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SAT SATURDAY 12 JUNE 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00smvxq (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 b00sl6f0 (Listen) SAT The Silk Road And Beyond (400 - 700 AD), Silk Princess Painting SAT SAT Throughout this week, Neil MacGregor has been exploring the SAT world of the late 7th century, with objects from South SAT America, Britain, Syria and Korea. SAT SAT Today's object is from the 4000 mile tangle of routes that SAT has become known as the Silk Road - that great conduit of SAT ideas, technologies, goods and beliefs that effectively SAT linked the Pacific with the Mediterranean. His chosen object SAT which lets him travel the ancient Silk Route is a fragile SAT painting telling a story of "industrial espionage". It comes SAT from the Buddhist kingdom of Khotan, now in Western China, SAT and tells a powerful story about how the secrets of silk SAT manufacture were passed along the fabled route. The cellist SAT and composer Yo Yo Ma, who has long been fascinated by the SAT Silk Road and who thinks of it as "the internet of SAT antiquity", and the writer Colin Thubron consider the impact SAT of the Silk Road - in reality and on the imagination. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00smvxs (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00smvxv (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00smvxx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00smvxz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00smvy1 (Listen) SAT with Pritpal Kaur Riat. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00smvy3 (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 b00smvy5 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00smvy7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00sn4r0 (Listen) SAT Series 15, Amberley to Bignor Hill at full moon SAT SAT Clare Balding continues her route along the South Downs Way SAT in the company of natural navigator Tristan Gooley, who SAT guides her on a night walk at full moon, using the stars and SAT the elements to determine their direction. It's an SAT altogether different experience walking in the dark in the SAT moonlight that gives them the chance to explore the sounds SAT and shapes of the countryside and the sky at night. SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00sn4r2 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Producer: Charlotte Smith Presenter:Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00sn4r4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00sn4r6 (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 b00sn4r8 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, poet SAT Salena Godden, a man who discovered that his son was SAT involved in a terrorist plot, and a woman who spent a month SAT in 1993 cleaning oil from stricken birds after the Braer oil SAT spill. There's a Crowdscape from the Blackpool promenade, SAT and actor Bill Nighy shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT The producer is Simon Clancy. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00sn4rb (Listen) SAT Since 1634 the residents of the tiny village of Oberammergau SAT in the Bavarian alps have performed a Passion Play. It takes SAT place from May to October every ten years and attracts half SAT a million visitors. It is no small production, it lasts for SAT five hours with over two thousand villagers acting, singing SAT as well as playing in the orchestra and stage managing. The SAT impact on the village is enormous as it has to accommodate SAT the tourists who come from all over the world. John McCarthy SAT travels to Oberammergau to look behind the scenes of one of SAT Germany's biggest tourist attractions and find out from the SAT locals how they cope with running businesses and catering SAT for the guests as well as performing in the play. SAT SAT 10:30 Uncool Britannia b00sn4rd (Listen) SAT The Austin Montego Years SAT SAT Steve Punt concludes 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. SAT SAT This week Steve takes to the road, remembering the Austin SAT Maestro & Montego which were unveiled with great fanfare in SAT the early 80s. Steve takes a drive in a Montego with SAT motoring journalist Quentin Willson and attempts to get to SAT grips with why history has been so unkind to these two SAT sensible but unstylish motors. He hears from the voice SAT behind the cars' celebrated speech synthesiser, Nicolette SAT McKenzie, and hears from dealers, designers and marketing SAT men involved in the car's launch. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00sn54v (Listen) SAT Peter Riddell of The Times looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00sn54x (Listen) SAT De-railed by buffalo!! An interrupted night's sleep on the SAT express train to Victoria Falls. SAT SAT If you're looking for a real travel experience, it can be SAT hard to beat a great train journey. There's something about SAT the pace and the rhythm.. You get time to take in the SAT gradually changing landscape as it glides by. And you get SAT glimpses of the lives of local people..farmers, and SAT labourers, and lawyers..as they come and go from the seats SAT around you. Petroc Trelawney in Zimbabwe is one of those who SAT can see the romance in taking to the tracks.. SAT SAT The attackers struck during Friday prayers. They targeted SAT two mosques in the Pakistani city of Lahore....blazing away SAT wildly with Kalashnikovs and shotguns, and hurling grenades. SAT When it was over, more than eighty people were dead.... The SAT worshippers were members of the Ahmedi ( Aamadi ) sect. SAT They've long been persecuted and discriminated against. And SAT Mohammad Hanif says the horror in Lahore left some SAT Pakistanis asking themselves painful questions.... SAT SAT The illegal drugs sold here in Europe have often come from SAT far away. Much of the cocaine is produced in Latin America. SAT And its journey from the foothills of the Andes to the SAT streets of London can be long and winding. Sometimes the SAT drugs barons send their Europe-bound shipments via West SAT Africa. There, in the tiny state of Gambia, Mark Doyle has SAT been seeing how much damage the trade is doing, and what's SAT being done to stop the smugglers.. SAT SAT Rome has just played host to an army of priests. SAT Fifteen-thousand of them came from more than ninety SAT countries. They were marking the end of the Vatican's SAT "International Year of the Priest". The Pope told them SAT they'd been chosen by Christ to be, "the salt of the earth, SAT and the light of the world". But with Church having been SAT rocked by sex abuse scandals, David Willey watched the SAT priests gather in Rome under a dark cloud... SAT SAT And so it begins.! At last, the World Cup gets underway. For SAT weeks, many of us will be transfixed by the sporting drama SAT of it all.... But not everyone is football crazy. Half a SAT world away from South Africa, it's baseball that will still SAT dominate the American summer. And as Kevin Connolly knows, SAT for fans of one rather luckless team, everything...on their SAT field of dreams....will depend on a rooky called Strasburg. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00sn54z (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT Producer: Lesley McAlpine. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00smvll (Listen) SAT Series 71, Episode 9 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Mark Steel, SAT Jeremy Hardy, and Susan Calman. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00sn551 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00sn553 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00smvln (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Edwinstree SAT Middle School in Buntingford, Hertfordshire with questions SAT from the audience for the panel including: Eric Pickles, SAT Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government; SAT Hilary Benn, Shadow Secretary for Environment, Food and SAT Rural Affairs; Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty and SAT George Pascoe-Watson, public relations consultant and former SAT political editor of The Sun. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00sn555 (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 b00st52l (Listen) SAT Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, part 2 SAT SAT Bloody Sunday remains one of the most controversial issues SAT in Northern Ireland; it is over 12 years since Tony Blair SAT announced an inquiry into the events of that day. Lord SAT Saville's Report will be published on Tuesday the 15th June. SAT Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry is a SAT compelling and moving dramatisation based on the testimony SAT of civilians and soldiers who were there. SAT SAT Part two of a two part dramatisation of the Saville Inquiry SAT into the events of Sunday the 30th January, 1972 - Bloody SAT Sunday. Part two focuses on the testimony of the soldiers SAT and ends with a former member of the Official IRA. The SAT transcripts are edited but not re-written and the sequence SAT of the evidence has not been altered. SAT Adapted from The Tricycle Theatre production. SAT SAT Introduction - Mark Penfold SAT Lord Saville - Alan Parnaby SAT Eilis McDermott QC - Rita Hamill SAT General Sir Robert Ford - Michael Cochrane SAT Christopher Clarke QC - Thomas Wheatley SAT Michael Mansfield QC - Terrence Hardiman SAT Major General Andrew MacLellan - John Castle SAT Colonel Derek Wilford - William Hoyland SAT Edwin Glasgow QC - James Woolley SAT Soldier S - David Beames SAT Barry MacDonald QC - Gerard O'Hare SAT Soldier F - Michael Wilson SAT Reg Tester - Michael Cochrane SAT SAT Introduction and Radio Adaptation by Richard Norton Taylor SAT Directed by Nicolas Kent SAT Produced by Stephen Wright SAT SAT 15:30 Chopsticks at Dawn b00sm4tg (Listen) SAT Chinese decorative arts are revered in the West. From Willow SAT pattern dinner plates to the Brighton Pavilion, their SAT designs are regarded as beautiful and sophisticated. But for SAT the past two centuries European composers and musicians have SAT had no qualms about mercilessly parodying what they thought SAT of as 'Chinese tunes'. SAT SAT As a girl growing up in Hackney, the opening SAT orientalised-flute strains of the 1970s pop record Kung Fu SAT Fighting by Carl Douglas were enough to send future comedian SAT Anna Chen running for cover. SAT SAT The same cliches haunt Turning Japanese by The Vapours, Hong SAT Kong Garden by Siouxsie And The Banshees and David Bowie's SAT China Girl. They have all followed a pattern set by Claude SAT Debussy, Malcolm Arnold, Albert Ketelbey and Lancashire SAT Linnet George Formby, who were equally guilty of taking SAT Chinese musical motifs and mangling them - or simply making SAT them up! SAT SAT How did this mocking abuse of a handful of venerable Far SAT Eastern notes begin? SAT SAT Musicologist Dr Jonathan Walker accompanies Anna on a SAT historical mission, picking out examples on the piano and SAT explaining why and how our western ears hear certain note SAT configurations as "oriental" - from Chopsticks to Chopin. SAT SAT They explore the pentatonic scale that chartacterises so SAT much Chinese music, delve into the story of the Opium Wars SAT which triggered a deep British disrespect of Chinese musical SAT culture and unveil the earliest dubious examples of SAT Chinoiserie in Western Music. SAT SAT And we hear from a new generation of British born Chinese SAT musicians who are putting right the discordant wrongs of the SAT past 200 years. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Eldon Lee SAT A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00sn557 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00sn559 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00smrlr (Listen) SAT Three top executives join Stephanie Flanders in the studio SAT to talk about playing the long game and scouting for talent. SAT SAT Nearly all business gurus recommend thinking in strategic SAT terms rather than concentrating on short-term gains. But is SAT this really possible in today's business environment, where SAT a constant flow of news affects markets every second of SAT every day? Stephanie finds out how the bosses on the panel SAT keep their eyes on the long game. How much will they give up SAT today to reap rewards further down the line? SAT SAT Also on the programme, scouting for talent. In the sporting SAT world it's easy, because managers can watch players perform SAT on the pitch - but businesses have it a bit tougher. The SAT panel talks about what they look for in new talent, how they SAT find tomorrow's superstars, and how quickly they form an SAT opinion about a candidate. SAT SAT Stephanie's guests are Jayne-Anne Gahdia, chief executive of SAT Virgin Money; Peter Hambro, chairman of Petropavlovsk; and SAT Ellis Rich, chief executive of Independent Music Group and SAT chairman of the Performing Rights Society. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sn5q6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00sn68k (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sn68n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00sn68q (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT He's toured with Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane, Little SAT Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. No wonder then that guitar SAT legend Duane Eddy received a MOJO Icon Award this week. He SAT talks to Clive about his career as 'King of Twang'. SAT Clive is joined by actress Juliet Stevenson who's trying to SAT restore the almost lost art of live drama on television with SAT her appearance in Mark Ravenhill's 'Ghost Story' part of a SAT series of new plays for Sky Arts Playhouse: Live. SAT SAT Creator of Reginald Perrin, comic writer David Nobbs talks SAT about his new novel 'Obstacles to Young Love'; a story of SAT love, faith and taxidermy. SAT SAT Surf's up! Jon Holmes wave watches with Gavin Pretor-Pinney SAT author of 'The Wavewatcher's Companion' which explores the SAT undulations that surround us, from the rippling beats of our SAT hearts to Mexican waves in stadiums. SAT SAT And there's retro comedy from The Fitzrovia Radio Hour who SAT create their own live sound effects in the studio. SAT SAT With music from folk singer songwriter Seth Lakeman who SAT performs his single 'Tiny World' from his album 'Hearts & Minds'. SAT SAT And from Manchester's 'I am Kloot' who celebrate their 10th SAT Anniversary with the launch of their Guy Garvey produced SAT album 'Sky At Night'. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00sn68s (Listen) SAT Series 8, Fourteen Units a Week SAT SAT Continuing the series in which writers respond to the week's SAT news. In the hot seat this time is award-winning playwright SAT Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti. SAT SAT This week, the Scottish parliament debated a bill that could SAT impose a minimum price on units of alcohol by the end of SAT year. Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play traces a week in the life SAT of Jessica, a woman becoming unhealthily interested in the SAT drinking habits of her cleaner. SAT SAT Jessica ..... Doon Mackichan SAT Felix ..... Sam Dale SAT Kerry ..... Eliza Caitlin Parkes SAT SAT Director: Abigail le Fleming SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00sn68v (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 b00sn68x (Listen) SAT Julian Jackson explores the contradictory and complex nature SAT of the man who was happy to say 'yes' to making London his SAT wartime HQ and rallying point, but 'Non' when twenty years SAT later Britain was petitioning to join the Common Market. In SAT fact it's not too far-fetched to suggest that De Gaulle's SAT apparent perversity was at least partly responsible for SAT Britain's long-standing ambivalent feelings towards Europe SAT and the EU over the last fifty years ... SAT SAT Speaking from a BBC studio on 18th June 1940, General SAT Charles de Gaulle issued an extraordinary rallying cry to SAT his countrymen who had just capitulated to Hitler and SAT declared an armistice with the German Fuhrer. Attacking the SAT actions of Marshal PÃ(c)tain, "whatever happens," he SAT intoned, "the flame of French resistance must not and shall SAT not die." From London in a steady stream of eloquent and SAT heartfelt broadcasts across the remaining years of the war, SAT de Gaulle kept the spirit of defiance in the face of the SAT Nazi occupier burning strongly. London was henceforth the SAT headquarters of the Free French forces and the power base SAT for de Gaulle. But the general had an uncanny knack of SAT rubbing his hosts up the wrong way, and Churchill and he SAT were often at loggerheads. But his time in London was the SAT making of the statesman, one of Europe's greatest twentieth SAT century figures. SAT SAT Julian Jackson, a specialist in modern French history and SAT author of one of the best books on the French SAT soldier-politician, traces the roots of the conundrum that SAT was General Charles de Gaulle who died forty years ago this SAT year. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Elmes. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00sl3xz (Listen) SAT Bright Day, Episode 2 SAT SAT By JB Priestley SAT SAT Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is remembering his SAT youth in 1912, before the slaughter of the First World War SAT when he was an 18-year old in Bruddersford, Yorkshire: Now SAT in 1946, encounters with the same characters from his past SAT unlock secret events, buried yearnings and give potential SAT for the future. 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 Laura Blackshaw..Megan Winnard SAT Mrs Childs.. Olwen May SAT Hinchcliff... Jake Norton SAT SAT Dramatised by Diana Griffiths SAT Producer/Director - Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00sn68z (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b00slvqc (Listen) SAT Martin Rees: Scientific Horizons: 2010, Surviving the Century SAT SAT Lecture 2: 'Surviving the Century' SAT SAT In the second of this year's Reith Lectures, recorded for SAT the first time in Wales in the National Museum Cardiff, SAT Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society and Astronomer SAT Royal, continues to explore the challenges facing science in SAT the 21st century. Our planet is coming under increasing SAT strain from climate change, population explosion and food SAT shortages. How can we use science to help us solve the SAT crisis that we are moving rapidly towards, as we use up our SAT natural resources ever more quickly? SAT Professor Rees explores the urgent need to substantially SAT reduce our global CO2 emissions, or the atmospheric SAT concentration will reach truly threatening levels. To do SAT this, we need international cooperation, and global funding SAT for clean and green technologies. He calls for the UK to SAT keep one step ahead of other countries by developing SAT technologies to reduce emissions, and says we should take SAT the lead in wave and tidal energy, among other solutions. SAT Science brings innovation but also risk, and random elements SAT including fanatics can abuse new technologies to threaten SAT our planet in ways we never dreamt of. The challenge, for SAT our scientists, governments and people, is to confront the SAT threats to our planet and find the solutions in science. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00slqvx (Listen) SAT Series 24, Episode 12 SAT SAT (12/13) Three more contestants who have won their respective SAT heats return to face Paul Gambaccini's wide ranging SAT questions on music, in the third and last semi-final of SAT 2010. One of them will take the sole remaining place in next SAT week's Final. As always, Paul will have plenty of extracts SAT and anecdotes from every genre of music, from the classical SAT repertoire to musical theatre, jazz, film music, rock and SAT pop. SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00sl3y3 (Listen) SAT On Sunday 6th June, Roger McGough presents a special edition SAT of Poetry Please exploring the work of the eminent First SAT World War war poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Recorded on location SAT at Cambridge University Library, Roger meets manuscript SAT librarian John Wells who shows him the highlights of their SAT recently augmented Sassoon collection. The reader is David SAT Bamber. SAT SAT Seven crates of Sassoon's trench notebooks and diaries were SAT bought by the library after a successful fundraising drive - SAT helped by a £550,000 grant from the National Heritage SAT Memorial Fund. We hear a draft of Sassoon's powerful SAT denunciation of the war being read, in which the decorated SAT officer refused to return to duty after being wounded. SAT Written in 1917, read out in the House of Commons, and SAT published in The Times, 'A Soldier's Declaration' prompted a SAT widespread debate. SAT SAT The poet, whose work captured the futility of war, died in SAT 1967. In the programme Roger introduces requests for SAT Sassoon's uncompromising poems such as 'Suicide in the SAT Trenches', 'Glory of Women', and his friend Robert Graves' SAT powerful poem, 'Dead Boche'. SAT SAT Poems featured in this edition: SAT SAT Suicide in the Trenches SAT by Siegfried Sassoon SAT From: Siegfried Sassoon – Collected Poems SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT Died of Wounds SAT by Siegfried Sassoon SAT From: Siegfried Sassoon – The War Poems SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT In the Pink SAT by Siegfried Sassoon SAT From: Siegfried Sassoon – The War Poems SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT Juvenilia SAT by Siegfried Sassoon SAT From: Siegfried Sassoon by Max Egremont SAT Pub: Picador SAT SAT The Glory of Women SAT By Siegfried Sassoon SAT Siegfried Sassoon – Collected Poems SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT A Dead Boche SAT by Robert Graves SAT From: Poems of The First World War SAT Pub: Everyman SAT SAT Soldier’s Declaration SAT by Siegfried Sassoon SAT From: Siegfried Sassoon by Max Egremont SAT Pub: Picador SAT SAT The Dug-Out SAT by Siegfried Sassoon SAT From: Siegfried Sassoon – Collected Poems SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT Extract from Vigils – “They were not true, those dreams..†SAT by Siegfried Sassoon SAT From: Siegfried Sassoon – Collected Poems SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT Everyone Sang SAT by Siegfried Sassoon SAT From: Siegfried Sassoon – The War Poems SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 JUNE 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00sn6zy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00d6nxn (Listen) SUN Alan Sillitoe Short Stories, Enoch's Two Letters SUN SUN A young boy arrives home from school only to find his tea SUN unprepared and the fire out. He waits patiently for his SUN mother and father to come home - and wonders what will SUN happen if they never walk through the front door again. One SUN of a selection of stories from one of the UK's master SUN storytellers. SUN SUN Read by Philip Jackson SUN Written by Alan Sillitoe SUN Abridged by Fiona McAlpine SUN SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sn700 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sn702 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sn704 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00sn706 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00sn708 (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Bartholomew's in Sutton-cum-Lound. SUN SUN 05:45 Learning to Love the Microphone b00l14pb (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Anne Perkins explores how politicians at the dawn of mass SUN democracy utilised the new media of radio and newsreel. SUN SUN How politicians adapt to using new media is highly relevant SUN today, as the internet, social networking and 24-hour TV SUN news transform the political landscape. Yet it was equally SUN relevant in the 1920s and 1930s, when politicians grappled SUN with the new media of radio and newsreels. What lessons can SUN our generation learn from theirs? SUN SUN Anne examines how two Prime Ministers - Stanley Baldwin and SUN Neville Chamberlain - gradually mastered the new media of SUN their day. She reveals how the first spin doctor used his SUN wartime experience spying on the Germans to attack Labour SUN and carefully craft the Conservative leaders' images to SUN appeal to a new mass electorate. She also explains why the SUN other parties were so slow by comparison. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00sn70b (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00sn70d (Listen) SUN Longing for the Sea SUN SUN Mark Tully discusses our longing for the sea with National SUN Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis, who spent a year on a SUN disastrous round the world voyage. SUN SUN Despite the danger and the loneliness, she still longs for SUN the sea, and reads a new poem "Sea Virus". Lewis is a SUN committed Christian, and she talks about how the experience SUN of being alone on a vast ocean has strengthened her SUN spiritual belief. SUN SUN Other poets in the programme include the contemporary Welsh SUN poet Menna Elfyn, who speaks of the sea opening her eyes; SUN and the Anglo-Saxon seafarer from before the Tenth Century. SUN SUN The music includes Britten's Sea Interlude: Dawn, Charles SUN Trenet's evocative song of the 40s "La Mer", and a Bach SUN cantata in which he evokes a storm. SUN SUN Producer: Elizabeth Burke SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00sn70g (Listen) SUN 4/18. Lionel Kelleway accompanies naturalist, artist and SUN author John Walters in a quest through the oak woodland of SUN the Dart Valley to find early migrant birds. They've just SUN flown in from Africa and waste no time before getting down SUN to the business of Spring. The males arrive first and SUN advertise their chosen nest sites to the females, each with SUN a different song and display. To the accompaniment of its SUN calls, John evokes the images of the Wood Warbler males SUN flitting, butterfly-like over a likely nest area to entice a SUN female. Then they tune in to Redstart males calling, fanning SUN their red tails in display. Used only once a year, they SUN dance in and out of their nest holes, flipping around and SUN singing from within, just the white flash on their foreheads SUN showing. Finally the male Pied Flycatcher puts in an SUN appearance, flitting around its hollow tree trunk nest hole, SUN showing off the white bars on its wings. It sings from its SUN hole with the white spots above its bill conspicuous in the SUN dark hole. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Tania Dorrity. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00sn7dd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00sn7dg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00sn7dj (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton 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 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00sn7dl (Listen) SUN Catch 22 SUN SUN Will Young presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Catch22. SUN SUN Donations to Catch22 should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Catch22. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide Catch22 with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1124127. SUN SUN Catch22 SUN SUN Catch22 is a charity helping over 30,000 young people a year SUN who have been dealt a difficult hand by society. Working in SUN many towns and cities it supports young people in many SUN different ways. These can range from steering clear from SUN crime to finding somewhere safe and secure to live. Above SUN all else, Catch22 successfully encourages young people to SUN give something back to society. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00sn7dn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00sn7dq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00sn7ds (Listen) SUN 'All in His service' SUN A service from the Old Palace, West Tarring in Worthing, SUN West Sussex exploring how we use our gifts and abilities to SUN serve God. SUN SUN With BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year Jacquelyne Hill SUN and the choir of St Andrew's Church, West Tarring. SUN SUN Preacher: The Very Revd Nicholas Frayling, Dean of SUN Chichester SUN Leader: Lindsay Gray, Director of the Royal School of Church SUN Music & The Revd Canon Anthony Stidolph, Rector of Worth, SUN Sussex SUN Music director: John Wardle SUN Organist: Mark Wardell SUN Producer: Simon Vivian SUN www.bbc.co.uk/religion. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00smvlq (Listen) SUN The Princeton P-rade SUN SUN David Cannadine reflects on the distinctive style of SUN American graduation ceremonies which forge a lasting sense SUN of identity for graduates and their peers. He contrasts the SUN colourful exuberance of the Princeton "p-rade" with the more SUN restrained formality of university processions in Britain. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00sn7dv (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00sn7dx (Listen) SUN WRITTEN BY ..... KERI DAVIES SUN DIRECTED BY ..... NAYLAH AHMED SUN EDITOR ..... 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SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00sn7dz (Listen) SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian Frank Skinner. SUN SUN As a football-obsessed comic whose stand-up routines were SUN peppered with details of his personal life, he became the SUN poster-boy for the 'Loaded' generation. Beneath the surface, SUN though, he seems to be full of contradictions. He was SUN expelled from school when he was a teenager - but went on to SUN gain a masters degree; he has long been obsessed with Elvis SUN Presley - but now says he feels a tingle when he goes to the SUN opera. Although he had long enjoyed entertaining his SUN friends, he was 30 before he realised where his future lay. SUN "I was an unemployed drunk going nowhere," he says, "And SUN then comedy turned up. Comedy saved my life". SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00slqw1 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 5 SUN SUN John Lloyd and Jon Richardson host. With author and SUN prodigious savant Daniel Tammet, explorer Robin SUN Hanbury-Tenison and comedian Ronni Ancona. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00sn7f1 (Listen) SUN In the second of two programmes about food photography, SUN Sheila Dillon explores the world of the amateur. Why DO we SUN take so many pictures of food and meals - on holiday, in SUN markets, and increasingly, in restaurants and in our own SUN homes? It's about the relationship between our eyes, our SUN mouths and our stomachs. Real, simple good food, well SUN presented, looks great. And armed with a digital camera, or SUN even a mobile phone, all of us can document our eating SUN habits. SUN Sheila is joined by Liz Galbraith CREATIVE DIRECTOR of BBC SUN Food Group, to discuss the changing fashions in depicting SUN dinner, and to marvel at the photos Food Programme listeners SUN have sent in. Say cheese! SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00sn7f3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00sn7f5 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 It's My Story b00scvqh (Listen) SUN The Girl in the Picture SUN SUN Kim Phuc, subject of an iconic picture from the Vietnam War, SUN tells her story as she's reunited with the ITN reporter who SUN helped save her life 38 years ago. SUN SUN The image of a nine year old girl screaming as she ran naked SUN down a road in Trang Bang after suffering extreme burns in a SUN Napalm chemical attack became one of the most famous SUN photographs of the Vietnam War. But what happened to the SUN 'Girl in the Picture'? SUN SUN In an emotional meeting, former ITN reporter Christopher SUN Wain - who helped to save her life that day - is reunited SUN with Kim for the first time in 38 years. SUN SUN They recall the events of June 8th 1972 and Kim hears for SUN the first time the lengths to which Chris went to get her SUN life-saving treatment. SUN SUN She tells how Nick Ut's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph SUN has helped and haunted her in equal measure. She explains SUN how she was recruited as a 'symbol of war' before finally SUN escaping Government control by fleeing to Canada. SUN SUN She managed to live a normal life for a while but was SUN discovered by the press again in the 1990s. She soon SUN realised she had to take control of the photograph and SUN decided to use her fame to help others by establishing a SUN charity for child victims of war called 'The Kim Phuc SUN Foundation'. SUN SUN The burns Kim suffered in 1972 left her scarred for life and SUN still take their toll on her body. She's in constant pain SUN and has to take regular breaks. But it doesn't stop her SUN living a busy life. SUN SUN As part of the programme, Kim also meets Ali Abbas, who lost SUN both his arms and sixteen members of his family in the Iraq SUN War. The pair share their experiences and Kim offers him SUN advice on living a normal life and finding a way to forgive. SUN SUN The programme is presented by Christopher Wain. SUN SUN Producer: Ashley Byrne. SUN A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00smvld (Listen) SUN We join gardeners in Aberdeenshire. The team includes Anne SUN Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matt Biggs. SUN SUN Anne visits Peony Valley to look at one of the nation's SUN favourite flowers currently in bloom. We also take the SUN chance to revisit Grace Grant, who is taking part in our new SUN series on Listener Gardens. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Doon The Watta b00sn7f7 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons was only just 16 when his parents sent him SUN from his relatively privileged home in London to the SUN industrially hardened city of Glasgow. It was January 1940 SUN and with the country still at war, the Parsons felt the best SUN place for their teenage son was serving his country north of SUN the border. So with the help of an uncle, Nicholas secured SUN an engineering apprenticeship on the busy River Clyde. For 5 SUN years he combined his studies at Glasgow university with SUN work for the Drysdales firm. SUN SUN 60 years on Nicholas Parsons goes back to the place where he SUN was sent as a boy but grew into a man. By day he had a tough SUN education from the uncompromisingly tough men of the Clyde, SUN but by night he had the freedom to discover his talents on SUN stage and perform to packed out theatres and concert halls SUN full of the men with whom he was clocking on and off. SUN SUN In this series Nicholas returns back to Glasgow and retraces SUN the life he once had, starting his journey in the YMCA digs SUN he came to call home. SUN SUN He'll also revisit Glasgow University and the department of SUN Engineering where he studied. It's still at the centre of SUN expertise in teaching and research in shipbuilding today. SUN He'll find out how the profession of shipbuilding has changed. SUN SUN Producer: Lyndon Saunders SUN An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00sn9w4 (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Secret Pilgrim, Episode 1 SUN SUN Simon Russell Beale stars as the intelligence officer George SUN Smiley and Patrick Malahide as Ned in a three-part SUN dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic novel. SUN SUN Part 1: The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but SUN the world's second oldest profession is very much alive. SUN Smiley accepts an invitation to dine at the Sarratt training SUN school with the eager young men and women of the Circus' SUN latest intake; and over coffee and brandy, by flickering SUN firelight, he beguilingly offers them his personal thoughts SUN on espionage past, present and future. In doing so, he SUN prompts Ned, one of his former Circus colleagues and the SUN pilgrim of the book's title, into a searching examination of SUN his own eventful secret life. SUN SUN Bill Haydon ..... Michael Feast SUN Toby Esterhase ..... Sam Dale SUN Stephanie ..... Ruth Gemmell SUN Ben Cavendish .... Dan Stevens SUN Personnel ..... Nigel Hastings SUN Bella ..... Keely Beresford SUN SUN Producer Patrick Rayner SUN SUN This production concludes BBC Radio 4's major undertaking of SUN dramatising all of the eight novels that feature the SUN spymaster George Smiley, played throughout by Simon Russell Beale. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00sn9w6 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Jonathan Coe, the author of the SUN bestselling The Rotters' Club. He discusses his latest book SUN The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, about a lonely man and SUN the refuge he finds in a solitary journey delivering SUN toothbrushes to the Shetland Isles. SUN SUN Writer NJ Cooper discusses the key novels by women from the SUN golden age of crime fiction. SUN SUN Writer and Olympic coach Tom McNab explains why he is SUN publishing a new edition of his best selling novel SUN "Flanagan's Run" himself and editor of the website SUN BookBrunch Liz Thomson analyses the current state of the SUN increasingly popular phenomenon of self-publishing. SUN SUN Producer: Sally Spurring. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00sn9w8 (Listen) SUN In the fifth programme in the current series of Poetry SUN Please, Roger McGough presents a seasonal selection of SUN poetry requests. Today several poems by modern female poets SUN about flowers feature alongside a trio of pastoral poems SUN from Seamus Heaney. A poem for the Solstice by Louis SUN MacNeice gets in just ahead of the season too. Readers: SUN Finbar Lynch and Jasmine Hyde. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00sm7rt (Listen) SUN As MPs and senior officials retire on 'gold-plated' SUN pensions, the media report that public sector pension SUN schemes are heading for crisis because of multi-billion SUN pound funding deficits. Local Councils alone are said to SUN face a black hole of £53bn, which critics claim can only be SUN filled by drastic cuts in entitlements and increased SUN contributions from staff. SUN Both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are committed to SUN reform of the system. Unions are planning a campaign to SUN preserve their members' rights and have already secured a SUN significant court victory blocking cuts to redundancy payments. SUN Gerry Northam looks behind the headlines and asks if there SUN really is a looming pensions crisis. SUN Producer: Samantha Fenwick. SUN SUN Ex-MPs entitled to £10.4m grants SUN SUN The 218 MPs who lost their seats or stepped down at the SUN election, were entitled to grants totalling £10.4m, File on SUN 4 learns. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00sn68s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sn9wb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00sn9wd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sn9wg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00sn9ys (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN It's difficult in a week festooned with the frivolity of SUN football NOT to mention the beautiful game. Hardeep Singh SUN Kohli's Pick of the Week selects some more unusual angles on SUN the game from as far afield as Milan, Robben Island and the SUN Highlands of Ethiopia. There's a beautiful feature about the SUN tragic demise of Schumann, an exploration of the iconic SUN interviewing skills of David Frost and Nicholas Parsons SUN recalling his days in Glasgow. SUN Pick of the Week. It picks the week. SUN SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN The Power and the Passion - World Service SUN Football's Freedom Fighters SUN The Carabinieri Art Squad - Radio 4 SUN Thoroughly Modern Mary - Radio 4 SUN Philip and Sydney - Radio 4 SUN Start the Week - Radio 4 SUN Hello, Good Evening and Welcome - the David Frost Story - SUN Radio 4 SUN High Hopes - Radio 4 SUN The eSportsmen - Radio 4 SUN Doon the Watta - Radio 4 SUN If I Loved You - Radio 4 SUN Robert Schumann and the Music of the Future - Radio 4 SUN Home Thoughts From Abroad - Radio 4 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 b00snb0z (Listen) SUN Kathy comes to Fallon's rescue and Bert finds an SUN appreciative audience. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00snb11 (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 Politics - Chicago Style SUN SUN Chicago Sun-Times columnist Clarence Page explains the rough SUN and tough reputation of Chicago’s politicians and how SUN bullying and insider connections play out in Washington D.C. SUN SUN Hunting Down Criminals ... of Art SUN SUN Former FBI agent Robert Wittman walks Americana through the SUN marble halls of the Penn Museum to understand how thieves SUN operate and how undercover agents can stop them in their SUN tracks. SUN SUN Cooking with Brass Knuckles SUN SUN Matt Frei chews the fat with celebrity chef Anthony SUN Bourdain. The foul-mouthed New Yorker makes wearing an apron SUN nothing to mess with. SUN SUN Revving Engines SUN SUN General Motors is getting tough with its image. First step, SUN Chevrolet will no longer refer to its cars as "Chevys". SUN SUN Americana talks with automotive columnist, and car SUN aficionado, Dan Neil about what it means for Chevrolet to SUN peel away from its nickname. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00c50x4 (Listen) SUN Classical Assassins, Butterworth and Me SUN SUN Five monologues from the bit-players in musical history who SUN have been implicated in the deaths of great composers. SUN SUN A young woman has a difficult letter to write to george SUN Butterworth, fighting in France in 1916. SUN SUN Read by Rebeka Germain SUN Produced by Sara Davies. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00smtq7 (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team explain numbers in the SUN news, look out for misused statistics and use maths to SUN explore the world around us. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00smvlg (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN The forensic scientist Robin Keeley. He worked on the SUN shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy, SUN the killing of Georgi Markov with a poisoned umbrella and SUN had his evidence challenged in the Jill Dando murder case. SUN SUN Also John Hedgecoe, the UK's first professor of photography SUN who took the picture of the Queen which is still used on our SUN stamps. SUN SUN Keith Jessop, the diver who salvaged millions of pounds SUN worth of gold ingots from the wreck of HMS Edinburgh. SUN SUN Kazue Ohno, internationally acclaimed founder of the SUN Japanese Butoh dance movement SUN SUN And Joan Rhodes, known as the Strong Lady of Variety, she SUN bent iron bars, tore phone books in half and played Scrabble SUN with Quentin Crisp. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00sn54z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00sn7dl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00slr1v (Listen) SUN Economistocracy SUN SUN Reducing the budget deficit is seen as the key challenge SUN facing the new government. But alongside the politicians SUN there will be a new body charged with advising on the SUN process. An independent Office for Budget Responsibility is SUN being created, to make its own forecasts of growth and SUN borrowing ready for the emergency budget expected in June. SUN SUN This new institution may sound obscure, but it could have SUN big implications. It aims to bring key information on which SUN government economic policy is based much more into the open, SUN and free it from political spin. The man who will head it, SUN Sir Alan Budd, has said he wants to use his influence to SUN "keep the Chancellor's feet to the fire" in ensuring that SUN the deficit is tackled. The aim is also to make budgets take SUN more account of long term priorities, and future SUN generations, rather than focus only on short term political demands. SUN SUN So will the deficit crisis mean politicians lose some of SUN their historic power over spending and taxing? Is there SUN public demand for watchdogs like this to "keep the SUN politicians honest" - or is it a threat to democracy? And SUN how does the British plan compare with other countries' SUN attempts to police government spending? SUN SUN The programme is presented by Frances Cairncross, and SUN interviewees include Rachel Lomax, former top civil servant SUN and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00snb1x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00snb1z (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00snb21 (Listen) SUN Episode 5 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. Each programme SUN will see a leading political journalist take a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00smvlj (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Sir Alan Parker and Lord David SUN Puttnam about their first film together and about the SUN subsequent partnership that produced Bugsy Malone and SUN Midnight Express SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00sn70d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 JUNE 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00snbsl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00smb67 (Listen) MON Since 2006 over 200 British soldiers have been killed in MON Helmand, Afghanistan. Laurie Taylor discusses a new study MON which explores the way in which these dead solders have been MON commemorated in Britain. We have become familiar with the MON painful sight of mourners lining the main street of Wootton MON Bassett, as hearses carry coffins away from RAF Lyneham. In MON public acts of remembrance today soldiers are remembered as MON fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. This modern MON way of personalising and even domesticating soldiers is in MON stark contrast to the twentieth century rituals which mourn MON the sacrifice of anonymous individual soldiers who have died MON for the nation. What lies behind this change of attitude and MON what impact is the new public consciousness likely to have MON on how and when we wage war? Laurie talks to Anthony King MON from Exeter University, author of 'The Afghan War and MON 'postmodern' memory: commemoration and the Dead of Helmand'. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00sn708 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00snbtt (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00snc0s (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00snbwp (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00snkgq (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00snkh5 (Listen) MON with Pritpal Kaur Riat. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00snl88 (Listen) MON Presenter: Charlotte Smith, Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00snqfl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00snlwc (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00snqfn (Listen) MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to Gary Younge about how MON nationalism and patriotism shape our identity, while MON Jonathan Fenby explores how the war time leader, Charles de MON Gaulle shaped a vision for France which has had lasting MON impact. The curator Jane Alison takes us on a bizarre tour MON of the Surreal House, where architecture delves into the MON dark corners and the world of the fantastical. And the MON science writer Rebecca Skloot reveals the story of Henrietta MON Lacks, a woman who was vitally important for the advancement MON of medicine, but whose family could never afford health MON insurance. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00snm1s (Listen) MON Inside The Palace: Secrets At Court (700 - 950 AD), MON Maya Relief of Royal Blood-Letting MON MON The history of the world as told through objects. This week MON Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, is MON exploring power and intrigue in the great royal courts of MON the world around 800 AD. Today's object offers a story of MON authority, pain and belief from the world of the ancient MON Maya. It is a limestone carving showing a king and his wife MON engaged in an agonising scene of ritual bloodletting. Neil MON describes a great city in the jungle of modern day Mexico MON and the culture that produced it. Virginia Fields, the MON expert on Maya iconography, and the psychotherapist Susie MON Orbach help explain an object that has the power to unsettle MON the modern viewer. MON MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00snm84 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON Antique Paste Jewellery MON MON Jane discusses a new exhibition of paste jewellery dating MON from the golden years of the 18th and 19th centuries, with MON jewellery historian Diana Scarisbrick and antique jewellery MON expert Joanna Hardy. MON MON Sarah Blasko MON MON The award-winning Australian singer-songwriter joins Jane to MON discuss her career and to perform live in the studio. MON MON Sarah Blasko’s new single ‘I Never Knew’ is out on 2nd MON August, her new album “As Day Follows Night†is available in MON the UK now MON MON Women converting to Islam MON MON Evidence suggests more than half of UK converts to Islam are MON women. Jane looks at the reasons women find Islam appealing, MON and discusses the issues they face if they convert, with MON sociologist Kevin Brice and convert Batool Al-Toma. MON MON Ovarian Cancer MON MON Jane discusses new developments in treating the disease with MON Dr Andrew Ledermann, Consultant in Medical Oncology at MON University College London Hospitals, and Frances Reid from MON the charity Target Ovarian. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00snm86 (Listen) MON The House of Mercy, Episode 1 MON MON London, 1860. A rising MP and a successful female novelist MON fall in love but the secrets they both harbour will lead to MON blackmail and murder. MON MON Dramatised by Chris Dolan from a storyline by Bruce Young. MON MON After her travels in France, Eliza Martins arrives in London MON and is soon feted as a literary sensation when her novel, MON The Passion of Therese Bontine, becomes a best-seller. She MON meets a leading backbench MP, Sir John Garett Stewart, who MON declares his admiration both for the novel and its author. MON MON Eliza .....Melody Grove MON Stewart ..... David Rintoul MON Brookes ..... Sam Dale MON Arnott..... Timothy West MON Wylie.....Alexander Morton MON Milly .....Tracy Wiles MON Mary .....Laura dos Santos MON Murray..... Tony Bell MON Alice ..... Alison Pettitt MON Nance.....Keely Beresford MON MON Other parts are played by the cast. MON MON Producer/director: Bruce Young. MON MON 11:00 UK Cycling's Biggest Challenge Yet b00snqpf (Listen) MON No Briton has ever won the world's greatest cycling race, MON the Tour de France. In this programme journalist and MON broadcaster Jim White looks at the attempt to get a Briton MON across the finish line for the first time in the event's MON 107-year-history. MON MON The man behind Great Britain's extraordinary success in MON track cycling at the last three Olympics, Dave Brailsford, MON is masterminding the team that is considered to have a MON reasonable shot at triumph in this gruelling 2,000 mile MON jaunt around the mountains, valleys and plains of France MON which takes place over three weeks in July. MON MON The multiple Olympic and World gold medallist Bradley MON Wiggins is the key man in the nine man squad that will race MON in the colours of TeamSky. The British based broadcaster has MON put up the money to fund the project as part of its wider MON commitment to get a million Britons to take up cycling. MON MON Jim spoke to Dave Brailsford and other members of the team MON as they prepared for the start of the first classic of the MON season, the Giro D'Italia, which this year peddled off with MON a sprint event through the streets of Amsterdam. MON MON 11:30 Clare in the Community b00snrjy (Listen) MON Series 6, Some Others Do 'Ave 'Em MON MON Sally Phillips plays Social Worker Clare Barker who has MON entered a caring profession so that she can sort out other MON peoples' problems rather than deal with her own. Clare is in MON her early thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, MON all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. MON MON Episode Three: Some Others Do 'Ave 'Em MON MON Clare is back on the social work frontline as a vomiting bug MON hits her colleagues. Ben and Nali take baby Thomas out for MON the day and Helen attends the police liaison meeting. MON MON Clare ..... SALLY PHILLIPS MON Brian/Mr Driscoll ..... ALEX LOWE MON Ray/Rev Dish ..... RICHARD LUMSDEN MON Helen ..... LIZA TARBUCK MON Megan/Nali ..... NINA CONTI MON Libby ..... SARAH KENDALL MON MON Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00snmdq (Listen) MON Could we soon be getting our electricity from wind turbines MON attached to giant kites flown high in the sky? One inventor MON from California certainly thinks so - and the UK, he says, MON could be the ideal spot to try it. MON MON Whitley Bay came up with a novel solution to empty shops - MON fit them out with a pretend frontage and make them look MON occupied. But has the strategy attracted real businesses to MON open up? MON MON And hunting the metal thieves - our reporter joins the MON police on patrol. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00snmg8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00snmjn (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00snrk0 (Listen) MON Series 24, Episode 13 MON MON (13/13) Paul Gambaccini hosts the 2010 Final of the MON wide-ranging music quiz. Today's three competitors have won MON both heats and semi-finals for the chance to be named the MON 24th annual Counterpoint champion. As always, the questions MON come from every period and genre of music, from the classics MON to the musical stage, folk, jazz and the pop charts. MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00snb0z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00ft5kh (Listen) MON Pilgrim, No Foes Shall Stay His Might MON MON by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. MON MON Pilgrim ..... Paul Hilton MON Haddonfield ..... Adrian Lukis MON Freya ..... Alex Tregear MON Doris ..... Susan Engel MON Mirabella ..... Janice Acquah MON Macadam ..... Dudley Sutton MON Trent ..... Gunnar Cauthery MON Wilson ..... Donnla Hughes MON Guide / Guard ..... Inam Mirza MON Girl ..... Agnes Bateman MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby MON MON Haddonfield is a powerful City banker. More powerful than he MON has any right to be. But perhaps that's because he's also a MON collector of the occult and has some very potent items in MON his collection. He's recently captured that rarest of things MON - a young girl who is also a werewolf. Now, he's after MON Pilgrim himself. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00sn68x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00sr3fm (Listen) MON Newton and Liebniz MON MON This ten part history of mathematics reveals the MON personalities behind the calculations: the passions and MON rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas MON heard. Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of MON abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that MON mathematics is the drivig force behind modern science. MON MON Today, the story of two late 17th century mathematicians who MON worked on the same problem at the same time - the calculus - MON in which the great hero of British science, Newton, reveals MON himself to be a little less gentlemanly than his German MON rival, Leibniz. The calculus is one of the greatest MON achievements of mankind: an astronaut and an investment MON analyst pay homage to its enormous power. MON MON Producer: Anna Buckley. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00sn7f1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00snrk2 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince return for a new MON series of Radio 4's witty, irreverent and unashamedly MON rational look at the world according to science. In a MON special programme recorded as part of this year's Cheltenham MON Science Festival, Brian and Robin are joined by special MON guests Ben Miller and Robert Winston to explore the choppy MON waters of science and fame. Are we are entering a golden age MON of science popularity? Is there a genuine interest in the MON wonder of science and is science the real star or is it MON simply being dumbed down as a result of our celebrity MON obsessed culture? They'll be asking whether science needs to MON be popular and whether this new wave of enthusiasm has any MON real impact on science policy, or the quality of science MON being done in this country. Has science finally found the S MON Factor? MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b00snpz7 (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 b00snq0p (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b00snrk4 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 6 MON MON John Lloyd and Jon Richardson host. With author and MON neuroscientist David Eagleman, author and screenwriter Neil MON Gaiman and comedian Sarah Millican. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00snmm6 (Listen) MON Joe and Eddie are in the dog house, and Brenda's not the MON only one making an early start. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00snq2c (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on a major exhibition by MON Mexico-based artist Francis Alys, whose previous art-works MON include the act of dragging a vast block of ice through the MON streets, and moving a sand dune with shovels. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00snm1s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 SlapDash Britain b00snrk6 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Britain was once regarded as the best-run in the world, but MON not any more. Contemporary historian Dominic Sandbrook asks MON if we are now becoming a country that can no longer deliver; MON are we turning into SlapDash Britain? MON MON He examines what has changed with senior civil servants and MON political advisers from the heart of government, such as MON Robin Butler, former head of the Civil Service, economic MON adviser Sir Christopher Foster, Tony Blair's former Chief of MON Staff Jonathan Powell, creator of Yes Minister Anthony Jay, MON former ambassador Ivor Roberts, public servants Sir David MON Omand and Anthony Mayer and professor Anthony King. They MON give their candid assessments of what has changed. MON MON Was there ever a golden age of "Rolls Royce government"? MON What are the long-term consequences of Mrs Thatcher's style MON of running things? And, in striving too hard to deliver, did MON Blair's "sofa government "actually make things worse? MON MON Despite endless government initiatives, are we any better MON governed today? MON MON With pertinent archive and candid interviews Dominic MON Sandbrook asks the key players and their critics what is going on. MON MON Producer: Glynn Jones MON A Jolt production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00sny2h (Listen) MON Britishness MON MON Gordon Brown's government attempted to create a shared MON British identity based on values. The project was dismissed MON as too top down by the Conservatives. But now they too are MON advocating state-directed measures to inspire patriotism: MON Education Secretary Michael Gove has called on schools to MON teach traditional British history as a means of reinforcing MON a sense of British identity, with British Empire expert MON Niall Ferguson to guide them. Historian John Bew asks MON whether such a strategy can really be a force for social cohesion. MON MON Dr John Bew is lecturer in War Studies and deputy director MON of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation MON and Political Violence at King's College London. MON MON Producer: Helen Grady MON Editor: Innes Bowen. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00smrgj (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. MON MON This week, as polar scientists meet in Oslo to present their MON findings from International Polar Year, we hear from two of MON them about the potentially fragile ecosystems on land and in MON the sea. Geraint Tarling from the British Antarctic Survey MON describes the differences between the marine food chains in MON Arctic and Antarctic waters and the importance of krill, MON perhaps even to offset climate change. And his colleague MON Pete Convey outlines the threat posed by introduced alien MON species on the fragile land communities of Antarctica and MON its islands. MON MON Britain's horse chetnuts are under threat! The iconic conker MON trees are suffering from what's called 'bleeding canker' as MON their leaves turn prematurely brown and die, under attack MON from the Horse Chestnut leaf miner catterpillar. Darren MON Evans of Hull University is looking for volunteers to MON monitor the spread of the disease. MON MON As the World Cup gets underway in South Africa, England fans MON are only too well aware that their team has a MON less-than-perfect record for penalty shoot-outs. So what MON advice can Exeter University psychologist Greg Wood give them? MON MON There's a new term for an old science: molecular gastronomy MON - cooking to most of us! Prior to their double act at the MON Cheltenhan Science Festival, Quentin hears from chemist and MON food science writer Harold McGee and culinary wizard Heston MON Blumenthal about the science behind their success. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00snqfn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00snq3n (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00snq8r (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00snqb5 (Listen) MON In Office Hours, Episode 1 MON MON "In Office Hours" is the new novel by Lucy Kellaway about MON men and women at work, and illicit love. In today's MON opening episode, changes are underway at the oil giant, AE, MON and new challenges beckon high flying Stella Bradberry, and MON the PA Bella Chambers. MON MON The latest novel from the columnist, Lucy Kellaway, is a MON witty and sharply observed exploration of today's MON contemporary corporate world, and what happens when passions MON run high. The economist Stella Bradberry is at the top of MON her game, juggling a high powered career with motherhood. MON Bella Chambers is a bright and pretty single mother who was MON forced to drop out of college, and is working as a PA to MON make ends meet. Both women work for Atlantic Energy, a MON global oil company based in London, where risk taking is a MON way of life. When the Head of Press resigns unexpectedly, MON new opportunities and challenges open up for Stella and MON Bella, which ultimately lead them both to embark on MON obsessive and destructive affairs. MON MON Readers: Hadyn Gwynne has recently returned from Broadway MON where she was appearing in the award winning hit musical MON "Billy Elliot" after it transferred from London's West End. MON Award winning actress Lyndsey Marshal has most recently MON appeared on stage in "Three Days of Rain" and on television MON in "Being Human" and "Garrow's Law". MON MON Writer: Lucy Kellaway is the "Financial Times" management MON columnist. She lives in London and is married with four MON children. MON Abridged by Sally Marmion MON Producer Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00smq83 (Listen) MON Entitlement MON MON When did what we desire become what we feel we deserve ? In MON an age when foreign holidays have become routine and over MON 25,000 public sector workers earn £100,000 a year and more, MON we tackle this mood of relentless entitlement with Heather MON Brooke, whose tireless use of the Freedom of Information act MON helped to break the MPs expenses scandal; stand up Simon MON Evans, whose routine includes a description of his accent as MON exotic 'and that's because it is educated'; and Naomi MON Alderman whose first novel Disobedience won the Orange Award MON for Young Writers and who feels our sense of entitlement MON should be replaced by a purer feeling of gratitude. The MON presenter is Dominic Arkwright and the producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00snqbh (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 JUNE 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00snbp1 (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 b00snm1s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00snbsn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00snbwr (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00snbtw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00snkdx (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00snkgs (Listen) TUE with Pritpal Kaur Riat. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00snl5w (Listen) TUE Presenter: Anna Hill, Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00snldl (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b00sp194 (Listen) TUE Martin Rees: Scientific Horizons: 2010, What We'll Never Know TUE TUE 3. What We'll Never Know TUE TUE In the third of this year's Reith Lectures, recorded at the TUE Royal Society during its 350th anniversary year, its TUE President Martin Rees continues to explore the challenges TUE facing science in the 21st century. He stresses there are TUE things that will always lie beyond our sphere of TUE comprehension and we should accept these limits to our TUE knowledge. On the other hand, there are things we've never TUE even dreamt of that will one day be ours to explore and TUE understand. The outcome of the quest for alien life will TUE revolutionise our sense of self in the next two decades. But TUE some things -- like travelling back in time -- will never TUE happen. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00snlwf (Listen) TUE Inside The Palace: Secrets At Court (700 - 950 AD), TUE Harem wall painting fragments TUE TUE Neil MacGregor's world history as told through objects at TUE the British Museum. This week, he is exploring life and TUE intrigue in the great courts of the world at the same time TUE as the European medieval period. Today he is with the women TUE of Samarra in Iraq. This ancient city, north of Baghdad, was TUE once home to the Abbasid court and was one of the great TUE Muslim capitals of the world. Portraits from a mural in the TUE palace harem offer a vivid insight into the lives of the TUE rulers and the slave women whose job was to entertain them. TUE What was life really like in this great court? TUE TUE The historian Robert Irwin, an expert on the tales of the TUE Arabian Nights, looks at how the reality of life in the TUE harem matches the sensual fantasy that has become associated TUE with the period. And Amira Bennison, of Cambridge TUE University, explains what conditions were like for the women TUE of the harem and the qualifications they needed just to get TUE there. TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00snm79 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00spj6g (Listen) TUE The House of Mercy, Episode 2 TUE TUE Victorian murder mystery dramatised by Chris Dolan from a TUE storyline by Bruce Young. TUE TUE The novelist Eliza Martins visits the House of Commons to TUE watch her most notable admirer, Sir John Garett Stewart, TUE take part in a debate about electoral reform. When a TUE Metropolitan Police detective is assigned to keep a wary eye TUE on potentially wayward MPs the Government's Chief Whip TUE learns that Stewart is active in charity work, helping to TUE rescue prostitutes from the streets. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00sp196 (Listen) TUE Episode 11 TUE TUE 11/40. This episode of Saving Species is being recorded at TUE the Bristol Festival of Nature. This festival has been TUE running for a number of years and is organised by the TUE Bristol Natural History Consortium (BNHC). The BNHC is made TUE up of a number of different organisations including the BBC TUE Natural History Unit, two world class universities, TUE Wildscreen (the wildlife film festival), Bristol Zoo, The TUE Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, DEFRA, Natural England, the City TUE Council, Avon Wildlife Trust & Forum for the Future. TUE TUE This is a special edition of Saving Species where we will TUE promote the BBC Wildlife Fund, the BBC's third charity, TUE which raises money to conserve wildlife around the world. TUE TUE "Biodiversity - the Problem with the Word". We question the TUE language used in wildlife conservation and with an invited TUE group of experts will discuss whether the words used in TUE wildlife conservation provide understanding and engage the TUE audience. Do we like words like "sustainability", TUE "ecological services", "climate change", and "favourable TUE status" - And "biodiversity"? What does biodiversity mean? TUE TUE Language, both visual and spoken will be essential this TUE Sunday Night on BBC1 when the BBC presents a fund raising TUE programme WILD NIGHT IN to raise money for wildlife TUE conservation through the BBC Wildlife Fund. TUE TUE On the panel and performing infront of a live audience are: TUE Professor Jonathan Silvertown from the Open University, TUE Matthew Oates, Conservationist from the National Trust, TUE Kelvin Boot, naturalist & writer, Paul Evans, Wildlife TUE Writer & Broadcaster and Martin Kiszko, Composer & Poet. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Marx Brothers in Britain b00sp198 (Listen) TUE Author and historian Glenn Mitchell profiles the fascinating TUE visits to Britain of legendary comedy team The Marx TUE Brothers. TUE TUE The Marx Brothers; Groucho, Harpo, Chico and (for a while) TUE Zeppo, inspired a generation of comedians, not least in TUE Britain via The Goon Show and, by extension, Monty Python's TUE Flying Circus. Although Britons knew the Marxes essentially TUE from their American films, they worked in the UK on several TUE remarkable occasions, the first of which pre-dates their TUE movie career. TUE TUE Featuring actor Michael Roberts, famous for playing Groucho TUE on the UK radio series Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel and TUE using archive and new contributions from people that met and TUE worked with them this programme recreates and explores the TUE eventful visits of the brothers. TUE TUE Beginning with their first in 1922, with an ensemble that TUE included future 'boop-oop-a-doop' girl Helen Kane, the TUE opening night at the London Coliseum saw them the target of TUE flying pennies. With the act not working they reverted to an TUE earlier sketch, moving to the Alhambra for the third week TUE prior to appearances in Bristol and Manchester where TUE elsewhere on the bill was a young Sandy Powell. TUE TUE By the time of their next visit, in 1931, the Marxes had TUE gone from vaudeville to being the biggest attraction in TUE Broadway musical-comedy. Two of their shows had been filmed TUE - The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers - and had done TUE sufficient business in the UK for impresario C.B. Cochran to TUE invite them to star at the Palace, London. TUE TUE Audiences were thrilled and the Marxes enjoyed their second TUE stay in London, even when Harpo and Chico, drawn into a TUE protracted card game in an unheated flat, found themselves TUE burning the furniture to keep warm! The journey back saw TUE Groucho and family strip-searched at US Customs when Groucho TUE put down his occupation as 'smuggler'. TUE TUE In 1947, Chico accepted a solo engagement at the London TUE Casino. He returned to Britain in January 1949 for an TUE extensive variety tour, joined briefly by Harpo for a TUE four-week engagement at the London Palladium in June. In a TUE dockside interview - to be heard in the programme - Chico is TUE asked about the Italian accent he used when in character and TUE claims that, after seeing what they'd done to Mussolini, TUE he'd become Greek! TUE TUE Chico's final UK visit was in 1959 for two BBC appearances, TUE one of which, Showtime hosted by David Nixon. TUE TUE There will also be interview material from Groucho's various TUE trips to Great Britain between 1954 and 1971. Some of his TUE activities were professional - such as a British TV version TUE of his quiz show You Bet Your Life - while others were TUE purely social, notably his celebrated meeting with T.S. Eliot. TUE TUE Contributors include actor Ron Moody, Theatre historian TUE Chris Woodward and Marxist fan Peter Dixon. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00snmbx (Listen) TUE With a new trial of genetically-modified potatoes underway TUE in a field in Norfolk, 'Call You & Yours' asks: what's wrong TUE with GM crops? The new government is making positive noises TUE about them but opposition here means they have never been TUE commercially cultivated in the UK. Yet in America GM crops TUE are widespread and most meals consumed in the States contain TUE some genetically modified content. Those in favour of the TUE technology say it's needed now more than ever before - with TUE a world food crisis, they argue, GM crops could boost TUE production. But those opposed fear an environmental TUE catastrophe. So what do you think? Would consuming GM food TUE worry you? Is it something you even think about? Call You & TUE Yours to have your say. Winifred Robinson is in the chair TUE today. You can email us anytime: youandyours@bbc.co.uk. Or TUE call 03700 100 444 (lines open at 10am on Tuesday 15th June) TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00snmds (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00snmgb (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:30 Tag Me Amadeus b00sp19b (Listen) TUE Sue Perkins discovers her own musical doppelganger, as she TUE explores the mysterious art of 'sonic branding': the TUE micro-jingles that distil the essence of an entire TUE character, emotion or product...in mere musical seconds. TUE TUE Your soul in five notes! That's the quest of composers of TUE musical 'tags', or 'sonic logos' - ultra-condensed stings of TUE music that fill our aural world, subtly manipulating our TUE deepest emotions. TUE TUE The best are works of terse, arresting genius. Think of the TUE shark in "Jaws" - disturbing, threatening menace from the TUE depths: double basses, two notes, job done. Meanwhile, TUE corporations pay millions to hear their entire essence TUE defined in mere moments: Intel Inside, T-Mobile, Nokia: the TUE best sonic branding agencies masters of this lucrative dark TUE art. TUE TUE But how do you deliver values like "reliable" or TUE "environmentally-conscious" (or "lip-smackingly delicious") TUE in a handful of musical notes? Is it all rooted deep in the TUE human psyche? Or just a case of Emperor's New Clothes? TUE TUE Enter Sue Perkins. In her quest to unpick this enigmatic TUE industry, she's been booked into a creative session with one TUE of the world's leading sound branding agencies. Their aim? TUE To reflect all the qualities of her inner Sue-ness in a tiny TUE sting of music: her own personal sonic brand. TUE TUE But how do they do it? As the deepest details of Sue's TUE character are translated into sound for us, she discovers TUE how tiny pieces of music pervade our everyday world: from TUE film composers composing motifs to give us subtle clues TUE about the plot, to tiny stings in children's television that TUE soothe and calm viewers...ready for bed. TUE TUE The programme also features contributions from Professor TUE John Deathridge, one of the world's leading musicologists - TUE who explains to Sue how the father of the sonic brand was TUE none other than the king of Romantic opera, Herr Richard TUE Wagner. TUE TUE Can you really only sell toilet paper in C Major? Do brass TUE instruments always mean bad guys with guns? And will Sue's TUE personal musical ident truly reflect her inner being? As the TUE brand new Perkins Tag is revealed, we discover just how TUE spookily music translates into character... TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00snmm6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sp5ch (Listen) TUE Nuclear Reactions TUE TUE At the end of the war, Germany's most talented nuclear TUE physicists were brought to England to discover exactly what TUE they knew about the atomic bomb. TUE TUE Major Rittner - Nick Dunning TUE Anton - Michael Shelford TUE Fee - Alison Pettitt TUE Werner Heisenberg - Chris McHallem TUE Otto Hahn- Nickolas Grace TUE Max Von Laue - Richard Howard TUE Kurt Diebner - Sam Dale TUE Friedrich Von Weizsacker - Michael Shelford TUE Professor Blackett/Reader - Ian McElhinney TUE Pianist - Mark McGrath TUE TUE Producer / Director - Eoin O'Callaghan TUE TUE Nuclear Reactions stars Nick Dunning and Nickolas Grace. At TUE the end of WWII, Germany's most talented and formidable TUE nuclear physicists were rounded up and brought to England. TUE The British were keen to discover exactly what they knew TUE about the atomic bomb, but they also wanted to ensure that TUE the powerhouse of German thought remained intact, and TUE capable of regenerating a defeated nation. TUE TUE The author Adam Ganz's father, was one of an earlier wave of TUE Jewish scientists who were tasked with overseeing the TUE interrogation and rehabilitation of Hitler's ,"Uranium Club". TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00sp19d (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 Help us by taking part in a new project to record old TUE advertising signs painted on the sides of buildings. TUE TUE You can send us questions or an outline of your own TUE research. TUE Email: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE Write to Making History. BBC Radio 4. PO Box 3096. Brighton TUE BN1 1PL TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00sp1b7 (Listen) TUE Midsummer Tales, Count from the Splash TUE TUE A series of new short stories - set variously in Finland, TUE Shetland and Orkney - exploring the magical light, and white TUE nights, of far northern summers. TUE TUE "Count From The Splash" by Helen Dunmore. TUE Read by Tracy Wiles. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Midsummer in Finland: a time of feasting and celebration. TUE Maija's husband has been invited to a big party in the TUE countryside by his boss Frederik - who is high up in the TUE television industry. Tiring of the media chatter, Maija goes TUE looking for Anna, Frederik's wife and, along the way, bumps TUE into a friend from her childhood. She hasn't seen Birgit TUE since they were nine and she is almost unrecognisable: badly TUE scarred by years of drink and drug addiction. Walking TUE together around the lake, away from the party-goers, the TUE pair experience long-lost feelings of the excitement and TUE energy of their childhood selves. TUE TUE Helen Dunmore is an acclaimed novelist, poet and children's TUE author. After graduating from the University of York, she TUE taught English as a foreign language in Finland. Her novels TUE include: A Spell of Winter and The Seige. In March this TUE year, her poem "The Malarkey" won the National Poetry TUE Competition. Her new novel The Betrayal is set in 1950s Leningrad. TUE TUE 15:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0lk (Listen) TUE Leonard Euler TUE TUE This ten part history of mathematics reveals the TUE personalities behind the calculations: the passions and TUE rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas TUE heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of TUE abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that TUE mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. TUE TUE Today, how the mathematics that Leonard Euler invented two TUE hundred years ago has transformed the internet. Euler's TUE solution to an eighteeneth century connundrum paved the way TUE for the search engines most of us use every day . TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 16:00 A Good Read b00sp1rq (Listen) TUE Norman Lebrecht and Antonia Quirke TUE TUE Music commentator Norman Lebrecht and writer Antonia Quirke TUE talk to Sue MacGregor about their favourite books. TUE TUE 16:30 Law in Action b00sp1rn (Listen) TUE Joshua Rozenberg presents the legal affairs magazine. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00snpxf (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 b00snpzb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? b00sp1rs (Listen) TUE Episode 4 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 takes us through this last decade, TUE which he has spent settling down with a middle class woman TUE "she's been ski-ing and everything" and building a career as TUE a stand up comedian. In the documentary segments, Micky TUE chats to his parents about turning to stand up and discusses TUE comedy and class with the brilliant comic mind that is Sean TUE Lock. TUE TUE The series is written and performed by Micky Flanagan. TUE TUE The Producer is Tilusha Ghelani. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00snml1 (Listen) TUE Vicky has a bone to pick with Tom, and Jill makes culinary TUE plans. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00snq0r (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00snlwf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00sp1rv (Listen) TUE New research plays down claims of an epidemic of mental TUE illness among soldiers who've served in Afghanistan. But do TUE the official figures tell the full story? Julian O'Halloran TUE investigates and speaks to veterans who warn of a huge TUE hidden problem and a culture that still pressurises soldiers TUE to get on with the job rather than seek help. TUE And he reports from The Netherlands on efforts there to TUE discover the extent of the psychological damage their TUE military personnel may be suffering. TUE Producer Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00sp1rx (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00sp1rz (Listen) TUE For every person with a serious mental illness, there are TUE countless relatives and carers who watch, helpless, on the TUE sidelines, witnessing the devastating transformation of TUE their loved ones. TUE Tim Salmon's son developed schizophrenia after college and TUE the past twenty years have been a desperate struggle to TUE secure him the care and support he needs. TUE Tim tells Claudia Hammond about the daily reality of living TUE with this little understood illness and criticises the TUE woeful inadequacies of provision in our society for those TUE with mental illness. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 In Living Memory b00ls6xg (Listen) TUE Series 10, Oil in Dorset TUE TUE Contemporary history series. TUE TUE Chris Ledgard tells the story of the battle to extract TUE Dorset's oil, after geologists discovered the biggest TUE offshore oilfield in western Europe there in the late 1970s. TUE TUE The oilmen were faced with the dilemma of how to open up a TUE major oilfield around the Isle of Purbeck and Poole Harbour, TUE one of the most important and protected stretches of TUE landscape in the British Isles. But BP was determined to do TUE so and, after a long battle to persuade people that it could TUE drill for oil without destroying the environment, its plans TUE were passed. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00snq2f (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00snq3q (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00snq8t (Listen) TUE In Office Hours, Episode 2 TUE TUE Readers: Haydn Gwynne has recently returned from Broadway TUE where she was appearing in the award winning hit musical TUE "Billy Elliot" after it transferred from London's West End. TUE Award winning actress Lyndsey Marshal has most recently TUE appeared on stage in "Three Days of Rain" and on television TUE in "Being Human" and "Garrow's Law". TUE TUE Writer: Lucy Kellaway is the "Financial Times" management TUE columnist. She lives in London and is married with four TUE children. TUE Abridger Sally Marmion TUE Producer Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 23:00 Open Mic Night: No Electrickery Required b00sp1s1 (Listen) TUE In 1994, musician and songwriter Matt Sage moved onto a boat TUE on the Oxford canal. Finding no welcoming place to perform TUE his songs, he decided to start a performance space of his TUE own, The Catweazle Club. Sixteen years later it's still TUE going strong, with a younger off-shoot in London. TUE TUE This feature explores The Catweazle Club, the open mic TUE without the mic, and in antithesis to the x-factor culture, TUE open to all without judgement. The first-timer performing TUE their never previously heard poem, the regularly appearing TUE seasoned musician and the transient bedroom minstrel are TUE amongst those who come together to form this thriving community. TUE TUE We hear from some of the people who pass through its doors: TUE including 21 year old singer-songwriter Raevennan Husbandes, TUE who's about to graduate and launch herself into the world as TUE a professional musician; folk band Telling The Bees whose TUE members met at the Catweazle Club and forged connections TUE both musically and romantically, and poet Sam Willetts who TUE started performing his poems at the club 10 years ago and TUE has gone on to survive heroin-addiction and have his first TUE collection of poems published to great critical acclaim. TUE TUE These stories are interwoven with performances recorded over TUE several nights at the club, composed into a virtual night. TUE TUE Producer: Nina Perry TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00snqb7 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00snbp3 (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 b00snlwf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00snbsq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00snbwt (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00snbty (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00snkdz (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00snkgv (Listen) WED with Gopinder Kaur. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00snl5y (Listen) WED Presenter: Anna Hill, Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b00snldn (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00sp3hk (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00snm1v (Listen) WED Inside The Palace: Secrets At Court (700 - 950 AD), WED Lothair Crystal WED WED This week, Neil MacGregor is exploring life in the great WED royal courts around the world during Europe's medieval WED period. It's easy to forget that the civilisations of Tang WED China, the Islamic Empire and the Maya in Mesoamerica were WED all at their peak during this time. He is describing the WED life of these courts through individual objects in the WED British Museum's collection. In the last programme he was WED with the Abbasid court North of Baghdad and an exotic wall WED painting; today's object is an engraved rock crystal WED connecting a biblical tale to a real life story of royal WED intrigue at the heart of Europe. WED WED The Lothair Crystal was made in the mid-ninth century and WED offers scenes in miniature from the biblical story of WED Susanna, the wife of a rich merchant who is falsely accused WED of adultery. The crystal was intended to exemplify the WED proper functioning of justice but, intriguingly, the king WED for whom the piece was made was himself trying to have his WED marriage annulled so he could marry his mistress! The WED historian Rosamond McKitterick explains what we know of the WED court of King Lothair and former senior law lord, Lord WED Bingham, describes the role of justice as portrayed in this WED exquisite work of art. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00snm7c (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00spjm6 (Listen) WED The House of Mercy, Episode 3 WED WED Victorian murder mystery dramatised by Chris Dolan from a WED storyline by Bruce Young. WED WED Eliza has become engaged, and her sister, Milly, travels WED down from Scotland to join her in London - but their mood of WED celebration will soon be shattered by unwelcome news. WED WED 11:00 Dancing with the Devil b00sp452 (Listen) WED Rachel Johnson talks to women, now in their 90s, who as part WED of their cultural education, visited Germany in the 1930s. A WED few went to Hitler rallies, remembering the sound of WED metalled boots on specially metalled roads. One was a member WED of the Hitler youth, and recalls how all the boys she was at WED school with perished in the war. One was questioned by the WED Gestapo for boasting about British military supremacy in the WED street. Another visited a dark and dingy beer cellar, to WED have drinks with Unity Mitford, Rudolf Hess and Adolf WED Hitler. Their experiences in Germany in the years building WED up to the war give a unique insight into the rise of Nazism WED from the point of view of artistocratic teenage girls. WED WED 11:30 North By Northamptonshire b00sp454 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie WED Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon. WED This is a clever, funny and touching series about a small WED town in the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a WED talent night. It is written by and also stars Katherine WED Jakeways. WED WED Each week we catch up with Rod the local supermarket manager WED (Mackenzie Crook) who shares rather more than is usual about WED his private life over the store's tannoy system. WED WED We get to know recently divorced Jan (Felicity Montagu) WED who's been trying unsuccessfully to 'find herself' with a WED trip abroad to an elephant sanctuary. But it is at home in WED Wadenbrook that she starts to feel happier with herself as WED her friendship blossoms with ex-teacher Mary (Penelope WED Wilton). And, joy of joys, could it be that Jan is going to WED experience a touch of romance at last? WED WED We are introduced to driving instructor and forthright WED self-defence teacher Esther (Katherine Jakeways) and her WED gentle and put-upon Jonathan (Kevin Eldon) as they struggle WED to start a family and we meet possibly the only happy couple WED in town, Ken and Keith, as they attempt to teach their pet WED whippets to dance for the town talent night. WED WED Narrator..... Sheila Hancock WED Rod..... Mackenzie Crook WED Mary..... Penelope Wilton WED Jan..... Felicity Montagu WED Jonathan..... Kevin Eldon WED Esther.....Katherine Jakeways WED Keith..... John Biggins WED Landlord..... Rufus Wright WED Gregory..... Sam Cotton WED WED Written by Katherine Jakeways WED Produced by Claire Jones WED WED In this week's episode Mary starts rehearsals for the town WED talent night and is shocked by 12 year old Gregory's slide WED show of Victorian ladies. Meanwhile Esther sends her husband WED Jonathan out to collect money for the Leicestershire WED Infertile Males Project but he ends up at The Bricklayer's WED Arms looking at pictures of elephants with Jan. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00snmbz (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00snmdv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00snmgd (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00sp5cf (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00snml1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jn0q6 (Listen) WED Listening to the Generals WED WED In 1943, the secret recording of captive German officers, WED provided invaluable information to the allied war effort, WED but placed an intolerable burden on the mostly Jewish WED 'listeners' who transcribed details they often couldn't bear WED to hear. WED WED Between 1942 and 1945 captured high-ranking German officers WED were imprisoned in Trent Park, a large mansion with WED extensive grounds in North London. This was no Colditz. The WED captives were treated well, given access to films and WED newspapers, and taken for walks in the capacious grounds. WED Churchill was horrified to discover that they were even WED being taken on daytrips to Windsor and Eton. But the aim was WED to get them to relax - and talk. The newspapers and films WED were carefully chosen to provoke conversation and they made WED use of stoolpigeons to get the officers talking. And then WED through bugs placed in every room and even in the garden, WED the British Intelligence Service listened as they talked WED amongst themselves. Everything was recorded and transcribed WED - for use as evidence at what was to become the trials at WED Nuremburg. WED WED One of the Jewish 'listeners' tasked with the, at times, WED infuriating job of recording and transcribing, was Peter WED Ganz - the author's father. WED WED During World War Two, German generals were imprisoned in WED Trent Park in North London. Unbeknownst to them their WED conversations were being recorded and transcribed by German WED Jews, forced to flee the Nazis. WED HELEN: REBECCA SAIRE WED PURFLEET: MALCOLM TIERNEY WED ANTON: MATT ADDIS WED CHARLES: BENJAMIN ASKEW WED VON THOMAS: NICK DUNNING WED CRUWELL (CREWVELL): SAM DALE WED BOES (BURRS): PAUL RIDER WED MAYER (MAIER): JONATHAN TAFLER WED HARDT: PHILIP FOX WED THE SINGER: DAVID REVELS WED WED LISTENING TO THE GENERALS was directed in Belfast by Eoin WED O'Callaghan. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00sp5ck (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal WED finance questions. WED WED Subject: Employment rights WED Guests: WED Sarah Veale, Head of Equality and Employment Rights, TUC. WED Jane Amphlett, Employment Partner, Finers Stephens Innocent WED Jane Mann, Head of Employment at City Lawyers, Fox Smith WED WED You can call the programme when lines open on Wednesday at WED 1330 BST. The number is 03700 100 444. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00spjs7 (Listen) WED Midsummer Tales, Casting WED WED Second in a series of new short stories which take their WED inspiration from the magical light, and white nights, of far WED northern summers. WED WED "Casting" by Hannah McGill. WED Read by Claire Knight. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED A film crew create ripples when they descend upon a tiny WED island community on Shetland. WED WED Hannah McGill is Artistic Director of the Edinburgh WED International Film Festival. A writer and critic, she was WED born in Lerwick, the capital of Shetland and Britain's most WED northerly town. WED WED 15:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0l9 (Listen) WED Joseph Fourier WED WED This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the WED present day, reveals the personalities behind the WED calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians WED struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du WED Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in WED the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving WED force behind modern science. WED WED Today, the mathematics of Joseph Fourier. It's thanks to his WED mathematical insight that you can hear Marcus on the radio WED and that Brian Eno can create sounds that have never been WED heard before. WED WED Producer: Anna Buckley. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00sp5cm (Listen) WED A new concept came along, 'social capital', and it WED revolutionised the way people are governed and communities WED are planned. The only trouble is ...it's completely wrong. WED That is the contention of sociologist Ben Fine. He claims WED that 'social capital' is part of a mindset that sees WED everything as quantifiable assets akin to money or WED commercial resources. Are communities, neighbourhoods and WED the people more complicated than that? Laurie Taylor WED discusses an idea which has had a huge impact on social WED science and beyond, and asks whether it is time to abandon WED the assumption that people have social qualities that can be WED weighed and measured. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00sp1rz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00snpxj (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 b00snpzd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b00sp5cp (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 5 WED WED Victoria Coren presents the programme which attempts 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 Helping Victoria commit heresy are comedians David Mitchell WED and David Schneider and newspaper columnist Matthew Norman, WED who argue against the received wisdom that the TV shouldn't WED be used as a babysitter. They reluctantly concede that WED television viewing among the under-threes should be limited WED - but only to around ten hours a day. How else will the WED little angels learn to cook? WED WED And in a discussion about the hypocrisy of eating farmyard WED animals, but not domestic pets, a range of mouth-watering WED recipes are rolled out for loin of Labrador and fillet of WED feline. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00snml3 (Listen) WED Victory is sweet for Brian, and Caroline has an unexpected WED encounter with an old friend. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00snq0t (Listen) WED Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED Producer Sam White. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00snm1v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00sp5cr (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 Matthew Taylor, Kenan Malik, WED Claire Fox and Melanie Philips. WED WED 20:45 Home Thoughts From Abroad b00sp5ct (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Part two of an "ideas swap" series presented by European WED journalists based in London. Politicians in Britain often WED extol the "Swedish model" but what can the Swedes learn from WED the Brits? Dan Lucas, London correspondent for "Dagens WED Nyheter" newspaper, bemoans the tedium in Swedish politics WED and wishes Westminster's adversarial politics could be WED exported to Stockholm. But he also explains why WED Swedish-style Freedom of Information laws would have WED prevented the politicians' expenses scandal in the UK. WED Producer: Leala Padmanabhan. WED WED 21:00 Colour Coded b00sp5cw (Listen) WED Episode 2 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" in which he proposed four different face and WED body 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). Linnaus' 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" - interests Trevor Phillips. A prominent WED member of the Afro-Caribbean community, he wants to know how WED and why this system took hold. He wants to understand why a WED system based on skin colour should have had such a profound WED impact on relations between races. Above all, he wants to WED know what role these categories might have had in shaping WED modern day 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 largest youngest and fastest growing group. Many of WED our brightest stars are "mixed" race. With more and more WED people living and loving all over the globe, surely this is WED the future. No simple system of racial categorisation could WED 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? Do WED communities die? At what point does racial mixing signal the WED transformation of both 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 b00sp3hk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00snq2h (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00snq3s (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00snq8w (Listen) WED In Office Hours, Episode 3 WED WED In Office Hours is the new novel by Lucy Kellaway about men WED and women at work, and illicit love. Today, Stella and Bella WED are seen in a new light when news of a crisis in Russia WED breaks. WED WED The latest novel from the columnist, Lucy Kellaway, is a WED witty and sharply observed exploration of today's WED contemporary corporate world, and what happens when passions WED run high. The economist Stella Bradberry is at the top of WED her game, juggling a high powered career with motherhood. WED Bella Chambers is a bright and pretty single mother who was WED forced to drop out of college, and is working as a PA to WED make ends meet. Both women work for Atlantic Energy, a WED global oil company based in London, where risk taking is a WED way of life. When the Head of Press resigns unexpectedly, WED new opportunities and challenges open up for Stella and WED Bella, which ultimately lead them both to embark on WED obsessive and destructive affairs. WED WED Readers: Haydn Gwynne has recently returned from Broadway WED where she was appearing in the award winning hit musical WED "Billy Elliot" after it transferred from London's West End. WED Award winning actress Lyndsey Marshal has most recently WED appeared on stage in "Three Days of Rain" and on television WED in "Being Human" and "Garrow's Law". WED WED Writer: Lucy Kellaway is the "Financial Times" management WED columnist. She lives in London is is married with four WED children. WED WED Abridged by Sally Marmion WED Producer Elizabeth Allard. 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 b00nqj84 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 6 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 b00snqb9 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 JUNE 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00snbp5 (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 b00snm1v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00snbss (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00snbww (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00snbv0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. 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THU THU This week, Neil is exploring life in the great royal courts THU across the world during Europe's medieval period. It's easy THU to forget that the civilisations of Tang China, the Islamic THU Empire and the Maya in Mesoamerica were all at their peak THU during this time and today we discover what was happening in THU South Asia during this period. He tells the story through a THU beautiful statue of the female Buddhist deity, Tara, crafted THU for a powerful ruler in Sri Lanka 12,000 years ago. Richard THU Gombrich explains what Tara means to Buddhism and the THU historian Nira Wickramasinghe describes the powerful THU interaction between Hinduism and Buddhism, India and Sri THU Lanka at this time. THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00snm7f (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00spjr2 (Listen) THU The House of Mercy, Episode 4 THU THU Victorian murder mystery dramatised by Chris Dolan from a THU storyline by Bruce Young. THU THU Eliza and Milly are facing blackmail threats - while Sir THU John Garett Stewart encounters a young woman whose desperate THU experiences force him to confront his doubts about his THU party's stance on electoral reform. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00sq1vs (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Put Your Hands Together b00sq1vv (Listen) THU In a self-consciously clap-happy exploration of one of the THU most delightful and satisfying forms of human action and THU expression, Nick Baker investigates the meanings and THU motivations, the sounds and symbolism, the elation and THU frustration of ritually striking one hand with another. THU THU The clapping rhythms of football, flamenco, the nursery and THU the Pentecostal church are all biologically linked yet THU subtly different. In this anatomy of a basic human ritual, THU Nick has collected claps as far apart as Fiji - where a THU clapping ritual accompanies a narcotic-taking ceremony - and THU China, where young women on busy high streets clap to THU attract attention to what's on offer in the stores. THU Choreographer Luke Creswell, an expert clapper, collects THU clap-routines in bars all over the world. THU THU What's linked in all cases, according to Professor Colwyn THU Trevarthen, is humanity's attunement to one of its many THU internal biological clocks - the one that gives us walking, THU chewing and nodding our head. He invites listeners to join THU in with a simple experiment to demonstrate the rhythm of THU life. THU THU Babies clap early & show awareness of hands in the womb. The THU clap is not the basis of language development, it is THU language development. It is display, performance, shared THU meaning & shared time. Gospel singer Ruby Turner provides THU musical commentary on how the hand clap moves from babies, THU through Sunday School, the playground and the church towards THU soul and R and B. THU THU Do our biological predecessors clap? Perhaps we've been THU exposed to too many tea commercials. Or maybe chimpanzees THU have been too exposed to us, primatologist Alison Fletcher THU explains. THU THU Producer: Tamsin Hughes THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00snmc1 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00snmdx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00snmgg (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. 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THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00snml3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00775py (Listen) THU Country Life THU THU Shelagh Delaney's play is set on a smallholding during the THU Foot and Mouth epidemic of 2001. Three people all want to THU change the world but don't know how. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00sn4r0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00sn7dl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00spjwl (Listen) THU Midsummer Tales, The Longest Day THU THU Last in this series of new short stories which explore and THU describe the magical light of far northern summers. THU THU "The Longest Day" by Alison Miller. THU Read by Tracy Wiles. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Leaving her old life in Glasgow behind, Jan has moved back THU home to Orkney. Drawn to the beauty of the landscape, and THU the close-knit island community, she's surprised to find THU herself craving romance. Fighting loneliness, she agrees to THU meet a stranger for a blind date, on her favourite beach, at THU 8pm on the longest day of the year. THU THU Alison Miller was born in Orkney, where in summer it never THU grows completely dark. She draws much of her inspiration to THU write from her island background. She now lives in Glasgow THU and her first novel, Demo, was set there and in two other THU cities, Florence and London. For her second, a work in THU progress, she returns to Orkney, to the sea and the light of THU summer as well as the winter darkness. THU THU 15:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0lc (Listen) THU Evariste Galois THU THU This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the THU present day, reveals the personalities behind the THU calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians THU struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du THU Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in THU the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving THU force behind modern science. THU THU Today how the mathematics of the French revolutionary, THU Evariste Galois, has proved invaluable to particle THU physicists working today.The mathematics that Galois began, THU over two hundred years ago, now absolutely describes the THU fundamental particles that make up our universe. THU THU Producer: Anna Buckley. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00sn9w6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00sq1vz (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 The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b00snpxl (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 b00snpzg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Look Away Now b00sq1w1 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU THU Garry Richardson presents a topical sports comedy show. With THU Laurence Howarth, Richie Webb, Dave Lamb. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00snml5 (Listen) THU It's an emotional evening at The Bull and Susan tackles THU teething troubles at the village shop. 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THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00sp196 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00sq1w3 (Listen) THU The Neanderthals THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests including the geneticist Professor THU Steve Jones discuss the Neanderthals - who they were, how THU they lived, and how we are related to them. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00snq2k (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00snq3v (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00snq8y (Listen) THU In Office Hours, Episode 4 THU THU In Office Hours is the new novel by Lucy Kellaway about men THU and women at work, and illicit love. Today, Stella and Bella THU reach a turning point. THU THU The latest novel from the columnist, Lucy Kellaway, is a THU witty and sharply observed exploration of today's THU contemporary corporate world, and what happens when passions THU run high. The economist Stella Bradberry is at the top of THU her game, juggling a high powered career with motherhood. THU Bella Chambers is a bright and pretty single mother who was THU forced to drop out of college, and is working as a PA to THU make ends meet. Both women work for Atlantic Energy, a THU global oil company based in London, where risk taking is a THU way of life. When the Head of Press resigns unexpectedly, THU new opportunities and challenges open up for Stella and THU Bella, which ultimately lead them both to embark on THU obsessive and destructive affairs. THU THU Readers: Haydn Gwynne has recently returned from Broadway THU where she was appearing in the award winning hit musical THU "Billy Elliot" after it transferred from London's West End. THU Award winning actress Lyndsey Marshal has most recently THU appeared on stage in "Three Days of Rain" and on television THU in "Being Human" and "Garrow's Law". THU THU Writer: Lucy Kellaway is the "Financial Times" management THU columnist. She lives in London and is married with four THU children. THU THU Abridged by Sally Marmion THU Producer Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 23:00 Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up! b00nqc54 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU "She came, she saw, she criticised" THU THU Jo Caulfield is one of Radio 4's treasures, with her THU glorious mixture of bitchy friendliness, waspish likeability THU and foot-in-mouth populism - but always with charm. In this THU series Jo will be, as ever, failing to Shut Up about: love, THU marriage, dating, celebrity, newspapers, money, cats, sex, THU pubs, parties and quite possibly Scotland. THU THU "A wit so sharp it could slice through steel" - The Scotsman THU THU "One of the funniest woman on the airwaves" - The Herald THU THU "Many of the points Jo Caulfield makes about the human THU condition would have sociologists stroking their beards in THU admiration, but her audiences tend to be laughing too much THU to notice. Do not miss her!" - The Times THU THU This time, Jo Caulfield is failing to shut up about THU relationships, love and Tony Benn. THU THU Starring Jo Caulfield, with Zoe Lyons, Nick Revell and Simon THU Greenall. THU THU Written by Jo Caulfield & Kevin Anderson. THU THU Additional material by Michael Beck, James Branch, Dan THU Evans, Jules Gregg, Nick Revell and Matt Ross. THU THU Producer: David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00snqbc (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 JUNE 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00snbp7 (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 b00snm1x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00snbsv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00snbwy (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00snbv2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00snkf3 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00snkgz (Listen) FRI with Pritpal Kaur Riat. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00snl62 (Listen) FRI Presenter: Charlotte Smith, Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00snlds (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00sn7dz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00snm1z (Listen) FRI Inside The Palace: Secrets At Court (700 - 950 AD), FRI Chinese Tang tomb figures FRI FRI This week Neil MacGregor is exploring life in the great FRI royal courts across the world during Europe's medieval FRI period, from the heart of Europe to Mexico and Sri Lanka. FRI Today he is in China of the Tang Dynasty around 700 AD. He FRI tells how the elite of the time chose to leave their mark on FRI the world by writing or commissioning their own obituaries. FRI He is with a curious troupe of ceramic figures that were FRI found in the tomb of a Tang general along with a stone FRI tablet proclaiming his achievements. The China scholar FRI Oliver Moore explains the growing ambitions of the dynasty FRI and journalist Anthony Howard describes the enduring power FRI of the obituary. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00snm7h (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00spjz5 (Listen) FRI The House of Mercy, Episode 5 FRI FRI Victorian murder mystery dramatised by Chris Dolan from a FRI storyline by Bruce Young. FRI FRI When Sir John Garett Stewart decides to speak out in the FRI House of Commons against the latest electoral reform bill he FRI threatens to split the Whig Party and bring down the FRI Government. But when the Government's Chief Whip demands an FRI explanation from Stewart for his behaviour the MP is nowhere FRI to be found. FRI FRI Eliza .....Melody Grove FRI Stewart ..... David Rintoul FRI Brookes ..... Sam Dale FRI Arnott..... Timothy West FRI Wylie.....Alexander Morton FRI Milly .....Tracy Wiles FRI Mary .....Laura dos Santos FRI Murray..... Tony Bell FRI Alice ..... Alison Pettitt FRI Nance.....Keely Beresford FRI FRI Other parts are played by the cast. FRI FRI Producer/director: Bruce Young. FRI FRI 11:00 Freedom from Fear: Aung San Suu Kyi b00sq2n1 (Listen) FRI Aung San Suu Kyi is a political icon, recipient of the Nobel FRI Peace Prize and the charismatic leader of Burma's struggle FRI for human rights - but at immense personal cost. Under house FRI arrest for many years, unable to watch her children grow up FRI and excluded from public life, her plight is ongoing: as the FRI Burmese regime prepares for its first election in years, Suu FRI Kyi will be detained as a political prisoner throughout. FRI FRI On the eve of her 65th birthday, this moving portrait talks FRI to friends and loved ones, colleagues from her days at FRI Oxford and fellow dissidents, as well as world statesmen and FRI women - and presents a more complex picture of the person FRI behind the icon. FRI FRI Producer: Simon Hollis FRI A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and Steve b00sq2n3 (Listen) FRI 27a Berkeley House Place 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 Episode 2 - '27a Berkeley House Place' FRI FRI The hunt for the mysterious Dr. Belasco is starting to FRI gather pace, as Paul picks up a trail that leads him from a FRI highly suspicious café in Soho to a dangerous rendezvous on FRI the Great North Road; and finally finds him crashing a high FRI society cocktail party. FRI FRI Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan FRI Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas FRI Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood FRI Charlie/Worth ..... Greg Powrie FRI Nelson ..... Jimmy Chisholm FRI Insp. Perry ..... Michael Mackenzie FRI Sergeant ..... Richard Greenwood FRI Billie ..... Emma Currie FRI Mrs Forester ..... Candida Benson FRI FRI Produced by Patrick Rayner FRI FRI The overall story: 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... 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 b00snmc3 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00snmf0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00snmgj (Listen) FRI National and international news with Edward Stourton. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00sq2n5 (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 b00snml5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sq2n7 (Listen) FRI Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life FRI FRI Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life is a new play by Shelagh FRI Delaney, the award winning writer of A Taste of Honey. FRI FRI Rose lives alone on a smallholding. When Poppy, her FRI embittered ex sister in law visits for the weekend, the FRI peace is shattered. Things get worse when they learn that FRI Boris, Poppy's 20 year old son, has gone missing. Old wounds FRI and grievances are aired - then Boris turns up out of the FRI blue. His presence brings the women closer again, allowing FRI for new hope for the future. Both Rose and Poppy sense that FRI this could be the turning moment for all of them - until an FRI accident on the beach affects them all. FRI FRI In this witty, poignant play about parenting, rural life, FRI and family ties, Shelagh Delaney demonstrates her skill as a FRI leading modern dramatist of unusual choices by unusual FRI people. FRI FRI Rose...Barbara Marten FRI Poppy...Nicola Gardner FRI Boris...Tachia Newall FRI FRI Pianist..Jonathan Scott FRI FRI Director...Polly Thomas. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00sq2n9 (Listen) FRI Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer FRI the questions posed by visitors of Gardeners' World Live in FRI Birmingham. FRI FRI We visit the event's 'plant creche' and take stock of which FRI plants are proving popular with the public. FRI FRI Producers: Lucy Dichmont & Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0lf (Listen) FRI Carl Friedrich Gauss FRI FRI This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the FRI present day, reveals the personalities behind the FRI calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians FRI struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du FRI Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in FRI the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving FRI force behind modern science. FRI FRI It was the German scientist and mathematician, Carl FRI Friedrich Gauss, who said mathematics was the Queen of FRI Science. One of his many mathematical breakthroughs, the FRI Gaussian or normal distribution, is the lifeblood of FRI statistics. It underpins modern medicine and is a valuable FRI tool in the fight against prejudice. FRI FRI Producer: Anna Buckley. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00sq2nc (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 b00sq2nf (Listen) FRI Alain Resnais, director of Last Year In Marienbad and FRI Hiroshima Mon Amour, talks to Francine Stock. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00snpxn (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 b00snpzj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00sq2nh (Listen) FRI Series 31, Episode 1 FRI FRI The Now Show FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis take a satirical look through FRI this week's news. Helping them along the way are Laura FRI Shavin, Mitch Benn, and special guests. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00snml7 (Listen) FRI WRITTEN BY ..... NAWAL GADALA FRI DIRECTED BY ..... ROSEMARY WATTS FRI EDITOR ..... VANESSA WHITBURN FRI FRI JILL ARCHER ..... PATRICIA GREENE FRI KENTON ARCHER ..... RICHARD ATTLEE FRI ALISTAIR LLOYD ..... MICHAEL LUMSDEN FRI DAVID ARCHER ..... TIMOTHY BENTINCK FRI RUTH ARCHER ..... FELICITY FINCH FRI PIP ARCHER ..... HELEN MONKS FRI TONY ARCHER ..... COLIN SKIPP FRI HELEN ARCHER ..... LOUIZA PATIKAS FRI TOM ARCHER ..... TOM GRAHAM FRI BRIAN ALDRIDGE ..... CHARLES COLLINGWOOD FRI JENNIFER ALDRIDGE ..... ANGELA PIPER 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 JOE GRUNDY ..... EDWARD KELSEY FRI EDDIE GRUNDY ..... TREVOR HARRISON FRI CLARRIE GRUNDY ..... ROSALIND ADAMS FRI NEIL CARTER ..... BRIAN HEWLETT FRI SUSAN CARTER ..... CHARLOTTE MARTIN FRI MIKE TUCKER ..... TERRY MOLLOY FRI VICKY TUCKER ..... RACHEL ATKINS FRI BRENDA TUCKER ..... AMY SHINDLER FRI CAROLINE STERLING ..... SARA COWARD FRI BERT FRY ..... ERIC ALLAN FRI KIRSTY MILLER ..... ANNABELLE DOWLER FRI JIM LLOYD ..... JOHN ROWE FRI JUDE SIMPSON ..... PIERS WEHNER. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00snq0y (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including a review of a new Royal FRI Shakespeare Company staging of the adventures of King FRI Arthur, adapted from Thomas Malory's 15th century text Le FRI Morte d'Arthur. FRI FRI Producer Robyn Read. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00snm1z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00sq2nk (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Alnwick FRI Playhouse in Northumberland with questions from the audience FRI for the panel including: Dr Maggie Atkinson, Children's FRI Commissioner; Chris Mullin, former Labour minister and FRI Edwina Currie, former Conservative minister. FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00sq2nm (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from David Cannadine. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00sq2np (Listen) FRI The House of Mercy, Omnibus FRI FRI Victorian murder mystery set in London in 1860. After her FRI travels in France, Eliza Martins arrives in London and is FRI soon feted as a literary sensation when her novel, The FRI Passion of Therese Bontine, becomes a best-seller. She meets FRI a leading backbench MP, Sir John Garett Stewart, who FRI declares his admiration both for the novel and its author - FRI but a storm is about to break over both their heads. As the FRI parties at Westminster debate the latest electoral reform FRI bill Eliza and Stewart are guilty of secrets that will lead FRI to blackmail and murder. Omnibus edition. Dramatised by FRI Chris Dolan from a storyline by Bruce Young. FRI FRI Eliza .....Melody Grove FRI Stewart ..... David Rintoul FRI Brookes ..... Sam Dale FRI Arnott..... Timothy West FRI Wylie.....Alexander Morton FRI Milly .....Tracy Wiles FRI Mary .....Laura dos Santos FRI Murray..... Tony Bell FRI Alice ..... Alison Pettitt FRI Nance...Keely Beresford FRI FRI Other parts played by the cast. FRI FRI Producer/director: Bruce Young. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00snq2m (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00snq3x (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00snq90 (Listen) FRI In Office Hours, Episode 5 FRI FRI In Office Hours is the new novel by Lucy Kellaway about men FRI and women at work, and illicit love. Today, Bella regrets FRI sending an accusatory email, and Stella crosses the line. FRI FRI The latest novel from the columnist, Lucy Kellaway, is a FRI witty and sharply observed exploration of today's FRI contemporary corporate world, and what happens when passions FRI run high. The economist Stella Bradberry is at the top of FRI her game, juggling a high powered career with motherhood. FRI Bella Chambers is a bright and pretty single mother who was FRI forced to drop out of college, and is working as a PA to FRI make ends meet. Both women work for Atlantic Energy, a FRI global oil company based in London, where risk taking is a FRI way of life. When the Head of Press resigns unexpectedly, FRI new opportunities and challenges open up for Stella and FRI Bella, which ultimately lead them both to embark on FRI obsessive and destructive affairs. FRI FRI Readers: Haydn Gwynne has recently returned from Broadway FRI where she was appearing in the award winning hit musical FRI "Billy Elliot" after it transferred from London's West End. FRI Award winning actress Lyndsey Marshal has most recently FRI appeared on stage in "Three Days of Rain" and on television FRI in "Being Human" and "Garrow's Law". FRI FRI Writer: Lucy Kellaway is the "Financial Times" management FRI columnist. She lives in London is is married with four FRI children. FRI FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion FRI Producer Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00sp1rq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00snqbf (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. FRI
11 June, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 12/06/2010 - 18/06/2010
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