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SAT SATURDAY 31 JULY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00t5ldz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00t3td1 (Listen) SAT Tokyo Vice, Episode 5 SAT SAT Reporter Jake Adelstein is invited to spend the night as a SAT host in a Japanese night club in the red light district of SAT Tokyo. And he discovers some surprises, not only amongst SAT the type of customers who are willing to pay for the service SAT in modern Japan, but the reasons these women feel the need SAT to pay for company. SAT SAT Jack Klaff reads this revealing memoir by Jake Adelstein. SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC SAT Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t5lzn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t5lzq (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t5lzs (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00t5lzv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t5lzx (Listen) SAT with the Revd Neil Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, SAT Edinburgh. SAT SAT 05:45 Brother Mine b00cm7hb (Listen) SAT Sibling Rivalry 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 looks at the thorny issue of sibling rivalry, with SAT academic explanation and celebrity anecdotes. The academics SAT might have a rational explanation, but some famous names SAT reveal that sibling rivalry is a hard habit to shake. SAT SAT With contributions from Arthur Smith, Tanni Grey Thompson, SAT Dan Snow, Noel Janice Norton (founder of The New Learning SAT Centre), anthropologist Professor Tom Weisner, psychologist SAT Dorothy Rowe, and sociologist Dr Miri Song. SAT SAT Producer: Terry Lewis SAT A Tinderbox production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00t5lzz (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00t5vkf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00t5vkh (Listen) SAT Fair Isle Knitting SAT SAT In Open Country this week, Moira Hickey visits Fair Isle, SAT famous around the world for its knitting. With a plentiful SAT supply of wool from the island's hardy Shetland sheep, SAT knitting kept many families from starvation, and the craft SAT is still economically important for Fair Isle. Yet with SAT Shetland schools soon to drop knitting from the curriculum, SAT can it survive for much longer? Will Shetland's children SAT still learn to knit, and if they don't, will it really SAT matter? Moira Hickey visits Fair Isle to look at the SAT importance of knitting to the islanders, and to ask what the SAT future holds for this traditional craft. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00t5vkk (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Martin SAT Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00t5vkm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00t5vkp (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00t5vkr (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by the lyricist Sir Tim Rice. The poet SAT is Kate Fox. SAT SAT The producer is Debbie Kibride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00t5vkt (Listen) SAT The adventures, frustrations and joys of travel. SAT SAT 10:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b00t5vkw (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT SAT Jake Arnott reckons there has never been a better time to be SAT a man. SAT SAT The best selling author of modern gangster classic The Long SAT Firm takes on the Grumpy Old Men and Women in the latest SAT series of Reasons To Be Cheerful. SAT SAT In his programme he looks at the astonishing changes to SAT men's lives in just a few decades. This runs from greater SAT sexual freedoms to modern Metrosexuals like David Beckham, SAT who are not afraid to don a sarong, and onto the world class SAT British men's designers like Ozwald Boateng. SAT SAT Along the way he celebrates Britain's new-found cafe culture SAT and the regeneration of his beloved Soho. SAT SAT He is joined in his quest by Mark Simpson, the journalist SAT who first coined the term "Metrosexual", fashion expert SAT Christopher Breward from the Victoria & Albert Museum and SAT Professor Frank Furedi, sociologist and nemesis of the SAT modern Grumpies. SAT SAT Jake tries his best to convince columnist and sometime SAT Grumpy Old Woman Kathryn Flett that modern life is far from SAT rubbish. SAT SAT Producer: Martin McNamara SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00t5vky (Listen) SAT As Parliament breaks for the summer, Peter Riddell is joined SAT by other top political commentators to assess the progress SAT of the Tory/Lib Dem coalition government. He examines the SAT coalition's future with Steve Richards of The Independent, SAT Benedict Brogan of The Daily Telegraph and Ann Treneman of SAT The Times. Is the government pushing reforms at too fast a SAT pace? How far should David Cameron and Nick Clegg be SAT concerned about dissent in their own parties ? And how SAT important to the coalition's future is next May's referendum SAT on the voting system? SAT SAT Editor : Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00t5xqc (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Alvin Hall's Generations of Money b00t5xqf (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT It's estimated the so-called 'baby boomer' generation, born SAT in the twenty years after the Second World War, have amassed SAT half of all the UK's housing wealth worth over 3 trillion SAT pounds. The generation who grew up being told they had SAT 'never had it so good' stand accused of making sure their SAT children won't be able to say the same for themselves. SAT Today's young families face a vastly different economic SAT outlook to that which faced their parents. Although the SAT under 40s account for half the population, estimates are SAT that they own only 15% of the UK's total financial assets. SAT Financial guru Alvin Hall offers his unique brand of advice SAT on what people need to do for themselves and their families SAT in this more challenging economic context. SAT SAT Over the series, Alvin Hall will meet people from different SAT generations, from young couples through to the over 75s. SAT He'll explore the varying financial pressures placed on SAT different age groups and reveal how each generation is SAT linked to the other. From the baby-boomer father determined SAT to help his children clear their student debts even at the SAT expense of his own retirement, to the young couple who can't SAT afford to buy a home because the inheritance they expected SAT hasn't materialized - Alvin Hall exposes how generational SAT loyalties can get in the way of financial common sense. SAT SAT The series will explore the economic themes that will SAT dominate the agenda in the coming years. How prepared are SAT today's younger workers for the effects of a burgeoning SAT ageing population on the economy and welfare system? How SAT realistic are they about the prospects for their own SAT retirement? What role will families have to play in this SAT changing environment for personal finance? Alvin Hall helps SAT four different generations plan for an uncertain future in SAT this new series. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00t5ldb (Listen) SAT Series 31, Episode 7 SAT SAT The Now Show 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 b00t5xw2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00t5xw4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00t5ldd (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from St SAT Mary's Church, Sandwich in Kent, with questions for the SAT panel including Chris Grayling MP, Minister of State at the SAT Department for Work and Pensions; Rosie Winterton MP, Shadow SAT Leader of the Commons; former industry minister and business SAT leader Lord Digby Jones and A.N. Wilson, writer and SAT columnist. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S PANEL SAT SAT A.N. WILSON is an award-winning writer and columnist for the SAT Daily Mail. After studying at Oxford, he initially trained SAT for the priesthood but gave up to concentrate on his SAT writing. He joined The Spectator in 1981 as its literary SAT editor, where he was hailed as a ‘young fogey’ and had the SAT same role at the London Evening Standard, where he was also SAT a columnist until 2007. His biography of Leo Tolstoy won the SAT Whitbread award in 1998 and he has also written about the SAT lives of Sir Walter Scott, John Milton, Hilaire Belloc, C.S. SAT Lewis, Jesus Christ, and the Apostle Paul. His biography of SAT the poet John Betjeman, Betjeman: A Life, was published in SAT 2006. As well as biographies, he has also written the SAT best-selling encyclopaedic survey of the nineteenth century, SAT After the Victorians: the World Our Parents Knew and SAT numerous novels, the latest of which is Winnie and Wolf SAT which was long-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. SAT SAT DIGBY JONES is Chairman of the International Business SAT Advisory Board of HSBC and Chairman of Triumph Motorcycles SAT Limited. Among many other things, he is also Corporate SAT Ambassador for Jaguar Cars, a Corporate Advisor to JCB and SAT Chairman of the Corporate Development Board of Sense, SAT helping those born deaf and blind. For just over a year, SAT until 2008, he was Minister of State for Trade, having been SAT appointed by Gordon Brown, who made him a life peer. He did SAT not join the Labour party, however, and he sits as a SAT cross-bench peer. Earlier this year, he said the young SAT unemployed should not have the right to refuse any paid work SAT and still expect to collect their jobseeker's allowance. He SAT also had strong views on schooling: "The whole idea of SAT coming out into the world of work not fit for work, not in SAT the habit of work, get your hands out of your pockets, get SAT your hair cut, look me in the eye, don't believe that the SAT pleasure of earning a living is entirely mine, all of that SAT are things which should be inculcated during the education SAT process." For more than six years, Sir Digby was the ‘voice SAT of business’ as Director-General of the CBI before standing SAT down in 2006. Born the son of a grocer in the West Midlands, SAT he won a scholarship to public school. He