Radio 4 Listings for 01/08/2009 - 07/08/2009

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SAT       SATURDAY 1 AUGUST 2009
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00lt3j3 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 Book of the Week b00lwtv6 (Listen)
SAT       The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 5
SAT       Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history
SAT       of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook.
SAT       As Facebook's users begin to grow exponentially, the sums
SAT       of money being bandied around by prospective investors
SAT       also grow. So do the egos and anxieties of those involved
SAT       with the company.
SAT       A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lt3j5 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lt3j7 (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lt3j9 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00lt3jc (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lt3jf (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 Backstreet Business b00d5w3g (Listen)
SAT       Episode 2
SAT       Nicola Heywood Thomas visits small businesses.
SAT       In the Cotswolds village of Long Compton, David Law is
SAT       part of a network of off-the-beaten-track companies
SAT       creating beautiful musical instruments.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00lt3jy (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00ltl39 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
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SAT       06:07 Open Country b00ltl3c (Listen)
SAT       WWII Secrets of The Peak District
SAT       Matt Baker discovers the Second World War secrets of the
SAT       Peak District.
SAT       Nestled away in the Peak District are two Second World War
SAT       'training grounds'. The first is the Derwent Valley, with
SAT       the wide open dam that heard the roar of Lancaster bombers
SAT       as they prepared for the historic Dambuster raids.
SAT       The second is the lesser known Burbage Valley, where in
SAT       secrecy, British and Canadian troops were trained for war,
SAT       leaving their battle scars across the landscape. Burbage
SAT       Valley is also home to one of the first bomber decoys in
SAT       the country. In an extroadinary bid to distract German
SAT       bombers, a mini-Sheffield was built. This hoax site
SAT       comprised an elaborate arrangement of lights and fires
SAT       contained in baskets and trenches that were designed to
SAT       replicate Sheffield's railway marshalling yards as seen
SAT       from the air at night. This 'model city' was set into
SAT       action by brave Sheffield men who had to run straight into
SAT       the decoy to activate it, knowing full well that if they
SAT       were successful it could mean that
SAT       
SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00ltl3f (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       What does it take for a rural area to survive a recession?
SAT       The Association of Market Towns says the coutryside is
SAT       being hit harder than urban areas. The Federation of Small
SAT       Businesses says 13 rural pubs close each week and up to
SAT       500 village shops will shut this year. Charlotte Smith
SAT       visits Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire to look at what
SAT       impact the downturn is having and how areas are fighting
SAT       back. Are 'shop-local' schemes enough or do the NIMBYs
SAT       have to accept that new housing may be the key to their
SAT       town's survival?
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00ltl3h (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00ltl3k (Listen)
SAT       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
SAT       Weather; Thought for the Day.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00ltl6j (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Alain De
SAT       Botton. With poetry from Matt Harvey.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00ltl6l (Listen)
SAT       After a crisis in her life, and feeling that she had
SAT       nothing left to lose, Terri Julians travelled to South
SAT       Africa to work with the families of AIDS victims in
SAT       Kwazulu-Natal. Sandi Toksvig talks to her about her life
SAT       in rural Zululand, the people she lived among and how her
SAT       own life was affected by the experience.
SAT       Fiona Waller's efforts in a transatlantic rowing race
SAT       encouraged her to want to become one of the first women to
SAT       row across the Indian Ocean. As a member of a team of four
SAT       females she has achieved just that, and along with fellow
SAT       rower Jo Jackson joins Sandi to talk about what made them
SAT       want to attempt such a record, the hardship of rowing
SAT       non-stop for 78 days - especially in a cyclone - and what
SAT       they sang on the way.
SAT       The Pamir Highway is one of the highest and hardest roads
SAT       to travel in central Asia. Elise Laker and Kate Holberton
SAT       have recently returned from journeying along it,
SAT       particularly in Tajikistan, a country so unused to
SAT       tourists they don't even have hotels on the highway. They
SAT       tell Sandi about a land that is far from being a holiday
SAT       hotspot.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 Soho Stories b00ltl6n (Listen)
SAT       Lifestyle or Business?
SAT       Television executive and broadcaster Paul Jackson charts
SAT       the rise of independent producers, from the isolated
SAT       minnows of the early 1980s to the global monoliths of
SAT       today.
SAT       In 1993, Sir John Harvey Jones stood up at the Edinburgh
SAT       Television Festival and declared that the independent
SAT       production sector was less of a business and more of a
SAT       lifestyle; more like mice running in a large wheel and
SAT       less something that people should invest in.
SAT       Paul Jackson looks at how the foundations were laid for a
SAT       viable business model. With the help of activist Michael
SAT       Darlow and head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit in No
SAT       10, Brian (now Lord) Griffiths, he explains how the indies
SAT       were able to pursuade the government that both the BBC and
SAT       ITV should be compelled to take a proportion of programmes
SAT       from independent producers. The 25 per cent quota campaign
SAT       was later described as the most successful poltical lobby
SAT       in modern British history.
SAT       Peter Bazalgette, Paul Smith, Jimmy Mulville, Jon Thoday,
SAT       David Frank and Henry Normal describe the artistic and
SAT       business opportunities that presented themselves during
SAT       the 1990s.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Beyond Westminster b00ltl6q (Listen)
SAT       It costs the taxpayer millions of pounds each year to
SAT       evict gypsies and travellers from illegal sites. Elinor
SAT       Goodman visits Crays Hill in Essex, where travellers are
SAT       currently facing eviction, and asks if their needs can
SAT       ever be reconciled with those of local residents.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00ltl6s (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       Including valedictory despatches from two of the BBC's
SAT       most senior correspondents. Justin Webb gives us his
SAT       thoughts on America and Americans as he completes a
SAT       near-eight year posting in Washington.
SAT       And the question for Mark Mardell, as he leaves Brussels,
SAT       is did he really find European politics so fascinating?
SAT       Also, former Delhi correspondent Sam Miller sets out on a
SAT       search for the Phantom Squirter of Connaught Place.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 The Money Grab b00ltl6v (Listen)
SAT       Episode 1
SAT       Alvin Hall explores the rise in corporate pay and bonus
SAT       culture.
SAT       Starting in the 1980s, with Wall Street's mantra of 'greed
SAT       is good', Alvin charts the changes in the finance world
SAT       which led to a new generation of multi-millionaires. He
SAT       reveals how big businesses calculate super salaries, and
SAT       asks how much is enough; can a company suffer from paying
SAT       its top talent too much?
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The Now Show b00lt16r (Listen)
SAT       Series 28, Episode 6
SAT       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of
SAT       the week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin,
SAT       Mitch Benn and Marcus Brigstocke.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00ltm3n (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00ltm3q (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00lt16t (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Fishguard,
SAT       Pembrokeshire. The panellists are secretary of state for
SAT       Wales Peter Hain, Conservative home office spokesman
SAT       Damian Green, columnist Tanya Gold and writer Tony Sewell.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00ltm3s (Listen)
SAT       Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response
SAT       to this week's edition of Any Questions?
SAT       
SAT       14:30 Saturday Play b00ltm3v (Listen)
SAT       Last Night, Another Soldier
SAT       By Andy McNab. Eighteen-year-old Briggsy is just three
SAT       weeks into his first posting in Afghanistan and is
SAT       thrilled to be part of the action. But when his Rifle
SAT       Section loses a man in battle, Briggsy is forced to
SAT       confront the realities of war.
SAT       Briggsy ...... Russell Tovey
SAT       Si ...... Lloyd Thomas
SAT       Flash ...... Paul Rider
SAT       Toki ...... Damian Lynch
SAT       Mackenzie/John ...... Stephen Hogan
SAT       Mum/Helicopter pilot/Radio Operator ...... Janice Acquah
SAT       Emma/Tannoy ...... Caroline Guthrie
SAT       Newsreader/Cookie ...... Matt Addis
SAT       Directed by Vernee Samuel.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields b00lrv50 (Listen)
SAT       Robin Denselow tells the story of Cambodia's rock and roll
SAT       stars who emerged during the late 1960s with a new sound
SAT       known as Khmer Rock. Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge,
SAT       almost all these singers and musicians were killed, but
SAT       they are still revered by Cambodians today.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00ltm3x (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Sheila McClennon.
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00ltm81 (Listen)
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
SAT       Quinn, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 iPM b00ltm83 (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ltm85 (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00ltmpj (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ltmpl (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00ltmpn (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       Clive is joined by financial expert Alvin Hall, science
SAT       journalist Adam Rutherford and architecture critic Tom
SAT       Dyckhoff.
SAT       Arthur Smith talks to mind reader Philip Escoffey.
SAT       With comedy from Andrew Maxwell and music from James
SAT       Yorkston and Meaghan Smith.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00ltmpq (Listen)
SAT       Sebastian Coe
SAT       Seb Coe was victorious on the running track, gaining gold
SAT       for the UK. Later in life he won again - bringing home the
SAT       Olympic Games for London 2012 - now just three years away.
SAT       But what of the years in between? A stint as a Tory MP
SAT       resulted in a lost seat. This was followed by a short
SAT       spell as William Hague's 'chief of staff'. How did Coe
SAT       re-invent himself as the champion of Britain, the
SAT       underdog, in its battle against Paris for the laurel crown?
SAT       Clive Coleman hears from Coe's geography teacher, Ken
SAT       Livingstone and his former boss and judo partner William
SAT       Hague about what kind of man Sebastian Coe really is.
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00ltmps (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00ly0nx (Listen)
SAT       George Blake - The Confession
SAT       Former Panorama reporter Tom Bower introduces the
SAT       documentary he made in the late 1980s about double agent
SAT       George Blake.
SAT       For 18 years, Blake served as a trusted and senior MI6
SAT       officer. But secretly, in 1952, he became a double agent,
SAT       betraying MI6 operations and personnel to the KGB. Over
SAT       the course of nine years, at a critical period of the Cold
SAT       War, he destroyed most of MI6's activities in Eastern
SAT       Europe. 'I don't know what I handed over', he admitted,
SAT       'because it was so much'.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00lr153 (Listen)
SAT       Tennyson's Maud
SAT       Joseph Millson reads Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1855 dark and
SAT       lyrical poem Maud to celebrate the 200th anniversary of
SAT       the poet's birth.
SAT       A disturbed young man roams the windswept hills, haunted
SAT       by his father's suicide and his mother's early death. He
SAT       blames his father's old friend, the lord of the Hall, for
SAT       his ruin. The young man was betrothed to Maud, the lord's
SAT       daughter, when they were children, but she and her family
SAT       left the area after the suicide. But now there are workmen
SAT       up at the Hall - Maud has come home.
SAT       With Kathryn Nutbeem.
SAT       Sound design by Christopher Shutt.
SAT       Directed by Abigail le Fleming.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 Weather b00ltmr0 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Reality Check b00lsyd2 (Listen)
SAT       Series 2, Episode 1
SAT       Justin Rowlatt presents a series of discussions with
SAT       experts and people closely involved with the issues.
SAT       Those who seek to influence university policy are joined
SAT       by students at the sharp end of the government's higher
SAT       education policy to ask if the UK needs to send so many
SAT       people to university.
