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SAT SATURDAY 03 JULY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00svvg2 (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 b00st9zg (Listen) SAT Status Symbols (1200 - 1400 AD), Taino Ritual Seat SAT SAT The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects SAT from the British Museum. This week the Museum's director, SAT Neil MacGregor, is exploring high status objects from across SAT the world around 700 years ago. SAT SAT Today he tells the story of a beautifully carved ritual seat SAT - an object which has survived the destruction of the SAT Caribbean culture that produced. This four legged wooden SAT stool, or duho, with its long shape and wide-eyed face SAT probably belonged to a chief, or "cacique" of the Taino SAT people of the Caribbean. Taino was a term used to describe a SAT spectrum of peoples who originated in South America and who SAT populated the whole region, including Cuba, Hispaniola, SAT Puerto Rico and Jamaica. Neil tells the story of the Taino SAT speaking people and their demise following the arrival of SAT Europeans. The archaeologist Jose Oliver looks at how the SAT Taino spread around the Caribbean while the Puerto Rican SAT scholar Gabriel Haslip-Vieira explains their impact on the SAT region today. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00svvg4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00svvg6 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00svvg8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00svvgb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00svvgd (Listen) SAT With George Craig. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00svvgg (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 b00svvgj (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00sw35v (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00sw35x (Listen) SAT Helen Marks visits Northamptonshire where a new centre is SAT opening for young people to learn about horses and the SAT countryside as a way of developing their confidence. The SAT work that the Seeds of Change organisation has done so far SAT with young people has had surprising results. Vulnerable SAT teenagers with low self esteem and some young offenders have SAT been learning how to interact with horses as a way of SAT managing their own emotions and behaviour. Some of those SAT young people have since gone on to work in agriculture and SAT now the centre is expanding its programme to teach rural SAT skills such as horticulture. Helen meets some of the new SAT students at work with the horses. SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00sw35z (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00sw361 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00sw363 (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; SAT Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00sw365 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by geneticist Tom Shakespeare, poet SAT Murray Lachlan Young, the UK's top sumo wrestler and a man SAT who had a good experience of growing up in a children's SAT home. There's a guerilla report on horror movies and actor SAT Andrew Lincoln shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00sw367 (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig hears from the travel writer Anthony Sattin SAT about Florence Nightingale's trip up the river Nile in 1849 SAT and saw all the sights we are familiar with today from the SAT Pyramids to the temple of Abu Simbel. The adventure was a SAT formative influence as she underwent spiritual experiences SAT in the ancient temples and was shocked by the poverty she SAT witnessed. On the same boat from Alexandria was a young SAT Gustav Flaubert and he too found Egypt a life changing SAT experience, although of a much more sensual nature. SAT SAT Sandi also meets journalist Gail Simmons who had her own SAT spiritual experience when she fasted for three days while SAT staying with the Bedouin of the Sinai desert. SAT SAT And Joe Senior had a different kind of sensual experience in SAT North Western Australia. He is blind and encountered the SAT landscape and aboriginal people there through senses other SAT than sight when he won a competition to travel the area in a SAT taxi. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Electric Ride b00sw3s9 (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT Peter Curran continues his bold, 4500 mile, trans-European SAT journey in an electric car. SAT SAT This time, Peter drives through Germany, Austria and Italy. SAT He visits major German and Italian motor manufacturers, SAT looking at concept vehicles, and speaks to users of some of SAT the new vehicles. SAT SAT Travelling down through Europe in a limited amount of time SAT will be a real challenge for Peter in his Electric City car, SAT and the pressures continue to take their toll. SAT SAT Accompanied by environmental writer Richard Scrase, Peter is SAT aiming to be back in the UK in time to join the Brighton to SAT London Eco-Rally on July 7th, but they will be travelling SAT for four weeks - covering approximately 4500 miles - and SAT have to come to terms with a wealth of extension leads and SAT universal adaptors. SAT SAT Producer: Kevin Dawson SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00sw3sc (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks behind the scenes in SAT Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00sw3sf (Listen) SAT There's dinner by the lakeside for From Our Own SAT Correspondent today as it examines the battle for the soul SAT of the Anglican church in Africa. Also, a look at the SAT prickly relationship between President Obama and the Israeli SAT leader Mr Netanyahu ... and a despatch from Helmand province SAT as Afghans start to wonder if the foreign forces in their SAT country are beginning to lose patience. SAT SAT During the Vietnam war President Lyndon Johnson used to say SAT that.as he put it.."Asian boys", rather than "American boys" SAT ought to be doing the fighting. And the Americans are making SAT a similar argument now about Afghanistan. They hope they can SAT eventually hand the war over to Afghan troops, and bring SAT home their own soldiers. This is the West's Afghan exit SAT strategy. But it all very much depends on the calibre of SAT those Afghan forces..their capacity to cope. And Caroline SAT Wyatt has been assessing their strengths and weaknesses.. SAT SAT It's hard to overstate the importance to Israel of its SAT relationship with America. And for many years the two SAT countries have been very close. In war and peace, Israelis SAT always like to think that the American super-power will SAT stand behind them.... But since President Obama came to SAT office, there have been real tensions. And so, Israelis will SAT watch closely on Tuesday when their leader, Binyamin SAT Netanyahu sits down with Mr Obama in Washington..Our Middle SAT East Editor, Jeremy Bowen reflects on why.up to now.the two SAT men have got on so badly. SAT SAT The Anglican Church is passing through a difficult period. SAT For years it's been riven by disputes over issues like the SAT ordination of homosexual Bishops, and same-sex marriages. So SAT serious have been the rows that there's been the danger of SAT deep and permanent division. Petroc Trelawney has been SAT watching the tensions in the Anglican world playing SAT themselves out in the depths of Africa, on the shores of SAT Lake Malawi... SAT SAT The Iraqi people surely have a right to be bitterly SAT disappointed. The isn't as much as violence as there used to SAT be. But seven long, hard years after the Iraq war began the SAT bombing, killing and kidnapping does continue. And chronic SAT insecurity isn't all that Iraqis have to put up with. As SAT Gabriel Gatehouse explains....all these years after the fall SAT of Saddam Hussein.....the authorities still can't keep the SAT lights on. SAT SAT For weeks now countless millions of us have been captivated SAT by the World Cup. There've been moments of extraordinary SAT passion and excitement, triumph and defeat. And the cameras SAT can bring every second of the drama right into your living SAT room...that is, as long as you've got a telly. Because there SAT are still places that are largely beyond the reach of SAT television.....places where they've seen nothing of the SAT World Cup. But Annie Caulfield watched salvation come to one SAT lucky village in Kenya.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00sw3sh (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00svv6s (Listen) SAT Series 31, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the SAT week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch SAT Benn and guest, Susan Calman. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00sw3sk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00sw3sm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00svv6v (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from SAT Abbeyfield School in Chippenham, Wiltshire, with questions SAT from the audience for the panel including: Lord Chris SAT Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University; Sir Stuart Rose, SAT Chairman of Marks & Spencer; John Denham MP, Shadow SAT Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government; and SAT Olly Grender, Liberal Democrat's former Communications SAT Director and PR consultant. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00sw3sp (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 b007rvpl (Listen) SAT Avoid London...Area closed...Turn on Radio SAT SAT The story of a fictional Every Family, the Demerils, set SAT against the real and terrible events of 7/7 2005 - how they SAT coped with those events and how they set about rebuilding SAT their lives. SAT SAT On the 3rd July Radio 4 will present a Drama centring on the SAT events of 7 July 2005 as experienced by the Demerils, a kind SAT of fictional Every Family. SAT SAT Our family, typical of so many in the capital that week, has SAT the usual preoccupations; wayward children and aged parents, SAT retirement and overwork, the near impossibility of life in SAT the city, when suddenly a series of explosions throws SAT everything into extreme and brutal perspective. Though SAT fictional, this is all our stories and how we did or didn't SAT manage to cope with those awful events. SAT SAT The title - an ominous portent which caused many travellers SAT to suspect the worst - refers to the many motorway signs SAT which greeted commuters as they ground their way into SAT central London on the morning of 7th July. SAT SAT Cast includes: David Calder, Margot Leicester, Elizabeth SAT Spriggs, Leanne Rowe. SAT SAT Director - Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00sw3sr (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00sw44k (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00svnyg (Listen) SAT In a special programme recorded at the Design Museum in SAT London, Evan Davis and his panel of top business guests SAT discuss economic recovery in Britain and design. SAT SAT There's been a lot of debate about what we need to do right SAT now to get out of the economic doldrums. But in this edition SAT we'd like to take a longer-term view - what competitive SAT advantage does the UK have on the global economic stage, and SAT what will the mix look like in ten years or more? Evan SAT discusses manufacturing, financial services and the creative SAT sector with the panel. SAT SAT Also on the agenda, design. Many people are familiar with SAT the two aspects of good design - form and function. Both are SAT undoubtedly important - but can we go further than SAT considering only what a product looks like, and how it SAT works? We'll scratch the surface and find out what makes SAT good design - and bad design as well. SAT SAT Evan's guests are pottery and tableware designer Emma SAT Bridgewater; John Hitchcox, chairman of property developers SAT Yoo; and Brent Hoberman, executive chairman of mydeco.com. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sw44m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00sw44p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sw44r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00sw44t (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the Oscar nominated American actress and SAT singer Elizabeth McGovern. Now living in London whilst SAT maintaining a successful acting career in Hollywood, SAT Elizabeth also fronts the band Sadie and the Hotheads and SAT sings 'Walking My Baby Back Home' with The Nelson Brothers SAT in the studio. SAT SAT American journalist Jake Adelstein spent 12 years covering SAT the seamier side of Japan and stumbled on a story so SAT important and so dangerous that his life was under threat. A SAT yakuza offered him half a million dollars not to tell it. He SAT wrote his book 'Tokyo Vice' instead. SAT SAT Master of the macabre and one of the stars of 'The League of SAT Gentlemen' Jeremy Dyson has joined evil forces with Andy SAT Nyman co-creator and director of Derren Brown's shows, to SAT produce 'Ghost Stories'. Billed as a heart pounding SAT theatrical experience, it comes to the West End with a SAT warning that those of a nervous disposition should think SAT very seriously before attending. SAT SAT Ralf Little talks to award winning stand-up comedian Robin SAT Ince - self-styled curator of publishing peculiarities about SAT his own publication 'Bad Book Club'. SAT SAT Considered a bit of a maverick in the music world - moving SAT from electronica to soul, Jamie Lidell has released another SAT album 'Compass' described as a 'thoroughly fascinating SAT triumph'. He performs the title track in the Loose Ends studio. SAT SAT And from Liverpool quintet, The Coral. Having emerged from a SAT blossoming 'scousedelic' scene in late-2001 they are about SAT to release their fifth studio album 'Butterfly House' on SAT Monday 12 July with a tour starting the same night The Coral SAT play their new single '1000 Years' SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00sw44w (Listen) SAT Sir Hugh Orde SAT SAT He is the straight talking, marathon running public face of SAT the police service. Sir Hugh Orde - president of the SAT Association of Chief Police Officers - has warned budget SAT cuts announced by the government could mean less officers on SAT the beat. It's another crisis for the senior officer who has SAT taken charge of some of the UK's most politically sensitive SAT beats. From tackling black on black gun crime in London to SAT running the Police Service of Northern Ireland, close SAT colleagues reveal the inside track on some of the major SAT moments in his career and how he has learned to deal with SAT conflict. Labelled the king of the one liners, we hear SAT something of the private man and how even a major criminal SAT investigation did not stand in the way of him running one of SAT his beloved marathons SAT SAT Reporter - Gerry Northam, Producer - Paul Grant. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00sw44y (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 b00sw450 (Listen) SAT The Summer That Changed London SAT SAT The summer of July 2005 was one that brought Londoners both SAT joy and pain. Euphoria over winning the Olympics bid, SAT celebrations of Live8, trauma over the 7/7 bombings and SAT shock when an innocent man was fatally shot by police on the SAT tube. Using archive and new interviews Kirsten Lass explores SAT what effects these major events had on the city and its SAT people. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00st4v6 (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Secret Pilgrim, Episode 3 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 3: Ned's routine vetting of a cypher clerk takes a SAT remarkable turn, and George Smiley bids his final farewell. SAT SAT Ann ..... Anna Chancellor SAT Frewin ..... Toby Jones SAT Serg. Hawthorne ..... Sam Dale SAT Ken Hawthorne ..... Michael Shelford SAT Leonard Burr ..... Nigel Hastings SAT Sir Anthony Bradshaw ..... Rupert Vansittart SAT SAT Producer Patrick Rayner SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00sw452 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00sv6vh (Listen) SAT The abject failure of the England team was bad enough, but SAT the fact that they boasted some of the most highly paid SAT players in the world certainly rubs salt into the wound. SAT Footballer's salaries have long been an easy target for SAT commentators; they may be absurdly wealthy and earn more in SAT a year than the vast majority of us will earn in a lifetime, SAT but is there anything inherently wrong or immoral in that? SAT SAT After footballers, bankers have been the favourite target SAT for our envy and the financial crisis and cut backs have SAT added many more to that list. Extreme disparities in pay SAT rates between the top and the bottom of an organisation are SAT said to breed unhappiness and to be particularly corrosive SAT to social cohesion, but should we make a link between SAT virtuous effort and just reward and if so, how? Is it just a SAT question of egalitarianism or justice? Is the answer more SAT radical than that? Is it time to abandon our "because I'm SAT worth it" attitudes to pay and start to value things like SAT personal challenge, loyalty and service? Do we need a SAT cultural critique of the assumption that it's only money, SAT power and status that can make us happy? Or do market forces SAT really bring out the best in us? Reward, value, worth and SAT greed. It must be the Moral Maze. SAT SAT Michael Buerk chairs with Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, SAT Michael Portillo and Clifford Longley. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00stq0l (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 Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 23:30 Glastonbury Poetry Diaries b00st4vb (Listen) SAT Performance poetry has become a regular and popular element SAT in the annual Glastonbury mix, and the poetry stage in 2010, SAT the Festival's fortieth birthday year, is bigger than ever. SAT We've asked five poets to write poems specially for the SAT Festival - most of them are festival regulars, one's just SAT had a baby who will be coming with her for an early SAT introduction to poetry and to Glastonbury, and one's SAT arriving from Botswana. They'll be recording their SAT preparations as they arrive in the days leading up to the SAT weekend, and performing them in various locations around the SAT festival site as the weekend approaches and the atmosphere SAT heats up. They'll be giving us a behind-the-scenes insight SAT into the festival, and a set of high-energy performances SAT created specially for Radio 4. SAT SAT The performers are: SAT Helen Gregory, co-ordinator of Poetry and Words at SAT Glastonbury Festival since 2008, a performer who cunningly SAT combines poetry with a career as a psychology lecturer. SAT Pete Hunter: a funny and witty wordsmith and poetry SAT promoter, and a multi Slam-winner here and abroad SAT Hollie McNish, stand-up poet, winner of the 2009 Farrago SAT Slam Championship and recent first-time mother. SAT Andreatta Chuma: writer, poet, songwriter and performer, a SAT member of Botswana's renowned Exodus Live Poetry Collective SAT Dreadlock Alien: hugely popular performer, teacher, one-time SAT Birmingham Poet Laureate and presenter of Radio 4's Poetry SAT Slams. SAT SAT Producer: Sara Davies. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 04 JULY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00sw4v1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00f9gbh (Listen) SUN Parlez-vous British?, Finding Dad SUN SUN The first in a series of intriguing stories revealing the SUN best and worst of the Nation abroad. SUN SUN In Finding Dad, a Londoner suspects that his real father may SUN not be the one he has known all his life. A trip SUN to Paris seems indicated - after all, no man is an island. SUN But try telling that to Dad. SUN SUN Jack Davenport reads Rob Green's specially written story. SUN SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sw4v3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sw4v5 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sw4v7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00sw4v9 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00sw4vc (Listen) SUN The bells of St Leonard's church in Bledington, Gloucester. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00sw44w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00sw4vf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00sw4vh (Listen) SUN Finding Your Father SUN SUN British-based Gospel singer and broadcaster Muyiwa Olarewaju SUN tells the story of his search for a father. He was sent from SUN Nigeria to Britain when he 10 years old. His father was shot SUN dead in Nigeria and he never saw him again. SUN SUN Muyiwa recalls standing on a London high street, with all SUN his belongings in a black bin bag, wondering where to turn. SUN He recounts how he met a church youth leader Emmanuel Mbakwe SUN - now the national leader of the UK Apostolic Church - who SUN adopted him and encouraged him to take up his career as a SUN Gospel singer. This led to a deeper understanding of his SUN spiritual father and eventual peace. SUN SUN Muyiwa reflects upon the true sense of fatherhood, drawing SUN on readings ranging from Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's SUN classic "Things Fall Apart", to American Marilynne SUN Robinson's "Gilead". He also draws on music and songs which SUN reflect the theme of finding a father - including his own SUN hit Gospel song "Safe In His Hands," recorded with his band SUN Riversongz. SUN SUN Producer: Kim Normanton SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00sw4vk (Listen) SUN Bee Unit SUN SUN How do you artificially inseminate a Queen bee? And more to SUN the point, why would you want to? Charlotte Smith visits the SUN National Bee Unit at the Food and Environment Research SUN Agencies' laboratories at Sandhutton near York to find out. SUN SUN Although much of the work done there is under a microscope, SUN scientists there also have the job of managing 150 colonies SUN of bees. And when each colony could contain 60,000 SUN honeybees, that's a lot of insects - as Charlotte discovers SUN in the sweltering heat inside a bee suit surrounded by the SUN roar of thousands of foragers returning to their hives. SUN SUN The NBU is currently working on improved breeding programmes SUN and as Mike Brown, the head of the National Bee Unit, tells SUN Charlotte these bees are 'posh' bees. By that he means these SUN are pedigree honeybees, especially selected for the best SUN genetic traits. "This is no different from a farmer breeding SUN a pedigree sheep" he tells Charlotte as he oversees a Queen SUN Bee being artificially inseminated under a microscope. SUN SUN The NBU also houses Europe's only colony of the Small Hive SUN Beetle. This insect has the power to cause massive damage to SUN hives in the UK were it to arrive here. The colony at the SUN NBU is kept under strict levels of security. "You're really SUN scared of this aren't you" Charlotte observes as she dons a SUN frozen lab jacket, and proceeds through a series of air SUN locks in order to see the beetle through two layers of perspex. SUN SUN And regarding the first question 'how do you inseminate a SUN bee?'. The answer is 'very carefully'. SUN SUN Presenter: Charlotte Smith. Producer: Fran Barnes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00sw4vm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00sw4vp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00sw4vr (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00sw4vt (Listen) SUN Telephones for the Blind SUN SUN Alan Titchmarsh presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Telephones for the Blind. SUN SUN Donations to Telephones for the Blind should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Telephones for the Blind. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN Telephones for the Blind with your full name and address so SUN they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and SUN phone donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 255155. SUN SUN Telephones for the Blind SUN SUN The Telephones for the Blind Fund exists to pay the SUN installation cost of a BT telephone line, and a grant SUN towards line rental for those who are registered-blind, live SUN alone or with a handicapped partner and cannot meet the SUN charges out of income themselves. SUN SUN The costs are paid direct to BT, and this vital lifeline SUN enables many blind people to live in their own homes, or in SUN their own room in a care home, and gives them some SUN much-needed independence. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00sw4vw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00sw4vy (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00sw5yf (Listen) SUN On the Sunday nearest the fifth anniversary of the 7/7 SUN bombings in London, a service from Newcastle Presbyterian SUN Church in County Down, a town which itself has experienced SUN terrorist violence. SUN Preacher: The Rev Ivan Patterson SUN Led by Michael McClure SUN Director of Music: Christina Irvine SUN Producer: Bert Tosh. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00svv6x (Listen) SUN Stars of South London SUN SUN David Cannadine celebrates the cultural heritage of South SUN London, in particular, Dulwich Picture Gallery and two great SUN writers whose talents were nurtured nearby. P.G. Wodehouse SUN and Raymond Chandler were both pupils at Dulwich College SUN where the then headmaster fostered their ablity to write SUN vivid prose, whether the subject was tough blondes or dotty SUN peers. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00sw5yh (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00sw5yk (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 ..... 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SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00strwh (Listen) SUN Series 53, Episode 2 SUN SUN The 53rd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment SUN for the young at heart, as the programme pays a return visit SUN to the Centaur in Cheltenham. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme SUN Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on the SUN panel by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in the chair. Regular SUN listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless SUN revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00sw7fg (Listen) SUN As part of the Radio 4 season, London: Another Country? The SUN Food Programme looks at the growth of the capital's SUN underground supper clubs and its connection to a 1930's SUN block of flats, the Isokon building. SUN SUN Why are today's Londoners embracing the concept of turning SUN their homes into "pop up" restaurants and inviting strangers SUN in to dine? SUN SUN Food writer Tim Hayward believes the answer lies in the SUN story of a dining club founded in 1930's London called "The SUN Half Hundred". Many of its members were artists, designers SUN and writers and residents of the Isokon building. The group SUN set out to challenge established thinking about dining out SUN in London. Is that what today's "pop up" hosts are setting SUN out to do? Sheila Dillon finds out. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00sw7fj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00sw7fl (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 The Sinking of the Lancastria b00swj3b (Listen) SUN On the 17th of June 1940 thousands of British troops and SUN airmen died as their troopship, the Lancastria, was sunk by SUN German bombers. Allan Little travels to the French port of SUN St Nazaire on the 70th anniversary of Britain's worst SUN maritime disaster, to tell the story. SUN SUN We hear from survivors of the ship who miraculously survived SUN the sinking and the chaos of the sea alight with spilled SUN oil. In particular we follow the story of Ft Lt Albert Hill, SUN the last man off the ship, whose unpublished diary has come SUN to light. SUN SUN We also find out why, so many years after the story was SUN suppressed by Churchill in the darkest days of the war, SUN there is still a reluctance in England to acknowledge and SUN commemorate the tragedy. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Marling SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00svv6l (Listen) SUN It's the annual Gardeners' Question Time Summer Garden SUN Party. This year we're in our southern garden at Sparsholt SUN College, Hampshire. SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Biggs and Bunny Guinness offer SUN their expert advice to our green-fingered listeners. Plus SUN highlights from our all-day gardening event. SUN SUN Presented by Eric Robson. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Picturing Britain b00jwy0t (Listen) SUN UK Instantaneous SUN SUN In spring 2009, fashion photographer Rankin invited people SUN across the UK to take part in his most ambitious project to SUN date; Rankin Live! It was open to anyone aged 13 and over, SUN with a distinctive style and sense of British ethnicity and SUN enthusiasm. Using cutting-edge technology he shot and SUN instantly printed the portraits of 1,000 Brits which went on SUN display at an ever-changing exhibition last summer. The SUN process took only 15 minutes, from the click of the shutter SUN to the hanging. Adil Ray went along to the shoot to talk to SUN the man and his array of subjects as they prepared to SUN capture the look that defines our time. Rankin's portfolio SUN of celebrity subjects have included Britney Spears, Kate SUN Moss and the Queen, and he was co-founder in 1991 of Dazed SUN and Confused magazine. SUN SUN Producer: Mohini Patel. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00swkc1 (Listen) SUN Summer Lightning, Episode 1 SUN SUN A star cast in a timeless comedy. SUN SUN Affably absent-minded Earl of Emsworth, preparing his SUN prize-winning pig Empress of Blandings for the Shropshire SUN Agricultural Show, is afraid that rival pig-owner Sir SUN Gregory Parsloe is planning to nobble his precious Empress. SUN Parsloe fears that Emsworth's brother Galahad's memoirs SUN contain scurrilous stories about their younger days in the SUN naughty 1890s - particularly a racy story involving some SUN prawns. He plans to hire private detective Percy Pilbeam to SUN purloin the manuscript. SUN SUN Emsworth's sister Lady Constance, equally desperate to stop SUN publication, also has a secret plan. SUN SUN And romance is in the air. His Lordship's new secretary and SUN Emsworth's niece Millicent are secretly in love, but need SUN financial help to pull off the marital merger. Emsworth's SUN nephew, Ronnie Fish, is also in love with an unsuitable SUN person - chorus girl Sue Brown. But Emsworth refuses to SUN allow Ronnie any more money. Ronnie concocts a plan to SUN regain his uncle's approval. SUN SUN Pig-napping, private detection, impostering, mistaken SUN situations, fisticuffs and broken engagements ensue. All is SUN set for glorious mid-summer mayhem. SUN SUN Galahad Threepwood ..... Charles Dance SUN Lady Constance ..... Patricia Hodge SUN Beach ..... Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Percy Pilbeam ..... Matt Lucas SUN Lord Emsworth ..... Martin Jarvis SUN Hugo Carmody ..... Samuel West SUN Sue Brown ..... Lisa Dillon SUN Ronnie Fish ..... Matthew Wolf SUN Millicent ..... Rachael Stirling SUN Rupert Baxter ..... Jared Harris SUN Sir Gregory Parsloe ..... Michael Jayston SUN Stage Doorman/Second Waiter ..... David Weston SUN Commissionaire/First Waiter ..... Jon Glover SUN Pagegirl ..... Anna Moore SUN Voice of Wodehouse ..... Ian Ogilvy SUN SUN Dramatised by Archie Scottney. SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN Producer: Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00swkc3 (Listen) SUN Henning Mankell SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to the Swedish thriller SUN writer Henning Mankell about his novel Sidetracked, SUN featuring his detective Kurt Wallander. SUN SUN Henning Mankell's character is now in the pantheon of SUN fictional detectives. Like Conan Doyle before him, Mankell SUN receives letters from readers addressed to Kurt Wallander. SUN SUN They think he's real because he's like us. He's a detective SUN who suffers angst about the way the world is changing, SUN readers witness his depressions and his difficult SUN relationships with women. Mankell calls it the 'diabetes SUN syndrome'. Can you imagine, he says, James Bond stopping SUN mid-action for a shot of insulin? SUN SUN Mankell was already a well known writer in Sweden before he SUN found worldwide fame with Wallander. SUN SUN He created Wallander to write about the changes in Swedish SUN society. Always known for its generous welfare state and its SUN tolerance, Mankell was dismayed to see a certain xenophobia SUN developing with race crimes against immigrants in the early SUN nineties. For him, the best way to explore this issue was SUN within a crime story, and so he needed a detective to solve SUN the mystery. SUN SUN Recorded with a group of twenty-five readers in the studio, SUN Bookclub with Henning Mankell is a lively and entertaining SUN discussion that belies any stereotype of Swedish moroseness SUN - with a writer considering his best known creation. SUN SUN James Naughtie chairs the programme. SUN SUN August's Bookclub choice : 'What I Loved' by Siri Hustvedt. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00swlfq (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces a broad selection of listeners' SUN poetry requests, including work by Keats, Vernon Scannell SUN and Maura Dooley. There are poems about bravery, wandering SUN women, sleep and rain. The readers are Kenneth Cranham and SUN Jonjo O'Neill. Maura Dooley reads her own poem, re-telling a SUN story from 1833 of the attempts by the women of Mumbles Head SUN to rescue their men from a capsized lifeboat. There's a SUN sonnet by Keats that might strike a chord with anyone who SUN has felt the desperation of sleeplessness. 'Old Meg she was SUN a gypsy' begins another, very different poem by Keats; 'Meg SUN Merrilees.' It is one of those first lines of poetry that SUN seems to have stuck in the minds of many listeners. There's SUN also an archive reading by Henry Sandon of 'Miss Thompson SUN Goes Shopping' by Martin Armstrong. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00sv5bf (Listen) SUN Is Britain's economic recovery going to be stifled by banks SUN not offering sufficient finance to small and medium size SUN companies? SUN SUN Firms are concerned that although the banks say they are SUN open for business the reality of the terms, conditions and SUN fees make it unrealistic for them to apply for finance. SUN SUN In frustration, some businesses have turned to foreign banks SUN to make finance available to them. SUN SUN And at a time when hi-tech businesses are seen as a source SUN of future growth for the British economy, companies complain SUN that banks are assessing loan applications using traditional SUN business criteria which offer little support to this sector. SUN SUN As the part state owned banks fail to meet lending targets SUN set by the previous administration, the new Business SUN Secretary Vince Cable says he is determined to address this. SUN But in the current climate how much more financial help can SUN British business really expect? SUN SUN For 'File on 4', Morland Sanders investigates. SUN Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00sw44w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00swlfs (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00swlfv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00swlfx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00swlfz (Listen) SUN Clvie Coleman makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN On this week's Pick of the Week Clive Coleman, releases the SUN power of Al Pacino on an unsuspecting John Humphrys. He SUN finds out where housewives favourite Des Lynam's been SUN hiding, how a recession hit American city is being returned SUN to farmland, what happened to the once great human smell SUN gene, why people don't intervene to help those attacked in SUN the street, oh and you can hear former England penalty SUN misser and king of the mullet Chris Waddle, lose his cool SUN and release his inner Geordie in a tirade against English SUN football. SUN SUN The Secret World - Radio 4 SUN Flash - Radio 4 SUN A Doggerel Bard - Radio 4 SUN Touchline Tales - Radio 4 SUN Chris Waddle - 5live SUN Americana - Radio 4 SUN No Triumph, No Tragedy - Radio 4 SUN Boom Boom - Radio 4 SUN A Strange Enchanted Boy - Radio 4 SUN The Art of the Genome - Radio 4 SUN Paul Temple and Steve - Radio 4 SUN The Sinking of the Lancastria - Radio 4 SUN Walk on By - Radio 4 SUN The Glory of Glam - Radio 2 SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN FAX: 0161 244 4243 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00swljm (Listen) SUN It's a challenging day for Jamie, and Lynda seeks SUN inspiration. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00swljp (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 b00fyqdb (Listen) SUN Tapertime, Justin Cartwright SUN SUN The above is an old Edwardian word meaning dusk, and this SUN week's commissioned stories take place as the light fades. SUN What happens to the visual world as dusk emerges? What SUN happens to make people behave differently, often strangely, SUN as the world starts to blur? Five leading writers explore SUN the possibilities. SUN SUN 2. A Question of Light by Justin Cartwright SUN SUN As a young lad the narrator had to leave Sweden for the SUN sunshine of Australia. But certain people and SUN deep-rooted rituals pull him back to the land of the dark... SUN SUN Reader Tim Pigott Smith SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00svt6k (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00svv6n (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN Novelist Beryl Bainbridge. SUN Two Conservative politicians who were on opposite wings of SUN the party: the one nation Tory Lord Walker who survived in SUN Margaret Thatcher's cabinet despite disagreeing with her on SUN many policies and Dame Angela Rumbold, the strong SUN Eurosceptic who tried to advance the cause of women in the party. SUN Professor Sir Hugh Ford: the engineer who made major SUN break-throughs in plastics and metals which fuelled the SUN growth of British manufacturing after the war. SUN Paolo Urbani: the Italian who made a successful business out SUN of truffle hunting. SUN And Robert Byrd: the longest serving American senator. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00sw3sh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00sw4vt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00strwm (Listen) SUN A Dictatorship of Relativism SUN SUN The idea that no one has a monopoly on the truth seems to be SUN fixed in the modern Western psyche. But it's an idea that is SUN under attack. SUN SUN Pope Benedict claims that we are now living in "a SUN dictatorship of relativism" - a place where nothing is SUN certain and we are all slaves to our own desires. But his SUN critics say he is just confusing relativism with liberalism. SUN SUN Edward Stourton examines claims that the tolerance which SUN moral relativism is supposed to foster has in fact morphed SUN into a new form of extremism. SUN SUN He speaks to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan SUN Williams, and to the former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe - SUN hotly-tipped to become the UK's next ambassador to the Holy SUN See. SUN SUN We also hear from the Italian politician and philosopher, SUN Marcello Pera, philosophers Simon Blackburn, Leslie Green SUN and Stephen Wang and the Sunni Islamic scholar Ruzwan Mohammed. SUN SUN Producer: Helen Grady. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00swljr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00swljt (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00swljw (Listen) SUN Episode 8 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. Each programme SUN will see a leading political journalist take a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00svv6q (Listen) SUN Francine Stock reports on the townspeople who saved their SUN local cinema in the Gloucestershire town of SUN Wotton-under-Edge, which is almost entirely run by volunteers. SUN SUN Actor Jason Isaacs on going from the mega budget blockbuster SUN Harry Potter series to the self-financed comedy Skeletons, SUN which won the prize for best British film at the Edinburgh SUN film festival this week SUN SUN Two of France's hottest talents, actor Romain Duris and SUN director Claire Denis, discuss their new films - SUN Heartbreaker, which was a phenomena at the national SUN box-office, and the widely feted White Material SUN SUN Kevin Markwick, owner of The Uckfield Picturehouse, reports SUN back from this year's Cinema Expo convention, which gave SUN industry insiders a glimpse of things to come, from 3-D SUN glasses washers to the latest blockbusters. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00sw4vh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 05 JULY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00swlnw (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00sv6g4 (Listen) MON Subcultures MON MON The term subculture has often been used to describe counter MON cultural youth groups such as Teddy Boys and Goths. But this MON week Thinking Allowed hears from young sociologists from MON York University who've explored the sub culture of pop fans. MON What are the attractions of belonging to such communities of MON music enthusiasts? Tonya Anderson talks about women in their MON forties who link up with other Duran Duran fans via the MON internet in their bedrooms. And Rosemary Hill reveals the MON altogether noisier world of female heavy metal aficionados. MON Professor Angela McRobbie joins Laurie Taylor in the studio MON to ask where the fans of teen pop and heavy metal do or MON don't fit into the history and meaning of subcultures. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00sw4vc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00swlvk (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00swlz6 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00swlx7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00swm0t (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00swmf9 (Listen) MON With George Craig. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00swmgs (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00sx2bv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00swmjq (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00sx2bx (Listen) MON Start The Week pits rational optimism against humane MON pessimism as Andrew Marr brings together the philosopher MON Roger Scruton, who argues against the dangers of false hope, MON and the former chairman of Northern Rock, Matt Ridley, who MON views the world in a much more rosy light. The historian MON Peter Hennessy delves behind the country's national security MON strategy to explore the Secret State, while Linda Colley MON asks when did Britain's constitution become unwritten. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00swmrh (Listen) MON Meeting The Gods (1200 - 1400 AD), Holy Thorn Reliquary MON MON Neil MacGregor's world history as told through things. This MON week he is exploring the sophisticated ways that people MON expressed religious yearning in the 14th and 15th centuries. MON He is looking at the statues of gods and ancestors - in MON India, Mexico and on Easter Island - and he describes the MON importance of icon painting in the Orthodox Church. MON Today he is with an object designed to connect with Christ MON himself - a stunning Christian reliquary from medieval MON Europe made to house a thorn from the crown of thorns. Neil MON tells the story of this highly ornate reliquary while Sister MON Benedicta Ward and the Archbishop of Leeds, the Right MON Reverend Arthur Roche, help explain the background and MON meaning to the powerful tradition of relic worship. MON MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00swp6t (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. The photographer Mario Testino on MON his latest exhibition. MON MON Mario Testino is the ultimate of fashion photographers. His MON work includes those iconic 1997 Vanity Fair photographs of MON Diana, Princess of Wales, and Liz Hurley riding on the back MON of Elton John. A number of prints of the supermodel Kate MON Moss are to be exhibited at Phillips de Pury’s London MON headquarters. Mario joins Jane to talk about his life and MON career, and to share some of the secrets behind his success. MON MON An exhibition of selected works by will be on view from 5th MON – 15th July 2010 at Phillips de Pury & Company’s London MON galleries and from 16th July at the Saatchi Gallery MON MON Naked parents and naked children MON MON Are you comfortable being naked in front of your children? MON Do you mind if your toddler runs around in the nude? Some MON people are concerned that it sends confusing sexual messages MON or prematurely instils awareness of sexuality. So should MON there be rules in the family about nudity? Jane discusses MON these issues with Dr Miriam Stoppard and clinical MON psychologist Linda Blair. MON MON Childhood Obesity MON MON It is estimated there are three million children who are MON overweight or obese in the UK. Many health experts say it’s MON a ‘ticking time bomb’. Today sees the launch of the first MON ever National Childhood Obesity Week. Health organisations MON and charities like the National Obesity Forum and the MON British Heart Foundation are calling on the government to MON set out its strategy for tackling the problem. Jane hears MON from families coping with obesity and is joined by Tam Fry MON from the National Obesity Forum and Jacqui Lowdon, a MON paediatric dietician. MON MON Male Contraception MON MON Fifty years after women's lives were transformed for ever by MON the Pill, Health Check on the World Service asks why there MON is still no male equivalent. Jane talks to the presenter MON Claudia Hammond about her programme. MON MON Health Check is broadcast on Monday 5th July at 8.30pm on MON the World Service MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00swpqv (Listen) MON The Song House, Episode 1 MON MON An adaptation of Trezza Azzopardi's new novel, a compelling MON psychological thriller involving a young woman with a secret MON in her past. During a rainy summer Maggie arrives for a job MON interview at a large house in the country. The house is MON empty apart from Kenneth, an elderly man, who wants a MON secretary to do an unusual live-in job. He wants someone to MON listen to his music collection, and transcribe his MON impressions and memories connected to each piece of music. MON Kenneth is odd, isolated, perhaps on the edge of dementia, MON slightly threatening. But Maggie is mysterious too and she MON has some hidden plan in taking this job. She knows this MON place, she's been here before. Piece by piece, as the rain MON intensifies and the river begins to flood, we learn about MON Maggie's shocking past. MON Trezza Azzopardi's novels have been short-listed for MON numerous awards, including the Booker. Critics praise her MON story-telling ability, her psychological acuity and her MON intense poetic atmosphere. MON MON Cast: MON MON MAGGIE.............KAY CURRAM MON NARRATOR..........SHARON MORGAN MON KENNETH...........JOHN CASTLE MON ALISON............CAROLINE HARKER MON WILLIAM............ MARK MEADOWS MON RUSTY............ MARILYN LE CONTE MON MON Adapted by Elizabeth Burke MON Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 11:00 Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries b00n3mq4 (Listen) MON Errol Flynn was cinema's brightest Hollywood star, with a MON series of unforgettable swashbuckling epics to his name. MON However, Flynn spent his last year with girflriend Beverley MON Aadland on the island of Cuba, mixing with Castro, Che MON Guevara and the Cuban rebels. We hear about the pair's MON two-year relationship and their time together in Cuba. MON MON Errol's daughter Rory Flynn saw Beverley as a positive force MON in her father's life and key in their final adventure to MON Cuba in 1958. Flynn secured a commission from Hearst MON newspapers to file reports and secure an interview with MON Castro. The programme explores these articles filed by Flynn MON - many which have lain unseen in a Texan archive for 50 MON years. MON MON On his return from the mountains, Flynn set about capturing MON his adventures on film and secured the funds to star MON alongside Beverley in "Cuban Rebel Girls". The film MON disappeared without trace, but Flynn set about recording the MON events of the revolution with producer Victor Pahlen, and MON their documentary film "Cuban Story" was the result. Hear MON clips from both of these films in this programme. MON MON Fifty years after his passing, Errol Flynn is famous for his MON epic films, womanizing, and hard-living lifestyle. However, MON his strange venture into the world of Cuban politics and MON flirtation with the flowering of Castro's brand of communism MON is as an untold story. Now, we address this oversight. MON MON Presented by Patrick Humphries. MON Producer: John Sugar MON A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Clare in the Community b00sx2ql (Listen) MON Series 6, The Crush MON MON Clare decides to focus her attention on her son, Thomas. MON This leads to a chance meeting at Toddler Tunes that could MON change the course of Clare's life. Meanwhile, Brian's MON admiration for Nali grows when she visits his school and MON tames Year Nine. All this plus Clare and Libby both MON interview for the Team Leader post. MON MON Clare ..... Sally Phillips MON Brian ..... Alex Lowe MON Ray/Pendred/Interviewer .... Richard Lumsden MON Helen ..... Liza Tarbuck MON Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti MON Libby ..... Jess Robinson MON Sybil/Girl/Nuli ..... Alex Tregear MON Howard ..... Paterson Joseph MON MON Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00swrj9 (Listen) MON Julian Worricker brings you up to date on the latest drug MON shortage which is affecting Parkinson's sufferers, could it MON be a long-term problem? MON MON We'll hear from three leading disability charities who've MON had a chance to digest the budget. They tell us how the cuts MON will affect their work? MON MON And is the campaign to create new village greens leading to MON a housing crisis? MON MON 12:57 Weather b00swrr1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00swrtw (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00sx2qn (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 Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00swljm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sx2qr (Listen) MON Badfellas MON MON Comedy drama by Andy Lynch. MON MON Danny Brewer and his long suffering fiance Jan go to Las MON Vegas to get married, after many years of failed attempts. MON But it isn't long before they've lost all their money and MON the wedding looks doomed again. Danny's brother Bernie MON attracts the eye of a gay Elvis impersonator, who could be MON the salvation they desperately need. MON MON Bernie ..... Johnny Vegas MON Danny ..... Ricky Tomlinson MON Jan ..... Nicola Stephenson MON Elvis Impersonator/Salvatore ..... Rupert Degas MON Lulla Belle/Serena ..... Lorelie King MON De Ricco/Henchman ..... Michael Roberts MON Marge ..... DeNica Fairman MON MON Directed by Dirk Maggs MON Produced by David Morley MON A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00sw450 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 London Street Cries b00swyln (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON As part of 'London: Another Country ?' on Radio 4, five MON short features in which the voices of the poor of Victorian MON London throw into sharp relief the underprivileged of MON today's London. The present-day is heard through MON interviews, the Victorian stories are voiced by actors from MON the verbatim transcripts made in the 1850s by the pioneer of MON London oral history, Henry Mayhew, author of "London Labour MON and the London Poor". MON MON It is impossible to read Mayhew without being struck by how MON little has changed. The rough sleepers of Mayhew's West End MON are there today too, there are always girls forced to walk MON the streets under-age, the market stall-holders still flaunt MON their stock, hen parties look for "grotesque" dancing to MON enjoy as the Victorians did the "penny gaff" and mudlarks go MON on working the shore of the Thames. MON MON In Part 1 we hear those living rough then and now, about the MON hardship and risks of living on the streets of London. MON MON Each programme highlights a particular sector of London MON life, now and then: MON MON Cast for the week MON MON Henry Mayhew .....Sam Dale MON With Jude Akuwudike, Tony Bell, Christine Kavanagh, Alison MON Pettit, David Seddon, Michael Shelford, Lloyd Thomas MON Abridged by Penny Gold MON Producers: Jeremy Mortimer and Rebecca Stratford. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00sw7fg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00sx2qt (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON MON Things Can Only Get Better? MON In the last of the current series, physicist Brian Cox and MON comedian Robin Ince look at the notion of perfection and MON whether the latest advances in the biomedical sciences could MON ever lead us to the perfect body. What are the limitations MON of science, and can we visualise a future where we transcend MON the human form that evolution has led us to, and would we MON want to? MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b00sx0tf (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sx0xx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00sx2z1 (Listen) MON Series 53, Episode 3 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a MON first-time visit to the Sands Centre in Carlisle. Regulars MON Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined MON on the panel by Sandi Toksvig, with Jack Dee in the chair. MON Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon MON Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00swygb (Listen) MON Ruth broaches a sensitive subject and Jaxx has an MON appreciative visitor. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00sx18r (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including a review of London River, a film MON set in the wake of the London bombings on July 7 2005, with MON a cast including Brenda Blethyn. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00swmrh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Far From The Madding Child b00sx2z3 (Listen) MON Firhall, in the Scottish Highlands, is the first village in MON Britain to be child-free. MON MON To buy a property here, you have to be 45-plus with no MON dependent family in tow, and you must sign a contract MON agreeing not to sell property on to those with children. The MON concept, adapted from an American idea which is growing in MON popularity in Europe, is the latest twist in the trend MON towards segregated communities. MON MON But in a rapidly ageing population is it desirable - or even MON practical - to encourage these sorts of settlements where MON older people are segregated from the rest of society? MON MON When it first opened, this child-free community of over-45s MON ruffled feathers, prompting a media hate campaign in which MON residents were denounced as child haters. MON MON But as Kati Whitaker discovers, the residents have a quite MON different perspective. They see Firhall as offering a new MON approach to life - where they can shrug off the old MON stereotypes associated with ageing and live full and active lives. MON MON What's more, far from feeling shunted out of the mainstream MON and left to die out of sight, they claim Firhall provides MON them with their right to a life free from noise and hassle - MON a village which to them is nothing short of utopia. MON MON Producer: David Prest MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00sx2z5 (Listen) MON The Euro Nightmare MON MON The Greek debt crisis has prompted calls for Greece to be MON thrown out of the Euro. There has even been speculation that MON the single currency itself might not survive - the secret MON but influential Bilderberg group met in June this year to MON consider, it is said, the unthinkable - whether the Euro MON might be doomed. It is a situation not envisaged by the MON Euro's architects who created no mechanism for leaving the MON currency or for its abolition. MON MON Chris Bowlby looks at the likely fate of the Euro. What MON wowill happen if it is abolished and what will it look like MON if it survives? Would Europe revert to having several MON different currencies and how far is German economic power, MON which the Euro was meant to contain, going to dominate the MON new European economic order. MON MON Chris Bowlby is a BBC journalist who enjoys investigating MON the economic and political consequences of hypothetical MON events: his previous Analysis programmes have included MON examinations of the effects of a British exit from the MON European Union and of Scottish independence from the UK. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00svnn9 (Listen) MON 350 years ago, a group of 'natural philosophers' got MON together to found a club in London. With the patronage of MON Charles II, they called it 'The Royal Society'. Today it is MON the nation's elite academy of sciences and, to celebrate the MON anniversary, it is staging its Summer Exhibition this week MON on the Southbank of the Thames. Quentin Cooper visits the MON exhibition to see a model volcano, a holographic mine MON detector, a flying penguin, segments of the biggest MON telescope in the world, the longest-lived animal on Earth MON and to test his own cultural evolution. Plus amateur snail MON science at the Gardener's Question Time Summer Garden Party. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00sx2bx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00sx1gq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00sx1q4 (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 b00sx1q6 (Listen) MON Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter, Episode 6 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, an MON uncontrolled moment of passion. After an increasingly MON unhappy time at home, Kathy abandons Robert for the Riviera, MON leaving him to ponder their marriage - and dream of what MON might have been with Mary. MON MON The Reader is Juliet Stevenson MON Abridger Sally Marmion MON Producer Di Speirs MON MON 23:00 London Nights b00sxgvq (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Writer Andrea Levy presents the first of ten anthologies of MON short pieces for radio that capture a certain off-beat MON spirit of London. MON MON In this first programme, we join the crew of one of London's MON police helicopters looking down on city streets as they MON carve their circling way through the London sky on the MON shortest night of the year; on the ground, Andrea hears from MON Zimbabwean David Mwanaka who farms 60 - yes 60 - acres in MON Enfield, growing white maize; and on the final day of MON paid-for local newspapers on the streets of London, Alan MON Dein talked to the vendors calling "Standard! Evening MON Standard!" for the last time in October. MON MON Regular features include Pairs in Squares, in which Jonathan MON Glancey randomly selects a section from the grid of London's MON famous streetmap and explores it in company with a MON well-known London companion; and The Other Londons - five MON places with a 'London' name NOT found within the M25. MON MON Andrea Levy was born in London and holds the city close to MON her heart; her experience growing up here as a black MON Londoner pervades her novels and is the thread woven through MON this mix of the day-to-day and the nocturnal... of pieces MON taking a sidelong glance as well as a more direct approach. MON A blend of poetry and prose, of the factual and the MON fictional that together make up this diverse and diverting MON nightly series. MON MON Executive Producer: Simon Elmes. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sx1y3 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 06 JULY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00swll8 (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 b00swmrh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00swlsp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00swlxc (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00swlvm (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00swlz8 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00swm0w (Listen) TUE With George Craig. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00swmfc (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00swmgv (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; TUE Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The London Story b00sx7r0 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah explores how, over the last TUE thirty years, London became a diverse, creatively rich world TUE city and how its brash, dynamic and uncompromising TUE population has shaped its politics and culture since the 1970s. TUE TUE There is no such thing as a typical Londoner - one in three TUE of the city's residents was born outside the UK and some 300 TUE languages are spoken in the capital. Those who come to TUE London are drawn to its teeming possibilities, its openness TUE and its promise of life without limits - you can be who you TUE want to be because everybody else is too busy enjoying the TUE buzz to care. TUE TUE Yet in the 1970s London was on the brink - a depressed city TUE with a declining population and a shrinking manufacturing TUE base. These days the population is growing again and, TUE recession notwithstanding, the city is basking in a cultural TUE resurgence and a confidence in its 24 hour cosmopolitan TUE reputation which is evident from the streets of Soho to the TUE bustle of Brick Lane. On the other hand, it's argued that TUE today's London at the top of its game has become adrift from TUE the rest of the UK, that it's now a city of the world rather TUE than of its own country. TUE TUE Brought up in 1970s Southall in west London, Kwame returns TUE to his childhood haunts to hear how his neighbourhood's TUE history laid the foundations of what Southall is today - a TUE lively, multi ethnic community. In April 1979 tensions in TUE Southall led to protests in the streets and clashes with the TUE police that cost the life of demonstrator Blair Peach. TUE Today's Southall is a relatively harmonious community and TUE Kwame hears the stories of how its evolution from that TUE crisis has eptiomised the coming of age of the 21st TUE century's dynamic, multi ethnic London. TUE TUE Producer: Paula McGinley. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00swmjs (Listen) TUE Meeting The Gods (1200 - 1400 AD), TUE Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy TUE TUE This week Neil MacGregor's world history as told through TUE objects is describing how people expressed devotion and TUE connection with the divine in the 14th and 15th centuries. TUE TUE Today he is with an icon from Constantinople that looks back TUE in history to celebrate the overthrow of iconoclasm and the TUE restoration of holy images in AD 843 - a moment of triumph TUE for the Orthodox branch of the Christian Church. This icon TUE shows the annual festival of orthodoxy celebrated on the TUE first Sunday of Lent, with historical figures of that time TUE and a famous depiction of the Virgin Mary. TUE TUE The American artist Bill Viola responds to the icon and TUE describes the special characteristics of religious painting. TUE And the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch describes the often TUE troubled relationship between the Church and the images it TUE has produced. TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00swp2p (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. What has happened to women in TUE punk? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00swqbw (Listen) TUE The Song House, Episode 2 TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00sx8nd (Listen) TUE Episode 14 TUE TUE 14/40. There is a small patch of Cornwall that some argue is TUE as important to Britain for its wild plants as the Cape is TUE for South Africa. The Lizard Peninsular on the south coast TUE of Cornwall has a unique geology, degree of dryness and TUE temperature to be a hot spot for plants found nowhere else TUE in Great Britain. One of those plants is the Pygmy Rush - TUE And it's the Pygmy Rush that is the centre of a big recovery TUE project by conservation organisation, Plantlife. This small TUE wild plant doesn't like too much competition from other TUE plants, but can exploit the harshest and most brutal ground. TUE To recreate areas of unforgiving bare ground the TUE conservationists are scarring this important botanical TUE hotspot with 4x4 vehicle tracks to create the furrows this TUE plant can exploit and so flourish. We will be there to find TUE the plant and to see this extreme form of tough love. TUE TUE And part three of Gillian Rice's vulture report from India. TUE Having broken the news that the RSPB and the Indian TUE Conservationists have successfully hatched vultures from TUE eggs in incubators (a first in the world for bird TUE conservation), Gillian reports on how India is ridding the TUE use of Diclofenac in cattle [the drug heavily implicated in TUE poisoning 99.9% of Indias vultures]. TUE TUE And, ominously, we're hearing reports that the use of TUE Diclofenac by vets and farmers is increasing in Africa. TUE Could African vultures go the same way as the Indian TUE population? We'll find out. TUE TUE Our newshound Kelvin Boot will be with us with wildlife TUE stories making the news from around the world. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Grayson Perry on Creativity and Imagination b00sx8ng (Listen) TUE Grayson Perry is an epitome of creativity: a Turner Prize TUE winning ceramicist who's as famous for his alter-ego Claire TUE as for his pottery. TUE TUE But what does being creative really mean? He's on a mission TUE to find out. TUE TUE Talent shows dominate TV schedules and we are taught that TUE everyone can take part, but genuine talent, originality and TUE the idea of learning a traditional arts skill is TUE persistently overlooked he argues. TUE TUE With the help of some of the most talented people in the TUE business, Grayson Perry will be exploring how the TUE imagination works. Creativity has become the modern buzzword TUE of bureaucrats trying to ensure wider access to the arts. TUE And it has been subject to a lot of mythmaking. Grayson TUE wants to nail down these myths and show how creativity isn't TUE a mystery, but at the same time it isn't necessarily easily TUE accessible. TUE TUE Writers Terry Pratchett and Rose Tremain, fashion designer TUE Hussein Chalayan and Ray Tallis, poet and neuroscientist all TUE join Grayson on his quest. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00swrbp (Listen) TUE Which laws should be scrapped? The Deputy Prime Minister, TUE Nick Clegg, is asking the public to go online and tell him TUE what rules and regulations should go. He wants us all to TUE have a say in how to restore civil liberties and cut red TUE tape for businesses and charities. So which ones would you TUE nominate? The Taxpayers Alliance says the ID Cards Act and TUE the Digital Economy Act should be ditched. The TUC wants to TUE scrap the VAT exemption on private school fees. Suggestions TUE from elsewhere include getting rid of double yellow lines TUE along high streets to help small businesses and abolishing TUE the Human Rights Act. So which laws would cut bureaucracy TUE and curb the nanny state? Your nominations please. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00swrjc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00swrr3 (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Smash Hit of 1453 b00rt921 (Listen) TUE In the musical powerhouse of Europe in the 15th century, one TUE tune caught the imagination of the court composers. This was TUE The Armed Man (or in its original French "L'Homme Arme"). A TUE rousing first line warns that "the armed man must be feared" TUE and goes on to tell everyone to arm themselves with a coat TUE of mail. The musician and broadcaster Rainer Hersch unpicks TUE the facts we know of the tune and its words, making his way TUE through 40 odd church masses by as many composers, who used TUE the melody as a base. TUE TUE Early music specialists Catherine Bott and Andrew Kirkman TUE think the original song may have been a warning against the TUE threat of the warring Turks, following the fall of TUE Constantinople in 1453, but it could equally have been a TUE popular children's or even a pub song. Whatever its origin TUE it became literally the "Smash Hit" of that time, but then, TUE like much of pop music, it just went out of fashion and TUE disappeared. TUE TUE Rainer leaves the 15th century behind to find out why the TUE song suddenly burst back into life in the 20th century. TUE Christopher Marshall heard it in his New Zealand school and TUE composed a lively piece for wind band. Karl Jenkins came TUE across it during the Kosovo crisis 10 years ago, and TUE composed his popular Mass for Peace. This begins with the TUE sounds of an approaching army, with the original tune TUE bursting out at the climax. The Master of the Queen's Music, TUE Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, encountered it while studying in TUE Italy, and composed a theatre piece where it becomes TUE anything from a hymn to a foxtrot. And this year the TUE folk-group Mawkin:Causley released their first album and TUE turned it into a fast-moving riff, which gets audiences on TUE their feet. TUE TUE Rainer traces the journey of the tune and the words, as it TUE appears in these very different musical clothes. TUE TUE The producers are Richard Bannerman and Merilyn Harris, and TUE it is a Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00swygb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sx8nj (Listen) TUE Mr Anwar's Farewell to Stornoway TUE TUE By Iain Finlay MacLeod. TUE TUE Mr Anwar has lived for four decades on the Isle of Lewis, in TUE the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Indian by birth, and a TUE tailor to trade, he came to the UK to make his fortune. TUE Heading north, away from London's cramped confines, he built TUE a successful clothing business from scratch: selling men's TUE trousers and ladies underwear from two suitcases balanced on TUE the back of a bicycle. TUE TUE The suitcases were soon exchanged for a busy shop in TUE Stornoway. He brought his wife to the island and the pair TUE raised their family in the community. And yet, across the TUE decades, Mr Anwar clung onto a fervid dream of his youth: to TUE make a fortune and retire in style to India. TUE TUE Now, five months into retirement, things are not going quite TUE as he had planned. Distraction appears in the form of his TUE taciturn neighbour, Tormod, who asks Mr Anwar to tailor a TUE jacket for him. As the pair get the measure of each other, TUE some difficult questions are asked and hard truths confronted. TUE TUE Mr Anwar ... Vincent Ebrahim TUE Nadia ... Shelley King TUE Tormod ... Matthew Zajac TUE Isobel ... Anne Lacey TUE TUE Mr Anwar's pipe tune composed and performed by Iain TUE MacInnes. TUE TUE Directed by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00sx91n (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners' questions and research help TUE offer new insights into the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00sx93n (Listen) TUE I Was There Too!, Maiden, Mother, Spinster, Saint TUE TUE In the pivotal moments of history the little man is TUE inevitably written out of the history books. Whatever TUE happened to Cleopatra's milkman, Einstein's postman, TUE Michelangelo's model or Shakespeare's gardener? Just maybe TUE there was more going on behind the scenes than we could ever TUE imagine. TUE TUE Writers Lucy Caldwell, Heidi Regan and Jessica Ransom, take TUE us behind the scenes for an alternative look at some great TUE historical moments through the eyes of some unexpected - TUE and, until now - overlooked witnesses who were there too! TUE TUE It's history - but not quite as we know it! TUE TUE Maiden, Mother, Spinster, Saint TUE by Lucy Caldwell TUE Reader: Corrine Kempa TUE TUE Being overshadowed by a sibling takes on a whole new meaning TUE when your sister is a figure of national notoriety. TUE TUE 15:45 London Street Cries b00sx05m (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Continuing the series of voices from the London streets, in TUE which each programme highlights a particular sector of TUE London life, now and in the 1850s. TUE TUE In Part 2 we hear stories from London street sellers and TUE market traders, both from Victorian times and the present day. TUE TUE Abridged by Penny Gold TUE Producers: Jeremy Mortimer and Rebecca Stratford. TUE TUE 16:00 The Chambers b00lnzq9 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Radio 4 goes behind the elegant facades of legal London to TUE meet the barristers, clerks and staff of one of the TUE capital's leading Chambers as they prepare for the biggest TUE upheaval in their history, the implementation of the 2007 TUE Legal Services Act. "If you're looking for somebody to fight TUE on your side you're not looking for the biggest TUE brain-on-a-stick in the world but who can't argue their way TUE out of a bus queue. You need somebody who's going to fight TUE your corner!" Richard is a leading QC who's fought court TUE battles in some of the highest profile cases of the past TUE twenty years, and he reckons the changes will leave some TUE more traditional people in the law reeling, and possible out TUE of a job. For his part, he's determined that his Chambers TUE wont get left behind. TUE TUE This is the context for two programmes that paint an TUE intimate portrait of life behind the elegant faÃade of Outer TUE Temple Chambers, to which Radio 4 was last year granted TUE exceptional access. From Barristers's Clerk Nick from Canvey TUE Island, who joined Chambers at 18 - "what you see on the TV, TUE the court stuff, it's not what actually goes on behind TUE closed doors. In the backroom, it's hard work!" - to Cara TUE who's nine months pregnant; how will she balance the demands TUE of her high powered life as a barrister with those of a new TUE mother? "Anarchy will rule!" TUE TUE And then there's Christine, Commercial Director: "I have a TUE habit of being a thorn in the side of organisations; I can't TUE help it. If I see something that I think is wrong I just TUE can't help myself. And sometimes it's good, and sometimes it TUE causes me more problems than I care to think about!" TUE TUE Producer: Simon Elmes. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00sxgs0 (Listen) TUE Helen Fraser and Neil Innes TUE TUE Sue Macgregor talks favourite paperbacks with Helen Fraser, TUE the Chief Executive of the Girls' Day School Trust, and TUE writer and comic performer Neil Innes. Before taking up her TUE current post Helen spent her entire career in publishing, TUE beginning with a brief stint as a sales assistant at Foyles TUE bookshop and ending up as Managing Director of Penguin. Neil TUE was one of the founder members of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band TUE and went on to write and perform with Monty Python's Flying TUE Circus and the Rutles. He's well-known for his BBC2 show, TUE The Innes Book of Records and has a one-man show modestly TUE entitled 'A People's Guide to World Domination.' TUE TUE Producer: Sara Davies. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00sx0rf (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sx0th (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00fm6m8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Rameshtonite TUE TUE Trouble looms for Ramesh as his banter nemesis Tom Skilliter TUE re-appears after 20 years. TUE TUE Award-winning comedy set in a Scottish corner shop, written TUE 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 Ted ... Gavin Mitchell TUE Tom Skilliter ... Tom Urie 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 b00swyg2 (Listen) TUE Reality bites for Pip, and Susan solves a mystery. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00sx0xz (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE Producer Philippa Ritchie. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00swmjs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00sxgs2 (Listen) TUE File on 4: Lifting the lid on illegal London - welcome to a TUE world of forged documents and faked identities. It's TUE believed there are likely to be more than 200,000 illegal TUE migrant workers in the UK's capital city. But how are they TUE able to survive. How do they get work? In this special TUE investigation, Jon Manel obtains rare access into the lives TUE of some of London's illegal workers - lives often based on TUE lies and deception. He discovers that some are now so much TUE part of the system, they even pay tax and national insurance. TUE TUE He hears of miserable and difficult times spent living in TUE the shadows. But other illegal workers say they are making a TUE bigger contribution than many who were born here. "I'm doing TUE a job that most English persons wouldn't do. I think I've TUE never seen an English person cleaning a toilet". And he goes TUE to a well known part of London that owes its survival to the TUE workers who shouldn't be here. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00sxgs4 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00sxgs6 (Listen) TUE All in the Mind. The latest neuroscientific studies on how TUE children learn are changing traditional teaching methods. In TUE "All in the Mind" Claudia Hammond reveals new work which TUE could challenge long held beliefs, and meets the teachers TUE and children taking part in this ground breaking work. TUE TUE 21:30 The London Story b00sx7r0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00sx18t (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00sx1gs (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 b00sx1q9 (Listen) TUE Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter, Episode 7 TUE TUE The Reader is Juliet Stevenson TUE Abridger Sally Marmion TUE Producer Di Speirs TUE TUE 23:00 London Nights b00sxgwh (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Writer Andrea Levy presents the second of ten anthologies of TUE short pieces for radio that capture a certain off-beat TUE spirit of London. TUE TUE In the second programme: a railway runs through it... Trains TUE are one of the most audible heartbeats of the capital, TUE threading their way through the suburbs above ground and TUE pulsing millions of commuters deep beneath the London clay, TUE from the outer fringes to the centre and the centre to the TUE fringes. Writer Claire MacDonald remembers an unexpected and TUE uplifting chance encounter on a commuter train, while TUE Jonathan Glancey's guests in the nightly Pairs in Squares TUE feature find themselves on Page 19, Square 2J on the London TUE streetmap - featuring the railway hub that is Old Oak TUE Common.... Also on the menu, London's bikers pause for a TUE cuppa in Epping Forest and free-runner Dan takes a leap TUE across the city's night-time rooftops. TUE TUE Andrea Levy was born in London and holds the city close to TUE her heart; her experience growing up here as a black TUE Londoner pervades her novels and is the thread woven through TUE this mix of the day-to-day and the nocturnal... of pieces TUE taking a sidelong glance as well as a more direct approach. TUE A blend of poetry and prose, of the factual and the TUE fictional that together make up this diverse and diverting TUE nightly series. TUE TUE Executive Producer: Simon Elmes. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sx1xq (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 07 JULY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00swllb (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 b00swmjs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00swlsr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00swlxf (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00swlvp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00swlzb (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00swm0y (Listen) WED With George Craig. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00swmff (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. WED WED 06:00 Today b00swmgx (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; WED Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00sxh18 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00swmjv (Listen) WED Meeting The Gods (1200 - 1400 AD), WED Shiva and Parvati Sculpture WED WED The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects WED from the British Museum in London is back in India. This WED week Neil MacGregor is with the gods - exploring the WED sophistication of religious art in the 14th and 15th WED centuries, as people around the world sought ways of finding WED physical expression for devotion and for representing the WED divine. WED WED Today Neil is with a magnificent stone sculpture showing the WED powerful deity Shiva with his consort Parvati seated on his WED knee - two of the most beloved and familiar figures of WED Hinduism. The vehicles of the deities, a bull and a lion, WED and their children sit at their feet, while a host of WED supporting musicians and attendants swirl around their WED heads. Neil considers how images like this help cement the WED relationship between deity and devotee. WED WED The writer Karen Armstrong considers the special WED relationship between male and female aspects in spiritual WED practice while the Hindu cleric Shaunaka Rishi Das explores WED the particular characteristics of Shiva and Parvati and WED considers the religious significance of their union. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00swp2r (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Why do so many women not WED exercise? WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00swqr9 (Listen) WED The Song House, Episode 3 WED WED Adapted by Elizabeth Burke Produced and Directed by: Kate WED McAll. WED WED 11:00 There's More to Life Than London b00sxh94 (Listen) WED The £4 tube fair to go one stop. The rattling overcrowded WED tube itself. The house prices, the negative equity, the WED schools, the dirt. There are plenty reasons not to live in WED London, which may be the reason most people in Britain don't. WED WED As Radio 4 celebrates its London season Stuart Cosgrove WED (Commissioning Editor for Nations and Regions of Channel 4) WED presents a programme on the joys and challenges of choosing WED to live and work outside the capital. WED WED The journalist and broadcaster examines the dark side of WED Britain's obsessive metrocentrism, the brain-draining draw WED of the capital, sucking enterprise and energy from the WED regions and its navel gazing parochialism, dressed up as WED cosmopolitanism. WED WED As the Civil Service and the BBC itself begin to grapple WED with the challenges of moving key departments outside of the WED capital this will be a timely look at how and why, despite WED political and institutional devolution, we still allow WED London to dominate British life, and what price we pay for WED the largely unexamined assumption that everything happens in WED London. WED WED Producer David Stenhouse. WED WED 11:30 North By Northamptonshire b00sxj24 (Listen) WED Episode 4 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 It's Town Talent Night at last and Ken and Keith are busy WED fine-tuning their pet whippets' dance routine. WED WED Everyone nervously awaits the arrival of the celebrity judge WED Lady Ballantyne who is unfortunately in the spotlight for WED being the most recent Royal racist. WED WED Jan does her last minute preparations for her trip to WED Australia. Will she be going alone or could she possibly WED dare to dream that Jonathan might join her at the last minute? WED WED And finally supermarket manager Rod (Mackenzie Crook) gets WED to take Tanya from till 4 on a date. The true measure of WED success will be how many packets of scampi fries they WED consume. Will it be just the one? Or perhaps too many to count? WED WED Written by Katherine Jakeways WED Produced by Claire Jones 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/Taxi driver..... Rufus Wright WED Lady Ballantyne/Angela... Lizzie Roper. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00swrbr (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00swrjf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00swrr5 (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00sxj26 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00swyg2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sxj28 (Listen) WED Betsy Coleman WED WED A new play by Katie Hims WED WED Betsy Coleman signs up to do memory research for a bit of WED extra cash, but she finds that her memories are so vivid WED that revisiting her past becomes compulsive, particularly WED when she gets to spend some virtual time with her late Mother. WED WED Betsy .... Maxine Peake WED David ..... Benedict Wong WED Young Betsy ..... Shannon Flynn WED Mick ..... Ralph Ineson WED Carla ..... Alison Pettit WED Des ..... Tony Bell WED Julie ..... Christine Kavanagh WED WED Written by Katie Hims WED Directed by Mary Peate WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00sxj2b (Listen) WED A panel of guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00sx96r (Listen) WED I Was There Too!, Pretty as a Picture WED WED by Heidi Regan WED Reader: Raphael Koeb WED WED Beauty and truth collide when a young assistant accompanies WED a master painter on an important royal commission. WED WED 15:45 London Street Cries b00sx05p (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Continuing the series of voices from the London streets, in WED which each programme highlights a particular sector of WED London life, now and in the 1850s. WED WED In Part 3 we hear from sex workers who ply their trade in WED modern London, as well as hearing testimony from Victorian WED prostitutes. WED WED Abridged by Penny Gold WED Producers: Jeremy Mortimer and Rebecca Stratford. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00sxj2d (Listen) WED Siegmund Warburg laid the foundations of the prosperity WED which has sustained the post-war City of London, and was one WED of the architects of European Integration. Niall Ferguson, WED in his new book High Financier tells Laurie Taylor how this WED extraordinarily dominant figure had meticulous business WED methods and an uncompromisingly strict ethical code. How WED much relevance does his example have for today? Could the WED traders and speculators who inhabit today's financial world WED learn from the elite of the past? Laurie discusses the WED lessons we can draw from this figure with the historian WED Niall Ferguson and financial sociologist Karel Williams. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00sxgs6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00sx0rh (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sx0tk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b00sxj2g (Listen) WED Series 8, How To Confront The Vexed Issue Of British WED Identity Without Getting In The Most Fearful Bate About WED The Whole Thing 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 Jeremy is joined by Gordon Kennedy and special guest Shappi WED Khorsandi for an in-depth discussion about why this week's WED title is so long. WED WED Written by Jeremy Hardy WED Producer: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00swyg4 (Listen) WED Elizabeth offers a shoulder to cry on and Brian is dealt a WED tricky hand. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00sx0y1 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with members of the WED band Mumford and Sons, as they prepare for numerous festival WED appearances around the world. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00swmjv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00sxj2j (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 Michael Portillo, Melanie Philips, WED Clifford Longley and Kenan Malik. WED WED 20:45 The London Nobody Knows b00sxj2l (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Historian and presenter, Dan Cruickshank, has a copy of a WED battered, yellowing book under his arm. "The London Nobody WED Knows" was written by Geoffrey Fletcher in the 60s. It was WED a record of an unfamiliar London at the time, written by a WED man totally infatuated with the city. WED WED Fifty years on, Dan retraces Fletcher's steps.from the pie WED shops where "the floors are sanded, where the eels are WED greenest, where the cups of tea are thickest" to the east WED end markets where "the fishy smell has sunk into the very WED pavements". WED WED Much of it has gone, but not all. In a series of two WED programmes, Dan takes us on a journey through the city he WED loves. He sets out to find what remains - and what has been WED lost - of Geoffrey Fletcher's London. WED WED He visits a wonderfully colourful Hackney market - one of WED the many London street markets now under threat - in the WED company of writer and Hackney wanderer, Iain Sinclair. WED WED As he climbs the great stone stairway of Wilton's Music Hall WED in East London, the music begins to pour out. "It is WED absolutely fantastic.nothing like it in London" he says. WED The last grand music hall in the world is one of WED Cruickshank's favourite places. It's the kind of place Dan WED wants to remain a secret! WED WED Presenter: Dan Cruickshank WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 The Age of the Genome b00sxj7b (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Ten years after scientists decoded and sequenced the human WED genome, Professor Richard Dawkins looks at the WED transformation in research on diseases such as cancer and diabetes. WED WED When an international army of scientists announced that they WED had succeeded in reading out the entire genetic instruction WED manual for the human body, commentators declared the dawn of WED a new age in medicine. A decade on, the revolution has not WED yet affected the health care for most of us. So what has WED been happening behind the scenes in medical research labs WED and how are we going to benefit? WED WED The discovery of genes that play roles in conditions such as WED cancers, diabetes and heart disease has accelerated at a WED rapid rate since medical researchers gained access to the WED sequence of 3 billion molecular letters in the genetic book WED of life. The technology for analysing the genomes is WED becoming fast and relatively cheap. It took more than ten WED years and about $1 billion to read the first human genome WED sequence. Now it takes a couple of weeks and a few thousand WED pounds. Before long it will cost just a few hundred pounds. WED Within a few years, it may be quick and cheap enough to WED offer us complete DNA scans as part of our routine health care. WED WED More immediately, the ease of sequencing lets researchers WED understand diseases such as cancers at a fundamental and WED detailed level. At the Wellcome Trust's Sanger Institute, WED Andy Futreal and his team are now identifying the crucial WED DNA faults which drive skin and lung cancer cells to WED multiply out of control and spread around the body. That is WED much easier to do now that they can unveil the complete WED genetic architecture of malignancy within cancer cells. This WED approach is already leading to new drugs which can target WED tumours with greater killing power and lesser side effects WED than traditional chemotherapies. WED WED However, scientists are less certain than they were about WED another great medical advance promised from the Human Genome WED Project. This was the advent of comprehensive DNA tests WED which would reveal which diseases we as individual patients WED are likely to develop later in life - and the size of the WED risks. Research groups have found many genes that influence WED our chances of developing conditions such as heart disease WED and diabetes. But the impact of these particular genes is WED not nearly strong enough to account for the full effect that WED inheritance plays in why individuals get some diseases and WED not others. It is one of the most controversial topics in WED medical genetics today. So where is the missing heritability? WED WED Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00sxh18 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00sx18w (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00sx1gv (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 b00sx1qc (Listen) WED Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter, Episode 8 WED WED The Reader is Juliet Stevenson WED Abridger Sally Marmion WED Producer Di Speirs WED WED 23:00 London Nights b00sxgy7 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Writer Andrea Levy presents the third of ten anthologies of WED short pieces for radio that capture a certain off-beat WED spirit of London and Londoners - a whole world of experience WED within one sprawling city. WED WED Tonight, the rhythms of a north London estate with young WED musicians Kyle and Marius prompt Andrea to memories of her WED own childhood adventures, car-minding for sixpence near WED Highbury Stadium on matchday. She invites us to eavesdrop on WED an all-night suburban prayer vigil; and we hear a spooky WED modern ghost story of unaccountable disappearances from WED Brockwell Lido... Plus: in the nightly feature, Pairs in WED Squares, Jonathan Glancey's pin lands in the map-section WED devoted to Soho, as revealed by ad-man John Hegarty. WED WED Andrea Levy was born in London and holds the city close to WED her heart; her experience growing up here as a black WED Londoner pervades her novels and is the thread woven through WED this mix of the day-to-day and the nocturnal... of pieces WED taking a sidelong glance as well as a more direct approach. WED A blend of poetry and prose, of the factual and the WED fictional that together make up this diverse and diverting WED nightly series. WED WED Executive Producer: Simon Elmes. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sx1xs (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. WED WED THU THURSDAY 08 JULY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00swllf (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 b00swmjv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00swlst (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00swlxh (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00swlvr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00swlzd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00swm10 (Listen) THU With George Craig. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00swmfh (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Fran Barnes. THU THU 06:00 Today b00swmgz (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; THU Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00sxjlz (Listen) THU The Historia Naturalis THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Historia Naturalis THU (Natural History), an enormous encyclopedia of scientific THU knowledge compiled in the first century AD by the Roman THU scholar Pliny the Elder, which exerted a powerful influence THU on subsequent compilers of reference books. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00swmjx (Listen) THU Meeting The Gods (1200 - 1400 AD), THU Statue of Huastec Goddess THU THU The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects THU from the British Museum in London is in Mexico. This week THU Neil MacGregor is meeting the Gods - exploring the THU sophistication of religious art in the 14th and 15th THU centuries as people around the world created physical THU expressions for devotion and for representing the divine. THU THU Today he is with a striking sandstone sculpture of a goddess THU made by the Huastec people of present day Mexico. This THU remarkable figure stands bare breasted with hands folded THU over her stomach and wearing a remarkable fan-shaped THU headdress. She has been associated with the later Aztec THU goddess of sexuality and fertility. THU THU The writer Marina Warner describes the power of the goddess THU figure in matters of fertility and sexuality while the art THU historian Kim Richter describes the particular nature of THU Huastec society and sculpture. THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00swp2t (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Mantenatal classes - should there THU be more? THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00swqrc (Listen) THU The Song House, Episode 4 THU THU Adapted by Elizabeth Burke Produced and Directed by : THU Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00sxkty (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Doll's House b00sxkv0 (Listen) THU A peek inside the world of the doll's house, by those who THU had one as a child. THU THU It's the classic little girl's favourite toy and in this THU programme we hear about the influence the doll's house has THU had on the imagination of now grown up women and the THU occasional man, as well as the hobby of doll's houses for adults. THU THU For the children's writer and illustrator, Lauren Child, the THU first doll's house she saw was made by her friend's mother THU from a cupboard. It inspired her to make her own which she THU still is still working on today. Many of the textiles which THU form the back-drop of her successful Charlie and Lola series THU originated as either wallpapers or fabrics from the doll's THU house she made in her youth. For her, the doll's house is THU an environment which you can control. In fact, it's one of THU the first occasions you get in your childhood to manipulate THU an environment and make up your own stories. THU THU It's also an area of craftsmanship where Britain leads the THU world. Whilst it may seem curious, some of the best THU examples of miniature building and carving are present in THU the cottage industries of doll's house furniture makers. We THU hear from some of the best UK miniature artisans who are as THU well known in the doll's house world of the States, Japan THU and the rest of Europe as they are in Britain. THU THU Looking at doll's houses from the 18th and 19th centuries in THU the Museum of Childhood, we hear that when they were built THU they were rarely intended as children's toys, but as hobbies THU for the ladies of the house. Queen Mary's dolls house is THU discussed complete with miniature family portraits of her THU family and her arrangement of what she thought the domestic THU home might look like. THU THU And we hear from the increasing number of women who are THU keeping the miniaturists in business as the vogue for dolls THU houses for adults grows. THU THU Producer and Presenter: Sarah Taylor. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00swrbt (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00swrjj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00swrr7 (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00sxkv2 (Listen) THU Blinded By Science THU THU Provocative and thoughtful new writing and discussion, THU presented by Dominic Arkwright. This week's subject is THU Blinded By Science. THU Produced by Beatrice Fenton. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00swyg4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sxkv4 (Listen) THU Gerontius THU THU Destined to be the first English saint for centuries, the THU great theologian, poet and Catholic convert Cardinal John THU Henry Newman (1801-90) insisted in his will that he was to THU be buried in the same grave as fellow convert Fr Ambrose St THU John, whom he had known for over thirty years. THU THU Written by award-winning playwright Stephen Wyatt and THU starring Derek Jacobi as Newman, this highly-imaginative THU play explores the relationship between Newman and Ambrose, THU the concerns aroused at the time and the controversy THU surrounding the recent decision to exhume their bodies. The THU play also draws on some of the themes in Dream of Gerontius THU (music by Edward Elgar). THU THU Cardinal Newman ..... Derek Jacobi THU Fr Ambrose St John ..... Nicholas Boulton THU Fr Faber ..... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Angel ..... Karl Davies THU Demon ..... Michael Jayston THU Reporter ..... Ben Warwick THU Lecturer ..... Jane Whittenshaw THU THU Directed by Martin Jenkins THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00sw35x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00sw4vt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00sx96t (Listen) THU I Was There Too!, She Wore A White Dress THU THU by Jessica Ransom THU Reader: Julie Dray THU THU Dressing a queen is a great responsibility, especially for THU her final public appearance. THU THU Producer: Heather Larmour THU THU 15:45 London Street Cries b00sx05r (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Continuing the series of voices from the London streets, in THU which each programme highlights a particular sector of THU London life, now and in the 1850s. THU THU In Part 4 we hear from present day street cleaners and THU recycling operatives, as well as from a modern mudlark, and THU from nineteenth-century scavengers. THU THU Abridged by Penny Gold THU Producers: Jeremy Mortimer and Rebecca Stratford. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00swkc3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00sxkv6 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b00sx0rk (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sx0tm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Secret World b00sxkv8 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU THU With naturalistic performances from Jon Culshaw, Lewis THU MacLeod and others, take a fly-on-the-wall position and THU listen in as the great and the good become embroiled in the THU bizarre and ridiculous. THU THU Sir David Attenborough is asked by the BBC diversity unit to THU put more disabled animals in his show - in positive THU circumstances. THU Ian Paisley meets Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour and THU insists that the band perform at his cousin Hugo's sixtieth THU birthday party. THU Alan Bennett replies to every bit of junk mail personally THU and with great style. THU Professor Richard Dawkins persues his career as a pop singer THU - auditioning for Lady Gaga. 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 b00swyg6 (Listen) THU Fallon calls in reinforcements and Matt mixes work and THU pleasure. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00sx0y3 (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor Simon THU Callow, as he publishes what's billed as an alternative THU autobiography, reflecting on his long career. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00swmjx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00sxtby (Listen) THU Why are so few captured pirates brought to trial? Each year THU hundreds of ships are attacked by pirate gangs, many off the THU coast of Somalia.They target cargo and also passengers and THU crew who are held for ransom, sometimes for years. The THU British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler have been held THU hostage for over 8 months. An international Combined Task THU Force now patrols the region and its ships regularly witness THU boarding raids and seize pirates, yet most are just released THU or returned to the Somali shore - probably to participate in THU further attacks. In fact across the world fewer than 20 THU pirates have been successfully convicted of any crime. In THU this week's The Report, Simon Cox investigates the THU highly-charged political, social and legal issues which THU enable pirates to operate with relative impunity. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00sxtc0 (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 b00sx8nd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00sxjlz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00sx18y (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00sx1gy (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 b00sx1xv (Listen) THU Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter, Episode 9 THU THU The Reader is Juliet Stevenson THU Abridger Sally Marmion THU Producer Di Speirs THU THU 23:00 London Nights b00sxgy9 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Writer Andrea Levy presents the fourth of ten anthologies of THU short pieces for radio that capture a certain off-beat THU spirit of London. THU THU Including tonight: London Talking - Steve Chandra Savale of THU the Asian Dub Foundation listens to the output of just two THU of London's hundreds of community and pirate radio stations THU that provide a public voice for the capital's many ethnic THU communities. THU THU Plus - out of town with The Other Londons... a trip to THU London Apprentice, two miles south of St Austell in THU Cornwall. And as usual, Jonathan Glancey sticks a pin THU randomly into the London streetmap to find out from his THU famous guests just what makes that corner of the city tick THU ...in Pairs in Squares. THU THU Andrea Levy was born in London and holds the city close to THU her heart; her experience growing up here as a black THU Londoner pervades her novels and is the thread woven through THU this mix of the day-to-day and the nocturnal... of pieces THU taking a sidelong glance as well as a more direct approach. THU A blend of poetry and prose, of the factual and the THU fictional that together make up this diverse and diverting THU nightly series. THU THU Executive Producer: Simon Elmes. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sx1xx (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 09 JULY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00swllh (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 b00swmjx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00swlsw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00swlxk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00swlvt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00swlzg (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00swm12 (Listen) FRI With George Craig. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00swmfk (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie FRI Bullock. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00swmh1 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; FRI Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00sw7fd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00swmjz (Listen) FRI Meeting The Gods (1200 - 1400 AD), FRI Hoa Hakananai'a Easter Island Statue FRI FRI This week Neil MacGregor is exploring the sophisticated ways FRI in which people connected to gods and ancestors in the FRI Middle Ages. He is looking at religious images from India, FRI France, Mexico and Turkey. FRI FRI Today - in the last programme of the second series - he is FRI with one of the most instantly recognisable sculptures in FRI the world: one of the giant stone heads that were made on FRI Easter Island in the South Eastern Pacific Ocean. These FRI deeply mysterious objects lead Neil to consider why they FRI were made and why many were ultimately thrown down. FRI FRI What was the Easter Islanders understanding of their gods FRI and their ancestors? Steve Hooper, an expert on the arts of FRI the Pacific, and the internationally renowned sculptor Sir FRI Anthony Caro both respond to this monumental work of devotion. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00swp2w (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00swqrf (Listen) FRI The Song House, Episode 5 FRI FRI Adapted by Elizabeth Burke. Produced and Directed by: Kate FRI McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 Touchline Tales b00sy3l9 (Listen) FRI A Thunder of Hooves, A Babble of Bookies 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. Today, they lay some bets at a mid-week meet at FRI Goodwood Races, bump into Bob Champion and see if they can FRI discern a potential winner by just looking at it. FRI FRI As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des has, as FRI ever, a fund of stories to tell, and insights to reveal. But FRI Christopher gamely tries to match him stride by stride with FRI his own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the highest FRI levels of sport (and, like Des, an occasional participant at FRI the lowest). And who comes out on top is revealed when they FRI tot up their winnings at the end of the day. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and Steve b00sy3lc (Listen) FRI David Nelson Explains 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 The investigation into the activities of the mysterious Dr. FRI Belasco lead him to a murder scene in a flat above a London FRI dry-cleaning business; but then the clues begin to point far FRI away from the great city, to a lonely country house on FRI Romney Marsh. FRI FRI Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan FRI Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas FRI Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood FRI Worth/Charlie ..... Greg Powrie FRI Nelson ..... Jimmy Chisholm FRI Joseph ..... Richard Greenwood FRI Mrs Forester ..... Candida Benson FRI Ed Bellamy ..... Robin Laing FRI Waitress ..... Lucy Paterson FRI FRI Produced by Patrick Rayner. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00swrbw (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00swrjl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00swrr9 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00sy3lf (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00swyg6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sy3lh (Listen) FRI A Chaos of Wealth and Want FRI FRI Henry Mayhew dedicated his life to recording the testimony FRI of the poor and dispossessed in 1850's London. But he never FRI offered them charity. Until he met Mouse. FRI FRI Henry Mayhew ... David Haig FRI Jane Mayhew .... Alison Pettit FRI Jack........ Steven Webb FRI Mouse....... Sam Alexander FRI Sal.......... Joanna Monroe FRI Arthur ........ Sam Dale FRI With Keely Beresford, Michael Shelford, Vineeta Rishi FRI Written by Penny Gold FRI Director Jeremy Mortimer FRI FRI The play focuses on an episode in the career of the great FRI chronicler of London life and pioneer of oral history, Henry FRI Mayhew. In the 1850s, Mayhew spent his days gathering FRI verbatim testimonies from the city's poor for his 'London FRI Labour and the London Poor'. No moralising do-gooder, he FRI believed he could talk to such people on equal terms. It FRI took his challenging friendship with Jack, a sharp-witted FRI teenage coster (market trader) and his over-trusting attempt FRI to assist Mouse, a drunken child-runaway with a winning FRI smile, to teach him where the borders lie. FRI FRI At the heart of the story is Mayhew himself: a vigorous, FRI humorous, volatile, improvident, totally engaging, totally FRI exasperating man. No wonder he sees similarities between FRI himself and the street people he interviews; no wonder he FRI drives his wife to distraction. FRI FRI Broadcast as part of the Radio 4 season 'London: Another FRI Country ?', this Afternoon Play is also scheduled alongside FRI the Afternoon Feature series 'London Street Cries', which FRI sets extracts from Henry Mayhew's 'London Labour and the FRI London Poor' alongside newly recorded interviews. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00sy3lk (Listen) FRI Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson are in FRI Sparsholt College for a Q&A session. The presenter is Peter FRI Gibbs. FRI FRI We also bring you an update on our slug trails and FRI supermarket bedding trials. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 London Street Cries b00sx05t (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Continuing the series of voices from the London streets, in FRI which each programme highlights a particular sector of FRI London life, now and in the 1850s. FRI FRI In Part 5 we hear about the raucous and bawdy Penny Gaff FRI theatres of the 1850s, and compare this with a present-day FRI London Hen Night, with contributions from male strippers. FRI FRI The Mayhew extracts are abridged by Penny Gold whose FRI Afternoon Play "A Chaos of Wealth and Want", examines an FRI incident in the life of Mayhew as he was compiling the FRI interviews for his history, is being broadcast on Radio 4 as FRI part of the'London: Another Country' season. FRI FRI Abridged by Penny Gold FRI Producers: Jeremy Mortimer and Rebecca Stratford. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00sy3lm (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 b00sy4ym (Listen) FRI Kristin Scott Thomas talks to Francine Stock about her FRI alternative film career in France. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00sx0rm (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sx0tp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00sy4yp (Listen) FRI Series 31, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt takes a satirical look through this week's news. FRI Helping him along the way are Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn, John FRI Finnemore and special guests. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00swyg8 (Listen) FRI Written by ..... Carole Simpson Solazzo FRI Directed by ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jude Simpson ..... Piers Wehner FRI Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills FRI Joseph Hastings ..... David Hargreaves. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00sx0y5 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00swmjz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00sy4yr (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from The Tolmen FRI Centre in Falmouth, Cornwall. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00sy515 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from David Cannadine. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00sy517 (Listen) FRI The Song House, Omnibus FRI FRI Dramatisation of Trezza Azzopardi's psychological thriller FRI about an older man who hires Maggie, a young woman with a FRI dark secret, as a musical ghostwriter. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00sx190 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00sx1h0 (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 b00sx1w7 (Listen) FRI Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter, Episode 10 FRI FRI Reader is Juliet Stevenson FRI Abridger Sally Marmion FRI Producer Di Speirs FRI FRI 23:00 London Nights b00sxgyc (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Writer Andrea Levy presents the fifth of ten anthologies of FRI short pieces for radio that capture a certain off-beat FRI spirit of London. FRI FRI In tonight's programme: The Other Side of the River - South FRI Londoner Arthur Smith conducts musician Suggs round his FRI manor in a vain attempt to convince the north Londoner that FRI his is the better end of town. On Monday, Suggs returns the FRI compliment. Also: writer Peter Blegvad rings a doorbell in FRI Hammersmith and is ushered into the fantasy world of the FRI Central London Hatcheries and Conditioning Centre - or is he? FRI FRI Plus, the regular feature Pairs in Squares, in which FRI Jonathan Glancey randomly selects a section from the grid of FRI London's famous streetmap and explores it in company with a FRI well-known London companion. FRI FRI Andrea Levy was born in London and holds the city close to FRI her heart; her experience growing up here as a black FRI Londoner pervades her novels and is the thread woven through FRI this mix of the day-to-day and the nocturnal... of pieces FRI taking a sidelong glance as well as a more direct approach. FRI A blend of poetry and prose, of the factual and the FRI fictional that together make up this diverse and diverting FRI nightly series. FRI FRI Executive Producer: Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00sx1xz (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. FRI
02 July, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 03/07/2010 - 09/07/2010
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