14 August, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 15/08/2009 - 21/08/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00lyx7v (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00m0lsb (Listen) SAT Bluestockings, Episode 5 SAT Miriam Margolyes reads from Jane Robinson's account of the SAT pioneering British women who overcame all odds to get a SAT university education. SAT Women had to wait until 1869 before they could enrol at SAT Cambridge University, and even then the odds were stacked SAT against them. Female brains were considered too small to SAT compete with those of men, and the country's leading SAT doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs SAT would wither and die. SAT Although more and more women graduate during the 1920s and SAT 30s, the Great Depression reinforces the pecking order, SAT prioritising jobs for men. While critics begin to wonder SAT whether academia is breeding white elephants, the SAT bluestockings remain undaunted. While all too many join SAT the teaching profession, others venture down unexplored SAT career paths as diplomats, aviation engineers, writers and SAT lawyers, all paving the way for future generations of SAT bright young women. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lyx98 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lyx9b (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lyx9d (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00lyx9g (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lyx9j (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers. SAT SAT 05:45 Backstreet Business b008pxsz (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Nicola Heywood Thomas visits small businesses. Ronnie SAT Scott works alone in an ageing Edinburgh workshop, SAT repairing bowls which have lost their bias. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00lyxb2 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00m0gd1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00m0gd3 (Listen) SAT Trouble on the Teifi SAT Matt Baker reports on the dispute going on between anglers SAT and canoeists on Welsh rivers. SAT The River Teifi, almost exactly in the geographical middle SAT of Wales, is set against a backdrop of heather moors and SAT rugged Cambrian mountains. Matt visits the valley town of SAT Llandysul in Ceredigion, which lies along the banks of the SAT river. SAT The people who use the river are in bitter dispute, SAT because Llandysul is one of the most popular places in SAT Wales both for freshwater angling and for white-water SAT canoeing. The anglers have to pay to fish in the river, SAT and the canoeists want access for free. The canoeists are SAT campaigning to change the law to allow full access to use SAT the river, and the anglers are unhappy about it. SAT In fact, this is not just an isolated problem - the Welsh SAT Assembly is conducting an inquiry into this issue across SAT all rivers in Wales. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00m0gd5 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT There must be a radical rethink of what we eat and how we SAT produce our food; some campaigners and farmers have been SAT saying this for years, but now the government is too. It SAT has launched its new long-term food strategy addressing SAT how we are going to feed ourselves and where that food SAT will come from in the light of a rising world population, SAT the threat of climate change and water and energy SAT shortages. A range of people take to the Farming Today SAT soapbox to tell us how we should secure food supplies over SAT the next 20 years. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00m0gd7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00m0gd9 (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00m0gdc (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Professor SAT Anthony Hollander. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00m0gdf (Listen) SAT John McCarthy explores the Lake District, interesting SAT British lakes and rivers and swimming holidays in Finland. SAT SAT 10:30 By Jove Carruthers! b00k8lg1 (Listen) SAT Miles Jupp goes in search of the real Carruthers, the SAT character who inspired a thousand silly quips and cod SAT Edwardian accents. At least seven different Carruthers SAT crop up in Edwardian boys' tales, but who exactly was he, SAT what did he do, and how did he assume such a strange kind SAT of posthumous fame? SAT Miles finds out about the Carruthers who appears in the SAT Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Solitary SAT Cyclist and the one which narrates Erskine Childers' 1903 SAT spy novel The Riddle of the Sands. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00m0gr2 (Listen) SAT Looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster SAT parliament. SAT The average student debt is now almost 22,000 pounds, and SAT is set to increase as universities look to raise the cost SAT of tuition. Jim Hancock visits Leeds, a city with one of SAT the largest student populations in the country, to talk to SAT undergraduates who in some cases will see fees go up by 60 SAT per cent. SAT With 100,000 students registered to vote in Leeds alone, SAT could the issue of tuition fees determine the outcome of SAT some seats in the next general election? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00m0gr4 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT Afghanistan's presidential elections, a visit to Delhi's SAT Speakers' Corner and a meal in an Iranian restaurant in SAT the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00m0gr6 (Listen) SAT Money Box: Coping with the Recession, Episode 1 SAT Penny Haslam looks for advice to help small businesses SAT cope with the recession. Many small firms are struggling SAT to survive in an economy where customers are tightening SAT their belts and banks are reluctant to lend. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00lyx3g (Listen) SAT Series 28, Episode 8 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 Andy Zaltzman. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00m0gr8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00m0grb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00lyx6c (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Rye, East Sussex. SAT The panellists are journalist Toby Young, general SAT secretary of the RMT Bob Crow, farmer Oliver Walston and SAT literary critic Sarah Churchwell. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00m0grd (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 b00m0grg (Listen) SAT Trumbo SAT Christopher Trumbo's drama about his father, the American SAT screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo's ordeal at the SAT hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee and SAT its anti-communist witch-hunt. SAT Trumbo was one of the original Hollywood Ten - those SAT accused in 1947 and subsequently blacklisted, ostracised SAT and forced into poverty, obscurity and in some cases SAT exile, because of their beliefs. SAT The play is based on transcripts of those now notorious SAT HUAC hearings and the extraordinary letters written by his SAT father during this period, both to his son and to others. SAT Dalton Trumbo ...... Corin Redgrave SAT Narrator ...... Nick Waring SAT Directed by Roger Mitchell. SAT A Catherine Bailey Limited production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Tales Before the Stave b00lybns (Listen) SAT Francis Fyfield unpicks the hidden codes of a beautiful SAT 11th-century manuscript that confirms that the English SAT were pioneers of musical notation long before the arrival SAT of staves. SAT With the help of Professor Susan Rankin and the French SAT performer Dominique Vellard, Francis tells the story of SAT the Winchester Troper, a tiny book belonging to Corpus SAT Christi College, Cambridge, and written in Winchester SAT around the year 1030, and how scholars have used it to SAT clarify the way musical notation developed in the 11th and SAT 12th centuries. SAT The magical discovery in the Troper was that polyphony, SAT the use of two-part harmony, which many thought did not SAT appear in manuscript form before the 13th century, was SAT actually captured by the cantor scribbling in the Troper SAT at a time when Winchester was at the heart of Anglo Saxon SAT culture. This little book provides us with insights into SAT the soundscape of Edward the Confessor's England. SAT But it only does so thanks to the scholars like Susan and SAT Dominique who have deciphered what looks like modern SAT shorthand notation. SAT The programme describes the process of unravelling the SAT musical language and how that fits in to the broader story SAT of the development of musical notation in Europe. Frances SAT tries to get an idea of who this cantor was who managed to SAT preserve a golden era of Anglo Saxon music well before the SAT universal staves and notes were developed to simplify the SAT process. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00m0grj (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Sheila McClennon. SAT Including Sara Payne and Shy Keenan on their work to help SAT victims of child sex abuse; Bollywood comes to the Proms; SAT being positive about pessimism; a marriage made in prison; SAT using reminiscence to help people with dementia; the lives SAT of Londoners in 1950s Soho; piano duo The Labeque Sisters SAT on their classical repertoire. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00m0grl (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00m0grn (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m0grq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00m0grs (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m0grv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00m0grx (Listen) SAT Peter Curran presents an eclectic mix of conversation, SAT music and comedy. SAT He is joined by the actor Neil Morrissey, conductor SAT Charles Hazlewood, choreographer Craig Revel Horwood and SAT the entrepreneur and chef Levi Roots. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00m0grz (Listen) SAT Hamid Karzai SAT Lucy Ash profiles Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan SAT and almost certain to win the forthcoming election there. SAT Karzai is in a difficult position, though; he has to SAT appeal to Western powers embroiled in military efforts to SAT extend his authority across his country, but also to SAT war-weary Afghans, who resent foreign interference and SAT want a return to ancient tribal traditions and values. It SAT is a complex balancing act requiring courage, leadership SAT and character. Lucy Ash asks if he is up to it. SAT Featuring contributions from Christina Lamb, Rory Stewart, SAT Jason Amerine, Afghan friends of Karzai, Elizabeth Rubin, SAT Jawed Ludin and Christopher Alexander. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00m0gs1 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by writer Louise Welsh, musician SAT Pat Kane and comedian Danny Robins to discuss the cultural SAT highlights of the week, featuring gang violence, writer's SAT block and some surprises from Edinburgh. SAT Orphans is a new play by Dennis Kelly at Edinburgh's SAT Traverse Theatre and opens with Danny (Jonathan SAT McGuinness) and Helen (Claire-Louise Cordwell) enjoying a SAT candlelit dinner at home. The meal is immediately SAT interrupted by Helen's brother Liam (Joe Armstrong) who SAT bursts into the room, covered with blood. As his story is SAT gradually revealed, Kelly asks us to consider how far we SAT would go and what moral compromises we would make to SAT protect our families. SAT Cary Fukunaga is a film maker who isn't afraid of some SAT rigourous research. Prior to making his debut feature Sin SAT Nombre, he made several journeys with immigrants on the SAT roofs of freight trains, heading north through Mexico in SAT search of a new life in the USA. In his film, a young SAT woman, Sayra, sets off from Honduras with her father and SAT uncle, on this same journey. On the train, they encounter SAT Willy, a member of the feared Mara Salvatrucha street SAT gang, who is there to steal from the immigrants. Part road SAT movie, part love story, it also evokes the marginal world SAT of those who risk their lives for the dream of a better SAT existence. SAT There is a lot of poetry in Nicholson Baker's novel The SAT Anthologist. That's because the protagonist, Paul Chowder, SAT is a poet who is trying to write a foreword to an SAT anthology of rhyming poetry. But his partner, Roz, has SAT left him and his life seems to be falling apart, little by SAT little. His endless digressions about rhyme, poets and SAT poetry cannot disguise the fact that the foreword remains SAT unwritten, he is running out of money and may be having SAT some kind of a breakdown. SAT At the time of the 18th century Enlightenment, Edinburgh SAT was fizzing with ideas and questions. For its exhibition SAT The Enlightenments, the Edinburgh International Festival SAT has brought together work by nine artists, spread across SAT various sites in the city, which offers a contemporary SAT view of the concepts which were current at the time. They SAT include Tacita Dean's film Presentation Sisters, Joseph SAT Kosuth's An Interpretation of This Title, and Hark! by SAT Gabrielle de Vietri, in which visitors to the Dean Gallery SAT have the news headlines sung to them. SAT The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival SAT in the world, comprising more than 2,000 different shows. SAT There was only so much that Tom and his guests could see SAT in 24 hours, but they crammed in as much as they could. SAT Danny Robins had the credit crunch in mind when he went to SAT various events under the Festival For A Fiver banner, SAT Louise Welsh was charmed by NIE's My Life With The Dogs, SAT Pat Kane had a magical experience at Power Plant in the SAT Botanic Garden, and Tom went to gaze at Richard Herring's SAT Hitler Moustache. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00ltmpv (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back, Rev Jesse Jackson SAT High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson, SAT replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a SAT re-examination of their lives. SAT Rev Jesse Jackson, a witness to the murder of Martin SAT Luther King and the first African-American candidate for SAT US President, reflects on his life in sound drawn from a SAT half-century of BBC archive. Being close to Dr King during SAT the troubled years of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was SAT just one of the formative experiences for Jackson. Here he SAT listens back to his younger self, recalls his thoughts at SAT the time and applies to them the self-knowledge that comes SAT from distance. SAT Other episodes in his life include addressing the first SAT black political rally, negotiating with President Assad of SAT Syria over hostages, running twice for US president, SAT witnessing the swearing-in of Barack Obama, and most SAT recently defending one of America's most controversial SAT black icons, Michael Jackson. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00lxwh4 (Listen) SAT Ruth, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Ellen Dryden of the novel by Elizabeth SAT Gaskell. SAT Abandoned in Wales, Ruth is taken in by the preacher SAT Benson and his reluctant sister. The cause of Ruth's SAT illness is established and brings with it a secret which SAT could destroy her unless it is kept from everyone. SAT Ruth ...... Laura Rees SAT Benson ...... Anton Lesser SAT Faith ...... Anne Reid SAT Bellingham ...... Rory Kinnear SAT Bradshaw ...... David Schofield SAT Sally ...... Marcia Warren SAT Jemima ...... Amy Ewbank SAT Mrs Bradshaw ...... Abigail Thaw SAT Elizabeth ...... Helen Jenkinson SAT Mary ...... Daisy Ashford SAT Richard/Hickson ...... Dudley Hinton SAT Directed by Ellen Dryden. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00m0gys (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Reality Check b00lynzj (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT Justin Rowlatt presents a discussion series involving SAT experts and people closely involved in the issues. SAT The growth of surveillance is said to have made Britain SAT one of the most watched nations on earth. Faced with the SAT threats of crime and terrorism, how do we reconcile the SAT demands for the protection of privacy with the benefits to SAT security that new surveillance techniques can bring? SAT Justin presents a debate between people who seek to SAT influence policy with those affected by such policies, and SAT asks if surveillance in Britain is out of control. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00lycln (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring teams from the Midlands and Scotland. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00lxwh8 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a special edition devoted to the SAT poetry of Tennyson, as part of the poet's bicentenary SAT celebrations. Tennyson is one of the most frequently SAT requested 19th-century poets on the programme, and this SAT edition features readings of his works including The Lady SAT of Shallot, The Throstle and Crossing the Bar. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00m0h0y (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0081191 (Listen) SUN Cheltenham Festival Readings, The Cruise SUN Five stories from the 2007 Cheltenham Literature Festival. SUN When Kate's parents went on a cruise, she realised they SUN would die. Written and read by Anne Enright. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0j4y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0j50 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0j52 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00m0j54 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00m0j56 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from Durham Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00m0grz (Listen) SUN Hamid Karzai SUN Lucy Ash profiles Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan SUN and almost certain to win the forthcoming election there. SUN Karzai is in a difficult position, though; he has to SUN appeal to Western powers embroiled in military efforts to SUN extend his authority across his country, but also to SUN war-weary Afghans, who resent foreign interference and SUN want a return to ancient tribal traditions and values. It SUN is a complex balancing act requiring courage, leadership SUN and character. Lucy Ash asks if he is up to it. SUN Featuring contributions from Christina Lamb, Rory Stewart, SUN Jason Amerine, Afghan friends of Karzai, Elizabeth Rubin, SUN Jawed Ludin and Christopher Alexander. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00m0j58 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00m0j5b (Listen) SUN Follow My Leader SUN Mark Tully considers great leaders and the source of their SUN power to galvanise the cynical and apathetic on local, SUN national and global levels. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00m0jv4 (Listen) SUN Cuckoos SUN Cuckoos are one of a small group of parasitic birds that SUN covertly use other birds to unknowingly rear chicks on SUN their behalf. Lionel Kelleway heads to Dartmoor to get SUN close to a juvenile cuckoo and its unwitting foster SUN parents. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00m0j5g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 Weather b00m0j5j (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00m0jv6 (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 b00m0jv8 (Listen) SUN The International Rescue Committee SUN John Hurt appeals on behalf of The International Rescue SUN Committee. SUN Donations to the International Rescue Committee should be SUN sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back SUN of your envelope the International Rescue Committee. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide the International Rescue Committee SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners SUN without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1065972. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00m0jvb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00m0jvd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00m0jvg (Listen) SUN Rev Dr David Clark, Principal of the Von Hugel Institute, SUN Cambridge, preaches at a service from the Church of Our SUN Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge, marking the Feast SUN of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. SUN Leader: Monsignor Tony Rogers. SUN Music Director: Nigel Kerry. SUN Organist: Joseph Fort. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lyx6f (Listen) SUN The Serpent's Stare SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN Underground animals are very different to the animals that SUN spend their life on the surface. They are a different SUN shape, their senses are tuned in a very different way and SUN they manifestly come from a different world. Does this SUN explain the stare of the snake? SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00m0jvj (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00m0jvl (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00m0jvn (Listen) SUN Roberto Alagna SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Roberto Alagna. SUN He is one of the most celebrated tenors in the world and SUN one half of opera's golden couple; his wife is the soprano SUN Angela Gheorghiu. SUN Yet, his is not a voice that was honed through early years SUN in a conservatoire. He was brought up in Paris in a family SUN of keen amateur musicians. He used to sing in nightclubs SUN and in those early years, he says, the world of opera was, SUN to him, no more than an impossible dream. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00lycz6 (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 3 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With SUN Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair and Charles SUN Collingwood. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00m0jvq (Listen) SUN Chefs' Choices Number 2: Cauliflowers SUN Yotam Ottolenghi, chef and founder of Ottolenghi's food SUN shops and restaurant, brings some much-needed passion to SUN the neglected cauliflower. SUN Cauliflower has fallen from culinary favour, eclipsed by SUN its superfood cousin broccoli. Bland, white and often SUN smoothered in cheese sauce, the cauliflower is no longer a SUN fashionable ingredient, and sales are falling. But are we SUN missing out? SUN Yotam grew up in Jewish west Jerusalem, while executive SUN chef and partner in the business Sami Tamimi grew up in SUN the Arab east Jerusalem. Both grew up eating cauliflowers, SUN and in this programe are trying to afford the cauliflower SUN its rightful place alongside the other members of the SUN brassica family, cabbage and brocoli. SUN Phillip Effingham is chairman of the British Brassicas SUN Association and Director of Farming and Agronomic SUN Development at Marshall Bros, growers of cauliflowers in SUN Boston, Lincolnshire. Cauliflowers are well suited to the SUN rich soils of the Wash, the centre of cauliflower SUN production today. The biggest problem for cauliflower SUN growers is that its peak season, during the warm summer SUN months, coincides with a general drop in sales as shoppers SUN turn to salad. Low prices used to encourage sales often SUN mean it is not worth growers spending the money to harvest SUN them, and excellent quality cauliflowers are left to rot SUN in the field. SUN But cauliflower is a perfect summer ingredient, and lends SUN itself to many different styles of cooking, from SUN traditional British to Middle Eastern and Indian. Yotam SUN and Sami give the cauliflower the Ottolenghi treatment in SUN two dishes: fritters, a dish from Sami's childhood, and SUN chargrilled in a salad. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00m0jvs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00m0jvv (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Music Feature b00c67jq (Listen) SUN Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain SUN Phill Jupitus follows the celebrated ensemble of SUN all-singing, all-strumming ukulele players who command a SUN cult following. Their unique blend of comedy and music SUN fills venues worldwide and boasts many celebrity fans. SUN Musicologists explain the finer nuances of their SUN subversive and high-quality ukulele playing and SUN arrangements. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lywv6 (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew answer SUN questions posed by members of St Ann's Allotments in SUN Nottingham. SUN Matthew introduces Britain's oldest and largest allotment SUN site and meets a selection of allotment-holders occupying SUN a 670-garden enclosure, including the owners of a SUN greenhouse constructed entirely from plastic bottles. He SUN also talks to prize-winning fruit grower Adrian Baggley, SUN who identifies and propagates rare heritage fruit trees as SUN part of the allotments' National Lottery Heritage Project. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 The Tribes of Science b00m0jvx (Listen) SUN The Zoologists SUN Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied SUN disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to SUN explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs. SUN Peter meets zoologists and spends time at the Institute of SUN Zoology at London Zoo. Are the otter specialists as SUN quick-witted, sociable and fun as the aquatic animals they SUN study? And does the office hierarchy mirror the pecking SUN order of the food chain? SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00m0jvz (Listen) SUN Ruth, Episode 3 SUN Dramatisation by Ellen Dryden of the novel by Elizabeth SUN Gaskell. SUN The unexpected return of Bellingham presents real danger, SUN and a distant connection from Ruth's past threatens to SUN reveal the truth about Leonard. Meanwhile Mr Bradshaw's SUN two eldest children face very different dilemmas. 