19 June, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 20/06/2009 - 26/06/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00l2j4j (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00l6c7t (Listen) SAT Venus of Empire - The Life of Pauline Bonaparte, Episode 5 SAT Diana Quick reads from Flora Fraser's biography of Pauline SAT Bonaparte, Napoleon's favourite sister. SAT While Napoleon's great reign comes to an end, Pauline SAT re-establishes herself as a 'little queen' in Roman SAT society. But it is not long before she realises that her SAT brother's health is poor and that she must do all in her SAT power to help him. SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l2j4m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l2j4p (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l2j4r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00l2j4t (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l2j4w (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00l2j4y (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00l2j50 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00l2ltf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00l2lth (Listen) SAT Series 12, Episode 5 SAT Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind, SAT body and soul. SAT Clare walks in Cromarty, a name that conjures the dulcet SAT tones of the Shipping Forecast and prompts images of SAT storm-battered ships wrestling with the sea on a cold, SAT dark night. Perched at the top of the Black Isle, a SAT peninsular stretching north from Inverness, Cromarty is a SAT small, picturesque town of tiny streets and Georgian SAT cottages, with a harbour flanked by the Sutors: two hills SAT that are believed to be the slumbering forms of two giant SAT shoe makers who protected Cromarty from ancient invaders. SAT In their heyday, at night, oil platforms would light up SAT the shoreline. SAT Clare walks with Douglas Willis, a retired geography SAT teacher and author who brings to life the spirit of SAT Cromarty's most famous son, Hugh Miller - stone mason, SAT chronicler of life on the Black Isle, church reformer and SAT pioneering, self-taught geologist. Born in 1802 and SAT standing at over 6ft tall with a shock of red hair, his SAT fossil collection of over 6,000 specimens became the SAT founding core of what is today's Scottish national SAT collection in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00l2ltk (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT To ease the problem of overfishing, the UN is supporting SAT the idea of a huge growth in farmed fish. Worldwide, the SAT practice is already worth more than fish caught in open SAT water. SAT However, Europe lags behind. There has been no growth in SAT the industry in the region for ten years. Charlotte Smith SAT visits a trout farm in Gloucestershire to explore why SAT there are so few farms starting up in the UK and to SAT investigate whether concerns over welfare and pollution SAT make farming fish unsustainable. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00l2ltm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00l2ltp (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00l2ltr (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by film critic SAT and television presenter Barry Norman. With poetry from SAT Murray Lachlan Young. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00l2ltt (Listen) SAT John McCarthy talks to three professional travel SAT photographers about their different experiences and SAT approaches to taking particular kinds of pictures. SAT Lisa Young works all over the world for both commercial SAT and charitable organisations; Adrian Arbib takes SAT politically conscious photographs of threatened tribes and SAT ecological protest movements; and Bill Birkett is a SAT photographer of hills and climbing, particularly in the SAT Lake District. SAT They compare notes on techniques, problems and aims in the SAT fast changing digital age, and discuss what drives them on SAT in difficult and dangerous conditions to capture the SAT defining image of a place. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b00l2ltw (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT Steve Punt turns private investigator, examining little SAT mysteries that perplex, amuse and beguile. SAT Steve turns the spotlight on mind control. Thanks to works SAT of fiction, the idea that government agencies have the SAT ability to brianwash people to commit dastardly acts has SAT firmly lodged itself in the public imagination. SAT Punt is assigned to sort fact from fiction, entering a SAT murky work of government intelligence, military secrecy SAT and wild speculation. From hypnosis to narcotics and now SAT microwave technology, Punt calls in expert witnesses to SAT ascertain whether it really is possible to get people to SAT act against their free will. Can our wily PI track down SAT the real Manchurian Candidate? SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00l2lty (Listen) SAT The former Commons Speaker, Betty Boothroyd, says that the SAT reputation of parliament can be restored after the recent SAT expenses scandals. She says the expenses system has been SAT 'horribly abused' by a handful of MPs. But the majority SAT have behaved properly. It's her first interview since the SAT recent crisis in confidence in the politicial system. SAT Also in the programme, two seasoned commentators assess SAT how far a lack of honesty is endemic in political SAT argument. Lance Price, who worked for Tony Blair, and SAT Danny Finkelstein, who worked for the Conservatives, SAT examine claim and counter claim over public spending. SAT Finally, two MPs, the Conservative Richard Bacon and SAT Labour's Gordon Prentice look forward to Monday's election SAT for a new Commons speaker. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00l2lv0 (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00l2mrm (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT Take a pay cut or lose your job - what rights do you have SAT if your employer puts you under pressure, and how do you SAT protect your long term interests? SAT Plus beware the latest currency conversion scam when SAT paying for goods abroad. And more than one million AVIVA SAT 'with-profits' policyholders receive their voting packs. SAT Should you accept the deal? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00l213q (Listen) SAT Series 68, Episode 8 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists SAT include Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton and Francis Wheen. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00l2mrp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00l2mrr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00l2gv4 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate at the London SAT College of Fashion. Panellists are Tessa Jowell, Minister SAT for the Olympics, the Cabinet Office and Paymaster SAT General, Shadow Leader of the House Alan Duncan, Liberal SAT Democrat peer Julia Neuberger, media entrepreneur Kelvin SAT Mackenzie. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00l2mrt (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00771j6 (Listen) SAT Killing the Butterfly SAT In Colin MacDonald's romantic thriller, two murder SAT witnesses are put under police protection pending the High SAT Court trial. But something goes badly wrong and they have SAT to flee for their lives, SAT never knowing who it's safe to trust. SAT Barker ...... Simon Tait SAT Hannah ...... Vicki Liddelle SAT DCI Mulhall ...... Gayanne Potter SAT DS Whitton ...... James Bryce SAT Andrew ...... Kenny Blythe SAT Matthew ...... John Paul Hurley SAT Kayleigh ...... Laura Smales. SAT SAT 15:30 Oh My What A Rotten Song! b00l0yl1 (Listen) SAT Michael Rosen revels in songwriting duo RP Weston and Bert SAT Lee's uncanny knack for coming up with the catchy tune and SAT the witty chorus that everyone loved to sing. SAT The pair were among the foremost popular songwriters of SAT the 1910s and 1920s, writing separately or together some SAT 3,000 songs in their 21-year collaboration, many of which SAT have passed into the nation's collective musical psyche, SAT including Hello, Hello Who's Your Lady Friend?, I'm Henery SAT the Eighth I Am and, apparently, Knees Up Mother Brown. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00l2nf9 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT With Jane Garvey. Including surrogacy and your legal SAT rights; Jo Whiley on music and motherhood; what to call SAT female parts; the power and influence of the fashion SAT editor; the origins of district nursing; bingo wings and SAT what to do about them; and what do men talk about with SAT their friends? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00l2nfc (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 Bottom Line b00l1rxv (Listen) SAT Guest presenter Stephanie Flanders discusses the future of SAT the airline industry with Stelios Haji-Ioannou, chairman SAT of Easygroup Ltd and founder of Easyjet, Lord Digby Jones, SAT business entrepreneur and former director of the CBI, and SAT Steve Ridgway, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic Airways. SAT They discuss the cost conundrum of trying to predict the SAT economic future when buying new aircraft, and reveal SAT whether they have cut back on their personal air travel as SAT environmental concerns get stronger. SAT The panel also ask if machines are taking over the SAT industry; from computer check-ins and check-outs to SAT automated phone services, it is becoming harder to deal SAT with real people. It might be cheaper for companies, but SAT Stephanie asks if the benefits really get passed onto the SAT consumer. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00l2nkr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00l2nkt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00l2p7n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00l2p7q (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Des O'Connor, Cherie Lunghi SAT and American author Malcolm Gladwell. SAT Jon Holmes talks to Annabel Croft about her experience of SAT life on the streets in a new BBC One series. SAT With comedy from Tom Adams and music from Chris Isaak, and SAT Fatima Spar and the Freedom Fries. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00l2p7s (Listen) SAT Series 6, Counting SAT As Iran waits for election results to be recounted, and in SAT Britain an inquiry is announced into the Iraq War, April SAT de Angelis looks at secrecy in the region. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00l2p7v (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00l2p7x (Listen) SAT When Courtney Met Chris SAT Courtney Pine talks to jazz trombonist Chris Barber about SAT his life's work and how his initiative and enthusiasm for SAT American blues music helped provide inspiration for a new SAT generation of British musicians. SAT Barber has been a professional jazz musician for almost 55 SAT years. Along with the likes of Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk, SAT he was an integral part of the 'trad jazz' boom in the SAT 1950s which swept the dance halls of austere postwar SAT Britain. SAT However, while others stood still, Barber set about SAT acknowledging the huge debt he and his fellow musicians SAT owed to the legacy of American blues musicians, and SAT engineered tours for artists including Sister Rosetta SAT Tharpe, Muddy Waters, and Champion Jack Dupree. These SAT visits gave emerging players like Eric Clapton and Van SAT Morrison a chance to see their idols, and introduced the SAT true stars of blues to a whole new generation. Van SAT Morrison talks about the impact that Chris made on his SAT music and on the British music scene as a whole, and his SAT belief that Chris' contribution should receive wider SAT recognition. SAT Andy Fairweather-Low explains how rehearsing with Chris SAT changed his whole appoach to music, and reveals the man's SAT hidden talents as a racing driver. In a newly-discovered SAT interview, Chris' ex wife, singer Ottilie Patterson, SAT remembers stepping out with Big Bill Broonzy, the pride SAT she felt in being compared to Bessie Smith and how she was SAT chatted up by Muddy Waters, backstage in Croydon. SAT Archive interviews with Chris' business partner Harold SAT Pendleton reveal the moment when they knew the blues baton SAT had been passed, as thousands of teenage girls rushed into SAT their festival to see The Rolling Stones perform. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00kwh7g (Listen) SAT Armadale, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of the 1866 mystery novel by SAT Wilkie Collins. The machinations of the flame-haired SAT temptress Lydia Gwilt are derailed by the workings of fate SAT and her own lusts and longings. SAT Lydia Gwilt's plan to marry Allan Armadale and secure his SAT fortune has run into difficulties and her own passions, as SAT well as those around her, are starting to interfere with SAT her schemes. She is increasingly attracted to Allan's SAT companion Midwinter, and he to her. SAT Lydia ...... Lucy Robinson SAT Allan ...... Alex Robertson SAT Midwinter ...... Ray Fearon SAT Neelie ...... Perdita Avery SAT Pedgift Snr ...... GeoffreyWhitehead SAT Bashwood ...... Richard Durden SAT Mrs Benson ...... Rebeccea Saire SAT John ...... Robin Brooks SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 Weather b00l2sm3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b00l0y01 (Listen) SAT The Reith Lectures 2009, Morality in Politics SAT Professor Michael Sandel delivers four lectures about the SAT prospects of a new politics of the common good. The series SAT is presented and chaired by Sue Lawley. SAT Sandel considers the role of moral argument in politics. SAT He believes that it is often not possible for government SAT to be neutral on moral questions and calls for a more SAT engaged civic debate about issues such as commercial SAT surrogacy and same-sex marriage. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00l0vl9 (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange SAT of quotations and anecdotes. SAT With guests Adele Geras, Conn Iggulden, Christopher SAT Luscombe and Simon Pearsall. SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00kwh7l (Listen) SAT Carol Ann Duffy and others pay tribute to the poet UA SAT Fanthorpe, who died recently. Describing herself as a SAT 'middle-aged dropout', Fanthorpe only began writing at 50. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 JUNE 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00l2z74 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0084zty (Listen) SUN Ones to Watch (Volume 2), George and the Fly SUN A talent showcase of unpublished work from new writers. SUN By Jennie Rooney, read by Geraldine James. SUN Joan's mother always said that George was not to be SUN trusted, but she still didn't know what to make of it when SUN George took to his bed, permanently. SUN A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l2z76 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l2z78 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l2z7b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00l2z7d (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00l2z7g (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St David's Church, SUN Moreton-in-Marsh. SUN SUN 05:45 I Was Put on Trial by Al Qaeda b00hkpvq (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Allan Little describes his own terrifying interaction in SUN November 1993 with a group of mujahideen volunteers who SUN were fighting on behalf of Bosnian Muslims during the war SUN there. SUN He examines what we now know about the presence of SUN hundreds of men from other parts of the Muslim world who SUN came to train and fight in the Balkans. Known as the SUN Bosnian Mujahedeen, some were eventually put on trial at SUN the International Criminal Tribunal for the former SUN Yugoslavia in the Hague. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00l2z7j (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00l2z7l (Listen) SUN A Good Judge SUN Mark Tully explores how we judge another person's SUN character. It has been estimated that up to a third of our SUN judgments about other people's characters are wrong, yet SUN many of us pride ourselves on being 'good judges' of SUN character. On what clues do we base our assessments, why SUN are we so often mistaken and can we learn to read the SUN clues more accurately? SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00l2z7n (Listen) SUN A home on the range! Elinor Goodman meets Pepe and Colin SUN Seaford who farm bison on their land in Wiltshire. In 1986 SUN Colin realised a life long dream of keeping bison and was SUN the first to farm them commercially in Britain. There is SUN also a menagerie of exotic creatures which make this farm SUN feel like a mid-West American prairie. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00l2z7q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00l2z7s (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00l2z7v (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of SUN the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00l2z7x (Listen) SUN Parkinson's Disease Society SUN John Stapleton appeals on behalf of the Parkinson's SUN Disease Society. SUN The Parkinson's Disease Society is a charity dedicated to SUN supporting all people with Parkinson's, their families, SUN friends and carers. SUN Donations to Parkinson's Disease Society should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Parkinson's Disease Society. Credit cards: SUN Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please SUN provide Parkinson's Disease Society with your full name SUN and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone SUN donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: England and Wales No. 258197, SUN Scotland No: SC037554. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00l2zbk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00l2zbm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00l97z9 (Listen) SUN Mattins from the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace, SUN marking the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Henry SUN VIII. SUN The preacher is the Bishop of London and Dean of the SUN Chapel Royal, the Right Rev and Right Honourable Richard SUN Chartres. SUN The service is led by the Sub-Dean, Prebendary William SUN Scott. SUN Featuring the voice of Harry Bradford, BBC Radio 2 Young SUN Chorister of the Year who is a member of the Choir. SUN Director of Music: Andrew Gant. SUN Organist: Oliver Waterer. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00l2h9p (Listen) SUN Platypus SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN Along the soft, muddy river banks of New South Wales, the SUN female duck-billed platypus makes a burrow to raise her SUN family. Not only is this the strangest of creatures, it is SUN also one of the most tricky to film. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00l2zg2 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00l2zg4 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00l2zg6 (Listen) SUN Martin Shaw SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Shaw. SUN He has been one of Britain's most popular stage and SUN television actors of the past forty years and has taken on SUN more than a hundred different roles. Yet Martin has spent SUN half a lifetime moving out of the shadow of one of his SUN earliest parts: Ray Doyle in The Professionals. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00l0xxg (Listen) SUN Series 51, Episode 1 SUN The perennial antidote to panel games comes from Her SUN Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket in London, with Stephen Fry SUN the first to take on the chairman's role from the late SUN Humphrey Lyttelton. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden SUN and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by Victoria Wood. With SUN Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00l30s4 (Listen) SUN Britalian Food SUN Sheila Dillon investigates the businesses in Britain SUN producing ingredients usually only found abroad, including SUN mozzarella di bufala, ricotta cheese and salami. SUN With the fall in the value of the pound against the Euro, SUN imports have become more expensive. For years, all over SUN Britain, there have been small businesses making authentic SUN Italian produce. Will our economic woes create a situation SUN in which these firms can now thrive? And how good can SUN British versions of authentic Italian food be? SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00l30s6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00l30s8 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Silent Killer b00l30sb (Listen) SUN Justin Webb finds out what the future holds for his son, SUN Sam, who has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and the SUN millions of other children like him. SUN He explores why rates of type 1 are rising in the UK, in SUN younger children and more aggressively. Through his own SUN experience with Sam, he discovers the complexities SUN involved in keeping a diabetic child healthy. SUN Justin talks to some of the world's leading figures SUN working at the frontier of biomedicine who think they may SUN have unlocked the key to curing the disease and those who SUN are trying to find a way of preventing it. And he finds SUN out what uphill struggles they face when trying to beat a SUN disease for which the causes remain unclear. SUN As a parent struggling to understand the impact that SUN diabetes will have on his son's life, both immediately and SUN in the long term, Justin explores what options are SUN available to his child, and the thousands of children like SUN him. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00l20tj (Listen) SUN Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer SUN questions posed by gardeners in Kent. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 A Guide to Water Birds b00l30sd (Listen) SUN Rails SUN Brett Westwood presents a series of entertaining and SUN practical guides to identifying many of the birds found on SUN or near freshwater, aided by sound recordist Chris Watson. SUN Brett is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss on the SUN Somerset Levels to introduce Rails, including coot and SUN moorhen, as well as a bird which squeals like a pig. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00l30sg (Listen) SUN Armadale, Episode 3 SUN Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of the 1866 mystery novel by SUN Wilkie Collins. The machinations of the flame-haired SUN temptress Lydia Gwilt are derailed by the workings of fate SUN and her own lusts and longings. SUN Lydia Gwilt has found a new and more violent way to secure SUN Allan Armadale's fortune, by impersonating his widow. Her SUN plans now include murder, but will her passion for Allan's SUN companion Midwinter help or hinder her? SUN Lydia ...... Lucy Robinson SUN Allan ...... Alex Robertson SUN Midwinter ...... Ray Fearon SUN Neelie ...... Perdita Avery SUN Bashwood ...... Richard Durden SUN Downward ...... Geoffrey Whitehead SUN Jemmy ...... Grant Gillespie SUN Vincent ...... Robin Brooks SUN Girl ...... Rebeccea Saire SUN A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00l32z1 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup presents the books magazine. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00l32z3 (Listen) SUN Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of its author SUN and the 150th anniversary of its publication, a SUN celebration of Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar SUN Khayyam. Gabriel Woolf reads what has been called 'the SUN most popular verse translation into English ever made'. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00l0z3b (Listen) SUN Gerry Northam investigates allegations of incompetence and SUN neglect in England's biggest quango, the Learning and SUN Skills Council. As the recession leads to rocketing SUN unemployment, apprentices and local college students have SUN been hit by a dramatic cash crisis in this government SUN agency, which oversees their training. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00l2p7s (Listen) SUN Series 6, Counting SUN As Iran waits for election results to be recounted, and in SUN Britain an inquiry is announced into the Iraq War, April SUN de Angelis looks at secrecy in the region. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00l32z5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00l32z7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00l32z9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00l32zc (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon introduces her selection of highlights SUN from the past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00l32zf (Listen) SUN The good news is one-sided at Willow Cottage. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00l32zh (Listen) SUN Matt Frei interviews Sunny Schwartz about her Resolve to SUN Stop the Violence Programme (RSVP) for the San Franscisco SUN Sheriff's Dept - which has cut violent recidivism by up to SUN 80 per cent. The programme also reports from Miami on the SUN extraordinary story of the 70 sex offenders who sleep SUN under the Julia Tuttle bridge. SUN Plus a real slice of Americana. Linesville boasts one of SUN the biggest tourist attractions in Pennsylvania - ducks SUN walking on the back of fish, fed bread by an estimated SUN half million tourists each year. The threatened banning of SUN bread feeding, and its replacement by pellets, provoked a SUN revolt in the town, and inspired a song. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b0082b42 (Listen) SUN The Closed Door, Cover SUN Series of stories by Dorothy Whipple, an often overlooked SUN writer of the interwar years who was described by JB SUN Priestley as 'the Jane Austen of her age'. SUN A young wife is unable to free herself from the guilt of SUN her scandalous past. Read by Stella Gonet. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00l33kf (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00l213l (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00l2mrm (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN Take a pay cut or lose your job - what rights do you have SUN if your employer puts you under pressure, and how do you SUN protect your long term interests? SUN Plus beware the latest currency conversion scam when SUN paying for goods abroad. And more than one million AVIVA SUN 'with-profits' policyholders receive their voting packs. SUN Should you accept the deal? SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00l2z7x (Listen) SUN Parkinson's Disease Society SUN John Stapleton appeals on behalf of the Parkinson's SUN Disease Society. SUN The Parkinson's Disease Society is a charity dedicated to SUN supporting all people with Parkinson's, their families, SUN friends and carers. SUN Donations to Parkinson's Disease Society should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Parkinson's Disease Society. Credit cards: SUN Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please SUN provide Parkinson's Disease Society with your full name SUN and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone SUN donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: England and Wales No. 258197, SUN Scotland No: SC037554. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00ksztl (Listen) SUN A New Iraq? SUN As British forces complete their withdrawal from Iraq and SUN the government declares the mission a success, Bronwen SUN Maddox considers the prospects of lasting peace for the SUN Iraqi people. Have lessons been learnt that will change SUN the way in which similar missions are tackled in the SUN future? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00l33lc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00l33lf (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Learning to Love the Microphone. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00l213n (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Nic Roeg and Quadrophenia director SUN Franc Roddam about opera, cinema and Aria, a portmanteau SUN of short films orchestrated by producer Don Boyd. SUN Poet Clive Wilmer and Professor Jeffrey Richards cross SUN swords over their favourite Errol Flynn swashbuckler. SUN Derek Malcolm surveys the career of legendary Polish SUN director Andrzej Wajda. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00l2z7l (Listen) SUN A Good Judge SUN Mark Tully explores how we judge another person's SUN character. It has been estimated that up to a third of our SUN judgments about other people's characters are wrong, yet SUN many of us pride ourselves on being 'good judges' of SUN character. On what clues do we base our assessments, why SUN are we so often mistaken and can we learn to read the SUN clues more accurately? SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 JUNE 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00l33q7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00l14p6 (Listen) MON The potato, with just a little bit of milk, can provide MON all of the nutrients necessary to sustain human life. Its MON wonderful productivity and the fact that it can be grown MON in small family plots in urban and rural areas means that, MON according to Professor Nancy Ries, it provides subsistence MON when local economies fail and other sources of food MON disappear. MON This fact more than any other explains why Russia, the MON home of the vast collective wheat farm, increasingly MON relies on the potato. Nearly half of all agricultural MON production in the country is potatoes and 90 per cent of MON that is in small family plots. Is the potato a tool of MON oppression? Does it perpetuate poverty? Laurie Taylor is MON joined by Professor Ries and by John Reader, author of The MON Untold History of the Potato. MON Also, Allison Hui from Lancaster University talks about MON her research into the role of travel in people's hobbies, MON and how leisure pursuits play an increasing part in global MON tourism. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00l2z7g (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St David's Church, MON Moreton-in-Marsh. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l33vq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l3429 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l33z1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00l344c (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l3471 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00l347h (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith reports on how the amount of milk produced MON in the UK last year was the lowest since the 1970s. The MON figures comes in a new report which also suggests 13% of MON dairy farmers are planning to leave the industry in the MON next two years. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00l34c1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00l348z (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00l53x4 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to Helen Mirren about playing Phedre at MON the National Theatre, Martin Jacques about the rise of MON China, John Armstrong about civilisation and Anna Minton MON about the 21st century city. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00l34hk (Listen) MON The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Bandanas, Shades and MON Penguin Classics MON Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st MON century - an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and MON then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's MON Helmand Province. MON Hennessey is at a tea party, on a dam, in the middle of a MON war. Helmand Province is where the British Army has allied MON with the Afghan National Army to find the Afghan solution MON to an Afghan problem, but that is easier said than done. MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00l34k7 (Listen) MON Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey: MON Martha Reeves was the lead singer of Martha Reeves and the MON Vandellas from 1962 onwards. She started out answering MON telephones for the Motown label, but went on to have a MON string of hits, including 'Dancing In The Street', MON 'Nowhere To Run', 'Heatwave', and 'Jimmy Mac'. Martha MON still performs regularly, in between working fulltime as MON an elected member of the City Council in Detroit. She's MON currently touring the UK with some of the other Motown MON giants in a 'Once in a Lifetime - Legends Live Tour', as MON part of the 50 year celebrations of Motown. She talks to MON Jane about a life making music. MON There are 700,000 people living with dementia in the UK, MON and that number will rise to over a million by 2025, so MON more and more couples are taking on the role of carer for MON their partner. The development of the illness inevitably MON changes the dynamic of their relationship, but what effect MON does it have on their social life and friendships? One MON listener contacted Woman's Hour about the impact that her MON husband's diagnosis of Alzheimer's has had on their MON network of friends. She describes how she deals with their MON friends' reluctance to visit their home. Why are we so MON afraid of dementia, and how do we overcome those fears and MON communicate with people who have it? MON And as Wimbledon starts, Jane is joined by Britain's MON number 1 women's tennis hope, Anne Keothavong. Wimbledon MON might not be able to guarantee sun, but one thing it can MON guarantee - as far as women's tennis goes - is grunting. MON Past and present grunters include some of the tournament's MON finest players including Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova. MON The most recent culprit on the court, however, is the MON Portuguese teenager Michelle Larcher de Brito, whose MON unusual style of grunting can apparently be heard three MON courts away. Now the International Tennis Federation is MON discussing whether to add a 'noise hindrance' clause to MON its code of conduct which will place grunting in the same MON league as verbal abus MON That's all in Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. MON MON 11:00 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 1 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 11:30 Newfangle b00l54wl (Listen) MON Bright Ideas MON Sitcom by Adam Rosenthal and Viv Ambrose, set 100,000 MON years BC among a tribe of proto-humans. MON Newfangle has to come up with a spectacular new invention MON for the annual feast or he'll end up as the main course, MON because Alf's recent hunting was a disaster. Will MON inspiration strike or is Newfangle a damp squib? MON Newfangle ...... Russell Tovey MON Snaggle ...... Pippa Evans MON Crag ...... Gabriel Vick MON Coco ...... Maureen Lipman MON Alf ...... Hugh Bonneville MON Lucy ...... Amy Shindler MON Chef ...... Lewis MacLeod. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00l36j4 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00l36jx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00l36jz (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00l54wn (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange MON of quotations and anecdotes. MON With guests Lucy Mangan, Marcus du Sautoy, Michael Simkins MON and Paul Bailey. MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00l32zf (Listen) MON The good news is one-sided at Willow Cottage. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00l54wq (Listen) MON Power Play 1 MON First of two plays by business writer and broadcaster MON Margaret Heffernan about the collapse of US company Enron MON in 2001, combining drama with audio archive from Senate MON hearings. MON It is spring 2000 and new recruit Vanessa, fresh out of MON business school, joins the aggressive band of traders on MON the trading floor of Enron's Western Power desk, whose MON market manipulation, dishonesty and culture of macho MON ruthlessness is bringing California to its knees. MON Vanessa ...... Andrea LeBlanc MON Karl ...... Jin Suh MON Hank ...... Hilario Saavedra MON Produced in collaboration with the Centre for New MON Performance, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. MON Directed by Sara Davies. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00l2p7x (Listen) MON When Courtney Met Chris MON Courtney Pine talks to jazz trombonist Chris Barber about MON his life's work and how his initiative and enthusiasm for MON American blues music helped provide inspiration for a new MON generation of British musicians. MON Barber has been a professional jazz musician for almost 55 MON years. Along with the likes of Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk, MON he was an integral part of the 'trad jazz' boom in the MON 1950s which swept the dance halls of austere postwar MON Britain. MON However, while others stood still, Barber set about MON acknowledging the huge debt he and his fellow musicians MON owed to the legacy of American blues musicians, and MON engineered tours for artists including Sister Rosetta MON Tharpe, Muddy Waters, and Champion Jack Dupree. These MON visits gave emerging players like Eric Clapton and Van MON Morrison a chance to see their idols, and introduced the MON true stars of blues to a whole new generation. Van MON Morrison talks about the impact that Chris made on his MON music and on the British music scene as a whole, and his MON belief that Chris' contribution should receive wider MON recognition. MON Andy Fairweather-Low explains how rehearsing with Chris MON changed his whole appoach to music, and reveals the man's MON hidden talents as a racing driver. In a newly-discovered MON interview, Chris' ex wife, singer Ottilie Patterson, MON remembers stepping out with Big Bill Broonzy, the pride MON she felt in being compared to Bessie Smith and how she was MON chatted up by Muddy Waters, backstage in Croydon. MON Archive interviews with Chris' business partner Harold MON Pendleton reveal the moment when they knew the blues baton MON had been passed, as thousands of teenage girls rushed into MON their festival to see The Rolling Stones perform. MON MON 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00l37jb (Listen) MON America in Retreat? MON Series charting the history of America, written and MON presented by David Reynolds. MON Watergate, Vietnam and an economy sinking under the weight MON of the oil crisis drain American vitality and set the MON stage for a conservative re-emergence. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00l30s4 (Listen) MON Britalian Food MON Sheila Dillon investigates the businesses in Britain MON producing ingredients usually only found abroad, including MON mozzarella di bufala, ricotta cheese and salami. MON With the fall in the value of the pound against the Euro, MON imports have become more expensive. For years, all over MON Britain, there have been small businesses making authentic MON Italian produce. Will our economic woes create a situation MON in which these firms can now thrive? And how good can MON British versions of authentic Italian food be? MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00l0xxd (Listen) MON To mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss why this major Protestant MON reformer altered the shape and changed the thinking of MON Western Europe. MON What is the legacy of Calvin and why do his ideas still MON influence churches in Britain and around the world today? MON MON 17:00 PM b00l37kw (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 b00l37vz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00l55xk (Listen) MON Series 51, Episode 2 MON The perennial antidote to panel games comes from Her MON Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket in London, with Stephen Fry MON the first to take on the chairman's role from the late MON Humphrey Lyttelton. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined by Victoria Wood. MON With Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00l375g (Listen) MON Things move apace for Mike and Vicky. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00l39kr (Listen) MON Hosted by John Wilson. Including an interview with poet MON Roger McGough, who has written a new version of Moliere's MON play The Hypochondriac. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00l3bgx (Listen) MON The Art of Deception, Episode 1 MON Detective drama by Philip Palmer. Notorious art forger MON Daniel Ballantyne, newly released from prison but now MON dying, agrees to help art critic Jessica Brown to write a MON book about forgery. So begins a game of cat-and-mouse that MON will have deadly consequences. MON Daniel Ballantyne ...... David Schofield MON Jessica Brown ...... Indira Varma MON Ben ...... Matt Addis MON Andrew Jarrold ...... Jonathan Keeble MON Claire de Vere ...... Belinda Lang MON DI Grimwood/Art Dealer ...... John Biggins MON Stavros Persakis ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Museum Curator ...... Philip Fox MON DS Ruckley/Taxi Driver ...... Benjamin Askew MON Directed by Toby Swift. MON MON 20:00 Broken Arrow b00l55xm (Listen) MON In the early hours of 5th February 1958, a mid-air MON collision forced a badly damaged USAF B47 bomber to drop a MON 7,600lb nuclear bomb in the shallow waters off the coast MON of Georgia. Gerry Northam travels to Mississippi to hear MON the pilot's story and find out why the bomb has never been MON found. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00lb5lj (Listen) MON Doesn't Everyone? MON Michael Blastland asks if 'group-think' is distancing MON policy from the public and asks if our political elite MON have forgotten how most voters live. People measure their MON behaviour and beliefs by those around them, so MPs might MON have thought that the expenses system was reasonable. MON Might it also mean they have lost touch with what Britain MON is really like? MON MON 21:00 Frontiers b00l55xr (Listen) MON Origins of Childhood MON Andrew Luck-Baker asks why humans, unlike other primates, MON have such a long childhood. Chimp infants can look after MON themselves when they are weaned, but young humans have to MON rely on their parents for years. What advantages does a MON long childhood bring to us as a species? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00l53x4 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to Helen Mirren about playing Phedre at MON the National Theatre, Martin Jacques about the rise of MON China, John Armstrong about civilisation and Anna Minton MON about the 21st century city. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00l560d (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00l560q (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00l57f8 (Listen) MON The Spy Game, Episode 1 MON Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in MON 1960s England. MON Eight-year-old Anna waves goodbye to her mother one MON morning, unaware that she is disappearing forever. All is MON not as it seems in 1960s Britain: the Portland spy case MON has rocked the Establishment and official secrets MON documents nestle in the shopping baskets of respectable MON housewives as Cold War paranoia takes hold. In the midst MON of all this, Anna and her brother begin a quest for the MON truth about their mother that will last a lifetime. MON Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00l1qvz (Listen) MON Trivia MON What turns a fact into knowledge, and did you know that MON Pete Conrad was the first man to dance on the moon? MON Dominic Arkwright debates elitism in education with MON Kathryn Hughes, Francis Gilbert and Mark Mason, author or MON The Importance of Being Trivial. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00l57kc (Listen) MON A special edition of the programme to report the election MON of a new Speaker of the House of Commons. For the first MON time, MPs will choose their Speaker using a secret ballot. MON Susan Hulme and a team of reporters explain the rules, MON profile the candidates and report on the debates as MON Britain's lawmakers vote for Michael Martin's successor. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 JUNE 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00l33q9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00l34hk (Listen) TUE The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Bandanas, Shades and TUE Penguin Classics TUE Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st TUE century - an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and TUE then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's TUE Helmand Province. TUE Hennessey is at a tea party, on a dam, in the middle of a TUE war. Helmand Province is where the British Army has allied TUE with the Afghan National Army to find the Afghan solution TUE to an Afghan problem, but that is easier said than done. TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l33sj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l33z3 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l33vs (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00l342c (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l344f (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00l3473 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00l348n (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b00l59hf (Listen) TUE The Reith Lectures 2009, Genetics and Morality TUE Professor Michael Sandel delivers four lectures about the TUE prospects of a new politics of the common good. The series TUE is presented and chaired by Sue Lawley. TUE Recorded at the Centre for Life in Newcastle, Sandel TUE considers how we should use our ever-increasing scientific TUE knowledge. New genetic technologies hold great promise for TUE treating and curing disease, but how far we should go in TUE using them to manipulate muscles, moods and gender? TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00l9pns (Listen) TUE The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Marking Time and Making TUE Friends TUE Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st TUE century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and TUE then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's TUE Helmand Province. TUE With war raging around him, Hennessey wonders how he TUE arrived in Afghanistan. An English graduate at Oxford, the TUE transition to Sandhurst was a difficult one TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00l34jn (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Art of Deception. TUE TUE 11:00 The Age of Ming b00l59m3 (Listen) TUE Robert Orchard tells the story of Sir Menzies Campbell's TUE battle to shake off media claims that he was too old for TUE the job as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Robert asks TUE how far it is acceptable for journalists to poke fun at TUE someone on the grounds of age? TUE TUE 11:30 On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned TUE Police Box b00l59rk (Listen) TUE Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who writer and fanatic, explores the TUE hugely popular Doctor Who novelisations of the 1970s and TUE 80s, published by Target books. Featuring some of the best TUE excerpts from the books and interviews with publishers, TUE house writers, illustrators and the actors whose TUE adventures the books tirelessly depicted. TUE In an age before DVD and video, the Target book series of TUE Doctor Who fiction was conceived as the chance for TUE children to 'keep' and revisit classic Doctor Who. They TUE were marketed as such, written in a highly visual house TUE style. Descriptive passages did the work of the TV camera TUE and the scripts were more or less faithfully reproduced as TUE dialogue. TUE The books were as close to the experience of watching as TUE possible, and were adored by a generation of children who TUE grew up transfixed by the classic BBC series. Target TUE Doctor Who books became a children's publishing phenomenon TUE - they sold over 13 million copies worldwide. From 1973 TUE until 1994, the Target Doctor Who paperbacks were a TUE mainstay of the publishing world. TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00l36gn (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00l36j6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00l36yt (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:30 Menotti b00l59rm (Listen) TUE Music writer Michael White tells the life story of TUE composer Gian Carlo Menotti and assesses why his music has TUE fallen from grace. TUE Menotti was a star - he partied at the White House with TUE the Kennedys and sailed on yachts with Maria Callas. His TUE music was celebrated, but today has been largely TUE forgotten. This programme tells his story through music, TUE memories, Menotti's own words, interviews with TUE musicologists and singers who worked with him. Michael TUE often visited Menotti in both his Scottish castle and in TUE Italy, and had rare access to the composer's private TUE papers. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00l375g (Listen) TUE Things move apace for Mike and Vicky. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00l59xg (Listen) TUE Power Play 2 - Wilful Blindness TUE Second of two plays by business writer and broadcaster TUE Margaret Heffernan about the collapse of US company Enron TUE in 2001, combining drama with audio archive from Senate TUE hearings. TUE It is now the summer of 2006. Kenneth Lay, the former TUE chairman of Enron, has been convicted of conspiracy to TUE commit securities and wire fraud and is awaiting TUE sentencing at his home in Aspen, Colorado. TUE On the day before Independence Day a new gardener arrives, TUE a young woman with a business background who has made a TUE recent career change. Lay doesn't know her, but she knows TUE him - she once worked for his company. Vanessa is TUE determined to confront her ex-employer, and in the course TUE of one intense day, she demands that he face up to a TUE responsibility he has refused to recognise for four years. TUE Kenneth Lay ...... John Fleck TUE Vanessa ...... Andrea LeBlanc TUE Linda Lay ...... Mary Lou Rosato TUE Produced in collaboration with the Centre for New TUE Performance, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. TUE Directed by Sara Davies. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00l59xj (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring TUE ordinary people's links with the past. TUE Featuring a listener's search for justice for an ancestor TUE who was a hero during a dramatic mine rescue in TUE 19th-century Wales. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00l59xl (Listen) TUE Excused Games, Rematch TUE Series of three short stories by leading writers, TUE performed by star readers, in which sports and games have TUE some surprising effects on both children and adults. TUE By Rob Greene. 10-year-old Tom discovers that notes sent TUE to his PE teacher by his mother aren't quite what they TUE seem. His attempts to sort out family life involve TUE games-playing of all kinds. Read by Martin Freeman. TUE A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00l37j2 (Listen) TUE A Constitutional Abortion TUE Series charting the history of America, written and TUE presented by David Reynolds. TUE In 1973 the Supreme Court determines a framework for legal TUE abortion, marking out a fault line in American politics TUE for years to come. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00l5b6p (Listen) TUE With a report due on the findings of an inquiry into the TUE nuclear industry's use of organs from dead workers for TUE medical research, Clive Coleman examines the law governing TUE what happens to your body when you are dead and what it TUE means for people who want to give away - or even sell - TUE bits of themselves. Who owns your body - you or the state? TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00l5b6r (Listen) TUE Kate Mosse talks to two scientists, the writer and TUE presenter Vivienne Parry and Professor Jocelyn Bell TUE Burnell, head of the Institute of Physics, about their TUE favourite books. The books under discussion are a classic TUE novel, a piece of 20th century history and a romance TUE described by one of the guests as 'Mills and Boon with TUE vampires'. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00l37ky (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 b00l37w1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 The Secret World b00jyyl8 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Comedy series that offers an insight into the private TUE lives of the famous. TUE The Arctic Monkeys reveal their love for Woman's Hour. TUE With Jon Culshaw, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Julian Dutton, TUE Lewis MacLeod, Jess Robinson and Duncan Wisbey. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00l36yy (Listen) TUE Jennifer takes some decisive action. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00l39kc (Listen) TUE With Kirsty Lang, who reports on a major exhibition of TUE works by Pre-Raphaelite artist JW Waterhouse. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00l8l7w (Listen) TUE The Art of Deception, Episode 2 TUE Detective drama by Philip Palmer. TUE Suspicions are raised over Ballantyne's involvement in the TUE death of the ageing enfant terrible of British art, TUE Gilbert Reynolds. TUE Daniel Ballantyne ...... David Schofield TUE Jessica Brown ...... Indira Varma TUE Ben ...... Matt Addis TUE Andrew Jarrold ...... Jonathan Keeble TUE Claire de Vere ...... Belinda Lang TUE DI Grimwood/Art Dealer ...... John Biggins TUE Stavros Persakis ...... Malcolm Tierney TUE Museum Curator ...... Philip Fox TUE DS Ruckley/Taxi Driver ...... Benjamin Askew TUE Directed by Toby Swift. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00l5gm4 (Listen) TUE The government's flagship policy for public investment, TUE the Private Finance Initiative, has always relied on big TUE loans from banks. But now, as lenders demand far more for TUE their money, Michael Robinson investigates disturbing TUE increases in the cost of building our schools, hospitals TUE and roads. TUE In today's economic climate, does PFI represent value for TUE money for hard-pressed taxpayers? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00l5gm6 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00l5gm8 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond and guests discuss ways of dealing with TUE self harm, something that more teenagers do in the UK than TUE anywhere else in Europe. TUE The programme hears about a Sheffield clinic which has TUE significantly reduced incidents of adolescents cutting and TUE harming themselves by introducing a new 'zero tolerance' TUE rule. But this has proved to be a controversial measure, TUE because many believe that accepting and working with TUE self-harming behaviours is the best approach in the long TUE term. TUE The doctor behind the Sheffield experiment tells Claudia TUE what led him and his team to introduce this new policy and TUE Marjorie Wallace from SANE explains why she doesn't think TUE that banning self harm works. TUE TUE 21:30 Unseen Britain b00jcdb9 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Peter White goes in search of those who monitor how we TUE spend our money, where we travel and the state of our TUE health, while remaining unseen themselves. TUE Peter meets forensic scientists and talks to them about TUE their work. A 'questioned documents' specialist examines TUE Peter's signature and reveals some of its secrets, and TUE Peter also learns about some of the methods used to match TUE crime scene marks with suspected shoes and tools. TUE Plus Peter Dean, a police doctor and television TUE consultant, discusses real crime compared to what we see TUE on TV programmes. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00l55z1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00l560g (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00l57dw (Listen) TUE The Spy Game, Episode 2 TUE Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in TUE 1960s England. TUE Peter points out to Anna that their mother disappeared on TUE the same day that the news broke of the arrests in the TUE Portland spy case. They realise that they actually know TUE very little about their mother - can they even be certain TUE that she is dead? TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths. TUE TUE 23:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better TUE b00db05r (Listen) TUE Series 2, Diligence TUE Mark Watson turns his wit to the subject of virtue, with TUE stand-up comedy on the subject of diligence. Tim Key and TUE Tom Basden pay great attention to detail in their poems TUE and songs. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00l57k3 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with David Wilby. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00l33qc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00l9pns (Listen) WED The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Marking Time and Making WED Friends WED Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st WED century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and WED then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's WED Helmand Province. WED With war raging around him, Hennessey wonders how he WED arrived in Afghanistan. An English graduate at Oxford, the WED transition to Sandhurst was a difficult one WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l33sl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l33z5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l33vv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00l342f (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l344j (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00l3475 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00l348q (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00l5hcc (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00l9pnj (Listen) WED The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Tower, Windsor, Buck WED and Jimmys WED Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st WED century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and WED then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's WED Helmand Province. WED Hennessey is commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and is WED straining at the leash to get to the Middle East. But the WED British army has other plans for him - parading and WED primary school teaching. WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00l34jq (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Art of Deception. WED WED 11:00 Who's My Half-Brother? Where's My Half-Sister? WED b00jv9n2 (Listen) WED Kati Whitaker talks to people in the UK and the USA about WED the ways in which children conceived through a sperm donor WED can make contact, and forge a familial bond, with their WED potential half-brothers and sisters. WED She hears about the difficult choices that both parents WED and children have to make, and how for some there is the WED reward of discovery of a half-sibling, but for others the WED search proves to be a journey into the unknown. WED A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Spread A Little Happiness b00l5hcf (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a WED Yorkshire sandwich bar. WED The word is spreading like meat paste and business is WED booming, but there is a teenage fly in the soup de jour. WED Hope ...... Suranne Jones WED Jodie ...... Susan Cookson WED Dave ...... Neil Dudgeon WED Gavin ...... Ralph Brown WED Eve ...... Joanne Froggatt WED Carrie ...... Elizabeth Godber WED Mrs Cummings ...... Sherry Baines WED Woman ...... Jane Purcell WED Directed by Chris Wallis. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00l36gq (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00l36j8 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00l36k1 (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00l5hch (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00l36yy (Listen) WED Jennifer takes some decisive action. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00l5hck (Listen) WED The Chosen One WED By Edson Burton. A conservative black family are shocked WED to discover that younger sibling Aaron has joined a Muslim WED prayer group. His sister Maya discovers that the roots of WED Aaron's conversion lie in his fractious relationship with WED his father and a terrible family secret. WED Aaron Skinner ...... Alex Lanipekun WED Maya Skinner ...... Nadia Williams WED Gregory Skinner ...... Burt Caesar WED Sylvia Williams ...... Lorna Easy WED Jamal ...... Saikat Ahamed WED Jay Andrews ...... Osi Okerafor WED Shantelle ...... Alex Tregear WED Directed by Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00l5hdx (Listen) WED Paul Lewis takes your questions about ethical investment. WED Paul is joined by a panel of experts - Mark Hoskin, WED partner at Holden and Partners; Robin Keyte, director of WED Towers of Taunton; and Mark Robertson, communications and WED development manager at the Ethical Investment Research WED Service. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00l59zt (Listen) WED Excused Games, At the Crease WED Series of short stories by leading writers, performed by WED star readers, in which sports and games have some WED surprising effects on both children and adults. WED By Robert Shearman. An adult remembers how his obsessive WED father was determined he should become an England WED cricketer. But the games being played don't make it easy WED for either of them. Read by Adam Godley. WED A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00l37j4 (Listen) WED The 'Silent Majority' Finds Its Voice WED Series charting the history of America, written and WED presented by David Reynolds. WED Conservative reaction to the civil rights and women's WED liberation movements galvanises America's political system. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00l5hdz (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. How Victorian geographer Halford WED Mackinder's theories of Empire are back in vogue. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00l5gm8 (Listen) WED Claudia Hammond and guests discuss ways of dealing with WED self harm, something that more teenagers do in the UK than WED anywhere else in Europe. WED The programme hears about a Sheffield clinic which has WED significantly reduced incidents of adolescents cutting and WED harming themselves by introducing a new 'zero tolerance' WED rule. But this has proved to be a controversial measure, WED because many believe that accepting and working with WED self-harming behaviours is the best approach in the long WED term. WED The doctor behind the Sheffield experiment tells Claudia WED what led him and his team to introduce this new policy and WED Marjorie Wallace from SANE explains why she doesn't think WED that banning self harm works. WED WED 17:00 PM b00l37l0 (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 b00l37w3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 I Was... b00fzblz (Listen) WED Douglas Adams' Flatmate WED Andrew McGibbon presents a series of interviews analysing WED great artists from the perspective of someone who knew WED them. WED Jon Canter shared a flat with his friend Douglas Adams WED while the latter struggled for success and then coped with WED the fame he found following the success of The WED Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Jon reveals the business WED of sharing a flat with his fiercely loyal, manically WED obsessive, loveable giant of a friend, who is still WED greatly missed after his sudden death ten years ago. WED Featuring contributions from other flatmates and Douglas' WED friend Professor Richard Dawkins. WED A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00l36z6 (Listen) WED Bridge building doesn't come easily to Brenda. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00l39kf (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00l8l7m (Listen) WED The Art of Deception, Episode 3 WED Detective drama by Philip Palmer. WED Art critic and journalist Jessica Brown finds herself in WED the firing line as her book on forgery starts to ruffle WED feathers. WED Daniel Ballantyne ...... David Schofield WED Jessica Brown ...... Indira Varma WED Ben ...... Matt Addis WED Andrew Jarrold ...... Jonathan Keeble WED Claire de Vere ...... Belinda Lang WED DI Grimwood/Art Dealer ...... John Biggins WED Stavros Persakis ...... Malcolm Tierney WED Museum Curator ...... Philip Fox WED DS Ruckley/Taxi Driver ...... Benjamin Askew WED Directed by Toby Swift. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00l5hhy (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. With Claire Fox, Melanie Philips, WED Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Learning to Love the Microphone b00l5hj0 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Anne Perkins explores how politicians at the dawn of mass WED democracy utilised the new media of radio and newsreel. WED As mass democracy and new mass media were born in the WED 1920s, the first spin doctors were on hand to help WED politicians use them. Anne Perkins asks what today's WED politicians could learn about using new media. WED WED 21:00 The Greening of the Deserts b00l5j3j (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Ayisha Yahya explores predictions from some scientists and WED meteorologists that some deserts, including the Sahara, WED could get greener in the future and experience more WED rainfall. WED This runs contrary to more usual predictions about the WED future of global warming in Africa that envisage more WED drought, floods, land degradation, epidemics and resource WED wars. Ayisha travels to Mali and Egypt to explore the WED arguments. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00l5hcc (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00l55z3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00l560j (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00l57dy (Listen) WED The Spy Game, Episode 3 WED Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in WED 1960s England. WED As Peter's obsession with spy rings deepens, he encourages WED Anna to use code to allow them to communicate secretly. In WED their search for clues into the disappearance of their WED mother, they begin to make lists of her possessions and WED acquaintances - they are beginning to think like spies. WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths. WED WED 23:00 Self-Storage b0082dxc (Listen) WED Series 1, Leaving WED Sitcom by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power. WED Dave is finally moving out of The Storage Garden. But WED Geoff and Ron are determined to make him stay, and WED brother-in-law Mickey is clearly less keen on Dave moving WED in than Judy is. WED Dave ...... Reece Shearsmith WED Geoff ...... Mark Heap WED Ron ...... Tom Goodman-Hill WED Judy ...... Rosie Cavaliero WED Sarah ...... Susan Earl. WED WED 23:15 Strangers on Trains b00db0x3 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Series of character comedies by Nat Segnit and Stewart WED Wright, in which Nat talks to people sitting alone on WED trains. He asks strangers about sex and dating. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00l57k5 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 JUNE 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00l33qf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00l9pnj (Listen) THU The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Tower, Windsor, Buck THU and Jimmys THU Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st THU century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and THU then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's THU Helmand Province. THU Hennessey is commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and is THU straining at the leash to get to the Middle East. But the THU British army has other plans for him - parading and THU primary school teaching. THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l33sn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l33z7 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l33vx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00l342h (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l344m (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00l3477 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00l348s (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00l5mhl (Listen) THU Sunni and Shia Islam THU Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Amira Bennison and Hugh THU Kennedy, discuss the historical roots of the division THU between Sunni and Shia in Islam. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00l9pnl (Listen) THU The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Cleaning Your Room THU Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st THU century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and THU then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's THU Helmand Province. THU The Guards are ecstatic - rumour becomes reality and they THU head to Iraq. The surge is ongoing, but it is not their THU surge. Instead they are listening to Elvis and Johnny THU Cash, as they throw anything but parties at the Iraqi jail. THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00l34js (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Art of Deception. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00l5mhn (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Spirit of Grunge b00l5mhq (Listen) THU Twenty years on from the birth of grunge, Miranda Sawyer THU examines how the movement shaped a generation of British THU youth and changed mainstream youth culture forever. THU Including contributions from music journalists John THU Harris, Keith Cameron, Caitlin Moran and Charles Cross; THU and Megan Jasper of influential record label Sub Pop. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00l36gs (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00l36jb (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00l36k3 (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00l5mhs (Listen) THU Vegas THU Michael Simkins, American satirist Joe Queenan and Karen THU Marchbank, author of A Brit's Guide to Vegas, discuss Las THU Vegas. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00l36z6 (Listen) THU Bridge building doesn't come easily to Brenda. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00l5mhv (Listen) THU Qualms THU Bittersweet comedy by Jonathan Myerson. THU When teenager Alex is diagnosed with a terminal condition, THU his local Primary Care Trust refuse to finance the THU operation which might extend his life, basing their THU decision on a financial formula, the Quality Adjusted Life THU Year, or QALY. So now Alex's parents know precisely what THU his life is worth. Don't they? THU Tom ...... Toby Jones THU Isabel ...... Lesley Sharp THU Alex ...... Ben Galpin THU Boris ...... Philip Fox THU Chairman ...... Jonathan Tafler THU Shanna ...... Annabelle Dowler THU Other parts played by Lizzy Watts. THU Directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU 15:02 Ramblings b00l2lth (Listen) THU Series 12, Episode 5 THU Clare Balding explores walks that are good for the mind, THU body and soul. THU Clare walks in Cromarty, a name that conjures the dulcet THU tones of the Shipping Forecast and prompts images of THU storm-battered ships wrestling with the sea on a cold, THU dark night. Perched at the top of the Black Isle, a THU peninsular stretching north from Inverness, Cromarty is a THU small, picturesque town of tiny streets and Georgian THU cottages, with a harbour flanked by the Sutors: two hills THU that are believed to be the slumbering forms of two giant THU shoe makers who protected Cromarty from ancient invaders. THU In their heyday, at night, oil platforms would light up THU the shoreline. THU Clare walks with Douglas Willis, a retired geography THU teacher and author who brings to life the spirit of THU Cromarty's most famous son, Hugh Miller - stone mason, THU chronicler of life on the Black Isle, church reformer and THU pioneering, self-taught geologist. Born in 1802 and THU standing at over 6ft tall with a shock of red hair, his THU fossil collection of over 6,000 specimens became the THU founding core of what is today's Scottish national THU collection in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00l2z7x (Listen) THU Parkinson's Disease Society THU John Stapleton appeals on behalf of the Parkinson's THU Disease Society. THU The Parkinson's Disease Society is a charity dedicated to THU supporting all people with Parkinson's, their families, THU friends and carers. THU Donations to Parkinson's Disease Society should be sent to THU FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your THU envelope Parkinson's Disease Society. Credit cards: THU Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please THU provide Parkinson's Disease Society with your full name THU and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your THU donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and phone THU donation facilities are not currently available to THU listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: England and Wales No. 258197, THU Scotland No: SC037554. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00l59zx (Listen) THU Excused Games, Boy's Own Story THU Series of short stories by leading writers, performed by THU star readers, in which sports and games have some THU surprising effects on both children and adults. THU By Christopher Matthew. A grandfather is persuaded to tell THU his story of a long-ago school boxing competition to his THU sports-mad grandson. But is Grandpa's choice of tale a THU good idea? Read by Martin Jarvis. THU A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00l37j6 (Listen) THU Putting God Back into Politics THU Series charting the history of America, written and THU presented by David Reynolds. THU Evangelical Christians get involved in public life to THU fight against what they see as the liberal excesses of the THU 1960s and 70s. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00l32z1 (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup presents the books magazine. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00l5nbc (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00l37l2 (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 b00l382p (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00fm3lj (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's THU Manifesto, taking suggestions from his studio audience and THU then getting them to vote for the best. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00l36zb (Listen) THU The wait is over for Lilian. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00l39kh (Listen) THU Presented by Kirsty Lang. With Tehran-born comedian Shappi THU Khorsandi, who has written a memoir about her family's THU British life in exile after the 1979 revolution in Iran. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00l8l7p (Listen) THU The Art of Deception, Episode 4 THU Detective drama by Philip Palmer. THU Caught in the middle of a long-standing feud, Jessica THU comes face to face with the darker side of the art world. THU Daniel Ballantyne ...... David Schofield THU Jessica Brown ...... Indira Varma THU Ben ...... Matt Addis THU Andrew Jarrold ...... Jonathan Keeble THU Claire de Vere ...... Belinda Lang THU DI Grimwood/Art Dealer ...... John Biggins THU Stavros Persakis ...... Malcolm Tierney THU Museum Curator ...... Philip Fox THU DS Ruckley/Taxi Driver ...... Benjamin Askew THU Directed by Toby Swift. THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00l5b6p (Listen) THU With a report due on the findings of an inquiry into the THU nuclear industry's use of organs from dead workers for THU medical research, Clive Coleman examines the law governing THU what happens to your body when you are dead and what it THU means for people who want to give away - or even sell - THU bits of themselves. Who owns your body - you or the state? THU THU 20:30 Bottom Line b00l5nt1 (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs THU and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to THU their companies and their customers. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00l5nt3 (Listen) THU Geoff Watts meets Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and THU President of the Royal Society, who shares his perspective THU on how he has adapted to the role and the influence it can THU have on the international stage. THU Lord Rees discusses the role that science academies have THU in setting international standards for things like carbon THU emissions, nuclear test bans, the protection of wilderness THU areas such as Antarctica and the freedom of scientists to THU travel and communicate across political boundaries. THU The Royal Society, which celebrates its 350th birthday in THU 2010, is the nation's science academy, rewarding those it THU sees as the greatest living scientists with fellowships as THU well as giving out research grants, holding meetings and THU publishing journals. Increasingly, it is issuing THU statements of opinion, often of its President, on THU science-based political issues such as climate change, GM THU food or sustainable energy. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00l5mhl (Listen) THU Sunni and Shia Islam THU Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Amira Bennison and Hugh THU Kennedy, discuss the historical roots of the division THU between Sunni and Shia in Islam. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00l55z5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00l560l (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00l57f0 (Listen) THU The Spy Game, Episode 4 THU Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in THU 1960s England. THU Anna and Peter adopt ever more furtive observation THU techniques to help them develop their theories about their THU mother's disappearance. THU Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths. THU THU 23:00 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00jjn19 (Listen) THU Series 3, The Man in the Garden THU Series of three comic plays starring Stanley Baxter. THU A lonely lady on a holiday in the remote West Highlands of THU Scotland finds herself falling in love with two members of THU the same family, born 60 years apart. By Rona Munro. THU Duncan ...... Stanley Baxter THU Ellie ...... Penelope Wilton THU Receptionist ...... Bill Paterson THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00l57k7 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Sean Curran. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 JUNE 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00l33qh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00l9pnl (Listen) FRI The Junior Officer's Reading Club, Cleaning Your Room FRI Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st FRI century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and FRI then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's FRI Helmand Province. FRI The Guards are ecstatic - rumour becomes reality and they FRI head to Iraq. The surge is ongoing, but it is not their FRI surge. Instead they are listening to Elvis and Johnny FRI Cash, as they throw anything but parties at the Iraqi jail. FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00l33sq (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00l33z9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00l33w0 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00l342k (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00l344p (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Kevin Franz. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00l3479 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00l348v (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in FRI Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00l2zg6 (Listen) FRI Martin Shaw FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Shaw. FRI He has been one of Britain's most popular stage and FRI television actors of the past forty years and has taken on FRI more than a hundred different roles. Yet Martin has spent FRI half a lifetime moving out of the shadow of one of his FRI earliest parts: Ray Doyle in The Professionals. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00l9pnn (Listen) FRI The Junior Officer's Reading Club, The Road to Sangin FRI Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st FRI century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and FRI then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's FRI Helmand Province. FRI From Iraq to Helmand Province and the road to Sangin. FRI Battle contact, so long anticipated, proves satisfying for FRI Hennessey and Operation Silicon is a success. But they FRI must now fight their way up to Sangin, as the casualties FRI mount. FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00l34jv (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Art of Deception. FRI FRI 11:00 Three Rivers b00l62ps (Listen) FRI The Clyde FRI Hardeep Singh Kohli travels from source to sea of three FRI major rivers that are being regenerated after years of FRI neglect and industrial use. FRI Hardeep begins beside a stream in Lanarkshire which swells FRI to become the mighty Clyde, dividing Glasgow into north FRI and south and defining the city's industry, heritage and FRI character. FRI A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Electric Ink b00l63v8 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new FRI media in the newspaper industry. FRI The paper hires a reality star as a columnist and Maddox FRI must find a way of rewriting her copy without upsetting FRI her. FRI Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay FRI Oliver ...... Alex Jennings FRI Freddy ...... Ben Willbond FRI Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington FRI Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar FRI Masha ...... Debbie Chazen FRI Debbie ...... Lizzy Watts FRI Announcer ...... Matt Addis FRI With additional material by Tom Mitchelson. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00l36gv (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00l36jd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00l36k5 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00l63vl (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00l36zb (Listen) FRI The wait is over for Lilian. FRI FRI 14:15 On Mardle Fen b00l67zr (Listen) FRI Series 2, Silver Ribbon FRI Series of four plays by Nick Warburton, set in an FRI idiosyncratic restaurant in the Fens. FRI Eccentric chef Warwick Hedges challenges his son Jack to a FRI race, with Jack to go on his bike by road, Warwick on his FRI skates by waterway, and the first man to arrive at the FRI cathedral door wins. FRI Warwick ...... Trevor Peacock FRI Jack ...... Sam Dale FRI Marcia ...... Kate Buffery FRI Samuel ...... John Rowe FRI Zofia ...... Helen Longworth FRI Bernard ...... Paul Rider FRI Directed by Claire Grove. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00l67zt (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Chris Beardshaw answer FRI questions posed by gardeners in Wiltshire. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00l37j8 (Listen) FRI Keeping Faith FRI Series charting the history of America, written and FRI presented by David Reynolds. FRI Evangelical Christian and Washington outsider Jimmy Carter FRI is elected president, but his liberal values doom his FRI administration in the face of the right-wing surge of the FRI Reagan revolution. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00l67zw (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 b00l68wx (Listen) FRI Francine Stock dips into The Pool of London, a classic FRI British noir made in 1951 and released on DVD for the FRI first time. She talks to its star, Caribbean actor Earl FRI Cameron, about his debut and subsequent career. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00l37l4 (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 b00l37w5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00l6fzl (Listen) FRI Series 28, Episode 1 FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of FRI the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, FRI Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00l36zj (Listen) FRI Family loyalties are tested at the Stables. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00l39kk (Listen) FRI Presented by Mark Lawson. Including a report on how FRI dramatists select the titles for their plays, with writers FRI Charlotte Keatley, Jez Butterworth and David Edgar. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00l8l7r (Listen) FRI The Art of Deception, Episode 5 FRI Detective drama by Philip Palmer. FRI Master forger and art criminal Daniel Ballantyne continues FRI to pull the strings from beyond the grave. FRI Daniel Ballantyne ...... David Schofield FRI Jessica Brown ...... Indira Varma FRI Ben ...... Matt Addis FRI Andrew Jarrold ...... Jonathan Keeble FRI Claire de Vere ...... Belinda Lang FRI DI Grimwood/Art Dealer ...... John Biggins FRI Stavros Persakis ...... Malcolm Tierney FRI Museum Curator ...... Philip Fox FRI DS Ruckley/Taxi Driver ...... Benjamin Askew FRI Directed by Toby Swift. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00l68v7 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Birmingham. FRI Panellists include Hilary Benn, the secretary of state for FRI environment, food and rural affairs, writer and journalist FRI Sir Max Hastings and the classicist, Professor Mary Beard. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00l6g8s (Listen) FRI Giant Birds FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI Madagascar, off the eastern coast of Africa, is the FRI largest continental island in the world. It is also the FRI place where the largest egg known to have existed was FRI laid, and the bird that laid it was also a giant. FRI FRI 21:00 America, Empire of Liberty Omnibus b00l6j0k (Listen) FRI Detente and Discontent FRI Omnibus edition of the series charting the history of FRI America, written and presented by David Reynolds. FRI As America reels from Watergate, Vietnam and a sagging FRI economy, conservative and evangelical movements born in FRI the country's heartland move to the forefront of public FRI life. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00l55z7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00l560n (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00l57f2 (Listen) FRI The Spy Game, Episode 5 FRI Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in FRI 1960s England. FRI Peter has made Anna think the unthinkable about their FRI mother, and the pair redouble their surveillance efforts. FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00l5b6r (Listen) FRI Kate Mosse talks to two scientists, the writer and FRI presenter Vivienne Parry and Professor Jocelyn Bell FRI Burnell, head of the Institute of Physics, about their FRI favourite books. The books under discussion are a classic FRI novel, a piece of 20th century history and a romance FRI described by one of the guests as 'Mills and Boon with FRI vampires'. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00l57k9 (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI