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SAT SATURDAY 17 JULY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00t0k9t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00szv9g (Listen) SAT Hellhound On His Trail, Episode 5 SAT SAT Hampton Sides' compelling new book sheds fresh light on the SAT assassination of Martin Luther King and the hunt for his SAT killer, James Earl Ray. In today's episode, the FBI's SAT manhunt for King's killer has made an exciting breakthrough SAT - they now know that the real name of their prime suspect. SAT But they first need to pursue him to London, where he is SAT hiding out under another new identity - that of 'Ramon Sneyd'. SAT SAT Read by Christian Camargo and Clarke Peters SAT Abridged by Viv Beeby SAT Produced by Emma Harding SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t0kdn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t0kdq (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t0kds (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00t0kdv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t0kdx (Listen) SAT with the Rev Derek Boden, minister of Malone Presbyterian SAT Church, Belfast. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00t0kdz (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 b00t0kf1 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00t0lw4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00t0lw6 (Listen) SAT Lough Neagh SAT SAT Helen Mark is in Northern Ireland where she takes to the SAT waters of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the UK, measuring SAT over 20 miles long, nine miles wide and containing over 800 SAT billion gallons of water! Six major rivers flow into the SAT Lough and only one, the River Bann, flows out. Five of the SAT six counties which make up Northern Ireland have shores on SAT the Lough which is also a source of fresh water to many SAT people. Eel fishing on the lough has played a huge part in SAT the lives of local people for centuries whilst the lake is SAT also at the forefront of the sand extraction industry. Yet SAT although the lough has been described as extremely SAT enigmatic, it has remained very much a place of extraction SAT with very little put back in to it over the years. Seven SAT years ago, a group of local people came together to do SAT something about this and recently their hard work was SAT rewarded when the Lough Neagh Partnership received an award SAT for Outstanding Achievement. SAT Helen hears from some of the people involved and starts her SAT journey by boarding the Island Warrior from Sandy Bay to SAT Rams Island, formerly a rat-infested strip of land on the SAT lough and now a haven for wildlife and a popular tourist SAT spot. She hears from Gerry Darby about why the Lough Neagh SAT Partnership was formed and also from Island Warrior skipper SAT and volunteer, Michael Savage, about the labour of love SAT carried out to transform Rams Island. Helen then continues SAT her journey around the shore hearing from heritage officer SAT and archaeologist, Moira O'Rourke about some of the stories SAT she has unearthed in her shoreline walks and from Kieran SAT Breen of the Lough Neagh Heritage Boating Association about SAT his passion for keeping alive the age-old spirit of the SAT Lough Neagh by building some of the old traditional working SAT boats used on the lough. SAT Helen rounds off her day along the shores with a visit to SAT Coney Island, the only inhabited island on the lough, where SAT she hears from the island's only inhabitant about the SAT changes he has seen during his 12 years on Coney. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00t0sm5 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith and the Farming Today team have spent the SAT last few days living in a caravan and experiencing the life SAT of a seasonal farm worker: getting up early, picking and SAT packing fruit, getting to grips with day to day life on the SAT farm, and life in a different country. SAT SAT The soft fruit industry in the UK is worth millions of SAT pounds. The strawberry industry alone is worth £400 million SAT and each year 650,000 tonnes of strawberries are picked in SAT the UK. Each year, more than 21,000 workers from Romania and SAT Bulgaria travel to the UK for agricultural work. The British SAT public are, it seems, too posh to pick. SAT SAT At the end of a week of hard grafting, Charlotte Smith SAT reports from Windmill Hill Farm in Herefordshire and meets SAT the workers who make sure our supermarket shelves are full SAT of juicy, ripe fruit throughout the summer and reflects on SAT what it is like to be work on a farm in the UK. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Martin SAT Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00t0sm7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00t0sm9 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00t0smc (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts, poet SAT Salena Godden and fossil hunter Dean Lomax; Alastair SAT Campbell shares his Inheritance Tracks and Robert Elms eats SAT the world on one London street. SAT SAT The producer is Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00t0smf (Listen) SAT Jamaica has a reputation as a dangerous place to visit for SAT tourists but is it deserved? Sandi Toksvig talks to prize SAT winning author Ian Thomson about whether poverty and SAT violence are as prevalent as they are painted and if the SAT beauty of the island is overlooked. She also asks journalist SAT Lindsay Johns about the musical culture and whether, as an SAT Anglo African, he feels a connection with Jamaica. SAT SAT Sandi also talks to artist Layla Curtis about her project SAT with the Penan people of Sarawak. She has been studying the SAT way the hunter gatherers move about the jungle and, to do SAT so, spent time living and travelling with them through the SAT rainforests of Borneo. She gives Sandi a unique insight into SAT their ancient lifestyle on Excess Baggage. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 My Politician is Funnier Than Yours b00t0smh (Listen) SAT 30 years ago when alternative comedy first developed as a SAT scene, the target of its anger was clear - Margaret Thatcher SAT and the Conservative Party. Political comedy was all based SAT around Westminster because the decisions made there affected SAT everyone in the UK. In My Politician Is Funnier Than Yours - SAT comedian Ava Vidal looks at how devolution has changed the SAT way we laugh at our politicians. As power has moved from SAT Westminster to Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, she explores SAT whether comedy has followed it and whether politicians are SAT viewed in any way differently in each place. And as SAT Westminster adapts to a new Government, is the content of SAT political comedy here due for a change too? Is there such a SAT thing as national political satire anymore? SAT SAT Ava talks to established comedians like Jeremy Hardy, one of SAT the few veteran political satirists who has never SAT compromised his left wing ideals, yet has managed to become SAT a national treasure at the same time. Producer Bill Dare has SAT been behind some of the biggest topical comedy shows on TV SAT and Radio - he has little time for satire these days. Tommy SAT Sheppard was in London for the start of the alternative SAT comedy scene, he's now behind the thriving Scottish stand up SAT scene; managing clubs and comedians - he says Scotland now SAT has its own place to have a political comedy scene. SAT SAT Producer: Rachel Hooper. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00t0smk (Listen) SAT The Daily Mail's Andrew Pierce asks how backbenchers will SAT react to spending cuts in the rapidly dawning age of SAT austerity. With the Conservative, Ian Liddell -Grainger, and SAT Labour's Barry Gardiner, he looks at the row over the SAT government's decision to save money by axing Labour's school SAT building programme. SAT SAT After the publication of Lord Mandelson's memoirs, former SAT Labour insiders, Lance Price and Peter Watt asks how far the SAT party will be damaged by revelations which quote Tony Blair SAT as describing Gordon Brown as " mad, bad and dangerous". SAT SAT There's been an outcry among women MPs about the SAT government's plans to give anonymity to people being SAT investigated for rape. Here, the Conservative, Anna Soubry SAT and Labour's Caroline Flint say why they are opposed to the SAT idea of singling out rape for special attention in this way. SAT SAT Finally, the Commons sat late into the night while SAT considering the Finance Bill. Are late night sittings coming SAT back into fashion? The former Labour cabinet minister, SAT Margaret Beckett, reflects on the value and the pitfalls of SAT debating into the early hours. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00t0smm (Listen) SAT From Our Own correspondent sips cold beer by the Amazon with SAT a British missionary who's so angered the authorities in SAT Peru they're trying to have him expelled. SAT SAT The Balkan republic of Montenegro is one of Europe's newest SAT independent nations. And being a small state in a difficult SAT neighbourhood, it's keen to make some powerful friends. Some SAT believe that becoming a member of the NATO military club SAT might be the answer to Montenegro's security worries. But SAT there's a problem. As Humphrey Hawksley explains, not so SAT long ago..for Montenegrins...NATO was very much the enemy. SAT SAT When the Peruvian government looks at the Amazon jungle, it SAT sees vast potential. Money is being poured into mining and SAT other projects. But the Peruvian Amazon's indigenous people SAT see the jungle very differently. It sustains their way of SAT life, and they fear that those who exploit the rainforest SAT will do terrible damage. And the tribes have found an SAT ally..a British missionary. His campaign to protect the SAT jungle so angered the government that it ordered his SAT expulsion. A judge overturned the order, but the authorities SAT are appealing his decision. Our correspondent Dan Collyns SAT set off for the remote city of Iquitos, and a meeting with SAT Peru's troublesome priest.. SAT SAT As he rose to power the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy SAT cast himself as bringer of change. He presented himself as a SAT moderniser -- a man ready to break with tradition. And if SAT past French presidents always seemed rather remote and SAT aloof..then Mr Sarkozy's style has certainly been rather SAT different. He's always been more than ready to engage with SAT .. and try to use... the media to his own ends. Emma Jane SAT Kirby been considering the often fraught relationship SAT between the president and the press...and it's impact on SAT French journalism. SAT SAT At first glance, the desert shores of north Africa have very SAT little in common with the much greener coastlines of SAT northern Europe and North America. But with a bit of SAT imagination, you might just begin to see connections....in SAT geological terms at least. The mountains of Morocco, SAT Scotland and New England all sit on the rim of the vast SAT basin that is the North Atlantic. And as Simon Winchester SAT has been finding out, there are plans now to link these very SAT different locations in an extraordinary way.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00t0wdx (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00t0k7c (Listen) SAT Series 31, Episode 5 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the SAT week's news, with help from Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes and SAT guests Holly Walsh and Abandoman. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00t0wdz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00t0wf1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00t0k7f (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Wimbledon SAT Reform Synagogue, with questions for the panel, including SAT the writer AA Gill; joint general-secretary of the Unite SAT union, Derek Simpson; the Secretary of State for Transport, SAT Philip Hammond; and the Labour Peer and barrister, Helena SAT Kennedy. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00t0wf3 (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 b00t0wf5 (Listen) SAT The Moscow Prodigal SAT SAT This is the first of three plays in the mini-season 'Russia SAT Actualnyi' which sets out to explore life in Russia now. SAT SAT Vasily returns to Moscow after ten years in England. His SAT attempts to build a new life there have not been a success - SAT he has been eking out an existence as a minicab driver. At SAT the airport he is met by his childhood friend, Andrei, who SAT now works for the Minister of the Interior. Andrei's SAT expansive manner and expensive air of money and power seem SAT to hint at a more thuggish way of climbing the ladder. SAT SAT Back at his mother's flat Vasily embraces his brother, but SAT there is little brotherly love. Whilst their ailing mother SAT celebrates her eldest son's return, Vasily begins to SAT calculate the value of her central Moscow flat. SAT SAT His brother Sasha simmers with resentment at the way he has SAT been left to care for their mother, but he still has SAT scruples when Vasily explains his plans to profit from the SAT sale of the flat. Soon Vasily is drawn into the world of new SAT money and old power struggles. SAT SAT The play strips away contemporary Russia's veneer of SAT newly-acquired wealth to expose the brutal networks of SAT self-interest where ties of friendship and family are all SAT too easily broken by the lure of easy dollars. SAT SAT Written by Michael Butt based on an original idea by Vitaly SAT Yerenkov. SAT SAT Vasily ... Yasen Peyankov SAT Olga ... Anne Bobby SAT Irina ... Angelique Doudnikova SAT Marco ... Michael Levi Harris SAT Sasha ... Stass Klassen SAT Andrei ... Moti Margolin SAT Anna ... Nicole Rosengurt SAT Gryzlov ... Peter Von Berg SAT Mama ... Tatyana Zbirovskaya SAT SAT All other parts were played by members of the cast. SAT SAT Technical production by Scott Lehrer, Grammy winner and Tony SAT winner for Broadway theatre sound design. SAT Music specially composed by Gene Pritzker. SAT SAT Directed by Judith Kampfner SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Jazz in the Open Air b00szz26 (Listen) SAT Jazz, a music first played in small clubs and now found in SAT large concert halls, also has a long history of heading for SAT the great outdoors. SAT SAT Kevin LeGendre charts the story of jazz in the open air, SAT starting with a teenage Louis Armstrong leading the band SAT from the Home for Colored Waifs through the streets of New SAT Orleans almost a century ago. SAT SAT Other legendary jazz performers who swapped smoky interiors SAT for notable fresh air appearances include Duke Ellington, SAT who transformed the fortunes of his orchestra with a SAT storming show at the Newport jazz festival in 1956, and SAT saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who spent months practising high SAT amongst the girders of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York SAT City. SAT SAT Kevin also hears from musician Gary Bartz, who formed a band SAT without a piano player so that they were free to perform SAT anywhere, and so could escape from the restrictions of the SAT music industry. Offering the other side of the story, the SAT acclaimed singer Bobby McFerrin reveals why he tries to SAT avoid all outdoor performances. And bringing the story right SAT up to the present, Kevin joins saxophonist Soweto Kinch SAT under a flyover in Birmingham, where he has promoted a music SAT festival amidst the concrete and thundering traffic for the SAT past three years. SAT SAT Producer John Goudie. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00t0wr0 (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Dame Anne Owers, Chief Inspector SAT of Prisons, on stepping down after nine years. Is the new SAT 'Men's Hour' on Radio 5 Live a good idea? Germanic women and SAT their historic portrayal as warriors. The rise and rise of SAT the mum blogger. Is the International Baccalaureate a better SAT option than 'A' levels? Child soldiers in Uganda and men in SAT heels. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00t0wr2 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00t0gb2 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis presents the business magazine, where business SAT leaders discuss the issues that matter - from the boardroom SAT to the shop floor, from building success to handling failure. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00t0wr4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00t0wr6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t0wr8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00t0wrb (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by one of the most successful female artists SAT of the sixties, pop icon Sandie Shaw. She'll be reclaiming SAT songs sung by men that should've been sung by women. She's SAT joined by special guests Sophie Ellis Bextor and Mica Paris SAT and they're just one of the performances at the brand new SAT festival celebrating British music, art and style, Vintage SAT at Goodwood. SAT SAT The playwright, composer, musician and lyricist and man SAT behind Blood Brothers talks about having his own season at SAT Londons Trafalgar Studios. Meera Syal, Tim Piggot Smith and SAT Laura Dos Santos will soon be treading the boards in SAT Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine. His musical version of SAT Our Day Out starts up in Liverpool in August. SAT SAT Domestic historian Ruth Goodman goes from Victorian Farms to SAT Victorian Pharmacy on BBC Two. The series explains how high SAT street healthcare emerged from the concocted recipes of SAT apothecaries, herbalists and un-regulated quacks. SAT SAT Critically acclaimed for his characters on Down the Line and SAT Bellamys People, Felix Dexter gets his Multiple SAT Personalities in Order for his Edinburgh Festival run. SAT Arthur Smith talks to the man behind Early D, The Lion of SAT Harlesden, Aubrey Dubuisson and Julius Olufemwe, Hotel SAT Management student and lover of all things English. SAT SAT There's music from two of the most talked about artists on SAT the British music scene. Crouch End's indie four-piece SAT Bombay Bicycle Club have gone acoustic for their latest SAT album, Flaws. SAT SAT And one of this years biggest success stories and the soul SAT influenced sound of the summer, Plan B performs a stripped SAT down version of Prayin' from his No 1 album The Defamation SAT of Strickland Banks. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00t0wrd (Listen) SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00t0wrg (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Rowan Pelling and SAT Terence Blacker and playwright Mark Ravenhill review the SAT week's cultural highlights including the film Inception. SAT SAT In Christopher Nolan's film Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio SAT plays a skilled thief who can steal valuable secrets from SAT deep within the subconscious of his victims while they are SAT dreaming. SAT SAT Neil Simon's 1971 play The Prisoner of Second Avenue is SAT being revived at the Vaudeville Theatre in London with Jeff SAT Goldblum as Mel - a man forced to the end of his tether by a SAT recession and a heatwave - and Mercedes Ruehl as his wife SAT Edna. SAT SAT Heartbreak is poet Craig Raine's first novel. Through a SAT series of narratives involving a large cast of characters, SAT Raine explores the different breakages to which the heart is SAT prone. SAT SAT In 1959 Raymond Cauchetier was engaged by Jean-Luc Godard to SAT take photographs on the set of A Bout du Souffle. A SAT selection of the photographs he took on various film sets SAT over the next ten years have been assembled for the SAT exhibiton La Nouvelle Vague at the James Hyman Gallery in London. SAT SAT The Normans Season on BBC2 and BBC4 is centred around SAT Professor Robert Bartlett's 3 part historical series The SAT Normans. It also features The Making of King Arthur in which SAT poet Simon Armitage traces the Norman reworking of the SAT Arthurian legend. SAT SAT Producer Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00t0wrj (Listen) SAT Dramatising New Labour SAT SAT What can we learn about New Labour from the way it has been SAT portrayed in drama? SAT SAT The dramatists have delved into the troubled relationship SAT between Blair and Brown, the events leading up to the Iraq SAT war and its aftermath, the junking of old Labour values, the SAT personalities, the sex scandals, and of course, spin. SAT SAT They have characterised New Labour and its leading players SAT in comedy, satire, drama, docu-drama and bio-pics. Some SAT Labour politicians even think they have seen a Blair-like SAT figure materialise in Dr Who. SAT SAT Whilst some dramatists base their work on detailed factual SAT research, others lean heavily on their imagination. But all SAT hope to convey an essential truth about New Labour and its SAT leading players, and indeed sometimes to plug a gap left by SAT conventional journalists. SAT SAT In this programme Professor Steven Fielding examines these SAT dramas and their impact. He asks what contribution the SAT dramas have made to the way we see New Labour. Do they SAT confuse the viewer about what really happened and what is SAT made up? What is it like for politicians to see themselves SAT portrayed? Do they reveal a deeper truth? How far have they SAT been genuinely revelatory? SAT SAT The interviewees are former Downing Street spin doctors SAT Alastair Campbell and Lance Price, writers and directors SAT David Hare (Absence of War and other New Labour plays), SAT Alistair Beaton (A Very Social Secretary and The Trial of SAT Tony Blair), Neil McKay (Mo), Peter Kosminsky (The Project SAT and The Government Inspector) and Stephen Frears (The Deal SAT and The Queen), and current and former Labour MPs Clare SAT Short, Adam Ingram, Andrew Mackinlay and Stephen Pound. SAT SAT The producer is Jane Ashley SAT SAT Steven Fielding is Director of the Centre for British SAT Politics at the University of Nottingham. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00syzyl (Listen) SAT Summer Lightning, Episode 2 SAT SAT A star cast in a timeless comedy. SAT SAT Lord Emsworth's brother, Galahad Threepwood, is writing his SAT memoirs, to the horror and trepidation of all who knew him SAT in their wild youths. Sinister forces at Blandings Castle SAT scheme to halt the scandalous revelations. SAT SAT Rupert Baxter has been recalled to Blandings by Lady SAT Constance to steal the incriminating maunscript on her SAT behalf. Emsworth's beloved pig, the Empress, has disappeared. SAT SAT Hugo and Millicent's secret engagement has been broken off. SAT In an attempt to assuage Ronnie's mistaken anger over a SAT nightclub encounter, Sue is now masquerading as an American SAT heiress. SAT SAT Detective Percy Pilbeam, also ensconced in the castle, plots SAT to steal Galahad's racy memoirs. Beach the butler is nervous SAT about his part in the stolen pig plot. SAT SAT Will these dilemmas be happily resolved, restoring peace and SAT harmony to Blandings? SAT SAT Hon. Galahad Threepwood ... Charles Dance SAT Lady Constance ... Patricia Hodge SAT Beach ..... Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Percy Pilbeam ... Matt Lucas SAT Lord Emsworth ... Martin Jarvis SAT Hugo Carmody ... Samuel West SAT Sue Brown ... Lisa Dillon SAT Ronnie Fish ... Matthew Wolf SAT Millicent ... Rachael Stirling SAT Rupert Baxter ... Jared Harris SAT Mrs Rundle ... Joanna David SAT Voice of Wodehouse ... Ian Ogilvy SAT SAT Dramatised by Archie Scottney. SAT SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00t0wrl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00t0d19 (Listen) SAT France is the latest European country to talk of banning the SAT burqa - the full Islamic face veil for women. Belgium has SAT already voted for a ban and there's also been talk of SAT similar laws in Holland and Spain. France has the largest SAT Muslim population in Europe and polls there show SAT overwhelming support for the proposal. It's estimated that SAT around 1900 women in France wear the burqa and most do so SAT because they want to. Those in favour of a ban argue that SAT the burqa is a gateway to extremism and an attack on SAT secularism, a central value of modern-day France. For many SAT this is also an issue of protecting women's rights; the SAT burqa they argue, is a symbol of male oppression and as one SAT French law maker is reported to have said, women who wear SAT them must be liberated, even against their will. SAT SAT The state banning something as personal as what you chose to SAT wear in public is a tricky issue for liberal Western SAT democracies, but can the rush to uncover Europe's most pious SAT Muslims be explained solely by a newfound desire to protect SAT the rights of women? Or is this more about notions of SAT cultural purity and the darker side of humanity in Europe SAT which raises its head from time to time? The fear of the SAT stranger, of shunning those who look different to ourselves SAT - the attitude which can lead to Islamophobia/racism. How SAT far should we compromise our values to accommodate the SAT cultural norms from different faiths and societies? SAT SAT Michael Buerk chairs with Claire Fox, Clifford Longley, Anne SAT McElvoy and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00sznl1 (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 Poetry Please b00syzyq (Listen) SAT Roger McGough with your requests, including poems by SAT Kipling, Shelley and Yevtushenko. SAT Many of the poems in today's programme are about choices. SAT Some are about moral decisions. For instance, Lorna SAT Goodison reads her poem 'For Rosa Parks', about the black SAT woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white SAT person. There are poems about being coerced - like the SAT child in Kipling's 'A Smuggler's Song'. Derek Mahon's 'A SAT Disused Shed in County Wexford' is about the voiceless; SAT those that aren't even heard, let alone have choices to SAT make. W.H Auden urges us all to 'Leap Before You Look', SAT Shelley rages about the state of England in 1819, and SAT Porphyria's Lover makes a terrible decision in a poem by SAT Browning. The readers are Kenneth Cranham and Jonjo O'Neill. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT SAT Loving Hitler SAT by Fleur Adcock SAT From: Fleur Adcock – Poems 1960-2000 SAT Pub: Bloodaxe SAT SAT A Smuggler’s Song SAT by Rudyard Kipling SAT From: The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse SAT Pub: Hodder and Stoughton SAT SAT Wild Bees SAT by J K Baxter SAT From: James K Baxter – Collected Poems SAT Pub: Oxford University Press SAT SAT Stolen Apples SAT by Yevgeny Yevtushenko SAT Translated by John Updike with Anthony Kahn (revised) SAT From: Yevgeny Yevtushenko – The Collected Poems 1952-1990 SAT Pub: Henry Holt and Company SAT SAT By St. Thomas Water SAT by Charles Causley SAT Taken from the LP Causley Reads Causley SAT Sentinel SENS 1028 SAT (From his ‘Collected Poems 1951-1975’ SAT Macmillan) SAT SAT Porphyria’s Lover SAT by Robert Browning SAT From: Browning SAT Pub: Penguin Poetry Library SAT SAT Leap Before you Look SAT by WH Auden SAT From: Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT For Rosa Parks SAT by Lorna Goodison SAT From: I Am Becoming my Mother by Lorna Goodison SAT Pub: New Beacon Books SAT SAT A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford SAT by Derek Mahon SAT From: Selected Poems SAT Pub: Penguin SAT SAT England in 1819 SAT by Percy Bysshe Shelley SAT From: The New Oxford Book of English Verse SAT Pub: Oxford University Press SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 18 JULY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00t0yt4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00f9gfc (Listen) SUN Parlez-vous British?, The Taipan SUN SUN Part of a series of stories revealing the best - and worst - SUN of the Nation's behaviour on foreign soil. SUN SUN Martin Jarvis reads Somerset Maugham's classic 1922 story SUN The Taipan. A self-satisfied business man lives and works in SUN Hong Kong, where his lifestyle far exceeds anything he could SUN have achieved at home in the UK. But in the Far East, SUN inexplicable - even frightening - things can happen. SUN SUN Director: Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t0yt6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t0yt8 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t0ytb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00t0ytd (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00t0zsj (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Peter and St. Paul, Tonbridge in Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00t0wrd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00t0zsl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00t0zsn (Listen) SUN The Best Words SUN SUN Mark Tully talks to poet and novelist Louis de Bernieres SUN about the difference between poetry and prose. SUN SUN Is poetry, as Coleridge has said, "the best words in the SUN best order"? 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SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00t0zsx (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00t0zsz (Listen) SUN Hope and Homes for Children SUN SUN Kate Adie presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Hope and Homes for Children. SUN SUN Donations to Hope and Homes for Children should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Hope and Homes for Children. Credit cards: SUN Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please SUN provide Hope and Homes for Children with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1089490. SUN SUN Hope and Homes for Children SUN SUN Kate Adie appeals on behalf of Hope and Homes for Children SUN which provides family-based care for vulnerable children SUN across central and Eastern Europe and Africa. Hope and Homes SUN for Children moves children out of institutions into SUN family-based care, helps keep families at risk of breakdown SUN together and works to prevent child abandonment. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00t0zt1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00t0zt3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00t0zt5 (Listen) SUN Sunday Worship visits the Buxton Festival on the edge of the SUN Derbyshire Peak District. Every year the Festival is graced SUN with a series of Orchestral Masses in St John's Church and SUN this morning we hear Mozart's Mass in C K.258 sung by the SUN Buxton Madrigal Singers and Festival soloists. The homily is SUN given by the Bishop of Liverpool, Bishop James Jones and the SUN celebrant is the Revd Christopher Lowdon. SUN Director of Music: Michael Williams. SUN Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00t0k7h (Listen) SUN Special Elephants SUN SUN David Cannadine traces the remarkable history of Asian SUN elephants prompted by the recent auction of colourful models SUN to raise funds for their preservation. He reveals, in SUN particular, the special place occupied by the legendary SUN white elephants of Thailand and how their name became a SUN figure of speech. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00t0zt7 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00t0zt9 (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Joanna Toye SUN Directed by ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Kate Aldridge ..... Kellie Bright SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Phoebe Tucker ..... Lucy Morris SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Izzy ..... Elizabeth Wofford. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00t0ztc (Listen) SUN Tim Robbins SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning actor, writer SUN and director Tim Robbins. SUN SUN His film credits include The Shawshank Redemption, Dead Man SUN Walking, The Hudsucker Proxy and Mystic River. Brought up in SUN an artistic and creative household in New York's Greenwich SUN Village, he was always encouraged to sing and perform. After SUN talking politics around the dinner table as a teenager he SUN would, on occasion, spend his evenings working the lights SUN for the local drag act. SUN SUN Indeed it was on stage, rather than in front of the camera, SUN that Tim Robbins developed his own acting style: "It gave me SUN a discipline to still the anarchic energy I had," he says: SUN "A rigid discipline to an emotional truth and the ability to SUN have that at my fingertips." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00szxz9 (Listen) SUN Series 53, Episode 4 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a return SUN visit to the Sands Centre in Carlisle. Regulars Barry Cryer, SUN Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel SUN by Sandi Toksvig, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN attempts piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00t0ztf (Listen) SUN Throughout the Troubles central Belfast was a culinary SUN desert. But peace, and a handful of trailblazing chefs, have SUN sparked a revolution in the city's restaurant and food SUN culture. Sheila Dillon joins the Belfast Bred walking, and SUN eating, tour of the city, in the company of "Barney", a SUN defrosted chef from 'Titanic'. SUN SUN Created by Kabosh Theatre Company and written by Seth SUN Linder, the play wends its way through shops and SUN restaurants, including Sawers delicatessen, the John Hewitt SUN pub, Mourne Seafood, Nick's Warehouse and ends in the grand SUN St George's market. SUN SUN Produced by Rebecca Moore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00t0zth (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00t0ztk (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Grayson Perry on Creativity and Imagination b00sx8ng (Listen) SUN Grayson Perry is an epitome of creativity: a Turner Prize SUN winning ceramicist who's as famous for his alter-ego Claire SUN as for his pottery. SUN SUN But what does being creative really mean? He's on a mission SUN to find out. SUN SUN Talent shows dominate TV schedules and we are taught that SUN everyone can take part, but genuine talent, originality and SUN the idea of learning a traditional arts skill is SUN persistently overlooked he argues. SUN SUN With the help of some of the most talented people in the SUN business, Grayson Perry will be exploring how the SUN imagination works. Creativity has become the modern buzzword SUN of bureaucrats trying to ensure wider access to the arts. SUN And it has been subject to a lot of mythmaking. Grayson SUN wants to nail down these myths and show how creativity isn't SUN a mystery, but at the same time it isn't necessarily easily SUN accessible. SUN SUN Writers Terry Pratchett and Rose Tremain, fashion designer SUN Hussein Chalayan and Ray Tallis, poet and neuroscientist all SUN join Grayson on his quest. SUN SUN (Repeat.) SUN SUN Producer: Gavin Heard. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00t0k0j (Listen) SUN Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs answer SUN the questions posed at the Gregynog Festival, Powys, Wales. SUN Eric Robson is the chairman. SUN SUN We introduce the third GQT listener whose gardening projects SUN we will mentor and revisit over the coming months. Part of SUN our listeners' gardens series. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Picturing Britain b00k2dwt (Listen) SUN Less is More SUN SUN There are today a number of companies which specialise in SUN wedding portraits with a difference - artfully lit shots of SUN brides-to-be in posh knickers and veils and the odd football SUN shirt: wedding day gifts for startled grooms. Visiting one SUN of them as the prospective semi-naked wives-to-be prepare SUN for the camera, Adil Ray listens in to the women's SUN conversations about their past, and their hopes and fears SUN about the future. SUN SUN Producer: Mohini Patel. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00t1016 (Listen) SUN The Glass Bead Game, The Glass Bead Game - Episode 1 SUN SUN Dramatisation of Hermann Hesse's classic novel set in a SUN futuristic, utopian society. SUN Starring Derek Jacobi. SUN SUN Joseph Knecht is a rising star in the Castalian Order, a SUN band of elite intellectuals who live a closeted life of SUN study and Glass Bead Game playing. But Joseph's elevation to SUN one of the highest and most respected ranks of the Order SUN coincides with a crisis of conscience, as his ever deepening SUN doubts about this idealistic and sanitised society threaten SUN to topple its very foundations. SUN SUN Episode 1. SUN Joseph Knecht is singled out from an early age as one of the SUN Castalian elite. As his education progresses, Joseph quickly SUN proves himself as a gifted Glass Bead Game player and a SUN promising candidate for the higher echelons of the exclusive SUN Castalian Order. SUN SUN Biographer...Derek Jacobi SUN Joseph Knecht...Tom Ferguson SUN Young Joseph...Aidan Parsons SUN Music Master...Malcolm Raeburn SUN Teacher/Van Der Trave...Terence Mann SUN Plinio...David Seddon SUN Fritz...Toby Hadoke SUN Father Jacobus...David Fleeshman SUN Elder Brother/Bertram...Jonathan Keeble SUN SUN String Player...Kevin Flynn SUN SUN Dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw SUN Producer: Charlotte Riches SUN Director: Susan Roberts. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00t109n (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Richard Russo about his SUN home town and how its landscape has influenced his writing. SUN SUN Composer Michael Berkeley and writer Wesley Stace discuss SUN the art of describing the music of a fictional composer. SUN SUN Nicholas Shakespeare explores the potential dangers of SUN inheriting seventeen million pounds as played out in his new SUN novel Inheritance. SUN SUN And with three new books devoted to Anne Frank coming out, SUN David Cesarani talks to Mariella about the likely reasons SUN for the enduring fascination with her diary... SUN SUN Producer Sally Spurring. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00t14pj (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests, with work SUN by Michael Longley, Edward Thomas and Lavinia Greenlaw. The SUN readers are Kenneth Cranham, Annette Badland and Jonjo SUN O'Neill. Imtiaz Dharker reads her own poem 'Speech Balloon' SUN about that ubiquitous phrase 'Over the Moon.' There are SUN other space-bound poems, including a moving elegy 'For the SUN First Dog in Space.' Michael Longley introduces his grandson SUN to the natural world in his poem 'The Leveret'. Rites of SUN passage in a young person's life are also marked by Billy SUN Collins' poem 'On Turning Ten', read by nine year old Tyler SUN Johnson, and in Roger's own verse written for his daughter SUN Isobel when she passed her first decade. There's also a SUN lament by Edward Thomas about a soldier caught between enemy SUN lines whose relief at his respite is punctuated by sorrow SUN for his fallen comrades. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00szzq2 (Listen) SUN Britain claims to have one of the most effective arms export SUN control regimes in the world, but Allan Urry investigates SUN how weapons dealers are using the UK to get huge secret SUN consignments to the Middle East and other conflict zones, in SUN defiance of UN Security Council sanctions. SUN SUN Producer: Gail Champion SUN Editor: David Ross. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00t0wrd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00t14pl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00t14pn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t14pq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00t14v9 (Listen) SUN Christopher Douglas makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN On Pick of the week this week - extraordinary revelations SUN about london's polite drivers and cyclists and how the SUN French have begun to envy our capital's effortless style. SUN There are wise words from the top of the Lewisham omnibus SUN and some angry ones from the cricket commentary box. And SUN there's a talking pea. SUN SUN London - Just Off The Plane - Radio 4 SUN Top Deck Tales - Radio 4 SUN Towering Ambition - Radio 4 SUN Test Match Special - Radio 4 SUN David Jacobs - Radio 2 SUN Saving Species - Radio 4 SUN Tommy Sandhu - Asian Network SUN Lauren Laverne - 6Music SUN Through the Night - Radio 3 SUN SE8 - Radio 4 SUN Sarah and Ken - Radio 3 SUN Dick Barton - A Very Special Agent - Radio 4 SUN Night Waves - Radio 3 SUN Imran Khan - 5Live SUN Desert Island Discs - Radio 4 SUN Simon Gray's Coda - Radio 7 SUN The London Story - Radio 4 SUN Bells on Sunday - Radio 4 SUN SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00t159n (Listen) SUN There's an irate customer in the The Bull and Pip mucks in SUN with the Young Farmers. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00t159q (Listen) SUN Stephen Evans presents an insider guide to the people and SUN the stories shaping America today, featuring location SUN reports, lively discussion and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00fyqdg (Listen) SUN Tapertime, Kirsty Gunn SUN SUN The above is an old Edwardian word meaning dusk, and this SUN series of commissioned stories take place as the light SUN fades. What happens to the visual world as dusk emerges? SUN What happens to make people behave differently, often SUN strangely, as the world starts to blur? SUN Foxes by Kirsty Gunn SUN SUN At the onset of evening she runs home to arrange the picnic, SUN but animals cross her path, SUN and a change of plan is made... SUN SUN Reader Liz Sutherland SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00t0jcq (Listen) SUN The commissioning editor behind Radio 4's season of SUN programmes 'London: Another Country?' answers the criticisms SUN sent in by listeners. SUN SUN Also on the programme, the editor of the World At One SUN discusses their coverage of the Raoul Moat Story. SUN SUN And was a recent edition of The Bottom Line biased in favour SUN of GM food production? SUN SUN Roger Bolton presents. SUN Producer: Brian McCluskey SUN A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00t0k0l (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN The eminent conductor Sir Charles Mackerras. We have SUN tributes from Dame Janet Baker, Julian Lloyd Webber and Sir SUN Mark Elder. SUN Sir Marrack Goulding, the outspoken diplomat who led the SUN development of United Nations peacekeeping - Lord Hattersley SUN pays tribute. SUN Lord Laing of Dunphail who led the success of United SUN Biscuits and was a friend of Margaret Thatcher. SUN Jim Bohlen - the Canadian campaigner who was part of the SUN anti nuclear testing sea voyage that led to the foundation SUN of Greenpeace. SUN And the poet Pete Morgan who often wrote about his beloved SUN Yorkshire countryside. SUN SUN SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS SUN SUN Conductor who has died aged 84. SUN SUN Sir Charles Mackerras was one of the most versatile and SUN admired conductors of the last sixty years. He was best SUN known for his association with the composers Mozart, Handel SUN and Janacek, but in thousands of performances and hundreds SUN of recordings he covered an enormous repertoire. Sir Charles SUN was born in the United States, but brought up in Sydney in SUN Australia where he studied oboe, piano and composition at SUN the New South Wales Conservatory. He emigrated to the UK in SUN 1947, won a scholarship to study in Prague and then returned SUN as a staff conductor at the Sadlers Wells Opera. SUN SUN We hear from Dame Janet Baker, to Sir Mark Elder, to Sir SUN Nicholas Kenyon and to Julian Lloyd Webber. SUN SUN Sir Charles Mackerras was born 17 November 1925 and died 14 SUN July 2010. SUN SUN SIR MARRACK GOULDING SUN SUN Diplomat who has died aged 73. SUN SUN Sir Marrack Goulding was a diplomat who presided over the SUN expansion of United Nations peacekeeping missions in the SUN 1980s and 90s. As the Cold War came to an end, the UN’s role SUN grew and Sir Marrack, who was nicknamed “MIG” after his SUN initials, found himself in charge of operations in countries SUN like Angola, Mozambique, Yugoslavia and parts of Central SUN America. Some 55,000 blue helmeted soldiers came under his SUN command. After gaining a first in classics at Oxford, he SUN joined the Foreign Office. SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Lord Hattersley. SUN SUN Marrack Goulding was born 2 September 1936 and died 9 July SUN 2010. SUN SUN LORD LAING SUN SUN Businessman who has died aged 87. SUN SUN Lord Laing of Dunphail had biscuits in his blood. His SUN grandfather had invented the digestive biscuit and was SUN Managing Director of the Edinburgh based company McVitie and SUN Price; his father also worked in the family biscuit business SUN and the young Hector Laing was allowed to cut oatcakes at SUN the factory before he went to school. After serving in the SUN Scots Guards during the war, Hector joined the company SUN which, after a merger, became United Biscuits. Hector took SUN over as Managing Director in 1964 and presided over a long SUN period of expansion which included many acquisitions. He was SUN one of Margaret Thatcher’s favourite businessmen, became a SUN treasurer of the Conservative Party and later a member of SUN the Court of the Bank of England. SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his son Robert Laing, to the current SUN chairman of United Biscuits David Fish, and to the SUN manufacturing director, Mark Thorpe. SUN SUN Hector Laing, Baron Laing of Dunphail was born 12 May 1923 SUN and died 21 June 2010. SUN SUN JIM BOHLEN SUN SUN Environmental activist and co-founder of Greenpeace who has SUN died aged 84. SUN SUN In 1970 Jim Bohlen was an environmental campaigner living in SUN Canada. With his wife Marie and other activists he had SUN formed a committee to oppose US nuclear testing at Amchitka SUN Island in Alaska. The couple’s idea of sailing a ship into SUN the test area sowed the seeds that led to the formation of SUN the campaign group Greenpeace. Jim Bohlen was born in New SUN York and had served in the US Navy during the Korean war. He SUN had moved to Canada to avoid his stepson being drafted into SUN the military. Jim was ahead of his time in thinking about SUN environmental issues, writing a self sufficiency hand book SUN and founding an organic farming community. But it was the SUN voyage to Amchitka that caused the biggest stir. SUN SUN Matthew speaks to fellow activist Rod Marining who went on SUN the trip. SUN SUN Jim Bohlen was born 4 July 1926 and died 5 July 2010. SUN SUN PETE MORGAN SUN SUN Poet who had died aged 71. SUN SUN Pete Morgan only published five collections of his poetry in SUN forty years, but his work attracted many admirers. Some of SUN his poems were set to music by artists like the Levellers SUN and Al Stewart. Pete was born in Lancashire. He left school SUN at the age of sixteen and moved to London where he pinned SUN his poems to trees on Hampstead Heath in search of an SUN audience. Two years later he joined the army, serving as a SUN platoon commander in West Germany. But in 1964 he decided he SUN was a pacifist and resigned his commission. He moved to SUN Edinburgh and began performing his poems at the Traverse SUN Theatre. Later he moved to Yorkshire which became a source SUN of inspiration to him. SUN SUN We spoke to fellow poet Nigel Forde. SUN SUN Pete Morgan was born 7 June 1939 and died 5 July 2010. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00t0wdx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00t0zsz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00szxzf (Listen) SUN Time to Get Real SUN SUN After the emergency budget, the main political parties have SUN started to talk more frankly about how to plug the hole in SUN the public finances. But although the coalition has SUN announced plans for more ambitious cuts than first SUN envisaged, it's remained coy about the all-important details SUN of where the axe will fall in government departments. The SUN Opposition attacks the new approach, although it too remains SUN reluctant about identifying exactly where substantial SUN savings can be made. SUN SUN Going where the politicians seem to fear to tread, Michael SUN Blastland asks some of the UK's most influential policy SUN experts and politicians how the difficult decisions on what SUN to cut should be reached. He demands hard data on which SUN activities should be curbed or abandoned altogether and how SUN the sums will match the rhetoric. SUN SUN Michael Blastland is the author of "The Tiger That Isn't: SUN Seeing Through a World of Numbers". SUN SUN Producer: Simon Coates SUN Editor: Innes Bowen. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00t159s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00t159v (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00t159x (Listen) SUN Episode 10 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week Andrew Grice of The SUN Independent takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00t0k79 (Listen) SUN As Leonardo DiCaprio's new film, Inception, is set in a SUN dreamscape, Matthew Sweet asks the actor if he is a Freudian SUN or a Jungian. SUN SUN As part of Radio 4's London season, Matthew Sweet surveys SUN Tower Bridge in cinema, taking in views from The Long Good SUN Friday and the latest Sherlock Holmes movie SUN SUN In a new series, Neil Brand traces the beginnings of genres SUN in silent cinema SUN SUN The BFI want you to search your shed or attic as part of SUN their Most Wanted campaign to find 75 lost British movies. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00t0zsn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 19 JULY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00t15ml (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00t0qy7 (Listen) MON Physiognomy and Teenage music MON MON The study of facial features and assumptions about their MON relationship to character informs the judgements we make MON about people to this day. For centuries, in literature, in MON art, in images and cartoons the descriptions of the way MON people look has served to indicate how they might behave and MON there is even a kind of science - physiognomy - dedicated to MON cataloguing the complex relationship between the two. Laurie MON Taylor discusses the impact on culture of this strange MON science of instinct and prejudice with the literature MON scholar John Mullan and Sharrona Pearl author of About MON Faces; Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00t0zsj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t15q1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t15z4 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t15tl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00t16pr (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t16r9 (Listen) MON with the Rev Derek Boden, minister of Malone Presbyterian MON Church, Belfast. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00t16vx (Listen) MON The Breeding Bird Survey shows numbers of grey partridge - MON which are already threatened - have dropped by another 20% MON in a year. Since 1995 it's declined by 50%. Anna Hill asks MON whether it should still be legal to be able to shoot the MON game bird. MON MON Also as the Farming Today team recover from their week MON fruit-picking, there are signs Pick Your Own is growing in MON popularity after a massive decline in the 1980s. MON MON Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00t1v70 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00t16xs (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00t1v72 (Listen) MON Series 4, Peter Hitchens MON MON Writer & journalist Peter Hitchens was born in 1951 and MON moved to Portsmouth as the sixties began and the navy (in MON which his father was a commander during World War 2) MON declined. He grew up with heroic tales - from Admiral Nelson MON onwards - of great men who had kept this island safe. His MON life-long squabble with his older brother, Christopher MON Hitchens, took root here as did his teenage rebellions - MON against God, against suburbia - both of which he still MON deeply regrets and may have played a part he believes in the MON fracturing of his childhood idyll when his parents divorced MON and his mother died. He takes Wendy Robbins back to the MON homes and haunts of his post-war childhood. MON Producer : Rosamund Jones. MON MON 09:30 Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star b00t1v74 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Ex Home Secretary Alan Johnson goes in search of the life he MON thought he nearly had: as a rock star. In the 1960s Alan MON Johnson was in a band ("The Area") that cut a single but MON couldn't get it released. He gave music up for a career that MON took him from Postman to Union Leader to The Cabinet. So MON what has he missed out on? Does the fame of being a senior MON government minister compare in any way with that of being in MON a successful band. MON MON In this series he meets five people who tasted the fame he MON craved. Each of the warm and engaging interviews reveal MON something different about life in music and the truth behind MON the myths. MON MON In Episode one Alan meets The Merseybeats, contemporaries of MON The Area who achieved everything Alan dreamed of, and 45 MON years later are still touring with the same hits. Has the MON life gone stale or become tired? Is it really a career that MON could have sustained someone for all that time? MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00t17d2 (Listen) MON Red Dust Road, Episode 1 MON MON It was the imminent birth of her son that prompted the poet MON and novelist Jackie Kay to try and trace the parents who had MON given her up for adoption in the 1960s. MON MON Her own childhood had been a profoundly happy one with open MON and loving parents . They had always made it clear to her MON that she and her elder brother, both mixed race, were MON 'special' because they had been 'chosen'. But Scotland and MON indeed Britain was not always an easy place to be, MON particularly in those early years, if your skin colour MON happened to be several shades darker than everybody else's. MON MON The casual offensiveness of the oft-phrased question "where MON are you from?" - which looked beyond her obviously Scottish MON accent and saw only her non-white skin - provoked a defiant MON assertion: "Here." School lessons about Africa were always MON an uncomfortable experience as classmates trotted out the MON dancing, drumming, mud-hut cliches. MON MON Eventually, with the solid support of her family and her MON partner and friends, Kay decided that she needed to know the MON story of where she was from, and embarked on the complex MON emotional and physical journey. MON MON Her Mum was a great storyteller and had often shared MON imaginings of a tragic romance broken off by an arranged MON betrothal, a princely heritage and a Sidney Poitier-like MON figure for a father. The truth, as Kay discovers, never MON quite matches the fantasies - sometimes it outdoes them. As MON for the jigsaw puzzle of heritage, family and identity, MON assembling the pieces doesn't always provide answers. MON MON Read by the author. MON MON Producer/Abridger: Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t17kb (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey: Are you being served? The history MON and role of department stores in Britain. Living where you MON grow up, writer Eoin Colfer and Laura Barton discuss the MON benefits of staying put or moving away. Nora Shourd talks MON about her daughter held hostage in Iran and live music from MON The Unthanks. MON MON Nora Shourd, mother of hiker imprisoned in Iran MON MON Nora Shourd is the mother of Sarah Shourd, one of three MON American hikers who are being held in Evin prison in Tehran. MON Sarah and her friends were taken into custody in July 2009. MON They had been hiking in Iraq and the Iranians have accused MON them of espionage. Their families say that if they crossed MON the border it was accidental. Although no charges have been MON brought against Sarah she has been in solitary confinement MON for nearly 12 months. Along with the other mothers Nora is MON campaigning for their freedom. This photo was taken in May MON 2010 when Nora met Sarah in Tehran - a meeting facilitated MON by the Swiss Embassy there. MON MON Living where you grew up MON MON Are you someone who’s lived in the same town you were born MON in your entire life? Or perhaps you’ve travelled the world MON in a search for meaning or more practically, employment? MON Eoin Colfer, writer of the ‘Artemis Fowl’ series, has sold MON around 20 million books worldwide. But he continues to MON reside in Wexford in Ireland, the same place he grew up. MON Laura Barton, a journalist and writer who originally hails MON from Wigan, has had to move around to realise her ambition. MON They discuss with Jane why some people stay and others go. MON MON The Unthanks MON MON They describe their music as a blend of ‘staunch MON traditionalism’, and ‘sonic adventure’. And since they MON launched their first album six years ago, modern folk MON artists Rachel and Becky Unthank have been both lauded and MON criticised for their unique position on the music scene. On MON Monday’s Woman’s Hour, the Unthanks meet Jane Garvey to talk MON about the relevance of folk in a world obsessed with pop MON culture - and the women of the North East whose stories they MON tell. MON MON The Unthanks play the Cambridge Folk Festival 1st August MON 2010 MON MON The History and Future of the Department Store MON MON For more than a century people have flocked to department MON stores to browse and buy a huge range of goods. Historian MON Claire Masset joins Jane to talk about the evolution of MON these enormous shops, their Golden Age in the 1920s and MON 1930s, and some of the more bizarre innovations in MON retailing, such as the personal shopping service and the MON story of a customer who wanted to buy a second-hand coffin. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t1861 (Listen) MON A Kind of Loving MON by Stan Barstow MON Dramatised by Diana Griffiths MON 6/10 MON MON This iconic 1960 novel is set in Yorkshire. Vic starts a new MON job managing the record shop. Since he no longer sees Ingrid MON every day at work, things simmer down between them and for MON months he doesn't see her. Then one day she walks into the MON shop . MON MON Vic Brown...Lee Ingleby MON Ingrid Rothwell...Rebecca Callard MON Mr Van Huyton... Séamus O'Neill MON Mrs Brown...Kate Layden MON MON Producer/Director ......Pauline Harris MON MON 11:00 Born in Bradford b00t1v9s (Listen) MON Thousands of Bradford babies are being followed in the MON biggest health survey of its kind. This is now reaching a MON crucial milestone for providing key insights into diabetes, MON obesity and certain genetic conditions. Winifred Robinson MON reports. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00cxvxj (Listen) MON Series 2, Chapter the Second: A Re-Kippered Life Smashed Some More MON MON By Mark Evans MON Volume Two, Chapter the Second: MON A Re-Kippered Life Smashed Some More MON MON In which listeners are invited to marvel at the engineering MON genius of the early railways, including a tunnel made of MON beef and pastry and a man who sends loud telegrams to say MON "He's on the train. Stop." But as Pip travels the length and MON breadth of the land in search of his beloved school could it MON be that there is another even more sinister plan underway? MON And will the evil Mister Benevolent be involved somehow? MON Yes! And yes again! MON MON Sir Philip...........................Richard Johnson MON Mr Benevolent.......................Anthony Head MON Sternbeater...................Geoffrey Whitehead MON Harry Biscuit......................James Bachman MON Young Pip..................................Tom Allen MON Lily.....................................Sarah Hadland MON Mr Parsimonious...............Laurence Howarth MON Pippa........................................Susy Kane MON Sundry railwaymen.....................Mark Evans MON MON Produced by Gareth Edwards. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00t18bh (Listen) MON Julian Worricker speaks to Justin King the boss of MON Sainsbury's and the man responsible for importing 70,000 MON vuvuzelas to the UK - does he regret it? How have their MON customers fared in the recession and what next for Britain's MON third biggest supermarket? MON MON Sky already uses the information they hold about customers MON to determine the adverts they see when watching TV online MON but now they want to extend this to some of their TV MON channels. So what you get in an ad break will be determined MON by your post code, subscription package and other data they MON hold about you. MON MON We examine the effect that limiting housing benefit to four MON hundred pounds a week could have on those who rely on it to MON pay their rent, and on landlords. MON MON And would you take 'cognitive enhancing drugs' to improve MON your performance at work? We speak to the Cambridge MON professor who says the practice is becoming more common, and MON more acceptable. MON MON Julian with Justin King, Chief Executive of Sainsbury's MON supermarket MON MON 12:57 Weather b00t18j9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00t18l1 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00t1wcl (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 b00t159n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t1wcn (Listen) MON Hive Mind MON MON By Simon Bovey MON MON Sam ..... Tony Bell MON Amra ..... Ania Sowinski MON Jackson ..... Michael Shelford MON Olivia ..... Alison Pettitt MON Patek ..... David Seddon MON Jan ..... Lloyd Thomas MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby MON MON Spring in 2019 is not the riot of colour it used to be. The MON honeybee is now officially extinct. Farmer Sam Clark MON struggles to raise a crop worth a damn. But man has adapted. MON Every spring an army of migrant workers, led by foreman Amra MON Walczak, descends on Sam's farm to pollinate by hand. It is MON a laborious process but it works. This spring, however, MON science offers a new solution, Honeybots, tiny robots that MON are effectively crawling bees, and Sam's put his farm MON forward for a trial. MON Once released, thousands of Honeybots course through the MON fields, pollinating the flowers in a fraction of the time it MON takes Amra and her team. Their job done they return MON automatically to their hive chest. They are quick and efficient. MON That evening, however, dead birds and mice are found in the MON fields the Honeybots have worked... MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00t0wrj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State b00t18nn (Listen) MON King James I MON MON The early 17th century saw the first moral panic in English MON history about the social impact of drunkenness, and Mark MON Whitaker begins his narrative history series on the politics MON of alcohol with King James I's campaign against it. MON MON At a time of rapid social change, with increasing religious MON division and political tension, the ruling classes came to MON see the ale-houses used by the poor as deeply threatening. MON In the first three years of his reign James passed Acts MON against the spread of ale-houses and against "the loathsome MON sin of drunkenness". MON MON But the state had no police force, so it depended on the MON pulpit to put the fear of God into the country's drinkers. MON "It is no one sin, but all sins" became the message; the MON drunkard was someone "wholly at Satan's command." MON MON But drink was a central and celebrated part of daily life. MON Ale was regarded by the poor as vital to their diet, and MON drinking it was portrayed as a patriotic duty, while the MON rituals of social and family life for the wealthy were MON washed down with French or Portuguese wine. Royal MON celebrations at the Palace of Whitehall were also MON notoriously drunken affairs. MON MON Actors read extracts from sermons, memoirs and pamphlets. MON MON Producer: Mark Whitaker MON A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00t0ztf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00t1wcq (Listen) MON Women in leadership MON MON Ernie Rea and his guests explore the place of faith in our MON complex world. MON MON Ernie is joined by three guests who discuss why the idea of MON women in positions of religious leadership is so MON controversial. MON MON It is 35 years since the first woman was appointed as a MON Rabbi in the UK. Since then, women have become priests but MON not bishops in the Church of England; there are continual MON calls to ordain women to the Catholic church; while the idea MON of female Imams is almost unimaginable in Muslim circles. MON MON So why aren't women breaking through the glass ceiling into MON positions of leadership? How do theological issues influence MON equality? And do men and women bring different but equal MON skills to positions of religious leadership? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss these issues is Canon Lucy Winkett, MON currently Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral and shortly to MON become Rector of St James, Piccadilly; Lorna Ashworth, lay MON member of the General Synod of the Church of England and MON member or Reform, an organisation which opposes women MON Bishops and Khola Hassan, the director of Albatross MON Consultancy which focuses on issues concerning Muslims in Britain. MON MON Jackie Tabick tells Ernie what it was like to be Britain's MON first female Reform Rabbi and whether opposition to women in MON positions of leadership has changed in the 35 years since MON she joined the Rabbinate. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00t19gp (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t19jk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00t1wcs (Listen) MON Series 53, Episode 5 MON MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the MON Cambridge Corn Exchange. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden MON and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by David MON Mitchell, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON accompanies on the piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00t18lk (Listen) MON The game's afoot for Lynda, and will Edana triumph at the MON show? MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00t1bjc (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with members of the MON band Earth, Wind and Fire, who reflect on their career which MON now spans four decades. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t1861 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b00t1xdy (Listen) MON Glad to be Grey? MON MON A generation of gay people have seen the decriminalisation MON of homosexuality, the lowering of the age of consent, and MON the introduction of civil partnerships but now many are MON having to hide their sexuality as they work out their living MON arrangements as they get older. Jane Hill asks - are MON elderly residential homes an option right now if you're gay? MON MON Age UK has reported that older gay men and lesbians are five MON times less likely to access services for older people than MON the general population. In "Glad to be Grey?" we hear older MON gay men and lesbians talk about their experiences and MON concerns about the future particularly if they have to go MON into a residential retirement home. Some have experienced MON outright hostility from staff or fellow residents in MON residential care or sheltered housing. Others simply don't MON expect the straight people they're living with to understand MON the culture that has formed such an important part of their MON lives. Having fought the battles for equality do they face MON the prospect of being marginalised in old age? BBC News MON presenter Jane Hill examines a subject which has been MON largely unexplored up until now. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00t0f8y (Listen) MON January's earthquake in Haiti left more than 200,000 dead MON and over a million homeless. Six months on there are still MON one and a quarter million people living in camps. As yet, MON there is still no resettlement plan. Progress appears to be MON painfully slow. The BBC's International Development MON Correspondent, Mark Doyle, who reported from Haiti in the MON immediate aftermath of the disaster, returns to ask if MON millions of dollars raised and the billions more pledged MON will help Haiti in the long run. MON MON Despite the devastation and tragedy wrought by the MON earthquake on the poorest nation in the Americas, some MON believed that it could signal a new beginning for Haiti, a MON country plagued for many years by poverty, corruption, MON political instability and violence. However, questions are MON being asked about who is in charge, who is deciding things MON and for whose benefit. There are also significant concerns MON that the flood of money and the international organisations MON providing aid are distorting the local economy and making it MON impossible to build a self-sustaining economy. MON MON While the government talks of the need to decentralize the MON economy, to encourage people to leave the crowded capital MON Port au Prince and return to the countryside, so far there MON are few signs of how that is going to be achieved. And with MON the rainy season now begun, life for many of those living in MON camps, under tarpaulin, is deteriorating. MON MON History is not on Haiti's side. All past interventions by MON outsiders have been either disastrous for the Haitians or MON have failed to live up to their promise. No surprise, then, MON that there is growing cynicism that all the promises of help MON with materialise and bring about a better country. MON MON Producer: John Murphy. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00t0g9w (Listen) MON Dr. Richard Pike, the Chief Executive of the Royal Society MON of Chemistry joins Quentin in the studio with an update of MON the latest news from the BP oil situation. MON MON The first ever All Party Parliamentary Group on Life MON Sciences is being set up at Westminster. The founder of the MON group, Penny Mordaunt MP Portsmouth North is in the studio MON to tell us why such a group is important to universities, MON industry and voters. MON MON Six of Italy's top seismologists could face charges of MON manslaughter after failing to give a warning before the MON deadly earthquake that struck the central Italian city of MON L'Aquila on 6 April 2009. The indictment has outraged MON experts around the world, who note that earthquakes cannot MON be predicted and who say that the Italian government MON neglected to enforce building codes that could have reduced MON the toll. Quentin speaks to Professor Ian Main from MON Edinburgh University about why it is impossible to predict MON earthquakes. MON MON And we return to So You Want to be a Scientist finalist John MON Rowlands and catch up on his noctilucent cloud experiment so MON far. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00t1v72 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00t1r68 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00t1rb2 (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 b00t1t45 (Listen) MON Before The Earthquake, Episode 6 MON MON It is Lent in the Italian mountains, and Concetta's sister MON Immacolata has persuaded their parents to allow her and her MON sister Nunzia to go and celebrate carnuale in the MON neighbouring village of San Michele. MON MON Chaperoned by their brother, Concetta's husband and his MON brothers, they set off in high spirits, though Concetta - MON now heavily pregnant - has to forgo the treat. But when MON they return home late the next day, there is clearly tension MON in the air. MON MON Sian Thomas reads this atmospheric mystery by Maria Allen. MON MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC MON Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00t0fzl (Listen) MON Working Mums MON MON Provocative and thoughtful new writing and discussion, MON presented by Dominic Arkwright. This week Arabella Weir, MON Deborah Orr and Oliver James join Dominic in the studio to MON write about and debate their experiences of Working Mums. MON Produced by Beatrice Fenton. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00t1t8p (Listen) MON Sean Curran presents the BBC's flagship Parliamentary MON programme. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 20 JULY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00t15j9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00t17d2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t15mn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t15tn (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t15q3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00t169b (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t16pt (Listen) TUE with the Rev Derek Boden, minister of Malone Presbyterian TUE Church, Belfast. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00t16rc (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00t16zw (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00t1xsz (Listen) TUE Series 6, Mentally Ill and Refusing Surgery TUE TUE Joan Bakewell is joined by her panel of experts to discuss TUE the complex ethical issues arising from this case. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00t3cyy (Listen) TUE Red Dust Road, Episode 2 TUE TUE Acclaimed Scottish poet Jackie Kay traces her biological TUE parents in a journey from Scotland to Lagos. TUE TUE Jackie continues her journey in search of her roots. Today TUE she meets her birth mother for the first time, and comes TUE closer to tracking down her birth father. TUE TUE Read by the author. TUE TUE Producer/Abridger: Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t17jy (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Singer Macy Gray performs in the TUE studio. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t1863 (Listen) TUE A Kind of Loving TUE by Stan Barstow TUE Dramatised by Diana Griffiths TUE 7/10 TUE Ingrid tells Vic she is pregnant and he asks her to marry TUE him. He is devastated to be so trapped. Vic tells his TUE parents - his mother is very angry - then he faces Ingrid's TUE parents. He dislikes her mother on sight. They plan to marry TUE and live with Ingrid's mother. TUE Vic Brown...Lee Ingleby TUE Ingrid Rothwell...Rebecca Callard TUE Mrs Rothwell...Brigit Forsyth TUE Mr Rothwell...David Fleeshman TUE Mrs Brown...Kate Layden TUE Mr Brown...Fine Time Fontayne TUE Producer/Director .....Pauline Harris TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00t1xt1 (Listen) TUE Episode 16 TUE TUE 17/40. What is the future for our farmland birds? We have TUE been following the re-introduction of Cirl Buntings into TUE Cornwall: an RSPB led conservation project where Cirl TUE Bunting chicks have been taken from nests in Devon and TUE released on specially selected farms on the Roseland TUE Peninsular. We sent a reporter down to the West Country to TUE see how it works. But do planned government cuts on TUE departments like DEFRA impact on this and other conservation TUE work to protect our farmland birds? And will the "Big TUE Society" and "localism" - the policy centre piece of the TUE coalition - and not Government - protect our farmland TUE birds? We will ask the RSPB and, we hope, the minister. TUE TUE Also in the programme, memories of Butterflies. TUE TUE And our newshound, Kelvin Boot. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Kirsty Henderson TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00t1zc5 (Listen) TUE Grayson Perry TUE TUE The Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry presents a TUE selection of the written influences on his life and work. TUE His readers are Michael Simkins and Eleanor David. TUE TUE In a range of choices reflecting themes which appear in his TUE work as an artist, from children's books to stories of TUE psychotherapy, this open and engaging man gives us an TUE insight into his art and his personal life. TUE TUE Producer: Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00t1896 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues. An opportunity to contribute your TUE views to the programme. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00t18gw (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00t18jc (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Composing New York b00t1zc7 (Listen) TUE New York City has always drawn composers from the Old World TUE - from Dvorak and Mahler to Kurt Weill, Rachmaninov and TUE Benjamin Britten. Some, like Puccini, crossed the Atlantic TUE to premier new works, others like Gustav Mahler and Bela TUE Bartok stayed for longer periods to compose, study and TUE conduct. But all were shaped by the energy of New York, just TUE as the city's musical culture was shaped, in turn, by them. TUE TUE Behind this extraordinary cultural exchange lay a deeper TUE question: what should a truly American "classical" music TUE sound like? Did it lie outside the concert hall and with the TUE Broadway musical, as envisaged by Kurt Weill? Or was it TUE Dvorak's iconic New World symphony, with its powerful TUE invocations of the black American spiritual, that pointed the way? TUE TUE Filled with the sounds of NYC, British composer and New York TUE resident Tarik O'Regan presents a vivid portrait of the city TUE which electrified these great composers and, through their TUE works composed and premiered in New York, transformed the TUE wider world of classical music. TUE TUE Producer: Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00t18lk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t1zc9 (Listen) TUE Gift TUE By Philip Palmer TUE TUE To accompany the new series of Radio 4's Inside The Ethics TUE Committee, this tense drama gets inside the emotional TUE realities of dealing with an ethical dilemma. Richard has TUE been on haemodialysis for almost three years as a result of TUE end stage kidney disease, and his son Martin has offered to TUE donate his own kidney to help his father. But there's more TUE to this gift than either father or son wish to let on. TUE TUE Cast: TUE TUE Richard ..... Philip Jackson TUE Martin ..... Ashley Kumar TUE Helena ..... Eloise Secker TUE Jeremy Flynn ..... David Seddon TUE Claire Glover ..... Daniela Nardini TUE Maire Kennedy ..... Alison Pettitt TUE David ..... Michael Shelford TUE Psychologist ..... Tony Bell TUE Paramedic ..... Jude Akuwudike TUE Scientist ..... Lloyd Thomas TUE TUE Director - Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00t37q5 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producers: Nick Patrick and Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00t1zmf (Listen) TUE Platform 3, The Homecoming TUE TUE Gregory is a successful New York businessman who has TUE returned to Russia for the first time in many years to visit TUE his mother. He takes a trip out to his mother's dacha in the TUE country and then heads for the local station. He has an TUE urgent plane to catch. Moscow is only two hours away - but TUE only if the train comes. And while he waits, he has a TUE strange encounter... TUE TUE Written by Olga Grushin and read by Alan Cox. This is one of TUE three stories inspired by railway stations, each by a TUE different writer. TUE TUE Olga Grushin was born in Moscow in 1971 and spent her TUE childhood in Moscow and Prague. In 1989 she became the first TUE Soviet citizen to enrol for a full-time degree in the United TUE States while retaining Soviet citizenship. In 2006 she was TUE shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and named TUE one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. She TUE has published two novels: The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) TUE and The Concert Ticket in April 2010. The Homecoming is her TUE first story for radio. Olga lives in Washington D.C. TUE TUE Producer: Jeremy Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State b00t1qg4 (Listen) TUE The Gin Act of 1736 TUE TUE 'Madam Geneva', she was called: the provider of 'Dutch TUE Courage'. Mark Whitaker explores the Gin Craze of mid-18th TUE century England. TUE TUE William Hogarth's "Gin Lane" of 1751 is perhaps the TUE best-known piece of propagandist art ever produced in TUE England. It portrays the ravages of the gin addiction that TUE for twenty-five years had dominated the life of the London TUE poor. Gin had first been introduced into the country by TUE William III, and the landed classes soon became rich TUE producing the grain from which it was distilled; and TUE governments depended on taxing it. TUE TUE But by the end of the 1720s people started to recognise the TUE social damage it was causing. Nothing like it had been seen TUE before. The best writers of the day took up the issue. TUE Daniel Defoe wrote against "the abuse of that nauseous TUE liquor among our lower sort" and argued that it was TUE undermining England's economic power. Henry Fielding called TUE gin a "diabolical liquor" and wanted it banned completely. TUE TUE Walpole's government passed a series of Gin Acts, the most TUE draconian being that of 1736. The liquor trade went TUE underground and Government informers roamed the streets. TUE When serious riots broke out in Spitalfields in August 1736 TUE Walpole explained them as the people's desperation at "the TUE approaching expiration of their darling vice." But the TUE government was forced to back down. TUE TUE Actors read extracts from Defoe and Fielding, from Walpole's TUE letters and from parliamentary debates. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Whitaker TUE A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00t20rm (Listen) TUE Chris Ledgard presents the first in a new series of Word of TUE Mouth exploring the different ways in which deaf people TUE communicate: sign language, lip reading and also speaking. TUE One in seven of us in the UK is deaf or hard of hearing TUE (according to figures produced by the Medical Research Council). TUE TUE For many deaf people, English isn't their first language - TUE they grow up speaking sign language. Chris talks to the TUE artist and writer Louise Stern, who speaks in sign language TUE and is the fourth generation to be born deaf in her family, TUE via her long-time collaborator and interpreter, Oliver TUE Pouliot. TUE TUE Reporter Sally Heaven visits the University of Bristol TUE Centre for Deaf Studies - the only one in the UK - to find TUE out more about the intricacies of British Sign Language from TUE Linda Day and Rachel Sutton-Spence. TUE TUE And Chris meets Charlie Swinbourne, a deaf journalist and TUE scriptwriter who grew up in a deaf family and describes TUE himself as "hard of hearing". He both speaks and uses sign TUE language so moves between both the deaf and hearing worlds. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00t20rp (Listen) TUE Shazia Mirza and Diana Quick TUE TUE This week's guests in the studio to recommend their TUE favourite paperbacks with Sue MacGregor are the actress TUE Diana Quick and the comedian Shazia Mirza. Diana Quick found TUE national fame in the role of Julia Flyte in the celebrated TUE television production of Brideshead Revisited, and was TUE recently seen as the Queen in the last episode of Channel TUE 4's five-part drama documentary. Last year she published a TUE book about her Anglo-Indian background, in which she traced TUE her father's family back to her great-grandfather's service TUE in the Indian army. Shazia Mirza was born in Birmingham to TUE Pakistani parents, and has made a name as an award winning TUE stand up comedian and columnist. She's been praised as TUE unique in British comedy, a reputation which was established TUE early in her career when she took to the stage in hijab and TUE began her act with the deadpan remark, "My name's Shazia TUE Mirza. At least, that's what it says on my pilot's licence.". TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00t19f3 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t19gr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00g0nq2 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Confectionary McEnroe TUE TUE Comedy set in a Scottish corner shop. Tensions run high as TUE Ramesh gears up for the Shopkeeper of the Year award. TUE TUE Written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary. TUE TUE Ramesh ... Sanjeev Kohli TUE Dave ... Donald McLeary TUE Alok ... Susheel Kumar TUE Sanjay ... Omar Raza TUE Father Henderson ... Gerard Kelly TUE Mrs Armstrong ... Maureen Carr TUE Ted ... Gavin Mitchell TUE Mr Finegan ... Tom Urie TUE Elton ... Manjot Sumal TUE Keenan's mum ... Michele Gallagher TUE TUE Director: Iain Davidson TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00t18l3 (Listen) TUE Jolene broadens her horizons and can Kenton and Kathy see TUE eye to eye? TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00t19jm (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with pianist Paul TUE Lewis, who is playing all five Beethoven concerti at this TUE year's BBC Proms. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t1863 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00t25w7 (Listen) TUE As BP's oil spill threatens fishing towns and tourist TUE beaches along America's Gulf coast, Gerry Northam asks if TUE lessons from previous disasters could have prevented the TUE tragedy. TUE When the tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef in Alaska's Prince TUE William Sound in 1989, the resulting oil spill became the TUE worst in American history. Fisheries were closed and the TUE local economy was undermined. Many said such a disaster TUE should never again befall American coastal communities. TUE Tankers were obliged to be constructed with a protective TUE second skin, and the law was changed to give polluters the TUE clear responsibility to pay for oil spills. TUE But as thousands of barrels a day continue to pour into the TUE Gulf of Mexico, a growing chorus of critics is asking why TUE more preparations were not made for such a tragedy? Gerry TUE Northam reports. TUE Producer Andy Denwood TUE Editor David Ross. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00t25w9 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00t1xsz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:45 The Test of Time b00mfhr7 (Listen) TUE The Sushruta TUE TUE Four scientists look back to their ancient forebears. TUE TUE In the first programme, Iain Hutchison, Consultant Oral & TUE Maxillofacial Surgeon, discovers that the nasal TUE reconstructive techniques he uses today date back to third TUE century BC in South Asia. A school of surgery - The Sushruta TUE - grew up on the banks of the river Ganges to help victims TUE of punishment who'd had their noses sliced off. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00t1r3f (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00t1r6b (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 b00t1t3d (Listen) TUE Before The Earthquake, Episode 7 TUE TUE There was panic in the village after Concetta's sisters TUE disappeared from the fields without trace, but they have TUE been found safe and well after having been held overnight by TUE two men they met at carnuale. TUE TUE However, according to the strict code of the Italian TUE village, their reputations have been ruined. TUE TUE And whilst it emerges that Nunzia stayed with her sister to TUE make sure that no harm befell her, Immacolata's intentions TUE appear far less straightforward. TUE TUE Sian Thomas reads this atmospheric mystery by Maria Allen. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC TUE Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Happy Tuesdays b00t25wc (Listen) TUE Angelos Epithemiou's Big Issue TUE TUE Burger van owner and erstwhile panellist of BBC2's "Shooting TUE Stars" has been given the opportunity to broadcast on Radio TUE 4 as part of a scheme to get new voices on to the radio. TUE TUE In this programme, Angelos has invited two guests - Kate TUE Schofield from GreenPeace and an environmental activist TUE called "Toadstool" - to help him examine the thorny topic TUE that is The Environment. TUE TUE The cast includes: Renton Skinner, Rufus Jones, Katherine TUE Jakeways, Sanjeev Kohli, Tom Verrall and Katy Wix. TUE TUE The producer is Sam Michell. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00t1t81 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme presents the BBC's flagship Parliamentary TUE programme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 21 JULY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00t15jc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00t3cyy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t15mq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t15tq (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t15q5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00t169d (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t16pw (Listen) WED with the Rev Derek Boden, minister of Malone Presbyterian WED Church, Belfast. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00t16rf (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b00t179m (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00t25wv (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00t3cyr (Listen) WED Red Dust Road, Episode 3 WED WED Acclaimed poet Jackie Kay traces her biological parents in a WED journey from Scotland to Lagos. WED WED Nigeria: Jackie finally meets her birth father, an encounter WED full of memorable moments and some curiously personal WED questions. WED WED Read by the author. WED Producer/Abridger: Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t17k0 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Dr Who star Karen Gillan joins WED Jenni. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t1865 (Listen) WED A Kind Of Loving by Stan Barstow WED Dramatised by Diana Griffiths WED 8/10 WED WED 1960 Iconic novel. Vic and Ingrid get married, then settle WED down to live with Mrs Rothwell whom Vic gets to dislike more WED and more. Tragedy strikes when heavily pregnant Ingrid falls WED down the stairs and is rushed to hospital. WED WED Vic Brown...Lee Ingleby WED Ingrid Rothwell...Rebecca Callard WED Mrs Rothwell...Brigit Forsyth WED Mrs Oliphant...Kate Layden WED WED Producer/Director.....Pauline Harris WED WED 11:00 Do Pirates Rule the Air Waves? b00t28d4 (Listen) WED Britain has been listening to pirate radio since the 1960s WED and today it is reported that there are more illegal WED broadcasters than ever. Former pirate DJ Trevor Nelson WED investigates the current scene. WED WED According to official Ofcom figures, there are around 150 WED illegal radio stations in the UK today and 16% of London WED regularly tunes in. The pirates argue they are an integral WED part of the British music industry and provide a community WED service that legal stations can't. But broadcasting WED regulator Ofcom says the FM dial is full. They claim the WED pirates are a problem, interfering with legal stations and WED the emergency service frequencies. More worryingly, Ofcom WED says there is evidence of links to serious crime such as WED money laundering, guns and drugs. WED WED Trevor revisits the world of illegal broadcasting to find WED out the truth behind today's pirate scene. Now a presenter WED on BBC Radio 1, Radio 2 and 1xtra, Trevor began his career WED in the 1980s on the then illegal Kiss FM. Trevor explores WED whether the scene has changed considerably since he was in WED the game or if the musical passion and spirit of pirates WED past are still present today. WED WED Contributors include broadcasters, legal and illegal, a WED community radio station, fans, musicians, DJs and OFCOM, who WED were shadowed by the programme on a raid of a pirate station WED suspected of interfering with Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Castle b00t28d6 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Pilchards of Doom WED WED Hie ye to "The Castle", a rollicking sitcom set way back WED then, starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley", "Four WED Weddings & A Funeral") and Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley") WED WED In this episode, Sir John grapples with both an adulterous WED affair and a tin of pilchards. Meanwhile, Thomas explores WED the secrets of the Universe and Anne falls in love with King WED Russell de Brand. WED WED Sir John Woodstock .... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne .... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock .... Martha Howe-Douglas WED Cardinal Duncan .... Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte .... Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock .... Steven Kynman WED Merlin .... Lewis Macleod WED WED Written by Kim Fuller and Paul Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED Producer: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00t1898 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00t18gy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00t18jf (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00t28d8 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00t18l3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t28db (Listen) WED Circus Train WED WED Margarita Sharapova's tale, based on working in a Russian WED circus, is adapted by Louis Nowra. WED WED While their train is waiting at a remote rural station, WED animal trainer Orest and his assistant Alex take the dog out WED to relieve herself and their long circus train leaves WED without them. With no papers or money and not knowing where WED they are, they embark on a madcap journey, hopping goods WED trains and hiding away in carriages. Some are full of WED contraband, others have stowaways and one clattering goods WED train is carrying mysterious chemicals. Alex and Orest WED encounter a host of eccentric characters who are finding new WED and often desperate ways to survive. WED WED As they manically switch trains to try to rejoin the circus, WED they explore the hinterland of Russia. Life here has changed WED since communism and yet in many ways is also much the same. WED A farm is still very much a co-operative even though the WED spokeswoman talks about the new economy and there is a WED picture of President Obama on the wall. The drab and ugly WED towns Orest and Alex pass through rejoice in fictive names WED like Yellow Rat Town - this is a heightened picaresque tale WED where imagination vies with grim reality. WED WED Drunken soldiers, village policemen and a succession of WED chicken farmers harass and pursue the circus couple, WED convinced they are criminals on the run. WED WED Recorded by a Russian-speaking repertory cast. WED WED Orest Anderlect ... Yasen Peyankov WED Alex/Alyona ... Anne Bobby WED Nastya ... Angelique Doudnikova WED Berg ... Michael Levi Harris WED Gorlogryzov ... Stass Klassen WED Bruskov ... Moti Margolin WED Hayk ... Peter Von Berg WED Train Dispatcher ... Tatyana Zbirovskaya WED WED All other parts were played by members of the cast. WED WED Music composed by Gene Pritsker. WED Sound design by Peregrine Andrews. WED Producer: Judith Kampfner WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00t28dd (Listen) WED A panel of guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00t1zmh (Listen) WED Platform 3, A Good Impression WED WED Ali takes the Glasgow train to a small Highland village and WED brings his new fiancee Sophie to meet his family. Sophie WED worries that they won't like her. Ali worries whether his WED eccentric mother and sister can be trusted to behave. WED Neither worry is unfounded. WED WED Written by Morven Crumlish and read by Siobhan Redmond. One WED of three stories inspired by railway stations, each by a WED different writer. WED WED Morven Crumlish's stories have been published and broadcast WED widely, including The Big The Beautiful Nanda Gray, which WED appeared in WORK: the Scotsman/Orange Short Story WED Collection, and You See Patterns When You Close Your Eyes, WED featured in Shorts 4: the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday short WED story collection. She has has also written for the Guardian; WED was a finalist in the 1998 Vogue Talent Contest for young WED writers and in 2004 she was awarded a New Writers Bursary WED from the Scottish Arts Council. Her work has featured in two WED previous Sweet Talk productions for BBC Radio 4: Loulou and WED Barbie and the Seven Deadly Sins appeared in 2005 and WED Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs - five of her stories in 2008. WED Morven lives in Edinburgh. WED WED Producer: Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State b00t1qjs (Listen) WED The Beer Act of 1830 WED WED Continuing his narrative history series on the ways in which WED the British state has dealt with the 'Drink Question', Mark WED Whitaker looks at the 1830 Beer Act - when parliament made WED the seemingly bizarre decision that the best way to decrease WED public drunkenness was to make access to alcohol easier. WED WED Why? It was believed that a recent upsurge in the WED consumption of spirits was a consequence of the quality of WED beer being so low; and this was because a handful of major WED brewers owned the pubs and controlled what they sold. The WED Times called this arrangement "an odious monopoly", and the WED phrase stuck. In 1830 an MP went as far as to call it "more WED oppressive to the lower orders than any other that has ever WED been imposed upon them." WED WED Free Trade was the solution of the day. The 1830 Beer Act WED made it possible for anybody who could come up with a WED payment of two guineas to get a license to sell beer in WED their own home. Over the next six months 25,000 licenses WED were taken out, and almost overnight a new landscape of WED drinking had been created in England. WED WED But within four years a Select Committee on drunkenness was WED meeting, and it began to be argued that the last thing an WED industrialising country needed was a drunk work force. For WED the first time there was serious public discussion as to WED what the social causes of excessive drinking might be, and WED people started talking about mass education as the key to WED change. WED WED Actors read from parliamentary debates, and from journals WED and newspapers. WED WED Producer: Mark Whitaker WED A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00t28dg (Listen) WED Inside the lives of women who strip: Laurie Taylor hears WED from Rachela Colosi about her research into a lap dancing WED club. Also, how climate change will change British society. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00t2bvh (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter goes to Birmingham to visit the surgery of WED Steve Field, GP and Chairman of The Royal College of General WED Practitioners. They offer tips on how to get the best from WED your doctor and discuss the impact of the governments new WED changes to the NHS. WED WED Producer: Erika Wright. WED WED 17:00 PM b00t19f5 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t19gt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b00t2bvk (Listen) WED Series 8, How To Communicate Without Showing Off WED WED Jeremy Hardy, together with his special guests Paul B Davies WED and Morwenna Banks examine the concept of how to, like, uh, WED communicate and shizzle. WED WED Written by Jeremy Hardy, with additional material by Paul B WED Davies. WED Producer: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00t18l5 (Listen) WED The latest from Ambridge. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00t19jp (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. WED WED Producer Ella-Mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t1865 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00t2cks (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 Phillips, WED Matthew Taylor and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 The Curse of the Number Two b00sv6vk (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Episode 1/2. In the United States, the Vice President is WED only a heartbeat away from the White House. He often wins WED the top job and sometimes makes a success of it. Things are WED very different in Britain, but Nick Clegg's meteoric rise to WED become Deputy Prime Minister has brought into sharp focus WED the role of the number two. But why, in British politics, WED does the deputy so rarely reach the summit? And why, when he WED does, does it usually end in disaster? Think of Michael WED Foot or Anthony Eden. These programmes talk to a number WED of the politicians who became deputy leader of their party WED or even Deputy Prime Minister but who just didn't reach the WED summit -- people like Roy Hattersley, Michael Heseltine, WED Shirley Williams, Margaret Beckett and Geoffrey Howe. Some WED never really wanted the job in the first place, others found WED it an exciting experience from which they learned a lot. WED One says it's like a bucket of warm spit, only worse. So is WED there a jinx on the role of the deputy? The political WED commentator, Julia Langdon, finds out in The Curse of the WED Number Two. WED WED Producer Chris Bond. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00t2ckv (Listen) WED Acts of Creation WED WED The creation of an artificial cell by scientist and WED entrepreneur Craig Venter shows what synthetic biology is WED capable of. But others want to go much further - recreating WED life from scratch, or redesigning it at the most fundamental WED level. In his Harvard Lab, Nobel laureate Jack Szostak is WED forcing strands of DNA's cousin RNA to compete with each WED other in a Darwinian struggle for existence. At Manchester WED University, John Sutherland is seeing whether the raw WED materials of biochemistry can form themselves in the kinds WED of puddles that might have existed on Earth 4 billion years WED ago. Some experts think it's only a matter of years before WED living synthetic cells will be grown out of inanimate WED starting materials - a simulation of the origins of life on WED the young Earth. Science writer Adam Rutherford asks what it WED will mean to us when it happens. WED WED Producer: Roland Pease. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00t25wv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00t1r3h (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00t1r6d (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 b00t1t3g (Listen) WED Before The Earthquake, Episode 8 WED WED The 15-year-old Concetta Salierno finally goes into labour. WED But as she struggles to give birth to her child in the WED isolated Italian mountain village, her life is once more in WED danger, and in her delirium she finally begins to retrieve WED some vital threads of memory about the days before the WED earthquake. WED WED Sian Thomas reads this atmospheric mystery by Maria Allen. WED WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC WED Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Ladies b00t2ckx (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED The Ladies return to Radio 4, as we hear from the paranoid WED Christians preparing for the end of the world, a girl who WED gets wedged in a dress, and a desperate wannabe mum. WED WED Written by Emily Watson Howes. WED WED Cast: WED Emily Watson Howes WED Kate Donmall WED Susanna Hislop WED Fran Moulds WED WED Producer: Mark Talbot WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Rik Mayall's Bedside Tales b00m6gpk (Listen) WED The Mountain Girl WED WED Series by Rik Mayall and John Nicholson about the sometimes WED beautiful, sometimes bizarre oddities of human behaviour. WED Rik tells the tale of The Mountain Girl. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00t1t83 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Sean Curran. WED WED THU THURSDAY 22 JULY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00t15jf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00t3cyr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t15ms (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t15ts (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t15q7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00t169g (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t16py (Listen) THU with the Rev Derek Boden, minister of Malone Presbyterian THU Church, Belfast. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00t16rh (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b00t179p (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 Voices From The Old Bailey b00t2l2d (Listen) THU Wicked Women THU THU Professor Amanda Vickery presents dramatised extracts from THU gripping court cases and discusses with fellow historians THU what they reveal about 18th century society and culture. THU THU This time, Amanda listens to the voices of criminal women in THU the Old Bailey, with fellow historians Judith Hawley, Peter THU King and Jeremy Barlow, on location in a crowded 18th THU century lodging house. THU THU The first is a shoplifter, who pilfers a pair of silk THU gloves. She faces the gallows - but the jury saves her life. THU THU The second is a con-woman, and her case tells us a lot about THU the vulnerability of men in the 18th century. THU THU The last is an abused wife who chooses the ultimate way out: THU murder. But once she has murdered her shopkeeper husband, THU she has great trouble disposing of the body... THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Burke THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00t3cyt (Listen) THU Red Dust Road, Episode 4 THU THU Acclaimed poet Jackie Kay traces her biological parents in a THU journey from Scotland to Lagos. THU THU In September 2009, six years after her first trip to THU Nigeria, Jackie is invited to participate in a writers' THU workshop in Lagos. She is determined to visit her ancestral THU village and hopes to meet not only her father but also some THU of her half siblings. THU THU Read by the author. THU THU Producer/Abridger: Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t17k2 (Listen) THU Presented by Jane Garvey. How to run an allotment. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t1867 (Listen) THU A Kind Of Loving by Stan Barstow THU Dramatised by Diana Griffiths THU 9/10 THU THU Things go from bad to worse between Vic and Ingrid, as Ma THU Rothwell interferes more and more. Vic goes on a drinking THU spree and returns at midnight to find Ma Rothwell waiting THU for him They have a final showdown, during which Vic throws THU up on her carpet. THU THU Vic Brown...Lee Ingleby THU Ingrid Rothwell...Rebecca Callard THU Mrs Rothwell...Brigit Forsyth THU Percy...Jake Norton THU THU Producer/Director.....Pauline Harris THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00t2mhq (Listen) THU Puerto Rico THU THU Puerto Rico is a strange place. An island and a THU commonwealth, it exists in an uneasy relationship with its THU massive neighbour, the US. All of its political powers, and THU much of its government cash, come from Washington, but THU Puerto Ricans can't vote in US federal elections. And now an THU economic crisis generated in the US has come home to roost THU on the island. Puerto Rico's Republican governor has THU announced a wave of layoffs of public sector workers, along THU with deep cuts in services. Students responded by staging THU the longest ever university strike in North American THU history. And this dispute plays into the bitter arguments THU over the island's status. Should it seek independence, and THU the right to make its own decisions? Or should it push for THU more integration into the US, so at least it has some say in THU its future? THU THU Maria Hinajosa, the distinguished journalist and presenter THU of Latino USA, travels to the island to examine its future THU through the voices of young people. She meets the students THU who so furiously defied the governor. She hears from young THU activists who are pushing for independence. And she seeks THU out one of the many young Puerto Ricans who are signing up THU to serve in the US military - and who see their primary THU loyalty on the mainland. THU THU Producer: Bill Law. THU THU 11:30 Almanacs: The Oldest Guides to Everything b00t2mhs (Listen) THU Ben Schott charts the history of the most influential form THU of mass publication in the 16th and 17th centuries. At their THU height, apart from the bible, almanacs were the bestselling THU books on the market, with over 400,000 sold annually. THU THU Behind the scenes at The British Museum, Dr Irving Finkel THU outlines the almanac tradition from Babylonian clay tablet THU to Gutenberg's earliest printed material. The British THU Library's Moira Goff lets Ben loose in the archives to THU peruse The Kalender of Shepherdes and the oldest Old Moore's THU Almanack. THU THU Combining the characteristics of calendar, self-help manual THU & pocket encyclopaedia, almanacs contained utilitarian THU information on just about everything: feast days, when to THU sow crops, let blood, how to write an IOU, even advice on THU amateur surgery and DIY abortion. They also included THU dramatic astrological prophesies about the likelihood of THU plague, famine and war. Passages were read to boost THU soldiers' morale in battle and by MPs in the House of Commons. THU THU Almanac compilers were arrested & grilled by parliamentary THU committees. Did one actually predict the Great Fire of THU London? Professor Bernard Capp assesses their powerful role THU in revolutionary politics. THU THU Almanacs played a central part in spreading knowledge, THU literacy, popular journalism and advertising. Ben digs up THU early adverts for pills, potions and all manner of quackery. THU But they were also mocked in all kinds of ways, as Dr Adam THU Smyth explains. THU THU The blank pages inserted into almanacs were used for THU jottings of accounts and personal memos, so they also gave THU us the personal written diary. THU THU The statistical has replaced the astrological but its THU influence lingers on. THU THU Producer: Tamsin Hughes THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00t189b (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00t386s (Listen) THU Fire Safety Disorder THU THU John Waite discovers how some publicly-owned buildings fail THU to comply with the law on fire safety and crown immunity THU means those responsible are safe from prosecution. It THU follows the programme's earlier revelations on towerblocks THU deemed a danger to residents and the firefighters' training THU college which hadn't followed fire safety laws when one of THU its own buildings burnt down. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00t18h0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00t18jh (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00t2xcp (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson presents the interactive problem-solving THU programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions THU of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular THU culture. THU THU Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed THU and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled THU collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week. THU THU QQ has become something of an institution on Radio 4, THU providing informed and ingenious answers to questions such as: THU THU How do you know when a volcano is extinct? THU When was the conventional heart icon first drawn? THU How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? THU Why do we put pork with apple and lamb with mint sauce? THU THU Producer: Dilly Barlow THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00t18l5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t2xcr (Listen) THU The Target Audience THU THU Glitz and glamour are the trademarks of a hugely successful THU TV show where Russia's famous, powerful and rich are THU interviewed by a trio of canny and beautiful young women. THU But tonight's guest, Yuri Tseitlin, is faced with a dilemma THU whereby his oil empire may just slip out of his fingers. THU Before he deals with his offscreen problems he has some THU tough questions to answer. THU THU The three interviewers - a young model from the provinces, a THU political journalist and a businesswoman - are all driven by THU the cruelly aspirational culture around them. They are THU beginning to enjoy the influence and the recognition that TV THU offers them. They were voted into the job by an audience of THU viewers whose own lives are forever excluded from the THU sparkle of Moscow's media, fashion and business worlds. But THU each of these young women has her own agenda in the THU interview with Mr Tseitlin. THU THU In the last of our plays in the 'Russia Actualnyi' series, THU we get a frontline take on the world of Russian business as THU it collides with other more powerful interests. Writer Igor THU Simonov has run a number of businesses - he knows and THU understands the unspoken rules of commerce and politics in THU Russia today. The play has been staged in Moscow's Praktika THU theatre, a powerhouse of new drama, where it received THU critical and popular acclaim. THU THU Yuri Tseitlin ... Yasen Peyankov THU Nastya ... Anne Bobby THU Katya ... Angelique Doudnikova THU Director ... Michael Levi Harris THU Vadim ... Stass Klassen THU Alexei ... Moti Margolin THU Announcer ... Doug Shapiro THU Michael ... Peter Von Berg THU Marina ... Tatyana Zbirovskaya THU THU All other parts were played by members of the cast. THU THU Technical production by Scott Lehrer, Grammy winner and Tony THU winner for Broadway. THU Music specially composed by Gene Pritzker. THU Consultant: Noah Birksted-Breen of Sputnik Theatre. THU THU Director: Judith Kampfner. THU A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00t0lw6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00t0zsz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00t1zmk (Listen) THU Platform 3, Union Station THU THU A young man visits his cousin Neil and his wife Lou before THU setting off to continue his tour of the American Mid-West. THU He remembers Union Station as 'one of the oldest and most THU significant stations in the country, on the historic, THU transcontinental railroad, the first to span the continent THU from coast to coast.' But when he gets as far as the THU bus-station, the locals find it hard to give him directions... THU THU Written by Gerard Woodward, and read by Patrick Kennedy. THU THU Gerard Woodward was born in London in 1961. After studying THU painting and anthropology, he published three prize-winning THU collections of poetry before turning to novel-writing. His THU first novel, August, was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread THU First Novel Award, his second, I'll Go To Bed At Noon, for THU the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Since then he has published THU another collection of poetry, We Were Pedestrians THU (shortlisted for the 2005 T.S Eliot Prize) and become THU Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. His THU collection of short stories, Caravan Thieves, was published THU in March 2008. A Birthday Cockatrice appeared in an earlier THU Sweet Talk series for BBC Radio 4 - The Foods of Love and THU Hate (2008). Nourishment, his new novel, will be published THU in September 2010. Gerard lives in Somerset. THU THU Producer: Jeremy Osborne THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State b00t1qn4 (Listen) THU Temperance and the 1872 Licensing Act THU THU We join presenter Mark Whitaker in the ideal industrial THU community of Saltaire, near Bradford. Developed between 1850 THU and 1870, it was planned as an environment in which workers THU would be diligent, healthy and happy - because they would THU have no access to alcohol. THU THU At the heart of the village was the Saltaire Club and THU Institute that was set up "to supply the advantages of a THU public-house, but without the evils." Temperance developed THU from the 1830s as a movement of the skilled working classes, THU and in 1853 became organised as a formidable political THU pressure group - the UK Alliance. It argued for teetotalism, THU and for the right of ratepayers to ban the liquor trade in THU their own town. THU THU It had formidable parliamentary support. But it was hated by THU writers such as Charles Dickens, who ridiculed the idea that THU prohibition would create a more sober nation. The Times THU dismissed teetotallers as "intolerant brooding theorists". THU THU The issue came to a head in 1871-2. There was a General THU Election and Gladstone's Liberals were trying to pass a new THU Licensing Bill. The campaign was marred by violent THU confrontations between those who wanted more or less freedom THU to drink. Gladstone himself hoped to create a more THU continental drinking culture and reduced the duty on French THU wine. But he couldn't win. When he lost the next Election in THU 1874 he complained that he'd been "borne down in a torrent THU of gin and beer." THU THU Actors read from temperance literature, from Dickens and THU from newspaper reports. THU THU Producer: Mark Whitaker THU A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00t109n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00t2xct (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper dissects the latest science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00t19f7 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t19gw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Secret World b00t2xcw (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Ringo Starr wants to get back with his old band - The THU Shadows. Beckham wants to buy a real T Rex from Spielberg. THU Al Pacino is still stalking John Humphrys. Abu Hamza and Boy THU George continue their unspoken romance. Alan Titchmarsh THU reveals his darker side... All this and more as we take a THU look at the secret world of public people. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00t18l7 (Listen) THU The latest from Ambridge. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00t19jr (Listen) THU John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t1867 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00t2xcy (Listen) THU Justice Secretary Ken Clarke wants to reduce the prison THU population by getting more offenders on community sentences. THU But magistrates claim the effectiveness of some community THU punishments is being compromised because of under THU resourcing. James Silver travels to Liverpool where one THU district judge believes the Government needs to do more to THU ensure courts have the range of community sanctions they THU need to tackle crime. THU THU Producer: Rob Cave. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00t388j (Listen) THU Coming Soon THU THU What happens next as the Credit Crunch crisis continues? THU Peter Day gets the long view from a clutch of the THU distinguished economists including Kenneth Rogoff, Raghuram THU Rajan and Sushil Wadhwani. THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00t1xt1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 Voices From The Old Bailey b00t2l2d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00t1r3k (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00t1r6g (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 b00t1t3j (Listen) THU Before The Earthquake, Episode 9 THU THU Tragedy has befallen Concetta whilst in labour. However, she THU has finally grasped some threads of the memories she had THU lost about the events of the days before the earthquake. THU THU Although consumed by grief, she has found a new THU understanding with her husband Felice, but she still needs THU to steal away to share some news with Peppe's brother THU Francesco. THU THU Sian Thomas reads this atmospheric mystery by Maria Allen. THU THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC THU Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Recorded for Training Purposes b00t2xd2 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 1 THU THU The sketch show about modern communication kicks off a THU fourth series. Described as "brilliant" and "first-rate" by THU the Telegraph, it takes aim at such idiocies of modern life THU as TV talent show formats, disclaimers at the end of emails, THU and using good reviews of a previous series as a way of THU enticing listeners. THU THU Recorded in front of a studio audience, the show features a THU cast whose credits spread from Radio 4 afternoon plays, via THU award-winning fringe theatre, to Star Wars: Rachel Atkins, THU Dominic Coleman, Lewis Macleod, Julie Mayhew, Ingrid Oliver THU and Ben Willbond. THU THU The show had an open-door policy, meaning that anyone could THU send the show sketches. Some 1500 were sent in this way, THU with every single one being read by a script-editor or THU producer - with the funniest stuff getting recorded and THU broadcast. In addition, a small number of the new writers THU who got material broadcast this way in series three were THU given one-to-one script-editing notes and feedback from the THU production team as part of BBC Radio Comedy's commitment to THU discovering and developing new writing talent. THU THU The scripts were edited by award-winning writers James Cary, THU Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris. James' writing will be THU familiar to Radio 4 audiences from the his sketch show THU Concrete Cow to his sitcoms Think The Unthinkable and Hut THU 33. He also co-writes, with Milton Jones, Another Case of THU Milton Jones. Jason and Joel have written sketches for THU Mitchell & Webb on both TV and Radio, The Armstrong & Miller THU Show, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, and are the best-selling THU authors of Bollocks to Alton Towers: Uncommonly British Days THU Out. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00t1t85 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 23 JULY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00t15jh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00t3cyt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t15mv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t15tv (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t15q9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00t169j (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t16q1 (Listen) FRI with the Rev Derek Boden, minister of Malone Presbyterian FRI Church, Belfast. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00t16rk (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00t179s (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00t0ztc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00t3cyw (Listen) FRI Red Dust Road, Episode 5 FRI FRI Acclaimed poet Jackie Kay traces her biological parents in a FRI journey from Scotland to Lagos. FRI FRI Jackie reads the final extract from her memoir, including an FRI emotional conclusion to her Nigerian odyssey. FRI FRI Producer/Abridger: Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t17k4 (Listen) FRI Presented by Sheila McClennon. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t1869 (Listen) FRI A Kind Of Loving FRI by Stan Barstow FRI Dramatised by Diana Griffiths FRI 10/10 FRI FRI After leaving Ingrid, Vic goes to his sister's, breaking FRI down at last. Can the couple survive, can they find a kind FRI of loving to carry them through? FRI FRI Vic Brown...Lee Ingleby FRI Ingrid Rothwell...Rebecca Callard FRI David...Conrad Nelson FRI Chris...Deborah McAndrew FRI FRI Producer/Director.....Pauline Harris FRI FRI 11:00 Cache in Pocket b00t2xwm (Listen) FRI Ten years ago, an American Army computer engineer hid some FRI items in a bucket and plotted their location using a Global FRI Positioning System, for others to find. Now, geocaching is a FRI worldwide phenomenon. Ian Peacock investigates. FRI FRI There are now over a million caches in the world, some that FRI travel, some stationary - there's even one at the bottom of FRI the Antarctic. It's a multi billion dollar industry that has FRI got billions hooked. It's also pervasive - the tourism FRI industry and educationalists are embracing it. FRI FRI Ian begins his quest as a 'muggler' - a non-geocacher. So FRI it's with some scepticism that he begins his first hunt for FRI a cache. After all, he wonders, where's the challenge in FRI finding something that you have been given the exact FRI co-ordinates for? His first search takes him to a dingy FRI bridge in Bristol. The cache reveals a slightly FRI disappointing horde - a 10% discount sandwich voucher. But FRI his geocaching mentors, whose handle is 'The Bloringers', FRI try to convince him that's it's all about the journey, FRI rather than the prize, and it's not long before Ian begins FRI to get hooked. FRI FRI He and his producer decide to have a race. A travel bug FRI race; they set two moveable travel bugs in separate caches FRI to see whose bug travels furthest and fastest. Some travel FRI bugs make round the world trips. One couple even let the FRI final destination of their travel bug determine their FRI honeymoon destination. Ian also sets our very own Radio 4 FRI audio-cache. People who find the cache will leave a short FRI recording about their joyful experience of hunting for it, FRI or so he hopes. FRI FRI For some, geocaching really is their life. Ian tracks down FRI the internet millionaire who pursues geocaching as his full FRI time hobby, and who holds the British record for number of FRI caches found. FRI FRI An autistic student explains why geocaching is so appealing FRI to him. FRI FRI Geocaching is a very sensitive subject for some. The furtive FRI nature of urban geocaching (necessary to avoid vandalism to FRI caches) can arouse suspicion, and people adopt disguises to FRI go unnoticed. FRI But it seems that geocaching is an unstoppable force. Ian FRI talks to the people who make money from it, the people who FRI embrace it as an educational tool, but mainly to those who FRI just love doing it! FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Langan. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and Steve b00t2xwp (Listen) FRI The Suspects FRI FRI A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple FRI and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns FRI refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate FRI the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind FRI in post-war London. FRI FRI Paul's investigations are starting to bear fruit, and the FRI net is steadily closing on the mysterious gang leader Dr. FRI Belasco. But Paul and his wife Steve are now in great FRI danger. And when the attack finally does come, it's from a FRI very unexpected direction.. 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 Insp. Perry ..... Michael Mackenzie FRI FRI Produced by Patrick Rayner. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00t189d (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00t18h2 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00t18jk (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00t2xwr (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00t18l7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t2xwt (Listen) FRI The Orchestra FRI FRI An improvised play based on documentary interviews with real FRI orchestral players, conductors and managers. FRI Devised, directed and produced by Rosie Boulton. FRI FRI David Adams is half way through a five year contract as FRI Principal Conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra when FRI things start to go wrong. A row with the brass section leads FRI to a dressing down by the Board. Suddenly David is FRI experiencing a deep crisis of confidence. How did this FRI happen and will he be able to recover his self belief FRI sufficiently to return to the podium and win the orchestra back? FRI FRI This improvised drama sheds light on the controlled and FRI controlling world of Orchestral life whilst exploring FRI universal themes of leadership, self belief and job satisfaction. FRI FRI The intention of this drama is to be as accurate and true to FRI the orchestral experience as possible and it was conceived FRI using frank and revealing interviews with those currently FRI working in the orchestral field. Bringing Colin Metters, FRI Head of Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music into the FRI cast is another means of achieving real insight into this FRI very particular world. FRI FRI Cast FRI FRI Principal David Adams - Philip Franks FRI Conductor's Wife: Kate Adams - Christine Kavanagh FRI Leader of the Orchestra: Patrick Hardy - Julian FRI Rhind -Tutt FRI Principal Horn: Marie Cherrington - Hayley Doherty FRI 2nd Trumpet: Sean Jackson - George Irving FRI Conductor's advisor: Harry Bennett - Colin Metters FRI Guest conductor: Marc Altschuler - Rumon Gamba FRI Conductor's son: Leon Adams - Joshua Oates FRI FRI Actuality of rehearsal provided by BBC Philharmonic, FRI conductor Rumon Gamba. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00t2xww (Listen) FRI We join Blackshaw Head Optimistic Gardeners - aka Gardeners FRI With Altitude - near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. FRI FRI Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Christine Walkden form FRI the panel. Eric Robson is the chairman. FRI FRI We also introduce the fourth GQT listener whose gardening FRI projects we will mentor and revisit over the coming months. FRI Part of our Listeners' Gardens series. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State b00t1qpx (Listen) FRI Political Thinkers and the Drink Question FRI FRI Mark Whitaker shows how the 'Drink Question' was of central FRI importance for both of England's most original and FRI influential political thinkers of the 19th century - John FRI Stuart Mill and TH Green. FRI FRI For both of them it raised the question of how far the state FRI could be justified in interfering in the lives of FRI individuals. The debate had started in the letters page of FRI the Times in 1856, in a high-level exchange between the Tory FRI MP Lord Stanley and Samuel Pope, Secretary of the temperance FRI movement the UK Alliance. The latter argued that his rights FRI as a citizen were "invaded" by the behaviour of heavy FRI drinkers; the former that no Englishman would agree to be FRI "coerced for his own benefit". FRI FRI Mill picked up the topic in his essay On Liberty, published FRI in 1859. Mill was mid-Victorian England's most influential FRI public intellectual, and his books were best-sellers even FRI though his ideas were radical. He insisted that "drunkenness FRI is not a fit subject for legislative purposes", and feared FRI that the weight of public opinion would crush individualism. FRI FRI TH Green was an academic philosopher at Oxford, and was FRI deeply involved in the temperance movement during the 1870s. FRI He believed that individual freedom lay in pursuing the FRI common good and that mass drunkenness made this impossible FRI in England. He thought that "moderate drinkers" had to FRI sacrifice their pleasure for the sake of society as a whole. FRI FRI Actors read extracts from their work. FRI FRI Producer: Mark Whitaker FRI A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00t2y8h (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 b00t2y8k (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet talks to one of the unsung heroines of British FRI cinema in a new series. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00t19f9 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t19gy (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00t2y8m (Listen) FRI Series 31, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis take a satirical look through FRI this week's news. Helping them along the way are Laura FRI Shavin, Mitch Benn, and special guests. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00t18l9 (Listen) FRI The latest from Ambridge. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00t19jt (Listen) FRI Mark Lawson reports on whether teaching creative writing has FRI led to a better class of fiction, with novelists including FRI Richard Ford and Chang-rae Lee. FRI FRI Producer Georgia Mann. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t1869 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00t2y8r (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Lochinver FRI village hall, Sutherland. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00t2y8w (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from David Cannadine. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus b00t2y8y (Listen) FRI Ancient Pleasures, Modern Spice (AD 1 - 500) FRI FRI Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum in FRI London, continues his global history as told through objects FRI from the Museum's collection. In this episode, Neil is FRI exploring the ways in which people were seeking pleasure FRI around the world 2000 years ago, from pipe smoking in North FRI America to court etiquette in China and the conspicuous FRI consumption of pepper in Roman England. But he begins his FRI investigation with a silver cup that offers a rare glimpse FRI into the world of sex in ancient Rome. FRI Producers: Paul Kobrak and Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00t1r3m (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00t1r6j (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 b00t1t3l (Listen) FRI Before The Earthquake, Episode 10 FRI FRI When the earthquake robbed her of her memory Concetta was FRI told that she'd been seen at night with Peppe di Rienzo, and FRI she assumed he was the father of her child. But now she FRI finally knows the truth, she has a score to settle. FRI FRI Sian Thomas reads the conclusion of this atmospheric mystery FRI by Maria Allen. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC FRI Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00t20rp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00t1t87 (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI
17 July, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 17/07/2010 - 23/07/2010
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