SAT       Around 300,000 university students finish their studies in
SAT       summer 2009, only to join one of the worst employment
SAT       markets for years, and questions continue to be asked
SAT       about the quality of education provided by some
SAT       institutions.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00lrsnr (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
SAT       featuring teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Poetry Please b00lr157 (Listen)
SAT       Listeners' requests for poems lead Roger McGough to swim
SAT       with seals in icy waters, recall the wives of Thomas Hardy
SAT       and contemplate life and death while talking about a tea
SAT       tray. With readers Renu Brindle, Paul Mundell and Rupert
SAT       Wickham.
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SUN       SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 2009
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00ltn18 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b008118y (Listen)
SUN       Cheltenham Festival Readings, Close
SUN       Five stories from the 2007 Cheltenham Literature Festival.
SUN       A brief holiday encounter takes hold of Elizabeth's
SUN       imagination. Written and read by Jon McGregor.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ltn1b (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltn1d (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltn1g (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00ltn1j (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00ltn1l (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from the Cathedral of the
SUN       Transfiguration, Archangel, Russia.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00ltmpq (Listen)
SUN       Sebastian Coe
SUN       Seb Coe was victorious on the running track, gaining gold
SUN       for the UK. Later in life he won again - bringing home the
SUN       Olympic Games for London 2012 - now just three years away.
SUN       But what of the years in between? A stint as a Tory MP
SUN       resulted in a lost seat. This was followed by a short
SUN       spell as William Hague's 'chief of staff'. How did Coe
SUN       re-invent himself as the champion of Britain, the
SUN       underdog, in its battle against Paris for the laurel crown?
SUN       Clive Coleman hears from Coe's geography teacher, Ken
SUN       Livingstone and his former boss and judo partner William
SUN       Hague about what kind of man Sebastian Coe really is.
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00ltn1n (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00ltn1q (Listen)
SUN       Cricket
SUN       Mark Tully celebrates cricket as a symbol of an ideal
SUN       society, with historian Ramanchandra Guha.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 On Your Farm b00ltn1s (Listen)
SUN       Alex James visits Hill Farm in Oxfordshire, home of
SUN       Truckfest, a locally run music festival which features
SUN       well known-bands alongside the up and coming. The owners
SUN       of the farm and organisers of the festival, Alan Binning
SUN       and his wife, cater the event with the local Rotary Club
SUN       and the cows give up their shed to hold an indoor stage of
SUN       more adventurous sounds and shelter for the rain weary.
SUN       Truck remains a local festival with no desire to grow any
SUN       bigger, but what do these many visitors mean for the farm
SUN       and the local community? Can cows and campers really
SUN       co-exist? Alex James, a man with one foot in rock 'n' roll
SUN       and the other firmly in the field, finds out.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00ltn1v (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00ltn1x (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00ltn1z (Listen)
SUN       Jane Little discusses the religious and ethical news of
SUN       the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00ltn21 (Listen)
SUN       Prisoners of Conscience
SUN       Zoë Wanamaker appeals on behalf Prisoners of Conscience.
SUN       Donations to Prisoners of Conscience should be sent to
SUN       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope Prisoners of Conscience. Credit cards: Freephone
SUN       0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide
SUN       Prisoners of Conscience with your full name and address so
SUN       they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another
SUN       25 per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are
SUN       not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 213766.
SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00ltn23 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00ltn25 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00ltn27 (Listen)
SUN       From St Martin's Church, Belfast, with the Grosvenor
SUN       Chorale, directed by Edward Craig.
SUN       Preacher: Bishop Harold Miller.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lt16w (Listen)
SUN       Salamander
SUN       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
SUN       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
SUN       Sir David's first pet was a fire salamander, given to him
SUN       by his father on his eighth birthday. He also gave his own
SUN       son a salamander on his eighth birthday, the legacy of
SUN       which is very much alive and kicking today.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00ltn29 (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 Archers Omnibus b00ltn2c (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00lr14v (Listen)
SUN       Nicky Haslam
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the interior decorator,
SUN       socialite and one-time cowboy, Nicky Haslam.
SUN       His life defies easy description. In America in the 1960s,
SUN       he was part of Andy Warhol's circle of friends. He got to
SUN       know Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor and met Cyd
SUN       Charisse and President Kennedy; and after all that, he
SUN       became a cowboy.
SUN       When he returned to Britain he brought the sleek style of
SUN       the States with him. When he is designing a room, he says,
SUN       first he lets the room speak to him, then his client -
SUN       then he gets the last word on how it should look.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 Just a Minute b00lrt1q (Listen)
SUN       Series 55, Episode 1
SUN       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with
SUN       panellists Sue Perkins, Pam Ayres, Tony Hawks and Tim Rice.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00ltn9p (Listen)
SUN       Sport and Food
SUN       Sheila Dillon examines the business of food at sports
SUN       events, from horse racing to football. She finds out about
SUN       the caterers and the companies behind thousands of meals
SUN       every week.
SUN       A handful of global businesses look after most of the food
SUN       in Britain's sports venues. Companies like Compass Group
SUN       and the US-based Aramark have turnovers which run into the
SUN       billions of pounds, generated in part by the food they
SUN       sell at sports venues.
SUN       Sheila hears about two major sports events, Glorious
SUN       Goodwood, at which Compass serve burgers made using
SUN       organic beef produced on the Goodwood estate, and Lord's
SUN       cricket ground, which decided to go it alone, bring
SUN       catering in-house and leave the world of contract catering.
SUN       With the London 2012 Olympic Games approaching, Sheila
SUN       asks if these examples of catering at sports venues will
SUN       be suited to an event at which up to 20 million meals are
SUN       due to be served.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00ltn9r (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00ltn9t (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 Tracing Your Roots b00ltn9w (Listen)
SUN       In Scotland's first Homecoming Year, Sally Magnusson
SUN       discovers why people with Scottish ancestry feel so
SUN       passionate about pursuing their family history. Find out
SUN       what they are looking for in a special edition, recorded
SUN       at the Strathclyde University International Genealogy
SUN       Festival in Glasgow.
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lt16k (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank answer
SUN       questions posed by members of Letchworth District
SUN       Gardeners Association.
SUN       Letchworth was the world's first garden city, founded in
SUN       1903 by social reformer Ebenezer Howard. Planners gave its
SUN       citizens a generous space for each garden, and one of the
SUN       founding principles was that the town should have the
SUN       space to grow its own food. The panel find out whether
SUN       Letchworth's history gives its gardeners an advantage
SUN       today, given that the concept of self-sufficiency and the
SUN       'grow your own' movement are increasingly popular.
SUN       Also, Anne Swithinbank unearths a local colony of rare -
SUN       but temperamental - black squirrels and Pippa Greenwood
SUN       explores ways of getting children interested in gardening
SUN       during the summer holidays.
SUN       Including Gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 The Estuary b008kvrj (Listen)
SUN       Episode 5
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       How might climate change and rising sea levels affect this
SUN       wild, desolate and beautiful landscape?
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00ltnfs (Listen)
SUN       Ruth, Episode 1
SUN       Dramatisation by Ellen Dryden of the novel by Elizabeth
SUN       Gaskell.
SUN       Sixteen-year-old orphan Ruth Hilton is apprenticed as a
SUN       dressmaker to the hard-bitten Mrs Mason, because she is
SUN       too much of an inconvenience for her legal guardian. A job
SUN       as a seamstress for a Hunt Ball and an encounter with a
SUN       young man have far-reaching consequences.
SUN       Ruth ...... Laura Rees
SUN       Bellingham ...... Rory Kinnear
SUN       Benson ...... Anton Lesser
SUN       Mrs Mason ...... Abigail Thaw
SUN       Guardian/Jones/Thomas ...... Richard Hope
SUN       Nelly/Mrs Bellingham ...... Alison Skilbeck
SUN       Miss Duncombe ...... Aimee Cowen
SUN       Jenny ...... Helen Jenkinson
SUN       Bessie ...... Daisy Ashford
SUN       Directed by Ellen Dryden.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Bookclub b00ltnfv (Listen)
SUN       CJ Sansom
SUN       James Naughtie and readers meet the best-selling writer CJ
SUN       Sansom. They discuss Dissolution, the first in his series
SUN       of Tudor mysteries featuring the investigator Matthew
SUN       Shardlake.
SUN       Shardlake is sent to Sussex to investigate a murder in a
SUN       monastery, just as Henry VIII is beginning his reformation
SUN       of the Church.
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Tennyson's Ulysses Revisited b00ltnpm (Listen)
SUN       Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth Alfred, Lord
SUN       Tennyson's birth, poet Sean O'Brien explores his great
SUN       poem, Ulysses, from the singular story of its tragic
SUN       origins to its many meanings for readers today.
SUN       He hears from Homer scholar Oliver Taplin and Dante
SUN       scholar Martin McLaughlin about Tennyson's sources for the
SUN       poem and its surprisingly ambiguous hero. Sean learns from
SUN       Victorian experts Seamus Perry, Robert Douglas Fairhurst
SUN       and Linda Hughes about the tragedy in Tennyson's young
SUN       life that led him to write this poem about an old man when
SUN       he himself was just 24.
SUN       It is a poem about bereavement and death but, as poet
SUN       Vicki Feaver explains, it is also about the personal
SUN       struggle in each of us between comfort and adventure,
SUN       between the familiar and the unknown, between accepting
SUN       life as it is and striving ever onward.
SUN       Featuring a powerful new reading of Ulysses by Anton
SUN       Lesser.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00ls660 (Listen)
SUN       As evidence continues to emerge about the CIA's secret
SUN       detention and interrogation programme, calls grow on this
SUN       side of the Atlantic for an inquiry into claims that
SUN       Britain colluded in the torture of suspects. Stephen Grey
SUN       investigates the relationship between the US and the UK
SUN       security services in the hidden War on Terror.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00ltmpq (Listen)
SUN       Sebastian Coe
SUN       Seb Coe was victorious on the running track, gaining gold
SUN       for the UK. Later in life he won again - bringing home the
SUN       Olympic Games for London 2012 - now just three years away.
SUN       But what of the years in between? A stint as a Tory MP
SUN       resulted in a lost seat. This was followed by a short
SUN       spell as William Hague's 'chief of staff'. How did Coe
SUN       re-invent himself as the champion of Britain, the
SUN       underdog, in its battle against Paris for the laurel crown?
SUN       Clive Coleman hears from Coe's geography teacher, Ken
SUN       Livingstone and his former boss and judo partner William
SUN       Hague about what kind of man Sebastian Coe really is.
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ltnpp (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00ltnpr (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ltnpt (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00ltnpw (Listen)
SUN       Gerry Northam introduces his selection of highlights from
SUN       the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       Programmes featured:
SUN       Six O'Clock News - Radio 4
SUN       The Call - Radio 4
SUN       MI6: A Century in the Shadows - Radio 4
SUN       Marmalade for Comrade Philby - Radio 4
SUN       Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists - Radio 4
SUN       Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine - Radio 2
SUN       Crossing Continents - Radio 4
SUN       Mind Changers - Radio 4
SUN       Just A Minute - Radio 4
SUN       Round Britain Quiz - Radio 4
SUN       Words And Music - Radio 3
SUN       Prom 17: Bach - Radio 3
SUN       The Adventures of Sexton Blake - Radio 2
SUN       With Great Pleasure - Radio 4
SUN       Today - Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00ltnpy (Listen)
SUN       Jazzer keeps a low profile at The Bull.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00ltnq0 (Listen)
SUN       Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the
SUN       stories shaping America today. Combining location reports
SUN       with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show
SUN       provides new and surprising insights into contemporary
SUN       America.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b008cnz9 (Listen)
SUN       Blake's Doors of Perception, May Malone
SUN       Short stories marking the 250th anniversary of William
SUN       Blake's birth, each inspired by a quote from the great
SUN       poet.