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 Farquhar ...... Gus Brown SUN Mrs Pearson ...... Anna Francolini SUN Dr Davies ...... Tim Hardy SUN Leonard ...... Jordan Clarke SUN Directed by Ellen Dryden. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00m0jw1 (Listen) SUN Muriel Gray talks to novelist Diana Evans, who won the SUN Orange Award for New Writers in 2005 with her first book, SUN 26a. She explains how her early experience as a dancer SUN inspired her new novel The Wonder, about an all-black SUN dance troupe in 1960s Notting Hill. SUN Is writing bad for your health? Peter Kemp joins Muriel to SUN reveal how the sedentary existence of the novelist can SUN conceal major risks and outlines some of the surprising SUN injuries caused by the literary life. SUN Novelist Patrick Gale offers advice to an Open Book SUN listener who's looking for gay fiction that isn't SUN depressing or about teenagers. SUN And reading dictionaries for fun: author of Schott's SUN Miscellany Ben Schott, writer Kevin Jackson and editor of SUN Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Camilla Rockwood SUN reveal why they enjoy curling up with a reference book. SUN SUN 16:30 Ahlberg at 70 b00bvz8x (Listen) SUN Janet Ellis meets children's author Allan Ahlberg to SUN reflect on his career and influence. SUN Allan Ahlberg is an institution in children's literature. SUN Books such as Burglar Bill, Each Peach Pear Plum, The SUN Jolly Postman and Peepo became immediate hits with parents SUN and children and have remained hugely popular ever since. SUN Ahlberg has been writing children's fiction for over 30 SUN years. His popularity is such that he has sold 17 million SUN copies of his 150-plus titles. His books are regularly in SUN the chart of most-borrowed children's authors, and have SUN been in the top ten every year for the past decade. SUN Ahlberg was adopted and grew up in the Black Country. At SUN the age of 13 he 'became an intellectual snob and joined SUN three libraries'. On leaving school he worked as a SUN postman, a soldier, a plumber's mate and a gravedigger. It SUN was a superintendent of parks and cemeteries that SUN suggested Allan become a teacher. SUN He began writing in his 30s when his wife Janet asked him SUN to write something for her to illustrate. He sought 'to SUN produce William Morris books at Penguin prices'. SUN Janet Ellis read his books to her children. She uses SUN archive, readings and expert opinion to assess Ahlberg's SUN life and work. SUN SUN 17:00 The Fraud Capital of Britain b00lyfr8 (Listen) SUN Thamesmead was one of the most exciting new towns to be SUN built in the 1960s, intended as a vibrant, riverside SUN community of 60,000 people in south east London. Forty SUN years on, the area is perhaps best known as a notorious SUN hub of fraud, dubbed 'Little Lagos' because of its SUN association with west African criminal gangs. SUN Phil Kemp investigates how this reputation has stuck. He SUN talks to a former fraudster and meets residents fighting SUN to turn the community around and shake off its SUN crime-ridden image. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00m0grz (Listen) SUN Hamid Karzai SUN Lucy Ash profiles Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan SUN and almost certain to win the forthcoming election there. SUN Karzai is in a difficult position, though; he has to SUN appeal to Western powers embroiled in military efforts to SUN extend his authority across his country, but also to SUN war-weary Afghans, who resent foreign interference and SUN want a return to ancient tribal traditions and values. It SUN is a complex balancing act requiring courage, leadership SUN and character. Lucy Ash asks if he is up to it. SUN Featuring contributions from Christina Lamb, Rory Stewart, SUN Jason Amerine, Afghan friends of Karzai, Elizabeth Rubin, SUN Jawed Ludin and Christopher Alexander. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m0k51 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00m0k53 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m0k55 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00m0k57 (Listen) SUN Clive Coleman introduces his selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN Programmes featured this week were: SUN Fry's English Delight - Radio 4 SUN The Naming of Genes - Radio 4 SUN No Triumph, No Tragedy - Radio 4 SUN Reality Check - Radio 4 SUN The High Price of Alder Hey - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4 - Radio 4 SUN The Movie That Changed My Life - Radio 2 SUN Selling Cheese to the Chinese - Radio 4 SUN Bluestockings - Radio 4 SUN The Election Agent - Radio 4 SUN Ballet Russes- Radio 3 SUN The Long View - Radio 4 SUN Secrets of the Super Old - Radio 4 SUN Classical Collection - Radio 3 SUN The Art of Laughter - Radio 2. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00m0k59 (Listen) SUN The grace period is over for Lilian. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00m0k5c (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today. Combining location reports SUN with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show SUN provides new and surprising insights into contemporary SUN America. SUN Frei asks why communists are still banned from entering SUN the USA, and why Delaware is the only state in the Union SUN without a national park. Plus, he meets the man who can SUN eat a turkey in a matter or minutes when he uncovers the SUN world of competitive eating. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008dk9k (Listen) SUN An Audience with Max Wall, Foundations of a Wall 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 describes his own comedy dance routine, which SUN influenced Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks. He SUN recalls his exploits as a successful entertainer in the SUN nightclubs of Berlin and Paris, where he performed with SUN Maurice Chevalier in the late 1920s. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00lyvz9 (Listen) SUN Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers SUN everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00lywv8 (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 b00m0k5f (Listen) SUN Jobcentre Plus - Not Working SUN At a time of record unemployment, more and more people are SUN visiting the Jobcentre Plus. There are now over one and a SUN half million people claiming Jobseekers Allowance, and SUN nearly twice as many people sign on at one of 747 SUN jobcentres across the UK than since the start of the SUN recession. SUN This where the new jobless meet their Personal Advisor, SUN who is there to help them find a job and assess whether or SUN not they are entitled to benefits. It is a key service in SUN helping tackle unemployment. But there is concern that SUN advisors are not able to deliver the personalised and SUN professional service promised by the government because SUN they are so badly stretched. SUN John Waite asks whether the tough targets imposed on SUN Personal Advisors mean they don't have time to help SUN jobseekers look for work, only administer benefits. This SUN is despite assurances from the Jobcentre Plus that there SUN are jobs out there - it boasts that an average of 10,000 SUN new vacancies are advertised in its offices every day. SUN John examines claims that Personal Advisors are SUN under-resourced, under-trained, under pressure and SUN unprepared for the demands of this growing unemployment SUN crisis, and asks how they can provide the personal and SUN professional service that is promised, and so desperately SUN needed, during the recession. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00m0jv8 (Listen) SUN The International Rescue Committee SUN John Hurt appeals on behalf of The International Rescue SUN Committee. SUN Donations to the International Rescue Committee should be SUN sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back SUN of your envelope the International Rescue Committee. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide the International Rescue Committee SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners SUN without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1065972. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00lytq4 (Listen) SUN Women's Work SUN Some business leaders think that the credit crunch crisis SUN marks a great opportunity for women. Peter Day asks SUN whether female skills can help to guide the world out of SUN the ruins. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00m0k5h (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00m0k5k (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN The Election Agent. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00lywvb (Listen) SUN British actress Jean Kent on James Mason, Stewart Granger SUN and why Marilyn Monroe was a bit grubby. SUN Christoph Walz reveals why he turned down every Nazi SUN officer role he has been offered, except for one Quentin SUN Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. SUN Mark Gatiss picks a neglected classic from the 1960s. SUN Critic Jane Graham enters the fourth dimension with The SUN Time Traveler's Wife. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00m0j5b (Listen) SUN Follow My Leader SUN Mark Tully considers great leaders and the source of their SUN power to galvanise the cynical and apathetic on local, SUN national and global levels. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00m0rdf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lynzd (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor explores the myths and enduring realities of MON the British police with Clive Emsley and Dick Hobbs. MON Robert Peel brought the Metropolitan Police Force into MON being in 1829; it was a centralised body of 3,000 MON uniformed men expected to patrol designated areas. They MON were the original 'Bobbies on the Beat'. However, in an MON age of mass public protests, Chartism and agitation for MON electoral reform, the police were founded more as a MON response to a crisis in public order than in a move to MON protect private property. The Weekly Dispatch of 1829 MON warned, 'The New Police is a military body employed in MON civil duties ... it is a powerful engine in the hands of MON government, and may be employed for the suppression of MON public freedom.' How much has changed? MON Laurie also discusses the worldwide influence of the MON Scottish diaspora and asks why such an enormous number MON Scots left their country of birth even when times were MON good. Tom Devine enlightens Laurie ahead of his talk at MON the Festival of Politics in Edinburgh. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00m0j56 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from Durham Cathedral. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0rph (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0s02 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0rzp (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00m0s59 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m0sdz (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00m64f4 (Listen) MON Organic farmers in Wales say they could be forced out of MON business by changes to their subsidy payment. The Welsh MON Assembly is replacing three schemes with the new Glastir MON payment. Farmers say some will lose 80 per cent of their MON money, making it unviable to keep going. MON We eat more than 800 million ready meals a year in the UK, MON more than any other country in Europe; Caz Graham asks if MON we are we about to change our ways. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00m0z1k (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00m0svx (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Peston and the Money Men b00m0z1m (Listen) MON John Gieve MON As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown MON approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks MON to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm. MON Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic MON catastrophe and what are the long term consequences? MON As a senior civil servant at the home office, John Gieve MON had been grilled by select committees over prisoner MON releases and charged with investigating allegations of MON ministerial impropriety. But if he had hoped for a MON graceful denouement at the end of his 40-year career, he MON was out of luck. MON Gieve joined the Bank of England in 2006; less than two MON years later he would be called on to help form a rescue MON plan as bank after bank teetered on the brink of collapse. MON MON 09:30 The Call b00m0z1p (Listen) MON The Transplant MON Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made MON life-changing phone calls. MON Tony Roth suffered his first heart attack when he was in MON his early 30s. Within six months he had a triple bypass MON operation, but two more heart attacks and more bypass MON surgery followed. In failing heath, he was forced to give MON up work, and waited for the call to tell him that a donor MON heart was available. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00m82z8 (Listen) MON My Father's Places, Episode 1 MON Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her MON childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her MON father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin. MON Aeronwy and her parents move into the Boat House in MON Laugharne. MON Abridged by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m0v36 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON Including: MON In an attempt to win a marginal seat in September 2009's MON general election in Germany, the Christian Democrat MON candidate Vera Lengsfeld has produced billboard posters MON with images of herself and of German chancellor Angela MON Merkel displaying their generous cleavages and the MON strapline 'We have more to offer'. So how much cleavage MON should a woman show? And if you're a politician, should MON you be showing it off at all? MON Domnica Radulescu grew up under the shadow of the Romanian MON dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. It was an era characterised by MON food queues, censorship and suspicion, with the MON ever-present threat of 'disappearance' at the hands of the MON secret police. In 1981, when she was 20, she won the MON National Prize for Short Story Writing, but left Romania a MON few years later under the pretence of taking a holiday in MON Italy. Once there, she claimed political asylum in MON America, where she now teaches French and Italian MON literature and women's studies at Washington and Lee MON University in Virginia. She talks to Jane about her debut MON novel Train to Trieste, which is based on the events of MON her life. MON As part of a new project, families who have lost a loved MON one in military service have been spending their holidays MON together. Woman's Hour hears how from some of the women MON and children who have been attending the new activity MON break camps. Jane will be finding out just what support is MON available to families who lose loved ones while on active MON service. MON And reporter Jane Corbin has recently come back from MON another trip to Afghanistan, where she heard the stories MON of the women living there. She examined whether their MON situation has improved since the fall of the Taliban and MON met women who are putting their lives at risk in order to MON create an equal society. She talks to Jane about what she MON discovered. MON MON 11:00 Mind Changers b00m0zz3 (Listen) MON Series 4, Arden House MON Claudia Hammond presents a series looking at the MON development of the science of psychology during the 20th MON century. MON She re-visits Ellen Langer and Judith Rodin's 1976 study, MON conducted in a New England nursing home, Arden House. MON When the two psychologists set up the experiment so that MON residents on two floors of the 360-bed home for the MON elderly would experience some changes in their everyday MON life, they had no idea that they were introducing factors MON which could prolong life. MON While residents on both floors were given plants and film MON shows, only those on the fourth floor had the opportunity MON to control these events: choosing the plant and looking MON after it themselves, and choosing which night of the week MON to view the film. MON Eighteen months later, when Langer and Rodin returned to MON the home, they were astonished to discover that twice as MON many of the elderly residents in this 'choices' group were MON alive, compared with the control group on the second MON floor, who had been given plants that the staff tended, MON and were told which was their film night. It appeared that MON taking control made you live longer. MON These findings fit in well with the work on learned MON helplessness in dogs which Martin Seligman had done in the MON late 1960s, and on Langer and Rodin's own studies on the MON perception of control. MON Claudia Hammond meets Ellen Langer, now Professor of MON Psychology at Harvard, and hears about Arden House and the MON work she has gone on to do on what she calls MON 'mindfulness'. She visits Arden House, which is still a MON nursing home, and is shown around by current administrator MON Joanne Scafati. MON Dr Zelda Di Blasi, who lectures in psychology at MON University College, Cork, sets the study in context, and MON Rosalie Kane, Professor of Public Health at the University MON of Minnesota, and Howard Kaplan, CEO of City Club Living MON accommodation for the elderly, discuss the impact of MON Langer/Rodin on care of the elderly. MON MON 11:30 Hazelbeach b00m0zz5 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 6 MON Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford, MON featuring likeable conman Ronnie Hazelbeach and his MON hapless friend, Nick. MON Nick and Ronnie discover that there is a fate worse than MON James. MON Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman MON Nick ...... Paul Bazely MON James ...... Neil Stuke MON Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles MON Vince ...... David Hargreaves MON Joe Snow ...... David Stafford MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00m0vt0 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00m0vvc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00m0vy6 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00m107y (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring teams from Wales and Northern Ireland. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00m0k59 (Listen) MON The grace period is over for Lilian. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00m1082 (Listen) MON Rep MON By Jonathan Holloway. Actor George Friendly has just MON started work in one of Britain's last surviving seaside MON repertory theatres. His first part is in Clubfoot the MON Avenger, and he thinks he knows how the rest of the summer MON is going to go. MON George ...... Jay Villiers MON Florence ...... Lucy Liemann MON Vivian/Derek ...... Michael Fenton Stevens MON Rupert/Cafe owner ...... Mark Meadows MON Raymond/Earl ...... Paul Mundell MON Directed by Tim Dee. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00ltmpv (Listen) MON Meeting Myself Coming Back, Rev Jesse Jackson MON High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson, MON replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a MON re-examination of their lives. MON Rev Jesse Jackson, a witness to the murder of Martin MON Luther King and the first African-American candidate for MON US President, reflects on his life in sound drawn from a MON half-century of BBC archive. Being close to Dr King during MON the troubled years of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was MON just one of the formative experiences for Jackson. Here he MON listens back to his younger self, recalls his thoughts at MON the time and applies to them the self-knowledge that comes MON from distance. MON Other episodes in his life include addressing the first MON black political rally, negotiating with President Assad of MON Syria over hostages, running twice for US president, MON witnessing the swearing-in of Barack Obama, and most MON recently defending one of America's most controversial MON black icons, Michael Jackson. MON MON 15:45 Tea and Biscuits b00m0w31 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge MON in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit. MON Hardeep joins a group enjoying tea and biscuits before MON they take part in their British Citizenship ceremony at MON Brent Town Hall. MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00m0jvq (Listen) MON Chefs' Choices Number 2: Cauliflowers MON Yotam Ottolenghi, chef and founder of Ottolenghi's food MON shops and restaurant, brings some much-needed passion to MON the neglected cauliflower. MON Cauliflower has fallen from culinary favour, eclipsed by MON its superfood cousin broccoli. Bland, white and often MON smoothered in cheese sauce, the cauliflower is no longer a MON fashionable ingredient, and sales are falling. But are we MON missing out? MON Yotam grew up in Jewish west Jerusalem, while executive MON chef and partner in the business Sami Tamimi grew up in MON the Arab east Jerusalem. Both grew up eating cauliflowers, MON and in this programe are trying to afford the cauliflower MON its rightful place alongside the other members of the MON brassica family, cabbage and brocoli. MON Phillip Effingham is chairman of the British Brassicas MON Association and Director of Farming and Agronomic MON Development at Marshall Bros, growers of cauliflowers in MON Boston, Lincolnshire. Cauliflowers are well suited to the MON rich soils of the Wash, the centre of cauliflower MON production today. The biggest problem for cauliflower MON growers is that its peak season, during the warm summer MON months, coincides with a general drop in sales as shoppers MON turn to salad. Low prices used to encourage sales often MON mean it is not worth growers spending the money to harvest MON them, and excellent quality cauliflowers are left to rot MON in the field. MON But cauliflower is a perfect summer ingredient, and lends MON itself to many different styles of cooking, from MON traditional British to Middle Eastern and Indian. Yotam MON and Sami give the cauliflower the Ottolenghi treatment in MON two dishes: fritters, a dish from Sami's childhood, and MON chargrilled in a salad. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00m10h7 (Listen) MON God and Neuroscience MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss what cognitive neuroscience MON is revealing about belief in God. What does research into MON our brain indicate about religious and spiritual MON experiences? MON MON 17:00 PM b00m0xwm (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 b00m0xwz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00m10h9 (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 4 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The MON panellists are Paul Merton, Shappi Khorsandi, Gyles MON Brandreth and Kit Hesketh-Harvey. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00m0w08 (Listen) MON Helen gets back in the game with Leon. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00m0ybx (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a review MON of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's film about a MON group of Jewish-American soldiers who attack Nazis in MON occupied France during the Second World War. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m0v38 (Listen) MON Five Wedding Dresses, True Love MON Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for MON wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of MON the dress itself. MON Maggie's dress is so beautiful she can't bear to take it MON off. MON Maggie ...... Olivia Colman MON Eric ...... Trystan Gravelle MON Air Steward ...... Gunnar Cauthery MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 20:00 A Moment Too Soon b00l54wj (Listen) MON Vivienne Parry talks to the doctors, researchers and MON parents involved in, and who have experienced, pre-term MON birth to find out how the UK is going to cope with its MON premature future. MON Premature birth in the UK is costing the NHS an estimated MON extra one billion pounds a year, causing distress and MON challenges to families and doctors, but science in many MON cases still does not seem to know why seven per cent of MON babies in the UK are born prematurely. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00m9jff (Listen) MON VenIran MON Apart from being oil producers, Venezuela and Iran MON seemingly have little in common, but over the last five MON years they have grown increasingly close. The relationship MON has caused a good deal of international disquiet. Rumours MON abound about uranium sales and terrorist cells, but the MON Venezuelan government denies the claims and insists that MON it is all about economic development. Linda Pressly sifts MON the evidence in Caracas. MON MON 21:00 Why Do the British Love Wildlife? b008m7zk (Listen) MON Francesco Da Mosto leaves his native Italy to explore the MON apparent special relationship between the British and the MON natural world. From buzzards to hedgehogs or dormice to MON snails, we seem to love them all, but why? Francesco MON discovers that the answer seems to lie in the 19th century. MON MON 21:30 Peston and the Money Men b00m0z1m (Listen) MON John Gieve MON As the first anniversary of global financial meltdown MON approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston talks MON to four key individuals who were in the eye of the storm. MON Why did they fail to see the warning signs of economic MON catastrophe and what are the long term consequences? MON As a senior civil servant at the home office, John Gieve MON had been grilled by select committees over prisoner MON releases and charged with investigating allegations of MON ministerial impropriety. But if he had hoped for a MON graceful denouement at the end of his 40-year career, he MON was out of luck. MON Gieve joined the Bank of England in 2006; less than two MON years later he would be called on to help form a rescue MON plan as bank after bank teetered on the brink of collapse. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00m0ydg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00m0yrr (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lrqhw (Listen) MON Travels Through France and Italy, Episode 1 MON Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias MON Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey, MON determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy MON with what he found there. MON The road from Dover to Calais provides endless opportunity MON to be lodged uncomfortably, fed indifferent food and MON robbed on every occasion. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00lyfm6 (Listen) MON The dentist's chair, the taxi rear seat, the hairdresser's MON salon; just what are the rules of conversational MON engagement for these everyday encounters? Chris Ledgard MON goes for a ride, a trim and a filling to find out. MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00f9k6n (Listen) MON Series 4, Five Units on Fazeley Street MON Documentary series telling original stories about real MON lives in Britain today. MON Alan Dein meets the diverse group of people that work in MON the units of Birmingham's Fazeley Street industrial MON estate, where every unit tells a story. MON As the sun rises over this ramshackle grouping of MON canalside workshops, warehouses and offices, an unexpected MON array of characters set about their diverse businesses. MON Whatever their line, industry is very firmly the name of MON the game here. At 7.30am sharp, workaholic Roger opens up MON Clifton Steel and starts his daily rounds checking stock. MON Surveying his vast stockyard and reflecting on life in the MON steel business, he proudly proclaims, 'I'm an MON industrialist'. MON Next door, young Adam is starting his first car window MON tinting job of the day, a blue VW. Heatgun in hand, he MON talks of the skill required to do it properly, declaring, MON 'I'm an artist'. Upstairs, solitary Derek - a real Mr MON Fixit - is slowly but assiduously drilling 300 precision MON steel components, alone in his workshop save for the MON accompaniment of classical music. MON Their businesses are different but their hopes and fears MON strikingly similar. They talk of the influence of their MON fathers - for good or ill - their fears for the future and MON their pride in a job well done. MON But as night settles and the industry ceases, Fazeley MON Street shifts gear. Adam finishes his last tint of the MON day, Derek drills his final hole and next door a group of MON 20 African evangelists don white gowns and prepare to MON praise God, while slick young rockers Copter rehearse at MON full volume for their next gig. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 18 AUGUST 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00m0rdh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00m82z8 (Listen) TUE My Father's Places, Episode 1 TUE Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her TUE childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her TUE father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin. TUE Aeronwy and her parents move into the Boat House in TUE Laugharne. TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0rmx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0rzr (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0rpk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00m0s51 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m0s7w (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00m0sf1 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00m0sq6 (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Fry's English Delight b00m15v8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Speaking Proper TUE Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the TUE English language. TUE It may be that elocution classes for children are being TUE replaced with 'presentation skills' courses for adults, TUE but we still see effective communication as the key to TUE success. Stephen announces a field day for pedants in his TUE investigation into what nowadays counts as 'speaking TUE proper'. TUE TUE 09:30 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00m17q8 (Listen) TUE The Lost Career of Charles Rennie Mackintosh 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 Architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh TUE is internationally celebrated as one of the most TUE significant talents of the late-19th and early-20th TUE centuries. His creative genius and contribution to modern TUE architecture and design is unquestioned, with his design TUE for the Glasgow School of Art undoubtedly his masterpiece. TUE But commissions were few and support for his work limited. TUE Rick examines Mackintosh's life and work and asks why he TUE received so little support during his lifetime. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00m82yr (Listen) TUE My Father's Places, Episode 2 TUE Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her TUE childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her TUE father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin. TUE While her father composes Under Milk Wood in the garden TUE shed, Aeronwy makes as much noise as she can outside. TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m0tzh (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Five Wedding Dresses. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00m17qb (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE Brett Westwood encounters the large blue butterfly on the TUE Somerset Downs, which was reintroduced 25 years ago after TUE being declared extinct in 1979. It has become established TUE there with the help of scientists who have unravelled its TUE bizarre, carnivorous life cycle. The large blue's TUE caterpillar spends most of its life in the nests of ants TUE who milk it for its sweet honeydew, but as Brett TUE discovers, the ants get more than they bargained for. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00m17qd (Listen) TUE Stuart Maconie TUE Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. TUE Writer and DJ Stuart Maconie presents a selection of TUE favourite verse and prose illustrating some personal TUE memories, in front of an audience at the Latitude TUE Festival. The readers are Michael Maloney and Lucy Briers. TUE Stuart has a wide-ranging fan base thanks to his eclectic TUE body of work; in addition to having written several books TUE on music and travel, he is a frequent contributor to TUE magazines including the Radio Times, a regular guest on TUE television programmes and an established part of the radio TUE schedules on Radio 2 and 6 Music. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00m0vqz (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00m0vt2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00m0vxv (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Luting the Past b00m17qg (Listen) TUE Celebrated soprano Emma Kirkby tells the story of a unique TUE musical instrument, a 400 year old lute whose ancient wood TUE presents a vivid window into a golden age of music making. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00m0w08 (Listen) TUE Helen gets back in the game with Leon. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bw01g (Listen) TUE The Highest Tide TUE Jim Lynch's coming-of-age adventure story set on the TUE Pacific Coast, adapted by Rebecca Trick-Walker. TUE Thirteen-year-old Miles escapes the fallout of his TUE parents' impending divorce by taking his kayak out on the TUE mudflats at night, looking for rare sea creatures to sell TUE to the local aquarium. One night, he comes across a TUE remarkable sight. TUE Miles ...... Forrest Landis TUE Florence ...... Katherine Helmond TUE Angie ...... Missy Yager TUE Professor Kramer ...... David Selby TUE Mom ...... Shannon Cochran TUE TV Reporter ...... Kirsten Potter TUE Directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00m17qj (Listen) TUE A good night's sleep is one of life's simple pleasures, TUE and a lack of sleep can cause all sorts of problems from TUE simple irritation to dramatic hallucinations. Give a TUE thought, then, to animals who are often on the go for long TUE periods of time. Do they suffer from sleep deprivation or TUE have they developed ways of avoiding the consequences of TUE too little rest? TUE Sadly, many of the UK's rivers carry a burden of rubbish, TUE plastics, supermarket trolleys and the like. Is there, you TUE ask, a system that filters out this debris and stops it TUE heading out to see, or will those floating plastic bottles TUE one day make it to the ocean? TUE Plus the puzzle of the water-smooth pebbles buried deep in TUE a clay bed, the possible fishery-protection role of TUE windfarms and when will new types of new energy production TUE technologies be up and running? TUE Answering theSE questions are marine biologist Prof Graham TUE Underwood, alternative energy expert Dr Nick Riley and TUE Prof Philip Stott. As always we want to hear your comments TUE on the topics discussed and any questions you might want TUE to 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 b00m175f (Listen) TUE Pavilion Pieces, The Prince's Favourite TUE Short stories by new writers. TUE By Emma Barnes. TUE In 1820s Brighton an elderly lady, on a tour of the Royal TUE Pavilion with her nieces, has a very particular story to TUE tell. TUE Read by Claire Skinner. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Tea and Biscuits b00m5qjb (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge TUE in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit. TUE After you give blood at one of the National Blood Service TUE Centres, tea and biscuits are on the menu to restore the TUE donors. Hardeep meets those about to offer their own TUE life-giving liquid, and enjoy the warm offering afterwards. TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00m17ql (Listen) TUE The Plain English Campaign is 30 years old this summer, TUE but are they champions of common sense and clarity, or a TUE self-appointed censor? Chris Ledgard talks to their TUE founder and gets some lessons in language. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00m17y6 (Listen) TUE Series 19, John Cornford TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE George Galloway chooses British poet and political TUE activist John Cornford, who died at the age of 21 fighting TUE fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Professor Stan Smith TUE joins in the discussion. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00m0xt4 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m0xwq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Laurence & Gus: Hearts and Minds b00m17y8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 6 TUE Comic sketches starring Laurence Howarth and Gus Brown. TUE Sketches on the theme of 'Remembering and Forgetting'. TUE With Duncan Wisbey, Isy Suttie and Kate Fleetwood. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00m0vzt (Listen) TUE Jim opts for life in the fast lane. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00m0y9f (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an TUE interview with dialect coach Penny Dyer, who reveals the TUE secrets to perfecting an accent. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m0vh7 (Listen) TUE Five Wedding Dresses, The Rescue TUE Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for TUE wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of TUE the dress itself. TUE Lauren resorts to drastic measures to stop her sister TUE getting married. TUE Lauren ...... Bethany Filler TUE Dwayne ...... Verelle Roberts TUE Charlene ...... Jade Williams TUE Jackie ...... Elaine Lordan TUE Patrick ...... Alex Lanipekun TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 20:00 It's My Story b00m15s8 (Listen) TUE Father Farewell TUE Since the age of 16, Tinu Adeniji Adele has shared her TUE life with the Radio 4 audience, including her quest to TUE meet the Nigerian father she never knew. Finally reunited TUE in 2002, she confronted him with many questions and began TUE to come to terms with her Nigerian legacy. TUE She faces the realisation that she is both a London girl TUE and a true Princess of Lagos. Returning to the bustle of TUE Lagos, she now marks his passing and closes a chapter of TUE her life. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00m18n1 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00m18n3 (Listen) TUE Blood Clots TUE Up to 25,000 hospital patients die every year in England, TUE of which only around 1,500 are from hospital superbugs. TUE Doctors at King's College hospital in London are leading TUE the way in trying to cut the number of deaths by assessing TUE the risk to surgical patients and giving preventative TUE treatments. TUE Dr Mark Porter hears from patients who have had clots in TUE their legs travel up to their lungs, known as a pulmonary TUE embolism, and finds out what you should do to prevent risk TUE if you end up in hospital. TUE TUE 21:30 Forbidden Families b00cxr1k (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Bettany Hughes tells the stories of remarkable women TUE denied their families by the march of history. TUE Destined to live the life of a rural housewife in Tudor TUE England, Anne Askew married and had two children. But a TUE new religious faith, Protestantism, came between her and TUE her staunchly Catholic husband. TUE Her new-found faith tore her family apart, causing her to TUE leave her children to follow her God and to enter the TUE deadly games of the Tudor court. Bettany follows her TUE transformation from mother to martyr. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00m0ybz (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00m0ydj (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0yrt (Listen) TUE Travels Through France and Italy, Episode 2 TUE Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias TUE Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey, TUE determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy TUE with what he found there. TUE It seems impossible to find the right kind of coach in TUE France, and Smollett is unimpressed with both Versailles TUE and Paris fashion. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b00bzdgj (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. Guests are Sue Perkins, Rev Richard TUE Coles and Simon Evans. TUE TUE 23:30 The Hollow Men b0089k4c (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 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 19 AUGUST 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00m0rdk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00m82yr (Listen) WED My Father's Places, Episode 2 WED Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her WED childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her WED father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin. WED While her father composes Under Milk Wood in the garden WED shed, Aeronwy makes as much noise as she can outside. WED Abridged by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0rmz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0rzt (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0rpm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00m0s53 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m0s7y (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00m0sf3 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b00m0sq8 (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Between Ourselves b00m195y (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 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 chefs about their careers: Michael WED Caines, a Michelin-starred chef who lost his right arm in WED a car accident, and Irish chef Darina Allen, who runs the WED famous Ballymaloe cookery school in Cork. They reveal WED their worst days in the kitchen - involving an undercooked WED duck and a temperamental French chef with a cold - and WED discuss how fine restaurants can survive in the recession. WED WED 09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A WED b00m19m2 (Listen) WED Episode 3 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 goes backstage to examine the concept of the WED blockbuster exhibition. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00m82yt (Listen) WED My Father's Places, Episode 3 WED Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her WED childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her WED father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin. WED When life gets too much at the Boat House for the young WED Aeronwy, she finds sanctuary with her grandmother at the WED Pelican. WED Abridged by Jane Marshall. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m0tzk (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Five Wedding Dresses. WED WED 11:00 Written in Stone b00lyfl3 (Listen) WED Llewelyn Morgan tells the story of how an ancient stone WED inscription came to the National Museum of Afghanistan in WED Kabul. WED The journey that the Rabatak Inscription took is a tale of WED determination and bravery, passing through the hands of an WED Afghan warlord called Sayad Jafar Naderi, British WED archaeologist Jonathan Lee and also the Taliban. It is now WED the job of Omar Khan Masoudi, director of the National WED Museum, to keep it safe and reunite it with other Afghan WED treasures that are currently abroad. WED The programme explores the lengths to which people have WED gone to protect the archaeological and cultural heritage WED of Afghanistan, and the role that history may play in the WED country's future. WED WED 11:30 Ayres on the Air b00m19m6 (Listen) WED Series 3, Passion WED Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry, WED anecdotes and sketches. WED Featuring poems about the difficulty of getting a new WED mattress up the stairs - the heartfelt plea Don't Ask Me WED to the Wedding - and a poem dedicated to her husband, WED entitled I Still Haven't Given Up Hope. WED Pam is joined on stage by actors Geoffrey Whitehead and WED Felicity Montagu for sketches about speed dating, trying WED to inject a bit of excitement into a relationship and how WED to pay your husband back when he interrupts your favourite WED Bruce Springsteen DVD. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00m0vr1 (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00m0vt4 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00m0vxx (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00m1dn9 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00m0vzt (Listen) WED Jim opts for life in the fast lane. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b009y1st (Listen) WED Hudson and Pepperdine Save the Planet WED Comedy about climate change and how to combat it. The WED Department for Culture, Media and Sport has set up a WED working party from within the broadcasting industries to WED brainstorm solutions to the current crisis. Hudson and WED Pepperdine are on the the Comedy sub-list, above the WED Chuckle Brothers, but below Jimmy Carr. WED Can Hudson and Pepperdine save the planet? Can they even WED get to the first meeting? More importantly, will they be WED back in time for the school run? WED Mel/Lily Allen/Vanessa Feltz ...... Mel Hudson WED Vicki ...... Vicki Pepperdine WED Announcer/Bus driver/Phil ...... Felix Dexter WED Marina/Carol Smillie ...... Samantha Holland WED Russell T Davies ...... Rupert Degas WED Bruce Parry ...... Dave Lamb WED Rob/Policeman/DCMS Minister ...... Ben Crowe. WED WED 15:00 Money Box b00m0gr6 (Listen) WED Money Box: Coping with the Recession, Episode 1 WED Penny Haslam looks for advice to help small businesses WED cope with the recession. Many small firms are struggling WED to survive in an economy where customers are tightening WED their belts and banks are reluctant to lend. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m17ft (Listen) WED Pavilion Pieces, The Indian Hospital WED Short stories by new writers. WED By Kellie Jackson. WED It is 1915 and Brighton's Royal Pavilion has been WED transformed into a hospital for Indian Soldiers. A WED goodwill visit from the King and Queen has a disturbing WED impact on two young Gurkha brothers. WED Read by Judy Parfitt. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Tea and Biscuits b00m5qjd (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge WED in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit. WED John Chapple keeps thousands of bees in his garden and WED looks after hives all over London, from the Royal Parks to WED housetops in Hackney. But at least twice a day, everything WED stops for a cup of tea and a biscuit. Ringing a bell to WED alert his neighbour that the kettle is on the boil, John WED invites Hardeep to join him and neighbour Dennis in his WED daily ritual. WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00m1nlh (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00m18n3 (Listen) WED Blood Clots WED Up to 25,000 hospital patients die every year in England, WED of which only around 1,500 are from hospital superbugs. WED Doctors at King's College hospital in London are leading WED the way in trying to cut the number of deaths by assessing WED the risk to surgical patients and giving preventative WED treatments. WED Dr Mark Porter hears from patients who have had clots in WED their legs travel up to their lungs, known as a pulmonary WED embolism, and finds out what you should do to prevent risk WED if you end up in hospital. WED WED 17:00 PM b00m0xt6 (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 b00m0xws (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00m1nlk (Listen) WED Episode 3 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 What it's like to own your own Hadron Collider and how a WED spelling mistake landed a man in court. WED With Stephen K Amos, Jason Byrne, Justin Edwards and WED Katherine Parkinson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00m0vzw (Listen) WED Joe gives Ed a lesson in motivation. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00m0y9h (Listen) WED Mark Lawson presents a special edition from the Edinburgh WED Festival, including an interview with impressionist WED Alistair McGowan, who is returning to the Fringe after 10 WED years. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m0vgz (Listen) WED Five Wedding Dresses, The Scarecrow WED Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for WED wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of WED the dress itself. WED Carla suddenly finds herself the object of attention for WED all the village men. WED Carla ...... Claudie Blakley WED Victor ...... Sam Dale WED Darren ...... Benjamin Askew WED Peter ...... Paul Rider WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 20:00 The Atheist and the Bishop b00m1nlm (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to WED apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people WED they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion. WED Public debates between those who believe in God and those WED who resolutely do not appear more polarised than ever, WED often obscuring central human questions about how we WED should live and how modern ethics should work. WED In this programme, atheist philosopher Dr Miranda Fricker WED and Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of WED Oxford, tackle suffering and death. WED WED 20:45 The Election Agent b00m1nq9 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Shaun Ley finds out what really goes on behind the scenes WED of an election campaign. For 50 years election agents have WED been central figures in the political drama, but their WED profession is dying out. Shaun hears their stories. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00m17qb (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED Brett Westwood encounters the large blue butterfly on the WED Somerset Downs, which was reintroduced 25 years ago after WED being declared extinct in 1979. It has become established WED there with the help of scientists who have unravelled its WED bizarre, carnivorous life cycle. The large blue's WED caterpillar spends most of its life in the nests of ants WED who milk it for its sweet honeydew, but as Brett WED discovers, the ants get more than they bargained for. WED WED 21:30 Between Ourselves b00m195y (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 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 chefs about their careers: Michael WED Caines, a Michelin-starred chef who lost his right arm in WED a car accident, and Irish chef Darina Allen, who runs the WED famous Ballymaloe cookery school in Cork. They reveal WED their worst days in the kitchen - involving an undercooked WED duck and a temperamental French chef with a cold - and WED discuss how fine restaurants can survive in the recession. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00m0yc1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00m0ydl (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0yrw (Listen) WED Travels Through France and Italy, Episode 3 WED Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias WED Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey, WED determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy WED with what he found there. WED The horses in France seem uncontrollable; even more so WED when Smollet decides to demonstrate his blunderbuss. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Dave Podmore's Ashes b00m2z4q (Listen) WED Comedy written and performed by Christopher Douglas and WED Andrew Nickolds, with Nick Newman. WED While England's cricketers do battle with Australia, where WED is Dave Podmore, the game's laziest bits-and-pieces WED player, to be found? WED Dave Podmore ...... Christopher Douglas WED Andy Hamer ...... Andrew Nickolds WED With Nicola Sanderson and Simon Greenall. WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Kicking the Habit b007w2w4 (Listen) WED Series 1, Barrow Rage 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 Brother Luke's past continues to catch up with him and WED Father Athanasius' carbon footprint has an impact on the WED friary's weeding and watering policies. 