24 July, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 25/07/2009 - 31/07/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 25 JULY 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00lq9pq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00lqnfh (Listen) SAT In the Valley of Mist, Episode 5 SAT Fenella Woolgar reads from Justine Hardy's account of the SAT lives of ordinary people who have lived in the disputed SAT territory of Kashmir through 20 years of conflict. SAT The effects of the conflict are compounded by the 2005 SAT earthquake. Mohammad Dar's tireless work for the relief SAT effort leads him to start a new career as an aid worker. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lq9ps (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lq9pv (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lq9px (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00lq9pz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lq9q1 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss. SAT SAT 05:45 Backstreet Business b008pvmv (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Nicola Heywood Thomas visits small businesses. SAT Situated on an estate in Cardiff, Deryck Howell's company SAT produces survival equipment, tested in the world's SAT toughest conditions. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00lqp56 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00lqp58 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00lqpwl (Listen) SAT Firth of Lorne SAT Helen Mark reports on the dispute between fishermen and SAT conservationists over the wildlife-rich waters of the SAT Firth of Lorne on the west coast of Scotland. SAT Dotted with tiny islands, the Firth of Lorne on the west SAT coast of Scotland is a yachtsman's dream. Fishermen also SAT covet the Firth's prawns and scallops, whilst SAT conservationists fret over threats to the extraordinary SAT reefs, the sea bird colonies and the whales and dolphins SAT that pass between Mull and Jura. SAT Helen joins local wildlife biologist Tessa McGregor for a SAT boat trip around the Firth, meeting fishermen, farmers and SAT naturalists, all of whom are anxious to reach a balance SAT that preserves livelihoods without further threatening SAT this precarious natural environment. SAT Scallop dredging is currently banned in the Firth, much to SAT the displeasure of local fishermen who have to sail SAT further and into more dangerous waters to bring home a SAT profitable catch. The Scottish government may reverse the SAT ban, but a local diver tells Helen that such a move would SAT cause further damage to the sea bed, the rocky reef and SAT the aquatic life that depends on it. SAT On her voyage around the Firth's tiny islands Helen will SAT also be meeting the local Luing breed of cattle and seeing SAT the beehive huts used by the first generation of Scottish SAT monks. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00lqpwn (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00lqpwq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00lqpws (Listen) SAT With Sarah Montague and Edward Stourton. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00lqpwv (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Sheila SAT Hancock. With poetry from Elvis McGonagall. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00lqpwx (Listen) SAT Explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison has often made his journeys SAT on horseback and chose Albania for a recent trek. Although SAT situated in the middle of Europe, this little known nation SAT offers unspoilt countryside, great hospitality from locals SAT and a glimpse into a time and place before tourism SAT development takes hold. SAT An award from the citizenship charity, Giving Nation, SAT enabled pupils from Rushcliffe School in Nottingham to SAT travel to Cameroon to learn about the Baka people and the SAT work of the Rainforest Foundation. They stayed in a Baka SAT village - seeing how they build huts, how the local school SAT is run and even helped villagers with fishing. SAT Journalist Jane Owen, who accompanied them, and pupil Bex SAT Bailey say the trip gave an insight into how life is SAT changing for the indigenous people. SAT SAT 10:30 Soho Stories b00lqz82 (Listen) SAT A Thousand Flowers SAT Television executive and broadcaster Paul Jackson charts SAT the rise of independent producers, from the isolated SAT minnows of the early 1980s to the global monoliths of SAT today. SAT Thirty years ago, virtually every home-grown programme on SAT British television was made by either the BBC or ITV. SAT Today, the biggest and most successful shows - from Big SAT Brother and Spooks to The Apprentice and X-Factor - are SAT made by independent producers. SAT Paul Jackson explores how the birth of Channel 4 spawned a SAT whole new sector and gave us both Television Scrabble and SAT hard news. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00lr2cm (Listen) SAT It's been one of the most turbulent years at Westminster SAT in recent history: two aborted challenges to the Prime SAT Minister's leadership, the scandal of MPs expenses, a SAT banking crisis and a deep recession. As MPs go off on SAT their summer break Elinor Goodman and fellow Week In SAT Westminster presenters Peter Riddell of The Times, Steve SAT Richards of The Independent and Matthew D'Ancona, Editor SAT of the Spectator, analyse the current state of politics. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00lqztq (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00lqzts (Listen) SAT In a special edition of the programme, Paul Lewis and SAT guests discuss savings and investments. Paul talks to fund SAT manager Anthony Bolton and looks at Zopa, the intetrnet SAT service that advertises rates of over eight per cent. SAT His panel are Clare Francis of comparison website SAT Moneysupermarket, Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven SAT Investment Management and Adrian Lowcock, senior SAT investment adviser at Bestinvest. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00lq94c (Listen) SAT Series 28, Episode 5 SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of SAT the week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, SAT Mitch Benn and Marcus Brigstocke. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00lqztv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00lqztx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00lq94f (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Verwood, SAT Dorset. The panellists are columnist Peter Hitchens, SAT campaigner Peter Tatchell, Minister for the South West Jim SAT Knight and Shadow Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00lqztz (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 b00773qr (Listen) SAT Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde SAT By Robert Louis Stevenson. SAT When a London lawyer studies the last will of his old SAT friend Dr Jekyll, his suspicions are aroused. Why has SAT respectable Dr Jekyll left everything to sinister Edward SAT Hyde? SAT Dr Jekyll ...... Adam Godley SAT Utterson ...... David Horovitch SAT Enfield ...... Mark Straker SAT Mrs Utterson ...... Christine Kavanagh SAT Lanyon ...... Sam Dale SAT Poole ...... Joseph Kloska SAT Sir Danvers ...... Ian Masters SAT Girl/Maid ...... Emma Noakes SAT Housekeeper ...... Bethan Walker SAT Directed by Claire Grove. SAT SAT 15:30 From Dots to Downloads b00lp15m (Listen) SAT Tim van Eyken, award-winning young singer and squeezebox SAT player, reveals how today's musicians are rediscovering SAT 'tune books', small manuscript books of music that were in SAT use from the late-17th to the mid-19th century. SAT They are now sharing them, in the way that musicians SAT always have, but nowadays online, so that all over the SAT world, people are playing these tunes once again in an SAT ongoing global virtual session. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00lqzv1 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT With Sheila McClennon. SAT Kathryn Stockett's debut novel The Help is set in Jackson, SAT Mississippi, in the early 1960's where two black maids and SAT a white woman conspire on a clandestine project that could SAT put their lives at risk. It has become a bestseller in SAT America, been praised by critics and is already a firm SAT favourite among book groups. Kathryn talks to Sheila SAT McClennon about how her own childhood inspired the SAT narrative and the challenges she faced as a white author SAT giving a voice to black characters. SAT Approximately a quarter of a million children in the UK SAT have an allergy to peanuts. It is a condition which can SAT cause great anxiety as the sufferers and their parents try SAT to ensure total avoidance of the nuts, which can be SAT present in tiny amounts in many everyday foods. Now SAT doctors in Cambridge who have been working on SAT de-sensitising those with the allergy have reported SAT favourable results from their latest trial. Sheila SAT Maclennon hears more about the project, its results and SAT the implications. SAT This year marks the 60th anniversary of the formation of SAT the modern Commonwealth. In celebration, a special SAT exhibition at the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace will SAT evoke some of the most important Commonwealth Tours SAT undertaken by the Queen during her reign. The exhibition SAT brings together 28 dresses worn by Her Majesty on SAT Commonwealth Tours over the past six decades and includes SAT over 100 gifts presented to the Queen, ranging from SAT Aboriginal carvings to a whale's tooth and traditional SAT Maori feather cloaks. Sheila McClennon visits the SAT exhibition. SAT Widows in Nepal are protesting against a government plan SAT to offer a cash incentive to men for marrying them. The SAT 50,000 rupee grant - about 388pounds - was announced in SAT the government's annual budget. There are large numbers of SAT widows in the country, created by the recent 10-year SAT bloody conflict and critics say that a re-marriage SAT 'bounty' is contrary to human rights laws, and supports SAT forced marriage, rape, and the view that women are mere SAT chattels. Sheila hears more about how widows in Nepal are SAT treated and how their status might be improved. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00lqzv3 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00lr09t (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00lr09y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00lr0b0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00lr0b2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00lr0b4 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson is joined by author and former Conservative SAT Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitken, Dragons' Den's James SAT Caan and former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan. SAT Gideon Coe talks to writer Bridget Christie about her time SAT at the Daily Mail. SAT With comedy from Sarah Millican and music from Oi Va Voi SAT and the Mercury Prize-nominated Lisa Hannigan. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00lr0b6 (Listen) SAT Peter Gabriel SAT Clive Coleman profiles Peter Gabriel. He came to fame - SAT and fortune - as the extravagantly-dressed lead singer of SAT Genesis, before launching a successful solo career. But SAT Gabriel has pushed many other frontiers, notably helping SAT to found the World Music festival WOMAD. He has also SAT experimented with new technologies, brought elder SAT statesmen together and campaigned for human rights. SAT Clive hears from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Irish SAT President Mary Robinson and Peter Gabriel's mother about SAT what makes him tick. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00lr0b8 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00lr0bb (Listen) SAT On Northern Men SAT Kay Mellor explores the way that northern English SAT masculinities have been portrayed in British film and SAT television, reconciling issues of blatant sentimentality SAT with the real-life social parallels that inform the canon SAT of the past 50 years. SAT She examines fictional portrayals that have changed and SAT diversified, yet stayed much the same in many ways. From SAT the crucial age of the Angry Young Man, marked out in This SAT Sporting Life, she considers the contrasts and SAT similarities between the trapped northern masculine SAT identities portrayed in Kes and Billy Elliot. SAT Kay discovers that the disintegration of traditional SAT northern male stereotypes in fiction leads us also to more SAT diverse explorations, for example, the weak men in SAT Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine and Keeping Up SAT Appearances, British-Asian northern masculinities in East SAT is East, the dysfunctional and proud Frank Gallagher in SAT Shameless, and interpretations of homosexual masculinities SAT in Queer as Folk and Jimmy McGovern's The Street. SAT The programme traces the relationship between changing SAT variables of social class, heroism, 'northernness' and SAT fictional portrayals of masculinity in film and SAT television, using supporting material from the radio SAT archive, and remembers some of the humour and creativity SAT that emerges from struggle and the portrayal of difficult SAT lives. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00ln1dj (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, SAT Episode 3 SAT Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic SAT novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley. SAT The deadly game of deceit and betrayal reaches its climax SAT at the foot of the Berlin Wall. SAT Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox SAT Fiedler ...... Henry Goodman SAT Mundt ...... Sam Dale SAT Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell SAT Ashe ...... Jamie Newall SAT Tribunal President ...... Siobhan Redmond SAT Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SAT Commissar ...... Liza Sadovy SAT Agent ...... Stephen Hogan 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 b00lr0bd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00lpc9l (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions SAT behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Melanie SAT Phillips, Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor SAT cross-examine witnesses. SAT The Moral Maze considers 'the holiday'. SAT It's that time of year when we can't wait to get away from SAT work for a couple of weeks. Our one opportunity a year to SAT jet off to far-flung and exotic destinations spewing SAT carbon all over the place, where the human rights record SAT is often appalling, to be waited on hand and foot by some SAT poor waiter who is only paid a couple of dollars a day and SAT to stay in a hotel where their idea of an environmental SAT policy is to take our rubbish to a landfill for local SAT people to pick over it, rather than dumping it at sea. SAT Is it time we re-calculated the true cost of that self SAT indulgent holiday? Should we stay at home to help the UK SAT economy? And should we think of improving the mind rather SAT than our tan? SAT The witnesses are: SAT Leo Hickman SAT Author of The Final Call: In Search of the True Cost of SAT our Holidays SAT James Panton SAT Manifesto Club; Campaign to Celebrate the Freedom of Flying SAT Cole Moreton SAT Journalist, currently writing a book about Englishness SAT Jonathan Lorie SAT Director of Travellers Tales Festival, an international SAT festival of travel writing and photography. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00lny4d (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring the defending champions, the Midlands, taking on SAT the south of England. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00ln2df (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces requests for poems about space by SAT Shakespeare, Seamus Heaney and others. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 JULY 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00lr0lt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008118x (Listen) SUN Cheltenham Festival Readings, Love with Impediments SUN Five stories from the 2007 Cheltenham Literature Festival. SUN A futuristic story of consumerism gone mad and bad. SUN Written and read by Hari Kunzru. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr0lw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr0ly (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr0m0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00lr0m2 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00lr0m4 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from Howden Minster. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00lr0b6 (Listen) SUN Peter Gabriel SUN Clive Coleman profiles Peter Gabriel. He came to fame - SUN and fortune - as the extravagantly-dressed lead singer of SUN Genesis, before launching a successful solo career. But SUN Gabriel has pushed many other frontiers, notably helping SUN to found the World Music festival WOMAD. He has also SUN experimented with new technologies, brought elder SUN statesmen together and campaigned for human rights. SUN Clive hears from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Irish SUN President Mary Robinson and Peter Gabriel's mother about SUN what makes him tick. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00lr0m6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00lr0m8 (Listen) SUN The Rescuers SUN Mark Tully explores the theme of rescue. A mainstay of SUN myth and fairytale, adventure and romance, why is the SUN longing for rescue so pervasive, and the need to rescue so SUN powerful? SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00lr14d (Listen) SUN Elinor Goodman visits a herd of ruby red cattle in the SUN Devon countryside. Their owner, Kate Palmer, is passionate SUN about the breed and about the local landscape. Elinor SUN finds out about conservation on the farm and Kate's flock SUN of black sheep, whose wool she makes into jumpers and SUN throws. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00lr0mb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00lr0md (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00lr0mg (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 b00lr14g (Listen) SUN SSAFA Forces Help SUN Martin Bell appeals on behalf of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen SUN and Families Association (SSAFA) - Forces Help. SUN Donations to SSAFA should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SSAFA. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide SSAFA with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation SUN worth 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. 210760 Est. 1885 SUN Registered Charity (Scotland) No. SC038056. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00lr14j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00lr14l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00lr14n (Listen) SUN Faith That Works is the theme of the 2009 Keswick SUN Convention. Thousands come together in a big tent in the SUN heart of the Lake District every summer to worship God and SUN to grow in their faith. SUN Preacher: Amy Orr-Ewing SUN Leader: Derek Burnside SUN Music directors: Ray Monk and Steve James. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lq99f (Listen) SUN Archaeopteryx SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN Sir David recounts the remarkable story of a feather, like SUN any other feather from a bird - only it was 150 million SUN years old, and the animal that lost it lived when birds SUN had not yet evolved. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00lr14q (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00lr14s (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00ltn9m (Listen) SUN Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the food writer and cook Hugh SUN Fearnley-Whittingstall. SUN Famous for making pâté out of placenta and dining on such SUN delicacies as squirrel and rook in his TV programmes, he SUN has made a name for himself as a cook on the wild side. So SUN perhaps it is not surprising that his first ambition was SUN not to spend his life inside a kitchen but in the great SUN outdoors because, he says, he 'wanted to be David SUN Attenborough'. SUN A stint in the renowned River Café in London, however, set SUN him on his way to establishing his own waterside haven for SUN food lovers, his River Cottage in Dorset. From there, he SUN has followed his passion for the environment by SUN campaigning for ethically-produced food, including SUN championing a creature not normally given time on our SUN small screens - the humble supermarket chicken. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00lny4j (Listen) SUN Series 51, Episode 6 SUN The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the SUN Theatre Royal in Newcastle, with Rob Brydon taking on the SUN chairman's role from the late Humphrey Lyttelton. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined by Phill Jupitus. SUN With Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00lr14x (Listen) SUN Suckling Pigs SUN Suckling pigs - whole month old milk fed piglets - are a SUN celebrated and celebratory part of Chinese, Spanish and SUN Italian cuisine, but fell from favour at the British table SUN many centuries ago as we became more urbanised - and SUN squeamish. But with renewed interest in where our food SUN comes from and how it is reared, suckling pigs are SUN becoming a more common feature in our restaurants. So SUN might they be ready for a comeback? SUN Sheila Dillon meets the farmers who turned around their SUN own failing pig rearing business 34 years ago by carving SUN out a new market for themselves, supplying suckling pigs SUN to Chinese restaurants. Reporter Ray Kershaw visits Barry, SUN Gillian and Richard Pugh of Pughs Piglets to find out SUN about their business, where now 40 per cent of their SUN activities are directed at the mainstream restaurant SUN market. SUN She traces our own British suckling pig heritage with food SUN historian Ivan Day; historically it was suckling pig we SUN ate, not full grown ones, and we also had a taste for many SUN other juvenile birds and animals. SUN Sheila also visits China Tang at the Dorchester Hotel, SUN where whole suckling pigs are a regular feature of the SUN dining room, and a traditional part of Chinese wedding SUN feasts. She speaks to Fuchsia Dunlop, a BBC journalist and SUN award-winning author of several books on Chinese food, and SUN Steve Downey, founder of Chef Direct, who supplies SUN suckling pigs to English restaurants, about their SUN potential for the future. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00lr14z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00lr151 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Ian Blair Years b00l0xxj (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw tells the inside SUN story of Sir Ian Blair's tenure as commissioner of the SUN Metropolitan Police. SUN This liberal Oxford-educated 'Blairite' was once seen as SUN the ideal candidate to modernise British policing and, in SUN particular, to eliminate the taint of 'institutional SUN racism' from the Met. But his tenure became increasingly SUN controversial and he was forced to step aside, dogged by SUN the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, accused of SUN racial discrimination by one of his most senior officers SUN and facing allegations of cronyism. SUN Shaw talks to those who have known Sir Ian throughout his SUN career and examines how Britain's highest-flying officer SUN came to be embroiled in a bitter dispute at the top of SUN Britain's biggest police force. Was Blair a victim of SUN politicisation or could he simply not do the job as he had SUN promised? SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lq945 (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Bunny Guinness, John Cushnie, Matthew Biggs and Pippa SUN Greenwood answer questions posed by gardeners in Hampshire. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 The Estuary b008kmqt (Listen) SUN Episode 4 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 begins to recede, the hundreds of thousands of SUN birds which had been roosting inland on the shingle banks SUN and lagoons return to the mud flats, providing a noisy and SUN wonderful spectacle. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00lr153 (Listen) SUN Tennyson's Maud SUN Joseph Millson reads Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1855 dark and SUN lyrical poem Maud to celebrate the 200th anniversary of SUN the poet's birth. SUN A disturbed young man roams the windswept hills, haunted SUN by his father's suicide and his mother's early death. He SUN blames his father's old friend, the lord of the Hall, for SUN his ruin. The young man was betrothed to Maud, the lord's SUN daughter, when they were children, but she and her family SUN left the area after the suicide. But now there are workmen SUN up at the Hall - Maud has come home. SUN With Kathryn Nutbeem. SUN Sound design by Christopher Shutt. SUN Directed by Abigail le Fleming. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00lr155 (Listen) SUN Chris Patten joins Mariella Frostrup to choose his Five of SUN the Best. The former Cabinet minister, last Governor of SUN Hong Kong and now Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle SUN Universities talks about his diverse reading tastes. He SUN explains how his predilection for foreign fiction reflects SUN a career which has often involved huge amounts of travel. SUN He chooses the five books which mean the most to him. SUN Mariella also talks to Adam Thirlwell, who was named as SUN one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists at the age SUN of 24 before his debut, Politics, had even been published. SUN He discusses his long-awaited second novel, The Escape. SUN Suzi Feay picks some recent paperbacks, both fiction and SUN non-fiction, ideal for taking on holiday this summer. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00lr157 (Listen) SUN Listeners' requests for poems lead Roger McGough to swim SUN with seals in icy waters, recall the wives of Thomas Hardy SUN and contemplate life and death while talking about a tea SUN tray. With readers Renu Brindle, Paul Mundell and Rupert SUN Wickham. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00lp32g (Listen) SUN Fraud is estimated to cost the UK economy upwards of 14 SUN billion pounds a year, a figure which is expected to rise SUN dramatically during the recession. Gerry Northam SUN investigates whether some of the biggest and most SUN audacious corporate fraudsters are now practically immune SUN from prosecution. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00lr0b6 (Listen) SUN Peter Gabriel SUN Clive Coleman profiles Peter Gabriel. He came to fame - SUN and fortune - as the extravagantly-dressed lead singer of SUN Genesis, before launching a successful solo career. But SUN Gabriel has pushed many other frontiers, notably helping SUN to found the World Music festival WOMAD. He has also SUN experimented with new technologies, brought elder SUN statesmen together and campaigned for human rights. SUN Clive hears from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Irish SUN President Mary Robinson and Peter Gabriel's mother about SUN what makes him tick. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00lr159 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00lr15c (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00lr15f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00lr15h (Listen) SUN Miriam O'Reilly introduces her selection of highlights SUN from the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00lr2bx (Listen) SUN Annette prepares for a night on the tiles. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00lr2g6 (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 b008cnz8 (Listen) SUN Blake's Doors of Perception, Jerusalem SUN Short stories marking the 250th anniversary of William SUN Blake's birth, each inspired by a quote from the great SUN poet. SUN Morris and his wife visit the Holy City, but it is back SUN home on Hampstead Heath that Morris really begins to SUN experience Jerusalem. SUN By Neil Gaiman, read by Alexander Morton. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00lq943 (Listen) SUN I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue producer Jon Naismith speaks to SUN Roger Bolton about the experience of returning to the SUN airwaves without Humphrey Lyttelton. We also go behind the SUN scenes at Test Match Special. SUN On the next edition of Feedback we will be assembling a SUN panel of listeners to raise their concerns about the BBC SUN to the chairman of the BBC Trust, Sir Michael Lyons. SUN While Sir Michael does not run the BBC, he is the chairman SUN of the group which supervises the corporation on behalf of SUN license fee payers. Technically speaking, the BBC has to SUN do what the BBC Trust says, and the BBC Trust has to do SUN what you say. Is it doing that? If we can remind you; SUN Mark Damazer has already said on air that the BBC Trust is SUN examining the possibility of adding humanist voices to SUN Thought for the Day. Should they be doing that? SUN The BBC Trust have recently suspended bonuses for senior SUN BBC staff; there has been no comment about the salaries of SUN the on air talent though. Are presenters paid too much? SUN Should their salaries be made public? SUN The potential DAB switchover in 2015 will affect many SUN listeners. The Trust has vigorously opposed the suggestion SUN that BBC license fee should be shared with other SUN broadcasters to make local news. But have they said much SUN regarding DAB? SUN The Trust recently examined radio provision for young SUN people. Their findings were positive but are children SUN actually well served on radio? SUN Radio 2 and 6 Music's remit are being examined by the SUN Trust. Will this lead to change at the two stations? Would SUN you want it to? SUN If you feel strongly about these topics, or any other, SUN then please email us and we will be in touch. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00lq947 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b00lr2g8 (Listen) SUN A Death Unnoticed SUN John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. SUN Every week, councils across the UK fund and organise SUN funerals for people who have nobody else to take care of SUN their affairs. Often these are deaths which have remained SUN undiscovered for weeks, months or even years. In an ageing SUN society, it is an issue expected to get worse. So how can SUN someone die and no one notice? John Waite investigates the SUN background to some of these desperately sad cases and asks SUN whether anything could be done to make them less likely. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00lr14g (Listen) SUN SSAFA Forces Help SUN Martin Bell appeals on behalf of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen SUN and Families Association (SSAFA) - Forces Help. SUN Donations to SSAFA should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SSAFA. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide SSAFA with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation SUN worth 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. 210760 Est. 1885 SUN Registered Charity (Scotland) No. SC038056. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00lpr3j (Listen) SUN Let's Start a Bank SUN Now might be a very good time to start a brand new bank, SUN unencumbered by the toxic loans and the government SUN bailouts of most of the old ones. Peter Day finds out from SUN the experts how to start a bank as well as how not to do SUN it. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00lr2gb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00lr2gd (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN Including Strangers in the Lobby: Former Westminster SUN journalist Olivia O'Leary tells the story of the small SUN group of Irish journalists who work alongside the lobby SUN correspondents of the major UK newspapers and broadcasters. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00lq949 (Listen) SUN Sylvia Syms discusses her adventures in motion pictures. SUN League Of Gentlemen member, writer and actor Mark Gatiss SUN presents his alternative guide to British cinema. Jane SUN Graham on the the thin line between love and hate in SUN modern romantic comedies. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00lr0m8 (Listen) SUN The Rescuers SUN Mark Tully explores the theme of rescue. A mainstay of SUN myth and fairytale, adventure and romance, why is the SUN longing for rescue so pervasive, and the need to rescue so SUN powerful? SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 JULY 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00lr2nc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lpc8f (Listen) MON Most of the research into black children's experience in MON British education has focused on the underachievement of MON boys, whereas black girls are thought to be doing well. MON However, new research from Heidi Mirza at the Institute of MON Education shows that, far from being served well by the MON system, black girls are having to make huge efforts to MON overcome obstacles to their advancement and are still MON falling behind white girls and boys. Laurie Taylor hears MON about supplementary schools, retaking GCSEs and entrenched MON attitudes from largely white teaching staff. MON Laurie also hears about the secret history of roads. Joe MON Moran calls them, 'the most commonly-viewed and MON least-contemplated landscape in Britain'. He tells Laurie MON how our motorways are built on pulped remaindered MON literature and that migratory birds use our system as MON tools for their navigation. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00lr0m4 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from Howden Minster. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr2ry (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr48f (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr33h (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00lr4fv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lr4jt (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00lr4kg (Listen) MON Anna Hill reports how people in rural towns and villages MON are pulling together to beat the recession. New figures MON suggest that the countryside is being harder hit that MON urban areas when it comes to job losses and shops closing. MON Anna visits Reepham, a market town in Norfolk, to find out MON how people there are coping with the downturn. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00lrrp9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00lr4qt (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 MI6: A Century in the Shadows b00lrsnk (Listen) MON Gadgets and Green Ink MON BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside MON Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to MI6 MON chief Sir John Scarlett, senior intelligence officers, MON agents and diplomats as well as their former arch enemies MON about the shadowy world of espionage. MON Charting the early years of MI6, founded by Sir Mansfield MON Cumming - an eccentric and formidable figure known as 'C', MON who signed his name in green ink - the highs and lows of MON the two World Wars and details of some of the gadgets that MON any self-respecting agent could not do without. MON MON 09:30 The Call b00lrsnm (Listen) MON The Siege MON Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made MON life-changing phone calls. MON In 1980, police negotiator Max Vernon spent five days MON taking brief telephone calls from the leader of the MON terrorists who had taken 26 people hostage inside the MON Iranian Embassy in London. The siege ended when the SAS MON stormed the building, as Max listened on the other end of MON the line. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00lr50t (Listen) MON The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 1 MON Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history MON of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. It MON is a story of the desire to belong, the desire to make MON friends and the sometimes conflicting desire to make MON money. This dramatic narrative account is based on MON interviews and documentary sources. MON It all begins in October 2003, when Eduardo Saverin first MON meets Mark Zuckerberg. MON A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lr73w (Listen) MON With Sheila McClennon. Including drama: The Help. MON MON 11:00 Mind Changers b00lny48 (Listen) MON Series 4, The Pseudo-Patient Study MON Claudia Hammond revisits another classic psychology MON experiment, David Rosenhan's Pseudo-Patient Study, gaining MON access to his unpublished personal papers to discover how MON it changed our understanding of the human mind, and its MON impact 40 years on. MON Between 1969 and 1972, the clinical psychologist David MON Rosenhan and seven other people - none of whom had a MON psychiatric diagnosis - got themselves admitted to 12 MON different psychiatric hospitals around the United States. MON They did this by presenting with a single symptom, saying MON that they heard a voice which said words such as 'empty', MON 'dull' and 'thud.' Once admitted, they acted completely MON normally. Nevertheless, they were kept in for periods of MON between 8 and 52 days. Seven of them were diagnosed with MON schizophrenia and were released as being 'in remission'; MON not one of them was judged to be sane. MON After Rosenhan published On Being Sane in Insane Places in MON the journal Science in 1973, the psychiatric profession MON went on the defensive to protest its diagnostic MON competence. The study struck at the heart of their MON attempts to medicalise psychiatry and be accepted as MON proper doctors. Its impact was felt when the third edition MON of the profession's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical MON Manual, came out in 1980: changes had been made which MON brought more rigour to the diagnostic process. MON However, as Claudia discovers from Rosenhan's unpublished MON papers, for him the study was less an experiment of MON diagnostic efficacy than an anthropological survey of MON psychiatric wards. In a chapter of the book he never MON finished, she reads his poignant account of his own first MON admission, and his sense that 'minimal attention was paid MON to my presence, as if I hardly existed'. MON Now suffering ill health and unable to speak, Rosenhan MON delegates his friends and colleagues professor of social MON psychology at Stanford University Lee Ross and clinical MON psychologist Florence Keller to speak to Claudia and show MON her the box containing previously unpublished material MON which throws new light on one of the most controversial MON and famous psychology experiments. MON MON 11:30 Hazelbeach b00lrsnp (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford, MON featuring likeable conman Ronnie Hazelbeach and his MON hapless friend Nick. MON Ronnie organises a raffle and James has a bad hair day. MON Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman MON Nick ...... Paul Bazely MON James ...... Neil Stuke MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00lrcqp (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00lrl92 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00lrl9l (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00lrsnr (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00l36zj (Listen) MON Family loyalties are tested at the Stables. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lrt1j (Listen) MON Antimacassars and Ylang Ylang Conditioner MON Comedy by Ian Potter. Eighty-year-old Frank is obsessed MON with coffee. One day, when he thinks he has run out, a MON trip to the shops turns into an odyssey. MON Frank ...... Russell Dixon MON Ewan ...... Stephen Hoyle MON Nick ...... Reece Noi MON Mrs Johnson ...... Sue Ryding MON Shopkeeper ...... Balvinder Sopal MON Dave ...... Greg Wood MON Jiri/Rob ...... Matt McGuirk MON Directed by Gary Brown. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00lr0bb (Listen) MON On Northern Men MON Kay Mellor explores the way that northern English MON masculinities have been portrayed in British film and MON television, reconciling issues of blatant sentimentality MON with the real-life social parallels that inform the canon MON of the past 50 years. MON She examines fictional portrayals that have changed and MON diversified, yet stayed much the same in many ways. From MON the crucial age of the Angry Young Man, marked out in This MON Sporting Life, she considers the contrasts and MON similarities between the trapped northern masculine MON identities portrayed in Kes and Billy Elliot. MON Kay discovers that the disintegration of traditional MON northern male stereotypes in fiction leads us also to more MON diverse explorations, for example, the weak men in MON Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine and Keeping Up MON Appearances, British-Asian northern masculinities in East MON is East, the dysfunctional and proud Frank Gallagher in MON Shameless, and interpretations of homosexual masculinities MON in Queer as Folk and Jimmy McGovern's The Street. MON The programme traces the relationship between changing MON variables of social class, heroism, 'northernness' and MON fictional portrayals of masculinity in film and MON television, using supporting material from the radio MON archive, and remembers some of the humour and creativity MON that emerges from struggle and the portrayal of difficult MON lives. MON MON 15:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists b00lrmkn (Listen) MON Mark Knopfler MON Singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading talks to MON leading guitarists about their music and guitar technique. MON Joan talks to Mark Knopfler, lead guitarist of Dire MON Straits. Knopfler is considered by many to be the most MON respected intricate 'fingerstyle' guitarist of the modern MON rock era. He brings his old Gibson and National steel MON guitar to the studio. MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00lr14x (Listen) MON Suckling Pigs MON Suckling pigs - whole month old milk fed piglets - are a MON celebrated and celebratory part of Chinese, Spanish and MON Italian cuisine, but fell from favour at the British table MON many centuries ago as we became more urbanised - and MON squeamish. But with renewed interest in where our food MON comes from and how it is reared, suckling pigs are MON becoming a more common feature in our restaurants. So MON might they be ready for a comeback? MON Sheila Dillon meets the farmers who turned around their MON own failing pig rearing business 34 years ago by carving MON out a new market for themselves, supplying suckling pigs MON to Chinese restaurants. Reporter Ray Kershaw visits Barry, MON Gillian and Richard Pugh of Pughs Piglets to find out MON about their business, where now 40 per cent of their MON activities are directed at the mainstream restaurant MON market. MON She traces our own British suckling pig heritage with food MON historian Ivan Day; historically it was suckling pig we MON ate, not full grown ones, and we also had a taste for many MON other juvenile birds and animals. MON Sheila also visits China Tang at the Dorchester Hotel, MON where whole suckling pigs are a regular feature of the MON dining room, and a traditional part of Chinese wedding MON feasts. She speaks to Fuchsia Dunlop, a BBC journalist and MON award-winning author of several books on Chinese food, and MON Steve Downey, founder of Chef Direct, who supplies MON suckling pigs to English restaurants, about their MON potential for the future. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00lrt1m (Listen) MON Witchcraft MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss the beliefs underpinning MON witchcraft. Do modern witches have anything in common with MON their forebears? And, have the Harry Potter books and MON films inspired greater interest in the craft? MON MON 17:00 PM b00lrq0v (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 b00lrq2g (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00lrt1q (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 1 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with MON panellists Sue Perkins, Pam Ayres, Tony Hawks and Tim Rice. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00lrlv0 (Listen) MON Brenda is the bearer of bad tidings for Mike. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00lrq3c (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsqcm (Listen) MON The Help, Episode 6 MON Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, MON Mississippi in 1962, about three brave women who dare to MON cross the racial lines. MON Skeeter and Aibileen wait nervously to find out how much MON Miss Hilly has discovered about their secret project. MON Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons MON Minny ...... Octavia Spencer MON Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow MON Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker MON Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter MON Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston MON Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan MON Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout MON Adapted by Penny Leicester. MON MON 20:00 Calling Time on the Binge Drinkers b00jzy2s (Listen) MON Frenchman, former Millennium Dome supremo and giant of the MON UK leisure industry PY Gerbeau examines our cultural MON obsession with drinking to excess and tries to find MON solutions to the problem. MON The French businessman first came to prominence in 2000 MON when PY was brought in by the government to run the MON troubled Millennium Dome. A huge fan of Britain then and MON now, he is still puzzled by one national trait - the habit MON of binge drinking. MON PY remembers the shock of his first encounter with the MON British weakness for excessive boozing. Shortly after MON arriving in London he came across a group of teenagers MON reeling about in the street surrounded by dozens of empty MON bottles. He soon discovered that drinking to excess is MON commonplace in towns and cities across the UK. It came as MON a double shock for Gerbeau because, despite his Gallic MON roots, PY himself rarely drinks, preferring to limit his MON own alcohol consumption to the occasional glass of dessert MON wine or champagne. MON But now the issue of binge drinking is very much on PY's MON own doorstep. The Frenchman heads X-Leisure, the largest MON leisure owner in the UK. Every Friday and Saturday night, MON thousands of people visit bars and restaurants at MON operators inside his entertainment complexes. His team has MON worked closely with tenants to limit alcohol promotions, MON trying to achieve a best code of practice, but PY admits MON they have had limited success. MON He now has broader concerns about the regulation of MON alcohol use and says: 'It's time for a prise de conscience MON - an awakening. The government has proved the case for MON tobacco, but the same needs to be done for binge drinking'. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00lygvy (Listen) MON Pakistan MON Bill Law investigates if Pakistani youngsters are in MON danger of joining the ranks of the Taliban or if they are MON fighting back against the extremists. Two-thirds of the MON Pakistani population is under the age of 25. In a country MON under siege from the forces of religious extremism, this MON youth bulge serves as a ticking time bomb. MON MON 21:00 Biomimicry: Inspired by Nature b00lrt1s (Listen) MON Scientist and broadcaster Prof Trevor Cox explores a new MON wave of biomimicry - copying nature - which aims to MON recreate the processes and systems, from self-cleaning MON lotus leaves to the Namibian fog-basking beetle, which can MON harvest moisture from the dry desert air. MON Trevor meets the people attempting to emulate nature's MON genius. Their goal is not just to copy nature's MON structures, but to recreate the processes and systems that MON evolution has taken billions of years to perfect. MON MON 21:30 MI6: A Century in the Shadows b00lrsnk (Listen) MON Gadgets and Green Ink MON BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside MON Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to MI6 MON chief Sir John Scarlett, senior intelligence officers, MON agents and diplomats as well as their former arch enemies MON about the shadowy world of espionage. MON Charting the early years of MI6, founded by Sir Mansfield MON Cumming - an eccentric and formidable figure known as 'C', MON who signed his name in green ink - the highs and lows of MON the two World Wars and details of some of the gadgets that MON any self-respecting agent could not do without. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00lrqb2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00lrqht (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Carolyn MON Quinn. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lt1pb (Listen) MON The Rapture, Episode 1 MON Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller. MON In a world on the brink of destruction, Gabrielle Fox MON arrives at an adolescent secure pyschiatric hospital, MON where a new patient is assigned to her. Sixteen-year-old MON Bethany Krall has committed an appalling crime and seems MON to know more about her new therapist that she ought to. MON Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00lp2hl (Listen) MON Chris Ledgard considers the use of words to control minds, MON exploring hypnosis, brainwashing and the recruiting MON language of cults to find out just how influenced we are MON by language. MON Chris is put into an altered state of consciousness by the MON soothing words of a hypnotherapist, to find out what kind MON of words are used to do this and how. Some in the medical MON profession are calling for hypnosis to be used for pain MON relief during medical procedures such as bone marrow MON transplantation and cancer treatment. They say that as MON hypnosis has no side effects it makes the operation MON quicker, the recovery faster and the cost less than with MON the use conventional anaesthetic. But does it really work, MON and if so, how? Chris talks to the scientists currently MON working on a systematic review to find out. MON Can talk also be used to control and manipulate us into MON doing things that we would otherwise not do? Stories of MON people being indoctrinated into cults usually involve MON descriptions of brainwashing, corruption and manipulation. MON But are words really powerful enough to control the mind? MON Chris talks to an ex-cult member turned rhetorical MON theorist about how language is used. MON MON 23:30 Hairspray and Harmonies b00hr5kt (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the Birmingham-based ladies MON barbershop chorus Second City Sound as it prepares to MON compete in the Ladies Association of British Barbershop MON Singers in Harrogate. MON Kit attends rehearsals in Birmingham, where he meets the MON 60-strong chorus of singers - and they put him through his MON musical paces. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 JULY 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00lr2m6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00lr50t (Listen) TUE The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 1 TUE Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history TUE of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. It TUE is a story of the desire to belong, the desire to make TUE friends and the sometimes conflicting desire to make TUE money. This dramatic narrative account is based on TUE interviews and documentary sources. TUE It all begins in October 2003, when Eduardo Saverin first TUE meets Mark Zuckerberg. TUE A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr2nf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr485 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr2s0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00lr4br (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lr4fx (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00lr4jw (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00lr4qk (Listen) TUE With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00lnync (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE Jonathan examines the policing of demonstrations and asks TUE what lessons can be learned in our own time from the 1855 TUE Hyde Park disturbances. The newly established police force TUE was criticised in Parliament and the press for using TUE excessive force to control the crowd, goading the public TUE and coralling the protestors into a confined space. TUE Jonathan and guests compare that controversy with the TUE criticisms being levelled at the police force today in TUE light of the G20 protests. TUE TUE 09:30 Musical Migrants b00b4nsq (Listen) TUE Series 1, From Belgium to Buenos Aires TUE Stories of people who relocated to other countries, TUE influenced by music. TUE Despite having little interest in Argentina or tango TUE music, Belgian bandoneon player Eva Wolff won a TUE scholarship and arrived in Buenos Aires in 2002, soon TUE after Argentina's catastrophic economic meltdown. The TUE slump triggered a post-crisis tango renaissance and, as TUE Eva relates, the tango scene is now more vital than at any TUE time since it first developed in the city's slums. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00lwrln (Listen) TUE The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 2 TUE Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history TUE of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. TUE Some weeks after Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin meet TUE and become friends in October 2003, Mark finds himself TUE hacking into the college networks. It is the beginning of TUE a historic enterprise. TUE A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lr6lw (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Help. TUE TUE 11:00 The Chambers b00lrv4w (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Second of two programmes which go behind the elegant TUE facades of legal London to meet the barristers, clerks and TUE staff of Outer Temple Chambers, one of London's leading TUE law chambers. TUE The new management structure is firmly in place and TUE commercial director Christine is leading the work to get TUE Chambers in shape for the implementation of the new Legal TUE Services Act. Meanwhile, Chambers's big winter PR social TUE event at the Royal Courts of Justice is nearly scuppered TUE by a taxi strike coinciding with a foot of snow. TUE Barrister Cara is back at work after maternity leave, but TUE when her nanny is called back to Poland she finds herself TUE struggling to juggle work and home. New recruits are TUE joining Chambers: Ali represents part of the business's TUE ambitious plans for Middle East expansion, while Michael's TUE tax expertise is put to good use at a tribunal in TUE Manchester. TUE On QC Richard's farm, spring arrives as his new role as TUE head of strategic development begins to take shape, while TUE by July, the nerves of Chambers's pupils (trainee TUE barristers) are shredded as decision day approaches for TUE whether they are going to be kept on or unceremoniously TUE 'let go'. TUE But at least it's summer and there is the annual party to TUE look forward to. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00lrv4y (Listen) TUE Honor Blackman TUE Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. TUE Honor Blackman introduces a selection of the poetry and TUE prose which has inspired her through her long acting TUE career. The pieces are read by Eleanor David, Nickolas TUE Grace and Honor herself. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00lrcq5 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00lrl4c (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00lrl94 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields b00lrv50 (Listen) TUE Robin Denselow tells the story of Cambodia's rock and roll TUE stars who emerged during the late 1960s with a new sound TUE known as Khmer Rock. Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, TUE almost all these singers and musicians were killed, but TUE they are still revered by Cambodians today. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00lrlv0 (Listen) TUE Brenda is the bearer of bad tidings for Mike. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hd3j8 (Listen) TUE McLevy - Series 5, The Chosen One TUE Stories about David Ashton's Victorian detective based on TUE real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James McLevy. TUE Marianna Eagle, the 'Princess of the Occult', is a TUE sell-out at the Usher Hall. Do her powers transcend mortal TUE understanding, or is she a fraud? McLevy takes his place TUE in the stalls. TUE McLevy ...... Brian Cox TUE Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond TUE Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell TUE Roach ...... David Ashton TUE Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil TUE Marianna ...... Claire Knight TUE Cyrus ...... Angus Macinnes TUE Donald ...... Andrew Neil TUE Mrs Gulliver ...... Sheila Donald TUE Craigie ...... Robin Laing TUE Directed by Patrick Rayner. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00lrv52 (Listen) TUE Should we be constructing artificial reefs as havens for TUE harried marine life? Why does no-one talk about cement TUE when discussing climate change yet it is one of the TUE biggest emitters of carbon dioxide? And just how much TUE carbon dioxide is there in the atmosphere and can human TUE activity really effect it? Also, how well is the message TUE about environmental degradation being transmitted and why TUE do larger animals live longer than small ones? TUE On the panel are marine biologist Dr Helen Scales, TUE Professor Andrew Watkinson, Director of Living With TUE Environmental Change, and Professor Philip Stott, TUE environmental scientist at the University of London. TUE As always we want to hear your comments on the topics TUE discussed and any questions you might want to put to TUE future programmes. TUE House Martins. We want to hear your observations of House TUE Martins; have they returned this year and when, and have TUE they bred successfully? TUE Finally, Home Planet will be at the British Birdwatching TUE Fair at Rutland Water to record a programme on the evening TUE of Friday 21 August. Listeners are invited to come to the TUE recording, and if you want to ask a question, please let TUE the programme know in advance by clicking on the Contact TUE Us link above. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ls1vk (Listen) TUE Three Women in a Motorhome, Pam's Story TUE Series of stories by Sue Teddern about three women who TUE take a short but eventful trip in a mobile home, written TUE to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jerome TUE K Jerome. TUE Pam's husband died recently. The couple had bought a motor TUE home and dreamt of enjoying their retirement on the open TUE road, but it has been parked in the driveway ever since TUE his death - too symbolic to sell, too precious to use. TUE She is cajoled by her daughter into taking it for a trip TUE along the Severn, and on the way they pick up an eccentric TUE elderly relative. Pam is grieving, but also learning to TUE assert herself with a daughter whose concern manifests TUE itself as control. TUE Read by Lynda Bellingham. TUE TUE 15:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists b00lrms2 (Listen) TUE Bonnie Raitt TUE Singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading talks to TUE leading guitarists about their music and guitar technique. TUE Joan talks to American blues singer and songwriter Bonnie TUE Raitt, one of the few women to achieve fame as a blues TUE guitarist. Joan hears how the young Bonnie dropped out of TUE Harvard and hung out with the greatest bluesmen, learning TUE slide guitar and techniques that have sustained her long TUE and varied career. TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00ls65t (Listen) TUE Chris Ledgard looks at new research showing that we really TUE are different when it comes to languages. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00ls65w (Listen) TUE Kate Mosse talks to singer Imelda May and poet John Hegley TUE about their favourite books: two classics set in WWI and a TUE poetic Japanese travelogue. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00lrpvm (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 b00lrq0x (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Laurence & Gus: Hearts and Minds b00ls65y (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE Comic sketches starring Laurence Howarth and Gus Brown. TUE Sketches about Industry and Laziness, with perspectives TUE from Stalin's PA, a man with an awful lot of tortoises and TUE the Pied Piper of Hamlyn. TUE With Kate Fleetwood, Isy Suttie and Duncan Wisbey. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00lrltn (Listen) TUE Matt sees how the other half live. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00lrq2j (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsqc8 (Listen) TUE The Help, Episode 7 TUE Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, TUE Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to TUE cross the racial lines. TUE After the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, TUE Skeeter fears that she won't find any other black maids TUE willing to tell her their story. TUE Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons TUE Minny ...... Octavia Spencer TUE Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow TUE Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker TUE Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter TUE Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston TUE Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan TUE Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout TUE Adapted by Penny Leicester. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00ls660 (Listen) TUE As evidence continues to emerge about the CIA's secret TUE detention and interrogation programme, calls grow on this TUE side of the Atlantic for an inquiry into claims that TUE Britain colluded in the torture of suspects. Stephen Grey TUE investigates the relationship between the US and the UK TUE security services in the hidden War on Terror. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00ls662 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00ls6bq (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter explores the diagnosis and treatment of TUE Barrett's oesophagus. Barrett's oesophagus is a condition TUE that affects some people who have had severe heartburn for TUE a long time. Mark finds out how it is dealt with at TUE Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00lnync (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE Jonathan examines the policing of demonstrations and asks TUE what lessons can be learned in our own time from the 1855 TUE Hyde Park disturbances. The newly established police force TUE was criticised in Parliament and the press for using TUE excessive force to control the crowd, goading the public TUE and coralling the protestors into a confined space. TUE Jonathan and guests compare that controversy with the TUE criticisms being levelled at the police force today in TUE light of the G20 protests. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00lrq7m (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00lrqb4 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Carolyn TUE Quinn. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lw03q (Listen) TUE The Rapture, Episode 2 TUE Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller. TUE Bethany Krall, a troubled psychiatric patient, appears to TUE possess prophetic powers brought on by electro-therapy and TUE terrible nightmares. Her therapist Gabrielle Fox seeks TUE advice from a scientist she meets at a charity ball. TUE Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00ls6bt (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Arthur Smith invites an audience into his home for music TUE and comedy. With Stewart Lee, Reginald D Hunter and Sophie TUE Ellis-Bextor. TUE TUE 23:30 Hairspray and Harmonies b00hv33b (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the Birmingham-based ladies TUE barbershop chorus Second City Sound. TUE Kit meets up with the group in Harrogate as it prepares to TUE compete in the Ladies Association of British Barbershop TUE Singers. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00lr2m8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00lwrln (Listen) WED The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 2 WED Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history WED of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. WED Some weeks after Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin meet WED and become friends in October 2003, Mark finds himself WED hacking into the college networks. It is the beginning of WED a historic enterprise. WED A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr2nh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr487 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr2s2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00lr4bt (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lr4fz (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00lr4jy (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00lr4qm (Listen) WED With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00lxc6g (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including celebrity photographer Terry O'Neill. WED WED 09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A WED b00ls6wp (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Rosie Goldsmith goes behind the scenes at London's WED Victoria and Albert Museum as it attempts to transform WED itself from 'the nation's attic' to a 'very amazing' WED modern museum. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00lwtsj (Listen) WED The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 3 WED Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history WED of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. WED Mark acquires a certain campus notoriety in the aftermath WED of his aborted website Harvard Facemash in the winter of WED 2003. But there are some perceptive young entrepreneurs WED who recognise his talent and want to harness it to their WED own web projects. WED A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lr6m6 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Help. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b00ls6xg (Listen) WED Series 10, Oil in Dorset WED Contemporary history series. WED Chris Ledgard tells the story of the battle to extract WED Dorset's oil, after geologists discovered the biggest WED offshore oilfield in western Europe there in the late WED 1970s. WED The oilmen were faced with the dilemma of how to open up a WED major oilfield around the Isle of Purbeck and Poole WED Harbour, one of the most important and protected stretches WED of landscape in the British Isles. But BP was determined WED to do so and, after a long battle to persuade people that WED it could drill for oil without destroying the environment, WED its plans were passed. WED WED 11:30 Baggage b00ls77k (Listen) WED Series 4, Tales of the Unexpected WED Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh. WED It's December in Edinburgh and the Christmas spirit is in WED short supply. The spirit of whisky, however, features WED heavily, as Ruth decides whether or not to risk falling WED off the wagon and Caroline and Roddy risk seriously WED falling out. WED Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon WED Fiona ...... Phyllis Logan WED Ruth ...... Adie Allen WED Roddy ...... Robin Cameron WED Hector ...... David Rintoul WED Nicholas ...... Moray Hunter WED Miriam ...... Nicola Grier WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00lrcq7 (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Peter White. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00lrl4f (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00lrl96 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00ls7fp (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00lrltn (Listen) WED Matt sees how the other half live. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lslgh (Listen) WED Ladies' Day WED By Amanda Whittington. To celebrate her early retirement, WED Pearl takes her two best friends from work for a day at WED the races. The outing becomes a rollercoaster ride of WED emotions, changing fortunes and some unexpected WED revelations. WED Pearl ...... Katharine Rogers WED Jan ...... Lynda Rooke WED Shelley ...... Louise Kempton WED Kevin ...... John McAndrew WED Jack ...... Robert Gwilym WED Announcer ...... Charlie Parkin WED Directed by Sara Davies. WED WED 15:00 Money Box b00lqzts (Listen) WED In a special edition of the programme, Paul Lewis and WED guests discuss savings and investments. Paul talks to fund WED manager Anthony Bolton and looks at Zopa, the intetrnet WED service that advertises rates of over eight per cent. WED His panel are Clare Francis of comparison website WED Moneysupermarket, Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven WED Investment Management and Adrian Lowcock, senior WED investment adviser at Bestinvest. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ls21t (Listen) WED Three Women in a Motorhome, Rosemary's Story WED Series of stories by Sue Teddern about three women who WED take a short but eventful trip in a mobile home, written WED to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jerome WED K Jerome. WED Rosemary is an 84-year-old who doesn't care too much for WED convention. She meets a young 'hoodie' called Gavin in a WED launderette in Chepstow, as her two travelling companions WED charge her with looking after 'the smalls' while they WED stock up at the supermarket. As she gradually wins Gavin's WED trust, she hits on a very unusual gift idea for her friend WED back at The Beeches retirement home. WED Read by Marcia Warren. WED WED 15:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists b00lrms4 (Listen) WED John Williams WED Singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading talks to WED leading guitarists about their music and guitar technique. WED Joan meets classical guitarist John Williams. Regarded as WED the one of the finest classical guitarists of his WED generation, Williams has explored many different musical WED traditions including Spanish and jazz guitar. He plays WED Joan different music across from the centuries to WED illustrate the differences between classical and other WED forms of guitar music. WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00lsxgy (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00ls6bq (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter explores the diagnosis and treatment of WED Barrett's oesophagus. Barrett's oesophagus is a condition WED that affects some people who have had severe heartburn for WED a long time. Mark finds out how it is dealt with at WED Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. WED WED 17:00 PM b00lrpvp (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 b00lrq0z (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons WED b00lsxh0 (Listen) WED Bob Dylan WED Occasional series of comic profiles celebrating the living WED artists deemed to be 'iconic icons'. WED Written by and starring Patrick Barlow, with additional WED material by John Ramm. WED A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00lrltq (Listen) WED Lynda works on her social network. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00lrq2l (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsqcb (Listen) WED The Help, Episode 8 WED Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, WED Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to WED cross the racial lines. WED Skeeter's crossing of the fearsome Miss Hilly results in WED her almost total exclusion from the Jackson social set. WED Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons WED Minny ...... Octavia Spencer WED Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow WED Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker WED Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter WED Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston WED Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan WED Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout WED Adapted by Penny Leicester. WED WED 20:00 Reality Check b00lsyd2 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED Justin Rowlatt presents a series of discussions with WED experts and people closely involved with the issues. WED Those who seek to influence university policy are joined WED by students at the sharp end of the government's higher WED education policy to ask if the UK needs to send so many WED people to university. WED Around 300,000 university students finish their studies in WED summer 2009, only to join one of the worst employment WED markets for years, and questions continue to be asked WED about the quality of education provided by some WED institutions. WED WED 20:45 Strangers in the Lobby b00lsyfw (Listen) WED Olivia O'Leary tells the story of the only 'foreign' WED journalists allowed into the heart of Westminster: the WED Irish lobby. When Irish nationalists planted dynamite WED inside the House of Commons in 1885, their attack was WED foiled but the action led, indirectly, to the setting up WED of the modern lobby system. Today, all the major UK WED newspapers and broadcasters have lobby correspondents but WED it is a little-known fact that a small group of Irish WED journalists work alongside them. WED WED 21:00 A Life With ... b00lsyql (Listen) WED Series 5, Ospreys WED Writer and naturalist Paul Evans goes to the Highlands of WED Scotland to meet Roy Dennis OBE, statesman of British WED conservation, who has spent a life with ospreys - the WED iconic fish hawks which are slowly returning to Britain. WED Paul asks Roy what other creatures he would like to see WED back in the British countryside. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00lxc6g (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including celebrity photographer Terry O'Neill. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00lrq7p (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00lrqb6 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with David WED Eades. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lw09s (Listen) WED The Rapture, Episode 3 WED Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller. WED Gabrielle and physicist Frazer Melville begin an affair, WED and Gabrielle's unsettling patient Bethany makes an WED accurate prediction concerning a natural disaster. WED Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Act Your Age b00ftb87 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Host Simon Mayo pits the comic generations against each WED other. With team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and WED Roy Walker and guests Mick Miller, Ed Byrne and Josie Long. WED WED 23:30 Kicking the Habit b007tcmd (Listen) WED Series 1, If the Boot Fits, Share It WED Comedy drama by Christopher Lee, set in a Carmelite WED monastery where the brown habit is no protection against WED the problems and temptations of the modern world. WED Noisy boots, an electric bath chair and a sexy redhead are WED all hazards along the quirky path to righteousness. And WED while dutiful Father Michael seeks spiritual guidance, his WED capable administrator Mave is possibly the real power WED behind the shrine. WED Father Bertie ...... Alfred Molina WED Brother Martin ...... Roy Dotrice WED Father Michael ...... Martin Jarvis WED Brother Luke ...... Darren Richardson WED Mave ...... Rosalind Ayres WED Friars and pilgrims played by Kenneth Danziger, Tracy WED Pattin, Moira Quirk and Alan Shearman. WED Directed by Pete Atkin WED A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 JULY 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00lr2mb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00lwtsj (Listen) THU The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 3 THU Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history THU of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. THU Mark acquires a certain campus notoriety in the aftermath THU of his aborted website Harvard Facemash in the winter of THU 2003. But there are some perceptive young entrepreneurs THU who recognise his talent and want to harness it to their THU own web projects. THU A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr2nk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr489 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr2s4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00lr4bw (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lr4g1 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00lr4k0 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00lr4qp (Listen) THU With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lszh4 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 3 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 They examine the case of Ayesha and her bid to receive THU fertility treatment. Ayesha has a genetic condition which THU causes muscle weakness and curvature of the spine. She is THU in a wheelchair and heavily reliant on her husband and THU others for day-to-day tasks such as getting out of bed, THU having a shower and going to the toilet. THU By law, the welfare of any child born through fertilty THU treatment has to be assessed, and Ayesha's case is no THU exception. But how does her disability and future health THU affect the welfare of a child? Is it ethical to put the THU needs of someone who doesn't exist yet above those of THU someone who does? Should a fertility treatment request be THU treated any differently if one of the parents has a THU disability rather than a life-threatening illness like THU cancer? Whose job is it to decide what makes someone THU adequate parents? THU There is a 50 per cent chance that her condition will be THU passed on to any future child. It is possible to screen THU out the condition in affected embryos. But Ayesha says she THU would accept any child regardless of its condition and THU wouldn't want any screening. The law says you cannot THU screen in a disability, but says nothing about screening THU one out. Is it ethical to consider screening for embryos THU in effect with the same conditon as Ayesha's if she was THU offered fertility treatment? THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00lwttk (Listen) THU The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 4 THU Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history THU of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. It THU is a story of the desire to belong, the desire to make THU friends and the sometimes conflicting desire to make THU money. This dramatic narrative account is based on THU interviews and documentary sources. THU In the summer of 2004, Mark moves the team to Silicon THU Valley, but Eduardo remains behind in New York and Harvard. THU A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lr6mb (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Help. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00lszh6 (Listen) THU A Journey Without Maps THU Humphrey Hawksley retraces the extraordinary journey THU undertaken on foot by the novelist Graham Greene from THU Sierra Leone across Liberia in 1935. He feasts on sardines THU and luncheon meat, meets the lightning makers and devil THU dancers and is involved in a near-fatal car crash. How has THU West Africa changed? Is it better or worse than it was 70 THU years ago? THU THU 11:30 Frequently Asked Questions b00lszh8 (Listen) THU Ian Samson traces the relationship between authors and THU their readers through the changing nature of the THU correspondence between them. He asks his fellow writers THU whether festivals, promotional tours and the advent of the THU internet have altered their role. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00lrcq9 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Shari Vahl. Including Face THU the Facts, presented by John Waite. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00lrl4h (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00lrl98 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00lszhb (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from THU everyday life. THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00lrltq (Listen) THU Lynda works on her social network. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lszhd (Listen) THU Marmalade for Comrade Philby THU Black comedy by Christopher William Hill. When mediocre THU novelist Patrick Bradyn discovers that his French THU translator has reworked his latest spy novel as THU autobiography, he finds himself with a profound moral THU conundrum. THU Patrick Bradyn ...... Bill Nighy THU Hannah Olrod ...... Penelope Wilton THU Delphine Barbret ...... Rachel Atkins THU Ken ...... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Lottie ...... Claudia Elmhirst THU Barlow ...... Adrian Scarborough THU With original music by Lucinda Mason Brown. THU A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00lqpwl (Listen) THU Firth of Lorne THU Helen Mark reports on the dispute between fishermen and THU conservationists over the wildlife-rich waters of the THU Firth of Lorne on the west coast of Scotland. THU Dotted with tiny islands, the Firth of Lorne on the west THU coast of Scotland is a yachtsman's dream. Fishermen also THU covet the Firth's prawns and scallops, whilst THU conservationists fret over threats to the extraordinary THU reefs, the sea bird colonies and the whales and dolphins THU that pass between Mull and Jura. THU Helen joins local wildlife biologist Tessa McGregor for a THU boat trip around the Firth, meeting fishermen, farmers and THU naturalists, all of whom are anxious to reach a balance THU that preserves livelihoods without further threatening THU this precarious natural environment. THU Scallop dredging is currently banned in the Firth, much to THU the displeasure of local fishermen who have to sail THU further and into more dangerous waters to bring home a THU profitable catch. The Scottish government may reverse the THU ban, but a local diver tells Helen that such a move would THU cause further damage to the sea bed, the rocky reef and THU the aquatic life that depends on it. THU On her voyage around the Firth's tiny islands Helen will THU also be meeting the local Luing breed of cattle and seeing THU the beehive huts used by the first generation of Scottish THU monks. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00lr14g (Listen) THU SSAFA Forces Help THU Martin Bell appeals on behalf of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen THU and Families Association (SSAFA) - Forces Help. THU Donations to SSAFA should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 THU Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SSAFA. THU Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax THU payer, please provide SSAFA with your full name and THU address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation THU worth 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. 210760 Est. 1885 THU Registered Charity (Scotland) No. SC038056. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ls21w (Listen) THU Three Women in a Motorhome, Kate's Story THU Series of stories by Sue Teddern about three women who THU take a short but eventful trip in a mobile home, written THU to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jerome THU K Jerome. THU Kate has given her mother Pam an ultimatum about the motor THU home: one 'grand tour' before selling it. The intention THU was for them to spend some quality time together on the THU road, away from the pressures of her work. But plans go THU awry as a phone call from a colleague turns everything on THU its head. THU Read by Rebecca Smart. THU THU 15:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists b00lrms6 (Listen) THU Russell Lissack THU Singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading talks to THU leading guitarists about their music and guitar technique. THU Joan meets Russell Lissack, lead guitarist of indie-rock THU band Bloc Party and her youngest guitar favourite. Using THU his ever-expanding array of electronic effects, Russell is THU able to make his guitar sound like nothing else on earth. THU Be it spiky power chords, immersive walls of sound or the THU whoosh of an aeroplane taking off, he shows how far modern THU technology has influenced guitar playing in the wake of THU the psychedelic experiments of the 1960s. THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00lr155 (Listen) THU Chris Patten joins Mariella Frostrup to choose his Five of THU the Best. The former Cabinet minister, last Governor of THU Hong Kong and now Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle THU Universities talks about his diverse reading tastes. He THU explains how his predilection for foreign fiction reflects THU a career which has often involved huge amounts of travel. THU He chooses the five books which mean the most to him. THU Mariella also talks to Adam Thirlwell, who was named as THU one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists at the age THU of 24 before his debut, Politics, had even been published. THU He discusses his long-awaited second novel, The Escape. THU Suzi Feay picks some recent paperbacks, both fiction and THU non-fiction, ideal for taking on holiday this summer. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00lszhg (Listen) THU The discovery 20 years ago of the gene responsible for THU cystic fibrosis was a milestone in human genetics. One of THU the discoverers, Francis Collins, went on to run the Human THU Genome Project. A single gene was tracked down using THU genetic clues, and the expectation was that a treatment THU based on replacing the gene would follow soon. Quentin THU Cooper hears why the therapy has proved so hard to develop. THU THU 17:00 PM b00lrpvr (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 b00lrq11 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Shappi Talk b00lszhj (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi examines what it THU is like growing up in multi-cultural families. THU Shappi discusses growing up in the UK with black comedian THU Ava Vidal and chats to author Ben Okri, who tells stories THU from his childhood with a very alternative father and THU discusses some childhood challenges. THU Plus a song from comedian Hils Barker. THU An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00lrlts (Listen) THU Helen loses her sense of diplomacy. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00lrq2n (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsqcf (Listen) THU The Help, Episode 9 THU Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, THU Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to THU cross the racial lines. THU Minny worries that Miss Celia is about to make a fool of THU herself at the Jackson Junior League Annual Benefit. THU Meanwhile, Skeeter has a deadline to meet. THU Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons THU Minny ...... Octavia Spencer THU Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow THU Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker THU Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter THU Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston THU Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan THU Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout THU Adapted by Penny Leicester. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00lszhl (Listen) THU Organised dog fighting is believed to be on the increase THU among some young British Asians. Dog fighting is a THU long-established tradition in parts of Pakistan but here THU in the UK, it is being linked to other violent criminality THU - with drug money being used to wage bets on the outcome THU of the fight. Amardeep Bassey investigates. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00lszhn (Listen) THU Learning Curve THU A 21st-century corporation needs a different kind of THU organisational structure from the old command and control THU mechanisms that built the world's biggest companies. Peter THU Day finds out how people can create learning organisations THU without commanding and controlling. THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lszh4 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 3 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 They examine the case of Ayesha and her bid to receive THU fertility treatment. Ayesha has a genetic condition which THU causes muscle weakness and curvature of the spine. She is THU in a wheelchair and heavily reliant on her husband and THU others for day-to-day tasks such as getting out of bed, THU having a shower and going to the toilet. THU By law, the welfare of any child born through fertilty THU treatment has to be assessed, and Ayesha's case is no THU exception. But how does her disability and future health THU affect the welfare of a child? Is it ethical to put the THU needs of someone who doesn't exist yet above those of THU someone who does? Should a fertility treatment request be THU treated any differently if one of the parents has a THU disability rather than a life-threatening illness like THU cancer? Whose job is it to decide what makes someone THU adequate parents? THU There is a 50 per cent chance that her condition will be THU passed on to any future child. It is possible to screen THU out the condition in affected embryos. But Ayesha says she THU would accept any child regardless of its condition and THU wouldn't want any screening. The law says you cannot THU screen in a disability, but says nothing about screening THU one out. Is it ethical to consider screening for embryos THU in effect with the same conditon as Ayesha's if she was THU offered fertility treatment? THU THU 21:45 Top of the Class b00cq602 (Listen) THU Bill Morris 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 Former trade union leader Bill Morris returns to the car THU component manufacturer in Birmingham where he began work THU as an 18-year-old in overalls on the factory floor in 1954. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00lrq7r (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00lrqb8 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with David THU Eades. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lw0cb (Listen) THU The Rapture, Episode 4 THU Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller. THU Bethany predicts a powerful earthquake in Turkey, and THU Gabrielle has a disturbing encounter with her predecessor THU at the psychiatric hospital. THU Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Bigipedia b00lszss (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU The omniscient friend you know from your computer and THU laser watch takes over Radio 4 for 30 minutes in a unique THU experiment in broadwebcasting. THU Written by Nick Doody and Matt Kirshen with Carey Marx and THU Sarah Morgan. THU Featuring Ewan Bailey, Sam Battersea, Margaret THU Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, Kobna THU Holdbrook-Smith and Lewis MacLeod. THU THU 23:30 Series 1 b007tz8w (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Comedian Will Smith is obsessed with 1980s detective THU series Bergerac, so uses an audio book of its star, John THU Nettles, reading the Tao, to navigate the minefield of his THU life, with the help of a special guest. THU Will seeks justice. THU With Adam Buxton, John Nettles, Matt Holness, Simon THU Greenall, Dan Tetsell. THU Written by Will Smith and Roger Drew. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 31 JULY 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00lr2md (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00lwttk (Listen) FRI The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 4 FRI Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history FRI of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. It FRI is a story of the desire to belong, the desire to make FRI friends and the sometimes conflicting desire to make FRI money. This dramatic narrative account is based on FRI interviews and documentary sources. FRI In the summer of 2004, Mark moves the team to Silicon FRI Valley, but Eduardo remains behind in New York and Harvard. FRI A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lr2nm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lr48c (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lr2s6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00lr4by (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lr4g3 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Clair Jaquiss. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00lr4k2 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00lr4qr (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00lr14v (Listen) FRI Nicky Haslam FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is interior designer Nicky Haslam. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00lwtv6 (Listen) FRI The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 5 FRI Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history FRI of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. FRI As Facebook's users begin to grow exponentially, the sums FRI of money being bandied around by prospective investors FRI also grow. So do the egos and anxieties of those involved FRI with the company. FRI A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lr6ml (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Help. FRI FRI 11:00 Anatomy of a Car Crash b00f4ryn (Listen) FRI The Sony Radio Academy Award-winning documentary about a FRI fatal car crash in Cornwall involving a nursery nurse and FRI a former policeman. FRI In their own words, the survivors explain the FRI life-changing consequences of the sort of car crash which FRI happens every day in the UK but which is often overlooked. FRI Their story shows how a moment's inattention can trigger FRI traumatic physical and psychological effects, exploring FRI the chain of events set in motion from the moment of the FRI collision to the conclusion of legal proceedings. FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b00lt16c (Listen) FRI Series 2, Ipswich 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 Ipswich. When the crew have to go on a refresher safety FRI and emergency procedures course, it spells trouble for FRI Douglas's inner dog and Martin's inner ear. 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 Mr Sargent ...... Phil Davis FRI Dr Peter Duncan ...... Alex Macqueen FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00lrcqc (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00lrl4k (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00lrl9b (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00lt16f (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00lrlts (Listen) FRI Helen loses her sense of diplomacy. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lt16h (Listen) FRI Telling the Bees FRI By Rebecca Trick-Walker. FRI After the death of her husband, May struggles to come to FRI terms with her grief. Solace is at hand, but from an FRI unexpected quarter - and only if May can summon the FRI courage to face some long-held fears. FRI May ...... Kika Markham FRI Alex ...... Victoria John FRI Ed ...... Howell Evans FRI The Story of the Bees ...... Dorian Thomas FRI Music by Jane Watkins. FRI Directed by Sam Hoyle. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lt16k (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank answer FRI questions posed by members of Letchworth District FRI Gardeners Association. FRI Letchworth was the world's first garden city, founded in FRI 1903 by social reformer Ebenezer Howard. Planners gave its FRI citizens a generous space for each garden, and one of the FRI founding principles was that the town should have the FRI space to grow its own food. The panel find out whether FRI Letchworth's history gives its gardeners an advantage FRI today, given that the concept of self-sufficiency and the FRI 'grow your own' movement are increasingly popular. FRI Also, pest expert Pippa Greenwood unearths a local colony FRI of rare - but temperamental - black squirrels. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists b00lrms9 (Listen) FRI Bert Jansch FRI Singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading talks to FRI leading guitarists about their music and guitar technique. FRI Joan meets Bert Jansch, widely acknowledged as one of the FRI most influential musicians of all time. Since the FRI mid-1960s, every generation has been held spellbound by FRI his extraordinary fingerpicking and stringbending FRI techniques. He continues to be revered as the master FRI guitarist of folk music. FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00lt16m (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 b00lt16p (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet talks to Vincent Cassel about Mesrine, in FRI which he stars as France's public enemy number one Jacques FRI Mesrine. David Warner looks back on Cassel's career, FRI including roles in Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment, FRI Straw Dogs and The Omen. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00lrpvt (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 b00lrq13 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00lt16r (Listen) FRI Series 28, Episode 6 FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of FRI the week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, FRI Mitch Benn and Marcus Brigstocke. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00lrltv (Listen) FRI Four is a crowd at Brenda's graduation. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00lrq2q (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lsqcj (Listen) FRI The Help, Episode 10 FRI Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, FRI Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to FRI cross the racial lines. FRI The collaborators hold their breath as their book reaches FRI the bookstores. Will the ladies of Jackson recognise FRI themselves as described by their maids? FRI Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons FRI Minny ...... Octavia Spencer FRI Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow FRI Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker FRI Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter FRI Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston FRI Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan FRI Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout FRI Adapted by Penny Leicester. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00lt16t (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Fishguard, FRI Pembrokeshire. Panellists include secretary of state for FRI Wales Peter Hain, columnist Tanya Gold and campaigner Tony FRI Sewell. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lt16w (Listen) FRI Salamander FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI Sir David's first pet was a fire salamander, given to him FRI by his father on his eighth birthday. He also gave his own FRI son a salamander on his eighth birthday, the legacy of FRI which is very much alive and kicking today. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00lt16y (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Prodigal Fraudster FRI Second series of three political dramas. FRI By Mike Harris. FRI MP Bobby Khan has his sights set on a ministerial post, FRI but things don't go quite to plan. Bobby's mother FRI Elizabeth is also delivered a shock which changes the FRI family dynamics forever. An unexpected visitor brings FRI danger to the Khan household as the murky world of fraud FRI and double dealings are brought to the fore. FRI Bobby Khan ...... Zubin Varla FRI Elizabeth Khan ...... Barbara Marten FRI Lucy Khan ...... Nicola Stephenson FRI Imran Khan ...... Bhasker Patel FRI Mike Winters ...... Michael Feast FRI Wasim ...... Christopher Bisson FRI Barry ...... Lee Boardman FRI Isabella ...... Fiona Clarke FRI David Hart ...... James Quinn FRI Sara Khan ...... Millie Rose Kinsey FRI Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00lrq7t (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00lrqbb (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Roger FRI Hearing. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lw1bs (Listen) FRI The Rapture, Episode 5 FRI Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller. FRI Gabrielle confronts Leonard Krall, Bethany's father. FRI Bethany's predictions are turning out to be disturbingly FRI and destructively accurate. FRI Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00ls65w (Listen) FRI Kate Mosse talks to singer Imelda May and poet John Hegley FRI about their favourite books: two classics set in WWI and a FRI poetic Japanese travelogue. FRI FRI 23:30 Listen Against b0088nnz (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 1 FRI Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back FRI over the past week of radio. FRI FRI FRI

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