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SAT SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b066tgwt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0670035 (Listen) SAT Francis Bacon in Your Blood, A Kind of Immortality SAT SAT Adrian Scarborough reads Michael Peppiatt's intimate and SAT very indiscreet account of his thirty-year friendship with SAT the defining artist of our time. SAT Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's SAT French House to request an interview for a student magazine. SAT Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis SAT they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation SAT that would continue until Bacon's death in 1992. SAT For decades, Peppiatt accompanied Bacon on his nightly round SAT of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to louche club, SAT witnessing all aspects of Bacon's 'gilded gutter life'. And SAT here he shows Bacon close-up, grand and petty, tender and SAT treacherous by turn. SAT Today: Peppiatt loses a 'father', and becomes a man. SAT Reader: Adrian Scarborough SAT Writer: Miichael Peppiatt is an art historian, curator and SAT writer. His 1996 biography of Francis Bacon was chosen as a SAT 'Book of the Year' by the New York Times. SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT Producer: Justine Willett. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Adrian Scarborough SAT Author: Michael Peppiatt SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT Producer: Justine Willett SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b066tgww (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b066tgwy (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b066tgx0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b066tgx2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06709bd (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna SAT Drew. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06709bg (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b066tgx4 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b066tgx6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b066zvy3 (Listen) SAT The Glenfinnan Gathering SAT SAT The Glenfinnan Gathering is an annual Highland games event SAT that takes place on the shores of Loch Shiel, on the west SAT coast of Scotland, in the shadow of the Jacobite Monument SAT every August. It has now been running for over 50 years and SAT commemorates the raising the standard by Bonnie Prince SAT Charlie in 1745. SAT SAT The Gathering features traditional Highland games events: SAT hammer throwing, caber tossing, traditional dancing and SAT piped bands. It's a chance for people from the local area to SAT compete with their friends and neighbours. SAT SAT Helen Mark meets the organisers, competitors and spectators SAT who all make this event a vital part of the local calendar SAT and discovers what links these folk to the landscape and the SAT history that they celebrate. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b067vh8k (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b066tgx8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b068xh3m (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b067vh8n (Listen) SAT Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at SAT the world. SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b067vh8q (Listen) SAT Series 11, Ely SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show from the cathedral SAT city of Ely. SAT SAT He's joined by food historian Dr Annie Gray, Glaswegian chef SAT with a taste for Catalonian cuisine Rachel McCormack, DIY SAT food expert Tim Hayward and the broadcaster and cook Andi SAT Oliver. SAT SAT This week the panel are discussing the historical SAT association between Ely and eels and advising on the best SAT ways to get to grips with those slippery customers. SAT SAT Also in the show the experts will be imparting their top SAT tips on going off-piste from your recipe, how to throw the SAT perfect barbecue and how to melt cheese into a fondue. SAT SAT Oh, and have you ever wondered what Mrs Oliver Cromwell used SAT to rustle up in the kitchen? All will be revealed. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT Producer: Darby Dorras SAT Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b067vh8s (Listen) SAT Imagination SAT SAT What happens in our brains when we are using our SAT imagination? What role does imagination play in our SAT decisions to visit foreign countries or even to migrate SAT there? And is there something that makes people from a SAT particular place, say India, use their imagination in a SAT unique way? Bridget Kendall talks to neuroscientist Peter SAT Tse, poet Arundhathi Subramaniam and anthropologist Noel SAT Salazar.(Photo: The human brain. Credit: AFP/Getty Images). SAT SAT Peter Ulric Tse SAT SAT Peter Ulric Tse is professor of Psychological and Brain SAT Sciences at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. His lab SAT looks into the cognitive and neural processes behind our SAT visual perception, attention, consciousness and, recently, SAT the brain activity involved in imagination. The results of SAT his studies suggest that ‘imagination’ is a process which SAT takes place across both sides of the brain, in numerous SAT different regions across the neural network. SAT SAT Arundhathi Subramaniam SAT SAT Arundhathi Subramaniam is the author of four books of SAT poetry, most recently When God is a Traveller. Her prose SAT works include the bestselling biography of a contemporary SAT mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life, and The Book of Buddha. SAT As editor, she has worked on anthologies of essays on sacred SAT journeys in the country, contemporary Indian love poems in SAT English and a book of Bhakti poetry, Eating God. SAT Photo by Tineke de Lange SAT SAT Noel Salazar SAT Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the SAT University of Leuven. His research interests include SAT anthropologies of mobility and travel, the local–global SAT nexus, discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, heritage SAT interpretation, culture contacts and cosmopolitanism. He is SAT the author of Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in SAT Tourism and Beyond. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b066tgxb (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b066tgxd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 The New Workplace b067vh8v (Listen) SAT The Future of Work SAT SAT Bringing to an end his series looking at employment now, SAT Michael Robinson invites leading participants in the world SAT of work to discuss the future of work. Among the questions SAT he poses: Do we have to get used to a low wage, low skill SAT economy?; What is the future for self-employment?;Is the SAT idea of a lifelong career outdated?; And will trade unions SAT become more relevant to the great majority of workers? SAT SAT Guests - SAT SAT Frances O'Grady - the General Secretary of the TUC SAT Justin King - for 10 years the Chief Executive of SAT Sainsbury's SAT Alison Wolf - Professor of Public Management at Kings SAT College, London who has long specialised in skills and SAT training policy SAT And David Willetts - minister for Universities and Skills in SAT the coalition government and now the Executive Chair of the SAT Resolution Foundation - a think tank that aims to improve SAT living standards for people on low and middle incomes. SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b06707kg (Listen) SAT Series 15, Episode 3 SAT SAT Topical impressions show that offers a satirical take on SAT politics, media and celebrity. Featuring Jon Culshaw, Debra SAT Stephenson, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod and Duncan Wisbey. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Debra Stephenson SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b066tgxg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b066tgxj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06707kn (Listen) SAT Billy Bragg, Simon Danczuk MP, Peter Oborne, Priti Patel MP SAT SAT Ed Stourton presents political debate from BBC Radio Theatre SAT in London with a panel including the singer songwriter Billy SAT Bragg, the MP for Rochdale Simon Danczuk, the political SAT journalist Peter Oborne and Employment Minister Priti Patel SAT MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b067vh8x (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b067vjwk (Listen) SAT Closely Observed Trains SAT SAT Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal. Dramatised by Ian SAT Kershaw SAT SAT It is 1945. For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at SAT the sleepy railway station in Bohemia is full of complex SAT preoccupations. There is the burden of dispatching German SAT troop trains; the shocking scandal of Dispatcher Hubicka; SAT and the vexing problem of his sexual performance. Classic SAT comedy drama from a celebrated Czech writer. SAT SAT Director/Producer Gary Brown SAT SAT CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS, which became the award-winning Jiri SAT Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring', is a classic of postwar SAT literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and SAT heroism which fully justifies Hrabal's reputation. SAT SAT Milos is played by John Bradley who is Samwell Tarley in SAT 'Game of Thrones'. This is John's first radio play. SAT SAT Credits SAT Milos: John Bradley SAT Masha: Verity Henry SAT Virginia: Verity Henry SAT Hubicka: Jason Done SAT Lansky: Howard Chadwick SAT Mother: Fiona Clarke SAT Viktoria: Fiona Clarke SAT Slusny: Jonathan Keeble SAT Father: Jonathan Keeble SAT Zednicek: Hamilton Berstock SAT Director: Gary Brown SAT Producer: Gary Brown SAT Author: Bohumil Hrabal SAT Adaptor: Ian Kershaw SAT SAT 15:30 The School Is Full of Noises b066vyy7 (Listen) SAT How did tape loops, recycled everyday sounds and countless SAT other weapons of the avant-garde find their way into school SAT music lessons during the 1960s? That's the challenge for Ian SAT McMillan as he sets out on the trail of one of music SAT education's more unexpected byways. SAT SAT It begins in an attic. Jonny Trunk is a collector of music's SAT less travelled pathways, amongst them LPs of school children SAT from the 1960s performing the most ambitious musical works SAT imaginable. They have titles like 'Music for Cymbals', 'An SAT Aleatory Game' and 'Don't Drink and Drive'. SAT SAT So where did this all come from? Ian sets out to rediscover SAT the creators of these musical curiosities, both the SAT educators who conceived them and also the pupils themselves. SAT Now in their 50s, what might the former pupils of the likes SAT of Burnt Yates School and Hessington Primary make of those SAT experiences from their youth? SAT SAT Eventually Ian's travels take him to a dark place. A very SAT dark place. In a cavern complex near Pateley Bridge he SAT retreads footsteps taken by children not just for a SAT recording project but also one of those schools SAT documentaries we love to chuckle over at the distance of SAT five decades. Only now can we discover what the class of '69 SAT really thought of these ground-breaking musical adventures. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b067vkgl (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Emma SAT Barnett. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Emma Barnett SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06941fw (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b06709bg (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b066tgxl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b066tgxn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b066tgxq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b067vkgn (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, Scottee, Carol Morley, Gilbert O'Sullivan, SOAK SAT SAT Nikki Bedi sits in for Clive Anderson where she is joined SAT with guests Scottee, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Carol Morley, Jon SAT Holmes, SOAK and Magali Pettier for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Gilbert O'Sullivan SAT SAT ‘Latin Ala G’ is out now on Propellor Recordings. SAT Gilbert O'Sullivan's official website SAT SAT Carol Morley SAT SAT '7 Miles Out' is published by Blink on 3rd September. SAT Carol Morley's official website SAT SAT Jon Holmes SAT SAT ‘A Portrait Of An Idiot As A Young Man, Part Memoir, Part SAT Explanation As To Why Men Are So Rubbish’ is published by SAT Orion Books and out now. SAT Jon Holmes' official website SAT SAT SOAK SAT SAT The album ‘Before We Forgot How to Dream, is out now via SAT Rough Trade. SAT SOAK's official website SAT SAT Magali Pettier SAT SAT 'Addicted to Sheep' is in cinemas now. SAT Addicted to Sheep's official website SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Scottee SAT Interviewed Guest: Gilbert O'Sullivan SAT Interviewed Guest: Carol Morley SAT Interviewed Guest: Jon Holmes SAT Interviewed Guest: SOAK SAT Interviewed Guest: Magali Pettier SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b067vkgq (Listen) SAT Sir John Chilcot SAT SAT Sir John Chilcot has been at the heart of some of the most SAT important political events in recent decades - often in the SAT background, unnoticed by most. SAT SAT It's only in recent years, since he was asked in 2009 to SAT lead the inquiry into the Iraq War, that his name has come SAT to the attention of the wider public. SAT SAT Now - nearly six years after he started - the Chilcot Report SAT has yet to be published, and Sir John has come under SAT increasing pressure from politicians, media and the families SAT of soldiers who lost their lives. SAT SAT Adam Fleming profiles a private man who has had to get used SAT to the spotlight. SAT SAT Producers: Keith Moore and Joe Kent. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b067vkgs (Listen) SAT Hamlet, Sensorium, 45 Years, Les Murray, Ascent of Woman SAT SAT Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet has been much-anticipated and SAT every ticket was sold out a year in advance; will our SAT critics be dazzled or disappointed? SAT Sensorium at Tate Britain in London is a new exhibition SAT which aims to stimulate all our senses as we view a SAT selection of paintings. Can they enhance or distract us from SAT the gallery experience? SAT Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling star in 45 Years, a SAT British film about a couple celebrating their wedding SAT anniversary when a long-forgotten event disturbs their SAT happiness. SAT Poet Les Murray has been declared by The National Trust of SAT Australia as one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures. Now SAT 76, he has just published his latest collection: Waiting For SAT The Past SAT BBC TV has begun a 4-part series The Ascent of Woman, SAT looking at the history of women from the dawn of SAT civilisation to the modern day. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b067vkgv (Listen) SAT New Orleans: The Crescent and the Shadow SAT SAT Harry Shearer lives in New Orleans. In this Archive on Four SAT he looks back at what has happened in the city during the SAT ten years since the devastating floods of 2010. Harry SAT reveals evidence which shows that the levees broke due to SAT poor engineering and should have been able to withstand the SAT rising waters caused by Hurricane Katrina. Rather than being SAT solely a natural disaster, he looks at how man-made errors SAT created a situation which quickly spiralled out of control. SAT SAT Harry also reveals what happened once the floodwaters had SAT subsided. Did people come back to the city? Was the housing SAT adequate for their needs? And have lessons been learned? SAT SAT Harry Shearer in the city of New Orleans, whose spirit and SAT culture have successfully withstood almost three centuries SAT of disasters. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b066ttr9 (Listen) SAT Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, Episode 1 SAT SAT Jeremy Irons stars Iris Murdoch's 1978 Booker prize winning SAT novel, dramatised by Robin Brooks - as part of the Iris SAT Murdoch season on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Episode 1 (of 2): SAT Charles Arrowby, a distinguished theatre-director, decides SAT to retire to a remote house by the sea in order to write his SAT memoirs. SAT SAT Sound Design: Wilfredo Acosta SAT SAT Producer: Fiona McAlpine SAT Director: Bill Alexander SAT An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Charles Arrowby: Jeremy Irons SAT Lizzie Scherer: Joanna David SAT Gilbert Opian: Anthony Calf SAT Peregrine Arbelow: Tim McInnerny SAT Rosina Vamburgh: Sara Kestelman SAT Hartley Fitch: Maggie Steed SAT Ben Fitch: David Horovitch SAT James Arrowby: Simon Williams SAT Arkwright: Nick Underwood SAT Young Charles: Fred Fergus SAT Young Hartley: Eleanor Crosswell SAT Author: Iris Murdoch SAT Adaptor: Robin Brooks SAT Producer: Fiona McAlpine SAT Director: Bill Alexander SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b066tgxs (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 FutureProofing b066wfp4 (Listen) SAT The Blockchain SAT SAT FutureProofing is a series in which presenters Timandra SAT Harkness and Leo Johnson examine the implications - social SAT and cultural, economic and political - of the big ideas that SAT are set to transform the way our society functions. SAT SAT Episode 3: The Blockchain SAT SAT Can computer technology and its systems for record-keeping, SAT transparency and verification replace the role of trust in SAT our society? The digital currency Bitcoin can be used to SAT make peer to peer financial transactions without a central SAT banking authority. The technology underlying this system is SAT called the blockchain, and is enthusiastically advocated by SAT libertarians. In this programme Timandra and Leo investigate SAT whether its ramifications could go much further than SAT currency and reach into disrupting the roles of government, SAT from providing identity documents to tax collection. Or will SAT governments, banks and other large powerful bodies meet the SAT political and technical challenges of the blockchain by SAT incorporating it into their own activities? SAT SAT Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SAT SAT The internet will look like the Stone Age SAT Timandra SAT SAT My local pub used to take BitCoin. By the time I'd got SAT around to trying to spend any there, they'd stopped. "That's SAT the end of that fad," I thought. But it turns out that the SAT virtual currency beloved of my more tech-loving, SAT computer-savvy friends is only the beginning. SAT SAT How could we have the benefits of money without a central SAT bank? That was the question that BitCoin was designed to SAT answer, and Blockchain is the technology that makes it SAT possible. But the Blockchain turns out to be much bigger SAT than a way for nerds to buy beer. SAT SAT A system that's secure without a higher authority, that's SAT distributed across many strangers' computers, and yet SAT tamper-proof, promises a mechanism for trust mediated SAT directly between individuals. If that's possible, won't all SAT forms of authority, from banks to governments, wither away? SAT SAT Like all challenging ideas, the Blockchain brings SAT contradictions. Supporters claim it offers both anonymity SAT and transparency, an indelible record that you can somehow SAT keep separate from your identity. A technology designed to SAT make authority obsolete could, instead, offer the perfect SAT tool for ubiquitous surveillance, a nightmarish future in SAT which all your actions are forever recorded in a digital SAT Book Of Deeds. SAT SAT I'm always sceptical of claims that technology alone can SAT transform society. There's more to governments than SAT collecting taxes and enforcing contracts, or we wouldn't SAT need elections. So I don't expect Blockchain to replace SAT politics, the cut and thrust of ideas and clashing values SAT that formed institutions like the state in the first place. SAT SAT But, having heard from some people who are working with SAT Blockchain already, I'd bet good BitCoin that it's going to SAT make the first few decades of the internet look like the SAT Stone Age. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b066vcn0 (Listen) SAT Series 29, Third Semi-Final, 2015 SAT SAT (12/13) SAT Paul Gambaccini welcomes the last three of 2015's SAT semi-finalists to the Radio Theatre, for the contest that SAT will decide who takes the sole remaining place in the Final. SAT SAT The questions range across the usual wide spectrum of SAT musical topics and performers - taking in Rodgers & Hart, SAT Rossini, Wagner and John Lennon among many others. The SAT competitors will have to pick an unseen special subject on SAT which to answer individual questions, without having had any SAT chance to prepare. As often, with the standard at the SAT semi-final stage especially high, it could all be decided in SAT the breathless pace of the closing quick-fire round. SAT SAT The winner returns next week to face the final hurdle in the SAT race for the 29th annual Counterpoint champion's title. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT DAN ADLER, an IT consultant from Farnham in Surrey SAT SAT COLIN DENSON, a former civil servant from Croydon SAT SAT NICK REED, a fundraiser and charity administrator from SAT Masham in North Yorkshire. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b066ttrf (Listen) SAT Series 5, Tony Harrison SAT SAT Paul Farley hears Tony Harrison read a new long poem called SAT Polygons - a poem set in Delphi in Greece, that richly draws SAT together many of the poetic preoccupations of his life: SAT Greek tragedy, the wild landscapes of ancient human sacred SAT sites, the deaths and passing of poetic mates, and the SAT comforts of water and of wine. