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SAT SATURDAY 05 JUNE 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00sk7wt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00shkn6 (Listen) SAT The Rise of World Faiths (200 - 600 AD), Arabian Bronze Hand SAT SAT Throughout this week Neil MacGregor is looking at how the SAT great faiths were creating new visual aids to promote SAT devotion around the world of 1700 years ago. Having looked SAT at emerging images from Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, SAT Christianity and Buddhism he turns his attention to the SAT religious climate of pre-Islamic Arabia. The story is told SAT through a life sized bronze hand cut at the wrist and with SAT writing on the back. It turns out to be not a part of a god SAT but a gift to a god in a Yemeni hill village. Neil uses this SAT mysterious object to explore the centrality of Arabia at SAT this period, with its wealth of local gods and imported SAT beliefs. The hand surgeon Jeremy Field considers whether SAT this was the modelled from a real human hand while the SAT religious historian Philip Jenkins reflects on what happens SAT to the old pagan gods when a brand new religion sweeps into SAT town. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sk948 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sk94b (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sk94d (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sk94g (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sk94j (Listen) SAT with the Revd Dr Janet Wootton, hymn writer and Director of SAT Studies for the Congregational Federation. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00skcct (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00skccw (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00skccy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00sknj8 (Listen) SAT Series 15, Episode 3 SAT SAT Clare Balding walks her third stretch of the South Downs Way SAT with a group of friends who've been walking together for SAT twenty five years. The route is Bramber to Washington and SAT passes Chanctonbury Ring, one of the most prominent SAT landmarks along the Way and has many supernatural myths and SAT legends attached to it. SAT The walking group comprise poet and music lover, Dr Brian SAT Hick and his wife, as well as Sally Phillips, a keen SAT Esperanto speaker. They tell Clare how they've maintained SAT their friendship through regular walking, and especially SAT through embarking on long distance walks such as the South SAT Downs Way and more recently, the Pembrokeshire Coast. SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00sknjb (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT It's June, its summer, and hopefully it'll be a dry one. But SAT for farmers, water becomes increasingly important at this SAT time of year. Over the next 12 weeks, agriculture will be a SAT major consumer of water in many parts of the country. On SAT Farming Today This Week, Caz Graham visits a potato farm in SAT Shrewsbury to find out how important water will be for SAT farmers this summer. Over the year, agriculture accounts for SAT between 10 and 15 per cent of the UK's water consumption SAT with livestock using more than anything else. But 1-2% goes SAT on irrigating crops. Caz investigates which crops use the SAT most, where farmers get it from and whether there will be SAT enough to go round in the future. Presenter:Caz Graham SAT Producer: Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00sknjd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00sknjg (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00sknjj (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined Harriet Lamb, Executive Director of the SAT Fairtrade Foundation, poet Susan Richardson, and Savile Row SAT tailor Brian Lishak, who has dressed Hollywood stars for the SAT past 60 years and makes suits woven with 22 carat gold. SAT Design guru Stephen Bayley takes a daytrip to Liverpool, SAT actress Maxine Peake shares her Inheritance Tracks, and we SAT hear from a priest who left the Catholic church after being SAT asked to go on covering up the child abuse of his colleagues. SAT The producer is Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00skpbl (Listen) SAT Classicist Mary Beard tells John McCarthy that the Parthenon SAT in Athens was built two and a half thousand years ago to SAT attract visitors and has been doing so ever since. It has SAT been a temple, a church and a mosque. It has survived being SAT blown up and ill advised restoration attempts and continues SAT to excite one of the the most controversial debates in SAT modern tourism. SAT SAT As we travel to our favourite parts of the British Isles, SAT whether it be the Highlands of Scotland, the Cotswolds or SAT the Devon coast, the real beauty of the landscape is formed SAT by the underlying geology. Paleontologist Richard Fortey and SAT writer Ian Vince tell John how the rocks from which the SAT island is made are at the root of our choice of holiday SAT destination and activity, from lying on sandy beaches to SAT walking in the hills. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Uncool Britannia b00skpbn (Listen) SAT The James Last Years SAT SAT Steve Punt continues his three part history of the Britain SAT that's ubiquitous yet unashamedly uncool. Steve argues the SAT nation's recent past has been hijacked by the fashionistas SAT and that it's time to celebrate the past as it really was - SAT deeply unhip. Forget the Rolling Stones, Mary Quant and the SAT Aston Martin, what Britons really love is a nice melody, a SAT sensible coat and a reliable motor... SAT SAT Steve makes an assault on Punk, claiming it was James Last SAT and his orchestra rather than Sid Vicious and his safety SAT pins who embodied the 70s. Between the mid-60s and the SAT mid-80s, Last racked up 52 hit albums - coming second only SAT to Elvis. Whilst the Punks may have packed out a few obscure SAT venues, James Last was selling out the Royal Albert Hall. SAT Steve attempts to get to the bottom of how this German SAT band-leader won over legions of Brits with his SAT easy-listening tunes and why the maestro of the SAT middle-of-the-road has never received credit for his SAT chart-topping success. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00slc2k (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent reflects on the SAT government's first Cabinet resignation, David Cameron's SAT first Prime Minister's question time, and the first SAT elections among MPs wanting to chair select committees. SAT SAT David Laws resigned as chief secretary to the Tresury after SAT allegations about his expenses and his private life. He had SAT tried to keep private the fact that he is gay. Here, the SAT former Labour cabinet minister, Chris Smith, and the SAT newly-elected Conservative MP, Margot James, who are both SAT gay, weigh how far homosexuality is still an issue in SAT political life. SAT SAT David Cameron held his first Prime Minister's question time SAT as Prime Minister. Some observers thought it a calmer and SAT more measured session than of old. A reflection of the new SAT coalition politics? The former Conservative leader, Michael SAT Howard, thinks it might be. SAT SAT The select committees will now be chaired by MPs elected to SAT the position, rather than appointed by the government. It's SAT seen as a big change aimed at boosting parliamentary SAT authority. One of the most powerful is the treasury SAT committee. Here, the contenders for the job, Michael Fallon SAT and Andrew Tyrie, each make their case. SAT SAT Producer: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00skpbq (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00skpbs (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00sk7rw (Listen) SAT Series 71, Episode 8 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week are Armando Iannucci, SAT Jeremy Hardy, Ava Vidal and Fred Macaulay. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00skpbv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00skpbx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00sk7ry (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from the Devizes SAT Festival in Wiltshire. On the panel: the immigration SAT minister Damian Green; the Labour MP Kate Hoey; the musician SAT Billy Bragg; and the editor of the Spectator, Fraser Nelson. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00skpbz (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b008jzkq (Listen) SAT The Iceman SAT SAT By Simon Bovey. London. 1860. When three girls are found SAT murdered the only clue D.I. Burdett has is a trace of ice SAT found in the victims' throats - a clue that leads him into SAT very deep water indeed. SAT SAT D.I. Burdett ..... Anthony Howell SAT Mogg ..... Ben Crowe SAT Malpacket ..... Stephen Greif SAT Parnell ..... Sam Dale SAT Massimo ..... Vincenzo Nicoli SAT Letheby ..... Anthony Glennon SAT Scraton .... Simon Treves SAT Brodie ..... Jot Davies SAT Sadie Weston ..... Jasmine Callan SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby SAT SAT 15:30 Music from Heaven, Paid for in Hell b00sfy5l (Listen) SAT Violin virtuoso Nicola Loud unravels fact from fiction in SAT the life of the nineteenth century's most brilliant SAT violinist, Nicoló Paganini. SAT SAT Controversy was violinist Nicoló Paganini's constant SAT companion, his adventures worthy of any tabloid today. Never SAT too far from a scandal, he was alleged to be a murderer, a SAT seducer, even a convict. A self confessed gambler and an SAT accomplished womaniser, his violin playing was so SAT breathtaking it literally defied belief. In the absence of SAT logical explanation, he was accused of selling his soul to SAT the devil in return for such a gift. SAT SAT Recognising the value of his notoriety, he did little to SAT dispel the lies and the legend quickly outgrew the man. It SAT was said Paganini's destiny to be the greatest violinist in SAT the world was determined by an angel who came to his mother SAT in a dream. In death Satan's shadow reappeared. After his SAT body was refused interment on consecrated ground, it was SAT lodged temporarily in an abandoned leper house. In a SAT supernatural twist, passing fishermen reported hearing the SAT eerie strains of a violin. This incredible man has been an SAT inspiration to musicians for almost two hundred years. As a SAT composer his invention on the violin is still the yardstick SAT by which violinists are measured. The 24 Caprices is a set SAT of works for solo violin of such incredible difficulty, SAT composer Robert Schumann called them, "the turning point in SAT the history of virtuosity". Among his admirers, Liszt, SAT Chopin, Brahms, Rachmaninov, and Andrew Lloyd-Webber have SAT used themes from them as the basis for their own works. SAT SAT Without a spin doctor or publicist in sight, Paganini was a SAT prototype for today's pop icons. A gaunt, black suited SAT figure, with wild hair flowing to his shoulders, he cut an SAT unearthly figure on stage. His talent so wondrous that women SAT fainted when they heard him and he was mobbed in the SAT streets. Yet behind the fame, the riches and the glory, his SAT life was a mixture of tragedy and comedy, of highs and deep SAT depressions, meanness and generosity. Perpetually unlucky in SAT love, he died in a foreign land at the age of only 57. SAT SAT Violin virtuoso Nicola Loud's fascination with Paganini SAT began as a child, when she saw him illustrated in a SAT storybook, dressed in black with a red devil hovering behind SAT him. In the programme she unravels fact from fiction and SAT garners opinion on his legacy from two of this century's SAT violin virtuosos, Vanessa Mae and James Ehnes. With more SAT than 40 international platinum awards for her recordings, SAT and sales of some ten million albums, Vanessa Mae is a SAT superstar. Apart from sharing the same birthday as Paganini, SAT she first recorded his music before she reached her teens. SAT James Ehnes has recently recorded the 24 Caprices for the SAT second time and talks about how the technical innovations SAT created by Paganini work. Biographer Andrew McGee, and SAT Charles Beare, a world authority on string instruments, shed SAT light on Paganini's life and the qualities of his beloved SAT Guarnerius violin, popularly known as The Cannon. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00skpc1 (Listen) SAT Presented by Sheila McLennon. The Duchess Northumberland SAT talks about her ambitious project to transform a derelict SAT corner of Alnwick Castle into one of Britain's most popular SAT gardens. We discuss how the UK Border Agency treats gay and SAT lesbian asylum seekers in the light of a new report by the SAT campaigning group Stonewall. New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock SAT on how childhood memories including wartime bananas inspired SAT her latest collection of poems. There are meant to be Fifty SAT ways to Leave your Lover - but how do you leave a friend? SAT New research suggests a friendship is one of the trickiest SAT relationships to end. Does advertising for pole dancers in SAT job centres send out the wrong message? Samantha Bond on the SAT stage revival of classic suffrage propaganda dramas. And, as SAT Love Story opens on stage at Chichester, we examine the SAT enduring appeal of the cinema weepy. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00skpc3 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00sjw03 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis is joined by three top executives from a SAT broadcaster, an industry group, and a circus company. SAT Lobbying is the first item on the agenda, and the guests SAT give their views on how loud business should shout, both in SAT the media and when trying to influence government. Is the SAT popular portrayal of lobbying as a somewhat shady occupation SAT close to the truth - and how much time and effort do the SAT guests devote to trying to capture the attention of SAT politicians and civil servants? SAT SAT They also discuss the phrase 'new and improved'. It's a much SAT used label, but Evan finds out how the guests develop new SAT products, how they improve their existing lines, and whether SAT they resist the temptation to hype up their next big thing. SAT SAT Evan's guests are Daniel Lamarre, president and chief SAT executive of Cirque du Soleil; Helen Alexander, president of SAT the CBI; and Jeremy Darroch, chief executive of BskyB. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00skq0t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00skq0w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00skq0y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00skq10 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive is joined by the bestselling author Wilbur Smith. SAT After the success of his first novel in 1964, Wilbur has SAT written thirty-one books, all meticulously researched on his SAT numerous worldwide expeditions. His latest book 'Assegai' is SAT a tale of conspiracy in British East Africa prior to the SAT outbreak of the First World War. SAT SAT Author and presenter Giles Coren will be letting off steam SAT about his new book 'Anger Management For Beginners'. He'll SAT be venting about some of the things that rile him; from SAT skiing to cycle helmets, wheelie luggage to barcodes. Let's SAT hope Clive can calm him down! SAT SAT Soprano Hanan Alattar talks about singing the role of Leila SAT in Bizet's 19th-century French opera 'The Pearl Fishers' and SAT she also performs 'Comme Autre Fois'. SAT SAT Arthur Smith talks to comic writer and ex-rocker Sam Lipsyte SAT about his acclaimed novel 'The Ask' - a newly unemployed man SAT is given a mysterious opportunity by his former boss.... SAT SAT And there's comedy from Doc Brown who recalls the remarkable SAT events that, for him, should have spelt infamy. But only SAT spelt unfamy. SAT SAT Plus there's more music from BBC Sound 2010 nominee Rox who SAT performs an acoustic version of her new single 'I Don't SAT Believe'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00skq12 (Listen) SAT Series 8, I Want My Life Back SAT SAT The series in which a writer creates a fictional response to SAT a story in the week's news. Award-winning Scottish author SAT and stand-up comedian A L Kennedy takes up the challenge. SAT SAT As oil continues to spew into the Gulf of Mexico following SAT the Deepwater Horizon explosion, and the cost of the SAT clean-up soars, an office worker on the other side of the SAT world watches BP's live images with mounting despair. SAT SAT Written and read by A L Kennedy. SAT SAT Produced by Justine Willett. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00skqdv (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00skqdx (Listen) SAT The Mary Whitehouse Effect SAT SAT Joan Bakewell - who herself frequently crossed swords with SAT Mary Whitehouse - reflects on the impact of the woman who SAT challenged the 'tide of permissiveness and filth' she saw as SAT sweeping the nation. SAT SAT In the 60s, under Director General Hugh Carlton Green, the SAT BBC broadcast gritty plays featuring abortion and sex before SAT marriage, satire that mocked politics and religion, and SAT swearing and sexual freedom in comedy series such as Till SAT Death Us Do Part. Mary Whitehouse launched her Clean Up TV SAT campaign and then the National Viewers and Listeners SAT Association as a reaction to what she saw as a liberal and SAT morally corrupting view of the world entering our homes SAT through TV and radio. SAT SAT In the 70s Mrs Whitehouse took her campaign beyond SAT broadcasting, and launched a private prosecution against the SAT editor of Gay News for publishing a sexual poem about Jesus. SAT She invoked the old blasphemy law and won her case, but for SAT many this was a step too far. SAT SAT Joan explores how Mrs Whitehouse was both archaic and SAT misguided in her battles, but also how she was a strong SAT woman - forward thinking in using the law as she did - and SAT how her battle against sexual exploitation and pornography SAT chimed with the feminist cause. SAT SAT Joan considers whether the Mary Whitehouse effect lives on SAT in today's compliance and politically correct culture and SAT whether she had any real impact on society, or whether hers SAT was a voice of a bygone age fighting against inevitable SAT change. SAT SAT The programme features, among others, Warren Mitchell, Peter SAT Tatchell, Mary Kenny and Geoffrey Robertson QC. SAT SAT Producer: Jo Wheeler SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00shgb7 (Listen) SAT Bright Day, Episode 1 SAT By JB Priestley SAT SAT Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is staying at a SAT hotel in Cornwall, finishing a script. A chance encounter in SAT the bar sends him back to the lost world of his youth before SAT the slaughter of the First World War when he was a 18-year SAT old in Bruddersford, Yorkshire: Through rediscovering his SAT past Dawson realises where his life took a wrong turn and SAT where he must make amends if he is to start afresh. There is SAT a glow of magic in poignant rediscovery. SAT SAT Gregory Dawson/Narrator.. Jack Shepherd SAT Elizabeth Earl... Liza Sadovy SAT Young Gregory... Dean Smith SAT Joan Alington.. Sarah Smart SAT Bridget Alington... Sarah Churm SAT Eva Alington.. Lowri Evans SAT Jock / Harfner.... Conrad Nelson SAT Malcolm Nixey... Fred Ridgeway SAT Eleanor Nixey... Janice Mckenzie SAT Mr Alington... David Fleeshman SAT Mr Ackworth..... Fine Time Fontayne SAT Brent / Stanley Mervin... Seamus O'Neill SAT Ben Kerry... Steve Marsh SAT SAT Dramatised by Diana Griffiths SAT Producer/Director - Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00skqdz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b00sj9lh (Listen) SAT The Reith Lectures 2010, The Scientific Citizen SAT SAT Lecture 1: ''The Scientific Citizen' SAT SAT In the first of this year's Reith Lectures, entitled SAT Scientific Horizons, Martin Rees, President of the Royal SAT Society, Master of Trinity College and Astronomer Royal, SAT explores the challenges facing science in the 21st century. SAT We are increasingly turning to government and the media to SAT explain the risks we face. But in the wake of public SAT confusion over issues like climate change, the swine 'flu SAT vaccine and, more recently, Iceland's volcanic ash cloud, SAT Martin Rees calls on scientists to come forward and play a SAT greater role in helping us understand the science that SAT affects us all. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00sj69z (Listen) SAT Series 24, Episode 11 SAT SAT (11/13) Three contestants who have won their respective SAT heats return to face Paul Gambaccini's questions on all SAT aspects of music, in the second semi-final of the 2010 SAT competition. As ever, there'll be a wide selection of SAT musical extracts to suit all tastes. One contestant will win SAT a place in the Final in a fortnight's time. SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S CONTESTANTS SAT SAT WILSON BAIN, a voluntary worker from Glasgow SAT SAT JAMES BOWMAN, a publisher from London SAT SAT ANDY LANGLEY, a computer programmer from Chesham in Bucks SAT SAT MUSIC IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00shgjx (Listen) SAT Roger McGough visits Cambridge University Library to see the SAT wealth of poetry manuscripts held there. The works range SAT from what is arguably one of the earliest poems in English - SAT the Hymn of Caedmon, dating to a codex prepared by SAT Northumbrian monks in the year 737. The programme ranges in SAT time, then, from the Anglo Saxon period to contemporary work SAT by Carol Ann Duffy and Ann Stevenson. Roger is joined by SAT librarian John Wells, and the actors Juliet Stevenson and SAT David Bamber. Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT SAT Answer to a Child’s Question SAT by Samuel Taylor Coleridge SAT From: More Poetry Please SAT Pub: BBC Books SAT SAT Caedmon’s Hymn SAT by The Venerable Bede SAT translated by GK Anderson SAT From: The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons SAT Pub: Princeton UP SAT SAT The Former Age SAT by Chaucer SAT From: The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer SAT Pub: The Free Press SAT SAT Elegy 18 (The Heavens Rejoiceth in Motion) SAT by John Donne SAT From: Donne – Everyman Library Pocket Poets SAT Pub: Everyman SAT SAT Moments of Grace SAT by Carol Ann Duffy SAT From: Carol Ann Duffy – Selected Poems SAT Pub: Penguin SAT SAT Extracts from Lycidas SAT by John Milton SAT From: John Milton – The Complete Poems SAT Pub: Everyman SAT SAT Extract from The Princess SAT by Alfred Lord Tennyson SAT From: Alfred Lord Tennyson – Selected Poems SAT Pub: Penguin SAT SAT In the Tunnel of Summers SAT by Anne Stevenson SAT From Anne Stevenson – Poems – 1955-2005 SAT Pub: Bloodaxe SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 06 JUNE 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00skqwr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00bf6mx (Listen) SUN Anger, Where? SUN SUN Joanna Briscoe's moving short story takes us into the life SUN of a terminally ill boy, and the minutiae of personal, SUN impotent anger. SUN SUN Read by Robert Madge. SUN SUN Concludes the series of programmes which shed light on an SUN aspect of anger in a mix of fiction, memoir and thought pieces. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00skqwt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00skqww (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00skqwy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00skqx0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00skqx2 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Chad's church in Shrewsbury. SUN SUN 05:45 Lib-Con: New Politics, Old Partnership b00smtmv (Listen) SUN The new politics isn't as new as people think. Shaun Ley SUN looks back at the historical links between Conservatives and SUN Liberals, the previous coalitions and the common SUN philosophical traditions between the two parties. What can SUN history tell us about the implications for the parties SUN today? We hear from the LibDem MP John Thurso, whose SUN grandfather Archibald Sinclair was the last Liberal to sit SUN in a cabinet during the wartime coalition. Lord Heseltine SUN explains why he first stood for election under the Liberal SUN Conservative banner. And Professor David Dutton of Liverpool SUN University explains how the two parties have converged and SUN diverged over the last century, and identifies some risks to SUN both parties in the future. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00skqx4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00skqx6 (Listen) SUN Everything in the Garden SUN SUN The journalist Madeleine Bunting reflects on the appeal of SUN gardens and gardening. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00skqx8 (Listen) SUN 3/18. Lionel Kelleway ventures onto the beach at Haverigg, SUN Cumbria, to get up close and personal with Natterjack Toads. SUN Half of the UK population live here. The natterjack toad is SUN not only the noisiest amphibian in Cumbria, but its rarest SUN too. Alarmingly, populations of this charismatic pioneer SUN species have declined by an estimated 70 to 80 per cent SUN within the last 100 years. Each Spring their future is in SUN the balance because they rely entirely on the short-lived SUN rain-water pools for mating, spawning and tadpole nurseries. SUN They can, and do, dry out with the first warm spell. It's a SUN race against time. William Shaw, Cumbria Conservation SUN Officer with the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust SUN (ARC), is their guardian. William and his army of volunteers SUN do their best to ensure the pools persist for long enough to SUN allow as many toads as possible to reproduce. ARC Trust's SUN three year project aims to reverse their decline in Cumbria. SUN A case of helping to secure the stronghold. SUN SUN On the night of the recording, Lionel joins Bill on the SUN dunes at sunset. As the sun dips below the horizon, they SUN catch the first calls on the breeze. The natterjacks are SUN emerging from their burrows to sing their deafening SUN lovesongs. Picking their way by torch-light, Lionel and Bill SUN discover toads massing in the pools, on the sand and in the SUN grass. Toad-on-the-sole is something to avoid; Bill SUN confesses that this was his first mortifying experience with SUN a Natterjack many years ago. The Natterjack toad is much SUN smaller than the common toad with a bold yellow stripe down SUN its back. They switch their torches off. Soon a ratchet SUN sound starts up cranking up to the full-on mating call. SUN Irresistible. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Tania Dorrity. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00skr29 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00skr2c (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00skr2f (Listen) SUN Samira Ahmed with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN On this week's programme SUN SUN Our reporter Kevin Bocquet is in Whitehaven. He's been SUN speaking to the community and church on the effects of the SUN shooting and how the church is responding. The Bishop of SUN Carlisle tells us what his strategy is for his clergy and SUN parishioners in the light of this week's events. The SUN Reverend John Bannister of St James Church, Whitehaven also SUN joins us ahead of a special open-air service on Sunday SUN evening. And we speak to Elizabeth Templeton who tells us SUN about how the church community dealt with the aftermath of SUN the shootings in Dunblane. SUN SUN We also interview Tony Campolo. One of the more high-profile SUN Christians from the USA, Tony Campolo, is touring the UK SUN this week. His views on how churches should work to change SUN society for the better have been known to cause some SUN controversy in America. SUN SUN As part of the BBC's A History of the World series the SUN Sunday programme has been featuring objects that have a SUN story to tell about the history of belief - both in Britain SUN and around the world. This week we profile two objects from SUN Australia, that are directly linked to Aboriginal history. SUN From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. SUN SUN It's the Centenary of the first World Mission Conference SUN said to have begun the Churches ecumenical movement and SUN we're talking to the keynote speaker Prof Dana Robert at the SUN celebrations and conference in Scotland. SUN SUN In advance of next Wednesday's Dutch General election we'll SUN be examining the possible success - or failure - of the far SUN right, anti Islamic Freedom Party of Geert Wilders. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00skv5m (Listen) SUN The Brain Research Trust SUN SUN Sheena McDonald presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Brain Research Trust. SUN SUN Donations to The Brain Research Trust should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope The Brain Research Trust. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. 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SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00skr2h (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00skw07 (Listen) SUN From St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, with the Very SUN Revd Graham Forbes. Preacher: the Archbishop of York, the SUN Most Revd Dr John Sentamu. SUN Marking Edinburgh 2010, the centenary of the city's historic SUN World Missionary Conference of 1910. SUN With the Cathedral Choir directed by Duncan Ferguson, and SUN the Choir of Edinburgh's African congregations. SUN Readings: 1 Kings 8: 22-30 SUN 1 Peter 2: 4-10 SUN SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00sk7s0 (Listen) SUN The Meaning of Memorial Day SUN SUN David Cannadine reflects on the significance of Memorial Day SUN in the United States. He traces the history of this SUN important public holiday and describes the role it plays in SUN American society today. What was once a divisive SUN commemoration of fallen soldiers on one side in the Civil SUN War, is now a day that unites the nation in remembrance of SUN all its war dead. It is also a time for family and community SUN gatherings, the Idianapolis 500 mile automobile race and, as SUN David Cannadine amusingly recalls, a time to try out your SUN speechmaking skills with your local "Toastmasters" club. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00skw09 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Kevin Connolly. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00skw0c (Listen) SUN WRITTEN BY ..... MARY CUTLER SUN DIRECTED BY ..... JULIE BECKETT SUN EDITOR ..... VANESSA WHITBURN SUN SUN KENTON ARCHER ..... RICHARD ATTLEE SUN ALISTAIR LLOYD ..... MICHAEL LUMSDEN SUN DAVID ARCHER ..... TIMOTHY BENTINCK SUN RUTH ARCHER ..... FELICITY FINCH SUN PIP ARCHER ..... HELEN MONKS SUN ELIZABETH PARGETTER ..... ALISON DOWLING SUN PAT ARCHER ..... PATRICIA GALLIMORE SUN HELEN ARCHER ..... 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He SUN introduced Luciano Pavarotti to a London audience, charmed SUN Georg Solti with his piano playing and was even called upon SUN to stand in for Maria Callas. He was just ten years old when SUN he first saw an opera and he loved it straight away; 'I SUN caught opera', he says, 'like the measles'. SUN SUN Record: Janet Baker singing Handel's Ariodante SUN Book: Grove's Operatic Dictionary of Music SUN Luxury: My 49-year-old double bed. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00sj6ts (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 4 SUN SUN John Lloyd and Jon Richardson host a panel show in which SUN Michael Welland, Sarah Bakewell and Simon Evans and donate SUN fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary museum. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00skw0h (Listen) SUN Cupcakes SUN SUN We think of trends in fashion, but baking has trends too. SUN The popularity of cupcakes has become a phenomenon with SUN small bakeries setting up to meet a seemingly insatiable SUN demand. But what about some of the other trends that have SUN come along in recent years, like cookies, large and small, SUN and muffins. Now the focus is on whoopee pies, macaroons and SUN iced biscuits. Who decides what is trendy? Do they all SUN really originate in the USA and how quickly can retailers SUN adapt to each new trend? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon visits Marks and Spencer to find out the SUN lengths the giant retailer went to, in preparing its SUN cupcakes for the market and asks if it joined the craze a SUN bit too late in the day. Small bakeries explain what makes SUN the perfect cupcake for them and in the studio, Comedienne SUN Amy Lame and global food trends specialilst, Charles Banks, SUN explore the importance of trends and what might be next. SUN SUN Produced by Margaret Collins. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00skw0k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00skw0m (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Jane Austen's Ipod b00phzvj (Listen) SUN A rare insight into the family life of Jane Austen through SUN her favourite songs. She collected songs all her life, but SUN many of them have only just come to light, in manuscripts SUN inherited by one of her descendants. Jazz singer Gwyneth SUN Herbert performs some of these songs. SUN SUN Professor Richard Jenkyns inherited a pile of music SUN manuscripts which are only just being looked at by the SUN Austen scholars. He shows us what he found: some have been SUN laboriously copied out by Jane herself - among the music SUN manuscripts in Jane's handwriting is a piano piece which he SUN believes she composed. SUN SUN David Owen Norris brings him together with scholars Deirdre SUN Le Faye and Samantha Carrasco at Jane Austen's house in SUN Chawton, Hampshire. Together they cast a new light on one of SUN our best-loved and most enigmatic writers. SUN SUN Producer: Elizabeth Burke SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00sk7rp (Listen) SUN Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew, Matt Biggs and Eric Robson SUN are guests of Leven & Brandesburton Horticultural Society SUN near Hull. SUN SUN We also revisit Emma Morris as her gardening deadline nears, SUN in part three of our Listeners' Gardens series. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's SUN Escape to the Country b00skxgk (Listen) SUN Villadom in the Cotswolds SUN SUN Laurence Llewelyn Bowen visits Chedworth Villa to compare SUN notes on country living with Pliny the Younger. SUN SUN The Roman villa near Cirencester is the ultimate, ancient SUN rural retreat from the city. Laurence compares villa life in SUN the Cotswolds today, where there are numerous second homes, SUN with Pliny's life near Rome. He also considers what is the SUN ideal countryside. SUN SUN With Roger Scruton and Alun Howkins he analyzes ideas of the SUN rural idyll and the reveals that, since the 12th century, SUN there has always been a sense that it is under threat. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Bland SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00sl3xz (Listen) SUN Bright Day, Episode 2 SUN By JB Priestley SUN SUN Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is remembering his SUN youth in 1912, before the slaughter of the First World War SUN when he was an 18-year old in Bruddersford, Yorkshire: Now SUN in 1946, encounters with the same characters from his past SUN unlock secret events, buried yearnings and give potential SUN for the future. SUN SUN Gregory Dawson/Narrator.. Jack Shepherd SUN Elizabeth Earl... Liza Sadovy SUN Young Gregory... Dean Smith SUN Joan Alington.. Sarah Smart SUN Bridget Alington... Sarah Churm SUN Eva Alington.. Lowri Evans SUN Jock / Harfner.... Conrad Nelson SUN Malcolm Nixey... Fred Ridgeway SUN Eleanor Nixey... Janice Mckenzie SUN Mr Alington... David Fleeshman SUN Mr Ackworth..... Fine Time Fontayne SUN Brent / Stanley Mervin... Seamus O'Neill SUN Ben Kerry... Steve Marsh SUN Laura Blackshaw..Megan Winnard SUN Mrs Childs.. Olwen May SUN Hinchcliff... Jake Norton SUN SUN Dramatised by Diana Griffiths SUN Producer/Director - Pauline Harris. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00sl3y1 (Listen) SUN Lynne Reid Banks SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to the celebrated author SUN Lynne Reid Banks about her first novel, The L-Shaped Room. SUN It was an instant success and has been in print ever since SUN it was published exactly fifty years ago. SUN SUN It's the story of Jane, a single young woman who falls SUN pregnant. Reading The L-Shaped Room again in 2010, it's SUN easy to forget what a taboo it was to be pregnant and SUN unmarried in the early 1960s. SUN SUN Jane is a brave character who decides to bring up the baby SUN by herself, after her father throws her out. But her SUN feelings are mixed, and as almost a punishment to herself SUN she rents a grubby L-shaped room at the top of a run- down SUN boarding house in Fulham. SUN SUN Gradually as she settles in and does up the room, she makes SUN friends, and in tandem with the improvements to her SUN surroundings, her life gets better. SUN SUN This is a novel that has inspired young women to SUN independence, whatever their situations. Readers in the SUN audience describe what this book means to them - from a SUN woman whose own mother brought her up single-handedly to SUN another who says that the line about Jane having to wear a SUN wedding ring 'brought it all back.' SUN SUN Lynne Reid Banks was one of the first female news-reporters SUN at ITN. Although she complained she was always given 'soft SUN stories' she did not consider herself a feminist at the SUN time, which is ironic, as the L-Shaped Room is considered as SUN a feminist novel. SUN SUN Recorded with a group of twenty-five readers in the studio, SUN Bookclub with Lynne Reid Banks is a lively discussion with a SUN writer looking back at the book that changed her life as SUN well as many readers' lives. James Naughtie chairs the SUN programme. SUN SUN July's Bookclub choice : Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00sl3y3 (Listen) SUN On Sunday 6th June, Roger McGough presents a special edition SUN of Poetry Please exploring the work of the eminent First SUN World War war poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Recorded on location SUN at Cambridge University Library, Roger meets manuscript SUN librarian John Wells who shows him the highlights of their SUN recently augmented Sassoon collection. The reader is David SUN Bamber. SUN SUN Seven crates of Sassoon's trench notebooks and diaries were SUN bought by the library after a successful fundraising drive - SUN helped by a £550,000 grant from the National Heritage SUN Memorial Fund. We hear a draft of Sassoon's powerful SUN denunciation of the war being read, in which the decorated SUN officer refused to return to duty after being wounded. SUN Written in 1917, read out in the House of Commons, and SUN published in The Times, 'A Soldier's Declaration' prompted a SUN widespread debate. SUN SUN The poet, whose work captured the futility of war, died in SUN 1967. In the programme Roger introduces requests for SUN Sassoon's uncompromising poems such as 'Suicide in the SUN Trenches', 'Glory of Women', and his friend Robert Graves' SUN powerful poem, 'Dead Boche'. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00sjcvj (Listen) SUN The UK has some of the highest rates of stillbirths and SUN early neonatal deaths in Europe. SUN SUN There have been calls for improved care in hospital labour SUN wards and an increase in research efforts to discover why so SUN many apparently perfectly normal babies die. SUN SUN However there is growing concern that in some hospitals, SUN these deaths are not being properly investigated. Parents SUN report difficulties in finding out full details of what went SUN wrong. Shortages of specialist pathologists have meant that SUN crucial post-mortem examinations are never carried out. And SUN the inquest system is patchy when it comes to discovering SUN the cause of a new born baby's death. SUN SUN For 'File on 4', Ann Alexander investigates. SUN SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00skq12 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sl3y5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00sl3y7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sl3y9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00sl3yc (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN There's lot of sixties nostalgia on Ernie Rea's Pick of the SUN Week. The Beatles, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Little Richard, SUN Joan Bakewell and the late Mary Whitehouse all give their SUN take on what made the sixties so special. But its not all SUN sex and rock n roll. There's the shocking tale of The SUN Travelling Electric Chair and the radio reporter who went to SUN extraordinary lengths to capture live on mic the surge of SUN power that signalled the end for a condemned man. And the SUN uplifting tale of the soldier left stranded when the SUN flotilla of little boats left Dunkirk and who was finally SUN reunited with his family five years later. SUN SUN Archive on 4 - The Mary Whitehouse Effect - Radio 4 SUN The British Invasion - Radio 2 SUN Mayhem at the Ritz - Radio 4 SUN The Essay - A Passion for Opera - Radio 3 SUN The Last Witch Trial - Radio 4 SUN How The Rest Got Home - Radio 4 SUN The Travelling Electric Chair - World Service SUN The FAE Sonata - Radio 4 SUN Painting The Loneliness - Radio 4 SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN Good Morning Sunday - Radio 2 SUN Clare in the Community - Radio 4 SUN Eyewitness to History - Radio 2 SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN FAX: 0161 244 4243 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00sl4f6 (Listen) SUN Matt faces friction on the fairway and Josh gets more than SUN he bargained for with the bees. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00sl4f8 (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today, featuring location reports, SUN lively discussion and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00c50x0 (Listen) SUN Classical Assassins, Gesualdo and Me SUN SUN 3. Gesualdo and Me: SUN Don Carlo Gesualdo faces the demons that have driven his SUN music since the death of his wife. SUN Read by Peter Ellis SUN Produced by Sara Davies. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00sk7rm (Listen) SUN Which would win in a fight - a shark or a toaster? Tim SUN Harford finds out in this week's More or Less. The team also SUN investigate whether Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios SUN (or HSMRs) - expected deaths to observed deaths - can be SUN unhelpful, ask who stands to lose from the scrapping of SUN Child Trust Funds and remember the great mathematician, SUN Martin Gardner. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00sk7rr (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Dennis Hopper - the Hollywood actor and director who SUN captured the spirit of the sixties in Easy Rider, battled SUN drink and drug addiction and made a triumphant return to SUN form in Blue Velvet. Last Word has a tribute from director SUN David Lynch. SUN SUN Also the influential French-American sculptor Louise SUN Bourgeois - Antony Gormley discusses her life and work. SUN SUN Chris Haney, who became a multi millionaire after SUN co-inventing the game Trivial Pursuit SUN SUN Peter Orlovsky, partner and muse of the beat poet Allen SUN Ginsberg SUN SUN And John Gooders - who made a successful business from his SUN passion for birdwatching. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00skpbs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00skv5m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00sj6xf (Listen) SUN Promises, Promises SUN SUN We drink too much, pollute too much and exercise too little. SUN Smoking, drug-taking and anti social behaviour remain SUN stubbornly high. SUN SUN No wonder policy makers are very keen to find new and cost- SUN effective ways of getting us to change our behaviour. SUN SUN Governments are increasingly drawing on new academic SUN thinking in psychology and economics- work closely SUN associated with American behaviour-change gurus like Richard SUN Thaler and Robert Cialdini. And public pledges are seen as SUN one of the most promising tools in the behaviour-change tool SUN box. But are they the panacea to tackle our social problems SUN or are promises just made to be broken? Presented by Ben SUN Rogers. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00sl4fb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00sl4fd (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00sl4fg (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Election Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. Each SUN programme will see a leading political journalist take a wry SUN look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest SUN stories of the campaign. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00sk7rt (Listen) SUN Francine Stock travels to the Scottish island of Barra, the SUN setting for Whisky Galore, and visits The Screen Machine, SUN the articulated lorry that's also a cinema. It's part of a SUN quiet revolution that's happening across the British Isles. SUN As local post offices and pubs are shutting down, the SUN travelling cinema has become a focus for the community, and SUN Francine visits Flicks In The Sticks which brings movies to SUN village halls along the Welsh borders. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00skqx6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 07 JUNE 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00sl4r2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00sjpsm (Listen) MON Popular stereotypes assume that a nation's language reflects MON its culture and psychology. The German's orderly language is MON held to be a better vehicle for philosophy than Spanish. The MON mellow sounds of Portuguese are believed to reflect a MON relaxed, continental character. Some linguists have even MON suggested our mother tongue can limit the capacity for MON thought. So a language with no future tense prevents its MON speakers from anticipating tomorrow. And primitive cultures MON which had no word for blue must have been colour blind. But MON a new book argues that words are not such a prison house. MON Just because we do not have a word for blue does not mean we MON can't see it or name it one day. There's evidence of MON complexity even in the language of hunter gatherer MON societies. So says the writer Guy Deutscher, who's joined by MON the philosopher A.C. Grayling. They explore with Laurie MON Taylor how words shape and define our world. MON MON Also, what explains the contrasting economic fortunes within MON different parts of the same country? The economist Mario MON Polese examines the causes and patterns of regional MON inequality around the world. How did Manchester, the MON birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, lose out to London? MON Why is the formerly impoverished rural South in the US MON enjoying an economic revival? And is it inevitable that the MON flight to urban cities will always be at the expense of the MON areas left behind? Join Laurie Taylor for an exploration MON into why some regions prosper and others decline. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00skqx2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sl4r4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sl53l (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sl4wd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00sl5dr (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sl63t (Listen) MON with the Revd Dr Janet Wootton, hymn writer and Director of MON Studies for the Congregational Federation. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00sl69j (Listen) MON Presenter: Caz Graham Producer: Anna Varle. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00slpmy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00sl6dr (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00slpn0 (Listen) MON On Start the Week with Andrew Marr, the novelist Yann MON Martel, who wrote Life of Pi, explains how a donkey and a MON howler monkey are central to his latest book, Beatrice and MON Virgil. The architect of Labour's victory in 1997, Alastair MON Campbell reveals all about the prelude to power in his MON diaries, while the playwright Joy Wilkinson asks whatever MON happened to Margaret Beckett. And the theatre director Thea MON Sharrock celebrates the work of the writer, Terence MON Rattigan, with a production of After the Dance - a critique MON of the hedonistic 1920s generation as it heads for economic MON and political catastrophe. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6jb (Listen) MON The Silk Road And Beyond (400 - 700 AD), Gold Coins of Abd al-Malik MON MON The history of the world as told through one hundred of the MON objects that time has left behind. The objects are from the MON British Museum and tell the story of humanity over the past MON 2 million years. They are chosen by the museum's director, MON Neil MacGregor. MON MON This week he is exploring the world along and beyond the MON Silk Road in the 7th century AD at a time when the teachings MON of the prophet Muhammad were transforming the Middle East MON forever. Today he looks at how the Syrian capital Damascus MON was rapidly becoming the centre of a new Islamic empire. He MON tells the story through two gold coins that perfectly MON capture the moment - with contributions from the historian MON Hugh Kennedy and the anthropologist Madawi Al-Rasheed. MON MON Producer: Rebecca Stratford. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sl6l9 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Mary Portas's career has taken her MON from the shop floor of John Lewis, via Harvey Nichols, to MON become one of the UK's foremost authorities on retail. She MON joins Jane to talk about the latest series of "Mary Queen of MON Shops" in which she sets out to create survival plans for MON six small businesses from a hairdresser to a family bakery. MON MON Recent research suggests that infrared, or thermal, breast MON screening can improve the detection rates for breast cancer MON in women under 50. But thermal imaging is only available MON privately. Cancer Research UK say there's already sufficient MON screening for younger women at a high risk of contracting MON the disease - so is it worth paying for? Jane discusses the MON issues with Professor Gordon Wishart, consultant surgeon at MON Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit and medical director MON at Breast Health UK and Professor Hilary Thomas, Trustee of MON Breakthrough Breast Cancer. MON MON Last week on Woman's Hour Jekka McVicar spoke about her MON enthusiasm for the herb stevia as an alternative to sugar MON but she mentioned her frustration that there is MON contradictory information about its safe uses. Stevia is not MON licensed in the EU or the USA as a sweetener although it is MON in Japan. Jane speaks to Dr Sandy Lawrie, Head of Novel MON Foods at the Foods Standards Agency about the herb. MON MON 'Grace Williams Says It Loud' is Emma Henderson's first MON novel. Looking at the experiences of a girl with mental and MON physical disabilities shut away in an institution from a MON very young age, Emma talks to Jane about how the character MON of Grace was shaped by the experiences of her own sister. MON MON And Jane speaks to the author of this week's drama, "Leaving MON Normal", about a gay couple taking on the care of two MON orphaned children. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sl9wv (Listen) MON Leaving Normal, Episode 1 MON MON Sammi and Luke are an unconventional, metropolitan, MON out-there gay couple. Emma and Jason are traumatised kids MON from deepest, darkest and straightest suburbia. MON MON When the recently orphaned kids are forced to live with the MON couple, nothing will ever be the same for any of them. Emma MON becomes reclusive. Jason becomes Christian. Sammi starts to MON pull away. While Luke tries to pull it all together. MON MON And then, just as this unlikely family start to find their MON balance, the men's mums get involved and everything starts MON to unravel once more. MON MON This is a new spin on a family comedy series. But it's also MON a poignant culture-clash story about a group of people who MON come together to form a household in the most painful of MON circumstances. MON MON In the first episode, Sammi and Luke are celebrating their MON anniversary. Luke's intolerant mother Nicky is there MON reluctantly as is a sexy Brazilian waiter whom Sammi is MON eyeing, much to Luke's chagrin. And then, suddenly, tragedy MON strikes. MON MON Written and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid. MON MON Luke ..... Paul Nicholls MON Dolly ..... Meera Syal MON Sammi ..... Nikesh Patel MON Sarah ..... Niamh Cusack MON Emma ..... Klariza Clayton MON Jason ..... Harry Manton MON Nicki ..... Imelda Staunton MON Hairdresser/Waiter/Nicky/Ricky ..... Sebastien Torkia MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 EMI: Facing the Music b00sn5ww (Listen) MON British music icon EMI has been battling against massive MON debts. If it didn't raise cash, and raise it quickly, its MON bankers could take the keys to Abbey Road studios and the MON rest of EMI's music empire. MON MON But in an eleventh hour deal, EMI's owner, private equity MON firm Terra Firma, has managed to raise enough money to keep MON the bank happy for now. But for how long? MON MON It still has to find a way of paying back over £3 billion it MON borrowed from Citigroup, and make money for its backers, who MON have seen their investment plummet in value. MON MON Damian Reece, Head of Business at the Telegraph, returns to MON follow the fortunes of this troubled private equity deal. MON MON Despite stars like Robbie Williams. Lily Allen, and Lady MON Antebellum climbing the charts, earlier this year EMI MON plunged £1.75 billion into the red. New strategies, cost MON cutting and redundancies have created profits for recorded MON music but not enough to solve the debt problem. MON MON And now the private equity deal, which closed just as the MON credit crunch hit, is the subject of litigation. Guy Hands MON and Terra Firma investment funds are taking the bank that MON lent them money to buy EMI, to court. Terra Firma alleges MON they were misled about crucial details during negotiations MON to buy EMI. The bank Citigroup strongly denies all the MON allegations. MON MON So what does the future hold? Could this be EMI's swansong MON or will the company win against the odds? MON MON Producer: Liz Carney MON A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Clare in the Community b00slqvv (Listen) MON Series 6, Luck of the Irish MON MON Clare Barker the social worker with all the politically MON correct jargon but none of the practical solutions is back. MON MON The Sony Award Winning comedy, Clare in the Community, MON returns with Sally Phillips as Clare Barker the social MON worker who secretly regards herself as a cross between MON Mother Theresa, Wonder Woman and Michelle Obama. Clare MON considers most other professions trivial. MON MON Like plenty before her, Clare Barker has entered a caring MON profession so that she can sort out other peoples' problems MON rather than deal with her own. She is in her mid thirties, MON white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are MON occasional causes of discomfort to her. MON MON Clare is delighted to find she has an Irish ancestor. MON MON Cast: MON MON Clare ..... Sally Phillips MON Brian ..... Alex Lowe MON Ray ..... Richard Lumsden MON Helen ..... Liza Tarbuck MON Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti MON Libby ..... Sarah Kendall MON Ptolemy ..... Philip Pope MON MON Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00slb6n (Listen) MON A former carer has conducted an investigation into the MON service offered by care homes. She reveals her findings today. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00slb7c (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00slcct (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00slqvx (Listen) MON Series 24, Episode 12 MON MON (12/13) Three more contestants who have won their respective MON heats return to face Paul Gambaccini's wide ranging MON questions on music, in the third and last semi-final of MON 2010. One of them will take the sole remaining place in next MON week's Final. As always, Paul will have plenty of extracts MON and anecdotes from every genre of music, from the classical MON repertoire to musical theatre, jazz, film music, rock and MON pop. MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00sl4f6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00fq2xk (Listen) MON Pilgrim, Then Fancies Flee Away MON MON By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. MON MON Paul Hilton stars as the reluctant and unthanked hero MON protecting mankind from an enemy they resist believing in. MON MON Travelling through Yorkshire, Pilgrim meets Noreen, whose MON son has been in a strange coma for the past seven years. He MON lies in his bed, surrounded by a huge growth of thorns. How MON can this enchantment be broken? As Pilgrim investigates, he MON is drawn inexorably towards the darkness beneath the MON mysterious Round Barrow of Willy Howe. MON MON Pilgrim ..... Paul Hilton MON Noreen ..... Tricia Kelly MON Darren ..... Robert Lonsdale MON Tina ..... Jill Cardo MON Joey ..... Benjamin Askew MON Jaggs ..... Malcolm Tierney MON Les / Mulvahey ..... Paul Rider MON Girl ..... Agnes Bateman MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00skqdx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Thoroughly Modern Mary b00slcgr (Listen) MON Mary the Woman MON MON You may not believe in her but you cannot ignore her: Mary MON is the most important woman in world religion, a cult figure MON in the Catholic Church who relates to the big questions in MON our lives - sex, politics and religion. She is a symbol of MON maternity, hope, faith, superstition, feminism and beauty. MON She arouses both fervent devotion and deep scepticism. MON MON Presenter Rosie Goldsmith, who has a life-long fascination MON with the Virgin Mary, asks why she is so important in MON today's world and whether this Modern Mary is a force for MON good or bad. She explores the origins of Mary and asks how MON this one woman can be not only a model of submissive MON womanhood but also a feminist icon and a Jungian female archetype. MON MON She talks with Richard Dawkins, Ann Widdecombe, Marina MON Warner and Miri Rubin about why they believe in or reject MON Mary. She visits the shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham and MON meets a group of children who tell us simply that she's the MON most beautiful woman in the world. And she examines her own MON personal passion for the figure of Mary, a passion which has MON taken her around the world. Neither Catholic nor religious, MON Rosie is fascinated by the power Mary continues to hold over MON people. Not only has Mary been propelled into the 21st MON century as a modern icon, she has also found a home in MON diverse communities across the world and in the Islamic as MON well as the Christian faith. MON MON Producer: Sarah Cuddon MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00skw0h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Traveller's Tree b00slqvz (Listen) MON Series 6, Episode 6 MON MON Katie Derham looks at the ongoing effect that recession is MON having on tourist destinations. MON MON The World Tourism Council is predicting a global tourism MON slump of 2 percent in 2010/2011. The effect of World MON recession on fragile tourist spots could be disastrous. MON Small communities that have become used to the revenue that MON a constant supply of tourists brings are now under threat. MON MON The global economic meltdown has created ripples in the calm MON backwaters of the Indian southern state of Kerala and, as MON Nick Maes discovers, on the island of Zanzibar. MON MON Here, tourism development was well underway when the economy MON started to slide. Katie also looks at how some countries MON have utilised the downturn, like Iceland's "Our Loss is Your MON Gain" campaign, and we join the Cassan family on their first MON UK 'stay-cation'. MON MON Producer: Charlotte Austin MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00sld6k (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 b00sldbb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b00slqw1 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 5 MON MON John Lloyd and Jon Richardson host. With author and MON prodigious savant Daniel Tammet, explorer Robin MON Hanbury-Tenison and comedian Ronni Ancona. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00slcd8 (Listen) MON A suspicious Brian turns detective while Jill has a secret MON to keep. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00sllsf (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with New Yorker MON editor David Remnick, who is publishing a biography of MON Barack Obama. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6jb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Football's Freedom Fighters b00slqw3 (Listen) MON When South Africa's Bafana Bafana kick the first ball of the MON 2010 World Cup on the 11th June in Johannesburg's revamped MON Soccer City stadium there will be several men in the crowd MON who's appreciation of the match will stretch well beyond MON national pride. MON MON For Mark Shinners, Anthony Suze, Sedick Issacs, Lizo Sitoto MON and Sipho Tshabalala this is the completion of a long MON journey that started for them in the 1960s, when they first MON started playing the beautiful game on a rough football pitch MON on one of the ugliest islands on earth. MON MON We hear how the Makana Football Association was formed, MON based on the principles of collective discipline and fair MON play. A 16-year-old Dikgang Moseneke was elected Chairman, MON an act that underlined the Association's commitment to MON excellence and FIFA-like technical rigour. We speak to Mr MON Moseneke, now 63 and the current Deputy Chief Justice of the MON Constitutional Court of South Africa, about how the football MON pitches of Robben Island were the training ground for the MON leaders of the future. MON MON As the World Cup starts in South Africa, Fergal Keane MON travels to Robben Island with these men to the pitches where MON some of the country's most prominent political leaders now MON used football to create a space of dignity, respect and MON democracy at the infamous prison. MON MON Producer: Jo Meek MON An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00slr1v (Listen) MON Economistocracy MON MON Reducing the budget deficit is seen as the key challenge MON facing the new government. But alongside the politicians MON there will be a new body charged with advising on the MON process. An independent Office for Budget Responsibility is MON being created, to make its own forecasts of growth and MON borrowing ready for the emergency budget expected in June. MON MON This new institution may sound obscure, but it could have MON big implications. It aims to bring key information on which MON government economic policy is based much more into the open, MON and free it from political spin. The man who will head it, MON Sir Alan Budd, has said he wants to use his influence to MON "keep the Chancellor's feet to the fire" in ensuring that MON the deficit is tackled. The aim is also to make budgets take MON more account of long term priorities, and future MON generations, rather than focus only on short term political demands. MON MON So will the deficit crisis mean politicians lose some of MON their historic power over spending and taxing? Is there MON public demand for watchdogs like this to "keep the MON politicians honest" - or is it a threat to democracy? And MON how does the British plan compare with other countries' MON attempts to police government spending? MON MON The programme is presented by Frances Cairncross, and MON interviewees include Rachel Lomax, former top civil servant MON and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00sjtb2 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. This week the spill in the Gulf of MON Mexico is now into its third month. So some of the more "out MON there" ideas for tackling the disaster are beginning to seem MON more appealing. Ideas like using naturally occurring MON bacteria to break down the oil without the need for possibly MON toxic clean-up chemicals. This approach has already been MON successfully trialled by a team from the University of MON Bangor. Christoph Gertler from the School of Biological MON Sciences discusses with Quentin if it is still too soon to MON make an impact on the world's largest oil spill. MON MON The Nobel Prizes have been with us for well over 100 years MON but they only reflect the major areas of science as they MON were a century ago, with awards for Physics, Chemistry and MON Medicine or Physiology. There's not even a prize for MON Mathematics. To reward work in some of the most exciting MON areas the Kavli Prizes were established two years ago, MON honouring achievements in Nanotechnology, Astrophysics and MON Neuroscience - the ultra-small, the ultra-large and the MON ultra-complex. The man behind the prizes - the MON Norwegian-American Fred Kavli announces this year's laureates. MON MON Strangely glowing clouds will soon start appearing at night MON - noctilucent clouds as they are called. There have already MON been some spotted in Russia and Denmark. Most of his MON evenings John Rowlands - one of the finalists in our So You MON Want To Be A Scientist - therefore has been on his lonesome MON windy, spot in the north of Anglesey... He discusses his MON experiment with his science mentor Professor Nick Mitchell MON of the University of Bath. MON MON From many islands in the Pacific there's nothing to see but MON sea. Yet humans slowly spread out over the whole area. How MON they did it and where they came from remains a mystery. A MON mystery that could finally be solved by pigs. Researchers MON have taken the three thousand year old remains of pigs MON across the Pacific, analysed their bones and DNA and may be MON able to reconstruct the migration route of the early MON colonists. Professor Keith Dobney, Chair of Human MON Palaeoecology at Aberdeen University. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00slpn0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00slnd2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00slp5p (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00slp5r (Listen) MON Blackout in Gretley, Episode 6 MON MON Anton Lesser reads JB Priestley's atmospheric war-time MON thriller, set in a Midlands town during the blackout. MON MON Sensitive information is being leaked to the enemy, and the MON department of counter espionage has sent in Humphrey Neyland MON to try and discover who is responsible. As the tangle of MON information he has collected gets increasingly complex, MON Neyland enlists the help of a local policeman, the MON experienced Superintendent Hamp. MON MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC MON Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00sjt9x (Listen) MON Shoulda Put A Ring On It MON MON Off The Page presents new writing and provocative debate. In MON the first programme of the new series Bidisha, Stella Duffy MON and Harry Benson each arrive in studio with 400 words MON entitled "Shoulda Put A Ring On It." The title comes from a MON Beyonce single, and provokes each of our guests in a MON different way. "Marriage, I am not tempted, writes Bidisha, MON "it is like all other things I am not tempted by, such as MON golf, crochet and pole jumping." MON Bidisha is the author of three novels, and first signed a MON publishing deal aged 16. MON Harry Benson runs marriage courses for the Bristol Community MON Family Trust, and is author of Let's Stick Together. MON Playwright and novelist Stella Duffy's book "Theodora: MON Actress, Empress, Whore is published later this summer.". MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00slpf5 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 08 JUNE 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00sl4mv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6jb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sl4r6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sl4wg (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sl4td (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00sl55g (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sl5w0 (Listen) TUE with the Revd Dr Janet Wootton, hymn writer and Director of TUE Studies for the Congregational Federation. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00sl63w (Listen) TUE Presenter: Anna Hill Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00sl69l (Listen) TUE With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b00slvqc (Listen) TUE The Reith Lectures 2010, Surviving the Century TUE TUE Lecture 2: 'Surviving the Century' TUE TUE In the second of this year's Reith Lectures, recorded for TUE the first time in Wales in the National Museum Cardiff, TUE Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society and Astronomer TUE Royal, continues to explore the challenges facing science in TUE the 21st century. Our planet is coming under increasing TUE strain from climate change, population explosion and food TUE shortages. How can we use science to help us solve the TUE crisis that we are moving rapidly towards, as we use up our TUE natural resources ever more quickly? TUE Martin explores the urgent need to substantially reduce our TUE global CO2 emissions, or the atmospheric concentration will TUE reach truly threatening levels. To do this, we need TUE international cooperation, and global funding for clean and TUE green technologies. Martin calls for the UK to keep one step TUE ahead of other countries by developing technologies to TUE reduce emissions, and says we should take the lead in wave TUE and tidal energy, among other solutions. Science brings TUE innovation but also risk, and random elements including TUE fanatics can abuse new technologies to threaten our planet TUE in ways we never dreamt of. The challenge, for our TUE scientists, governments and people, is to confront the TUE threats to our planet and find the solutions in science. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6dt (Listen) TUE The Silk Road And Beyond (400 - 700 AD), Sutton Hoo Helmet TUE TUE The history of the world as told through one hundred TUE objects. This week Neil MacGregor, the director of the TUE British Museum, is exploring the world in the 7th Century, TUE at a time when the teachings of Islam were transforming the TUE Middle East and goods and ideas were flowing both ways along TUE the tangle of connections that have become known as the Silk TUE Road. TUE TUE But what was happening in Britain at this time? In today's TUE programme, Neil travels to East Anglia to describe the TUE sensational burial discovery that has been hailed as a TUE "British Tutankhamen". He tells the story of the Sutton Hoo TUE helmet, the world it inhabited and the imagination it has TUE inspired. The poet Seamus Heaney reflects on the helmet in TUE the context of the great Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf, and TUE the archaeologist Angus Wainwright describes the discovery TUE of the great grave ship where the helmet was found. TUE TUE Producer: Rebecca Stratford. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sl6jf (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Gail Porter talks about her hair TUE growing back. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00snjq5 (Listen) TUE Leaving Normal, Episode 2 TUE TUE Luke, Sammi and their newly-adopted children are packing up TUE the late Sarah's Berkshire home. Grief and recriminations TUE lie just under the surface as everyone tries to adjust to TUE Sarah's wishes. TUE TUE An irreverent new take on family comedy-drama. TUE TUE Written and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid. TUE TUE Luke ... Paul Nicholls TUE Dolly ... Meera Syal TUE Sammi ... Nikesh Patel TUE Sarah ... Niamh Cusack TUE Emma ... Klariza Clayton TUE Jason ... Harry Manton TUE Nicki ... Imelda Staunton TUE Hairdresser/Waiter/Nicky/Ricky ... Sebastien Torkia TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00slvqf (Listen) TUE Episode 10 TUE TUE 10/40. We catch up with our European Cranes at the Wildlfowl TUE & Wetlands Trust (WWT) centre in Slimbridge. This is a TUE project shared between WWT, the RSPB, Natural England and TUE the Somerset Wildlife Trust to release cranes back into the TUE wild in the Somerset levels - a wetland where they have been TUE extinct since the 17th century. The conservation project is TUE building up tempo as the chicks, which were brought over as TUE eggs from Germany, are nearing full size. Chris Sperring TUE will meet up with our feathered friends in Gloucestershire TUE and see how they are being hardened up to life in the wild. TUE The plan is to release them into the Somerset Levels in TUE August - Chris Sperring scopes the release site in this TUE programme and asks how the rest of the wildlife might take TUE the re-introduction. TUE TUE We have a story about Pool Frogs in Norfolk; they are very TUE vocal during the day, which makes them an unusual amphibian TUE in this country. But they are an introduced species - should TUE they be here? Brett asks the questions. TUE TUE And we catch up with our Purple Emperor Butterflies, now TUE voracious caterpillars heading to the canopy tops where they TUE will pupate. Which of the larval poets (remember, the TUE animals we're following are all named after famous welsh TUE poets) are flourishing and which have disappeared? Matthew TUE Oates will be telling us from his secret research site in TUE Wiltshire. TUE TUE Kelvin Boot will be on the show as ever with news and TUE comment about wildlife making the news from around the world. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Green Children of Woolpit b00slvqh (Listen) TUE Sometime in the Twelfth Century two children appeared from a TUE pit on the edge of a field in the Suffolk village of TUE Woolpit. They were coloured green and spoke a unknown TUE language. They sickened until they were allowed to eat TUE green beans. The boy died but the girl revived and grew up TUE learning English, marrying a man from Kings Lynn, and TUE speaking of the place she and her brother had come from. TUE Susannah Clapp and Richard Mabey investigate the story and TUE its remarkable enduring appeal to villagers, visitors and a TUE succession of folklorists and writers. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00slb1c (Listen) TUE If alcohol cost more, would you drink less? The government's TUE health watchdog, the National Institute for Health and TUE Clinical Excellence, says introducing a minimum price on TUE alcohol in England is the best way to tackle excessive TUE drinking. Alcohol abuse causes half a million crimes, 17 TUE million lost working days, and nearly 15,000 deaths a year TUE in England alone. So is banning cheap booze the answer? The TUE Scottish government is trying to bring in a minimum pricing TUE law later this year. Northern Ireland and Wales will see TUE what happens in England. But will it target binge drinkers TUE or just penalise those with moderate intake? Do you drink TUE more because your friends do, not because alcohol's cheap? TUE TUE Call You and Yours with Winifred Robinson - Your chance to TUE share your views on the programme call 03700 100 444 or TUE email youandyours@bbc.co.uk. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00slb6q (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00slc7z (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Chopsticks at Dawn b00sm4tg (Listen) TUE Chinese decorative arts are revered in the West. From Willow TUE pattern dinner plates to the Brighton Pavilion, their TUE designs are regarded as beautiful and sophisticated. But for TUE the past two centuries European composers and musicians have TUE had no qualms about mercilessly parodying what they thought TUE of as 'Chinese tunes'. TUE TUE As a girl growing up in Hackney, the opening TUE orientalised-flute strains of the 1970s pop record Kung Fu TUE Fighting by Carl Douglas were enough to send future comedian TUE Anna Chen running for cover. TUE TUE The same cliches haunt Turning Japanese by The Vapours, Hong TUE Kong Garden by Siouxsie And The Banshees and David Bowie's TUE China Girl. They have all followed a pattern set by Claude TUE Debussy, Malcolm Arnold, Albert Ketelbey and Lancashire TUE Linnet George Formby, who were equally guilty of taking TUE Chinese musical motifs and mangling them - or simply making TUE them up! TUE TUE How did this mocking abuse of a handful of venerable Far TUE Eastern notes begin? TUE TUE Musicologist Dr Jonathan Walker accompanies Anna on a TUE historical mission, picking out examples on the piano and TUE explaining why and how our western ears hear certain note TUE configurations as "oriental" - from Chopsticks to Chopin. TUE TUE They explore the pentatonic scale that chartacterises so TUE much Chinese music, delve into the story of the Opium Wars TUE which triggered a deep British disrespect of Chinese musical TUE culture and unveil the earliest dubious examples of TUE Chinoiserie in Western Music. TUE TUE And we hear from a new generation of British born Chinese TUE musicians who are putting right the discordant wrongs of the TUE past 200 years. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Eldon Lee TUE A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00slcd8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00dkff7 (Listen) TUE Last Days of Grace TUE TUE By Nick Warburton. Easter 1908 sees snow on the ground as WG TUE Grace contemplates another day in his long career. Arriving TUE at the Oval, the ageing icon trudges out into the cold. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00sm4tl (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the popular history programme TUE in which listeners' questions and research help offer new TUE insights into the past. TUE TUE Vanessa is in Lincolnshire finding out more about one of our TUE most unusual spa towns and hearing from locals who think the TUE preservation of buildings in England is too focussed on TUE architecture, and not the wider heritage of the place that TUE the building is in. TUE TUE Richard Daniel visits Essex and Edinburgh to hear how Viking TUE settlement was encouraged by global warming. We also revisit TUE some of the epic moments in the history of the British TUE cavalry on the Continent and ask: how did the horses get there? TUE TUE You can send us questions or an outline of your own TUE research. TUE TUE Email: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE Write to Making History. BBC Radio 4. PO Box 3096. Brighton TUE BN1 1PL TUE Join the conversation on our Facebook page or find out more TUE from the Radio 4 website: bbc.co.uk/radio4/makinghistory TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00sm5bj (Listen) TUE If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, If I Loved You TUE TUE 'If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This' is the debut TUE collection by US author Robin Black, a stunning new voice in TUE US fiction, whose work has drawn comparisons with that of TUE Lorrie Moore and Alice Munroe. This week's selection of TUE stories of loss, love and redemption chart the very everyday TUE lives of suburban American families with wisdom, humour and TUE humanity. TUE TUE A woman struggles to make sense of the insensitivities of a TUE new neighbour, while she tries to come to terms with her TUE own, very imminent demise. TUE TUE Robin Black's stories and essays have appeared in numerous TUE US magazines and newspapers, where she has also won several TUE awards, but this is her first published collection. She is TUE currently teaching creative writing at Bryn Mawr College, TUE Pennsylvania, and lives with her family in Philadelphia. TUE TUE Reader: Debora Weston TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 15:45 Thoroughly Modern Mary b00sld18 (Listen) TUE Mary in Religion TUE TUE Rosie Goldsmith explores the religious power of the Virgin TUE Mary. TUE TUE The Virgin Mary is a global symbol of faith, hope and TUE charity; of beauty and motherhood, but also of superstition TUE and propaganda. She arouses both fervent devotion and deep TUE scepticism. Millions still flock to worship her statues and TUE shrines. Others see her as a tool for the suppression of TUE women and of political nationalism. TUE TUE A pregnant Muslim student at Oxford enthuses about Mary's TUE mother role and explains how she features in the Muslim TUE faith. The actress Lisa Dwan describes how she continues to TUE hold Mary close as part of her Irish Catholic upbringing TUE despite being an agnostic. And she hears from a Professor at TUE a University in Rome where there is an entire faculty TUE devoted to the study of the Virgin Mary. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Cuddon TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00sm6ct (Listen) TUE 1/4. Top legal journalist Joshua Rozenberg returns to TUE present the first in a new series of the legal affairs magazine. TUE TUE More than two decades after he first presented "Law in TUE Action", Joshua Rozenberg, the doyen of legal reporters, TUE returns to the programme to investigate the issues which TUE influence and determine our law. Later in this series, he TUE reveals what the new UK government's approach to the law is TUE likely to be, its priorities and how its policies will TUE change our system of justice. In this opening programme, he TUE examines an issue that looks set to prompt widespread debate TUE among the public as well as among those working in the TUE criminal justice system. Increasingly the police are using TUE digital cameras and intelligence tactics to create image TUE libraries of campaigners and protesters. These are designed, TUE senior officers say, to help the police prevent criminal TUE acts from being committed. But critics see the creation and TUE development of the photographic databases as potentially TUE sinister, claiming that ever larger numbers of images are TUE being added. TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg investigates how the police, the courts and TUE those responsible for protecting personal data strike a TUE balance between the need to safeguard civil liberties and TUE the police's responsibility to prevent crime. Are there TUE enough safeguards to protect the public from being unfairly TUE linked with criminals? Is maintaining public order being TUE used as an excuse to engineer a surveillance society? Or are TUE the authorities simply taking the minimum steps to ensure a TUE determined and well-organised minority of protesters bent on TUE disruption do not wreck the lives of the law-abiding TUE majority? TUE TUE Producer: Simon Coates. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00sm6cw (Listen) TUE Featuring Richard Stilgoe and Sarah Churchwell TUE TUE Songwriter and lyricist Richard Stilgoe and Sarah TUE Churchwell, lecturer in American literature and culture, TUE talk to Sue MacGregor about their favourite books. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00sld4w (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sld6m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? b00smngp (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan's first radio series is TUE about his progression from working-class Herbert to TUE middle-class intellectual and being caught awkwardly between TUE the two. His story is told through reflective interviews, TUE but mainly, Micky's acclaimed stand up comedy. Micky's TUE transition from the mean streets of the East End to the TUE leafy lanes of Dulwich is a fascinating story, with each TUE episode focusing on a different decade of Micky's life. TUE TUE In this episode Micky tells us about his 1990's, when he TUE made up for his misspent youth by returning to education TUE late in life, attending university and then becoming a TUE teacher to a new generation of unruly pupils. TUE TUE He talks to Millionaire plumber Charlie Mullins who has a TUE different take on the value of a University education and TUE entertains us with tales of his time as a teacher, when he TUE became so despondent that not even he would take his coat TUE off in class. TUE TUE The series is written and performed by Micky Flanagan. TUE TUE The Producer is Tilusha Ghelani. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00slccw (Listen) TUE There's an unexpected phone call at the Bull and Caroline TUE helps to handle a crisis. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00slls1 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a review of Ben Stiller in Noah TUE Baumbach's film Greenberg, the tale of a man who gave up the TUE possibility of life as a rock star to become a carpenter. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6dt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00sm7rt (Listen) TUE As MPs and senior officials retire on 'gold-plated' TUE pensions, the media report that public sector pension TUE schemes are heading for crisis because of multi-billion TUE pound funding deficits. Local Councils alone are said to TUE face a black hole of £53bn, which critics claim can only be TUE filled by drastic cuts in entitlements and increased TUE contributions from staff. TUE Both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are committed to TUE reform of the system. Unions are planning a campaign to TUE preserve their members' rights and have already secured a TUE significant court victory blocking cuts to redundancy payments. TUE Gerry Northam looks behind the headlines and asks if there TUE really is a looming pensions crisis. TUE Producer: Samantha Fenwick. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00sm7rw (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00sm7ry (Listen) TUE All in the Mind: Claudia Hammond investigates proposed TUE changes to how mental illness is diagnosed. The Diagnostic TUE and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is known as the TUE Psychiatrists' Bible and is revised every decade. The 5th TUE and latest version is not due out until 2013, but the TUE recommendations for change have already been published. TUE Field trials of the new diagnoses are due to start in June TUE of this year. TUE Claudia discusses the main proposals with American TUE psychiatrists Daniel Carlat and Professor Terry Brugha. One TUE of the main changes could see people being treated for TUE mental illness before they develop a clinical condition such TUE as depression, Claudia asks if this is a useful initiative TUE for prevention or will large numbers of people be diagnosed TUE unnecessarily? And should Asperger's syndrome remain as a TUE stand alone condition or be subsumed into the autism TUE spectrum disorder. TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 21:30 In Living Memory b00lp6dm (Listen) TUE Series 10, T Dan Smith TUE TUE Contemporary history series. TUE TUE T Dan Smith was a political star of the 1960s. As Labour TUE leader of Newcastle city council he had plans to turn the TUE city into the 'Brasilia of the north' through slum TUE clearance, inner city motorways and exciting new industries. TUE In 1974, he was jailed for corruption along with architect TUE John Poulson. But if he was such a crook, why do so many TUE people in the north east still cherish his memory? TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00slncm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00slnnr (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00slp5t (Listen) TUE Blackout in Gretley, Episode 7 TUE TUE Sensitive information is being leaked to the enemy, and the TUE department of counter espionage has sent in Humphrey Neyland TUE to try and discover who is responsible. TUE TUE Neyland has found a list of phone numbers in the dressing TUE room of the mysterious acrobat, Mamzelle Fifine, and he asks TUE Superintendent Hamp to discover who they belong to. TUE TUE Anton Lesser reads JB Priestley's atmospheric war-time TUE thriller. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC TUE Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 So Wrong It's Right b00sm8kq (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show devoted to the TUE art of being wrong. Iain Morris - writer of acclaimed TV TUE comedy series The Inbetweeners - joins comics Sarah Millican TUE and Lee Mack for a half hour of the best in wrong answers. TUE TUE So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie challenge his guests to TUE suggest the most entertaining wrong ideas. In this edition TUE the panel's worst experiences at work - including Lee Mack's TUE embarrassing encounter with Red Rum - and the most terrible TUE idea for a West End Musical are amongst the topics under the TUE spotlight. TUE TUE Producer: Aled Evans TUE A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00slpds (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme and the BBC's parliamentary team report as MPs TUE finish their debate on the the Queen's Speech and the new TUE Chancellor, George Osborne, holds his first question time. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 09 JUNE 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00sl4mx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6dt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sl4r8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sl4wj (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sl4tg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00sl55j (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sl5w8 (Listen) WED with the Revd Dr Janet Wootton, hymn writer and Director of WED Studies for the Congregational Federation. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00sl63y (Listen) WED Presenter: Anna Hill Producer: Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b00sl69n (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00sm8l1 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6dw (Listen) WED The Silk Road And Beyond (400 - 700 AD), Moche Warrior Pot WED WED The history of the world as told through one hundred objects WED arrives in 7th Century Peru. Throughout this week Neil WED MacGregor is exploring along the Silk Road and beyond, WED ranging from Korea to East Anglia. But what was life and WED culture like in South America during the same period that WED Islam was transforming the Middle East? WED WED In today's programme, Neil introduces us to in what is WED present day Peru. He explores the story of the Moche people WED through a pot in the shape of a warrior, which introduces us WED to a remarkable lost civilisation, with help from expert WED Steve Bourget and the potter Grayson Perry. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sl6jh (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. How fatherhood has evolved over WED the past 100 years. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00snjqr (Listen) WED Leaving Normal, Episode 3 WED WED The kids have moved in but no one is adjusting well to the WED new arrangements. Emma has retreated to her bed. Jason is WED manipulative. Dolly feels abandoned. And Sammi doesn't seem WED to even be trying. Luke tries to remain positive while Nicky WED seems to turn the other cheek and becomes incredibly WED supportive and helpful. How long can this last? WED WED Written and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid. WED WED Luke ..... Paul Nicholls WED Dolly ..... Meera Syal WED Sammi ..... Nikesh Patel WED Sarah ..... Niamh Cusack WED Emma ..... Klariza Clayton WED Jason ..... Harry Manton WED Nicki ..... Imelda Staunton WED Hairdresser/Waiter/Nicky/Ricky ..... Sebastien Torkia WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 The Carabinieri Art Squad b00sm8tn (Listen) WED Writer and historian Alex Butterworth travels to Rome to WED meet the Carabinieri squad in charge of protecting Italy's WED priceless cultural heritage. WED WED A helicopter circles overhead while Italian police officers WED and archaeologists peer into a 30-foot deep hole made in a WED field outside Rome. The land may look like ordinary WED farmland, but beneath the ground there are in fact Etruscan WED tombs full of treasures. The hole has been made by a group WED of "tombaroli"- tomb raiders who come in the night to smash WED open hidden tombs, and grab the artefacts inside. They sell WED them on to dealers, who in some cases offer them to museums WED for a massive price. WED WED The police officers in attendance are a members of a special WED branch of the Italian Carabinieri (the military police) WED which was set up to try to deal with the problem of stolen WED art in the country. The unit, known as the Department for WED the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Comando Carabinieri WED Tutela Patrimonio Culturale in Italian) has its main WED headquarters in Rome and branches throughout the country. WED Its job is to try to stop the looting of Italy's cultural WED treasures- from artefacts in excavations to paintings and WED statues in country churches. WED WED To try to stop the trafficking, carabinieri officers carry WED out regular patrols on archaeological sites, They also WED check items of from auction houses and exhibitions against WED their vast database of stolen goods. Other officers carry WED out checks on more contemporary artworks to make sure that WED they're not forged. Since the unit began in 1969, the WED success rate has been high, with thousands of artworks recovered. WED WED Alex Butterworth is in Rome to watch the work of the WED Carabinieri TPC at first hand. He follows the archaeological WED section on patrol and sees how the huge database is used to WED recover stolen works which are sometimes changed beyond WED almost all recognition by the thieves to avoid detection. WED For example, one vast painting was stolen and then cut into WED several pieces and sold as separate items. WED WED While watching the officers at work, Alex explores the WED changing nature of cultural protection and asks what Italy's WED determination to find its treasures says about the mood of WED the country. WED WED Producer Emma Kingsley. WED WED 11:30 Miracles R Us b00sm8tq (Listen) WED Caroline's car gives up the ghost. It will cost more to have WED it mended than the business can afford. WED WED They have been asked to attend an auction at a country house WED to bid for a Lot for a client and Sylvia will drive them WED there in her car - a car Caroline knew nothing about. They WED turn left all the way. They find the client's item, but, WED also find Caroline's grand-mother's silver dressing table WED set, sold with everything else when her husband's fraud WED brought their lives crashing down. WED WED Whilst Caroline reflects with a cigarette outside she bumps WED into Lauren, soon to be ex-wife of the pop star who owns the WED house and all the contents that are being auctioned. The WED women, united by events, strike up a friendship. Meanwhile, WED Sylvia meets Lambourn the Gardener and they realise they are WED kindred spirits. WED WED Caroline..............................Deborah Findlay WED Sylvia..............................Anna Massey WED Lauren..............................Madeleine Bowyer WED Lambourn..............................Trevor Peacock WED Carl Bailey..............................Nigel Hastings WED Auctioneer..............................Michael Shelford WED WED Written by Lesley Bruce WED WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED WED Music and stings from the music of Nick Drake. Theme: "When WED the Day is Done" and stings: "Time of No Reply" and "Cello WED Song". WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00slb1f (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00slb6s (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00slc81 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00sm8ts (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00slccw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sm8tv (Listen) WED Prospero, Ariel, Reith and Gill WED WED Gary Brown's comedy about artist Eric Gill's clash with the WED BBC over his famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel stars WED Anton Lesser as the artist and Tim McInnerny as Sir John WED Reith, the first Director General of the Corporation. WED Inspired by real events, the play charts a clash between the WED BBC's Governors and the artist over the propriety of the WED sculpture's appearance. WED WED Gill became quite a celebrity as he carved the statue in WED situ on scaffolding in front of Broadcasting House. In his WED trademark smock and beret, he drew the attention of the WED tabloid papers and became known as the "Married Monk". The WED play imagines conversations between Sir John and the artist WED as he passes him on his way into Broadcasting House each WED morning. WED WED Framed with a period newsreel-style commentary, the comedy WED playfully deals with the perennial tension between the WED Establishment and the Artist. The strange and mysterious WED Gill contrasts with the authoritarian but often troubled WED figure of Reith, but in the end the sculpture focuses their WED thoughts about the role of Art in the life of mankind. While WED this is a comedy, the play touches a little on the WED well-documented darker side of both men's nature, and offers WED an insight into one of the more celebrated events of early WED BBC history. WED WED Brown's play speculates on how Reith struggled with the WED Governors and with his own psyche in dealing with one of the WED trickier events in the early days of the BBC. It also looks WED at how Gill, the artist, struggled with reconciling his WED unusual beliefs and lifestyle with a major commission from WED the heart of the Establishment. WED WED The cast is completed by Jon Glover as the Newsreel WED Reporter, David Seddon as Charlie, Stephen Darcy as Father WED Sean, Tina Gray as Lady Snowden and Alison Pettitt as the WED Nanny. WED WED Written by Gary Brown. WED WED Eric Gill . . . . . Anton Lesser WED John Reith . . . . . Tim McInnerny WED Newsreel Reporter . . . . . Jon Glover WED Lady Snowden . . . . . Tina Gray WED Charlie . . . . . David Seddon WED Father Sean . . . . . Stephen Darcy WED Nanny . . . . . Alison Pettitt WED WED Producer/Director . . . . . Peter Leslie Wild. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00sm8tx (Listen) WED On Money Box Live today/tomorrow Paul Lewis and guests will WED be taking your questions on financing long term care. The WED coalition Government has announced that an independent WED commission will be reporting back within the year on this. WED Meanwhile people who need care in their own home or who need WED to move into residential accommdation still face complicated WED rules about how it will all be funded. Will people need to WED sell their homes? WED What financial help might they get from their local council? WED If you have a question you can call the programme when lines WED open on Wednesday at 1330 BST. The number is 03700 100 444. WED WED (Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may WED be higher. WED Producer: Diane Richardson). WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00sm5mc (Listen) WED If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, The Guide WED WED 'If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This' is the debut WED collection by US author Robin Black, a stunning new voice in WED US fiction, whose work has drawn comparisons with that of WED Lorrie Moore and Alice Munroe. WED WED A father wrestles with his spirited blind daughter's WED unexpected independence, and with his own role as her WED father, as he helps her to prepare for life away at college. WED WED Robin Black's stories and essays have appeared in numerous WED US magazines and newspapers, where she has also won several WED awards, but this is her first published collection. She is WED currently teaching creative writing at Bryn Mawr College, WED Pennsylvania, and lives with her family in Philadelphia. WED WED Reader: William Hope WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 15:45 Thoroughly Modern Mary b00sld1b (Listen) WED Mary in Politics WED WED Rosie Goldsmith asks whether Modern Mary is a progressive or WED reactionary figure in society. When she attracts 10 WED million people a year to her shrine in Mexico and 5000 WED people a week - many on their knees - to Czestochowa, you've WED got to ask where her power lies and how it is used or WED abused. Do governments in Mexico and the Philippines exploit WED her to keep the poor quiet and happy? In Sri Lanka, for WED example, she has been co-opted as Our Lady of Guerilla WED Warfare by insurgents. In Poland she is still a potent WED symbol of nationalism and unity. WED WED She talks with Richard Dawkins, Ann Widdecombe, Marina WED Warner, Oliver McTernan, Miri Rubin and Mark Dowd about why WED they believe in or reject Mary and whether they see her as a WED political force for good or bad. She explores the political WED importance of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico and meets a WED Mexican artist who describes the Virgin's potency as a WED national symbol. And she examines the role of John Paul II WED in promoting the figure of Mary. WED WED Producer: Sarah Cuddon WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00smb67 (Listen) WED Since 2006 over 200 British soldiers have been killed in WED Helmand, Afghanistan. Laurie Taylor discusses a new study WED which explores the way in which these dead solders have been WED commemorated in Britain. We have become familiar with the WED painful sight of mourners lining the main street of Wootton WED Bassett, as hearses carry coffins away from RAF Lyneham. In WED public acts of remembrance today soldiers are remembered as WED fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. This modern WED way of personalising and even domesticating soldiers is in WED stark contrast to the twentieth century rituals which mourn WED the sacrifice of anonymous individual soldiers who have died WED for the nation. What lies behind this change of attitude and WED what impact is the new public consciousness likely to have WED on how and when we wage war? Laurie talks to Anthony King WED from Exeter University, author of 'The Afghan War and WED 'postmodern' memory: commemoration and the Dead of Helmand'. WED WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00sm7ry (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00sld4y (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 b00sld6p (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b00smb69 (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 4 WED WED Victoria Coren presents the programme which sets out to WED prove our most deeply held beliefs, the assumptions on which WED we base our view of the world, are all plain wrong. WED WED This time, Victoria's guests leap to the defence of the WED weather forecasters, with Janet Street-Porter admitting that WED one particular BBC weatherman has been sending her WED temperature soaring. Richard Herring argues that we have WED come to expect too much of forecasters, pointing out that in WED medieval times, Michael Fish would have been hailed as a god WED for his predictive powers. WED WED And on another topic, Mark Steel uncharacteristically speaks WED out in favour of David Cameron and George Osborne, praising WED them for their "proper poshness" in the face of the WED pseudo-poshness of their Labour counterparts. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00slccy (Listen) WED The atmosphere at April Cottage is tense and Jamie struggles WED to cope. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00slls3 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including a review of a major new National WED Theatre staging of Terence Rattigan's 1939 play After the WED Dance, set amidst the wealthy socialites of the 1920s. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6dw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00smb6c (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging live debate examining WED the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. WED Michael Buerk chairs with Melanie Philips, Matthew Taylor, WED Claire Fox and Clifford Longley. WED WED 20:45 Home Thoughts From Abroad b00smb6f (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED What can the British learn from French politics and vice WED versa? The French journalist, Agnes Poirier, has reported WED from the UK for 15 years and travels regularly between WED London and Paris. In the first of a new series, she suggests WED ideas she would like to see transferred across the channel. WED For example,what could Britain learn from the French WED tradition of secularism? Should we take lessons from the WED nation which has decided to ban the burqa? Conversely, WED should French journalists ditch their reverence to political WED figures and imitate the dog-like aggression of the British WED press? WED WED Producer: Leala Padmanabhan. WED WED 21:00 Colour Coded b00smbbr (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Descriptions of the human race based on racial WED characteristics go back to the late seventeenth century. In WED 1684, a French doctor, François Bernier, published "Nouvelle WED division de la terre par les différentes espèces ou races WED qui l'habitant" which proposed four different face and body WED types: Europeans, Far Easterners, Lapps and Blacks. WED WED In the eighteenth century, Carl Linnaeus made specific WED reference to skin colour in his system of categorization: WED Europeanus (white), Asiaticus (yellow), Americanus (red) and WED Africanus (black). Linnaeus' pupil Johann Blumenbach, WED sometimes described as the founder of modern anthropology, WED added a fifth grouping, Malay (brown). WED WED The idea of categorizing people according to their colour - WED "colour taxonomy" - greatly interests Trevor Phillips. A WED prominent member of the Afro-Caribbean community, Trevor WED wants to know how and why this system took hold. He wants to WED know why a system based on skin colour should have had such WED a profound impact on relations between races. He wants to WED understand what role these categories might have had in WED shaping modern day racial prejudice, belief and behaviour. WED WED Trevor asks: "What is it about colour that matters so much? WED We know what lies beneath the skin - melanin. But this isn't WED just a chemical thing. This is about something deeper and WED more atavistic. It caught on because it corresponds to some WED human need or maybe some human memory. But it's hard to say WED why, especially when most people's colour isn't actually WED what the word says. White people are really pink or cream, WED black people are brown, red people are bronze etc. And WED within every group, there's a massive range of colour." WED WED At the same time, Trevor recognises that a combination of WED political liberalism and mobility is transforming our racial WED concepts. Trevor wonders whether a taxonomy based on WED differentiation by colour is still sustainable. WED WED He says: "For a whole series of reasons there is a WED fundamental sea change going on in our heads that might WED spell the death of the Linnaean classification. We are WED mixing more than ever before. Britain is a leader - mixed WED race is the largest, youngest and fastest growing group. WED Many of our brightest stars are mixed race. With more and WED more people living and loving all over the globe, surely WED this is the future. No simple system of racial WED categorisation could survive this kind of mixing." WED WED If colour ceases to be a meaningful description, what WED happens to racial identity? Does it wither away? At what WED point does racial mixing signal the transformation of both WED communities into something new? WED WED Trevor doesn't have answers to these questions. But he's WED very keen to investigate them. WED WED Producer: John Watkins. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00sm8l1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00slncp (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00slnnt (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Ritula WED Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00slp5w (Listen) WED Blackout in Gretley, Episode 8 WED WED Humphrey Neyland finally meets the man, with the trace of a WED scar on his left cheek, who was mentioned in the notebook of WED the murdered Special Branch undercover agent. WED WED Anton Lesser reads JB Priestley's atmospheric war-time WED thriller, set in a Midlands town during the blackout. WED WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC WED Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Shuttleworths b00sjqtq (Listen) WED Series 5, Wishee Washee Day WED WED John suggests to his neighbour Ken Worthington that he take WED his wet washing off the line because rain is forecast, but WED when Ken decides not to heed this warning John, with advice WED from wife Mary, takes matters into his own hands with WED disastrous consequences. WED WED The Shuttleworths is written and performed by Graham WED Fellows, and the series is produced by Dawn Ellis. WED WED 23:15 One b00nkp1w (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 WED WED Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item WED features more than one voice. WED WED With Graeme Garden, Dan Maier, Johnny Daukes, Deborah WED Norton, Katie Davies, Dan Antopolski, Andrew Crawford and WED David Quantick. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00slpdv (Listen) WED Sean Curran and the BBC's parliamentary team report as MPs WED debate the first piece of legislation introduced by the WED coalition government, the Bill to abolish identity cards. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 JUNE 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00sl4mz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6dw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sl4rb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sl4wl (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sl4tj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00sl55l (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sl5wb (Listen) THU with the Revd Dr Janet Wootton, hymn writer and Director of THU Studies for the Congregational Federation. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00sl640 (Listen) THU Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Fran Barnes. THU THU 06:00 Today b00sl69q (Listen) THU With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00smnlk (Listen) THU Al-Biruni THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Persian polymath THU Al-Biruni and his tenth-century book the Tarikh al-Hind, one THU of the first scholarly works about India. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6dy (Listen) THU The Silk Road And Beyond (400 - 700 AD), Korean Roof Tile THU THU The history of the world as told through one hundred objects THU at the British Museum in London. This week the museum's THU director, Neil MacGregor has been telling the story of the THU Silk Road (and beyond) towards the end of the 7th Century - THU with objects from South America, Syria, Britain and China. THU THU Today he looks at what was happening in Korea at this moment THU in history, as it became a newly unified kingdom under the THU Silla state. The object that represents this moment is a THU roof tile with an intimidating face from a grand building in THU the new capital. THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sl6jl (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Vanessa Redgrave on her latest THU film 'Letters to Juliet'. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00snjtc (Listen) THU Leaving Normal, Episode 4 THU THU An out-there gay couple inherit two deeply suburban kids in THU this culture-clash comedy drama. THU THU The household seems to be falling apart. But then Sammi and THU Jason are thrown together in a traffic jam. And Luke gives THU Emma a make-over. THU THU Just when things suddenly seem to be coming together, Nicky THU starts scheming with Dolly to take things apart once more. THU THU Written and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid. THU THU Luke ..... Paul Nicholls THU Dolly ..... Meera Syal THU Sammi ..... Nikesh Patel THU Sarah ..... Niamh Cusack THU Emma ..... Klariza Clayton THU Jason ..... Harry Manton THU Nicki ..... Imelda Staunton THU Hairdresser/Waiter/Nicky/Ricky ..... Sebastien Torkia THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00smp1l (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 A Legend Before Slumdog b00smp1n (Listen) THU When AR Rahman won two Oscars for the film score of Slumdog THU Millionaire it shot him to international recognition. But THU the man dubbed 'The Mozart of Madras' has been a massive THU celebrity in India for the past 20 years, yet remains a shy THU and modest man who attributes his success to his Sufi faith. THU THU Presenter Navid Akhtar meets AR Rahman and explores the role THU that spirituality and technology have played in his long THU career. Still only in his early 40s, Rahman has produced THU chart-topping music for over 500 movies, countless catchy THU advertising jingles and even a West End musical - Bombay THU Dreams, whose producer Andrew Lloyd Webber describes him as THU the "most talented melodist of our time." Now he's being THU increasingly sought out by international film directors. THU THU Since his spectacular debut as a film composer on Roja in THU 1992 (chosen as one of the ten top soundtracks ever by Time THU magazine), AR Rahman's prolific output has transformed and THU reinvigorated Indian film music, effortlessly introducing THU fusion elements from all over the world. He has become the THU highest-earning music composer in India. Often his THU soundtracks have become chart-toppers even when the films THU flopped, selling out within hours of their release. THU THU He is a classical musician who has become the king of the THU synthesiser, a Hindu who has become a Muslim, and a Tamil THU who has infused pan-Indian cinema of all languages with his THU music. THU THU In the week that he begins an ambitious world tour THU performing his biggest hits, we discover what lies behind his success. THU THU Contributors include Andrew Lloyd Webber, directors Mani THU Ratnam and Rajiv Menon, biographer Kamini Mathai, film-maker THU and journalist Nasreen Munni Kabir and lyricist Don Black. THU THU Producer: Mukti Jain Campion THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00slb1h (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00slb6v (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00slc83 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00smq83 (Listen) THU Entitlement THU THU When did what we desire become what we feel we deserve ? In THU an age when foreign holidays have become routine and over THU 25,000 public sector workers earn £100,000 a year and more, THU we tackle this mood of relentless entitlement with Heather THU Brooke, whose tireless use of the Freedom of Information act THU helped to break the MPs expenses scandal; stand up Simon THU Evans, whose routine includes a description of his accent as THU exotic 'and that's because it is educated'; and Naomi THU Alderman whose first novel Disobedience won the Orange Award THU for Young Writers and who feels our sense of entitlement THU should be replaced by a purer feeling of gratitude. The THU presenter is Dominic Arkwright and the producer is Miles Warde. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00slccy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00smrgg (Listen) THU High Hopes THU THU By Rob Kinsman. THU THU When he was a child, Charlie was kidnapped and held to THU ransom. He never knew who was behind it nor why he was THU picked. When another child goes missing, many years later, THU he has a chance to discover the truth. THU THU Charlie ..... Jack Ryder THU Sammy ..... Peter Wight THU Zoe ..... Sarah Solemani THU Roy ..... Tony Bell THU Mel ..... Alison Pettitt THU Charlotte ..... Vineeta Rishi THU Anthony ... David Seddon THU THU Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00sknj8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00skv5m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00sm5mf (Listen) THU If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, Harriet Elliot THU THU 'If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This' is the debut THU collection by US author Robin Black, a stunning new voice in THU US fiction, whose work has drawn comparisons with that of THU Lorrie Moore and Alice Munroe. THU THU A new girl at school with a 'strangely adult air' shocks her THU classmates with an improbable story from her past. But one THU of the disbelieving children decides she must be telling the THU truth. THU THU Robin Black's stories and essays have appeared in numerous THU US magazines and newspapers, where she has also won several THU awards, but this is her first published collection. She is THU currently teaching creative writing at Bryn Mawr College, THU Pennsylvania, and lives with her family in Philadelphia. THU THU Reader: Laurel Lefkow THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 15:45 Thoroughly Modern Mary b00sld1d (Listen) THU Mary in Art THU THU As an image and an inspiration for writers, musicians and THU poets as well as painters and sculptors, the Virgin Mary is THU one of the most celebrated muses in the world. THU THU Rosie Goldsmith talks with Richard Dawkins, Ann Widdecombe, THU Marina Warner and Miri Rubin about why they believe in or THU reject the power of Mary as a subject of art. THU THU At the Holy Week processions in Seville she witnesses the THU intense modern-day veneration of their Mary - the Macarana - THU and meets a young Seville sculptor for whom Mary is a THU constant muse. She talks to Xavier Bray, curator of Spanish THU and Italian painting at the National Gallery in London about THU the figure of the Virgin in sacred art and she examines the THU controversial work of contemporary British artist Chris THU Ofili. THU THU Producer: Sarah Cuddon THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00sl3y1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00smrgj (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b00sld50 (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 b00sld6r (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Look Away Now b00smrgl (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 1 THU THU Garry Richardson anchors the topical show where sport meets THU comedy. Featuring hot-off-the-press World Cup bulletins, THU sports sketches, spoof interviews, non-expert analysis and THU music, Look Away Now covers the last five days of sports as THU well as the sporting weekend ahead. It proudly looks THU backwards and forwards at the same time, a bit like Linda THU Blair in the Exorcist except with less vomit and more THU badminton. THU THU Garry Richardson presents Look Away Now as he does THU 'Sportsweek' or his sports bulletins on 'Today'. His voice THU of authority is the pivot around which the comedy action THU takes place. The straighter he plays it, the funnier the THU show is... THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00slcd0 (Listen) THU Peggy faces a tricky choice and Matt has a battle on his THU hands. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00slls5 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with actress THU Anjelica Huston, who reflects on the career of her father, THU the director John Huston, whose films include The African THU Queen. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6dy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00sm6ct (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00smrlr (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine, where business THU leaders discuss the issues that matter - from the boardroom THU to the shop floor, from building success to handling failure. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00slvqf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00smnlk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00slncr (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00slnnw (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00slp5y (Listen) THU Blackout in Gretley, Episode 9 THU THU Sensitive information is being leaked to the enemy, and the THU department of counter espionage has sent in Humphrey Neyland THU to try and discover who is responsible. As the picture THU becomes clearer to Neyland, he needs Superintendent Hamp's THU help to reel in the perpetrators. But the Superintendent is THU uncomfortable at the lack of hard evidence. THU THU Anton Lesser reads JB Priestley's atmospheric war-time THU thriller, set in a Midlands town during the blackout. THU THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC THU Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Music Teacher b00smrlt (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU THU Shut away in a tiny windowless practice room in a regional THU arts centre, Nigel endures his usual succession of bizarre THU pupils whilst wrestling with the latest curveball thrown at THU him by panicked Arts Centre manager, Belinda. THU THU Nigel endures a steady stream of challenging pupils: a tone THU deaf Priest struggling to sing mass, a highly-strung harpist THU with a over-strung harp and the world's most flatulent tuba THU player rank among the most trying. THU THU It doesn't help that Nigel is in the middle of an OFSTED THU inspection - the impending results of which weigh heavily on THU his mind. THU THU Almost as heavily as the prospect of the closure of the Arts THU Centre, which Belinda is convinced is on the cards. So much THU so that she has started a "Save Letchington Arts Centre" THU campaign - and she wants Nigel to front a protest song live THU on the local TV news. THU THU Nigel Penny ..... Richie Webb THU Belinda ..... Vicki Pepperdine THU Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson. THU THU Written and produced by Richie Webb. THU THU Director: Nick Walker THU Producer: Richie Webb THU A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:15 My Teenage Diary b00jz581 (Listen) THU Josie Long THU THU Rufus Hound invites comedians to revisit their formative THU years by dusting off their teenage diaries and reading them THU out in public for the very first time. With Josie Long. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00slpdx (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 JUNE 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00sl4n1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6dy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sl4rd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sl4wn (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sl4tl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00sl55n (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sl5wd (Listen) FRI with the Revd Dr Janet Wootton, hymn writer and Director of FRI Studies for the Congregational Federation. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00sl642 (Listen) FRI Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer:Anna Varle. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00sl69s (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00skw0f (Listen) FRI Dr Gwen Adshead FRI FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the consultant forensic FRI psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead. FRI FRI She is among the leaders in a very specialised field - FRI trying to understand, and treat, the behaviour of the most FRI vilified people in society. Her office lies behind the FRI towering walls of Broadmoor Hospital - the Victorian FRI institution which is home to more than 200 men, all people FRI who have been convicted or accused of the most dangerous FRI behaviour. FRI FRI She also works with young offenders, supports crime victims FRI and writes academic papers - she's currently working on a FRI book about the nature of evil. Of her work, she says: "Other FRI people's minds are so fascinating I can't think of anything FRI more interesting and I can't understand why everyone isn't a FRI psychiatrist.". FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6f0 (Listen) FRI The Silk Road And Beyond (400 - 700 AD), Silk Princess Painting FRI FRI Throughout this week, Neil MacGregor has been exploring the FRI world of the late 7th century, with objects from South FRI America, Britain, Syria and Korea. FRI FRI Today's object is from the 4000 mile tangle of routes that FRI has become known as the Silk Road - that great conduit of FRI ideas, technologies, goods and beliefs that effectively FRI linked the Pacific with the Mediterranean. His chosen object FRI which lets him travel the ancient Silk Route is a fragile FRI painting telling a story of "industrial espionage". It comes FRI from the Buddhist kingdom of Khotan, now in Western China, FRI and tells a powerful story about how the secrets of silk FRI manufacture were passed along the fabled route. The cellist FRI and composer Yo Yo Ma, who has long been fascinated by the FRI Silk Road and who thinks of it as "the internet of FRI antiquity", and the writer Colin Thubron consider the impact FRI of the Silk Road - in reality and on the imagination. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sl6jn (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. The women who love football and FRI the men who hate it. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00snjvx (Listen) FRI Leaving Normal, Episode 5 FRI FRI Culture-clash comedy drama about an out-there gay couple who FRI inherit two deeply suburban kids. FRI FRI The family travels to Scotland to scatter Sarah's ashes. FRI Everyone finds a way to pay tribute. And then Nicki drops FRI her bombshell. FRI FRI Written and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid. FRI FRI Luke ..... Paul Nicholls FRI Dolly ..... Meera Syal FRI Sammi ..... Nikesh Patel FRI Sarah ..... Niamh Cusack FRI Emma ..... Klariza Clayton FRI Jason ..... Harry Manton FRI Nicki ..... Imelda Staunton FRI Hairdresser/Waiter/Nicky/Ricky ..... Sebastien Torkia FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 The eSportsmen b00sms0m (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Kate Russell investigates the burgeoning competitive FRI computer games circuit. She delves into the lives of the FRI people who make money and travel the world playing video FRI games and learns of the sacrifices that elite performers FRI have to make to be the best in Britain. FRI FRI Concerns have been raised over the fitness of these players, FRI with some studies linking the sedentary lifestyles of the FRI younger generation with a rise of diabetes and obesity. FRI However, the gamers claim that the speed, reactions and FRI dexterity of the best players mean they should be labelled FRI as sportsmen. FRI FRI Dr Dominic Micklewright, a sceptic from the department of FRI biological sciences at Essex University, puts some of the FRI UK's top players through a battery of physical and FRI psychological tests to investigate this theory. Do they have FRI the reactions of fighter pilots as they claim? FRI FRI While the computer games industry is now part of mainstream FRI life in Britain, with the launch of a new game taking more FRI than a Hollywood movie, the competitive side of the industry FRI remains of niche interest. Kate goes behind the scenes at FRI major tournaments to try to find out if the young players FRI are the best ambassadors for an industry that already FRI struggles with image problems. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Peachey FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI BBC News FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and Steve b00sms54 (Listen) FRI The Notorious Dr Belasco FRI FRI A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple FRI and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns FRI refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate FRI the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind FRI in post-war London. FRI FRI Enlisted by Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard to help track FRI down the mysterious Dr. Belasco, Paul and his wife Steve FRI find clues in cigarette lighters and bodies in shrubberies, FRI dance the night away in louche Latin American night clubs, FRI meet sinister menservants and suspicious foreigners, and FRI have their lives threatened at every turn. Just as well FRI Steve remembered to bring along her revolver as well as her FRI ration book... A mid-morning vintage champagne crime FRI cocktail. FRI FRI Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan FRI Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas FRI Nelson ..... Jimmy Chisholm FRI Mary Hamilton ..... Eliza Langland FRI Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood FRI Charlie/Worth ..... Greg Powrie FRI FRI Produced by Patrick Rayner FRI FRI The background: FRI FRI April 1938 saw the transmission on the BBC's Midland FRI Regional Programme of a thriller serial called 'Send for FRI Paul Temple', written by Francis Durbridge. For the next FRI thirty years, until 1968, the incomparably suave private FRI detective and crime novelist Paul, together with his FRI glamorous Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case FRI after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most enduringly FRI popular series. Unfortunately, recordings of many of the FRI early series are lost to the archives. FRI FRI In 2006 Radio 4 broadcast a brand new production of one of FRI the missing Temples - the ninth series, 'Paul Temple and the FRI Sullivan Mystery', with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson FRI as Paul and Steve. Using vintage microphones and sound FRI effects, and much of the original incidental music, the FRI production was as far as possible a technical and stylistic FRI replica of how the 1947 original might have sounded if its FRI recording had survived. It proved enormously popular with FRI the audience on Radio 4, and subsequently on Radio 7, with FRI hundreds of letters, e-mails and phone calls. A second FRI revival in 2008 (this time of 'Paul Temple and the Madison FRI Mystery') proved equally popular. So, here we go again, with FRI 'Paul Temple and Steve', which was first broadcast on the FRI BBC's Light Programme in eight weekly episodes from 30th FRI March 1947 to 18th May 1947. FRI FRI Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in FRI Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most FRI successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his FRI day. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00slb1k (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00slb6x (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00slc87 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00smtq7 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the More or Less team explain numbers in the FRI news, look out for misused statistics and use maths to FRI explore the world around us. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00slcd0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sjdr5 (Listen) FRI Philip and Sydney FRI FRI In 'This Be The Verse', Philip Larkin famously bemoans the FRI impact parents have on their children. In Philip and Sydney, FRI playwright Alan Pollock uncovers some of the reasons why FRI Larkin may have had such a profound sense of anguish. FRI FRI In 1937, Philip Larkin's father took him on holiday to FRI Germany. Sydney was Coventry's City Treasurer and had a keen FRI interest in the Nazi regime. FRI FRI It was a holiday that Philip never spoke of. But, taking FRI inspiration from Sydney's diaries, Philip and Sydney FRI imagines what might have happened during their trip. FRI FRI A witty and powerful coming of age drama starring Tim FRI McInnerny as Sydney and Pip Carter as Philip. FRI FRI Alan Pollock is a playwright, translator and screenwriter. FRI Plays include One Night in November, Pigs, and All FRI Tomorrow's Parties. FRI FRI Cast: FRI FRI Philip Larkin..........Pip Carter FRI Sydney Larkin.......Tim McInnerny FRI Liesl..........Melody Grove FRI Hotel Keeper/Drinker...John Rowe FRI Herr Hinck.......Sam Dale FRI Hans and all other parts...Gunnar Cauthery FRI FRI Director: Kirsty Williams. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00smvld (Listen) FRI We join gardeners in Aberdeenshire. The team includes Anne FRI Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matt Biggs. FRI FRI Anne visits Peony Valley to look at one of the nation's FRI favourite flowers currently in bloom. We also take the FRI chance to revisit Grace Grant, who is taking part in our new FRI series on Listener Gardens. FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Thoroughly Modern Mary b00sld1g (Listen) FRI Mary in Cyberspace FRI FRI Rosie Goldsmith, who has a life-long fascination with the FRI Virgin Mary, explores her power as an apparition and in FRI visions around the world. FRI FRI Mary is a global symbol. She's also a figment of wild FRI hallucinations. Her face is on T-shirts and jewellery. FRI Modern-day apparitions have been spotted in fruit bowls and FRI on pieces of toast and filmed on mobile phones. Thousands of FRI websites are devoted to her and millions of people still FRI travel hundreds of miles to worship at her shrines, to pray FRI for health and happiness. But many people argue that Mary is FRI just one big con trick - a poetic myth-maker for the FRI Catholic Church, a hallucination created in the minds of the FRI ill and the vulnerable. FRI FRI In this programme Rosie talks with Richard Dawkins, Ann FRI Widdecombe, Marina Warner, Mark Dowd, Susie Orbach and Miri FRI Rubin and asks how they reconcile an often holy madness with FRI today's need for multi-faith balance? At the Knock shrine in FRI Ireland a woman reveals how Our Lady cured her as she was FRI dying. An expert on 21st century Cyber-Mary explains how the FRI internet is today the most powerful weapon in whipping up FRI Mary fervour. And a young American student describes FRI witnessing the apparition of Mary in a hospital window in FRI Massachusetts. FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Cuddon FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00smvlg (Listen) FRI Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on FRI the lives of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00smvlj (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Sir Alan Parker and Lord David FRI Puttnam about their first film together and the subsequent FRI partnership that produced Bugsy Malone and Midnight Express. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00sld52 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sld6t (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00smvll (Listen) FRI Series 71, Episode 9 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Mark Steel, FRI Jeremy Hardy, and Susan Calman. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00slcd2 (Listen) FRI WRITTEN BY ..... KERI DAVIES FRI DIRECTED BY ..... NAYLAH AHMED FRI EDITOR ..... VANESSA WHITBURN FRI FRI JILL ARCHER ... PATRICIA GREENE FRI KENTON ARCHER ... RICHARD ATTLEE FRI DANIEL ARCHER ... LOUIS HAMBLETT FRI DAVID ARCHER ... TIMOTHY BENTINCK FRI RUTH ARCHER ... FELICITY FINCH FRI PIP ARCHER ... HELEN MONKS FRI JOSH ARCHER ... CIAN CHEESBROUGH FRI NIGEL PARGETTER ... GRAHAM SEED FRI ELIZABETH PARGETTER ... ALISON DOWLING FRI PAT ARCHER ... PATRICIA GALLIMORE FRI BRIAN ALDRIDGE ... CHARLES COLLINGWOOD FRI PEGGY WOOLLEY ... JUNE SPENCER FRI MATT CRAWFORD ... KIM DURHAM FRI LILIAN BELLAMY ... SUNNY ORMONDE FRI JOLENE PERKS ... BUFFY DAVIS FRI FALLON ROGERS ... JOANNA VAN KAMPEN FRI KATHY PERKS ... HEDLI NIKLAUS FRI JAMIE PERKS ... DAN CIOTKOWSKI FRI CLARRIE GRUNDY ... ROSALIND ADAMS FRI SUSAN CARTER ... CHARLOTTE MARTIN FRI CAROLINE STERLING ..... SARA COWARD FRI BERT FRY ... ERIC ALLAN FRI JIM LLOYD ... JOHN ROWE FRI JUDE SIMPSON... PIERS WEHNER FRI HARRY MASON ... MICHAEL SHELFORD FRI GERRY MORETON ... MARK PERRY. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00slls7 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sl6f0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00smvln (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Edwinstree FRI Middle School in Buntingford, Hertfordshire with questions FRI from the audience for the panel including: Alyson Rudd, FRI sports writer for the Times and George Pascoe-Watson, former FRI political editor of The Sun. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00smvlq (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from David Cannadine. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00smvls (Listen) FRI Leaving Normal, Omnibus FRI FRI Comedy by Ian Iqbal Rashid about a gay couple, Sammi and FRI Luke, who inherit two orphaned children. With Paul Nicholls, FRI Meera Syal, Nikesh Patel, Niamh Cusack. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00slnct (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00slnny (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00slp60 (Listen) FRI Blackout in Gretley, Episode 10 FRI FRI Sensitive information is being leaked to the enemy. Humphrey FRI Neyland has unmasked the majority of those involved in the FRI network, but he still has to confront the man with the scar FRI on his left cheek, who is posing as the butler to Colonel FRI Tarlington. FRI FRI Anton Lesser concludes JB Priestley's atmospheric war-time FRI thriller. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC FRI Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00sm6cw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00slpdz (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. FRI
04 June, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 05/06/2010 - 11/06/2010
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