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

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