10 July, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 11/07/2009 - 17/07/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 11 JULY 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00lj1tw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00lk4dr (Listen) SAT Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 5 SAT Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of SAT the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky. SAT On August 17th 1940 at 4.35pm, the iron doors of Trotsky's SAT safe haven gave way and a man known to Trotsky as Frank SAT Jacson, a Canadian businessman, was admitted to the patio. SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lj1ty (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lj1v0 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lj1v2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00lj1v4 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lj1v6 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Murdoch. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00lj1v8 (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00lj1vb (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00lj832 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00lj8yf (Listen) SAT Sussex Visions SAT Matt Baker takes a fresh look at one of Britain's most SAT visited landscape. SAT His first step is to join the Natural Navigator, Tristan SAT Gooley, to learn how to travel the Sussex Downs without a SAT map or compass, relying instead on the angle of plant SAT growth and the tracks of animals. SAT The beauties of the Sussex landscape lacked a certain SAT something in the late-18th century, according to local SAT landowner, 'Mad' Jack Fuller, and so he embarked on SAT Britain's greatest programme of folly building. His SAT pyramids, observatories and towers continue to dominate SAT the landscape. Matt joins local writer John Naish for a SAT tour of Fuller's follies. SAT Matt will also be examining the literary landscape of SAT Sussex, from the pre-war works of Edward Thomas and SAT Virginia Woolf through to the darker visions of the SAT landscape from sci-fi writers like John Wyndham and SAT contemporary thriller writer, Peter Moore. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00lj8yh (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00lj8yk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00lj8ym (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00lj8yp (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Rev Richard Coles is joined by James SAT Palumbo, the founder of the Ministry of Sound nightclub SAT and brand. With poetry from Kate Fox. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00lj8yr (Listen) SAT Voyaging by cargo ship is a more leisurely and potentially SAT greener way to go. They will often take you to places the SAT ordinary tourist would never visit. Sandi Toksvig talks to SAT Ghislaine Armitage and Hannah Isaacs about voyaging as SAT passengers amongst the containers to China and back, and SAT to David Baboulene about his experiences as a crew member SAT on freighters round the globe - including being attacked SAT by pirates. SAT Although there are just ten basic types of clouds they SAT vary in style and formation all round the world. Sandi SAT hears from Gavin Pretor-Pinney of The Cloud Appreciation SAT Society about how cloudspotting can be a perfect pastime SAT for travellers, and why the 600-mile long 'Morning Glory' SAT cloud in Australia has become a tourist attraction in SAT itself. SAT SAT 10:30 Tarantino's Jukebox b00lj8yt (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Composer and film music historian Robert Ziegler talks to SAT American film-maker Quentin Tarantino about the music he SAT has used to soundtrack his films. SAT Music plays a key role in Tarantino's films, including SAT Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, and he SAT reveals to Robert his musical influences and the way in SAT which he plunders his own backstory, remembering the SAT tracks of his youth and making references to - and SAT featuring music from - cult films and television. SAT Recorded on location in Tarantino's favourite Los Angeles SAT diner, the programme also provides an insight into the way SAT music can infuse a film, and the way a film can bring SAT music back to life from the dusty vaults. SAT The programme also features contributions from Mary Wilson SAT of the Supremes, Dusty Springfield's manager Vicki SAT Wickham, film producer Laurence Bender, music and film SAT critic Paul Gambaccini, film editor Sally Menke and music SAT supervisors Mary Ramos and Karyn Rachtman. SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00lj8yw (Listen) SAT This week Peter Riddell looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT Two former defence secretaries John Hutton and Sir Malcolm SAT Rifkind look at the options for the defence review SAT announced this week, given the current state of the SAT economy and Britain's substantial commitments abroad not SAT least in Afghanistan. SAT The state of the economy at the moment seems to inhibit a SAT balanced discussion over the spending and saving plans of SAT both government and opposition. Andrew Haldenby from SAT Reform and Richard Reeves from Demos take on the big SAT debate over what the size and role of the state should be. SAT The Lords debated the new Parliamentary Standards Bill on SAT Wednesday which will regulate the conduct and expenses of SAT MPs. Many of them were unhappy that the speed with which SAT the bill was being introduced would endanger some of the SAT rights and privileges of parliament. Lord Norton an SAT authority on the constitution and Lord Tyler formerly SAT shadow Liberal Democrat leader of the House of Commons SAT discuss the bill's progress. SAT And why did Frank Field fail in his attempt on Tuesday to SAT extract more compensation from the government for those SAT who lost out on the abolition of the 10p tax rate? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00lj8yy (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00lj8z0 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00lj1n9 (Listen) SAT Series 28, Episode 3 SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of SAT the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, SAT Jon Holmes and Carrie Quinlan. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00lj8z2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00lj8z4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00lj1nc (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Consett, SAT County Durham. The panellists are the former Cabinet SAT minsiter and now independent MP Clare Short, Pat McFadden, SAT minister for business, innovation and skills, Green Party SAT MEP Jean Lambert and former Chancellor Lord Norman Lamont. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00lj8z6 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b007m9y3 (Listen) SAT The Windsor Jewels SAT Robin Glendinning's black comedy tells the story of a real SAT mystery. SAT In 1946, the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) and SAT his wife (formerly Wallis Simpson) paid a visit to SAT Britain, hoping to secure a government job for the Duke SAT and a title for the Duchess. During the visit, the SAT Duchess' jewels, worth millions, were stolen. Conspiracy SAT theories abounded. Was it an inside job by the Royal SAT Family, or even an insurance fraud by the Duke and Duchess? SAT Duke of Windsor ...... Jon Glover SAT Duchess of Windsor ...... Christine Kavanagh SAT Capstick ...... Christian Rodska SAT Evans ...... Chris Yapp SAT Miss Martin/Mrs Jones/Resident ...... Amy Clifton SAT Bevin/Gardener ...... Alan Moore SAT Attlee ...... Paul Humpoletz SAT Lascelles/Newsreel ...... David Collins SAT First Hack ...... Stephen Perring SAT Second Hack ...... Paul Mohan. SAT SAT 15:30 John Mayall's Blues Adventures b00lg9y2 (Listen) SAT Blues musician John Mayall presents a homage to the rhythm SAT and blues scene which exploded in Britain in the early SAT 1960s. With contributions from Bill Wyman, Zoot Money and SAT Eric Burdon. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00lj8z8 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Weekend Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. SAT Including music from Florence and the Machine; performance SAT poetry for the i-pod generation; the forgotten bravery of SAT women on the First World War frontline; the dangers of SAT city cycling; one woman's fight for justice and the stage SAT production it inspired; mobile phones for the under-10s; SAT and tales from the world's oldest dogs' home. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00lj8zb (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 Bottom Line b00lh4zj (Listen) SAT You're at the top of your company, but you're the person SAT with least control over your time. PAs, PRs, your spouse - SAT all these people are battling over your diary. So can you, SAT when you're a chief executive, carve out a piece of the SAT day for yourself or are you at the mercy of others from SAT the moment you get up? SAT Evan Davis discusses this with his three big business SAT guests: Nikki King of Isuzu Trucks, Samir Brikho of AMEC SAT and Gavin Slark of the BSS Group. SAT He also finds out how possible it is to plan for the long SAT term when everyone is pressurising you for short term SAT results. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00lj8zd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00lj8zg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00lj8zj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00lj8zl (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson is joined by actress June Brown, television SAT producer Paul Jackson and music journalist Paul Morley. SAT Having recently commited his own memoirs to print, Arthur SAT Smith talks to fellow autobiographer Byron Rogers. Plus, SAT comedy from Jamie Kilstein and music from Dub Collossus SAT and Peggy Sue. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00lw8d5 (Listen) SAT Andy Coulson SAT It is said a spin doctor should never become the story. SAT But David Cameron's Communications Director, Andy Coulson, SAT has been catapulted into the spotlight after News of the SAT World staff were accused of paying private investigators SAT to intercept the phone messages of politicians and SAT celebrities while he was the editor. James Silver examines SAT the life a man whose job is to create headlines rather SAT than be the subject of them. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00lj8zq (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by comedian Natalie Haynes, writer SAT David Benedict and writer and comedian Danny Robins to SAT discuss the cultural highlights of the week - featuring a SAT reclusive soprano, Austria's top fashionista and a SAT profusion of Union Jacks. SAT Bruno is Sasha Baron Cohen's latest comedy incarnation. SAT When this gay, Austrian fashionista gets the push as host SAT of Funkyzeit mit Bruno, he heads to the US with the aim of SAT becoming a global celebrity. Cue Baron Cohen's stock in SAT trade of pulling the rug from under public figures and the SAT general public with stunts of jaw-dropping tastelessness. SAT Is it really satire? Maybe. SAT Prima Donna represents singer/songwriter Rufus SAT Wainwright's first compositional foray into the world of SAT opera. Janis Kelly sings the lead role of Regine SAT Saint-Laurent, a fading operatic soprano who is SAT considering a return to the stage. The opera is playing at SAT the Palace Theatre, Manchester, as part of the Manchester SAT International Festival. SAT Dara Horn was named as one of the Best Young American SAT Novelists by Granta magazine in 2007. All Other Nights is SAT her third novel and its protagonist is a young Jewish SAT soldier in the American Civil War - Jacob Rappaport. SAT Having run away from home to join the Union army, Jacob SAT finds himself selected to carry out acts of SAT counter-espionage against Confederate conspirators which SAT have devastating consequences SAT Zaha Hadid is a renowned architect who became the first SAT female recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture SAT Prize in 2004. As part of the Manchester International SAT Festival, she has been commissioned to create a chamber SAT music hall within Manchester Art Gallery. The resulting SAT installation consists of a series of graceful curves SAT partially enclosing a small auditorium and stage. A SAT limited number of performances will be taking place in the SAT hall. SAT The Jack in Gilbert and George's Jack Freak Pictures SAT refers to the Union Jack which is a recurrent motif in the SAT single largest series of work the duo have produced. As SAT usual, the artists themselves are a key feature of the SAT work, in various distorted and manipulated guises, along SAT with maps, medals, nettles and graffiti. The exhibition is SAT staged at the White Cube galleries in Mason's Yard and SAT Hoxton Square, London. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00lj8zs (Listen) SAT Walking on the Moon SAT To mark the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing in SAT July 1969, Buzz Aldrin relives the dangerous and dramatic SAT moments of the final descent to the lunar surface. The SAT programme features unique oral archive from NASA, SAT broadcast on British radio for the first time, and the SAT recollections of people from around the world who remember SAT the historic event. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00ldzsp (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, SAT Episode 1 SAT Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic SAT novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley. SAT Berlin, the early 1960s - the Wall is up between East and SAT West and the Cold War is at freezing point. Alec Leamas is SAT Circus Head of Station in Berlin, and his network of SAT agents in East Germany is in great danger. SAT Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox SAT Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell SAT Control ...... John Rowe SAT Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SAT Elsie/Elvira ...... Siobhan Redmond SAT Ashe ...... Jamie Newall SAT Miss Crail ...... Liza Sadovy SAT Mr Pitt ...... Philip Fox SAT Grocer ...... David Hargreaves SAT CIA Man ...... Benjamin Askew SAT This episode is available until 3.00pm on 26th July as SAT part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00lj8zw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00lh227 (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions SAT behind the week's news. Claire Fox, Michael Portillo, SAT Clifford Longley and Kenan Malik cross-examine witnesses. SAT While Conservative and Labour politicians are trading SAT insults with each other in a bid to win over the 'gay SAT vote', the Bishop of Rochester has taken a different tack. SAT With the rainbow bunting from London's Pride festival SAT hardly yet packed away, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali said SAT homosexuals should change and repent their sin. SAT The Church of England has been embroiled in a doctrinal SAT battle over sexuality since the ordination of the first SAT openly homosexual bishop in 2003. The Bishop of Rochester SAT was speaking just before the launch of the Fellowship of SAT Confessing Anglicans, a conservative group in the Church SAT of England. 'We want to hold on to the traditional SAT teachings of the Church. We don't want to be rolled over SAT by culture and trends in the Church.' Well, despite SAT Michael Nazir-Ali's attempts to clarify his position, SAT saying that we all need to repent for straying from God's SAT purpose for us, it hasn't stopped the accusations of SAT homophobia. SAT The 2008 Criminal Justice and Immigration Act created the SAT criminal offence of 'incitement to hatred on the grounds SAT of sexual orientation'. But after lobbying from religious SAT groups, the government was forced to accept a Lords SAT amendment that allowed a freedom of speech defence. SAT Bishops in the Lords are now fighting the government's SAT latest attempts to get that defence dropped. SAT Where should we draw the line between religious conscience SAT and freedom of speech? Should your faith allow you the SAT freedom to challenge and question the way we live, or is SAT this a thinly-disguised mask for intolerance and SAT prejudice? Anti-discrimination legislation once aimed to SAT ensure that society treated citizens equally. Instead of SAT fighting for equality, are the godly just demanding SAT special treatment for themselves and the social SAT fragmentation that goes with it? Or, with 116 separate SAT pieces of equality legislation in force, have we gone too SAT far in our efforts to legislate against unfairness and to SAT wipe out differences? SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00lg72k (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange SAT of quotations and anecdotes. SAT With guests Adele Geras, Conn Iggulden, Christopher SAT Luscombe and Simon Pearsall. SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT 23:30 Walking With Whitman b00lf0vj (Listen) SAT Stuart Maconie meets devotees of Walt Whitman in Bolton SAT and explores the history of the town's unlikely yet SAT enduring relationship with the American poet. SAT A group of devoted fans established the Whitman Fellowship SAT from 1885 onwards, and, although he never visited the SAT town, Whitman developed strong ties through his SAT correspondence with members of the group. Today, Whitman SAT devotees gather for the annual Whitman Walk, to recite his SAT works and share from Whitman's Loving Cup, a gift SAT presented to his followers in Bolton in 1894. SAT Stuart joins this happy band of walkers and Whitmanites to SAT discover why the poet is still celebrated there, nearly SAT 120 years after his death. SAT A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 JULY 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00lj97s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0085d9t (Listen) SUN Ones to Watch (Volume 2), Something I've Never Told You SUN A talent showcase of unpublished work from new writers. A SUN chance encounter summons memory, honesty and regret. Read SUN by Susannah Harker. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lj97v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lj97x (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lj97z (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00lj981 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00lj983 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Thomas's Church, Oxford. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00lw8d5 (Listen) SUN Andy Coulson SUN It is said a spin doctor should never become the story. SUN But David Cameron's Communications Director, Andy Coulson, SUN has been catapulted into the spotlight after News of the SUN World staff were accused of paying private investigators SUN to intercept the phone messages of politicians and SUN celebrities while he was the editor. James Silver examines SUN the life a man whose job is to create headlines rather SUN than be the subject of them. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00lj985 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00lj987 (Listen) SUN Volunteer Vision SUN Mike Wooldridge celebrates the role of the volunteer in SUN the company of Glyn Roberts, whose own voluntary SUN organisation has sent over two million reconditioned tools SUN to help poor craftsmen and women in Africa and Asia to SUN help themselves. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00ljhlp (Listen) SUN Elinor Goodman visits an estate which grows tea, not in SUN Kenya or India, but in Cornwall. She also takes to the SUN water at Tregothnan to find a unique plum orchard, and on SUN the way comes face to face with some monster signs of the SUN recession. She also finds out about the estate's attempts SUN to breathe new life into the British cut flower industry. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00ljhlr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00ljhlt (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00ljhlw (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of SUN the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00ljhly (Listen) SUN Child Brain Injury Trust SUN Paul Daniels appeals on behalf of Child Brain Injury Trust. SUN Donations to Child Brain Injury Trust, should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Child Brain Injury Trust. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN Child Brain Injury Trust with your full name and address SUN so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth SUN another 25 per cent. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners SUN without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1113326/Scotland/SC 039703. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00ljhm0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00ljhm2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00ljhm4 (Listen) SUN From Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, marking the 500th SUN anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, the French SUN reforming theologian whose influence led to Scotland being SUN called a Calvinist country. SUN Rev Johnston McKay and former Moderator of the General SUN Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Alison Elliot, draw on SUN the tradition of worship which sprang from his thinking, SUN and look behind the caricature of the man. SUN With Greyfriars Church Choir and the Edinburgh Singers, SUN conducted by John Gormley. SUN Organist: Henry Wallace. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lj1nf (Listen) SUN Bower Birds SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN One of the most extraordinary structures in the animal SUN world is constructed by a Bower Bird. Sir David tells the SUN life story of the Vogelkopf Bower Bird, the one that SUN raises the bar higher than the rest. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00ljhm6 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00ljhm8 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00ljhmb (Listen) SUN Prof Hugh Pennington SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Hugh Pennington. SUN Professor Pennington has spent his life trying to SUN understand diseases and how they spread. He has chaired SUN two major enquiries into E. coli and his influence is felt SUN everywhere from school kitchens to hospital wards. SUN But he concedes that in his own home, efforts to ban the SUN humble tea-towel from his kitchen have so far failed. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00lg8hd (Listen) SUN Series 51, Episode 4 SUN The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the SUN Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, with Jack Dee taking on SUN the chairman's role from the late Humphrey Lyttelton. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined by Jeremy Hardy. SUN With Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00ljhmd (Listen) SUN Food and Film SUN Sheila Dillon asks why food has become such a popular SUN subject for film-makers. SUN A new wave of opinion-forming films have been released. In SUN the United States, Food, Inc, an investigation into SUN poultry and pork production, has caused controversy, and SUN in the UK a film about fish stocks, The End of the Line, SUN has made fishing practices the subject of newspaper SUN headlines. SUN As well as these campaigning films, an increasing number SUN of cities are playing host to festivals dedicated to films SUN which feature food, from Ratatouille to Babette's Feast. SUN Sheila speaks to film-makers and festival organisers to SUN hear why the two worlds of food and cinema are SUN increasingly bound together. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00ljhmg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00ljhmj (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Gordon's Women b00lnf1p (Listen) SUN Martha Kearney explores whether or not Gordon Brown really SUN does have a problem working with women, after a former SUN minister accused him of using women in the Cabinet as SUN merely 'window dressing'. SUN She talks to close colleagues of the prime minister and SUN former and current Cabinet members. Martha asks if there SUN is a macho culture at Number 10 and if Gordon Brown is SUN allowing briefings against senior Labour women to take SUN place. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lj1n5 (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer SUN questions posed by gardeners in Berkshire. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 The Estuary b008khxv (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Peter France narrates an extraordinary story of life on SUN the Wash as the tides and the seasons change, set against SUN a backdrop of sounds recorded on location by Chris Watson. SUN As the tide turns and starts to advance across the mud SUN flats, the dunlin, knot, curlew and other feeding birds SUN are forced to move nearer and nearer the shore. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00ljhml (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, SUN Episode 2 SUN Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic SUN novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley. SUN The trap is set to catch the East German spymaster who has SUN ruthlessly destroyed Alec Leamas's Berlin network - and SUN the bait is Leamas himself. SUN Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SUN Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox SUN Fiedler ...... Henry Goodman SUN Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell SUN Control ...... John Rowe SUN Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SUN Mundt ...... Sam Dale SUN Ashe ...... Jamie Newall SUN Doorman ...... Stephen Hogan SUN Miss Crail ...... Liza Sadovy SUN Mr Pitt ...... Philip Fox SUN Grocer ...... David Hargreaves SUN CIA Man ...... Benjamin Askew SUN This episode is available until 3.00pm on 26th July as SUN part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00ljhrm (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Marina Lewycka, whose SUN spectacular debut at the age of 58 was the bestselling A SUN Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. She explains why SUN she's turned her attention from tractors to adhesives (as SUN well as old age, relationships and the Arab-Israeli SUN question) in her new novel We Are All Made of Glue. SUN Recently a number of books have been published by SUN servicemen writing about their experiences in Afghanistan SUN and Iraq. To find out what has prompted this trend, and SUN learn the difficulties of getting such books into print, SUN Mariella talks to publisher and author Rowland White, and SUN to military historian Sir Max Hastings. SUN There's news from Andrew Purcell in New York of a surprise SUN posthumous book by Ernest Hemingway - his Paris memoirs SUN have been published in a new version by the author's SUN grandson. SUN And Lawrence Norfolk joins Mariella to give a SUN novelist's-eye view of the strange and wonderful work of SUN Franz Kafka, three of whose best-known books have been SUN reissued in new translations. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00ljhrs (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces poems including works by Milton, SUN Ben Okri and Mary Oliver. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00lgj3h (Listen) SUN Following a series of blunders by the justice authorities, SUN who left a dangerous criminal free to torture and murder SUN two French students in London, Allan Urry asks whether SUN government ministers can still justify their claim that SUN Britain's system of public protection from violent SUN offenders and sex abusers is among the best in the world. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00lw8d5 (Listen) SUN Andy Coulson SUN It is said a spin doctor should never become the story. SUN But David Cameron's Communications Director, Andy Coulson, SUN has been catapulted into the spotlight after News of the SUN World staff were accused of paying private investigators SUN to intercept the phone messages of politicians and SUN celebrities while he was the editor. James Silver examines SUN the life a man whose job is to create headlines rather SUN than be the subject of them. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ljjmj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00ljjml (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ljjmn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00ljjmq (Listen) SUN Jenni Murray introduces her selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN Programmes featured this week: SUN All of Me: the Betrayal of Billie Holiday - Radio 2 SUN Walking on the Moon - Radio 4 SUN Save Our Sounds - World Service SUN I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Radio 4 SUN Continuity Announcement - Radio 4 SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN Off The Page - Radio 4 SUN The Long View - Radio 4 SUN John Mayall's Blues Adventure - Radio 4 SUN Heaven By Water - Radio 4 SUN David Attenborough's Life Stories - Radio 4 SUN Arthur Smith's Balham Bash - Radio 4 SUN The Garden Room Girls - Radio 4 SUN The Essay: Haydn's Head - Radio 3 SUN The Wreck of the Alba - Radio 4 SUN Radio 2 Live: Diana Krall - Radio 2. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00ljjms (Listen) SUN Joe scores points for creativity at the fete. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00ljjmv (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today. Combining location reports SUN with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show SUN provides new and surprising insights into contemporary SUN America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008cnz6 (Listen) SUN Blake's Doors of Perception, Demonstrating Grace SUN Short stories inspired by poet William Blake. SUN The story follows the fortunes of Ellen at home in London SUN and her sister Sarah across the Atlantic in Cape Cod. SUN By Jenny Worton, read by Sally Hawkins. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00lh6dy (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer faces a panel of SUN listeners and responds to their comments about the SUN station. Coverage of America, Thought For The Day and SUN drama are among the issues raised. SUN Most people have heard of art preservation and SUN architectural art preservation, but what about sound SUN preservation? Feedback goes behind the scenes of a World SUN Service project to preserve the disappearing sounds of the SUN world. SUN Plus listener comments on BBC Radio. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00lh4m8 (Listen) SUN John Wilson presents the obituaries programme. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00lj8z0 (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00ljhly (Listen) SUN Child Brain Injury Trust SUN Paul Daniels appeals on behalf of Child Brain Injury Trust. SUN Donations to Child Brain Injury Trust, should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Child Brain Injury Trust. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN Child Brain Injury Trust with your full name and address SUN so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth SUN another 25 per cent. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners SUN without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1113326/Scotland/SC 039703. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00lg8hg (Listen) SUN Inspiring Green Innovation SUN The dangers of climate change are well understood, but SUN what innovations need to be nurtured to fight global SUN warming? Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist, examines SUN the different ways to inspire the creators and inventors SUN who will lead the way in this field. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00ljjmx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00ljjmz (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Mark SUN D'Arcy. Including The Call in the Middle of the Night. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00lj1n7 (Listen) SUN Behind the scenes of Blade Runner and The Deer Hunter with SUN producer Michael Deeley. Composer Neil Brand tells us the SUN score about Vangelis's theme for Ridley Scott's cult SUN science fiction opus. SUN Novelist, screenwriter, director and painter Rebecca SUN Miller discusses her film career, her collaboration with SUN husband Daniel Day-Lewis and life as the daughter of SUN Arthur Miller. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00lj987 (Listen) SUN Volunteer Vision SUN Mike Wooldridge celebrates the role of the volunteer in SUN the company of Glyn Roberts, whose own voluntary SUN organisation has sent over two million reconditioned tools SUN to help poor craftsmen and women in Africa and Asia to SUN help themselves. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 JULY 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00ljjyz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lh223 (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how MON society works. MON Darwinian theory has provided a powerful explanation for MON animal behaviour, but can it be used to explain how humans MON act? Evolutionary psychologists contend that it can and MON have brought their critique to bear on many fields MON including economics, law, anthropology and sociology. MON Laurie speaks to Lesley Newson about her theory that MON evolution can explain how societies become modern. MON Also on the programme, why western women are increasingly MON relaxed about attending sex clubs and 'ping pong' bars in MON Thailand. Erin Sanders tells Laurie about her latest MON research. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00lj983 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Thomas's Church, Oxford. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ljk1m (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ljk5m (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ljk3h (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00ljk5y (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ljk8m (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Murdoch. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00ljkcj (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00ljqf1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00ljmmv (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00ljqf3 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr discusses justice with Amartya Sen, and MON meaningful work in a recession with Richard Sennett. Plus MON Sally Muggeridge on mixing business with politics, and MON Anders Ostergaard on his Burma film. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00ljn19 (Listen) MON You're Coming With Me Lad, Episode 1 MON Graham Fellows reads from Mike Pannett's account of his MON experiences as a rural policeman, having swapped a post MON with the Metropolitan Police for a return to his native MON North Yorkshire. MON Mike returns from the hurly-burly of London to life as a MON village copper in the Yorkshire Dales. But one quiet MON Sunday afternoon turns into a stand-off with a MON sword-wielding hothead. MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ljn6b (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON Nigerian writer Chika Unigwe became curious of the African MON prostitutes she saw working on the streets of Belgium MON where she lives. To find out more, she donned a pair of MON thigh-high boots and a mini skirt, and went to talk to the MON women. She shares the stories she heard with Jane, and MON talks about how they inspired her first novel. MON The Woman's Hour drama is The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, a MON journey through the unique life of a young woman with MON learning disabilities. It includes a truly remarkable MON performance from Donna Lavin in the lead role - who MON herself has learning difficulties. Jane talks to Donna MON about playing the part. MON There's been good news for lovers of cod; stocks in the MON North Sea are thought to have increased by five per cent MON over the last year. But how can consumers reconcile this MON information with the concerns conservation groups have MON about the long-term impact of commercial global fishing? MON Jane is joined by Rupert Howes from the Marine Stewardship MON Council and Phillip MacMullen from Seafish, which MON represents the UK seafood industry. MON With a generation of head teachers approaching retirement, MON the National College for School Leadership is calling on MON more women to take up leadership roles. Latest statistics MON show that only 37 per cent of secondary school heads are MON female, although 59 per cent of secondary teachers are MON women. Why are women reluctant to take up these leadership MON roles, where does the next generation of heads come from? MON Jane will be discussing the issues. MON MON 11:00 The Political Club b00ljqf5 (Listen) MON Michael Crick reveals how politicians are increasingly MON becoming a professionalised and separate class, who use MON their status to channel taxpayers' money into the coffers MON of their parties. MON The recent scandal over MPs' expenses has revealed how MON politicians are spending taxpayers' money on themselves, MON but what has not been revealed - until now - is how much MON public money is being diverted to political parties, or MON how that development is intimately related to the rise of MON a new club of professional politician. Michael reveals the MON extent - and cost - of this development, and what it means MON for our democracy. MON He speaks to former cabinet ministers and members of both MON local councils and the European Parliament to find out why MON this has happened, what it means, and whether it is MON inevitable. MON MON 11:30 Hazelbeach b00ljy24 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford, MON featuring likeable conman Ronnie Hazelbeach and his MON hapless friend, Nick. MON Ronnie and Nick's domestic harmony is disrupted by a very MON unwelcome guest. MON Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman MON Nick ...... Paul Bazely MON James ...... Neil Stuke MON Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles MON Carlton Hobbs ...... Philip Fox MON Doctor ...... Stephen Hogan MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00ljn7y (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00ljn9y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00ljncm (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00ljy26 (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange MON of quotations and anecdotes. MON With guests Paul Bailey, Marcus du Sautoy, Lucy Mangan and MON Michael Simkins. MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00ks1xb (Listen) MON Adam steps into the breach for Lilian. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b008w3xq (Listen) MON Be My Baby MON Amanda Whittington's drama-documentary combines the MON fictional stories of young women who gave up their MON illegitimate babies for adoption in the 1960s with the MON real stories of three adoptees, now in their forties, who MON have made contact with their mothers. MON Mary ...... Laura Molyneux MON Queenie ...... Alinka Wright MON Norma ...... Joannah Tincey MON Matron ...... Rachel Atkins. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00lj8zs (Listen) MON Walking on the Moon MON To mark the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing in MON July 1969, Buzz Aldrin relives the dangerous and dramatic MON moments of the final descent to the lunar surface. The MON programme features unique oral archive from NASA, MON broadcast on British radio for the first time, and the MON recollections of people from around the world who remember MON the historic event. MON MON 15:45 The Inconstant Moon b00ljnkh (Listen) MON The Real Moon MON Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, author Jeanette MON Winterson offers a series of reflective readings about the MON moon. MON Jeanette considers what the moon means to us. MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00ljhmd (Listen) MON Food and Film MON Sheila Dillon asks why food has become such a popular MON subject for film-makers. MON A new wave of opinion-forming films have been released. In MON the United States, Food, Inc, an investigation into MON poultry and pork production, has caused controversy, and MON in the UK a film about fish stocks, The End of the Line, MON has made fishing practices the subject of newspaper MON headlines. MON As well as these campaigning films, an increasing number MON of cities are playing host to festivals dedicated to films MON which feature food, from Ratatouille to Babette's Feast. MON Sheila speaks to film-makers and festival organisers to MON hear why the two worlds of food and cinema are MON increasingly bound together. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00ljy28 (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss whether adopting poverty as a MON spiritual practice could have advantages. Can spiritual MON fulfillment be found in wealth and possessions or should MON these be given away in pursuit of higher goals? MON MON 17:00 PM b00ljpcz (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ljpf0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00ljy2b (Listen) MON Series 51, Episode 5 MON The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the MON Theatre Royal in Newcastle, with Rob Brydon taking on the MON chairman's role from the late Humphrey Lyttelton. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined by Phill Jupitus. MON With Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00ljndb (Listen) MON Usha decides to camp it up. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00ljpk0 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an MON interview with the writer and director Dominic Savage, MON whose new TV drama Freefall focuses on the current MON financial crisis. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ljpk2 (Listen) MON The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Episode 1 MON By Esther Wilson. A week in the life of Darleen Fyles, a MON young woman with learning disabilities. Created in part MON through improvisation and interaction with Donna Lavin, MON who plays Darleen, and inspired by true stories. MON Darleen is living unhappily in the home of a service MON carer, and looks to her boyfriend Jamie for help. MON Darleen ...... Donna Lavin MON Jamie ...... Edmund Davies MON Treena ...... Siobhan Finneran MON Tony ...... Rob Pickavance MON Fran ...... Olwen May MON Colin ...... Lee Boardman MON Directed by Pauline Harris. MON MON 20:00 Trading on HIV b00hth01 (Listen) MON Miriam O'Reilly travels to Johannesburg and Durban to MON investigate reports by some charities that the MON recreational use of anti-retroviral Aids drugs could be MON putting their effectiveness at risk. Almost one in five of MON South Africa's population is HIV positive, and MON anti-retroviral drugs are the only effective treatment MON against the Aids virus. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00ljy2d (Listen) MON Preserving Pakistan MON International leaders have warned that the survival of MON Pakistan's government could be threatened by Islamic MON radicals. Owen Bennett-Jones discovers who the radicals MON are, why they have made such an impact and whether MON military action alone can ever defeat them. MON MON 21:00 Frontiers b00ljy2g (Listen) MON Synthetic Biology MON Richard Hollingham investigates the practical and moral MON questions raised by synthetic biology. MON He meets some of the scientists who are designing 'new MON life' and visits the new Centre for Synthetic Biology and MON Innovation at Imperial College, London. Richard talks to MON biologist and entrepreneur Craig Venter, whose research MON team has recently transformed one species of bacteria into MON another by gene transplantation. MON He also discusses some of the moral and ethical issues MON raised by the creation of synthetic life, and asks if a MON new regulatory framework is needed that both protects the MON public and provides scientists with unambiguous boundaries MON for their work. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00ljqf3 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr discusses justice with Amartya Sen, and MON meaningful work in a recession with Richard Sennett. Plus MON Sally Muggeridge on mixing business with politics, and MON Anders Ostergaard on his Burma film. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00ljpsw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00ljpv5 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ljq5f (Listen) MON To Heaven By Water, Episode 6 MON Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright, MON about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a MON wife and mother. MON Ed becomes oppressed by his wife's longing for a child. MON Abridged by Jane Marshall. MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00lh453 (Listen) MON You're Fired! MON Whether it is dressed up as 'downsizing', 'delayering', MON 'realigning the business' or simply having to 'let people MON go', firing or being fired is still a painful process. MON Broadcaster Anna Raeburn, writer Jeremy Clarke and MON psychologist Linda Blair join Dominic Arkwright to discuss MON the consequences of being sacked. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ljq5t (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Susan Hulme. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 JULY 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00ljjx5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00ljn19 (Listen) TUE You're Coming With Me Lad, Episode 1 TUE Graham Fellows reads from Mike Pannett's account of his TUE experiences as a rural policeman, having swapped a post TUE with the Metropolitan Police for a return to his native TUE North Yorkshire. TUE Mike returns from the hurly-burly of London to life as a TUE village copper in the Yorkshire Dales. But one quiet TUE Sunday afternoon turns into a stand-off with a TUE sword-wielding hothead. TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ljjz1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ljk3k (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ljk1p (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00ljk5p (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ljk8c (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Murdoch. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00ljkc6 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00ljmmg (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00ln3tx (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE TUE 09:30 Musical Migrants b00b4nsl (Listen) TUE Series 1, From England to Scotland TUE Stories of people who relocated to other countries, TUE influenced by music. TUE Scotland-based band Lau won the 2008 Radio 2 Folk Music TUE Best Group Award. Lau comprises two Scottish musicians and TUE English accordionist Martin Green, who describes how TUE Scotland's astonishingly vibrant folk music scene lured TUE him north. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00ljmx3 (Listen) TUE You're Coming With Me Lad, Episode 2 TUE Graham Fellows reads from Mike Pannett's account of his TUE experiences as a rural policeman, having swapped a post TUE with the Metropolitan Police for a return to his native TUE North Yorkshire. TUE When the Derwent floods, PC Mike Pannett is called on to TUE rescue damsels in distress, travel through Malton in an TUE unlikely ferry (possibly driven by a drunk driver) and TUE meet the Deputy Prime Minister - or 'John' to his new TUE friend. TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ljn4d (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Pursuits of Darleen TUE Fyles. TUE TUE 11:00 The Royal Show in Crisis b00lg9xy (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Tom Heap gains exclusive access to the battle to save The TUE Royal Show, Britain's most presitigious agricultural show. TUE Tom visits the final Show, gaining behind-the-scenes TUE access to the team organising the event to report on their TUE plans for what is going to replace it. TUE TUE 11:30 The Grand Masquerade b00ljymy (Listen) TUE Thirty years after the publication of Kit Williams's TUE groundbreaking picture puzzle book Masquerade in 1979, TUE John O'Farrell reflects on the mayhem that followed as TUE millions of readers became caught up in the search for a TUE jewel-encrusted hare, buried somewhere in the British TUE countryside. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00ljn6d (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00ljn80 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00ljnb0 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Music from Beyond the Veil b00ljyn0 (Listen) TUE Prof Paul Robertson examines the claims and counter-claims TUE for musical mediumship and asks whether musical TUE inspiration comes from within ourselves or if it could TUE come from somewhere beyond. TUE He recounts the story of how, 40 years ago, a Balham TUE housewife and medium with little musical training created TUE a sensation when she claimed to have received new works TUE from beyond the grave from Liszt, Brahms, Beethoven, TUE Rachmaninov and other great composers. Rosemary Brown's TUE abilities divided the musical world, with her supporters TUE convinced that the works were genuine while her critics TUE dismissed them as pastiche. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00ljndb (Listen) TUE Usha decides to camp it up. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00h315g (Listen) TUE McLevy - Series 5, To Keep Him Honest TUE Four-part series of stories about David Ashton's Victorian TUE detective based on real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector TUE James McLevy. TUE The crowds are making for Leith Links, where the champion TUE boxer Toff Richmond is taking on a local challenger. The TUE purse is generous, the gamblers are plunging deep, the TUE stall-holders are doing a roaring trade. Unfortunately, so TUE is the criminal fraternity. TUE McLevy ...... Brian Cox TUE Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond TUE Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell TUE Roach ...... David Ashton TUE Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil TUE Tommy ...... James Bryce TUE Bernard ...... John Kielty TUE Richmond ...... Mark McDonnell TUE Donald ...... Andrew Neil TUE Sally ...... Laura Smales TUE Joe Ritchie ...... Finlay Welsh TUE Directed by Patrick Rayner. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00ljyn2 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the world we inhabit and our interaction with it, TUE from astronomy to geology, biology to environmental TUE science. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ljyw4 (Listen) TUE The Adventures of Mr Thake, Thake on the Riviera TUE Leslie Phillips reads the letters, out of print since the TUE 1930s, sent to JB Morton's columnist Beachcomber from the TUE calamitous travels abroad of fictional upper-class twit, TUE Oswald Bletisloe Hattersley Thake. TUE Thake scents adventure in the snowy peaks of Biarritz. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 The Inconstant Moon b00ln544 (Listen) TUE The Invented Moon TUE Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, author Jeanette TUE Winterson offers a series of reflective readings about the TUE moon. TUE Jeanette considers the moon in fiction. TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00ljzdh (Listen) TUE Chris Ledgard explores the words we use to talk about TUE music. What are 'acid house' and 'grime', and how did the TUE terms come about? The word 'jazz', too, carries an TUE illuminating and largely unknown story. And how do artists TUE feel about the categories to which they are assigned in TUE music stores, on radio stations and on the web? TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00ljzdk (Listen) TUE Kate Mosse talks to broadcaster and academic Dr Alice TUE Roberts and writer and Benedictine monk Father Christopher TUE Jamison about their favourite books. One book takes us for TUE a walk in the woods, one to 1950s small-town America and TUE the other to war-torn Turkey. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00ljpb9 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ljpd1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Laurence and Gus: Hearts and Minds b00lk026 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE Comic sketches starring Laurence Howarth and Gus Brown. TUE Sketches about beauty and ugliness. With Duncan Wisbey, TUE Isy Suttie and Kate Fleetwood. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00ljncp (Listen) TUE Brenda gets the wedding blues. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00ljpf2 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the TUE verdict on the film Frozen River, which won two Oscar TUE nominations and was shot in the wintry landscapes of the TUE Canada-United States border. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lp2bs (Listen) TUE The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Episode 2 TUE By Esther Wilson. A week in the life of Darleen Fyles, a TUE young woman with learning disabilities. Created in part TUE through improvisation and interaction with Donna Lavin, TUE who plays Darleen, and inspired by true stories. TUE Darleen wants to live with her boyfriend Jamie, but faces TUE strong resistance. She starts a new work placement scheme TUE in a supermarket, and new so-called friends play a trick TUE on her. TUE Darleen ...... Donna Lavin TUE Jamie ...... Edmund Davies TUE Treena ...... Siobhan Finneran TUE Tony ...... Rob Pickavance TUE Chelsea ...... Vicky Binns TUE Becca ...... Victoria Connett TUE Sarah ...... Deborah McAndrew TUE Directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00lk028 (Listen) TUE With an inquiry underway into the mid-air explosion in TUE 2006 aboard a Nimrod aircraft, which killed 14 service TUE personnel, Angus Stickler examines the safety record of TUE the RAF in recent conflicts. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00lk03w (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00lk03y (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond examines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to TUE find out if it is, as some people think, the easy option TUE in helping them come to terms with mental illness. TUE CBT has been branded a panecea for treating mental TUE illness. Some people think it would be easier to have a TUE course of this than to delve into their past and address TUE their relationships with their parents. Yet is a course of TUE CBT that easy? It looks at people's behavioural patterns TUE and sees how they can change them in order to deal with TUE situations better. Change is sometimes hard to come to TUE terms with, so CBT might not be the easy option. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00ln3tx (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00ljpsm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00ljptx (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ljq3p (Listen) TUE To Heaven By Water, Episode 7 TUE Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright, TUE about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a TUE wife and mother. TUE David is surprised when the woman with the dog from the TUE Heath turns up on his doorstep, and the following morning TUE he has much to reflect on. TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall. TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00lk09w (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Arthur Smith invites an audience into his home for music TUE and comedy. TUE Benjamin Zephaniah, Stephen K Amos and Matt Holness join TUE regular contributor Pippa Evans, as singer-songwriter TUE Loretta Maine. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ljq5h (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with David Wilby. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00ljjx7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00ljmx3 (Listen) WED You're Coming With Me Lad, Episode 2 WED Graham Fellows reads from Mike Pannett's account of his WED experiences as a rural policeman, having swapped a post WED with the Metropolitan Police for a return to his native WED North Yorkshire. WED When the Derwent floods, PC Mike Pannett is called on to WED rescue damsels in distress, travel through Malton in an WED unlikely ferry (possibly driven by a drunk driver) and WED meet the Deputy Prime Minister - or 'John' to his new WED friend. WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ljjz3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ljk3m (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ljk1r (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00ljk5r (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ljk8f (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Murdoch. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00ljkc8 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00ljmmj (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00lk12c (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Rick Stein. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00ljmx5 (Listen) WED You're Coming With Me Lad, Episode 3 WED Graham Fellows reads from Mike Pannett's account of his WED experiences as a rural policeman, having swapped a post WED with the Metropolitan Police for a return to his native WED North Yorkshire. WED Spring is in the air and a call from a Girl Guide troop WED brings PC Mike Pannett mixed blessings. There is an WED idyllic walk through newly budding countryside and an WED open-air fry-up courtesy of the Guides, but a dead otter WED caught in a trap requires all his experience as a wildlife WED policeman to resolve. WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ljn4g (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Pursuits of WED Darleen Fyles. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b00lk12f (Listen) WED Series 10, The Contraceptive Train WED Contemporary history series. WED Early one Saturday in May 1971, a group of women boarded a WED train to Belfast from Connolly Station in Dublin. Although WED it was illegal to import or sell contrceptives in the WED Irish Republic, they came back with thousands of them and WED challenged customs officers in Dublin. The episode became WED a landmark in the history of the Irish women's movement. WED Chris Ledgard hears the story from those who were on the WED train and others who were not prepared to make the trip. WED WED 11:30 Baggage b00lk12h (Listen) WED Series 4, Carping Diem WED Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh. WED It's Festival time and Caroline is in love: great timing WED for her best friend Ruth to habitually invade her privacy, WED her toddler daughter April to be teething and her WED larger-than-life dad Hector to turn up unannounced. WED Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon WED Fiona ...... Phyllis Logan WED Ruth ...... Adie Allen WED Roddy ...... Robin Cameron WED Hector ...... David Rintoul WED Polly ...... Nicola Grier WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00ljn6g (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00ljn82 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00ljnb2 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00lk12k (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00ljncp (Listen) WED Brenda gets the wedding blues. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lk12m (Listen) WED The Night They Tried to Kidnap the Prime Minister WED Martin Jameson's fictionalised account of the incident in WED 1964 when a group of students attempted to kidnap the WED then-Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Scotland. WED Sir Alec ...... Tim McInnerny WED Robbie ...... Chris Starkie WED Eric ...... Benjamin Askew WED Sheila ...... Michelle Duncan WED The Girl ...... Grainne Dromgoole WED With Annabelle Dowler and David Hargreaves. WED Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00lk12p (Listen) WED Paul Lewis takes listeners' questions on employment rights WED and redundancy. Paul is joined by guests Sarah Veale, head WED of equality and employment rights at the TUC, Jane WED Amphlett, employment partner at Finers Stephens Innocent WED LLP and Rachel Hadwen, rights advisor at Working Families. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ljyz1 (Listen) WED The Adventures of Mr Thake, Thake on the Riviera WED Leslie Phillips reads the letters, out of print since the WED 1930s, sent to JB Morton's columnist Beachcomber from the WED calamitous travels abroad of fictional upper-class twit, WED Oswald Bletisloe Hattersley Thake. WED The hapless traveller sends news home to Beachcomber after WED losing his hat at Niagara Falls. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 The Inconstant Moon b00ln53w (Listen) WED The Mad Moon WED Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, author Jeanette WED Winterson offers a series of reflective readings about the WED moon. WED Jeanette considers why lunar is lunatic. WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00lk12r (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00lk03y (Listen) WED Claudia Hammond examines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to WED find out if it is, as some people think, the easy option WED in helping them come to terms with mental illness. WED CBT has been branded a panecea for treating mental WED illness. Some people think it would be easier to have a WED course of this than to delve into their past and address WED their relationships with their parents. Yet is a course of WED CBT that easy? It looks at people's behavioural patterns WED and sees how they can change them in order to deal with WED situations better. Change is sometimes hard to come to WED terms with, so CBT might not be the easy option. WED WED 17:00 PM b00ljpbc (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ljpd3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 Look Away Now b00lk12t (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED Garry Richardson presents a topical comedy show looking at WED the week's sporting news, featuring sketches, spoof WED interviews, highly inexpert analysis and music. WED With Laurence Howarth, Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Miles Jupp, WED Katherine Jakeways and special guests. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00ljncr (Listen) WED The Tucker family get a new addition. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00ljpf4 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lp284 (Listen) WED The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Episode 3 WED By Esther Wilson. A week in the life of Darleen Fyles, a WED young woman with learning disabilities. Created in part WED through improvisation and interaction with Donna Lavin, WED who plays Darleen, and inspired by true stories. WED Darleen is courageous and quick-thinking in a moment of WED crisis at work. Things appear to be looking up, WED particularly as she has organised a romantic evening for WED her and Jamie. But unfortunately it doesn't quite go to WED plan. WED Darleen ...... Donna Lavin WED Jamie ...... Edmund Davies WED Treena ...... Siobhan Finneran WED Chelsea ...... Vicky Binns WED Becca ...... Victoria Connett WED Sarah ...... Deborah McAndrew WED Directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00lk12w (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Melanie WED Phillips, Claire Fox and Matthew Taylor cross-examine WED witnesses. WED WED 20:45 The Call in the Middle of the Night b00lnf66 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Who makes the decision to wake presidents and prime WED ministers in the middle of the night to tell them bad WED news? Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former chief of staff, WED interviews key advisers to American presidents and British WED prime ministers to find out whether it is better to wake WED the leader or let sleeping politicians lie. WED WED 21:00 A Life With ... b00lk12y (Listen) WED Series 5, Microbes WED Writer and naturalist Paul Evans meets Prof Lynn Margulis, WED whose study of the Earth's smallest creatures led to a WED revolutionary theory for all life on Earth. The cell, WED symbiosis, Gaia and a row with Richard Dawkins all combine WED to offer a new perspective on evolution. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00lk12c (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Rick Stein. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00ljpsp (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00ljptz (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ljq3r (Listen) WED To Heaven By Water, Bill Nighy reads from the new novel by WED Justin Cartwright. When Lucy awakes she h WED Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright, WED about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a WED wife and mother. WED When Lucy awakes she has a new man in her life. WED Abridged by Jane Marshall. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Act Your Age b00fn0vg (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Simon Mayo hosts a new comedy show that pits the comic WED generations against each other to find out which is the WED funniest. With captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and WED Roy Walker and guests Josh Howie, Stephen K Amos and Barry WED Cryer. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ljq5k (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Sean Curran. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 JULY 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00ljjx9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00ljmx5 (Listen) THU You're Coming With Me Lad, Episode 3 THU Graham Fellows reads from Mike Pannett's account of his THU experiences as a rural policeman, having swapped a post THU with the Metropolitan Police for a return to his native THU North Yorkshire. THU Spring is in the air and a call from a Girl Guide troop THU brings PC Mike Pannett mixed blessings. There is an THU idyllic walk through newly budding countryside and an THU open-air fry-up courtesy of the Guides, but a dead otter THU caught in a trap requires all his experience as a wildlife THU policeman to resolve. THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ljjz5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ljk3p (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ljk1t (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00ljk5t (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ljk8h (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Murdoch. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00ljkcb (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00ljmml (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lk1kv (Listen) THU Series 5, Hospital Phobia THU Series in which Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of THU experts to tackle the ethics involved in a real hospital THU case. THU The story of a young man called Chris who has been THU diagnosed with kidney cancer. He desperately needs an THU operation to have the cancerous kidney removed; if the THU cancer begins to spread, it is highly likely to kill him. THU But Chris is terrified of going under anaesthetic and has THU therefore cancelled a string of consultations and THU surgeries. What is the surgeon's duty of care to a patient THU who is refusing to have a life-saving operation? What is a THU reasonable degree of persuasion for the surgeon to use? THU And at what point does persuasion tip over into possible THU accusations of coercion or even assault? What about THU Chris's rights? Given he has a severe phobia, does he THU really have the capacity to refuse this life-savi THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00ljmx7 (Listen) THU You're Coming With Me Lad, Episode 4 THU Graham Fellows reads from Mike Pannett's account of his THU experiences as a rural policeman, having swapped a post THU with the Metropolitan Police for a return to his native THU North Yorkshire. THU It is May and summer is just around the corner. Mike's THU introduction of someone special to somewhere cherished is THU curtailed by a night shift spent with a copper who knows THU how to eat and the high-speed pursuit across the Dales of THU two joyriders towing a caravan. THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ljn4j (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Pursuits of THU Darleen Fyles. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00lk1kx (Listen) THU Pakistan THU Bill Law investigates if Pakistani youngsters are in THU danger of joining the ranks of the Taliban or if they are THU fighting back against the extremists. Two-thirds of the THU Pakistani population is under the age of 25. In a country THU under siege from the forces of religious extremism, this THU youth bulge serves as a ticking time bomb. THU THU 11:30 Journey to Armenia: Komitas - The Saddest Music in THU the World b00lk2z9 (Listen) THU British writer Toby Litt travels to Armenia in search of THU Komitas, an orphan whose musical talent turned him into THU the voice of his country. Six decades after his death in THU 1935, his music and the vast body of folk songs that he THU collected guarantees him a unique place in Armenian THU culture, remembered and revered as much by cow herdsmen as THU by musicians. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00ljn6j (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00ljn84 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00ljnb4 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00lk2zc (Listen) THU Turn That Down THU Musician Andrea Oliver and comedian Simon Evans join THU Dominic Arkwright to talk about noise and how loud or THU quiet we all ought to be. Father Tom Cullinan, a monk who THU has lived for many years in complete silence, breaks it to THU talk about the reality of the solitary life. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00ljncr (Listen) THU The Tucker family get a new addition. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lpcgw (Listen) THU The Understanding THU Written to accompany the series of Inside The Ethics THU Committee and produced in association with The Open THU University, PG Morgan's drama gets inside the emotional THU realities of dealing with an ethical dilemma. THU A young woman is urgently admitted to hospital and THU prepared to deliver her baby by Caesarian section. What THU happens in the next few minutes will test the judgement - THU and the understanding - of everyone in the room. THU Vic ...... Philip Fox THU Jessie ...... Katy Cavanagh THU Alison ...... Golda Rosheuvel THU Alan ...... Sam Dale THU Carmel ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo THU Judith ...... Caroline Guthrie THU Produced by Steven Canny and Jonquil Panting THU Directed by David Hunter. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00lj8yf (Listen) THU Sussex Visions THU Matt Baker takes a fresh look at one of Britain's most THU visited landscape. THU His first step is to join the Natural Navigator, Tristan THU Gooley, to learn how to travel the Sussex Downs without a THU map or compass, relying instead on the angle of plant THU growth and the tracks of animals. THU The beauties of the Sussex landscape lacked a certain THU something in the late-18th century, according to local THU landowner, 'Mad' Jack Fuller, and so he embarked on THU Britain's greatest programme of folly building. His THU pyramids, observatories and towers continue to dominate THU the landscape. Matt joins local writer John Naish for a THU tour of Fuller's follies. THU Matt will also be examining the literary landscape of THU Sussex, from the pre-war works of Edward Thomas and THU Virginia Woolf through to the darker visions of the THU landscape from sci-fi writers like John Wyndham and THU contemporary thriller writer, Peter Moore. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00ljhly (Listen) THU Child Brain Injury Trust THU Paul Daniels appeals on behalf of Child Brain Injury Trust. THU Donations to Child Brain Injury Trust, should be sent to THU FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your THU envelope Child Brain Injury Trust. Credit cards: Freephone THU 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide THU Child Brain Injury Trust with your full name and address THU so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth THU another 25 per cent. The online and phone donation THU facilities are not currently available to listeners THU without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1113326/Scotland/SC 039703. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ljyz3 (Listen) THU The Adventures of Mr Thake, Thake and the French Widow THU Leslie Phillips reads the letters, out of print since the THU 1930s, sent to JB Morton's columnist Beachcomber from the THU calamitous travels abroad of fictional upper-class twit THU Oswald Bletisloe Hattersley Thake. THU Beachcomber receives word from Paris that the gregarious THU toff has lost his heart - and most of his valuables - to a THU bewitching femme fatale. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 The Inconstant Moon b00ln53y (Listen) THU The Mythic Moon THU Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, author Jeanette THU Winterson offers a series of reflective readings about the THU moon. THU The ancient and long-held dream of the moon begins to come THU true. THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00ljhrm (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to Marina Lewycka, whose THU spectacular debut at the age of 58 was the bestselling A THU Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. She explains why THU she's turned her attention from tractors to adhesives (as THU well as old age, relationships and the Arab-Israeli THU question) in her new novel We Are All Made of Glue. THU Recently a number of books have been published by THU servicemen writing about their experiences in Afghanistan THU and Iraq. To find out what has prompted this trend, and THU learn the difficulties of getting such books into print, THU Mariella talks to publisher and author Rowland White, and THU to military historian Sir Max Hastings. THU There's news from Andrew Purcell in New York of a surprise THU posthumous book by Ernest Hemingway - his Paris memoirs THU have been published in a new version by the author's THU grandson. THU And Lawrence Norfolk joins Mariella to give a THU novelist's-eye view of the strange and wonderful work of THU Franz Kafka, three of whose best-known books have been THU reissued in new translations. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00lk2zf (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper talks to the scientists chasing the 2009 THU solar eclipse that will stretch from the edge of India to THU the heart of the South Pacific, passing over Bhutan, THU Shanghai and Japan on its way. There will not be another THU eclipse like it for 120 years. For scientists, this is an THU unparalled chance to peer into the Sun's corona, while the THU rest is hidden from view. THU THU 17:00 PM b00ljpbf (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ljpd5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Shappi Talk b00lk2zh (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi examines what it THU is like growing up in multi-cultural families. THU She is joined by comedian John Gordillo, who shares his THU memories of growing up in a Spanish family with a very THU forceful father. Shappi also talks to Lenny Henry about THU his family. THU Plus a song from comedian Hils Barker. THU An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00ljnct (Listen) THU Jolene steps into the breach. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00ljpf6 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who reports on a THU new play by Lucy Prebble about the collapse of American THU energy company Enron. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lp286 (Listen) THU The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Episode 4 THU By Esther Wilson. A week in the life of Darleen Fyles, a THU young woman with learning disabilities. Created in part THU through improvisation and interaction with Donna Lavin, THU who plays Darleen, and inspired by true stories. THU Darleen goes to a nightclub and is put in a terrible and THU traumatic situation. THU Darleen ...... Donna Lavin THU Jamie ...... Edmund Davies THU Chelsea ...... Vicky Binns THU Becca ...... Victoria Connett THU Nick ...... Greg Wood THU Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00lk30k (Listen) THU As details emerge about the treatment of two British THU hostages captured in Iraq in 2007, questions are being THU raised about the government's hostage strategy. With other THU nations' governments apparently showing greater THU willingness to make concessions to kidnappers, are British THU captives at a disadvantage? Simon Cox investigates the THU UK's policy towards hostage-takers and reports on new THU threats to tourists in emerging danger areas. THU THU 20:30 Bottom Line b00lk30m (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs THU and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to THU their companies and their customers. THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lk1kv (Listen) THU Series 5, Hospital Phobia THU Series in which Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of THU experts to tackle the ethics involved in a real hospital THU case. THU The story of a young man called Chris who has been THU diagnosed with kidney cancer. He desperately needs an THU operation to have the cancerous kidney removed; if the THU cancer begins to spread, it is highly likely to kill him. THU But Chris is terrified of going under anaesthetic and has THU therefore cancelled a string of consultations and THU surgeries. What is the surgeon's duty of care to a patient THU who is refusing to have a life-saving operation? What is a THU reasonable degree of persuasion for the surgeon to use? THU And at what point does persuasion tip over into possible THU accusations of coercion or even assault? What about THU Chris's rights? Given he has a severe phobia, does he THU really have the capacity to refuse this life-savi THU THU 21:45 Top of the Class b00czyjx (Listen) THU Gary Rhodes THU John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and THU takes them back to the places and people they left behind THU but who influenced their later success. THU Gary Rhodes is reunited with his best friend from catering THU college and the lecturer who taught him everything he knew. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00ljpsr (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00ljpv1 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ljq3t (Listen) THU To Heaven By Water, Episode 9 THU Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright, THU about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a THU wife and mother. THU With her father in Africa with his brother, Lucy is THU comforted by Ed after a traumatic encounter with her THU ex-boyfriend. THU Abridged by Jane Marshall. THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Look Away Now b00lk12t (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU Garry Richardson presents a topical comedy show looking at THU the week's sporting news, featuring sketches, spoof THU interviews, highly inexpert analysis and music. THU With Laurence Howarth, Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Miles Jupp, THU Katherine Jakeways and special guests. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ljq5m (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Robert Orchard. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 JULY 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00ljjxc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00ljmx7 (Listen) FRI You're Coming With Me Lad, Episode 4 FRI Graham Fellows reads from Mike Pannett's account of his FRI experiences as a rural policeman, having swapped a post FRI with the Metropolitan Police for a return to his native FRI North Yorkshire. FRI It is May and summer is just around the corner. Mike's FRI introduction of someone special to somewhere cherished is FRI curtailed by a night shift spent with a copper who knows FRI how to eat and the high-speed pursuit across the Dales of FRI two joyriders towing a caravan. FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ljjz7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ljk3r (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ljk1w (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00ljk5w (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ljk8k (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Alison Murdoch. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00ljkcd (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00ljmmn (Listen) FRI With Sarah Montague and Edward Stourton. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in FRI Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00ljhmb (Listen) FRI Prof Hugh Pennington FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Hugh Pennington. FRI Professor Pennington has spent his life trying to FRI understand diseases and how they spread. He has chaired FRI two major enquiries into E. coli and his influence is felt FRI everywhere from school kitchens to hospital wards. FRI But he concedes that in his own home, efforts to ban the FRI humble tea-towel from his kitchen have so far failed. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00ljmx9 (Listen) FRI You're Coming With Me Lad, Episode 5 FRI Graham Fellows reads from Mike Pannett's account of his FRI experiences as a rural policeman, having swapped a post FRI with the Metropolitan Police for a return to his native FRI North Yorkshire. FRI Mike confronts two kinds of explosive devices: one in the FRI hands of children is dealt with by the constable; the FRI other, dispatched to North Yorkshire by Herr Hitler, is FRI best left to the Army. FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ljn4l (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Pursuits of FRI Darleen Fyles. FRI FRI 11:00 Touring Round Torquay b00lmcy9 (Listen) FRI Steve Carver becomes a coach holiday courier on a six-day FRI trip to south Devon. FRI Coach holidays are largely the preserve of the over-70s, FRI and Steve has to look after more than 30 of them as they FRI leave the Midlands for their summer holidays on the south FRI coast. FRI While serving tea and coffee on board the bus, he must FRI point out the main attractions off the M5. Arriving at the FRI hotel, he has to ensure the right cases go to the right FRI rooms, and how will he cope with his customers' complaints FRI of under-cooked vegetables? FRI As a novice courier, he will be nursed through initial FRI teething problems by his experienced driver Paul and FRI fellow courier Val. They have seen it all before: lost FRI teeth, complaints about the lack of a sea view in Cardiff FRI and indigestion masquerading as a heart attack. FRI Will Steve manage to last the course of the full six days, FRI returning all his customers with their luggage, happy and FRI relaxed after a fun-filled holiday touring round Torquay? FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b00lmcyc (Listen) FRI Series 2, Helsinki FRI Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny FRI charter airline for whom no job is too small and many jobs FRI are too difficult. FRI Carolyn and her sister haven't spoken for 15 years. Which FRI is why Arthur has invited her to a party on board, FRI together with 500 euros-worth of smuggled orchids. FRI Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole FRI First Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam FRI Capt Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore FRI Ruth Gregson ...... Alison Steadman FRI Kieran Gregson ...... Matt Green FRI Milo ...... Simon Greenall. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00ljn6l (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00ljn86 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00ljnb6 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00lk9dy (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00ljnct (Listen) FRI Jolene steps into the breach. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lmd98 (Listen) FRI Incident at Boulonvilliers FRI By Dave Sheasby. FRI It is June 1982 and the Falklands War is drawing to a FRI close. Three WWII veterans return to Normandy on a coach FRI trip and are forced to confront a difficult incident back FRI in 1944 and also their own 'heroism'. FRI Frank ...... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Tommy ...... Michael Mears FRI Arthur ...... David Hargreaves FRI Mandy ...... Ella Smith FRI Madame ...... Gabrielle Reidy FRI Directed by David Hunter. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lmd9b (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer FRI questions posed by gardeners in Northamptonshire. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 The Inconstant Moon b00ln540 (Listen) FRI The Attempted Moon FRI Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, author Jeanette FRI Winterson offers a series of reflective readings about the FRI moon. FRI Jeanette considers earlier attempts on the moon - the so FRI near yet so far planet of our dreams. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00lmd9d (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. The programme reflects on people of FRI distinction and interest from many walks of life, some FRI famous and some less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00lmd9g (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Lars Von Trier about his FRI controversial film Antichrist, which was booed at its FRI premiere in Cannes. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00ljpbh (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ljpd7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00lmdh0 (Listen) FRI Series 28, Episode 4 FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of FRI the week's news, recorded at the Latitude Festival, with FRI help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes, Marcus FRI Brigstocke. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00ljncw (Listen) FRI Lilian gets an uncomfortable update. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00ljpf8 (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lp288 (Listen) FRI The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Episode 5 FRI By Esther Wilson. A week in the life of Darleen Fyles, a FRI young woman with learning disabilities. Created in part FRI through improvisation and interaction with Donna Lavin, FRI who plays Darleen, and inspired by true stories. FRI Darleen is forced into some tough decision making and at FRI long last visits her 'Auntie Eileen' in hospital in FRI Scarborough. FRI Darleen ...... Donna Lavin FRI Treena ...... Siobhan Finneran FRI Sarah ...... Deborah McAndrew FRI Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00lmdh2 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Norwich. FRI Panellists include historian David Cannadine and writer FRI and chairman of the National Trust Simon Jenkins. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lmdh4 (Listen) FRI Dragons FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI What did Sir David do when he was confronted by a FRI ten-foot-long grey-scaled reptile, with a long yellow FRI forked tongue whipping in and out of its mouth? He didn't FRI run and, in fact, was one of the first to film it: the FRI Komodo dragon. FRI FRI 21:00 The Inconstant Moon Omnibus b00lmdnk (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI Omnibus edition of the first half of Jeanette Winterson's FRI series of artistic reflections on the moon. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00ljpst (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00ljpv3 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ljq3w (Listen) FRI To Heaven By Water, Episode 10 FRI Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright about FRI a family as they come to terms with the loss of a wife and FRI mother. FRI David, camping with his brother in Africa and away from FRI the constraints of his daily life, grapples with the FRI thoughts that have been nagging him. FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00ljzdk (Listen) FRI Kate Mosse talks to broadcaster and academic Dr Alice FRI Roberts and writer and Benedictine monk Father Christopher FRI Jamison about their favourite books. One book takes us for FRI a walk in the woods, one to 1950s small-town America and FRI the other to war-torn Turkey. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ljq5p (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI

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