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 Gemma ...... Moira Quirk WED Friars played by Kenneth Danziger and Alan Shearman WED Directed by Pete Atkin. WED A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00m0rdm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00m82yt (Listen) THU My Father's Places, Episode 3 THU Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her THU childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her THU father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin. THU When life gets too much at the Boat House for the young THU Aeronwy, she finds sanctuary with her grandmother at the THU Pelican. THU Abridged by Jane Marshall. THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0rn1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0rzw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0rpp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00m0s55 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m0s80 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00m0sf5 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00m0sqb (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00m33n1 (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 interviews the blind Zimbabwean cricket commentator THU Dean du Plessis about his eventful journey from creating THU make-believe matches to commentating on real ones. THU Dean uses his intimate knowledge of the foibles of the THU players and the sound effects of well-placed microphones THU around the grounds to inform and captivate radio and THU television audiences. But his broadcasts have also got him THU into trouble, and as one of the dwindling number of white THU people still in Zimbabwe, he has been and intimidated by THU Mugabe supporters for his outspoken comments. THU Dean's career is not what those teaching him at South THU Africa's world-famous Worcester School for the Blind would THU have imagined. He admits he was an umpromising student, THU but he has relentlessly pursued what really interested him THU and is still building a career as a cricket pundit. He now THU has to make a decision about whether he can carry on THU living in Zimbabwe or whether he might have to leave the THU country of his birth in order to continue pursuing his THU dream. THU THU 09:30 Islam, Mullahs and the Media b00m36bg (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Writer Kenan Malik explores how perceptions of Islam have THU been shaped by the media. THU Kenan explores the popular perception of Muslim women and THU compares the debate that surrounds the wearing of the THU hijab with that of hoodies. He talks to Maryam Namazie, THU spokesperson for One Law for All Campaign, an organisation THU that works against Sharia Law in Britain, and Greater THU London Authority culture tsar Munira Mirza. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00m82yw (Listen) THU My Father's Places, Episode 4 THU Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her THU childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her THU father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin. THU Dylan flies out to America for the first of his tours, and THU Aeronwy and Caitlin settle into a new routine without him. THU Abridged by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m0tzm (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Five Wedding Dresses. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00m36bj (Listen) THU Afghanistan THU Eight years into the war in Afghanistan, many fear it is THU unwinnable. In response, the US-led international force THU has decided to adopt a counter-insurgency strategy, THU abandoning 40 years of military doctrine. It emphasises THU security and development for the civilian population THU rather than simply battling the Taliban. THU Lyse Doucet investigates if the US army can embrace a THU radical new strategy and if it will be successful. THU THU 11:30 Henry Cyril Paget: Lord of the Dance b00m36bl (Listen) THU As a child Sheila McClennon spent her summer holidays in THU Anglesey, where she became obsessed with the story of the THU Fifth Marquis, Henry Cyril Paget, an extravagant eccentric THU who converted the chapel at his stately home into a a THU theatre and spent enough to bankrupt the family in the THU space of six years. THU His was a life of jaw-dropping excess. After the THU bankruptcy, a series of auctions held to recoup some of THU the money he had spent lasted several months and consisted THU of 17,000 lots, including some of the most lavish costumes THU in existence and jewels worth millions of pounds in THU today's money. THU The family was keen to erase him from their history, and THU little has been known about him until now, as Sheila THU returns to the scene of her family holidays to find out THU more about the man dubbed by locals, 'The Mad Marquis'. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00m0vr3 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Carolyn Atkinson. Including THU Face the Facts, presented by John Waite. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00m0vt6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00m0vy0 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00m36bn (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 b00m0vzw (Listen) THU Joe gives Ed a lesson in motivation. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00m38hv (Listen) THU Higher - Partners THU Satire on tertiary education by Joyce Bryant, chronicling THU the chaos of the Geography department at the fictional THU Hayborough University, ranked 132nd in the academic league THU table. THU The buzzword is 'partners' - get out into the real world THU and work with industry. This will develop money spinning THU initiatives and share costs. That's the theory, at least. THU So when neurotic and emotionally-stunted lecturer David THU Poll is delegated the task of finding partners, he THU blunders into a scheme which doesn't quite benefit the THU department. THU Karen ...... Sophie Thompson THU David ...... Robert Daws THU Jim ...... Jonathan Keeble THU Alannah ...... Kathryn Hunt THU Fiona ....... Lisa Allen THU Joselyn ...... Natasha Byrne. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00m0gd3 (Listen) THU Trouble on the Teifi THU Matt Baker reports on the dispute going on between anglers THU and canoeists on Welsh rivers. THU The River Teifi, almost exactly in the geographical middle THU of Wales, is set against a backdrop of heather moors and THU rugged Cambrian mountains. Matt visits the valley town of THU Llandysul in Ceredigion, which lies along the banks of the THU river. THU The people who use the river are in bitter dispute, THU because Llandysul is one of the most popular places in THU Wales both for freshwater angling and for white-water THU canoeing. The anglers have to pay to fish in the river, THU and the canoeists want access for free. The canoeists are THU campaigning to change the law to allow full access to use THU the river, and the anglers are unhappy about it. THU In fact, this is not just an isolated problem - the Welsh THU Assembly is conducting an inquiry into this issue across THU all rivers in Wales. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00m0jv8 (Listen) THU The International Rescue Committee THU John Hurt appeals on behalf of The International Rescue THU Committee. THU Donations to the International Rescue Committee should be THU sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back THU of your envelope the International Rescue Committee. THU Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax THU payer, please provide the International Rescue Committee THU with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift THU Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation THU facilities are not currently available to listeners THU without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1065972. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m17fx (Listen) THU Pavilion Pieces, Youthful Folly THU Short stories by new writers. THU By Sylvestra Le Touzel Teale. THU Frances, on tour at the Theatre Royal, in love and about THU to make her West End debut, is captivated by the glory and THU romance of Brighton's Pavilion. Revisiting the baroque THU palace awakens old ghosts for Frances, who is now on a THU different journey. THU Read by Sophie Thompson. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Tea and Biscuits b00m5qjg (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge THU in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit. THU The sounds of the waltz, jive and rumba bring couples to THU their feet as they glide round the ballroom. But it is the THU tea break when the conversation really flows, as Hardeep THU finds out when he visits the Bushey Tea Dance Club. THU A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00m0jw1 (Listen) THU Muriel Gray talks to novelist Diana Evans, who won the THU Orange Award for New Writers in 2005 with her first book, THU 26a. She explains how her early experience as a dancer THU inspired her new novel The Wonder, about an all-black THU dance troupe in 1960s Notting Hill. THU Is writing bad for your health? Peter Kemp joins Muriel to THU reveal how the sedentary existence of the novelist can THU conceal major risks and outlines some of the surprising THU injuries caused by the literary life. THU Novelist Patrick Gale offers advice to an Open Book THU listener who's looking for gay fiction that isn't THU depressing or about teenagers. THU And reading dictionaries for fun: author of Schott's THU Miscellany Ben Schott, writer Kevin Jackson and editor of THU Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Camilla Rockwood THU reveal why they enjoy curling up with a reference book. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00m40wd (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00m0xt8 (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 b00m0xwv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Electric Ink b00l1w9t (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new THU media in the newspaper industry. THU Using Twitter as a source, Freddy inadvertently breaks a THU top story in the Treasury. THU Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay THU Oliver ...... Alex Jennings THU Freddy ...... Ben Willbond THU Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington THU Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar THU Masha ...... Debbie Chazen THU Man ...... Matt Addis THU With additional material by Tom Mitchelson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00m0vzy (Listen) THU Ed goes into the Dragon's Den. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00m0y9k (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m0vh1 (Listen) THU Five Wedding Dresses, Janey's Big Day THU Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for THU wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of THU the dress itself. THU Janey is unprepared for quite how involved her mother is THU in her wedding plans. THU Janey ...... Lizzy Watts THU David ...... Hogan THU Valerie ...... Caroline Guthrie THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00m40wg (Listen) THU Within days of the government announcing its new renewable THU energy policy promising a massive expansion of wind power THU and the creation of 400,000 new jobs, the UK's only THU factory making wind turbine blades closed and put 600 THU people out of work. Simon Cox investigates whether Britain THU will ever develop a viable wind energy industry and how THU our European neighbours are profiting from our failures. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00m40wj (Listen) THU Battery Power THU The world may soon need huge supplies of the lightest THU metal, lithium, if plug-in cars really are a future THU replacement for the internal combustion engine. Half the THU world's supplies of lithium are high up in the Andes in THU the landlocked country of Bolivia. Peter Day asks if THU Bolivia really could become what experts are calling 'the THU Saudi Arabia of lithium'. THU THU 21:00 A Problem With Noise b00m42tw (Listen) THU Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson investigates the THU man-made noise pollution which is becoming increasingly THU invasive in our lives and in our environment, affecting THU both humans and wildlife. He explores what noise is, the THU impact of man-made noise and the possible long-term THU consequences if we don't turn the volume down. THU In the oceans, increasing levels of background noise is THU disrupting long-distance communication among whales. On THU land, studies of Great Tits have revealed how birds near THU busy roads sing at higher frequencies than those in nearby THU quieter woodlands. THU In 1996 the European Commission issued a Green Paper which THU stated that an estimated 20 per cent of all EU citizens THU were exposed to noise levels that scientists and health THU experts considered to be unacceptable, at which most THU people become annoyed, sleep is disturbed and health may THU be at risk. Noise is a health issue as well as a nuisance. THU Recent studies have demonstrated excessive risks of THU hypertension in people living near airports, even when THU asleep. THU Following the Green Paper, the European Commission issued THU a directive for member states to map noise levels of major THU cities. Today, noise, like air and water pollution, is an THU environmental issue which governments and policy makers THU cannot ignore. THU Chris discovers that education is the first step in taking THU personal responsibility when he explores the potential THU damage of exposure to loud music in public venues or on THU personal listening devices. THU THU 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00m33n1 (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 interviews the blind Zimbabwean cricket commentator THU Dean du Plessis about his eventful journey from creating THU make-believe matches to commentating on real ones. THU Dean uses his intimate knowledge of the foibles of the THU players and the sound effects of well-placed microphones THU around the grounds to inform and captivate radio and THU television audiences. But his broadcasts have also got him THU into trouble, and as one of the dwindling number of white THU people still in Zimbabwe, he has been and intimidated by THU Mugabe supporters for his outspoken comments. THU Dean's career is not what those teaching him at South THU Africa's world-famous Worcester School for the Blind would THU have imagined. He admits he was an umpromising student, THU but he has relentlessly pursued what really interested him THU and is still building a career as a cricket pundit. He now THU has to make a decision about whether he can carry on THU living in Zimbabwe or whether he might have to leave the THU country of his birth in order to continue pursuing his THU dream. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00m0yc3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00m0ydn (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0yry (Listen) THU Travels Through France and Italy, Episode 4 THU Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias THU Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey, THU determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy THU with what he found there. THU It is snowing in the south of France, which gives Smollett THU only one option - to head to Italy. Will the Italians THU impress him more than the French? It seems unlikely. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00dgjn6 (Listen) THU Series 1, Phill Jupitus THU Marcus Brigstocke invites Phill Jupitus to try new THU experiences. THU THU 23:30 Will Smith Presents The Tao of Bergerac b007wh7j (Listen) THU Episode 4 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 wonders how he can defend his machismo when he is THU scared of his builders. THU With Ewan Bailey, John Nettles, Dan Tetsell, Roger Drew THU and Rachel Bavidge. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 21 AUGUST 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00m0rdp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00m82yw (Listen) FRI My Father's Places, Episode 4 FRI Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her FRI childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her FRI father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin. FRI Dylan flies out to America for the first of his tours, and FRI Aeronwy and Caitlin settle into a new routine without him. FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m0rn3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m0rzy (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m0rpr (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00m0s57 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m0s82 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Monsignor Tony Rogers. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00m0sf7 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00m0sqd (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00m0jvn (Listen) FRI Roberto Alagna FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Roberto Alagna. FRI He is one of the most celebrated tenors in the world and FRI one half of opera's golden couple; his wife is the soprano FRI Angela Gheorghiu. FRI Yet, his is not a voice that was honed through early years FRI in a conservatoire. He was brought up in Paris in a family FRI of keen amateur musicians. He used to sing in nightclubs FRI and in those early years, he says, the world of opera was, FRI to him, no more than an impossible dream. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00m82yy (Listen) FRI My Father's Places, Episode 5 FRI Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her FRI childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her FRI father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin. FRI The cracks in Dylan and Caitlin's marriage begin to show FRI and Aeronwy feels the effects. FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m0tzp (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Five Wedding Dresses. FRI FRI 11:00 How to Write An Instruction Manual b00m4470 (Listen) FRI Engineer Mark Miodownik presents an instruction manual on FRI how to write an instruction manual, exploring the history FRI and the future of product guides and how they chart our FRI changing relationship with technology. FRI He looks at how product guides have changed over the FRI centuries, from the very first examples, written by James FRI Watt on his new 'copying' machine, to the latest Ikea FRI pictograms. FRI In the first half of the 20th century, manuals not only FRI described how to use your television, but also how to fix FRI it. Now, the first few pages of any TV manual contain FRI stern health and safety warnings about the dangers of FRI tinkering inside the TV. FRI Mark travels to Yeovil to visit Mr Haynes, of Haynes car FRI and motorcycle manuals, to ask whether people still need a FRI manual to fix their vehicle. As our products get more FRI sophisticated, is the instruction manual becoming extinct? FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b00m4472 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Limerick 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 An interminable flight with a very baffling cargo gives FRI the crew the opportunity to pass the time by alternately FRI opening their hearts up to each other and persuading FRI Arthur not to play charades. 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 A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00m0vr5 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00m0vt8 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00m0vy2 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00m44rq (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 b00m0vzy (Listen) FRI Ed goes into the Dragon's Den. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00m44rs (Listen) FRI Higher - Inspection FRI Satire on tertiary education by Joyce Bryant, chronicling FRI the chaos of the Geography department at the fictional FRI Hayborough University, ranked 132nd in the academic league FRI table. FRI In these straightened times there have to be cuts. So it FRI does seem a bit of a coincidence that when David Poll is FRI earmarked for disciplinary measures leading to possible FRI dismissal, the Quality Assurance Inspectorate should turn FRI up. FRI Karen ...... Sophie Thompson FRI David ...... Robert Daws FRI Jim ...... Jonathan Keeble FRI Maura ...... Maggie Fox FRI Sadie ...... Fiona Clarke FRI Dick ...... Malcolm Raeburn. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00m44rv (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer FRI questions posed by members of Much Marcle, near Ledbury in FRI Herefordshire. FRI Bunny draws inspiration from a medieval knot garden, FRI adapting forgotten gardening techniques to the modern FRI kitchen garden, and Bob wanders the ancient woodland of FRI Hallwood, investigating the wealth of native British FRI trees. Also, Peter gives his definitive guide to FRI micro-climates, with examples from the Hereford area. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 Tea and Biscuits b00m5qjj (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge FRI in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit. FRI Specialist palliative care is offered at the Peace FRI Hospice, and on the social side that includes the chance FRI to chat over a cup of tea and a biscuit. Hardeep joins the FRI patients, staff and volunteers. FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00m44rx (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. The programme reflects on people of FRI distinction and interest from many walks of life, some FRI famous and some less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00m44rz (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet talks to Pedro Almodovar about his new film, FRI Broken Embraces. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00m0xtb (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 b00m0xwx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00m44s1 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two FRI teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The FRI show asks both the big and the little questions, and FRI provides thoroughly silly answers to both. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00m0w00 (Listen) FRI Alan and Usha camp it up at the Vicarage. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00m0y9m (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m0vh3 (Listen) FRI Five Wedding Dresses, The Perfect Dress FRI Series of dramas by Katie Hims about brides dressing for FRI wedding ceremonies and the significance and symbolism of FRI the dress itself. FRI Nell loves the stories behind the second-hand wedding FRI dresses she sells, until Julia tells her story. FRI Nell ...... Chipo Chung FRI Carla ...... Claudie Blakley FRI Eric ...... Trystan Gravelle FRI Julia ...... Rosalind Philips FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00m45d0 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Middle Wallop, FRI Hampshire. The panellists are writer Kate Mosse, FRI environmental campaigner Jonathon Porritt, writer and FRI broadcaster James Delingpole and lawyer Mark Stephens. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00m45d2 (Listen) FRI Faking Fossils FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI Sir David recalls a key moment in his life, when he broke FRI open a piece of Leicestershire limestone and there in his FRI hand was an ammonite. Over the intervening years, fossils FRI have fascinated him and he has become a great collector, FRI even of the odd fake. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00m45d4 (Listen) FRI Flesh and Blood FRI Poignant drama by Gillies Mackinnon, set and recorded in FRI Glasgow. FRI Three generations of men have continually failed to FRI understand one another. Kenny's teenage son leaves home FRI without explanation. Kenny does not tell his own elderly FRI father, Roddy, who he visits every day. But the old man, FRI an ex-cop, smells a rat, and is determined to find his FRI only grandchild. FRI Kenny ...... Gary Lewis FRI Roddy ...... David Hayman FRI Callum ...... Anthony Martin FRI Fiona ...... Kate Donnelly FRI Luke ...... Scott McKay FRI Tony ...... Kenny Blyth FRI Mags ...... Natalie McConnon. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00m0yc5 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00m0ydq (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m0ys0 (Listen) FRI Travels Through France and Italy, Episode 5 FRI Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias FRI Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey, FRI determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy FRI with what he found there. FRI Having given Rome the most cursory of glances, Smollett FRI thinks he will fare better in Florence. But with a broken FRI carriage he is forced to walk the last five miles. And FRI will the great city gates stay open to receive him? FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00m17y6 (Listen) FRI Series 19, John Cornford FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI George Galloway chooses British poet and political FRI activist John Cornford, who died at the age of 21 fighting FRI fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Professor Stan Smith FRI joins in the discussion. FRI FRI 23:30 Listen Against b008drpb (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 4 FRI Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back FRI over the last week of radio. FRI FRI FRI

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