI weeks. But when her mystery man finally arrives, she's left FRI hopelessly unprepared. Intimate drama by award-winning FRI playwright. FRI FRI Sally . . . . . Olivia Colman FRI David . . . . . Ralph Ineson FRI Anna . . . . . Nishi Malde FRI Harold . . . . . John Rowe FRI Helen . . . . . Jane Whittenshaw FRI Waiter/Porter . . . . . Simon Bubb FRI FRI Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko FRI FRI Production Team: FRI Studio Managers: Caleb Knightley and Keith Graham FRI Editor: Anne Bunting FRI Production Co-Ordinators: Nicole Fitzpatrick and Matthew FRI Mills. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012fts3 (Listen) FRI Wincester, Hampshire FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening Q&A near Winchester, FRI Hampshire. Joining him are Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and FRI Pippa Greenwood. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon and Lucy Dichmont. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012hjc6 (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Death of Lenin and Rise of Stalin FRI FRI Stalin crushes all opposition to emerge as Lenin's successor FRI - despite Lenin's attempts to warn colleagues against him. FRI The revolution was only 7 years old when Lenin died, but his FRI cult had already been established and with it a belief that FRI communism in Russia had a holy destiny to change, educate FRI and perfect the human species. The baton had passed from FRI church to party, but the message and methods were the same. FRI FRI Emerging from Lenin's Mausoleum, Sixsmith reflects: "the FRI dimmed lights, the chilly silence, the reverential guards - FRI all tell you that this is the very epicentre of a messianic FRI force which spread its tentacles across the whole world. The FRI Party would lead the people from the grim, corrupted present FRI to a cleansed, harmonious future. But in return it demanded FRI unquestioning obedience: any deviation or dissent would be FRI mercilessly punished". FRI FRI Stalin abandoned the idea of world revolution, but not the FRI model of an all-powerful centralized autocrat. And, if world FRI revolution had been put on hold, communism still had to be FRI secured at home. The newly formed Union of Soviet Socialist FRI Republics was made up of a hundred or so national groups, FRI and not all of them were convinced. Many nationalities, FRI pressing for independence under the tsars, expected the FRI revolution to grant it to them. Lenin favoured patience, FRI understanding and sensitivity, but Stalin set the tone when FRI he responded to Georgian demands for greater independence by FRI sending in the Red Army. The Georgia Affair was an FRI indication that the rhetoric of greater freedom for the FRI national minorities ran counter to the increasingly FRI centralised structure of state and party rule. This fatal FRI contradiction would cause decades of smoldering conflict FRI and, ultimately, the disintegration of the Soviet Union. FRI FRI Historical Consultant - Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b012fts5 (Listen) FRI With Matthew Bannister. Obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b012fts7 (Listen) FRI Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b012fts9 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012cwtm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b012ftsc (Listen) FRI Series 34, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt presents an assortment of topical stand-up FRI sketches and songs, with Jon Holmes, Danielle Ward, Mitch FRI Benn and Laura Shavin. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b012ftsf (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b012hp9x (Listen) FRI With Mark Lawson, who reports on how 1000 musicians and FRI singers are rehearsing for a BBC Proms performance of FRI Havergal Brian's epic and rarely-heard Gothic symphony. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012ftrn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b012ftsh (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents a topical and political discussion from FRI Ash Green School in Coventry with Shadow Secretary of State FRI for Work and Pensions, Liam Byrne; Spectator columnist, FRI Melissa Kite; and Secretary of State for International FRI Development, Andrew Mitchell. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b012ftsk (Listen) FRI The Art of Conversation FRI FRI Alain de Botton on why preparing conversation is as FRI important as preparing a good salad for our summer picnic. FRI He questions why we put so much effort into our social FRI encounters, but leave our conversation to chance. With FRI examples from history and literature, he argues that it's FRI when there are rules to our conversation that our spirit can FRI best be set free. FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Russia: The Wild East b012hjc8 (Listen) FRI Series 2 Omnibus, Episode 1 FRI FRI Martin Sixsmith continues his major series of Russian FRI history amidst the whirlwind of 1917 revolution and the FRI Bolshevik rise to power. FRI FRI Here, as in part one, Sixsmith argues that things seem to FRI change radically, only to revert to old stereotypes. He FRI stands at the spot in Yekaterinburg where, while the country FRI was engulfed in a bloody civil war, the last tsar of Russia FRI met his fate. He draws on an eyewitness account of the FRI execution by an ad hoc firing squad. Recent research FRI suggests that Lenin took this decision personally to prevent FRI Nicholas II becoming a rallying point for the White cause. FRI Sixsmith reflects on the pragmatic necessity underlying FRI Lenin's ruthlessness and on the fatal attraction Lenin held FRI for a Russian people who thought he was bringing them FRI freedom. FRI FRI Germany's defeat in the World War allowed the Bolsheviks to FRI recoup much of the territory they'd ceded when they withdrew FRI from the war, but an attempt to kill Lenin led to harsh FRI reprisals and a ruthless war on so-called class enemies. FRI Lenin abandoned his promises of freedom, justice and FRI self-determination, replacing them with what came to be FRI known as War Communism - harsh, enslaving and repressive. FRI FRI But the Kronshtadt rebellion, with its manifesto claiming FRI the Communists had lost the trust of the people, forced the FRI Bolsheviks to rethink how they exercised power. Trotsky FRI crushed the uprising but Lenin was forced to offer economic FRI concessions. The New Economic Policy (NEP) placated the FRI people, and, although it split the party, gave Lenin the FRI time he needed to consolidate his hold on power. But, just 7 FRI years after the Revolution, Lenin dies to be replaced by the FRI man he had tried but failed to warn his party against - FRI Josef Stalin who increasingly adopted the model of an FRI all-powerful centralized autocrat. FRI FRI Historical Consultant - Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b012cwtp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b012ftsp (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012ftsr (Listen) FRI Waterline, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today: Mick's new life down in London begins with a FRI gruelling job in the bleak surroundings of a London airport. FRI FRI Reader: Alexander Morton FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b012fcyr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b012ftst (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the top news stories from Westminster. FRI
08 July, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 09/07/2011 - 15/07/2011
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