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SAT SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b05z6hgv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b05zlg6h (Listen) SAT Keeping an Eye Open, Freud: The Episodicist SAT SAT From Paul Cezanne to Lucian Freud, the novelist and critic SAT Julian Barnes considers the thrill of art. SAT SAT 'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art SAT form in terms of another, and that great paintings required SAT no words of explanation.' SAT SAT In this selection from Julian Barnes' recently published SAT collection of essays on art, he gives us a dazzling and SAT thoughtful assessment of the life and work of a range of SAT artists who set the stage for Modern Art. His words of SAT explanation are always witty, humane and full of insight. SAT SAT Read by Julian Barnes SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Julian Barnes SAT Author: Julian Barnes SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05z6hgx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05z6hgz (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05z6hh1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b05z6hh3 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05zllxs (Listen) SAT Spiritual reflection to start the day with the Rev Bob SAT Fyffe, General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and SAT Ireland. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b05zlly2 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b05z6hh5 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b05z6hh7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b05zl6z2 (Listen) SAT Series 30, The Red Ramblers in Dorset SAT SAT Clare Balding joins The Red Ramblers, members of the local SAT Labour party, who instead of being downhearted after the SAT general election result, are glad to be striding out across SAT the beautiful Dorset countryside, after months of trudging SAT on pavements delivering leaflets. SAT They walk from Symondsbury, near Dorchester, regaling Clare SAT with their campaigning exploits as well as their plans for SAT the future. They explain that walking together creates a SAT bond for when the political going gets tough. SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05zzwpd (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b05z6hh9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05zzwpg (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b05zzwpj (Listen) SAT Boris Becker SAT SAT Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles with Boris Becker, who talks SAT about his life and career, and crossword-compiling heart SAT surgeon Samer Nashef. Plus Benedict Allen's Inheritance SAT Tracks. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Boris Becker SAT Interviewed Guest: Benedict Allen SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b05zzwpl (Listen) SAT Series 10, Chinatown SAT SAT Jay Rayner presents the culinary panel show from London's SAT Chinatown. SAT SAT On this week's panel are the food historian Annie Gray, DIY SAT food expert Tim Hayward, and the Masterchef winner Tim SAT Anderson. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SAT Producer: Victoria Shepherd SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b05zzwpn (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b05z6hhg (Listen) SAT Mali's Magical Onions SAT SAT Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from across the SAT globe. Today, Jeremy Bowen on the layers of war in Yemen; SAT Carrie Gracie follows China's extraordinary transformation SAT of farmers into workers AND shoppers, and villages into SAT cities; Stephen Sackur on how President Putin is turning his SAT attentions to Russia's far east, with the help of roulette SAT wheels; in northern Norway, with Simon Parker, it's lashings SAT of homebrew and strange dancing to greet midsummer; and, SAT despite Alex Duval Smith's best efforts to find out, the SAT secret of Mali's shallots remains...well....secret. But what SAT about the genie? SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b05z6hhl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b05zzwqr (Listen) SAT Marriage equality, but pension inequality? SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT Related links SAT NHS England: EHIC - European Health Insurance Card SAT NI Direct: Travel health and the European Health Insurance SAT Card (EHIC SAT ) SAT NHS Direct Wales: European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) SAT Gov.UK: Tax Credits SAT Liberty: Pensions inequality remains in Marriage Bill SAT TUC: End discrimination in survivor pensions SAT BIBA: Car Insurance Advice SAT Money Saving Expert: Cheap car insurance SAT Age UK: Car insurance SAT UK Calling SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b05zljbt (Listen) SAT Series 87, Episode 7 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs her last ever edition of the News Quiz, SAT Radio 4's satirical review of the week's news, with regular SAT panellist Jeremy Hardy and guests Andy Hamilton, Phill SAT Jupitus and Francis Wheen. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Sara Pascoe SAT Producer: Lyndsay Fenner SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b05z6hht (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b05z6hj0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b05zlltq (Listen) SAT Nigel Farage MEP, Norman Lamb MP, Anna Soubry MP, Gisela SAT Stuart MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House with the Leader SAT of UKIP, Nigel Farage MEP, Norman Lamb MP who is standing SAT for leader of the Liberal Democrats, the Small Business SAT Minister Anna Soubry MP and the Labour backbencher Gisela SAT Stuart MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b05zzwqt (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b0613nxr (Listen) SAT If I Should Go Away SAT SAT Welsh poet Alun Lewis was born 100 years ago, in July 1915. SAT This play by contemporary Welsh poet Owen Sheers is adapted SAT from the letters and poems of Lewis, one of the most vivid SAT and lyrical voices of the second world war. It charts one SAT man's journey from pacifist to soldier, from husband to SAT lover, and reveals how casualties of war are emotional as SAT much as physical. SAT The play is introduced by Alun's widow Gweno Lewis SAT SAT Director Kate McAll SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Alun Lewis: Richard Harrington SAT Gweno Ellis: Mali Harries SAT Freda Aykroyd: Caroline Harker SAT Dick Mills: Richard Elfyn SAT Colonel Cresswell: Iestyn Jones SAT Registrar: Brendan Charleson SAT Reporter: Brendan Charleson SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT Writer: Owen Sheers SAT SAT 15:30 Fast and Furioso b05zkr4w (Listen) SAT The 21st century is producing musicians whose technical SAT ability is dazzling today's audiences, and conductor and SAT writer Rainer Hersch comes face to face with virtuosos from SAT very different musical worlds. SAT SAT He meets Mike Mangini who won the title of World's Fastest SAT Drummer by hitting a drumpad at over 20 beats a second for a SAT full minute. SAT SAT There's the high octane guitar shredder The Great Kat who SAT reckons on saving classical music for the Youtube generation SAT who want their music fast and furious. She obliges by SAT playing Beethoven's 5th Symphony in 1 minute 14 seconds. SAT SAT A different point of view comes from pianist Marc-Andre SAT Hamelin and trumpeter Alistair Mackie, who use their SAT virtuosity to bring the most challenging music to their SAT public, whether it's the rippling trumpet solos in Maxwell SAT Davies Trumpet Concerto, or Godowsky's arrangement of SAT Chopin's Revolutionary Etude for left hand alone. SAT SAT Rainer talks to them about how and why they learn such SAT difficult pieces. For 18 year old student Dominic Doutney, SAT it's the slow, painstaking practice of Chopin's Minute Waltz SAT that enables him to speed through it in 57 seconds. Drummer SAT Mike Mangini reckons that his ability to play fast equips SAT him with the skills to deal with any complicated rhythms. He SAT gives Rainer a demonstration of his control by setting his SAT metronome app at one beat per second and increasing the SAT number of beats over the minute tight up to twenty 20 per SAT second - beating his chest with his ever speeding hands! SAT SAT Producer: Richard Bannerman SAT A Far Shoreline production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b05zzxl1 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT We discuss the influence of popstar Taylor Swift on teenage SAT girls and Apple. SAT SAT How are girls learning about periods? With apps that monitor SAT menstrual cycles and vlogs offering advice how accurate is SAT this information and who should be giving girls advice about SAT starting periods? SAT SAT Sue Lloyd-Roberts is an award winning journalist and SAT reporter who has often risked her safety to shine a light on SAT human right abuses. She became ill in January this year with SAT a blood disorder that had developed into leukaemia, she SAT talks about coping with her illness, and some of her SAT reporting highlights. SAT SAT A new advertising campaign is being launched to make parents SAT more aware of the dangers their children can face online. SAT But why do so few parents use parental controls? SAT SAT Sarah Vine is one of a long line of female columnists on the SAT Daily Mail. She tells us about her career and the role of SAT the columnist and her marriage to Justice Secretary Michael SAT Gove. SAT SAT How do we engage girls in engineering and retain those SAT already in the field? We hear from Tamsin Smith a Marine SAT engineer about her experiences at sea. SAT SAT And what's the best way to survive a festival when you've SAT got a baby in tow? SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Sue Lloyd-Roberts SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Vine SAT Interviewed Guest: Tamsin Smith SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b05zzxl3 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b05zld8l (Listen) SAT Angel Investors SAT SAT How to spot the next Google, Paypal or LinkedIn? Three SAT successful entrepreneurs tell Evan Davis how they use their SAT own money to back promising start-ups. SAT SAT Guests: SAT Sherry Coutu, founder, Cambridge Business Angels SAT Fiona Cruickshank, founder, Gabriel Investors SAT Suzanne Biegel, founder, Clearly Social Angels SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05z6hj2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b05z6hj4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05z6hj6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b05zzxl5 (Listen) SAT Danny Wallace, Emma Freud, Jade Anouka, Marek Kukula, Jeremy SAT Brock, Mark Thomas, Tom McRae, Toto La Momposina SAT SAT Danny Wallace and Emma Freud with guests Jade Anouka, Marek SAT Kukula, Jeremy Brock, Mark Thomas and music from Toto La SAT Momposina. SAT SAT Totó La Momposina SAT SAT The new album ‘Tambolero’ is out on 29th June via Real World SAT Records. Toto's only UK performance this year will be at the SAT WOMAD Festival on 24 July. SAT Toto la Momposina's official website SAT SAT Mark Thomas SAT SAT ‘Tresspass’ will be at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at SAT Summerhall from 7th-30th August. Mark's book '100 Acts of SAT Minor Dissent' is out now via September Publishing. SAT Mark Thomas' official website SAT SAT SAT SAT Jeremy Brock SAT SAT ‘36 Phone Calls’ is at the Hampstead Theatre until 18 July. SAT SAT SAT SAT Jade Anouka SAT SAT ‘Chef’ is at the Soho Theatre, London until Saturday 4th SAT July and at Latitude Festival 17th July. SAT Jade Anouka's official website SAT SAT SAT SAT Marek Kukula SAT SAT The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who is published by BBC SAT Books and is out now. SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Tom McRae SAT SAT The album ‘Did I Sleep And Miss The Border’ is out now on SAT Buzzard Tree Records. SAT Tom McRae's official website SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Danny Wallace SAT Presenter: Emma Freud SAT Interviewed Guest: Jade Anouka SAT Interviewed Guest: Marek Kukula SAT Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Brock SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Thomas SAT Performer: Toto la Momposina SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b05zzxl7 (Listen) SAT Series 18, Episode 5 SAT SAT From Fact to Fiction SAT SAT The award-winning series in which writers create a fictional SAT response to the week's news. SAT SAT This week, Julia Pascal's drama is inspired by the SAT Charleston Church Elder who compared the tragic shooting at SAT his church to the devil trying to take charge. SAT SAT Escaping from an argument at home, Loren seeks refuge in her SAT church. Here she meets an enigmatic young man who has an SAT interesting proposal for her. SAT SAT Revelations by Julia Pascal SAT SAT With additional choir members Ibianga Evans, Emma Belfield SAT and Kathryn Woods. SAT SAT Directed by Charlotte Riches SAT SAT Fact to Fiction - Revelations. SAT SAT Credits SAT Loren: Ibinabo Jack SAT Luke: Chris Jack SAT Tracy: Flo Wilson SAT Writer: Julia Pascal SAT Director: Charlotte Riches SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06000p9 (Listen) SAT Educating Rita, Barbara Hepworth, Everyone's Going to Die, SAT Book of Numbers, Not Safe for Work SAT SAT Lenny Henry's career as an actor continues with Willy SAT Russell's Educating Rita at Chichester's Minerva Theatre SAT The first Barbara Hepworth retrospective exhibition in SAT London for half a century has opened at Tate Britain. Does SAT it do her career justice? Everyone's Going To Die is a small SAT scale British dark comedy film about hitmen, relationships SAT and reincarnation SAT The author Joshua Cohen's latest novel is Book of Numbers SAT about a writer called Joshua Cohen (not him) writing a SAT biography of an internet genius called Joshua Cohen (also SAT not him). Confused? Let us help you to make some sense. SAT Channel 4's Not Safe For Work is a comedy about the staff of SAT a government department which has been moved from London out SAT to the regions as part of a money-saving exercise. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06000pc (Listen) SAT A Brief History of Shame SAT SAT American satirist Joe Queenan is joined by a stellar cast SAT including Tiger Woods, Gordon Brown and the Duchess of York SAT for Archive on 4's A Brief History of Shame. Queenan tackles SAT key issues - what is shame for? The art of the apology; and SAT then there's the French - before building to a surprising SAT and fiery conclusion. SAT SAT "When you do something wrong and then you admit that you did SAT it, and people keep after you ... that's when society SAT becomes almost pathological. I'm never willing to give the SAT public the benefit of the doubt - and this insane epidemic SAT of shame - both the trivial, and the miserable, the deadly, SAT even the murderous - it's got to be reined in." SAT SAT Featuring archive of Bill Clinton, Jane Garvey, John SAT Prescott, Jon Ronson, Tim Stanley of the Daily Telegraph, SAT and Sir Peter Viggers, the 'duck house man'; plus new SAT interviews with classics professor Edith Hall and novelist SAT Kathy Lette, and music by Fats Domino, Bessie Smith and SAT Question Mark and The Mysterians. SAT SAT Shame follows Joe Queenan's previous programmes on Anger, SAT Irony and Blame. SAT SAT The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde. SAT SAT 21:00 The Barchester Chronicles b05zgjw3 (Listen) SAT Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset, All the SAT Work of His Life SAT SAT by Anthony Trollope SAT Dramatised by Nick Warburton SAT Part 4: All the Work of His Life SAT SAT Johnny's travel abroad brings him an unexpected new friend SAT and an answer to Mr Crawley's dilemma, but what SAT repercussions will it have in Barsetshire? SAT SAT Other parts played by members of the series cast SAT SAT Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian SAT Gallant. SAT SAT Directed and Produced by Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT This is the final book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester SAT Chronicles and many of the characters from both "The Small SAT House at Allington" and "Framley Parsonage" return to finish SAT his story of Barsetshire life set between 1855 and 1867. SAT These 4 episodes focus in part on the story of the proud but SAT impoverished vicar of Hogglestock, Josiah Crawley and the SAT accusation that he has stolen and cashed a cheque. The whole SAT of Barset has an opinion about Crawley's guilt or innocence, SAT but no-one is more affected by it than Archdeacon Grantly's SAT son, Henry, who has fallen in love with Crawley's daughter, SAT Grace. Meanwhile, Johnny Eames has returned to try for the SAT hand of Lily Dale, who is still devastated by the betrayal SAT of her amoral fiance, Adolphus Crosbie. Happily, Mrs Baxter SAT returns to tell the tale and give her inimitable opinion on SAT events. SAT Maggie Steed plays Mrs Baxter and is joined by Adam Kotz, SAT Tim Pigott-Smith, Samuel Barnett and Scarlett Alice Johnson. SAT The Barchester Chronicles is Anthony Trollope's much-loved SAT series of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life SAT set within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and SAT the surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the SAT lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural SAT gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful SAT set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately SAT involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of SAT love and friendship across the years. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SAT Johnny Eames: Samuel Barnett SAT Mr Harding: Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Lily Dale: Scarlett Alice Johnson SAT Mr Crawley: Adam Kotz SAT Grace Crawley: Rhiannon Neads SAT Henry Grantly: Mark Edel-Hunt SAT Archdeacon Grantly: Nigel Anthony SAT Eleanor Arabin: Claire Price SAT Posy: Rose Hilton Hille SAT Madalina Demolines: Ayesha Antoine SAT Mr Toogood: Sam Dale SAT Policeman: Chris Pavlo SAT Author: Anthony Trollope SAT Adaptor: Nick Warburton SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT Producer: Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b05z6hj8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b05zl1bd (Listen) SAT Islamic State Recruitment SAT SAT A special Europe-wide police unit was launched this week to SAT track and close down Islamic State social media accounts. SAT It's been launched in response to concerns not enough is SAT being done to prevent IS propaganda. Thousands of young SAT European men, including an estimated 700 Britons, have SAT travelled to Syria to join the group. Are they just victims SAT of seductive propaganda? Or is IS pushing at an open door? SAT According to Prime Minister David Cameron parts of some SAT Muslim communities have to share the blame for young Britons SAT joining IS forces because they've "quietly condoned" SAT extremist ideology instead of confronting it. The accusation SAT comes at a sensitive time for Muslims during the festival of SAT Ramadan and has been condemned for focusing on a very small SAT minority and feeding a divisive "us and them" agenda. But is SAT that what this is? A battle of ideologies? Is it enough to SAT just put forward a negative critique of extremism, or does SAT that play into the hands of the terrorists? Are we in danger SAT of expanding the word "radical" to mean "too religious"? And SAT what if, despite it all, people do want to go and fight for SAT a cause with which we profoundly disagree? Should we just SAT let them go and defy international law and strip them of SAT their British citizenship to make sure they can't come back? SAT Is there a moral difference between those going to Syria and SAT the 4000 or so British and Irish who travelled to Spain to SAT fight with the International Brigades? SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b05zhj38 (Listen) SAT Series 29, Heat 3, 2015 SAT SAT (3/13) SAT Which record label took its name from the red light district SAT of New Orleans? And Pierre Monteux was the conductor at SAT which notorious orchestral premiere of 1913? SAT SAT Another trio of music lovers face Paul Gambaccini's SAT questions in the third heat of the eclectic music quiz. This SAT week the programme comes from Media City in Salford and the SAT contestants all hail from the north of England. SAT SAT As always, they'll also have to pick a special musical SAT category on which to answer a round of individual questions SAT - with no warning of what the topics are. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT TED BARR, a barrister from Wigston in Leicestershire SAT SAT GORDON FYFFE, a retired insurance officer from Crewe SAT SAT KAREN USHER, a risk manager from Harrogate SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b05zgjw7 (Listen) SAT June Miscellany SAT SAT Roger McGough with a miscellany of poems about sun, sleep, SAT love and loss. Including poetry by Margaret Atwood, Fleur SAT Adcock, Wislawa Symborska, John Keats and WH Auden. Producer SAT Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT A Green Cornfield SAT SAT By Christina Rossetti SAT SAT From The Book of a Thousand Poems; a Family Treasury SAT SAT Published by Peter Bedrick Books SAT SAT SAT SAT Nature Table SAT SAT By Fleur Adcock SAT SAT From Fleur Adcock – Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Sunlight on the Garden SAT SAT By Louis MacNeice SAT SAT From The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Lost Hold SAT SAT By Jenny Joseph SAT SAT From Jenny Joseph – Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Exile SAT SAT By Kathleen Raine SAT SAT From Kathleen Raine – Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Golgonooza Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Bright Star SAT SAT By Keats SAT SAT From Keats’s Poetry and Prose SAT SAT Published by W. W. Norton & Company SAT SAT SAT SAT Lullaby SAT SAT By W H Auden SAT SAT From W H Auden – Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT To Althea from Prison SAT SAT By Richard Lovelace SAT SAT From An Anthology of World Poetry [Second Edition] SAT SAT Published by Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc. SAT SAT SAT SAT True Love SAT SAT By Wislawa Szymborska SAT SAT Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh SAT SAT From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997 SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Well Water SAT SAT By Edmond Jabes SAT SAT From A Share of Ink SAT SAT Published by Menard Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Bluebird SAT SAT By Charles Bukowski SAT SAT From The Last Night of the Earth Poems SAT SAT Published by Ecco / HarperCollins SAT SAT SAT SAT Sleep Positions SAT SAT By Lola Haskins SAT SAT From Desire Lines SAT SAT Published by BOA Editions, Limited SAT SAT SAT SAT Aunt Julia SAT SAT By Norman MacCaig SAT SAT From The Rattle Bag SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Morning in the Burned House SAT SAT By Margaret Atwood SAT SAT From Morning in the Burned House SAT SAT Published by Virago SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 JUNE 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0606jq9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Original Shorts b01djrpp (Listen) SUN Series 5, Judgement SUN SUN The jurors in this case plainly disapprove of aging defence SUN barrister Harry Fox as he shambles into court in his torn SUN gown. He believes 'better a hundred guilty men go free, than SUN one innocent man be convicted.' But this case may be SUN different. SUN SUN As Fox defends his client, he can see the jurors' hearts SUN going out to the fragile-looking victim in the case. They SUN stare at Fox as if to say - how can you defend a rapist? SUN Have you no conscience? But then, something curious come to SUN light in the courtroom. Will old Harry have to exercise his SUN own 'judgement'? The denouement is unexpected and rather SUN shocking. Successful barrister and novelist Olly Jarvis has SUN written this brand-new story SUN especially for Original Shorts. It's given a masterly SUN performance by Tim Pigott-Smith. SUN SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0606jqc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0606jqf (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0606jqh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0606jqk (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0606md6 (Listen) SUN Bells from the Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Combe Martin SUN in Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b05zl1bg (Listen) SUN Matt Haig SUN SUN In this powerful edition of Four Thought, recorded at the SUN Hay Festival, the writer Matt Haig describes how words SUN helped him live with depression. SUN SUN "You have to believe there is a point of there being words, SUN and that they can offer real meaning. Normally this belief SUN is taken for granted, but that is because normally we are SUN taking the world itself for granted. But when your mind SUN crumbles to dust everything you thought you knew suddenly SUN becomes something to question. You have to build reality up SUN again. And the bricks we use to shape our realities are SUN called words." SUN SUN Recorded at the Hay Festival. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Proctor SUN Editor: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0606jqm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0606md8 (Listen) SUN The Enclosed Garden SUN SUN From paradise to The Secret Garden, the composer Michael Zev SUN Gordon reflects on the peculiar magic of the enclosed SUN garden. From the hopefulness of planting seeds to the SUN delight of watching your garden grow. SUN SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN The readers were Adjoa Andoh and Darren Altman SUN Title: SUN There Is Another Sky SUN Author: SUN Emily Dickenson SUN Publisher: SUN Heraklion Press SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Song of Songs SUN Text: SUN The Holy Bible SUN Publisher: SUN Harper Collins SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Come Into the Garden Maud SUN Author: SUN Tennyson SUN Publisher: SUN Wordsworth Editions SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN History of Paradise: The Garden of Eden in Myth and SUN Tradition SUN Author: SUN Jean Delumeau SUN Publisher: SUN University of Illinois Press SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN The Secret Garden SUN Author: SUN Frances Hodgeson Burnett SUN Publisher: SUN Simon and Schuster UK SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Julian Johnson SUN Author: SUN Webern and the Transformation of Nature SUN Publisher: SUN Cambridge University Press SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Four Quartets SUN Author: SUN TS Eliot SUN Publisher: SUN Faber and Faber SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0606mdb (Listen) SUN Wild Cattle SUN SUN Ruth Sanderson goes on safari in Northumberland to visit the SUN wild cattle of Chillingham. The estate manager Chris Leyland SUN explains the eccentricities of these ancient animals, which SUN have been untouched for hundreds of years. Meanwhile, the SUN new warden of the cattle, Ellie Crossley, explains why she SUN swapped Dorset for Northumberland. SUN SUN Produced and presented by Ruth Sanderson. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0606jqp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0606jqr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0606mdd (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b0606mdg (Listen) SUN AbleChildAfrica SUN SUN Dame Evelyn Glennie presents The Radio 4 Appeal for SUN AbleChildAfrica SUN Registered Charity No 326859 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'AbleChildAfrica'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'AbleChildAfrica'. SUN SUN AbleChildAfrica SUN SUN AbleChildAfrica works exclusively with, and on behalf of, SUN disabled children in Africa and works to secure equal rights SUN for, and improve the lives of, disabled children and their SUN families. We envision a world in which all disabled SUN children are fully included as equal members of society and SUN are able to achieve their full potential. SUN With three decades of experience, we understand the needs of SUN disabled children, but our success is only made possible by SUN the kind donations we receive from our supporters. SUN SUN Dame Evelyn Glennie’s visit to Kibera SUN SUN Dame Evelyn Glennie shares her experience of visiting one of SUN our partners in Nairobi, Kenya, last year: SUN *“As I emerge from the slums and turn the corner I look SUN towards the gates of Little Rock. The new** building… is a SUN sanctuary of care and understanding in Kibera… No child is SUN left out.” SUN ** SUN *The new purpose built site for Little Rock Early Childhood SUN Inclusive Education Centre was facilitated by SUN AbleChildAfrica and opened three years ago. The school SUN provides inclusive education in a stimulating, innovative SUN and safe environment. SUN SUN (Photo shows Dame Evelyn Glennie with a child at SUN AbleChildAfrica’s partner project in Nairobi, Kenya) SUN SUN Providing lifelines with partners in Africa SUN SUN We have thirty years of experience working with disabled SUN children in Sub Saharan Africa. Today, we help provide SUN direct services, including education, health, employment and SUN sport, and equip all our partners with crucial skills, SUN expertise and resources to change the lives of the disabled SUN children in their communities. SUN (Photo shows children at AbleChildAfrica’s partner project SUN in Northern Uganda) SUN SUN A global voice for some of the most marginalised children SUN SUN The struggle for equal human rights will be incomplete if SUN the hundreds of millions of disabled children are left SUN behind. We fight for Daniel, and other disabled children SUN across Africa, and support our partners on the ground to SUN influence local decision makers as well as advocate on their SUN behalf at an international level. SUN (Photo shows children speaking and signing at SUN AbleChildAfrica’s partner project in Nairobi, Kenya) SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0606jqt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0606jqw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0606mdj (Listen) SUN To communicate with the world in which they live, Christians SUN need to engage with it. The Rev David Bruce, the Secretary SUN of the Board of Mission in Ireland of the Presbyterian SUN Church will look at how some of the leaders, Jeremiah and SUN Daniel, of the exiled Israelites maintained their allegiance SUN to God whilst choosing to engage in the culture around them. SUN SUN The service comes live from First Lisburn Presbyterian SUN Church in Northern Ireland and is conducted by the minister, SUN the Rev John Brackenridge. The music will be by the New SUN Irish Choir and members of the New Irish Orchestra, founded SUN almost 30 years ago by the hymn writer, Keith Getty, and SUN which works with the Church in Ireland to present SUN Christianity through the Arts. The Choir is directed by SUN Jonathan Rea. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b05zllts (Listen) SUN Adam Gopnik: Words and Music SUN SUN Adam Gopnik's experience of writing a libretto casts light SUN on the mysterious relationship between words and music. SUN "Sung words belong more fully to the world of ritual and SUN routine, of incantation and mother's murmurings, than to the SUN fully lucid and well-lit world of argument." SUN Producer:Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03zbtzz (Listen) SUN Black Grouse SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Kate Humble presents the story of the black grouse. A black SUN grouse lek is one of Nature's spectacles. Charged with SUN testosterone, the males, known as 'black cocks', compete on SUN 'jousting lawns' for the females or grey hens. Fanning their SUN lyre-shaped tails and displaying a flurry of white undertail SUN feathers, the males rush towards their rivals with harsh SUN scouring sneezes and bubbling cries, known as 'roo-kooing'. SUN SUN Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0606vts (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0606vtv (Listen) SUN Helen has some big news, and Jennfer has vital information. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Paul Brodrick SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0606vtx (Listen) SUN Harry Rabinowitz SUN SUN Kirsty's castaway this week is the conductor and composer SUN Harry Rabinowitz. SUN SUN His list of credits and collaborations read like a Who's Who SUN of 20th century music - Gracie Fields, Charles Aznavour, SUN Andrew Lloyd Webber, Matt Monro & Barbra Streisand are only SUN a handful of the stellar names who've benefitted from his SUN talents. He's conducted a lot of movie scores too, including SUN Chariots of Fire and The Talented Mr Ripley; indeed the late SUN director Anthony Minghella described him as "the UK's best SUN kept secret". SUN SUN It wasn't an illustrious start; his first job was playing SUN sheet music for prospective customers in a Johannesburg SUN department store - he was fired after 6 weeks. His first go SUN at conducting was enhanced not by an elegant baton of the SUN finest Maplewood but a rolled up old newspaper. SUN SUN He's almost a hundred years old now, still plays the piano SUN every day and only retired from the concert platform six SUN years ago at the age of 94. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Harry Rabinowitz SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b0606jqy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b05zhl3k (Listen) SUN Series 72, Episode 6 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts the perennially popular panel game in SUN which guests Paul Merton, Shelia Hancock, Mike McShane and SUN Pam Ayres attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, SUN repetition or deviation. SUN SUN Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN A BBC Comedy Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Panellist: Mike McShane SUN Panellist: Pam Ayres SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0606vtz (Listen) SUN Feeding the Commons - Part I: Breakfast to Brunch SUN SUN Following the food operation at the centre of British SUN politics. Breakfast to Brunch. The Food Programme team go SUN behind the scenes of one of the most historic food SUN operations in the world. SUN SUN In the first part of this edition, we discover the SUN incredible history of dining in Parliament and meet the SUN people who feed Westminster's 14 thousand pass holders. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon & produced in Bristol by Clare SUN Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0606jr0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0606vv1 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Achalasia Diaries b0606vv3 (Listen) SUN Femi Martin describes how she found fulfilment as a writer SUN and performer as a result of a chronic illness, and how her SUN despair has turned to happiness. SUN SUN In 2007 Femi developed Achalasia, a rare disorder of the SUN gullet that prevents food getting into the stomach and which SUN went undiagnosed for many years. SUN SUN At her lowest point, under seven stone, experiencing heart SUN attack-like chest spasms, Femi almost surrendered to the SUN condition. Instead she experienced an epiphany. SUN SUN After days of vomiting everything she tried to consume, even SUN water, she thought that she was dying -and realised that in SUN general she didn't mind. But one thing did concern her - SUN that she would go to her grave without anyone knowing about SUN her talent for writing. SUN SUN Since the age of seven Femi had written - but with fear and SUN reservation. Now she took fresh resolve, making a pledge to SUN herself to live long enough to write with confidence and SUN honesty. She explored not only her illness, but her SUN identity, beliefs, even her reasons for living. SUN SUN She also reappraised the relationships in her life - most SUN notably with her mother, who features in the programme in SUN conversation with Femi. Together, they revisit those times SUN when Femi's anger led her mother to ask her to leave the SUN family home. Through the course of the programme, we hear SUN these two people, who love each other very much but who also SUN still carry some hurt, say many of the things that were left SUN unsaid in those darkest of days. SUN SUN This is a contemplation on how the dominance of ill-health SUN opened up new spaces for Femi Martin to be brave as a writer SUN - and ultimately as a person. SUN SUN Achalasia affects about 6,000 people in Britain, with one SUN new case per 100,000 each year. SUN SUN Produced by Adam Fowler SUN A PRA production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05zlh47 (Listen) SUN Postbag Edition SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts a postbag edition of the programme from SUN Garden Organic in Coventry. He is joined by Pippa Greenwood, SUN Matthew Wilson and Bob Flowerdew. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – 15 years ago I planted a Silver Birch that grew well but SUN then started to fade away. At the base I saw something that SUN looked like Honey Fungus. Last year, convinced the tree was SUN dead, I took out the trunk with a mattock and removed any SUN signs of fungus before planting another Silver Birch five SUN yards (4.5m) away. The *Pyracantha* hedge has now started SUN to die off at the end nearest the infection. What can I do SUN beyond taking out more and more plants? SUN Pippa – SUN Silver Birch are very prone to Honey Fungus. Five metres is SUN very close though. Also, Honey Fungus stays underground SUN from year to year. Five years is approx. to five yards away SUN (the fungus moves at about a yard/metre per year) if you’re SUN talking about the bootlace growth. So planting much further SUN away would help as well as setting up a cordon. Take out SUN the dead and dying plants as well as the plants about 2 SUN metres further away for good measure. SUN Q – I bought an Azalea in Woolworths for half a crown in SUN 1965 – it’s got now bigger since I planted it… what am I SUN doing wrong? SUN Bob – SUN Some Azaleas are very small – it could just be one of the SUN dwarf ones. Plants that can’t flower grow until the can SUN flower – if this is flowering happily where it is I wouldn’t SUN worry about it. SUN Matthew – SUN It’s obviously quite happy there but if it looks a bit lost SUN I would pop it in a pot and almost treat it like a bonsai… SUN although then it might start growing like the clappers! SUN Q – I’ve recently bought a polytunnel which is 15ft x 10ft SUN (approx. 4.5m x 3m) and my grandson suggested I try to grow SUN some grapes. What soil type should I use and what variety SUN of grapes would be best? SUN Bob Sherman (ret. Chief Horticultural Officer at Garden SUN Organic SUN ) – It’s a good sized space. There are really three types SUN of grapes – ones for making wine (venus), also Sweetwater, SUN and Muscat grapes which have much better flavour. The best SUN ones are the Muscats – Cannon Hall Muscat, Hamburg Muscat. SUN Grapes are vigorous so you need to train it well in the SUN polytunnel. SUN Bob F – SUN Or you could try the Madresfield Court variety… I wouldn’t SUN plant it in the ground – try tub growing - bringing them in SUN in February - you get an earlier crop – about five or six SUN bunches per vine but then you can get a vine to every square SUN metre. This will contain them as they can be as vigorous as SUN a wisteria! SUN Q – As a member of the RAF my family and I move every two SUN years – we usually inherit poorly maintained gardens with SUN poor soil quality. We’ve just moved to Suffolk, with a SUN bright back garden, and there’s a large (10m x 2m/33ft x SUN 6.5ft), knee deep in weeds, partially under a Sycamore tree… SUN what would the panel suggest I could do to get quick SUN results? SUN Pippa – SUN Thorough weeding is vital. Make sure the Sycamore isn’t SUN taking up too much root space/offering too much shade – set SUN to it in a mean way! Plant-wise – go for annuals, but also SUN perennial bulbs. SUN SUN If you were staying in the UK with your next move you could SUN grow some small shrubs to take with you. Also, use some of SUN the bed for vegetables – you could still, this year, grow SUN some veg from scratch. SUN Matthew – SUN I would go for perennials that won’t need too much aftercare SUN and can be moved in two years’ time. Things like – SUN Persicaria Firetail which is very robust, also *Stipa SUN gigantea,* the Golden Oat Grass. Perennial Geraniums too SUN would be good – something such as one of the *endresii* SUN hyrbrids. SUN Bob Sherman – SUN I would focus on annuals and some vegetables. Some veg is SUN very colourful like the Chicories and the coloured lettuces SUN and beetroot, ornamental cabbages and cauliflowers. SUN Q - I planted a bramley apple tree last year from a SUN supermarket. Its main stem is about 3ft and has 4 branches SUN which are all about 3ft long. They are all at this time SUN flowering beautifully. The thing is, should I have cut these SUN back? They are far too thin to bare fruit so do need SUN pruning. How much do I cut them back and when is the best SUN time to do it? This tree is on my allotment in Scarborough. SUN Bob Sherman – SUN From a supermarket it’s probably a dwarfing or semi-dwarfing SUN rootstock… something like a M9 or M106… hopefully it’s not SUN on M25 because that will probably outgrow your house! You SUN don’t want it to fruit this year; it’s too young. Come SUN winter, cut the four branches back by about half then next SUN year you should be able to pick about 6, even-sized SUN branches. SUN Bob F – SUN Get another apple tree – a Bramley will never fruit on its SUN own. Or other apples, a Crabapple will certainly pollenate SUN it. Ideally prune it back but if it is a dwarfing tree I SUN leave it alone as they offer so little growth. Maybe use SUN canes to hold the weak branches into a framework. SUN Pippa – SUN When buying you want a stock that has come in recently, you SUN want to buy it before it has broken into leaf (or only just SUN started), at