SUN       There are stories that May keeps a monster in her house.
SUN       Young Norman Trench becomes fascinated by the noises he
SUN       hears with his ear pressed to May's back wall. Fascination
SUN       gives way to fear as she invites him in to see her monster.
SUN       By David Almond, read by Alun Armstrong and inspired by
SUN       Blake's The Marriage of Heaven
SUN       and Hell.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00lt16f (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, faces a
SUN       selected panel of Feedback listeners and addresses their
SUN       concerns about topics including presenter salaries,
SUN       Thought For The Day and the 2015 DAB switchover.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00lt16m (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing
SUN       and celebrating the life stories of people who have
SUN       recently died. The programme reflects on people of
SUN       distinction and interest from many walks of life, some
SUN       famous and some less well known.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Face the Facts b00ltnq2 (Listen)
SUN       Licensing the Landlords
SUN       John Waite presents the investigative consumer series.
SUN       John Waite investigates how laws designed to raise the
SUN       standard of living conditions in 'Bedsitland' are being
SUN       undermined by unscrupulous landlords. He reveals what
SUN       measures the landlords use and asks why some local
SUN       authorities have failed to take advantage of the new
SUN       powers given to them by the government. He visits Rhyl in
SUN       north Wales and Haringey in London.
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00ltn21 (Listen)
SUN       Prisoners of Conscience
SUN       Zoë Wanamaker appeals on behalf Prisoners of Conscience.
SUN       Donations to Prisoners of Conscience should be sent to
SUN       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
SUN       envelope Prisoners of Conscience. Credit cards: Freephone
SUN       0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide
SUN       Prisoners of Conscience with your full name and address so
SUN       they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another
SUN       25 per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are
SUN       not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode.
SUN       Registered Charity No: 213766.
SUN       
SUN       21:30 In Business b00lszhn (Listen)
SUN       Learning Curve
SUN       A 21st-century corporation needs a different kind of
SUN       organisational structure from the old command and control
SUN       mechanisms that built the world's biggest companies. Peter
SUN       Day finds out how people can create learning organisations
SUN       without commanding and controlling.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00ltnq4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00ltnyf (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       The Election Agent.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00lt16p (Listen)
SUN       The star of La Haine, Vincent Cassell, discusses the life
SUN       and death of Jacques Mesrine, France's Public Enemy Number
SUN       One, the subject of his new movie.
SUN       David Warner, the star of Morgan: A Suitable Case For
SUN       Treatment, reveals how Sam Peckinpah saved his career.
SUN       Mark Gatiss from The League Of Gentlemen continues his
SUN       alternative guide to British cinema.
SUN       Jane Graham offers tips for movie mobsters on how to dress
SUN       for a heist.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00ltn1q (Listen)
SUN       Cricket
SUN       Mark Tully celebrates cricket as a symbol of an ideal
SUN       society, with historian Ramanchandra Guha.
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2009
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00ltpdh (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lsxgy (Listen)
MON       The 15th century mosques of India were built by Hindu
MON       craftsmen trained on temples. Shakespeare borrowed from
MON       Seneca and emulated Ovid in the writing of his plays, and
MON       reggae was introduced to Britian by Jamaican immigrants
MON       who had brought African influence to the development of
MON       ska which in turn had borrowed from American R and B. No
MON       wonder that Edward Said said that, 'the history of all
MON       cultures is the history of cultural borrowing'. But is
MON       that cultural borrowing a fair exchange? Are some cultures
MON       more readily imposed than others and is there any sense in
MON       resisting the influence of foreign ways of life? Laurie
MON       Taylor discusses cultural hybridity with Tariq Ali, Peter
MON       Burke and Ang
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00ltn1l (Listen)
MON       The sound of bells from the Cathedral of the
MON       Transfiguration, Archangel, Russia.
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lxz72 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltphg (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltps0 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00ltpsj (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ltpxv (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00ltrk4 (Listen)
MON       Dairy farmers who suffered major financial losses when
MON       dairy farmers of britain collapsed are facing another
MON       round of price cuts. First Milk is now paying those
MON       producers who signed on with them when DFB went into
MON       administration 18.65 pence a litre, which is around
MON       three-and-a-half pence less than last month. First Milk is
MON       not the the only company to announce price cuts. Another
MON       of the main suppliers of milk and cheese to our stores,
MON       Milklink, is also reducing the price it pays producers by
MON       half a pence a litre.
MON       We also take a closer look at the harvest; what is being
MON       taken in and where it goes.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00lv0bk (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00ltrmn (Listen)
MON       With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 MI6: A Century in the Shadows b00lv0bm (Listen)
MON       Heroes and Villains
MON       BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside
MON       Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to senior
MON       intelligence officers, agents and diplomats as well as
MON       their former arch enemies about the shadowy world of
MON       espionage.
MON       What went on behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War?
MON       MI6 Chief John Scarlett describes his clandestine meeting
MON       with an agent and the Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky
MON       talks about his reasons for coming over to the other side.
MON       
MON       09:30 The Call b00lvg16 (Listen)
MON       The Adoption
MON       Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made
MON       life-changing phone calls.
MON       After months of form-filling bureaucracy and
MON       disappointment, educationalist Fiona Byerley made a
MON       late-night call to a Thai orphanage and was told that a
MON       baby girl was waiting to be collected.
MON       
MON       09:45 Book of the Week b00ltrn9 (Listen)
MON       Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 1
MON       Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of
MON       the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access
MON       to her letters and papers.
MON       Abridged by Rosemary Goring.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00ltrv6 (Listen)
MON       With Sheila McClennon.
MON       In the 80s, removing your bikini top to sunbathe was seen
MON       by some as part of the feminist third wave. The right to
MON       bare breasts on the beach was claimed by women in their
MON       thousands and for many, to do anything else would have
MON       been unthinkable. Now, it's reported, the tide has turned.
MON       Women on the Riviera are back in their tops. But why?
MON       Sheila McClennon talks to Vicki Hambley, the director of
MON       the 'topfree' play 'The Strong Breast Revolution' (which
MON       is appearing at the Edinburgh fringe) and to Dr Ruth
MON       Barcan, who has written a history of nudity. They discuss
MON       why going topfree can be an act of protest, not just a way
MON       to get rid of tan lines.
MON       Charlotte Bronte is perhaps best remembered for writing
MON       Jane Eyre. Yet it is her darker psychological novel
MON       Villette that probably reveals the most about the author
MON       herself. Like Charlotte herself, its narrator - Lucy Snowe
MON       - moves to Brussels as a governess, where she falls in
MON       love with a man she knows she can never have. While some
MON       criticise Villette for its unlikely heroine and ambiguous
MON       ending, others see it as a masterpiece. Sheila takes a
MON       closer look at Villette with Jude Morgan, the author of
MON       The Taste of Sorrow, and writer and historian Lucasta
MON       Miller.
MON       News about Europe's first 'home prison', which houses a
MON       growing number of female convicts and their babies.
MON       And male circumcision - are there health benefits for
MON       women when her partner has been circumcised? Should all
MON       boys be circumcised? Sheila discusses the facts and myths
MON       of male circumcision with Kennedy Gondwe, a 29-year-old
MON       reporter from Zambia who was circumcised two years ago,
MON       and recorded the event.
MON       
MON       11:00 Mind Changers b00lv0wx (Listen)
MON       Series 4, The Hawthorne Effect
MON       Claudia Hammond presents a series looking at the
MON       development of the science of psychology during the 20th
MON       century.
MON       In the 1920s, at the enormous Western Electric Hawthorne
MON       Factory in Cicero outside Chicago, management began an
MON       experiment which was to improve the working life of
MON       millions and give rise to a phenomenon that anyone
MON       planning a psychology experiment would have to take into
MON       account in their design.
MON       Keen to improve productivity at a time when the telephone
MON       industry was growing and Western Electric was building the
MON       components for all the telephone exchanges in the United
MON       States, management decided to see whether working
MON       conditions affected production. But the initial
MON       'illumination studies' were inconclusive; whether lighting
MON       was increased or decreased to no better than moonlight,
MON       productivity increased. Whatever the intervention, it
MON       seemed to promote faster work.
MON       Confused, management turned to economists from Harvard
MON       Business School to design a more complex study. So, in
MON       April 1927 five women were removed from the factory floor
MON       and put in a separate room - the relay assembly test room.
MON       For the next five years, as they assembled the complex
MON       relays they were minutely monitored. Their working
MON       conditions were regularly altered, but whether breaks were
MON       included or removed, their working day lengthened or
MON       shortened, their productivity continued to rise.
MON       The study improved working conditions throughout the
MON       factory, as breaks were introduced for all, but it also
MON       gave rise to a phenomenon known as The Hawthorne Effect,
MON       which has to be taken into account in the design of any
MON       experiment - the mere fact that subjects know that they
MON       are being studied may alter their behaviour.
MON       Yet The Hawthorne Effect is widely questioned. How can an
MON       experiment using such a small sample - five women, two of
MON       whom were changed during the study - have given rise to
MON       such a ubiquitous theory?
MON       With the help of the Hawthorne Museum in Cicero, the Baker
MON       Library archive and Professor Michel Anteby at Harvard
MON       Business School, Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale
MON       Business School who met the original participants in the
MON       study back in the 1970s, and Mecca Chiesa of the
MON       University of Kent, Claudia Hammond re-examines the
MON       classic Hawthorne Studies.
MON       
MON       11:30 Hazelbeach b00lv0wz (Listen)
MON       Series 2, Episode 4
MON       Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford,
MON       featuring likeable conman Ronnie Hazelbeach and his
MON       hapless friend, Nick.
MON       Ronnie loses a prized possession and Nick learns what it
MON       means to be the Daddy.
MON       Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman
MON       Nick ...... Paul Bazely
MON       James ...... Neil Stuke
MON       Art Sanford ...... Philip Fox
MON       Other parts by Stephen Hogan, Annabelle Dowler and Lizzy
MON       Watts.
MON       Directed by Marc Beeby.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00ltrz4 (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00lts0w (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00lts2l (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
MON       
MON       13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00lv0x1 (Listen)
MON       Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz,
MON       featuring teams from Wales and the North of England.
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00ltnpy (Listen)
MON       Jazzer keeps a low profile at The Bull.
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00lv0x3 (Listen)
MON       Forty-Three Fifty-Nine- Assassins
MON       By John Dryden and Mike Walker.
MON       Henry, a professional killer, is sent to Hastings to
MON       assassinate a hedge fund manager. He has brought his
MON       daughter Cathy along, who he hopes will one day take over
MON       the family business. But all is not right in Henry's mind,
MON       and what should be a routine job begins to spiral out of
MON       control.
MON       Henry ...... Rob Jarvis
MON       Bryant ...... Nicholas Farrell
MON       Angela ...... Emily Beecham
MON       Cathy ...... Meghan Haggerty
MON       A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00ly0nx (Listen)
MON       George Blake - The Confession
MON       Former Panorama reporter Tom Bower introduces the
MON       documentary he made in the late 1980s about double agent
MON       George Blake.
