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SAT SATURDAY 24 JULY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00t2ygy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00t3cyw (Listen) SAT Red Dust Road, Episode 5 SAT SAT Acclaimed poet Jackie Kay traces her biological parents in a SAT journey from Scotland to Lagos. SAT SAT Jackie reads the final extract from her memoir, including an SAT emotional conclusion to her Nigerian odyssey. SAT SAT Producer/Abridger: Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t2yh0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t2yh2 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t2yh4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00t2yh6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t2yh8 (Listen) SAT with the Revd Dr Michael Piret, Dean of Divinity and SAT Chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford. SAT SAT 05:45 Brother Mine b00cm7gy (Listen) SAT Birth Order SAT SAT The relationship with a brother or sister is probably the SAT longest relationship in our lives. SAT SAT Famous sibling Julian Lloyd Webber takes a closer look at SAT what it is to be a sibling, and why that relationship can be SAT a lifelong source of love, hate, conflict and peace. SAT SAT Julian begins with a look at birth order, and finds out if SAT the sequence in which we're born really can influence who SAT and what we are. SAT SAT Featuring contributions from Arthur Smith, Tanni Grey SAT Thompson, Tim Henman, Dan Snow, Noel Janice Norton (founder SAT of The New Learning Centre), Tessa Jackson (Director of SAT Artes Mundi), anthropologist Professor Tom Weisner, SAT psychologist Dorothy Rowe, Sociologist Dr Miri Song, SAT psychoanalyst Victoria Childs and anthropologist David Lawson. SAT SAT Producer: Terry Lewis SAT A Tinderbox production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00t2yhb (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00t31zt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00t31zw (Listen) SAT Fair Isle Birds SAT SAT In Open Country this week, Moira Hickey visits Fair Isle, SAT Britain's most remote inhabited island, to find out how it SAT became a world leader in the study of birdlife. Since 1948, SAT when a bird observatory was first built there, it has led SAT the way in research into seabirds and in recording rare SAT migrants, blown on to this tiny island midway between Orkney SAT and Shetland. SAT SAT For its seventy inhabitants, the bird observatory has become SAT crucial to the viability of Fair Isle as a place to live: SAT visiting birders feed the economy and help keep fragile air SAT and sea links in business. With the opening of a brand new SAT observatory, Moira Hickey visits Fair Isle to get a taste of SAT what attracts ornithologists from around the world. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00t31zy (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00t3200 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00t3202 (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00t3204 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by the BBC's Security Correspondent SAT Frank Gardner. The poet is Aoife Mannix. There's an SAT interview with a man who amassed 58 criminal convictions SAT before turning his back on a life of crime, and a 90 year SAT old woman who spent her teenage years at 10, Downing Street. SAT Harry's Game author Gerald Seymour shares his Inheritance SAT Tracks and the people of Holmfirth in Yorkshire sip the Last SAT of the Summer Wine. SAT SAT The producer is Simon Clancy. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00t3263 (Listen) SAT When people think of Switzerland they tend to think of SAT watches, chocolate, clocks, cheese and banks. But what about SAT the Swiss themselves? Sandi Toksvig talks to travel writer SAT Diccon Bewes who sets out to describe the culture and SAT customs of this notoriously private "landlocked island". SAT SAT Sandi also talks to presenter and travel journalist Kate SAT Humble who has devised a way for travellers to put spare SAT rucksack space to good use. She has founded a charity called SAT Stuff Your Rucksack which shows how packing supplies of much SAT needed items like pencils, school books and maps can change SAT the lives of people in the country you are visiting. Sandi SAT is joined by veteran traveller Kate Booth who describes how SAT directly delivering the contents of her rucksack to a SAT children's charity added new meaning to her trip to Namibia. SAT SAT Producer: Laura Northedge. SAT SAT 10:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b00t3265 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT SAT Gordon Kennedy takes on a grumpy John O'Farrell. As the SAT country faces a tightening of its financial belt, the SAT Scottish actor and comedian takes a timely look at some of SAT things he thinks we should cheer about. Gordon is fascinated SAT by nanotechnology and he discovers how science fiction is SAT becoming science fact at the London Centre for SAT Nanotechnology with Professor Richard Jackman. SAT SAT Gordon, star of the hit BBC series Robin Hood, is also a SAT sport fanatic. He chats with bestselling sport author SAT Frances Edmonds about how Britain is rediscovering its love SAT of team sports. As a keen cyclist, Gordon recently realised SAT that cycling through London is not the death wish it used to SAT be. He talks to Kulveer Ranger, the Mayor of London's SAT transport adviser, on what has changed. SAT SAT In an antidote to the Grumpy Old Men culture, Gordon chats SAT with leading psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman to SAT discover the root causes of grumpiness and asks how it can SAT defeated. He uses his new found knowledge to try and SAT convince best selling author John O'Farrell - a SAT self-confessed grump - to change his pessimistic ways. SAT SAT Producers: Joanne Coombs and Martin McNamara SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00t3267 (Listen) SAT This week Steve Richards from the Independent looks behind SAT the big stories of the week at Westminster. SAT SAT Nick Clegg deputised for David Cameron at Prime Ministers SAT Questions on Wednesday, but with many Lib Dem backbenchers SAT unhappy with coalition life, did his performance do anything SAT to lift their spirits? Sitting Lib Dem MPs are unwilling to SAT criticise the coalition overtly. But we hear the concerns of SAT Sandra Gidley, who was unseated at the general election. She SAT tells us the party needs to do a lot more to get its SAT policies into the statute books. Newly elected Lib Dem MP SAT Steve Gilbert is already a government whip, and makes the SAT case for the coalition's record so far. SAT SAT Mr Clegg's turn in the Parliamentary limelight was caused by SAT David Cameron's trip to Washington. Former prime ministers, SAT particularly Tony Blair, often found their relationship with SAT the White House problematic. Did Mr Cameron pass his first SAT big test on the world stage? We hear from Francis Elliott SAT from the Times, who co-authored a biography of David SAT Cameron, as well as John Rentoul from the Independent on SAT Sunday, who is Tony Blair's biographer. SAT SAT The government has spent much of the week pushing its SAT Academies Bill through the Commons, which has given Ed Balls SAT ample opportunity to attack the coalition, both in SAT Parliament and in the media. It's all valuable exposure for SAT the Shadow Secretary of State, who wants to be the next SAT Labour leader. Some commentators believe the close ally of SAT Gordon Brown has gained momentum in his leadership bid in SAT recent weeks. We discuss Mr Balls' prospects with one of his SAT supporters, the Labour MP Tom Watson, along with Denis SAT MacShane, who has nominated David Miliband. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00t32lz (Listen) SAT In this morning's From Our Own correspondent you can almost SAT hear the clatter of the projector and almost smell the SAT cigarette smoke as our man in the Afghan capital Kabul SAT visits the cinema which survived the Taliban. SAT SAT China has just been accused....again....of grave human SAT rights abuses in Tibet. The allegations relate to the SAT crushing of protests two years ago. A report by the Human SAT Rights Watch organisation says the security forces opened SAT fire indiscriminately on demonstrators. It alleges there SAT were arbitrary arrests and torture, and that abuses are SAT still going on. China denies that its forces have done SAT anything wrong... Very few foreign journalists are given SAT permission to visit Tibet and investigate for themselves. SAT But our correspondent, Damian Grammaticus was allowed a SAT glimpse of life there on an officially sanctioned, escorted SAT visit... SAT SAT The latest international gathering in Kabul had an SAT impressive cast. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, SAT and the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon were among dozens SAT of leading figures from around the world. The meeting was SAT meant to be a expression of confidence in the SAT often-criticised Afghan government. And there was much SAT determined talk of the way ahead. But on the dusty streets SAT outside the conference chamber, Hugh Sykes found nagging SAT fears and old problems eating away at morale.... SAT SAT The Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar is in crisis. A SAT violent change of government last year installed as SAT President a thirty-five year old, former disc-jockey. The SAT international community disapproved of what it saw as a SAT coup. It cut off aid on which the country was heavily SAT dependent, and now Madagascar is under immense economic SAT strain. And as Linda Pressly has been finding out, all this SAT is having a serious impact on the island's extraordinary SAT natural environment... SAT SAT Not so long ago, Ireland was thriving. It was enjoying it's SAT first ever taste of real prosperity. But it turned out that SAT the great boom had not much more substance than Irish SAT mist....and it was burnt off in the heat of the global SAT financial crisis. Now all the talk is of a grim new age of SAT austerity. But on the wild and beautiful coast of County SAT Clare, Trish Flanagan found a corner of old Ireland SAT unchanged by the currents that have swept the rest of the country.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00t32m2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00t2y8m (Listen) SAT Series 31, Episode 6 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis take a satirical look through SAT this week's news. Helping them along the way are Laura SAT Shavin, Mitch Benn, and special guests. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00t32m4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00t32m6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00t2y8r (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Lochinver SAT village hall, Sutherland, with questions for the panel SAT including Lord McNally, Minister of State for Justice and SAT Deputy Leader of the House of Lords; Fergus Ewing, Community SAT Safety Minister in the Scottish Government and SNP MSP; SAT Diane Abbot MP, Labour leadership candidate; and Magnus SAT Linklater, Scottish Editor of The Times. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00t32m8 (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 b00t32mb (Listen) SAT The White Chameleon SAT SAT A witty and sad memory play by Christopher Hampton, set in SAT Alexandria in the years up to and during the Suez invasion. SAT SAT It is about his father, in Egypt working for Cable and SAT Wireless, his mother, also from a Cable and Wireless family, SAT and Ibrahim, the Egyptian servant who has been running the SAT house for 20 years and who helps 10-year-old Chris, the SAT future playwright, make up dramas for homework. SAT SAT Narrator ... Christopher Hampton SAT Father ... Alex Jennings SAT Ibrahim ... Mido Hamada SAT Mother ... Amanda Root SAT Chris ... Harvey O'Neil SAT Guard/Fouad/Basso/Stockman/Shoes-shine man/Egyptian boy ... SAT Ayman Hamdouchi SAT Albert ... David Annen SAT Edward ... Harrison Charles SAT Paul ... Harry Manton SAT Schoolboy ... Josef Lindsay SAT SAT Egyptian singers: SAT Tony Kandel SAT Yazid Eid SAT Robert Hannouch SAT SAT Pianist: Michael Webborn SAT SAT Director: Polly Thomas SAT Producer: Ann Scott SAT A Greenpoint production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:45 Good Timing b0076z7f (Listen) SAT Do you have a good sense of timing? If timing is an integral SAT part of what you do, how do you think about time? SAT SAT In this 'composed feature' the theme of good timing is SAT explored through conversations with four people with SAT exceptional timing: professional drummer Dawne Adams, who SAT has played with Lionel Richie and the Pet Shop Boys; Head SAT Chef Brian Fantoni, who currently works in a regional SAT Italian restaurant in London and has previously worked at SAT The Savoy and Claridges; a top ranking squash player and a SAT stand-up comedian. SAT SAT Each of the contributors reflects upon the importance of SAT timing in what they do, how good timing is experienced, how SAT timing can be improved and whether their timing abilities SAT affect other areas of their life, such as time-keeping and SAT time management. SAT SAT Playing upon the rhythmic and tonal qualities of the SAT contributors' observations, composer Nina Perry marries form SAT and content in a radio feature that's akin to a piece of SAT music. SAT SAT Producer: Nina Perry SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00t32md (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Singer Macy Gray talks about her SAT new music, we hear about the threat of trafficking and SAT prostitution connected to the Olympic Games. What is the SAT enduring appeal of the department store? gay dads Gary and SAT Barrie Drewitt Barlow talk about their family life, the SAT controversy surrounding a new anaesthesia sometimes used for SAT caesarian section, we ask if the future's turned out female SAT as once predicted by feminists and music from The Unthanks. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00t32mg (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00t32mj (Listen) SAT Peak Oil is the winning subject in iPM's 'Win Hugh Sykes' SAT competition. Hugh meets some of the growing number of people SAT who are preparing now for the day the oil runs out. Plus, SAT how to comprehend the misery endured by migraine-sufferers - SAT listener Anton Hecht sets the words of ordinary people to SAT music. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00t5y4x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00t5y4z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t5y51 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00t32rl (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the self help guru Paul McKenna, former SAT life-long trade unionist Lord Bill Morris and the star of SAT the BBC's contemporary adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, SAT Benedict Cumberbatch. SAT SAT Robin Ince finds out about the sports and Games That Time SAT Forgot with the comedian Alex Horne. SAT SAT With music from Mercury Prize nominees Wild Beasts and from SAT Neville Skelly. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00t32rn (Listen) SAT Lord Black of Crossharbour, the press baron who owned the SAT Daily Telegraph was sentenced to six and half years in jail SAT two years ago. This week, he astonished his detractors when SAT he was released on appeal. Convicted of defrauding SAT shareholders, the unrepentant Lord is now threatening to SAT wreak vengeance on the foes he believes are responsible for SAT his spectacular fall from grace. Michael Cockerell revisits SAT a Profile he first made in 2007 and follows the latest twist SAT in the astonishing story of Conrad Black. He asks if the man SAT who admires Napoleon can make good on his threats to return SAT to rout his enemies. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00t32rq (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00t32rs (Listen) SAT Sellers in the Attic SAT SAT Comedy writer and historian Glenn Mitchell examines SAT exclusive and lesser known recordings of Peter Sellers and SAT reveals a fascinating wealth of recently discovered SAT recordings presenting a new insight into the life of this SAT comic legend. SAT SAT After Peter Sellers died thirty years ago in July 1980, the SAT initial rush of glowing eulogies swiftly made way for often SAT highly condemnatory accounts of his personality and SAT behaviour. Some of these are, admittedly, accurate, others SAT take incidents in isolation without regard for the context SAT of the events described, while in some instances the claims SAT rely on inaccuracies and misassumptions. SAT SAT Fortunately there has been more perspective among recent SAT chronicles but the trend has continued to portray Sellers's SAT personal life as one with few, if any, redeeming features. SAT SAT As regards his work, many accounts have concentrated on the SAT obvious aspects - the Panther films, Dr. Strangelove, SAT perhaps also The Goon Show, but Peter Sellers left far more SAT than that. SAT SAT Mitchell, the writer and presenter of this programme, was SAT only 21 when the actor died but has been collecting Sellers SAT material from an early age. In this personal take on the SAT subject, Mitchell chronicles Sellers' career in parallel SAT with his own lifelong interest in the actor's work. He will SAT examine various recordings, explaining in each instance its SAT place within the canon, and how it may have shaped - or been SAT shaped by - Sellers' life and career. SAT SAT The programme also explores the softer, compassionate side SAT to the legendary actor's nature, the aspect of the man which SAT once led to him talking a complete stranger - who was SAT perched on a high bridge - out of committing suicide. SAT SAT Among the recent finds is a personal recording Sellers made SAT for a television producer whose daughter lost her sight. The SAT never before broadcast recording includes readings of the SAT poet William McGonagall with various comments throughout. SAT Not only is it vintage Sellers but it reveals a remarkable SAT and malleable side to his personality, catching him at a SAT very relaxed moment in his life contrasting with his often SAT cited volatile nature. SAT SAT Mitchell's own focus will be on the lesser-known Sellers SAT material he has amassed, including home-movie prints, SAT soundtracks, rare interviews and out-takes. The programme SAT also profiles written archives from his first BBC TV and SAT Radio auditions. SAT SAT Ultimately Sellers in the Attic will tell his remarkable SAT story - on the 30th anniversary of his death - by revisiting SAT the less obvious items from his vast legacy, including such SAT gems from the BBC archives as his 1970 performance of the SAT macabre music-hall monologue The Ballad of Sam Hall, SAT recorded at Wilton's in East London. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00t1016 (Listen) SAT The Glass Bead Game, The Glass Bead Game - Episode 1 SAT SAT Dramatisation of Hermann Hesse's classic novel set in a SAT futuristic, utopian society. SAT Starring Derek Jacobi. SAT SAT Joseph Knecht is a rising star in the Castalian Order, a SAT band of elite intellectuals who live a closeted life of SAT study and Glass Bead Game playing. But Joseph's elevation to SAT one of the highest and most respected ranks of the Order SAT coincides with a crisis of conscience, as his ever deepening SAT doubts about this idealistic and sanitised society threaten SAT to topple its very foundations. SAT SAT Joseph Knecht is singled out from an early age as one of the SAT Castalian elite. As his education progresses, Joseph quickly SAT proves himself as a gifted Glass Bead Game player and a SAT promising candidate for the higher echelons of the exclusive SAT Castalian Order. SAT SAT Biographer...Derek Jacobi SAT Joseph Knecht...Tom Ferguson SAT Young Joseph...Aidan Parsons SAT Music Master....Malcolm Raeburn SAT Teacher/Van Der Trave...Terence Mann SAT Plinio...David Seddon SAT Fritz...Toby Hadoke SAT Father Jacobus...David Fleeshman SAT Elder Brother/Bertram...Jonathan Keeble SAT SAT String Player...Kevin Flynn SAT SAT Dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw SAT Producer: Charlotte Riches SAT Director: Susan Roberts. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00t32rv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00t2cks (Listen) SAT The Prime Minister this week launched his big idea - the Big SAT Society. David Cameron says he wants to make society SAT stronger by getting more people working together to run SAT their own affairs locally. It aims to put more power and SAT responsibility into the hands of families, neighbourhoods SAT and locally-based communities. The idea is that all of these SAT will take more action at a local level, with more freedom to SAT do things the way they want. Is this a way of re-engaging SAT people with civic society, to remind them that they are more SAT than just individual consumers of services provided by SAT others and that they can't just close their front door on SAT their responsibilities to their community? But can SAT volunteers really replace many of the services provided by SAT local authorities and other state agencies? Or is this just SAT a way of providing them on the cheap - a bit of window SAT dressing to make us feel a bit better about the enormous SAT cuts in public services? More fundamentally are we SAT undermining local democracy and transferring power to SAT unelected/self appointed "volunteers?" Should we all do SAT more? Must we all do more? That's the Moral Maze. SAT SAT Michael Buerk chairs with Michael Portillo, Melanie Philips, SAT Matthew Taylor and Claire Fox. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00t1wcl (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 b00t14pj (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests, with work SAT by Michael Longley, Edward Thomas and Lavinia Greenlaw. The SAT readers are Kenneth Cranham, Annette Badland and Jonjo SAT O'Neill. Imtiaz Dharker reads her own poem 'Speech Balloon' SAT about that ubiquitous phrase 'Over the Moon.' There are SAT other space-bound poems, including a moving elegy 'For the SAT First Dog in Space.' Michael Longley introduces his grandson SAT to the natural world in his poem 'The Leveret'. Rites of SAT passage in a young person's life are also marked by Billy SAT Collins' poem 'On Turning Ten', read by nine year old Tyler SAT Johnson, and in Roger's own verse written for his daughter SAT Isobel when she passed her first decade. There's also a SAT lament by Edward Thomas about a soldier caught between enemy SAT lines whose relief at his respite is punctuated by sorrow SAT for his fallen comrades. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 25 JULY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00t3330 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00f9gfh (Listen) SUN Parlez-vous British?, Shooting an Elephant SUN SUN A moving story by George Orwell, set in Colonial Burma. A SUN young English policeman is faced with the task of shooting a SUN rogue elephant. How important is loss of face? SUN SUN Reader: Matthew Wolf. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t3332 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t3334 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t3336 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00t3338 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00t333b (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip, Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00t32rn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00t333d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00t333g (Listen) SUN Solitude SUN SUN Melissa Viney draws upon her own experience of aloneness to SUN reflect upon different states of solitude. SUN SUN Including extracts from the writings of Henry David Thoreau, SUN Sara Maitland and Virginia Woolf, music by Emiliana Torrini, SUN Ry Cooder and JS Bach and interviews with the artist Helaine SUN Blumenfeld and former journalist and hostage Anthony Grey. SUN SUN Producer: Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00t0zsq (Listen) SUN Caz Graham discovers how farmers can make their farms SUN wildlife friendly by making a few simple changes to the way SUN they work. Michael Sly farms in Cambridgeshire and his farm SUN attracts a whole host of birdlife from Skylarks to SUN Yellowhammers. He shows Caz the skylark plots and seed beds SUN he has planted. A few miles down the road the RSPB owns Hope SUN Farm where they trial new techniques to attract wildlife, so SUN far with great success. SUN Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00t333l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00t333n (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00t333q (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00t333s (Listen) SUN Epilepsy Bereaved SUN SUN John Inverdale presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Epilepsy Bereaved. SUN SUN Donations to Epilepsy Bereaved should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Epilepsy Bereaved. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Epilepsy Bereaved SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners without SUN a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1050459. SUN SUN Epilepsy Bereaved SUN SUN John Inverdale appeals on behalf of Epilepsy Bereaved which SUN works to prevent death in epilepsy and supports those SUN bereaved by it. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00t333v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00t333x (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00t333z (Listen) SUN from the Keswick Convention celebrates God's work worldwide, SUN as Christ's promise to build his church is fulfilled around SUN the globe. SUN SUN Leader: Jonathan Lamb; SUN Preacher: Steve Brady; SUN Music Director: Peter Gunstone; SUN Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00t2y8w (Listen) SUN Endings of Empire SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue from David Cannadine. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00t3341 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00t3343 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00t3345 (Listen) SUN Lynn Barber SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the interviewer Lynn Barber. SUN SUN A master of the profile interview, her razor-sharp SUN observations have earned her the nickname the Demon Barber SUN and won her a stack of awards. Although critics say her SUN articles are hatchet jobs, she disagrees: "I think that SUN people are well served by quite blunt or quite rude SUN questions because it forces them to fight back and come back SUN strongly," she says. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00t1wcs (Listen) SUN Series 53, Episode 5 SUN SUN The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the SUN Cambridge Corn Exchange. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden SUN and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by David SUN Mitchell, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN accompanies on the piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00t3368 (Listen) SUN The season for berries is short and sweet and, it seems, SUN ever changing. For the first time, blueberries will overtake SUN raspberries in popularity. Is it just clever marketing or SUN commercial sense? Sheila Dillon visits the biggest grower of SUN blueberries in the UK. But what of other berries? SUN Gooseberries, for instance, have been grown here since the SUN Middle Ages, and still grow happily from Cornwall to the SUN north of Scotland, but are not successful commercially. SUN Sheila explores the changing fortunes of different berries, SUN finds out how producers compete with cheap foreign imports SUN and hears about some new varieties that will soon be SUN available. SUN SUN Produced by Margaret Collins. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00t336b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00t336d (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 McCarthy: There Were Reds Under the Bed b00t7hhf (Listen) SUN David Aaronovitch thinks the unthinkable about the McCarthy SUN period. SUN SUN The hunt for the so called 'Reds under the beds' during the SUN Cold War is generally regarded as a deeply regrettable blot SUN on U.S history. But the release of classified documents SUN reveals that Joseph McCarthy was right after all about the SUN extent of Soviet infiltration into the highest reaches of SUN the U.S government. SUN SUN Thanks to the public release of top secret FBI decryptions SUN of Soviet communications, as well as the release under the SUN fifty year rule of FBI records and Soviet archives, we now SUN know that the Communist spying McCarthy fought against was SUN extensive, reaching to the highest level of the State SUN department and the White House. SUN SUN We reveal that many of McCarthy's anticommunist SUN investigations were in fact on target. His fears about the SUN effect Soviet infiltration might be having on US foreign SUN policy, particularly in the Far East were also well founded. SUN SUN The decrypts also reveal that people such as Rosenberg, SUN Alger Hiss and even Robert Oppenheimer were indeed working SUN with the Soviets. We explore why much of this information, SUN available for years to the FBI, was not made public. We also SUN examine how its suppression prevented the prosecution of SUN suspects. SUN SUN Finally, we explore the extent to which Joseph McCarthy, SUN with his unsavoury methods and smear tactics, could have SUN done himself a disservice, resulting in his name being SUN forever synonymous with paranoia and the ruthless SUN suppression of free speech. SUN SUN Hearing from former FBI, CIA and KGB operatives as well as SUN formerly blacklisted writers, David Aaronovitch, himself SUN from a family of communists tells the untold story of Soviet SUN influence and espionage in the United States. SUN SUN Producer: Kati Whitaker SUN A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00t2xww (Listen) SUN We join Blackshaw Head Optimistic Gardeners - aka Gardeners SUN With Altitude - near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Christine Walkden form SUN the panel. Eric Robson is the chairman. SUN SUN We also introduce the fourth GQT listener whose gardening SUN projects we will mentor and revisit over the coming months. SUN Part of our Listeners' Gardens series. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Picturing Britain b00k2dww (Listen) SUN Animal Magic SUN SUN Adil joins photographer Tim Flach as he attempts to shoot SUN two contrasting worlds of domestic animals. At one end of SUN the scale, there's the pedigree society of prize-winning SUN Chinese Crested show dogs; at the other, the lost world of SUN Staffordshire Bull Terriers, the most popular urban dog of SUN our times and the most prominent breed to be found at SUN Battersea Dogs Home in London. As they struggle to pose the SUN dogs, Adil Ray talks to the owners and carers about their SUN contrasting lives. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Bowen. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00t384l (Listen) SUN The Glass Bead Game, The Glass Bead Game - Episode 2 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 As Magister Ludi, Joseph Knecht begins to plan for the SUN forthcoming Glass Bead Game. As excitement mounts, Joseph's SUN doubts about the Castalian way of life are compounded by his SUN newly acquired position. SUN SUN Biographer...Derek Jacobi SUN Joseph Knecht...Tom Ferguson SUN Fritz...Toby Hadoke SUN Music Master...Malcolm Raeburn SUN Plinio...David Seddon SUN Helena...Olwen May SUN Tito...Oliver Gomm SUN SUN Dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw SUN Producer: Charlotte Riches SUN Director: Susan Roberts. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00t384n (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the acclaimed novelist Howard SUN Jacobson about his new book, The Finkler Question, a story SUN about friendship, love and Jewish identity. She's joined by SUN novelists Philip Hensher and Tim Parks to discuss the impact SUN of illness on writing - Parks's latest book is a meditation SUN on physical ill health and the literary imagination. She SUN also investigates the growth of e-reading, with the help of SUN Open Book listener responses and techno fan Kathryn Hughes SUN and technophobe Toby Litt. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00t384q (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a mixture of poetry requests, SUN including verse by Simon Armitage, Denise Levertov and John SUN Keats. The readers are Kenneth Cranham, Annette Badland and SUN Jonjo O'Neill. Elegies for lost lovers and dead trees ring SUN out, with a quirky poem by the American Louis Untermeyer 'To SUN a Telegraph Pole' and a poem about Orpheus, whose music made SUN the trees dance. Sue Hubbard reads her poem about his long SUN suffering subterranean wife, Eurydice. The seams of poetry SUN and music are interlaced in Patrick Kavanagh's famous 'On SUN Raglan Road', and we find out what ails the 'knight at arms, SUN alone and palely loitering' in John Keats's 'La Belle Dames SUN Sans Merci.' A half hour bound to hath thee in thrall. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 BP: Beyond the Horizon b00t94m3 (Listen) SUN As BP prepares to unveil its latest financial results, how SUN the company is grappling with the engineering feat of SUN capping the Deepwater well while securing its corporate future. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00t384s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00t384v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t384x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00t384z (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN Rich pickings indeed during the last week. Drama from a SUN train platform in Highlands of Scotland to Jackie Kay's SUN odyssey to find her birth father down the Red Dust Road in SUN Nigeria; a collection of programmes that explore and expound SUN the notion of family and fatherhood, but from very different SUN perspectives. We also hear a little about former Post man, SUN Trades Union leader and Home Secretary Alan Johnson's SUN failure to be a Rockstar. And what happened when Lord SUN Mandelson and Ricky Gervais found themselves in the same SUN live radio studio. With a danish pastry. You couldn't write it.. SUN SUN Reasons To Be Cheerful - Radio 4 SUN In Search of Gustav Mahler - Radio 3 SUN BBC Proms - Radio 3 SUN Red Dust Road - Radio 4 SUN Gift - Radio 4 SUN The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4 SUN Platform 3 - Radio 4 SUN Beyond Belief - Radio 4 SUN Alan Johnson - Failed Rock Star - Radio 4 SUN The Curse of the Number Two - Radio 4 SUN The Essay - Home Rule for The Soul - Radio 3 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Colin Patterson - Radio 5live SUN Newsjack - Radio 7 SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN FAX: 0161 244 4243 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00t385w (Listen) SUN Josh and Jamie devise a lucrative enterprise, and there are SUN mysterious goings-on at the village fete. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00t385y (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today, featuring location reports, SUN lively discussion and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00fyqdj (Listen) SUN Tapertime, Adam Thorpe 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 The Very Last Leave by Adam Thorpe SUN SUN In remote Lincolnshire she always paints the gloaming, but SUN something aside from darkened tones is revealed in her SUN pictures... SUN SUN Reader David Horovitch SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00t2xwr (Listen) SUN Why did the Today Programme give Peter Mandelson so much SUN airtime to plug his new memoir? What was BBC News thinking SUN when they redesigned their website? And was Men's Hour worth SUN waiting for? SUN SUN Just some of the questions raised by Feedback's listeners. SUN Roger Bolton gets some answers. SUN SUN Also on the programme, we hear listeners' suggestions for SUN changes to the station which the new controller of Radio 4 SUN could implement. SUN SUN Producer: Brian McCluskey SUN A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00t2y8h (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN Eduardo Sanchez Junco - who developed the Spanish gossip SUN magazine Hola into a worldwide brand. We have tributes from SUN his former international editor the Marquesa de Valera and SUN his competitor Richard Desmond. SUN Also top Russian spy Sergei Tretyakov who defected to the SUN Americans in 2000. SUN The influential climate change scientist Professor Stephen SUN Schneider who advised eight American presidents, but SUN received death threats from sceptics SUN And "probably the daftest broadcaster in the world" - as his SUN jingle had it. BBC Radio Norfolk's veteran entertainer, SUN country music fan and the voice of Carrow Road - Roy Waller. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b00t386s (Listen) SUN Fire Safety Disorder SUN SUN As more firms are being fined using laws designed to keep SUN people safe from fire, John Waite discovers the government SUN has been breaking its own laws on fire safety. The SUN difference is that while private companies and individuals SUN face huge fines or prison sentences, ministers and civil SUN servants need not worry about such things. That's because SUN they work in buildings classed as crown premises and crown SUN immunity from prosecution covers fire safety laws. Only if SUN someone was to die in a disaster might they find themselves SUN in court under different legislation. And the government is SUN not always as good at following the fire safety regulations SUN as perhaps you might think. Serious failings have emerged at SUN one central government headquarters and other breaches have SUN been uncovered at other parts of the country. All this SUN follows the programme's earlier revelations on towerblocks SUN deemed a danger to residents and the firefighters' training SUN college which hadn't followed fire safety legislation when SUN one of its own buildings burnt down. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00t333s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00t388j (Listen) SUN Coming Soon SUN SUN What happens next as the Credit Crunch crisis continues? SUN Peter Day gets the long view from a clutch of the SUN distinguished economists including Kenneth Rogoff, Raghuram SUN Rajan and Sushil Wadhwani. SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00t3899 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00t389c (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00t389f (Listen) SUN Episode 11 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. Each programme SUN will see a leading political journalist take a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00t2y8k (Listen) SUN The League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss presents the first of SUN his favourite character actors, Ernest Thesiger, the mad SUN scientist in The Bride Of Frankenstein SUN SUN Matthew Sweet talks to one of the unsung heroines of British SUN cinema - Angela Allen, the script supervisor who spent 30 SUN years by the side of John Huston. She recounts tales of SUN dysentery and whisky drinking on the jungle set of The SUN African Queen, of problems with Marilyn Monroe on her last SUN movie, The Misfits, and Montgomery Clift's troubles with the SUN bottle on Freud. SUN SUN The star of The Thorn Birds television series, Rachel Ward, SUN tells Matthew why she quit acting and Britain to become a SUN film director in Australia SUN SUN The child star of Sammy Going South, Fergus McClelland, SUN reveals the reasons why many believed the film was jinxed. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00t333g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 26 JULY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00t38ys (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00t28dg (Listen) MON Leering punters, seedy dives, cruel and crude MON objectification of women's bodies... the classic image of a MON strip joint does not leave much space for the notion that MON occasionally the women might enjoy the performances they MON give. However, a new ethnography of a lap dancing club in MON the North of England presents a slightly more complicated MON picture of life as a sexual entertainer. The sociologist MON Rachela Colosi worked as a dancer in the clubs she studied MON and her study offers a rare insiders account of the MON relationships between the dancers, with the management and MON the highs and lows, rewards and occasional despair of life MON as a stripper. MON Also, Laurie Taylor will be talking to Marek Kohn about his MON predictions for the shape of British society in 2100 after MON global warming has brought its influence to bear. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00t333b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t390z (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t392v (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t394n (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00t3959 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t39g7 (Listen) MON with the Revd Dr Michael Piret, Dean of Divinity and MON Chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00t39s5 (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie MON Bullock. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00t3vky (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00t3cql (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00t3vl0 (Listen) MON Series 4, Colin Blakemore MON MON Neurobiologist Professor Colin Blakemore was a war baby MON brought up in devastated Coventry. His two-up two-down home MON had the first TV in the street on which he lived next door MON to relatives and a family of ten. As an only child, his MON parents were able to cash in an insurance policy of £14 MON which enabled him to go to the local grammar school where he MON proved himself to be more of an artist and actor than a MON scientist. MON Producer: Smita Patel. MON MON 09:30 Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star b00t3vl2 (Listen) MON Episode 2 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 two Alan meets Chris Spedding - a guitarist who MON has played with many of the biggest names in rock but who, MON except for one top ten hit, has nearly always managed to MON avoid the limelight himself. He was on Top of The Pops - MON but sometimes hidden inside a Womble outfit. Alan and Chris MON discuss what the rock and roll life is like when you're not MON that famous. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00t3t90 (Listen) MON Tokyo Vice, Episode 1 MON MON It's never a smart idea to get on the bad side of the MON Yamagushi-gumi, Japan's largest organized crime group. But MON when Jake Adelstein, a student from New Jersey, decides to MON join Japan's largest daily newspaper as a crime reporter, it MON isn't long before his investigations earn him some powerful MON enemies. MON MON Jack Klaff reads this gritty memoir by Jake Adelstein. MON MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC MON Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t3t92 (Listen) MON Presented by Bidisha. Are women getting the most from new MON phone technology? How do men and women use phone apps MON differently? We look at Argentina which has become the first MON country in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage. How MON significant is this decision? The novelist Barbara MON Kingsolver talks about her range Prize-winning book 'The MON Lacuna' and the "green granny" Barbara Walmsley gives tips MON on thrift. MON MON Gay marriage in Argentina MON MON Argentina has become the first country in Latin America to MON legalise same-sex marriage. The move grants homosexual MON couples the same marriage rights and protections as MON heterosexual couples, and the ability to adopt children. MON The law has been approved by the centre-left government of MON President Cristina Kirchner, despite opposition from the MON Roman Catholic Church. Bidisha talks to BBC reporter MON Candace Piette, and Patricia Novilla-Corvolan, Lecturer in MON Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of MON Kent. MON MON Barbara Kingsolver MON MON The novelist Barbara Kingsolver has never shied away from MON tackling the political. Her best-selling ‘The Poisonwood MON Bible’ is a withering critique of both evangelism and MON colonialism. And her most recent novel, the Orange MON Prize-winning ‘The Lacuna’, takes on American patriotism and MON identity, Communism, and the relationship between art and MON politics. She talks to Bidisha about her own conflicts with MON the American mainstream post-911 that informed the political MON messages of this book, and the landscapes that inspire her MON writing. MON MON ‘The Lacuna’, by Barbara Kingsolver, is published by Faber MON and Faber MON MON Women and smartphone apps MON MON Research by YouGov has shown that although women buy more MON smartphones than men, they’re twice as likely to have never MON downloaded a single app. So why is that? Belinda Parmar is MON founder of Lady Geek and is trying to change the way MON technology companies talk to women. Rory Sutherland is vice MON chairman of the Ogilvy Group and technology correspondent MON for The Spectator. They join Bidisha to discuss why women MON and men women react differently to technology. MON MON Barbara Walmsley - The Green Granny MON MON “Green Granny†Barbara Walmsley is a modern day Mrs Beeton MON with a green twist. The retired school teacher has recently MON become a YouTube phenomenon, bringing practical, MON penny-pinching advice to thousands of viewers. At 73, MON Barbara has published her first book containing a lifetime's MON worth of thrifty skills. MON MON 'Make, Mend, Bake, Save and Shine', by Barbara Walmsley, is MON published by Octopus Books. All royalties go to Oxfam. MON MON Picture by Steve Hill MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t3t94 (Listen) MON Writing the Century 14: A Burden to Strangers, Episode 1 MON MON The series which explores the 20th century through the MON diaries and correspondence of real people, returns with "A MON Burden to Strangers" by Steve Gough. Inspired by the diaries MON of Rachel Minshall, a spirited and politically active MON octogenarian who lived alone in the Welsh Valleys during the 1980s. MON MON Rachel . . . . . Margaret John MON Jean . . . . . Menna Trussler MON Tom . . . . . Bernard Lloyd MON Curate . . . . .Mark Carey MON Glyn . . . . . John Cording MON MON Original music composed by Nicolai Abrahamsen. MON Produced and Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. MON MON 11:00 The Graduate b00t3vl4 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Lauren, Jonathan, Mohsin, Caroline, Fiona and Samantha are MON six graduates from Leeds University and Leeds Metropolitan MON University who completed their degrees in June last year. MON They had studied hard and paid their fees, and were ready to MON begin the search for that elusive first job. But, along with MON over 300,000 other graduate hopefuls, they were joining the MON job market in the midst of a recession and when the number MON of students going to university was at the highest it had MON ever been. MON MON So, to see just how hard the year ahead would be, the MON graduates agreed to be followed. MON MON From handing out CVs, applying for work experience and MON signing on, to returning home, dealing with rejection and, MON in some cases, finding work, Sarfraz Manzoor pieces their MON year together. MON MON The first programme follows the group in their first six MON months as graduates. MON MON Like their peers, our graduates believed that a degree would MON be an investment for their futures, with higher salaries and MON rapid career progression being the expected returns. But MON will their much-coveted degree certificate be a stepping MON stone to a job, or is it time for them to revaluate this MON traditional narrative, and reconsider why they went to MON university in the first place? MON MON Sarfraz Manzoor offers insights into the graduate labour MON market. He hears how important graduates are for the growth MON of specialist markets in the UK - but are they up to the MON task? One company reveals that out of 2000 applications, MON they were unable to find 20 suitable candidates. MON MON Combining first-hand testimony with wider analysis, Sarfraz MON explores the genuine experience of today's graduate, the MON impact they have on the economy and society, and what their MON futures may hold. MON MON Producer: Katie Burningham MON A Falling Tree production. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00d0yhx (Listen) MON Series 2, Chapter the Third: A Recovery All Made Miserable MON MON Pip Bin struggles against the cruel plotting of his evil MON guardian Mr Gently Benevolent, recently returned from the dead. MON MON Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson MON Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head MON Sternbeater ...... Geoffrey Whitehead MON Young Pip ...... Tom Allen MON Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman MON Lily ...... Sarah Hadland MON Mr Parsimonious ...... Laurence Howarth MON Pippa ...... Susy Kane MON Sundry railwaymen ...... Mark Evans. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00t3t96 (Listen) MON Julian Worricker hears why British Waterways is closing MON canals, leaving some who rely on the waterways for their MON living to question why ecology is being put before economics. MON MON Why the new ad to raise funds for cancer research is causing MON controversy. MON MON Over the past few weeks Julian has been speaking to the MON bosses of some of Britain's biggest supermarkets. Today we MON speak to Mark Price, Managing Director of Waitrose, the MON chain which is rumoured to be planning to buy the Eat chain MON of cafes and sells its products in twenty-five countries. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00t3t98 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00t3t9b (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00t3vl6 (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 b00t385w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t3vl8 (Listen) MON A Bridge to the Stars MON MON By Henning Mankell MON Dramatised by John Retallack MON MON Young Joel, living alone with his lonely father, heads out MON at night in an icy cold Northern Swedish town to search for MON a dog he has glimpsed "heading for a star". He finds new MON friends, cruelty and a perilous ascent in his winter of MON discontent and growing up. MON MON Joel Gustafson ..... Ryan Watson MON Older Joel Gustafson ..... Jack Klaff MON Samuel Gustafson ..... Paul Hilton MON Rolf von Swallow ... Toby Graham MON Gertrud 'No-Nose' ... Margaret Robertson MON Simon Windstorm ..... Sean Baker MON Sara ..... Alison Pettitt MON Otto ..... Jacob Theato MON MON Director ..... David Hunter MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00t32rs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State b00t3t9d (Listen) MON 'Habitual Drunkards' and the Asylum MON MON Mark Whitaker focuses on a new sort of panic that swept the MON nation at the very end of the 19th century - a panic about MON the number of 'habitual drunkards' in the country and the MON impact they were having. MON MON This was the time of pioneering social research by the likes MON of Booth and Rowntree, and also of a new belief in the MON ability of government to intervene to change social MON conditions. Allied to this was a growing medical confidence MON that addiction to alcohol was a disease that could be MON isolated and treated - and a new term was invented, 'inebriety'. MON MON Public and political opinion on the matter was hugely MON influenced by the publication by the Daily Telegraph in 1891 MON of a long series of letters giving first-hand accounts of MON alcohol addiction. They were revelatory, and the paper MON called them a "sad mirror of the National Sin". There was MON particular concern over the extent of female drunkenness, MON and this fed into fears about a deterioration of the MON 'national stock'. MON MON A leading medical figure argued that "the wide-spread MON prevalence of alcoholism among women, especially during the MON reproductive period of life, is one of the important factors MON making for racial decay". MON MON Such fears came to a head when many young men proved MON insufficiently healthy to fight in the Boer War. In 1898 MON Parliament passed an Inebriates Act that required local MON authorities to set up special 'reformatories' as an MON alternative to prison for those arrested time after time for MON being drunk and disorderly. Courts could sentence people to MON them for up to three years. The shift was from condemnation MON to cure: but the reformatories couldn't survive after the MON outbreak if war in 1914. MON MON Producer: Mark Whitaker MON A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00t3368 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00t3xw7 (Listen) MON Religion in Prison MON MON In Beyond Belief, Ernie Rea and his guests explore the place MON of faith in our complex world. MON MON Ernie is joined by three guests who discuss how their own MON religious tradition affects their values and outlook on the MON world, often revealing hidden and contradictory truths. MON MON In this programme, Ernie and his guests discuss the place MON and purpose of religion in prison. What do the different MON faith traditions and their sacred texts say about dealing MON with crime and wrong doing? What is the purpose of prison? MON Why must every prison have a Church of England chaplain and MON how is their role changing in an increasingly secular world? MON The programme will also discuss fears over radicalisation of MON Muslim inmates in prison, the appeal of religion for some MON and why it still has a "privileged" place in prison. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00t3t9g (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 b00t3t9j (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00t3ybg (Listen) MON Series 53, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, MON regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by David Mitchell, with Jack Dee in MON the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00t3t9l (Listen) MON Shula faces a baptism of fire at the community shop and MON Brenda makes a tactical error. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00t3t9n (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reviews Oliver Stone's new documentary MON South of the Border, in which he meets political leaders MON from South America, including Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t3t94 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Hitler's Muslim Legions b00t3ybj (Listen) MON It was after Germany's invasion of Yugoslavia and the Soviet MON Union in 1941 that Hitler's attention was first drawn to the MON potential for Muslim recruits to swell his ranks. For the MON many thousands of captured Soviet Muslims, the opportunity MON to serve in the Wehrmacht offered an escape from the MON brutality and starvation of the prison camps. Elsewhere, a MON major recruitment drive amongst Bosnian Muslims led to tens MON of thousands signing up for the Waffen-SS. Formed into MON exclusive Muslim units, these men fought in some of the most MON brutal campaigns of the entire war. MON MON This programme investigates why Hitler and Himmler MON apparently cast aside their Nazi ideal of an Aryan master MON race, justifying the admission of Islam into their ranks. It MON asks what attracted these men to fight for the Third Reich, MON how they were treated by their German officers and how they MON conducted themselves in the bedlam of war. Were they MON hopeless soldiers who committed unspeakable atrocities; or MON did they fight bravely for the Fuhrer? MON MON We examine the fate of these Muslims at the end of the war. MON With Hitler dead and the Third Reich defeated there was MON nothing to protect them, and most were killed as traitors. MON MON Presented by Julian O'Halloran. MON MON Producer: Jennifer Chryss MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00t2mhq (Listen) MON Puerto Rico MON MON Puerto Rico is a strange place. An island and a MON commonwealth, it exists in an uneasy relationship with its MON massive neighbour, the US. All of its political powers, and MON much of its government cash, come from Washington, but MON Puerto Ricans can't vote in US federal elections. And now an MON economic crisis generated in the US has come home to roost MON on the island. Puerto Rico's Republican governor has MON announced a wave of layoffs of public sector workers, along MON with deep cuts in services. Students responded by staging MON the longest ever university strike in North American MON history. And this dispute plays into the bitter arguments MON over the island's status. Should it seek independence, and MON the right to make its own decisions? Or should it push for MON more integration into the US, so at least it has some say in MON its future? MON MON Maria Hinojosa, the distinguished journalist and presenter MON of Latino USA, travels to the island to examine its future MON through the voices of young people. She meets the students MON who so furiously defied the governor. She hears from young MON activists who are pushing for independence. And she seeks MON out one of the many young Puerto Ricans who are signing up MON to serve in the US military - and who see their primary MON loyalty on the mainland. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00t2xct (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. This week: seeing through clothes MON without getting personal, earworms you can't get out of your MON head, identifying an Anzac hero, how we want to be seen in a MON social network, and closing in on the mysterious Higgs MON boson. MON MON Safe Scanner MON MON Originally developed for environmental monitoring from MON space, the Science and Technology Facilities Council spinout MON company, ThruVision Systems have launched a new security MON scanner at the Farnborough International Air Show this week. MON It’s completely passive, using no harmful radiation and, MON claim its designers, can reveal weapons, explosives or other MON illegal goods under clothing, without invading personal MON privacy. Product manager David Haskett explains. MON MON Earworms MON MON We all know those annoying – or even pleasing – little tunes MON that you just can’t get out of your head. But why do they MON worm their way in there and continue to wriggle? MON Psychologist Dr Vicky Williamson of Goldsmiths, University MON of London has launched what’s thought to be the first MON attempt to study the phenomenon scientifically. MON MON Identification of a missing Anzac MON MON 1983 Private Alan James Mather. (photo courtesy of Kim MON Blomfield) MON In August 2008, archaeologists from the group No Man’s Land MON – the European Group for Great War archaeology - recovered MON the remains of an unknown Australian Soldier. After 20 MON months of painstaking research and cutting edge science the MON soldier was finally identified as Private A J Mather. He was MON given a formal burial on 22nd July 2010. MON MON So you want to be a scientist: Facebook Profile Picture MON Survey MON MON So You Want To Be A Scientist finalist Nina Jones launches MON her survey into why people choose the profile pictures they MON do on a social networking website such as Facebook. And her MON mentor, Dr Bernie Hogan discusses how to turn something so MON subjective into good science. MON MON The Race For The God Particle MON MON It’s an exciting time in high energy physics. The huge new MON European particle collider, the LHC, at CERN is beginning to MON produce results in the hope of tracking down the mysterious MON Higgs boson, dubbed ‘the god particle’. But the race is not MON over In the USA, teams at Fermilab are hoping for results MON from their well-established though less powerful Tevatron. MON Terry Wyatt, from Fermilab’s D-Zero team juons Quentin from MON the ICHEP conference in Paris. MON MON 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00t3vl0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00t3t9q (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00t3tfn (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 b00t3tfq (Listen) MON The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 1 MON MON Poet, journalist and dancer, Tishani Doshi, has a Welsh MON mother and a Gujurati father. This twin inheritance is at MON the heart of her comic, lyrical and tenderly written first MON novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses, who live MON in a little house with orange and black gates next door to MON the Punjab Women's Association in Madras. It's an epic story MON full of vividly drawn characters, whose private lives are MON played out against the backdrop of the public events of the MON twentieth century, as the family wrestles with what it means MON to call somewhere home. MON MON This first episode begins in August 1968 when Babo, eldest MON son of Prem Kumar, becomes the first member of the Patel MON family to leave Madras and fly to London to further his MON education. On the night before the flight his father has a MON terrible premonition of trouble, in the form of a dream in MON which all his family is lost. Babo's mother, meanwhile, has MON more practical worries on her mind and gives strict MON instructions to her son about his obligations as a vegan and MON a follower of the Jain religion. Babo must resist the MON temptations of meat, alcohol and, most importantly, women. MON MON How shocked his parents would be, then, to see their son, MON four months later, drinking Peppermint Schnapps, eating MON poached eggs and making love to Sian Jones, a cream-skinned MON girl from Wales, with whom Babo falls head over heels in MON love with, from the moment he sees the twirl of red ribbon MON in her hair. MON MON The reader is Indira Varma, who appeared recently in the 6 MON part BBC drama Luther. Indira's previous television and film MON roles include Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in 1997, and Bride MON and Prejudice in 2004. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello in MON Torchwood. MON MON Abridged and Directed by Nigel Lewis MON Produced by Kate McAll. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00t20rm (Listen) MON Chris Ledgard presents the first in a new series of Word of MON Mouth exploring the different ways in which deaf people MON communicate: sign language, lip reading and also speaking. MON One in seven of us in the UK is deaf or hard of hearing MON (according to figures produced by the Medical Research Council). MON MON For many deaf people, English isn't their first language - MON they grow up speaking sign language. Chris talks to the MON artist and writer Louise Stern, who speaks in sign language MON and is the fourth generation to be born deaf in her family, MON via her long-time collaborator and interpreter, Oliver MON Pouliot. MON MON Reporter Sally Heaven visits the University of Bristol MON Centre for Deaf Studies - the only one in the UK - to find MON out more about the intricacies of British Sign Language from MON Linda Day and Rachel Sutton-Spence. MON MON And Chris meets Charlie Swinbourne, a deaf journalist and MON scriptwriter who grew up in a deaf family and describes MON himself as "hard of hearing". He speaks and uses sign MON language, and so he moves between both the deaf and MON hearing worlds. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Louise Stern MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00t3th0 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Susan Hulme. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 27 JULY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00t38wv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00t3t90 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t38yv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t3911 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t392x (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00t394q (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t39c4 (Listen) TUE with the Revd Dr Michael Piret, Dean of Divinity and TUE Chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00t39g9 (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00t3cqn (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00t3z65 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Episode 2 TUE TUE Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the TUE case of Tanya who is nine years old and seriously ill. Her TUE family don't want her to know her diagnosis & believe the TUE treatment being offered won't help. What should the medical TUE team do? TUE TUE Joan Bakewell is joined by her panel of experts to discuss TUE the complex ethical issues arising from this case. TUE TUE Producer: Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00t3t9s (Listen) TUE Tokyo Vice, Episode 2 TUE TUE Jake Adelstein seeks advice from a legendary crime writer on TUE how to approach his new job on Japan's largest daily TUE newspaper. He quickly realises that life covering the TUE organized crime beat is likely to be anything but straightforward. TUE TUE Jack Klaff reads this gritty memoir by Jake Adelstein. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC TUE Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t3t9v (Listen) TUE Jenni Murray talks to Victoria Wood. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t4nsn (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 14: A Burden to Strangers, Episode 2 TUE TUE Steve Gough's drama based on the diaries of Rachel Minshall, TUE a spirited elderly lady living in the Welsh valleys in the TUE 1980s. TUE TUE Today: Rachel is shocked by a decision made by her TUE London-based brother. TUE TUE Rachel . . . . . Margaret John TUE Jean . . . . . Menna Trussler TUE Jenny . . . . . Bethan Walker TUE Tom . . . . . Bernard Lloyd TUE Dr Edwards . . . . . Richard Elfyn TUE Margaret . . . . . Jennifer Hill TUE TUE Original music composed by Nicolai Abrahamsen. TUE Produced and Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00t3z67 (Listen) TUE Episode 17 TUE TUE 17/40. So, how did our British Seabirds do this year? Since TUE the launch of Saving Species in April, we have been TUE following two breeding colonies in Scotland. We're keeping TUE in touch with the seabird biologists and we'll bring you a TUE snapshot of how this year's season has been from Sutor and TUE the Isle of May. It looks good this year for Puffins, TUE Kittiwakes and Shags - but remains dire for Fulmars. TUE Although we won't be able to give you the whole picture TUE until the biologists have crunched their data later in the TUE autumn, we do have an interview with Francis Daunt and the TUE wonderful pictures brought back by shags wearing cameras. TUE How can pictures taken by seabirds help bioloists understand TUE the ocean? We'll find out. TUE TUE We'll be on the Somerset Levels trying to spot the Little TUE Bittern, a rare heron, its very presence a monument we're TUE told to the success of landscape conservation. TUE TUE And the Harbour Seal, formally called Common Seal - our TUE reporter Tania Dorrity went to meet the marine bioloists TUE from Aberdeen University who study these seals on the sand TUE banks where the seals haul out of the sea. TUE TUE There will be other stories too from around the world with TUE Kelvin Boot giving us an update on wildlife making the news TUE - he'll be live in the studio. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00t3z69 (Listen) TUE Julie Welch TUE TUE In 1969, on The Observer, Julie Welch became the first woman TUE to report on a football match in a national paper. This TUE created some controversy but she has made an art of turning TUE challenge into success and has gone on to build an enviable TUE reputation as a sports writer, novelist and scriptwriter for TUE film and television. In this programme she chooses a TUE selection of writing which illustrates one of the main TUE themes of her life so far - feet. The readers are Dominic TUE Jephcott and Stella Gonet. TUE TUE Producer: Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00t3t9x (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues. An opportunity to contribute your TUE views to the programme. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00t3t9z (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00t3tb1 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00t3z6c (Listen) TUE Series 2, Sergei Rachmaninoff TUE TUE Professor Robert Winston brings together his expertise and TUE experience in science and medicine with his overriding TUE passion for music, to explore the relationship between the TUE music and the medical conditions of composers who suffered TUE mental and physical illness. TUE TUE Rachmaninoff's second Piano Concerto has become one of TUE classical music's most enduring hits, but it was almost TUE never composed at all. The composer suffered an extreme TUE creative block following the catastrophic premiere of his TUE first symphony. After three years of silence, a TUE hypnotherapist, Dr. Dahl, effected a cure and rescued his TUE career. Prof. Winston also investigates evidence that a TUE medical condition was responsible for Rachmaninoff's TUE famously large hand-span, with pianist Peter Donohoe TUE demonstrating the difficulty this presents for would-be TUE performers of his music. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Taylor. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00t3t9l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t3z6f (Listen) TUE Humanly Possible TUE TUE by Sarah Daniels. TUE TUE Alongside the current series of Inside The Ethics Committee, TUE the Afternoon Play presents the third of three dramas which TUE get inside the emotional realities of dealing with ethical TUE dilemmas. TUE Two babies spend the same day on the same Neonatal Intensive TUE Care Unit. Their cases are very different and entirely TUE unrelated. Until the feelings and decisions of one set of TUE parents begin to irrevocably affect the other. TUE TUE Jasmine ..... Farzana dua Elahe TUE Sebastian ..... Michael Shelford TUE Dominic ..... Ewan Bailey TUE Sophie ..... Zita Sattar TUE Brigid ..... Joanna Monro TUE Lucy ..... Federay Holmes TUE Ben ..... Tony Bell TUE TUE Researcher: Alison Griffiths TUE Directed by Jonquil Panting TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00t3z6r (Listen) TUE How does light affect the human brain: does it reach it or TUE is it blocked out by the skull? Can people survive a TUE lifetime without light? TUE TUE A listener wants to know what the Pioneer and Voyager space TUE programmes can tell us about the movement of man-made TUE objects in space, and we find out whether anything can TUE escape the clutches of a black hole. TUE TUE There's more on the fate of our insect population and the TUE story of a moth that bites. And fans of magpies will be TUE pleased to hear how one listener thinks that they play a key TUE part in the story of evolution! TUE TUE Answering the questions this week are the ecologist Dr Lynn TUE Dicks, the astronomer Dr Carolin Crawford and the TUE biotechnician Professor Denis Murphy. All under the watchful TUE eye of presenter Richard Daniel. TUE TUE Producers: Nick Patrick and Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00t3z7n (Listen) TUE Just William: Pursuin' Happiness, The Knight At Arms TUE TUE He's back! Who? Just William. TUE TUE Richmal Crompton's grubby, tousled, William Brown occupies TUE his usual would-be-heroic starring role in three stories new TUE to BBC Radio 4, brought to definitive life, as ever, by TUE Martin Jarvis. TUE TUE In this opening tale, William, inspired by his history TUE teacher's accounts of medieval derring-do, sets out with his TUE faithful squire Ginger to succour the oppressed. They come TUE upon a beautiful damsel who is unquestionably oppressed, and TUE therefore clearly in need of helpful succouring! TUE TUE But as so often with William, things aren't quite what they TUE seem. TUE TUE Director: Pete Atkin TUE Producer: Rosalind Ayres TUE A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State b00t3tb3 (Listen) TUE The Central Control Board of 1915 TUE TUE "Drink is doing us more damage in the War than all the TUE German submarines put together", insisted Lloyd George in TUE February 1915. TUE TUE Continuing his history series on how British governments TUE have approached the 'Drink Question', Mark Whitaker looks at TUE the years of the First World War, when everything was TUE determined by the needs of 'national efficiency'. TUE TUE After a few months of war it became clear that Britain TUE needed to make more munitions - and fast. But output was TUE slowed down by the workers' drinking habits. "We are TUE fighting German, Austrians and Drink", said Lloyd George as TUE he embarked on a plan for the government to buy up the TUE country's whole liquor trade. TUE TUE But the Cabinet balked at the price. Instead a Central TUE Control Board (CCB) was set up in 1915 with the power to TUE take over the trade in areas of particular sensitivity to TUE the war effort. The largest of these was Gretna-Carlisle, TUE where a new national munitions factory was built. TUE TUE The number of licences was drastically reduced: the beer was TUE weakened: the sale of spirits limited: and pubs encouraged TUE to provide food as well as drink. Newspapers called it "the TUE largest social experiment of our time". A Carlisle vicar TUE called state control "the dawning of a new era". It worked TUE too. Convictions for drunkenness in CCB-controlled areas TUE declined dramatically, and many began to think that TUE nationalisation might finally be the solution to the 'Drink TUE Question'. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Whitaker TUE A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00t3zb4 (Listen) TUE Chris Ledgard investigates the world of the inner monologue TUE to find out how we talk to ourselves. Are the words we use TUE internally the same as when we speak. Contributors include TUE the author Tim Parks, whose books - such as Europa - often TUE read like an internal discussion. His latest book recounts TUE his efforts to overcome a debilitating illness, which he TUE discovered was caused by too many words. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00t3zb6 (Listen) TUE Claire Fox and Lisa Appignanesi TUE TUE This week's guests in the studio to recommend their TUE favourite paperbacks with Sue MacGregor are Lisa Appignanesi TUE and Claire Fox. Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer and TUE broadcaster who was born in Poland and grew up in France and TUE Canada before coming to England as a graduate student. She's TUE President of English PEN, the worldwide association of TUE writers which campaigns for freedom of expression, has TUE translated a number of books from French into English and TUE has edited many volumes of writing and essays by major TUE international figures. Her own latest book, Mad, Bad and TUE Sad, a History of Women and the Mind Doctors, asks why women TUE are more often put in these categories than men, and has won TUE several awards. She's written a memoir of her own family, TUE ten novels that span a range of fictional genres, and books TUE about Simone de Beauvoir, Proust and Freud among others. She TUE currently writing a book about love which will be out next TUE Spring. TUE TUE Claire Fox is the Director of the Institute of Ideas, a TUE regular panellist on Radio 4's The Moral Maze and appears TUE frequently on the panels of many other radio and television TUE programmes. She was a mental health worker and lecturer TUE before becoming co-publisher of the controversial journal LM TUE (formerly known as Living Marxism), and continues to pursue TUE a career-long interest in education, social issues and the TUE arts. She's a Member of the European Cultural Parliament and TUE sits on the Advisory Board of the Economic Policy Centre. TUE Every year she convenes the Institute of Ideas' flagship TUE event, the Battle of Ideas festival - the next one will take TUE place in London at the end of October. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00t3tb5 (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 b00t3tb7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00lmcyc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Helsinki TUE TUE Carolyn and her sister haven't spoken for fifteen years. TUE Which is why Arthur has invited her to a party on board, TUE together with 500 Euros-worth of smuggled orchids... TUE TUE Meanwhile, Martin gets tangled up in some karate and a TUE fishcake. TUE TUE With special guest Alison Steadman. TUE TUE Starring TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole TUE 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam TUE Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore TUE Ruth Gregson ..... Alison Steadman TUE Kieran Gregson ..... Matt Green TUE Milo ..... Simon Greenall TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore TUE Produced & Directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for the BBC. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00t3tb9 (Listen) TUE The Grundys' campsite has some glamorous new arrivals and TUE Josh strikes a bargain with Pip. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00t3tbc (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, with news of the long-list for this year's TUE Man Booker Prize for fiction. TUE TUE Producer Ella-Mai Robey. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t4nsn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00t3zb8 (Listen) TUE A special court system is supposed to protect the interests TUE of the vulnerable and the elderly. It's appointed thousands TUE of 'deputies' - or guardians - to ensure their money is TUE properly managed. The system was reformed three years ago - TUE but have the changes worked? TUE TUE There have been allegations the system is slow, bureaucratic TUE and open to abuse. In some cases lawyers are appointed to TUE oversee people's financial arrangements - and families claim TUE they charge excessive fees. In other cases, it's a relative TUE who's appointed as a deputy - but are there adequate TUE safeguards to ensure they're not misappropriating the money? TUE Fran Abrams investigates cases where the system has left TUE some vulnerable people worse off. TUE TUE Producer: Samantha Fenwick. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00t3zbb (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00t3z65 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:45 The Test of Time b00mfhww (Listen) TUE Egyptian Cooling Methods TUE TUE Professor Graeme Maidment explores the earliest methods of TUE surviving a hot climate. Does ancient Egypt hold the key to TUE an urgent modern need for sustainable cooling? He goes to an TUE unlikely place to find out - the Bluewater shopping centre TUE just off the M25. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00t3tbf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00t3tbh (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 b00t5kkw (Listen) TUE The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 2 TUE TUE Tishani Doshi's comic yet tender story of four generations TUE of the Patel-Joneses, inspired by her own Welsh-Gujurati TUE background. TUE TUE Babo has left his family behind in Madras to go to London to TUE further his studies. Despite being a vegan and a TUE teetotaller, he has eaten meat and drunk Peppermint Schnapps TUE - worse than both of these things though, in his mother's TUE eyes, he's fallen in love - with a Welsh girl. At home in TUE Madras, in the house with orange and black gates, and still TUE unaware of this news, Trishala worries about her son all TUE those thousands of miles away in England. Meanwhile, in TUE London, Babo and Sian's secret relationship grows stronger TUE and more passionate every day. Then, on a trip out, they TUE bump into some old friends of Babo's parents who decide that TUE it's time for the Patels learn about their son's deception. TUE A telegram is sent. TUE TUE The reader is Indira Varma who appeared recently in the 6 TUE part BBC drama Luther. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello TUE Torchwood. TUE TUE Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis. TUE TUE Produced by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 23:00 Happy Tuesdays b00t3zbd (Listen) TUE Everyone Quite Likes Justin TUE TUE By Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser TUE TUE Justin starts dating again but everything seems to have TUE changed since he last tried. Instead he manages to get TUE embroiled with toy trains, Phantom of the Opera and a TUE greyhound that will never win a race. TUE TUE Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse TUE Ray ..... Paul Copley TUE Gran ..... Anne Reid TUE Lisa ..... Katherine Kelly TUE Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford TUE Tanya ..... Sally Lindsay TUE TUE Directed by Steven Canny TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00t3tgr (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Sean Curran. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 28 JULY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00t38wx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00t3t9s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t38yx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t3913 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t392z (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00t394s (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t39c6 (Listen) WED with the Revd Dr Michael Piret, Dean of Divinity and WED Chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00t39gc (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b00t3cqq (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00t4pgp (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00t3tbk (Listen) WED Tokyo Vice, Episode 3 WED WED Crime reporter Jake Adelstein begins to uncover the history WED of the Japanese mafia. He is amazed at how they seem to WED operate in broad daylight, and that their activities affect WED a broad range of businesses in the modern Japanese economy. WED WED Jack Klaff reads this revealing memoir by Jake Adelstein. WED WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC WED Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t3tbm (Listen) WED Today Woman's Hour is devoted to the women who don't want to WED be mothers. Jenni Murray will explore the reasons behind WED this rising trend and talk to childfree guests about the WED pressures they face, the rewards they enjoy and how they WED deal with the question of regret. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t4nx2 (Listen) WED Writing the Century 14: A Burden to Strangers, Episode 3 WED WED Steve Gough's drama based on the diaries of Rachel Minshall, WED a spirited elderly lady living in the Welsh valleys in the WED 1980s. WED WED Today: Rachel takes a nostalgic trip to her childhood home. WED WED Rachel . . . . . Margaret John WED Jean . . . . . Menna Trussler WED Jenny . . . . . Bethan Walker WED Tom . . . . . Bernard Lloyd WED Mrs Lyons . . . . . Jennifer Hill WED Curate . . . . . Mark Carey WED WED Original music composed by Nicolai Abrahamsen. WED Produced and Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. WED WED 11:00 Britain's Black Revolutionary b00t4q0j (Listen) WED There are still few black leaders in British political life WED - but life-long trade unionist Bill Morris finds that as far WED back as the London of 1848 the son of slave was leading one WED of this countries most powerful political movements. WED WED Few of us have heard of William Cuffay, a physically WED deformed tailor who lived in Soho. And yet he was notorious WED in his day, to the extent that the political class of the WED 1840s dubbed him "the pore old blackymore rogue" as he went WED on to lead a political movement so powerful that Britain WED cowered behind its shuttered windows and the massed ranks of WED its armies. WED WED Just as the thrones of Europe were yet again tumbling to WED revolution, the 1848 Chartist uprising in favour of WED democracy and equality in London threatened the status quo WED in Britain. History records that an articulate democrat, WED William Cuffay, emerged as a key organiser of the mass WED demonstration that faced the Duke of Wellington's army in WED the demand for the vote. Revolution threatened the capital WED - but who was the diminutive tailor holding such sway? WED WED Lord Morris follows a predecessor in the labour movement WED through his fascinating story - from son of a St Kitts slave WED to political leader, and ultimately into exile at Her WED Majesty's pleasure in Tasmania. WED WED Producer: Philip Sellars. WED WED 11:30 The Castle b00t4q0l (Listen) WED Series 3, The Snowballs of Hell WED WED Hie ye The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, WED starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley", "Four Weddings WED & A Funeral") and Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley") WED WED In this episode there's romance in the air for Charlotte as WED a vicious gang war breaks out in the Castle. Meanwhile, De WED Warenne discovers the fondue and declares martial law. 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 b00t3tbp (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00t3tbr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00t3tbt (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00t7f9g (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00t3tb9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00d75v3 (Listen) WED A Helping Hand WED WED A dark comedy by Mike Stott, starring Shobna Gulati and Anne WED Reid. WED WED A drunken football supporter has been murdered on the Leeds WED to Manchester train, and Dave "Fat Boy" Davis is charged WED with solving the crime. When a strange pink letter arrives WED at the station, WPC Djamila Khan is asked to bring in its WED author, Molly Pickles. WED WED Molly Pickles ..... Anne Reid WED Djamila Kahn ..... Shobna Gulati WED DS Dave Davis ..... John Lightbody WED Darren Butterworth ..... Mark Rice Oxley WED Quentin-Mann Rogers ..... Rupert Degas WED WED Director: Lissa Evans WED Producer: Jo Wheeler WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00t4q0q (Listen) WED A panel of guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00t4ndn (Listen) WED Just William: Pursuin' Happiness, The Revenge WED WED Written by Richmal Crompton, and read by Martin Jarvis. WED WED William Brown, surprisingly perhaps, becomes a Boy Scout - WED something his family agrees to in the hope that it will keep WED him out of trouble. William's sense of honour means that he WED takes most seriously his obligation to perform a daily 'deed WED of kindness'. WED WED But an encounter with a very small, extremely objectionable WED little boy tests his resolve to breaking point. WED WED Director: Pete Atkin WED Producer: Rosalind Ayres WED A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State b00t3tbw (Listen) WED Improving the Pub WED WED It seemed possible during the 1920s that the 'Drink WED Question' that had bedevilled British governments for so WED long might finally be about to be consigned to the past. WED WED The fall in consumption - which had started during the First WED World War - continued throughout the decade, and political WED attention focused on why. This was when the Labour Party WED formed its first governments, and there were powerful WED socialist voices arguing for a full nationalisation of the WED drinks industry. This could be a route to weaning the WED working classes away from a product that was "a powerful WED weapon in the hands of the exploiters". George Bernard Shaw WED called liquor "a chloroform that allows the poor to endure WED the painful operation of living". WED WED But while governments chose to sit on the fence during the WED 1920s, the brewing industry got busy. Led by people like WED Ernest Nevile, the head of Whitbread's, they set about WED designing and building a new type of pub - one that would WED attract a new middle class clientele. "The presence in WED public houses of people who will not tolerate insobriety WED makes excess unfashionable". WED WED What were called 'improved pubs' - huge buildings with bars, WED restaurants, ball rooms, bowling greens and even tennis WED courts - sprung up in the new suburbs. When Nevile said "if WED I can cure drunkenness in the country in my time, that will WED satisfy me" he was talking business, not morality. WED WED The programme also looks at the first attempts at a WED sociology of the pub, and what people wanted from it. WED WED Producer: Mark Whitaker WED A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00t4q0s (Listen) WED We are told that life presents us with myriad choices. Like WED products on a supermarket shelf, our jobs, our WED relationships, our bodies and our identities are all there WED for the choosing. We are encouraged to 'be ourselves', but WED the pressure to make those choices can lead to enormous WED anxiety. In a new study Renata Salecl researches dating WED sites, self help books and people's relationship to WED celebrity, and uncovers the complexities involved in the WED choices we make and how they often lead to disquiet. In WED Thinking Allowed on 28 July, Laurie Taylor explores whether WED we have too much choice in our lives. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00t4q0v (Listen) WED Telemedicine is bringing benefits to both patients and WED doctors in Wales. Now that the neurologist no longer has a WED two and a half hour drive each way from Swansea to WED Aberystwyth he can run clinics for his patients in mid Wales WED every six weeks rather than every three months. Instead the WED neurologist, Dr Hinds, links up to the consulting room in WED Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth from his home base in WED Morriston Hospital in Swansea. With the latest technology he WED can see the patients and any scans and blood test results. WED WED In Gloucestershire patients with conditions such as chronic WED obstructive pulmonary disorder who need daily monitoring are WED using technology to take readings of blood pressure and lung WED function in their homes. These measurements are sent to WED their GPs' computers. WED WED In Scotland, too, telemedicine is bringing patients in WED remote areas specialist advice and treament. Mark Porter WED reports on these projects and asks how far can telemedicine WED go? Do the patients like it? WED WED Producer: Deborah Cohen. WED WED 17:00 PM b00t3tby (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 b00t3tc0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00pqh8s (Listen) WED Series 6, The Charterhouse Redemption WED WED Ed is now a happily-retired author. Not only that but he's WED well fed, warm and happily ensconced in Berkhamsted's WED premier accommodation of choice for the financially distressed. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00t3tc2 (Listen) WED Kathy makes an unwelcome discovery, while Tom seeks some WED business advice. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00t3tc4 (Listen) WED Mark Lawson discusses the songs and shows of Stephen WED Sondheim, who celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this WED year, and whose work is performed in a BBC Prom this WED Saturday. With guests including Maria Friedman, Simon WED Russell Beale and Gareth Valentine. WED WED Producer Timothy Prosser. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t4nx2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Reality Check b00t4q0x (Listen) WED Series 3, School testing WED WED Justin Rowlatt returns with a series of debates on topical WED issues, bringing together experts in a particular field with WED people living at the sharp end. He visits a primary school WED in South London to ask whether testing young children really WED helps them, or whether it subjects them to unnecessary WED stress. And is the point of SATS tests to benefit the WED children themselves or to give an indicator of school performance? WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 20:45 The Curse of the Number Two b00t4q0z (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Nick Clegg's meteoric rise to become Deputy Prime Minister WED has brought into sharp focus the role of the number two. WED It's not always an enviable position. So why, in British WED politics, does the deputy so rarely reach the summit? And WED why, when he does, does it usually end in disaster? Think of WED Michael Foot or Anthony Eden. These programmes talk to a WED number of the politicians who became deputy leader of their WED party or even Deputy Prime Minister but who just didn't WED reach the summit -- people like Roy Hattersley, Michael WED Heseltine, Shirley Williams, Margaret Beckett and Geoffrey WED Howe. Some never really wanted the job in the first place, WED others found it an exciting experience from which they WED learned a lot. One likens it to a bucket of warm spit, only WED worse. So is there a jinx on the role of the deputy? The WED political commentator, Julia Langdon, finds out in The Curse WED of the Number Two. WED WED Producer Chris Bond. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00t4q11 (Listen) WED Carbon Detectives WED WED Carbon detectives: Richard Hollingham meets the scientists WED trying to track our carbon emissions. WED WED International climate treaties are entirely based on WED national declarations of greenhouse-gas emissions. But there WED is at present no independent way of testing those WED declarations. National carbon accounts are carefully audited WED --- but so were the financial accounts of Greece, one expert WED notes, wryly. WED WED On the other hand, once exhaust fumes have gone into the WED atmosphere, who knows where they go. Richard Hollingham WED meets the researchers who are trying to develop a network of WED tracking stations that can monitor greenhouse emissions, WED using a suite of chemical fingerprints. They have already WED shown that one key gas is on the increase, when national WED reports said it was being controlled. And although much of WED the expertise is in Britain, the UK government is WED deliberately dragging its heels some say, in supporting the network. WED WED Producer: Roland Pease. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00t4pgp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00t3tc6 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00t3tc8 (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 b00t5kls (Listen) WED The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 3 WED WED Tishani Doshi's comic yet tender story of four generations WED of the Patel-Joneses, inspired by her own Welsh-Gujarati WED background. WED WED For a long time Sian dreamed of leaving the village in North WED Wales where she was born, and where she, her parents and all WED her aunties all live in the same street. So she went to WED London and promptly fell in love with a man from India. Now WED she has to tell her parents that she's off to Madras, to WED marry a man she has known for only six months. WED WED The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the WED 6 part BBC drama Luther. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello WED in Torchwood. WED WED Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis WED Produced by Kate McAll. WED WED 23:00 The Ladies b00t4q13 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED The Ladies attempt to apprehend a thief, and we hear from a WED struggling graffiti artist and two women who seem to be WED married to the same man. WED WED Written by and starring 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 b00n5ngk (Listen) WED Train to Paris WED WED Settle down, brush your teeth, do whatever it is you do at WED this time of night. But, most of all, listen because Rik WED would like to talk to you. One on one. Tonight he'd mostly WED like to tell you about Train to Paris WED WED Performer ..... Rik Mayall WED Writers ..... Rik Mayall & John Nicholson WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00t3tgt (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Susan Hulme. WED WED THU THURSDAY 29 JULY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00t38wz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00t3tbk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t38yz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t3915 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t3931 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00t394v (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t39c8 (Listen) THU with the Revd Dr Michael Piret, Dean of Divinity and THU Chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00t39gf (Listen) THU Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. THU THU 06:00 Today b00t3cqs (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 Voices From The Old Bailey b00t4q82 (Listen) THU Children THU THU Historians struggle to decipher letters and diaries - but THU what about those who left no record? The poor, those who THU couldn't write? There is one fantastic source, and it is now THU online: the Old Bailey Archives. THU THU Through court cases, we can hear the voices of the 18th THU century - thanks to the speedy court shorthand writers, THU everyone's speech is recorded, from the posh to the poor. THU It's the nearest thing we have to a tape recording of the past. 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 In this programme, the voices of children. Even children as THU young as seven appeared in court in the 18th century, as THU witnesses, victims - and as criminals. Amanda Vickery THU presents three cases which capture the voices of children, THU and open up the reality of their lives. THU THU One reveals the network of relationships in the workhouse, THU and the cruelty and kindness which coexisted there. The THU second exposes the vulnerability of teenagers working as THU apprentices. And the third features a little girl who is THU sentenced to death - but who then escapes the gallows and THU makes a long and prosperous life for herself. THU THU With historians Tim Hitchcock, Ruth Richardson and Zoe THU Laidlaw. Recorded on location in The Foundling Museum. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00t3tcb (Listen) THU Tokyo Vice, Episode 4 THU THU When Jake Adelstein is summoned to a meeting with one of the THU bosses of the local yakuza, he is both surprised and more THU than a little wary. And when he arrives at the rendezvous THU he is astonished to be asked to help settle a delicate THU problem. THU THU Although he has no intention of getting involved in the THU boss's affairs or ever owing him a favour, he discovers THU there are advantages to having a yakuza in your debt. THU THU Jack Klaff reads this revealing memoir by Jake Adelstein. THU THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC THU Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t3tcd (Listen) THU Jenni Murray hosts a phone-in on women who choose not to THU have children. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t4nwm (Listen) THU Writing the Century 14: A Burden to Strangers, Episode 4 THU THU Steve Gough's drama based on the diaries of Rachel Minshall, THU a spirited elderly lady living in the Welsh valleys in the THU 1980s. THU THU Today: Rachel receives important news about the future of THU her beloved Tip Wood. THU THU Rachel . . . . . Margaret John THU Jean . . . . . Menna Trussler THU Jenny . . . . . Bethan Walker THU Tom . . . . . Bernard Lloyd THU Margaret . . . . . Jennifer Hill THU Dr Edwards . . . . . Richard Elfyn THU Glyn . . . . . John Cording THU THU Original music composed by Nicolai Abrahamsen. THU Produced and Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00t4qbd (Listen) THU Madagascar THU THU Madagascar is in crisis. Since a coup last year that brought THU a DJ in his mid-thirties to power as president, this huge THU island nation has become a pariah state. For the most part, THU the international community has refused to recognise the new THU government. Most seriously for Madagascar, in an effort to THU persuade the new regime to restore democracy, most aid has THU been withdrawn. This has created a huge dent in the state's THU coffers because donor assistance accounted for a staggering THU half of Madagascar's income. THU THU The fallout for an already poor nation has been profound. THU Thousands have lost their jobs in garment factories as a THU result of the United States' decision to suspend favourable THU trade tariffs for Madagascar. Others eke out a living on the THU streets, or have headed for the countryside to subsist on THU what rice they can grow. Hospitals and schools are under THU serious pressure. Over half of all children are THU malnourished, and family breakdown is an everyday event. THU THU Now there is evidence that Madagascar's unique and THU spectacular wildlife - ancient hardwoods, baobabs, and THU lemurs - is especially endangered by corruption, poverty and THU a breakdown in the rule of law. The forests are being THU plundered. Loggers have illegally sought out and exported THU rare rosewood, and there is anecdotal evidence that hunting THU for bush meat, and the smuggling of rare wildlife are both THU on the increase. THU THU As Madagascar celebrates fifty years of independence from THU French rule, Linda Pressly visits the capital of THU Antananorivo and travels out to one of the National Parks to THU find out how people are surviving in this island nation THU seemingly in freefall. THU THU 11:30 Magic People and Places b00t4qk4 (Listen) THU Magic is constantly changing, with performers creating THU bigger and better tricks to impress us. Times have changed THU since a magician produced a startled rabbit out of top hat THU with a puff of smoke. Today we expect more, and the modern THU magician apparently does the impossible before our eyes. But THU spare a thought for where the trick came from. How did the THU magic get there? THU THU Presenter John Sugar does not reveal any trade secrets - THU like how to saw a woman in half, or the best way to float in THU the air - but we do hear how the sale of magic has changed, THU with the impact of the internet and the way conventions are THU developing new environments for its promotion and sale. The THU programme also hears about the leading magic shops and THU studios of 60 years ago, revealing the characters who THU created the magic. THU THU Today, magic revolves around the internet and magic THU conventions. The key gathering is in Blackpool in late THU February. The programme visits the 58th Magic Convention, THU attended by 3500 magicians. We speak to the organizers and THU the performers, and soak up the atmosphere. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00t3tcg (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00t67qs (Listen) THU With universities facing swingeing funding cuts, a handful THU are already officially classified as "at risk" and in danger THU of complete financial collapse. Vince Cable, the Secretary THU of State with responsibility for Universities has warned THU that if that does happen - there'll be no Government THU bail-out. Meanwhile as the cuts bite, courses are being THU scrapped and jobs are being cut. We hear from one university THU where one third of the Board of Governors have stepped down THU after a report into their effectiveness described them as THU naive after presiding over an unsustainable annual deficit. THU Another university was left £10m out of pocket after THU aggressively pursuing a 'low fees, high impact' policy that THU offered cut price courses and poured over £20m into THU sponsorship deals with local sports teams which has left it THU with one of the worst staff to students ratio in the country. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00t3tcj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00t3tcl (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00t4qk6 (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson presents the interactive problem-solving THU programme for those niggling questions. THU THU Email Questions.questions@bbc.co.uk THU Tel: 03700 100400 THU Or you can reach us online via our Radio 4 message board. THU THU Producer: Dilly Barlow THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00t3tc2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t4qk8 (Listen) THU Terremoto THU THU Daniel is running the Chilean desert. Ayelen is speeding THU across it in the opposite direction. When the earthquake THU hits, they become reluctant travelling companions, in a THU desperate bid to find out if Ayelen's family have survived. THU An adventurer and a rebel meet head on. THU THU Daniel is a young free runner, who has been all over the THU world, jumping across cities everywhere but never really THU seeing them. His latest goal is to run solo across the THU Atacama desert in Northern Chile, a new extreme challenge. THU He's earning a huge amount of money by being filmed at the THU end of his run drinking a particular extreme sports drink. THU But he has to get there on a certain day, and his time is THU tight. THU THU Ayelen 30 something year old Chilean woman, who has lived in THU the Uk for most of her life. She has come home on a family THU reunion with her mother but has run out after yet another THU family row. She has 'borrowed' a run down 4 by 4 from the THU garage where her brother works - and she is travelling THU across the desert alone. THU THU Then all of the sudden the earthquake hits. Ayelen's car is THU thrown off course, she is trapped and Daniel, who has seen THU it all from a nearby ridge, is forced to rescue her. He is THU reluctant to break his meticulously planned run - but you THU can't abandon a human being in a place like this. THU THU Their subsequent journey across the desert is a life THU changing experience for both of them. THU THU Terremoto is written by Catrin Clarke, an experienced THU television and radio writer, and based on her own knowledge THU of Chile and running the desert. THU THU Cast: THU THU Daniel ....Sule Rimi THU Ayelen.....Clare Isaac THU Guy Marchant.Richard Harrington THU Chilean driver...Ernesto Cantu THU THU Acoustic guitar and folksong performed by Héctor Daniel Saez THU Cárdenas THU THU Director Polly Thomas for BBC Cymru/Wales. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00t31zw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00t333s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00t4nm3 (Listen) THU Just William: Pursuin' Happiness, The Ghost THU THU This hilarious 'Just William' story, new to radio and told THU of course by Martin Jarvis, is a chilling tale of nocturnal THU visitation and psychic revelations. THU THU As always, William's primary motivation is to do good and THU pursue happiness, so when elderly Cousin Mildred confides to THU him that her dearest wish is to encounter a ghost, he THU decides to help her fulfill her ambition - regardless of the THU consequences. THU THU Written by Richmal Crompton. THU Director: Pete Atkin THU Producer: Rosalind Ayres THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State b00t4qkn (Listen) THU The Doctors Take Over THU THU A Ministry of Health Report in 1956 referred to heavy THU drinking as something that had been an issue in Britain "at THU times in the 18th and 19th century". In 1961 the Home THU Secretary RA Butler confidently told the Commons that THU "public drunkenness is not a problem". But such denial THU couldn't last long. THU THU As part of his series on the politics of alcohol in Britain, THU Mark Whitaker focuses on the decision by government in 1962 THU to build specialist alcoholic treatment units around the THU country. It was called "the first official recognition of THU alcoholism as an illness which should be the responsibility THU of doctors", and was an acknowledgement that drinking was on THU the increase. This period saw the first specific warnings THU about teenage drinking. THU THU But controversies followed. Several Regional Hospital Boards THU were reluctant to invest in the new units; research THU suggested that in-patient treatment was not necessarily the THU most effective; and the strategy was attacked for being of THU limited value to those most in need of help - the unemployed THU meths drinkers of 'Skid Rows' in the major cities. THU THU This was when the pioneering psychiatrist Griffith Edwards THU first proposed his methods for tackling drunkenness as a THU public health issue, based on its being recognised as a THU community-wide problem. Edwards contributes to the THU programme, while actors read documents from the 1960s. THU THU Producer: Mark Whitaker THU A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00t384n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00t4qm6 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b00t3tcn (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 b00t3tcq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Secret World b00t4qm8 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU THU Prince Charles is asked by his driver to help move some THU furniture. Arch Bishop Rowan Williams is upset that he never THU gets invited to go out drinking with the other Bishops. Ray THU Winstone is terrified of pins and needles. William Hague has THU an overnight guest he can't get rid of. Find out how they THU all cope in another handful of strange tales from the THU private lives of public people. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00t3tcs (Listen) THU Eddie throws down the gauntlet and Kathy is on a mission. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00t3tcv (Listen) THU With John Wilson, who reviews new films based on the 1980s THU screen hits The Karate Kid and The A Team. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t4nwm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00t4qmb (Listen) THU The Government says it will turn the NHS "upside down" with THU its overhaul of health funding in England. By putting GPs in THU charge of a sizeable chunk of the health service budget, THU ministers say it will do away with the need for so many THU managers. Simon Cox travels to two areas where GPs are THU already involved in commissioning services and asks if the THU scheme will deliver the expected benefits. THU THU Producer: Paul Grant. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00t4qqn (Listen) THU Now Wash Your Hands Please THU THU In this edition of In Business, Peter Day hears some simple THU ideas about cleanliness which could change the fortunes of THU poor people around the world, hearing from three projects THU about the techniques of big business, marketing in THU particular, they are using to carry their messages. THU THU Val Curtis of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical THU Medicine in London says the single most cost-effective THU intervention to save lives in developing countries is THU washing hands with soap - one million lives could be saved THU every year. She's working with producers to make soap THU available at prices, and sizes, suitable to the pockets of THU the poor. THU THU Linda Scott is a Professor of Marketing at Oxford who THU discovered millions of girls were missing school in Africa THU every month once they started having periods. She discovered THU that they were shunned by family and no longer supported THU once they were deemed to be women. Now she plans to change THU that, and economically empower more women, by introducing THU them to sanitary protection. THU THU And there's news of an on-the-ground initiative using solid THU business principles to make sanitary pads made of bamboo THU available at half the price of imported versions in Rwanda THU and a solution to eye care in countries where opticians are THU rare. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00t3z67 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 Voices From The Old Bailey b00t4q82 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00t3tcx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00t3tcz (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 b00t5kll (Listen) THU The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 4 THU THU Tishani Doshi's comic yet tender story of four generations THU of the Patel-Joneses, inspired by her own Welsh-Gujurati THU background. THU THU Sian and Babo fly to North Wales to meet Sian's family. The THU young man from Madras will never forget his first THU impressions of the village of Nercwys and its matchbox THU houses. But now that they are married, where will they live THU - Wales, London or Madras? Sian tells Babo that she's come THU to a decision. THU THU The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the THU 6 part BBC drama Luther. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello THU in Torchwood. THU THU Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis THU Producer: Kate McAll. THU THU 23:00 Recorded for Training Purposes b00t4qqq (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU THU The sketch show about modern communication continues its THU fourth series, delving into areas such as cinema etiquette, THU school reunions, and doctors' advice. THU THU Recorded in front of a studio audience, the cast is Rachel THU Atkins, Dominic Coleman, Lewis Macleod, Julie Mayhew, Ingrid THU Oliver and Ben Willbond, whose collective Radio 4 credits THU include Ed Reardon's Week, The Maltby Collection, and THU Electric Ink. 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 Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House b00nfsjy (Listen) THU An Appointment with Fear THU THU Comic actor Reece Shearsmith hosts energetic and witty THU illustrated discussions on horror, before an audience inside THU the reputedly haunted Sutton House in Hackney. THU THU Reece examines some classic scary moments from British radio THU and television and explores the ingredients for a classic THU horror story. THU THU He is joined by horror enthusiasts Mark Gatiss, Vic Reeves, THU Yvette Fielding and Mike Roberts. THU THU Mark Gatiss - the new "Man In Black" THU THU Mark Gatiss discusses his favourite horror moments with THU Reece Shearsmith, in advance of his return as the mysterious THU story-teller 'The Man In Black' which begins a new series on THU Radio 7 this Saturday. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 30 JULY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00t38x1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00t3tcb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t38z1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t3917 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t3933 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00t394x (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t39cb (Listen) FRI with the Revd Dr Michael Piret, Dean of Divinity and FRI Chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00t39gk (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00t3cqv (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00t3345 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00t3td1 (Listen) FRI Tokyo Vice, Episode 5 FRI FRI Reporter Jake Adelstein is invited to spend the night as a FRI host in a Japanese night club in the red light district of FRI Tokyo. And he discovers some surprises, not only amongst FRI the type of customers who are willing to pay for the service FRI in modern Japan, but the reasons these women feel the need FRI to pay for company. FRI FRI Jack Klaff reads this revealing memoir by Jake Adelstein. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC FRI Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t3td3 (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Are we a nation of slouchers? FRI What good posture can do for you. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t4nwp (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 14: A Burden to Strangers, Episode 5 FRI FRI Steve Gough's drama based on the diaries of Rachel Minshall, FRI a spirited elderly lady living in the Welsh valleys in the FRI 1980s draws to its conclusion. FRI FRI Today: Margaret has news for Rachel which sets her thinking FRI about both the past and the future. FRI FRI Rachel . . . . . Margaret John FRI Jean . . . . . Menna Trussler FRI Jenny . . . . . Bethan Walker FRI Tom . . . . . Bernard Lloyd FRI Margaret . . . . . Jennifer Hill FRI Dr Edwards . . . . . Richard Elfyn FRI Glyn . . . . . John Cording FRI FRI Original music composed by Nicolai Abrahamsen. FRI Produced and Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. FRI FRI 11:00 A Quiet Invasion b00t4t7q (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI In August 1990 Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait. Kirsty Norman FRI was working for the Museum of Islamic Art, and due to fly FRI out on the day of the invasion. Then tanks started rolling FRI past her apartment, but it was a quiet invasion: The FRI gardener out watering the palm trees as they passed. Two FRI weeks later she was taken hostage, bringing her family FRI history full circle as her father and grandparents had been FRI interned by the Japanese. FRI FRI 20 years after those momentous events, Kirsty recounts the FRI story of what happened to her, in two moving programmes FRI based on her diaries and recollections. FRI FRI She tried to escape across the desert but was caught and put FRI in an Iraqi internment camp. For the first time, Kirsty FRI understood the position of being a refugee - displaced, and FRI completely without security. FRI FRI Released a month later, she came back very shaken, and very FRI angry: The guilt of leaving the men behind, and anger at the FRI way the British Embassy in Kuwait and the Foreign Office in FRI London were handling the situation, which might now endanger FRI their lives. FRI FRI The events of August 1990 still vividly etched on her FRI memory, she returns to Kuwait to find out how friends and FRI colleagues there dealt with the events that tore their lives FRI apart so suddenly. And we find out what happened to the FRI Islamic Art collection she was working with. FRI FRI Producer: Ruth Evans FRI A Ruth Evans production for Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and Steve b00t4tps (Listen) FRI The Final Curtain FRI FRI A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple FRI and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns FRI refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate FRI the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind FRI in post-war London. FRI FRI The identity of the mysterious Dr. Belasco is finally FRI revealed. But it's one thing to unmask someone, quite FRI another to capture them; and Belasco still has a trick or FRI two up his - or is it her? - sleeve. 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 Ed Bellamy ..... Robin Laing FRI Insp. Perry ..... Michael Mackenzie FRI FRI Produced by Patrick Rayner. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00t3td5 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00t3td7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00t3td9 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00t4vjx (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00t3tcs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t4vjz (Listen) FRI Depth Charge FRI FRI by Fiona Mackie FRI FRI Den ..... David Calder FRI Irene ..... Susan Brown FRI Joe ..... Ben Crowe FRI Shiner ..... Sam Dale FRI Funeral Plan Agent ..... Christine Kavanagh FRI Director ..... Sally Avens FRI FRI Den, a retired submariner, is short on cash and short on FRI dreams until Joe enters his life and promises him the chance FRI to breathe again. David Calder stars in Fiona Mackie's play. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00t4vk1 (Listen) FRI Matthew Biggs, Eric Robson and Matthew Wilson join Bob FRI Flowerdew at home to answer some of the questions sent in by FRI GQT listeners. FRI FRI We also ask what exactly is growing in Bob's garden? FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State b00t3tdc (Listen) FRI The 'Drink Question': Past and Present FRI FRI In the last decade or so Britain has experienced renewed FRI social and political panic over the consequences of FRI excessive drinking, and the concept of 'alcohol related FRI harms' has entered the language. A coherent policy community FRI has developed, and research has multiplied, around questions FRI of alcohol control. But governments have seemingly been FRI reluctant to listen. FRI FRI Mark Whitaker concludes his look at the politics of alcohol FRI since the 17th century by examining New Labour's Alcohol FRI Harm Reduction Strategy of 2004, and related relaxation of FRI the licensing system. FRI FRI Whitaker interviews the historians whose work has informed FRI his own research, and asks them how they think the past can FRI or should inform present policy. He talks to James Nicholls, FRI Virginia Berridge, John Greenaway and Betsy Thom. They FRI address questions about why the 'Drink Question' has been FRI defined differently at different times; why the liquor FRI industry has been so politically powerful; why the FRI temperance movement lasted so long but seemingly achieved so FRI little; and why alcoholism and drunkenness have posed FRI distinct policy challenges. FRI FRI Above all, they reflect on the complexity of alcohol as a FRI commodity, and on why legislating about it has been, and FRI remains, remarkably difficult. FRI FRI Producer: Mark Whitaker FRI A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00t5ld6 (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 b00t5ld8 (Listen) FRI Oliver Stone talks to Matthew Sweet about his controversial FRI new documentary South Of The Border. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00t3tdf (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 b00t3tdh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00t5ldb (Listen) FRI Series 31, Episode 7 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 b00t3tdk (Listen) FRI Written by ..... Simon Frith FRI Directed by ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Elizabeth Archer ..... Alison Dowling FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Hanson ...... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Susan Carter ...... Charlotte Martin FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan FRI Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills FRI Jackie Osborne ..... Jenny Coverack FRI Alysha ..... Emma Deakin. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00t3tdm (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Ella-Mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t4nwp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00t5ldd (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from St FRI Mary's Church, Sandwich in Kent. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00t5ldg (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 b00t5ldj (Listen) FRI The Rise Of World Faiths (AD 100 - 600) 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 he is looking FRI at the way the world's great religions began to perfect a FRI way to visually express the divine, less than 2000 years ago. FRI He begins with a stone sculpture from modern day Pakistan FRI that would create the classic image of the real life Buddha FRI who lived and roamed around North India in the 5th Century FRI BC. His journey takes him onwards to Damascus, modern day FRI Iran and Dorset in Great Britain. FRI FRI Producers: Paul Kobrak and Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00t3tdp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00t3tdr (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 b00t5kln (Listen) FRI The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 5 FRI FRI Tishani Doshi's comic yet tender story of four generations FRI of the Patel-Joneses, inspired by her own Welsh-Gujarati FRI background. FRI FRI Babo and Sian are living happily in their own house, with FRI orange and black gates, next door to the Punjab Women's FRI Association. Now they have two small daughters, Mayuri and FRI Bean. When Bean is taken to Grandmother Ba's house for her FRI naming ceremony, Ba warns the young parents that they'd FRI better stop there because Bean will keep their hands full, FRI at which the tiny baby laughs, her first proper laugh. By FRI the time she's six, she's regularly seeing ghosts. Then Sian FRI gets a phone call - it's bad news from Wales. FRI FRI The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the FRI 6 part BBC drama Luther. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello FRI in Torchwood. FRI FRI Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis FRI Producer: Kate McAll. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00t3zb6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House b00nkqrz (Listen) FRI Films, Fangs and Frightening Fellas FRI FRI Comic actor Reece Shearsmith hosts energetic and witty FRI illustrated discussions on horror, before an audience inside FRI the reputedly haunted Sutton House in Hackney. FRI FRI Reece examines classic scary moments from the movies and FRI looks back at some of the great horror actors. FRI FRI He is joined by horror enthusiasts Mark Gatiss, Vic Reeves, FRI Yvette Fielding and Mike Roberts. FRI
23 July, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 24/07/2010 - 30/07/2010
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