07 August, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 08/08/2009 - 14/08/2009

Go to: SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI

SAT SATURDAY 8 AUGUST 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00lxhhm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00lxjln (Listen) SAT Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 5 SAT Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of SAT the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access SAT to her letters and papers. SAT Despite finding companionable happiness in Italy, the SAT vexations of Spark's family life continued to intrude long SAT into her old age. SAT Abridged by Rosemary Goring. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lxhhp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lxhhr (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lxhht (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00lxhhw (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lxhhy (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. SAT SAT 05:45 Backstreet Business b008pxsy (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Nicola Heywood Thomas visits five small businesses. Byron SAT George of Llanelli repairs false teeth in a workshop SAT attached to his house. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00lxhj0 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00lxspy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00lxsq1 (Listen) SAT Ospreys of Rutland Water SAT Our growing population in the UK is creating more demand SAT for water and so several new reservoirs are planned and SAT others extended. Helen Mark explores Rutland Water to SAT investigate the controversy it caused in the 1970s when SAT plans to flood two villages and vast swathes of farmland SAT were announced. Now it is home to thousands of wildlife SAT species, including the rare osprey. SAT Helen finds out about the success of the reintroduction SAT project there and gets within touching distance of three SAT new chicks as they are ringed. But once again farmland has SAT been sacrificed for the lagoons. She explores how well new SAT species are taking to the man-made pools and investigates SAT who wins in the battle for food, water and wildlife. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00lxsq3 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Anna Hill looks into the human cost of bovine TB for SAT farming families trapped within the cycle of the disease. SAT For years, even decades, it has become a never-ending SAT nightmare. The latest government figures show that, since SAT January 2009, new cases of bovine tuberculosis in cattle SAT have fallen by 5.3 per cent compared with the same period SAT last year. However, there are still thousands of farms, SAT especially in the south and west, which are caught in the SAT bovine TB trap. We hear more from those farmers and their SAT families in one of the worst affected areas of the SAT country, Worcestershire. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00lxsq5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00lxsq7 (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather; SAT Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00lxsq9 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Rev Richard Coles is joined by SAT wildlife film maker Simon King. With poetry from Susan SAT Richardson. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00lxsqc (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig joins a botanist in search of the Lotus SAT Flower in rural Japan and takes a journey into the dark SAT and fascinating hinterland of Russia, where she finds a SAT country still struggling to come to terms with the fall of SAT communism. SAT SAT 10:30 Soho Stories b00lxsqf (Listen) SAT Mergers and Acquisitions and Megabucks 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 Following government intervention in 2003, the independent SAT production sector is now the envy of the world and British SAT television has become responsible for some 53 per cent of SAT all format hours on the planet. However, with the SAT emergence of a worldwide digital market, its future is SAT once more uncertain. SAT Paul Jackson is joined by Simon Cowell, Peter Bazalgette, SAT Lorraine Heggessey, Paul Smith, Jimmy Mulville, Steve SAT Morrison, David Frank and Henry Normal to chart the SAT changing fortunes of the industry since the new millenium SAT and to discuss what is needed to maintain artistic and SAT business supremacy in the future. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00lxsqh (Listen) SAT As the recession deepens, Jim Hancock and a panel of MPs SAT discuss the impact of the recession in the West Midlands SAT and the North West and ask if government measures to SAT support struggling manufacturing firms and their employees SAT are working. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00lxsqk (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT Including communities stranded on either side of the SAT hostile border between Georgia and South Ossetia, bull SAT running on a budget in Spain, and a look inside the SAT private playground of Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia. SAT SAT 12:00 The Money Grab b00lxsqm (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Alvin Hall explores the rise in corporate pay and bonus SAT culture. SAT He meets the politicians and shareholders looking to rein SAT in sky-high executive salaries and asks if their cause is SAT a realistic one. Will the era of big bonuses soon be over, SAT or can the finance world's top talent always name their SAT price? SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00lxh42 (Listen) SAT Series 28, Episode 7 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 Ben Goldacre. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00lxsqp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00lxsqr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00lxh7t (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Margate. The SAT panellists are writer Charles Moore, British Medical SAT Association chairman Hamish Meldrum, commentator and chief SAT executive of the Index on Censorship John Kampfner and SAT chair of the Health and Safety Executive, Judith Hackitt SAT CBE. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00lxsqt (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response SAT to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00lxsqw (Listen) SAT The Song Thief SAT Romantic drama by Michael Chaplin. A young composer SAT arrives in Northumberland, looking for an old man reputed SAT to have written a hauntingly beautiful love song. He SAT embarks on a cold-hearted campaign to make the old man's SAT daughter fall in love with him. SAT Abel Humble ...... Ron Cook SAT Stephen Haggard ...... Nicholas Boulton SAT Dodd Armstrong ...... Christopher Connel SAT Mary Humble ...... Colleen Prendergast SAT Willie Sparke ...... Donald McBride SAT Isabella Sparke ...... Joyce Gibbs SAT Concertina/Fiddle ...... Sheena Masson SAT Directed by Marilyn Imrie SAT A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Gesualdo: Musician and Murderer b00lv204 (Listen) SAT Aled Jones examines the bizarre life and tormented music SAT of Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, who slaughtered his SAT unfaithful wife and her paramour and then composed six SAT books of madrigals about the joys of love. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00lxsqy (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT With Sheila McLennon. SAT Including Harriet Harman, who talks about her week in the SAT spotlight, standing in for Gordon Brown at Number 10. SAT What is a 'just war' for feminist? Clare Fox of the SAT Institute of Ideas and journalist Carol Gould discuss the SAT issues. SAT Penelope Lively on her latest novel, Family Album, with SAT its themes of family, memory and how people manage to edit SAT and re-arrange the past. SAT 21-year-old bassoonist Karen Geoghegan, who made her Proms SAT debut at the Royal Albert Hall, plays live and talks about SAT the challenges of the repertoire and her ambition of SAT popularising the bassoon as a solo instrument. SAT The novelist Jude Morgan and Bronte sisters biogrpher SAT Lucasta Miller discuss Charlotte Bronte's Villette, which SAT is the current Woman's Hour drama. SAT Dr Paul Taylor of Leeds University and Quentin Willson, a SAT former presenter of Top Gear, discuss men who don't drive. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00lxsr0 (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00lxsr2 (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00lxsr4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00lxsr6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00lxsr8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00lxsrb (Listen) SAT Another eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy, SAT with Peter Curran and his guests. SAT Peter is joined by comedian Dave Gorman, cookery writer SAT Allegra McEvedy and actor David Harewood. SAT Robin Ince talks to scientist and presenter of Bang Goes SAT the Theory, Yan Wong. SAT With comedy from Liz Carr and music from Sam Carter and SAT Polly and the Billets Doux. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00lxsrd (Listen) SAT James Murdoch SAT Clive Coleman profiles the media modul James Murdoch, son SAT of Rupert and a growing influence within News Corp. SAT He is an unusual business giant; he is young, has an SAT interest in green issues and was the founder of a rap SAT music studio, launching new acts onto the New York scene. SAT But his biggest contribution to popular culture has been SAT his development of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, which SAT now boasts a 40 per cent share of the UK television market. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00lxsrg (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by writers Louise Doughty and SAT Bidisha and literary critic John Carey to discuss the SAT cultural highlights of the week, featuring a shipwrecked SAT king, two imposters and a singing building. SAT Euripides's play Helen begins with the premise that the SAT face that launched a thousand ships was that of a SAT mischievous doppelganger and that Helen herself was SAT spirited away to Egypt by the gods. In Frank McGuinness's SAT version of the play at Shakespeare's Globe, Paul McGann's SAT Menelaus gets a shock when he is shipwrecked on the coast SAT of Egypt and bumps into his wife Helen, played by Penny SAT Downie, who he thought he had just rescued from Troy. Can SAT they escape before Theoclymenes, King of Egypt and hater SAT of Greeks, kills Menelaus and marries Helen? SAT Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno had their first outing as SAT The Yes Men in 2003's eponymous film. Now they return in SAT The Yes Men Fix The World with the same modus operandi: SAT passing themselves off as representatives of global SAT corporations and powerful agencies while pulling off SAT stunts to expose the misdeeds of the powerful. The most SAT notorious hoax in this film involved Andy posing as a SAT spokesman for Dow and announcing to the media that they SAT were going to provide full compensation for the victims of SAT the Bhopal chemical disaster. SAT Lawrence Weschler is a writer who likes collecting what he SAT calls convergences, correspondences he notices between SAT images and structures in art and nature. He has collected SAT a selection of these in his book Everthing That Rises: A SAT Book of Convergences, in which, for instance, a photograph SAT of a Venezuelan landscape reminds him of Velasquez's Venus SAT and Cupid and also of Man Ray's A l'Heure de SAT l'Observatoire: les Amoureux, which combine to bring him SAT on to Chagall's Nu au-dessus de Vitebsk. SAT David Byrne has turned the Roundhouse in London into an SAT unlikely musical instrument with his installation Playing SAT The Building. A small 19th-century organ at the centre of SAT a web of cables and tubes coaxes a range of sounds from SAT the surrounding structure by hitting, rubbing and blowing SAT air over parts of it. All visitors are encouraged to see SAT what happens when they strike the keys. Absolutely no SAT musical experience required. SAT When the death of John Updike was announced at the SAT beginning of 2009, his status as a major voice in post-war SAT American literature seemed assured. However, in our SAT occasional series of counterblasts against cultural SAT landmarks, guest reviewer Louise Doughty puts forward the SAT case that Updike is, in fact, massively overrated as a SAT writer. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00ly4nk (Listen) SAT Under the Red Duster SAT John Prescott MP went to sea as a waiter on Cunard Liners SAT before entering Parliament. He recalls his own career from SAT steward to Deputy Prime Minister. SAT Via archive, poetry and new interviews, John also tells SAT the little-known story of the British Merchant Navy. The SAT tale starts from when its ships once carried half of all SAT the cargo that moved around the world and its role in SAT wartime, through to its near-collapse in the 1970s and 80s SAT and the changes in law in recent years that have helped SAT rebuild the fleet. SAT A Malcolm Billings and Associates production for BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00ltnfs (Listen) SAT Ruth, Episode 1 SAT Dramatisation by Ellen Dryden of the novel by Elizabeth SAT Gaskell. SAT Sixteen-year-old orphan Ruth Hilton is apprenticed as a SAT dressmaker to the hard-bitten Mrs Mason, because she is SAT too much of an inconvenience for her legal guardian. A job SAT as a seamstress for a Hunt Ball and an encounter with a SAT young man have far-reaching consequences. SAT Ruth ...... Laura Rees SAT Bellingham ...... Rory Kinnear SAT Benson ...... Anton Lesser SAT Mrs Mason ...... Abigail Thaw SAT Guardian/Jones/Thomas ...... Richard Hope SAT Nelly/Mrs Bellingham ...... Alison Skilbeck SAT Miss Duncombe ...... Aimee Cowen SAT Jenny ...... Helen Jenkinson SAT Bessie ...... Daisy Ashford SAT Directed by Ellen Dryden. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00lxsrl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Reality Check b00lv6fn (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT Justin Rowlatt presents a discussion series involving SAT experts and people closely involved in the issues. SAT The UK is suffering an obesity crisis, supermarkets are SAT accused of having too much power over our lives and of SAT squeezing farmers dry, while others worry about the impact SAT of the food industry on global warming. SAT Consumers, farmers, retailers and food experts ask if our SAT food chain needs a radical overhaul and discuss who has SAT the right to tell us where to shop. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00lv0x1 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring teams from Wales and the North of England. SAT SAT 23:30 Tennyson's Ulysses Revisited b00ltnpm (Listen) SAT Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth Alfred, Lord SAT Tennyson's birth, poet Sean O'Brien explores his great SAT poem, Ulysses, from the singular story of its tragic SAT origins to its many meanings for readers today. SAT He hears from Homer scholar Oliver Taplin and Dante SAT scholar Martin McLaughlin about Tennyson's sources for the SAT poem and its surprisingly ambiguous hero. Sean learns from SAT Victorian experts Seamus Perry, Robert Douglas Fairhurst SAT and Linda Hughes about the tragedy in Tennyson's young SAT life that led him to write this poem about an old man when SAT he himself was just 24. SAT It is a poem about bereavement and death but, as poet SAT Vicki Feaver explains, it is also about the personal SAT struggle in each of us between comfort and adventure, SAT between the familiar and the unknown, between accepting SAT life as it is and striving ever onward. SAT Featuring a powerful new reading of Ulysses by Anton SAT Lesser. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 9 AUGUST 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00lxsyz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008118z (Listen) SUN Cheltenham Festival Readings, Whisk Me Around SUN Bruce takes care of a wealthy old man's unusual final SUN wish. Written and read by Julia Blackburn. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lxsz1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lxsz3 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lxsz5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00lxsz7 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00lxsz9 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Mary's Church, Barnes in London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00lxsrd (Listen) SUN James Murdoch SUN Clive Coleman profiles the media modul James Murdoch, son SUN of Rupert and a growing influence within News Corp. SUN He is an unusual business giant; he is young, has an SUN interest in green issues and was the founder of a rap SUN music studio, launching new acts onto the New York scene. SUN But his biggest contribution to popular culture has been SUN his development of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, which SUN now boasts a 40 per cent share of the UK television market. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00lxtmd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00lxtmg (Listen) SUN Miracles of Thrift SUN Mark Tully wonders why habits of thrift have been lost in SUN a generation, and asks how they can be recovered - and SUN even celebrated once again - in response to the needs of SUN the day. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00lxtmj (Listen) SUN Charlotte Smith visits hill farmer Simon Bland, who has SUN developed a new use for unwanted sheep's wool and bracken SUN from the Cumbrian fells - which is threatening the very SUN existence of the sheep grazing there. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00lxtml (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00lxtmn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00lxtmq (Listen) SUN Jane Little 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 b00lxtms (Listen) SUN Grasslands Trust SUN Chris Beardshaw appeals on behalf of The Grasslands Trust. SUN Donations to The Grasslands Trust should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope The Grasslands Trust. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN The Grasslands Trust with your full name and address so SUN they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. so they can claim the SUN gift aid on your donation. SUN Registered Charity No: 1097893. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00lxtqy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00lxtr0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00lxtr2 (Listen) SUN Martin Palmer visits Syria to experience the living SUN spirituality of a community stretching back to the birth SUN of Christianity, yet which has adapted to its current SUN status as a minority faith. Homily: Metropolitan Yohanna SUN Ibrahim. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lxhb3 (Listen) SUN Birds of Paradise SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN Sir David talks about the Birds of Paradise, a group of SUN birds which evolved in the relative safety of New Guinea, SUN allowing them to acquire adornments and feathered SUN decorations so resplendent that they fooled the early SUN explorers who discovered them. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00lxtr4 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00lxtr6 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00lxvkz (Listen) SUN Dame Joan Bakewell SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Dame Joan SUN Bakewell. SUN Born in Stockport in 1933, it was in the 1960s that she SUN first started to shape the cultural agenda, interviewing SUN the likes of Kingsley Amis and Stockhausen for radical TV SUN show Late Night Line-Up. SUN It was also during the 1960s that she had an affair with SUN Harold Pinter, a relationship which inspired his play SUN Betrayal. Looking back on it now from the age of 76, she SUN says, 'We always said we had a damn good time'. SUN Now appointed as the Voice of Older People by Gordon SUN Brown, her passion for debate and social change is as SUN strong as ever. She says she has always regarded the world SUN to be improved and is not afraid of being called a SUN wishy-washy liberal. 'It's a good thing to do,' she says. SUN 'You feel you can be part of change.'. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00lv13k (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 2 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With Paul SUN Merton, Shappi Khorsandi, Gyles Brandreth and Kit SUN Hesketh-Harvey. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00lxvl1 (Listen) SUN Chefs' Choices number 1: Indian Meat Pickle SUN Cyrus Todiwala, award-winning chef of Cafe Spice, SUN acclaimed for his unique and creative Indian cuisine, gets SUN to work with spices, herbs and in particular his very own SUN Indian meat pickle. Joining Cyrus, and laden with fresh SUN herbs, is his supplier, Rob Davies. SUN The programme also features a trip to the coriander beds SUN of a grower, Charlie Bransden, to hear why the roots, as SUN well as the seed of this herb, are crucial to Indian SUN cuisine, and food historian Tom Jaine decribes the unusual SUN culinary route of coriander from west to east. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00lxvl3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00lxvl5 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 13:30 Bombay's Beatle b00hv1dt (Listen) SUN Sarfraz Manzoor visits Mumbai to meet some of the SUN musicians who were recruited in 1968 by George Harrison to SUN help him record his first solo project, the soundtrack to SUN the psychedelic film Wonderwall. Harrison was given full SUN creative control over the music by the film's director Joe SUN Massot, and it gave the Beatle the chance to explore his SUN passion for Indian music. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lxh3w (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN John Cushnie, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs answer SUN questions posed by members of Brightlingsea Garden Club. SUN Brightlingsea is on the Essex coast near Colchester, and, SUN as winner of the 2006 Britain in Bloom award and multiple SUN winner of the Best Town in Anglia competition, it has an SUN enviable reputation. SUN Bunny Guinness investigates how local man Brian SUN Wickenden's garden ended up being nominated as the SUN National Collection of Corydalis, and finds out how Brian SUN is coping with its maintenance. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 The Tribes of Science b00lxvl7 (Listen) SUN Computer Programmers SUN Series in which Peter Curran visits members of the many SUN and varied disciplines of science, from astronomy to SUN zoology, to explore their habitat, customs, rituals and SUN beliefs. Beneath the typecast and somewhat nerdy image of SUN scientists, Peter finds passion, humour and, on occasion, SUN an enviable sense of community. SUN Peter starts off by visiting computer programmers. Do the SUN makers of the virtual world, Second Life, spend more time SUN in their virtual world than in the real one? Are they SUN architects, engineers or computer geeks, or actually SUN highly competent people? SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00lxwh4 (Listen) SUN Ruth, Episode 2 SUN Dramatisation by Ellen Dryden of the novel by Elizabeth SUN Gaskell. SUN Abandoned in Wales, Ruth is taken in by the preacher SUN Benson and his reluctant sister. The cause of Ruth's SUN illness is established and brings with it a secret which SUN could destroy her unless it is kept from everyone. SUN Ruth ...... Laura Rees SUN Benson ...... Anton Lesser SUN Faith ...... Anne Reid SUN Bellingham ...... Rory Kinnear SUN Bradshaw ...... David Schofield SUN Sally ...... Marcia Warren SUN Jemima ...... Amy Ewbank SUN Mrs Bradshaw ...... Abigail Thaw SUN Elizabeth ...... Helen Jenkinson SUN Mary ...... Daisy Ashford SUN Richard/Hickson ...... Dudley Hinton SUN Directed by Ellen Dryden. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00lxwh6 (Listen) SUN Muriel Gray presents the books programme. Her guests SUN include thriller writer Christopher Brookmyre, who talks SUN about his new horror satire, Pandaemonium. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00lxwh8 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a special edition devoted to the SUN poetry of Tennyson, as part of the poet's bicentenary SUN celebrations. Tennyson is one of the most frequently SUN requested 19th-century poets on the programme, and this SUN edition features readings of his works including The Lady SUN of Shallot, The Throstle and Crossing the Bar. SUN SUN 17:00 Rewriting the Psychiatrist's Bible b00kf117 (Listen) SUN Matthew Hill investigates the links between psychiatrists SUN and the pharmaceutical industry. Should there be increased SUN transparency over top psychiatrists' links to the industry? SUN He looks at the influence of the Diagnostic and SUN Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM), SUN produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), SUN which has been heavily criticised in the past for a lack SUN of transparency between the panel members and SUN pharmaceutical companies. Matthew also examines the SUN 'Chinese menu' aspect of the DSM's diagnostic criteria and SUN the sheer number of conditions it includes. Matthew SUN investigates whether the APA's transparency policy goes SUN far enough and if we are medicalising real conditions or SUN just traits of human personality. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00lxsrd (Listen) SUN James Murdoch SUN Clive Coleman profiles the media modul James Murdoch, son SUN of Rupert and a growing influence within News Corp. SUN He is an unusual business giant; he is young, has an SUN interest in green issues and was the founder of a rap SUN music studio, launching new acts onto the New York scene. SUN But his biggest contribution to popular culture has been SUN his development of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, which SUN now boasts a 40 per cent share of the UK television market. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00lxx6w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00lxx6y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00lxx70 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00lxx72 (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay introduces her selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN Programmes featured: SUN Billy Liar 50 Years On - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives: Tennyson - Radio 4 SUN Searching For Alfred - Radio 3 SUN M16: A Century in the Shadows - Radio 4 SUN Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Radio 2 SUN Benjamin Jealous: The Future of the NAACP - Radio 4 SUN The Election Agent - Radio 4 SUN The Odd Half Hour - Radio 4 SUN Between Ourselves - Radio 4 SUN The Now Show - Radio 4 SUN The Movie That Changed My Life - Radio 2 SUN Very Amazing - Radio 4 SUN The Long View - Radio 4 SUN The Hidden World of Jacques Cousteau - Radio 4 SUN Last Chance For Africa's Elephants - Radio 4 SUN Muriel Spark: The Biography - Radio 4 SUN Gesualdo: Musician and Murderer - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00lxx74 (Listen) SUN Jolene plays the Good Samaritan. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00lxx76 (Listen) SUN Is President Obama's massive spending rejuvenating the SUN American economy? Jane Little finds out about the effects SUN of the stimulus package. SUN Jane also visits the oldest new-age institute in the US, SUN and talks to a man whose anonymous name has earned him a SUN place in the spotlight. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008dk9j (Listen) SUN An Audience with Max Wall, First Footings SUN Tony Lidington plays entertainer Max Wall in a series of SUN shows recorded before an invited audience at the Concert SUN Artistes' Association in Covent Garden. SUN Max recalls his birth into a showbiz world of spit and SUN sawdust in Brixton in 1908. His father was Jack Lorrimer, SUN a Scottish character comedian famous for songs and SUN eccentric dancing. Max recalls seeing Marie Lloyd and SUN Little Titch perform. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00lxh3t (Listen) SUN Tim Harford investigates statistics which some claim SUN reveal the 'Islamification' of Europe and checks whether SUN the Home Office has been doing its sums properly. Do its SUN claims about the DNA Database really add up? SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00lxh3y (Listen) SUN Jane Little presents the obituary series, analysing and SUN celebrating the life stories of people who have recently SUN died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and SUN interest from many walks of life, some famous and some SUN less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b00lxz4t (Listen) SUN Beaten by the Bullies SUN John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. SUN John looks at why, all too often, it is the victims of SUN bullying, rather than the bullies themselves, who have to SUN leave schools. One estimate suggests that up to 6,000 SUN children have been bullied so badly they have quit SUN mainstream education. The programme hears from the victims SUN of bullying and their parents, who say that schools are SUN not doing enough to tackle bullying. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00lxtms (Listen) SUN Grasslands Trust SUN Chris Beardshaw appeals on behalf of The Grasslands Trust. SUN Donations to The Grasslands Trust should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope The Grasslands Trust. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN The Grasslands Trust with your full name and address so SUN they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. so they can claim the SUN gift aid on your donation. SUN Registered Charity No: 1097893. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00lvlv3 (Listen) SUN Hell for Leather SUN How do you manage a traditional family shoe repair firm SUN with 550 outlets all over the country? John Timpson does SUN it by dropping in on them all the time to find out what's SUN going on, day by day. He calls it 'upside-down SUN management'. Peter Day went along for the ride. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00lxz4w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00lxz4y (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN The Election Agent. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00lxh40 (Listen) SUN Father and son Freddie and Toby Jones talk to Matthew SUN Sweet about the art of being a character actor, from The SUN Elephant Man to Harry Potter. SUN Mark Gatiss presents his alternative guide to British SUN cinema. SUN Jane Graham on what makes an evil organisation tick. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00lxtmg (Listen) SUN Miracles of Thrift SUN Mark Tully wonders why habits of thrift have been lost in SUN a generation, and asks how they can be recovered - and SUN even celebrated once again - in response to the needs of SUN the day. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00m0rcd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lv5hf (Listen) MON The Islamist movement in Turkey is not revolutionary, it MON does not decry the United States and it is not opposed to MON Turkey's liberal capitalist state. In fact, it forms the MON democratically-elected government of that country and has MON done since 2002. Laurie Taylor discusses an in-depth study MON which analyses how and why the Islamic movement in Turkey MON transformed itself into a pillar of the state, and asks MON whether the process could work in other Muslim countries. MON Also, Richard Reeves joins Laurie to discuss the latest MON research into what it takes to get a decent job in Britain MON these days. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00lxsz9 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Mary's Church, Barnes in London. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lxz9v (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lxzdh (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lxzc0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00lxzfx (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lxzhb (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00lxzkq (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. Will we MON need to change what we eat to ensure the security of our MON food supply? MON MON 05:57 Weather b00ly7bw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00lxzl3 (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 MI6: A Century in the Shadows b00ly7j7 (Listen) MON New Enemies MON BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside MON Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to senior MON intelligence officers, agents and diplomats as well as MON their former arch enemies about the shadowy world of MON espionage. MON Exploring the role of MI6 in the 21st century. The head of MON Britain's Secret Intelligence Service talks for the first MON time about the interrogation of terrorist suspects and MON MI6's role in the run-up to the war in Iraq. MON MON 09:30 The Call b00ly7j9 (Listen) MON The Abduction MON Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made MON life-changing phone calls. MON In March 1999, Martin Friend was on a gorilla trek in MON Uganda when he was taken hostage and killed by Hutu rebels MON on the run from neighbouring Rwanda. His parents, Ron and MON Pauline Friend, have built a school in the region in MON memory of him. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00lxzrj (Listen) MON Bluestockings, Episode 1 MON Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the MON pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a MON university education. MON Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at MON Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked MON against them. Female brains were considered too small to MON compete with those of men, and the country's leading MON doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs MON would wither and die. MON This episode tells story of the sacrifices made by the MON first young women to arrive at Cambridge in 1869, as well MON as the pioneers who helped to get them there. And why the MON first Bluestocking wasn't a woman at all. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ly09p (Listen) MON With Sheila McClennon. MON The Labeque Sisters became famous in the 1980s, when their MON two-piano recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue sold MON over half a million copies. Since then, Marielle and Katia MON have forged relationships with some of the world's most MON celebrated musicians and have worked in a dizzying range MON of genres. They join Sheila McLennon to talk about MON performing in the 2009 Proms, their latest recordings, and MON to explain why they continue to get so much pleasure from MON playing together. MON Shy Keenan and Sara Payne met over a TV screen. Both had MON been in the public eye following tragic events: Shy had MON won justice in court, putting her stepfather behind bars MON following years of sexual abuse; Sara was mourning the MON loss of her daughter Sarah who has been kidnapped and MON murdered. United by tragedy, they have managed to forge an MON amazing friendship which also facilitates their work as MON advocates for victims of child sexual abuse. They both MON join Sheila McLennon to talk about how their friendship MON gives them strength, and enables them to keep fighting MON against child sex crimes. MON Still single in her 50s, Gillian Greenwood thought her MON romantic life was over, but then an online encounter MON changed everything. Gillian and her fiance, Tony Wells, MON join Shelia McClennon to discuss their meeting, their MON subsequent engagement and wedding plans, and the notion of MON getting married for the first time later in life. MON MON 11:00 Mind Changers b00ly7lp (Listen) MON Series 4, Harlow's Monkeys MON Claudia Hammond presents a series looking at the MON development of the science of psychology during the 20th MON century. MON When psychologist Harry Harlow decided to look at how baby MON rhesus monkeys learned to recognise their mothers, he MON didn't know that he would revolutionise parenting. MON Claudia visits the Primate Laboratory at the University of MON Wisconsin, where Harlow conducted his experiments, and MON meets his former assistant, Helen LeRoy, and the current MON director of the lab, Professor Christopher Coe. At the MON University of Massachussets, Amherst, she meets Harlow's MON last PhD student, now Chair of Psychology, Professor MON Melinda Novak. She also talks to Roger Fouts, Professor of MON Psychology at the University of Central Washington, about MON the perceived cruelty of Harlow's work, and to Dr John MON Oates, lecturer in the Centre for Childhood, Development MON and Learning at the Open University. MON MON 11:30 Hazelbeach b00ly7mv (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford, MON featuring likeable conman Ronnie Hazelbeach and his MON hapless friend, Nick. MON Ronnie has a close encounter in Hull and Nick invents a MON new sport. MON Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman MON Nick ...... Paul Bazely MON James ...... Neil Stuke MON Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles MON Doctor Helmut ...... Stephen Hogan MON Other parts by Stephen Hogan, Annabelle Dowler and Lizzy MON Watts. MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00ly57p (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00ly5cp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00ly610 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00lycln (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring teams from the Midlands and Scotland. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00lxx74 (Listen) MON Jolene plays the Good Samaritan. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lyclq (Listen) MON Three in a Bed MON By Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek. Tom and Sarah MON Hadley appear to have it all. But when Gemma becomes MON involved with the couple, she finds herself caught in a MON web of jealousy and lies. MON Sarah ...... Anastasia Hille MON Tom ...... Matthew Marsh MON Gemma ...... Annabelle Dowler MON Kira/Tasha ...... Lizzy Watts MON Sebastian Murray ...... Philip Fox MON Caterer ...... Benjamin Askew MON Directed by Sally Avens. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00ly4nk (Listen) MON Under the Red Duster MON John Prescott MP went to sea as a waiter on Cunard Liners MON before entering Parliament. He recalls his own career from MON steward to Deputy Prime Minister. MON Via archive, poetry and new interviews, John also tells MON the little-known story of the British Merchant Navy. The MON tale starts from when its ships once carried half of all MON the cargo that moved around the world and its role in MON wartime, through to its near-collapse in the 1970s and 80s MON and the changes in law in recent years that have helped MON rebuild the fleet. MON A Malcolm Billings and Associates production for BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 15:45 The Fortune Hunters b00fzbbq (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Series in which Max Flint investigates the 15 billion MON pounds in unclaimed assets in the UK and asks how, if it's MON possible, these funds are distributed to their rightful MON owners. MON Max explores what happens when people die without leaving MON a will and their estate passes to the crown. He talks to MON Wendy Pentelow, who learned from probate investigator Cat MON Whiteaway that her father, who she had not seen for over MON 20 years, had died just a few miles away from where she MON lives and that she was first in line to inherit his estate. MON A Tinderbox Broadcast production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00lxvl1 (Listen) MON Chefs' Choices number 1: Indian Meat Pickle MON Cyrus Todiwala, award-winning chef of Cafe Spice, MON acclaimed for his unique and creative Indian cuisine, gets MON to work with spices, herbs and in particular his very own MON Indian meat pickle. Joining Cyrus, and laden with fresh MON herbs, is his supplier, Rob Davies. MON The programme also features a trip to the coriander beds MON of a grower, Charlie Bransden, to hear why the roots, as MON well as the seed of this herb, are crucial to Indian MON cuisine, and food historian Tom Jaine decribes the unusual MON culinary route of coriander from west to east. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00lycz4 (Listen) MON Water MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious symbolism and MON rituals associated with water and asks how these can offer MON insights into the ecology and politics of water. MON MON 17:00 PM b00ly63s (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 b00ly6bp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00lycz6 (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 3 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With MON Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair and Charles MON Collingwood. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00ly61d (Listen) MON Vicky wins Brownie points at Willow Farm. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00ly6px (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an MON interview with writer Tracey Chevalier, whose new novel MON focuses on the life of 19th-century fossil hunter Mary MON Anning. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ly6qy (Listen) MON Villette, A Burial MON Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte MON Bronte. MON Lucy aches to stay with her dear friends and is dreading MON her return to Madame Beck's smooth indifference and MON Monsieur Paul's fiery scorn. MON Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin MON Dr John ...... Benjamin Askew MON Monsieur Paul ...... Sam Dale MON Paulina/Ginevra ...... Lizzy Watts MON Directed by Tracey Neale. MON MON 20:00 On the Top Deck b00grrzw (Listen) MON Travel writer Ian Marchant travels London's buses, talking MON to drivers and passengers young and old, and to the people MON trying to keep order in the face of a massive increase in MON the numbers of teenagers using buses. MON He hears the feelings of many older passengers that things MON have got out of control; that crime, overcrowding and MON anti-social behaviour have increased; and that some buses MON have been turned into mobile youth clubs. MON Plus teenagers talk about the unwritten rules of the top MON deck - who may sit where, what you can get away with and MON the risks of being robbed. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00lvh19 (Listen) MON Southern Sudan MON While the world's attention has focused on the conflict in MON Darfur, an older and even bloodier conflict between the MON Muslim north and mainly Christian south of Sudan is in MON danger of reigniting. Four years after a peace deal was MON agreed, Grant Ferrett travels to Southern Sudan to MON investigate claims that Africa's biggest nation is sliding MON back to civil war. MON MON 21:00 Britain's Atlantis b00gw18s (Listen) MON Archaeologist Francis Pryor travels from the far north of MON Orkney, around the North Sea coast to the Isle of Wight MON and the Bristol Channel, chronicling some of the most MON recent knowledge and discoveries of what the land around MON mainland Britain was like before it was submerged by the MON melting ice at the end of the last Ice Age. MON MON 21:30 MI6: A Century in the Shadows b00ly7j7 (Listen) MON New Enemies MON BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside MON Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to senior MON intelligence officers, agents and diplomats as well as MON their former arch enemies about the shadowy world of MON espionage. MON Exploring the role of MI6 in the 21st century. The head of MON Britain's Secret Intelligence Service talks for the first MON time about the interrogation of terrorist suspects and MON MI6's role in the run-up to the war in Iraq. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00ly6yx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00ly73f (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ly73h (Listen) MON The Whole Day Through, Episode 1 MON Samantha Bond and Nathaniel Parker read from the romantic MON novel by Patrick Gale. MON Forty-something Laura Lewis is obliged to abandon a life MON of stylish independence in Paris, and with it all apparent MON hopes of romance, to care for her elderly mother in MON Winchester. MON Laura bumps into Ben Patterson, her former boyfriend from MON her student days, at the county hospital where he works as MON a doctor. They have not seen each other for more than 20 MON years, but there is still a spark between them. MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00lv28b (Listen) MON Chris Ledgard takes another journey into the world of MON words, language and the way we speak. MON 'Giving a presentation' has become an ordeal that many MON people dread. But why has this business practice spread MON into so many parts of modern life, from primary school to MON the armed forces? And does the pre-eminent presentation MON software package, PowerPoint, force us to think and speak MON in certain ways? MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00f6p8n (Listen) MON Series 4, Fellside Photographer MON Documentary series telling original stories about real MON lives in Britain today. MON Alan Dein meets Wayne Hutchinson, a Cumbrian farmer who MON combines the hard graft of shepherding with a second job - MON photographing some of Britain's most expensive livestock. MON Wayne farms Swaledale sheep with his father in the hills MON linking Cumbria to the Yorkshire dales. It is rugged MON territory, but Wayne has allied his farming pedigree with MON an enthusiasm for photography. MON He now mixes his farming duties with time spent travelling MON the length and breadth of Britain taking pictures of MON pedigree livestock. It takes him to the farms of some of MON the wealthiest landowners in Britain as well as MON smallholders with a passion for livestock. MON But these are tough times for farmers, with the aftermath MON of foot and mouth still being felt, alongside the twin MON menaces of Blue Tongue and the increasing pressure put on MON them to protect the environment while at the same time MON keeping cheap food on our plates. Alongside those tensions MON are the pressures of mixing farming and family life with MON the increasingly 'on call' nature of the photography MON business. MON Alan introduces us to Wayne as he prepares for what nobody MON realised at the time was to be the penultimate Royal Show. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00lxz5z (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00lxzrj (Listen) TUE Bluestockings, Episode 1 TUE Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the TUE pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a TUE university education. TUE Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at TUE Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked TUE against them. Female brains were considered too small to TUE compete with those of men, and the country's leading TUE doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs TUE would wither and die. TUE This episode tells story of the sacrifices made by the TUE first young women to arrive at Cambridge in 1869, as well TUE as the pioneers who helped to get them there. And why the TUE first Bluestocking wasn't a woman at all. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lxz8m (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lxzc2 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lxz9x (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00lxzdk (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lxzfz (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00lxzhd (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00lxzks (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Fry's English Delight b00lv1ln (Listen) TUE Series 2, So Wrong It's Right TUE Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the TUE English language. TUE Stephen examines how 'wrong' English can become right TUE English. For example, nowadays, more people use the word TUE 'wireless' in a computer context than in a radio one. With TUE help from a lexicographer, an educationalist, a Times TUE sub-editor and a judge, Stephen examines the way in which TUE usage changes language. TUE He applauds the council leader who claimed the services TUE provided by her local authority should be seen as TUE strawberry-flavoured and castigates attempts at banning TUE government jargon like step change and synergie. Banning TUE words is fruitless; he favours blue sky thinking, and TUE strawberry flavouring. TUE TUE 09:30 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00lydhb (Listen) TUE The Great Omar TUE Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick TUE Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very TUE different missing works of art. TUE Rick tells the story behind the fabulous jewelled binding TUE of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which was encrusted with TUE over a thousand diamonds, rubies and emeralds and was TUE regarded as the finest work produced by the bindery of TUE Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Sadly it went down with the SS TUE Titanic and is still lying unclaimed at the bottom of the TUE ocean. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00m0ls4 (Listen) TUE Bluestockings, Episode 2 TUE Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the TUE pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a TUE university education. TUE Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at TUE Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked TUE against them. Female brains were considered too small to TUE compete with those of men, and the country's leading TUE doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs TUE would wither and die. TUE Faced with the eternal chaperone problem, prejudice from TUE lecturers and the attentions of the so-called 'odd fish', TUE life isn't always easy for the first 'undergraduette'. Yet TUE while, even as late as 1897, women students at Cambridge TUE face burnt effigies and fireworks being hurled at them, TUE the bluestockings begin, quietly, to make their mark. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ly088 (Listen) TUE With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette. TUE TUE 11:00 The Partisan Coffee House b00fq6nm (Listen) TUE Historian Mike Berlin tells the story of a short-lived but TUE influential left-wing coffee house set up in London's Soho TUE in 1958 and considers what happened to the political and TUE cultural optimism that flourished after it closed in 1961. TUE Founded by Raphael Samuel, a young radical historian, the TUE Partisan aimed to recreate a European-style meeting place TUE for politically engaged young people in the wake of such TUE events as the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution. TUE Featuring interviews with surviving Partisan participants TUE including historian Eric Hobsbawm and sociologist Stuart TUE Hall. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00lydrl (Listen) TUE Vivienne Westwood TUE Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. TUE Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood chooses some of the TUE pieces of writing which inspire her, from Alice in TUE Wonderland to Bertrand Russell. The readers are David TUE Morrissey and Lucy Briers. TUE Westwood exploded onto the fashion scene at the beginning TUE of the 1970s, the decade whose look she would do so much TUE to create. Since then she has been consistently and TUE uncompromisingly original in her designs, moving from TUE anarchy and pornography to a deep interest in classic TUE British tailoring. In a programme recorded at the Latitude TUE Festival in Suffolk, Vivienne presents an eclectic mixture TUE of readings which have influenced her. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00ly55y (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00ly57r (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00ly5cr (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Tales Before the Stave b00lybns (Listen) TUE Francis Fyfield unpicks the hidden codes of a beautiful TUE 11th-century manuscript that confirms that the English TUE were pioneers of musical notation long before the arrival TUE of staves. TUE With the help of Professor Susan Rankin and the French TUE performer Dominique Vellard, Francis tells the story of TUE the Winchester Troper, a tiny book belonging to Corpus TUE Christi College, Cambridge, and written in Winchester TUE around the year 1030, and how scholars have used it to TUE clarify the way musical notation developed in the 11th and TUE 12th centuries. TUE The magical discovery in the Troper was that polyphony, TUE the use of two-part harmony, which many thought did not TUE appear in manuscript form before the 13th century, was TUE actually captured by the cantor scribbling in the Troper TUE at a time when Winchester was at the heart of Anglo Saxon TUE culture. This little book provides us with insights into TUE the soundscape of Edward the Confessor's England. TUE But it only does so thanks to the scholars like Susan and TUE Dominique who have deciphered what looks like modern TUE shorthand notation. TUE The programme describes the process of unravelling the TUE musical language and how that fits in to the broader story TUE of the development of musical notation in Europe. Frances TUE tries to get an idea of who this cantor was who managed to TUE preserve a golden era of Anglo Saxon music well before the TUE universal staves and notes were developed to simplify the TUE process. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00ly61d (Listen) TUE Vicky wins Brownie points at Willow Farm. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lybnv (Listen) TUE The Mouse House TUE By Adrian Penketh. Wannabe cultural terrorist Mike is TUE determined to make a splash; make a statement; make more TUE of his life. But has he got what it takes to pull it off TUE and light up the skies above London? TUE Mike ...... Adam Kotz TUE Kate ...... Raquel Cassidy TUE Steve ...... Nicholas Gleaves TUE Will ...... Giles Fagan TUE Mike's Colleague ...... Stephen Hogan. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00lydx5 (Listen) TUE Do we truly appreciate the role that trees play in TUE moderating our climate? Do Tree Preservation Orders fail TUE to protect trees and why do trees split as they grow? TUE Why has hemp not made a bigger impact on the building TUE industry? TUE Concern over so-called 'kinetic plates', designed to TUE generate electricity as cars drive over them. Are they TUE really producing power for free or are they yet another TUE way big business can extract income from the customer? TUE Tackling these conundrums are planning expert Professor TUE Yvonne Rydin, forest ecologist Dr Nick Brown and Professor TUE Philip Stott. As always we want to hear your comments on TUE the topics discussed and any questions you might want to TUE put to future programmes. TUE Don't forget we want to hear your observations of House TUE Martins; have they returned this year and when, and have TUE they bred successfully? TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lyf65 (Listen) TUE We Are Stardust, We Are Golden, Dreams of Milk and Honey TUE Series of three stories celebrating the 40th anniversary TUE of the Woodstock Festival. TUE By Patrick Neate. 39-year-old Tommy, conceived at TUE Woodstock, goes to visit his rebellious and still TUE unconventional mother to tell her something important. But TUE how will she react? TUE Read by Mark Bazeley TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 The Fortune Hunters b00g3374 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Series in which Max Flint investigates the 15 billion TUE pounds in unclaimed assets in the UK and asks if and how TUE these funds are distributed to their rightful owners. TUE The Dormant Banks and Building Society Accounts Bill TUE dictates that, after 15 years or dormancy, any assets that TUE lie unclaimed in accounts can be used for charitable TUE purposes. TUE Max talks to a building society in north Staffordshire TUE which turned detective and found 10,000 pounds for a local TUE charity. TUE A Tinderbox Broadcast production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00lyfm6 (Listen) TUE The dentist's chair, the taxi rear seat, the hairdresser's TUE salon; just what are the rules of conversational TUE engagement for these everyday encounters? Chris Ledgard TUE goes for a ride, a trim and a filling to find out. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00lyfm8 (Listen) TUE Series 19, Joe Slovo TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Fforeign secretary David Miliband discusses the life of TUE Joe Slovo, a leading member of the African National TUE Congress and the first housing minister in Nelson TUE Mandela's government. Slovo's daughter, Gillian, joins in TUE the discussion. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00ly63j (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ly678 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Laurence & Gus: Hearts and Minds b00lyfr6 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE Comic sketches starring Laurence Howarth and Gus Brown. TUE Sketches on the theme of 'Joining in and Opting out'. TUE With Duncan Wisbey, Isy Suttie and Kate Fleetwood. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00ly612 (Listen) TUE Fallon's problems come home to roost. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00ly6br (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including the TUE verdict on the film The Time Traveler's Wife, based on the TUE best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger and starring Eric TUE Bana and Rachel McAdams. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ly6pz (Listen) TUE Villette, Monsieur Paul TUE Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte TUE Bronte. TUE After burying her treasured letters from Dr John and TUE concealing her broken heart, Lucy finds friendship from an TUE unexpected quarter. TUE Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin TUE Monsieur Paul ...... Sam Dale TUE Rosine ...... Lizzy Watts TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE 20:00 The Fraud Capital of Britain b00lyfr8 (Listen) TUE Thamesmead was one of the most exciting new towns to be TUE built in the 1960s, intended as a vibrant, riverside TUE community of 60,000 people in south east London. Forty TUE years on, the area is perhaps best known as a notorious TUE hub of fraud, dubbed 'Little Lagos' because of its TUE association with west African criminal gangs. TUE Phil Kemp investigates how this reputation has stuck. He TUE talks to a former fraudster and meets residents fighting TUE to turn the community around and shake off its TUE crime-ridden image. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00lyfrb (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00lyfrd (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter investigates the latest treatments for TUE problems with the lens of the eye. Among other conditions, TUE he reports on the best way to remove cataracts, which are TUE clouding of the lens. TUE TUE 21:30 Forbidden Families b00ctl6t (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Bettany Hughes tells the stories of remarkable women TUE denied their families by the march of history. TUE In 842 AD, Dhuoda's two sons were kidnapped. This terrible TUE loss spurred her to write a manual for her stolen boys, TUE advising them on the skills they need to become men. We TUE eavesdrop on a woman, bereft but unbroken, as she becomes TUE a mother on paper, as she can no longer be one in the TUE flesh. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00ly6w8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00ly6yz (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0fy1 (Listen) TUE The Whole Day Through, Episode 2 TUE Samantha Bond and Nathaniel Parker read from the romantic TUE novel by Patrick Gale. TUE Forty-something Laura Lewis is obliged to abandon a life TUE of stylish independence in Paris, and with it all apparent TUE hopes of romance, to care for her elderly mother in TUE Winchester. TUE Ben's mother has recently died and he is working in TUE Winchester so he can help his brother, when he bumps into TUE Laura, the girlfriend he hasn't seen in over 20 years. TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b00bcv9f (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. TUE Guests are Sue Perkins, Euan Ferguson and Richard Herring. TUE An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 The Hollow Men b0088nqn (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE Comic sketch show written and performed by David Armand, TUE Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner, with Katy TUE Brand. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00lxz61 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00m0ls4 (Listen) WED Bluestockings, Episode 2 WED Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the WED pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a WED university education. WED Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at WED Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked WED against them. Female brains were considered too small to WED compete with those of men, and the country's leading WED doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs WED would wither and die. WED Faced with the eternal chaperone problem, prejudice from WED lecturers and the attentions of the so-called 'odd fish', WED life isn't always easy for the first 'undergraduette'. Yet WED while, even as late as 1897, women students at Cambridge WED face burnt effigies and fireworks being hurled at them, WED the bluestockings begin, quietly, to make their mark. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lxz8p (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lxzc4 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lxz9z (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00lxzdm (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lxzg1 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00lxzhg (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00lxzkv (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Between Ourselves b00lv4h7 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 2 WED Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together WED two people who have had profound and similar experiences, WED to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term WED effects on each of their lives. WED Olivia talks to two soldiers who were injured abroad. WED David Hart was sent to Afghanistan in 2003 to serve with WED his Territorial Army unit. One day he was involved with WED his regular convoy duties - escorting a bomb-disposal team WED - when was caught up in a suicide car bomb attack. He WED suffered multiple injuries, including the near-amputation WED of one arm. WED Albert Thomson was serving in Iraq with the Black Watch in WED 2003. He was returning from collecting a fatally-injured WED soldier when he was hit by 'friendly fire' which hit him WED in both legs. His injuries were so severe his left leg was WED amputated. David and Albert tell their stories to Olivia WED and discuss the impact their injuries have had WED financially, physically and psychologically. WED WED 09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A WED b00lv4h9 (Listen) WED Episode 2 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 Rosie discovers how the architects and designers are WED rebuilding and redisplaying the original museum and its WED treasures. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00m0ls6 (Listen) WED Bluestockings, Episode 3 WED Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the WED pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a WED university education. WED Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at WED Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked WED against them. Female brains were considered too small to WED compete with those of men, and the country's leading WED doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs WED would wither and die. WED The glamour of the graduette and bluestocking fashion. As WED the first few decades of university education for women WED slip by, the image of the drab, maverick bluestocking has WED begun to metamorphose into a far more luminous creature, WED the 'undergraduette'. Suddenly, by the 1920s, women WED students are quite the thing, and prim bluestocking WED fashion even takes on a hint of glamour. WED Yet, even at Cambridge University in 1920, one item of WED student fashion is still unavailable to bluestockings. WED Since they are not permitted to receive degrees, women are WED still not allowed to wear the university gown. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ly08b (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette. WED WED 11:00 The Naming of Genes b00lyfy1 (Listen) WED Kakapo, Cleopatra and Pavarotti are cryptic names for WED genes; the clue to what they do lies in their names. Sue WED Broom cracks the code in this subtle game of scientific WED one upmanship. WED Chardonay, Hedgehog and Cheap Dates all have one thing in WED common. They are all names for genes, specifically of WED fruit fly or drosophilia genes. The trick is you have to WED guess what it is, so for example Amontillado is a allusion WED to the Edgar Allan Poe book where the hero is walled in WED alive; the gene amontillado refers to mutant larvae who WED can't hatch. WED Chardonay is a reference to the white blood cells and WED other wine genes are Chablis, retsina and Chianti. The WED wine collection is housed at Dr Leonard Zon's laboratory WED at Harvard Medical School. When one of Dr Zon's students WED discovers a new wine gene, they are awarded with a bottle WED of that particular wine, although he has got wise to them WED choosing some of the more rarified and expensive vintages. WED Other labs prefer to use Shakespeare characters, musical WED references or more colloquial terms such as Lush, WED referring to an increased affection for alcohol. Sometimes WED there are races to name the gene, and a fight may break WED out between institutions. Kathy Matthews of the WED Bloomington Drosophilia Stock Centre in Indiana proudly WED says that fly geneticists were the first geneticists and WED therefore in the early days it was like being in the Wild WED West, but now political correctness is moving in. WED More seriously, worm, mice and human geneticists think WED they should tone down their gene names. Its not WED appropriate they say to call a gene a Sonic Hedegehog. WED But Kathy and her colleagues are resisting; it is part of WED their tradition, they say. A witty, whimsical or WED colloquial name can get a scientist lot of attention in WED the scientific community. WED Sue Broom looks at some of the more famous examples and WED charts the resistance to turning Van Gogh into a chain of WED numbers and letters. WED WED 11:30 Baggage b00lymqf (Listen) WED Series 4, You're a Long Time Dead WED Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh. WED It's summer and all change all-round. Caroline struggles WED to come to terms with Ruth now being her dad's lover, and WED agonises over Roddy's shock proposal - the end of an era WED beckons. WED Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon WED Hector ...... David Rintoul WED Ruth ...... Adie Allen WED Nicholas ...... Moray Hunter WED Roddy ...... Robin Cameron WED Gladys ...... June Watson WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00ly560 (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00ly57t (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00ly5ct (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00lymqh (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00ly612 (Listen) WED Fallon's problems come home to roost. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lymqk (Listen) WED The Summer Walking WED Contemporary drama by Iain Finlay MacLeod, set in the far WED north of Scotland. Catriona is pregnant to a man who is WED always in trouble, so the burden of making ends meet falls WED to her: poaching salmon and fishing for freshwater pearls. WED She finds an unlikely ally in Hassan, an Iranian working WED illegally as a gamekeeper on the big estate, and their WED friendship offers the possibility of a life beyond the WED walls of her caravan. WED Catriona ...... Amy Mason WED Jess ...... Ann Louise Ross WED Hassan ...... Khalid Laith WED Alec ...... Finn Den Hertog WED Eddie ...... Jimmy Chisholm WED Joan ...... Wendy Seager. WED WED 15:00 The Money Grab b00lxsqm (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Alvin Hall explores the rise in corporate pay and bonus WED culture. WED He meets the politicians and shareholders looking to rein WED in sky-high executive salaries and asks if their cause is WED a realistic one. Will the era of big bonuses soon be over, WED or can the finance world's top talent always name their WED price? WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lyf67 (Listen) WED We Are Stardust, We Are Golden, Arnold in A Purple Haze WED Series of three stories celebrating the 40th anniversary WED of the Woodstock Festival. WED By Nick Walker. Still damaged by his Vietnam experiences, WED Arnold tries to arrange transport for a band due to WED perform at the festival. But the sounds of the city and WED the noise of the helicopters begin to unbalance him and WED blur things in his mind. WED Read by Conleth Hill. WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 The Fortune Hunters b00g4gq8 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Series in which Max Flint investigates the 15 billion WED pounds in unclaimed assets in the UK and asks if and how WED these funds are distributed to their rightful owners. WED Did you know that borrowing a book from your local library WED means that the author should receive 5.9p? WED Max finds out about the millions of pounds of royalties WED owed to authors and musicians which lie unclaimed, often WED simply because of a lack of knowledge of the registration WED system, and discovers if and how these funds are reunited WED with their rightful owners. WED A Tinderbox Broadcast production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00lynzd (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00lyfrd (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter investigates the latest treatments for WED problems with the lens of the eye. Among other conditions, WED he reports on the best way to remove cataracts, which are WED clouding of the lens. WED WED 17:00 PM b00ly63l (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 b00ly67b (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00lynzg (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Sketch show show for anyone who is beginning to find this WED exciting new century a bit too much like all the rubbish WED previous centuries. WED How to name your baby, and is there anything 'easier done WED than said'? WED With Stephen K Amos, Jason Byrne, Justin Edwards and WED Katherine Parkinson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00ly614 (Listen) WED The Bull gets an unwelcome houseguest. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00ly6bt (Listen) WED Mark Lawson reports on the art of writing about the past, WED talking to historians Antonia Fraser, Margaret MacMillan WED and Tristram Hunt and novelists Philippa Gregory, Sarah WED Dunant and Hilary Mantel. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m68lv (Listen) WED Villette, Friendship WED Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte WED Bronte. WED Monsieur Paul and Lucy's friendship grows, but will they WED see the ghostly apparition again and what does her WED presence signify? WED Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin WED Monsieur Paul/Pere Silas ...... Sam Dale WED Paulina ...... Lizzy Watts WED Mme Beck/Mme Walravens ...... Joan Walker WED Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED 20:00 Reality Check b00lynzj (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED Justin Rowlatt presents a discussion series involving WED experts and people closely involved in the issues. WED The growth of surveillance is said to have made Britain WED one of the most watched nations on earth. Faced with the WED threats of crime and terrorism, how do we reconcile the WED demands for the protection of privacy with the benefits to WED security that new surveillance techniques can bring? WED Justin presents a debate between people who seek to WED influence policy with those affected by such policies, and WED asks if surveillance in Britain is out of control. WED WED 20:45 The Election Agent b00lynzl (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Shaun Ley finds out from election agents how elections are WED really won and lost. What roles have cow manure, superglue WED and pink cadillacs played in election campaigns? WED WED 21:00 Secrets of the Super Old b00lynzn (Listen) WED Adam Rutherford investigates how the oldest people on the WED planet are helping scientists to unlock the secrets of WED ageing, helping us age better and perhaps even live longer. WED Super-centenarians are one of the most exclusive groups of WED people on the planet, having reached the staggering age of WED at least 110. How are they doing it and are what can we WED learn about longevity from them? WED Adam talks to the scientists about how we could all live WED longer, and meets the incredible people whose lives have WED spanned three centuries, including Henry Allingham, WED shortly before his death aged 113. WED WED 21:30 Between Ourselves b00lv4h7 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 2 WED Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together WED two people who have had profound and similar experiences, WED to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term WED effects on each of their lives. WED Olivia talks to two soldiers who were injured abroad. WED David Hart was sent to Afghanistan in 2003 to serve with WED his Territorial Army unit. One day he was involved with WED his regular convoy duties - escorting a bomb-disposal team WED - when was caught up in a suicide car bomb attack. He WED suffered multiple injuries, including the near-amputation WED of one arm. WED Albert Thomson was serving in Iraq with the Black Watch in WED 2003. He was returning from collecting a fatally-injured WED soldier when he was hit by 'friendly fire' which hit him WED in both legs. His injuries were so severe his left leg was WED amputated. David and Albert tell their stories to Olivia WED and discuss the impact their injuries have had WED financially, physically and psychologically. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00ly6wb (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00ly6z1 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0fvx (Listen) WED The Whole Day Through, Episode 3 WED Samantha Bond and Nathaniel Parker read from the romantic WED novel by Patrick Gale. WED Forty-something Laura Lewis is obliged to abandon a life WED of stylish independence in Paris, and with it all apparent WED hopes of romance, to care for her elderly mother in WED Winchester. WED Ben and Laura become reacquainted and go for a meal, and WED one thing leads inevitably to another. WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Act Your Age b00g47nm (Listen) WED Episode 6 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 Rhod Gilbert, Stan Boardman and WED Steven Hall. WED WED 23:30 Kicking the Habit b007vlvd (Listen) WED Series 1, Holy Des Res 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 Even though the friary has occupied its idyllic riverside WED setting for over 600 years, it is not protected from the WED greedy gaze of property developers. And not all the WED brothers are opposed to the idea of progress. 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 Father Lawrence ...... Kenneth Danziger WED Directed by Pete Atkin. WED WED THU THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00lxz63 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00m0ls6 (Listen) THU Bluestockings, Episode 3 THU Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the THU pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a THU university education. THU Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at THU Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked THU against them. Female brains were considered too small to THU compete with those of men, and the country's leading THU doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs THU would wither and die. THU The glamour of the graduette and bluestocking fashion. As THU the first few decades of university education for women THU slip by, the image of the drab, maverick bluestocking has THU begun to metamorphose into a far more luminous creature, THU the 'undergraduette'. Suddenly, by the 1920s, women THU students are quite the thing, and prim bluestocking THU fashion even takes on a hint of glamour. THU Yet, even at Cambridge University in 1920, one item of THU student fashion is still unavailable to bluestockings. THU Since they are not permitted to receive degrees, women are THU still not allowed to wear the university gown. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lxz8r (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lxzc6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lxzb1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00lxzdp (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lxzg3 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00lxzhj (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Caz Graham. THU THU 06:00 Today b00lxzkx (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00lyq4m (Listen) THU Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the THU odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of THU fields. THU Peter meets deaf opera singer Janine Roebuck, who was told THU at 18 that the career she had set her heart on - opera THU singing - was impossible. Her persistence has confounded THU that bleak prognosis, however. She tells Peter how a THU combination of tricks, hard work and help from her THU colleagues has enabled her to perform all over the world THU and become a campaigner to introduce deaf children to THU music. THU Janine comes from a family where deafness was the norm, THU which is how she explains her robust attitude towards her THU disability. She now even sees advantages to her condition: THU being able to enjoy a good nights sleep in a noisy hotel THU and using her high-tech hearing aids to adjust the THU accoustics to her own requirements. THU THU 09:30 Islam, Mullahs and the Media b00lyq4p (Listen) THU Are All Muslims the Same? THU Writer Kenan Malik explores how perceptions of Islam have THU been shaped by the media, considering what it means in THU Britain to call yourself 'Muslim'. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00m0ls8 (Listen) THU Bluestockings, Episode 4 THU Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the THU pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a THU university education. THU Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at THU Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked THU against them. Female brains were considered too small to THU compete with those of men, and the country's leading THU doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs THU would wither and die. THU Although academic success comes easily to many THU bluestockings, some still find relationships something of THU a stumbling block. Friendships, crushes and full-blown THU affairs with both students and tutors become treacherous THU for those young women who have barely spoken to a man THU before. Meanwhile, from fighting for academic equality, it THU is only a short step to agitating for political THU enfranchisment. The suffragette movement that is taking THU off across the country soon makes its mark on academia. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ly08d (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00m9jff (Listen) THU VenIran THU Apart from being oil producers, Venezuela and Iran THU seemingly have little in common, but over the last five THU years they have grown increasingly close. The relationship THU has caused a good deal of international disquiet. Rumours THU abound about uranium sales and terrorist cells, but the THU Venezuelan government denies the claims and insists that THU it is all about economic development. Linda Pressly sifts THU the evidence in Caracas. THU THU 11:30 Earth to Earth b00lyrb6 (Listen) THU Ceramicist Lars Tharp explores our relationship with the THU funeral urn. He examines both the history and future of THU the urn with artist Grayson Perry, using readings from Sir THU Thomas Browne's treatise, Urn Burial. Lars also talks to THU funeral directors, ceramic experts and visits the British THU Museum where, he uncovers the urn which inspired Keats to THU write his poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00ly562 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Shari Vahl. Including Face THU the Facts, presented by John Waite. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00ly57w (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00ly5cw (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00lytpy (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 b00ly614 (Listen) THU The Bull gets an unwelcome houseguest. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00b0swj (Listen) THU Dear Writer THU By Jane Rogers. THU Polly, 10, sends an email to her favourite author, asking THU why there have been no new books published recently. The THU writer responds that she is old and tired and has run out THU of stories, but there are deeper reasons for her inability THU to conjure any more from her imagination. THU Writer ...... Anna Massey THU Child ...... Leah Verity White THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00lxsq1 (Listen) THU Ospreys of Rutland Water THU Our growing population in the UK is creating more demand THU for water and so several new reservoirs are planned and THU others extended. Helen Mark explores Rutland Water to THU investigate the controversy it caused in the 1970s when THU plans to flood two villages and vast swathes of farmland THU were announced. Now it is home to thousands of wildlife THU species, including the rare osprey. THU Helen finds out about the success of the reintroduction THU project there and gets within touching distance of three THU new chicks as they are ringed. But once again farmland has THU been sacrificed for the lagoons. She explores how well new THU species are taking to the man-made pools and investigates THU who wins in the battle for food, water and wildlife. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00lxtms (Listen) THU Grasslands Trust THU Chris Beardshaw appeals on behalf of The Grasslands Trust. THU Donations to The Grasslands Trust should be sent to THU FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your THU envelope The Grasslands Trust. Credit cards: Freephone THU 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide THU The Grasslands Trust with your full name and address so THU they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online THU and phone donation facilities are not currently available THU to listeners without a UK postcode. so they can claim the THU gift aid on your donation. THU Registered Charity No: 1097893. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lyf69 (Listen) THU We Are Stardust, We Are Golden, The Carpenter THU Series of three stories celebrating the 40th anniversary THU of the Woodstock Festival. THU By Laura Barton. Lying in his hospital bed, a visit from THU his wife Sandy makes Mike think back to when they met, at THU Woodstock, all those years ago. How can things have THU changed so much? THU Read by Stuart Milligan. THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 The Fortune Hunters b00gl690 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Series in which Max Flint investigates the 15 billion THU pounds in unclaimed assets in the UK and asks if and how THU these funds are distributed to their rightful owners. THU Ever wondered what happened to those premium bonds you THU were given as a baby? It could be one of the 31 million THU pounds worth of unclaimed premium bond prizes. THU Max discovers how the NS&I tracing team tackle the problem THU of locating lost winners. At least they have an old THU address to start with. By contrast, Camelot don't even THU have a name to help locate lost lottery prize-winners. THU A Tinderbox Broadcast production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00lxwh6 (Listen) THU Muriel Gray presents the books programme. Her guests THU include thriller writer Christopher Brookmyre, who talks THU about his new horror satire, Pandaemonium. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00lytq0 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00ly63n (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 b00ly67d (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Electric Ink b00kvt7x (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new THU media in the newspaper industry. THU In order to increase sales of the newspaper, the marketing THU department decide to give away a free wall chart - with THU disastrous results. THU Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay THU Oliver ...... Alex Jennings THU Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington THU Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar THU Masha ...... Debbie Chazen THU Freddy/Waiter/Voiceover ...... Ben Willbond THU Announcer ...... Matt Addis THU With additional material by Tom Mitchelson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00ly616 (Listen) THU Kenton finds a comrade in Jim. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00ly6bw (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ly6q1 (Listen) THU Villette, Cloud THU Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte THU Bronte. THU Lucy and Monsieur Paul grow close, but forces are at work THU to keep them apart. THU Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin THU Monsieur Paul/Monsieur de Bassompierre/Pere Silas ...... THU Sam Dale THU Paulina ...... Lizzy Watts THU Mme Walravens/Mme Beck ...... Joan Walker THU Directed by Tracey Neale. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00lytq2 (Listen) THU Several prominent children's authors have said that they THU will stop visiting schools in protest at the impending THU introduction of new rules requiring the vetting of those THU working regularly with young people or vulnerable adults. THU Wesley Stephenson reports on the new Vetting and Barring THU Scheme and what it will mean for the estimated 11 million THU people that will need to be registered. He also asks if THU the new rules are likely to make children any safer. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00lytq4 (Listen) THU Women's Work THU Some business leaders think that the credit crunch crisis THU marks a great opportunity for women. Peter Day asks THU whether female skills can help to guide the world out of THU the ruins. THU THU 21:00 The High Price of Alder Hey b00lytq6 (Listen) THU Sue Armstrong investigates the effect on pathology of the THU 1999 Alder Hey scandal and asks if the profession is now THU suffering from over-regulation. THU In the wake of the crisis in 1999, when it was revealed THU that children's body parts had been kept for pathological THU analysis without parents' knowledge, many pathologists THU left the profession because of the media-led vilification THU of them as 'doctors of death'. Post mortem rates are now THU at an all time low. THU THU 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00lyq4m (Listen) THU Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the THU odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of THU fields. THU Peter meets deaf opera singer Janine Roebuck, who was told THU at 18 that the career she had set her heart on - opera THU singing - was impossible. Her persistence has confounded THU that bleak prognosis, however. She tells Peter how a THU combination of tricks, hard work and help from her THU colleagues has enabled her to perform all over the world THU and become a campaigner to introduce deaf children to THU music. THU Janine comes from a family where deafness was the norm, THU which is how she explains her robust attitude towards her THU disability. She now even sees advantages to her condition: THU being able to enjoy a good nights sleep in a noisy hotel THU and using her high-tech hearing aids to adjust the THU accoustics to her own requirements. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00ly6wd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00ly6z3 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0fvz (Listen) THU The Whole Day Through, Episode 4 THU Samantha Bond and Nathaniel Parker read from the romantic THU novel by Patrick Gale. THU Forty-something Laura Lewis is obliged to abandon a life THU of stylish independence in Paris, and with it all apparent THU hopes of romance, to care for her elderly mother in THU Winchester. THU Ben makes a momentous decision after Laura visits him at THU the hospital, and writes her a love letter which has THU unexpected consequences. THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Bigipedia b00lytq8 (Listen) THU Episode 4 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 Margaret THU Cabourn-Smith, Carey Marx and 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 A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Will Smith Presents The Tao of Bergerac b007vl20 (Listen) THU Episode 3 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 explores his bad luck with romance, helped by a THU special guest from the world of Bergerac. THU With Amelia Bullmore, John Nettles, Dan Tetsell, Olivia THU Poulet and Tara Blaise. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00lxz65 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00m0ls8 (Listen) FRI Bluestockings, Episode 4 FRI Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the FRI pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a FRI university education. FRI Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at FRI Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked FRI against them. Female brains were considered too small to FRI compete with those of men, and the country's leading FRI doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs FRI would wither and die. FRI Although academic success comes easily to many FRI bluestockings, some still find relationships something of FRI a stumbling block. Friendships, crushes and full-blown FRI affairs with both students and tutors become treacherous FRI for those young women who have barely spoken to a man FRI before. Meanwhile, from fighting for academic equality, it FRI is only a short step to agitating for political FRI enfranchisment. The suffragette movement that is taking FRI off across the country soon makes its mark on academia. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lxz8t (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lxzc8 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lxzb3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00lxzdr (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lxzg5 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00lxzhl (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Caz Graham. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00lxzkz (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00lxvkz (Listen) FRI Dame Joan Bakewell FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Dame Joan FRI Bakewell. FRI Born in Stockport in 1933, it was in the 1960s that she FRI first started to shape the cultural agenda, interviewing FRI the likes of Kingsley Amis and Stockhausen for radical TV FRI show Late Night Line-Up. FRI It was also during the 1960s that she had an affair with FRI Harold Pinter, a relationship which inspired his play FRI Betrayal. Looking back on it now from the age of 76, she FRI says, 'We always said we had a damn good time'. FRI Now appointed as the Voice of Older People by Gordon FRI Brown, her passion for debate and social change is as FRI strong as ever. She says she has always regarded the world FRI to be improved and is not afraid of being called a FRI wishy-washy liberal. 'It's a good thing to do,' she says. FRI 'You feel you can be part of change.'. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00m0lsb (Listen) FRI Bluestockings, Episode 5 FRI Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the FRI pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a FRI university education. FRI Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at FRI Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked FRI against them. Female brains were considered too small to FRI compete with those of men, and the country's leading FRI doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs FRI would wither and die. FRI Although more and more women graduate during the 1920s and FRI 30s, the Great Depression reinforces the pecking order, FRI prioritising jobs for men. While critics begin to wonder FRI whether academia is breeding white elephants, the FRI bluestockings remain undaunted. While all too many join FRI the teaching profession, others venture down unexplored FRI career paths as diplomats, aviation engineers, writers and FRI lawyers, all paving the way for future generations of FRI bright young women. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ly08g (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette. FRI FRI 11:00 Selling Cheese to the Chinese b00lyvz5 (Listen) FRI Mukul Devichand travels to Shanghai to tell the story of FRI the Europeans who are trying to persuade China's expanding FRI middle class that it is worth ditching their noodles and FRI soya, and paying for pricey European fine foods instead. FRI He explores a world of classes in western table manners, FRI Single Malt Karaoke and Shanghai jazz DJs who broadcast FRI shows about brie and camembert. Beneath the colourful FRI marketing, Mukul discovers that the story of food helps to FRI reveal who the new Chinese middle classes really are. FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b00lyvz7 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Kuala Lumpur 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 A week on standby at the airfield gives Arthur an FRI opportunity to brush up on his stewarding skills, while FRI Douglas seems to have disappeared. And why is everyone FRI terrified of Dirk the groundsman? 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 Dave ...... Paul Putner FRI George ...... Roger Morlidge FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00ly564 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00ly57y (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00ly5cy (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00lyvz9 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers FRI everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. FRI An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00ly616 (Listen) FRI Kenton finds a comrade in Jim. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lywv4 (Listen) FRI Aftershock FRI Ten years after the 1999 earthquake in Turkey, Tina FRI Pepler's powerful drama-documentary tells the story of a FRI young engineering student who returns to Istanbul to find FRI the friends she left behind. They are still trying to deal FRI with the aftermath of the last quake, in a city trying to FRI ready itself for the next. FRI Eleanor ...... Eleanor Zimmermann FRI Cansu ...... Serra Somay FRI Baris ...... Hakan Silahsizoglu FRI Merve ...... Sirin Onder FRI With contributions from Kubilay Hicyilmaz, Polat Gulkan, FRI Mustafa Erdik, Gokay Bostan, Tamer Aker, Husamettin Alper, FRI Ozgur Demir, Zeynep Turkmen. FRI Directed by Sara Davies. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lywv6 (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew answer FRI questions posed by members of St Ann's Allotments in FRI Nottingham. FRI Matthew introduces Britain's oldest and largest allotment FRI site and meets a selection of allotment-holders occupying FRI a 670-garden enclosure, including the owners of a FRI greenhouse constructed entirely from plastic bottles. He FRI also talks to prize-winning fruit grower Adrian Baggley, FRI who identifies and propagates rare heritage fruit trees as FRI part of the allotments' National Lottery Heritage Project. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 The Fortune Hunters b00grdc0 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Series in which Max Flint investigates the 15 billion FRI pounds in unclaimed assets in the UK and asks if and how FRI these funds are distributed to their rightful owners. FRI Max explores issues surrounding claims by former soldiers FRI who had tax wrongly deducted from their service pensions. FRI He meets the man who discovered the problem which resulted FRI in millions of pounds in tax rebates being returned to FRI ex-servicemen, and a 91-year-old retired major who is FRI still fighting for his money. FRI A Tinderbox Broadcast production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00lywv8 (Listen) FRI Jane Little presents the obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and FRI interest from many walks of life, some famous and some FRI less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00lywvb (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet talks to Christoph Walz, who won the best FRI acting prize at Cannes this year for his role as a Nazi FRI officer in Quentin Tarantino's war movie Inglourious FRI Basterds. FRI League of Gentlemen member Mark Gatiss presents part four FRI of his alternative guide to British cinema. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00ly63q (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 b00ly67g (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00lyx3g (Listen) FRI Series 28, Episode 8 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 Andy Zaltzman. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00ly618 (Listen) FRI Vicky's optimism takes a downward turn. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00ly6by (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an FRI interview with writer AL Kennedy, who won the Costa Book FRI of the Year prize in 2007, and a report from the Edinburgh FRI Festival Fringe. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ly6q3 (Listen) FRI Villette, Finis FRI Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte FRI Bronte. FRI There are more revelations to unfold after a night-time FRI carnival and a host of secrets, but will Lucy's new love FRI desert her? FRI Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin FRI Monsieur Paul ...... Sam Dale FRI Mrs Beck ...... Joan Walker FRI Ginevra ...... Lizzy Watts FRI Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00lyx6c (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Rye, East Sussex. FRI The panellists include journalist Toby Young, general FRI secretary of the RMT Bob Crowe and literary critic Sarah FRI Churchwell. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lyx6f (Listen) FRI The Serpent's Stare FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI Underground animals are very different to the animals that FRI spend their life on the surface. They are a different FRI shape, their senses are tuned in a very different way and FRI they manifestly come from a different world. Does this FRI explain the stare of the snake? FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00lyx6h (Listen) FRI Series 2, Animal Magic FRI Second series of three political dramas. FRI By Avie Luthra. FRI MP Bobby Khan's marriage to Lucy is very unsettled. Bobby FRI backs the opening of a new laboratory involving animal FRI testing in his constituency which leads to a violent FRI backlash, and an old flame of Lucy's is inextricably FRI linked to the whole affair. FRI Bobby ...... Zubin Varla FRI Lucy ...... Nichola Stephenson FRI Elizabeth ...... Barbara Marten FRI Terry ...... John McArdle FRI Karl ...... Graeme Hawley FRI David ...... James Quinn FRI Minister ...... Malcolm Raeburn FRI Helen ...... Christine Brennan FRI Sara ...... Millie Rose Kinsey FRI News reporter ...... Shari Vahl FRI School children from St Mary's Church of England Infant FRI and Junior School, Manchester. FRI Political adviser Andrew Russell FRI Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00ly6wg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00ly6z5 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0fw1 (Listen) FRI The Whole Day Through, Episode 5 FRI Samantha Bond and Nathaniel Parker read from the romantic FRI novel by Patrick Gale. FRI Forty-something Laura Lewis is obliged to abandon a life FRI of stylish independence in Paris, and with it all apparent FRI hopes of romance, to care for her elderly mother in FRI Winchester. FRI Ben decides to leave his wife, Chloe. After his love FRI letter to Laura is mistakenly sent to Chloe he has to act, FRI and asks Laura to meet him one more time at the hotel FRI where they first had dinner. FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00lyfm8 (Listen) FRI Series 19, Joe Slovo FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Fforeign secretary David Miliband discusses the life of FRI Joe Slovo, a leading member of the African National FRI Congress and the first housing minister in Nelson FRI Mandela's government. Slovo's daughter, Gillian, joins in FRI the discussion. FRI FRI 23:30 Listen Against b008crj0 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 3 FRI Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back FRI over the last week of radio. FRI FRI FRI

No comments:

Post a Comment