MON       For 18 years, Blake served as a trusted and senior MI6
MON       officer. But secretly, in 1952, he became a double agent,
MON       betraying MI6 operations and personnel to the KGB. Over
MON       the course of nine years, at a critical period of the Cold
MON       War, he destroyed most of MI6's activities in Eastern
MON       Europe. 'I don't know what I handed over', he admitted,
MON       'because it was so much'.
MON       
MON       15:45 The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German
MON       Philosophers b00ltsd1 (Listen)
MON       German Atlantis
MON       Writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German
MON       cities where great philosophers of the 19th century lived
MON       and worked, exploring the impact that these thinkers have
MON       had on each stage of his life. Along the way, he reflects
MON       on the Germany which has been locked away behind the two
MON       World Wars, and examines our contemporary prejudices
MON       towards Germans.
MON       Stephen visits the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly
MON       Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia, to explore the
MON       legacy of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who lived
MON       his entire life in the city.
MON       He visits Kant's grave and meets Kant scholar Vadim Chaly,
MON       a native of the city which Stalin ethnically cleansed of
MON       Germans in 1946. He also tracks down Professor Vladimir
MON       Bryushinkin, the current encumbent of the Chair of Logic
MON       at Kaliningrad University, the chair that Kant once
MON       occupied in the old city of Königsberg.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00ltn9p (Listen)
MON       Sport and Food
MON       Sheila Dillon examines the business of food at sports
MON       events, from horse racing to football. She finds out about
MON       the caterers and the companies behind thousands of meals
MON       every week.
MON       A handful of global businesses look after most of the food
MON       in Britain's sports venues. Companies like Compass Group
MON       and the US-based Aramark have turnovers which run into the
MON       billions of pounds, generated in part by the food they
MON       sell at sports venues.
MON       Sheila hears about two major sports events, Glorious
MON       Goodwood, at which Compass serve burgers made using
MON       organic beef produced on the Goodwood estate, and Lord's
MON       cricket ground, which decided to go it alone, bring
MON       catering in-house and leave the world of contract catering.
MON       With the London 2012 Olympic Games approaching, Sheila
MON       asks if these examples of catering at sports venues will
MON       be suited to an event at which up to 20 million meals are
MON       due to be served.
MON       
MON       16:30 Beyond Belief b00lv0x5 (Listen)
MON       With protests continuing in Iran over the results of the
MON       presidential elections, Ernie Rea and guests examine the
MON       history and theology which underpin the Islamic republic.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00ltsj9 (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 b00ltssy (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 Just a Minute b00lv13k (Listen)
MON       Series 55, Episode 2
MON       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With Paul
MON       Merton, Shapp Khorsandi, Gyles Brandreth and Kit
MON       Hesketh-Harvey.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00ltsc6 (Listen)
MON       Lilian drowns all thoughts of Matt.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00ltt42 (Listen)
MON       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Includes an
MON       interview with Tim Lott, who reflects on the reissue of
MON       his memoir The Scent of Dried Roses, an account of his
MON       mother's suicide.
MON       
MON       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ltt46 (Listen)
MON       Villette, Bretton
MON       Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte
MON       Bronte.
MON       Lucy Snowe looks back to the happy times spent with her
MON       godmother and the arrival of a letter with some surprising
MON       news.
MON       Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
MON       Young Lucy ...... Lizzy Watts
MON       Polly ...... Nell Venables
MON       Mrs Bretton/Miss Marchmount ...... Joan Walker
MON       Graham Bretton ...... Benjamin Askew
MON       Directed by Tracey Neale.
MON       
MON       20:00 Benjamin Jealous: The Future of the NAACP? b00lv13m (Listen)
MON       Guardian journalist Gary Younge talks to Benjamin Jealous,
MON       the new leader of America's oldest and largest civil
MON       rights organisation, the National Association for the
MON       Advancement of Colored People, and asks if America still
MON       needs the organisation.
MON       Jealous joins the NAACP in its centenary year, but at a
MON       time when it is suffering from an image crisis and
MON       dwindling membership. Has an organisation that fought
MON       segregation, publicised lynchings and awakened the
MON       conscience of a nation become a victim of its own success?
MON       How relevant is the NAACP in the age of Barack Obama?
MON       Mr Jealous is the youngest leader the NAACP has ever
MON       selected and he plans to kick the organisation into the
MON       21st century, encouraging new members to use technology to
MON       document discrimination and force change, and to turn the
MON       organisation back into the political powerhouse of its
MON       prime.
MON       A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       20:30 Crossing Continents b00lszh6 (Listen)
MON       A Journey Without Maps
MON       Humphrey Hawksley retraces the extraordinary journey
MON       undertaken on foot by the novelist Graham Greene from
MON       Sierra Leone across Liberia in 1935. He feasts on sardines
MON       and luncheon meat, meets the lightning makers and devil
MON       dancers and is involved in a near-fatal car crash. How has
MON       West Africa changed? Is it better or worse than it was 70
MON       years ago?
MON       
MON       21:00 Chips With Everything b00lv18s (Listen)
MON       Sue Nelson explores the mining town in North Carolina that
MON       is responsible for the production of the entire world's
MON       supply of silicon chips.
MON       The small community of Spruce Pine is home to the purest
MON       quartz on Earth, which is essential for making the chips
MON       that run every computer, digital radio, washing machine
MON       and microwave on the planet.
MON       Quartz is vital because of how computer chips are made;
MON       this uniquely pure mineral forms the mixing bowls and
MON       tools that make the manufacture of silicon chips possible.
MON       If the quartz is contaminated then it becomes useless, but
MON       by a stroke of geological luck these rocks formed in the
MON       shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains are just perfect.
MON       Without them - and therefore without the work of this
MON       North Carolina town - microchip development as we know it
MON       would grind to a halt.
MON       But as new quartz deposits are discovered in other
MON       countries, including Norway, could Spruce Pine cease to be
MON       indispensible? And what will the people of the town do if
MON       their last major industry disappears? The programme meets
MON       the locals of this Mitchell County town and digs beneath
MON       the surface of this strategically important mineral.
MON       
MON       21:30 MI6: A Century in the Shadows b00lv0bm (Listen)
MON       Heroes and Villains
MON       BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside
MON       Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to senior
MON       intelligence officers, agents and diplomats as well as
MON       their former arch enemies about the shadowy world of
MON       espionage.
MON       What went on behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War?
MON       MI6 Chief John Scarlett describes his clandestine meeting
MON       with an agent and the Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky
MON       talks about his reasons for coming over to the other side.
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00lttj9 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00lttt6 (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Felicity
MON       Evans.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lxgq7 (Listen)
MON       The Rapture, Episode 6
MON       Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller.
MON       Gabrielle discovers the truth about her predecessor on
MON       Bethany's case, but Bethany has disappeared from hospital.
MON       Abridged by Fiona McAlpine.
MON       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       23:00 Word of Mouth b00ls65t (Listen)
MON       Chris Ledgard explores the idea that the language we speak
MON       shapes the way we are and the way we see the world: that
MON       we really are different in different languages.
MON       The programme visits a group of Asian women at home to
MON       hear about all the languages they speak, and how they
MON       manage to switch effortlessly between them. We talk to the
MON       professor who is leading research into the idea that the
MON       actual structure of our language makes a difference to the
MON       way we think.
MON       And we hear from an Australian expert who believes that
MON       the difficulty of the English system of numbers puts
MON       English-speaking children at a disadvantage when it comes
MON       to learning to count.
MON       
MON       23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00f3wq1 (Listen)
MON       Series 4, Going to the Dogs
MON       Documentary series telling original stories about real
MON       lives in Britain today.
MON       When Walthamstow dog track closed its doors for the last
MON       time in August 2008, it was the end of an era. Alan Dein
MON       was the only reporter allowed to join the crowds as the
MON       hare led the dogs round the circuit for the last time; the
MON       loudspeakers played Thanks for the Memory and the tears
MON       flowed freely.
MON       But what now for the future of British greyhound racing,
MON       without the iconic Stow? For bookie Joe Bennett and young
MON       trainer Paul Rich the dogs are a way of life and a family
MON       tradition, in spite of the fact that in England greyhound
MON       racing's glory days are long past. Alan follows them as
MON       they face an uncertain future. While Joe is philosophical
MON       and knows that the sport has always had its ups and downs,
MON       Paul, who has devoted to his dogs and has only just taken
MON       over the family business, is more pessimistic. Now he is
MON       racing in Kent, at Sittingbourne's track on a dreary
MON       industrial estate in the wrong end of town - a far cry
MON       from the glories of the Stow.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2009
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00ltp9v (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4. Followed by Weather.
TUE       
TUE       00:30 Book of the Week b00ltrn9 (Listen)
TUE       Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 1
TUE       Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of
TUE       the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access
TUE       to her letters and papers.
TUE       Abridged by Rosemary Goring.
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ltpdk (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltpgk (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltpm2 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00ltps2 (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ltpxx (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00ltrh0 (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00ltrk6 (Listen)
TUE       With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk;
TUE       Weather; Thought for the Day.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 The Long View b00lrv4t (Listen)
TUE       Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the
TUE       past behind the present.
TUE       Jonathan takes the Long View of the railways at a time of
TUE       recession, asking what lessons can be learnt in our own
TUE       time from the experience of the Great Western Railway in
TUE       the 1860s.
TUE       A once-prestigious and highly-profitable enterprise, GWR
TUE       had over-extended itself and the company faced bankruptcy.
TUE       As debates rage over the future of the East Coast Main
TUE       Line, Jonathan and guests compare the action taken to
TUE       rescue the railways in the 19th century with the
TUE       challenges faced today.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Musical Migrants b00b4nss (Listen)
TUE       Series 1, From North to South
TUE       Stories of people who relocated to other lands, influenced
TUE       by music.
TUE       In the early 1970s, Bruce Greene left New Jersey to embark
TUE       on a decade-long road trip around Kentucky and the
TUE       Southern Appalachians to collect old time fiddle tunes and
TUE       immerse himself in the traditional music that is part of
TUE       that landscape. He yearned for the sort of lifestyle that
TUE       the music seemed to convey and which he now recreates at
TUE       his home in a log cabin in the North Carolina mountains.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 Book of the Week b00lxjlq (Listen)
TUE       Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 2
TUE       Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of
TUE       the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access
TUE       to her letters and papers.
TUE       Marriage to an older man offers escape from the
TUE       claustrophobia of Edinburgh's social microcosm, but the
TUE       excesses of life in colonial Africa soon prove
TUE       overwhelming.
TUE       Abridged by Rosemary Goring.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00ltrq1 (Listen)
TUE       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 The Hidden World of Jacques Cousteau b00lv1r2 (Listen)
TUE       For 40 years, the Calypso was the mythical flagship of
TUE       that most emblematic of Frenchmen, Jacques Cousteau. Now,
TUE       with restoration underway on the boat, Nick Haslam sets
TUE       out to re-evaluate the renowned, yet sometimes
TUE       controversial, underwater explorer, and to shed light on
TUE       the bitter battle over both Cousteau's legacy and his boat.
TUE       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 With Great Pleasure b00lv202 (Listen)
TUE       Anthony Howard
TUE       Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing.