the bottom end the roots need to have some SUN moisture too. SUN Q – My *Pittosporum* has become large and unkempt, can it be SUN used for topiary? I want to make it into a spiral. It’s 3 SUN years old, 4ft high and 3ft wide (1.2m x 0.9m approx.). SUN Matthew – SUN You can use them for topiaries, yes, but I wouldn’t go as SUN far as a spiral. Some plants can stand that level – *Taxus SUN baccata* the yew is one, *Buxus* (Boxwood) is another – but SUN *Pittosporum* wouldn’t. SUN Sally Cunningham from Garden Organic SUN – I would leave it alone. Let the cold winter cut it back SUN for you. SUN Q – My Salvia ‘Hot Lips’ has lost its bicolour and is only SUN flowering red, what can I do? SUN Matthew – SUN It does this the Salvia ‘Hot Lips’ – it goes through funny SUN phases (it is technically a perennial though it is grown as SUN an annual). It is unstable. SUN Sally – SUN It might be to do with temperature, moisture, and SUN day-length. If they are kept moist they tend to be more SUN bicolour and if it’s cold they go red! SUN Pippa – SUN nothing you can do to stop it I’m afraid… learn to love it SUN in its various guises! SUN Q - I have a conifer in my garden. about 30 feet high SUN (9.1m). It is next to garage. I can see its roots are SUN lifting up concrete path to garage. If I don't do anything, SUN in future I suspect stem/roots will grow fatter, Hence SUN lifting the garage floor as well. SUN If I get someone to cut about 10 feet (3m) top of this tree, SUN will it's roots grow fatter? SUN Sally – SUN You’re going to have to choose between the tree and the SUN garage! If you attack it the roots will attack back. SUN Pippa – SUN Even the dwarf conifers really aren’t dwarf at all – I had SUN one removed at at least 30ft. I’d side with the garage and SUN take the tree down. SUN Matthew – SUN Hacking it back won’t slow the roots down and conifers (with SUN the exception of Yew) don’t grow from the top if they’ve SUN been cut back. SUN Q – Each year I have to start off more cucumber plants than SUN I need. They reach about 10cm/4in high and then collapse SUN and shrink to nothing in a very short time. I sterilize my SUN compost on the stove before applying it. I don’t have the SUN same problem with my tomatoes. Why is this happening? SUN Anton Rosenfeld from Garden Organic – SUN I reckon it’s a fungal disease. Cucumbers are particularly SUN susceptible to diseases of the stem especially the stems are SUN in contact with damp soil. I’d be careful about not over SUN watering. Also, fungi can lurk in seed trays so make sure SUN to wash them thoroughly. Water with fresh tap water from SUN clean water cans to avoid water-dwelling fungi. SUN Pippa – SUN Avoid water butt water. Go for sterilized proprietary SUN compost. Don’t plant too deep – the stem needs to be above SUN ground. SUN Bob F – SUN Don’t sterilize compost for too long! Because above, say 150 SUN degrees for 10 minutes, you can actually get more SUN fertility. Tomatoes might cope with this but cucumbers SUN won’t. SUN Q – Can I use leaf mould from underneath spruce trees to SUN fill raised beds in the polytunnel? SUN Anton – SUN Generally leaf mould is wonderful stuff but from underneath SUN pine trees it’s going to be quite acidic and quite hard to SUN break down. SUN Pippa – SUN You can use them as a mulch against slugs and snails – very SUN effective – particularly good around strawberry plants SUN Bob F – SUN Best put it under other conifers SUN Q – My front door opens straight onto the street. I SUN recently put a pot of flowers outside and various other SUN neighbours are doing the same so the road is getting to be a SUN little more colourful. Now I’d like to plant a climber up SUN the front wall. It’d have to be in a pot, the wall is SUN brick, south-facing, getting full sun almost all day, it SUN does get very hot and things dry out fast. Suggestions SUN please. SUN Matthew – SUN I’d go for an annual rather than perennial climber. SUN Something like Morning Glory or an *Eccremocarpus* which has SUN cigar flowers basically and grows very quickly. Black-Eyed SUN Susan too. SUN Anton – SUN I’d go for something edible. Mouse Melons look great and SUN taste great. Looks like an olive-sized rugby ball with a SUN crocodile skin and it tastes like a lemon-flavoured SUN cucumber. SUN Pippa – SUN A Pineapple Broom. You would need a support system but it SUN has lovely silvery foliage, yellow flowers, and doesn’t mind SUN being baked. Make sure you use a really big pot so it SUN doesn’t dry out so quickly. SUN Bob F – SUN I’d put it a mix of red and white flowering runner beans SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b0606vv5 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between couples who face SUN the aftermath of rejection, the onset of Alzheimer's, and SUN the benefits of a dedicated working life, in the Omnibus SUN edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you SUN hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 The Stuarts b0606vv7 (Listen) SUN William III and Mary II: To Have and To Hold SUN SUN Mike Walker's epic chronicle considers the early years of SUN William of Orange and his marriage to James II's daughter, SUN Mary Stuart. By marrying his English cousin, Dutch William SUN looks to cement an alliance between the two countries and SUN halt Louis XIV's land-grabbing march across Europe. Neither SUN partnership gets off to an auspicious start. SUN SUN Harpsichord played by Peter Ringrose SUN Director - Gemma Jenkins. SUN SUN Credits SUN William: Mark Edel-Hunt SUN Mary: Elaine Cassidy SUN Bentinck: Jonathan Coy SUN Young Bentinck: Finn den Hertog SUN De Witt: Sam Dale SUN Aurelia: Alex Tregear SUN Hendrieka: Rhiannon Neads SUN James II: David Acton SUN John Churchill: David Hounslow SUN Halifax: Stephen Critchlow SUN Director: Gemma Jenkins SUN Writer: Mike Walker SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0607247 (Listen) SUN Reader's Guide to Milan Kundera SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup is joined by Benjamin Markovits to talk SUN about his new novel You Don't Have To Live Like This. It's SUN an ambitious story of a group of old college friends who SUN attempt to find a new direction by living in a regeneration SUN project in Detroit. SUN We discuss Milan Kundera's new novel The Festival of SUN Insignificance. Publisher Elena Lappin and Benjamin SUN Markovits share their view on this and recommend their SUN favourite from his earlier work. SUN Alan Samson, non-fiction publisher at Weidenfeld and SUN Nicholson, recommends a collection of cultural essays from SUN South American literary giant Mario Vargas Llosa in our SUN Editor's Tip for July. SUN And finally with the eagerly anticipated publication of SUN Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman, over fifty years since To SUN Kill A Mockingbird first came out, Professor Diane Roberts SUN looks at Lee's place in the literary traditions of the SUN south. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of You Don't Have to Live Like This SUN by Benjamin Markovits SUN You Don't Have to Live Like This: Chapter 1 SUN by Benjamin Markovits SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Benjamin Markovits SUN Interviewed Guest: Elena Lappin SUN Interviewed Guest: Alan Samson SUN Interviewed Guest: Diane Roberts SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b060724c (Listen) SUN John Donne SUN SUN Roger McGough is joined by expert Katherine Rundell and SUN actor Samuel Barnett for a special programme featuring the SUN beautiful, sensual, clever and passionate poetry of John SUN Donne. Last in the series. SUN Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN Love’s Growth SUN SUN The Relic SUN SUN The Sun Rising SUN SUN Elegy XVIII SUN SUN The Calm SUN SUN Batter My Heart SUN SUN A Nocturnal Upon St Lucie’s Day, Being the Shortest Day SUN SUN A Valediction Forbidding Mourning SUN SUN SUN SUN All by John Donne SUN SUN All taken from Donne: Poems and Prose SUN SUN Published by Everyman SUN SUN SUN SUN Apart from Elegy XVIII SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://4umi.com/donne/elegies/18 SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Interviewed Guest: Katherine Rundell SUN Interviewed Guest: Samuel Barnett SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b05zktnp (Listen) SUN Ticket to Hide SUN SUN Sixty thousand people have crossed the Mediterranean and SUN made it to Europe so far this year. SUN SUN Frontex, the EU border agency, warns that between 500,000 SUN and 1 million people - Eritreans, Syrians, Afghans, Somalis SUN - could be waiting to leave the shores of Libya for Italy. SUN SUN Its latest report says resources are being devoted to SUN migrants' care but not towards screening and collecting SUN basic information such as their nationality - which means SUN many are quickly moving on to countries like the UK. SUN According to the report, 'this puts the EU internal security SUN at risk'. SUN SUN There are also fears terrorists belonging to the so-called SUN Islamic State could secrete themselves among the migrants. SUN SUN So how easy is it for people to avoid security checks as SUN they journey across the EU? SUN SUN European countries are supposed to stop illegal migrants and SUN enter their fingerprints and details on a central database. SUN EU rules state that the country where people are first SUN fingerprinted must look after them and consider their asylum SUN applications. SUN SUN This means many migrants set on coming to this country try SUN to stay under the radar in Italy and France, hoping to reach SUN the UK without being processed. SUN SUN Jane Deith follows the routes used by some of those headed SUN for Britain. SUN SUN She also investigates the smugglers who help them - from SUN individuals using their own cars, to organized crime gangs SUN offering money back guarantees on a new life in the UK. SUN SUN Is Europe losing the battle for control? SUN SUN Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b05zzxl7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0606jr2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0606jr4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0606jr6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b060724h (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay SUN SUN Radio listeners were treated to a banquet of Art, crime and SUN drama this week and we've selected a tasty tapas from the SUN full menu - Dada and Cezanne, Yeats and Barnes, theft and SUN revenge - join Liz Barclay to sample the fare on Pick of the SUN Week this Sunday evening at a quarter past 6. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b060724m (Listen) SUN Pip is keen to make tracks, and Phoebe introduces Alex. SUN SUN 19:15 The Price of Happiness b060724p (Listen) SUN A Big White Wedding SUN SUN Stand-up poet Kate Fox explores some of the things she SUN doesn't want and has cheerfully failed to achieve in life, SUN despite feeling society constantly reminders her that, as a SUN woman, she should. SUN SUN This week, Kate looks at the subject of "A Big White SUN Wedding". Is it every little girl's dream to be walked down SUN the aisle feeling like a Disney Princess, looking like she's SUN been swallowed by taffeta? What if you're more Lightwater SUN Valley Lass than Disney Princess? SUN SUN Kate got married in a lighthouse, with guests waiting to SUN cross the causeway because the lighthouse keeper drew up the SUN wrong tide times. The wedding cost under a thousand pounds SUN and guests brought their own food. To Kate, it was perfect. SUN But would this somewhat unconventional day cost other brides SUN their wedding smiles? SUN SUN Statistics show that males and females still divide domestic SUN duties up in traditional ways, although in Kate's household SUN these roles are almost completely reversed. Is there such a SUN thing as the perfect formula for marriage or is it a SUN tradition as outdated as Morris Dancing with only slightly SUN fewer hankies and bells? SUN SUN Kate Fox is a comedian and poet from the North East of SUN England. She has contributed poems and comic pieces to many SUN Radio 4 shows including Saturday Live, Wondermentalist SUN Cabaret, From Fact to Fiction, Woman's Hour and Arthur SUN Smith's Balham Bash. SUN SUN Produced by Lianne Coop SUN An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Yeats: The Man and the Echo b060724t (Listen) SUN An Irish Airman Foresees His Death SUN SUN Three Irish writers choose three Yeats poems as inspiration SUN for a story. SUN SUN Episode 2 / 3 SUN SUN An Irish Airman Foresees His Death SUN SUN Lynda Radley's poignant story inspired by WB Yeats' sonnet SUN about a World War I fighter-pilot. SUN SUN An Irish airline pilot with a gambling problem reflects on SUN his life. SUN SUN A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Lynda Radley SUN Reader: Eugene O'Hare SUN Producer: Kirsty Williams SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b05zlh4k (Listen) SUN What risks should journalists take to report stories? In SUN this week's Feedback, Roger Bolton visits BBC journalists on SUN a training course which aims to prepare them to report from SUN dangerous conflict zones and hostile environments. Listeners SUN have been pondering whether the risks are worth it in order SUN to report the story to them. Roger brings the BBC's Chief SUN International Correspondent Lyse Doucet together with senior SUN BBC producer Stuart Hughes and Vaughan Smith, founder of the SUN Frontline Club, to discuss the issues. SUN And, after weeks of speculation, Chris Evans was named as SUN the new presenter of Top Gear last week. But some of his 10 SUN million Radio 2 listeners think he's been talking about it SUN far too much in the days since the announcement. Helen SUN Thomas, the editor of The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, SUN answers the listeners. SUN Also this week: "History is the version of past events that SUN people have decided to agree upon." That was apparently the SUN view of Napoleon Bonaparte. But some Feedback listeners SUN don't agree with the version of Napoleon's life which SUN historian Andrew Roberts delivered in his series on Radio 4. SUN Professor Roberts defends his portrayal of the French SUN Emperor. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey. SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b05zlh4f (Listen) SUN Sir Chris Woodhead, Patrick Macnee, Dame Anne Warburton, Vic SUN Mayhew, James Horner SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN The controversial Chief Inspector of Schools Sir Chris SUN Woodhead who said he was paid to challenge "mediocrity, SUN failure and complacency". SUN SUN The actor Patrick Macnee, best known for playing the suave SUN John Steed in the Avengers. Dame Diana Rigg pays tribute. SUN SUN Dame Anne Warburton who was the UK's first woman ambassador. SUN SUN The Fleet Street sub-editor Vic Mayhew, who was as well SUN known for his hard drinking antics as for his headlines. SUN SUN And the film composer James Horner who won two Oscars for SUN his Titanic soundtrack. SUN SUN Sir Chris Woodhead SUN SUN Matthew spoke to former Education and Employment Secretary SUN David Blunkett and to Geraint Jones, Dean of Education at SUN University of Buckingham who worked with Sir Chris. SUN SUN Born 20 October 1946; died 23 June 2015 aged 68. SUN SUN Patrick Macnee SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Dame Diana Rigg and to the film writer and SUN broadcaster, Matthew Sweet. SUN SUN Born 6 February 1922; died 25 June 2015 aged 93. SUN SUN Dame Anne Warburton SUN SUN Last Word spoke to fellow diplomats Dame Veronica Sutherland SUN and Dame Margaret Anstee, who both knew her. SUN SUN Born 8 June 1927; died 4 June 2015 aged 87. SUN SUN Vic Mayhew SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the former Daily Mirror Editor, Roy SUN Greenslade. SUN SUN Born 22 May 1938; died 18 June 2015 aged 77. SUN SUN James Horner SUN SUN Born 14 August 1953; died 22 June 2015 aged 61. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: David Blunkett SUN Interviewed Guest: Geraint Jones SUN Interviewed Guest: Diana Rigg SUN Interviewed Guest: Matthew Sweet SUN Interviewed Guest: Veronica Sutherland SUN Interviewed Guest: Margaret Anstee SUN Interviewed Guest: Roy Greenslade SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b05zzwqr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0606mdg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b05zhl41 (Listen) SUN How Gay Became OK SUN SUN Why have British attitudes towards homosexuality changed so SUN far and so fast? Less than 50 years ago, sex between men was SUN a criminal act. Now they can marry. It's not just the law SUN that has changed: we have. Surveys suggest that public SUN opinion about homosexuality has undergone a dramatic shift SUN over the same period. Jo Fidgen asks what drives this kind SUN of change in collective attitudes. SUN Producer: Chloe Hadjimatheou. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b060733p (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b060733r (Listen) SUN Dan Hodges of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05zld8d (Listen) SUN Nina Simone documentary, Peter Bogdanovich, Alex Gibney SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Lisa Simone discusses a new and intimate documentary about SUN her mother Nina Simone SUN SUN Peter Bogdanovich talks about his old friend Orson Welles SUN and reveals why he is finishing a film that Welles began SUN four decades ago. SUN SUN Director Alex Gibney discusses his controversial documentary SUN about Scientology, Going Clear SUN SUN Critic Scott Jordan Harris picks his DVDs of the month. SUN SUN Going Clear SUN Details on where you can see Alex Gibney's film ‘ SUN Going Clear SUN ’ and find out about some of the speakers in the film SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Nina Simone SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Bogdanovich SUN Interviewed Guest: Alex Gibney SUN Interviewed Guest: Scott Jordan Harris SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0606md8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 JUNE 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0606js7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b05zr4r3 (Listen) MON White Working Class Boys; French Thought MON MON White, working class boys at school: Laurie Taylor talks to MON Garth Stahl. Lecturer in the School of Education at the MON University of South Australia, and author of a new study MON about boys' underachievement in Britain. Why do so many MON disengage from education? They're joined by Heather Mendick, MON Reader in Education at Brunel University. MON MON Also, the grand, French intellectual tradition. Dr Sudhir MON Hazareesingh, political scientist and writer, explores the MON prominence of thinkers in the life and history of France. MON From Voltaire to Foucault, how have intellectuals MON contributed to the distinctiveness of the nation? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0606md6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0606js9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0606jsc (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0606jsf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0606jsh (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b060phqb (Listen) MON Spiritual reflection to start the day with the Rev Bob MON Fyffe, General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and MON Ireland. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0607s5p (Listen) MON Milk price wars, Scottish scallops, Tesco promises MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0606jsk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx8yf (Listen) MON Black-Tailed Godwit MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Martin Hughes-Games presents the Black-Tailed Godwit. A MON black-tailed godwit in its summer finery is a stunningly MON attractive bird, russet brown with a long orange and black MON bill. A few pairs of black-tailed godwits breed in the UK, MON most of them in damp grazing meadows such as the Ouse Washes MON in East Anglia. When breeding is over the male and female MON split up and spend the winter months apart, often in widely MON separated locations. MON MON Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b0607w1d (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0607w1g (Listen) MON Translations and Appropriations MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses the legacy of the MON philosopher Alan Watts with the writer Tim Lott and MON psychotherapist Mark Vernon. Watts popularised Buddhism and MON Eastern philosophy in the West and in Tim Lott's latest MON coming-of-age novel set in the 1970s he reflects on the MON power of self-discovery, while Mark Vernon questions how MON therapy has appropriated Buddhist ideas. The writer and MON translator Maureen Freely looks back at her itinerant MON upbringing in America, Turkey and Greece, and explores how MON she became the translator of other people's words and MON worlds, including the Nobel-prize winning author Orhan MON Pamuk. It's a 150 years since the first Welsh settlers MON established a community in Patagonia in Argentina, and the MON theatre director Marc Rees looks at how his countrymen MON retained their welsh identity in an alien landscape. MON MON Producer: Luke Mulhall. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Tim Lott MON Interviewed Guest: Mark Vernon MON Interviewed Guest: Maureen Freely MON Interviewed Guest: Marc Rees MON Producer: Luke Mulhall MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0607w1j (Listen) MON Queen of the Desert, Episode 1 MON MON The story of Gertrude Bell and her crucial role in the MON foundation of the state of Iraq. A ferociously MON independent-minded young woman, leaves Oxford and MON experiences the desert for the first time. A few years later MON oil is discovered in Mesopotamia. MON MON First published in 2006, Queen of the Desert Georgina Howell MON has been reissued - partly to coincide with the Werner MON Herzog film of the same title, but also to provide the long MON view on the troubled history of a remarkable country. MON MON Using letters written by Gertrude Bell throughout the MON period, the book tells the story of an extraordinarily MON talented and determined woman who has often been MON overshadowed by her more famous friend, T.E. Lawrence. MON MON Read by Sylvestra le Touzel and Deborah Findlay (the MON letters) MON MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Sylvestra Le Touzel MON Reader: Deborah Findlay MON Author: Georgina Howell MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0607w1l (Listen) MON Author Rosamund Lupton on her fascination with the Alaskan MON landscape MON MON Her first novel, Sister, was the fastest selling by a debut MON author and is due to be made into a film starring Emily MON Blunt. Rosamund Lupton's latest thriller, set in the extreme MON landscape of Northern Alaska features a woman and her MON profoundly deaf 10 year old daughter trying to find out the MON truth about the disappearance of her husband. Jane Garvey MON talks to her about the new book and her love affair with MON Alaska. MON MON Do eating disorders have a genetic link? And could early MON intervention, help sufferers of anorexia and bulimia recover MON faster. MON MON The England Women's football team take on hosts Canada at MON the 2015 FIFA World Cup this weekend. The Federation has MON made sex testing mandatory for all participants - but, MON should a test that some say is 'humiliating' be abolished ? MON MON Author Georgina Howell talks about her book Queen of the MON Desert - this week's Radio 4 Book of the Week. It's a MON biography Gertrude Bell drawn from letters written MON throughout her life and documents her phenomenal rise MON through the all-male ranks of military intelligence. But who MON is the real Gertrude Bell? MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Producer Beverley Purcell. MON MON Rosamund Lupton MON MON Her first novel, Sister, was the fastest selling by a debut MON author and is due to be made into a film starring Emily MON Blunt. Rosamund Lupton’s latest thriller, set in the extreme MON landscape of Northern Alaska features a woman and her MON profoundly deaf 10 year old daughter trying to find out the MON truth about the disappearance of her husband. The Quality of MON Silence is told from the point of view of both mother and MON daughter as they struggle to communicate in this deadly and MON hostile environment. MON MON Queen of the Desert – Life of Gertrude Bell MON MON The upcoming release of Werner Herzog's film Queen of the MON Desert (starring Nicole Kidman) will shed light on the MON extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell. The film, based on MON Georgina Howell’s biography, is drawn from letters written MON extensively throughout Bell’s life and documents her MON phenomenal rise through the all-male ranks of military MON intelligence and casts light on the history of MON Iraq. Georgina Howell talks to Jane Garvey about the real MON Gertrude Bell. MON MON FIFA Gender testing at the Women’s World Cup MON MON The England Women’s football team take on hosts Canada at MON the 2015 FIFA World Cup this weekend. FIFA has made sex MON testing mandatory for all participants, but Katrina MON Karkazi, bioethicist at Stanford University, says that the MON tests are ‘humiliating’ and that the practice should be MON abolished. Caroline Rigby is in Canada finding out how the MON players feel about undergoing sex tests before being allowed MON to play. MON MON Professor Cindy Bulik – AN25K Initiative MON MON FREED is a pilot scheme trying to treat eating disorder MON patients earlier than they would normally on the NHS. Their MON initial findings show that by treating people with early MON intervention, sufferers of anorexia and bulimia are more MON likely to make a faster full recovery. To find out more, MON Jane is joined by Ulrike Schmit, Professor of Eating MON Disorders at Kings College London and one of the leaders of MON the scheme, and Issy Jackson, a participant in the study. MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Ulrike Schmidt MON Actor: Issy Jackson MON Interviewed Guest: Cynthia Bulik MON Interviewed Guest: Georgina Howell MON Interviewed Guest: Rosamund Lupton MON Interviewed Guest: Katrina Karkazis MON Producer: Beverley Purcell MON MON 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b06084k6 (Listen) MON Significant Others, Episode 1 MON MON More from the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin. MON Here Lin Coghlan dramatises stories from the novels MON Significant Others and Sure of You . Back in Barbary Lane, MON Mrs Madrigal is still attending her sensamilla plants .. MON Michael has found love again with his new boyfriend Thack. MON Brian and Mary Anne have gone to higher ground. living in a MON house which looms over Barbary Lane on The Summit . MON MON Produced by Charlotte Riches MON Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. MON MON Credits MON Mrs Madrigal: Kate Harper MON Mary Ann: Laurel Lefkow MON Michael: Jos Slovick MON Brian: Simon Lee Phillips MON Burke: Trevor White MON Thack: Louis Labovitch MON Raymond: Louis Labovitch MON Adaptor: Lin Coghlan MON Author: Armistead Maupin MON Producer: Charlotte Riches MON Director: Susan Roberts MON MON 11:00 Captured By Pirates b00rdwm5 (Listen) MON Kate Silverton uncovers the story of the English schoolgirls MON who were captured by pirates off the China coast, and later MON ended up in a Japanese concentration camp with Eric Liddell. MON In 1935, the SS Tungchow was taken over by a dozen Chinese MON pirates as it emerged from the Yangtse River. They were MON expecting a cargo of gold bullion but instead found three MON lady teachers and seventy British missionaries' children, on MON their way to Chefoo boarding school on the North China MON coast. MON Six years later, in 1941, these same children became enemy MON aliens when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. They were MON imprisoned in the Weihsien Internment Camp, Shantung MON Province, along with 500 other children, half of them MON without parents. The morale of the girls and their teachers MON was greatly improved by two Brownie packs and a Girl Guide MON Company. Their sports were organised by Eric Liddell, MON (Chariots of Fire) until he died. MON This is an extraordinary tale, and it's told by those who MON were there: MON Margaret Holder, née Vinden. MON Beryl Goodland, née Welch. MON Kathleen Foster, née Strange. MON Mary Previte, née Taylor. MON Evelyn Heubener, née Davey. MON Producer Beth O'Dea MON Programme consultant Janie Hampton. First broadcast in 2010. MON MON 11:30 So On and So Forth b06084kb (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON Sketch troupe So On and So Forth - featuring John Sherman, MON Nick Gadd and Martin Allanson - have performed together for MON the last five years, refining their particularly British MON style of sketch comedy. They have recently recruited top MON comedy actress Alison Thea-Skot to bring some class the MON proceedings. MON MON So On and So Forth is a sketch group with a very clear, MON slightly nihilistic perspective on the world - everything is MON funny if you look at it the wrong way. MON MON In 2011 they headed to the Edinburgh Fringe where they MON performed several shows a day, picked up rave reviews and MON developed webbed feet. With a growing reputation in the live MON arena they started filming sketches whenever possible hoping MON to revel in the untold riches of YouTube. Later that year MON they won the Cofilmic award for Best Sketch, and one of MON their online sketches featured on Comedy Central's hit US MON show Tosh.0 as Video of the Week which helped to ratchet up MON just shy of a quarter of a million hits on their YouTube MON page. MON MON Later in 2012 they were commissioned by BBC Worldwide to MON produce yet more sparkly new web sketches. In 2013 the team MON featured on Radio 4's very own show Sketchorama and, MON following those stand out performances and their online MON work, they have been given the opportunity to make their own MON series. MON MON Produced by Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Performer: John Sherman MON Performer: Nick Gadd MON Performer: Martin Allanson MON Performer: Alison Thea-Skot MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b0606jsm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06084kd (Listen) MON 29 June 1915 - Kitty Lumley MON MON Kitty puts herself in danger for the man she loves. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed by Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf MON Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer MON Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook MON Albert Wilson: Harry Myers MON Adam Wilson: Leo Montague MON Josiah King: Daniel Kendrick MON Tom Wright: Clive Hayward MON Carson Martindale: Stephen Critchlow MON Man 1: Sam Valentine MON Man 2: David Hounslow MON Hotel Guest: Jessica Turner MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06084kg (Listen) MON Pizza sales, Empty homes, Energy from wood pellets MON MON Electricity generated by burning wood pellets is regarded by MON many as a "green" fuel. The idea is that carbon emitted when MON it's burnt is offset by the carbon absorbed when the trees MON are growing. When trees are felled, more are planted. A MON major British electricity generator has begun importing wood MON pellets from the United States, as fuel for its biomass MON plant. We investigate the green credentials of the process. MON MON A new approach to reducing the number of empty homes in MON London. We speak to the company offering rewards to people MON who identify empty properties that can be bought, renovated MON and re-sold. MON MON Following our report into the crisis in General Practice, we MON speak to a family doctor about how his workload led him to MON close his surgery after many years of struggling to make it MON work. MON MON The British love of pizza - we speak to the founder of one MON of the biggest international chains of pizza restaurants. MON MON Producer: Jonathan Hallewell MON Presenter: Shari Vahl. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0606jsp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06084kj (Listen) MON Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by MON Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Me, My Selfie and I: Aimee Fuller's Generation Game MON b06084kl (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON It's two years since the Oxford English Dictionary made MON 'selfie' its word of the year. Since then, 'selfie' has been MON used to describe the 'selfie generation' and recently, the MON 'selfie election'. Aimee Fuller is a 23 year old snowboarder MON who competed at last year's Winter Olympics - she explores MON the selfie phenomenon and asks whether it really defines her MON generation. Aimee explains how social media is part and MON parcel of what she does as an athlete, helping her to MON communicate with her fans - and the selfie is an important MON element of that. MON MON The programme explores the broader significance of the MON selfie as a form of photography. What sort of a photograph MON is the selfie and what do photographers make of it? Katrina MON Sluis from the Photographers Gallery in London puts it into MON the context of self portraits. MON MON Why have younger people taken to the selfie with such MON enthusiasm and what does that tell us about their social MON attitudes? Economist writer, Jeremy Cliffe explains how the MON selfie generation use social media and why. MON MON Producer: Philip Reevell MON A Manchester Digital Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b060724m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06084kn (Listen) MON Road to St Davids MON MON A story of myth and faith set at this year's St David's Day MON celebrations in the city of the same name. MON MON The legends of Welsh saints are full of sex and violence - MON but you can also find faith in Britain's smallest city. It MON might seem that St David's Day in St Davids is just full of MON fun and games for the children, but for two of this year's MON pilgrims it's a serious business as they seek help and MON guidance from two Welsh saints. MON MON The writer Douglas Livingstone and director Jane Morgan have MON taken various "Roads" over the years - visiting an event and MON recording the sounds particular to it before Douglas writes MON a play based on their experiences. MON MON Their first play, the Sony Award winning Road to Rocio, was MON about a pilgrimage in Andalusia and this year's play is also MON about a pilgrimage - a handful of people making their way MON from St. Non's Well, where St Non gave birth to David, to MON the cathedral in Britain's smallest city. For the children MON it's all about the Dragon's Parade in the city, but for many MON it's a profound experience and two of the pilgrims need MON considerable help and guidance from the Welsh saints. MON MON A largely Welsh cast is headed by the young English actress MON Faye Castelow (RSC and National Theatre) and they're MON supported ably by the people of St. Davids themselves. It's MON a beautifully dramatic mix of ancient myth, dragons, MON adultery and faith with special recordings made on location. MON MON Written by Douglas Livingstone MON Directed by Jane Morgan MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON David: Matt Addis MON Sonia: Faye Castelow MON Owen: Matthew Morgan MON Jean: Grainne Keenan MON Thomas: Charlotte Worthing MON Woman in Chapel: Charlotte Worthing MON Dad: Ioan Meredith MON Priest: Ioan Meredith MON Writer: Douglas Livingstone MON Director: Jane Morgan MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b06084kq (Listen) MON Series 29, Heat 4, 2015 MON MON (4/13) MON Competitors from London and West Sussex join Paul Gambaccini MON for heat four of the 2015 tournament. Among the musical MON topics Paul will be quizzing them on are Wagner, the witches MON in the musical Wicked, and what caused Mrs Mary Whitehouse MON to have a spat with 'Top of the Pops' in 1972. MON MON The contenders will also have to choose a special musical MON subject on which to answer a set of individual questions, MON with no warning of what the topics are going to be. At stake MON is a place in the 2015 semi-finals. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b0606vtz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Beat Women b06084ks (Listen) MON The forgotten women of the Beat Generation supported, loved, MON endured, and were creatively overshadowed by their famous MON male counterparts. More than just muses, they were often MON authors in their own right. Laura Barton travels to New York MON to meet some of these women, writers such as Joyce Johnson, MON who already had a book deal when she met Jack Kerouac as a MON young woman, but has seen her long career overshadowed by MON her brief time as Keraouc's girlfriend. Hettie Jones risked MON everything to defy 1950's convention and her Jewish parents MON to marry the black poet LeRoi Jones, who later became Amiri MON Baraka. MON MON Then there are writers such as Anne Waldman, from a later MON generation to Hettie and Joyce, who learnt from the Beat MON Generation and aims to keep the tradition alive today. MON MON While in many cases the work of the women of the Beats was MON not be as innovative as their male counterparts, Laura MON argues that we should celebrate the writing of the women who MON fought to forge their own paths, for whom merely telling MON their story was a struggle. MON MON Presenter: Laura Barton MON Producer: Jessica Treen. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b06084kv (Listen) MON Hadith MON MON To Muslims, Muhammed is the most important person who ever MON lived. He is the Seal or the last of all the prophets, the MON one chosen by God to receive his final revelation. To insult MON the memory of the Prophet is a blasphemy and a body blow to MON the Muslim believer. It can carry terrible consequences as MON the staff of Charlie Hebdo discovered when they published MON cartoons which were thought by Muslims to be demeaning their MON Prophet. The Qur'an tells us very little about Muhammed. MON What we do know comes from the stories and traditions about MON the Prophet, known as the Hadiths, which were compiled after MON his death. Those stories provide moral examples of how to MON behave; but they also impact all of Islamic history. MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Jonathan Brown, Prince Alwaleed bin MON Talal Chair of Islamic Civilisation at Georgetown MON University; Sahib Bleher, Imam and author on the Qur'an; and MON Tom Holland, a Classicist and author of several best selling MON books including In The Shadow of the Sword, on the origins MON of Islam. MON MON Produced by Nija Dalal-Small. MON MON 17:00 PM b06084kx (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0606jsr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b06084kz (Listen) MON Series 72, Episode 7 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the perennially popular panel game in MON which guests Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Lucy Beaumont, MON and Marcus Brigstocke attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON A BBC Comedy Production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Lucy Beaumont MON Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06084l1 (Listen) MON Lynda finds a kindred spirit, and Brian seeks support. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06084l3 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b06084k6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 I Am Nobody's Prime Minister b05xcv9t (Listen) MON "Every one of you has a voice to speak or not, it is your MON choice, but silence is not golden, silence is the truth MON stolen, and stealing of the truth, is exactly what them do MON to the youth." From the poem "Revolution" by Dean Atta. MON MON Young voters are failing to pick up the voting habit. Many MON people think the youth don't care - they are seen as lazy, MON not interested. In the lead up to May's general election, MON Dean talked to politicians and to the young voters who think MON they don't have a role to play. MON MON What will entice this generation into politics? Do the MON elected have an answer? What do the political parties have MON to say to encourage Dean to stay politically engaged? MON MON Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith gives Dean some hope, Labour's MON David Lammy believes this generation has to stay engaged, MON while Green MP Caroline Lucas has appeal to the young. But MON it's in East Glasgow, at the office of SNP candidate Natalie MON McGarry, where the campaign seems at its most lively and MON dynamic. MON MON Dean grew up in Wembley but he's not into football. "I'd go MON to the station and see floods of fans in the streets." For MON him, football felt like a bizarre cult, something he was not MON part of. For many, political parties are the same, so no one MON joins them - and because no one joins them, they look ever MON more like bizarre cults. MON MON Produced by Barney Rowntree MON A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06084l6 (Listen) MON Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife MON MON The American philosopher Samuel Scheffler reveals a hidden MON force which motivates our actions: our belief in the MON continuation of humanity after our deaths. In an interview MON with Edward Stourton, plus a Q&A from an audience at the MON London School of Economics and Political Science, Scheffler MON proposes thought experiments which expose the importance of MON this conception of the afterlife. It is, he argues, this MON continued existence of the human race in general - and not MON just of our own descendants - which gives meaning and MON purpose to much of our lives. With references to Woody MON Allen, National Porn Shops and Martin Luther. Scheffler is MON professor of philosophy and law at New York University. MON Producer: David Edmonds. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w99xc (Listen) MON Giant Squid MON MON Brett Westwood tries to uncover the truth about the elusive MON giant squid. Is it the monster literature portrays lurking MON in the deep of the ocean or a timid misunderstood creature? MON MON Tennyson evokes the deep, slumbering Kraken as a monster MON slumbering in the cold, dark depths of the ocean. Twenty MON Thousand Leagues brings that monster into focus as it tries MON to drag a ship underwater and devour the terrified crew. MON Where did these stories come from? MON MON The Odyssey was the first known piece of literature to MON suggest a tentacle beast of the sea and it has never left MON our imagination. Yet when a giant squid was filmed by MON Japanese scientists, and then one was fished out of the MON ocean near the Falklands, we now see that giant squid are MON extraordinary, rather beautiful creatures. MON MON Far from being a terrifying monster they peck delicately at MON their food and are afraid of loud noises. For a monster they MON are remarkably timid. With recent discoveries and increasing MON knowledge have we vanquished the monster from the deep? Or MON will our need for monsters mean we create another, even MON stranger beast? Or perhaps now that our sea faring days MON exploring the unknown oceans are over will our monsters come MON from outer space, the last frontier? MON MON Will we always need a monster to scare us? Many academics MON say yes - if you want to know what a society is frightened MON of, look at its monsters. MON MON Jon Ablett MON Jon Ablett has worked at the MON Natural History Museum MON for 12 years as a curator of the Museum’s Mollusca MON collection, which contains around nine million specimens. MON Jon specialises in slugs, snails, squid and octopus. MON One of the specimens under Jon’s care is MON Archie, an 8.62m giant squid and the largest wet specimen MON ever preserved at the Museum MON It was Jon’s responsibility to design, manage and implement MON the preservation, storage and display of this enormous MON creature. MON Archie was caught off the Falkland Islands in 2004 and is on MON display in the Tank Room. Molecular samples taken from this MON specimen were used in a study which showed that there is MON only one world-wide species of giant squid. MON Jon’s main interests are in the biodiversity of south-east MON Asian and South/Central America land snails. He has MON conducted fieldwork in Vietnam where he collected new MON specimens and new species for the Museum MON as well as frozen tissue and viable cells for our molecular MON collections. MON MON Dr Emily Alder MON Dr Emily Alder is lecturer in literature and culture at MON Edinburgh Napier University and her research focusses on MON literature and science of the long nineteenth-century, MON particularly the intersections between late-Victorian and MON Edwardian biology, physics, and ‘pseudosciences’ with MON Gothic, weird, supernatural, and science fictions. MON She has published on William Hope Hodgson, H. G. Wells, sea MON monsters, and late twentieth-century science fiction, and is MON co-editor, with Dr Sara-Patricia Wasson, of MON Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 MON Emily is also Assistant Editor for the journal MON Gothic Studies MON MON Dr Mathias Clasen MON Dr Mathias Clasen is an assistant professor of literature MON and media at Aarhus University, Denmark. He specialises in MON the psychology and evolution of scary entertainment and has MON written on horror in various media as well as zombies, MON vampires, and other creatures that go bump in the night. MON He has shown how MON our present-day fascination with horror and monsters is MON underpinned by psychological mechanisms MON that have their roots in ancient biological adaptations, MON which evolved in response to the many natural dangers faced MON by our evolutionary ancestors. MON MON Dr Edith Widder MON Dr Edith 'Edie' Widder is a MON MacArthur Fellow MON a deep-sea explorer and ocean conservationist. A specialist MON in bioluminescence, she has been a leader in developing new MON ways to explore the deep sea. MON Her innovations have produced footage of rare sharks, MON jellyfish, and crustaceans, as well as led to the discovery MON of a new species of large squid and MON the first recordings of the giant squid MON Architeuthis, in its natural habitat. She is co-founder of MON the MON Ocean Research & Conservation Association MON a not-for-profit which develops technological solutions to MON ocean conservation challenges. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0607w1g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0606jst (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06084l8 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06084lb (Listen) MON True Grit, Episode 1 MON MON Narrated by the aging Mattie Ross, True Grit is Mattie's MON recollection of events, many years earlier, when, as a MON fourteen year old girl she undertook an unthinkable quest to MON avenge her father's death... MON MON Mattie's father, Frank Ross, left the family farm near the MON town of Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas, on a trip to MON buy some ponies, but was tragically never to return. He was MON shot dead and robbed by Tom Chaney, one of his own workers, MON who then fled, and is suspected to be hiding out in Indian MON Territory. MON MON Mattie travels to Fort Smith to arrange for the return of MON her father's body and to enquire as to what is being done to MON find her father's killer. Finding the local lawmen MON disinterested, Mattie resolves to take matters into her own MON hands and seeks out the toughest deputy U.S. Marshal in the MON district, one Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn. Although an MON aging, one-eyed, overweight, trigger-happy, hard-drinking MON man, Mattie believes Cogburn has 'true grit' and is the man MON best suited to help her. MON MON Mattie persuades Cogburn to take on the job, and, joined by MON a Texas Ranger named La Boeuf, the three travel into dark, MON dangerous Indian country to hunt Chaney down and bring him MON to justice. MON MON First brought to the big screen in a classic 1969 western MON starring John Wayne and more recently by the Cohen brothers MON in a film starring Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld, True MON Grit has been abridged for Radio 4 by Doreen Estall, and is MON read by Nancy Crane. MON MON Produced by Heather Larmour. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Nancy Crane MON Author: Charles Portis MON Abridger: Doreen Estall MON Producer: Heather Larmour MON MON 23:00 The Robert Peston Interview Show (with Eddie Mair) MON b06084ld (Listen) MON Late-night interview programme. Robert Peston and Eddie Mair MON join forces to spring surprise guests on each other. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06084lg (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 30 JUNE 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0606jtr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0607w1j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0606jtt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0606jtw (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0606jty (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0606jv0 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b061bnww (Listen) TUE Spiritual reflection to start the day with the Rev Bob TUE Fyffe, General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and TUE Ireland. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06084yw (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx91j (Listen) TUE Tree Sparrow TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Martin Hughes-Games presents the Tree Sparrow. With its TUE russet cap, white cheeks and smarter appearance, the tree TUE sparrow looks like a freshly-scrubbed house sparrow. Unlike TUE house sparrows whose sexes look very different, the male and TUE female tree sparrows are identical. TUE TUE Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06085ch (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b06085ck (Listen) TUE Henry Marsh TUE TUE Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh talks to Jim Al-Khalili about TUE slicing through thoughts, hopes and memories. Brain surgery, TUE he says, is straightforward. It's deciding whether or not to TUE operate that's hard. TUE TUE The stakes are high and it's never clear cut. He often TUE dreads having to talk to patients and their families. Damage TUE to healthy brain cells can result in a dramatic change to TUE someone's quality of life; but if a bit of a tumour remains, TUE it's likely to grow back. "How do you tell someone that the TUE best option may be to go away and die?" TUE TUE Once, against his professional judgment, Henry went ahead TUE with surgery because the patient wanted him to operate. The TUE patient died and he blames himself for not being stronger. TUE He talks openly about the cemetery that all doctors TUE inevitably carry with them; and why he would rather be seen TUE as a fallible human being, than either a superhero or TUE villain. Perhaps it's inevitable that doctors are put on a TUE pedestal but it can be unhelpful. TUE TUE Despite a chronic lack of science at school and university, TUE Henry decided to become a neurosurgeon, having found general TUE surgery rather disgusting. Soon after, his three month old TUE son had surgery for a brain tumour: an experience which, he TUE says, helped him to appreciate the fog of anxiety and TUE concern that descends on the people he treats. TUE TUE Getting the balance right between compassion and detachment TUE is a constant challenge. And Henry admits, he pioneered TUE brain surgery under local anaesthetic, in part as a way of TUE confronting head on the almost 'Jekyll and Hyde like split' TUE between being a surgeon in the operating theatre and a TUE friendly consultant who talks to and cares for his patients. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b06085cm (Listen) TUE Michael Grade talks to Chris Hunter TUE TUE Not a risk-taker by nature, Michael Grade has always been TUE fascinated by those who are. In the final interview of his TUE series he talks to Chris Hunter about his career as a high TUE threat bomb disposal officer. What attracts someone to such TUE a dangerous business and how do friends and family deal with TUE their anxiety? TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0617192 (Listen) TUE Queen of the Desert, Episode 2 TUE TUE The story of Gertrude Bell and her crucial role in the TUE foundation of the state of Iraq. TUE TUE In 1917, Gertrude - Major Miss Bell - arrived in Baghdad to TUE work for Sir Percy Cox as a political officer and part of TUE the team who were determined to rebuild a region reeling TUE from war and famine. TUE TUE First published in 2006, Queen of the Desert Georgina Howell TUE has been reissued - partly to coincide with the Werner TUE Herzog film of the same title, but also to provide the long TUE view on the troubled history of a remarkable country. TUE TUE Using letters written by Gertrude Bell throughout the TUE period, the book tells the story of an extraordinarily TUE talented and determined woman who has often been TUE overshadowed by her more famous friend, T.E. Lawrence. TUE TUE Read by Sylvestra le Touzel and Deborah Findlay (the TUE letters) TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Sylvestra Le Touzel TUE Reader: Deborah Findlay TUE Author: Georgina Howell TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06085cp (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b06085q8 (Listen) TUE Significant Others, Episode 2 TUE TUE Armistead Maupin's much loved characters are back . Lin TUE Coghlan dramatises Significant Others and Sure of You from TUE the Tales of the City series. It's San Francisco in the 80's TUE Mary Ann Singleton's TV career is going well when old TUE boyfriend Burke turns up. Mouse TUE TUE Produced by Charlotte Riches TUE Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. TUE TUE Credits TUE Madrigal: Kate Harper TUE Michael: Jos Slovick TUE Mary Ann: Laurel Lefkow TUE Brian: Simon Lee Phillips TUE Dede: Nancy Crane TUE Burke: Trevor White TUE Thack: Louis Labovitch TUE Rand: Louis Labovitch TUE D'Or: Valerie Cutko TUE Chloe: Valerie Cutko TUE Adaptor: Lin Coghlan TUE Author: Armistead Maupin TUE Producer: Charlotte Riches TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9b5b (Listen) TUE Lions TUE TUE Brett Westwood explores how lions have been harnessed by TUE humans as a symbol of strength and power throughout the TUE ages. TUE TUE For hundreds of years two beasts lay beneath the mud of the TUE moat surrounding the Tower of London. Only when workmen dug TUE them up in 1935 did the sun warm their bones once more. They TUE were once kept as fearsome gatekeepers, reminding people TUE visiting the king exactly where power lay - or that was the TUE idea. In reality they were diseased, malnourished and died TUE young. TUE TUE From the exquisitely depicted lions painted on cave walls in TUE the Palaeolithic through to those kept in the Tower of TUE London and the lions sitting around Nelson's column this TUE programme looks at how we have used lions. TUE TUE Lions are used in literature to represent authority and TUE majesty, and C S Lewis used a lion - Aslan - to be the TUE figure of Christ, a mysterious, wild presence that cannot be TUE tamed. TUE TUE However, this attention has come at great cost. Barbary TUE lions, the magnificently-maned North African species most TUE used by the Romans for gladiatorial combat and dispatching TUE Christians, were so over-exploited they are now extinct: the TUE first documented example of mass extinction on the mainland TUE at the hands of humans. TUE TUE We might be able to breed them back again from lions in zoos TUE that have Barbary genes still present, but should we? Would TUE these magnificent beasts become just a curiosity, no TUE different to those in the Tower? Maybe they had best remain TUE as a poignant example of how power can destroy. TUE TUE 11:30 The Kampala Dream House b06086dq (Listen) TUE Sarah Taylor visits this remarkable children's home in TUE Kampala, Uganda. TUE TUE Amidst the slums of Kampala, MLISADA is a success story. TUE (Music, life skills and arts for destitution alleviation.) TUE TUE It's a children's home set up and run by former street kids TUE who learned to play brass instruments. 12 years on, it cares TUE for 90 children, teaches them music and acrobatics and they TUE are safe from the perils of street life. Former pupils like TUE euphonium player, Franke, have gone on to be teachers within TUE the wider school communities of Kampala. It's supported by TUE keen brass players from around the world - including BA TUE pilot and trumpet player, Jim Trott who took star trumpet TUE players Alison Balsom and Guy Barker out there last January TUE to run music workshops with the pupils. TUE TUE Sarah talks to Alison about how her involvement with the TUE work of Brass for Africa has influenced her approach to TUE performing on concert platforms around the world. TUE TUE Most importantly, if you get to live in the Dream House, as TUE it's known by the kids, you've got a chance of a future. A TUE future where you can learn to be a teacher, or simply access TUE a better school and then go on to get a better job because TUE you've got the bedrock of living at MLISADA. And you'll be a TUE great trumpet player too! TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b0606jv3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06087bh (Listen) TUE 30 June 1915 - Esme Macknade TUE TUE The Grahams have a plan to match-make Toby with their TUE recently bereaved daughter, Juliet. TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Lucy Collingwood TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Esme Macknade: Katie Angelou TUE Toby Speedwell: Joe Bannister TUE Nancy Parker: Jane Whittenshaw TUE Dolly Clout: Elaine Claxton TUE Alice Macknade: Claire-Louise Cordwell TUE Mickey Macknade: Reece Buttery TUE Thornton Tulliver: Nigel Harman TUE Juliet Cavendish: Lizzie Bourne TUE Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn TUE Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06087bk (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0606jv5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0608dvr (Listen) TUE Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by TUE Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Me, My Selfie and I: Aimee Fuller's Generation Game TUE b0617194 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Snowboarder Aimee Fuller presents the second part of her TUE series exploring the significance of the selfie. TUE TUE In today's programme, 19 year old singer songwriter Nina TUE Nesbitt talks about her song 'Selfies'. Nina has used social TUE media to communicate with her fans since she was 15 and TUE explains how it has helped her develop her career. She wrote TUE the song to explain why people take selfies in their TUE relationships and the image that they want to present about TUE themselves. She discusses why people want to take the best TUE picture of themselves in a selfie TUE TUE Katrina Sluis from the Photographers Gallery discusses the TUE selfie as a cultural form of photography and explains how TUE photographers are interested in it as a new form, using TUE networks like Instagram. TUE TUE David Houghton, a lecturer at Birmingham University Business TUE School, specialises in research into online relationship TUE development. He explains how the selfie is received in TUE different ways by different groups on social networks. He TUE says this means people undertake 'impression management' to TUE convey an impression to groups on their network. TUE TUE The criticism by musician Damon Albarn of the young TUE generation of musicians for being self absorbed as 'the TUE selfie generation' is questioned by Economist writer Jeremy TUE Cliffe who says, although it is a self centred activity, it TUE is also a social activity. He says it channels instincts TUE through a new form of technology. TUE TUE Producer: Philip Reevell TUE A Manchester Digital Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06084l1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b0608dvt (Listen) TUE A World Elsewhere TUE TUE A WORLD ELSEWHERE TUE by Clara Glynn TUE TUE Rida is a Glasgow teenager. Like a lot of teenagers she TUE argues with her mum, stresses about exams and spends too TUE long on her computer. But as a young Muslim the pressures TUE that she faces in her life, and the escape that she dreams TUE of online, may contain dangers she has yet to imagine. TUE TUE This innovative radio drama all takes place in Rida's online TUE world - the place where she feels she can most be herself. TUE We listen to the YouTube clips she finds, her instant TUE messaging with friends and the bloggers she reads. TUE TUE A WORLD ELSEWHERE is a sensitive portrayal of one girl's TUE path to radicalisation. TUE TUE All other parts played by members of the cast. TUE TUE Producer/director: David Ian Neville. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rida: Shabana Bakhsh TUE Samera: Nalini Chetty TUE Maisie: Nicola Roy TUE Scott: Brian Vernel TUE Amir: Umar Ahmed TUE Jasleen: Roxana Vilk TUE Director: David Neville TUE Producer: David Neville TUE Writer: Clara Glynn TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b05zzwpl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b0608dvw (Listen) TUE Series 6, The Improvising Mind TUE TUE The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that TUE never fails to fascinate - ourselves. Are people led by the TUE head or by the heart? How rational are we? And how do we TUE perceive the world? It's a curious blend of intriguing TUE experiments to discover our biases and judgments, TUE explorations and examples taken from what's in the news and TUE what we do in the kitchen - all driven by a large slice of TUE curiosity. TUE TUE We're guided by Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural TUE Science at Warwick University, who is on hand as guide and TUE experimenter in chief, while each week resident reporter TUE Timandra Harkness sets out on a mission to unravel. TUE TUE We like to say that all human behaviour could turn up in The TUE Human Zoo, including yours. TUE TUE In this series: TUE Under pressure: What can we learn about our everyday TUE psychology from the highly competitive sports we play? We TUE explore the limits of our concentration and how we behave TUE under stressed conditions. Why do we sometimes crumble under TUE the pressure? TUE TUE The improvising mind: We visit the Cheltenham Science TUE Festival to consider whether we often just make up what we TUE think, on the spot. TUE TUE Morals and norms: What are the hidden rules that govern our TUE lives? We explore how and why we follow the intricate rules TUE of social engagement - manners and etiquette - and the TUE values they represent. How do we negotiate the expectation TUE to conform? TUE TUE Morals and laws: How do we navigate the more obvious rules TUE that society dictates we follow? We explore the sometimes TUE blurry line between right and wrong. When do we feel it is TUE ok to cross the line? TUE TUE Presenter: Michael Blastland TUE Producer: Eve Streeter and Dom Byrne TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Amerasians: Children of the Dust b0608dvy (Listen) TUE The story of Vietnamese Amerasians is shaped by hardship, TUE rejection and courage. TUE TUE Born of relationships between Vietnamese women and American TUE servicemen during the Vietnam War, many were simply TUE abandoned and left to fend for themselves by mothers fearful TUE of retaliation from a victorious Communist government. A TUE great number were lost to illness and malnutrition in those TUE challenging post-war years and those who survived were TUE widely ostracized by a society still coming to terms with TUE the war. TUE TUE Trista Goldberg was one of a minority who managed to escape TUE the country as a baby and was raised by an adopted family in TUE the U.S. In both America and Vietnam, she discovers how TUE Amerasians have survived in the forty years since the end of TUE the war. TUE TUE Almost all are united by a common dream to find the American TUE fathers who left them behind. The dream came closer to TUE reality when congress passed the Amerasian Homecoming Act in TUE 1988, allowing those who could prove their identity the TUE chance to migrate to the USA. TUE TUE Growing up, Lyna Tiernan suffered bullying and harassment in TUE a society that shunned the 'Children of the Dust'. Now TUE living a successful life in Massachussets, she will never TUE forget the day her phone rang and she heard her father's TUE voice for the first time. TUE TUE Suzanne Thi Hien Hook followed an unusual path to Britain, TUE and then returned to Vietnam as an adult to help other TUE orphans. Like thousands of Amerasians, she is hoping that TUE scientific advancements in DNA testing will help her find TUE her birth family. TUE TUE Contributors united by the circumstances of their birth and TUE a valiant effort to explore their past, share moving TUE personal testimony shaped by differing journeys of suffering TUE and hope. TUE TUE Producer: Neil Kanwal TUE A BlokMedia production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b0608h7q (Listen) TUE Jon Richardson and Emma Kennedy TUE TUE Comedian Jon Richardson and actor/writer Emma Kennedy TUE recommend favourite books to Harriett Gilbert. Jon TUE introduces the compelling real-life story of Everett Ruess: TUE A Vagabond for Beauty. Ruess was a boy whose extraordinary TUE adventures in the American wilderness in the 1930s ended in TUE a mystery that is still unexplained. TUE Emma chooses what she considers the funniest book that's TUE ever been written: The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman, a TUE spoof account of an heroic mountaineering expedition. TUE Harriett's pick is the influential memoir Bad Blood by Lorna TUE Sage. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Jon Richardson TUE Interviewed Guest: Emma Kennedy TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0608h7s (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0606jv7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Not What You Know b0608h7v (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE TUE What is Sarah Millican's worst habit? What is Richard TUE Osman's mum's favourite recording artist? What would Nathan TUE Caton be doing if he wasn't a comedian? TUE TUE All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show TUE hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how TUE well they know their nearest and dearest. TUE TUE In this case, Richard Osman picks his mother, Sarah Millican TUE her mate Lou, and Nathan Caton his brother Mekel to answer TUE questions about each other. TUE TUE Producer: Matt Stronge. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Miles Jupp TUE Panellist: Richard Osman TUE Panellist: Sarah Millican TUE Panellist: Nathan Caton TUE Producer: Matt Stronge TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0608h7x (Listen) TUE Pat and Tony have an announcement to make, and Rob needs a TUE word with Charlie. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0608h7z (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b06085q8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b0608h81 (Listen) TUE The UK's £12 billion pound foreign aid budget is one of the TUE few areas of Government spending protected from cuts. The TUE commitment to spend 0.7% of Britain's gross national income TUE on aid means at least 60 billion pounds will be spent on TUE overseas development in the next five years. Many of these TUE projects are delivered by large companies that receive tens TUE of millions of pounds from DFID (the Department for TUE International Development). They can charge over a thousand TUE pounds a day for a consultant and their directors earn six TUE figure salaries but how effective are they are and the TUE programmes they are paid to deliver? Simon Cox investigates TUE the UK's aid industry and asks how taxpayers can know that TUE they're getting value for money. TUE Reporter: Simon Cox Producer: Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0608h83 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b0608h85 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b06085ck (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0606jv9 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0608h87 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b060lwm8 (Listen) TUE True Grit, Episode 2 TUE TUE Narrated by the aging Mattie Ross, True Grit is Mattie's TUE recollection of events, many years earlier, when, as a TUE fourteen year old girl she undertook an unthinkable quest to TUE avenge her father's death... TUE TUE Mattie's father, Frank Ross, left the family farm near the TUE town of Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas, on a trip to TUE buy some ponies, but was tragically never to return. He was TUE shot dead and robbed by Tom Chaney, one of his own workers, TUE who then fled, and is suspected to be hiding out in Indian TUE Territory. TUE TUE Mattie travels to Fort Smith to arrange for the return of TUE her father's body and to enquire as to what is being done to TUE find her father's killer. Finding the local lawmen TUE disinterested, Mattie resolves to take matters into her own TUE hands and seeks out the toughest deputy U.S. Marshal in the TUE district, one Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn. Although an TUE aging, one-eyed, overweight, trigger-happy, hard-drinking TUE man, Mattie believes Cogburn has 'true grit' and is the man TUE best suited to help her. TUE TUE Mattie persuades Cogburn to take on the job, and, joined by TUE a Texas Ranger named La Boeuf, the three travel into dark, TUE dangerous Indian country to hunt Chaney down and bring him TUE to justice. TUE TUE First brought to the big screen in a classic 1969 western TUE starring John Wayne and more recently by the Cohen brothers TUE in a film starring Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld, True TUE Grit has been abridged for Radio 4 by Doreen Estall, and is TUE read by Nancy Crane. TUE TUE Produced by Heather Larmour. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Nancy Crane TUE Author: Charles Portis TUE Abridger: Doreen Estall TUE Producer: Heather Larmour TUE TUE 23:00 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now b01m0pqk (Listen) TUE Series 1, The One with Anubis, Almighty Jackal-Headed God of TUE the Egyptian Underworld TUE TUE Comedy's best kept secret ingredient gets his own sketch TUE show. Sketches, characters, sound effects, bit of music, TUE some messin' about, you know... TUE TUE In this episode, Kevin goes into space, meets a bandit and TUE evokes the powerful gods of Ancient Egypt. Not all at the TUE same time, obviously - that would be weird. No, separately. TUE TUE Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He's been in virtually TUE every major comedy show in the last fifteen years, but not TUE content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve TUE Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, TUE Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he's finally TUE decided to put together his own comedy series for BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now. TUE TUE Appearing in this episode are Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan TUE Partridge, Scott & Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), TUE Rosie Cavaliero (Peep Show), Paul Putner (Little Britain), TUE Justin Edwards (The Consultants) and David Reed (The Penny TUE Dreadfuls) with special guest Phil Cornwell as David Bowie TUE circa 1973. TUE TUE Written by Kevin Eldon. TUE With additional material by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris TUE (Flight Of The Conchords, That Mitchell & Webb Sound). TUE TUE Original music by Martin Bird. TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0608h89 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 JULY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0606jw8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0617192 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0606jwb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0606jwd (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0606jwg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0606jwj (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b061bp4d (Listen) WED Spiritual reflection to start the day with the Rev Bob WED Fyffe, General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and WED Ireland. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0608j7p (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx944 (Listen) WED Twite WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Martin Hughes-Games presents the Twite. Twites are birds of WED heather moorland and crofting land - a Scottish name is WED "Heather lintie", as they nest in the shelter of wiry WED heather clumps and feed on seeds. To see twites, you'll need WED to visit some of our most scenic spots; the Scottish Isles, WED the moorlands of northern England or the western Irish WED coast. WED WED Twite (Carduelis flavirostris) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b0608jms (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0608jmv (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b061728d (Listen) WED Queen of the Desert, Episode 3 WED WED The story of Gertrude Bell and her crucial role in the WED foundation of the state of Iraq. WED WED One hundred years ago, Iraq did not exist as a nation. It WED was a region without borders or a ruler. In the aftermath of WED the First World War, great men - and Gertrude Bell - WED assembled to determine the future of such 'countries'. WED WED First published in 2006, Queen of the Desert Georgina Howell WED has been reissued - partly to coincide with the Werner WED Herzog film of the same title, but also to provide the long WED view on the troubled history of a remarkable country. WED WED Using letters written by Gertrude Bell throughout the WED period, the book tells the story of an extraordinarily WED talented and determined woman who has often been WED overshadowed by her more famous friend, T.E. Lawrence. WED WED Read by Sylvestra le Touzel and Deborah Findlay (the WED letters) WED WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Sylvestra Le Touzel WED Reader: Deborah Findlay WED Author: Georgina Howell WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0608jmx (Listen) WED Woman's Hour Power List 2015: Influencers WED WED The Power List's top ten women with the most influence are WED named in a live programme from the Radio Theatre in London. WED Presenters Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey are joined on stage WED by this year's judging panel - chair Emma Barnett, Sarah WED Vine, Helena Kennedy QC, Gemma Cairney, Jane Shepherdson - WED plus special guests. WED WED Presenters: Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey WED Producer: Anne Peacock. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED Panellist: Emma Barnett WED Panellist: Helena Kennedy WED Panellist: Gemma Cairney WED Panellist: Jane Shepherdson WED Producer: Anne Peacock WED WED 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b0608jmz (Listen) WED Significant Others, Episode 3 WED WED It's San Francisco in the 80's. Mrs Madrigal is fighting to WED save the wooden steps in Barbary Lane . Dede - reluctantly WED and D'Or - enthusiastically - are packing the car to go to WED Wimminwood . Mary Ann is mulling over Burke's offer of a job WED in New York . Armistead Maupin's well-loved characters from WED his Tales of the City series continue their lives in WED Significant Others and Sure of You dramatised by Lin Coghlan WED WED Produced by Charlotte Riches WED Directed by Susan Roberts in Salford . WED WED Credits WED Mrs Madrigal: Kate Harper WED Michael: Jos Slovick WED Mary Ann: Laurel Lefkow WED Rose: Laurel Lefkow WED Brian: Simon Lee Phillips WED Dede: Nancy Crane WED D'Or: Valerie Cutko WED Polly: Ginny Holder WED Woman Guard: Ginny Holder WED Adaptor: Lin Coghlan WED Author: Armistead Maupin WED Producer: Charlotte Riches WED Director: Susan Roberts WED WED 11:00 Crisis in the Curry Kitchen b0608jn1 (Listen) WED Hardeep Singh Kohli investigates how a critical shortage of WED chefs is threatening the future of the British curry WED industry. WED WED The humble curry house has been a staple of Britain's food WED landscape since the 1970s - with Robin Cook famously WED declaring chicken tikka masala as Britain's national dish in WED 2001. Today there are 10,000 spice restaurants, from local WED curry houses to grand Michelin-starred dining rooms, WED employing 80,000 people in an industry worth £3.6bn. WED WED However, we may be we witnessing the beginning of the end of WED the High Street curry house because a chronic lack of WED skilled chefs has plunged the industry into crisis. WED WED The government's answer to the skills shortage was to invest WED nearly £2m in five 'curry colleges', aiming to close the WED skills gap by providing young Britons and EU citizens with WED employment opportunities in curry house kitchens. WED WED Hardeep talks to tutors, pupils, the Asian Restaurant Skills WED Board, chefs and restaurant owners in Birmingham - the home WED of the Balti curry - to find out why interest in the courses WED is so low and why recruitment is proving so difficult. WED WED Produced by Rahul Verma. WED A PPM production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b039q252 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, WED regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things WED like Miranda, presents a third series series of his hit WED sketch show. WED WED The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by WED The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny WED sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The WED second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and WED Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Sony award. WED WED This time around, John promises to stop doing silly sketches WED about nonsense like Winnie the Pooh's honey addiction or how WED goldfish invented computer programming, and concentrate WED instead on the the big, serious issues. WED WED This second episode of the series addresses making new WED friends; the problem with polymath bestselling authors; and WED a brief history of choice. And the show as a whole is... WED slightly off. WED WED Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret WED Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. WED WED Producer: Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Finnemore WED Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Ensemble: Simon Kane WED Ensemble: Lawry Lewin WED Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: John Finnemore WED WED 12:00 News Summary b0606jwl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b0608jx9 (Listen) WED 1 July 1915 - Alice Macknade WED WED In Folkestone, the Dominion Day celebrations are infectious. WED WED Cast WED Alice Macknade ..... Claire- Louise Cordwell WED Roy Lavoie ..... Tim Beckmann WED Mickey Macknade ..... Reece Buttery WED Maggie Macknade ..... Hollie Thoupos WED Adam Wilson ..... Leo Montague WED Jessie Moore ..... Lucy Hutchinson WED Thornton Tulliver ..... Nigel Harman WED Muriel Grainger ..... Hannah Tointon WED Waiter ..... Jude Akuwudike WED Canadian Soldier 1 ..... Nathan Nolan WED Canadian Soldier 2 ..... Owen Clark WED Canadian Soldier 3 ..... Stephen Critchlow WED Canadian Soldier 4 ..... David Hounslow WED WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Directed by Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Alice Macknade: Claire-Louise Cordwell WED Mickey Macknade: Reece Buttery WED Hilary Pearce: Craige Els WED Roy Lavoie: Tim Beckmann WED Writer: Georgia Fitch WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b0608jzh (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0606jwn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0608mm3 (Listen) WED Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by WED Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Me, My Selfie and I: Aimee Fuller's Generation Game WED b061728g (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED What's it like to be on the receiving end of a 'selfie' WED photograph taken by a fan? Snowboarder Aimee Fuller WED continues her exploration of the selfie phenomenon. WED WED In this third episode, Aimee starts at an event promoting WED the This Girl Can sporting campaign to encourage girls to WED take part in sports. She meets her fans and takes selfies WED with them before explaining how it feels to be on the WED receiving end of a selfie. She explains why she likes them - WED and how instant communication using social media makes it WED possible for her to stay in touch with her fans in a way WED that was not possible before. WED David Houghton, a lecturer at the Birmingham University WED Business School, explains how brands have linked the way WED people interact on social media and with branded content. He WED explains how a brand and a selfie can overlap. WED WED Katrina Sluis at the Photographers Gallery discusses how WED young bloggers become brand ambassadors. WED WED Producer: Philip Reevell WED A Manchester Digital Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0608h7x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r0h4m (Listen) WED The Silence at the Song's End WED WED After the death of her 23 year old son, Nicholas Heiney, WED Radio 4 broadcaster Libby Purves discovered, scattered about WED his room on bits of crumpled paper and post-it-notes, his WED poems and journals. His life in words. WED WED Getting up at dawn throughout that summer, Libby set about WED transcribing his writings - 35,000 words - onto her WED computer. She deliberately chose an unfamiliar font as a way WED of disciplining herself not to change anything. And every WED day she would email what she had typed to Heiney's former WED English tutor, Professor Duncan Wu, at St Catherine's WED College, Oxford. WED WED What followed was 'The Silence At The Song's End' - written WED by Nicholas Heiney and adapted for radio by Libby Purves. WED WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED As Herself: Libby Purves WED Nicholas Heiney: Joseph Drake WED Young Nicholas: Luca Thomas WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 15:00 Money Box b0608mml (Listen) WED Looking for a cheaper phone, broadband and TV deal or better WED service? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday WED 1 July or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk with your questions. WED WED If you haven't switched provider it's likely that you're WED paying too much for your phone, broadband and TV bills. WED WED Switching provider should be easier from this month thanks WED to new OFCOM rules, so how does it work, how long will it WED take and how much could you save? WED WED What are the best deals on the market for your needs and is WED it cheaper to buy your services from the same supplier? What WED do you need to ask so you don't get caught out by unexpected WED charges? WED WED Are you happy with the service you're already signed up to? WED If you've a problem with billing, connection or broadband WED speed how do you resolve it? Can the Communications WED Ombudsman help? WED WED Or perhaps there's another question you need an answer to. WED Whatever's on your mind why not call the programme on WED Wednesday. WED WED Waiting to take your calls with presenter Lesley Curwen will WED be: WED WED Jon Lenton, Communications Ombudsman. WED Gautam Srivastava, Telecoms expert, Money supermarket. WED Ewan Taylor-Gibson, Broadband & Expert, uswitch WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic call charges WED apply. WED Ofcom WED Communications Ombudsman WED CISAS WED GOV.UK Superfast broadband: find out if you can upgrade WED EU Roaming Tariffs WED Moneysupermarket WED uswitch WED WED B WED roadbandchoices WED Simplifydigital WED mobilephonechecker WED bill monitor WED broadband.co.uk WED cable.co.uk WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b0608h85 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0608n26 (Listen) WED Factory music, Volunteering post-recession WED WED Factory music:the role that popular music plays in workers' WED culture. Marek Korczynski, Chair in Sociology of Work at the WED Nottingham University Business School, talks to Laurie WED Taylor about his study of a British factory that WED manufactures window blinds, revealing how pop music can WED enliven monotonous work, providing a sense of community as WED well as moments of resistance to the tyranny of the WED workplace. WED WED Also, volunteering in 'hard times': James Laurence ESRC WED Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, examines WED how the 2008-9 recession has affected peoples' willingness WED to do formal voluntary work as well as informal helping. WED WED Producer:Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0608n28 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0608n2b (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0606jwv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen b0608n2d (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Helen Keen is joined by Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane for WED a comic look at humanity's greatest challenges and some of WED our more surprising solutions. This week, the problem of WED boredom, and the potential solution that is gamification. WED Covering everything from bear-baiting to loyalty points, the WED show also asks how many times you can spot the mystery word? WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill. Produced by WED Gareth Edwards. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Helen Keen WED Performer: Peter Serafinowicz WED Performer: Susy Kane WED Writer: Helen Keen WED Writer: Miriam Underhill WED Producer: Gareth Edwards WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0608n4s (Listen) WED Kate is working up an idea. Meanwhile, are Fairbrother Geese WED finally in business? WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0608nl8 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b0608jmz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0608nlb (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Melanie Phillips, Giles Fraser, Anne WED McElvoy and Sunder Katwala. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0608nvd (Listen) WED A Progressive Case for Authority WED WED Eliane Glaser argues that since everyone is against WED authority now, the true iconoclast would make a progressive WED case for authority. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Science Stories b0608nvg (Listen) WED How Perkin brought purple to the people WED WED In 1856, a teenager experimenting at home accidentally made WED a colour that was more gaudy and garish than anything that WED had gone before. William Perkin was messing about at home, WED trying to make the anti-malarial, quinine; but his WED experiment went wrong. Instead he made a purple dye that WED took Victorian London by storm . Philip Ball tells the story WED of this famous stroke of serendipity. Laurence Llewelyn- WED Bowen describes the fashion sensation that ensued and WED chemist, Andrea Sella tells how Perkin's purple prompted the WED creation of much more than colourful crinolines. WED WED Producer: Anna Buckley. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0608jmv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0608nxs (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b060lwpz (Listen) WED True Grit, Episode 3 WED WED Narrated by the aging Mattie Ross, True Grit is Mattie's WED recollection of events, many years earlier, when, as a WED fourteen year old girl she undertook an unthinkable quest to WED avenge her father's death... WED WED Mattie's father, Frank Ross, left the family farm near the WED town of Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas, on a trip to WED buy some ponies, but was tragically never to return. He was WED shot dead and robbed by Tom Chaney, one of his own workers, WED who then fled, and is suspected to be hiding out in Indian WED Territory. WED WED Mattie travels to Fort Smith to arrange for the return of WED her father's body and to enquire as to what is being done to WED find her father's killer. Finding the local lawmen WED disinterested, Mattie resolves to take matters into her own WED hands and seeks out the toughest deputy U.S. Marshal in the WED district, one Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn. Although an WED aging, one-eyed, overweight, trigger-happy, hard-drinking WED man, Mattie believes Cogburn has 'true grit' and is the man WED best suited to help her. WED WED Mattie persuades Cogburn to take on the job, and, joined by WED a Texas Ranger named La Boeuf, the three travel into dark, WED dangerous Indian country to hunt Chaney down and bring him WED to justice. WED WED First brought to the big screen in a classic 1969 western WED starring John Wayne and more recently by the Cohen brothers WED in a film starring Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld, True WED Grit has been abridged for Radio 4 by Doreen Estall, and is WED read by Nancy Crane. WED WED Produced by Heather Larmour. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Nancy Crane WED Author: Charles Portis WED Abridger: Doreen Estall WED Producer: Heather Larmour WED WED 23:00 Bunk Bed b0608nxv (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Two men in darkness, sharing a bunk bed and a stream of WED semi-consciousness about family, relationships, work and WED imagined life. WED WED We all crave a place where our mind and body are not applied WED to a particular task. The nearest faraway place from daily WED life. Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange WED thoughts which don't have to be shooed into context, but WED which can be followed like balloons escaping onto the air. WED Late at night, in the dark and in a bunk bed, the restless WED mind can wander. WED WED After an acclaimed reception by The Independent, The Sunday WED Telegraph, The Observer and Radio 4 listeners, Bunk Bed WED returns with its late night stream of semi-concsciousness. WED WED In this episode, under cover of darkness, the bedfellows WED touch on Tolkien, Tom and Jerry, Jewish v Irish names, WED guilty siblings, and whether the band Napalm Death are as WED good as Shakespeare. WED WED Elsewhere in the series, Patrick and Peter deal with WED therapy, Chas and Dave, children's happiness, Babysham, WED Aldous Huxley, and correction fluid - among a ragbag of WED subjects. WED WED Written and performed by Patrick Marber and Peter Curran WED Producer: Peter Curran WED A Foghorn production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 I, Regress b01rlnj4 (Listen) WED Series 2, Rubber WED WED A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an WED unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees WED Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff WED Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking WED unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through WED their subconscious. WED WED Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client WED who has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient WED is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the WED various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are WED played out for us to hear. The result is a dream (or WED nightmare-like) trip through the patient's mind, as funny as WED it is disturbing. WED WED The cast across the series include Bob Mortimer, Daisy WED Haggard, Steve Furst and Tracy-Ann Oberman. WED WED A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone WED else's head! WED WED Credits WED Performer: Matt Berry WED Producer: Sam Bryant WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0608nxx (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 JULY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0606jxr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b061728d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0606jxt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0606jxw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0606jxy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0606jy0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b060p84g (Listen) THU Spiritual reflection to start the day with the Rev Bob THU Fyffe, General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and THU Ireland. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b060b7z5 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx96d (Listen) THU Goshawk THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Martin Hughes Games presents the Goshawk. A favourite bird THU of Martin Hughes-Games, who is presenting November's 'Tweet THU of the Day', the goshawk is a powerful deep-chested relative THU of the sparrowhawk: its name derives from "goose-hawk", THU though in practice goshawks rarely catch geese - they prefer THU woodpigeons, rabbits and squirrels. A female goshawk is a THU hefty bird, as big as a buzzard and much bulkier than her THU smaller mate. THU THU Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) THU Image courtesy of Mark Hamblin (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b060bctb (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b060bctg (Listen) THU Frederick the Great THU THU Frederick the Great was King of Prussia from 1740 until his THU death in 1786. Born in 1712, he increased the power of the THU state, he made Prussia the leading military power in Europe THU and his bold campaigns had great implications for the THU European political landscape. An absolute monarch in the age THU of enlightenment, he was a prolific writer, attracted THU figures such as Voltaire to his court, fostered education THU and put Berlin firmly on the cultural map. He was much THU admired by Napoleon and was often romanticised by German THU historians, becoming a hero for many in united Germany in THU the 19th and 20th centuries. Others, however, vilified him THU for aspects such as his militarism and the partition of THU Poland. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06172j1 (Listen) THU Queen of the Desert, Episode 4 THU THU The story of Gertrude Bell and her crucial role in the THU foundation of the state of Iraq. THU THU In 1919 and into 1920, Gertrude became increasingly THU frustrated by the protracted and ill-informed decisions THU being taken in Europe about the future of the Middle East. THU THU First published in 2006, Queen of the Desert Georgina Howell THU has been reissued - partly to coincide with the Werner THU Herzog film of the same title, but also to provide the long THU view on the troubled history of a remarkable country. THU THU Using letters written by Gertrude Bell throughout the THU period, the book tells the story of an extraordinarily THU talented and determined woman who has often been THU overshadowed by her more famous friend, T.E. Lawrence. THU THU Read by Sylvestra le Touzel and Deborah Findlay (the THU letters) THU THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Sylvestra Le Touzel THU Reader: Deborah Findlay THU Author: Georgina Howell THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b060bctl (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b060blkx (Listen) THU Significant Others, Episode 4 THU THU Mrs Madrigal's appeal to the authorities to save her beloved THU Barbary Lane steps have been turned down. Dede and D'Or are THU having different experiences at Wimminwood and Michael gets THU caught up in the difficulties Mary Ann and Brian are having THU and has to dish out a few home truths . THU THU Lin Coghlan dramatises stories from Significant Others and THU Sure of You by Armistead Maupin from his Tales of the City THU series .Set in San Francisco in the 80's . THU THU Produced by Charlotte Riches THU Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. THU THU Credits THU Mrs Madrigal: Kate Harper THU Mary Ann: Laurel Lefkow THU Michael: Jos Slovick THU Brian: Simon Lee Phillips THU Dede: Nancy Crane THU D'Or: Valerie Cutko THU Chloe: Valerie Cutko THU Thack: Louis Labovitch THU Rand: Louis Labovitch THU Polly: Ginny Holder THU Adaptor: Lin Coghlan THU Author: Armistead Maupin THU Producer: Charlotte Riches THU Director: Susan Roberts THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b060bctq (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Looking For Charlie Williams b060bctv (Listen) THU Ian McMillan sets out on a personal quest to find out more THU about the late professional footballer turned TV comedy THU star, Charlie Williams, who rose to national fame in the THU early 1970s with appearances on The Comedians and The Golden THU Shot, delivering his trademark 'me old flower' in his broad THU Yorkshire accent. THU THU At 14, Charlie went down the pit and excelled at football, THU playing for the Upton Colliery team. This led to a THU successful career as a professional footballer in the 1950s THU when he made 151 appearances for Doncaster Rovers and was THU one of the first black footballers in the country. THU THU After retiring from football, he turned his hand to singing THU in the local Working Men's Clubs. He soon realised his THU in-between song banter was going down much better than his THU singing and a new career in comedy was born. He made his TV THU debut in 1971, starring in the Comedians alongside Bernard THU Manning and Frank Carson, and had a six month residence at THU the London Palladium. THU THU Ian talks to Doncaster Rovers' club historian Tony Bluff to THU find out just why the club's fans voted him 'all time club THU cult hero' in a 2004 Football Focus poll. He visits THU Charlie's widow Janice and learns about the day he received THU his MBE from Prince Charles. We also hear from writer and THU broadcaster Dotun Adebayo, who wrote and starred in a play THU based on Charlie, and from Charlie's best mate and one-time THU agent Neil Crossland. THU THU The combination of a black man with a broad Yorkshire accent THU and first-hand experience of working class life made Charlie THU Williams unique. Some say his gags reinforced racial THU stereotypes of the time, but nevertheless he was a pioneer THU and role model for a new generation of British black THU comedians. THU THU Producer: Kellie While THU A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b0606jy3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b060bcv1 (Listen) THU 2 July 1915 - Victor Lumley THU THU Victor is home on leave, and hardly expected to have to THU fight a whole new set of battles. THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Directed by Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack THU Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn THU Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook THU Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf THU Adam Wilson: Leo Montague THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b061bphk (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0606jy5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b061bphm (Listen) THU Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by THU Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Me, My Selfie and I: Aimee Fuller's Generation Game THU b06172jb (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU The recent election was dubbed the 'selfie election'. In the THU fourth part of her series on selfies, snowboarder Aimee THU Fuller explores why politicians embraced this new way to THU meet the voters - from the phenomenon called Millifandom to THU David Cameron using a selfie stick to take a picture at THU Pirate FM. THU THU The Economist writer Jeremy Cliffe tells of his experience THU covering the election and seeing selfies being taken THU everywhere - but, when he asked those taking them if it THU would change the way they vote, they tended to say it THU wouldn't. He explores what role the selfie played, and why THU politicians embraced it. THU THU Jeremy also discusses the social attitudes of the selfie THU generation of young people. He says as work has become more THU insecure and self employment has risen, the autonomy of THU creating a personal image and brand through selfies and THU social media is in keeping with the attitudes of this THU generation. There has also been a decline in the appeal of THU big monolithic organisations, so young people are less THU likely to get behind a big political party to declare who THU they are. THU THU He argues that this generation is more individualistic and THU more at home with building an identity online. THU THU Katrina Sluis of the Photographers Gallery says selfies are THU part of the process of breaking down barriers between the THU private and public life, and this also affects institutions. THU THU Producer: Philip Reevell THU A Manchester Digital Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0608n4s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b060bf63 (Listen) THU Snake Oil THU THU Jim Dillon has what he calls 'Fondue Set Syndrome'. He just THU can't walk past a bargain - or what he thinks is a bargain - THU as his long-suffering family and their array of curious and THU inappropriate birthday and Christmas presents testify! But THU when Jim is faced with a much more serious and THU life-threatening diagnosis he starts to investigate THU alternative cures and remedies to assist his recovery and THU help him try and control the uncontrollable. From a fungus THU fed with milk to a Native American sweat lodge in the living THU room, Jim tries it all. But is Jim in danger of taking THU things too far and pushing his family away, instead putting THU his trust in others, some of whom just might not have his THU best interests at heart? THU THU A new drama from Northern-Irish playwright Abbie Spallen THU starring Philip Jackson, Pauline McLynn and Georgia Taylor. THU THU Credits THU Jim: Philip Jackson THU Pearl: Pauline McLynn THU Della: Georgia Taylor THU The Consultant: Patrick FitzSymons THU Naomi: Fo Cullen THU Alan: Patrick Buchanan THU Michael: Richard Orr THU Writer: Abbie Spallen THU THU 15:00 Open Country b060bf65 (Listen) THU The Lengthsman with Antony Gormley THU THU The Landmark Trust exists to save endangered important THU buildings and to enable people to inhabit them. For their THU 50th anniversary they invited one of our most celebrated THU artists Sir Antony Gormley to create a sculpture at 5 iconic THU locations across the country. The centre point of these 5 THU pieces is The Lengthsmans Cottage in Lowsonford which sits THU on the side of the Stratford-Upon-Avon canal in THU Warwickshire. Each work of art has been composed in direct THU response to the landscape which surrounds them and here the THU figure perches on the very edge of the lock gazing down into THU the depths of the rushing water as the calm yet industrious THU life of the canal unfolds below. THU THU Helen Mark meets Sir Antony Gormley as he returns to the THU site for a final inspection and he explains how for him this THU figure represents our need to reconnect with our industrial THU heritage, man's essential drive to make things. As the THU programme unfolds we hear more about the secret life of the THU canal, the people who keep it running and the wildlife that THU live along it. Perhaps an unlikely spot to find the work of THU such an influential artist, Helen discovers that the canal THU in fact provides a perfect gallery as those who use it can THU view and react to the figure as they float by. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0606mdg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0607247 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b060bf67 (Listen) THU Back to the Future, Amy, Audrey Hepburn THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Back To The Future composer Alan Silvestri reveals why he's THU added 15 minutes of music to the original score for a new THU screening of Back To The Future. THU THU The producer and editor of Amy, James Gay-Rees and Chris THU King, discuss the skill and ethics of editing a documentary THU about the life of singer Amy Winehouse, and respond to THU criticism about the film from her father Mitch. THU THU Antonia Quirke visits the National Portrait Gallery's THU exhibition about Audrey Hepburn to see if it has changed her THU mind about an actress that she's always considered THU over-rated. THU THU The job of Colourist is relatively new but increasingly THU important in the film industry, and Adam Glasman explains THU the tricks of his trade. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: James Gay-Rees THU Interviewed Guest: Chris King THU Interviewed Guest: Antonia Quirke THU Interviewed Guest: Adam Glasman THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b060bf69 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b060p84l (Listen) THU News interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0606jy8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's a Fair Cop b060bf6c (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU After a successful first series on Radio 4 and a sold-out THU run at the Edinburgh Festival, policeman turned comic, Alfie THU Moore, returns with the series that forces his audience to THU make the policing decisions as he takes them through a real THU life crime scenario. THU THU Written and performed by Alfie Moore, THU Script Editor ..... Will Ing, THU Producer..... Alison Vernon-Smith. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Alfie Moore THU Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith THU Writer: Alfie Moore THU THU 19:00 The Archers b060bf6f (Listen) THU David takes to the airwaves, and Bert reflects. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b060bf6h (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b060blkx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b060blkz (Listen) THU Chemsex THU THU Crystal Meth, GHB/GBL and Mephedrone form what some health THU workers call an 'un-holy trinity' of drugs that together can THU heighten arousal and strip away inhibitions. THU THU They've become increasingly popular on London's gay scene, THU and the effects can see some users taking part in THU weekend-long sex parties, involving multiple partners. THU THU For Radio 4's The Report, Mobeen Azhar speaks to men THU entrenched in this lifestyle and explores the impact the THU so-called 'chemsex' scene is having on public health THU services. THU THU It's a scene where unsafe sex is common and has been cited THU as a contributing factor in the rising number of HIV THU infections in London, posing new challenges to those trying THU to promote the safe sex message. THU THU Such parties are fuelled by technology and smartphone dating THU apps, which have triggered a social shift where men have THU moved out of bars and clubs and into private homes - out of THU reach to sexual health and drug advice services. THU THU A potential solution to help protect those involved in the THU scene is Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) - the practice of THU issuing men with HIV medication before they become HIV THU positive, which studies have shown as an effective means to THU reduce HIV infection. THU THU PrEp has been championed by the World Health Organisation, THU saying it could prevent 1 million new HIV infections around THU the world. Its advocates in Britain suggest it should be THU made available on-demand as soon as possible - but how THU affordable is it? And will fears that it will only encourage THU more unsafe sex prove true? THU THU Presenter: Mobeen Azhar THU Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b060bll1 (Listen) THU Burger Battles THU THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b060bf69 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b060bctg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b060bng2 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b060lwts (Listen) THU True Grit, Episode 4 THU THU Narrated by the aging Mattie Ross, True Grit is Mattie's THU recollection of events, many years earlier, when, as a THU fourteen year old girl she undertook an unthinkable quest to THU avenge her father's death... THU THU Mattie's father, Frank Ross, left the family farm near the THU town of Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas, on a trip to THU buy some ponies, but was tragically never to return. He was THU shot dead and robbed by Tom Chaney, one of his own workers, THU who then fled, and is suspected to be hiding out in Indian THU Territory. THU THU Mattie travels to Fort Smith to arrange for the return of THU her father's body and to enquire as to what is being done to THU find her father's killer. Finding the local lawmen THU disinterested, Mattie resolves to take matters into her own THU hands and seeks out the toughest deputy U.S. Marshal in the THU district, one Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn. Although an THU aging, one-eyed, overweight, trigger-happy, hard-drinking THU man, Mattie believes Cogburn has 'true grit' and is the man THU best suited to help her. THU THU Mattie persuades Cogburn to take on the job, and, joined by THU a Texas Ranger named La Boeuf, the three travel into dark, THU dangerous Indian country to hunt Chaney down and bring him THU to justice. THU THU First brought to the big screen in a classic 1969 western THU starring John Wayne and more recently by the Cohen brothers THU in a film starring Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld, True THU Grit has been abridged for Radio 4 by Doreen Estall, and is THU read by Nancy Crane. THU THU Produced by Heather Larmour. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Nancy Crane THU Author: Charles Portis THU Abridger: Doreen Estall THU Producer: Heather Larmour THU THU 23:00 Seekers b060bng4 (Listen) THU Series 2, The Eight-Letter Word THU THU Matthew Horne, Daniel Mays, Tony Way and Zahra Ahmadi star THU in the sitcom set in a jobcentre. Stuart says something very THU silly, and Nicola tries to impress Vanessa to gain her THU confidence. THU THU Written by Steve Burge. THU Produced by Victoria Lloyd. THU THU Credits THU Stuart: Matthew Horne THU Joseph: Daniel Mays THU Terry: Tony Way THU Nicola: Zahra Ahmadi THU Vanessa: Natalie Walter THU Gary Probert: Steve Oram THU Writer: Steven Burge THU Producer: Victoria Lloyd THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b060bng6 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 JULY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0606jz6 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06172j1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0606jz8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0606jzb (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0606jzd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0606jzg (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b060pdqr (Listen) FRI Spiritual reflection to start the day with the Rev Bob FRI Fyffe, General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and FRI Ireland. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b060bnrt (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx98q (Listen) FRI Little Auk FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Martin Hughes-Games presents the Little Auk. Little auks are FRI black and white relatives of the puffin but only about half FRI the size. They're one of the most numerous seabirds in the FRI world, with around twelve million pairs of birds. In autumn FRI and early winter we see them in the UK as they head south FRI into the North Sea. FRI FRI Little Auk (Alle alle) FRI Image courtesy of Mark Sisson (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b060brhr (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0606vtx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06172qn (Listen) FRI Queen of the Desert, Episode 5 FRI FRI The story of Gertrude Bell and her crucial role in the FRI foundation of the state of Iraq. FRI FRI With the new King, Faisal, safely installed, Gertrude's FRI energies turned to the establishment of a museum in Baghdad FRI to house the extraordinary collection of artefacts that FRI chronicled Iraq's ancient history. FRI FRI First published in 2006, Queen of the Desert Georgina Howell FRI has been reissued - partly to coincide with the Werner FRI Herzog film of the same title, but also to provide the long FRI view on the troubled history of a remarkable country. FRI FRI Using letters written by Gertrude Bell throughout the FRI period, the book tells the story of an extraordinarily FRI talented and determined woman who has often been FRI overshadowed by her more famous friend, T.E. Lawrence. FRI FRI Read by Sylvestra le Touzel and Deborah Findlay (the FRI letters) FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Sylvestra Le Touzel FRI Reader: Deborah Findlay FRI Author: Georgina Howell FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b060brht (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:41 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b060bwdz (Listen) FRI Significant Others, Episode 5 FRI FRI Armistead Maupin's beloved characters come to the end of the FRI 80's as this series closes. . Mary Anne has decided to move FRI to New York. Having Thack around will ease Michael's loss FRI back in San Francisco . But what about Brian ? Faced with FRI losing the wooden steps outside Barbary Lane Mrs Madrigal FRI resorts to chains ....The final part of Lin Coghlan's FRI dramatisation of Significant Others and Sure of You . FRI FRI Produced by Charlotte Riches FRI Directed by Susan Roberts. FRI FRI Credits FRI Mrs Madrigal: Kate Harper FRI Mary Ann: Laurel Lefkow FRI Michael: Jos Slovick FRI Brian: Simon Lee Phillips FRI Thack: Louis Labovitch FRI Adaptor: Lin Coghlan FRI Author: Armistead Maupin FRI Producer: Charlotte Riches FRI Director: Susan Roberts FRI FRI 10:55 The Listening Project b060brhw (Listen) FRI Phyllis and Werner - Love and Liberation FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a couple whose 67 year marriage shows FRI that love can heal the deepest divides; Phyllis married the FRI German medic whom she met during the Occupation. Another in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 11:00 Lost Children of the Holocaust b060brhy (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Alex Last finds out what happened to the 12 children named FRI in a series of BBC radio appeals on behalf of a group of FRI Holocaust survivors stranded as orphans in post-war Europe. FRI FRI 11:30 Gloomsbury b060bs04 (Listen) FRI Series 3, One Day My Prince Will Come FRI FRI The visit of the Prince of Wales to Sizzlinghurst to admire FRI Vera's garden has ardent Monarchist, Mrs Gosling, in a FRI tizzy. It also leaves Henry on edge. and suspecting everyone FRI of trying to assassinate the Prince. FRI FRI With good cause it would seem. FRI FRI Gosling's rampant Republicanism and grandmother's shot gun FRI means that Henry has no choice but to lock the gardener up FRI in the potting shed. Then two gun-toting Americans pop in FRI unannounced and brandish their weapons on the front lawn - FRI the poet Gertrude Klein and the socialite Mrs Wallis FRI Simpleton. FRI FRI Henry manages to disarm them just as the Prince makes his FRI entrance. But when the Prince of Wales makes a play for FRI Vera, asking her out on a clandestine date to to the FRI theatre, Henry regrets getting rid of the guns. FRI FRI If the Prince continues to threaten his marriage, Henry FRI might have to assassinate the Prince of Wales himself. FRI FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes FRI Gosling: Roger Lloyd Pack FRI Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy FRI Mrs Gosling: Alison Steadman FRI Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd Pack FRI Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman FRI Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks FRI DH Lollipop: John Sessions FRI Producer: Jamie Rix FRI Writer: Sue Limb FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b0606jzs (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b060bs06 (Listen) FRI 3 July 1915 - Howard Argent FRI FRI Howard throws caution to the wind. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Howard Argent: Toby Jones FRI Juliet Cavendish: Lizzie Bourne FRI Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Private Greg: Jude Akuwidike FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b060bs08 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0606jzz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b060pdqw (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Me, My Selfie and I: Aimee Fuller's Generation Game FRI b06172qq (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final part of her exploration of the selfie FRI phenomenon, snowboarder Aimee Fuller describes how she will FRI be using social media as she sets out to compete for a place FRI at the next Winter Olympics. As she looks ahead, she also FRI considers what she will share with fans - and what she would FRI like to keep to herself. FRI FRI Birmingham University Business School lecturer David FRI Houghton explains how photographs of the self are viewed FRI when posted frequently and how attitudes change depending on FRI what is posted and how often. He explains the role of FRI narcissism in social media and the difference between 'look FRI at me' selfies and photos taken at tourist locations to FRI explain where people are. FRI FRI Nina Nesbitt is a singer-songwriter who uses social media to FRI connect with her fans, including via a live video stream, FRI and appreciates the way she gets feedback and encouragement FRI from fans. She talks with her fans on Twitter most days and FRI says it helps her when she is recording. FRI FRI Aimee explains her views on what should be posted online - FRI she posts in order to convey herself - and how there is a FRI difference between 'social media Aimee' and her ordinary, FRI day-to-day life. She talks about the people who criticise FRI photographs taken and the drawbacks of social media. FRI FRI Producer: Philip Reevell FRI A Manchester Digital Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b060bf6f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b060bwdj (Listen) FRI Rumpole, Rumpole and the Portia of our Chambers FRI FRI The return of Benedict Cumberbatch in the first of a new FRI series of four Rumpole stories. Written by John Mortimer and FRI adapted by Richard Stoneman. FRI FRI Rumpole comes close to giving up the law when forced to FRI consider the path his life has taken by a combination of his FRI attraction to his pupil Phillida, an unsettling case FRI involving an Irish terrorist and a devoted father and son, FRI and a visit from an old flame of Hilda's. FRI FRI But the love shown by a client's son for his father FRI convinces Rumpole that he can't simply quit as husband, FRI parent - or as Old Bailey hack. FRI FRI The question of what makes a good parent runs throughout the FRI whole episode, with Rumpole asking himself if he's turning FRI into a bad father, especially in comparison with his client. FRI FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI Produced by Catherine Bailey FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Horace Rumpole: Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Hilda Rumpole: Jasmine Hyde FRI Phillida Trant: Cathy Sara FRI Boxey Horne: Stephen Critchlow FRI Matthew Culp: Samuel Reader FRI Author: John Mortimer FRI Adaptor: Richard Stoneman FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Catherine Bailey FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b060bwdl (Listen) FRI Hampton Court FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the show from the Hampton Court Flower FRI Show. Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood, and Matthew Wilson FRI make up the panel. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Rapunzel b060bwdn (Listen) FRI A Shaggy Bob Story FRI FRI The second of three specially-commissioned tales by Julie FRI Mayhew - her first stories for radio - taking their FRI inspiration not only from the Rapunzel story made familiar FRI by the Brothers Grimm, but also from some of the traditional FRI European tales that influenced them. FRI FRI In modern settings, each story features a girl with a tall FRI tower of her own and the possibilities of an open window... FRI FRI Episode 2: A Shaggy Bob Story FRI A story of very long hair - and head lice. FRI FRI Julie Mayhew has written three plays for radio, including A FRI Shoebox Of Snow which was nominated for Best Drama at the FRI BBC Audio Drama Awards in 2012. Her first novel, Red Ink FRI (2013), was nominated for the 2014 CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her FRI second, The Big Lie, will be published in the summer of FRI 2015. Julie is a founder and host of the short story FRI cabaret, The Berko Speakeasy. FRI FRI Reader: Julie Mayhew FRI FRI Produced by Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Julie Mayhew FRI Reader: Julie Mayhew FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b060pdqy (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b061039t (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b060bwdq (Listen) FRI Harry and Clive - Men of War FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces two Jerseymen who joined up in World FRI War II, recalling their return to the island in 1946, and FRI how their experience of war changed them forever. Another in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b061039w (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0606k02 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b060bwds (Listen) FRI Series 46, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b060bwdv (Listen) FRI It is an important night for Phoebe, and will Brian support FRI Kate? FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Joanna Toye FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Alex Redwood: Josh Harper FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b060bwdx (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b060bwdz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b060bxpg (Listen) FRI Sir Peter Kendall, Frances O'Grady, Owen Paterson MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Weobley FRI Village Hall in Hereford with the Labour leader contender FRI Sir Peter Kendall Chairman of the Agriculture and FRI Horticulture Development Board, the General Secretary of the FRI TUC Frances O'Grady and former cabinet minister Owen FRI Paterson MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b060bxpj (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b060bxpl (Listen) FRI 29 June to 3 July 1915 FRI FRI Canadian Troops celebrated their Dominion Day and a long FRI awaited reunion is planned. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Story-led by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Howard Argent: Toby Jones FRI Juliet Cavendish: Lizzie Bourne FRI Dolly Clout: Elaine Claxton FRI Hotel Guest: Jessica Turner FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn FRI Muriel Grainger: Hannah Tointon FRI Private Greg: Jude Akuwidike FRI Josiah King: Daniel Kendrick FRI Roy Lavoie: Tim Beckmann FRI Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack FRI Alice Macknade: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Esme Macknade: Katie Angelou FRI Maggie Macknade: Hollie Thoupos FRI Mickey Macknade: Reece Buttery FRI Jessie Moore: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Carson Martindale: Stephen Critchlow FRI Man 1: Sam Valentine FRI Man 2: David Hounslow FRI Canadian Soldier 1: Nathan Nolan FRI Canadian Soldier 2: Owen Clark FRI Canadian Soldier 3: Stephen Critchlow FRI Canadian Soldier 4: David Hounslow FRI Toby Speedwell: Joe Bannister FRI Thornton Tulliver: Nigel Harman FRI Nancy Parker: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Waiter: Jude Akuwudike FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie FRI Adam Wilson: Leo Montague FRI Albert Wilson: Harry Myers FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Tom Wright: Clive Hayward FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0606k04 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b061039y (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b060lwyz (Listen) FRI True Grit, Episode 5 FRI FRI Narrated by the aging Mattie Ross, True Grit is Mattie's FRI recollection of events, many years earlier, when, as a FRI fourteen year old girl she undertook an unthinkable quest to FRI avenge her father's death... FRI FRI Mattie's father, Frank Ross, left the family farm near the FRI town of Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas, on a trip to FRI buy some ponies, but was tragically never to return. He was FRI shot dead and robbed by Tom Chaney, one of his own workers, FRI who then fled, and is suspected to be hiding out in Indian FRI Territory. FRI FRI Mattie travels to Fort Smith to arrange for the return of FRI her father's body and to enquire as to what is being done to FRI find her father's killer. Finding the local lawmen FRI disinterested, Mattie resolves to take matters into her own FRI hands and seeks out the toughest deputy U.S. Marshal in the FRI district, one Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn. Although an FRI aging, one-eyed, overweight, trigger-happy, hard-drinking FRI man, Mattie believes Cogburn has 'true grit' and is the man FRI best suited to help her. FRI FRI Mattie persuades Cogburn to take on the job, and, joined by FRI a Texas Ranger named La Boeuf, the three travel into dark, FRI dangerous Indian country to hunt Chaney down and bring him FRI to justice. FRI FRI First brought to the big screen in a classic 1969 western FRI starring John Wayne and more recently by the Cohen brothers FRI in a film starring Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld, True FRI Grit has been abridged for Radio 4 by Doreen Estall, and is FRI read by Nancy Crane. FRI FRI Produced by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Nancy Crane FRI Author: Charles Portis FRI Abridger: Doreen Estall FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b0608h7q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06103b0 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy and the BBC parliamentary team report from FRI Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b060bxpn (Listen) FRI Frank and Hubertus - Germans in Guernsey FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two younger FRI Germans who hope that their countrymen's Occupation of the FRI Channel Islands will be forgiven, but never forgotten. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
26 June, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 27/06/2015 - 03/07/2015
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