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SAT SATURDAY 26 JUNE 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00ss5hj (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 b00sqw6k (Listen) SAT Pilgrims, Raiders and Traders (900 - 1300 AD), Kilwa pot sherds SAT SAT This week Neil MacGregor has been looking at objects from SAT Japan, Britain, Java and central Europe, exploring the great SAT arcs of trade that connected Africa, Europe and Asia a SAT thousand years ago. Today he sifts through a selection of SAT broken pots, found on a beach in East Africa, to see what SAT they might tell us. Smashed pottery, it seems, can be SAT astonishingly durable and can offer powerful historical SAT insights. These ceramic bits - in a variety of glazes and SAT decorations - were found on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani off SAT Tanzania. Neil uses the fragments to tell the story of a SAT string of thriving communities along the East African coast SAT with links across the Indian Ocean and beyond. The historian SAT Bertram Mapunda and the writer Abdulrazak Gurnah describe SAT the significance of these broken pieces and help piece SAT together the great cross-cultural mix that produced the SAT Swahili culture and language. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ss5hl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ss5hn (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ss5hq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00ss5hs (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ss5hv (Listen) SAT with the Revd Andrew Martlew. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00ss5hx (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 b00ss5hz (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00ssn5x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00ssn5z (Listen) SAT Series 15, South Downs Way: East Meon to Winchester SAT SAT Clare Balding walks the final stretch of the South Downs SAT Way, starting at the Sustainability Centre at East Meon. The SAT group walking with her have all opted for a life that's as SAT green as possible, and includes Mary Lewis who lives with SAT her family in a yurt on the site of the former Naval Signals SAT base where Tim and Maddy Harland run their green publishing SAT company. Joining them is Alan McVittie of the Old Winchester SAT Hill Hampshire Downs Reserve, and for the very end of the SAT trail heading into Winchester, Andy Gatticker of the South SAT Downs National Trail who met Clare back in Eastbourne at the SAT start of the series. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00ssn61 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00ssqrc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00ssqrf (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00ssqrh (Listen) SAT The Rev Richard Coles is joined by language specialist SAT Professor David Crystal. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00ssqrk (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig asks broadcaster Loyd Grossman about his trip SAT to Cambodia where he saw two very different approaches to SAT managing visitors to the ancient temples: at a relatively SAT unknown one, deep in the jungle, the local people are trying SAT to avoid the mass tourism pitfalls of the world famous SAT Angkor Wat. SAT SAT Kurdistan in Northern Iraq may not seem the ideal place for SAT a holiday but the regional government is encouraging SAT tourists to such an extent that a theme park has been built. SAT Sandi talks to journalist Michael Howard about the SAT initiative and what the area has to offer and hears from Dr SAT Janet Hamilton about her trip there to follow the road her SAT engineer father built in the 1920s. SAT SAT 10:30 Electric Ride b00ssrkj (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT Peter Curran continues his bold 4500 mile trans-European SAT journey in an electric car. SAT SAT Accompanied by environmental writer Richard Scrase, Peter SAT has made it to Scandinavia. He visits the carbon neutral SAT Danish island of Samso, calls in on Norwegian manufacturer SAT Th!nk, tries to achieve a world record for the largest SAT convoy of electric vehicles and takes a carbon neutral boat SAT trip around Copenhagen. SAT SAT Meanwhile, the pressures of covering enough miles each day SAT and finding places to plug-in start to take their toll. SAT SAT Producer: Kevin Dawson SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00ssrp9 (Listen) SAT Elinor Goodman looks behind the scenes in Westminster in the SAT week of the Emergency Budget. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00ssrpf (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00ssrph (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT Producer: Monica Soriano. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00ss5c7 (Listen) SAT Series 31, Episode 2 SAT SAT Squad Rotation. John Finnemore co-hosts this week’s show, SAT which inevitably focuses around the emergency budget and the SAT World Cup, but also manages to squeeze in a good deal about SAT bees, a plan to abolish all taxation, a handy guide to SAT recycling and a lullaby for Andy Murray. SAT SAT Starring Steve Punt and John Finnemore, with Laura Shavin SAT and special guests Toby Longworth, Isy Suttie and Andy SAT Zaltzman. SAT SAT Written by the cast and Hugh Dennis, with additional SAT material from Jon Hunter, Carey Marx and James Kettle. SAT SAT Produced by Colin Anderson SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00ssrpk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00ssrpm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00ss5c9 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from the SAT Maldon festival in Essex, with questions from the audience SAT for the panel including: Kenneth Clarke MP, Secretary of SAT State for Justice and Lord Chancellor; Tessa Jowell, Shadow SAT Minister for the Cabinet Office; Kelvin MacKenzie, former SAT editor of The Sun and media entrepreneur and Jason Cowley, SAT editor of The New Statesman. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00ssrpp (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 b00826yn (Listen) SAT The Pianist SAT SAT A chance to hear the radio drama production of this 5* SAT performance from Szpilman's novel, transferred from the 2007 SAT Manchester International Festival. SAT SAT A duet for piano and voice, charting one man's remarkable SAT story of courage and survival in a Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi SAT Occupation. Read by actor Peter Guinness, with the ravishing SAT music of Chopin, from concert pianist Mikhail Rudy SAT SAT Wladyslaw Szpilman...Peter Guinness SAT Pianist...Mikhail Rudy SAT Directed by Justine Potter. SAT SAT 15:30 Lady Plays the Blues b00srmtc (Listen) SAT In this documentary, ex-Catatonia vocalist Cerys Matthews SAT travels to the USA to find out why so few women are known SAT for singing and playing the blues. SAT SAT When it comes to the blues and those who have mastered it, SAT the list usually runs along the lines of: T-Bone Walker, SAT B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton, SAT Muddy Waters... the list goes on. But it's striking that in SAT many a top 10, 20 or even 100 of all time blues greats, no SAT women appear. SAT SAT Cerys tries to find out the story of the women who have SAT mastered the art but have rarely been recognised for their SAT talent. Along the way she reveals the stories of female SAT guitarists of the early blues era such as Rosetta Tharpe, SAT Memphis Minnie, Etta Baker, Algia Mae Hinton, and Precious SAT Bryant. These women all lived extreme lives which led to SAT them playing the blues in a way perhaps no man can dream of. SAT Yet most remain unknown and some have died with no SAT recognition whatsoever. SAT SAT Cerys will also reveal how guitarists from Bob Dylan and SAT Kenny Wayne Shepard to Muddy Waters were themselves taught SAT by some of these ladies who played the blues. SAT SAT Cerys also travels to the Blues Awards in Memphis and speaks SAT to contemporary guitarists Bonnie Raitt and Debbie Davies SAT about the influence of pioneering blues artists Memphis SAT Minnie and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. SAT SAT Producer: Jo Meek SAT An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00ssrrf (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Saving the fruits of summer in a SAT jar of jam. Looking for love? How to write the perfect SAT personal ad, Sonja Sohn from the hit TV series The Wire on SAT its remarkable success, one mother talks about losing her SAT daughter in the July 7 London bombings, music from jazz SAT singer Nnenne Freelon, and how parents come to terms with SAT knowing their child has been sexually abused. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00ssryc (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00ss46l (Listen) SAT Evan Davis is joined in the studio by three top business SAT guests to talk about property management and trends in the SAT leisure industry. SAT SAT Some say that when a company invests in a flashy new SAT headquarters, it's good time to sell your shares in it. The SAT theory goes that splashing out on a new building means a SAT firm is at the peak of its overconfidence and its downfall SAT is imminent. In this edition of the programme, Evan finds SAT out what drives decisions about property management. When is SAT it better to lease, and when is it better to buy - and which SAT tasks do our guests choose to outsource? SAT SAT The panel also discusses leisure. It may seem like we're SAT working harder than ever, but the statistics say we're not - SAT the average UK employee works an hour less a week than they SAT did 10 years ago. So why do so many people think they are SAT strapped for time - and how does this affect what we do when SAT we're not at work? Evan and his guests look at the different SAT ways we're using our free time. SAT SAT Evan's guests are Manny Fontenla-Novoa, chief executive of SAT Thomas Cook Group; PY Gerbeau, chief executive of X-Leisure; SAT and Ruby McGregor-Smith, chief executive of MITIE. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sss4v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00sss4y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sss50 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00sss52 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by the Irish comedian, actor and SAT Father Ted star Ardal O'Hanlon who talks about returning to SAT the stage with his stand up show. SAT SAT Popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters and playwrights SAT - some of the people Paul Johnson has met and describes in SAT his new book 'Brief Lives'. SAT SAT And if you're a fan of American cult comedy programmes like SAT Mr. Show and Arrested Development, you'll have heard of SAT Tobius Funke. David Cross talks about playing that role in SAT the award winning series and tells us what he's doing now in SAT the UK. SAT SAT Emma Freud chats to the Extras star and the woman who SAT describes herself as a 'wobbly' stand up, Francesca Martinez. SAT SAT With comedy from the master of the one-liner, Gary Delaney. SAT SAT And music from a band which GQ says are 'The most exciting SAT sound of 2010', The Drums who perform their latest single SAT Forever and Ever Amen. SAT SAT And from Coloradan John Grant whose debut solo album 'Queen SAT of Denmark' is described by the Guardian as a 'colossus'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00sss54 (Listen) SAT Eric Pickles SAT SAT As spending cuts loom over town hall budgets, the first of a SAT new series of 'Profile' focuses on the man who will wield SAT the axe: Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric SAT Pickles. His bluff northern charm has won him many admirers SAT as well as adversaries throughout a political career that SAT began in Bradford Council more than thirty years ago. But SAT critics say as leader of Bradford City Council he championed SAT swingeing spending cuts and outsourcing of services. SAT Reporter Gerry Northam speaks to friends and foes of the man SAT once dubbed the 'Beast of Bradford' and asks how he will SAT handle his responsibilities on the national stage. SAT SAT Producer Andy Denwood. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00sss56 (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 b00st15p (Listen) SAT 100 Years After Jack Johnson: Boxing and Black Male Identity SAT SAT On 4th July 1910 Jack Johnson beat Jim Jeffries in the SAT so-called fight of the century. It was a landmark fight that SAT cemented Johnson's right to call himself the first black SAT heavyweight champion of the world, busting stereotypes of SAT black men as inferior in both body and mind. SAT SAT 100 years on, Gary Younge explores what the archives tell us SAT about four boxers who span the century - Jack Johnson, Joe SAT Louis, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. How have they shaped, SAT and been shaped by, our attitudes to black masculinity? SAT SAT Joe Louis was the first black boxer to be given a shot at SAT the heavyweight title after Jack Johnson. We hear his iconic SAT fight against German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938, which SAT symbolised democracy vs facism and made Louis a national SAT hero. Now one of the best-loved sportsmen of all time, Gary SAT explores why early in his career Muhammad Ali was one of the SAT most hated men in the US. SAT SAT We hear Ali on fighting form in an interview by David Frost SAT in the run up to 1974's Rumble in the Jungle. SAT SAT By the end of the 20th century Mike Tyson seemed to confirm SAT fears that black men were violent and out of control. How SAT far was he in control of his public image? We hear the SAT reaction to Tyson's infamous fight against Evander Holyfield SAT in 1997, in which he bit off part of his opponent's ear. SAT SAT Gary interprets the archive with the help of experts SAT including Ali biographer Mike Marqusee, Joe Louis' son Joe SAT Louis Barrow and Ellis Cashmore, author of Tyson: Nurture of SAT the Beast. SAT SAT Producer: Peggy Sutton SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00sqsmz (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Secret Pilgrim, Episode 2 SAT SAT Simon Russell Beale stars as the intelligence officer George SAT Smiley and Patrick Malahide as Ned in a three-part SAT dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic novel SAT SAT The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over. Smiley SAT emerges from retirement to accept an invitation to dine at SAT the Sarratt training school. Over coffee and brandy he SAT beguilingly and provocatively offers the eager young men and SAT women of the Circus' latest intake his thoughts on espionage SAT past, present and future. In doing so, he prompts Ned, one SAT of his former Circus colleagues and the pilgrim of the SAT book's title, into a profound examination of his own SAT eventful secret life. SAT SAT Part 2: Ned's search for meaning in his thirty-five year SAT career as an intelligence officer takes him back to the SAT killing fields of Cambodia and to a torturer's cellar in Gdansk. SAT SAT Colonel Jerzy ..... Alexander Morton SAT Hansen ..... Angus Wright SAT Saul Enderby ..... James Laurenson SAT Rumbelow ..... Jamie Newall SAT Henry ..... Paul Courtenay Hyu SAT Marie ..... Alisa Anderson SAT Aid Worker ..... Alison Pettitt SAT Student ..... Angelo Paragoso SAT SAT Producer Patrick Rayner SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00st15r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b00srktg (Listen) SAT Martin Rees: Scientific Horizons: 2010, The Runaway World SAT SAT 4. The Runaway World SAT SAT In the last Reith Lecture of 2010, Martin Rees, President of SAT the Royal Society and Astronomer Royal, explores how fast SAT our world is moving in the 21st century. Speaking at the SAT Open University in Milton Keynes, the home of online SAT learning, he acknowledges how the internet and other SAT technologies have transformed our lives. Now he calls on SAT politicians and other authorities to provide the funding SAT that will keep the UK among the world's front runners in SAT scientific research and discovery. Without money and without SAT education to attract young people into science, the UK is in SAT danger of falling behind China and other countries in the SAT Far East that are investing heavily in their science and SAT technology sectors. Professor Rees ends his series of SAT lectures evoking memories of the 'glorious' Ely Cathedral, SAT near Cambridge, a monument built to last a thousand years. SAT If we, like the cathedral builders, redirect our energies SAT and focus on the long-term, he believes together we can SAT solve the problems that face our planet, and secure its SAT future for billions of people worldwide and for generations SAT to come. SAT Producer: Kirsten Lass SAT Editor: Sue Ellis. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00srjdg (Listen) SAT The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. SAT SAT As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he SAT quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and SAT asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they SAT have personally collected on a variety of subjects. SAT SAT Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00sqsn3 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents some of the 154 sonnets of SAT Shakespeare, masterpieces all of compressed emotion. And to SAT keep them company a selection from some other Seventeenth SAT Century masters: John Donne, Andrew Marvell and Henry Vaughan. SAT SAT Readers: Jasmine Hyde, Finbar Lynch & Paul Mundell. SAT Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 JUNE 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00st1dw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00d6nxv (Listen) SUN Alan Sillitoe Short Stories, The Caller SUN SUN Sarah and Stephen are desperate to leave London and buy a SUN house in the country; a chance encounter with a funeral SUN procession leads them to the perfect house for sale in the SUN perfect village. The previous owner has died in a car crash SUN under mysterious circumstances. His widow seems anxious to SUN leave the house, and the new owners gradually discover why. 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 b00st1dy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00st1f0 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00st1f2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00st1f4 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00st1f6 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Paul's Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00sss54 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00st1nk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00st1nm (Listen) SUN Listening SUN SUN Violinist Ruth Waterman reflects on the art of listening, SUN drawing on the work of Matthew Arnold, William Blake and SUN Goran Simic and the music of Gershwin and Purcell. SUN SUN Producer: Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00st42n (Listen) SUN A Nottingham hospital trust is supporting local farmers by SUN sourcing all of its fresh food and drink for it patients SUN from local producers. Richard Uridge visits dairy farmer SUN Robert Walker and follows the path of his milk from cow to SUN hospital ward, and along the way meets butcher Richard SUN Taylor, who supplies meat to the hospital. At Nottingham SUN City hospital Richard meets the man behind the project, John SUN Hughes. SUN Presented by Richard Uridge. Produced by Martin SUN Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00st42q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00st42s (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00st42v (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 b00st42x (Listen) SUN The charity Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl Society is featured SUN on this week's Radio 4 Appeal. SUN SUN Donations to the Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl Society should SUN be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back SUN of your envelope LMBBS. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 SUN 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl Society 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: 1027384. SUN SUN LMBBS SUN SUN This week’s appeal is for LMBBS which supports those with SUN the Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl Syndrome, a rare genetic SUN disorder resulting in physical and learning disabilities. SUN SUN The Society organises an Annual Weekend and Conference for SUN the whole family. An outing and other activities for SUN children provides time for parents and adults to talk to SUN professionals and, more importantly, to share their hopes SUN and fears with people who understand. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00st42z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00st431 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00st433 (Listen) SUN Instruments of God's Love SUN SUN A Service about Christian Ministry in the week of SUN ordinations around St Peter's Day, live from St SUN Martin-in-the-Fields, London. Led by the Vicar, the Revd Nicholas Holtam. SUN Director of Music: Andrew Earis SUN Assistant Organist: Martin Ford SUN Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00ss5cc (Listen) SUN David Cannadine reflects on the teaching of history in SUN schools and the moves at home and abroad to reform the SUN curriculum and re-write the textbooks. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00st435 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00st437 (Listen) SUN WRITTEN BY ..... ADRIAN FLYNN SUN DIRECTED BY ..... JULIE BECKETT SUN EDITOR ..... VANESSA WHITBURN SUN SUN JILL ARCHER ... PATRICIA GREENE SUN KENTON ARCHER ... RICHARD ATTLEE SUN DAVID ARCHER ... TIMOTHY BENTINCK SUN RUTH ARCHER ... FELICITY FINCH SUN PIP ARCHER ... HELEN MONKS SUN JOSH ARCHER ... CIAN CHEESBROUGH SUN PAT ARCHER ... PATRICIA GALLIMORE SUN TOM ARCHER ... TOM GRAHAM SUN BRIAN ALDRIDGE ... CHARLES COLLINGWOOD SUN JENNIFER ALDRIDGE ... ANGELA PIPER SUN KATE ALDRIDGE ... KELLIE BRIGHT SUN ALICE ALDRIDGE ... HOLLIE CHAPMAN SUN MATT CRAWFORD ... KIM DURHAM SUN LILIAN BELLAMY ... SUNNY ORMONDE SUN FALLON ROGERS ... JOANNA VAN KAMPEN SUN KATHY PERKS ... HEDLI NIKLAUS SUN JAMIE PERKS ... DAN CIOTKOWSKI SUN CHRISTOPHER CARTER ... WILL SANDERSON-THWAITE SUN BRENDA TUCKER ... 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He went back to studying, developed a love SUN of literature and the arts and put his own money into a SUN charity to support other sports men and women recovering SUN from addiction. It's a transformation that his former SUN team-mates have described as 'heroic'. Now, he is heading to SUN Azerbaijan to become a manager, he is planning, he says, to SUN build the Tony Adams team. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00srjdl (Listen) SUN Series 53, Episode 1 SUN SUN The 53rd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more quality, desk-based entertainment SUN for all the family, as the series starts its run from the SUN Centaur in Cheltenham. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden SUN and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by programme SUN favourite Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee as the programme's SUN reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect SUN inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the SUN piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00st4kr (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon returns to EAT! Now in its fourth year, it's SUN an ambitious community food festival - creating, sharing and SUN celebrating some of the best food - in Newcastle and SUN Gateshead. SUN SUN At Cafe 21 Sheila meets chef Terry Laybourne to talk about SUN the festival's ethos and its impact on the North East. SUN SUN With the festival's director, Simon Preston, she attends an SUN 'artisan house party' for a DIY evening of molecular SUN gastronomy presided over by Noel Jackson from the Life SUN Science Centre. Sukey Firth visits a sausage-making party SUN where Steve Pearce from Stewart & Co shows guests how to SUN make the best bangers. SUN SUN The children of Bede Primary School have been making food SUN and decorations for a Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Ray Foster, SUN headteacher and mad hatter explains the benefits for pupils SUN and parents. SUN SUN Sheila talks to cake bakers Nick Hall and Iona Owen who have SUN been preparing for a huge celebration of food and SUN architecture, in which hundreds of the cities' iconic SUN buildings and structures are being made, out of cake. Clare SUN Armstrong, head pastry chef at Cafe 21 created an online SUN social networking group, Cakebook, to encourage participants SUN to exchange advice and baking tips. Sheila chats to Jane SUN Walsh who recreated the Great North Museum, in cake. SUN SUN Mark Holdstock reports from the Cakebook flash mob picnic, SUN where the cakes were displayed. The Emerson Chambers cake SUN from Nick and Iona was joint winner with the Trinity aka SUN 'Get Carter' Car Park. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00st4kt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00st4kw (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Brian Hanrahan. SUN SUN 13:30 Too White to Be Black b00pxn0z (Listen) SUN Kim Normanton talks to three people who are white but black SUN - they come from a black or Asian background and live with SUN albinism. Around 3,000 people in Britain have albinism which SUN means they have little or no pigment - colour - in their SUN eyes, hair and skin. Their unusual situation provides SUN thoughtful insights into questions of identity. SUN SUN Naseem is 30 and British Asian. She has long fair hair, SUN white skin and pale eyes. She struggled to be accepted by SUN her Asian community and eventually left home and married SUN Richard, who is white British. She says: "Within the Asian SUN community while I was growing up I was seen as a bit freaky. SUN I didn't quite look English but I was meant to be Asian. I SUN did have an identity crisis - who am I, where do I fit in?" SUN SUN Ayo is 18 and lives in London with his parents, who SUN originally come from Nigeria. He talks about the SUN complications of having parents who are black when he has SUN white skin. "I have African features but my skin is white so SUN I look different. People tend to stare and call me 'white SUN boy' if they don't know my nationality. They say 'You're not SUN black'. I ask 'Where do you think I'm from, then?'" SUN SUN Mian is 30 and was born and raised in Punjab in Pakistan. He SUN came to Britain 3 years ago to study because he found it SUN impossible to live and study in Pakistan due to abuse and SUN intolerance. SUN SUN Producer: Kim Normanton SUN A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00ss4tk (Listen) SUN The panel of Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew SUN Wilson join gardeners in Amber Valley, Derbyshire. SUN SUN In defence of Ivy: Matthew Biggs argues the case for this SUN much-maligned plant. SUN SUN Also in the programme, Pippa Greenwood goes behind the SUN scenes at an NGS garden in Ashbourne. SUN SUN The presenter is Eric Robson. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Doon The Watta b00st4v4 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons takes a heartfelt look at the decline of SUN shipbuilding on Clydeside. SUN SUN He meets former union activist and proud Glaswegian Jimmy SUN Reid, who orchestrated the famous 'work-in' protest during SUN the 70s. SUN SUN Nicholas also visits BAE Systems - the last post of SUN shipbuilding and apprentice schemes on the Clyde. SUN SUN He also looks at the paradox of Clydeside - the loss of SUN industry has caused the severe decline of employment for the SUN local community, but it's a beacon of hope as the tough SUN working conditions of shipbuilding are replaced by urban SUN regeneration projects, further education colleges and tourism. SUN SUN Producer: Lyndon Saunders SUN An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00st4v6 (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Secret Pilgrim, Episode 3 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 The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over. Smiley SUN emerges from retirement to accept an invitation to dine at SUN the Sarratt training school. Over coffee and brandy he SUN beguilingly and provocatively offers the eager young men and SUN women of the Circus' latest intake his thoughts on espionage SUN past, present and future. In doing so, he prompts Ned, one SUN of his former Circus colleagues and the pilgrim of the SUN book's title, into a profound examination of his own SUN eventful secret life. SUN SUN Part 3: Ned's routine vetting of a cypher clerk takes a SUN remarkable turn, and George Smiley bids his final farewell. SUN SUN Ann ..... Anna Chancellor SUN Frewin ..... Toby Jones SUN Serg. Hawthorne ..... Sam Dale SUN Ken Hawthorne ..... Michael Shelford SUN Leonard Burr ..... Nigel Hastings SUN Sir Anthony Bradshaw ..... Rupert Vansittart SUN SUN Producer Patrick Rayner SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00st4v8 (Listen) SUN Writers including Lee Child join Mariella Frostrup to talk SUN about Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" as SUN it turns fifty. SUN SUN Producer - Sally Spurring. SUN SUN 16:30 Glastonbury Poetry Diaries b00st4vb (Listen) SUN Performance poetry has become a regular and popular element SUN in the annual Glastonbury mix, and the poetry stage in 2010, SUN the Festival's fortieth birthday year, is bigger than ever. SUN We've asked five poets to write poems specially for the SUN Festival - most of them are festival regulars, one's just SUN had a baby who will be coming with her for an early SUN introduction to poetry and to Glastonbury, and one's SUN arriving from Botswana. They'll be recording their SUN preparations as they arrive in the days leading up to the SUN weekend, and performing them in various locations around the SUN festival site as the weekend approaches and the atmosphere SUN heats up. They'll be giving us a behind-the-scenes insight SUN into the festival, and a set of high-energy performances SUN created specially for Radio 4. SUN SUN The performers are: SUN Helen Gregory, co-ordinator of Poetry and Words at SUN Glastonbury Festival since 2008, a performer who cunningly SUN combines poetry with a career as a psychology lecturer. SUN Pete Hunter: a funny and witty wordsmith and poetry SUN promoter, and a multi Slam-winner here and abroad SUN Hollie McNish, stand-up poet, winner of the 2009 Farrago SUN Slam Championship and recent first-time mother. SUN Andreatta Chuma: writer, poet, songwriter and performer, a SUN member of Botswana's renowned Exodus Live Poetry Collective SUN Dreadlock Alien: hugely popular performer, teacher, one-time SUN Birmingham Poet Laureate and presenter of Radio 4's Poetry SUN Slams. SUN SUN Producer: Sara Davies. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00srp6v (Listen) SUN Described as the modern-day face of slavery, scores of SUN foreign workers are being brought into the UK to work in SUN domestic servitude. They work long hours - often under SUN physical duress and for low or non-existent pay. File on 4 SUN investigates whether the authorities are doing enough to SUN protect these workers - and to prosecute the people who've SUN exploited them. SUN SUN Reporter: Jenny Cuffe SUN Producer: Nicola Dowling. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00sss54 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00st4vd (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00st4vg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00st4vj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00st4vl (Listen) SUN Caz Graham makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN Pick of the Week is looking for answers: SUN Why is opera strewn with dead women? SUN What drives a person to sculpt a replica of the Angel of the SUN North out of sponge cake? SUN What do actors really think about when they're on stage? SUN And when two metres of angry flood water burst into your SUN home and swallow up your most treasured possessions, how SUN difficult is it to pick yourself up and keep going? SUN SUN Just some of the questions being asked in Pick of the Week SUN with Caz Graham SUN SUN Why Do Women Die in Opera - Radio 3 SUN Clare in the Community - Radio 4 SUN The Essay - Radio 3 SUN I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Radio 4 SUN The Paris Bouquinistes - Radio 4 SUN Swansea in the Blitz - Radio Wales SUN Back Home: Wilson, the World Cup and the 1970 General SUN Election - Radio 2 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4: 100 Years After Jack Johnson - Radio 4 SUN I Am I Said - Radio 4 SUN Welsh Accent - Radio 4 SUN Watermark - World Service SUN Paul Jones - Radio 2 SUN Lady Plays The Blues - Radio 4 SUN The Food Programme - 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 b00st4y1 (Listen) SUN Pip needs reassurance, while David and Ruth consider their SUN next step. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00st4y3 (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today, featuring location reports, SUN lively discussion and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00fypht (Listen) SUN Tapertime, Victoria Hislop SUN SUN The above is an old Edwardian word meaning dusk, and this SUN series of commissioned stories takes place as the light SUN fades. What happens to the visual world as dusk emerges? SUN What happens to make people behave differently, often SUN strangely, as the world starts to blur? Five leading writers SUN explore the possibilities. SUN SUN 1.One Cretan Evening by Victoria Hislop SUN SUN The well-heeled gent arrives at the village as sun sets. He SUN has a key and is on a family mission... SUN SUN Reader Barbara Flynn SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00ss4tf (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team tackle the budget, SUN drink-driving statistics, the maths of public toilet SUN equality and they reveal the surprising results of their SUN 'what are you doing right now' data-gathering exercise. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00ss560 (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of: SUN SUN The writer Alan Plater - who produced some of the most SUN acclaimed television and radio dramas of the last fifty years. SUN SUN The philosopher Lord Quinton who chaired Radio 4's Round SUN Britain Quiz. SUN SUN Professor Matthew Colton whose researches into the sexual SUN abuse of children took him into prisons to interview SUN paedophiles SUN SUN The Mancunian comic Chris Sievey - better known as his comic SUN alter ego Frank Sidebottom, complete with enlarged papier SUN mache head SUN SUN And the former England rugby international Andy Ripley - a SUN true amateur of the game. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00ssrph (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00st42x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00srkkb (Listen) SUN Baby Boomers on Trial SUN SUN In his new book "The Pinch", the Conservative thinker and SUN Minister of State for Universities, David Willetts, argues SUN that the Baby Boomers are the most spoilt generation in SUN British history. According to him, they have squandered the SUN inheritance their prudent parents left them and seem intent SUN on leaving little behind for their own children. The charge SUN is that those now aged between 45 and 65 have fashioned the SUN world around them to suit their own economic interests: they SUN will enjoy comfortable pensions in retirement, having built SUN up wealth from housing booms that they are cashing in rather SUN than handing on, even as their children struggle, and will SUN command disproportionate health resources in old age, taking SUN out some 118%, apparently, of what they had put in during SUN their lifetimes. SUN SUN Their children, by contrast, struggle to climb even onto the SUN first rung of the housing ladder; they leave university with SUN an average debt of £22,000 around their necks, they're SUN finding it tough to get a job and can't even think about SUN building up a pension. SUN SUN David Willetts thinks this is unfair and wants the Boomers SUN to pay their children back. But should they? SUN Michael Blastland asks whether we are in danger of focusing SUN on the wrong target. SUN SUN Producer: Ingrid Hassler SUN Editor: Innes Bowen. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00st4y5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00st4y7 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00st4y9 (Listen) SUN Episode 7 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. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week David Aaronovitch of SUN The Times takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00ss5c5 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock presents a special edition from The Edinburgh SUN Film Festival with directors Stephen Frears and Mike Hodges SUN about neglected British cinema of the late 60s and 70. That SUN period of our film history is critically derided - in the SUN same year that American cinema produced Taxi Driver, we gave SUN the world Adventures Of A Taxi Driver, a saucy comedy with SUN Diana Dors. But did that era produce any forgotten gems ? SUN Has history been unkind ? These are the sorts of questions SUN that Frears and Hodges will attempt to answer. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00st1nm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 JUNE 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00st9cb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00ss2q6 (Listen) MON Social Capital MON MON A new concept came along, 'social capital', and it MON revolutionised the way people are governed and communities MON are planned. The only trouble is ...it's completely wrong. MON That is the contention of sociologist Ben Fine. He claims MON that 'social capital' is part of a mindset that sees MON everything as quantifiable assets akin to money or MON commercial resources. Are communities, neighbourhoods and MON the people more complicated than that? Laurie Taylor MON discusses an idea which has had a huge impact on social MON science and beyond, and asks whether it is time to abandon MON the assumption that people have social qualities that can be MON weighed and measured. David Halpern from the Institute for MON Government defends the concept. MON Also, what does it mean to be a twin? A new study by Kate MON Bacon defines the social pressures put on twins' behaviour. MON She explores the extent to which twins can escape their MON identities as one half of a double act and what they do to MON forge their own identities. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00st1f6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00st9fg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00st9kl (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00st9gr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00st9mk (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00st9py (Listen) MON with the Revd Andrew Martlew. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00st9wb (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00stlrf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00st9z6 (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00stlrh (Listen) MON On Start The Week Andrew Marr talks to John Akomfrah about MON his latest film installation about memory and movement, MON focusing on the experiences of migrant workers in the West MON Midlands. Robert McCrum argues that Globish - Global English MON - has now conquered the world, while Oscar Guardiola-Rivera MON counters with the question, 'What if Latin America Ruled the MON World?', and it's not just in football that South America MON shows flair and imagination. Emily Doolittle isn't talking MON to the animals, she's listening to their song, and asking MON how far animal sounds can be classed as music. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00stb51 (Listen) MON Status Symbols (1200 - 1400 AD), Lewis Chessmen MON MON This week Neil MacGregor, the director of the British MON Museum, has chosen some of the great status symbols of the MON world around 700 years ago - objects with quite surprising MON links across the globe. MON MON Today he is with one of the most familiar objects at the MON museum; a board game, found in the Outer Hebrides but MON probably made in Norway - the Lewis Chessmen. They are MON carved out of ivory and many of the figures are hugely MON detailed and wonderfully expressive. They take us to the MON world of Northern Europe at a time when Norway ruled parts MON of Scotland and Neil describes the medieval world of the MON chessmen and explains how the game evolved. The historian MON Miri Rubin considers the genesis of the pieces and the MON novelist Martin Amis celebrates the metaphorical power of MON the game of chess. MON MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00stb69 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. The American singer-songwriter MON Judy Collins performs live. Dame Elisabeth Hoodless talks MON about volunteering and her role at the head of the Community MON Service Volunteers. We hear from writer Michelle Lipton MON about her new drama "Amazing Grace" featuring on Woman's MON Hour this week and we look at how changes to training for MON audiologists could affect the deaf. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00stc1w (Listen) MON Amazing Grace, Episode 1 MON MON Drama by Michelle Lipton, inspired by a true story. MON MON When Grace's Sudanese village is attacked, she scoops up her MON children - two year old in her arms, nine year old holding MON her hand and the 10 year old twins running behind - and they MON flee, running for their lives. MON MON Thankfully safety is within reach, and a truck full of MON displaced villagers lets her on board. She loads her two MON daughters on to the truck and turns to lift the boys up. MON But they aren't there - they're gone. And the truck must go. MON MON Grace must make any parent's most feared decision. A choice MON that is no choice - to save the children she has with her or MON abandon them to look for the two who are left behind. MON MON This is the story of Grace - now living in the UK - and her MON battle to find and bring back her missing children. MON MON Grace ..... Wunmi Mosaku MON Bonnie ..... Patricia Routledge MON Leo ..... Greg Wise MON Jacob/Elijah ..... Beru Tessema MON Kyla ..... Yusra Wasrama MON Frankie/Red Cross Man ..... Bijan Daneshmand MON HOPO/ECO ..... Bea Comins MON Solomon ..... Darren Hart MON Truck Driver/Male Villager ..... Ali Rahman MON MON Executive Producer: Nicola Shindler MON Director: Justine Potter MON A Red production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 The Greed Imperative b00sf7j5 (Listen) MON Having worked in the City before becoming an academic and a MON nun, Dr Catherine Cowley is well acquainted with the MON temptations and the financial risks that city workers face MON each day. Dr Cowley questions whether money is the only MON motivation for those who work in the City and discusses MON whether greed is in fact a necessary and vital dynamic MON behind a successful economy. MON MON Is greed linked to the endless growth demanded by our MON capitalist society? Dr Edward Skidelsky, lecturer in MON Philosophy at Exeter University, says that the economists in MON the past assumed that growth was a process with an end, and MON once that end came, people would enjoy the fruits of wealth. MON And as Karl Marx put it, "we'd hunt in the morning, fish in MON the afternoon and discuss poetry in the evening". MON MON Although the finance sector at the moment is being MON characterised as a hotbed of greed, would any of us, given MON the opportunity and the circumstances, act any differently? MON Are we focusing on bankers' greed so we don't have to look MON at our own? MON MON Procucer: Rosemary Foxcroft MON A Glass Mirror production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Clare in the Community b00stq0j (Listen) MON Series 6, In The Dog House MON MON Clare is entranced by a dog that follows her into work. MON Brian is less entranced. However, the dog comes in useful MON when there's a bump in the night. MON MON Clare ..... Sally Phillips MON Brian ..... Alex Lowe MON Ray ..... Richard Lumsden MON Helen/Tamzin ..... Liza Tarbuck MON Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti MON Libby ..... Jess Robinson MON Clerk/WPC ..... Alex Tregear MON Jonathan/Burglar ..... Paterson Joseph MON MON Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00stc5q (Listen) MON A collapse in house prices has been predicted since 2007 but MON it hasn't happened yet; what's in store for buyers and MON sellers in this new age of austerity? MON MON Why buying a Triumph motorbike may mean spending more time MON with your cleaning equipment than being out on the road. MON MON We hear from doctors who say that patients being discharged MON from hospital are not getting the right standard of care. MON MON And why San Francisco is making every customer aware of the MON radiation levels they are exposed to when they use their MON mobile phone. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00stc7w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00stcch (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00stq0l (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON MON As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he MON quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and MON asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they MON have personally collected on a variety of subjects. MON MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00st4y1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00stq0n (Listen) MON Black and White Riot MON MON By Edson Burton. MON MON It's April 2nd 1980. Inside the notorious Black and White MON Cafe in St Paul's, Bristol, local hustler Reagan is drinking MON whisky and playing dominoes with his friend Carlos. MON Outside, Reagan's daughter Ross is keeping an eye on her MON Dad's beloved Cadillac and playing tag and shoot-out with MON Levi, a Rastafarian, and the 'biggest kid you can imagine'. MON He's been 'away' for a while and she's delighted to see him MON back, even though he's a grown up and she's only eleven. To MON Ross, the 'Black and White' is a place where her Dad is MON King, and she's a princess. There's always a party going MON on. But today is going to be different. Today he's going MON to lose his crown. MON MON The Black and White Cafe in Bristol was notorious (even in MON Jamaica) as a place where you could buy illegal drink and MON drugs. The Cafe is the setting for this exciting new play MON by award-winning playwright Edson Burton which marks thirty MON years since the St Paul's Riots. MON MON The St Paul's Riots in Bristol were the first in a series of MON infamous inner-city confrontations between police and mainly MON Black communities in Britain in the 1980s. Close to the MON heart of the city centre, yet isolated by poverty and White MON fear, the tiny parish of St Pauls replicated in concentrated MON form the forces that ignited those riots, leading the way MON for Brixton, Handsworth and Toxteth. MON MON In this subtle, exhilarating and revealing play, Edson MON Burton brings a new perspective to the conventional MON explanations of police racism, white oppression and poverty MON as factors in why people rioted that day in Bristol. He MON tells the story of the Black criminals busy exploiting their MON own people: the rioters struck out against them too. And MON many people recall a carnival atmosphere as the police MON retreated and the looting began. MON MON Cast MON Levi.....Alex Lanipekun MON Marla.....Endy McKay MON Danny.....Marcus Smith MON Carlos.....Ricky Fearon MON Ross.....Tyra Allen MON Reagan.....Jude Akuwideke MON Narrator.....Nadia Williams MON Police Officer.....Mark Meadows MON MON Written by Edson Burton MON Directed by Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00st15p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Runaway Train b00n6ygv (Listen) MON March 9th 1987 began as a normal day for railwayman Wesley MON MacDonald, as he loaded a train of 50 cars with ore at a MON mine in northern Canada. But that all changed when the MON brakes failed to hold the load and Wesley suddenly found MON himself aboard a runaway train. MON MON This programme tells the story of what happened next, MON featuring audio footage of the radio communication between MON him and the rail traffic controller as Wesley wrestles with MON the decision of whether to jump or take his chances onboard. MON MON Producer: Russell Finch MON A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00st4kr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00strwf (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON Special guests Jonathan Ross, graphic novelist Alan Moore MON and string theorist Brian Greene, join Brian Cox and Robin MON Ince on stage for a special edition of the science show that MON boldly goes where no other science show has been before. In MON a special science fiction themed programme, recorded in MON front of an audience at London's Southbank Centre, Brian, MON Robin and guests discuss multiple dimensions, alternate MON universes and look at whether science fact is far more MON outrageous than anything Hollywood or science fiction MON authors could ever come up with. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b00stcjl (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00stcpw (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00strwh (Listen) MON Series 53, Episode 2 MON MON The 53rd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart, as the programme pays a return visit MON to the Centaur in Cheltenham. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme MON Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on the MON panel by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in the chair. Regular MON listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless MON revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00stcf3 (Listen) MON Elizabeth becomes an agony aunt and Brian swears Annabelle MON to secrecy. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00stctn (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports from one of the contenders for MON the Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries. MON MON Producer Robyn Read. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00stb51 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Walk On By b00strwk (Listen) MON Politicians and police are actively encouraging us to MON intervene if we witness violence on the street. MON MON But why do some of us become natural 'have a go heroes' in MON these situations, while others chose to 'walk on by'? MON MON In an attempt to find out, Nick Ross meets the people MON studying the psychology of how we respond when we witness MON violent behaviour. MON MON His investigation uncovers surprising CCTV evidence that MON people are actually much more likely to intervene than MON previously suspected. And he takes part in virtual reality MON experiments in which people's responses to emerging violence MON are tested using life-size and frighteningly realistic MON avatars. MON MON The 'bystander effect', he learns, suggests that the more MON people who witness a violent event, the less likely it is MON that any individual will intervene. And this phenomenon MON turns out to be equally true in cyberspace. MON MON Producer: Brian King MON An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00strwm (Listen) MON A Dictatorship of Relativism MON MON The idea that no one has a monopoly on the truth seems to be MON fixed in the modern Western psyche. But it's an idea that is MON under attack. MON MON Pope Benedict claims that we are now living in "a MON dictatorship of relativism" - a place where nothing is MON certain and we are all slaves to our own desires. Meanwhile, MON fundamentalist Islam is on the rise and the philosophy of MON objectivism has become something of a cult among City traders. MON MON Edward Stourton examines claims that the tolerance which MON moral relativism is supposed to foster has in fact morphed MON into a new form of extremism. Have we replaced one set of MON moral absolutes with another which are threatening religious MON freedom? Could moral relativism go out of style in secular MON Western societies? Or does the mere fact that its opponents MON have such different versions of the truth mean its long-term MON acceptance is guaranteed? MON MON Producer: Helen Grady. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00ss46g (Listen) MON Could Venus actually be very similar to Earth? That is a hot MON topic of discussion at the International Venus Conference. MON On this week's Material World, Quentin Cooper finds out if MON the two planets may at one time have been almost identical. MON MON The Pine Island Glacier is the biggest in Western Antarctica MON - but it is not as big as it used to be. It is melting MON because of the warming waters surrounding it. The annual ice MON loss is estimated tens of billions of tonnes which adds MON nearly a millimetre to sea levels every year. New research, MON published in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that the MON rate of ice loss is speeding up because it's no longer held MON back by a rocky ridge. Dr. Adrian Jenkins from the British MON Antarctic Survey is the lead author of this latest study and MON joins Quentin on the programme. MON MON The simulated mission to Mars is now well underway in MON Russia. 6 volunteers are making themselves at home on the MON 520 day experiment which will help scientists prepare for a MON real mission to the Red Planet in the future: Dr. Patrik MON Sundblad the Director of Human Spaceflight at the European MON Space Research and Technology Centre tells Quentin how MON things are going so far. MON MON Quentin also catches up with "So you want to be a scientist" MON finalist Sam O'kell and Professor Geoff Lawday as Sam MON prepares to test out his specially built pressure suit at MON the Roskilde Music Festival in Denmark - one of the biggest MON in Europe. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00stlrh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00stk6h (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00stk70 (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 b00stlcf (Listen) MON Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter, Episode 1 MON MON Juliet Stevenson reads F M Mayor's unfairly Neglected MON Classic, the story of a plain, reliable parson's daughter MON whose life of duty and service is thrown into confusion by MON an unexpected and unsought love affair. Today we are MON introduced to Mary and her country home. MON The Reader is Juliet Stevenson MON Abridger Sally Marmion MON Producer Di Speirs MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00ss46b (Listen) MON Le Tour de France MON MON Le Tour de France is the world's biggest annual sports MON event, bathed in history and controversy. It began as a MON publicity stunt organised by a struggling French newspaper, MON and now millions line the route every year. Academics claim MON the race taught the French what their country actually MON looked like. Contributors to the programme include Johnny MON Green, former road manager of The Clash and cycling nut, who MON sees the participants as rock and roll gods; Agnes Poirier MON who remembers being dragged to watch the race every year and MON wonders if the French will ever win again; and Michael MON Simkins, author of Detour de France, a journey in search of MON sophistication. The presenter is Dominic Arkwright, the MON producer Miles Warde. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00stld2 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Susan Hulme. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 JUNE 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00st93f (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 b00stb51 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00st9cd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00st9gt (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00st9fj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00st9kn (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00st9mm (Listen) TUE with the Revd Andrew Martlew. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00st9q0 (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00st9wd (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00strxn (Listen) TUE Peter White meets Tony Judt, the acclaimed historian of TUE post-war Europe. TUE TUE Eighteen months ago, Tony - an active, sporty 60-plus - was TUE diagnosed with a severe form of Motorneurone Disease, TUE leaving him able to do little more than think. TUE TUE Paralysed from the neck down, Tony needs 24 hour care and TUE relies on other people for all his physical needs. TUE His mind however, is his own, and has been extraordiarily TUE busy. TUE TUE He describes the experience of having the illness: "This TUE disease is viciously consuming. It's like a kind of octopus: TUE it eats you bit by bit. You can't fix it, you can't cure it, TUE you can't stop it, but you've got one thing over it, it TUE doesn't hurt. So if you're tough minded, you don't need TUE medicine, you just need a mind". TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00st9z8 (Listen) TUE Status Symbols (1200 - 1400 AD), Hebrew Astrolabe TUE TUE Neil MacGregor's world history as told through objects at TUE the British Museum. This week he is exploring high status TUE objects from across the world around 700 years ago. Today he TUE has chosen an astronomical instrument that could perform TUE multiple tasks in the medieval age, from working out the TUE time to preparing horoscopes. It is called an astrolabe and TUE originates from Spain at a time when Christianity, Islam and TUE Judaism coexisted and collaborated with relative ease - TUE indeed this instrument carries symbols recognisable to all TUE three religions. Neil considers who it was made for and how TUE it was used. The astrolabe's curator, Silke Ackermann, TUE describes the device and its markings, while the historian TUE Sir John Elliott discusses the political and religious TUE climate of 14th century Spain. Was it as tolerant as it seems? TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00stb54 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. How important is sport at school? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00stc0x (Listen) TUE Amazing Grace, Episode 2 TUE TUE Drama by Michelle Lipton, inspired by a true story. TUE TUE It's now seven years after Grace's village was attacked and TUE her twin sons went missing. In a Kenyan refugee camp, TUE surrounded by the lost children he's collected, journalist TUE Leo is driven to locate their parents. Among them, twin boys TUE Jacob and Elijah Atto are looking for their mother. TUE TUE Suddenly, the fight to survive life in the camp takes a TUE desperate turn when their school tent is invaded. TUE TUE Grace ..... Wunmi Mosaku TUE Bonnie ..... Patricia Routledge TUE Leo ..... Greg Wise TUE Jacob/Elijah ..... Beru Tessema TUE Kyla ..... Yusra Wasrama TUE Frankie/Red Cross Man ..... Bijan Daneshmand TUE HOPO/ECO ..... Bea Comins TUE Solomon ..... Darren Hart TUE Truck Driver/Male Villager ..... Ali Rahman TUE TUE Executive Producer: Nicola Shindler TUE Director: Justine Potter TUE A Red production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00stsjc (Listen) TUE Episode 13 TUE TUE 13/40. We broadcast some feedback from some of you using TUE ispot in this programme. Ispot is the Open University TUE website where you can tap into the communal expertise of TUE fellow users and identify wildlife you don't know the name TUE of. A simple photograph taken by you or even a written TUE description of what you have seen uploaded onto the site TUE often gets responses within minutes. But how does giving TUE something a name help? We find out from you. TUE TUE We have part two of our Long-Billed and White-Backed Vulture TUE story from India. Gillian Rice discovers these species have TUE together declined by 99.9% in India. 40+ million to a few TUE thousand in 15 years. In part two we discover how the RSPB TUE and the Bombay Natural History Society are planning to TUE rescue the populations and what the implications are on TUE human health in an India with vultures on the brink of TUE extinction. TUE TUE And we'll be back in northern Scotland with Bob Swann and TUE his Fulmars, Guillemots and Kittiwakes he's keeping an eye TUE on for us. The news might be good news for the Kittiwakes. TUE TUE And our news hound Kelvin Boot will be on the show with TUE wildlife stories making the news from around the world. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 A Doggerel Bard b00stsjf (Listen) TUE The comic poet Elvis McGonagall explores the world of TUE satiric verse and discusses the craft of writing it. Elvis TUE appeared on the poetry scene eight years ago, choosing his TUE idiosyncratic nom de plume just before stepping on stage for TUE the first time. In common with several before him and one or TUE two since, he found his way into comedy through verse and TUE into poetry through satire. But what is it that makes poetry TUE such a good vehicle for jokes? And why are satirists like TUE himself driven to write it? TUE TUE Elvis analyses the fine art of writing satiric verse in TUE conversation with a range of poets. He talks to John Cooper TUE Clarke and Attila The Stockbroker about the ranting poetry TUE scene of the late seventies, and to his Saturday Live TUE colleague Kate Fox about the influence of John Betjeman. TUE TUE We hear from Wendy Cope, Murray Lachlan Young and Martin TUE Newell about rhyme schemes and from Tim Turnbull and Tony TUE Harrison on what makes them angry. Elvis will be asking TUE questions like: "Which rhythms are funniest?" "Why does a TUE rhyme make a slightly lame joke sound twice as good?" "How TUE does your subject affect your meter?" and "Can funny poems TUE be good poems as well?" TUE TUE This programme will guide us through the dos and don'ts of TUE writing the very funniest verse. TUE TUE 'A Doggerel Bard' is how W.S. Gilbert once described himself TUE in the 'Bab' Ballads. TUE TUE Producer: Frank Stirling TUE A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00stc49 (Listen) TUE Call You & Yours with Julian Worricker. Getting onto the TUE property ladder is getting tougher. The number of first time TUE buyers is dropping by the month. It will be a decade or more TUE until we have paid back what we owe as a nation and the TUE banks and building societies are unlikely to return to TUE lending with quite the abandon of recent years. TUE TUE It's reckoned we need to be building a quarter of a million TUE homes a year to meet the likely demand in 2030. This year TUE new builds are likely to be around the 100,000 mark- the TUE lowest number of new homes since 1923. Does this mean that TUE home owning will become a luxury rather than commonplace in TUE future, or at the very least difficult to achieve? TUE TUE If so, is this a bad thing? Elsewhere in Europe renting is TUE more commonplace and does not carry the stigma that it does TUE in this country. Do we need to develop a more positive TUE attitude to renting? Will the next generation facing student TUE loan repayments, less generous pension provision and more TUE expensive energy bills have a choice? TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00stc5s (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00stc7y (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 A Strange, Enchanted Boy b00stsjh (Listen) TUE eden ahbez is one of those extraordinary characters. His TUE name is not well known but his story and influence are TUE considerable. Credited with having singlehandedly initiated TUE the hippy movement twenty years before it was to arrive in TUE San Francisco in the early 1960s, ahbez was a songwriter who TUE is now known for only one song. But what a song: 'Nature TUE Boy'. TUE TUE Living a sort of gypsy life from sometime in the 1940s, he TUE travelled around in sandals, wore shoulder-length hair and a TUE beard, and was draped in white robes. He camped out below TUE the first L in the Hollywood sign above Los Angeles, studied TUE Oriental mysticism, and claimed to live on three dollars a TUE week. TUE TUE The impetus for this lifestyle came from his time in Los TUE Angeles in the early 40s, when he was playing piano in a TUE small raw food restaurant. The cafe was owned by German TUE immigrants who were influenced by the Wandervogel movement TUE in Germany. Their followers were known as 'Nature Boys'. It TUE was during this period that he adopted the name 'eden TUE ahbez', claiming that only God was worthy of capital letters. TUE TUE 'Nature Boy' was a huge success for Nat King Cole, though it TUE has had a long and continuing life since that first million TUE selling hit. It has been covered by hundreds of artists of TUE every genre, and Baz Luhrmann made it the central focus of TUE "Moulin Rouge". We explore the background to the song, set TUE it against the context of ahbez's philosophy and lifestyle, TUE and hear from those who knew ahbez, including Wandervogel TUE expert Dan Dailey, writer on the origins of the hippy TUE movement, Gordon Kennedy and the last of the singing TUE cowboys, jazz singer Herb Jeffries. TUE TUE Producer: Neil Rosser TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00stcf3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00stsjk (Listen) TUE The Art of Balance TUE TUE A modern and magical fable by Rachel Joyce. TUE TUE Two women, a young man and a tightrope in the middle of an TUE empty field. It is the art of balance and the transforming TUE powers of the places that lie in the middle. TUE TUE Sylvia .................................... Deborah Findlay TUE Celeste ................................. Niamh Cusack TUE The Young Man & Narrator ..... Joesph Kloska TUE TUE Directed By Tracey Neale TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00stsjm (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 Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00stsls (Listen) TUE Flash!, Episode 1 TUE TUE Less is more in a series of flash fiction by Tania Hershman, TUE prize-winning exponent of this burgeoning literary form. TUE TUE Today's six: TUE TUE My Mother Was An Upright Piano TUE Manoeuvres TUE At Camden Town He Said He Loved Me TUE Mugs TUE Heavy Bones TUE Plaits TUE TUE Read by Nicola Walker and Tom Goodman-Hill. TUE TUE Producer: Jeremy Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Top of the Class b00cx6b5 (Listen) TUE Lauren Child TUE TUE Writer and illustrator Lauren Child is known to many parents TUE and children for her Charlie and Lola books and Clarice Bean TUE novels. She takes John Wilson on a tour of her own childhood TUE in Wiltshire to meet the people and the places which have TUE inspired her. "People never really know what they've done TUE for you" says Lauren of her Latin teacher, Alan Clague. TUE "When I was in Pompeii a year ago, I wanted to ring him up TUE and thank him for his Latin classes and how much they meant TUE to me." Twenty five years later in this programme John takes TUE her back to her comprehensive school to meet her retired TUE teacher. TUE TUE Lauren also takes John to meet her craft teacher who taught TUE her how to make dolls houses and shows John the first dolls TUE house she played with when she was seven years old. The TUE wallpaper looks slightly familiar as does much of the TUE miniature furniture. It's these early memories and the TUE comfortable feel of the furniture which can be seen as TUE illustrations throughout all her books. TUE TUE But she didn't succeed as a writer for many years. She TUE drifted through art school, spent time working as an TUE assistant for Damien Hurst during his spots period before TUE finding her own voice as a successful children's writer. TUE TUE She is accompanied in the programme by her best friend at TUE school, now also a children's writer, Cressida Cowell, who TUE remembers Lauren doodling on the school desks - little TUE figures who were the beginnings of Charlie, Lola and Clarice Bean. TUE TUE Producer - Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00sty74 (Listen) TUE Joshua Rozenberg investigates the legal issues in the news TUE and explains the law without long words, small print or TUE expensive fees. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00sty76 (Listen) TUE John Sergeant and Anjum Anand TUE TUE Journalist and Strictly Come Dancing contestant John TUE Sergeant and Anjum Anand, food writer and presenter of TV's TUE Indian Food Made Easy, talk to Sue MacGregor about their TUE favourite books. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00stcgx (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00stcph (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00fj3s6 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Skeletor Attack TUE TUE Comedy set in a Scottish corner shop. Ramesh's life is TUE turned upside down after an elderly and despised Aunty turns TUE up uninvited. TUE TUE Written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary. TUE TUE Ramesh ... Sanjeev Kohli TUE Dave ... Donald McLeary TUE Alok ... Susheel Kumar TUE Sanjay ... Omar Raza TUE Father Henderson ... Gerard Kelly TUE Aunty Veena ... Nina Wadia TUE Kate ... Gabriel Quigley TUE Joan Begg ... Marjory Hogarth TUE TUE Director: Iain Davidson TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00stcck (Listen) TUE Jamie wants a little less conversation and Pat offers some TUE good advice. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00stcrl (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including a report on one of the TUE contenders for the Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00st9z8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00sv5bf (Listen) TUE Is Britain's economic recovery going to be stifled by banks TUE not offering sufficient finance to small and medium size TUE companies? TUE TUE Firms are concerned that although the banks say they are TUE open for business the reality of the terms, conditions and TUE fees make it unrealistic for them to apply for finance. TUE TUE In frustration, some businesses have turned to foreign banks TUE to make finance available to them. TUE TUE And at a time when hi-tech businesses are seen as a source TUE of future growth for the British economy, companies complain TUE that banks are assessing loan applications using traditional TUE business criteria which offer little support to this sector. TUE TUE As the part state owned banks fail to meet lending targets TUE set by the previous administration, the new Business TUE Secretary Vince Cable says he is determined to address this. TUE But in the current climate how much more financial help can TUE British business really expect? TUE TUE For 'File on 4', Morland Sanders investigates. TUE Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00sv5bh (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00sv5bk (Listen) TUE Mental Health Minister Paul Burstow gives his first major TUE interview to All In The Mind, and talks to Claudia Hammond TUE about how mental health services are likely to fare in the TUE current climate of financial restraint. TUE TUE Being in the countryside and enjoying nature has long been TUE known to have a beneficial effect on mental health. And for TUE several years now, psychologist Guy Holmes, has been running TUE "Walk and Talk" sessions in the beautiful Shrewsbury TUE countryside. All In The Mind joins a riverside Walk and Talk TUE session. TUE TUE 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00strxn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00stk3w (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00stk6k (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 b00stl6h (Listen) TUE Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter, Episode 2 TUE TUE Juliet Stevenson reads F M Mayor's unfairly Neglected TUE Classic, the story of a plain, reliable parson's daughter TUE whose life of duty and service is thrown into confusion by TUE an unexpected and unsought love affair. Today Mary's quiet TUE life in the rectory is disturbed by a new visitor, Mr Herbert. TUE The Reader is Juliet Stevenson TUE Abridger Sally Marmion TUE Producer Di Speirs TUE TUE 23:00 The Odd Half Hour b00m1nlk (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Another chance to hear the sketch show for anyone who's TUE beginning to find this exciting new century a bit too much TUE like all the rubbish previous centuries. TUE TUE Find out what it's like to own your own Hadron Collider and TUE how a spelling mistake landed a man in court. Starring TUE brilliant stand-up comedians, Stephen K Amos and Jason Byrne TUE and the fantastic comic actors, Justin Edwards and Katherine TUE Parkinson. TUE TUE Produced by Alex Walsh-Taylor. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00stlch (Listen) TUE Sean Curran and the BBC's parliamentary team report on the TUE day's top stories from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00st93h (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 b00st9z8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00st9cg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00st9gx (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00st9fl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00st9kq (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00st9mp (Listen) WED with the Revd Andrew Martlew. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00st9q2 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Fran Barnes. WED WED 06:00 Today b00st9wg (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00sv5cb (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00st9zb (Listen) WED Status Symbols (1200 - 1400 AD), Ife Head WED WED The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects WED from the British Museum is back in Africa. This week Neil WED MacGregor is exploring high status objects from across the WED world around 700 years ago. WED WED Today he has chosen a sculpture widely considered as one of WED the highest achievements of world art. It comes from Ife, a WED city now in South-Western Nigeria. It's a slightly less than WED life sized representation of a human head, made in brass at WED a time when metal casting had become a hugely sophisticated WED art. The head, with its deeply naturalistic features, was WED probably that of a great king or leader although its exact WED function remains uncertain. The head leads Neil to consider WED the political, economic and spiritual life of the Yoruba WED city state that produced it. The writer Ben Okri responds to WED the mood of the sculpture while the art historian Babatunde WED Lawal considers what role it might have played in WED traditional tribal life. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00stb56 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Lillian Hochhauser brings the WED Bolshoi Ballet back to the UK. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00stc0z (Listen) WED Amazing Grace, Episode 3 WED WED Drama by Michelle Lipton, inspired by a true story. WED WED When the Red Cross call on the morning of Kyla's 18th WED birthday, Grace again puts the boys before her daughter. But WED the call will cost Grace dearly, and time is running out. WED WED In Africa, unaware that Grace is looking for Jacob and WED Elijah, Leo turns to bribery and the black market in an WED attempt to provide medical supplies for the injured boys. WED Despite his connections and irresistible charm, he lacks the WED influence he needs and tough decisions must be made. WED WED Grace ..... Wunmi Mosaku WED Bonnie ..... Patricia Routledge WED Leo ..... Greg Wise WED Jacob/Elijah ..... Beru Tessema WED Kyla ..... Yusra Wasrama WED Frankie/Red Cross Man ..... Bijan Daneshmand WED HOPO/ECO ..... Beatrice Comins WED Solomon ..... Darren Hart WED Truck Driver/Male Villager ..... Ali Rahman WED WED Executive Producer: Nicola Shindler WED Director: Justine Potter WED A Red production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Edward the Black Prince b00sv5pd (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, was known as the Black WED Prince. Peter and Dan Snow follow his career from the time WED of his first great victory at Crecy to his triumphal years WED as ruler of all the English possessions in France. WED WED From historians and chroniclers, they hear about the ravages WED of the Black Death and how Edward then re-established his WED military supremacy in France with armed raids known as WED "chevauchees", and a second decisive victory at Poitiers, WED where he took the French king prisoner. WED WED Edward went on to further military success, but illness and WED poor decisions cost him much of the territory he had won. WED Finally he predeceased his father Edward III, having never WED consolidated his position as the greatest soldier of the age WED to become King of England himself. WED WED Producer: Alyn Shipton WED A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 North By Northamptonshire b00sv6fw (Listen) WED Episode 3 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 Recently divorced Jan gets two compliments in one day. WED Meanwhile her ex husband Frank performs the most WED embarrassing version of Je T'Aime ever heard, with his new love, Angela. WED WED Across town Rod the local supermarket manager (Mackenzie WED Crook) is still sharing rather more than is usual about his WED private life over the store's tannoy system. Could he be WED getting closer to Tanya on till 4? 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 Frank..... Rufus Wright WED Angela.... Lizzie Roper WED WED Written by Katherine Jakeways WED Produced by Claire Jones. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00stc4c (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00stc5v (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00stc80 (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00sv6fy (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00stcck (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sv6g0 (Listen) WED Boom Boom WED WED A car crash. A middle aged woman falls for a younger man. WED What's the connection? WED WED Emily Steel is a new Welsh radio writer, currently under WED commission to the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. In her first WED radio play, developed through BBC writersroom, she takes an WED unusual approach to romance in later life and the WED consequences of passion. WED WED Unhappily married Nicola whose reclusive writer husband has WED little time for her or her work has settled into her WED existence as a cafÃ(c) cum gallery owner. David is a WED teenager whom she hires as a summer help. Little by little, WED she finds herself drawn to him, and they become friends. WED When he falls in love with a girl his own age, she finds to WED her horror that she is jealous - friendship is in fact love. WED WED As we follow the development of their relationship, we flash WED back and forth to an apparently unrelated car crash, caused WED by teenage Adam, driving his dad's car, after an illicit WED night out with a girl. When Nicola finally tells Stephen WED about her feelings for David, there are dramatic consequences. WED WED The play brings together Nicola and Adam's stories, two WED seemingly unrelated incidents, to a powerful conclusion. WED WED Cast: WED Nicola ..... Sara MacGaughey WED Stephen ..... Steffan Rhodri WED David ..... Gareth Aled WED Jess ..... Anya Murphy WED Adam ..... Scott Arthur WED Paramedic ..... Gareth Pierce WED Policewoman ..... Lynne Seymour. WED WED A BBC Cymru/Wales production directed by Polly Thomas. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00sv6g2 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal WED finance questions. 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: Ben Carter. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00stx6g (Listen) WED Flash!, Episode 2 WED WED Less is more in this week of flash fiction - very, very WED short stories - by Tania Hershman, prize-winning exponent of WED this burgeoning literary form. WED WED Just what colour is an electron? How do you count a WED neutrino? And can the world's most-Googled stars resist the WED greatest of all temptations? Find out in today's stories: WED WED Like Owls WED We Keep The Wall Between Us As We Go WED The Painter And The Physicist WED Sweet Music WED WED Read by Nicola Walker and Tom Goodman-Hill. WED WED Producer: Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Top of the Class b00ct9bk (Listen) WED Tamsin Little WED WED John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and takes WED them back to the places and people they left behind but who WED influenced their later success. WED WED He takes international violinist Tasmin Little back to the WED Yehudi Menuhin School where she began her musical education WED as a prodigy at the age of 8. She is reunited with her WED teacher, Pauline Scott who nurtured her talent and helped WED her become the player she is today. WED WED Her best friend at the school, Gwawr Owen, is also there as WED they both rediscover their childhood haunts, share memories WED of boarding school dinners and Tasmin reveals to John WED extracts from the diary she kept from her time there. WED WED Producer - Sarah Taylor. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00sv6g4 (Listen) WED How much do the pop infatuations of teen girls have in WED common with the cult of death metal? Laurie Taylor finds out WED from young delegates to a sub-culture conference. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00sv5bk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00stcgz (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00stcpk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b00sv6vf (Listen) WED Series 8, How To Grow Up WED WED Passion, polemic, wit and vigour, but surprisingly, no WED singing as Britain's most dedicated satirist returns to the WED airwaves once again. WED WED Written by and starring Jeremy Hardy. Also starring Jeremy WED regular Gordon Kennedy. WED WED Producer: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00stccm (Listen) WED Kenton puts his foot in it, while Brian forms a plan of WED action. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00stcrn (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including the announcement of the winner WED of this year's Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries, WED with chair of the judges Kirsty Young. WED WED Producer Gavin Heard. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00st9zb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00sv6vh (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate examining the WED moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. Michael WED Buerk chairs with Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, Michael WED Portillo and Clifford Longley. WED WED 20:45 Scotland's Coalition Blues b00sx7v2 (Listen) WED The Nick and Dave show has few fans in Scotland where many WED Lib Dems are devastated at news that their party has got WED into bed with the Tories. Iain McWhirter explores Scotland's WED reaction to the coalition, and asks what it means for the WED future of British politics. WED WED 21:00 The Age of the Genome b00sv716 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED What can we learn from the DNA of chimpanzees about what it WED took for humans to evolve? What do genes extracted from WED fossil Neanderthal bones add to the story of our origins? WED And will it ever be possible to use prehistoric DNA to WED resurrect the woolly mammoth? WED WED These are some of the questions which evolutionary biologist WED Richard Dawkins explores in the second part of this series, WED marking the tenth anniversary of the sequencing of the human WED genome. WED WED In June 2000, scientists of the Human Genome Project WED announced that they had worked out the 3 billion genetic WED letter code of the human body. Since then, many other WED animals have had their genomes decoded. The list includes WED the mouse, dog, the duck-billed platypus, the chicken and WED the chimpanzee, to name but a few. Comparing the As, Gs, Cs WED and Ts in our genome with those of other animals allows WED scientists to illuminate the story of our ancestors' WED evolution with extraordinary insights. WED WED The techniques for processing and decoding DNA have become WED so advanced that it is now even possible to reconstruct the WED complete genetic code of creatures which died tens of WED thousands of years. This has been done for our closest WED evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, by extracting WED shattered DNA fragments from 40,000 year old bones and WED piecing them together. The leader of this project, Svante WED Paabo, says it still "blows his mind" when he thinks about WED what it's now possible to do with ancient DNA. WED WED Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00sv5cb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00stk3y (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00stk6m (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 b00stl6l (Listen) WED Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter, Episode 3 WED WED Juliet Stevenson reads F M Mayor's unfairly Neglected WED Classic, the story of a plain, reliable parson's daughter WED whose life of duty and service is thrown into confusion by WED an unexpected and unsought love affair. Today Mary travels WED to London in search of artistic advice and enters a Bohemian WED world far beyond her normal experience. WED The Reader is Juliet Stevenson WED Abridger Sally Marmion WED Producer Di Speirs WED WED 23:00 The Odd Half Hour b00m6ggc (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Sketch show that looks at the pains of modern life. With WED Stephen K Amos, Jason Byrne, Justin Edwards and Katherine WED Parkinson. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00stlck (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Susan Hulme. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 JULY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00st93k (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 b00st9zb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00st9cj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00st9gz (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00st9fn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00st9ks (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00st9mr (Listen) THU with the Revd Andrew Martlew. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00st9q4 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Martin THU Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 06:00 Today b00st9wj (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00sv7wd (Listen) THU Athelstan THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the reign of King THU Athelstan, whose military exploits united much of England, THU Scotland and Wales under one ruler for the first time. With THU Sarah Foot and Richard Gameson. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00st9zd (Listen) THU Status Symbols (1200 - 1400 AD), The David Vases THU THU The history of the world as told through objects that time THU has left behind. This week Neil MacGregor, the director of THU the British Museum, has chosen some of the great status THU symbols of the world around 700 years ago - objects with THU quite surprising links across the globe. Today he is with a THU pair of porcelain vases from Yuan dynasty China. This THU instantly recognisable blue-and-white designed porcelain - THU that we usually associate with the Ming Dynasty - rapidly THU became influential and desirable around the world. Neil THU describes the history of porcelain and the use of these THU vases in a temple setting. The historian Craig Clunas talks THU about the volatile world of Yuan China while the writer THU Jenny Uglow tries to put her finger on just why we find THU Chinese porcelain so appealing. THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00stb59 (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Karen Liebreich on solving the THU mystery of a letter in a bottle. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00stc11 (Listen) THU Amazing Grace, Episode 4 THU THU Drama by Michelle Lipton, inspired by a true story. THU THU The fundraising event at the Cathedral turns into a huge THU success and Grace and Bonnie begin to prepare for the boys' THU arrival in England. THU THU Tired of always being put last, Kyla has given up all hope THU that things will change for the better, even if her brothers THU do make it to the UK. THU THU In Camp Kakuma, Leo has not told the boys that their mother THU has found them, but is it for their own good? A death is THU about to change their future and an innocent lie is THU uncovered that will risk everything. THU THU Grace ..... Wunmi Mosaku THU Bonnie ..... Patricia Routledge THU Leo ..... Greg Wise THU Jacob/Elijah ..... Beru Tessema THU Kyla ..... Yusra Wasrama THU Frankie/Red Cross Man ..... Bijan Daneshmand THU HOPO/ECO ..... Bea Comins THU Solomon ..... Darren Hart THU Truck Driver/Male Villager ..... Ali Rahman THU THU Executive Producer: Nicola Shindler THU Director: Justine Potter THU A Red production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00svbf9 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Carnegie Classics b00svbm8 (Listen) THU Anne Fine, OBE and former Children's Laureate, herself a THU winner of two Carnegie Medals, looks at the UK's most THU prestigious prize for children's literature. From its THU inception in 1936, through its trail by media in the 60s to THU the schools shadowing schemes today, the Carnegie Medal is THU 'the' award sort-after by children's writers. THU We talk to authors Melvin Burgess, David Almond and Meg THU Rosoff about their experiences of winning the award, what THU it means to them and how it influenced their careers. THU THU Melvin Burgess may be the most controversial children's THU novelist of recent times, earning tabloid opprobrium for his THU upfront portrayals of teenage sex (in Doing It) and drugs THU (in Junk, Carnegie winner in 1996). THU THU David Almond's Carnegie-winning Skellig, highly thought of THU in schools for its mingling of realism and fable, and its THU themes of human friendship and rejection, has been adapted THU in operatic form and made into a film. THU THU Meg Rosoff's breakthrough novel, the harrowing How I Live THU Now, won many plaudits, but she had to wait a further three THU years for a Carnegie medal for Just In Case, about an THU angst-ridden teenage boy's drive to avoid his fate, a fate THU he feels will kill him. THU THU We talk to Angela McNally, Chair of the Carnegie Kate THU Greenaway working party and Jake Hope, reading and learning THU development manager for Lancashire County Library and THU Information Service, about their experiences of working on THU the awards panel, judging the award and the importance of THU librarians. We talk to children about the shadowing scheme THU and hear readings from some of the works that have won the THU award over the years. THU THU Producer: Angela Sherwin. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00stc4f (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00stc5x (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00stc82 (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00svndm (Listen) THU Provocative and thoughtful new writing and discussion, THU presented by Dominic Arkwright. THU British backpacker, Jamie Neale, was given up for dead when THU he was lost for two weeks in the Australian bush last year. THU He joins Louise Doughty and Hugh Thomson as all three write THU about and share their experiences of being Lost. THU Produced by Beatrice Fenton. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00stccm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00c5xth (Listen) THU The Confessions THU THU Charlotte Grieg's play is a contemporary thriller about an THU art scam. THU THU When Luke cons an unknowing client into selling him a THU valuable artwork at a cut price rate, he knows he stands to THU make a killing - but he can't pull off his plan without the THU help of his girlfriend Catrin. Catrin is a good girl who THU has fallen for a bad boy but will she override her moral THU scruples and go along with Luke's scheme whatever the price? THU THU Luke ..... Clive Standen THU Catrin ..... Lynne Seymour THU Heinrich ..... John Castle THU Simone .....Sara McGaughey THU THU Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00ssn5z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00st42x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00stx6j (Listen) THU Flash!, Episode 3 THU THU Less is more in this week of flash fiction by Tania THU Hershman, prize-winning exponent of this burgeoning literary form. THU THU In today's six stories, we see right through one another, THU encounter unorthodox theories of motherhood, and meet fear, THU death and a pair of highly unusual sisters. The stories are: THU THU Missy THU The Google 250 THU The Mathematics Of Sunshine THU Go Away THU Transparent THU Heart THU THU Read by Nicola Walker and Tom Goodman-Hill. THU THU Producer: Jeremy Osborne THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Top of the Class b00czyjx (Listen) THU Gary Rhodes THU THU Gary Rhodes was making Sunday lunch for his mum when he was THU 14. The 1970s was not an era for a football loving boy to THU tell his schoolfriends that his dream was to be a top chef, THU so he applied secretly to Thanet Catering college. THU THU Overjoyed to be accepted, he panicked on the first day when THU he couldn't answer the question "what is a sauce bechamel?" THU He thought he would never make it in the world of cookery, THU but he ended up being the college's top student, became a THU successful restauranteur and a TV Chef who now has THU restaurants around the globe and is a prolific cookery writer. THU THU Much of his success he feels was down to the excellence of THU the training he got from Thanet Catering College and in THU particular, his mentor Mr. Barrett. John Wilson reunites THU Gary with Mr. Barrett and his great friend and rival from THU college days, Martin Nash, who followed his own catering THU career. THU THU Producer - Sarah Taylor. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00st4v8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00svnn9 (Listen) THU 350 years ago, a group of 'natural philosophers' got THU together to found a club in London. With the patronage of THU Charles II, they called it 'The Royal Society'. Today it is THU the nation's elite academy of sciences and, to celebrate the THU anniversary, it is staging its Summer Exhibition this week THU on the Southbank of the Thames. Quentin Cooper visits the THU exhibition to hear about some of the latest research the THU Society supports and meet the scientists behind it. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b00stch1 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00stcpm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Secret World b00svnnc (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU Parallel stories unfold from morning til night as the great THU and good become embroiled in the most unlikely situations. THU Lional Blair is mistaken for Tony and has to go the middle THU east to get the leaders 'dancing to the same tune' which he THU does with relish. THU William Hague has a discussion with the ambassador of THU Kyrgystan but has mistakenly jemmed up on Uzbekistan THU -resulting in him agreeing to a royal visit. THU Al Pacino stalks John Humphrys. THU Sir David Attenborough is told that there are too many 'old THU animals' in his nature shows, and this is putting off THU younger viewers. THU THU The programme is written months in advance of transmission, THU and is therefore not topical or political - it's a sometimes THU surreal twist on the familiar 'impression show' without THU parody, pastiche or the usual caricaturising. THU THU The Secret World features some of the best vocal performers THU around including Lewis MacLeod, Jon Culshaw, Duncan Wisbey, THU Julian Dutton, Jess Robinson and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. THU THU The show is written by Bill Dare and Julian Dutton with THU Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris and Rufus Jones & Dan Skinner. THU THU The producer/creator is Bill Dare. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00stccp (Listen) THU Jolene has a lot on her mind, and will Izzy find a solution THU for Pip? THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00stcrq (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, who re-assesses the murderous life and THU mysterious death of the painter Caravaggio in the light of a THU new biography by Andrew Graham-Dixon. THU THU Producer Robyn Read. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00st9zd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00sty74 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00svnyg (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine, where business THU leaders discuss the issues that matter - from the boardroom THU to the shop floor, from building success to handling failure. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00stsjc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00sv7wd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00stk40 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00stk6p (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 b00stl6n (Listen) THU Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter, Episode 4 THU THU Juliet Stevenson reads F M Mayor's unfairly Neglected THU Classic, the story of a plain, reliable parson's daughter THU whose life of duty and service is thrown into confusion by THU an unexpected and unsought love affair. Today a confession THU in the rectory garden commits Mary's heart forever, despite THU what is to come. THU THU The Reader is Juliet Stevenson THU Abridger Sally Marmion THU Producer Di Speirs THU THU F M Mayor's masterful novel, The Rector's Daughter, is a THU 23:00 Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up! b00nycc2 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Jo Caulfield is back with her glorious mixture of bitchy THU friendliness and foot-in-mouth populism. THU THU In this episode, Jo is failing to shut up about Scotland in THU general, Scotsmen in particular and a little teashop in THU Dundee. THU THU Starring Jo Caulfield, with Zoe Lyons, Nick Revell and Paul THU Sneddon. THU THU Written by Jo Caulfield & Kevin Anderson. THU THU Additional material by Michael Beck, Dan Evans, Brian THU Mitchell, Joseph Nixon, Matt Ross and Paul Sneddon. THU THU Producer: David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00stlcm (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Sean Curran. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 JULY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00st93m (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 b00st9zd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00st9cl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00st9h1 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00st9fq (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00st9kv (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00st9mt (Listen) FRI with the Revd Andrew Martlew. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00st9q6 (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie FRI Bullock. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00st9wl (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 b00st439 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00st9zg (Listen) FRI Status Symbols (1200 - 1400 AD), Taino Ritual Seat FRI FRI The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects FRI from the British Museum. This week the Museum's director, FRI Neil MacGregor, is exploring high status objects from across FRI the world around 700 years ago. FRI FRI Today he tells the story of a beautifully carved ritual seat FRI - an object which has survived the destruction of the FRI Caribbean culture that produced. This four legged wooden FRI stool, or duho, with its long shape and wide-eyed face FRI probably belonged to a chief, or "cacique" of the Taino FRI people of the Caribbean. Taino was a term used to describe a FRI spectrum of peoples who originated in South America and who FRI populated the whole region, including Cuba, Hispaniola, FRI Puerto Rico and Jamaica. Neil tells the story of the Taino FRI speaking people and their demise following the arrival of FRI Europeans. The archaeologist Jose Oliver looks at how the FRI Taino spread around the Caribbean while the Puerto Rican FRI scholar Gabriel Haslip-Vieira explains their impact on the FRI region today. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00stb5c (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00stc13 (Listen) FRI Amazing Grace, Episode 5 FRI FRI Drama by Michelle Lipton, inspired by a true story. FRI FRI The day of the Immigration Court Case has come, and there FRI are serious doubts about the credibility of Grace's claims FRI of a de facto adoption. It takes Kyla to speak her mind in FRI the witness box for Grace to finally hear the truth from the FRI one child she still has with her. FRI FRI What can Grace Atto say to convince the courts that her case FRI is more exceptional than those of the hundreds of thousands FRI of families separated by conflict; the hundreds of thousands FRI of children all over the world living in poor conditions in FRI refugee camps? What could she possibly say that would make FRI the difference? FRI FRI Grace ..... Wunmi Mosaku FRI Bonnie ..... Patricia Routledge FRI Leo ..... Greg Wise FRI Jacob/Elijah ..... Beru Tessema FRI Kyla ..... Yusra Wasrama FRI Frankie/Red Cross Man ..... Bijan Daneshmand FRI HOPO/ECO ..... Bea Comins FRI Solomon ..... Darren Hart FRI Truck Driver/Male Villager ..... Ali Rahman FRI FRI Executive Producer: Nicola Shindler FRI Director: Justine Potter FRI A Red production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Touchline Tales b00svs5x (Listen) FRI An Uproar of Butterflies FRI FRI Old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew head for some FRI famous sporting venues - to enjoy, observe, reminisce and FRI trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their FRI lives. They lay some bets at a mid-week meet at Goodwood FRI Races and take in the opening day at this year's FRI International Tennis Championship at Eastbourne and, in the FRI opening programme of the series, attend a Pro-Am competition FRI at the Royal Blackheath Golf Club, claimed by some to be the FRI oldest in the world. FRI FRI As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des has a FRI fund of stories to tell, and insights to reveal, about the FRI men and women in professional sport - their lives, their FRI characters, their training regimes, their triumphs and their FRI disasters. But Christopher more than matches him with his FRI own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the highest FRI levels of sport (and, like Des, an occasional participant at FRI the lowest), as well as with his observations on sporting FRI events he finds himself attending for the first time. FRI FRI Indeed, amusing, informative and entertaining talk between FRI old friends is what these programmes are all about. FRI FRI Recorded entirely on location, their extended discourses FRI have been edited down to a seamless half hour - with each FRI programme capturing the atmosphere, the passion, the FRI frustration, the humour and, at times, the sheer quaintness, FRI of entertainments regularly enjoyed by millions of people up FRI and down the land. FRI FRI Producer:Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and Steve b00svt6h (Listen) FRI Mrs Forester is Surprised 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 Paul's investigations into the criminal activities of the FRI shadowy Dr. Belasco have taken him and his wife Steve to FRI London's Berkeley Square for a night of Latin American FRI dancing at the fashionable Machicha Club. They're safe FRI enough inside the Machicha - but it's a very different FRI matter when they try to hail a taxi to go home... FRI FRI Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan FRI Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas FRI Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood FRI Joseph ..... Richard Greenwood FRI Mrs Forester ..... Candida Benson FRI Ed Bellamy ..... Robin Laing FRI Sergeant O'Day ..... John Paul Hurley FRI FRI Produced by Patrick Rayner. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00stc4h (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00stc5z (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00stc84 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00svt6k (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00stccp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00dh8cn (Listen) FRI Silent Nights FRI FRI By David Nobbs FRI FRI Gordon's hatred of noise is threatening his marriage. But FRI will his attempts to foist silence on the world just make FRI matters worse? Another great comic obsessive from the FRI creator of Reginald Perrin. FRI FRI Gordon Flitch ..... Jonathan Coy FRI Alison Flitch ..... Doon Mackichan FRI Jonathan Pelt ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Vicky ..... Helen Longworth FRI Esterhazy ..... John Rowe FRI Shopkeeper ..... Dan Starkey FRI FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00svv6l (Listen) FRI It's the annual Gardeners' Question Time Summer Garden FRI Party. This year we're in our southern garden at Sparsholt FRI College, Hampshire. FRI FRI Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Biggs and Bunny Guinness offer FRI their expert advice to our green-fingered listeners. Plus FRI highlights from our all-day gardening event. FRI FRI Presented by Eric Robson. FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Top of the Class b00cq602 (Listen) FRI Bill Morris FRI FRI John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and takes FRI them back to the places and people they left behind but who FRI influenced their later success. FRI FRI Former Trade Union leader, Lord Bill Morris returns to the FRI car component manufacturer in Birmingham where he began work FRI as an 18 year old in overalls on the factory floor drilling FRI holes in 1954. FRI FRI John Wilson takes Lord Bill Morris back to the company he FRI worked for in Birmingham for nearly twenty years before he FRI ascended the union ranks to become Britain's first black FRI trade union leader. He is reunited with his then union FRI mentor, Graham Gold and manager Maureen Constantine - both FRI people who Bill regards as instrumental to his later FRI success. Bill first worked in the car manufacturing firm in FRI 1954 as an 18 year old in overalls drilling holes. All the FRI time he was a quietly ambitious man with his eye on greater FRI things. He quite fancied the "white coat" supervisor's job FRI but found success first in the union. FRI FRI Producer - Sarah Taylor. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00svv6n (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 b00svv6q (Listen) FRI A report on the townspeople who saved their local cinema in FRI Wotton-Under-Edge. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00stch4 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00stcpp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00svv6s (Listen) FRI Series 31, Episode 3 FRI FRI The Now Show FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the FRI week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch FRI Benn and guest, Susan Calman. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00stccr (Listen) FRI Written by ..... Adrian Flynn FRI Directed by..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Jude Simpson ..... Piers Wehner FRI Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills FRI Izzy ..... Elizabeth Wofford. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00stcrs (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00st9zg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00svv6v (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from FRI Chippenham, Wiltshire. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00svv6x (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from David Cannadine. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00svv6z (Listen) FRI Amazing Grace, Omnibus FRI FRI Drama by Michelle Lipton, inspired by a true story. FRI FRI When Grace's Sudanese village is attacked, she scoops up her FRI four young children and they flee, running for their lives. FRI FRI Safety is within reach, and a truck full of displaced FRI villagers lets her on board. She loads her two daughters on FRI to the truck and turns to lift the boys up - but they aren't FRI there. And the truck must go. FRI FRI Grace must make any parent's most feared decision. A choice FRI that is no choice - to save the children she has with her or FRI abandon them to look for the two who are left behind. FRI FRI This is the story of Grace - now living in the UK - and her FRI battle to find and bring back her missing children. FRI FRI Grace ..... Wunmi Mosaku FRI Bonnie ..... Patricia Routledge FRI Leo ..... Greg Wise FRI Jacob/Elijah ..... Beru Tessema FRI Kyla ..... Yusra Wasrama FRI Frankie/Red Cross Man ..... Bijan Daneshmand FRI HOPO/ECO ..... Bea Comins FRI Solomon ..... Darren Hart FRI Truck Driver/Male Villager ..... Ali Rahman FRI FRI Executive Producer: Nicola Shindler FRI Director: Justine Potter FRI A Red production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00stk42 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00stk6r (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 b00stl6q (Listen) FRI Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter, Episode 5 FRI FRI Juliet Stevenson reads F M Mayor's unfairly Neglected FRI Classic, the story of a plain, reliable parson's daughter FRI whose life of duty and service is thrown into confusion by FRI an unexpected and unsought love affair. Today the newlyweds FRI return to Dedmayne but the path of true love does not run FRI smooth. FRI The Reader is Juliet Stevenson FRI Abridger Sally Marmion FRI Producer Di Speirs FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00sty76 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00stlcp (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI
25 June, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 26/06/2010 - 02/07/2010
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