TUE       Journalist and political commentator Anthony Howard
TUE       chooses some of his favourite pieces - read by Nigel
TUE       Anthony and Eleanor Bron.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00ltrv8 (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00ltrz6 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00lts0y (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Gesualdo: Musician and Murderer b00lv204 (Listen)
TUE       Aled Jones examines the bizarre life and tormented music
TUE       of Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, who slaughtered his
TUE       unfaithful wife and her paramour and then composed six
TUE       books of madrigals about the joys of love.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00ltsc6 (Listen)
TUE       Lilian drowns all thoughts of Matt.
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00hk12x (Listen)
TUE       McLevy - Series 5, The Reckoning
TUE       Series of stories about David Ashton's Victorian
TUE       detective, based on real-life Edinburgh policeman
TUE       Inspector James McLevy.
TUE       Jean is busy with preparations for Hannah and Donald's
TUE       wedding. But somewhere in the city someone is planning a
TUE       terrible revenge, and death stalks McLevy's footsteps.
TUE       McLevy ...... Brian Cox
TUE       Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond
TUE       Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell
TUE       Roach ...... David Ashton
TUE       Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil
TUE       Marianna ...... Claire Knight
TUE       Cyrus ...... Angus Macinnes
TUE       Donald ...... Andrew Neil
TUE       Mrs Gulliver ...... Sheila Donald
TUE       Craigie ...... Robin Laing
TUE       Directed by Patrick Rayner.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Home Planet b00lv206 (Listen)
TUE       Ggiven the vast number of different beetle species on
TUE       Earth, do we not live in the age of the beetle? And if so,
TUE       what was the beetle that surprised one listener by nipping
TUE       him on the toe?
TUE       Why does the Moon always point the same face towards the
TUE       Earth and why does it appear that the bright side of the
TUE       Moon does not always point towards the Sun?
TUE       And finally, what can or should be done about the vast
TUE       numbers of plastic bags consumed by the agricultural
TUE       industry?
TUE       On the panel are astronomer Dr Carolin Crawford of the
TUE       University of Cambridge, soil scientist Dr Chris Collins
TUE       of the University of Reading and entomologist Richard
TUE       Jones. As always we want to hear your comments on the
TUE       topics discussed and any questions you might want to put
TUE       to future programmes.
TUE       Don't forget we want to hear your observations of House
TUE       Martins; have they returned this year and when, and have
TUE       they bred successfully?
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lv228 (Listen)
TUE       Perspectives, The Mumpers
TUE       Series of stories about people approaching something
TUE       familiar from a different point of view.
TUE       By Eleanor Thom. Distant memories mingle with the present
TUE       as an old woman at the end of her life is cared for by her
TUE       young nurse. Read by Laura Smales.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German
TUE       Philosophers b00lxd78 (Listen)
TUE       The Early Romantic
TUE       Writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German
TUE       cities where the great philosophers of the 19th century
TUE       lived and worked, exploring the impact that these thinkers
TUE       have had on each stage of his life. Along the way, he
TUE       reflects on the Germany which has been locked away behind
TUE       the two World Wars, and examines our contemporary
TUE       prejudices towards Germans.
TUE       Stephen revisits Marburg, where he was a student 35 years
TUE       ago. He reconsiders the subjective philosophy of Fichte
TUE       and of the nature philosopher Schelling, whose work he
TUE       studied in the 1970s, with particular reference to
TUE       Schelling's idea of the World Soul.
TUE       These thinkers provided the philosophic basis for German
TUE       Romanticism. Stephen relates how, as a young man, seeing
TUE       the world through the lens of Romanticism, he was in for
TUE       some pretty sharp collisions with reality.
TUE       The 'magic theatre' behind the mysterious black door in
TUE       the building in which he rents a room as a student turns
TUE       out to be Marburg's secret gay scene. Revisiting the
TUE       building nearly four decades later, he discovers it has
TUE       become another cultural ghetto: a smoker's pub.
TUE       Stephen also recalls a house party in the forests near
TUE       Marburg back in the early 1970s, where he had a strange
TUE       encounter with a young woman who seemed to embody
TUE       Schelling's idea of the World Soul. Like a character in a
TUE       fairytale, she appears to have sprung from the forest
TUE       itself. However, the inherent romanticism in their meeting
TUE       is later tempered by the appearance of the woman's husband.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Word of Mouth b00lv28b (Listen)
TUE       Chris Ledgard takes another journey into the world of
TUE       words, language and the way we speak.
TUE       'Giving a presentation' has become an ordeal that many
TUE       people dread. But why has this business practice spread
TUE       into so many parts of modern life, from primary school to
TUE       the armed forces? And does the pre-eminent presentation
TUE       software package, PowerPoint, force us to think and speak
TUE       in certain ways?
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00lv28d (Listen)
TUE       Series 19, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       Andrew Motion champions the life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
TUE       Poet Laureate for over 40 years and creator of In Memoriam
TUE       and The Charge of the Light Brigade.
TUE       Ann Thwaite provides further details of Tennyson's
TUE       often-troubled life.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00ltshl (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 b00ltspz (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Laurence & Gus: Hearts and Minds b00lv28g (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 4
TUE       Comic sketches starring Laurence Howarth and Gus Brown.
TUE       Sketches on the theme of 'keeping it and losing it'.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00ltsbr (Listen)
TUE       Betty's gone, but not forgotten, at Willow Cottage.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00ltst0 (Listen)
TUE       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including a report
TUE       on the art of the self-portrait.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lxfpf (Listen)
TUE       Villette, Turning A New Leaf
TUE       Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte
TUE       Bronte.
TUE       Alone and orphaned, Lucy Snowe must make her own way in
TUE       life.
TUE       Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
TUE       Ginevra/Rosine ...... Lizzy Watts
TUE       Mme Beck ...... Joan Walker
TUE       Monsieur Paul ...... Sam Dale
TUE       Dr John ...... Benjamin Askew
TUE       Directed by Tracey Neale.
TUE       
TUE       20:00 Rewriting the Psychiatrist's Bible b00kf117 (Listen)
TUE       Matthew Hill investigates the links between psychiatrists
TUE       and the pharmaceutical industry. Should there be increased
TUE       transparency over top psychiatrists' links to the industry?
TUE       He looks at the influence of the Diagnostic and
TUE       Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM),
TUE       produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APA),
TUE       which has been heavily criticised in the past for a lack
TUE       of transparency between the panel members and
TUE       pharmaceutical companies. Matthew also examines the
TUE       'Chinese menu' aspect of the DSM's diagnostic criteria and
TUE       the sheer number of conditions it includes. Matthew
TUE       investigates whether the APA's transparency policy goes
TUE       far enough and if we are medicalising real conditions or
TUE       just traits of human personality.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00lv28l (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00lv28n (Listen)
TUE       Eczema
TUE       Dr Mark Porter visits the Centre of Evidence Based
TUE       Dermatology in Nottingham to find out the latest reasearch
TUE       into treating the symptoms of eczema. He sees their
TUE       day-to-day work in action and talks to the team.
TUE       One study going on at the centre is looking at whether
TUE       installing a water softener will have any effect on
TUE       childhood eczema. Professor Hywel Williams, the director
TUE       of the centre, has been wanting to do this study for
TUE       years, after hearing from many patients that softened
TUE       water seems to improve their symptoms.
TUE       Other patients are not so sure though, so research in this
TUE       area is needed. If it is the case that installing a water
TUE       softener in the home (bar one tap to be used for drinking
TUE       water) has an effect, then many patients will be relieved,
TUE       as this bypasses the worrying side-effects of many eczema
TUE       drug treatments.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 The Long View b00lrv4t (Listen)
TUE       Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the
TUE       past behind the present.
TUE       Jonathan takes the Long View of the railways at a time of
TUE       recession, asking what lessons can be learnt in our own
TUE       time from the experience of the Great Western Railway in
TUE       the 1860s.
TUE       A once-prestigious and highly-profitable enterprise, GWR
TUE       had over-extended itself and the company faced bankruptcy.
TUE       As debates rage over the future of the East Coast Main
TUE       Line, Jonathan and guests compare the action taken to
TUE       rescue the railways in the 19th century with the
TUE       challenges faced today.
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00lttr4 (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00lttsh (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Felicity
TUE       Evans.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lxgpz (Listen)
TUE       The Rapture, Episode 7
TUE       Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller.
TUE       Gabrielle meets Bethany's kidnappers and discovers why
TUE       they are concerned about her disturbing premonitions.
TUE       Abridged by Fiona McAlpine.
TUE       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Heresy b00b7wwz (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 1
TUE       Victoria Coren chairs the programme that likes to think
TUE       the unthinkable.
TUE       Former host David Baddiel makes a special appearance,
TUE       joined by David Mitchell and Rev Richard Coles.
TUE       An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 The Hollow Men b00lzn34 (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 1
TUE       Comic sketch show written and performed by David Armand,
TUE       Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner, with Katy
TUE       Brand.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2009
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00ltp9x (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4. Followed by Weather.
WED       
WED       00:30 Book of the Week b00lxjlq (Listen)
WED       Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 2
WED       Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of
WED       the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access
WED       to her letters and papers.
WED       Marriage to an older man offers escape from the
WED       claustrophobia of Edinburgh's social microcosm, but the
WED       excesses of life in colonial Africa soon prove
WED       overwhelming.
WED       Abridged by Rosemary Goring.
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ltpdm (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltpgm (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltpm4 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00ltps4 (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ltpxz (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00ltrh2 (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00ltrk8 (Listen)
WED       With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
WED       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
WED       
WED       09:00 Between Ourselves b00ls6wm (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Episode 1
WED       Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together
WED       two people who have had profound and similar experiences,
WED       to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term
WED       effects on each of their lives.
WED       Olivia talks to two stand-up comedians, probably the UK's
WED       first female Muslim stand-up, Shazia Mirza, and doctor,
WED       Paul Sinha. They discuss how they got into comedy and if
WED       the pigeon-holes they have been put into of being 'Asian',
WED       Muslim' or 'gay' are a help or a hindrance to them.
WED       
WED       09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A
WED       b00ls6wp (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Rosie Goldsmith goes behind the scenes at London's
WED       Victoria and Albert Museum as it attempts to transform
WED       itself from 'the nation's attic' to a 'very amazing'
WED       modern museum.
WED       
WED       09:45 Book of the Week b00lxjlj (Listen)
WED       Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 3
WED       Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of
WED       the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access
WED       to her letters and papers.
WED       Spark's unique literary voice is discovered when she wins
WED       The Observer's Christmas story competition in 1951 with
WED       The Seraph and the Zambesi, beating 7,000 other entries.
WED       Abridged by Rosemary Goring.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00ltrq3 (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette.
WED       
WED       11:00 In Living Memory b00lv4hc (Listen)
WED       Series 10, Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin
WED       Contemporary history series.
WED       'Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin' was a children's
WED       picture book that showed two gay men bringing up a small
WED       girl. When a copy was found in a teachers' resource centre
WED       in 1986, it casued uproar and was denounced by the
WED       education secretary as 'blatant homosexual propaganda'.
WED       Jolyon Jenkins traces how the book, and the policies of a
WED       small number of local authorities, led to the now infamous
WED       Section 28.
WED       
WED       11:30 Baggage b00lv5h7 (Listen)
WED       Series 4, For a' that and a' that
WED       Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh.
WED       It's Burns' night and passion and politics are to the
WED       fore. Tensions abound at the prospect of baby April
WED       spending the weekend with her birth father and Caroline
WED       frets over why her own father isn't spending the night at
WED       home.
WED       Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon
WED       Fiona ...... Phyllis Logan
WED       Ruth ...... Adie Allen
WED       Roddy ...... Robin Cameron
WED       Hector ...... David Rintoul
WED       Nicholas ...... Moray Hunter
WED       Directed by Marilyn Imrie.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00ltrvb (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00ltrz8 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00lts10 (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00lv5h9 (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00ltsbr (Listen)
WED       Betty's gone, but not forgotten, at Willow Cottage.
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00lv5hc (Listen)
WED       The Tower
WED       By Richard Monks. Mashama is on the run from his home; Eva
WED       believes she can't return to hers. Music brings them
WED       together at a motorway service station, but the law is not
WED       far behind.
WED       Eva ...... Cristina Catalina
WED       Mashama ...... Lucian Msamati
WED       Neil ...... Stephen Hogan
WED       Carol ...... Lorraine Ashbourne
WED       Crosby ...... John Lightbody
WED       Geoff ...... John Hollingworth
WED       Denise ...... Annabelle Dowler
WED       Driver ...... David Hargreaves.
WED       
WED       15:00 The Money Grab b00ltl6v (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Alvin Hall explores the rise in corporate pay and bonus
WED       culture.
WED       Starting in the 1980s, with Wall Street's mantra of 'greed
WED       is good', Alvin charts the changes in the finance world
WED       which led to a new generation of multi-millionaires. He
WED       reveals how big businesses calculate super salaries, and
WED       asks how much is enough; can a company suffer from paying
WED       its top talent too much?
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lxfbg (Listen)
WED       Perspectives, futouristic.co.uk
WED       Series of stories about people approaching something
WED       familiar from a different point of view.
WED       By Christopher Priest, read by Nick Underwood.
WED       When he replies to an irresistible email proposition, Mr
WED       Frogle can be sure of only one thing - nothing will ever
WED       be the same again.
WED       
WED       15:45 The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German
WED       Philosophers b00lxd7b (Listen)
WED       Doppelgänger
WED       Writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German
WED       cities where the great philosophers of the 19th century
WED       lived and worked, exploring the impact that these thinkers
WED       have had on each stage of his life. Along the way, he
WED       reflects on the Germany which has been locked away behind
WED       the two World Wars, and examines our contemporary
WED       prejudices towards Germans.
WED       Together with his brother Neville, an expert on the
WED       romantic city of Heidelberg, Stephen explores the city of
WED       the Student Prince and examines its connections with the
WED       philosophers Hegel and Schopenhauer. He considers the idea
WED       of the Doppelgänger, the double, an important archetype in
WED       German Romantic literature.
WED       Neville explains how the movement of High Romanticism was
WED       created by the anti-French nationalism, which developed in
WED       the city during the years after the Napoleonic invasion.
WED       The enthusiasm for German folklore, which was later
WED       fostered by the Nazis, was directly related to this
WED       cultural reaction.
WED       Stephen discusses with his brother two of the famous
WED       philosophers associated with the city, Hegel and
WED       Schopenhauer. Hegel went on to become an intellectual
WED       superstar, taking over the chair of philosophy in Berlin.
WED       Schopenhauer, on the other hand, was dismissed by the
WED       academic establishment, his ideas only latterly being
WED       taken seriously by the likes of Richard Wagner and
WED       Friedrich Nietzsche. Schopenhauer attempted to emulate
WED       Hegel, and became a kind of Doppelgänger for him when he
WED       followed in his footsteps to Berlin and set up his own
WED       rival series of lectures. These were so poorly attended
WED       however, he had to beat an ignominious retreat from the
WED       capital.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00lv5hf (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00lv28n (Listen)
WED       Eczema
WED       Dr Mark Porter visits the Centre of Evidence Based
WED       Dermatology in Nottingham to find out the latest reasearch
WED       into treating the symptoms of eczema. He sees their
WED       day-to-day work in action and talks to the team.
WED       One study going on at the centre is looking at whether
WED       installing a water softener will have any effect on
WED       childhood eczema. Professor Hywel Williams, the director
WED       of the centre, has been wanting to do this study for
WED       years, after hearing from many patients that softened
WED       water seems to improve their symptoms.
WED       Other patients are not so sure though, so research in this
WED       area is needed. If it is the case that installing a water
WED       softener in the home (bar one tap to be used for drinking
WED       water) has an effect, then many patients will be relieved,
WED       as this bypasses the worrying side-effects of many eczema
WED       drug treatments.
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00ltshn (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 b00ltsq1 (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00lv5hh (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Sketch show for anyone who is beginning to find this
WED       exciting new century a bit too much like all the rubbish
WED       previous centuries.
WED       How the recession is affecting supermarkets, the
WED       conspiracy behind celebrity gossip magazines and how Radio
WED       4 is going to rebrand itself.
WED       With Stephen K Amos, Jason Byrne, Justin Edwards and
WED       Katherine Parkinson.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00ltsbt (Listen)
WED       Peggy's finances take a knock.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00ltst2 (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson questions leading crime
WED       writers, including Reginald Hill and Val McDermid, in a
WED       special report from the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.
WED       
WED       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lxfph (Listen)
WED       Villette, Isidore
WED       Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte
WED       Bronte.
WED       A handsome young English doctor pays a visit to the school
WED       and begins to confide in Lucy.
WED       Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
WED       Dr John ...... Benjamin Askew
WED       Ginevra/Rosine ...... Lizzy Watts
WED       Mme Beck ...... Joan Walker
WED       Directed by Tracey Neale.
WED       
WED       20:00 Reality Check b00lv6fn (Listen)
WED       Series 2, Episode 2
WED       Justin Rowlatt presents a discussion series involving
WED       experts and people closely involved in the issues.
WED       The UK is suffering an obesity crisis, supermarkets are
WED       accused of having too much power over our lives and of
WED       squeezing farmers dry, while others worry about the impact
WED       of the food industry on global warming.
WED       Consumers, farmers, retailers and food experts ask if our
WED       food chain needs a radical overhaul and discuss who has
WED       the right to tell us where to shop.
WED       
WED       20:45 The Election Agent b00lyfd3 (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       With exclusive access to an election count, Shaun Ley
WED       hears stories from election agents. What really goes on
WED       behind the scenes of an election campaign? What messages
WED       do dissatisfied voters write on their ballot papers?
WED       
WED       21:00 Last Chance for Africa's Elephants? b00lv6tq (Listen)
WED       Andrew Luck-Baker asks how science can stop the new
WED       upsurge in the slaughter of African elephants for the
WED       booming illegal international trade in ivory.
WED       20 years ago the African elephant was being fast-tracked
WED       to extinction by poaching. In response, the world voted to
WED       outlaw the international trade in ivory. Since then,
WED       elephant numbers in many countries have been recovering.
WED       But in the last five years, ivory poaching and trafficking
WED       have surged once more.
WED       One group of conservation scientists has calculated that
WED       38,000 animals every year are being slaughtered to feed
WED       the demand for ivory products in East Asia. If that
WED       poaching rate is correct and sustained, the African
WED       elephant will be effectively extinct within 15 years.
WED       Some other elephant experts argue the slaughter rate is
WED       not as high as this but are still alarmed at the steep
WED       increase in poaching in many African countries.
WED       Andrew Luck-Baker visits Kenya, one of the countries where
WED       some believe elephant poaching is accelerating out of
WED       control. He also talks to the scientist behind an ivory
WED       DNA test which is helping the fight against the organised
WED       crime syndicates behind the illegal trade.
WED       
WED       21:30 Between Ourselves b00ls6wm (Listen)
WED       Series 4, Episode 1
WED       Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together
WED       two people who have had profound and similar experiences,
WED       to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term
WED       effects on each of their lives.
WED       Olivia talks to two stand-up comedians, probably the UK's
WED       first female Muslim stand-up, Shazia Mirza, and doctor,
WED       Paul Sinha. They discuss how they got into comedy and if
WED       the pigeon-holes they have been put into of being 'Asian',
WED       Muslim' or 'gay' are a help or a hindrance to them.
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00lttr6 (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00lttsk (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
WED       Shah.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lxgq1 (Listen)
WED       The Rapture, Episode 8
WED       Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller.
WED       In order to exploit her prophetic powers, Gabrielle is
WED       forced to give Bethany ECT, with dire consequences.
WED       Abridged by Fiona McAlpine.
WED       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:00 Act Your Age b00g3hr8 (Listen)
WED       Episode 5
WED       Host Simon Mayo pits the comic generations against each
WED       other. With team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and
WED       Roy Walker and guests Russell Kane, Johnnie Casson and
WED       Phil Nichol.
WED       
WED       23:30 Kicking the Habit b007tzgy (Listen)
WED       Series 1, Long Distance Friar
WED       Comedy drama by Christopher Lee, set in a Carmelite
WED       monastery where the brown habit is no protection against
WED       the problems and temptations of the modern world.
WED       Father Athanasias is tweaking his bath chair for greater
WED       speed. Brother Luke is in training for the marathon, but
WED       when the Anglicans suggest a rival entrant the race is
WED       really on.
WED       Father Bertie ...... Alfred Molina
WED       Brother Martin ...... Roy Dotrice
WED       Father Michael ...... Martin Jarvis
WED       Brother Luke ...... Darren Richardson
WED       Mave ...... Rosalind Ayres
WED       Brother Francis ...... Alan Shearman
WED       Father Lawrence ...... Kenneth Danziger
WED       Directed by Pete Atkin
WED       A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2009
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00ltp9z (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4. Followed by Weather.
THU       
THU       00:30 Book of the Week b00lxjlj (Listen)
THU       Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 3
THU       Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of
THU       the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access
THU       to her letters and papers.
THU       Spark's unique literary voice is discovered when she wins
THU       The Observer's Christmas story competition in 1951 with
THU       The Seraph and the Zambesi, beating 7,000 other entries.
THU       Abridged by Rosemary Goring.
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ltpdp (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltpgp (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltpm6 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00ltps6 (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ltpy1 (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00ltrh4 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00ltrkb (Listen)
THU       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU       
THU       09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lvgwj (Listen)
THU       Series 5, Terminally Ill and Suicidal
THU       Joan Bakewell discusses the real-life case of Mary, a
THU       terminally-ill woman in her 80s. She has considered her
THU       condition and has decided that she wants to die.
THU       She is admitted to a hospice for respite care. On the
THU       first night she attempts suicide. The psychiatric team,
THU       who assess Mary, conclude that she is not clinically
THU       depressed.
THU       Mary talks quite openly with her relatives and the medical
THU       staff about her wish to die, describing her existence as
THU       inconvenient. She also asks members of the team for
THU       euthanasia.
THU       While at the hospice she refuses palliative care, and, as
THU       her condition is stable, she decides to go home and employ
THU       a full-time carer.
THU       But the psychiatric staff are very concerned. Mary
THU       continues to talk of her death wish, and she has asked the
THU       psychiatric team to leave her alone when she goes home.
THU       What right does Mary have to determine how her life ends?
THU       What is the role of her doctors, and should she attempt
THU       suicide again? Is not doing anything the equivalent of a
THU       policeman walking past and ignoring a man who is about to
THU       jump off a building?
