03 July, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 04/07/2009 - 10/07/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 4 JULY 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00ld6x4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00lf4cw (Listen) SAT The Last Champion - The Life of Fred Perry, The Founding SAT of A Clothing Empire SAT Jamie Bamber reads from Jon Henderson's biography of SAT English tennis great Fred Perry, charting his SAT extraordinary life from his childhood in Stockport to SAT Wimbledon glory, the glamour of Hollywood and the founding SAT of a clothing empire. SAT Perry faces life after tennis and finds success as a SAT businessman. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ld6x6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ld6x8 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ld6xb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00ld6xd (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ld6xg (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00ld6xj (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00ld6xl (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00ld813 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00ld815 (Listen) SAT Orkney Energy SAT Helen Mark drives a chip fat-powered car around the Orkney SAT island of Westray as she meets the pioneers determined to SAT turn their island into the first community in Britain to SAT be entirely self-sufficient in energy. The local kirk is SAT powered by a wind turbine, holiday homes are heated by SAT ground source heat-pumps and local farmers and fishermen SAT are making their own fuel from cattle manure and cooking SAT oil. SAT Helen also takes to the water to discover more about the SAT enormous energy resource contained within the tides and SAT currents of the Orkney Islands. Can a parade of new SAT gadgets harness the power without disturbing the birds and SAT mammals that feed in the rich waters of the Pentland Firth? SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00ldbhz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Charlotte Smith from the Showground for the Royal Show, SAT where marquees and stalls are being set up for the final SAT time, after 20 years of financial losses. It has been SAT going since 1839 and was once Europe's biggest SAT agricultural shows. SAT However, shows such as the Royal Highland have seen record SAT attendance figures, so Charlotte explores the reasons for SAT The Royal's failure, and investigates what the future SAT holds for agricultural shows across the UK. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00ldbj1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00ldbkn (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00ldbkq (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by the Irish SAT novelist John Boyne. With poetry from Luke Wright. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00ldbks (Listen) SAT Couch surfing is a recent travel phenomenon of the SAT internet age. Travellers use a website to contact people SAT all over the world who will put them up and give them an SAT introduction to local life which the ordinary tourist SAT would miss. Sandi Toksvig finds out from journalist Fleur SAT Britten about her experiences couch surfing in Russia, SAT China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, and what it's like to play SAT host to a complete stranger in her own home. SAT It is nearly 30 years since Jimmy Savile proclaimed, 'This SAT is the Age of the Train', but is it still? Sandi talks to SAT columnist Matthew Engel and guide writer Benedict le Vay SAT about the pleasures of chugging along some of Britain's SAT lesser-known branch lines, compared with the problems of SAT inconvenient timetables and high prices. SAT SAT 10:30 Gurinder, The Movie b00ldblk (Listen) SAT On the set of her new film, director Gurinder Chadha tells SAT the story of her 'dual nationality'. She discusses how her SAT early life in Southall in west London, where she grew up SAT conscious of both her Asian and British inheritance, has SAT informed and enriched her hit films including Bend It Like SAT Beckham. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00ldddp (Listen) SAT Gordon Brown this week unveiled his latest round-up of SAT proposals designed to carry him through to the general SAT election next year. But what political impact will they SAT have in the longer term? And can they improve his fortunes SAT ? SAT In this programme, Steve Richards of 'The Independent' SAT wonders what power a sitting prime minister has at his SAT command to change the political weather. SAT He talks to a senior Labour figure, the MP Geoffrey SAT Robinson, and to the senior Conservative, the former SAT deputy Prime Minister, Michael Heseletine. They discuss SAT the parallels between the fall of John Major in 1997 and SAT the difficulties Gordon Brown is facing now. SAT And, in the week when the government has been forced to SAT abandon its hope to part-privatise the Royal Mail, Lord SAT Hesletine recalls how that goal eluded him too. SAT Also in the programme: SAT * The former Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies SAT Campbell, on his latest task - to review the future of SAT Trident for the Lib Dems. SAT * Journalist Chris Fisher and opinion pollster Andrew SAT Cooper look forward to the impending Norwich North SAT by-election SAT * And the Conservative, Ed Vaizey, and Labour's Steven SAT Pound weigh up the significance of David Cameron's SAT agressive tone at question time in the Commons. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00ldddr (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00ldddt (Listen) SAT Unsolicited credit card cheques could be banned if SAT government plans to assist those in debt become law. Plus, SAT is the latest house price survey a sign of real recovery SAT or could there be further falls ahead? And as SAT investigations into Keydata Investment Services begin, we SAT ask what it means for investors. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00lclwj (Listen) SAT Series 28, Episode 2 SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of SAT the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, SAT Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00ldh4v (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00ldh4x (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00lcm65 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Cranleigh SAT in Surrey. Panellists are historians Linda Colley and SAT Andrew Roberts, columnist Rod Liddle and writer Will Self. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00ldh4z (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 b00ldh51 (Listen) SAT Utz SAT Dramatisation by Gregory Norminton of the last novel SAT written by Bruce Chatwin. SAT A British academic travels to 1960s Prague to research the SAT art collection of Rudolf II and meets the eccentric and SAT dogged porcelain collector, Kaspar Joachim Utz. From this SAT encounter an extraordinary story of obsession and survival SAT emerges. For years, Utz has protected his vast collection SAT of Meissen figurines from Nazis, Stalinist ideologues and SAT the demands of communist museum curators. SAT Utz/Janitor ...... Jack Klaff SAT Marta ...... Pam Ferris SAT Dr Orlik/Curator ...... Sam Kelly SAT Narrator ...... Daniel Weyman SAT Oxford Don/Man/Head Waiter ...... Gregory Norminton SAT Elena/Teresa Kryl ...... Michaela Stonisova SAT Ana/Photographer ...... Dolya Gavanski SAT Directed by Marilyn Imrie SAT A Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC SAT Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Settling the Score b00lbgqq (Listen) SAT Tim Blackmore examines the complex relationship between SAT composer and commissioner and asks if having boundaries SAT set on the creative process is a help or a hindrance. SAT The programme follows the progress of writing a new SAT musical, Feather Boy, by film composer Debbie Wiseman. She SAT has been commissioned by the National Theatre to write for SAT this musical which will performed in 'workshop' style in SAT July. Her commissioner is the director Anthony Banks. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00ldh71 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT With Jane Garvey. Including an interview with CNN's SAT leading international correspondent Christiane Amanpour; SAT the gender politics behind mixed doubles in tennis; SAT writers Zoe Heller and Esther Freud on creating unlikeable SAT characters in fiction; the origins of the hunger strike, SAT its suffrage history and use today; women and the burkha; SAT the motivation behind the desire to change sex; and SAT novelist Sarah Dunant on convent life in Renaissance Italy. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00ldh73 (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 b00lbt40 (Listen) SAT You spend your life trying to get to the top in business. SAT Then, when you do, you get driven to meetings, enjoy a SAT wonderful expense account and all the perks of the job. SAT But how do you stay in touch with the people on the shop SAT floor? Evan Davis asks his top-rung guests to divulge how SAT much time they spend with those on the bottom rung, and SAT how important they think it is for the success of their SAT business. SAT Evan's guests are Carolyn McCall, chief executive of the SAT Guardian Media Group, Patrick Dempsey of Whitbread Hotels SAT and Restaurants and Peter Taylor, managing partner of SAT leading private equity group Duke Street. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ldhb6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00ldhb8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ldhbb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00ldhbd (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Peter Capaldi, Trisha Goddard SAT and Benjamin Zephaniah. SAT Emma Freud talks to food writer and presenter Valentine SAT Warner. SAT With comedy from Keith Farnan and music from the Hypnotic SAT Brass Ensemble and Hafdis Huld. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00ldhbg (Listen) SAT Silvio Berlusconi SAT Jonathan Maitland profiles Silvio Berlusconi, who hosts SAT the latest G8 summit in the wake of accusations of hiring SAT prostitutes, as well as corruption and media interference. SAT However, he still manages to remain popular with Italian SAT voters. Jonathan asks what is it about Berlusconi that has SAT made him so successful and if those talents are enough to SAT ensure that he survives the current controversy about his SAT private life. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00ldhbj (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00ldhbl (Listen) SAT I Did Not Interview the Dead SAT In 1946, psychologist Dr David Boder travelled across the SAT American zones of war-torn Europe to record 120 interviews SAT that remain unique. In Yiddish, Polish, German, Spanish SAT and English, mostly Jewish young men, women and orphan SAT children were asked to tell their personal stories of SAT survival and loss in the world of Nazi concentration and SAT death camps. SAT Boder also gathered from them the songs of the SAT ghettos.These recordings are arguably the first ever oral SAT histories and the only contemporary interviews with people SAT who had survived the worst but whose immediate fate was SAT unkown. Alan Dein listens to those still making sense of SAT their terrible experiences. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00l987f (Listen) SAT Confessions of an English Opium-Eater SAT By Lavinia Murray. SAT Dramatisation of Thomas De Quincey's 1821 autobiographical SAT account of his consumption of the liquid opiate laudanum, SAT a legal painkiller of the time, and his painful and SAT surreal descent into addiction. SAT Older Thomas ...... Oliver Cotton SAT Younger Thomas ...... James Nickerson SAT Brunnel/Tutor ...... Mark Chatterton SAT Able Big/Ong ...... Eric Potts SAT Betsy ...... Lisa Allen SAT Groaty/Wordsworth ...... David Fleeshman SAT Edith ...... Gemma Harvey SAT Ann ...... Sara Bahadori SAT Directed by Gary Brown. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00ldhbn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b00lb6bt (Listen) SAT The Reith Lectures 2009, A New Politics of the Common Good 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 makes the case for a moral and civic renewal in SAT democratic politics. Recorded at George Washington SAT University in Washington DC, he calls for a new politics SAT of the common good and says that we need to think of SAT ourselves as citizens, not just consumers. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00lb26y (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange SAT of quotations and anecdotes. SAT With guests Dame Beryl Bainbridge, Ekow Eshun, Anthony SAT Howard and Francesca Simon. SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT 23:30 South of My Days b00l99mk (Listen) SAT Greta Scacchi presents a portrait of Australian poet SAT Judith Wright, who died in 2000. She broke new ground in SAT celebrating the beauty of the Australian landscape and SAT brought insight into women's relationships - writing about SAT love, pregnancy and birth. Wright was also a trailblazing SAT conservationist and a campaigner for Aboriginal land SAT rights. SAT Featuring contributions from Wright's daughter, Meredith SAT McKinney, and friends and colleagues, plus readings by SAT Kerry Fox. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 5 JULY 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00ldxqb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0085cfz (Listen) SUN Ones to Watch (Volume 2), Naked SUN A talent showcase of unpublished work from new writers. SUN By Nicholas Hogg, read by Nigel Anthony. SUN Henry finds that an Alaskan cruise to celebrate his 40th SUN wedding anniversary leaves him with cabin fever. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ldxqf (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ldxqh (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ldxqk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00ldxqm (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00ldxqp (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from York Minster. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00ldhbg (Listen) SUN Silvio Berlusconi SUN Jonathan Maitland profiles Silvio Berlusconi, who hosts SUN the latest G8 summit in the wake of accusations of hiring SUN prostitutes, as well as corruption and media interference. SUN However, he still manages to remain popular with Italian SUN voters. Jonathan asks what is it about Berlusconi that has SUN made him so successful and if those talents are enough to SUN ensure that he survives the current controversy about his SUN private life. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00ldxqr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00ldxqt (Listen) SUN Buying and Selling SUN Mark Tully examines the troubled relationship between SUN buyer and seller, talking to business guru Charles Handy. SUN Featuring music by Henry Purcell and Memphis Minnie and SUN commentary from Martin Amis and Montaigne. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00ldxqw (Listen) SUN Tom Heap visits the farm of pig breeder Malcolm Hicks, as SUN he prepares for the last ever Royal Show. SUN Malcolm has won many times before at The Royal and has SUN high hopes that Josephine, a 300 kilo pedigree Gloucester SUN Old Spot Sow, will not so much be bringing home the bacon SUN from Stoneleigh as a large silver trophy to further SUN enhance the reputation of his herd. SUN Living only a few miles from the show ground, it has SUN always been Malcolm's local show and he explains to Tom SUN the important role the event has played in building his SUN business, and also in the social lives of farmers and SUN their families. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00ldxqy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00ldxr0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00ldxr2 (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 b00ldxr4 (Listen) SUN Working Families SUN Lynda Bellingham appeals on behalf of Working Families. SUN Donations to Working Families, should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Working Families. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Working Families SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 0427690. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00ldxr6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00ldxr8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00ldxrb (Listen) SUN A service exploring the theme of contentment from SUN Highfields Church in Cardiff, led by Rev Peter Baker. SUN Readings: Psalm 34:4-18 and Philippians 4:8-20. SUN Director of Music: Phil Holt. Conductor: Huw Gareth SUN Williams. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lcmcq (Listen) SUN Songsters SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN People are not the only species who sing. Many birds do SUN and even another ape. What messages are conveyed in the SUN syllables, melodies and repeated phrases, and who is SUN listening? SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00ldxrd (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00ldxrg (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00ldxrj (Listen) SUN Harvey Goldsmith SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the impresario and promoter SUN Harvey Goldsmith. SUN From the Rolling Stones to Pavarotti, and with pretty well SUN every other name in music in-between, he has been one of SUN the country's top promoters for more than 40 years. SUN His career has given him a unique insight into music SUN history; he was there, after all, when Keith Moon threw SUN his first TV out of a hotel window. Always passionate SUN about what he listened to, he acknowledges that his own SUN instrument is the pocket calculator. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00lb272 (Listen) SUN Series 51, Episode 3 SUN The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the SUN Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, with Jack Dee taking on SUN the chairman's role from the late Humphrey Lyttelton. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined by Jeremy Hardy. SUN With Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00ldxrl (Listen) SUN Branding SUN Brands - do you love them, buy them or hate them? Are they SUN an essential element of trust in our globalised food SUN system - and can local farms use them just as smartly as SUN multinational food corporations? SUN Reporter Mark Holdstock visits the launch of Fodder, the SUN Yorkshire Agricultural Society's new shop and cafe outside SUN Harrogate and talks to Deputy Chief Executive Heather SUN Parry and to Jenny Clarkson of Just Jenny's Ice-cream. SUN Sheila Dillon visits Barford Farmhouse, near Wimborne in SUN Dorset, and talks to Wendy Pope about their farmhouse ice SUN cream. She asks why they launched it and how difficult and SUN costly it was to develop a logo and to market it. SUN Sheila Dillon also talks to Julian Hunt of the Food and SUN Drink Federation. SUN And Sheila is joined in the studio by Jonathan Gabay of SUN Brand Forensics and Anthony Davison of Big Barn, a leading SUN local food website. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00ldxrn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00ldxrq (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Peace Work b00j6xxx (Listen) SUN Mark Devenport finds out how Northern Ireland is sending SUN its politicians around the world to share their SUN experiences of successful conflict resolution. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lcksx (Listen) SUN Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Anne Swithinbank, John Cushnie and Matthew Wilson answer SUN questions posed by gardeners in East Sussex. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 The Estuary b008kf0n (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Peter France narrates an extraordinary story of life on SUN the Wash as the tides and the seasons change, set against SUN a backdrop of sounds recorded on location by Chris Watson. SUN At low tide, the vast expanses of mud which stretch almost SUN as far as the eye can see are a magnet for migratory birds. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00ldzsp (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, SUN Episode 1 SUN Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic SUN novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley. SUN Berlin, the early 1960s - the Wall is up between East and SUN West and the Cold War is at freezing point. Alec Leamas is SUN Circus Head of Station in Berlin, and his network of SUN agents in East Germany is in great danger. SUN Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SUN Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox SUN Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell SUN Control ...... John Rowe SUN Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SUN Elsie/Elvira ...... Siobhan Redmond SUN Ashe ...... Jamie Newall SUN Miss Crail ...... Liza Sadovy SUN Mr Pitt ...... Philip Fox SUN Grocer ...... David Hargreaves SUN CIA Man ...... Benjamin Askew. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00lf0vg (Listen) SUN Bernard MacLaverty SUN James Naughtie and readers meet Northern Irish writer SUN Bernard MacLaverty to discuss his Booker Prize-shortlisted SUN novel Grace Notes, which concerns a young female composer SUN very much in a man's world. Now living in Scotland, SUN MacLaverty returns to his native Belfast especially for SUN the recording of the programme. SUN SUN 16:30 Walking With Whitman b00lf0vj (Listen) SUN Stuart Maconie meets devotees of Walt Whitman in Bolton SUN and explores the history of the town's unlikely yet SUN enduring relationship with the American poet. SUN A group of devoted fans established the Whitman Fellowship SUN from 1885 onwards, and, although he never visited the SUN town, Whitman developed strong ties through his SUN correspondence with members of the group. Today, Whitman SUN devotees gather for the annual Whitman Walk, to recite his SUN works and share from Whitman's Loving Cup, a gift SUN presented to his followers in Bolton in 1894. SUN Stuart joins this happy band of walkers and Whitmanites to SUN discover why the poet is still celebrated there, nearly SUN 120 years after his death. SUN A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00lbhtk (Listen) SUN With payouts in clinical negligence cases expected to SUN reach a record 700 million pounds in 2010, Miriam O'Reilly SUN investigates no-win, no-fee lawyers. Some of them are SUN allowed to charge up to 800 pounds per hour in bringing SUN claims against the NHS, enabling many law firms to earn SUN substantially more in fees than their clients receive in SUN damages. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00ldhbg (Listen) SUN Silvio Berlusconi SUN Jonathan Maitland profiles Silvio Berlusconi, who hosts SUN the latest G8 summit in the wake of accusations of hiring SUN prostitutes, as well as corruption and media interference. SUN However, he still manages to remain popular with Italian SUN voters. Jonathan asks what is it about Berlusconi that has SUN made him so successful and if those talents are enough to SUN ensure that he survives the current controversy about his SUN private life. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00lf54g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00lf54j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00lf54l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00lf54n (Listen) SUN Caz Graham introduces her selection of highlights from the SUN past week on BBC radio. SUN Programmes featured this week: SUN Torchwood - Radio 4 SUN Today programme, sports bulletin - Radio 4 SUN John McEnroe's 6-Love-6 - Radio 5 Live SUN Book of the Week: The Last Champion - Radio 4 SUN Stonewall: The Riots That Triggered the Gay Revolution - SUN Radio 2 SUN Nightwaves - Radio 3 SUN Glastonbury - 6Music SUN Mubarak's Egypt - World Service SUN Travelling the Great Divide - Radio 3 SUN Alert Bay - World Service SUN Sitting For Fay - Radio 4 SUN Walking With Whitman - Radio 4 SUN Look Away Now - Radio 4 SUN The Archers - Radio 4 SUN Farming Today - Radio 4 SUN Gurinder, The Movie - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00lf54q (Listen) SUN Jim starts as he means to go on. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00lf54s (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today. Combining location reports SUN with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show SUN provides new and surprising insights into contemporary SUN America. SUN Matt celebrates Independence Day, lifts the lid on the SUN underside of America's capital and talks to the small-town SUN mayor with big plans for how to turn around America's SUN struggling cities. He also hears the story of an SUN unexpected American patriot and is joined by a very SUN important visitor. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008cp28 (Listen) SUN Blake's Doors of Perception, No Trumpets Needed SUN Stories inspired by poet William Blake, written and read SUN by Michael Morpurgo. SUN The story of the friendship between a cameraman filming on SUN the West Bank and a shepherd boy. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00lc9fc (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy, including: SUN Has 5live's coverage of Wimbledon focused too much on the SUN action around the tennis courts, as opposed to on it? SUN Was the coverage of the death of Michael Jackson too SUN extensive? SUN And just how fantastic was weather forecaster Tomasz SUN Schafernaker's slip of the tongue when he tried to SUN describe the muddy site of Glastonbury? SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00lcksz (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister talks to writer Carla Lane, to Trevor SUN Bannister who played the young salesman Mr Lucas and to SUN the creator of Are You Being Served? and writer and actor SUN Jeremy Lloyd about the actress Mollie Sugden; to the wine SUN writer Jancis Robinson about the wine maker Jean (Johnny) SUN Hugel; to regulars at the Sun Inn pub Gary Seymour and SUN Mark Haslam, local representative of the Campaign for Real SUN Ale, and to Jeremy Paxman who remembers visiting the pub SUN owned by landlady Florence (Flossie) Lane; to the doctor SUN of the England Football team Ian Beesley and to the SUN current director of Sports Science at the University Tim SUN Cable about sports scientist Prof Tom Reilly; and to SUN Attila the Stockbroker, SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00ldddt (Listen) SUN Unsolicited credit card cheques could be banned if SUN government plans to assist those in debt become law. Plus, SUN is the latest house price survey a sign of real recovery SUN or could there be further falls ahead? And as SUN investigations into Keydata Investment Services begin, we SUN ask what it means for investors. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00ldxr4 (Listen) SUN Working Families SUN Lynda Bellingham appeals on behalf of Working Families. SUN Donations to Working Families, should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Working Families. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Working Families SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online SUN and phone donation facilities are not currently available SUN to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 0427690. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00lb5lj (Listen) SUN Doesn't Everyone? SUN Michael Blastland asks if 'group-think' is distancing SUN policy from the public and asks if our political elite SUN have forgotten how most voters live. People measure their SUN behaviour and beliefs by those around them, so MPs might SUN have thought that the expenses system was reasonable. SUN Might it also mean they have lost touch with what Britain SUN is really like? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00lf54v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00lf54x (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Dave's Friends in the North. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00lclqx (Listen) SUN Director Michael Mann discusses his gangster movie Public SUN Enemies, starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger. Thelma SUN Schoonmaker talks about the resoration of The Red Shoes, SUN which was directed by her husband Michael Powell. Plus SUN Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader on the art of SUN screenwriting. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00ldxqt (Listen) SUN Buying and Selling SUN Mark Tully examines the troubled relationship between SUN buyer and seller, talking to business guru Charles Handy. SUN Featuring music by Henry Purcell and Memphis Minnie and SUN commentary from Martin Amis and Montaigne. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 6 JULY 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00lfc7k (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lbn9y (Listen) MON From dizziness to chronic pain, the overstretched health MON service is faced with increasing numbers of patients with MON symptoms that defy a medical explanation. They are often MON subject to repeated tests and treatment yet their illness MON persists. Laurie Taylor is joined by Monica Greco, whose MON research suggests the practice of patient choice ensures MON that many such patients get worse rather than better. MON Also on the programme, Róisín Ryan-Flood, the author of MON Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual MON Citizenship, talks about the growing numbers of lesbians MON choosing to have children by donor insemination and the MON evolution of new definitions of family. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00ldxqp (Listen) MON The sound of bells from York Minster. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lfcdq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lfcgl (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lfcfm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00lfch3 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lfcj4 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00lfcp1 (Listen) MON Farmers may have to remove cows and calves from any fields MON with a footpath in, following the case of a woman trampled MON by cattle. Her barrister, the National Farmer's Union and MON the Rambler's association reflect on the implications. MON Charlotte Smith reports. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00lg31j (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00lfcz2 (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00lg31l (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to Arundhati Roy about democracy and MON Timothy Garton Ash about subversive facts. Plus Karen MON Armstrong on the case for God and Hermione Lee on the MON shifting fashions in biography. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00lfd00 (Listen) MON Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 1 MON Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of MON the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky, MON who was outmanoeuvred for the leadership of the Soviet MON Communist Party by Josef Stalin before being exiled, MON eventually going into hiding in Mexico in the home of the MON famous artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. MON At the time of the Moscow trials, Leon Trotsky, the MON charismatic intellectual at the heart of the Russian MON Revolution, had been exiled from the Soviet Union and was MON unwelcome in almost every country in Europe. So, as 1937 MON dawned, he found himself on a Norwegian oil tanker bound MON for Mexico. MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lfdy1 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON A new survey suggests that two thirds of all expectant MON parents of twins and multiple births are denied access to MON multiple-specific parent education, which could be vital MON for promoting healthy outcomes for mothers and their MON unborn twins and triplets. As a result, they are more at MON risk of medical complications, less prepared for the birth MON experience itself and more prone to postnatal depression. MON Woman's Hour discusses what support these families can be MON given during pregnancy. MON Emma Johnson was once described as 'Britain's favourite MON clarinettist', being one of the few clarinettists to have MON established an international career as a soloist. Since MON winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in MON 1984, Emma has been one of the UK's biggest selling MON classical artists ever, selling over a quarter of a MON million discs worldwide, and being awarded an MBE in 1996 MON for services to music. Emma joins Jane to discuss her MON career and to demonstrate some Klezmer music. MON A mobile phone so simple it could be used by very young MON children will go on sale in the UK in October. But do we MON really want our children to be using mobiles? Critics MON argue that aside from the disputed health risks, mobiles MON put children at risk of being mugged and receiving MON unwanted and potentially threatening text messages. MON However, some parents feel it is critical to child safety. MON The myth of Baba Yaga is one of the most famous stories in MON Russian and Eastern European mythology. Baba Yaga is a MON witch-like character who lives in a house on chicken feet MON and kidnaps young children. In her latest novel, Baba Yaga MON Laid An Egg, the Croatian writer and academic Dubravka MON Ugresic tackles the myth through contemporary narratives, MON from the story of a woman's relationship with her mother MON and the tale of three ageing women on holiday at a spa. MON Jane talks to Dubravka about her novel and leaving her MON homeland of the former Yugoslavia to move to Amsterdam MON after being proclaimed a 'traitor', a 'public enemy' and a MON 'witch'. MON MON 11:00 The Criminal Mind b00j6lh9 (Listen) MON Joshua Rozenberg examines new medical insights into the MON criminal mind. He joins scientists as they examine the MON brains of violent criminals and sees startling evidence of MON physical brain damage caused by neglect and abuse during MON infancy. Joshua asks whether offenders who suffer from MON this kind of brain dysfunction can be held responsible for MON their behaviour. MON MON 11:30 Newfangle b00lg72h (Listen) MON Trees in the Forest MON Sitcom by Adam Rosenthal and Viv Ambrose, set 100,000 MON years BC among a tribe of proto-humans. MON Newfangle accidentally offends the elders of the tribe, MON who order the other hominids to savage the doubter. He MON hides from the mob, only to discover that his words carry MON a new-found power. 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 MON 12:00 You and Yours b00lff6s (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00lff9c (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00lffb0 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00lg72k (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange MON of quotations and anecdotes. MON With guests Adele Geras, Conn Iggulden, Christopher MON Luscombe and Simon Pearsall. MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00lf54q (Listen) MON Jim starts as he means to go on. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lg72m (Listen) MON In Mates MON Comedy by Sue Teddern. Michelle from Orpington sends audio MON tapes to her new pen pal, Randall - who is on Death Row. MON Michelle is a happy woman, with a lovely social life, and MON poor Randall could do with this outlet, surely. Or at MON least, that's how the relationship begins. MON Michelle ...... Pauline Quirke MON Joyce ...... Gillian Wright MON Kirsty ...... Lizzy Watts MON Pavel ...... Benjamin Askew MON Brian ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Chrissie ...... Annabelle Dowler MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00ldhbl (Listen) MON I Did Not Interview the Dead MON In 1946, psychologist Dr David Boder travelled across the MON American zones of war-torn Europe to record 120 interviews MON that remain unique. In Yiddish, Polish, German, Spanish MON and English, mostly Jewish young men, women and orphan MON children were asked to tell their personal stories of MON survival and loss in the world of Nazi concentration and MON death camps. MON Boder also gathered from them the songs of the MON ghettos.These recordings are arguably the first ever oral MON histories and the only contemporary interviews with people MON who had survived the worst but whose immediate fate was MON unkown. Alan Dein listens to those still making sense of MON their terrible experiences. MON MON 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00lfhkd (Listen) MON Sole Superpower, Edgy Americans MON Series charting the history of America, written and MON presented by David Reynolds. MON President Clinton presides over a grubby and divisive MON period in the political world, but at the same time new MON technology bolsters the American economy. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00ldxrl (Listen) MON Branding MON Brands - do you love them, buy them or hate them? Are they MON an essential element of trust in our globalised food MON system - and can local farms use them just as smartly as MON multinational food corporations? MON Reporter Mark Holdstock visits the launch of Fodder, the MON Yorkshire Agricultural Society's new shop and cafe outside MON Harrogate and talks to Deputy Chief Executive Heather MON Parry and to Jenny Clarkson of Just Jenny's Ice-cream. MON Sheila Dillon visits Barford Farmhouse, near Wimborne in MON Dorset, and talks to Wendy Pope about their farmhouse ice MON cream. She asks why they launched it and how difficult and MON costly it was to develop a logo and to market it. MON Sheila Dillon also talks to Julian Hunt of the Food and MON Drink Federation. MON And Sheila is joined in the studio by Jonathan Gabay of MON Brand Forensics and Anthony Davison of Big Barn, a leading MON local food website. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00lg7yj (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss the theological roots of the MON Orange Order, the largest Protestant organisation in MON Northern Ireland. MON MON 17:00 PM b00lfnyt (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 b00lfpq4 (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 b00lg8hd (Listen) MON Series 51, Episode 4 MON The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the MON Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, with Jack Dee taking on MON the chairman's role from the late Humphrey Lyttelton. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined by Jeremy Hardy. MON With Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00lffyt (Listen) MON Lilian's cloud gets a silver lining. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00lfqkd (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson. Including a report on the first MON volunteers to appear on the empty fourth plinth in MON Trafalgar Square, as part of Antony Gormley's work One and MON Other. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lfqkg (Listen) MON Sacred Hearts, Miracle MON Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a MON convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been MON placed against her will. MON Suora Zuana administers a strong remedy to calm Serafina's MON convulsions - but is it too much? MON Abbess ...... Eileen Atkins MON Zuana ...... Geraldine James MON Serafina ...... Natalie Dormer MON Umiliana ...... Sian Thomas MON Magdalene ...... Helen Ryan MON Dramtised by Rachel Joyce. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b00lb2cq (Listen) MON The 99 MON DJ Bobby Friction tells the story of Dr Naif Al-Mutawa, MON the psychologist and businessman who has created the first MON collection of Muslim comic book superheroes - The 99 - MON that are sweeping the Arab world, and arriving soon in MON Europe. Based on the 99 attributes of Allah in the Koran, MON the cartoons are not without controversy. Bobby visits MON Naif in Kuwait on the eve of the opening of The 99's first MON theme park, and tells the story of his quest to become MON known as 'the Walt Disney of the Arabic world'. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00lg8hg (Listen) MON Inspiring Green Innovation MON The dangers of climate change are well understood, but MON what innovations need to be nurtured to fight global MON warming? Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist, examines MON the different ways to inspire the creators and inventors MON who will lead the way in this field. MON MON 21:00 Frontiers b00lg8hj (Listen) MON Nuclear Fusion MON Gareth Mitchell asks if nuclear fusion could at last be MON close to generating energy. MON Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of alternative energy. It MON is clean, green and could supply limitless energy to the MON world, but despite decades of research in some of the most MON expensive science facilities in the world, it has remained MON an elusive goal. Scientists working at a new experimental MON facility in California are set to use giant laser beams to MON try and initiate nuclear fusion. If it works, nuclear MON fusion could become a real solution to our energy needs. MON If nuclear fusion could be made to work commercially, the MON energy released will be of stellar proportions; this, MON after all, is the process that powers the Sun. The total MON energy that could ever be created using wind, wave and MON solar power is ridiculously small by comparison. Nuclear MON power, which is generated by fission not fusion, requires MON uranium - which will run out - and, of course, generates MON radioactive waste. MON Gareth witnesses the start of a new era of nuclear fusion MON experiments. He finds out just how difficult it was to MON build a facility where this kind of experiment could take MON place and double checks that there is no danger of MON starting a hydrogen bomb. He also asks, if they can get MON nuclear fusion to work in this experimental setting, how MON long it will be before this process could supply the world MON with the energy it so desperately needs? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00lg31l (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to Arundhati Roy about democracy and MON Timothy Garton Ash about subversive facts. Plus Karen MON Armstrong on the case for God and Hermione Lee on the MON shifting fashions in biography. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00lfrd2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00lfrdg (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lft9k (Listen) MON To Heaven By Water, Episode 1 MON Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright, MON about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a MON wife and mother. MON Now that his wife is dead and he has retired from his job MON as anchorman for a 24-hour news channel, David Cross is MON building a new life. But his children are uncomfortable MON with his new image. MON Abridged by Jane Marshall. MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00lbt3r (Listen) MON Falling on Your Sword MON Has something happened to the ideas of honour, dignity, MON duty and virtue? Are people less willing to fall on their MON swords than they used to do? Is it admirable, anyway, to MON admit defeat? MON Political journalist Anthony Howard, author and MON broadcaster Anne Atkins and journalist Toby Young join MON Dominic Arkwright to explore the subject through their MON writing. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00lg2vg (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with David Wilby. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 7 JULY 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00lfc06 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00lfd00 (Listen) TUE Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 1 TUE Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of TUE the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky, TUE who was outmanoeuvred for the leadership of the Soviet TUE Communist Party by Josef Stalin before being exiled, TUE eventually going into hiding in Mexico in the home of the TUE famous artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. TUE At the time of the Moscow trials, Leon Trotsky, the TUE charismatic intellectual at the heart of the Russian TUE Revolution, had been exiled from the Soviet Union and was TUE unwelcome in almost every country in Europe. So, as 1937 TUE dawned, he found himself on a Norwegian oil tanker bound TUE for Mexico. TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lfc7p (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lfcfp (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lfcds (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00lfcgn (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lfcj6 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00lfcm5 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00lfcry (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in TUE Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00ljymw (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE Jonathan and his guests ask how governments can best help TUE the unemployed and visit the site of a 1930s labour camp TUE set up to 'recondition' unemployed men and prepare them TUE for a return to work. TUE TUE 09:30 Musical Migrants b00b4mhx (Listen) TUE Series 1, From Japan to Chicago TUE Stories of people who relocated to other countries, TUE influenced by music. TUE Japanese singer Yoko Noge became passionate about the TUE blues as a schoolgirl. After her mother's suicide, she set TUE off for Chicago, the capital of blues music. Her first TUE stop was a Westside joint, where master bluesman Willie TUE Kent was playing. When Yoko told him she had come so far TUE just for the music, he asked her to sing. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00lk4ly (Listen) TUE Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 2 TUE Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of TUE the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky. TUE Leon Trotsky, exiled from the Soviet Union and in fear of TUE his life, settles into the Blue House, home of artist TUE Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo, in a Mexican TUE village. Now he faces the hearings which he hopes will TUE clear his name. TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lfdlp (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Sacred Hearts. TUE TUE 11:00 The Royal Show in Crisis b00k175r (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Tom Heap gains exclusive access in the battle to save The TUE Royal Show. TUE Britain's most prestigious agricultural event has been the TUE showcase for the farming industry for 160 years, but the TUE Royal show hasn't made a profit in more than two decades. TUE It's been the victim of foot and mouth, atrocious weather TUE and bluetongue. TUE Tom has been following the team at its home in Stoneleigh TUE Park in Warwickshire as they try to ensure that the 2009 TUE show will once more establish the Royal as a premier TUE event. But in April the plug was pulled and the Royal TUE Agricultural Society announced 2009 would be the last TUE event. TUE TUE 11:30 Morris and the Muslims b00lg9y0 (Listen) TUE Navid Akhtar examines the influence of Islamic design and TUE values on the life of the Victorian designer, poet, TUE craftsman and socialist radical William Morris. TUE Morris was inspired by Turkish ceramics and Persian TUE carpets to create a new movement in British design. For TUE him, the Muslim world had managed to preserve the art of TUE the craftsman and avoid the ills of industrial production. TUE He espoused the philosophy that art should be affordable TUE and hand made; this was already a reality in the Islamic TUE world. TUE Not stopping at arts and crafts, he was a passionate TUE advocate of social utopianism and believed in the rights TUE of the worker. Today, these ideals have profoundly TUE influenced a new generation of British-born Muslim TUE artists, as they rediscover Morris and look to his TUE artistic work and socialist ideas for inspiration. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00lff2d (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00lff6v (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00lff9f (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 John Mayall's Blues Adventures b00lg9y2 (Listen) TUE Blues musician John Mayall presents a homage to the rhythm TUE and blues scene which exploded in Britain in the early TUE 1960s. With contributions from Bill Wyman, Zoot Money and TUE Eric Burdon. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00lffyt (Listen) TUE Lilian's cloud gets a silver lining. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b008fgjr (Listen) TUE Chameleon TUE Comedy thriller by Vicky Meer. TUE Mo is being relocated under a witness protection scheme, TUE his previous identity totally eradicated. How will a TUE Porsche-driving London drug dealer adapt to life as a TUE vegetarian postman living in a former council semi in TUE Gretna? TUE Mo ...... Navin Chowdhry TUE Vadim Andreyev ...... Serge Soric TUE Charles ...... James Quinn TUE Shahanah ...... Thushani Weerasekera TUE Donna Marie ...... Hilary MacLean TUE Jimmy ...... Glenn Cunningham TUE Svetlana/MrsC ...... Christine Brennan TUE Directed by Sue Roberts. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00lgfqp (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the world we inhabit and our interaction with it, TUE from astronomy to geology, biology to environmental TUE science. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lgfqr (Listen) TUE Bears of England, Spirit Bears TUE Series of three eccentric stories by Mick Jackson, which TUE mix fantasy with folk tale and myth with history. TUE In the days before electric light and oil lamps, most of TUE England was troubled by spirit bears. But one particular TUE village believed itself to be plagued by an especially TUE wicked gang of spirit bears. TUE Read by Ian Holm. TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00lfhjw (Listen) TUE Multiculturalism or Disintegration? TUE Series charting the history of America, written and TUE presented by David Reynolds. TUE America grapples with new racial realities as new waves of TUE immigration from Latin America change the country's ethnic TUE makeup. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00lgj39 (Listen) TUE As more evidence emerges of child abuse by religious TUE institutions in Ireland, Clive Coleman examines a scheme TUE set up to provide justice and compensation for victims. TUE What lessons does it offer in dealing with institutional TUE abuse - and why does it insist on protecting the identity TUE of alleged abusers? TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00lgj3c (Listen) TUE Kate Mosse talks to actor Clive Swift and Indarjit Singh, TUE a regular contributor to Thought for the Day, about their TUE favourite books. They discuss works that take them from TUE London's 'Wrong Set' to northern India and Saudi Arabia. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00lfnt3 (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 b00lfnyw (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 The Secret World b00kf11f (Listen) TUE Episode 6 TUE Comedy series that offers an insight into the private TUE lives of the famous. TUE Bill Gates wants a friend. TUE With Jon Culshaw, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Julian Dutton, TUE Lewis MacLeod, Jess Robinson and Duncan Wisbey. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00lffyc (Listen) TUE Jim aims for life in the fast lane. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00lfq2n (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report TUE on the pleasures and perils of producing live television TUE plays. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lfqkj (Listen) TUE Sacred Hearts, Penance TUE Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a TUE convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been TUE placed against her will. TUE The novice Serafina is given penance and starves herself TUE for the host. It seems that all hope is lost. TUE Abbess ...... Eileen Atkins TUE Zuana ...... Geraldine James TUE Serafina ...... Natalie Dormer TUE Umiliana ...... Sian Thomas TUE Letizia ...... Ayesha Antoine TUE Dramtised by Rachel Joyce. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00lgj3h (Listen) TUE Following a series of blunders by the justice authorities, TUE who left a dangerous criminal free to torture and murder TUE two French students in London, Allan Urry asks whether TUE government ministers can still justify their claim that TUE Britain's system of public protection from violent TUE offenders and sex abusers is among the best in the world. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00lgj3k (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00lgj3m (Listen) TUE To mark Dementia Awareness Week, Claudia Hammond asks how TUE we are placed to deal with the fact that, in just 20 TUE years, one and a half million of us will have a fatal TUE brain disease. TUE There is no cure, and no treatment that can even slow it TUE down; dementia is the health challenge of our generation. TUE Claudia talks to the British scientists at the forefront TUE of the global race to find a way to treat Alzheimer's TUE disease and asks why so many people's dementia remains TUE undiagnosed. TUE Patients and carers state what improvements in health and TUE social care they want to see and Claudia visits one of the TUE government's flagship new memory services, which is TUE modelling the improvements contained in the government's TUE new National Dementia Strategy. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00ljymw (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE Jonathan and his guests ask how governments can best help TUE the unemployed and visit the site of a 1930s labour camp TUE set up to 'recondition' unemployed men and prepare them TUE for a return to work. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00lfqs1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00lfrd4 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lft97 (Listen) TUE To Heaven By Water, Episode 2 TUE Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright, TUE about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a TUE wife and mother. TUE Ed and Lucy Cross are concerned about their newly-widowed TUE and retired father. He is too thin, and he has started TUE going to the gym. TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall. TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00lgj3p (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Arthur Smith invites an audience into his home for music TUE and comedy. TUE Paul Sinha in the lounge, Milton Jones in the bedroom and TUE Glenn Tilbrook in the kitchen provide music and TUE nourishment in the shape of Welsh rarebit, and Pippa Evans TUE - as singer-songwriter Loretta Maine - lends a hand. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00lg2v4 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Sean Curran. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00lfc08 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00lk4ly (Listen) WED Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 2 WED Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of WED the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky. WED Leon Trotsky, exiled from the Soviet Union and in fear of WED his life, settles into the Blue House, home of artist WED Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo, in a Mexican WED village. Now he faces the hearings which he hopes will WED clear his name. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lfc7t (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lfcfr (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lfcdv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00lfcgq (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lfcj8 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00lfcm7 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00lfcs0 (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00lglr4 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including linguist Professor David Crystal. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00lk4dm (Listen) WED Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 3 WED Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of WED the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky. WED Trotsky has fallen out with Diego Rivera and has to move WED to a new house in Mexico City. His staff locate a run-down WED house in the Avenue Viena and begin to turn it into a WED fortress. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lfdlr (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Sacred Hearts. WED WED 11:00 The Garden Room Girls b00lgm1r (Listen) WED Some of the elite band of secretaries who have worked at WED Downing Street over the last 50 years reveal their untold WED stories of life at Number 10 and how it operates. WED Interviewed for the first time, they talk to Naomi Grimley WED about working for Prime Ministers since Churchill, and WED Tony Blair discloses how the PM's office could not work WED without them. WED WED 11:30 Baggage b00lgm1t (Listen) WED Series 4, Ashes to Auld Reekie WED Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh. WED It is a year since Caroline's best friend, Fiona, died, WED but an unexpected visitor, a skinny dip in a Highland loch WED and an illicit kiss mean that scattering her ashes doesn't WED quite go according to plan. WED Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon WED Fiona ...... Phyllis Logan WED Ruth ...... Adie Allen WED Roddy ...... Robin Cameron WED Gladys ...... June Watson WED Nicholas ...... Moray Hunter WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00lff2g (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00lff6x (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00lff9h (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00lgm6q (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00lffyc (Listen) WED Jim aims for life in the fast lane. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lh1km (Listen) WED Chameleon in Town WED By Vicky Meer. The continuing adventures of witness WED protection couple Mo and Donna Marie. WED Mo is back from the dead, trying to stay out of trouble WED and build a life with Donna Marie, the woman he fell in WED love with in his previous witness protection incarnation. WED But the police require his testimony in another high WED profile case and the couple are embedded in the bustle of WED life in East London and the local mosque. Mo has never WED found it easy to keep a low profile, and when he takes on WED the gangster Simeon Gideon he puts himself and Donna Marie WED in grave danger. WED Mo ...... Navin Chowdhry WED Donna Marie ...... Hilary MacLean WED Charles Baldico ...... James Quinn WED Ms Assumpta Young/Frieda ...... Kate Layden WED Tariq /Simeon Gideon ...... Seamus O'Neill WED Aftab ...... Archie Lal WED Sgt Adabie ...... Declan Wilson WED Directed by Stefan Escreet. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00lh221 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial WED issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lgg8y (Listen) WED Bears of England, Circus Bears WED Series of three eccentric stories by Mick Jackson, which WED mix fantasy with folk tale and myth with history. WED The circus bears are deeply disgruntled at the extra risks WED being incorporated into their performance, and things come WED to a head at the annual circus convention in Bristol. WED Read by Ian Holm. WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00lfhjy (Listen) WED 'America is Under Attack' WED Series charting the history of America, written and WED presented by David Reynolds. WED The era of relative peace following the Cold War comes to WED a violent end on September 11, 2001. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00lh223 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00lgj3m (Listen) WED To mark Dementia Awareness Week, Claudia Hammond asks how WED we are placed to deal with the fact that, in just 20 WED years, one and a half million of us will have a fatal WED brain disease. WED There is no cure, and no treatment that can even slow it WED down; dementia is the health challenge of our generation. WED Claudia talks to the British scientists at the forefront WED of the global race to find a way to treat Alzheimer's WED disease and asks why so many people's dementia remains WED undiagnosed. WED Patients and carers state what improvements in health and WED social care they want to see and Claudia visits one of the WED government's flagship new memory services, which is WED modelling the improvements contained in the government's WED new National Dementia Strategy. WED WED 17:00 PM b00lfnt5 (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 b00lfnyy (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 Look Away Now b00lh225 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED Garry Richardson presents a topical comedy show looking at WED the week's sporting news, featuring sketches, spoof WED interviews, highly inexpert analysis and music. WED With Laurence Howarth, Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Katherine WED Jakeways and special guests. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00lffyf (Listen) WED The prodigal returns to Home Farm. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00lfq2q (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lfqkl (Listen) WED Sacred Hearts, Termites WED Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a WED convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been WED placed against her will. WED The great statue of Christ has fallen, and Zuana receives WED an unexpected visitor who presents her with a terrible WED predicament. WED Abbess ...... Eileen Atkins WED Zuana ...... Geraldine James WED Serafina ...... Natalie Dormer WED Umiliana ...... Sian Thomas WED Appolonia ...... Hannah Waddingham WED Dramtised by Rachel Joyce. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00lh227 (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. Claire Fox, Michael Portillo, WED Clifford Longley and Kenan Malik cross-examine witnesses. WED WED 20:45 Dave's Friends in the North b00lh229 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Anne McElvoy examines whether the Conservatives can shake WED off their southern image in order to win a general WED election. WED As a native north-easterner, Anne remembers the animosity WED toward the Conservative Party in the north during the WED Thatcher era. But now the Tories have set their sights on WED a revival in the north as a means of clinching an election WED victory. WED In this programme, Anne asks why Cameron's Tories need the WED north. She argues that it goes beyond a blunt electoral WED need to win back seats held under Margaret Thatcher in the WED 1980s. Cameron wants to be a One Nation Tory, so this is WED also a matter of culture and credibility. But is forging a WED One Nation party a losing battle, particularly for a WED leader based firmly in a metropolitan elite? Or could he WED emulate that other well-heeled public school southerner, WED Harold Macmillan, who used his Stockton seat as a WED launchpad to power by identifying with the north? WED Interviewees include William Hague, Michael Gove, Alan WED Duncan, Hazel Blears, Nick Clegg and Professor John WED Curtice. WED WED 21:00 The Mystery of the Marine Strandings b00lh2dm (Listen) WED Sue Broom investigates why 26 dolphins were stranded and WED died in Falmouth Harbour in June 2008, with the results of WED the autopsies due to be published. WED Dave Jarvis, of British Divers Marine Life Rescue, WED received a phone call early on the morning of the 9th of WED June 2008. The Coast Guard had received a report of a WED dolphin stranding near St Mawes in Cornwall. As he made WED his way to save the animal, he heard of more and more WED dolphins sighted in and around Falmouth Harbour. By the WED end of the day Dave and his team had saved about 70 WED dolphins, but 26 died. WED Scientists from the Institute of Zoology, as part of the WED UK Cetacean Stranding Programme, were on site by the end WED of the day, and over the last year have carried out WED autopsies on all 26 animals. Their report is due out WED imminently. WED At the time of the stranding there was a large WED international naval exercise going on in the bay, leading WED many local people to be convinced that sonar could have WED been a factor in the deaths of the dolphins. WED Sue investigates whether or not the science supports the WED rumours, and asks what could have caused such an unusual WED and tragic event. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00lglr4 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including linguist Professor David Crystal. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00lfqs3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00lfrd6 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lft99 (Listen) WED To Heaven By Water, Episode 3 WED Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright, WED about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a WED wife and mother. WED David meets up with his old friend Robin, senior partner WED in the law firm where his son Ed now works, and receives WED some unsettling news. WED Abridged by Jane Marshall. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Bespoken Word b00lh2dp (Listen) WED Mr Gee presents the performance poetry series. Scroobius WED Pip gives his update on a classic theme with his poem Mr WED Otis Regrets. Also appearing are Dockers MC and Matthew WED Duffy. WED WED 23:15 Strangers on Trains b00dkgrx (Listen) WED Episode 5 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 strange men about death. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00lg2v6 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Robert Orchard. WED WED THU THURSDAY 9 JULY 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00lfc0b (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00lk4dm (Listen) THU Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 3 THU Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of THU the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky. THU Trotsky has fallen out with Diego Rivera and has to move THU to a new house in Mexico City. His staff locate a run-down THU house in the Avenue Viena and begin to turn it into a THU fortress. THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lfc7w (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lfcft (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lfcdx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00lfcgs (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lfcjb (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00lfcm9 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00lfcs2 (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00lh2s3 (Listen) THU Ediacara Biota THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Martin Brasier, Richard Corfield THU and Rachel Wood discuss the Ediacara Biota. These THU mysterious life forms died out 542 million years ago; THU their discovery has proved Darwin right in a way he never THU imagined. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00lk4dp (Listen) THU Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 4 THU Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of THU the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky. THU In the early hours of May 24th 1940, Trotsky awakes to the THU sound of gunfire inside his fortress in Mexico City. THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lfdlt (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Sacred Hearts. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00lh37b (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Wreck of the Alba b00lh37d (Listen) THU Michael Bird, an art historian and surfer, uncovers the THU universal and local significance of one of the most THU popular pictures in the Tate, St Ives - The Wreck of the THU Alba by Alfred Wallis. THU He interviews people in St Ives who remember the disaster, THU when the steamer's crew was wrecked on Porthmeor beach in THU January 1938. Michael also gains access to many recordings THU of people who knew Wallis, made in the 1960s by Dr Roger THU Slack, a St Ives GP, and speaks to Chris Stephens, senior THU curator at the Tate, and to people looking at the painting THU and surfers on the beach. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00lff2j (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00lff6z (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00lff9k (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00lh453 (Listen) THU You're Fired! THU Whether it is dressed up as 'downsizing', 'delayering', THU 'realigning the business' or simply having to 'let people THU go', firing or being fired is still a painful process. THU Broadcaster Anna Raeburn, writer Jeremy Clarke and THU psychologist Linda Blair join Dominic Arkwright to discuss THU the consequences of being sacked. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00lffyf (Listen) THU The prodigal returns to Home Farm. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lh4yh (Listen) THU The Night Horse THU By Catrin Clarke, set on the outskirts of Cardiff. THU Tensions grow as a mother and daughter wait for a soldier THU to come back from Afghanistan. THU Sian ...... Eiry Thomas THU Dee ...... Carli Hughes THU Nansi ...... Catrin Stewart THU Riding Instructor ...... Keiron Self THU Directed by Polly Thomas. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00ld815 (Listen) THU Orkney Energy THU Helen Mark drives a chip fat-powered car around the Orkney THU island of Westray as she meets the pioneers determined to THU turn their island into the first community in Britain to THU be entirely self-sufficient in energy. The local kirk is THU powered by a wind turbine, holiday homes are heated by THU ground source heat-pumps and local farmers and fishermen THU are making their own fuel from cattle manure and cooking THU oil. THU Helen also takes to the water to discover more about the THU enormous energy resource contained within the tides and THU currents of the Orkney Islands. Can a parade of new THU gadgets harness the power without disturbing the birds and THU mammals that feed in the rich waters of the Pentland Firth? THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00ldxr4 (Listen) THU Working Families THU Lynda Bellingham appeals on behalf of Working Families. THU Donations to Working Families, should be sent to FREEPOST THU BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope THU Working Families. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. THU If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Working Families THU with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift THU Aid on your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online THU and phone donation facilities are not currently available THU to listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 0427690. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lgg90 (Listen) THU Bears of England, Sewer Bears THU Series of three eccentric stories by Mick Jackson, which THU mix fantasy with folk tale and myth with history. THU For many years in the 19th century, several dozen bears THU were held in London's sewers, where they served as the THU city's unpaid flushers and toshers. THU Read by Ian Holm. THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00lfhk1 (Listen) THU Iraq and the 'Axis of Evil' THU Series charting the history of America, written and THU presented by David Reynolds. THU The September 11 attacks propel President Bush and America THU in to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00lf0vg (Listen) THU Bernard MacLaverty THU James Naughtie and readers meet Northern Irish writer THU Bernard MacLaverty to discuss his Booker Prize-shortlisted THU novel Grace Notes, which concerns a young female composer THU very much in a man's world. Now living in Scotland, THU MacLaverty returns to his native Belfast especially for THU the recording of the programme. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00lh4yk (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00lfnt7 (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 b00lfnz1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Shappi Talk b00lh4yp (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi examines what it THU is like growing up in multi-cultural families. THU Shappi is joined by comedians Felix Dexter and Meera Syal THU to discuss the theme of racism. THU Plus a song from comedian Hils Barker. THU An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00lffyh (Listen) THU Mike and Vicky get down to details. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00lfq2s (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lfqkn (Listen) THU Sacred Hearts, Letter THU Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a THU convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been THU placed against her will. THU Suora Zuana begins her remedy to cure a spiritual disease THU and solve the convent's greatest problem. THU Abbess ...... Eileen Atkins THU Zuana ...... Geraldine James THU Serafina ...... Natalie Dormer THU Umiliana ...... Sian Thomas THU Dramtised by Rachel Joyce. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00lgj39 (Listen) THU As more evidence emerges of child abuse by religious THU institutions in Ireland, Clive Coleman examines a scheme THU set up to provide justice and compensation for victims. THU What lessons does it offer in dealing with institutional THU abuse - and why does it insist on protecting the identity THU of alleged abusers? THU THU 20:30 Bottom Line b00lh4zj (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 b00lh5gv (Listen) THU Geoff Watts reports on the latest news in the world of THU science. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00lh2s3 (Listen) THU Ediacara Biota THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Martin Brasier, Richard Corfield THU and Rachel Wood discuss the Ediacara Biota. These THU mysterious life forms died out 542 million years ago; THU their discovery has proved Darwin right in a way he never THU imagined. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00lfqs5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00lfrd8 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lft9c (Listen) THU To Heaven By Water, Episode 4 THU Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright, THU about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a THU wife and mother. THU David feels constrained by his house, now that he lives THU there alone, but his children still regard it as the THU family home. THU Abridged by Jane Marshall. THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Look Away Now b00lh225 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU Garry Richardson presents a topical comedy show looking at THU the week's sporting news, featuring sketches, spoof THU interviews, highly inexpert analysis and music. THU With Laurence Howarth, Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Katherine THU Jakeways and special guests. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00lg2v8 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with David Wilby. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 JULY 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00lfc0d (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00lk4dp (Listen) FRI Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 4 FRI Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of FRI the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky. FRI In the early hours of May 24th 1940, Trotsky awakes to the FRI sound of gunfire inside his fortress in Mexico City. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lfc80 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lfcfw (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lfcdz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00lfcgv (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lfcjd (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00lfcmc (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00lfcs4 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00ldxrj (Listen) FRI Harvey Goldsmith FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the impresario and promoter FRI Harvey Goldsmith. FRI From the Rolling Stones to Pavarotti, and with pretty well FRI every other name in music in-between, he has been one of FRI the country's top promoters for more than 40 years. FRI His career has given him a unique insight into music FRI history; he was there, after all, when Keith Moon threw FRI his first TV out of a hotel window. Always passionate FRI about what he listened to, he acknowledges that his own FRI instrument is the pocket calculator. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00lk4dr (Listen) FRI Stalin's Nemesis, Episode 5 FRI Nigel Anthony reads from Bertrand M Patenaude's account of FRI the exile and subsequent assassination of Leon Trotsky. FRI On August 17th 1940 at 4.35pm, the iron doors of Trotsky's FRI safe haven gave way and a man known to Trotsky as Frank FRI Jacson, a Canadian businessman, was admitted to the patio. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00lfdlw (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Sacred Hearts. FRI FRI 11:00 Three Rivers b00lh5pb (Listen) FRI The Liffey 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 The Liffey, a river beloved of Irish writers - FRI particularly James Joyce, winds its way from the Wicklow FRI Mountains into the heart of Dublin and under 14 bridges. FRI It has also provided power and clean water for those along FRI its path, and at its outer edges encouraged trade with the FRI wider world beyond. FRI FRI 11:30 Electric Ink b00lh5pd (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new FRI media in the newspaper industry. FRI With newspaper circulation dropping, a round of swingeing FRI job cuts are predicted. But who will survive the bloodbath? 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 With additional material by Tom Mitchelson. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00lff2l (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00lff71 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00lff9m (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00lh6dy (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00lffyh (Listen) FRI Mike and Vicky get down to details. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b0090rcf (Listen) FRI Poetry for Beginners FRI Comedy drama by Kathryn Simmonds. FRI During a residential writing course deep in the Shropshire FRI countryside, poetry gives rise to lustful urges, ruthless FRI artistic ambition and simmering rivalries. FRI Celia ...... Joanna Tope FRI Fran ...... Emma Currie FRI William ...... Crawford Logan FRI Moira ...... Ann Scott Jones FRI Nick ...... Nick Farr FRI Directed by David Jackson Young. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lj1n5 (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer FRI questions posed by gardeners in Berkshire. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00lfhk4 (Listen) FRI 'To Shape an Uncertain Destiny' FRI Series charting the history of America, written and FRI presented by David Reynolds. FRI Economic issues overshadow foreign conflicts as change FRI once again transforms American politics during the 2008 FRI presidential election. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00lh4m8 (Listen) FRI John Wilson presents the obituaries programme. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00lj1n7 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Rebecca Miller about her latest FRI film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00lfnt9 (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 b00lfnz3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00lj1n9 (Listen) FRI Series 28, Episode 3 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 Carrie Quinlan. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00lffyk (Listen) FRI Joe and Jim get creative. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00lfq2w (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on the FRI continuing success of celebrity memoirs, with guests FRI including Julie Walters, Paul O'Grady, Michael Parkinson FRI and Alan Carr. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lfqkq (Listen) FRI Sacred Hearts, Living Saint FRI Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a FRI convent in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has been FRI placed against her will. FRI Serafina has been found senseless, presumed dead. If the FRI convent is to survive, it is time to make sacrifices. FRI Abbess ...... Eileen Atkins FRI Zuana ...... Geraldine James FRI Serafina ...... Natalie Dormer FRI Umiliana ...... Sian Thomas FRI Letizia ...... Ayesha Antoine FRI Dramtised by Rachel Joyce. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00lj1nc (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Consett, FRI County Durham. Panellists include literary critic Dr Sarah FRI Churchwell. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lj1nf (Listen) FRI Bower Birds FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI One of the most extraordinary structures in the animal FRI world is constructed by a Bower Bird. Sir David tells the FRI life story of the Vogelkopf Bower Bird, the one that FRI raises the bar higher than the rest. FRI FRI 21:00 America, Empire of Liberty Omnibus b00lj1nh (Listen) FRI Pride and Prejudice FRI Omnibus edition of the series charting the history of FRI America, written and presented by David Reynolds. FRI The post-Cold War promise of peace evaporates as the FRI September 11 attacks lead to foreign wars and the divisive FRI politics of the Clinton and Bush years culminate in the FRI epic 2008 presidential election. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00lfqs7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00lfrdb (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lft9f (Listen) FRI To Heaven By Water, Episode 5 FRI Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright, FRI about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a FRI wife and mother. FRI Since her mother died and with her brother married and her FRI father showing no sign of filling the breach, Lucy feels FRI as if she has been cast adrift. FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00lgj3c (Listen) FRI Kate Mosse talks to actor Clive Swift and Indarjit Singh, FRI a regular contributor to Thought for the Day, about their FRI favourite books. They discuss works that take them from FRI London's 'Wrong Set' to northern India and Saudi Arabia. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00lg2vb (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI