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SAT SATURDAY 08 AUGUST 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b063y631 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b064mg4p (Listen) SAT Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of SAT Seashells, Episode 5 SAT SAT Marine biologist Dr Helen Scales tells the story of SAT seashells; from the molluscs that create them to the humans SAT who have used them as jewellery, symbol and even currency. SAT SAT Episode 5 SAT Molluscs continue to surprise as researchers pursue medical SAT advances, while scientists look to them as bellwethers of SAT our impact on the seas. SAT SAT Written and read by Helen Scales SAT Abridged by Sian Preece SAT Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SAT SAT Helen Scales' doctorate involved searching for giant, SAT endangered fish in Borneo; she's also tagged sharks in SAT California, and once spent a year cataloguing all the marine SAT life she could find surrounding a hundred islands in the SAT Andaman Sea. Helen appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 on SAT programmes such as 'Inside Science' and 'Shared Planet' and SAT has presented documentaries on topics such as whether people SAT will ever live underwater, the science of making and surfing SAT waves and the intricacies of sharks' minds. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Helen Scales SAT Author: Helen Scales SAT Abridger: Sian Preece SAT Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b063y633 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. 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SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b064418t (Listen) SAT Thomas Hardy's Dorset SAT SAT Thomas Hardy is one of England's most enduring writers. 175 SAT years after his birth a new film of 'Far From the Madding SAT Crowd' has recently been released and like the original SAT version from 1967 it features scenes shot in the beautiful SAT Dorset countryside. For Hardy the heathland, forests and SAT rivers which surrounded his birthplace at Higher Bockhampton SAT near Dorchester were more than a backdrop. Landscape in SAT Hardy's novel is central to the narrative and it is his SAT vivid descriptions of the stunning setting in which he grew SAT up that lend authenticity and magic to what he wrote. Helen SAT Mark visits Dorset to discover the countryside which Hardy SAT disguised as 'Wessex' in novels such as 'Tess of the SAT D'urbervilles', 'Return of the Native', 'The Mayor of SAT Casterbridge' and 'Jude the Obscure' and hears how this SAT landscape is now inspiring new writers in their work. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b064sx57 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Harvest 2015 SAT SAT The combines are rolling in Harvest 2015 - we're in the SAT Cotswolds as the oil seed rape is gathered in. SAT SAT Harvest talk used to be confined to neighbours and friends SAT in the pub - now the savvy, media friendly farmers are SAT sharing their harvest with the world via social media & SAT blogging. SAT SAT Harvest and drinking beer go hand in hand, so we report on SAT the malting barley harvest in Cornwall. SAT SAT And pumpkins may make you think of autumn - the season of SAT mists and mellow fruitfulness. But think again! We've news SAT of an unusual summer pumpkin harvest just off the M25 in SAT north London. SAT SAT Presenter: Felicity Evans SAT Producer: Sybil Ruscoe. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b063y63h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b064sx5s (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b064sx5h (Listen) SAT Simon Webbe SAT SAT Simon Webbe is currently playing the part of the Big Bad SAT Wolf in the Three Little Pigs but is perhaps best known for SAT being a quarter of the boy band Blue. Simon made his theatre SAT debut in Sister Act at the London Palladium and has also SAT been a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing. SAT Simon tells Kate Silverton and Richard Coles about learning SAT discipline and his hopes for breaking Hollywood. SAT SAT Liz Cowley is known as the Gardening Poet. Now approaching SAT her seventieth year she talks about a love of gardening in SAT her slippers and being published late in life. SAT SAT Annie Humphries is a loyal Saturday Live listener who SAT emailed us with her story. Annie was diagnosed with throat SAT cancer in 2006 and in 2009 had her larynx surgically SAT removed. But that didn't stop Annie. 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SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Kate Silverton SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Simon Webbe SAT Interviewed Guest: Liz Cowley SAT Interviewed Guest: Annie Humphries SAT Interviewed Guest: Mathew Clayton SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Bridget Christie SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b064ww02 (Listen) SAT Series 8, The Murder of Hollywood Director William Desmond SAT Taylor SAT SAT Steve Punt returns with a brand new series of investigations SAT - starting with the unsolved murder of major Hollywood SAT director William Desmond Taylor in 1922. SAT SAT Taylor was one of Tinseltown's biggest names - until he was SAT shot dead in his bungalow in February 1922. Despite a SAT multitude of suspects, Taylor's killer was never caught. SAT SAT It's a bizarre case with a multitude of suspects. Was the SAT murderer former child star Mary Miles Minter or her SAT controlling mother Charlotte Shelby? Or was it Taylor's SAT rather shady private secretary Edwards Sands? SAT SAT Steve casts a fresh eye over the evidence and returns to SAT Taylor's native Ireland where he makes some surprising SAT discoveries about the murdered movie director's past. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b064ww0d (Listen) SAT Clay SAT SAT It is one of Earth's oldest building materials, a natural SAT seal against water, useful for paper making, medicine and SAT lots of other things. Bridget Kendall and guests discuss SAT clay. Why it is so useful, why so many cultures treasure it SAT but why it can also be a source of serious ill health. SAT Chinese-American writer Huan Hsu explains the importance of SAT porcelain in China, Irish ceramic artist Claire Curneen SAT introduces us to the powerful visual language of clay, and SAT British geologist Tim Jones studies a particular type of SAT clay which causes a debilitating illness affecting millions SAT of people in the developing world.(Photo: Guardian by Claire SAT Curneen. Credit: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd). SAT SAT Huan Hsu SAT SAT Huan Hsu’s new book, The Porcelain Thief, documents his SAT travels through China in search of his family’s lost SAT porcelain collection. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in SAT Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu's hometown Xingang, SAT Liu was forced to bury his priceless antique pots. Seven SAT decades on Huan embarks on a quest to find them. Huan's SAT award-winning essays and fiction have appeared in Slate, The SAT Literary Review, Seattle Weekly and Washington City Paper. SAT He teaches creative writing at Amsterdam University College. SAT SAT Claire Curneen SAT Claire Curneen is an Irish ceramic artist and a Senior SAT Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Curneen’s work SAT can be seen in over 20 public collections, including the SAT Victoria & Albert Museum, London; National Museums and SAT Galleries of Wales, Cardiff; Taipei Ceramics Museum, Taiwan SAT and the Crafts Council, London. SAT And you can see some of Claire's work in the gallery on the SAT right-hand side of this page SAT SAT Tim Jones SAT Dr. Tim Jones is Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences, Cardiff SAT University with a special interest in particulate pollution SAT and human health. Specific particles of interest are SAT geologically-sourced such as, volcanic ash, desert storm SAT dust, and quarry dust. One focus of his research is SAT podoconiosis, a serious form of clay-induced elephantiasis, SAT thought to affect about 4 million people in high-altitude SAT tropical regions SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b063y63k (Listen) SAT We Are All Emigrants Now SAT SAT Insight and colour from around the globe. In this edition: SAT Syrian tears for the waste and suffering of a lost SAT generation; the migrants crossing into Europe via the border SAT between Serbia and Hungary -- they say it'll take more than SAT the steel fence, currently being constructed, to stop them. SAT It's Happy Birthday Singapore! The island state's fifty SAT years old and big business hasn't been slow to join the SAT party. We meet a count in Transylvania who dreams that this SAT part of Romania can one day be as famous for its meadows and SAT its hospitality as it is for Count Dracula. And we're out SAT with a postman in the Malian capital, Bamako, who has a very SAT special delivery. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b063y63m (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 The New Workplace b064ww0s (Listen) SAT Being Your Own Boss SAT SAT In the second episode of The New Workplace, Michael Robinson SAT looks at the rapid rise in self-employment in recent years. SAT More than 4.5 million people in the UK are now self-employed SAT and working in this way has accounted for an incredible SAT two-thirds of new jobs since 2008. SAT SAT So why are people doing it? 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SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b064448c (Listen) SAT Series 46, Episode 6 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical SAT stand-up and sketches along with Laura Shavin, Alice Lowe, SAT David Quantick, Jake Yapp and Harry The Piano. Sports SAT journalist Tom Peck discusses the prevalence of doping in SAT professional sports. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Laura Shavin SAT Performer: Alice Lowe SAT Performer: David Quantick SAT Performer: Jake Yapp SAT Performer: Harry the Piano SAT Interviewed Guest: Tom Peck SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b063y63p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b063y63r (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06445xf (Listen) SAT Jennie Johnson, Sir Anthony Seldon SAT SAT Shaun Ley presents political debate from Salford with the SAT founder of CEO of the Northwest Childcare company Kids SAT Allowed and the master of Wellington College Sir Anthony SAT Seldon. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b064ww18 (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b049pc1q (Listen) SAT Red Velvet SAT SAT by Lolita Chakrabarti. SAT SAT Adrian Lester stars in a radio version of the Tricycle SAT Theatre's award-winning production, directed by Indhu SAT Rubasingham, about the first black actor of note to play SAT Othello. SAT SAT The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund Kean, the SAT greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage SAT whilst playing Othello. A young black American actor has SAT been asked to take over the role. 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SAT SAT Credits SAT Ira Aldridge: Adrian Lester SAT Ellen: Charlotte Lucas SAT Pierre: Eugene O'Hare SAT Charles: Oliver Ryan SAT Halina: Rachel Finnegan SAT Betty: Rachel Finnegan SAT Margaret: Rachel Finnegan SAT Terence: Simon Chandler SAT Bernard: Simon Chandler SAT Henry: Nic Jackman SAT Casimir: Nic Jackman SAT Connie: Natasha Gordon SAT Director: Indhu Rubasingham SAT Producer: Abigail le Fleming SAT Writer: Lolita Chakrabarti SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b065s0fg (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week.Presented by Emma SAT Barnett SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Emma Barnett SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b064ww1m (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b06446dr (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b063y63v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b063y63x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b063y63z (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b064ww25 (Listen) SAT Emma Freud, Christopher Eccleston, Brian Hill, Limmy, Farao SAT SAT Emma Freud and Christopher Eccleston are joined by Brian SAT Hill, Limmy, Bertie Carvel for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from Farao and SAT Sweet Baboo. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Gizzi Erskine SAT ‘Gizzi’s Healthy Apetite’ is published by Mitchell Beazley SAT and out now. SAT SAT Limmy SAT ‘Daft Wee Stories’ by Limmy is published by Century and out SAT now. SAT SAT Farao SAT SAT The new album ‘Till It’s All Forgotten’ out 11th September SAT via Full Time Hobby. Farao plays London’s Sebright Arms on SAT Sept 10th. SAT Farao's official website SAT SAT Bertie Carvel SAT Bakkhai is at Almeida Theatre London until the 19 September. SAT SAT Brian Hill SAT ‘The Confessions Of Thomas Quick’ opens in cinemas across SAT the country from August 14 through Picturehouse SAT Entertainment. SAT SAT Sweet Baboo SAT SAT ‘The Boombox Ballads’ is released on August 14th through SAT Moshi Moshi/PIAS. Sweet Baboo play at the Green Man SAT Festival, Wales 20th – 23rd August. SAT Sweet Baboo's official website SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Emma Freud SAT Interviewed Guest: Christopher Eccleston SAT Interviewed Guest: Brian Hill SAT Interviewed Guest: Limmy SAT Interviewed Guest: Bertie Carvel SAT Performer: Farao SAT Performer: Sweet Baboo SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b064ww2g (Listen) SAT Jeremy Corbyn SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b064ww2q (Listen) SAT Diary of a Teenage Girl, Splendour, Death by Video Game, SAT York Art Gallery, Last Man on Earth SAT SAT Controversial film Diary of a Teenage Girl deals with a 15 SAT year old girl who looks for love and ends up sleeping with SAT her mother's boyfriend. SAT Abi Morgan's play 2002 play Splendour is revived at London's SAT Donmar Warehouse - 4 women deal with an imminent civil war, SAT separately and together SAT Simon Parkin's book Death By Video Game looks ta the SAT cultural significance and influence of the industry worth SAT £3.9bn last year in the UK alone. SAT York Art Gallery has reopened after a 3 year £8m refit. SAT Housing the Centre Of Ceramic Art, how well does it combine SAT old masters with new pottery? SAT A new US TV comedy series Last Man On Earth has a central SAT character who is a dreadful slob - why bother making an SAT effort when you're alone on the planet? - does that make him SAT too unappealing to like? SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b064ww32 (Listen) SAT Misunderstanding Japan SAT SAT What images come into your head when you think of Japan? SAT SAT Dr Christopher Harding explores how Western media SAT representations of Japan, from the very first Victorian SAT travellers through to Alan Whicker and Clive James, have SAT revisited the same themes. SAT SAT Often portrayed as workaholics driven by a group mentality, SAT with submissive women and bizarre crazes, Dr Harding asks SAT whether many of these stereotypes have led to the country SAT being misunderstood by people in the West. SAT SAT Have the Japanese had a role in perpetuating some of these SAT stereotypes in an effort to set themselves apart? SAT SAT What do our images, feelings, fears and fantasies about SAT Japan tell us about ourselves? SAT SAT Producer: Keith Moore. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b063yqqs (Listen) SAT The Great Scott, Heart of Midlothian SAT SAT "She wouldn't lie in court to save her sister's life - so SAT she had to find another way. "Mike Harris' fast paced SAT adaptation of Walter Scott's most gripping, most SAT contemporary novel. SAT SAT 'Heart of Midlothian' begins with a trial for child murder, SAT and then never lets the tension drop with disguises, SAT thwarted love, hazardous journeys, kidnappings, riots, SAT rescues - and a shy, retiring, heroine who will stop at SAT nothing to undo the terrible damage her virtue has done. SAT SAT Adapted for radio by Mike Harris SAT SAT Produced and Directed by Clive Brill SAT A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Sir Walter Scott: David Tennant SAT Jenny Dean: Joanne Cummins SAT Reuben Butler: Brian Ferguson SAT George Staunton: Mark Bonnar SAT Defending Council: Mark Bonnar SAT Meg Murdockson: Caroline Guthrie SAT Queen Caroline: Caroline Guthrie SAT Madge Wildfire: Lynsey-Anne Moffat SAT Dumbiedykes: Christian Rodska SAT The Magistrate: Hugh Ross SAT Duke of Argylle: Forbes Masson SAT Effy Dean: Alice Simone SAT King's Mistress: Alice Simone SAT Author: Walter Scott SAT Adaptor: Mike Harris SAT Director: Clive Brill SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b063y642 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Inside the Ethics Committee b0643x61 (Listen) SAT Series 11, Teenager Refuses Chemotherapy SAT SAT Ashley is 14 years old when doctors discover a brain tumour. SAT Tests reveal that it's highly treatable; there's a 95% SAT chance of cure if he has a course of radiotherapy. SAT SAT Ashley begins the treatment but he has to wear a mask which SAT makes him very anxious and the radiotherapy itself makes him SAT sick. He finds it increasingly difficult to bear and he SAT starts to miss his sessions. SAT SAT Despite patchy treatment Ashley's cancer goes into SAT remission. He and his mother are thrilled but a routine SAT follow-up scan a few months later shows that the cancer has SAT returned. SAT SAT Ashley is adamant that he will not have the chemotherapy SAT that is recommended this time. He threatens that he will run SAT away if treatment is forced on him. Although Ashley is only SAT 15 he is 6'2" and restraining him would not be easy. SAT SAT Should the medical team and his mother persuade him to have SAT the chemotherapy? Or should they accept his decision, even SAT though he is only 15? SAT SAT Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. SAT SAT Producers: Beth Eastwood & Lorna Stewart SAT Photo Credit: Christopher Furlong / Getty Images. SAT SAT The Panel SAT SAT SAT SAT Emma Cave SAT SAT Reader in Law at Durham University, who has published widely SAT on medical ethics and the law as it applies to adolescents SAT SAT SAT SAT Sue Morgan SAT SAT Nurse consultant at Leeds General Infirmary who runs the SAT teenage and young adult cancer service for Leeds SAT SAT SAT SAT Mathew Enright SAT SAT Member of Great Ormond Street Hospital’s ‘Young People’s SAT Forum’ who himself had treatment for brain cancer at the age SAT of 15 SAT SAT Your Comments SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Deeply moved by today's programme and Ashley's story. Simply SAT told but with deep conviction, led by the marvellous Joan SAT Bakewell. Only Radio 4 and 'Ethics' can tackle this genre SAT and only radio and pure 'sound' can do it justiceI suspect SAT many people of my generation will carry a greatly enhanced SAT vision of 'teenage' forward with them after today. SAT SAT Thank you BBC!! SAT SAT SAT SAT (Peter Grimsdall) SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT I am a long standing fan of this series, it is Radio 4 at SAT its best ... and it keeps bettering itself. I thought SAT today’s episode was the most outstanding of yet another SAT outstanding series – informative, thought provoking, SAT sensitive and extremely moving. Joan Bakewell is the ideal SAT presenter as she steers us through the thinking and decision SAT making processes, treating all contributors with equal SAT dignity and l respect. Both she and the team who research SAT and construct this series deserve to be put forward for SAT awards. My thanks and congratulations to all – and I hope SAT future series are planned. I also think all the series SAT should be packaged as training professional resources. SAT SAT SAT SAT (Catherine Moorhouse) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT I’m a ‘cancer mum’ SAT SAT I’d really like you to alert listeners to ‘The Compassionate SAT Friends’ which is an organisation that supports bereaved SAT families. SAT SAT I’d also like to comment that, as the parent of a 24 year SAT old I felt totally invisible. My son had the best possible SAT treatment and his death could not have been prevented. I SAT would not recognise any members of the team that supported SAT him if I fell over them. Two and a half years on I still SAT feel totally invisible and I don’t even feel like a real SAT person. I fully understand about patient confidentiality. My SAT son went with his dad to his appointments and I supported SAT him in this decision. His dad fed back to me and I refused SAT to believe that my son would die. Denial is all consuming. I SAT really needed one conversation with the people who were SAT treating my son and so did his siblings (his sister and his SAT identical twin). I feel that this might have taken some SAT pressure off my son too as I was relentlessly optimistic SAT which was so hard on him. I think all patients must have a SAT family of sorts, whether by birth or not, and maybe it would SAT be good for the patient if the consultant spoke to them for SAT a few minutes and helped them to understand and face up to SAT the inevitable. SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Thank you so much for today's programme though I am typing SAT this as I cry. SAT SAT Raymond died in 1990, aged 15, of brain cancer. The SAT programme, particularly the description of the radiotherapy SAT mask, took me back across 25 years. SAT SAT He went through 2 years of treatment but I too believe SAT in young people having the right to decide and would have SAT supported him if he had wanted to withdraw, as it was a SAT tough time all round. Treatment was tough, as was some of SAT the ward culture, all backed by a steady decline in his SAT physical and mental abilities as treatment took its toll. SAT SAT He died at home after we had a prognosis of him having SAT around 2 weeks to live. He was surrounded by friends, SAT family and his cat as the house was filled by visitors from SAT far and wide. SAT SAT (Alison) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Thank you for broadcasting the Inside the Ethics Committee SAT programme today. I am studying medical law and most of the SAT case law on capacity are ones which have been subject to SAT court rulings. It was therefore very useful and informative SAT for professional practice to hear of a case which involved a SAT patient and health professionals that did not go to court. SAT I am grateful that the people affected agreed to take part. SAT SAT SAT SAT (Anna Lincoln – BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT I am listening to your programme in Scotland. It is SAT extremely interesting but as a National station Radio 4 SAT should explore differences in the law if they exist in the SAT Home Nations. In Scotland a 15 year old teenager with SAT capacity can withhold consent. At the moment non legally SAT qualified Scots are being misinformed by your programme, of SAT course it is ongoing and you may remedy the defect by the SAT end. SAT SAT SAT SAT (Elaine Coull – Accredited Specialist in Medical Negligence) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT ENDS SAT SAT Programme Transcript - Inside the Ethics Committee SAT Downloaded from SAT www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 SAT SAT SAT THE ATTACHED TRANSCRIPT WAS TYPED FROM A RECORDING AND NOT SAT COPIED FROM AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT. BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF SAT MISHEARING AND THE DIFFICULTY IN SOME CASES OF IDENTIFYING SAT INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS, THE BBC CANNOT VOUCH FOR ITS COMPLETE SAT ACCURACY. SAT SAT SAT SAT INSIDE THE ETHICS COMMITTEE SAT SAT Programme 4 – Teenager Refuses Chemotherapy SAT SAT TX: 06.08.15 SAT SAT PRESENTER: JOAN BAKEWELL SAT SAT PRODUCER: LORNA STEWART SAT SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Cancer can call for severe often stressful treatment: but SAT how can you explain that to a child: and at what age can SAT they decide whether they want it or not: who decides on SAT what could save their life? SAT SAT SAT SAT Welcome to Inside the Ethics Committee. SAT SAT SAT SAT It’s the year 2000 and Ashley is 12 years old when he starts SAT to feel unwell. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT He’d actually been on holiday with my sister to Ibiza and SAT when he came back he told me that he’d been having migraines SAT while he was away. So we went to see the GP and they said SAT that it was quite common for a 13 year old boy to get them SAT and every time the headaches got worse they suggested that SAT we take a different type of tablet and this went on for SAT approximately two years. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Then one day when Ashley’s 14, he collapses at home. He’s SAT taken to his GP who sends him in an ambulance to the local SAT hospital. Tests reveal a brain tumour. At once Ashley’s SAT transferred to the regional hospital for emergency surgery - SAT doctors need to take a biopsy of the tumour so they can SAT identify its type and determine the best course of SAT treatment. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT He did obviously pull through the operation, thank god. He SAT was quite ill to start off with. He was in intensive care SAT for 24 hours. He actually asked them to take pictures of SAT him while he was in there so that he could show people how SAT poorly he looked with all these wires coming out of him. He SAT was more concerned about waking up and watching football in SAT the morning than what he’d just been through. He then SAT obviously went on to the ward. Bit devastated that they’d SAT shaved him head but I did tell him that obviously he could SAT have his hair done once it came back. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Over the next week or so, Ashley recovers on the ward of the SAT regional hospital. He meets the cancer specialist there. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT I’d noticed him on the ward as being a very tall young man, SAT six foot two or thereabouts, but he was on a children’s ward SAT and he looked kind of out of place because he looked like a SAT young adult. Yet he must have been under 16 because that SAT was the age limit of the ward at the time. And as a SAT paediatrician I’m aware of that, as being always a potential SAT source of misunderstanding and conflict in how you speak to SAT people. We met in a clinic room along the corridor, so we SAT had some confidentiality. And when I came into the room he SAT was sitting in my chair at the desk. I realised that this SAT was an indication that he was at a kind of conflict with his SAT age, his maturity and his physical size and he was making SAT somebody know he wanted to establish himself in his eyes. SAT So I went and sat in the play box, which seemed to be the SAT right thing to do as a paediatrician. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The doctor talks to Ashley about the type of brain tumour he SAT has and explains that, with treatment, he has a 95% chance SAT of being cured and having a normal life expectancy. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT At the time they offered him radiotherapy he was quite SAT positive because of the odds they’d given us. So at that SAT point we thought yeah brilliant we’ll have the radiotherapy, SAT you’re going to be fine. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The doctor explains that Ashley will need radiotherapy once SAT a day, five days a week, for five to six weeks. But the SAT process requires Ashley to wear a mask. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT In order for the radiotherapy to be precisely delivered to SAT the parts of the brain you want it to we have to make a SAT mould of your head which we put on you when you’re lying SAT face down on the table, there’s a hole in the table that you SAT can look through, so that you’re in that position and that SAT position can be reproduced every day so that you’re always SAT in the same position. Making the mould involves covering SAT your head in plaster of Paris and then letting that set and SAT then making the mould of that plaster of Paris mould. And SAT if you’re claustrophobic or find having your face covered SAT upsetting that is quite a difficult thing to do. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT He didn’t like having the mask made, he got very agitated SAT over that but I think anybody would have done, having your SAT whole face covered and just a straw coming out of your mouth SAT to breathe. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Despite his anxiety Ashley manages to get through the SAT process with the specialists’ help but he finds the next SAT stage just as overwhelming. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT When he actually went in to do what they call the SAT simulation, which is practising lying on the table with the SAT mould bolted over his head, he became claustrophobic and SAT extremely anxious and refused to go in the room. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Ashley needs radiotherapy five times a week to treat his SAT brain tumour. It only takes about a minute to deliver it but SAT the process of being put in the mask, bolted to the table SAT and positioned correctly can take several more. Children SAT under the age of five can be put under anaesthetic for this SAT but older children and adults are taught techniques to help SAT them cope. SAT SAT SAT SAT But try as they might, it’s too much for Ashley. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT A variety of people became engaged. The radiation therapy SAT technicians use a very skilful psychological approach to SAT reduce any symptoms and normally what happens people become SAT more confident and they can put their fears to the back of SAT their mind and gradually manage to accept it. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But the mask isn’t the only problem… Ashley’s having side SAT effects of severe vomiting which is made worse by the fact SAT that he and his mum have to travel by car for over an hour SAT to get to the hospital each day. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT All the way home we had to have sick bowls because he SAT couldn’t stop vomiting. We’d get back home and the vomiting SAT was still continuing and we’d have to phone a nurse to come SAT and give him an injection to help to stop the vomiting. And SAT by the time it had stopped all he wanted to do was go to bed SAT and go to sleep. It was horrendous to be quite honest, SAT watching your own child go through that. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT This can happen when the radiotherapy is being applied to a SAT bit of the brain which controls vomiting and this was very SAT distressing to him. So he was on regular medicines to SAT reduce the anxiety. And he was on anti-sickness medicines SAT but they weren’t 100% effective, this sometimes happens. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The nursing assistant tries to support Ashley throughout the SAT treatment. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT He was told how important it was to have this treatment on a SAT regular basis but he never saw it that way. He would have SAT it sometimes and then he wouldn’t have it. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT He got to a point where he was – I can’t do this anymore – SAT and injections – because he was so frightened of needles, so SAT the fact that he’d got to have one every single day really SAT agitated him. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT He would run from the site and his mum didn’t know where SAT he’d gone. Sometimes when I did find him I would just put SAT my arms round him and he was a very tall young man to put my SAT arms round. And he actually always reciprocated. And say - SAT why is this happening to me. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The team all try to persuade Ashley that treatment is SAT crucial to saving his life, but he sees things differently. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT He said – who knows if this is going to work, it might just SAT get better on its own because apart from having some SAT headaches to all intents and purposes he was a healthy 14 SAT year old. And we told him he wasn’t. And that was hard for SAT him to deal with. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT In order to cure Ashley’s cancer, radiotherapy needs to be SAT given at regular intervals – at the same time each day. But SAT Ashley is reaching the end of his tether. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT When we got to the third week he just refused to go. Really SAT went very depressed and down. He just basically lived in SAT the dark in his bedroom. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Discussing Ashley’s case today are Sue Morgan – a nurse SAT consultant at Leeds General Infirmary who runs the teenage SAT and young adult cancer service for Leeds and Mat Enright a SAT member of Great Ormond Street Hospital’s ‘Young Person’s SAT Forum’ who himself had treatment for leukaemia at the age of SAT 15. SAT SAT SAT SAT Mat, what was that like? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT So I was diagnosed when I was seven initially and then SAT unfortunately I relapsed with leukaemia in my central SAT nervous system when I was 15. I was really angry actually, SAT I felt furious. I can remember going into a toilet and SAT shouting and screaming, kicking whatever was in there. For SAT me then, after a few weeks of being absolutely angry, I kind SAT of was of the mind-set that I want to get back to bring SAT normal. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So you accepted that you would go through the treatment? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT Yes, I was going to have chemotherapy and radiotherapy. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So then it’s radiotherapy and chemotherapy and it’s the SAT mask, now tell me about this mask. SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT So I’ve brought the mask… SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Just lift it up and then I – it is indeed like something out SAT of a space horror movie. SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT Yeah it’s not… SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It has no charms of any kind. SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT No. Mine’s slightly different from Ashley’s. So I was SAT lying head up on the table and this mask it covers your SAT entire head, your eyes are covered in, your nose is covered SAT in and you just have a small gap for your mouth to breathe SAT through. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Do you feel quite comfortable breathing like that, you don’t SAT feel you’re going to choke or…? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT I wouldn’t say it’s comfortable, it’s incredibly SAT claustrophobic, so you’re basically screwed down on to a SAT table, so your entire head is covered and the mask is SAT screwed in. So you can move your arms and legs around but SAT your head and your neck are bolted on to a table. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And what about – I mean you were teenager at this time, so SAT life was completely collapsed around you, you weren’t doing SAT any of the teenager things. How did you feel going through SAT this process? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT Yeah just stuck in a room lying in bed just looking out the SAT window, kind of thinking – think about what all my friends SAT were doing, it was a summer holiday so I was thinking I SAT could be down at the park playing football, all those sort SAT of things. But then other times I would think like this SAT isn’t what it’s always going to be like, I’m going to be – SAT I’m going to be better soon and I’m going to look forward to SAT seeing my friends as a normal person. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Sue, Mat’s experience is quite different from Ashley’s of SAT course but should we expect, since both of them were SAT teenagers, that they would know their own minds? SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT Yes I think that teenagers most certainly know their own SAT minds. The one thing I think that’s different is that Mat SAT had already been through treatment and knew that he had to SAT stick with it in order to get better. I think that Ashley SAT clearly didn’t feel particularly unwell and so couldn’t SAT understand the reason for treatment. Teenagers and young SAT people do understand their own mind but what they see is one SAT day at a time, rather than looking into the future. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So how do you handle that, how do you persuade them to have SAT the treatment? SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT More often than not the teenagers will have their SAT treatment. I work on a teenage cancer trust unit, which is SAT specifically for teenagers and young adults with cancer, so SAT it’s for 13-25 years of age. So they’re all nursed SAT together. So a lot of what we do is about peer group SAT support, so they’re always with the same aged young people. SAT So a lot of that peer support is very important in getting SAT young people to have their treatment. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT We have mentioned that young children can be put under SAT anaesthetic… SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT They can. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT … why can’t you do that for someone who is claustrophobic, SAT why couldn’t you do that for Ashley? SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT I think that if somebody is severely claustrophobic you SAT could under certain mitigating circumstances you could do SAT general anaesthetics but general anaesthetics also come with SAT risks. So it’s always better to try and do the treatment SAT without a general anaesthetic because of the risks involved. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right well let’s resume Ashley’s story now. SAT SAT SAT SAT It’s 2002 and he’s at home, in his bedroom, refusing his SAT daily radiotherapy sessions. His doctor, meanwhile, is SAT trying to turn the situation around. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT I met with his mother and we discussed the implications of SAT his refusal. He was then just 15 and we felt that his SAT emotional reaction to the treatment and his phobia meant SAT that he wasn’t in a position to truly give his own consent SAT and therefore have the right to refuse it at that time. And SAT we persuaded him, and his mother played a big part in this, SAT to stay in hospital, at her request, but recognising that it SAT was against his wishes. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Ashley hasn’t had any radiotherapy for over a week now, so SAT the team really hope he won’t miss any more. Back in those SAT days, it’s 2002, hospitals weren’t really set up for a 15 SAT year old boy like Ashley. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT In 2002, you’d be in a female dominated environment where SAT nurses were in charge of everything. They would talk to him SAT about all his physical functionings on a regular basis, SAT which most teenagers don’t like doing, and on the one minute SAT there would be two year olds screaming and crying all night SAT and if he wanted to watch the television people would be SAT telling him to turn it off at nine o’clock and there might SAT be some other teenagers around but many of them may have SAT been disabled because he was on a neurosurgery ward. So he SAT would have felt that he wasn’t amongst his peers. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Despite all this, Ashley manages to stay in hospital for a SAT few weeks to see the rest of his treatment through to the SAT last session. The moment it’s over Ashley smashes his mask. SAT His mother. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT I can remember at the end of him picking it up and walking SAT out the hospital and literally smashing it into pieces, like SAT it’s over, it’s done, never want to see that thing again as SAT long as I live. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Ashley and his mum return home and, despite his patchy SAT treatment, brain scans reveal the tumour has gone and he is SAT in remission. For 95% of patients, this means the cancer SAT won’t return for at least five years and, for most, it will SAT never return. So this is great news for Ashley. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT He felt over the moon, glad it was all over. The fact that SAT he could come home. So we’re thinking yes it’s worked, we SAT can move on, you can have a life. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Ashley is being followed up by the team in his local area. SAT The plan is to scan his brain every three to six months to SAT confirm the cancer hasn’t returned. While Ashley and his SAT family and friends are relieved he’s well, domestically it’s SAT proving a gruelling few months. Ashley has two younger SAT brothers, and the months of juggling their day to day needs SAT with Ashley’s cancer treatment is taking its toll on his SAT mother. She remembers how she felt. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT Very low, very low. I think once you’ve been through SAT something like that you sort of come down with a crashing SAT bang where you just go on autopilot and you have no choice, SAT you have to function, you have to go day by day. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The psychologist in the local team visits his mother at SAT home. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT We would sit around the kitchen table very informally and SAT Ashley was in the sitting room listening to music or SAT watching something on telly but now and then he would throw SAT a comment through the open door and then one day he SAT literally just came into the kitchen, lit up a cigarette and SAT sat down with us. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT From then on Ashley joins the meetings and gradually he SAT starts to talk. He’s got a lot on his mind. He’s worrying SAT about his future. He’s always dreamed of being in the army SAT but, with his cancer diagnosis, this now seems out of reach. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT What he’d chosen as a career before all this started had SAT been taken away from him. Plus because he’d been so poorly SAT he’d lost so much time off school, he was so far behind, he SAT was like well how do I do exams. And I was – we’re work SAT around it. But he was still – my career’s gone and I don’t SAT know what to do. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And then another idea crops up in the conversation. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT Ashley had heard mum make a comment that she was worried SAT that if he relapsed what would they do. And I think it was SAT at that stage that he had said something like – I will not SAT have any treatment if it relapses. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT I couldn’t see why he would say that or how he could expect SAT me to live through that. So I basically was yes you will if SAT we have to, you’re not going anywhere, I need you to stay SAT here, you’re my baby. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT He was very clear that he had felt so ill that he couldn’t SAT bear the thought of going through that again. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT That would be the worst nightmare. I can remember saying SAT you will go through it if we have to, you will have SAT treatment if you need to have it again. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT And mum was adamant that she would get the courts involved SAT straightaway. And he was saying well you know it’s my life SAT and it’s my body and you can’t do that to me. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Over the next few months, the psychologist works through SAT Ashley’s concerns with him – in one to one sessions, and SAT also with his mother. But it’s difficult to get to the SAT heart of what his problem actually is. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT Everything that happens in a young person’s life impacts and SAT so will their personality. It would take many years to SAT begin to tackle all of those tricky issues that were SAT impacting on this particular situation. He saw his mother’s SAT side of it, he saw the doctors’ side of it but he was SAT totally set in his belief that he couldn’t go through it. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Joining Sue Morgan and Mat Enright now to discuss this case SAT is Emma Cave, Reader in Law at Durham University, who has SAT published widely on medical ethics and the law as it applies SAT to adolescents. SAT SAT SAT SAT So Emma, let’s start with you in this situation, let’s step SAT back – Ashley is 15, what is he allowed to decide for SAT himself at that age? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT Well once Ashley is 18 and viewed in law as an adult then at SAT that point he’s allowed to consent to or refuse medical SAT treatment, even if others consider that the decision he’s SAT making is irrational. And that applies unless it is found SAT that he lacks capacity to make that decision. Until then SAT though, although he may be able to consent to treatment if SAT he is seen as competent to do that he isn’t necessarily able SAT to refuse it, if others consider that treatment to be in his SAT best interests. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right, so he does not have that right. Are people ever SAT allowed to make medical decisions below the age of 18? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT Absolutely, yeah. So if he was seen as Gillick competent he SAT would be able to consent to treatment. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Can you explain that? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT Certainly, so the case of Gillick was a 1980s case where it SAT was held that children under the age of 16 are able to SAT consent to treatment provided they fully understand the SAT decision that they’re making. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So it’s rather strange isn’t it, you can get married at 16, SAT you can drive at 17, you can serve in the army, you can’t SAT vote till you’re 18 – I mean what kind of logic is going on SAT here? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT Indeed, this is one of the most contested areas of medical SAT law. And the law attempts to balance on the one hand his SAT autonomy interests, his right to be independent and to think SAT for himself, and on the other hand the fact that he’s still SAT in law a minor. So the framework that applies is that of SAT the Children Act 1989 which says that the paramount SAT consideration is his welfare. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT We can appreciate that in a situation in which someone is SAT very young and needs to be cared for but Ashley’s 15 and SAT he’s got a lot of opinions, he appears intelligent and makes SAT his views heard, is there no nuance in the law that allows SAT for this? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT There is indeed. It’s a balancing exercise and it will be SAT different in every single case. There is a checklist, a SAT welfare checklist, in the Children Act and the first point SAT on that checklist is the views and wishes of the child. So SAT it’s very important to ascertain those views and wishes. SAT But those factors are balanced with other issues and there’s SAT a very strong presumption in favour of preserving life. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So do those conditions amount to more than tokenism – we’ll SAT listen to the child but we’ll do what we want? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT Yes I think they do. One factor is well what does this SAT child want but another is well how competent is this SAT decision that the child’s making or the young person, in SAT this case we’re dealing with a young person at the age of SAT 15. So the doctor will want to make sure that Ashley fully SAT understands the decision that he’s making. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Mat, let’s talk about this situation in the hospital because SAT he’s a teenager and he’s not among teenagers. What was it SAT like for you? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT Very, very strange. Certainly on the ward I was in there SAT was no one above the age of maybe 10. I remember there SAT would be play specialist would come in and try and get me SAT out of my room to play with all these little children, I SAT said no way, there’s no way I’m leaving my room to do that. SAT I still have shudders now when I hear the Balamory theme SAT tune, that was something I’d always hear, I’d wake up after SAT a – after some treatment and hear that and, yeah, still SAT don’t – still don’t like that song. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So did it impact on your state of mind anymore seriously SAT than you just being irritated? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT Thinking back to when I was diagnosed the first time, so I SAT was seven when I was initially diagnosed, I can remember SAT having fond memories even of being at Great Ormond Street of SAT playing with children my age and that was certainly SAT something didn’t have the second time. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now Sue things have changed since then, how extensively have SAT they changed and what do the changes consist of? SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT Things have changed immensely over the years and right SAT across the country there are now specific units for SAT teenagers and young adults with cancer. And on my unit, for SAT example, it’s been designed with and for young people, so SAT they’ve made it look bright and friendly, there are SAT beautiful murals all over the wall. We have complementary SAT therapy that come in, we have youth support coordinators SAT that will provide experiences for the young people to do in SAT the day, so that distracts them from the fact that they SAT might feel sick because they’ve had chemotherapy or SAT radiotherapy, they’re being distracted, they feel better. SAT And the other thing about having distraction and things to SAT do is that they then talk to professionals who are working SAT alongside them without actually realising they’re talking to SAT professionals because they’re engaged in doing other things. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT How important is it for young teenagers who are ill to be SAT among their peer group? SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT Peer group support is pivotal to what we do, absolutely SAT pivotal. Because the young people then are together, they SAT can share experiences, they realise that they’re not the SAT only young person in the country who’s got cancer, that SAT there are other young people who are going through it in the SAT same way as they are. And they get tremendous support from SAT each other. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT I mean you make it sound terrific on your ward but how SAT widespread is this kind of…? SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT It is across the country now. There are units in every SAT principal treatment centre in the country, largely funded by SAT teenage cancer trusts but working alongside government and SAT the NHS to develop this, massive network. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now Mat you’re part of this yourself, you’re actually SAT campaigning about it, can you tell me what you’ve managed to SAT do? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT Yes so I’m part of the Young People’s Forum at Great Ormond SAT Street. So things that we try to emphasise are how you talk SAT differently to someone that’s a young person rather than a SAT child. So, for example, something just as simple as the SAT doctor actually addressing the patient, rather than talking SAT to their parents. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Let’s get back to our real-life story now. SAT SAT SAT SAT Ashley is in remission and he’s trying to get back to normal SAT life but several months in, Ashley isn’t well. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT He was telling me he got migraines again. He’d had them for SAT a few weeks and hadn’t dared to tell me. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT A brain scan reveals the news they’ve been dreading. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT We went back into the room and sat down and this doctor said SAT that it was back and Ashley’s first words were well how long SAT have I got. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Ashley is so distressed he punches the walls and the doors SAT in the clinic. He asks to see the psychologist who comes SAT over to the hospital at once. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT He was pacing around outside, hyperventilating and I just SAT walked beside him. And he was saying oh I can’t have SAT treatment, I can’t, I just can’t go through it, I can’t, you SAT do understand. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The cancer specialist at the regional centre, who oversaw SAT Ashley’s radiotherapy, is deeply saddened by the news, but SAT not surprised. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT We felt the delays in the primary treatment was probably SAT contributory. Although you can never be sure because some SAT tumours are more resistant than others. My difficulty was SAT that we’d never really repaired our relationship after I’d SAT admitted him against his will to hospital and so I was SAT working through my colleague at the local hospital who had SAT built a relationship with him. We did discuss further SAT treatment. He was offered chemotherapy that would need the SAT insertion of a central venous line which you put into the SAT chest to avoid us having to stick needles in people because SAT he was already needle phobic. It would need blood tests. SAT He would lose his hair. There may well be significant SAT problems with vomiting, weight loss, he would be very ill SAT for six months, needing a hospital existence. He wouldn’t SAT be able to go to school. Many young people and children are SAT able to get through it but it is not an easy process. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The team at the local hospital explain to Ashley that if SAT they start the chemotherapy soon, there is a 50-60% chance SAT of curing him. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT I asked him to sit and listen to what the options were, what SAT the percentages were this time. To me the best option was SAT to go with the chemo but he just looked at me and said – SAT Mum, I can’t do it. He told me point black – no way. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Different members of the team, including one of the nurses, SAT try to encourage Ashley to agree to the treatment. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT My initial thoughts were if we spoke to him quite a bit SAT about what the treatment would involve and what sickness SAT drugs that we could give him and how everything would go SAT ahead then perhaps we could change his mind because it was a SAT different type of treatment than the radiotherapy. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But Ashley is resolved in his decision. And even if the SAT chemo works, he can’t face the chance of the tumour coming SAT back. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT Every day for the rest of my life, this is what he said, I SAT will have to wake up and think – is it coming back today – SAT and I can’t live like that. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT We were all very upset, to be honest, it wasn’t a situation SAT we encounter very frequently. He was quite clear – I’d SAT rather die, rather than to have treatment. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT My head – I think it just completely went because all the SAT words prior from him saying I’m not going through this again SAT all started coming back. And all he kept saying was that – SAT I’m a teenager that should be going out with the friends, SAT getting ready to go to college, to get the job that I want SAT to get and – he says – everything’s gone, there’s nothing SAT left. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT As Ashley continues refusing life sustaining treatment, the SAT team consider whether they should force him to have it. SAT This is possible in young children when it’s deemed to be, SAT as the phrase has it, in their best interests, but Ashley is SAT a strapping 15 year old with a mind of his own. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT When you’re talking Ashley being six foot two and having him SAT sitting there with a cannula going into the back of his hand SAT for his intravenous treatment, he said he would rip the SAT cannula out if we put a cannula in and it was very risky to SAT actually even do that. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT How do you force somebody to go through months of chemo, SAT what do you do, do you make them unconscious and handcuffed SAT to a bed, how do you do that, how do you actually SAT practically do that? SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT We couldn’t have put him to sleep every time for his therapy SAT because there were so many treatments over such a period of SAT time and forcing somebody to have an anaesthetic is not SAT something you can do safely. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT He kept saying that if we were to force him he would run SAT away and he would die on the streets where nobody knew where SAT he was. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Another consideration for the team is this – is Ashley SAT capable of making an informed decision to refuse life-saving SAT treatment? SAT SAT SAT SAT When Ashley first had radiotherapy, the doctor and his SAT mother felt that Ashley didn’t know enough about cancer SAT treatment to refuse it, and they managed to persuade him to SAT have it. This time round, the doctor feels differently. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT He’d been through treatment once already. So although he SAT was taking a particular view he actually knew what treatment SAT was like, so he was fully informed. And so we couldn’t say SAT that he wasn’t informed and therefore couldn’t make the SAT judgement. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The doctor seeks the opinion of another cancer specialist SAT who agrees with the treatment being offered. He also gives SAT his view on Ashley’s capacity to decide for himself. SAT SAT SAT Doctor (2) SAT SAT My clear impression was that he was making a considered SAT decision. I didn’t necessarily agree with the decision but SAT this wasn’t just fear of treatment, it was beyond that, and SAT you wouldn’t question it at all in someone who was older. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT He’s one of the few young people who’s ever candidly talked SAT about dying with me. He even understood what that meant in SAT terms of his genes carrying on into the future. He had a SAT very clear understanding of what dying meant. SAT SAT SAT Doctor (2) SAT SAT I have never seen a young person who has made that decision SAT before, it’s the first time that this has happened in my SAT career and you can kind of question well who’s doing the SAT right thing here, is it me, is it the patient, should we be SAT doing something different. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT Everybody was pressurising him to say yes – his aunties, his SAT nan – they all wanted him to go through with it. But all he SAT kept saying is he couldn’t do it, please could they SAT understand that. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT The conflict as well at the time was that mum was desperate SAT for him to have the treatment. The anxiety that mum went SAT through was awful. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT My head’s spinning around and round and round and I’m SAT thinking he’s not going to do it, he’s not going to do this, SAT what do I do. They told him that if he did nothing he would SAT basically have four to eight weeks. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT We return now to our panel – Sue Morgan, Emma Cave and Mat SAT Enright. SAT SAT SAT SAT Mat, let’s stay with you because you’ve been through SAT something similar to this, and this is a terrible situation SAT for Ashley. What do you think he’s feeling? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT It’s just the worse possible news you can ever hear. A SAT couple of years ago I actually thought that I had relapsed. SAT I’d just finished university, I was planning to go SAT travelling with my friends, I was going to start on a SAT graduate job afterwards, everything was going so well. And SAT I can really remember thinking – and I even spoke about it SAT with my mum and dad like I’m going to go travelling, I SAT thought know what is going to be down the road if I carry on SAT having chemotherapy and radiotherapy and for me – and I can SAT sympathise with Ashley as well there – you have to think SAT about what life is and for me I wanted to go out and have SAT fun and then maybe down the road maybe I’d start. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So you considered delaying the treatment, did you ever SAT consider refusing the treatment? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT No, I thought I would delay it and do this thing that I want SAT to do and then I’ll start on it. And luckily for me that SAT wasn’t a decision that I had to make because I hadn’t SAT relapsed. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Emma, can I come to you because this is a really serious SAT situation now, and the team are even considering whether to SAT take Ashley’s case to court. Now are there situations where SAT this has happened with teenagers? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT Well doctors now view Ashley to be making a competent SAT decision and if Ashley, the doctors and his mum all agreed SAT that treatment shouldn’t continue then there really wouldn’t SAT be a place for the law in this. If there is disagreement, SAT however, or if the doctors felt that they wanted to get an SAT independent assessment of what is in Ashley’s best interests SAT in this case, then they could take the case to the court. SAT And one option for the court would be to make a specific SAT issue order, saying whether or not treatment would be in SAT Ashley’s best interests in all of the circumstances, given SAT all the facts. But one of the relevant facts here, in SAT addition to his competence, in addition to the clinical SAT factors, would be the feasibility of actually requiring him SAT to have this treatment over the course of six months. So SAT forcing him to stay in hospital. And then in addition to SAT that forcing him to have the treatment on a weekly basis. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT How do you do that? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT Precisely, if it can’t be done then the court would not SAT require the hospital to do it. Now there has been a case SAT recently reported by the media from Connecticut in the SAT United States. It involved a girl who was 17 and she SAT refused chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and it was SAT decided in court that she should be confined to hospital to SAT have that chemotherapy and she was confined there for a SAT period of four to five months. But there are very big SAT differences between that case and this one. One difference SAT is that the court there decided that she wasn’t a mature SAT minor, she wasn’t able to make a competent decision. The SAT evidence in the media is that at first she had to be SAT restrained, it seems that after that she was fairly SAT compliant. The evidence in Ashley’s case however seems to SAT be that he probably wouldn’t comply and that makes the case SAT really quite different. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So what about the situation in the UK – do the courts every SAT force chemotherapy on a 15 year old? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT There is no case that I know of where that has happened. SAT The courts have forced treatment on minors but it tends to SAT be a single treatment, a one off treatment, for example a SAT blood transfusion, where the restraint necessary would be SAT fairly minimal in comparison to the restraint they’d be SAT looking at in this particular scenario. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now Sue have you ever been forced to give treatment? SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT No, we had a very similar case about 10 years ago. A big SAT lad who had a bone tumour, who was 15 years of age, six foot SAT two, and he was refusing his chemotherapy and mum didn’t SAT want to force him. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now Ashley’s mother is adamant that she wants Ashley to have SAT the treatment. Emma, does a parent have any legal status to SAT ask for treatment, insist on treatment even? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT The paramount consideration here is the welfare of Ashley, SAT not the mother’s rights and interests in saying what ought SAT to happen. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Sue, have you had situations in which the parents wants one SAT thing and the teenager wants something else? SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT Yes that happens very often and it’s not always about SAT whether they have treatment or if they don’t have treatment, SAT there are other decisions along the way. And more often SAT than not they’re resolved by listening and having expert SAT discussions with the families and resolving it together. SAT But the big issues of the child not wanting treatment and SAT the parents wanting them to have treatment are few and far SAT between and very difficult to resolve, like – in cases like SAT this. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Mat, did you have any disagreements at all with your SAT parents? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT Not any major ones, the only one I can think of is when SAT you’re having chemotherapy they’ll try all different drugs SAT and you could either have the option of going on the trial SAT for the new drug or taking the old tried and tested one. I SAT think my mum and dad wanted to go with the tried and tested SAT and I wanted to take the new one because it would SAT potentially help other people in the future. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And which way did you go? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT Yeah I went my way, so I went for the new trial, the new SAT trial drug. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Do young people change their minds Sue? SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT Oh yes they certainly do. They change their mind from day SAT to day often. I mean sometimes they might not want SAT something then they’ll say okay I’ll have something SAT instead. It’s very rarely the other way round. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT This rather suggests that teenagers are in fact not SAT competent – consistently competent to make an ongoing SAT decision, doesn’t it? SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT Well yes but at the same time adults can equally change SAT their mind over the course of time. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Okay, now I want to know what advice you would give to the SAT medical team who are treating Ashley at this stage. SAT SAT SAT Cave SAT SAT I think if there’s a continuing disagreement then the SAT doctors might be best advised to seek the advice of a judge SAT and I would suspect that the judge might issue a specific SAT issue order that this treatment would be in the best SAT interests of Ashley but probably wouldn’t go further than SAT that. And that the judge might do so in the hope that that SAT would just be enough to persuade him to comply. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And Sue you’re nodding agreement here. SAT SAT SAT Morgan SAT SAT I am nodding agreement. I also think that we need to listen SAT to the fact that he didn’t want treatment and we cannot SAT force him to have treatment. But I would like to think that SAT once you’d said okay you don’t have to have treatment he SAT might go away and think okay I’ll have it now. So accept SAT that he doesn’t want the treatment but leave the door wide SAT open for him to come back. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Mat, what would you say to Ashley? SAT SAT SAT Enright SAT SAT If he’s really worried about being sick constantly and then SAT potentially for the rest of his life worrying that he’s SAT going to relapse that maybe isn’t – that isn’t a life to him SAT and maybe the best way forward for him is to enjoy what time SAT he’s got left. So I would go with his decision but again SAT I’d really hope that he would change his mind. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well let’s find out what happened in this case. SAT SAT SAT SAT It’s a matter of a few days since Ashley received the SAT shocking news that his cancer has returned and he’s now SAT refusing treatment. Everyone is trying to persuade him to SAT change his mind. But it’s his mother who starts to see SAT things differently. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT After he said that he would run away from home and die on SAT the streets I eventually I suppose started listening to SAT him. I did sit him down, when we were on our own, and I SAT said to him I’ve got to ask you please do it, I’ll be there SAT all the way. And he just looked at me, big sad eyes and SAT said I can’t mum. He even said, and I can’t believe that he SAT said this at his age, that everybody has a purpose and his SAT purpose was that it was his time to go and he accepted that SAT so I needed to accept that. And I think him saying SAT that….made me realise that it was his life not mine. And SAT for as much as I knew it was going to kill me inside I SAT needed to do what was best for him, not me. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The team decided not to take Ashley’s case to an ethics SAT committee, or to court. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT The dilemma of whether or not to take things through the SAT court was resolved I think mostly by mum coming across to SAT support Ashley. That made our decision much easier, closely SAT followed by the fact that he fully understood what his SAT refusal would mean. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT I think the judge would have taken the view that he couldn’t SAT override his autonomy at that age. And I think that even if SAT the judge said you should have this treatment, the actual SAT delivery of the therapy with a reluctant six foot two young SAT adult would have been impossible. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT After the decision was made he then started to plan what he SAT wanted as a funeral. It was I don’t want you have to go SAT through this so let me do it for you mum. And what a SAT wonderful young person. With them only giving him a month to SAT two months we didn’t have much time. If that meant that I SAT needed to squeeze a lifetime in whatever weeks he had left SAT then I wanted to make sure I could do that for me. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Ashley was driven by limousine to watch his favourite SAT football team and meet the players. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT I always said, even when he was a little boy, that I’d throw SAT him a big 16th birthday party. And within two days I’d got SAT a disco, food was coming from every but which way from SAT people. By that weekend he was having a 16th birthday SAT party, even though it was weeks and weeks early, but he was SAT having it. SAT SAT SAT Psychologist SAT SAT Friends were coming in and out all day and there was music SAT and his grandma was around. At one point he said something SAT about being scared and I spoke to the doctor and she said – SAT well ask him if he wants to change his mind because we can SAT start treatment straightaway. He was absolutely adamant he SAT didn’t want to change his mind. He asked me if I’d ever SAT been through this with anybody else and I said no. And then SAT he said – you know if you want to use this sort of situation SAT in talking to other young people, if that helps, then I’m SAT okay with that. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT Within three weeks he couldn’t get out of bed, unless he was SAT in a wheelchair. So it all seemed to happen fairly fast SAT from that point. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Ashley died at home three weeks’ later, 22 days before his SAT 16th birthday. His story stays with his cancer specialist SAT to this day, and has inspired his efforts to improve cancer SAT treatment for teenagers. SAT SAT SAT Doctor SAT SAT We all felt that we’d all tried our hardest but we’d got a SAT point where communication was not good enough in Ashley’s SAT eyes for him to listen to what we were saying. And I think SAT it’s experiences like Ashley that promoted the energy SAT amongst us all to say this has to happen and the network of SAT teenage cancer trust centres across the country have been SAT developed since Ashley was diagnosed. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT It’s been nearly 12 years, I miss him as much now as I did SAT then. I’d give anything for him to be here with me now. SAT But for him, if nothing else, because there’s loads of SAT questions you have when something like this happens, the SAT only thing I do know, and I can answer, is I did right by my SAT child, I know I did the right thing. SAT SAT SAT SAT ENDS SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b063zx1b (Listen) SAT Series 29, Heat 9, 2015 SAT SAT (9/13) SAT Competitors from the North of England join Paul Gambaccini SAT for the ninth and last heat in the 2015 tournament of the SAT wide-ranging music quiz. SAT SAT In which 20th century choral work would you hear the 'Song SAT of the Wood-Dove'? And which jazz violinist claimed to have SAT been born on board a ship carrying his Italian emigrant SAT parents to the United States? SAT SAT Today's trio of competitors will have to answer questions SAT such as these in their attempt to win a semi-final place. SAT They'll also have to choose a musical topic in which to SAT specialise, from a list of five of which they've had no SAT prior warning. Every musical genre and era is fair game, all SAT the way from medieval music to opera, jazz, film and TV SAT music and contemporary rock and pop. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT MARK CLOWES, a librarian from Swinton in South Yorkshire SAT SAT NICK REED, a charity administrator and fundraiser from SAT Masham in North Yorkshire SAT SAT ALAN SHUTT, a retired teacher from Chesterfield. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b063zkxv (Listen) SAT Series 5, Clive James SAT SAT Clive James talks to Paul Farley and reads his new SAT staring-death-in-the-face poems. The Echo Chamber returns SAT with new poems on the old subjects. Clive James has been a SAT poet throughout his life as well as a literary critic, SAT memoirist and television pundit. He didn't expect to be SAT alive to see his new collection Sentenced to Life after SAT illness and old age took him in their grip a couple of years SAT ago. But, against the odds, he's still with us. And his SAT recent poems are extraordinarily clear-eyed and fearlessly SAT moving. He manages to be light throughout whilst remaining, SAT as one critic put it, deadly serious. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 09 AUGUST 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b064x31k (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Three Stories by Edith Pearlman b01rv805 (Listen) SUN Unravished Bride SUN SUN "These stories are an exercise in imagination and SUN compassion.. a trip around the world.." SUN ANN PATCHETT, author of Bel Canto SUN SUN Edith Pearlman has been writing stories for decades and is SUN in her mid seventies. Recognition duly arrived in America SUN with various awards, but only recently has her collection, SUN Binocular Vision, been acclaimed in Britain. Now there's SUN chance to hear three of the tales on radio, and be SUN acquainted with a voice that is compelling and new to us.. SUN SUN 2. Unravished Bride SUN They are introduced at somebody's wedding and their meetings SUN will go on for a year. But these are meetings with a SUN difference.. SUN SUN Reader Laurel Lefkow SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN Credits SUN Author: Edith Pearlman SUN Producer: Duncan Minshull SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b064x31m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b064x31s (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b064x321 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. 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SUN SUN In conversation with Professor Simon Wessely, President of SUN the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a leading researcher SUN into mental health in the military, Mark Tully investigates SUN the positive power of institutions as well as the dangers of SUN institutionalisation. SUN SUN There's music from Henry Priestland, the Buena Vista Social SUN Club and the Band of the Grenadier Guards and readings SUN ranging from Charlotte Bronte to screenwriter William SUN Styron. SUN SUN The readers are Polly Frame, Peter Marinker and Francis SUN Cadder. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Broadcasting Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: SUN Jane Eyre SUN Author: SUN Charlotte Bronte SUN Publisher: SUN Wordsworth Editions SUN Title: SUN Heaven Haven SUN Author: SUN Gerard Manley Hopkins SUN Publisher: SUN Penguin Books in Poems and Prose Of Gerard Manley Hopkins SUN Title: SUN Darkness Visible SUN Author: SUN William Styron SUN Publisher: SUN Vintage SUN Title: SUN A Tale of Two Cities SUN Author SUN : Charles Dickens SUN Publisher: SUN Project Gutenberg SUN Title: SUN Vers de Societe SUN Author: SUN Philip Larkin SUN Publisher: SUN Faber & Faber in High Windows SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b064x6w0 (Listen) SUN Royal Special: Prince Charles on Biodiversity SUN SUN When His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales first visited SUN Transylvania nearly 20 years ago, he was captivated by the SUN region's "timelessness", and said it reminded him of stories SUN he read as a child. Bears roam the forested slopes of the SUN Carpathians, mountain pastures tinkle with the sound of SUN cowbells and farmers scythe their hay meadows by hand. But SUN for Prince Charles it wasn't just about storybook images - SUN it was biodiversity at its very best. He saw a landscape SUN teeming with wildflowers, cacophonous with insect-life and SUN untouched by modern farming methods. SUN The Prince has been spending holidays in Transylvania ever SUN since and, for this special edition of On Your Farm, he SUN invites Charlotte Smith to join him. He talks passionately SUN about biodiversity - a word mistaken for a new type of SUN washing ingredient when he first started campaigning for its SUN preservation in the 1990s. He is open about his fears for SUN the environment and, with a little help from Robert Byron, SUN describes the natural world he wants his grandchildren and SUN all future generations to inherit. SUN We also look at environmental projects The Prince of Wales SUN is supporting in Romania and back home in the UK. SUN Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced, in Transylvania, SUN by Anna Jones. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b064x32j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b064x32l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b064x6w2 (Listen) SUN Calais migrants, Anglican Communion, North Wales pilgrim SUN walk SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b064x6w4 (Listen) SUN The Howard League for Penal Reform SUN SUN The Radio 4 Appeal for the Howard League for Penal Reform, SUN presented by Danielle, a beneficiary of the charity. SUN Registered Charity No 251926 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Howard League for Penal Reform'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Howard League for Penal SUN Reform'. SUN SUN The Howard League for Penal Reform SUN The Howard League for Penal Reform is a national charity SUN working for less crime, safer communities and fewer people SUN in prison. The Howard League runs a legal service to help SUN children and young people in prisons. Its campaigns aim to SUN make prisons and community sentences safer and work better. SUN The Howard League for Penal Reform is independent of SUN government and is funded by voluntary donations and SUN membership subscriptions. SUN SUN Legal service for children and young people in prison SUN SUN The Howard League legal team provides a free helpline for SUN children and young people who are locked up, providing SUN immediate factual information and advice. The charity’s SUN lawyers take action to help with safe release and complaints SUN of mistreatment. SUN Photo: A Young Offenders Institution. (credit SUN prisonimage.org) SUN SUN Giving young people a voice SUN SUN Young people are the experts in their own experiences, but SUN young people in the criminal justice system often get SUN ignored, left out or silenced. The Howard League runs SUN workshops with young people in custody, supports them to SUN speak at political conferences and arranges meetings with SUN policymakers to ensure their voices are heard. SUN Photo shows Danielle speaking at a party conference to SUN policymakers about young people in the criminal justice SUN system. SUN SUN Campaigning for real and lasting change SUN SUN The Howard League campaigns and conducts research on a wide SUN range of issues including improving prison conditions, SUN making community sentences work safely and keeping young SUN people out of crime and the justice system. Recent SUN successes include the award winning Books for Prisoners’ SUN campaign, which helped to overturn the ban on sending books SUN to prisoners. 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The service reflects on our SUN responsibility to the natural world and to one another in SUN the 21st Century and celebrates the beauty of creation. It SUN is led by Fr Tim Byron SJ, Chaplain to University of SUN Manchester, Man Met and RNCM with music from The Coventry SUN Singers directed by Paul Leddington Wright. SUN Producer: Katharine Longworth. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06445xh (Listen) SUN Adam Gopnik: Long-Form Television SUN SUN Adam Gopnik reflects on the reason for our obsession with SUN long - form television series and sees a link to the current SUN brevity of all our other forms of discourse. SUN "As communication, public and political and spiritual, SUN becomes ever more condensed - as newspapers close and are SUN replaced exclusively with Instagram feeds, as texting SUN becomes ever more enciphered and as the demotic slang of SUN teens, which we will all speak sooner or later, becomes ever SUN more abbreviated then we can expect, or dread, ever longer SUN compensatory popular narratives." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwy1y (Listen) SUN Golden Plover 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 Martin Hughes-Games presents the Golden Plover. If, among a SUN flock of lapwings circling over a ploughed field, you see SUN smaller birds with wings like knife-blades and bell-like SUN calls ... these are golden plovers. SUN SUN Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b064x78g (Listen) SUN News for Sunday morning including a paper review. Presented SUN by Paddy O'Connell. SUN Including the attraction of Hamlet, the shortage of bassoons SUN and demise of the Land Rover Defender. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b064x7ds (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Paul Brodrick SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor SUN 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 Jolene Archer ..... Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer ..... David Troughton SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... William Troughton SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Ian Craig ..... 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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 Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b064x7dv (Listen) SUN Dr Bill Frankland SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dr Bill Frankland. SUN SUN Frequently referred to as the "grandfather of allergy", his SUN achievements include the introduction of the pollen count to SUN the British public and the prediction of increased levels of SUN allergy to penicillin. SUN SUN Born in Cumbria in 1912, Dr Frankland turned 103 in March. SUN He studied medicine at Oxford and worked at St Mary's SUN hospital in Paddington, London, before war intervened. He SUN signed up to the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), but spent SUN over three of the six years he spent in the army as a SUN prisoner of war in Singapore. SUN SUN After the war, he began work in the dermatology department SUN at St Mary's, but quickly switched to allergy which became SUN his passion. During the fifties he served as a registrar to SUN Alexander Fleming who had discovered penicillin back in SUN 1928. In 1954 he published a seminal research paper about a SUN double-blind randomised trial proving that pre-season pollen SUN injections greatly reduced the symptoms of hay fever SUN sufferers. SUN SUN He has treated high profile patients including Saddam SUN Hussein and given evidence in court - possibly the oldest SUN expert witness to do so. He continues to work in a private SUN practice and has remarked, "I really don't know what people SUN do when they retire at 65.". SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Bill Frankland SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b064x32x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b063zxkx (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 4 SUN SUN The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the Alban SUN Arena in St Albans. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and SUN Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Omid Djalili SUN with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts piano SUN accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio SUN Comedy production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Omid Djalili SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b064xbpc (Listen) SUN My Food Hero: Tim Hayward meets Len Deighton SUN SUN Tim Hayward meets the man who changed the whole way he SUN approached food. Someone who inspired Tim, and many others, SUN to look at food and the techniques of cooking in a SUN completely new way. SUN SUN A surprising food figure perhaps, he is a best-selling SUN author, writer of "The IPCRESS File", creator of Harry SUN Palmer (played by Michael Caine). He is also an illustrator, SUN and pioneering food writer. He rarely gives interviews. He SUN is Len Deighton. SUN SUN Leonard Cyril Deighton - now 86 - has had a fascinating life SUN - and as he explains, food has always been at its heart. His SUN vivid and extraordinary story takes in post-war London with SUN double agents and off-ration cooking, to a newly opened-up SUN world of international air travel, and into the swinging SUN sixties. SUN SUN Len Deighton created the totally unique "cookstrips", fusing SUN his skills at illustrating and writing with his cooking SUN knowledge. For a young Tim Hayward, once he had seen these SUN things would never be the same again. SUN SUN Photograph by David Rose. SUN SUN Presented by Tim Hayward SUN Produced by Rich Ward and Dan Saladino. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tim Hayward SUN Interviewed Guest: Len Deighton SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN Producer: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b064x331 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b064xbpf (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Ken, Madge and the Strange Rock b05nvj7g (Listen) SUN In January 2013 on Morecambe beach, Ken Wilman and his dog SUN Madge found something they believed to be ambergris - an SUN extremely unusual, rare and valuable product of sperm SUN whales. What happened next turned Ken's world upside down. SUN SUN Overnight, the story hit the international news with SUN excitement at the prospect of a happy financial outcome for SUN Ken. But things turned out not to be so straightforward. SUN SUN Peregrine Andrews followed the story from the beginning - SUN and he discovered that authenticating and selling one of the SUN world's most mysterious substances is far from easy. SUN SUN Produced by Peregrine Andrews SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b064447x (Listen) SUN Dalston SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team are at Dalston Eastern Curve SUN Garden. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – We make wood-fired pizzas here, what pizza toppings SUN would the panel suggest to grow in the garden? What would SUN produce the best flavour and would be quick to grow and SUN replenish? SUN Pippa – SUN Obviously some lovely tomatoes but also some half or SUN mini-tomatoes, tonnes of basil, also garlic, peppers (for SUN roasted peppers) SUN Bob – SUN Italian plum tomatoes because they’re not so watery. SUN Genovese (small leaved) basil – has a more piquant flavour. SUN Chives because you can cut any amount and they’ll keep SUN coming. Spring onions and shallots. SUN James – SUN Carolina Reaper – it’s the world’s new spiciest chilli as of SUN December 2013 – it has over 2.2million Scoville units. SUN Q – Air quality is becoming an issue in London and my SUN question is to do with plants’ role in cleaning the air. If SUN we were to grow vertical plants up the walls of buildings in SUN the city which varieties would the panel advise? SUN Bob – SUN Plants with sticky leaves like the White Tobacco – which can SUN grow up to 5 feet tall – as lots of dust will stick to the SUN leaves. And *Lychnis*, too. SUN Pippa – SUN The Spider Plant. Also, the Boston Fern which is a very SUN tough fern. SUN James – SUN One of the big problems with living walls is patchiness, say SUN if an irrigation system fails, you end up with big empty SUN areas. Things like the Peace Lily, the Spider Lily, SUN etcetera will spread over those gaps. SUN Q – I am limited to balcony gardening. I am a novice and a SUN ‘north-facer’. Can the panel suggest something hardy and SUN colourful for my balcony please? SUN James – SUN A hardy Begonia, for example *Begonia evansiana grandis*, SUN you get that look of the rainforest but in the UK. Also SUN some hardy orchids and ferns too. SUN Pippa – SUN I would think about leafier crops like salad leaves, SUN spinaches, mooli, radishes. SUN Q – I’ve been trying to edibles in containers on the fire SUN escape but it’s been disappointing in yield. What would you SUN suggest that would give a good harvest? SUN Bob – SUN Salad leaves would give you the best returns as you don’t SUN need very deep containers so you could stack them up and get SUN a few layers going, particularly if you use trays and use a SUN good compost (with no weed seeds in it, so a bought one), SUN and then you sow fairly densely. Grow them for a week, two SUN weeks, then you cut them off, throw the compost away, and SUN start another lot off. SUN Pippa – SUN Why not hang things from the fire escape’s handrail? Or get SUN window boxes with hooks underneath? Or consider containers SUN than are quite deep, and hung off the rail, then you can SUN plant into them. Or try courgettes. SUN Q – We have been working hard all spring and summer to SUN expand and create new planting beds. We’ve been filling SUN them with herbaceous perennials and lots of things that are SUN good for pollinators but we’ve developed a mildew problem. SUN How can we get rid of it? SUN Pippa – SUN Mildew is a fungal infection that looks a bit like you’ve SUN sprinkled icing sugar on the plant. The two things mildews SUN love are plants that are dry at the roots and also SUN (confusingly) if the air is muggy, eg if things are closely SUN planted or on/off rain. Advice: whisk off infected leaves SUN as soon as you see them, you can try and improve air SUN circulation, you can definitely water them direct to the SUN soil/base of the plant to help too. SUN Q – Urban wasteland make natural habitats for bees and SUN butterflies – can the panel recommend inexpensive seeds? SUN James – SUN Look at the spice rack of supermarkets (or a local Chinese SUN supermarket) – and think about fennel, dill, caraway, SUN fenugreek… nice combination of cheap, good pollinators, and SUN edible SUN Bob – SUN Poppies – full of pollen and you can use the seeds on breads SUN etc. But the cheapest seeds are those sold for green SUN manures, like clovers and buckwheat and phacelia. SUN Q – I was thinking of starting a Dalston snail farm so my SUN neighbours could bring me their snails and I could sell them SUN on to the local Hipster restaurants… Would the loss of the SUN snails have an adverse effect on the gardens? SUN Bob – SUN I believe it would actually – they create a lot of manure SUN and I imagine plants would be expecting it. The Roman Snail SUN is the best for eating. You need to feed snails bran in SUN order to clean them for eating. SUN James – SUN Feed them for a couple of days and then starve them for a SUN couple of days (in order to make sure that the digestive SUN tract is clean) SUN Pippa – SUN I wouldn’t worry too much because you’ll never succeed in SUN collecting them all up SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b064xbph (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between friends and SUN between a mother and son, about being true to your beliefs SUN and how difficult that can sometimes be, in the Omnibus SUN edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you SUN hear when you listen. All conversations were recorded in The SUN Listening Project mobile Booth when it was visiting London. 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 Drama b064xbpk (Listen) SUN The Great Scott, The Antiquary SUN SUN Richard Wilson stars as The Antiquary, a man who hordes SUN secrets as well as treasures. Will his knowledge allow Lovel SUN to marry his secret love? With David Tennant as Walter SUN Scott. SUN SUN The Antiquary (1816) is a novel by Sir Walter Scott about an SUN amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of SUN dubious antiquity. Although he is the eponymous character, SUN he is not necessarily the hero, as many of the characters SUN around him undergo far more significant journeys or change. SUN Instead, he provides a central figure for other more SUN exciting characters and events - on which he provides a SUN sardonic commentary. SUN SUN This is Scott's gothic novel, redolent with family secrets, SUN stories of hidden treasure and hopeless love, with a SUN mysterious, handsome, young man, benighted aristocracy and a SUN night-time funeral procession to a ruined abbey. The romance SUN and mystery is counterpoised by some of Scott's more SUN down-to-earth characters, and grittily unromantic events. SUN SUN Scott wrote in an advertisement to the novel that his SUN purpose in writing it, similar to that of his novels SUN Waverley and Guy Mannering, was to document Scottish life SUN and manners of a certain period - in this case the last SUN decade of the 18th century. SUN SUN Music by Ross Hughes and Esben Tjalve SUN Cello played by George Cooke SUN SUN Produced and Directed by Clive Brill SUN A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Sir Walter Scott: David Tennant SUN Oldbuck: Richard Wilson SUN Edie: Alexander Morton SUN Sir Arthur: Stuart McGugan SUN Isabel: Melody Grove SUN Lovel: Dominic Rye SUN Geraldin: Christian Rodska SUN Tafril: Charles Davies SUN Hector: John Wark SUN Caxon: David Haydn SUN Sweepclean: David Haydn SUN Lesley: David Haydn SUN Macleuchar: Beth Tuckey SUN Elspeth: Beth Tuckey SUN Maggie: Beth Tuckey SUN Director: Clive Brill SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN Author: Walter Scott SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b064xbpm (Listen) SUN Petina Gappah, Michael Foreman, Duelling in literature, Food SUN fiction SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to award winning Zimbabwean author SUN Petina Gappah about her new novel The Book of Memory. It SUN tells the story of a young woman on death row, and the SUN events of her life in Zimbabwe which led to her arrest. SUN Gappah explains that despite having lived in Europe for many SUN years, her imagination always returns to Africa. SUN Open Book goes to the National Centre for Children's books SUN in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to meet childrens author and SUN illustrator Michael Foreman. He talks about the inspiration SUN for his work which came from being a child during the war. SUN With fiction which centres around food in abundance this SUN summer, bestselling author Joanne Harris and Dr Sarah Moss SUN discuss the history of food in fiction and how its been used SUN as a substitute for sex, money and power. SUN John Leigh gives Open Book a run down of duelling in SUN literature. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of The Book of Memory by Petina SUN Gappah SUN The Book of Memory: Chapter 1 SUN by Petina Gappah SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Petinah Gappah SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Foreman SUN Interviewed Guest: Joanne Harris SUN Interviewed Guest: Sarah Moss SUN Interviewer: John Leigh SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b064xbpp (Listen) SUN Series 5, Liz Berry and Helen Mort SUN SUN Two of the most striking and original first poetry SUN collections in the last few years have been Division Street SUN by Helen Mort and Black Country by Liz Berry. Both books are SUN steeped in the places they were made in: West Yorkshire and SUN the West Midlands. With Paul Farley for The Echo Chamber SUN both poets have travelled towards one another and taken some SUN poems back to their source. Helen Mort in the Peaks, on SUN Sheffield streets, and then the memorably twisted spire of SUN the church in Chesterfield. Liz Berry in a Black Country SUN pigeon loft, an echoing canal tunnel and an ancient SUN geological treasure trove. The heart of England is remade in SUN these new poems. The poets end up half way between one SUN anothers' places in a hotel that W. H. Auden (great poet of SUN the unloved world) said served the best martinis in the SUN land. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 Experiments in Living b0640sp5 (Listen) SUN Social historian Juliet Gardiner questions the 1930s dream SUN of a semi-detached home in the suburbs, where 'a man's home SUN is his castle' to live in splendid isolation with his SUN nuclear family. SUN SUN This ideal was born out of the raw memory of the SUN over-crowded slums which had only recently been cleared, SUN making the idea of a home of one's own so precious. But SUN Juliet argues this dream is doing us no favours at all when SUN facing the challenges of how to live today. She asks if we SUN really want or need as much privacy as we think we do. SUN SUN Today we are in the throes of an acute housing crisis and SUN people are being forced to experiment with new ways to live SUN to put a roof over their head. Juliet draws parallels with SUN the housing crisis after World War Two, when slum clearances SUN and bombs led to a huge housing shortage. What ideas and SUN lessons can she bring from the experiments of the past to SUN the experiments of the present? SUN SUN Juliet shares her knowledge of the post-1945 period when SUN people began to live more communally. While they were glad SUN to be out of the shelters, many wanted to retain the greater SUN sense of community, camaraderie and communal living. Big SUN country houses were sold off cheaply and bought by groups of SUN families, sharing resources and child-care. SUN SUN She meets participants in 'Home Share' an initiative which SUN matches older people who live alone and want company, with SUN younger people who are struggling to afford rents. She also SUN hears about 'property guardian' schemes, whereby SUN participants live in an empty property for a low rent, SUN matching their need for affordable housing with the owner's SUN need to protect the security of their property. SUN SUN Do any of these experiments present an answer to the housing SUN crisis? SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Further information: SUN SUN For more information on the schemes covered in this SUN programme please use the following links: SUN Novus Homeshare SUN The Threshold Centre SUN Older Women's Co-Housing SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b064ww2g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b064x335 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b064x337 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b064x339 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b064xc2r (Listen) SUN Julie Hesmondhalgh SUN SUN Journey with Julie as we transport you from the many Llans SUN of Anglesey to the Albert Hall, from the devastated town of SUN Hiroshima to the summit of Everest, from the noisy café of SUN the National Gallery to The Garden of Eden, and have a game SUN of Rock Paper Scissors en route. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b064xc2t (Listen) SUN Kenton feels sorry for himself, and Shula awaits her guests. SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01cvk8d (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 3 SUN SUN Wordaholics is Radio 4's brand new comedy panel game all SUN about words. SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth presides as linguistic brainboxes and SUN comedians vie for supremacy in the ring. SUN SUN Today's show features Fresh Meat star Jack Whitehall, Radio SUN 4 regular Milton Jones and Countdown stalwart Susie Dent as SUN well as Greek scholar and all-round clever clogs Natalie SUN Haynes. SUN SUN Today they reveal their least favourite words, attempt to SUN decipher Cockney rhyming slang and try to guess the meaning SUN of some words no longer in our common parlance, taken from SUN the 1736 Dictionary of Canting Slang. SUN SUN Gyles is the longest-serving wordsmith in Countdown's SUN Dictionary Corner and the author of numerous wordplay books. SUN But now it's time for him to encourage other people to show SUN off their knowledge of words and playfulness with language. SUN SUN Wordaholics is clever, intelligent, witty and unexpected. SUN There are toponyms, abbreviations, euphemisms, old words, SUN new words, cockney rhyming slang, Greek gobbledegook, plus SUN the panellists' picks of the ugliest and the most beautiful SUN words: the whole world of words in twenty-eight minutes. SUN SUN Find out the meaning of words like giff-gaff, knock-knobbler SUN and buckfitches - the difference between French marbles, SUN French velvet and the French ache - hear the glorious poetry SUN of the English language, as practiced from writers varying SUN from William Shakespeare to Vanilla Ice - and spend half an SUN hour laughing and learning with some of the finest SUN Wordaholics in the business. SUN SUN Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 19:45 Opening Lines b064xcfh (Listen) SUN Series 17, Flour Baby SUN SUN A new short story selected from thousands of entries for the SUN BBC Opening Lines 2015 initiative, our annual open SUN submission window for writers new to radio. SUN SUN When the couple across the street bring home their new baby, SUN nosy neighbour Rosey is disturbed by its appearance. But in SUN telling her story - a story full of hardship and humour - SUN Rosey gives away more than she perhaps intended, and finds SUN herself coming face to face with her own buried trauma. SUN SUN Author L.A. Craig SUN Reader Liz White SUN Producer Simon Richardson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Liz White SUN Writer: LA Craig SUN Producer: Simon Richardson SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b0648ccb (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for listener comment. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0644485 (Listen) SUN Cilla Black, Michael Kidson, APJ Abdul Kalam, Evelyn Gillan, SUN George Cole SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The singer and TV presenter Cilla Black - we go behind the SUN scenes to discover the secret of her success on Saturday SUN night TV. SUN SUN Michael Kidson who taught history at Eton for thirty years, SUN delighting his pupils by his maverick behaviour. SUN SUN The Indian scientist and reluctant politician APJ Abdul SUN Kalam, known as the "People's President". SUN SUN The Scottish social worker and public health campaigner SUN Evelyn Gillan who targeted domestic violence and fought for SUN minimum pricing for alcohol. SUN SUN And the actor George Cole, best known for playing Arthur SUN Daley in the TV series Minder. SUN SUN Cilla Black SUN Friend Sir John Madejski and Colman Hutchinson, former SUN producer of Blind Date and Surprise Surprise, talk about the SUN late singer and TV presenter. SUN Born May 27 1943; died August 2 2015, aged 72 SUN SUN SUN Michael Kidson SUN Former pupils David Ker and Johnnie Boden pay tribute to the SUN former Eton schoolmaster SUN Born August 24, 1929; died June 20 2015, aged 85 SUN SUN SUN Dr APJ Abdul Kalam SUN The BBC's former India correspondent talks about the SUN scientist and reluctant politician who became president of SUN India. SUN Born 15 October 1931; died 27 July 2015, aged 83 SUN SUN SUN Dr Evelyn Gillan SUN Evelyn's partner, Tom Proudfoot and journalist Lesley SUN Riddoch pay homage to the former chief executive of Alcohol SUN Focus Scotland who was a key advocate for alcohol minimum SUN pricing in Scotland. SUN Born 4 August 1959; died 14 July, aged 55 SUN SUN SUN George Cole SUN Film historian at Birkbeck University of London Ian Christie SUN talks about the actor who is famous for playing Arthur Daley SUN in Minder and Flash Harry in the St Trinian films. SUN Born 22 April 1925; died 5 August 2015, aged 90 SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 The New Workplace b064ww0s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b064x6w4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0644192 (Listen) SUN The Californian Drought SUN SUN California has some of the world's most productive SUN agricultural land. It puts fruit and vegetables on America's SUN tables and exports huge amount of produce too; nearly all of SUN the almonds we consume come from here. But the state is also SUN endured a severe drought, now into its fourth year. Farm SUN land is being fallowed, farm workers are losing their jobs SUN and thousands of wells are drying up. Some farmers believe SUN that this year is the tipping point. If rain does not fall SUN in the winter, they'll be out of business next year. But SUN other farmers have had some of their best years during these SUN testing times. Peter Day explores what happens when water SUN becomes the most valuable commodity there is. SUN SUN Producer: Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b064xczc (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b064xczf (Listen) SUN Beth Rigby of the FT analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b064xd1j (Listen) SUN Jonny Greenwood on There Will Be Blood SUN SUN With Antonia Quirke SUN SUN Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood discusses his score for There SUN Will Be Blood, which he will be performing live in August. SUN He also tells Antonia why he wouldn't like to score a Bond SUN movie or any other blockbuster. SUN SUN Antonia starts the search for people who saw Buster Keaton's SUN tour of British theatres and music halls in 1951, and SUN consults historian Kevin Brownlow. SUN SUN Writer Nat Segnit discusses the changing voice of Al Pacino. SUN Hoo ha ! SUN SUN Prop makers FBFX reveals the tricks of their trade, making SUN armour, space suits and creature costumes for the film SUN industry. SUN SUN Buster Keaton on tour in Britain ... SUN Did you see Buster Keaton on his tour of British theatres in SUN 1951? If you did, please e-mail us at SUN thefilmprogramme@bbc.co.uk SUN These are his tour dates:June 18-23 Leicester Palace June SUN 35-31 Chiswick EmpireJuly 2-7 Wood Green Empire July 9-14 SUN Manchester Hippodrome July 16-21 Derby Hippodrome July SUN 30-August 4 Leeds Empire August 6-11 Glasgow Empire August SUN 13-18 Newcastle Empire August 20-24 Bradford Alhambra SUN Image: US actor and comedian Buster Keaton and his wife SUN Eleanor Ruth Morris in London, 15th June 1951 (Photo SUN credit: Reg Birkett/Keystone/Getty Images) SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Antonia Quirke SUN Interviewed Guest: Jonny Greenwood SUN Interviewed Guest: Kevin Brownlow SUN Interviewed Guest: Nat Segnit SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b064x6vw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b064x34c (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 The Move b04md4np (Listen) MON A Move into the Unknown MON MON In a brand new series aims to satisfy our fascination with MON moving, as Rosie Millard charts the progress of people MON across the UK as they take the plunge and look for a new MON home - whether out of necessity or just for a change. MON MON Whether contemplating a mansion or a shoe-box, all her MON subjects have one thing in common - it's a jump into the MON unknown, somewhere where there is no network of friends MON waiting for them, no family and no preconceptions. MON MON In the first programme we follow Hannah and John, cycling MON fanatics, who are hoping to buy a live/work space in a MON converted mill in the Yorkshire dales. It's a big step for MON them both as Hannah has always lived in the far South of MON England, and now contemplates a new life in the North, MON whilst John, Cumbrian born and bred has, like so many 30 MON somethings, still kept his room on at his parent's house. MON Most of the time he just lives out of a kit bag as he MON travels the world as a cycle guide, and he certainly never MON contemplated having a mortgage. MON MON Trudi, meanwhile, is facing eviction for the second time in MON two years, as her run-down flat in Islington has MON dramatically turned into prime London real estate. "There MON was a two bed flat across the road went on the market for MON £770,000. It was sold in a week!" MON The notice to quit has arrived, and as a wheelchair user MON she's facing life on the streets or in sheltered MON accommodation, something she's none too pleased to MON contemplate at the age of 55 - "It's like God's waiting MON room..." MON MON But as Rosie finds out, things don't always turn out for the MON worst, or the best, in the moving business. MON MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b064x4x0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b064x34f (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b064x34h (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b064x34k (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b064x34m (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b064xgtj (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev David Bruce. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b064xgtl (Listen) MON Farming in 'crisis', Invasive weeds, Goats MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:56 Weather b064x34p (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bksqt (Listen) MON Crested Tit MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Crested MON Tit. Although crested tits are quite common in Continental MON Europe, they are confined in the UK to the central Highlands MON of Scotland. They're the only small British bird with a MON crest so identification shouldn't be a problem and their MON black eye-stripe contrasts well with their grey and white MON face. MON MON Crested Tit (Lophophanes cristatus) MON MON Image courtesy of Steve Knell (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b064xjms (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Open Book b0629qxr (Listen) MON Open Book: Why We Read MON MON Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss why we read, and the MON pleasure that this strange and solitary activity has given MON millions. Mariella and her guests John Mullan, Naomi MON Alderman, Damian Barr and neuroscientist Joe Devlin, will be MON investigating the history of reading, and the impact it has MON on our brains and asking what would happen if we didn't read MON fiction. Clive James will reveal the Book He'd Never Lend MON and Sarah Dillon will be exploring the pleasures of close MON reading. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Mariella Frostrup MON Interviewed Guest: John Mullan MON Interviewed Guest: Naomi Alderman MON Interviewed Guest: Damian Barr MON Interviewed Guest: Joe Devlin MON Interviewed Guest: Clive James MON Interviewed Guest: Sarah Dillon MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b064xjn1 (Listen) MON Romantic Outlaws - The Extraordinary Lives of Mary MON Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, Escape and Elopement MON MON Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick read Charlotte Gordon's MON extraordinary biography of the pioneering feminist Mary MON Wollstonecraft, and her novelist daughter, Mary Shelley who MON wrote Frankenstein. MON MON Mary Wollstonecraft, famous for her polemic A Vindication on MON the Rights of Woman, died ten days after giving birth to her MON daughter who wrote one of the nineteenth century's most MON significant novels, Frankenstein. Though she never knew her MON mother, Mary Shelley was inspired and influenced by the way MON Wollstonecraft had lived her life, and her philosophy on MON freedom. Charlotte Gordon's dual biography brings together MON these visionary women and illuminates the many similarities MON between the two. Both acquired fame and notoriety through MON their writing, they married difficult men, had children out MON of wedlock and were assailed by tragedy. Above all both left MON legacies that continue to endure. MON MON Read by Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick MON Abridged by Sara Davies MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Juliet Aubrey MON Reader: Ellie Kendrick MON Author: Charlotte Gordon MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b064y9ks (Listen) MON The killing of Farkhunda, The working life of women judges MON MON Jane hears the latest on the case of Farkhunda, the young MON woman killed by a mob in Afghanistan, from the BBC's MON Zarghuna Kargar; Three women judges - Mrs Justice Nicola MON Davies, Her Honour Judge Eleri Rees and Deputy District MON Judge Sophie Toms - discuss their careers at different MON levels of the judiciary; The latest in our series on men and MON relationships with Suzi Godson of the Times - this week MON we're hearing from men in their 30s about fatherhood; and MON two young civil servants, Rebecca Jeffree and Rebecca MON Baldwin, tell us about how they promoted gender equality in MON their workplace. MON MON Presenter : Jane Garvey MON Producer : Louise Adamson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Nicola Davies MON Interviewed Guest: Eleri Rees MON Interviewed Guest: Sophie Toms MON Interviewed Guest: Suzi Godson MON Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Jeffree MON Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Baldwin MON Producer: Louise Adamson MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b064y9kv (Listen) MON How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Episode 1 MON MON Karen knows her much-loved husband of 19 years is gay. A new MON normality reigns. Jack stays with his boyfriend Tom on MON agreed nights away and slips back into the house before the MON children get up. MON MON But now he wants to tell the girls. Is there a best way? MON Karen persuades him to wait until the summer holidays begin. MON But Jack is impatient - and impetuous. MON MON In this second series of writer Nicholas McInerny's MON autobiographical look at modern relationships, Jack has come MON out to his wife Karen but not to the kids. An agreement MON between consenting adults is one thing - but once you tell MON the children, all bets are off. MON MON She and Jack may have signed up for a new type of marriage, MON where small deceptions and unspoken fantasies are replaced MON with something new - a kind of radical honesty. But can they MON make this work as a whole family and keep the kids secure? MON MON The same cast come together, led by Julia Ford and Greg MON Wise, to explore the next chapter of this very modern MON family. MON MON Written by Nicholas McInerny MON MON Music by Greg Wise MON Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore MON MON Director/Producer: Melanie Harris MON Executive Producer: Jo Meek MON A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Karen: Julia Ford MON Jack: Greg Wise MON Naomi: Katriona Perrett MON Ella: Ellie Bindman MON Ben: John Sessions MON Tom: Daniel Crowder MON Writer: Nicholas McInerny MON Director: Melanie Harris MON Producer: Melanie Harris MON MON 11:00 The Northern Male - and His Mate b064yd12 (Listen) MON Stuart Maconie spent a year working in a cotton mill, and so MON can personally testify to the many ways the industrial MON landscape influenced different aspects of life in northern MON England. One of those, he argues, is the nature of MON friendships between men. MON MON While these relationships have much in common with male MON friendships generally, he says that under the particular MON conditions of industrial life , the emphasis is more MON pronounced. MON MON For over two hundred years, a high proportion of men worked MON alongside each other in tough jobs and tougher locations. MON This, combined with the long hours spent alongside mates in MON the bars, societies and sports teams, bred a tightness and MON loyalty between northern men. MON MON Chatting to miners from the Sutton Manor Colliery in St MON Helens and to his own friend, singer-songwriter Richard MON Haley, he considers whether the impact of that former MON industrial life had ripples that affect today's northern MON male and his mate. MON MON Produced by Geoff Bird MON A Pennine productions for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Secrets and Lattes b064yd14 (Listen) MON Series 2, The Plan's the Thing MON MON It's May in Edinburgh and life at Cafe Culture is certainly MON bursting with life. Trisha (Hilary Maclean) is about to MON marry her long-term, long-distance lover Richard (Roger May) MON and, despite being mid-divorce, big sister Clare (Hilary MON Lyon) can't resist meddling in the wedding arrangements. MON MON Relations are strained too between supposedly recovering MON kleptomaniac trainee Lizzie (Pearl Appleby) and laid-back MON Glaswegian chef Callum (Derek Riddell) over her friendship MON with his autistic teenage son Max (Scott Hoatson). MON MON There is much uncertainty over living (and sleeping) MON arrangements all round as everyone works out where home is MON exactly - and who else is in it. MON MON Will Trisha and Richard actually make it up the (outdoor) MON aisle and who might still be speaking to who? MON MON Written by Hilary Lyon MON MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producers: Gordon Kennedy and Moray Hunter MON An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Trisha: Hilary Maclean MON Richard: Roger May MON Clare: Hilary Lyon MON Lizzie: Pearl Appleby MON Callum: Derek Riddell MON Max: Scott Hoatson MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON Producer: Moray Hunter MON Writer: Hilary Lyon MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b064x34r (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 David Baddiel Tries to Understand b04wwgzc (Listen) MON Electricity MON MON In a new series, David Baddiel sets out to make sense of MON some apparently puzzling topics. MON MON In this first programme, and after hearing suggestions from MON his followers on social media, David seeks to understand MON electricity. He travels to Manchester to learn the basics MON from a professor of high voltage technology, and to MON Staffordshire to grasp the operations of a huge power MON station. MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b064yd16 (Listen) MON Christmas lobster, Legal highs MON MON Supermarkets are already getting ready for Christmas, and MON this year they're banking on customers buying lobster. MON They've already ordered stocks and we'll hear more about MON where they come from and how they're fished. MON MON More about the borough of London, which is to become the MON first in the capital to implement a legal highs ban. Lambeth MON is getting ready to bring it in on the 17th August. The move MON essentially bans the use and supply of legal highs in public MON areas across the whole borough and means anybody caught MON breaching the new order could face a fine. MON MON The new man at the top of BHS tells us what he's doing to MON try and turn around the store's fortunes, after it was sold MON for £1. MON MON Presenter: Winifred Robinson MON Producer: Jess Quayle. MON MON 12:57 Weather b064x34t (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b064ygkp (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun MON Ley. MON MON 13:45 Stepping Stones b064ygkt (Listen) MON Stick by the Sea: A Childhood Tale MON MON Broadcaster Piers Plowright explores five sound-worlds - MON some from far back in his life and some more recent - which MON still resonate with him. MON MON In this first episode, he returns to the small Welsh village MON he was evacuated to during the Second World War, to find the MON family that took him, his mother, and sister, into their MON house. MON MON With four of the Thomas siblings, now all in the 80s, he MON explores their different, sometimes conflicting, memories of MON the years 1943 to 1945 and remembers and recreates the MON sounds that surrounded them. MON MON Produced by Alan Hall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b064xc2t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b064ygky (Listen) MON The Churchill Barriers MON MON by Emma Spurgin Hussey MON MON Orkney, 1944, and clerk George finds common ground with MON Italian POW Giorgio as they build the famous sea defences. MON MON Pianist ..... Neil Brand MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON A note from the writer, Emma Spurgin Hussey MON MON For some reason, as we travelled through the snow that day, MON Grandad and I started talking about his wartime experiences. MON I’d heard, over the years, bits about his war - endless MON potato-peeling in Devon, defusing unexploded bombs, and some MON time spent in Orkney. I suggested that, as far as such MON things go, Grandad’s had been a fairly ‘lucky’ war. He said MON luck had nothing to do with it, and explained how he’d come MON to spend World War II the way he had. I’d known nothing MON about this and – it turned out – nor had anyone else except MON Nanna. It was one of those revelations that make everything MON you thought you knew shift, just a little bit, on its axis. MON It would be a spoiler to tell you what we talked about – MON you’ll have to listen to the play.... MON MON Over time I questioned Grandad further. He was extremely MON patient – especially so since he was nearly 90 when I began MON my interrogations, or ‘interviews’, as I like to think of MON them - actually I think he quite enjoyed our talks. Grandad MON felt he’d gained nothing but a little discipline from his MON time in the army. He told about another ‘lucky’ soldier MON who’d offered to teach him to play the organ in Kirkwall MON Cathedral, but then got redeployed before he could make good MON his promise. (Grandad was an able pianist, and a good MON singer.) I thought it would be nice to fictionalise his MON story, giving ‘him’ a friend – and some music. MON MON It was Grandad’s time on Orkney that fascinated me most. MON Because of his clerical skills, he’d been sent to Burray to MON do administrative work at a POW camp for Italian prisoners. MON The prisoners were made to work on the Churchill Barriers, a MON series of causeways linking some of the islands and acting MON as defensive blockades protecting the anchorage at Scapa MON Flow. In their free time, the Italians were also creating a MON chapel on the neighbouring island of Lamb Holm and this MON chapel still stands, a beautiful fragile symbol of hope and MON peace. MON MON My local theatre, Hall for Cornwall, invited me to take part MON in a course which challenged: ‘write about a culture that is MON not your own’. I thought about Grandad’s time on Orkney – MON lots of cultures that weren’t mine: island life; being in MON the army; war; being Italian; being a man… I became MON interested in using Grandad’s story as the start point of a MON radio play; he said he was perfectly happy, and that his MON story was now my material to shape any way I wanted, giving MON me freedom to play fast and loose with facts. He read an MON early draft, and gave me some feedback but, sadly, he’s no MON longer with us – he died two years ago at the age of 94. MON He’d left a final surprise, however: after his funeral, I MON learned that Grandad had written a hymn. And it’s this hymn MON tune we hear, played by brilliant Neil Brand, at the end of MON the play. MON MON Credits MON George: David Dawson MON Giorgio: Cesare Taurasi MON Q: David Hounslow MON Captain Swain: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Major Buckland: Stephen Critchlow MON Italian: Chris Pavlo MON Director: David Hunter MON Writer: Emma Spurgin Hussey MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b064ygl0 (Listen) MON Series 29, First Semi-Final, 2015 MON MON (10/13) MON Paul Gambaccini is at the BBC's historic Maida Vale studios MON to welcome back the first three of this season's heats MON winners, ready to face the challenge of the UK's MON widest-ranging musical quiz. MON MON This week the semi-finalists hail from London and MON Leicestershire. They've already proved the breadth of their MON musical knowledge by coming unscathed through the heats. Now MON a place in the 2015 Final awaits today's winner. MON MON As usual, they'll have to answer questions and identify MON musical extracts ranging across all styles and eras - from MON Verdi and Brahms to Prince - and beat their opponents to the MON buzzer if they're going to gain the vital edge in what MON promises to be a close contest. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b064xbpc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Necessary to My Happiness b064ygl5 (Listen) MON The poet Michael Symmons Roberts tells the story of Lord MON Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra, who was only five MON when she died in an Italian convent. Michael goes to Ravenna MON to find out how Byron came to abandon her, and how she came MON to haunt his imagination (and that of fellow Romantic Percy MON Bysshe Shelley). MON MON Through visiting the Palazzo Guiccioli in Ravenna, where MON Byron lived for a time, and the convent at Bagnacavallo MON where Allegra died, Michael discovers evidence for her as a MON spirited little girl, who wrote heartbreaking letters to her MON father, pleading with him to visit her. MON MON In this documentary, Allegra gets her own voice at last. . . MON Music composed by Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones. MON MON The Palazzo Guiccioli MON The Palazzo Guiccioli MON where Byron lived with his daughter Allegra in Ravenna in MON Italy is one of the locations Michael Symmons Roberts MON visits, in the hope that it will help him understand their MON relationship better, and to get a sense of what Byron's life MON was like in Ravenna. It is being turned into a dedicated MON Byron Museum. MON MON Letter from Allegra Byron to her father Lord Byron MON MON Here you can see one of the poignant letters that little MON Allegra wrote from the convent where she was placed by Byron MON - from an exhibition at the MON Bodleian LIbrary in Oxford. MON MON The Classense Library, Ravenna MON Michael Symmons Roberts visits this library to see some of MON the MON Byronic artefacts MON that the Countess Teresa Guiccioli (Byron's lover ) held MON most dear. It also holds the original text of her account of MON Byron's life in Italy. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b064yglg (Listen) MON Series 12, Forensic Science MON MON A Forensic look at Forensics MON MON No dead strawberries this week, but plenty of dead bodies, MON as Brian Cox and Robin Ince take a gruesome look at the MON science of death and some of the more unusual ways that MON forensic scientists are able to look for and gather clues MON and evidence. From insects that can be used to give a MON precise time of death, to the unusual field of forensic MON botany, It's not just DNA evidence that can be used to MON pinpoint someone to the scene of a crime. They are joined on MON stage by Professor Sue Black from the University of Dundee, MON Dr Mark Spencer, a forensic botanist at the Natural History MON Museum and comedian Rufus Hound. MON MON 17:00 PM b064yglj (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b064x34w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b064ygll (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 5 MON MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to Sheffield MON City Hall. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim MON Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Susan Calman, with MON Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the piano. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy MON production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b064ygln (Listen) MON Susan takes an important delivery, and Rob gets a surprise. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b064yglq (Listen) MON Sylvie Guillem MON MON The acclaimed ballet and contemporary dancer Sylvie Guillem MON reflects on her career spanning almost 35 years and tells MON John Wilson about her final programme of work. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON Interviewed Guest: Sylvie Guillem MON Producer: Philip Sellars MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b064y9kv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Battleships: The Ashes Voyages b060z6ly (Listen) MON To mark the start of the latest Ashes Test cricket series, MON former England captain David Gower relives the days when MON England and Australia cricketers went by ship to play in the MON Ashes. MON MON Legendary Australian players taking part include Neil Harvey MON (who played in Don Bradman's team in 1948), Alan Davidson, MON Bill Lawry, Bob Simpson, Graham Mackenzie and Colin MON MacDonald. Ted Dexter leads the England contingent, joined MON by such names as Peter Richardson, Peter Parfitt, John MON Murray and David Larter. MON MON The programme is rich in the colours of a 10,000 mile sea MON voyage. Stories of life on board include everything from the MON delights of first-class cabins and fabulous food to fancy MON dress contests and tricks for fending off fans. MON MON It was a different world as far as keeping fit for a MON sportsman was concerned, with fiery fast bowler Fred Trueman MON testily able to refuse training runs in favour of long hours MON in a deck chair. MON MON There are tales of exotic stopping off points. England MON fast-bowler David Larter tells the story of the day his MON 'sea-legs' let him down as he tore in to bowl in Colombo - MON and fell flat on his face. Twice running. Australians Brian MON Booth and Colin MacDonald re-live the scenes as local MON traders surrounded their ships on arrival at port after MON port. There's poignancy, too, as former Times cricket MON correspondent John Woodcock recalls a pilgrimage by MON Yorkshire and England cricketers at Naples to lay flowers on MON the grave of outstanding spin-bowler Hedley Verity, who died MON fighting in Italy during the Second World War. MON MON What method of travel would these cricketers choose if they MON were travelling to play now? MON MON Guess. MON MON Producer: Andrew Green MON A Singing Wren production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b0643x65 (Listen) MON China's Ketamine Fortress MON MON Celia Hatton goes undercover to The Fortress, the Chinese MON village at the centre of the world's illicit ketamine MON problem. She hears how China is a top maker and taker of the MON drug. Celia visits karaoke bars where ketamine is snorted MON regularly; she hears from those trying to wean themselves MON off their addiction; and hears from police who took part in MON a major raid on a village accused of producing vast MON quantities of illegal ketamine. A local farmer complains MON that his land and his crops have been destroyed by the drug MON gangs and Celia discovers how Chinese ketamine has led to MON the problem known as "Bristol bladder" back in the UK. John MON Murphy producing. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9b64 (Listen) MON Meteorites MON MON For thousands of years we have marvelled at the stones that MON fell from the sky. They were mysterious messages from the MON heavens; omens of luck and favour. Ancient Egyptians buried MON them in their tomb and Terry Pratchett put meteorite iron MON into his home made sword to enhance its mystical properties. MON MON Myths and legends about meteorites abound in all cultures. MON In religious art they are visions in the sky foretelling of MON the apocalypse. Interest in them rocketed when it was MON finally accepted, as late as the 1970s that they did kill MON the dinosaurs, a scientific debate that took many years to MON settle and was hard fought. Meteorites are marvels; they are MON fragments of other worlds come to our home to remind us we MON are not alone and that above the sky there is a dynamic, MON restless universe. MON MON Today people still believe meteorites contain magical MON minerals. The bizarre plants, Venus flytraps, only grow in MON the areas meteorites are found (by coincidence) and were MON thought to be plants brought down from another planet. We MON are all touched by the mystery of meteorites and today they MON are helping unravel the mysteries of our own solar system - MON and beyond. MON MON Dr Caroline Smith MON Caroline is Principle Curator of Meteorites and Head of MON Mineralogy Collections at the MON Natural History Museum MON and has been researching meteorites for the last 17 years. MON Her main research interests are planetary differentiation MON and extra-terrestrial and terrestrial alteration processes MON and she regularly uses a number of analytical techniques for MON studying precious meteoritic materials including electron MON and ion-beam instrumentation for sample preparation and MON analyses, mass spectrometry and CT-scanning. MON Her experience and expertise in curation and collections MON care has been recognised by the award of a prestigious MON Aurora Fellowship from the MON UK Space Agency MON and consultancy work with industrial and academic partners MON studying and planning for future Solar System sample return MON missions. MON In 2011, Caroline was selected as one of seven European MON scientists invited to participate in the MON ESA/NASA Joint Science Working Group MON planning for a proposed Mars exploration mission, where she MON provided input and advice related to sample curation and MON containment during collection, caching and on return to MON Earth. In 2014 she was chosen to be the UK representative MON for iMARS Phase 2 and was selected to be the Co-Chair of the MON Science Team. MON MON Professor Mike Benton MON Michael Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at MON the MON University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences MON He was elected MON Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014 MON for his fundamental contributions to understanding the MON history of life, particularly biodiversity fluctuations MON through time. He has led in integrating data from living and MON fossil organisms to generate phylogenies – solutions to the MON question of how major groups originated and diversified MON through time. MON This approach has revolutionised our understanding of major MON questions, including the relative roles of intrinsic and MON extrinsic factors on the history of life, whether diversity MON reaches saturation, the significance of mass extinctions, MON and how major clades radiate. MON MON Brother Guy Consolmagno MON Brother Consolmagno is curator of the Vatican meteorite MON collection in Castel Gandolfo, one of the largest in the MON world, and is nicknamed "the Pope's astronomer". His MON research explores the connections between meteorites and MON asteroids, and the origin and evolution of small bodies in MON the solar system. MON In 1996, he spent six weeks collecting meteorites with an MON NSF-sponsored team on the blue ice of Antarctica, and in MON 2000 he was honored by the MON International Astronomical Union MON for his contributions to the study of meteorites and MON asteroids with the naming of asteroid 4597 Consolmagno. Last MON year he received the MON Carl Sagan Medal MON from the MON American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary MON Sciences MON for excellence in public communication in planetary MON sciences. MON He has coauthored five astronomy books: “Turn Left at MON Orion”; “Worlds Apart”; “The Way to the Dwelling of Light”; MON “Brother Astronomer”; and “God's Mechanics”. MON MON Beth Holtum MON Beth Holtum trained in Complimentary Medicine, specialising MON in Homeopathy, before defecting to the world of rocks and MON minerals in 2005, when she and her husband, Graham, starting MON running Rainbow Spirit their crystal shop in Wadebridge, MON near Padstow in North Cornwall. MON They share a love of geology, especially the historic finds MON from the Poldark and China Clay country that surrounds them, MON and a fascination for meteorites and impactites. MON MON Dr Diane Johnson MON Dr Diane Johnson MON is a researcher in the MON Department of Physical Sciences MON at the Open University in Milton Keynes, her research MON interests include meteorites, the history of meteorites and MON analysis of ancient materials. MON She began working at the Open University in 2005 applying MON electron and ion beam microscopy to explore diverse research MON issues in Earth, planetary and space sciences. Diane has MON extensively analysed meteorites, space hardware, fossils and MON ancient cultural artefacts, publishing research papers in MON international peer reviewed journals and magazines. In 2009, MON a trip to Egypt inspired her to take up research into the MON influence of meteorite iron in ancient Egyptian culture. MON MON Nick Johnson MON Nick Johnson is team leader of the Temperate and Carnivorous MON Plant Unit, in the Tropical Nursery at MON Kew Gardens MON His specialty is the care and propagation of threatened MON island plants, including plants from the United Kingdom’s MON Overseas Territories. MON He mentors trainees, students and apprentices; coordinates MON his team and is involved in many expeditions with Kew’s MON scientists. He trains international partners in nursery MON techniques to assist in conserving plants in their natural MON habitats. MON Picture ©RBG Kew MON MON 21:30 Open Book b0629qxr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b064x34y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b064yj8l (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b064yj8q (Listen) MON Go Set a Watchman, Episode 1 MON MON GO SET A WATCHMAN MON MON In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive MON second novel has finally been published. Believed lost for MON decades after the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', MON this book revisits much-loved characters, this time through MON adult eyes. This abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a MON compelling and important release to Radio 4. MON MON Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb MON for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into MON the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her MON beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship MON with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same MON place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother MON Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust MON shattered before she is able to become her own woman. MON MON Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill MON A Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept MON over and revered by generations since its publication in MON 1960. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama. MON MON Read by Fenella Woolgar MON MON Written by Harper Lee MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON MON Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Fenella Woolgar MON Author: Harper Lee MON Abridger: Robin Brooks MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie MON MON 23:00 Short Cuts b05s3075 (Listen) MON Series 7, The Conversation MON MON Josie Long presents stories of intimate conversations. A MON thirty year long conversation comes to an end, an undercover MON agent reveals how to flatter someone into prison and we MON discover the secrets of the 'dual form'. MON MON Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 MON MON The items featured in the programme are: MON MON With the Caterpillar MON Feat. Bostjan Dvorak MON Produced by Phil Smith MON MON Colleagues MON Feat. Dr Irene Pepperberg MON Produced by Andrea Rangecroft MON MON He Was So Happy to See Me MON Feat. Ed Follis MON Produced by Leo Hornak MON MON 99 Words MON http://99words.co.uk/ MON Feat. Sally Potter MON MON Beverly Eckert MON Produced by Vanara Taing with interviews recorded by MON StoryCorps, a nonprofit dedicated to recording and MON collecting stories of everyday people. MON www.storycorps.org. MON MON 23:30 Britain in a Box b01s7t3r (Listen) MON Series 6, Nationwide MON MON Paul Jackson returns with the series that does much more MON than celebrating innovative television programmes - it uses MON them as a window on a particular period in our cultural and MON social history. In the spotlight over the next three weeks MON will be: Channel 4's longest running sit com, Desmond's - MON the OTHER Peckham based comedy which featured Norman Beaton MON as Desmond, the owner of a West Indian Barber shop; then MON there's the world's longest running medical soap, BBC1's MON Casualty. MON MON But first off, Paul Jackson assesses the impact and legacy MON of the popular current affairs programme that launched the MON television career of Sue Lawley, and spawned the birth of TV MON consumer journalism, Nationwide. MON MON Paul talks to the programme's first presenter, Michael MON Barratt and the show's first director, Keith Clement, who MON recall the early technical mishaps which threatened to take MON Nationwide off the air. When Michael announced to viewers MON that we were going to Glasgow, the viewers would see wavy MON lines and hear technical clunks. The BBC circuit system was MON not quite up to speed with the technical ambition of the MON programme - though within six months, and ever increasing MON audience numbers, the programme found its feet. MON MON Popular across the nation because of its inclusion of the MON regions, we hear Sue Lawley on why she felt the programme MON became a success. We also hear her account of THAT interview MON with Mrs. Thatcher when housewife, Mrs Diana Gould persisted MON in questioning Mrs Thatcher on the decision to sink the MON Argentinian war ship, Belgrano when it 'was sailing away' MON during the Falklands War. MON MON Producer: Sarah Taylor. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b064x35y (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b064xjn1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b064x360 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b064x362 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b064x364 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b064x366 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b066739g (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev David Bruce. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b064yjbp (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Sybil Ruscoe. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt07 (Listen) TUE Yellow-Browed Warbler TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the TUE Yellow-Browed Warbler. The delicate yellow-browed warbler TUE breeds in Siberia and winters in south-east Asia. Several TUE hundred birds, sometimes many more, turn up each autumn TUE anywhere between the Isles of Scilly and Shetland. TUE TUE Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) TUE Image courtesy of TUE David Gifford TUE (www.davegifford.co.uk) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b065t49j (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Fry's English Delight b064yjm4 (Listen) TUE Series 8, Words Fail Me TUE TUE Stephen gets emotional as he attempts to measure the gap TUE between feelings and the language we use to express it. He's TUE joined from LA by John Lydon - a man who famously wears his TUE emotions on his sleeve - albeit torn in several places. John TUE describes how anger has been his energy throughout his life TUE and how being the frontman of a band allows him to express TUE 'proper emotions'. TUE TUE Emotion and language are both held to be proof of our TUE humanity but, as Professor Stephen Pinker explains, there's TUE a mismatch between the two. We often fail to control the TUE emotion in our language. At other times the language we have TUE to express our emotions fails us altogether. TUE TUE For some, this can be extra challenging. Dr Rebecca Chilvers TUE at Great Ormond Street Hospital describes how people with TUE autism often struggle to express feelings, over-relying on TUE learned cliche or creating startlingly unusual turns of TUE phrase. TUE TUE And how does emotion translate to text? Poet Kate Tempest TUE describes the raw feelings that go into her live TUE performances. And we hear how mood and food unite in TUE language. A bad restaurant review often employs the language TUE of a trauma victim to express disgust. TUE TUE Today the old fashioned love letter has been usurped by a TUE new hieroglyphic language - emoji, serving both our need for TUE micro-second communication and our desire to emote. Should TUE this inspire a frown face, single tear drop or a smiley TUE grin? We now have more than 722 emoji to help us out. But TUE how do we assess their sincerity? TUE TUE And although machines don't have emotions, computers can now TUE detect them in text. Professor Stephen Pulman, computational TUE linguist, explains 'sentiment analysis'. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Cuddon TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 A Walk of One's Own: Virginia Woolf on Foot b064yjm6 (Listen) TUE In Spain TUE TUE Virginia Woolf, sun hat firmly in place, scrambling along TUE the dusty footpaths of Southern Spain - an unexpected image TUE of the very English, upright writer more commonly associated TUE with Bloomsbury. But in 1923 Woolf and her husband Leonard TUE made an adventurous journey by boat, train, bus and mule to TUE the remote mountain village of Yegen, where the British TUE writer Gerald Brenan had made his home. TUE TUE In a burst of intense, exploratory friendship, Woolf walked TUE with Brenan through a landscape of goats and asphodels, TUE opening up to him, and opening herself to the allure of TUE Spain. "The mind's contents break into short sentences. It TUE is hot; the old man; the frying pan; the bottle of wine". TUE TUE She wrote about riding mules, about village sounds, and as TUE she got into the rhythm of rural Spain fantasised about a TUE new life abroad. TUE TUE Virginia Woolf was the perfect exponent of the belief that TUE walking clears the mind, expands the soul and strengthens TUE the leg. On the centenary of Woolf's first published novel, TUE Woolf biographer. Alexandra Harris takes us on four walks TUE which inspired her, shaped her writing and character, and TUE tell her story. TUE TUE In part one Harris seeks out the paths where the determined TUE walker would have tramped - through olive groves, past TUE tangled vines, in thrall to the smell of orange blossom. She TUE is accompanied in this Spanish sojourn by another writer, TUE also seduced by the beauty of the Alpujarras, Chris Stewart, TUE of "Driving Over Lemons" fame. Stewart was inspired 27 years TUE ago to move to the area described in 'South From Granada', TUE Gerald Brenan's classic portrait of AndalucÃa, in which TUE Virginia Woolf's visit is also described. TUE TUE They scramble up hillsides, leap into pools of icy water, TUE and are deafened by the sound of cicadas, contemplating TUE Virginia Woolf's time, walking and writing under the Spanish TUE sun. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b064yjm8 (Listen) TUE Romantic Outlaws - The Extraordinary Lives of Mary TUE Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, Writing Lives TUE TUE Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick read Charlotte Gordon's TUE biography of the extraordinary lives of the pioneering TUE feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft and her novelist daughter, TUE Mary Shelley. Today's episode explores the writing that made TUE them famous; Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of TUE Women and Shelley's Frankenstein. TUE TUE Abridged by Sara Davies TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Juliet Aubrey TUE Reader: Ellie Kendrick TUE Author: Charlotte Gordon TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b064yjmb (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 15 Minute Drama b064yjmd (Listen) TUE How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Episode 2 TUE TUE It's starting to unravel. Naomi disappears to school at the TUE crack of dawn, Ella has decamped to a friend's house, Jack TUE is throwing himself into work (and his boyfriend) and Karen TUE has taken up running. The children want answers. TUE TUE In this second series of writer Nicholas McInerny's TUE autobiographical look at modern relationships, Jack has come TUE out to his wife Karen but not to the kids. An agreement TUE between consenting adults is one thing - but once you tell TUE the children, all bets are off. TUE TUE She and Jack may have signed up for a new type of marriage, TUE where small deceptions and unspoken fantasies are replaced TUE with something new - a kind of radical honesty. But can they TUE make this work as a whole family and keep the kids secure? TUE TUE The same cast come together, led by Julia Ford and Greg TUE Wise, to explore the next chapter of this very modern TUE family. TUE TUE Written by Nicholas McInerny TUE TUE Music by Greg Wise TUE Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore TUE TUE Director/Producer: Melanie Harris TUE Executive Producer: Jo Meek TUE A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Karen: Julia Ford TUE Jack: Greg Wise TUE Naomi: Katriona Perrett TUE Ella: Ellie Bindman TUE Ben: John Sessions TUE Tom: Daniel Crowder TUE Writer: Nicholas McInerny TUE Director: Melanie Harris TUE Producer: Melanie Harris TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9b6b (Listen) TUE Mammoths TUE TUE "Manny" the hairy, grumpy, yet ultimately caring hero of the TUE animation series Ice Age sums up our love of these giants of TUE the past. When a superbly preserved baby mammoth was TUE displayed at the Natural History Museum she became a star TUE attraction. We are intrigued by the idea of a hairy elephant TUE wandering our land so tantalisingly recently; the last TUE mammoths are thought to have died out in Russia just 4,000 TUE years ago. Bones of these huge elephants have often been TUE found, people believing they were the remains of giants, or TUE that they were the huge burrowing creatures that died TUE underground. The mass of mammoth bones found in the North TUE Sea suggest evidence for Noah's Flood. Beautiful paintings TUE of mammoths adorn ice age cave walls, symbolising our close TUE relationships with these animals that provided us with so TUE much cultural material. Not only mammoth meat but bones and TUE tusks to build shelter, skins for walls, ivory for carvings TUE and teeth for musical instruments; the first flute was a TUE mammoth bone. on instruments made from mammoth bone created TUE haunting sounds. Delicately carved tiny mammoths are found TUE in places many miles from where mammoths lived, dating back TUE at least 30,000 years. If they were alive today we would no TUE doubt be protecting them from ivory traders, but as they are TUE extinct, the mass of ivory bone being exhumed from the TUE tundra (it is thought there are 150 million tusks buried TUE there is legally sent to China to be made into jewellery, TUE trinkets and pieces of art. Not far off 50% of the ivory TUE entering China is mammoth. Some think it is a sustainable TUE alternative to elephant ivory, others believe it keeps the TUE whole trade alive. Should mammoth ivory be treated the same TUE as elephant? Should mammoth become the first extinct animal TUE to be listed as an endangered species? TUE TUE Professor Adrian Lister TUE Professor Adrian Lister TUE has been research leader at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE since 2007 and is a palaeobiologist interested in patterns TUE and processes of species-level evolution, adaptation and TUE extinction. His work focuses on mammals of the ice age, TUE especially deer, elephants and mammoths. In addition to TUE excavating and studying fossil material from around the TUE world, he has studied living elephants in Ghana, India, TUE Nepal and Borneo. TUE He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers and four TUE books, Evolution on Planet Earth, Mammoths: Giants of the TUE Ice Age, Mammoths: Ice Age Giants and a children’s book, TUE Tracker’s Guide to Ice Age Animals. Prior to joining the TUE Museum, he was Professor of Palaeontology at UCL. He TUE completed his PhD at Cambridge on evolution of fossil TUE mammals. TUE TUE Jill Cook TUE Jill Cook is Senior Curator in the Department of Prehistory TUE and Europe at TUE The British Museum TUE She specialises in the archaeology of human origins and her TUE particular interest is in Ice Age art. TUE As well as collaborations with several UK museums she has TUE curated successful exhibitions at the British Museum. These TUE include Made in Africa and The Swimming Reindeer both of TUE which linked with the major BBC – British Museum project TUE A History of the World in 100 Objects TUE In 2013 she curated two ground breaking exhibitions: TUE Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind TUE at the British Museum and El arte en la epoca Altamira at TUE the Fundacion Botin in Santander and wrote the accompanying TUE books in which her fascination for natural history came to TUE the fore. TUE TUE Anna Friederike Potengowski TUE Anna Friederike Potengowski is a contemporary musician TUE whose project Ventos involves her playing replicas of Stone TUE Age flutes and percussion. TUE As a contemporary musician, she has performed with various TUE ensembles, including the TUE 'Unheard of Music' of the BKA-Theater Berlin TUE She has also played at the TUE Brandenburg Theatre TUE and the TUE Festival of Contemporary Music TUE in Dresden. TUE Picture: Frank Korte Photography TUE TUE Adrienne Mayor TUE Adrienne Mayor is an independent folklorist/historian of TUE science who investigates natural knowledge contained in TUE pre-scientific myths and oral traditions. Her research looks TUE at ancient "folk science" precursors, alternatives, and TUE parallels to modern scientific methods. TUE Her two books on pre-Darwinian fossil traditions in TUE classical antiquity and in Native America; TUE Fossil Legends of the First Americans TUE and TUE The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman TUE Times TUE have opened up a new field within geomythology. TUE Twitter: TUE @amayor TUE TUE Lucy Vigne and Dr Esmond Martin TUE Lucy Vigne was born in South Africa and has lived in Kenya TUE since 1983 and has carried out fieldwork in Africa and Asia, TUE surveying both the ivory and rhino horn trade for WWF TUE International, UNEP, Save the Elephants, Elephant Family and TUE Care for the Wild International. TUE Dr Esmond Martin has investigated the trade in rhino TUE products and co-authored monographs on the world's invory TUE markets. Recently, he and Lucy Vigne produced a report TUE entitled TUE The Ivory Dynasty: A report on the soaring demand for TUE elephant and mammoth ivory in Southern China TUE TUE TUE Jay Wilson TUE Michael J. Wilson created the story and characters for the TUE Ice Age TUE franchise and co-wrote the screenplay for Ice Age I. He TUE recently completed the first draft of Ice Age V, which is TUE now in production. TUE He lives in Malibu, California with Regina Wilson, who is a TUE film editor and scriptwriter. TUE TUE 11:30 The Great Songbook b064yjnw (Listen) TUE Spain TUE TUE What makes a song typically Spanish? In a country of TUE autonomous regions and different languages, is there such a TUE thing as a 'Spanish songbook'? Cerys Matthews travels to the TUE capital of Catalonia to meet people who live, breathe and TUE sing some of Spain's complex legacy of popular songs. The TUE discussion ranges from Civil War songs such as 'Ay, Carmela' TUE to Franco-era copla ballads, to Beatles-inspired pop songs. TUE She discovers one Catalan protest song that started life in TUE the Franco era; it was subsequently taken up by protesters TUE in Poland, and then more recently in Tunisia, before TUE returning to the streets of Barcelona amidst protests TUE against austerity. Cerys' guests include veteran rocker and TUE writer Sabino Mendez, musicologist Silvia Martinez, music TUE journalist Nando Cruz and cultural historian Alex Fernandez TUE de Castro. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b064x36f (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 David Baddiel Tries to Understand b04xrl8t (Listen) TUE Cryptic Crosswords TUE TUE Continuing his new series where he tries to make sense of TUE apparently puzzling matters, David Baddiel seeks to TUE understand something which is meant to be puzzling: cryptic TUE crosswords. TUE TUE David gets help from a crossword champion and and also from TUE a leading compiler who sets him a special crossword. Can he TUE put his learning into practice and complete it? TUE TUE Producer: Giles Edwards. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b064yjny (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b064x36h (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b064yjpq (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun TUE Ley. TUE TUE 13:45 Stepping Stones b064yk0g (Listen) TUE Wordplay: Theatre in the Open Air TUE TUE Broadcaster Piers Plowright explores five sound-worlds - TUE some from far back in his life and some more recent - which TUE still resonate with him. TUE TUE In this second episode he revisits Stowe School where, in TUE the 1950's, he fell in love with Shakespeare's language TUE while acting his plays in the open air. Piers compares notes TUE with present day 'Stoics', in the middle of rehearsing this TUE year's Shakespeare productions, to find out what his TUE language means to them. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b064ygln (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01sdr1p (Listen) TUE Chopping Onions TUE TUE Chopping Onions TUE by Becky Prestwich TUE TUE Grandmother Esther has suffered a stroke . Esther's TUE daughter, Ruth, has insisted she come to stay while she TUE recovers. To welcome Esther, daughter Ruth is attempting to TUE make chicken soup and grand-daughter Vanessa is going to TUE make a desert.. But as the three generations of Jewish women TUE come together in the kitchen, they stir up much more than TUE the soup. A poignant and comic new drama about motherhood. TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Becky Prestwich TUE Ruth: Maureen Lipman TUE Vanessa: Sarah Smart TUE Esther: Christine Cox TUE Taxi Driver: Sushil Chudasama TUE Director: Pauline Harris TUE Producer: Pauline Harris TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b064yk0k (Listen) TUE Popular history series. TUE TUE 15:30 Flexagon Radio b064yk0m (Listen) TUE Diana Quick TUE TUE A series which encourages guests to "think with the heart TUE and feel with the intellect." In this final programme, TUE Murray Lachlan Young invites actor Diana Quick to combine TUE her favourite sounds and her most passionately held ideas in TUE unexpected ways by feeding them into an electronic device TUE called 'The Flexagon'. TUE TUE Murray has not prepared an interview but, instead, he and TUE Diana respond spontaneously to what the Flexagon returns to TUE them in the form of short audio 'Flexes'. Neither of them TUE knows which of the sounds, music and speech the Flexagon TUE will select, nor how it will combine them. The idea is to TUE throw up connections that might not have occurred to guests TUE otherwise, and to encourage them to think and feel about TUE their concerns and passions in a different way. TUE TUE Diana's sounds include an air raid siren, eggs being beaten TUE in a bowl, waves lapping on a Suffolk beach, nightingales TUE singing and foxes barking. TUE TUE The unpredictability increases as the Flexagon introduces TUE some audio of its own, drawn from the BBC Radio archives TUE using keywords and phrases suggested by Diana as search TUE terms - including the women's movement, nuclear power, TUE honesty and friendship. TUE TUE This mix of archive creates even more unusual associations TUE between apparently disparate material, and prompts a TUE conversation ranging from dancing pigs and unexpected Indian TUE roots, to the future of feminism and the quest for serenity. TUE TUE Producer: Adam Fowler TUE An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 The Move b04n600y (Listen) TUE Frustrations TUE TUE Each year about three million people across the country pack TUE their entire life into a removal truck and move home. And TUE for most people it is rarely simple. Even the most TUE meticulously planned move can be complicated and traumatic, TUE the most optimistic people reduced to tears. TUE TUE This week Rosie meets Romaine, a dynamic, fast-talking TUE businesswoman who loves London, thriving on its energy and TUE opportunities. But bringing up young boys and running a TUE fashion company from their two bedroom flat is proving TUE challenging. Sleeplessness, illness and harassment are TUE plaguing the family and for the sake of them all, Romaine TUE has to confront moving to a sleepy rural village. TUE TUE Pete has long revelled in the unruly and bohemian side of TUE Brighton and Hove. Now in his early fifties he is weary of TUE jostling with tourists and party-goers and feels like a TUE stranger in his own town. Having recently met someone on TUE line who lives a mobile home in Aberystwyth, Pete prepares TUE to pack up and move three hundred miles to be with them. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Bowen. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b064z4sw (Listen) TUE Series 37, Vicky Pryce on Melina Mercouri TUE TUE Economist Vicky Pryce chooses Greek actress and activist TUE Melina Mercouri as her Great Life. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Vicky Pryce TUE TUE 17:00 PM b065gfzv (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b064x36k (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mitch Benn Is the 37th Beatle b03szxdh (Listen) TUE Musical satirist Mitch Benn explores his comedy connections TUE to the story of The Beatles. TUE TUE Mitch has realised that over the years many people have TUE claimed the title The Fifth Beatle. In fact, so many of them TUE have been described as such that there are now at least 36 TUE of them. They can't all be right. But some of them are TUE righter than others... TUE TUE Fifty years on from the release of 'Please, Please Me', TUE Mitch presents his own definitive list of the Beatles. He TUE presents a whistlestop tour through musical history and the TUE enduring legacy of the Fab Four, whilst shamelessly milking TUE his own - incredibly tenuous- connection to it. TUE TUE Written by and starring Mitch Benn TUE TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b064z4w2 (Listen) TUE Rob knows what he wants, and Ian opens up. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b064z4w4 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b064yjmd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Other Side of Adoption b0650jwh (Listen) TUE Tim Whewell investigates the challenges of life TUE post-adoption, discovers the remarkable tenacity of many TUE adoptive parents faced with challenging behaviour, and asks TUE what changes are being made to improve the current TUE situation, where a quarter of adoptive families face serious TUE difficulties. TUE TUE Thirteen years ago, Sarah and her husband adopted two TUE brothers. The younger one had extensive therapy to guide him TUE through a fixation with suicide. The older brother is now TUE living away from the family following years of violence and TUE the revelation that he had been sexually abusing the young TUE son of family friends. TUE TUE Ten years ago, Mary and Steve (not their real names) adopted TUE two young siblings. The challenges they have faced - TUE truancy, self-harming, drugs, violence - left Mary suffering TUE from depression and diagnosed with post-traumatic stress TUE disorder. TUE TUE Today, they believe the worst is behind them. But they also TUE believe that adopted children and their adoptive families TUE are the 'poor relations' - compared to children in foster TUE care or in children's homes - when it comes to allocating TUE resources/providing services. TUE "It feels like you're abandoned once the children are placed TUE for adoption with you - as if adoption is a magic wand - and TUE that everything will now be OK," says Mary. "In reality it's TUE very, very difficult." TUE TUE Forty years ago, most adopted children were given up at TUE birth by mothers escaping social stigma. Today, 70 percent TUE of them come from care. As a result, many adoptive families TUE today need significant support to overcome the history of TUE abuse and neglect that children import into their new TUE family. But they don't always receive it. TUE TUE Produced by Geoff Bird TUE A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b064z551 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Slimboy Fat: The Problem with BMI b064z553 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter puts the BMI, or bodymass index, to the test. TUE BMI calculates whether someone is too fat,too thin or just TUE right but how accurate is it? TUE TUE As a man of a certain age Mark's aware that his waistband is TUE getting tighter but assumes it is only a statistical TUE aberration - probably. He compares his results with other TUE measures of body fat and discovers hidden risks. TUE TUE 21:30 Fry's English Delight b064yjm4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b064x36m (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b064z555 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b065gjs0 (Listen) TUE Go Set a Watchman, Episode 2 TUE TUE GO SET A WATCHMAN TUE TUE In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive TUE second novel has finally been published. Believed lost for TUE decades after the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', TUE this book revisits much-loved characters, this time through TUE adult eyes. This abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a TUE compelling and important release to Radio 4. TUE TUE Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb TUE for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into TUE the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her TUE beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship TUE with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same TUE place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother TUE Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust TUE shattered before she is able to become her own woman. TUE TUE Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill TUE A Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept TUE over and revered by generations since its publication in TUE 1960. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama. TUE TUE Read by Fenella Woolgar TUE TUE Written by Harper Lee TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE TUE Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Fenella Woolgar TUE Author: Harper Lee TUE Abridger: Robin Brooks TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b064yglg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Britain in a Box b00ym5fc (Listen) TUE Series 4, Men Behaving Badly TUE TUE Another chance to catch the programme in which Paul Jackson TUE shines a light on TV classics that helped define their time. TUE Tonight, the 1990s sitcom whose title spelled out exactly TUE what the audience saw: Men Behaving Badly, featuring TUE contributions from producer Beryl Vertue, writer Simon Nye TUE and stars Martin Clunes and Leslie Ash. TUE TUE Producer: Ed Morrish. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b064x37g (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b064yjm8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b064x37j (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b064x37l (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b064x37n (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b064x37q (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06673vc (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev David Bruce. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b064z55c (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt1q (Listen) WED Sooty Shearwater WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Sooty WED Shearwater. Sooty Shearwaters are rather scarce seabirds WED around our islands as they breed on islands off South WED America and the coasts of eastern Australia and New Zealand. WED After breeding, the shearwaters head north to feeding WED grounds in the North Pacific and North Atlantic undertaking WED one of the longest journeys of any migratory animal. WED WED Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) WED Image courtesy of David Tipling (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b0667gfs (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 What's the Point of...? b064z590 (Listen) WED Series 7, The Army Reserve WED WED A government review of defence spending provides a timely WED backdrop for Quentin Letts to ask what's the point of the WED Army Reserve? WED WED They've served in Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years and WED more than 30 volunteers have given their lives for their WED country, but is the Reserve a way of getting an army on the WED cheap in these times of budget cuts and austerity? WED WED Britain's had a volunteer force since the Middle Ages but WED the modern Reserve was created in 1908, bringing together WED militias and Yeomanry to create a trained military back-up. WED Then called the Territorial Army, Reservists served with WED distinction in WW1, WW2, Korea and Suez but were relegated WED to home duties during the Cold War becoming the brunt of WED jokes about 'Dad's Army'. WED WED Renamed the Army Reserve three years ago, today's WED part-timers have to be as fit as their comrades in the WED Regular Army and ready to servce in combat zones. WED WED As the government plans to cut the number of full-time WED soldiers and boost part-time replacements, Quentin asks is WED this wise and will we be fighting fit to face our enemies, WED whether the threat comes from land, sea or cyber-space? WED WED Producer: Vince Hunt WED Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. WED WED 09:30 Witness b064z592 (Listen) WED The Inuit Children Experiment WED WED In 1951 22 Inuit children from Greenland were taken from WED their families and sent to live with foster parents in WED Denmark. It was part of a social experiment aimed at WED improving the lot of the indigenous people of Greenland but WED for the children concerned it was a confusing and often WED traumatic experience. Helen Thiesen was one of those WED children. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b064z594 (Listen) WED Romantic Outlaws - The Extraordinary Lives of Mary WED Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, Revolution and Notoriety WED WED Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick read Charlotte Gordon's WED dual biography of the remarkable and pioneering feminist, WED Mary Wollstonecraft and her extraordinary novelist daughter, WED Mary Shelley. Today, revolutionary France leads Mary WED Wollstonecraft to make a life changing decision. Meanwhile, WED following Frankenstein's publication, Mary Shelley considers WED a new start. WED Abridged by Sara Davies WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Juliet Aubrey WED Reader: Ellie Kendrick WED Author: Charlotte Gordon WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b064z752 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b064z754 (Listen) WED How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Episode 3 WED WED Things are looking up for Karen. She's getting ready for a WED date and looks a complete knock-out. Jack is beside himself WED with a feeling he hasn't experienced for a long time in WED relation to his wife - jealousy. WED WED In this second series of writer Nicholas McInerny's WED autobiographical look at modern relationships, Jack has come WED out to his wife Karen but not to the kids. An agreement WED between consenting adults is one thing - but once you tell WED the children, all bets are off. WED WED She and Jack may have signed up for a new type of marriage, WED where small deceptions and unspoken fantasies are replaced WED with something new - a kind of radical honesty. But can they WED make this work as a whole family and keep the kids secure? WED WED The same cast come together, led by Julia Ford and Greg WED Wise, to explore the next chapter of this very modern WED family. WED WED Written by Nicholas McInerny WED WED Music by Greg Wise WED Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore WED WED Director/Producer: Melanie Harris WED Executive Producer: Jo Meek WED A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Karen: Julia Ford WED Jack: Greg Wise WED Naomi: Katriona Perrett WED Ella: Ellie Bindman WED Ben: John Sessions WED Tom: Daniel Crowder WED Writer: Nicholas McInerny WED Director: Melanie Harris WED Producer: Melanie Harris WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b064z756 (Listen) WED Cathryn and Francesca - Living With Invisible Illness WED WED Fi Glover introduces friends who both suffer from illnesses WED that are debilitating but not obvious, sharing their WED experiences of being judged by the public to be swinging the WED lead, in a conversation recorded in the mobile Booth in WED Moseley Park, Birmingham. Another in the series that proves WED it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that WED proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The WED Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Three Pounds in My Pocket b064z758 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Kavita Puri looks at a turbulent period for South Asians WED living in Britain, from 1976 to 1981. There were WED confrontations and street battles across the country, in WED largely immigrant towns, between the National Front and WED anti-racist organisations. Many from the first generation WED shied away from conflict and ignored racist abuse, but the WED younger generation - many born here - fought back. "We are WED likely to die in this country," one interviewee says, "so if WED it means staying and fighting that's what we will have to WED do, and we won't give an inch." Kavita explores this WED generational difference, through candid and heartfelt WED memories. WED Producer: Smita Patel WED WED with help from Dr Florian Stadtler. WED WED 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b064z75b (Listen) WED Series 4, The Panel Show WED WED Damien is persuaded to appear on topical TV panel show "I WED Beg Your Pardon" in order to boost his profile ahead of his WED street food series. Meanwhile, Anthony and Mr Mullaney's WED property business has developed to the point at which they WED can now start buying somewhere to do up. Will Anthony plump WED for the right property though? WED WED The producer was Sam Michell. WED WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED Anthony: Justin Edwards WED Ian Frobisher: Philip Fox WED Mr Mullaney: Brendan Dempsey WED The Auctioneer: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Ivan: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Livi Hollinshead: Alex Tregear WED Gavin Colthorpe: Stephen Critchlow WED Producer: Sam Michell WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED WED 12:00 News Summary b064x37v (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 David Baddiel Tries to Understand b04ykd7p (Listen) WED Derivatives WED WED Continuing his quest for understanding, David Baddiel WED explores derivatives. What are they and how do they work? WED WED David begins by meeting journalist Janice Turner, who WED initially suggested the subject, and she explains why she WED believes we should all try to understand derivatives. WED WED Then David visits the London Metals Exchange, the last place WED with open outcry trading in London, where he discusses the WED history of derivatives with financial historian D'Maris WED Coffman. And on a trading floor at Canary Wharf he hears how WED the market works today. WED WED At the end, he returns to try to explain to Janice what he's WED learned, with D'Maris ready to pass judgement on his WED understanding. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b064z75d (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b064x381 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b065ggjn (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun WED Ley. WED WED 13:45 Stepping Stones b064z75g (Listen) WED The Chuckler: A Short Ride in a Smart Machine WED WED Broadcaster Piers Plowright explores five sound-worlds - WED some from far back in his life and some more recent - which WED still resonate with him. WED WED In this third episode, Piers goes for a drive with his two WED daughters in a Morris Minor, the same model and vintage as WED the one he owned between 1968 and 1990. As his only car, he WED discovers just what made it so special when the family was WED growing up. WED WED Produced by Alan Hall WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b064z4w2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b064z77j (Listen) WED Gull Therapy WED WED Dan used to be a successful drugs sales rep for a WED pharmaceutical company but, after a stroke, he finds all WED kinds of communication difficult and fatiguing. He employs WED Alice, a private speech and language therapist, to 'make him WED better'. Recently divorced Alice has moved home and business WED to a small rented flat where, at night, the sea gulls gather WED on her skylight. WED WED A play about sound, language and meaning. WED WED Written by Anita Sullivan WED Music and sound FX composed and performed by Eleanor Gamper WED WED Produced by Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Alice: Susan Lynch WED Dan: Carl Prekopp WED Stepan: Ben Crowe WED Paramedic: Ben Crowe WED Narrator: Owen Roe WED Writer: Anita Sullivan WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 15:00 The New Workplace b064ww0s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Slimboy Fat: The Problem with BMI b064z553 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 The Business of Film with Mark Kermode b053zsn5 (Listen) WED Getting to the Screen WED WED Close to 700 movies opened in the UK last year. WED Blockbusters, franchises, documentaries, debuts, WED experiments, low-budget indies and beyond. It's never been WED easier to make a film and it's said there is an audience for WED everything. But what is the likely size of that audience? In WED the second part of this series, film critic Mark Kermode WED talks to the film financiers and the distributors. WED WED According to the head of Film Four, David Kosse, the film WED industry is a "break-even business" - the trick is to WED identify a winner and ensure it's not just a one off. The WED independent film world - most of the British film industry - WED spreads the risk of making a film across independent WED distributors, equity financiers and other tax benefits. We WED hear from the BFI, Film Four and BBC Films on what films WED they are looking to finance. WED WED Since the early days of film, rich outsiders have financed WED the industry. Now, producers who don't fit the studio model WED are looking to a multitude of ways to finance their film - WED from crowdfunding to rich kids with cheque books. Director WED Shane Carruth tells how he distributed his film Upstream WED Color himself, road-showing cinema screenings and bringing WED the film out on Blu-ray. And with much talk of Video on WED Demand, what role will Netflix and Amazon play in the future WED of film? WED WED Marketing is crucial to the life and death of a movie but it WED remains the one hard cost in moviemaking. The trailer can be WED of vital importance and we hear what we respond to and what WED scenes should be left out. WED WED Producers: Barney Rowntree and Nick Jones WED A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b064z78f (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b064z78h (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b064x385 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Sketchorama b061yh01 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 2 WED WED Award winning actress and comedian Isy Suttie presents the WED pick of the best live sketch groups currently performing on WED the UK comedy circuit. WED WED Each week the programme showcases three up and coming groups WED featuring character, improv, broken and musical sketch WED comedy. WED WED There are so many incredibly talented and inventive sketch WED groups on the British Comedy scene, but with no dedicated WED broadcast format. Sketchorama aims to bring hidden gems and WED established live acts to the airwaves. WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b064z7dr (Listen) WED Jolene is at the end of her tether, and Lynda rues the WED flood. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b064z7dt (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b064z754 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 FutureProofing b064z7f2 (Listen) WED Life WED WED FutureProofing is a new series in which presenters Timandra WED Harkness and Leo Johnson examine the implications - social WED and cultural, economic and political - of the big ideas that WED are set to transform the way our society functions. WED WED Episode 1: Life. WED WED FutureProofing explores why emerging bio-technology will WED transform how we understand and control life itself. WED WED Timandra and Leo discuss the consequences for humankind with WED leading genetic scientists and designers - people who are WED now able to create and manipulate the very building blocks WED of life. WED WED The programme examines the results of inventing and editing WED life forms; how easy it is to become a bio-hacker; why the WED FBI has decided to adopt a strangely relaxed attitude WED towards such potentially catastrophic experimentation; and WED how a new understanding of biology as a software engineering WED system that we can design has profound consequences for the WED way we think about Life in future. WED WED Producer: Jonathan Brunert. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b064z7gw (Listen) WED Big Charity, Big Business WED WED David Russell asks whether backing big charities is the best WED way of improving the world. WED WED Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. WED WED 21:00 Mind Changers b062jsn7 (Listen) WED Carol Dweck and Growth Mindset WED WED Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series WED which examines the work of the people who have changed our WED understanding of the human mind. This week she interviews WED Carol Dweck, who identified that individuals tend towards a WED fixed or a growth mindset regarding what they can learn and WED achieve. She also showed that a fixed mindset can be WED changed, and that once people adopt a growth mindset, they WED can achieve more. WED WED Claudia visits a UK primary school where growth mindset is WED part of the curriculum, and sees how children who don't like WED maths soon change their attitude at a summer camp in WED California, once they're shown that getting the wrong answer WED actually makes their brains grow more than getting the right WED answer. WED WED She hears more about Dweck and her work from colleagues Greg WED Walton and Jo Boaler at Stanford University, and executive WED head Dame Alison Peacock at the Wroxham Primary School. WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 21:30 What's the Point of...? b064z590 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b064z7gy (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b065gjvl (Listen) WED Go Set a Watchman, Episode 3 WED WED GO SET A WATCHMAN WED WED In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive WED second novel has finally been published. Believed lost for WED decades after the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', WED this book revisits much-loved characters, this time through WED adult eyes. This abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a WED compelling and important release to Radio 4. WED WED Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb WED for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into WED the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her WED beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship WED with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same WED place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother WED Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust WED shattered before she is able to become her own woman. WED WED Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill WED A Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept WED over and revered by generations since its publication in WED 1960. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama. WED WED Read by Fenella Woolgar WED WED Written by Harper Lee WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED WED Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Fenella Woolgar WED Author: Harper Lee WED Abridger: Robin Brooks WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED WED 23:00 Terry Alderton's All Crazy Now b064z7h0 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Thank goodness! No pole vaulting chickens this week, no WED honey bees, no guinea pig diving. Just cornflakes, Dave, WED sausages, a grave digger and Ed and the bear in an airport. WED WED What could possibly go wrong? WED WED Nothing could go wrong. It's not real. None of this is real. WED It's just Terry Alderton and a microphone. The microphone WED was real. Definitely a real microphone. WED WED Written by and starring Terry Alderton. Additional material WED from Johnny Spurling, Boothby Graffoe, Richard Melvin, Julia WED Sutherland and Owen Parker. WED WED Sound designed by Sean Kerwin. WED WED Produced by Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01sdmzn (Listen) WED Series 2, About Money WED WED EPISODE THREE: ABOUT MONEY WED WED The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with WED scenes from his family life. WED WED Janet a.k.a. Mum - loves Nathan, but she aint looking WED embarrassed for nobody! WED WED Martin a.k.a. Dad - clumsy and hard-headed and leaves WED running the house to his wife (she wouldn't allow it to be WED any other way). WED WED Shirley a.k.a. Grandma - How can her grandson go on stage WED and use foul language and filthy material... it's not the WED good Christian way! WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, WED up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the WED first in his family to graduate from University, opted not WED to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand WED at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's WED annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' WED WED Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and WED rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving WED family as he tries to pursue his chosen career. WED WED About Money WED WED In a mix of stand-up and re-enacted family life - Nathan WED Caton finds out how his loved ones would react if he were WED rich. But, sadly, he isn't. WED WED NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON WED MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH WED DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER WED GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND WED LAYLA ..... CHIZZY AKUDOLU WED REVEREND WILLIAMS / MR DANIELS ..... DON GILÉT WED SHIFTY ..... OLA WED WED Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle WED Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED Credits WED Nathan: Nathan Caton WED Mum: Adjoa Andoh WED Dad: Curtis Walker WED Grandma: Mona Hammond WED Sue: Chizzy Akudolu WED Police Officer: Don Gilet WED Police Officer 2: Ola WED Writer: Nathan Caton WED Writer: James Kettle WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Writer: Ola WED Writer: Maff Brown WED WED 23:30 Britain in a Box b01shqc1 (Listen) WED Series 6, Casualty WED WED Paul Jackson presents a further edition of the show that not WED only celebrates classic television programmes, but also uses WED them as a window on a particular period in our cultural and WED social history. WED WED In the final programme of the current series, he visits the WED purpose-built studios of the longest running medical drama WED in the world. Born out of necessity (as a weapon in the WED weekly battle for audience-share on Saturday nights) WED "Casualty" has become one of BBC 1's most consistent WED performers. WED WED Paul discusses the programme's origins with the show's WED creators (Jeremy Brock & Paul Unwin) and the people who WED commissioned it and then stood by it during its lean years WED (Lord Grade and Jonathan Powell). He assesses how much it WED has changed in its 27 year life with the help of its current WED (and long-standing) cast (including the returning Patrick WED Robinson who plays Ash, the ever present Derek Thompson who WED from the very first episode played Charlie Fairhead, and WED Pete Salt, the medical consultant on whom Charlie is based) WED and series Producer Nikki Wilson. And he gauges the future WED of the programme with the head of BBC 1's scheduling, Dan WED McGolpin. WED WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED THU THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b064x39v (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b064z594 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b064x39x (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b064x3b1 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b064x3b3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b064x3b7 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0667gty (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev David Bruce. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b064zlvb (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt3d (Listen) THU Leach's Storm Petrel THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Leach's THU Storm-Petrel. Only the most far-flung islands around our THU coasts provide sanctuary for Leach's Storm-Petrels, one of THU the most difficult of our breeding birds to see. Chris THU Watson tells the story of a perilous 2am climb he made to THU record the sounds of Leach's Storm-Petrel's in their THU breeding burrows on cliff ledges on the Island of Hirta in THU the St Kilda group. THU THU Leach's Storm Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) THU Image courtesy of Steve Round (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b064zlvd (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Fantasy Festival b064zlvg (Listen) THU Brian Moore THU THU Former rugby player and commentator Brian Moore joins THU presenter Tim Samuels to curate and create the festival of THU his wildest dreams. THU THU Festivals are fast becoming significant events on more and THU more people's calendars. Whether it's a huge rock fest or a THU small scale village event, it's somebody's job to imagine THU the festival before it happens, and to assemble all the THU pieces of the jigsaw that are needed to bring their vision THU to life. THU THU But what if you could create your own festival - where you THU set the agenda, chose the guests, pick the acts, and dictate THU the weather, the food and the ambience? A festival where THU anyone - whether dead or alive - can be summoned to perform, THU and nothing is unimaginable. THU THU Fantasy Festival is a chance for someone to become the THU curator of the festival of their very own dreams. And the THU festival curator in this programme is former England and THU British Lions rugby union hooker, Brian Moore. THU THU Brian outlines his dream festival with a flotilla of boats THU sailing up and down the Thames. Each boat contains iconic THU works of art from every genre imaginable. He's attempting to THU make the greatest examples of human expression accessible to THU everyone. On board you can encounter Charles Dickens, Dylan THU Thomas, Elizabeth I, Churchill and Mozart - to name but a THU few. THU THU Produced by Rosie Boulton THU A Monty Funk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:30 Last Day b04htrp9 (Listen) THU Retirement THU THU We follow Madeleine Broughton, a school administrator, on THU her last day before she retires. Madeleine has worked at the THU school for twenty years and in this moving programme we see THU what an important role she has played during that time. We THU hear her receiving gifts and tributes from headmasters, THU children and parents, learn about her reasons for retiring THU and why she vows she will never return to the school. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b064zlvj (Listen) THU Romantic Outlaws - The Extraordinary Lives of Mary THU Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, Lost Love THU THU Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick read Charlotte Gordon's THU biography of the extraordinary feminist pioneer Mary THU Wollstonecraft and her remarkable and famous novelist THU daughter, Mary Shelley. Today, love and loss loom large for THU both women. THU THU Abridged by Sara Davies THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Juliet Aubrey THU Reader: Ellie Kendrick THU Author: Charlotte Gordon THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b065hg75 (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 15 Minute Drama b064zlvl (Listen) THU How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Episode 4 THU THU Karen's enjoying the attentions of her new lover and has THU decided to invest in her career - with money from Jack, THU whether he likes it or not. Jack's taken to sleeping with THU the dog, for company. But when they learn Ella is being THU bullied and Naomi is suspended from school, they snap into THU action - as parents. THU THU In this second series of writer Nicholas McInerny's THU autobiographical look at modern relationships, Jack has come THU out to his wife Karen but not to the kids. An agreement THU between consenting adults is one thing - but once you tell THU the children, all bets are off. THU THU She and Jack may have signed up for a new type of marriage, THU where small deceptions and unspoken fantasies are replaced THU with something new - a kind of radical honesty. But can they THU make this work as a whole family and keep the kids secure? THU THU The same cast come together, led by Julia Ford and Greg THU Wise, to explore the next chapter of this very modern THU family. THU THU Written by Nicholas McInerny THU THU Music by Greg Wise THU Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore THU THU Director/Producer: Melanie Harris THU Executive Producer: Jo Meek THU A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Karen: Julia Ford THU Jack: Greg Wise THU Naomi: Katriona Perrett THU Ella: Ellie Bindman THU Ben: John Sessions THU Tom: Daniel Crowder THU Writer: Nicholas McInerny THU Director: Melanie Harris THU Producer: Melanie Harris THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b064zlvn (Listen) THU Cuba on the Move THU THU Will Grant takes a ride in Cuba to discover how people get THU around and whether the thaw in relations with the United THU States will make any difference to their lives. The country THU is known the world over for its classic cars, a consequence THU of the American trade embargo imposed after the revolution THU in 1959, when, as one motoring journalist quipped, 'the tail THU fin was still a recent innovation in automotive design'. THU There are a few collectibles but spare parts are almost THU impossible to come by and most vehicles are held together THU with sticky tape and glue. It is almost as if Cuba has been THU stuck in a time warp for half a century with around 60 THU thousand vintage cars now attempting to navigate the THU country's notoriously bad roads. Car ownership is still the THU dream for most people but the reality is a chaotic bus THU service, a bone shaking ride in a horse and cart or hitching THU a lift. How do people cope and will things change? THU Produced by Mark Savage. THU THU 11:30 Decoding the Masterworks b064zlvq (Listen) THU Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus THU THU Dr Janina Ramirez introduces the second programme in a new THU series on BBC Radio 4 in which three great masterworks are THU examined in minute detail. Recorded in the galleries in THU which the pictures hold pride of place, Janina is joined by THU experts who can provide context, biographical background and THU artistic insight, all combining to decode these masterworks THU for today's audience. THU Today she visits Tate Modern on London's South Bank, with THU Professor Dawn Ades and the Tate's own Matthew Gale to look THU at Salvador Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus. THU It was completed in 1937 and not long after Dali brought it THU to London where he showed it to Sigmund Freud. What the THU picture told Freud about the subconscious of its creator and THU what that creator wanted to reveal is the subject of this THU programme. As Prof Ades points out the backdrop, rather than THU dream or myth-scape, is rooted in the Catalan coastline THU familiar and loved by Dali. The main figure of Narcissus, THU doubled and transformed into an upturned hand holding an egg THU is altogether more challenging. Is there optimism in the THU flower emerging from the 'split head' as Dali refers to it THU in his poem accompanying the picture, or is there an THU inherent darkness in the self-absorption that results in THU Narcissus melting into the background. THU THU No-one is prepared to claim an absolute decoding but there THU are fascinating insights into Dali's workings before the THU days when his staring eyes and flamboyant moustache rather THU obscured the fact of his brilliance as a painter. THU THU Producer: Tom Alban. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b064x3b9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 David Baddiel Tries to Understand b050bk90 (Listen) THU In the final episode in the series, David Baddiel tries to THU understand the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam. THU THU David speaks to senior theologians from both traditions, but THU can he navigate his way through the complicated theological, THU political and social distinctions? THU THU Producer: Giles Edwards. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b064zlvs (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b064x3bc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b064zlvv (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun THU Ley. THU THU 13:45 Stepping Stones b064zmb4 (Listen) THU Splash: The Water in Winter THU THU Broadcaster Piers Plowright explores five sound-worlds - THU some from far back in his life and some more recent - which THU still resonate with him. THU THU In this fourth episode, Piers goes for a winter swim in the THU Men's Pond on Hampstead Heath and discovers how special the THU sounds are - wild-life, swimmers, the distant hum of London THU - on a January morning. THU THU Produced by Alan Hall THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b064z7dr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b064zp7h (Listen) THU Red and Blue, The Futurist THU THU Philip Palmer's series about ex-military wargamer Bradley THU Shoreham returns to find him back in the City. He has been THU summoned for an audience with industrialist and THU international financier Alessandra Pacetti. Thus begins a THU deadly game that threatens to become all too real for those THU caught up in its complex schemes. THU THU Directed by Toby Swift THU THU This is the third series of 'Red and Blue', Philip Palmer's THU drama series focusing on the work of Lieutenant Colonel THU Bradley Shoreham (Tim Woodward). After leaving the British THU Army, Shoreham became a Consultant Subject Matter Expert. He THU spends his working life creating war games for training THU purposes. Fictional they may be but the higher the level of THU authenticity, the greater their value to the participants. THU And when governments and major corporations are paying for THU training they expect a high return for their money. THU THU In the last series, Shoreham had an abrasive encounter with THU leading hedge fund supremo, Malcolm Pemberley. Now he THU reluctantly accepts an invitation back to the City, a world THU far removed from his natural habitat. Military work was THU never so dangerous as this. THU THU Credits THU Bradley Shoreham: Tim Woodward THU Alessandra Pacetti: Sara Kestelman THU Mark Longham: Jonathan Bailey THU Waiter: Chris Pavlo THU Waiter: Mark Edel-Hunt THU Director: Toby Swift THU Writer: Philip Palmer THU THU 15:00 Open Country b064zp7k (Listen) THU Jersey Shores THU THU Jersey doubles in size when the tide goes out. Helen Mark THU discovers what the retreating waters reveal, from the THU evidence of our Neanderthal ancestors to the extraordinary THU marine life of the island's reefs. THU THU At La Rocque three local guides take her across miles of THU treacherous shifting sands to Seymour Tower, built to defend THU Jersey against the French but used by the German occupiers. THU On the north coast she meets Dusty, the first red-billed THU chough to be born in the wild in Jersey for a hundred years THU and in the south-east she searches for evidence of the THU Neanderthals who left more evidence of their existence here THU than in the rest of the British Isles combined. THU THU Producer: Alasdair Cross. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b064x6w4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b064xbpm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b064zp7m (Listen) THU Greta Gerwig, Judd Apatow THU THU With Antonia Quirke THU THU Greta Gerwig, writer and star of Mistress America, talks THU about her favourite director Mike Leigh, what it's like to THU write with her romantic partner Noah Baumbach and her life a THU teenage fencer. THU THU Judd Apatow discusses his bad taste comedy Trainwreck. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Antonia Quirke THU Interviewed Guest: Greta Gerwig THU Interviewed Guest: Judd Apatow THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b064zp7p (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b064zp7r (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b064x3bf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b064zp7v (Listen) THU Series 5, Leviathan THU THU One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC THU Radio 4 doing what he does best. This week: Leviathan deals THU with a family gathering for Thanksgiving at the seaside and THU there's another instalment from his diary (3/6) THU THU Produced by Steve Doherty THU A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: David Sedaris THU Writer: David Sedaris THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU THU 19:00 The Archers b064zp86 (Listen) THU Fallon feels vulnerable, and Toby is up for a big night. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b064zp88 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b064zlvl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b064zp8b (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b064zp8d (Listen) THU A Night at the Opera THU THU Opera is an expensive art form. It receives millions of THU pounds of public money. Can that be justified? Peter Day THU gets a range of operatic experiences - from top opera THU companies, to pub performers and a country house Summer THU festival. The first opera was performed 400 years ago in THU Italy; how does the future look? THU THU Producer: Penny Murphy. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b064zp7p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Fantasy Festival b064zlvg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b064zptk (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b065gk5b (Listen) THU Go Set a Watchman, Episode 4 THU THU GO SET A WATCHMAN THU THU In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive THU second novel has finally been published. Believed lost for THU decades after the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', THU this book revisits much-loved characters, this time through THU adult eyes. This abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a THU compelling and important release to Radio 4. THU THU Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb THU for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into THU the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her THU beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship THU with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same THU place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother THU Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust THU shattered before she is able to become her own woman. THU THU Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill THU A Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept THU over and revered by generations since its publication in THU 1960. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama. THU THU Read by Fenella Woolgar THU THU Written by Harper Lee THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Fenella Woolgar THU Author: Harper Lee THU Abridger: Robin Brooks THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU 23:00 Late Night Woman's Hour b064zqyw (Listen) THU Late night live conversation, with Lauren Laverne. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b064x3cg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b064zlvj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b064x3cj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b064x3cl (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b064x3cn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b064x3cq (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b064zxrd (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev David Bruce. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b064zxrg (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt4n (Listen) FRI Cattle Egret FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Cattle FRI Egret. Cattle egrets were originally birds of the African FRI savannahs but they have become one of the most successful FRI global colonisers of any bird species. In 2008 a pair of FRI cattle egrets made ornithological history by breeding in the FRI UK, on the Somerset Levels, for the first time. FRI FRI Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0651nty (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b064x7dv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b065008l (Listen) FRI Romantic Outlaws - The Extraordinary Lives of Mary FRI Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, A New Beginning and a FRI Tragic Ending FRI FRI Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick read Charlotte Gordon's FRI dual biography of the pioneering feminist, Mary FRI Wollstonecraft and her novelist daughter, Mary Shelley. FRI Today, Mary Wollstonecraft is surprised by love and makes a FRI compromise. Meanwhile, further tragedy awaits Mary Shelley. FRI FRI Abridged by Sara Davies FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Juliet Aubrey FRI Reader: Ellie Kendrick FRI Author: Charlotte Gordon FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0651nv0 (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 10:45 15 Minute Drama b065008n (Listen) FRI How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Episode 5 FRI FRI Suddenly the family are a tribe again, united in adversity. FRI Dealing with events at the girls' school has brought them FRI together. Allegiances shift, in surprising ways. FRI FRI In this second series of writer Nicholas McInerny's FRI autobiographical look at modern relationships, Jack has come FRI out to his wife Karen but not to the kids. An agreement FRI between consenting adults is one thing - but once you tell FRI the children, all bets are off. FRI FRI She and Jack may have signed up for a new type of marriage, FRI where small deceptions and unspoken fantasies are replaced FRI with something new - a kind of radical honesty. But can they FRI make this work as a whole family and keep the kids secure? FRI FRI The same cast come together, led by Julia Ford and Greg FRI Wise, to explore the next chapter of this very modern FRI family. FRI FRI Written by Nicholas McInerny FRI FRI Music by Greg Wise FRI Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore FRI FRI Director/Producer: Melanie Harris FRI Executive Producer: Jo Meek FRI A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Karen: Julia Ford FRI Jack: Greg Wise FRI Naomi: Katriona Perrett FRI Ella: Ellie Bindman FRI Ben: John Sessions FRI Tom: Daniel Crowder FRI Writer: Nicholas McInerny FRI Director: Melanie Harris FRI Producer: Melanie Harris FRI FRI 11:00 Random Edition b06769zg (Listen) FRI VJ Day Anniversary Special FRI FRI Peter Snow turns the pages of The Times for 16th August FRI 1945, reporting VJ Day the day before. FRI FRI Commemorations of the end of the Second World War tend to FRI focus on VE Day rather than VJ Day. Yet, in marking the FRI defeat of Japan, VJ Day celebrated the final end of FRI hostilities. FRI FRI The newspaper reports of the wild jubilation at Piccadilly FRI Circus, and the programme talks to Gwendolen Hollingshead, FRI who was there. Filling out The Times' description of events FRI in Liverpool, Merseysider Irene Gill recalls joining the FRI crowds while three months pregnant. FRI FRI Dean of St Albans, Jeffrey John, discusses his predecessor's FRI refusal to allow the Abbey to be used for a VJ Day FRI thanksgiving service - because of the atomic bombing of FRI Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Labour peer and historian Lord FRI Morgan talks to Peter about the King's Speech at the State FRI Opening of Parliament on VJ Day - when the famous programme FRI of the post-war Labour government was announced, embracing FRI nationalisation and the creation of the NHS. Historian FRI Jessica Reinisch meets Peter at Church House in Westminster FRI where, on VJ Day, the preparatory session for the creation FRI of the United Nations took place. FRI FRI Gwendolen Hollingshead also describes her memories of FRI Rainbow Corner, near Piccadilly Circus - an American FRI servicemen's club where she was a volunteer worker. She FRI recalls music from Glenn Miller and the death of an American FRI she was planning to date. FRI FRI Finally, POWs Maurice Naylor and Bob Hucklesby movingly FRI describe coming home after being long-term captives of the FRI Japanese in Thailand. FRI FRI Producer: Andrew Green FRI A Singing Wren production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Clare in the Community b0650619 (Listen) FRI Series 10, Party On FRI FRI Episode Six - Party On FRI FRI The Sparrowhawk team hold a leaving do, and take the FRI opportunity to reminisce. FRI FRI Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all FRI the right jargon but never a practical solution. FRI FRI A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering FRI in other people's lives on both a professional and personal FRI basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and FRI heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of FRI discomfort to her. FRI FRI Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control FRI both her professional and private life In today's Big FRI Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an FRI involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. FRI FRI Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI Producer Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Clare: Sally Phillips FRI Brian: Alex Lowe FRI Megan: Nina Conti FRI Ray: Richard Lumsden FRI Helen: Pippa Haywood FRI Libby: Sarah Kendall FRI Joan: Sarah Thom FRI Writer: Harry Venning FRI Writer: David Ramsden FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b064x3cs (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Four Thought b04hyyr0 (Listen) FRI Series 4, A World for Children FRI FRI Daniel Hahn argues that as a society we would benefit from FRI having more children's books translated into English. FRI FRI A translator himself, and author of a major book about FRI children's literature, Daniel is concerned that few books FRI are being translated today to sit alongside Tintin, Asterix FRI and the Moomins. FRI FRI Producer: Giles Edwards. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b0651nv5 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b064x3cv (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0651nv8 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by James FRI Robbins. FRI FRI 13:45 Stepping Stones b065061f (Listen) FRI True Blues: A Cry from the Heart FRI FRI Broadcaster Piers Plowright explores five sound-worlds - FRI some from far back in his life and some more recent - which FRI still resonate with him. FRI FRI In this last episode of the series, jazz pianist and teacher FRI Louis Vause examines, with Piers, one of the great Blues FRI performances of all time - New Orleans pianist James FRI Booker's interpretation of True at the 1978 Montreux Jazz FRI Festival. FRI FRI This is a performance that has haunted Piers since he first FRI heard it and has come to speak to him of all the longing and FRI grief - and maybe hope - that the Blues express. FRI FRI The programme includes an interview with Lily Keber who made FRI the recent film about Booker, Bayou Maharajah. FRI FRI Produced by Alan Hall FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b064zp86 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b039d4bn (Listen) FRI My Brilliant Divorce FRI FRI Caroline Quentin stars in Geraldine Aron's radio adaptation FRI of her Olivier nominated West End hit - a comedy drama about FRI surviving divorce with your sense of humour intact. FRI FRI Good-natured, slightly overweight, former window-dresser FRI Angela (declared age 39, real age 51) thinks her marriage FRI will last forever. But suddenly her husband Max, who has an FRI irritatingly round head, loses his heart to beautiful young FRI Rosa and moves out. FRI FRI Cheerful about her unexpected freedom at first, Angela's FRI spirits begin to droop as she copes with a mother who won't FRI acknowledge the break-up because she considers divorce FRI 'common', a misogynous solicitor, and Christmas alone (apart FRI from Dexter the family dog and a number of help-line FRI counsellors). FRI FRI She gets regular updates on the wild expenditure and FRI goings-on at the love nest via her cleaner, Meena, whose FRI sister Leena - also a cleaner - works for Max. FRI FRI As she tells us of the ups and downs of her life and wryly FRI observes how society treats freshly single women of a FRI certain age, Angela learns how to deal with - and even enjoy FRI - life on her own. FRI FRI Eccentric, poignant and funny, Angela's journey will FRI resonate with anybody who's lived through a break up. FRI FRI Written by Geraldine Aron FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Angela: Caroline Quentin FRI Max: James Lance FRI Vanessa: Claire-Marie Hall FRI Mother: Sally Grace FRI Mr Tripp: Matt Addis FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI Writer: Geraldine Aron FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b065061j (Listen) FRI Kenilworth Castle FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire. Bunny Guinness, Christine FRI Walkden and Bob Flowerdew answer the audience questions. FRI FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Joe Smith and His Waxworks b065061l (Listen) FRI Duck, Love and Eloquence FRI FRI An extraordinary account of a showman's life drawn from his FRI memoirs about touring a rough waxworks show around the FRI southern counties of England in the 1840s. Read by Tony FRI Lidington. FRI FRI Published in 1896, Bill Smith's memoirs recall his early FRI life working for his Uncle Joe, whose touring waxworks show FRI was well-known at country fairs in the south of England in FRI the middle of the 19th century. FRI FRI It's an extraordinary story of the hardships of an itinerant FRI performer's life in an age when the great historical FRI characters from kings to vagabonds and famous scenes from FRI the Bible, literature and fairy tales were brought to the FRI towns and villages of England by the showmen and FRI storytellers of the travelling fairs. FRI FRI In today's episode Uncle Joe recruits an odd-job man he FRI finds working with the donkeys on Yarmouth sands, and woos FRI his wife at a country dance. FRI FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tony Lidington FRI Author: Bill Smith FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b065061q (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b0659q1f (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the team examine the stats surrounding FRI sugar. Over the summer The Royal College of Surgeons claimed FRI that children in Britain are facing a tooth decay crisis, FRI the BMA called for a tax on sugary drinks to help end the FRI tens of thousands of preventable deaths, and a committee of FRI scientists advised that the current recommended daily intake FRI of sugar should be halved. FRI FRI Recent headlines suggested that giving primary schools FRI children lessons in philosophy can help them improve their FRI reading and math but the study which prompted the headlines FRI has been criticised by some academics. Tim speaks to the man FRI behind the research. FRI FRI And as the football season begins the More or Less team FRI examine how important the Premier League is to British FRI economy, and attempt to predict who will be crowned FRI champions. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b065061z (Listen) FRI Carol and Kate - Unlucky in Love FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who are FRI now in their 60s and can reflect on the reasons for the FRI broken relationships in both their pasts, recorded in the FRI mobile Booth in the grounds of Birmingham Cathedral. Another FRI in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The FRI 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 b0650621 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b064x3cx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b0650623 (Listen) FRI Series 15, Episode 1 FRI FRI A satirical take on politics, media and celebrity. FRI FRI Featuring Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson, Jan Ravens, Lewis FRI MacLeod and Duncan Wisbey. FRI FRI Produced by Bill Dare. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Debra Stephenson FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b065086y (Listen) FRI Ruth has an idea, and Caroline enjoys some escapism. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Charlotte Delaney FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0650870 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b065008n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0650872 (Listen) FRI Peter Hitchens, Liz Kendall FRI FRI Ritula Shah presents political debate and discussion from FRI the Broadcasting House Radio Theatre with the journalist and FRI author Peter Hitchens and the Labour leader contender Liz FRI Kendall MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0650874 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 What Is a Story? b065cdgq (Listen) FRI Omnibus: Part 1 FRI FRI Marina Warner - in the company of leading contemporary FRI writers - looks at the world of contemporary fiction, FRI considering writing and storytelling from a number of FRI different angles. FRI FRI Marina is the Chair of the Man Booker International Prize FRI 2015 and this programme draws on the expertise of this FRI year's International Booker judging panel, the views of the FRI shortlisted writers, as well as other key literary talent. FRI FRI She speaks with writers as diverse as Julian Barnes, FRI Michelle Roberts, Fanny Howe, Marlene van Niekerk, Alain FRI Mabanckou, Lydia Davis, Edwin Frank, Elleke Boehmer, FRI Wen-Chin Ouyang, Daniel Medin, Nadeem Aslam and this year's FRI Man Booker International winner, Laszlo Krasznahorkai. FRI FRI Key to this exploration will be questions around the FRI boundaries between fact and fiction, which Marina believes FRI are central to any discussion of the subject, since readers' FRI pleasure depends so much on trust built up between the FRI storyteller/writer and the audience. FRI FRI In this compilation created from five programmes originally FRI broadcast in July this year, Marina considers why we should FRI read and write, the importance of truth, and story as FRI witness to history. She begins by considering our first FRI encounters with stories. FRI FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b064x3cz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b065096b (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b065gkj1 (Listen) FRI Go Set a Watchman, Episode 5 FRI FRI GO SET A WATCHMAN FRI FRI In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive FRI second novel has finally been published. Believed lost for FRI decades after the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', FRI this book revisits much-loved characters, this time through FRI adult eyes. This abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a FRI compelling and important release to Radio 4. FRI FRI Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb FRI for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into FRI the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her FRI beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship FRI with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same FRI place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother FRI Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust FRI shattered before she is able to become her own woman. FRI FRI Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill FRI A Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept FRI over and revered by generations since its publication in FRI 1960. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama. FRI FRI Read by Fenella Woolgar FRI FRI Written by Harper Lee FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Fenella Woolgar FRI Author: Harper Lee FRI Abridger: Robin Brooks FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 23:00 Late Night Woman's Hour b065096d (Listen) FRI Late night live conversation, with Lauren Laverne. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b0650g2j (Listen) FRI Carol and Kate - Missed Generation FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces friends who share a history of failed FRI relationships and now conclude that things may have been FRI better had they been born later. A conversation recorded in FRI the mobile Booth in the grounds of Birmingham Cathedral - FRI another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The FRI 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
07 August, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 08/08/2015 - 14/08/2015
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