THU       Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss
THU       the complex ethical issues surrounding this case.
THU       
THU       09:45 Book of the Week b00lxjll (Listen)
THU       Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 4
THU       Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of
THU       the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access
THU       to her letters and papers.
THU       Spark's life is transformed by the publication of her
THU       fifth novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which gained
THU       critical and commercial success on both sides of the
THU       Atlantic when it was published in 1961.
THU       Abridged by Rosemary Goring.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00ltrq5 (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette.
THU       
THU       11:00 Crossing Continents b00lvh19 (Listen)
THU       Southern Sudan
THU       While the world's attention has focused on the conflict in
THU       Darfur, an older and even bloodier conflict between the
THU       Muslim north and mainly Christian south of Sudan is in
THU       danger of reigniting. Four years after a peace deal was
THU       agreed, Grant Ferrett travels to Southern Sudan to
THU       investigate claims that Africa's biggest nation is sliding
THU       back to civil war.
THU       
THU       11:30 Billy Liar: Fifty Years On b00lvh1c (Listen)
THU       Fifty years after the publication of Keith Waterhouse's
THU       Billy Liar, writer Blake Morrison goes in search of the
THU       world it evokes - the north of England on the cusp of the
THU       1960s. The story of a frustrated young man in a northern
THU       town who escapes from reality into vivid fantasies of
THU       power and glory, Billy Liar captured the public
THU       imagination. It became a play, a film, a musical and even
THU       a TV series.
THU       Blake travels to Leeds to explore the way in which
THU       Waterhouse's life there overlaps with Billy's story, and
THU       talks to long-term residents and local historians about
THU       how the city, and the society depicted in the novel, has
THU       changed. The programme also features contributions from
THU       Barbara Taylor Bradford, Barry Cryer and Sir Gerald
THU       Kaufman MP.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00ltrvd (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Shari Vahl. Including Face
THU       the Facts, presented by John Waite.
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00ltrzb (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00lts12 (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Shaun Ley.
THU       
THU       13:30 Questions, Questions b00lvh6r (Listen)
THU       Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from
THU       everyday life.
THU       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00ltsbt (Listen)
THU       Peggy's finances take a knock.
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00lvh6t (Listen)
THU       Normal and Nat
THU       By Debbie Oates. Nat's life spirals out of control after
THU       she describes hearing voices in her head, until a
THU       sympathetic teacher helps to unlock the obsessive musical
THU       way in which Nat thinks.
THU       Nat ...... Rebecca Ryan
THU       Miss Davies ...... Elizabeth Berrington
THU       Mix ...... Jamil Thomas
THU       Shanice ...... Wunmi Mosaku
THU       Jane ...... Sue Devaney
THU       Paul/HeadteacherDavid Fleeshman
THU       Pianist ...... Jonathan Scott
THU       The Voice in Nat's Head ...... Emma Johnson
THU       With Chorlton High School Choir and The RNCM Gospel Choir.
THU       Directed by Nadia Molinari.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00ltl3c (Listen)
THU       WWII Secrets of The Peak District
THU       Matt Baker discovers the Second World War secrets of the
THU       Peak District.
THU       Nestled away in the Peak District are two Second World War
THU       'training grounds'. The first is the Derwent Valley, with
THU       the wide open dam that heard the roar of Lancaster bombers
THU       as they prepared for the historic Dambuster raids.
THU       The second is the lesser known Burbage Valley, where in
THU       secrecy, British and Canadian troops were trained for war,
THU       leaving their battle scars across the landscape. Burbage
THU       Valley is also home to one of the first bomber decoys in
THU       the country. In an extroadinary bid to distract German
THU       bombers, a mini-Sheffield was built. This hoax site
THU       comprised an elaborate arrangement of lights and fires
THU       contained in baskets and trenches that were designed to
THU       replicate Sheffield's railway marshalling yards as seen
THU       from the air at night. This 'model city' was set into
THU       action by brave Sheffield men who had to run straight into
THU       the decoy to activate it, knowing full well that if they
THU       were successful it could mean that
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00ltn21 (Listen)
THU       Prisoners of Conscience
THU       Zoë Wanamaker appeals on behalf Prisoners of Conscience.
THU       Donations to Prisoners of Conscience should be sent to
THU       FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your
THU       envelope Prisoners of Conscience. Credit cards: Freephone
THU       0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide
THU       Prisoners of Conscience with your full name and address so
THU       they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another
THU       25 per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are
THU       not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode.
THU       Registered Charity No: 213766.
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lxfbj (Listen)
THU       Perspectives, Attendance
THU       Series of stories about people approaching something
THU       familiar from a different point of view.
THU       By Elizabeth Reeder, read by Robin Laing.
THU       A man comes to a life-changing decision as he observes his
THU       lover tending to a dying relative.
THU       
THU       15:45 The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German
THU       Philosophers b00lxd7d (Listen)
THU       Human, All Too Human
THU       Writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German
THU       cities where the great philosophers of the 19th century
THU       lived and worked, exploring the impact that these thinkers
THU       have had on each stage of his life. Along the way, he
THU       reflects on the Germany which has been locked away behind
THU       the two World Wars, and examines our contemporary
THU       prejudices towards Germans.
THU       Stephen visits the Nietzsche House in Naumburg, in the
THU       former East Germany, where Nietzsche spent part of his
THU       youth and where he returned at the onset of his madness.
THU       He meets the head of the Nietzsche Archive, Rüdiger
THU       Schmidt Grepaly, and Fellow in residence Stefan Wilke. The
THU       archive is housed in the house where Nietzsche died,
THU       having been removed to Weimar by his ambitious sister
THU       Elizabeth Förster Nietzsche on the death of their mother.
THU       Grepaly and Wilke explain the triangular relationship
THU       between Nietzsche, his friend, the psychologist Paul Rey,
THU       and a beautiful and brilliant young student Lou Andreas
THU       Salome. The relationship ended in disaster for Nietzsche
THU       when the other two abandoned him to a life of hermetic
THU       isolation.
THU       Stephen compares this relationship to the three-cornered
THU       friendship between himself, his Nietzschean school friend
THU       Kevin and Maja, a beautiful doctor's daughter, when they
THU       all lived in Zurich in the late 1970s. Stephen's romantic
THU       hopes were finally dashed when Maja declines to accompany
THU       him on a nocturnal ski sortie across a frozen lake in the
THU       Alps, close to where Nietzsche wrote many of his major
THU       works. In the freezing temperatures, the limitations of
THU       the Nietzschean path become all too apparent to the lonely
THU       skier.
THU       Stephen is reunited with Maja in Berlin. They recall Kevin
THU       and the events of that time together. Stephen realises he
THU       was unable to live up to Nietzsche's demand that man
THU       should transcend his humanity and become the Superman.
THU       
THU       16:00 Bookclub b00ltnfv (Listen)
THU       CJ Sansom
THU       James Naughtie and readers meet the best-selling writer CJ
THU       Sansom. They discuss Dissolution, the first in his series
THU       of Tudor mysteries featuring the investigator Matthew
THU       Shardlake.
THU       Shardlake is sent to Sussex to investigate a murder in a
THU       monastery, just as Henry VIII is beginning his reformation
THU       of the Church.
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00lvltz (Listen)
THU       Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00ltshq (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 b00ltsq3 (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Electric Ink b00kq62n (Listen)
THU       Episode 1
THU       Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new
THU       media in the newspaper industry.
THU       Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay
THU       Oliver ...... Alex Jennings
THU       Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington
THU       Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar
THU       Masha ...... Debbie Chazen
THU       Freddy ...... Ben Willbond
THU       Press Officer (Barry) ...... Stephen Hogan
THU       Announcer ...... Matt Addis
THU       With additional material by Tom Mitchelson.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00ltsbw (Listen)
THU       Eddie gets his feet under the table at Brookfield.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00ltst4 (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang meets tenor Jose
THU       Carreras, who reflects on his wide-ranging career and his
THU       performances with Placido Domingo and the late Luciano
THU       Pavarotti.
THU       
THU       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lxfpk (Listen)
THU       Villette, The Long Vacation
THU       Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte
THU       Bronte.
THU       Celebrations are afoot for Madame Beck's birthday, but
THU       when the school empties for the summer holidays, Lucy
THU       realises the full extent of her loneliness.
THU       Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
THU       Monsieur Paul/Pere Silas ...... Sam Dale
THU       Dr John ...... Benjamin Askew
THU       Ginevra ...... Lizzy Watts
THU       Directed by Tracey Neale.
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00lvlv1 (Listen)
THU       Simon Cox investigates the next phase in the swine flu
THU       story: the mass vaccination programme. Will the majority
THU       of people be persuaded to be vaccinated voluntarily and
THU       will countries that need the vaccine be able to get it?
THU       
THU       20:30 In Business b00lvlv3 (Listen)
THU       Hell for Leather
THU       How do you manage a traditional family shoe repair firm
THU       with 550 outlets all over the country? John Timpson does
THU       it by dropping in on them all the time to find out what's
THU       going on, day by day. He calls it 'upside-down
THU       management'. Peter Day went along for the ride.
THU       
THU       21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lvgwj (Listen)
THU       Series 5, Terminally Ill and Suicidal
THU       Joan Bakewell discusses the real-life case of Mary, a
THU       terminally-ill woman in her 80s. She has considered her
THU       condition and has decided that she wants to die.
THU       She is admitted to a hospice for respite care. On the
THU       first night she attempts suicide. The psychiatric team,
THU       who assess Mary, conclude that she is not clinically
THU       depressed.
THU       Mary talks quite openly with her relatives and the medical
THU       staff about her wish to die, describing her existence as
THU       inconvenient. She also asks members of the team for
THU       euthanasia.
THU       While at the hospice she refuses palliative care, and, as
THU       her condition is stable, she decides to go home and employ
THU       a full-time carer.
THU       But the psychiatric staff are very concerned. Mary
THU       continues to talk of her death wish, and she has asked the
THU       psychiatric team to leave her alone when she goes home.
THU       What right does Mary have to determine how her life ends?
THU       What is the role of her doctors, and should she attempt
THU       suicide again? Is not doing anything the equivalent of a
THU       policeman walking past and ignoring a man who is about to
THU       jump off a building?
THU       Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss
THU       the complex ethical issues surrounding this case.
THU       
THU       21:45 Top of the Class b00cx6b5 (Listen)
THU       Lauren Child
THU       John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and
THU       takes them back to the places and people they left behind
THU       but who influenced their later success.
THU       Children's author Lauren Child goes back to her
THU       comprehensive school to meet her former teachers and best
THU       friend.
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00lttr8 (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00lttsm (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
THU       Shah.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lxgq3 (Listen)
THU       The Rapture, Episode 9
THU       Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller.
THU       Bethany finally describes the circumstances of the murder
THU       she committed, while desperate efforts are made to avert
THU       the catastrophe she has predicted.
THU       Abridged by Fiona McAlpine.
THU       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       23:00 Bigipedia b00lvm68 (Listen)
THU       Episode 3
THU       The omniscient friend you know from your computer and
THU       laser watch takes over Radio 4 for 30 minutes in a unique
THU       experiment in broadwebcasting.
THU       Written by Nick Doody and Matt Kirshen with Margaret
THU       Cabourn-Smith, Carey Marx and Sarah Morgan.
THU       Featuring Ewan Bailey, Sam Battersea, Margaret
THU       Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, Kobna
THU       Holdbrook-Smith and Lewis MacLeod.
THU       
THU       23:30 Will Smith Presents The Tao of Bergerac b007w0j4 (Listen)
THU       Episode 2
THU       Comedian Will Smith is obsessed with 1980s detective
THU       series Bergerac, so uses an audio book of its star, John
THU       Nettles, reading the Tao, to navigate the minefield of his
THU       life, with the help of a special guest.
THU       Will wonders how he can be an individual without being
THU       derided for his choices.
THU       With Karl Johnson, Simon Greenall, John Nettles, Rachel
THU       Bavidge and Olivia Poulet.
THU       Written by Will Smith and Roger Drew.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2009
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00ltpb1 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4. Followed by Weather.
FRI       
FRI       00:30 Book of the Week b00lxjll (Listen)
FRI       Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 4
FRI       Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of
FRI       the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access
FRI       to her letters and papers.
FRI       Spark's life is transformed by the publication of her
FRI       fifth novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which gained
FRI       critical and commercial success on both sides of the
FRI       Atlantic when it was published in 1961.
FRI       Abridged by Rosemary Goring.
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ltpdr (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltpgr (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltpm8 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00ltps8 (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ltpy3 (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00ltrh6 (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00ltrkd (Listen)
FRI       With James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather;
FRI       Thought for the Day.
FRI       
FRI       09:00 Desert Island Discs b00lr14v (Listen)
FRI       Nicky Haslam
FRI       Kirsty Young's castaway is the interior decorator,
FRI       socialite and one-time cowboy, Nicky Haslam.
FRI       His life defies easy description. In America in the 1960s,
FRI       he was part of Andy Warhol's circle of friends. He got to
FRI       know Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor and met Cyd
FRI       Charisse and President Kennedy; and after all that, he
FRI       became a cowboy.
FRI       When he returned to Britain he brought the sleek style of
FRI       the States with him. When he is designing a room, he says,
FRI       first he lets the room speak to him, then his client -
FRI       then he gets the last word on how it should look.
FRI       
FRI       09:45 Book of the Week b00lxjln (Listen)
FRI       Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 5
FRI       Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of
FRI       the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access
FRI       to her letters and papers.
FRI       Despite finding companionable happiness in Italy, the
FRI       vexations of Spark's family life continued to intrude long
FRI       into her old age.
FRI       Abridged by Rosemary Goring.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00ltrq7 (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 Can't Connect, Won't Connect b00lxh3p (Listen)
FRI       A so-called 'digital revolution' is promised to transform
FRI       public and private life, but many millions are still not
FRI       online in Britain, saying that they don't need or want to
FRI       join this revolution. Chris Bowlby discovers who the
FRI       digital 'refuseniks' are, and explores how far their
FRI       resistance can go.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 Cabin Pressure b00lxh3r (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, Johannesburg
FRI       Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny
FRI       charter airline for whom no job is too small and many jobs
FRI       are too difficult.
FRI       When Carolyn makes a daring bet with her pilots, what
FRI       better place for a race against time than a sleepy Spanish
FRI       airfield?
FRI       Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole
FRI       First Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam
FRI       Capt Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch
FRI       Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore
FRI       Senor Quintanilla ...... Michael Fenton-Stevens
FRI       Diego ...... Javier Marzan
FRI       A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00ltrvg (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00ltrzd (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00lts14 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news with Edward Stourton.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 More or Less b00lxh3t (Listen)
FRI       Tim Harford investigates statistics which some claim
FRI       reveal the 'Islamification' of Europe and checks whether
FRI       the Home Office has been doing its sums properly. Do its
FRI       claims about the DNA Database really add up?
FRI       An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00ltsbw (Listen)
FRI       Eddie gets his feet under the table at Brookfield.
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FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b0093z9w (Listen)
FRI       Bearing the Cross
FRI       Ken Blakeson's play tells the story of the Battle of
FRI       Rorke's Drift and the effect it had on three of the
FRI       soldiers who fought in it.
FRI       William Jones VC ...... Nigel Anthony
FRI       Robert Jones VC ...... Sebastian Harcombe
FRI       Henry Hook VC ...... Jon Strickland
FRI       Landlord/Buffalo Bill ...... Robert Blythe
FRI       Barmaid ...... Bethan Walker
FRI       Original music by David Chilton
FRI       A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.
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FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lxh3w (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       John Cushnie, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs answer
FRI       questions posed by members of Brightlingsea Garden Club.
FRI       Brightlingsea is on the Essex coast near Colchester, and,
FRI       as winner of the 2006 Britain in Bloom award and multiple
FRI       winner of the Best Town in Anglia competition, it has an
FRI       enviable reputation.
FRI       Bunny Guinness investigates how local man Brian
FRI       Wickenden's garden ended up being nominated as the
FRI       National Collection of Corydalis, and finds out how Brian
FRI       is coping with its maintenance.
FRI       Including Gardening weather forecast.
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FRI       15:45 The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German
FRI       Philosophers b00lxd7g (Listen)
FRI       Lifting Berlin
FRI       Writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German
FRI       cities where the great philosophers of the 19th century
FRI       lived and worked, exploring the impact that these thinkers
FRI       have had on each stage of his life. Along the way, he
FRI       reflects on the Germany which has been locked away behind
FRI       the two World Wars, and examines our contemporary
FRI       prejudices towards Germans.
FRI       Stephen ends his philosophical journey in Berlin where he
FRI       considers how, in maintaining our prejudices towards the
FRI       Germans, we have excluded the liberal wisdom of its
FRI       philosophers. Berlin, a city with an very divided past,
FRI       provides a living metaphor of the Hegelian dialectic of
FRI       history. Out of the opposing forces of Communism and
FRI       Nazism, a third, democratic synthesis has emerged. But at
FRI       Checkpoint Charlie, Stephen discovers that the old
FRI       oppositions of the Cold War have been turned into tourist
FRI       entertainment. Is there an ironic phase to history?
FRI       Visiting the cemetery in which Hegel is buried, and then
FRI       the Humboldt University where he lectured, Stephen
FRI       reflects on the two opposing ideologies that tried to gain
FRI       control of Berlin in the 20th century, and examines the
FRI       extent to which the accusation holds that German idealist
FRI       philosophy was responsible for the rise of both Fascism
FRI       and Communism. He cites Kant's treatise On Perpetual Peace
FRI       to illustrate the enlightened legacy which has been
FRI       obscured behind the pseudo-philosophy of the Third Reich.
FRI       Stephen argues that we have handed Hitler a victory by
FRI       allowing our image of the Germans and of German culture to
FRI       remain fixated on the Nazis.
FRI       Stephen also reflects on The Principle of Hope, a key work
FRI       by the German Jewish utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch,
FRI       which he co-translated in the 1980s.
FRI       In conclusion Stephen reflects how, from the early
FRI       Romanticism of student days in Germany, via Nietzsche and
FRI       Schopenhauer, to Ernst Bloch's philosophy of hope and the
FRI       Kantian responsibilities of parenthood, philosophy has the
FRI       power to shape personal experience.
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FRI       16:00 Last Word b00lxh3y (Listen)
FRI       Jane Little presents the obituary series, analysing and
FRI       celebrating the life stories of people who have recently
FRI       died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and
FRI       interest from many walks of life, some famous and some
FRI       less well known.
FRI       
FRI       16:30 The Film Programme b00lxh40 (Listen)
FRI       Matthew Sweet talks to father and son Freddie and Toby
FRI       Jones about their careers in the British film industry.
FRI       As well as appearing in numerous horror movies in the
FRI       early 1970s, Freddie starred in And The Ship Sails On for
FRI       Federico Fellini and had some memorable roles for David
FRI       Lynch, including The Elephant Man and Dune. Toby started
FRI       out in roles such as 'Man at Bar' in Mike Leigh's Naked
FRI       and recently starred as Truman Capote in Infamous.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00ltshs (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 b00ltsq5 (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The Now Show b00lxh42 (Listen)
FRI       Series 28, Episode 7
FRI       Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of
FRI       the week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin,
FRI       Mitch Benn and Ben Goldacre.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00ltsby (Listen)
FRI       Fallon's dreams in music hit a duff note.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00ltst6 (Listen)
FRI       John Wilson meets writer Tony Parsons, whose new novel
FRI       focuses on a middle-aged man who is given the heart of a
FRI       19-year-old and the chance to change his life.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lxfpm (Listen)
FRI       Villette, La Terresse
FRI       Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte
FRI       Bronte.
FRI       Alone, weary and desperately low in spirits, Lucy has
FRI       pitched into an abyss of despair from which, it appears,
FRI       there is no return. But then suddenly there is hope.
FRI       Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
FRI       Mrs Bretton ...... Joan Walker
FRI       Monsieur Paul ...... Sam Dale
FRI       Dr John ...... Benjamin Askew
FRI       Directed by Tracey Neale.
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00lxh7t (Listen)
FRI       Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Margate. The panel
FRI       includes writer Charles Moore, British Medical Association
FRI       chairman Hamish Meldrum, commentator and chief executive
FRI       of the Index on Censorship John Kampfner and chair of the
FRI       Health and Safety Commission, Judith Hackitt.
FRI       
FRI       20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lxhb3 (Listen)
FRI       Birds of Paradise
FRI       Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural
FRI       histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
FRI       Sir David talks about the Birds of Paradise, a group of
FRI       birds which evolved in the relative safety of New Guinea,
FRI       allowing them to acquire adornments and feathered
FRI       decorations so resplendent that they fooled the early
FRI       explorers who discovered them.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Friday Play b00lxhdb (Listen)
FRI       Series 2, The Enemy Within
FRI       Second series of three political dramas.
FRI       By Jon Sen. MP Bobby Khan is blackmailed over an alleged
FRI       homosexual affair he had at university.
FRI       Bobby ...... Zubin Varla
FRI       Imran ...... Bhasker Patel
FRI       Lucy ...... Nicola Stephenson
FRI       Wasim ...... Christopher Bisson
FRI       David Hart/Geraint ...... James Quinn
FRI       Terry ...... John McArdle
FRI       Shazia/Woman ...... Balvinder Sopal
FRI       Ali ...... Darren Kuppan
FRI       Graham ...... Jonathan Keeble
FRI       Sara ...... Millie Rose Kinsey
FRI       Political adviser Andrew Russell
FRI       Directed by Pauline Harris.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00lttrb (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00lttsp (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
FRI       Shah.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lxgq5 (Listen)
FRI       The Rapture, Episode 10
FRI       Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller.
FRI       The day of tribulation has come. Gabrielle and Frazer
FRI       drive Bethany to a rendezvous to try to escape the
FRI       catastrophe, but their plans are hijacked.
FRI       Abridged by Fiona McAlpine.
FRI       A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00lv28d (Listen)
FRI       Series 19, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
FRI       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
FRI       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
FRI       Andrew Motion champions the life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
FRI       Poet Laureate for over 40 years and creator of In Memoriam
FRI       and The Charge of the Light Brigade.
FRI       Ann Thwaite provides further details of Tennyson's
FRI       often-troubled life.
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Listen Against b0089j50 (Listen)
FRI       Series 1, Episode 2
FRI       Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back
FRI       over the last week of radio.
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