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 30 AUGUST 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b067vwdr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 New American Shorts b02x5l4s (Listen) SUN First Sale SUN SUN A series examining everyday life across the water. SUN SUN Jessica Francis Kane's story is next in the series and a SUN yard sale becomes fraught with unspoken tensions for a young SUN boy as he wonders where his father is. SUN SUN Read by Kelly Burke SUN Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN First Sale is taken from Jessica Francis Kane's short story SUN collection, This Close, longlisted for the 2013 Frank SUN O'Connor International Short Story Award. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Kelly Burke SUN Producer: Gemma Jenkins SUN Abridger: Gemma Jenkins SUN Author: Jessica Francis Kane SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b067vwdt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b067vwdw (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b067vwdy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b067vwf0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b067w16n (Listen) SUN Bells from the church of St. Vedast, Foster Lane, in London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b067vkgq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b067vwf2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b067x8m0 (Listen) SUN Strains of Paradise SUN SUN Samira Ahmed asks why the idea of Paradise, a place of SUN perfect happiness, has been so potent in human history and SUN how it survives in the modern world. SUN SUN Medieval maps at the British Library actually show the SUN places where paradise was thought to exist on earth, in many SUN cases a walled space tantalizingly close to the known world. SUN Samira talks to Peter Barber, Head of Maps at the Library, SUN about early depictions of paradise and how they changed over SUN the centuries. SUN SUN She also explores how England has been viewed as a kind of SUN paradise - from Shakespeare's 'scepter'd isle' to the dreams SUN of desperate migrants trying to cross the Channel today. SUN SUN Perhaps the most persuasive idea of paradise exists within SUN elements of Islam, especially some Jihadist groups, for whom SUN the idea of paradise has become an added impetus to violence SUN and self-destruction. Samira talks to the Muslim theologian SUN and Imam Usama Hasan about the place of paradise within core SUN Islamic thinking and about how those ideas have become so SUN dangerously perverted. SUN SUN Samira also explores the idea of paradise as an ideal still SUN pursued by the rich in their exclusive and often gated SUN hideaways and exotic retreats. SUN SUN Strains of Paradise is presented by Samira Ahmed, with SUN readings and poetry that include Thomas Hardy and Emily SUN Dickinson and music from the likes of Faure, John Taverner, SUN Van Morrison, Harry McClintock and Delius. SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: SUN ‘The *Diario* of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to SUN America, 1492–1493 (American Exploration and Travel Series)’ SUN Author: SUN Christopher Columbus SUN Publisher: SUN University of Oklahoma Press SUN Title: SUN ‘Richard II’ (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare) SUN Author: SUN William Shakespeare SUN Publisher: SUN Clarendon Press SUN SUN SUN Title: Poem SUN What is – “Paradise” SUN Author: SUN Emily Dickinson SUN Publisher: SUN CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform SUN Title: SUN ‘They Looked for Paradise and Found Hell’ SUN Author: SUN Dounia Bouzar SUN Publisher: SUN Editions de L’Atelier SUN Title: ‘ SUN Haadi al-Arwaah ilaa il-Afraah’ SUN Author: SUN Ibn al-Qayyim SUN Publisher: SUN Unknown SUN Title: SUN ‘Can we find paradise on earth?’ SUN Author: SUN Toni Morrison SUN Publisher: SUN Hay Festival 2014 SUN - SUN As reported in The Telegraph, 27 May 2014 SUN Title: Poem SUN ‘To Life’ SUN Author: SUN Thomas Hardy SUN Publisher: SUN Wordsworth Editions SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b067x8m2 (Listen) SUN Cote Hill Farm, Lincolnshire SUN SUN Anna Hill visits Cote Hill Farm at the foot of the SUN Lincolnshire Wolds, to meet Michael and Mary Davenport. SUN Dairy farmers for forty years, they're about to celebrate SUN ten years of their cheesemaking business. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b067vwf4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b067vwf8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b067x8m4 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b067x8m6 (Listen) SUN SOS Children's Villages SUN SUN Alexander McCall Smith presents The Radio 4 Appeal for SOS SUN Children's Villages SUN Registered Charity No 1069204 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'SOS Children's Villages'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'SOS Children's SUN Villages'. SUN SUN SOS Children’s Villages SUN SUN SOS Children’s Villages is a global charity working to give SUN vulnerable children and orphans a stable and positive family SUN life in 125 countries. Employing local people in each SUN country, our nurseries, schools, vocational training centres SUN and medical clinics ensure children are educated and SUN healthy, and our community teams help struggling families. SUN Where children have no care, we provide them with a new SUN family, headed by an SOS mother, who offers the love and SUN encouragement every child needs into adulthood and beyond. SUN SUN Please visit our website at SUN www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk SUN to find out more about us and join the world’s largest SUN family. SUN SUN SOS Children's Village Nelspruit, South Africa SUN A happy SOS family at SOS Children's Village Nelspruit, SUN South Africa SUN SUN SOS Children's Village Chipata, Zambia SUN Despite a traumatic start in life, these two-year-old twins SUN are now thriving in the care of SOS mother Mary at our SUN Children's Village Chipata, Zambia SUN SUN Mobile medical bus SUN SOS Children's mobile medical bus is saving lives in remote SUN parts of eastern Zambia SUN SUN SOS Children's Villages, Nepal SUN Following the recent Nepal earthquake, SOS Children's SUN Villages is providing emergency food, shelter and emotional SUN support to thousands of children SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b067vwfg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b067vwfq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b067x8m8 (Listen) SUN To Be a Pilgrim SUN SUN "Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths SUN than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?" SUN SUN Since its publication in 1678, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's SUN Progress has had a colossal impact on literature, culture SUN and belief. Dr. Jessica Martin explores the meaning and the SUN impact of this ground-breaking work both in its original SUN context and in the present day. The service is led by the SUN Revd Duncan Dormor, President and Dean of Chapel at St. SUN John's College, Cambridge with music from the Cambridge SUN Choral Course directed by Ralph Alwood. SUN SUN Producer: Katharine Longworth. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06707kq (Listen) SUN Another Kind of Atheism SUN SUN John Gray looks to history to argue that it's time to SUN rethink today's narrow view of atheism. SUN SUN He ponders the lives of two little known atheists from the SUN past - the nineteenth century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi SUN and the Somerset essayist and novelist Llewelyn Powys. He SUN says their work shows how atheism can be far richer and SUN subtler than the version we're familiar with. SUN SUN "The predominant strand of contemporary unbelief , which SUN aims to convert the world to a scientific view of things, is SUN only one way of living without an idea of God" writes Gray. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt7v (Listen) SUN Firecrest SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the SUN Firecrest. Firecrests are very small birds, a mere nine SUN centimetres long and are often confused with their much SUN commoner cousins, goldcrests. Both have the brilliant orange SUN or yellow crown feathers, but the firecrest embellishes SUN these with black eyestripes, dazzling white eyebrows and SUN golden patches on the sides of its neck ... a jewel of a SUN bird. SUN SUN Firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus) SUN Image courtesy of David Kjaer (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b067vwfs (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b067xb8p (Listen) SUN Peggy gets a shock, and Pip knows what she wants. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN Director: Sean O'Connor 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 Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b067xb8r (Listen) SUN Foot-and-Mouth Disease SUN SUN Sue MacGregor reunites five people whose lives and SUN livelihoods were dramatically changed by the Foot and Mouth SUN epidemic of 2001. SUN SUN In February of that year, Foot and Mouth disease hit the UK. SUN During the next eight months there were 2,030 confirmed SUN cases and more than ten million animals were destroyed. SUN Across the country, dead bodies were piled onto huge pyres SUN that took days to burn. The result was the creation of a SUN sheep-free zone extending throughout the north of Cumbria, SUN and Dumfries and Galloway. SUN SUN The disease was spotted by a vet carrying out a routine SUN inspection at Cheale Meats abattoir in Essex. Within a week, SUN it became clear that Britain was experiencing its first SUN major foot-and-mouth epidemic for 34 years. SUN SUN Life in the countryside changed immediately. The owners of SUN infected farms and their neighbours were quarantined in SUN their homes as vets began destroying animals. During the SUN first three weeks of the epidemic 1,100 suspected cases were SUN reported, but with only 240 permanent veterinary staff, few SUN of whom had any experience of Foot and Mouth Disease SUN control, the authorities were overwhelmed. SUN SUN Within weeks of the first confirmed case, the government SUN ordered a mass cull of animals. The army was called in to SUN help. It was estimated to be the biggest combined civil and SUN military exercise in more than 30 years. SUN SUN Sue MacGregor is joined by: Dr Alex Donaldson, the scientist SUN called in to make the first official diagnosis; vet Peter SUN Frost-Pennington who oversaw the slaughter of animals on SUN infected farms in Cumbria; Brigadier Hugh Monro who was SUN responsible for the cull in Southern Scotland; and farmers SUN Paula Wolton from Devon and Peter Allen from Cumbria. SUN SUN Producer: Emily Williams SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b067vwfv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b066vcn6 (Listen) SUN Series 15, Episode 1 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Lloyd Langford, Henning Wehn, Sara Pascoe and Miles Jupp are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as magic, Austria, swans and onions. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Produced by Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Lloyd Langford SUN Panellist: Henning Wehn SUN Panellist: Sara Pascoe SUN Panellist: Miles Jupp SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b067wb3c (Listen) SUN My Food Hero: Dan Saladino meets Mary Taylor-Simeti SUN SUN Sicilian food expert Mary Taylor Simeti reveals the island's SUN food secrets to Dan Saladino. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Interviewed Guest: Mary Taylor Simeti SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b067vwfx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b067xb8t (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Great Songbook b0640j5k (Listen) SUN Italy SUN SUN In search of the musical heart of the nation, Cerys Matthews SUN discusses the songs of Italy and pieces together her own SUN Great Italian Songbook, with the help of literary scholar SUN Francesco Durante, cultural historian Rachel Haworth and SUN music journalist Federico Vacalebre. SUN SUN Recorded in Naples at the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro SUN a Majella. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Williams. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0670103 (Listen) SUN Correspondence Edition SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from Kew SUN Gardens. Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and Matthew SUN Wilson answer the audience questions. 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 - *I live in Bristol. Can the panel advise as to whether SUN it would be feasible to grow fruit trees in a hedge like SUN format? Do I need to have a different species as a basis - SUN like willow or similar then integrate fruit trees into it. SUN I'd love to grow apple, pear, plum, damson, sloe and grapes, SUN will it be possible to form a sturdy barrier whilst have SUN productive fruit trees/ plants? The border faces north/ SUN south but on the south face there is a wooded area behind. SUN In front I have grass.* SUN Matthew SUN – You just have to moderate your expectations on yield – the SUN fruits aren’t necessarily to be pretty, they may well have SUN more diseases, and be smaller fruits. But it’s perfectly SUN viable. SUN Anne SUN – I’d be tempted to put shorter plants in between them – SUN something like gooseberries so there is an understory. And SUN you could summer prune the apple trees so they don’t become SUN too congested. SUN Chris SUN – If you want to make it impenetrable then think about using SUN something like sloe as your base and then allow any fruiting SUN trees to stand as standards through your hedge. Also, SUN things like bullace would be good, the gages, and the russet SUN apples. SUN Joe Archer (Kew’s Kitchen Gardener) SUN – Important to make sure you’re not on a huge root stock – SUN so something like an M9 or an M26 so you could keep on top SUN of them. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Q - *Can I grow Quinoa on our allotment? If so, can you SUN give us some idea how? And can I grow it from the stuff sold SUN in the supermarket?* SUN Anne SUN – That would depend on how it’d been processed but you SUN probably could. But it is easy enough to buy the seed SUN anyway. Should be easy to grow but will be difficult to SUN harvest. SUN Joe SUN – We grow it here. It often gets mistaken for Fat Hen. We SUN start them off in the greenhouse, plant them out in a 9cm SUN (3.5inches) pot after last frost, and within 4-5 weeks you SUN will get a 1m-1.5m (3.3ft-4.9ft) growth. Harvesting – the SUN seeds can start to germinate on the plant so you’ve got to SUN catch them when they start to ripen. Also, you might want SUN to steak them because they can get top heavy. SUN SUN SUN Q - *Last year I got a greenhouse and moved my rather small SUN but quite old fig into it. The pea sized fruits got growing SUN this spring and I had nearly 40. They now seem stuck though SUN at about 5cm long, not ripening and 3 or 4 have turned SUN yellowish and fallen off. There is now a new lot of small SUN figs developing. Will the larger ones ever ripen? Should I SUN remove the smaller ones, or the larger ones or am I just SUN being impatient! The fig is a lovely one, not Brown Turkey, SUN but more like a green one with lovely red flesh from eating SUN the very few that I have had over the years, when it was SUN outside in its pot.* SUN Anne SUN – When they’re outdoors you generally remove all the SUN medium-size figs in the autumn and you leave only the SUN pea-size ones so they have all the energy of the plant in SUN the spring. Inside I reckon you’ve still got time for these SUN to ripen – give it time! SUN SUN SUN *Q - I garden in Horncastle, Lincolnshire on the edge of the SUN Wolds. I have a Cercis siliquastrum (Judas Tree) grown as a SUN standard tree in the open and a Cercis chinensis grown as a SUN shrub sheltered by, but not against, a south facing wall. SUN Both plants have suffered random dieback of branches, about SUN 20 - 30% shed their leaves prematurely last Autumn and SUN failed to flower this Spring. The die-back is on the West SUN side yet our prevailing cold winds are easterly. There SUN doesn't appear to be any sign of insect pests or disease, SUN just dead wood. The soil is light and free-draining and just SUN the acid side of neutral.* SUN Tony Kirkham (Head of the Arboretum) SUN – I would suggest that the growing conditions are okay. SUN *Cercis Siliquastrum *is normally grown as a multi-stem so SUN training it as a standard might be making it moody. *Cercis SUN chinensis *isn’t easy to grow – it’s very fussy and choosy. SUN The symptoms suggest they’ve been planted too deep and SUN through the year that stresses them. They are used to a SUN hotter, Mediterranean climate too. SUN Anne SUN – It might just be because of a particularly cold winter SUN within the last five years or so – sometimes it takes a SUN while to visibly affect a plant SUN Tony SUN – Could be an idea to cut it down to ground level and then SUN let it grow as a multi-stem. SUN SUN SUN *Q - I have two 8 ft (2.4m) apple trees in my garden, one of SUN which produces apples with black spots ... I’m worried that SUN kids pinch the apples and will poison themselves .... what SUN should I do?* SUN Anne SUN – It’s probably ‘bitter pit’ in the apple that is caused by SUN a calcium deficiency – it won’t cause you any damage, just SUN not nice to look at. SUN Tony SUN – It could be apple scab and this year’s been bad for scab SUN because of the warm, humid weather. SUN SUN SUN *Q - Last Autumn, we cut down a cherry tree that had been SUN planted by the previous tenant of our allotment, as it was SUN not on dwarf root stock and was taking up too much water and SUN not earning its keep with fruit.* SUN *Due to its location in the fruit cage, we were not able to SUN use the winch the remove the stump and now have major SUN problems with suckers.* SUN *Would it be safe to use stump killer, as there are SUN raspberries and blackcurrants all around the tree stump. How SUN else can we kill off the stump, please, without affecting SUN all our other fruit?* SUN Chris SUN – Sadly the suckers are often more vigorous than the SUN original tree. I wouldn’t use a stump killer – I would dig SUN it out, hard work but worth it. You could use polythene SUN mulch for the past few but I’d get in with a spade, a pick, SUN and an axe and go to work on it! SUN Anne SUN – I think you’re past the point of using a stump killer. SUN Dig them out. SUN Matthew SUN – Whenever I’m taking out trees I never flush cut them down SUN to the ground. Leave 1-1.5m (3.3ft-4.9ft) of stump to give SUN you some leverage. Makes it much easier. SUN SUN SUN *Q - I have a very healthy camellia bought in Woolworths SUN about 40 years ago. [It was just described as 'red', is a SUN proliferous flowerer and as tough as old boots]. It is a SUN shady shrubby border [behind a dwarf apple tree planted in SUN the lawn].* SUN *It is kept pruned down to about 6ft (1.8m) [although it has SUN been neglected for the past two years when the site was SUN given over to the builders to demolish our old house and SUN build a new one]. Some years ago I crown lifted it to allow SUN woodland plants to grow underneath but it is now far too SUN dense. Can I cloud prune it? If so when do I do it and how SUN do I go about it?* SUN Tony Hall SUN – Cloud pruning a camellia is not often done and I wouldn’t SUN recommend it in a shady border. I would thin it out a bit SUN in the spring after flowering SUN Chris SUN – I agree – you risk losing the flowering capability. So SUN thin out but don’t dig around the base – it’s very SUN shallow-rooted SUN Matthew SUN – Although you do see camellias grown as standards they’re SUN really designed to be grown in pots in relatively high light SUN level conditions. SUN Anne SUN – I’d say yes! It’s already quite old, it’s been kept to SUN 6-foot so it’s used to being clipped quite tightly. What it SUN needs now is a good watering and then mulching, and probably SUN a feed in the spring too. Prune with secateurs not with a SUN hedge trimmer SUN SUN SUN *Q - Do soft privet clippings provide good green material SUN for the compost heap?* SUN Tony SUN – As long as they are the soft clippings I think you’ll be SUN fine. SUN SUN SUN *Q - There is a current trend at weddings where table SUN flowers are stored in varied and quirky jam jars. I, as an SUN eager learning gardener, rather fancy the idea of growing SUN small pots of flowers from bulbs despite advice from family SUN members that this won't work. The wedding is the end of SUN June 2016 and we have no particular colour in mind. Could SUN you recommend anything that is easy to grow and guaranteed SUN to be in bloom over this time?! PS: I am currently without a SUN greenhouse if this influences choice?!* SUN Anne SUN – I think it’s doable but it will take effort. Best bet is SUN things like sweet peas and ammi. Down south I’d leave SUN sowing til October, up north I’d say September. Roses will SUN also be in bloom. Larkspur too. SUN Matthew SUN – Not a great time of year to be growing bulbs. And high SUN risk to do with the other stresses of the wedding. Go out SUN and get picking – but be careful picking Cow Parsley as you SUN can get invaded with caterpillars when you do! SUN Chris SUN – I would have a go at bulbs. For a blue theme try SUN *Agapanthus*, the trick to guarantee flowering is to plant SUN them at different stages (ie successional planting). SUN *Agapanthus campanulatus* which is the border variety is SUN pretty tough and reliable. Also, I’d be tempted by *Nerine SUN sarniensis* – comes in shades of pinks and whites and SUN oranges. SUN Tony SUN – I think bulbs are tricky but there are some that could SUN work. Perhaps a small patio lily or lavenders or patio SUN roses. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b05wns1z (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with three conversations revealing the reality of SUN life in Rhodesia before 1980, when independent Zimbabwe was SUN born, between women whose memories still inform their lives, SUN in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b067xccp (Listen) SUN Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, Episode 2 SUN SUN Jeremy Irons stars Iris Murdoch's 1978 Booker prize winning SUN novel, dramatised by Robin Brooks - as part of the Iris SUN Murdoch season on BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Episode 2 (of 2): SUN Charles Arrowby, a distinguished theatre director, has SUN retired to a remote house by the sea. After encountering his SUN adolescent love, he sets out on a mission to reclaim her SUN and, in so doing, redeem the misdemeanours of his past. But SUN a young man appears with a mission of his own. SUN SUN Sound Design: Wilfredo Acosta SUN Producer: Fiona McAlpine SUN Director: Bill Alexander SUN SUN An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Charles Arrowby: Jeremy Irons SUN Gilbert Opian: Anthony Calf SUN Titus Fitch: Matthew Tennyson SUN Hartley Fitch: Maggie Steed SUN Rosina Vamburgh: Sara Kestelman SUN Ben Fitch: David Horovitch SUN James Arrowby: Simon Williams SUN Peregrine Arbelow: Tim McInnerny SUN Lizzie Scherer: Joanna David SUN Arkwright: Nick Underwood SUN Dr Tsang: Nick Underwood SUN Author: Iris Murdoch SUN Adaptor: Robin Brooks SUN Director: Bill Alexander SUN Producer: Fiona McAlpine SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b067xcy8 (Listen) SUN Pat Barker SUN SUN In an Open Book special, Booker Prize winning novelist Pat SUN Barker talks to Mariella Frostrup about her career as a SUN writer. Barker started as a feminist author in the early SUN 1980s, writing about the lives of northern working class SUN women. However, she is most lauded for her Regeneration SUN Trilogy which tracks the relationship of war poets Siegfried SUN Sassoon and Wilfred Owen with eminent war neurologist Dr SUN William Rivers. After a 12 year hiatus of more SUN contemporaneous writing she returned to the First World War, SUN this time to world of the war artist and to art, in her Life SUN Class trilogy. The novels follow the fortunes of three young SUN painters who meet at the Slade at the outbreak of war. SUN SUN Pat Barker discusses her life, work and her new novel SUN Noonday, and writing about men, women and war. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Pat Barker SUN Producer: Ruth Sanderson SUN SUN 16:30 Poems from Syria b067xfs8 (Listen) SUN In the last few years, during the conflict in Syria, it SUN seems incredible that there are still writers expressing SUN their experiences through poetry. In this moving programme, SUN news journalist Mike Embley meets and speaks to Syrian SUN poets, writers and academics about how their work has SUN reflected the emotions and humanity in a seemingly SUN impossible situation. Some are in exile while others spend SUN their time helping writers still in Syria to translate their SUN poems and share them with a wider world. There are many who SUN are writing to make sense of the trauma suffered by every SUN Syrian and there are those who've found themselves unable to SUN write. SUN SUN With moving, traumatic, defiant, tragic, sad and SUN (incredibly) sometimes hopeful words, this programme goes SUN right to the human story behind the news headlines. Poems by SUN Mohja Kahf, Ghada al-Atrash, Najat Abdul Samad, Ghias SUN al-Jundi, Ibrahim al-Qashoush, Golan Haji and Aicha Arnaout. SUN Interviews with writers Ghada al-Atrash, Ghias al-Jundi, SUN Golan Haji, Aicha Arnaout and Dr Atef Alshaer. Readings by SUN Frank Stirling and Eve Matheson. SUN SUN Consultant: Dr Atef Alshaer SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 The Debt Business b066w659 (Listen) SUN Leading economist and former head of the Financial Services SUN Authority, Adair Turner explores the implications of the SUN current levels of household debt in the UK. SUN SUN While the UK economy recovers, many consumers are getting SUN further into debt. We hear from some of them, and from the SUN debt charities trying to help, who describe the impact this SUN is having on the UK's fiscal and mental health. SUN SUN But Lord Turner claims the ramifications reach much further SUN than the individual. When growth increasingly depends upon SUN borrowing in order to fuel consumer spending, he argues, the SUN whole economy is rendered more vulnerable to collapse. SUN SUN He explores the potential impact of rising interest rates - SUN both on the individuals in debt and overall economic SUN stability. Professor Atif Mian, co-author of The House of SUN Debt, argues that excessive mortgage debt was the key cause SUN of the recession after 2008, rather than the banks' SUN inability to lend more money. SUN SUN Lord Turner discusses his own radical suggestions for change SUN with two eminent colleagues - William White of the OECD and SUN Harvard Professor Ken Rogoff, former chief economist of the SUN IMF. SUN SUN Producers: Deborah Dudgeon and Emma Jarvis SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b067vkgq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b067vwfz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b067vwg1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b067vwg3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b067xfsc (Listen) SUN Peter Curran SUN SUN Peter Curran chooses his BBC Radio highlights from the past SUN week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b067w3sh (Listen) SUN Kenton is dumbfounded, and Helen needs some fresh air. SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01dtkjd (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 6 SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth hosts a comedy panel show in which guests SUN are challenged to display their knowledge of words and SUN language. In this edition he is joined by Jack Whitehall, SUN Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes and Countdown's Susie Dent. SUN SUN This week's letter of the week is P which really packs a SUN punch. SUN SUN We learn why Susie Dent's favourite word is 'blurb', we find SUN out what a Chicago Piano was and we listen as Jack Whitehall SUN struggles to reduce to a tweet a particularly fruity passage SUN from his father's autobiography. SUN SUN Writers: James Kettle and Jon Hunter. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 19:45 Comic Fringes b067xfsf (Listen) SUN Series 11, Apocalypse Soon, by Dane Baptiste SUN SUN Short story series featuring new writing by three leading SUN comedians, recorded live in front of an audience at the SUN Edinburgh Fringe Festival. SUN SUN Tonight, Dane Baptiste (nominated for Best Newcomer in last SUN year's Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards) recalls the shock SUN to his senses, aged 10, of his first Cub Scout camping trip. SUN SUN Next Sunday, and completing this year's comic triumvirate, SUN Robert Florence (writer, comedian and co-creator of cult SUN comedy Burnistoun) reveals the dark doings of the Scottish SUN branch of the Illuminati. SUN SUN Writer: Dane Baptiste SUN SUN Dane Baptiste SUN SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Dane Baptiste SUN Performer: Dane Baptiste SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06707kd (Listen) SUN Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06707kb (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN Bernie Passingham SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the BBC’s former Industrial Correspondent, SUN Nick Jones and to Gwen Davies and Eileen Pullan, machinists SUN at Ford Dagenham who went on strike with Bernie. SUN SUN Born 2 April 1925; died 18 July 2015 aged 90. SUN SUN Christopher Marshall SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his colleague and friend, Professor Karen SUN Vousden. SUN SUN Born 19 January 1949; died 8 August 2015 aged 66. SUN SUN Wayne Carson SUN SUN Last Word spoke to music journalist Geoff Barker. SUN SUN Born 31 May 1943; died 20 July 2015 aged 72. SUN SUN Michael Turk SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his son Richard Turk. SUN SUN Born 4 December 1936; died 9 August 2015 aged 78. SUN SUN Marie Dobbs SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her son Michael Dobbs. SUN SUN Born 20 June 1924; died 23 June 2015 aged 91. SUN SUN Yvonne Craig SUN SUN Born 16 May 1937; died 17 August 2015 aged 78. SUN SUN 21:00 The New Workplace b067vh8v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b067x8m6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b066zvyh (Listen) SUN Companies without Managers SUN SUN Who's your boss? Peter Day explores how three different SUN companies, in three different countries, do business without SUN managers. Who hires and fires? And how do you get a pay SUN rise? He asks how these radical organisations emerged, and SUN whether other companies may follow their lead. SUN SUN Producer: Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b067xfsh (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b067xfsm (Listen) SUN Hugh Muir of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 TED Radio Hour b067xfsv (Listen) SUN Series 2, Courage SUN SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN SUN Guy Raz investigates why sometimes we need to make mistakes SUN and face them head-on. With Brian Goldman. SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b06707kq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:48 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 31 AUGUST 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b067vwj3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Writing a New South Africa b052ln5f (Listen) MON Johannesburg, City of Recent Arrivals MON MON Writing a new South Africa MON MON A picture of South Africa now, as seen by a new generation MON of writers and poets. MON MON In programme 1 Thabiso talks to Johannesburg-based writers MON and poets about the changing cityscape and how the past MON impacts on the present in their work. He takes a walk MON through the bustling University district of Braamfontein MON with Ivan Vladislavic, who has documented the city in his MON novels and non-fiction work 'Portrait with Keys', and they MON explore writing about Hillbrow, the troubled inner city MON district, where the social integration and dynamic culture MON looked in the early 1990s as though it might be a positive MON future vision of the country. He talks to the prominent poet MON Lebo Mashile, an inspiration to the younger poets coming MON through now, about the emergence of the black female voice MON in the past twenty years, and the legacy of the past. And he MON meets Niq Mhlongo, whose most recent book 'Way Back Home' MON looks critically at the struggle against apartheid, and the MON way those who went into exile to fight for the movement are MON haunted by their experiences. MON MON In a three part series, street poet 'Afurakan' Thabiso MON Mohare explores the major cities of Johannesburg and Cape MON Town, talking to 'Born Frees', writers of the freedom MON generation - those born under apartheid but whose adult MON years have been spent in a new democracy, and gaining MON insights from an older generation who only began to publish MON their work in the new democratic era. MON MON Thabiso looks at South Africa two decades after the fall of MON apartheid, through the themes writers are choosing to engage MON with in their work. These authors, poets and playwrights are MON exploring the past and present, from apartheid's legacy to MON political corruption, and the chaos of the inner city; some MON are exorcising ghosts, and some tackling current issues, or MON looking to an imagined future. There is plenty to write MON about after the end of the struggle. MON MON Thabiso talks to new voices who are just making their names, MON and those who are already established, addressing the MON problems they face, causes for optimism, and the way MON conditions and opportunities have changed for writers in the MON past two decades. He looks at what they feel to be their MON literary heritage, and who they take inspiration from in a MON culture still feeling the inequalities of the educational MON legacy of apartheid. Literacy issues and the lack of a MON culture of reading more widely mean that the market for MON books is small, and the road to the arts truly blossoming MON into normalcy in South Africa after the end of apartheid has MON been uneven and complex. Other outlets for storytelling too MON - poetry and spoken word events, plugging into older MON traditions - are supporting the flowering of a diversity of MON voices as hoped for when the political landscape changed so MON radically in 1994, with writers of all ethnicities pitching MON in to the fray. Radio 4 explores the range of voices now MON being heard and the picture they present. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b067w16n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b067vwj5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b067vwj7 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b067vwj9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b067vwjc (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b067w16q (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna MON Drew. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b067w16s (Listen) MON Lavender Harvest MON MON When farmer Charlie Byrd was looking to diversify his arable MON farm near Broadway in the Cotswolds, he came up with the MON idea of growing lavender. Now the lavender is his chief MON source of income, bringing in more than the traditional MON wheat and barley which he still grows. The farm gets up to MON 20,000 tourists a year, attracted by the swathes of purple MON which cover the hillside, and by the the farm shop which MON sells everything from lavender soap to lavender chocolate. MON The oil is extracted from the plants on site, using the MON farm's specially-built lavender distillery. Emma Campbell MON visits the farm at harvest time, to find out how you go MON about harvesting and distilling lavender, and what kind of MON products it ends up in. MON MON Produced and presented by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b067vwjf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvk7n (Listen) MON Hoatzin MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Sir David Attenborough presents the South American hoatzin. MON Moving clumsily through riverside trees the funky Mohican MON head crested hoatzin looks like it has been assembled by a MON committee. Hoatzin's eat large quantities of leaves and MON fruit, and to cope with this diet have a highly specialised MON digestive system more like that of cattle, which gives them MON an alternative name, 'stink-bird'. MON MON Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com. MON MON NPL Ref MON 01438627 MON © Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b068c50x (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The Robert Peston Interview Show (with Eddie Mair) MON b05xd69q (Listen) MON Julian Barnes MON MON What happens if you take the warring parties of radio's MON biggest feud and give them their own show? Radio 4 is about MON to find out as Eddie Mair and Robert Peston join forces to MON spring surprise guests on each other in a unique late night MON interview programme. Expect spontaneous discussions with a MON wide array of interesting figures. MON MON Eddie and Robert have each chosen three guests of personal MON interest to them- all in the public eye - who they feel are MON worthy of a late night interview slot, keeping it secret MON from the other which guests they have chosen until the MON interview itself. MON MON The first guest is Robert's choice - Julian Barnes. Having MON written about losing his wife in his book 'Levels of Life', MON the three men talk about grief. MON MON Dealing with Grief MON You can find more information about dealing with loss at MON the NHS website MON MON 09:30 Soundstage b05mt6m2 (Listen) MON The Wash MON MON The Wash is a large rectangular-shaped tidal estuary in East MON Anglia bordering Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Wildlife sound MON recordist Chris Watson has long been fascinated by both the MON mystery of King John's treasure which it's claimed was lost MON and buried in the mud here, and the wildlife of the Wash. MON This is a strange and haunting habitat; a no man's land MON where twice each day the tide sweeps in across the mud and MON drives tens of thousands of wading birds off their feeding MON grounds and onto a temporary roost by the shingle and gravel MON pits at the R.S.P.B. reserve at Snettisham in Norfolk. It's MON a bewitching spectacle, especially on a spring tide. At low MON tide the birds disperse and only the feint roar of the MON distant sea can be heard across the vast expanses of exposed MON mud. Beneath the mud however there are the sounds of MON crustaceans and worms; a rich food supply and the reason why MON so many thousands of birds are attracted to The Wash. As the MON tide turns, rivulets of water trickle across the mud. The MON tide gathers pace, and as it does it so, it forces the birds MON towards the shore and into the air. Huge flocks numbering MON hundreds then thousands of birds are pushed off the mud and MON onto the gravel pits. When Chris visited, the birds were MON roosting well away from the water and in complete darkness. MON Yet soon after the tide turned and by some unknown signal MON the knots' chattering calls increased and then the leading MON edge of the flock suddenly took off and thousands of birds MON departed creating a huge wave of sound rather like the MON take-off of a large jet aircraft. Within a few minutes quiet MON and calm was restored to the gravel pits. For Chris, it's MON these wild sounds of the birds revealed as the tides ebb and MON flow which are the real hidden treasures of The Wash. MON Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON Chris Watson MON MON Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School MON and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the MON influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret MON Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound MON recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees MON Television. Since then he has developed a particular and MON passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of MON animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As MON a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, MON Watson specialises in natural history and documentary MON location sound together with sound design in MON post-production. MON MON His television work includes many programmes in the David MON Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ MON which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. MON More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with MON David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which MON also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). MON MON Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio MON productions including; ‘ MON The Listeners MON ’ and ‘The Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press MON Guild’s Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012), NATURE, Tweet MON of the Day, and ' MON The Cliff MON '. MON http://www.chriswatson.net/ MON MON Best of Natural History Radio Podcast MON This programme is available to download for free via the " MON Best of Natural History Radio MON " podcast. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b067w2dv (Listen) MON Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, Episode 1 MON MON Paul Theroux's account of his car journeys through America's MON southern states MON is timely, and abridged for radio by Katrin Williams: MON MON 1. He's in Tusacaloona, in a car park, thinking about going MON to church. In a vehicle beside MON him sits Lucille, all black silk and lacey sleeves - "You MON lost, baby?" Her welcoming words MON are typical of the South.. MON MON Reader Henry Goodman MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Henry Goodman MON Author: Paul Theroux MON Abridger: Katrin Williams MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b067w2dx (Listen) MON Woman's Hour with Men's Hour: Appearance MON MON How much does appearance really matter? In a special with 5 MON Live's Men's Hour Jane Garvey and Tim Samuels look at the MON things we do to make us feel good about ourselves and the MON way we look. MON From going to the gym to get the perfect abs, to going under MON the knife to achieve the perfect face and body. From having MON a tattoo to deciding to wax all our body hair off, who's MON influencing the choices we make? Plus how fashion helps us MON express who we are or who we want to be. And in the age of MON internet dating and the selfie what impact is social media MON having on the pressure we feel to 'look good'. MON MON Presenters Jane Garvey and Tim Samuels. MON Producer Emma Wallace. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b067w2dz (Listen) MON Bindi Business, Episode 1 MON MON New series written by Tanika Gupta. MON MON Finding herself out of work at fifty-one, Bindi Banerjee MON decides to start up her own beauty business. MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON Credits MON Bindi: Meera Syal MON Raj: Chris Nayak MON Anu: Krupa Pattani MON Hema: Rina Fatania MON Sam: Will Ash MON Writer: Tanika Gupta MON Director: Nadia Molinari MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b067w3p6 (Listen) MON Series 20, The Glastonbury Tales MON MON Alan Dein joins African and Afro Caribbean Catholics from MON Bristol as they take part in the annual pilgrimage to the MON ancient abbey at Glastonbury. On board the pilgrim bus, MON parishioners share their life stories, and explain why they MON are all drawn to worship in the church of St Nicholas of MON Tolentino. MON Producer: Chris Ledgard MON MON 11:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b03h4294 (Listen) MON Series 1, Horsing Around MON MON Tom is annoyed that his parents don't trust him - even with MON his own car. He is determined to prove them wrong and what MON better way - than taking care of his sister Amy when she MON comes to London? But first he has to persuade mum and dad to MON trust him. MON MON Tom persuades his parents that he can be trusted to look MON after his sister Amy when she comes to London. MON MON Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from MON Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the MON conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call MON to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate MON various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his MON family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off MON about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday MON annoyances. MON MON A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Tom Wrigglesworth, MON his family background and the influences that have shaped MON his temperament,opinions and hang-ups. MON MON During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from MON 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from MON our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in MON a 30 minute phone call. MON MON 'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of MON Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a MON bit of totally legal phone hacking. MON MON Cast: MON MON Tom Wrigglesworth ...Tom MON Judy Parfitt ... Granny MON Paul Copley ... Dad MON Kate Anthony ... Mum MON Amy Wrigglesworth ... Amy MON MON Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle MON Additional Material by Miles Jupp MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON Credits MON Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth MON Granny: Judy Parfitt MON Dad: Paul Copley MON Mum: Kate Anthony MON Amy: Amy Wrigglesworth MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth MON Writer: James Kettle MON Writer: Miles Jupp MON MON 12:00 News Summary b067vwjk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 The Why Factor b067w3p9 (Listen) MON Nudity MON MON How nakedness has been used as a means of political protest MON in eastern Europe and why wearing no clothes can be a MON powerful political weapon. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b067w3pc (Listen) MON Fish Leather MON MON People who bought computer software with the promise of MON access to thousands of cheap holidays are demanding refunds. MON The travel software is sold to holidaymakers accosted on the MON street in Tenerife who are then subjected to hours of high MON pressure selling. MON MON Long-suffering airline passengers are accustomed to the MON discomfort of modern flying. But now the squeeze really is MON on, with airlines cramming more seats into the same size MON economy cabin. Simon Calder, travel editor of The MON Independent, is flying away for the Bank Holiday right now, MON but just before he took off You & Yours caught up with him MON at Heathrow airport and heard what the airlines are MON planning. MON MON Thousands of tonnes of fish skin are thrown away every year MON as we tuck into our favourite fillets. But some fashion MON designers are beginning to work with fish leather. It's been MON popular in Iceland for about twenty years and is now MON catching on here. Heidy Rehman, the founder of a new MON womenswear brand, is championing fish leather as a new MON ethical alternative. Presenter Melanie Abbott went to meet MON her at the studio of her company Rose and Willard. MON MON Better training has been introduced for carers leading to a MON Care Certificate. But it's not mandatory and some carers are MON not geared up for looking after people with dementia and MON other complex needs. A charity campaigning for people living MON in care homes, the Relatives and Residents association, has MON launched an app to outline some of the best practices for MON adult social care. Our reporter Henrietta Harrison went to MON see how it works and met Judy Downey from the Relatives and MON Residents Association. MON MON And MON MON In Devon a scone has cream first, then jam. But in Cornwall MON it's the other way around. MON Well who is right? Food scientist Dr Stuart Farrimond claims MON he has calculated the perfect formula for the flawless cream MON tea. MON MON Producer: Maire Devine MON Editor: Chas Watkin. MON MON 12:57 Weather b067vwjm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b067w3pf (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward MON Stourton. MON MON 13:45 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b067w3ph (Listen) MON The 'It' Factor MON MON Francine Stock attempts to pin down the alluring yet elusive MON quality of charisma MON MON 6.The "It" Factor MON Sarah Bernhardt and the beginnings of celebrity charisma MON MON In her day, the French actor Sarah Bernhardt was said to be MON the most famous woman in the world after Queen Victoria. The MON American scholar Edward Berenson helps Francine untangle the MON many strands of Bernhardt's appeal, from her beauty and MON energy on stage and screen, to her eccentricity (she was MON said to sleep in a coffin and keep wild animals as pets) and MON her later disability. Edward Berenson pin-points the moment MON when he believes Bernhard's celebrity was transformed into MON true charisma. And, as Bernhardt later appeared in the new MON art-form of film, Francine sets out on a path to explore the MON early movie stars who did - or, in many cases, did not - MON have the famed "It Factor". MON MON With contributions from the illusionist Derren Brown and the MON Australian author of a study of charisma, Professor John MON Potts. MON MON Reader: Simon Russell Beale MON Producer: Beaty Rubens. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b067w3sh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0418p7f (Listen) MON The Surprising Effect of Miss Scarlett Rosebud MON MON A new comedy from David Nobbs. Two retired women teachers MON share a house, but little else. Then a former student, now MON turned rock-star, bursts into their lives and threatens to MON change everything. MON MON Music, song and lyrics composed and performed by Stephen MON Benham MON MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON MON Credits MON Stephanie: Linda Marlowe MON Marian: Christine Absalom MON Scarlett: Deeivya Meir MON Cuthbert: Ashley Kumar MON Melanie: Elaine Claxton MON Chairman: David Cann MON Director: Peter Kavanagh MON Writer: David Nobbs MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b067wb37 (Listen) MON Series 29, The Final, 2015 MON MON (13/13) MON The three competitors who've beaten off all competition in MON this year's tournament of the music quiz now face the final MON hurdle - with one of them destined to be named the 2015 MON Counterpoint champion. MON MON What do the English call the musical note known in French as MON a 'noire'? What was Elvis Presley's middle name? Which MON Scottish composer founded the Ayrshire music festival known MON as the Cumnock Tryst? MON MON The calibre of contestants in a Counterpoint Final is so MON high it's hard to stump them - but the competition will be MON fierce and every point counts. As usual, they'll all have to MON pick a musical topic for the specialist round, and in the MON Final the categories can be especially unpredictable. MON MON The winner will take home the coveted Counterpoint trophy, MON and theirs will become the 29th name on the roll of honour MON since Counterpoint began in 1986. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b067wb3c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Pound on Pounds b069xdwg (Listen) MON The American poet Ezra Pound devoted much of his compendious MON poetic work, The Cantos, to discussion of his firmly-held MON beliefs about economics and the distribution of wealth. MON Difficult if not impossible for a casual reader to follow MON today, the Cantos draw heavily on American and Chinese MON history, and the writings of various now-obscure economists, MON in support of Pound's quest for an ideal society. MON MON The modern British poet Ira Lightman has been an admirer of MON Pound's Cantos for many years, and realised after the MON financial crash of 2008 that Pound may have some surprising MON lessons for us about how banks operate and how monetary MON systems are organised. Pound is unfortunately now remembered MON for a series of wartime broadcasts in sympathy with Fascism, MON which saw him locked up in a mental institution after the MON Second World War. Yet the Cantos are all about social MON justice, about fair distribution, and about the evils of a MON system which extracts interest at an extortionate rate - MON which Pound personified as the abstract arch-villain MON 'Usura'. MON MON Pound's beliefs were shaped by the aftermath of the First MON World War, the inequities of the post-war reparations, the MON straitjacket of the Gold Standard in the 1920s, and the MON Great Depression. In this programme Ira sets out to explore MON Pound's economic theories further, and to ask if they may be MON able to teach us something about our own financial crisis. MON Pound was writing at a time when many poets saw it as their MON natural role to ask hard questions about politics and social MON justice - and expected to be taken seriously. In our own MON time, poetry is perhaps not the genre to which readers most MON immediately turn for a dissection of these issues - and yet MON many poets are passionately involved in the debate. Is it MON still a poet's role to provide economic advice in the 21st MON century, as Pound sought to in the 20th? MON MON In his personal exploration of Pound's modern resonances, MON Ira also seeks the expertise of biographer A. David Moody, MON poet Judi Sutherland, and Harvard economist Barry MON Eichengreen. Drawing upon what he discovers, he tackles the MON challenge of creating a brand new Canto, responding to our MON own economic circumstances. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b067wf2p (Listen) MON Ghosts MON MON Discussion programme in which guests from different faith MON and non-faith perspectives debate the challenges of today's MON world. MON MON 17:00 PM b067wfzf (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b067vwjr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b067wf2r (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 2 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Arthur Smith, Jon Richardson, Susan Calman and David MON O'Doherty are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Pets, Bacteria, Zombies MON and Water. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Arthur Smith MON Panellist: Jon Richardson MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: David O'Doherty MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b067wf2t (Listen) MON Jolene has bad news, and the Grundys go to the opera. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b067wf2w (Listen) MON Pianist James Rhodes talks to John Wilson MON MON When pianist James Rhodes had an injunction overturned by MON the Supreme Court in May, he was finally able to publish his MON controversial autobiography, Instrumental: A Memoir of MON Madness, Medication and Music. MON MON At the piano he talks to John Wilson about the horror of the MON severe sexual abuse he suffered at prep school, his struggle MON to get his memoir published, and how music provided a MON lifeline to help him cope with his demons, which included MON addiction, breakdown and mental illness. MON MON Presenter John Wilson MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON James Rhodes MON James Rhodes MON ’ memoir Instrumental is out now in hardback and ebook. MON MON You can find dates for his upcoming concerts MON here MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON Interviewed Guest: James Rhodes MON Producer: Jerome Weatherald MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b067w2dz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Orangemen on the Equator b067wf2y (Listen) MON Founded 220 years ago, the Orange Order is a Protestant MON organisation which, its members say, stands for civil MON liberties, fraternity and faith. However in the divided MON society of Northern Ireland it is rarely out of the news. MON Many Irish Nationalists and Republicans view it as an MON anti-Catholic, triumphalist organisation and disputes over MON some contentious Orange parades have generated headlines MON around the world. MON MON What is less well known is that in a tropical land three MON thousand miles away, there are Orange lodges made up of MON African men and women. Members of the Orange Order in Ghana MON share the same emblems and follow the same rituals as their MON brethren in Northern Ireland. While there may not be MON sectarian conflict in their homeland, the Orangemen on the MON Equator feel they too are misrepresented and misunderstood. MON MON Journalist Chris Page travels to West Africa to find out how MON the Orange Order took root there. Comparing the African MON brand of Orangeism to that found in his native Northern MON Ireland, he peers into the soul of an organisation which has MON been characterised by its ability to survive. While members MON in Ulster say they have been demonised by Irish Nationalists MON opposed to their Unionism, their brethren in Ghana describe MON their challenges in the face of prejudice from churches and MON wider society. MON MON From post-colonial Ghana to post-conflict Northern Ireland, MON Chris asks what the true essence of this often controversial MON fraternity really is - and what these two contrasting MON branches of the Orange Order can learn from each other as MON they consider their futures. MON MON Produced by Conor Garrett. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b066zkv7 (Listen) MON Losing Louisiana MON MON Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, MON leaving over 1800 people dead and causing billions of MON dollars of damage. It was dramatic and destructive - but MON Katrina has been described as 'like a cold suffered by a MON cancer patient'. The cancer is the erosion of the coastal MON wetlands of Southern Louisiana, a slow motion environmental MON disaster that has continued almost unabated since Katrina. MON Caused by the taming of the Mississippi and oil and gas MON exploration, a football field of coastal land washes away MON every hour, and with it the homes, places and livelihoods MON that have sustained the storied Cajun culture. James MON Fletcher travels to Bayou Lafourche and the town of Leeville MON to get to know one community facing the reality of losing MON their past and their future. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9bhw (Listen) MON Daffodils MON MON Wordsworth's famous poem is always in the top 5 most loved MON poems in English. His encounter with daffodils in the Lake MON District has become a romantic expression of our MON relationship with nature. They are radiant beauties that MON bring hope to the heart after the long winter months. A A MON Milne also wrote charmingly about daffodils laughing off MON winter in his poetry for children. The native flowers are MON delicate and small, unlike the cultivated, rather brash MON varieties that adorn roadside verges and roundabouts, MON creating much daffodil snobbery. Daffodils are the national MON flower of Wales, though only since the 19th Century, MON promoted by Lloyd George who thought them more attractive MON than leeks. Attractiveness though led them to be associated MON with vanity, the Greek Narcissus (daffodils in Latin: MON narcissus) fell in love with his own reflection and pined MON away. Their appearance in Lent gives them the name Lenten MON Lilly and associated with resurrection, but in Eastern MON cultures it is the flower of wealth and good fortune. It has MON been used throughout history as a medicine, despite being MON toxic. Today it is grown extensively in Wales as its bulb MON contains galantamine, a drug used in the treatment of MON Alzheimer's. Whatever way you look at daffodils they are MON quintessentially a part of human cultures wherever it grows MON and can be considered the flower that brightens Britain MON after long, cold winters. MON MON Dr Fred Rumsey MON Dr Fred Rumsey is Angela Marmont Centre Enquiries Officer, MON Plants, at the MON Natural History Museum MON in London. He has a strong interest in conservation and MON deals with plant identification enquiries within the MON Identification and Advisory Service team. MON He also provides expert taxonomic advice to various Taxon MON Groups, sits on the MON International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) MON specialist groups and referees for several families for the MON Botanical Society of the British Isles MON MON Professor Sally Bushell MON Sally Bushell is Professor of Romantic and Victorian MON Literature at Lancaster University. Her primary research MON specialism is in MON British Romanticism MON the MON poetry of William Wordsworth MON and the interpretation of poetic process. MON Her first book was MON Re-reading The Excursion MON She then co-edited the Cornell edition of The Excursion and MON published Text as Process: Creative Composition in MON Wordsworth, Tennyson and Dickinson. MON MON MON Monty Don MON Monty Don is best known for his presence on BBC television's MON Gardeners’ World MON and BBC Radio 4's Shared Planet and is the author of MON several books. MON He lives close to the land, not only through his garden MON which features weekly on Gardeners’ World but in the hills MON near where he lives, where he farms sheep. MON MON Fflur Gwynn MON Fflur Gwynn is Senior Curator of Cultural Life at MON St Fagans: National History Wales MON She oversees collections relating to music, folklore and MON customs, cultural, educational and social institutions, MON popular culture, sports and children's toys and games within MON Wales. MON She has an MA in History of Design from the V&A Museum and MON the Royal College of Art and her specialist subjects include MON Welsh music and popular culture and 20th century craft. MON MON Professor Jane Lawrence MON Jayne Lawrence is Professor and Head of the MON Pharmaceutical Biophysics Group MON She is currently on a part-time secondment at the MON Royal Pharmaceutical Society MON (RPS) as their Chief Scientist. MON Jayne is particularly interested in understanding how the MON structure of a molecule influences the molecular MON architecture of the delivery vehicle it forms and its fate MON in the target cell. To achieve these aims she uses a range MON of advanced analytical techniques including light and MON neutron scattering and reflectivity. MON MON Dr Fleur Rothschild MON Fleur Rothschild, PhD, has worked in Birkbeck College, MON University of London, since 1998. She established the MON Academic English Unit in Birkbeck for the induction of MON International Students into the culture, practices and MON horizon of expectations of the British Higher Educational MON system. MON Fleur has lectured on Chaucer, Shakespeare and Early Modern MON drama and is currently the Learning Development Co-ordinator MON and Tutor for the School of Arts. She has an abiding passion MON for plants of all kinds and is a guerrilla gardener. A MON particular fascination is with daffodils and she has a book MON forthcoming on Reaktion Press about the daffodil's MON horticultural and cultural history. MON MON 21:30 The Robert Peston Interview Show (with Eddie Mair) MON b05xd69q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b067vwjv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b067wf30 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b067wf32 (Listen) MON Tightrope, Episode 6 MON MON A tale of love, betrayal and espionage as the political MON alliances forged during the Second World War give way to the MON moral uncertainties of the Cold War. MON MON Marian Sutro is a highly successful British SOE operative MON working with the French Resistance. Then she is betrayed and MON imprisoned in Ravensbrück by the Nazis. MON MON Returning to England a broken woman, she attempts to immerse MON herself in a normal life with a mundane job in London. MON However, the lure of the secret service and her desire to MON work for the greater good is never far away. MON MON As the Americans test ever more deadly atomic weapons and MON the Russians join the frantic race to match them, Marian MON finds herself in demand by all sides with no moral compass MON to guide her. MON MON She must walk an increasingly precarious tightrope between MON her beliefs, her profession and her desires. MON MON Episode Six. MON By Simon Mawer. Marian runs into an old friend in Paris. The MON atomic age is advancing and Marian's personal and MON professional life is getting increasingly complicated. MON MON Reader: Peter Firth MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Peter Firth MON Author: Simon Mawer MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON MON 23:00 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b051j5tb (Listen) MON Series 5, Mrs Miniver MON MON Paul Gambaccini returns with the series that takes a long MON hard look behind the scenes of three classic films which MON have scooped the Best Picture Award. He reports on the MON artistic, political and personal decisions that lie behind MON the winners, laced with some pretty good gossip too. MON MON First up, Mrs Miniver, from 1942, a war time classic. MON MON During the filming, star Greer Garson insisted on tea every MON afternoon at four o'clock, whilst director William Wyler MON hated the chocolate box set of rose-strewn villages he was MON forced to work with. Despite these restrictions Mrs Miniver MON turned out to be a film that helped change history - MON credited by many, including Churchill, with helping to turn MON popular opinion in America away from isolationism and MON towards whole hearted support for the Allied Forces in MON Europe. MON MON It portrays a family living a safe life in the Garden of MON England, Kent - a world where Mrs Miniver worries more about MON a hat than the approaching conflict. But as her world falls MON apart, she changes and becomes more resilient, as the people MON of Britain bravely face up to the task of defending this MON island, whatever the cost. MON MON So did Mrs Miniver deserve Best Picture for 1942? MON MON Veteran film critic Philip French believes that it hasn't MON lasted, though he recalls from his own childhood in MON Liverpool how it touched the hearts of British cinema goers. MON MON And behind this patriotic movie lies a darker story - did MON Hollywood studios protect their sales in Germany by going MON softly, softly on the Nazi regime, until the tide of public MON opinion finally turned against the Germans? MON MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall. MON MON Further Reading MON MON *The Real Mrs Miniver* by Ysenda Maxtone Graham MON MON *A Rose for Mrs Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson* by MON Michael Troyan MON MON *William Wyler: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Most MON Celebrated Director* by Daniel Miller MON MON *The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler *by Ben MON Urwand MON MON MON MON 23:30 The Invention of Italy b03cf08j (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Misha Glenny presents a compelling new history of Italy from MON 1494 to the end of the First World War. MON MON Piedmont, the Venetian Republic, Mantua, Modena, the Grand MON Duchy of Florence, the kingdom of Naples, the Papal States - MON the arrival of Italy as a unified state is a surprisingly MON recent affair. "We are a new nation," says Professor Marco MON Meriggi, and this is true - but the 150th anniversary was MON celebrated two years ago in quite muted style. So forget MON what you may know about the Roman empire, and enter a MON country which doesn't really feel unified yet. MON MON "Italy is a divided country, no doubt about that. The MON Italian equivalent of nationalism is campanalismo, from the MON word for bell tower - this is the attachment of Italians to MON their city square." Dr Filippo de Vivo. MON MON Beginning with the French invasion of 1494, when Charles MON VIII's mercenaries reached Naples and then spread syphilis MON to all points north of the Alps, the Invention of Italy MON tells a story of fragmentation, foreign occupation and MON nationalist false starts. The second programme looks at how MON unification finally occurred, and why many believe that the MON mafia emerged at the same time. the third programme focuses MON on why Italians were so eager to shed blood in the First MON World War. MON MON With expert contributions from Christopher Duggan, Marco MON Meriggi, Leoluca Orlando, Lucy Riall, Lucy Hughes-Hallet, MON Filippo de Vivo, David Gilmour, Beppe Severgnini, Simon MON Winder, Joze Serbec and David Laven. MON MON The presenter is Misha Glenny, who previously collaborated MON with producer Miles Warde on the Invention of Germany and MON the Invention of Spain. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b067vwlf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b067w2dv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b067vwlh (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b067vwlk (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b067vwlp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b067vwlr (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0694rct (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna TUE Drew. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b067whnh (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvrcj (Listen) TUE Australian Magpie TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Sir David Attenborough presents the Australian magpie. These TUE large piebald birds with pickaxe bills reminded early TUE settlers of the more familiar European magpie, but in fact TUE they are not crows at all. Australian magpies have melodious TUE voices which can range over four octaves in a chorus of TUE squeaks, yodels and whistles. Pairs or larger groups of TUE magpies take part in a behaviour known as carolling, a TUE harmony of rich fluting calls which marks their territories TUE and helps to cement relationships between the birds. TUE TUE Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen / Cracticus tibicen) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Marie Read / naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01306034 TUE © Marie Read / naturepl.com. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b067wjn7 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Fry's English Delight b067wnnb (Listen) TUE Series 8, English Plus One TUE TUE Stephen Fry celebrates bilinguals' life stories and TUE discovers the bonuses of bilingualism. TUE TUE Bilinguals have big advantages. Those who are bilingual from TUE birth acquire human empathy earlier and all bilinguals have TUE advantages that go beyond language skills. Stephen delights TUE in the stories of different bilinguals ranging from 4 TUE year-old Luca, becoming fluent in English and French TUE simultaneously, to 70 year old Barry Davis, bilingual in TUE Yiddish and English. Stephen talks to him about how he uses TUE his skill as an interpreter helping members of the London TUE Chasidic community, many of whom have English as a second TUE language. TUE TUE In between, meet teenager Francesco in Rome who lives in a TUE bilingual family but gets most of his English from the TUE internet. Also there's Berliner Juliane, who learnt her TUE English on an Arkansas rodeo and is a subtitler/translator TUE currently working on MTV's challenging reality show Geordie TUE Shore. And hear how Aatif Nawaz, bilingual comedian and TUE Islam Channel chat show host, enjoys the way a multilingual TUE audience laughs. TUE TUE Bilingualism isn't that rare and bilinguals, according to TUE new research, are often more attentive and better at TUE decisionmaking. Antonella Sorace, Professor of Developmental TUE Linguistics at Edinburgh University and a world authority, TUE says there's no such thing as the perfect bilingual - one TUE language always dominates, albeit slightly. She's bilingual TUE in English and Italian, the latter surfacing when she gets TUE cross. TUE TUE There are downsides, but they tend to come from TUE monolinguals' perceptions of bilinguals. People who speak TUE the language of one place perfectly and then reveal they TUE come from another place can make others feel deceived. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Baker TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 A Walk of One's Own: Virginia Woolf on Foot b067wnnd (Listen) TUE Sussex TUE TUE Alexandra Harris visits East Sussex, where Virginia Woolf TUE lived and walked from 1911 until her death. TUE Asham, was the Woolf's first home - re-named 'Little Talland TUE House' - making it the descendent of the Cornish holiday TUE home she had loved as a child. Virginia and Leonard lived TUE through the first world war here, and left with great TUE sadness when the lease was up. TUE TUE Their next home, Monks House was small and basic, but it was TUE theirs. The garden was vast, with a view on to the fields TUE and hills beyond, where Woolf loved to roam alone for hours, TUE reciting her words to herself after a morning writing. There TUE were almost too many possible paths: towards Charleston - TUE the home of Woolf's sister Vanessa, or across Iford Down, or TUE along the river to Piddinghoe. TUE TUE In the company of Scarlett Baron, Alexandra Harris steps out TUE in Woolf's footsteps to the river Ouse and Southease, the TUE route she would have taken most often, to the post office. TUE TUE Producers: Sarah Bowen and Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b067wpjs (Listen) TUE Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, Episode 2 TUE TUE Paul Theroux's account of his car journeys through America's TUE southern states TUE is timely, and abridged for radio by Katrin Williams: TUE TUE 2. In Greensboro he meets the impressive Rev. Eugene Lyles, TUE aged 79, who has TUE his own church, his own barber shop and runs the local diner TUE on Main Street. TUE So, time for a haircut, then some lunch.. TUE TUE Reader Henry Goodman TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Henry Goodman TUE Author: Paul Theroux TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b067wpjv (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE The Angelina Effect - Gynaecological Cancer TUE TUE Every day more than 50 women are diagnosed with cancer of TUE the womb, cervix, vagina or vulva. These are often referred TUE to as the silent killers as they are hard to diagnose and TUE symptoms vary widely. As Gynaecological Cancer Awareness TUE Month gets underway we look at the so called “Angelina TUE Effect”. Angelina Jolie-Pitt’s power to influence made her TUE Number 3 on our 2015 Power List. We look at the impact of TUE her decision to go public about her own condition on the TUE number of women coming forward for genetic tests and TUE treatment. Jane Garvey talks to TUE Deana Murphy TUE about why she was inspired by her to take action and TUE to Katherine Taylor Acting Chief Exec at TUE Ovarian Cancer Action TUE about why they’d like to see genetic testing open to all TUE women. TUE The Eve Appeal TUE NHS advice on testing TUE TUE Miriam Moss TUE TUE It’s been forty five years since TUE Miriam Moss TUE was a passenger on a flight from Bahrain to London, which TUE was hijacked by the TUE Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine TUE Travelling alone at fifteen years old, Miriam was held in TUE the desert for four days, not sure if she would ever make it TUE home to London. In Girl on a Plane she tells the story TUE through Anna, a young girl, trying to make sense of a TUE terrifying situation. Miriam speaks to Jane about what it TUE was like on the plane for those four days and about writing TUE the book specifically for young adults. TUE TUE Sustainable Development Goals TUE TUE This month will see the launch of a global goal to achieve TUE gender equality by 2030. It comes as part of the UN’s TUE Sustainable Development Goals; targets set by member states TUE which will frame their agendas and political policies for TUE the next fifteen years. There are seventeen goals, and TUE number five, is to ‘achieve gender equality and empower all TUE women and girls’. The targets include ending all violence TUE and discrimination against women, and eliminating harmful TUE practices such as FGM and child marriage. Jane talks to TUE journalist Liz Ford, Claire Hickson from Womankind TUE Worldwide, and Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director of UN TUE Women, about how realistic these aims are. TUE TUE Women and Retirement TUE TUE We’ve heard a lot over time about the issues men face when TUE they retire, having been ‘defined’ by their career. TUE Women retiring now are some of the first to face the same TUE issues, have worked for their whole life - reporting a drop TUE in self-esteem and a sense of loneliness due to the huge TUE changes in their lifestyle. So how can these problems be TUE addressed? We talk to Wilma Cunliffe, a retired carer from TUE Blackpool, and Barbara Bloomfield, a counsellor at the TUE relationship service TUE Relate. TUE TUE TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b067x14z (Listen) TUE Bindi Business, Episode 2 TUE TUE Tanika Gupta's new drama series about an eccentric TUE 'olderpreneur's' adventures in business. TUE TUE Bindi's Beauty Box is really taking off but Bindi must get TUE her reluctant children on board if she is going to succeed. TUE TUE BINDI.....Meera Syal TUE RAJ.....Chris Nayak TUE ANU.....Krupa Pattani TUE BUZZ.....Tachia Newall TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE Credits TUE Bindi: Meera Syal TUE Raj: Chris Nayak TUE Anu: Krupa Pattani TUE Buzz: Tachia Newall TUE Writer: Tanika Gupta TUE Director: Nadia Molinari TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9bj5 (Listen) TUE Birds Eggs TUE TUE Beautiful, fragile, mysterious - we have always loved birds' TUE eggs. Their colours are more of a hue, the patterning TUE gorgeous to the eye, no wonder they have been collected from TUE time immemorial. Eggs are a symbol of new life, a TUE transformation that speaks to us of great truths beyond the TUE purely biological. Easter eggs are a symbol of Christ's TUE resurrection and were adopted from pagan beleifs about TUE Ostara, the goddess connecting to various German Easter TUE festivities.) The egg has been used as a metaphor for the TUE origin of the universe in many traditions. We have used them TUE in cooking - or eaten raw - since our time on earth. We have TUE used the hard shell for decoration, and Faberge designed TUE exquisite bejewelled eggs of gold and precious stones for TUE the Tsars of Russia. A peculiar tradition of using eggs to TUE record the varied faces of clowns arose just after WW2 when TUE new clowns stamped their identity on the world by TUE registering their unique features on eggs - there is now a TUE clown egg museum. The natural variety in bird's eggs, even TUE clutches in the same year, can be very different, is prized TUE by collectors, determined to own the greatest diversity of TUE any one species. Along with collecting comes money and then TUE fraud. Pleasing to hold, beautiful on the eye, versatile in TUE cooking, intriguing in nature, practical as well - eggs will TUE always inspire us. TUE TUE Douglas Russell TUE Douglas Russell is responsible for the curation of the TUE national avian egg and nest collections as part of the team TUE of bird group curators in the Department of Zoology at the TUE Natural History Museum, London TUE In the egg and nest collection he is responsible for all TUE aspects of curatorial care including visitors, enquiries, TUE documentation and research on the collections to enhance TUE their data. TUE TUE TUE Professor Tim Birkhead TUE Tim Birkhead TUE is a Professor in the Department of Animal and Plant TUE Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He has conducted a TUE long term of study of guillemots on Skomer Island in Wales TUE since 1972, alongside Ben Hatchwell. TUE He has authored and co-authored a large number of books TUE including TUE The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology TUE and the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology. His TUE forthcoming book 'The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and TUE Outside) a Bird's Egg' is due to be published in April 2016 TUE by Bloomsberry. TUE TUE Dr Ed Connor TUE Ed Connor joined the Johns Hopkins University Neuroscience TUE Department in 1996 and has served as Director of the TUE Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute TUE since 2007. TUE His research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying object TUE vision and has shown how object structure is represented by TUE populations of neurons in higher-level visual regions of the TUE brain. In studies funded by the Hopkins Brain Science TUE Institute, his laboratory has investigated the neural basis TUE of shape aesthetics. TUE TUE Ed Drewitt TUE Ed Drewitt TUE is a wildlife communicator with an energetic passion for TUE nature. He has studied the diet of urban Peregrines and has TUE worked on colour-ringing their young. TUE He also works on a huge range of activities from taking TUE schools fossil hunting to showing people wildlife from TUE boats. He works a variety of organisations, including the TUE British Trust for Ornithology TUE and the TUE National Trust TUE TUE Matthew Faint: "Mattie the Clown" TUE Matthew Faint was born in Plymouth and began his career in TUE show business in London in 1970 on productions of Hair and TUE The Rocky Horror Show and has performed in Lesotho, in TUE Southern Africa, and in Japan. TUE He began clowning 1971, working in and around London and TUE overseas and for many years as a hospital clown. For the TUE last 25 years he has been the curator of TUE Clowns International TUE 's Museum and Archive at its two sites in Dalston in London TUE and Wookey Hole in Somerset. TUE TUE TUE Professor Gavin Flood TUE Gavin Flood is a professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative TUE Religion at Oxford University and Academic Director of the TUE Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. TUE He has recently published TUE The Truth Within TUE a history of inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism and TUE Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2014). TUE TUE Kieran McCarthy TUE Kieran McCarthy is a director at antiques firm Wartski. His TUE antiques research has been widely published and he is a TUE lecturer on the subject of Fabergé. His most recent articles TUE have focused on the use of wood in Fabergé’s work and on a TUE missing Imperial Easter Egg. TUE He recently identified the original design source of the TUE Constellation Egg. In 2010, he curated the exhibition TUE 'The Last Flowering of Court Art' TUE a private collection of Fabergé. Kieran was also TUE instrumental in the republication of Dame Joan Evans, TUE English Posies and Posy Rings TUE by Wartski in 2012. TUE TUE 11:30 Space: The Vinyl Frontier b067x151 (Listen) TUE A spoken word concept album linking space and music. TUE TUE Track 1: Carl Sagan on The Voyager Gold Disc. TUE In 1977 the Voyager space probes set off on their journey TUE across the Solar System. On board are gold discs with the TUE music of planet Earth in the hope that they are one day TUE intercepted by alien life. TUE TUE Track 2: Peter Pesic on the Music of the Spheres TUE The ancient Greeks first found a connection between maths, TUE music and the movement of the planets. The idea was TUE developed in the 17th century by Johannes Kepler into the TUE Music of the Spheres. TUE TUE Track 3: Lydia Kavina on the music of the Theremin and the TUE space-age pop of Vyacheslav Mescherin's Orchestra of TUE Electronic Instruments. TUE TUE Track 4: Space and Race, the music of Afro-Futurism by Ken TUE McLeod. TUE Although many exponents of space-related pop music are white TUE Anglo-American artists, some of the most vibrant uses occur TUE within the realm of Afro-Futurism with artists such as Sun TUE Ra and George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic. TUE TUE Track 5: The Race for Space - Public Service Broadcasting TUE J Willgoose Esq., one half of Public Service Broadcasting, TUE talks about the band's latest and critically acclaimed TUE album, The Race for Space, which uses archive recordings to TUE chart the American-Russian space race. TUE TUE Space: The Vinyl Frontier is voiced by Tom Bevan, Ben Crowe TUE and Ben Onwukwe. TUE The linking drama Space Oddity was written by Danny Westgate TUE TUE The interview with Carl Sagan was first broadcast in 1983 as TUE part of the programme Music From A Small Planet produced for TUE BBC Scotland by Martin Goldman and R. Carey Taylor. TUE TUE New music and sound design by Nick Romero TUE TUE Produced by Julian Mayers TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b067vwm2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 The Why Factor b067x3vy (Listen) TUE Collecting TUE TUE Stamps, coins, sea shells, wine - the list of things that TUE humans collect is endless. But why do people do it? What TUE does a collection of inanimate objects bring to our lives TUE that other things do not? Are people attracted by the thrill TUE of the chase, the pleasure of possession or the control in TUE acting as the custodian of precious things? TUE TUE Mike Williams talks to an eclectic group of collectors in TUE search of some answers. Roman and Maz Piekarski have spent TUE the last 50 years building up a collection of some of the TUE world's finest cuckoo clocks. When Lisa Courtney was bullied TUE as a child she gained comfort in building her collection of TUE Pokemon toys.Seventeen-year-old Tushar Lakhanpal started his TUE pencil collection at the age of three and when David Fulton TUE sold his business to Microsoft in the 90s his new found TUE wealth allowed him to pursue and acquire one of the finest TUE collections of rare instruments ever assembled. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b067x3w1 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b067vwmb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b067x3w5 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward TUE Stourton. TUE TUE 13:45 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b067x3w7 (Listen) TUE The Best to You Each Morning TUE TUE Francine Stock attempts to pin down the alluring yet elusive TUE quality of charisma. TUE TUE 7.The Best To You Each Morning TUE Self-made American charismatic leaders - from W.K Kellogg TUE and Henry Ford to Apple's Steve Jobs and Viacom's Sumner TUE Restone. TUE TUE A religious upbringing, a great idea and an exceptional TUE ability to read the desires of the American people are just TUE three of the shared characteristics of the early 20th TUE century self-made men who feature in this programme. TUE Collectively, they have set an influential template for TUE charismatic business leaders to this day. TUE TUE Francine Stock hears from the business journalist and TUE broadcaster Peter Day about his personal - and not TUE altogether complimentary - impressions of Steve Jobs and his TUE extraordinary "force field" of attention. She draws a TUE somewhat surprising profile of the self-made mogul - for TUE whom conquering death itself seems to have become the TUE longed-for ultimate charismatic act. TUE TUE Producer; Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b067wf2t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b067x3w9 (Listen) TUE Single Beds TUE TUE by Colin Hough TUE TUE A seriously funny comedy about prejudice, vintage cars and TUE taxidermy. TUE What happens when a Fife B&B owner refuses newly-weds Geoff TUE and Val a double room? TUE TUE produced/directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ken: John Buick TUE Margaret: Wendy Seager TUE Geoff: Steven McNicoll TUE Val: Robin Laing TUE Morven: Joyce Falconer TUE Director: Gaynor Macfarlane TUE Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane TUE Writer: Colin Hough TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b067vh8q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 From Enlightenment to Entanglement b067x47p (Listen) TUE Astrophysicist and science writer Dr Stuart Clark asks TUE whether our increasing reliance on computers in scientific TUE research is becoming an obstacle to progress. TUE TUE Are we moving from the Enlightenment - when the scientist TUE demystified the world, to the Entanglement where the TUE scientist ends up mystified? TUE TUE At CERN, Stuart meets Physicist Paul Laycock who reveals the TUE tsunami of data that the Large Hadron Collider produces TUE every second. In order to stay afloat, Paul and his team TUE apply the tried and tested scientific method, using TUE hypotheses and theory to guide them through petabytes of raw TUE physics data. TUE TUE We visit a genome sequencing lab where advances in computer TUE power and sequencing technology are making it possible to TUE collect genomic data faster than ever. Some critics argue TUE that we are gorging on data, collecting more information TUE than we can hope to analyse. TUE TUE Stuart peers through a mass of wires to gaze at a powerful TUE computer, part of the Human Brain Project, which plans to TUE create a fully working computer simulation of the human TUE brain. Many neurologists argue that the project have a TUE misplaced faith in the power of computers, having done away TUE with the Enlightenment principles of the scientific method. TUE Those involved respond by stating that theirs is a TUE fundamentally new way of doing science. TUE TUE Finally, Stuart hears from super computer inventor Danny TUE Hillis who explains that we are rapidly losing the ability TUE to understand how our computers actually work. Once TUE programmed to act as reliable slaves, computers now exhibit TUE unpredictable emergent behaviour. As a result, Hillis TUE argues, the role of scientist is changing as we enter a new TUE age of complexity - the Entanglement. TUE TUE Producer: Max O'Brien TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Writing a New South Africa b053bsfm (Listen) TUE Page and Stage TUE TUE A picture of South Africa now, as seen by a new generation TUE of writers and poets. TUE TUE In the second programme of the series Johannesburg-based TUE poet Thabiso Mohare looks at the challenges, tensions and TUE solutions facing South African writers. He talks to TUE publishers, writers and poets about the issue of a small TUE book-reading culture being exacerbated by the high cost of TUE books in the country, and looks at how the spoken word scene TUE has grown in the past twenty years to provide an outlet for TUE new voices. And he travels to the University of TUE Stellenbosch, once the intellectual engine-room of TUE apartheid, to talk to two poets who have managed to create a TUE rare thing: spoken word sessions in a township that are TUE attended by a truly diverse and mixed audience of poets and TUE aspiring poets, where poetry in any of the eleven official TUE languages of South Africa is welcomed. TUE TUE In a three part series, poet Thabiso Mohare ('Afurakan'), TUE looks at South Africa through the themes the post-apartheid TUE generation of writers are choosing to engage with in their TUE work. These authors, poets and playwrights are exploring the TUE past and present, from apartheid's legacy to political TUE corruption, and the chaos of the inner city; some are TUE exorcising ghosts, and some tackling current issues, or TUE looking to an imagined future. There is plenty to write TUE about after the end of the struggle. Other outlets for TUE storytelling too - poetry and spoken word events, plugging TUE into older traditions - are supporting the flowering of a TUE diversity of voices as hoped for when the political TUE landscape changed so radically in 1994, with writers of all TUE ethnicities pitching in to the fray. Radio 4 explores the TUE range of voices now being heard, some of the challenges they TUE face, and the picture they present. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b067x5hx (Listen) TUE Series 37, Monica Ali chooses Richard Francis Burton TUE TUE Sir Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, adventurer, TUE soldier, author, poet, sexologist and translator. He brought TUE us the Kama Sutra and spoke 29 languages. The author Monica TUE Ali champions this racy character and tells Matthew Parris TUE why this 19th-century explorer is a Great Life. They are TUE also joined by historian and broadcaster Matthew Ward. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Monica Ali TUE Interviewed Guest: Matthew Ward TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b067x5hz (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b067vwmd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mitch Benn Specials b067x5j1 (Listen) TUE Mitch Benn Is the Fat Pink Duke TUE TUE David Bowie is the first rock star Mitch can remember being TUE aware of. TUE TUE He was two, David was Ziggy Stardust, and he remembers TUE feeling that while he liked him he didn't really get him. As TUE he's grown up - and David Bowie has grown up right along TUE side - Mitch realises that Not Really Getting David Bowie is TUE the whole point... TUE TUE Mitch Benn takes you on a whistlestop tour of Bowie's back TUE catalogue, examining his legacy and Mitch's own personal TUE connection to his music. TUE TUE This is a comedy show for anyone who's ever bought a record TUE or fallen in love with a song. TUE TUE Written by and starring Mitch Benn TUE TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Mitch Benn TUE Writer: Mitch Benn TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b067x5j3 (Listen) TUE Susan pulls no punches, and Rob puts himself forward. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b067x5j5 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b067x14z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Big Game Theory b067x5w1 (Listen) TUE The death of Cecil the lion was international news and a TUE social media sensation. Yet trophy hunting of lions and TUE other species is common in Africa. Foreigners pay big money TUE to adorn their walls with heads and skins. TUE Many find it abhorrent, angry that it exists at all. Hunters TUE claim it is vital, providing money to fund conservation. TUE With hunters claiming that a ban would be "catastrophic" for TUE wildlife, what's the truth? TUE Biologist Professor Adam Hart explores this explosively TUE controversial subject, talking to hunters, conservationists, TUE lion experts and those opposed to hunting. TUE Trophy hunting is not the major problem. Lions are TUE persecuted because they eat livestock and threaten people. TUE Africa is not the romantic place we might think. A hugely TUE expanding population and development set us in conflict with TUE wildlife. TUE Trophy hunting does work in places where regular tourists TUE are few and far between. It works too in South Africa. TUE Private ownership and fencing, which protects wildlife from TUE people and people from wildlife, mean that hunting and TUE tourism generate the cash needed to maintain huge numbers of TUE animals. Wildlife thrives because "it pays it stays". TUE But in Tanzania lion populations are rapidly declining. TUE Craig Packer, a world expert on lions, says "it takes $2000 TUE annually to maintain 1km2 of lion habitat; 300000km2 of TUE hunting blocks need $600million. Trophy hunting pays TUE $20million with 10-15% used for conservation." It's the only TUE source of income but it is far too little, only slightly TUE slowing the inevitable. TUE Hunting pitches emotion against evidence and sentimentality TUE against practicality. Adam's travels reveal a complex and TUE sometimes unpalatable tale of economics, ecology and TUE conservation with implications that affect everyone that TUE cares about African wildlife. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b067x7g8 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b067x7gb (Listen) TUE After over a year of argument between the government, drug TUE companies and medics, all babies in the UK will be offered TUE vaccination against the B strain of meningitis from 1st TUE September. Mark Porter looks at how the argument has been TUE resolved and at the benefits of this vaccine. TUE TUE Some women going through the menopause develop depression. TUE Some doctors think that taking oestrogen can treat the TUE condition. Is there any evidence for this idea? TUE TUE Statins are the most commonly prescribed medicines in the TUE UK. They work to lower the level of cholesterol in your TUE blood. There's been considerable debate about when doctors TUE should start prescribing statins to patients. NICE, the TUE National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, has TUE recently changed its advice to GPs. Mark Porter asks why it TUE has done this. TUE TUE 21:30 Fry's English Delight b067wnnb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b067vwmh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b067x7gd (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b067x7gg (Listen) TUE Tightrope, Episode 7 TUE TUE A tale of love, betrayal and espionage as the political TUE alliances forged during the Second World War give way to the TUE moral uncertainties of the Cold War. TUE TUE Marian Sutro is a highly successful British SOE operative TUE working with the French Resistance. Then she is betrayed and TUE imprisoned in Ravensbrück by the Nazis. TUE TUE Returning to England a broken woman, she attempts to immerse TUE herself in a normal life with a mundane job in London. TUE However, the lure of the secret service and her desire to TUE work for the greater good is never far away. TUE TUE As the Americans test ever more deadly atomic weapons and TUE the Russians join the frantic race to match them, Marian TUE finds herself in demand by all sides with no moral compass TUE to guide her. TUE TUE She must walk an increasingly precarious tightrope between TUE her beliefs, her profession and her desires. TUE TUE Episode Seven. TUE By Simon Mawer. Marian and Absolon get closer - but who is TUE using who? And who else knows about them? TUE TUE Reader: Peter Firth TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Peter Firth TUE Author: Simon Mawer TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE TUE 23:00 Gossip from the Garden Pond b04gqzgp (Listen) TUE The Water Boatman and Great Diving Beetle TUE TUE The Water Boatman played by Sandi Toksvig and the Great TUE Diving Beetle played by David Ryall, reveal the truth about TUE life in a garden pond, in the second of three very funny TUE tales, written and introduced by Lynne Truss, with sound TUE recordings by Chris Watson and Tom Lawrence. TUE TUE Messing about in water is what the Water Boatman loves to do TUE most of all. Well actually the Water Boatman is a Boatwoman TUE and in truth she is a Backswimmer not a Water Boatman, but TUE she prefers to be called Water Boatman and being a decisive TUE no-nonsense type, so be it! Her days are spent rowing around TUE the pond and scooping up whatever tasty morsel takes her TUE fancy and trying her hardest to ignore the 'singing' of her TUE ardent admirer, Reg. Stridulation is the technical term for TUE Reg's singing; moving one part of his body against another TUE (a bit like crickets and grasshoppers) to create a courtship TUE 'song'. His persistence finally pays off, but does he win TUE her heart? TUE TUE Meanwhile, the Great Diving Beetle soars up and down through TUE the depths, spreading fear wherever he goes. With his coat TUE of armour, fantastic mandibles for tearing prey to pieces TUE and a highly unpleasant habit of ejecting toxic fumes at TUE potential predators, he's a creature to avoid! He did have a TUE mate once, but he ate her, and brothers and sisters too, but TUE he ate them. So all alone, he has plenty of time to think TUE and armed with his ballistic missiles he daydreams about TUE being a film star; a hero with super powers, and a match for TUE any creature ... even Batman! One evening though, whilst TUE flying round the neighbourhood, he comes across a shocking TUE scene at a nearby pond, and drawing on his armoury of TUE weapons, he defends the rights of his fellow beetles in a TUE vicious battle. TUE TUE Download the progamme for free TUE This programme will be available to download for free via TUE the BBC "Best of Natrual History Radio" podcast after TUE broadcast. Click TUE here TUE to access the podcast. TUE TUE Pond life inspiration TUE An illustration of pond life created by TUE Kenneth Anderson TUE for an article featured by Saga Magazine about the series. © TUE Kenneth Anderson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Lynne Truss TUE Water Boatman: Sandi Toksvig TUE Great Diving Beetle: David Ryall TUE Producer: Sarah Blunt TUE Writer: Lynne Truss TUE TUE 23:30 The Invention of Italy b03dfpjr (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Misha Glenny presents a compelling new history of Italy from TUE 1494 to the end of the First World War. TUE TUE In October 1860, on a misty road north of Naples, Giuseppe TUE Garibaldi met the future king of Italy and handed over TUE control of the south. This brief moment in the story of the TUE new Italian state has been often mythologised, but it is not TUE as straightforward as it seems. Violence, civil war, the TUE birth of the mafia - these elements in the story are often TUE overlooked. TUE TUE Beginning with Napoleon's call to the peoples of Italy in TUE 1796, Misha Glenny picks his way through Italian unification TUE with clarity and care. Rome only became part of this new TUE European country under a century and a half ago - and even TUE then the Pope ordered his followers neither to stand in nor TUE vote in elections for the new state. Small wonder some claim TUE that Italy is not really unified yet. TUE TUE With expert contributions from Christopher Duggan, Marco TUE Meriggi, Leoluca Orlando, Lucy Riall, Lucy Hughes-Hallet, TUE Filippo de Vivo, David Gilmour, Beppe Severgnini, Simon TUE Winder, Joze Serbec and David Laven. TUE TUE The presenter is Misha Glenny, who previously collaborated TUE with producer Miles Warde on the Invention of Germany and TUE the Invention of Spain. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 02 SEPTEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b067vwnb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b067wpjs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b067vwnd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b067vwng (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b067vwnj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b067vwnl (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0695147 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna WED Drew. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0680d0b (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvrt1 (Listen) WED Central Asian Bar-Headed Goose WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Sir David Attenborough presents the Central Asian bar-headed WED goose. The bar-headed goose is a high-flier of the bird WED world. Bar-headed geese are migrants which undertake one of WED the most arduous journeys of any bird. They breed mainly in WED the remote lakes of the Tibetan Plateau, but overwinter on WED the plains of northern India. But to get there, they have to WED cross the World's highest mountain range, the Himalayas, a WED height of over 20,000 feet. WED WED Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of John Downer / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01052866 WED © John Downer / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b068grm8 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Bringing Up Britain b0680g5x (Listen) WED Series 8, Boosting Your Child's IQ WED WED As summer ends and children trade flip flops for school WED shoes, Mariella Frostrup starts the new academic year WED exploring what can affect a child's IQ. WED WED Parents who read to their children, talk at the dinner table WED and help with homework might have happy offspring, but will WED they be making them smarter? WED WED In the light of research into the influence of genes, WED Mariella and her guests debate the role of parenting on WED intelligence. They explore recent research into the effect WED of exercise and sleep and ask what difference can WED breastfeeding, flashcards, violin lessons and superfoods WED really make. WED WED For the first in a new series of Radio 4's parenting WED programme, Mariella is joined by Dr Stuart Richie, WED Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive Ageing at the University of WED Edinburgh, writer and consultant Sue Palmer, Dr Sophie von WED Stumm, Lecturer in Psychology at Goldsmiths and Director of WED their Hungry Mind Lab, and Hilary Wilce, writer, advice WED columnist and coach. WED WED Producer: Sarah Bowen. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0680g64 (Listen) WED Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, Episode 3 WED WED Paul Theroux's account of his car journeys through America's WED southern states WED is timely, and abridged for radio by Katrin Williams: WED WED 3. The author stays at the 'Blue Shadows Bed and Breakfast' WED in Greensboro, WED and through its owner, Janet May, meets Randall Curb. And WED through Curb WED he will then encounter the legendary Mary Ward Brown, short WED story WED writer, aged 96. WED WED Reader Henry Goodman WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Henry Goodman WED Author: Paul Theroux WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0680g6b (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b0680g6f (Listen) WED Bindi Business, Episode 3 WED WED Tanika Gupta's new drama series about an eccentric WED 'olderpreneur's' adventures in business. WED WED After a promising start Bindi's Beauty Box appears to be in WED danger of falling apart. Has Bindi taken on more than she WED can manage? WED WED BINDI.....Meera Syal WED ANU.....Krupa Pattani WED SAM.....Will Ash WED UNCLE BASH.....Vincent Ebrahim WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED Credits WED Bindi: Meera Syal WED Raj: Chris Nayak WED Anu: Krupa Pattani WED Buzz: Tachia Newall WED Writer: Tanika Gupta WED Director: Nadia Molinari WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04xs4b8 (Listen) WED Sophia and Amber - Eating and Not Eating WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who are WED dedicated to promoting understanding of anorexia, after one WED of them got through it with the help of the other. WED WED The 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 Donald Duck Gets Drafted b0680gts (Listen) WED Marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, WED illustrator and animator Gerald Scarfe tells the story of WED Disney's fascinating on and off-screen contribution to the WED war effort. This documentary explores how the iconic Studio WED in California became a war plant in the 1940s, churning out WED groundbreaking military training films and propaganda WED shorts, educational posters and leaflets, along with WED insignias for troops to help boost morale on the frontline. WED WED Gerald, who worked as production designer on Disney's 1997's WED big screen animation Hercules, examines what motivated Walt WED to offer his artists' inkwells as weapons of war. He WED uncovers why Donald Duck rather than Mickey Mouse became the WED Studio's wartime mascot and reveals which film reportedly WED put Walt on Hitler's own personal hit list. Plus he examines WED Walt Disney's personal role as a Goodwill Ambassador in WED South America, intended to help stem potential Nazi WED influence. WED WED Produced by Kellie Redmond WED A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b0680gtv (Listen) WED Series 4, The Stag WED WED Damien and Anthony celebrate their stag weekend in Dublin WED when their plans to spend it at the opera are ruined by the WED weather. Meanwhile, Ian is tasked with looking after WED Damien's mother who is recovering from laser eye surgery. 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 Damien's Dad: Philip Fox WED Anthony's Dad: Philip Fox WED Mr Mullaney: Brendan Dempsey WED Damien's Mother: Selina Cadell WED The Waitress: Alex Tregear WED Ray Jarrow: Chris Brand WED The Chef: Stephen Critchlow WED Policeman: Stephen Critchlow WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Sam Michell WED WED 12:00 News Summary b067vwnn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 The Why Factor b0680gtx (Listen) WED Coming of Age WED WED Two girls, two stories, two very different outcomes. A party WED for one... a painful ordeal for another. WED Mike Williams asks Why societies around the world, mark a WED single, special day as the point when childhood ends and WED adulthood begins? WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b0680gtz (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b067vwnq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b068yn51 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward WED Stourton. WED WED 13:45 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b0680gv1 (Listen) WED Hitler's Library WED WED rancine Stock attempts to pin down the alluring yet elusive WED quality of charisma WED WED 8.Hitler's Library WED WED The historical ideas that influenced the Third Reich, and WED how the horrors of Hitler's so-called "dark charisma" have WED affected European attitudes to political charisma ever WED since. WED WED Francine Stock's starting point are the books in Hitler's WED library and the ideas which he drew from them. She talks WED with Professor John Adair from the UN about the influential WED "Great Man" theory of the Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle; WED and with Professor Michael Kenny from the Mile End Institute WED at Queen Mary, University of London, about the writings of WED the German sociologist, Max Weber, who died in 1920 but WED whose key work on charisma would have been known to Hitler. WED WED Francine moves on to consider how the atrocities of the WED Hitler years have created a suspicion of charismatic WED political leadership across Europe to this day - as WED witnessed, perhaps, in Angela Merkel's "drab charisma", or WED the ambivalence of the British electorate towards Tony WED Blair. WED WED With the help of writer and broadcaster Abdel Bari Atwan, WED author of an important new book on the "Digital Caliphate" WED of the so-called Islamic State, Francine wonders whether the WED dark charismatic power of an individual leader such as WED Hitler is now being replaced by a more diffuse but equally WED sinister online presence. WED WED Reader: Simon Russell Beale WED WED Producer: Beaty Rubens. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b067x5j3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b0680hnt (Listen) WED The Interrogation, Tom WED WED by Roy Williams. WED WED New series. Detective Chief Inspector Max Matthews and WED Detective Sergeant Sean Armitage are from different WED generations and different worlds, but together they make an WED excellent team. It's Sean's first day back since he was shot WED whilst on a case with Max, and both men are finding it hard WED to adjust. 1/3 The story of Tom, the son of a wealthy scrap WED metal merchant and his wife, an ex-PC and an old colleague WED of Max's. WED WED Director ..... Mary Peate WED WED Notes WED WED The fourth series of The Interrogation, running on WED successive Wednesdays starting on September 2nd, comprises WED three contemporary crime stories that probe some of today's WED most complex moral issues. The series features Kenneth WED Cranham and Alex Lanipekun as two police officers from WED different worlds, whose professional relationship has slowly WED evolved over the years, especially since Sean was seriously WED wounded in the course of action. WED WED Roy Williams OBE, has a distinguished career in theatre, WED television and radio. WED WED Theatre productions include KINGSTON 14 (Theatre Royal WED Stratford East), an adaptation of THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG WED DISTANCE RUNNER (Pilot Theatre/ UK Tour), SUCKER PUNCH WED (Royal Court Theatre, nominated for Olivier Award for Best WED Play), DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE (RSC) FALLOUT (Royal Court WED Theatre), SING YER HEART OUT FOR THE LADS (NT), CLUBLAND WED (Royal Court Theatre), THE GIFT (Birmingham Rep/Tricycle WED Theatre), LOCAL BOY (Hampstead Theatre). WED WED Television includes LET IT SNOW (Endor Productions/Sky), WED FALLOUT (Company Pictures/ Channel 4, Screen Nation Award WED for Achievement in Screenwriting), OFFSIDE (BBC, Winner of WED BAFTA Children's Film & TV Award for Best Schools Drama) and WED BABYFATHER (BBC). For film he has co-written FAST GIRLS (DJ WED Films). WED WED For radio, his work includes adaptations of ER Braithwaite's WED A CHOICE OF STRAWS and TO SIR WITH LOVE and original plays WED TELL TALE and HOMEBOYS. WED WED Credits WED DCI Max Matthews: Kenneth Cranham WED DS Sean Armitage: Alex Lanipekun WED Tom: Luke Norris WED Debbie Ross: Susan Brown WED Director: Mary Peate WED Writer: Roy Williams WED WED 15:00 The New Workplace b067vh8v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b067x7gb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Inconspicuous Consumption b055j9s1 (Listen) WED Exist Through the Gift Shop WED WED This series aims to look at the cultural consumption that WED other media ignore. We treasure our great museums and WED galleries, but they increasingly depend on income and we WED increasingly depend on purchases to somehow validate our WED visit. WED WED So what's in a postcard, a piece of replica jewellery or a WED tin of Rosetta Stone Mints? When we give a gift from a WED museum shop, what are we telling the recipient? WED WED Nick Baker visits museums and galleries in London and WED Liverpool, hanging around gift shops and quizzing customers WED on how their purchases relate to what they've seen in the WED exhibitions to which they relate. If they relate. Some WED gallery gift shops feature stuff that's not really connected WED to the exhibits within. Others offer expensive replicas, WED like the British Museum's Elgin Marble gifts. WED WED Andy Warhol famously predicted that one day, "All department WED stores will become museums, and all museums will become WED department stores." At a Warhol exhibition in Tate WED Liverpool, this seems to be becoming true. Shoppers there WED reflect on their purchases, how they relate to the WED consumer-focused artist who inspired them, and what they'll WED do with them when they get them home. WED WED Sharon Macdonald, a cultural anthropologist and keen museum WED shopper explains how museums simultaneously are and aren't WED like department stores, and we visit the V&A jewellery WED department to ask people whether, when they look at the WED exhibits, they imagine themselves wearing them. WED WED Produced and Presented by Nick Baker WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0680hnw (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0680hny (Listen) WED News interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b067vwns (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03jb1wp (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 1 WED WED Comedy from the lopsided world of David Mitchell and Robert WED Webb, with Olivia Colman and James Bachman. This week's WED sketches include the future of farming - battery penguins; WED Thomas Hardy's exciting idea to make his books even sadder; WED and the very confusing goings on in a cash-register shop. WED WED Credits WED Performer: David Mitchell WED Performer: Robert Webb WED Performer: Olivia Colman WED Performer: James Bachman WED Writer: David Mitchell WED Writer: Robert Webb WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0680jh2 (Listen) WED Adam spells out his plans, and David extends the hand of WED friendship. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0680jh4 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0680g6f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 FutureProofing b0680jh6 (Listen) WED Food WED WED Presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson taste some WED strange foods of the future, as they investigate how WED technology and a rising global population might transform WED what we eat. WED WED With a predicted two billion extra mouths to feed by 2050 WED and a rapidly rising obesity problem in many richer WED countries, the world faces a 21st century food crisis which WED combines the threats of starvation and ill health from WED over-eating at the same time. WED WED FutureProofing examines possible responses to these twin WED problems: change in the way food is produced, and change in WED the way we think about food and its place in our lives, WED could significantly alter what we eat in the decades to WED come. Visiting Italy, the programme finds what solutions are WED on offer at the huge Expo 2015, as countries from across the WED world present their ideas for the future of food. WED WED Producer: Jonathan Brunert. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0680jh8 (Listen) WED Shane McCorristine WED WED Talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 From Enlightenment to Entanglement b067x47p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Bringing Up Britain b0680g5x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0680k6l (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0680k6n (Listen) WED Tightrope, Episode 8 WED WED A tale of love, betrayal and espionage as the political WED alliances forged during the Second World War give way to the WED moral uncertainties of the Cold War. WED WED Marian Sutro is a highly successful British SOE operative WED working with the French Resistance. Then she is betrayed and WED imprisoned in Ravensbrück by the Nazis. WED WED Returning to England a broken woman, she attempts to immerse WED herself in a normal life with a mundane job in London. WED However, the lure of the secret service and her desire to WED work for the greater good is never far away. WED WED As the Americans test ever more deadly atomic weapons and WED the Russians join the frantic race to match them, Marian WED finds herself in demand by all sides with no one moral WED compass to guide her. WED WED She must walk an increasingly precarious tightrope between WED her beliefs, her profession and her desires. WED WED Episode Eight. WED By Simon Mawer. Marian feels vulnerable without Absolon and WED unsure about who to trust. Then she receives some unexpected WED news. WED WED Reader: Peter Firth WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Peter Firth WED Author: Simon Mawer WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED WED 23:00 Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side WED b0680k6q (Listen) WED Series 2, A Wholly Holistic Elvis WED WED The second series of Elvis McGonagall's daft comic world of WED poems, mad sketches, satire and facetious remarks, broadcast WED from his home in the Graceland Caravan Park just outside WED Dundee. WED WED Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary, comedian and WED broadcaster Elvis McGonagall (aka poet and performer Richard WED Smith) continues his frenzied and largely ineffectual search WED for the bright side. He is unenthusiastically convinced that WED there is a positive side to life. He's heard talk of it. He WED may even have caught a glimpse of it somewhere. So, from his WED caravan in the Graceland Caravan Park near Dundee, the WED Scottish punk poet goes in search of it. WED WED With the hindrance of his dog Trouble and his friend Susan WED Morrison, Elvis does his very best to accentuate the WED positive - but the negative has a nasty habit of coming back WED to roost with the grim regularity of an unimaginative WED pigeon. WED WED Recorded entirely on location, in a caravan on a truly WED glamorous industrial estate somewhere in Scotland. WED WED Episode 2: A Wholly Holistic Elvis. WED Elvis is feeling distinctly off-colour and Trouble has WED terrible wind, so when an outbreak of an obscure new strain WED of flu from the Himalayas is announced, he fears the worst. WED Can traditional medicine help them? Or do man and dog simply WED need to think positive? The two invalids set out boldly in WED search of alternative health. WED WED Written by Elvis McGonagall, with Richard Smith, Helen WED Braunholtz-Smith and Frank Stirling. WED WED Producer: Frank Stirling WED A Unique Broadcasting Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Elvis MacGonagall: Richard Smith WED Narrator: Clarke Peters WED Susan: Susan Morrison WED Dexter Clarke: Roger Lloyd Thompson WED Actor: Lewis Mcleod WED Actor: Gabriel Quigley WED Actor: Helen Braunholtz-Smith WED Writer: Richard Smith WED Writer: Helen Braunholtz-Smith WED Writer: Frank Stirling WED Director: Frank Stirling WED WED 23:15 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b02147zz (Listen) WED Series 2, About Difficult Dads WED WED EPISODE SIX: ABOUT DIFFICULT DADS 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 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 - turning 50 and doesn't want to. WED WED Shirley a.k.a. Grandma - can't believe she left the paradise WED in the West Indies and came to the freezing United Kingdom WED for a better life so that years later her grandson could WED 'tell jokes!' How can her grandson go on stage and use foul WED language and filthy material... it's not the good Christian WED way! 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 Difficult Dads WED WED Nathan's Dad celebrates his 50th birthday but resents being WED made to feel middle-aged by his son. So, he challenges him WED to see who is The Man of the House. 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 Girl: Chizzy Akudolu WED Reverend Williams: Don Gilet WED Comedy Club Promoter: Ola WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Writer: Nathan Caton WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Ola WED Writer: Maff Brown WED WED 23:30 The Invention of Italy b03f97nz (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Misha Glenny concludes the Invention of Italy in the Alps WED and Trieste, ambitious targets of Italian warmongers in the WED First World War. WED WED "You need to think of the fighting taking place in Flanders WED applied in the rocky limestone of the Alps .... the Italians WED at the bottom, the Austrians at the top." Mark Thompson, The WED White War WED WED In 1915 Italy entered the Great War on the side of France, WED Britain and Russia. The aim ? To gain new territory up north WED to the watershed of the Alps; and also east over the WED Adriatic into parts of what later became Yugoslavia. The WED price of these ambitions - nearly three quarters of a WED million Italians dead in the snow and rock. They died WED upholding the nationalist belief this new Italian nation - WED barely fifty years old - needed to spill blood to prove WED itself, to demonstrate they were not just waiters and ice WED cream salesmen. WED WED Chief among the characters who dragged Italy into war was a WED poet, Gabrielle d'Annunzio, bald as a coot and a great WED seducer of Italian women, and Italian minds. In the third WED and final Invention of Italy, Misha Glenny travels along the WED frontline, from Trieste via alpine trenches to Lake Garda, WED where d'Annunzio's Vittoriale degli Italiani attempted to WED create an Italian fighting tradition by dragging a WED battleship up the hill and setting it among ornamental WED gardens. WED WED With expert contributions from Joze Serbec of the Kobarid WED museum in Slovenia; Lucy Hughes-Hallet, author of The Pike, WED the autobiography of d'Annunzio shortlisted for the Samuel WED Johnson Prize; plus Simon Winder, David Gilmour, David WED Laven, and Mark Thompson, author The White War: Life and WED Death on the Italian Front. WED WED THU THURSDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b067vwr1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0680g64 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b067vwr3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b067vwr5 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b067vwr7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b067vwr9 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0695dsw (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna THU Drew. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b068c7n5 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Produced by Mark Smalley and presented by Anna Hill. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvsly (Listen) THU Brown Noddy THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Sir David Attenborough presents a seabird with a worldwide THU distribution, the brown noddy. Expert fliers, the brown THU noddy is seldom seen near land and is highly pelagic, THU wandering extensively in warm tropical waters where it THU searches for small fish and squid which are captured by THU hover-dipping and contact-dipping. However in the Galapagos THU Islands, brown noddies have learnt to sit on the heads of THU brown pelicans hoping to steal fish from their open gular THU pouches; a behaviour known as kleptoparasitism (literally, THU parasitism by theft). THU THU Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Julian Partridge / naturepl.com THU THU NPL Ref THU 01117133 THU © Julian Partridge / naturepl.com THU THU The brown noddy is also known as "common noddy". THU THU 06:00 Today b068c7n8 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Great Lives b065vrl8 (Listen) THU Series 37, Michael Howard on Elizabeth I THU THU Matthew Parris meets the former leader of the Conservative THU Party Michael Howard to discuss the life of Elizabeth I of THU England. THU THU They're joined by Professor Paulina Kewes of Jesus College THU Oxford. THU THU Producer: Maggie Ayre. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Matthew Parris THU Interviewed Guest: Michael Howard THU Interviewed Guest: Paulina Kewes THU Producer: Maggie Ayre THU THU 09:30 Last Day b04hvxbk (Listen) THU Shutting Down THU THU Trampolining is the most important thing in Ollie Monroe's THU life. He was a national competitor, is now a coach, and has THU invested an incredible amount of time, money and energy into THU building up a successful trampoline club. Now, through no THU fault of his own, the club is due to shut. We join him for THU his emotional last day. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0680lpf (Listen) THU Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, Episode 4 THU THU Paul Theroux's account of his car journeys across America's THU southern states is timely, THU and abridged for radio by Katrin Williams: THU THU 4. At Aiken's steeplechase event he meets well-healed THU locals, mainly horse THU people and cotton baron descendents. Then he visits a hovel, THU once inhabited THU by Melvin Johnson, who has stories to tell.. THU THU Reader Henry Goodman THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Henry Goodman THU Author: Paul Theroux THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0680lph (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 b0680lpk (Listen) THU Bindi Business, Episode 4 THU THU Tanika Gupta's new drama series about a mobile beauty THU business. THU THU Now that Bindi's Beauty Box has hit some problems, Bindi THU desperately needs inspiration and guidance. THU THU BINDI.....Meera Syal THU RAJ.....Chris Nayak THU HEMA.....Rina Fatania THU DWAYNE....Andonis Anthony THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU Bindi: Meera Syal THU Raj: Chris Nayak THU Anu: Krupa Pattani THU Buzz: Tachia Newall THU Writer: Tanika Gupta THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b0680lpm (Listen) THU Hodei - The Man Who Vanished THU THU The last time anyone saw Hodei Egiluz, a 23-year-old THU computer engineer from Spain, was on a night out in the THU Belgian port of Antwerp in October 2013. Hodei is one of THU roughly 10,000 people who disappear in Europe every year. THU But his case has sparked a remarkable response. Practically THU his entire home town in Spain got behind the Belgian police THU search in one way or another. The search for Hodei triggered THU a campaign which eventually drew in figures such as THU footballer Ronaldo and the prime minister of Spain. But two THU years on Hodei is still missing. For Crossing Continents, THU Neal Razzell retraces Hodei's last hours in Antwerp and THU tries to unravel the mystery surrounding his disappearance. THU Producer: Charlotte McDonald. THU THU 11:30 JD Salinger's Spiritual Quest b050rz2r (Listen) THU When the late American author J D Salinger ceased publishing THU and withdrew from the public gaze, he left many with a THU fractured understanding of the man behind the writing. THU THU His books, including Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories, THU supported the belief that Salinger flew from one religious THU conviction to another. However, recently released letters THU reveal a deep and enduring relationship with both Hindu THU philosophy and a New York based monk. THU THU There's always been a certain mystique to the iconic THU Salinger. While The Catcher in the Rye has sold over 65 THU million copies, the author lived much of his life as a THU recluse. But, even while out of the spotlight, Salinger THU continued to write letters. He was a keen correspondent with THU friends and family - including the spiritual leader of the THU Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York, Swami THU Nikhilananda. THU THU In this programme, Vishva Samani investigates what the THU letters might tell us about Salinger's relationship with THU Hindu philosophy and, in turn, his literature. THU Today, the hidden and pervasive influence of Vedanta and THU Indian philosophy is interwoven into all our daily lives. We THU talk of karma, practice yoga, and every politician has a THU 'mantra'. However in the 1950's and 1960s, few outside of THU India Salinger had heard these terms. THU THU As a journalist and Hindu centred in Vedanta, Vishva Samani THU seeks to clarify whether Salinger just dabbled or if his THU faith went deeper. She reveals how Vedanta left India to THU reach not just the Western World, but other brilliant minds THU including William James, Leo Tolstoy, Nikola Tesla, Aldous THU Huxley and, of course, Salinger. THU THU Producer: Russell Crewe THU A Like It Is Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b067vwrf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 The Why Factor b0680lxv (Listen) THU Hair THU THU Why is hair such an important part of who we are? THU THU Each year we spend billions of dollars on cutting, shaping THU and colouring our hair. It's important for personal, THU cultural and symbolic reasons. THU THU But why? Find out, as Mike Williams hears the stories of THU people who have had their hair taken from them... THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b068cbfw (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b067vwrh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b068ynp8 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward THU Stourton. THU THU 13:45 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b0680lxz (Listen) THU The Nelson Effect THU THU Francine Stock attempts to pin down the alluring yet elusive THU quality of charisma THU 9.The Nelson Effect THU The charisma of humility and service in Nelson Mandela and THU the Dalai Lama THU THU Throughout the series, Francine Stock has been fascinated to THU learn that charisma is an amoral quality - value-free, THU neither positive nor negative in itself, with the potential THU to do good or harm depending on those who harness it. In the THU previous episode, she considered the appalling impact of THU Hitler's "dark charisma". THU THU She now turns to two 21st century individuals who have used THU their charisma to serve their people: Nelson Mandela and the THU Dalai Lama. THU THU Francine talks with Moeletsi Mbeki, Deputy Chairman of the THU South African Institute of International Affairs, who knew THU Nelson Mandela well and who anatomises his particularly THU powerful type of charisma. And she hears from Jas Elsner, THU who has worked closely with the Dalai Lama, and who explains THU how his religious upbringing and belief underpin his THU charisma. THU THU In an era in which the casual use of the term charisma has THU proliferated, Professor John Potts - who recently came THU across an advertisement for a "charismatic sandwich" (one in THU which the lettuce was particularly crisp) - discusses the THU importance of authenticity in the truly charismatic. THU THU Producer: Beaty Rubens. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0680jh2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b0680s8k (Listen) THU The Toffee Tip THU THU A semi-autobiographical childhood adventure-comedy, written THU and directed by Johnny Vegas. THU THU Money is tighter than ever in the Pennington household and THU nobody is feeling the pinch more than Johnny. His favourite THU Dandelion and Burdock has been replaced with Council Pop THU (water). He's been reduced to window shopping at their local THU corner shop and his Mum has taken up knitting again. THU THU All seems desperate until Johnny's friend Ian is short THU changed on a bag of crisps and the shop's proprietor reveals THU the existence of the toffee tip - a local dumping ground for THU all shop spoiled confectionary. THU THU The boys plan a daring expedition way beyond the confines of THU Hayes Street in search of its discarded sugary delights. THU THU Baffling bus routes, a traveller's camp and a lost tin THU opener threaten to thwart them at every turn and test their THU solidarity to breaking point. THU THU This coming of age tale reminds us of the magical hinterland THU of being still young enough to believe the impossible, but THU just old enough to be aware of the harsh realities of what THU might actually lie ahead. THU THU Producer: Sally Harrison THU Writer and Director: Johnny Vegas THU THU A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Mick: Joshua Moodie THU Martin: Michael Pennington Junior THU Johnny: Ethan Coughlin THU Ian: Joe Gaffney THU Jimmy: Jimmy Metcalfe THU Mark: Mark Pennington THU Actor: Johnny Vegas THU Actor: Peter Slater THU Actor: Tigga Goulding THU Actor: James Langtree-Brown THU Producer: Sally Harrison THU Director: Johnny Vegas THU Writer: Johnny Vegas THU THU 15:00 Open Country b0680s8m (Listen) THU The Peak District THU THU Helen Mark is in the Peak District to meet Mountain Rescue THU Team who keep visitors safe should they come a cropper when THU enjoying the rugged countryside. THU THU The Peak District is one of the most popular destinations in THU the world as over half the UK's population lives within an THU hour of the area. Helen takes to two wheels to discover the THU network of traffic-free cycle tracks, before meeting the THU Buxton Mountain Rescue team on one of their exercises. The THU summer is one of their busiest of times and they regularly THU train so that they are ready for any situation that they are THU faced with. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b067x8m6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b067xcy8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b0680s8p (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b0680s8r (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b068ynpb (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b067vwrk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b0680s8t (Listen) THU Series 5, Loggerheads THU THU One of the world's best storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 THU doing what he does best. THU THU This week, we find how turtles have featured in the writer's THU life since childhood in Loggerheads and we hear a final THU extract from his peerless diaries. 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 THU 19:00 The Archers b0680s8w (Listen) THU Brian has the perfect solution, and Clarrie gets an THU embarrassing surprise. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0680s8y (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0680lpk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0680s90 (Listen) THU The IRA and Sexual Abuse THU THU MáirÃa Cahill was Irish republican royalty. So it sent THU shockwaves through the republican movement when she spoke THU out last year about the sexual abuse she suffered at the THU hands of a senior IRA operative. Cahill tells her story to THU BBC Northern Ireland's Jennifer O'Leary. THU THU Presenter: Jennifer O'Leary THU Producer: Ben Crighton. THU THU 20:30 In Business b0680s92 (Listen) THU Colombian Women THU THU An International Labour Organization report ranked Colombia THU second globally for the percentage of women in middle and THU senior management positions. Peter Day investigates why THU Colombian women have managed to advance in business and THU whether the figures are a true reflection of life for women THU in a country known for its machismo culture. THU THU Producer: Keith Moore. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b0680s8r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Great Lives b065vrl8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0680t85 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0680t87 (Listen) THU Tightrope, Episode 9 THU THU A tale of love, betrayal and espionage as the political THU alliances forged during the Second World War give way to the THU moral uncertainties of the Cold War. THU THU Marian Sutro is a highly successful British SOE operative THU working with the French Resistance. Then she is betrayed and THU imprisoned in Ravensbrück by the Nazis. THU THU Returning to England a broken woman, she attempts to immerse THU herself in a normal life with a mundane job in London. THU However, the lure of the secret service and her desire to THU work for the greater good is never far away. THU THU As the Americans test ever more deadly atomic weapons and THU the Russians join the frantic race to match them, Marian THU finds herself in demand by all sides with no moral compass THU to guide her. THU THU She must walk an increasingly precarious tightrope between THU her beliefs, her profession and her desires. THU THU Episode Nine. THU By Simon Mawer. Marian encounters a man from her past with THU disastrous consequences. She receives news that forces her THU to take action and make a plan. THU THU Reader: Peter Firth THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Peter Firth THU Author: Simon Mawer THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU THU 23:00 Woman's Hour b0680ttg (Listen) THU Late Night Woman's Hour: Lesbian and Gay Identity THU THU Late night live conversation, with Jane Garvey. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jane Garvey THU THU FRI FRIDAY 04 SEPTEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b067vwtq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0680lpf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b067vwtv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b067vwtx (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b067vwv1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b067vwv3 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b068yq82 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna FRI Drew. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b068lsn4 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dv7fc (Listen) FRI Blue Bird of Paradise FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Sir David Attenborough begins the series with the blue bird FRI of paradise. The crow sized blue birds of paradise provide a FRI spectacular flash of blue in the Papua New Guinea FRI rainforests yet it is the males dazzling courtship FRI performance which grabs a female's attention. Tipping FRI forward from his perch he hangs upside down fluffing out and FRI shimmering his gauzy breast feathers. As if this weren't FRI enough, as the female approaches, he increases the frequency FRI of his calls to produce a hypnotic mechanical buzzing, more FRI like the song of a giant cicada than any bird. FRI FRI Blue Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Tim Laman / naturepl.com FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01442262 FRI © Tim Laman / naturepl.com FRI FRI FRI 06:00 Today b068lsmh (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b067xb8r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06810pl (Listen) FRI Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, Episode 5 FRI FRI Paul Theroux's account of his car journeys across America's FRI southern states FRI is timely, and abridged for radio by Katrin Williams: FRI FRI 5. He takes to the backroads of Georgia and Alabama, which FRI smell of sun-heated tar. FRI The fields are full of cotton and the big rivers beckon.. FRI FRI Reader Henry Goodman FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Henry Goodman FRI Author: Paul Theroux FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b068lsn6 (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 b06810pn (Listen) FRI Bindi Business, Episode 5 FRI FRI New drama series by Tanika Gupta about an 'olderpreneur' who FRI sets up a mobile beauty business. FRI FRI Will Bindi overcome the obstacles in her path and with the FRI help of her family lead her business Bindi's Beauty Box to FRI success? FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Credits FRI Bindi: Meera Syal FRI Raj: Chris Nayak FRI Anu: Krupa Pattani FRI Uncle Bash: Vincent Ebrahim FRI Writer: Tanika Gupta FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI FRI 11:00 Mending Young Minds b06810pq (Listen) FRI Teenagers FRI FRI In this moving and insightful two part series for BBC Radio FRI 4, children and teenagers receiving treatment at the world FRI renowned Tavistock Centre in London share their experience FRI of living with mental health problems. FRI FRI Over recent years the number of British children suffering FRI from psychiatric illnesses has increased considerably and FRI the age of presentation is falling. The Sunday Times has FRI reported that the number of children admitted to hospital FRI for self-harm, eating disorders and other psychological FRI problems has doubled in four years. One in 10 FRI five-to-16-year-olds has a mental health disorder, according FRI to a 2014 Parliamentary task force report, and there has FRI been a dramatic increase in demand for childhood and FRI adolescent mental health services across the country. FRI FRI In this programme, Dr. Juliet Singer goes inside the FRI consulting room to speak to teenage patients, their parents FRI and therapists about what's it's like to live with mental FRI illness - including depression, suicidal thoughts, self-harm FRI and anxiety - and how they are being treated. FRI FRI The series explores why mental health problems among young FRI people appear to be getting worse, with increased pressures FRI from schools, parents, peer groups and social media. FRI FRI Presenter: Juliet Singer FRI Producer: Melissa FitzGerald FRI FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Sisters b06810ps (Listen) FRI No Friends FRI FRI Blake has a new girlfriend meaning Susan is even more at a FRI loose end than usual. Unfortunately, it's time Susan chooses FRI to spend irritating Fiona. FRI FRI In a bid to occupy her, Fiona introduces Susan to some of FRI her work friends but her attempts to control Susan's FRI behaviour are ignored and Susan is soon proving herself to FRI be a social liability - or at least in Fiona's eyes. From FRI Susan's point of view, she has become the life and soul of FRI the party. FRI FRI It becomes a battle for the friends' attentions, with Susan FRI and Fiona each attempting to prove they are the more fun FRI sibling. Meanwhile, Blake's relationship with hipster FRI girlfriend Martine gets seriously challenged by a resentful FRI Susan . FRI FRI Written by Susan Calman FRI Starring: Susan Calman, Ashley Jensen and Nick Helm FRI FRI Producer: Mollie Freedman Berthoud FRI Executive Producer Paul Schlesinger FRI A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Susan Calman FRI Actor: Ashley Jensen FRI Actor: Nick Helm FRI Writer: Susan Calman FRI Producer: Mollie Freedman Berthoud FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b067vwv9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 The Why Factor b06810pv (Listen) FRI Ties FRI FRI It's mundane. About 150 centimetres long, often made of FRI satin or silk and worn by millions, mostly by men, every FRI day. Mike Williams explores the enduring appeal of the tie. FRI FRI It's a paradoxical item of clothing: One the one hand, it FRI expresses a desire to fit in and conform - to belong - yet FRI it also says something about our need to demonstrate our FRI individuality. Historically, wearing a tie has meant many FRI different things: from being seen as being anti-Islamic in FRI the wake of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, to representing FRI subversion and being a symbol of sub-cultural cool. FRI FRI Producer: Jim Frank. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06810px (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b067vwvf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06810pz (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b06810q1 (Listen) FRI The New Corinthians FRI FRI Francine Stock's final attempt to pin down the alluring yet FRI elusive quality of charisma. FRI 10.The New Corinthians FRI FRI Francine Stock examines the paradox at the heart of charisma FRI today: that we recognise its intangibility and often debunk FRI it, but continue to crave it and even believe we can buy it. FRI FRI Her starting point is the banking crisis of 2008. She talks FRI with Elesa Zhendorfer about her new book on the role of FRI charismatic leadership in the volatile world of banking; and FRI hears from business journalist and broadcaster Peter Day, FRI who passionately denounces the narcissistic role of FRI so-called charismatic leaders in business and finance today. FRI FRI Francine then returns to the beginnings of her search, FRI hearing about today's version of charismatic Christianity in FRI today's largely secular society, and its attempts to use FRI charisma for the common good, in accordance with St Paul's FRI original definition. FRI FRI Francine Stock concludes by wondering whether we can turn FRI this gift of grace to shared advantage: "After all," she FRI states, "We get the charismatics we deserve." FRI FRI Producer : Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0680s8w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06810q3 (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 3 FRI FRI Drama: Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly FRI More tales from the team of Manchester's finest paralegals. FRI Frank's mate Mickey is organising a surprise birthday party FRI for his young wife Magda, but she is implicated in a crime FRI that might blow their marriage apart. Meanwhile Ronnie is FRI becoming involved with a charismatic older man who runs a FRI voluntary organisation. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Sarah: Kathryn Hunt FRI Ronnie: Rachel Austin FRI Magda: Miranda Keeling FRI Nick: Graeme Hawley FRI Peter: Hugo Chandor FRI Mickey: Stephen Hillman FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Tom Fry FRI Writer: Sharon Kelly FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06810q5 (Listen) FRI Liverpool FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Liverpool. Matthew Wilson, Christine Walkden and Pippa FRI Greenwood answer questions from the audience. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Angielski b06810q7 (Listen) FRI Woman of Your Dreams FRI FRI Three newly commissioned stories offering different angles FRI on the Polish experience in London. FRI FRI Estimates vary but there are now approximately 750,000 Poles FRI living in the UK. And Polish is now the second most spoken FRI language in England. Much of this is the result of FRI immigration since Poland joined the EU in 2004 - but there FRI is also an older community that developed in the years after FRI the Polish Resettlement Act of 1947. FRI FRI Episode 2: Woman of Your Dreams by A.M. Bakalar FRI In Dorota's hairdressing salon-cum-living room in Hounslow, FRI Angelika begins to wonder about her self-image. FRI FRI Reader: Natasha Radski FRI FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: AM Bakalar FRI Reader: Natasha Radski FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06810q9 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06810qc (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04xs4bx (Listen) FRI John and Fiona - A Second Chance FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a father and daughter, FRI both musicians, reflecting on the turn of events that led FRI her to exchange her career as a dancer for one as a singer. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b068c1k3 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b067vwvt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b06811fb (Listen) FRI Series 15, Episode 4 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 b06811ff (Listen) FRI The Archers FRI FRI Opera Singers ..... Pop-up Opera: Eve Daniell, Helen FRI Stanley, Adam Torrance, Oskar McCarthy, Alex Learmonth, FRI Clementine Lovell, Cliff Zammit Stevens, Una Reynolds. MD: FRI Berrak Dyer. FRI FRI Orchestra ..... Orchestra of the Swan, conducted by David FRI Curtis: Jonathan Hill, Cathy Hamer, Adrian Turner, Bryony FRI James, Stacey Watton, Diane Clarke, Louise Braithwaite, FRI Sally Harrop, Phil Brookes, Francesca Moore-Bridger. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Gwenda Hughes FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b068c2l4 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06810pn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06811fh (Listen) FRI Amanda Foreman, Alan Johnson MP, Ken Livingstone FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Dorford Centre in Dorchester with a panel FRI including, the historian Amanda Foreman, Labour MP Alan FRI Johnson and the former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06811fk (Listen) FRI The Abolition of Man FRI FRI John Gray warns about the dangers of science that attempts FRI to enhance human abilities. He says such knowledge can FRI jeopardize the very things that make us human. FRI FRI More than 70 years after C.S. Lewis wrote "The Abolition of FRI Man", John Gray argues that Lewis' questions are even more FRI relevant today than they were then. "The scientists of FRI Lewis's generation were dissatisfied with existing FRI humankind" he writes. "Using new techniques, they were FRI convinced they could design a much improved version of the FRI species". FRI FRI But Gray says that while the scientific knowledge needed to FRI remould humanity hardly existed then, it is rapidly FRI developing at the present time. FRI FRI He believes that the sciences of bioengineering and FRI artificial intelligence carry serious risks. "If at some FRI unknown point in the future it becomes feasible to remould FRI ourselves according to our dreams" he writes, "the result FRI can only be an impoverishment of the human world". FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Gray FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong FRI FRI 21:00 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b06811fm (Listen) FRI Omnibus, Episode 2 FRI FRI The second omnibus of Francine Stock's major history of the FRI alluring yet elusive quality that is charisma. FRI FRI This edition brings the power and appeal of charisma up to FRI date by exploring its role in theatre and film stars such as FRI Sarah Bernhardt; self-made businessmen such as W.K.Kellogg, FRI Henry Ford and Steve Jobs; totalitarian leaders including FRI Hitler, and new forms of political extremism such as the FRI so-called Islamic State; civil rights leaders, Nelson FRI Mandela and the Dalai Lama; and the volatile world of FRI contemporary banking. FRI FRI Francine Stock concludes the series by considering our FRI continuing hunger for charisma, and signs off with this FRI warning: "we get the charismatics we deserve." FRI FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b067vwvw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06811qc (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06811qf (Listen) FRI Tightrope, Episode 10 FRI FRI A tale of love, betrayal and espionage as the political FRI alliances forged during the Second World War give way to the FRI moral uncertainties of the Cold War. FRI FRI Marian Sutro is a highly successful British SOE operative FRI working with the French Resistance. Then she is betrayed and FRI imprisoned in Ravensbrück by the Nazis. FRI FRI Returning to England a broken woman, she attempts to immerse FRI herself in a normal life with a mundane job in London. FRI However, the lure of the secret service and her desire to FRI work for the greater good is never far away. FRI FRI As the Americans test ever more deadly atomic weapons and FRI the Russians join the frantic race to match them, Marian FRI finds herself in demand by all sides with no moral compass FRI to guide her. FRI FRI She must walk an increasingly precarious tightrope between FRI her beliefs, her profession and her desires. FRI FRI Episode Ten. FRI By Simon Mawer. Sam, now a young man, helps Marian put her FRI final plan into action. Back to the present and she tells FRI him what happened with the rest of her life. FRI FRI Reader: Peter Firth FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Peter Firth FRI Author: Simon Mawer FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI FRI 23:00 Woman's Hour b06b89wt (Listen) FRI Late Night Woman's Hour FRI FRI Late night live conversation, with Jane Garvey. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jane Garvey FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04xrj8b (Listen) FRI Eilidh and Alisdair - He'll Always Be Older FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a father and FRI daughter remembering the tragic accidental death of their FRI son/brother and how they have dealt with it. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
28 August, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 29/08/2015 - 04/09/2015
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