began his career SAT as an articled clerk in Birmingham before moving into SAT corporate finance. He also serves as unpaid Advisor to The SAT Duke of York in his capacity as Special Representative to UK SAT Trade & Investment. SAT SAT ROSIE WINTERTON became Shadow Leader of the Commons shortly SAT after the election. In the year until then she had been SAT Minister of State for Local Government as well as Minister SAT for Regional Economic Development and Co-ordination, a job SAT across two government departments. In that role she was SAT invited to attend Cabinet when her responsibility was on the SAT agenda. She was Pensions Minister between 2008 and 2009. SAT Before coming into parliament, she headed John Prescott’s SAT private office while in opposition, having started out as SAT his personal assistant in his constituency office. She also SAT helped run his 1994 campaign for the party leadership. In SAT 1997 she was elected to the Labour seat of Doncaster SAT Central. Prior to that she had worked as parliamentary SAT officer for the Royal College of Nursing. SAT SAT CHRIS GRAYLING is Employment Minister at the Department for SAT Work and Pensions. Speaking about figures out this week on SAT incapacity benefit, he said: “It’s a clear indication of why SAT reform is so urgently needed. This is exactly why we are SAT going to reassess everyone claiming incapacity benefits for SAT their ability to work, from this October. They will now be SAT given the support they need to get back to work and will be SAT expected to look for work if they are able to do so.” Until SAT the election he had been Shadow Home Secretary for over a SAT year but his chance of keeping that job in government was SAT seen to have gone when he was recorded in March telling a SAT think-tank audience, on the question of whether Christian SAT B&B owners should have the right to exclude gay people, SAT “that individual should have the right to decide who does SAT and who doesn't come into their own home." He later pointed SAT out that he had voted for the law which makes it illegal to SAT refuse to serve someone on the grounds of their sexuality. SAT Last year he described parts of Britain “like The Wire”, the SAT US TV show about inner-city drugs and violence. Grayling was SAT elected to parliament in 2001 to the safe Tory seat of Epsom SAT and Ewell. An ally of Liam Fox, he ran his right-wing SAT challenge for the party’s leadership in 2005. After SAT graduating from Cambridge, he worked for BBC News, Channel SAT 4, and in independent TV production. He has also served as SAT Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, Shadow Transport SAT Secretary (2005-2007) and Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary SAT (2007-2009). SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00t5xw6 (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 b00sf0st (Listen) SAT Writing on Wigan Pier SAT SAT David Pownall's play has strong resonance for today. In SAT 1936, George Orwell embarked on a visit to Wigan, a typical SAT coal-mining town in industrial Lancashire in order to write SAT a book about the people, their experiences and their SAT struggle to cope with the effects of the Depression. SAT SAT Determined not to be dismissed as a dispassionate observer, SAT he resolves to spend time living with and amongst the SAT people. However, he brings with him his self-guilt, his SAT obsession with the English class system, his fiercely-held SAT preconceptions of the working-class and his remarkable SAT cut-glass voice, of which he is all too painfully aware. The SAT visit is both revealing and humorous. SAT SAT He stays in an appalling doss-house above a tripe shop, SAT tries to work down a pit, stays with a family, makes a pass SAT at the wife, upsets the local Women's Institute and meets a SAT priest escaping from fascism in Spain. Whilst most who meet SAT him take him for who and what he is, for Orwell the SAT experience develops into a journey of self-discovery. SAT SAT Cast: SAT SAT Orwell .... Adrian Scarborough SAT Neil .... Karl Davies SAT Helen .... Helen Longworth SAT Grandad .... Bernard Cribbins SAT Mrs Brooker/Country Lady .... Thelma Barlow SAT Gollancz .... Keith Drinkel SAT Arnold .... Anthony Glennon SAT Meade/Ignatius .... Tom Bevan SAT SAT Directed by Martin Jenkins SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00t3z6c (Listen) SAT Series 2, Sergei Rachmaninoff SAT SAT Professor Robert Winston brings together his expertise and SAT experience in science and medicine with his overriding SAT passion for music, to explore the relationship between the SAT music and the medical conditions of composers who suffered SAT mental and physical illness. SAT SAT Rachmaninoff's second Piano Concerto has become one of SAT classical music's most enduring hits, but it was almost SAT never composed at all. The composer suffered an extreme SAT creative block following the catastrophic premiere of his SAT first symphony. After three years of silence, a SAT hypnotherapist, Dr. Dahl, effected a cure and rescued his SAT career. Prof. Winston also investigates evidence that a SAT medical condition was responsible for Rachmaninoff's SAT famously large hand-span, with pianist Peter Donohoe SAT demonstrating the difficulty this presents for would-be SAT performers of his music. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Taylor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00t5y42 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Bidisha. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00t5y44 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00t5y46 (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00t5y5w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00t5y5y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t5y60 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00t5yft (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Peter is joined by the US cult phenomenon Ronna & Beverly, SAT the historian Dan Cruickshank with a new social history SAT series based on British home movies. And Jon Baker, the SAT producer who's rediscovered The Jolly Boys from Jamaica and SAT is bringing their re-worked mento music to worldwide SAT attention. SAT SAT 6Music's Gideon Coe talks to the controversial Australian SAT stand up Brendon Burns about his extraordinary Las Vegas SAT road trip. SAT SAT And, of course, music comes from those Jolly Boys and London SAT based singer-songwriter Jono McCleery. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00t5yfw (Listen) SAT Julian Assange SAT SAT Julian Assange is the editor-in-chief and frontman of SAT Wikileaks, the website that publishes sensitive documents, SAT while protecting their sources. There's been controversy SAT this week following the release online of over 90,000 secret SAT military reports from Afghanistan, with a selection SAT published in three major newspapers in the US and Europe. SAT The documents give insights into military operations, and SAT reveal there have been more civilian casualties than SAT previously acknowledged. However, co-founder Assange stands SAT accused of endangering national security, and putting SAT people's lives at risk. SAT SAT Julian Assange, an Australian, first gained notoriety in the SAT 1990s when he was charged with dozens of computer hacking SAT offences. Little is known about his upbringing, but he's SAT reputed to have moved school dozens of times - his parents SAT met as political activists and apparently encouraged a SAT healthy disrespect for authority. Assange studied at the SAT University of Melbourne before travelling to the US, and SAT setting up Wikileaks four years ago. SAT SAT The organisation he founded has no headquarters, no offices SAT and little formal structure. Assange again leads a nomadic SAT lifestyle moving around Europe, saying he fears arrest if he SAT returns to America - in April, the website released graphic, SAT classified footage of an American helicopter gunship killing SAT Iraqis in a Baghdad, and had previously revealed a SAT classified US manual from Guantanamo Bay. SAT SAT Admired by some for protecting whistle-blowers and SAT puncturing state secrecy, Assange has been attacked by SAT others for a cavalier attitude, and developing too close a SAT relationship with the media. SAT SAT With insights from friends, colleagues and critics, Nigel SAT Thompson profiles the man behind Wikileaks. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00t5yfy (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00t5zp5 (Listen) SAT Redcar: Made of Steel SAT SAT As the last blast furnace on Teesside is mothballed, SAT Felicity Finch - who plays Ruth in The Archers - returns to SAT her home town of Redcar to mark the end of 170 years of SAT steelmaking in the area. Iron and Steel from Teesside helped SAT build the world - the name is stamped on structures from the SAT Sydney Harbour Bridge to Canary Wharf. At one time there SAT were more than a hundred blast furnaces lining the River SAT Tees from Stockton to Redcar. SAT Now, with the decommissioning of Redcar's Corus plant, it SAT means the end of an industry which defined the region and SAT defined it's people. It also means a bleak future for jobs SAT on Teesside. SAT It was the discovery of huge deposits of iron ore under the SAT Cleveland Hills in the 1840's which prompted a mini-Klondyke SAT and brought migrant workers from across the country and the SAT continent to dig for "rusty gold". Communities sprang up SAT virtually over-night and Middlesbrough became known as SAT "Ironopolis" , and was christened by Gladstone, "An Infant SAT Hercules". SAT The deposits of iron ore ran out in the middle of the SAT tewntieth century - but by then, the steel making industry SAT was well established. The last of the Cleveland iron miners SAT were recorded for posterity 20 years ago by a local film SAT maker, Craig Hornby, who was curious to know more about his SAT own history and heritage. The men - then in their 80's and SAT 90's - told stories of life underground in an industry which SAT had been over-shadowed by coal mining. Hornby was determined SAT that their story should be heard - and released a film - SAT about their lives and the way they'd helped build Teesside, SAT which played to packed houses across the region. Archive of SAT the old iron miners from Hornby's film "A Century in Stone" SAT is included in the programme. SAT Felicity Finch - who spent her childhood years in Redcar - SAT revisits the region to see how much it's changed ; she SAT climbs Eston Nab with Craig Hornby, visits the iron-rush SAT settlement of California - named after the US gold rush city SAT - and goes underground to see the old iron workings; she SAT hears from workers at Corus who started - and finished - SAT their careers at the Redcar blast furnace; and discovers how SAT much identity is tied up with heavy industry in Teesside - a SAT region often overshadowed by it's more assertive neighbours SAT , Yorkshire to the south Durham and Newcastle to the north. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00t384l (Listen) SAT The Glass Bead Game, Episode 2 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 As Magister Ludi, Joseph Knecht begins to plan for the SAT forthcoming Glass Bead Game. As excitement mounts, Joseph's SAT doubts about the Castalian way of life are compounded by his SAT newly acquired position. SAT SAT Biographer...Derek Jacobi SAT Joseph Knecht...Tom Ferguson SAT Fritz...Toby Hadoke SAT Music Master...Malcolm Raeburn SAT Plinio...David Seddon SAT Helena...Olwen May SAT Tito...Oliver Gomm SAT SAT Dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw SAT Producer: Charlotte Riches SAT Director: Susan Roberts. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00t5zp7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Reality Check b00t4q0x (Listen) SAT Series 3, School testing SAT SAT Justin Rowlatt returns with a series of debates on topical SAT issues, bringing together experts in a particular field with SAT people living at the sharp end. He visits a primary school SAT in South London to ask whether testing young children really SAT helps them, or whether it subjects them to unnecessary SAT stress. And is the point of SATS tests to benefit the SAT children themselves or to give an indicator of school performance? SAT Producer: Adele Armstrong. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00t3vl6 (Listen) SAT The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. SAT SAT As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he SAT quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and SAT asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they SAT have personally collected on a variety of subjects. SAT SAT Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00t384q (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a mixture of poetry requests, SAT including verse by Simon Armitage, Denise Levertov and John SAT Keats. The readers are Kenneth Cranham, Annette Badland and SAT Jonjo O'Neill. Elegies for lost lovers and dead trees ring SAT out, with a quirky poem by the American Louis Untermeyer 'To SAT a Telegraph Pole' and a poem about Orpheus, whose music made SAT the trees dance. Sue Hubbard reads her poem about his long SAT suffering subterranean wife, Eurydice. The seams of poetry SAT and music are interlaced in Patrick Kavanagh's famous 'On SAT Raglan Road', and we find out what ails the 'knight at arms, SAT alone and palely loitering' in John Keats's 'La Belle Dames SAT Sans Merci.' A half hour bound to hath thee in thrall. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT SAT Why Write of the Sun SAT by Simon Armitage SAT From: Zoom! SAT Pub: Bloodaxe SAT SAT La Belle Dame Sans Merci SAT by John Keats SAT From: The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 SAT Pub: Oxford University Press SAT SAT On Raglan Road SAT by Patrick Kavanagh SAT From: Collected Poems – Patrick Kavanagh SAT Pub: Penguin Classics SAT And the CD Luke Kelly – The Collection SAT Outlet CHCD 1041 SAT SAT To a Telegraph Pole SAT by Louis Untermeyer SAT From: Shades of Green SAT Pub: Red Fox SAT SAT A Tree Telling of Orpheus SAT by Denise Levertov SAT From: Denise Levertov – New Selected Poems SAT Pub: Bloodaxe SAT SAT Eurydice SAT by Sue Hubbard SAT From: Ghost Station SAT Pub: Salt SAT SAT To His Lost Lover SAT by Simon Armitage SAT From: Book of Matches SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 01 AUGUST 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00t601v (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00f9gfk (Listen) SUN Parlez-vous British?, Overseas Membership SUN SUN Specially written for the series, this story by Christopher SUN Matthew is set in occupied France. SUN SUN Based on actuality with an imaginative, literary twist. Read SUN by Martin Jarvis. SUN SUN Producer: Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t60p1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t60p3 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t60p5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00t60p7 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00t60p9 (Listen) SUN The bells of Solovki Monastary, White Sea, Russia. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00t5yfw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00t60pc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00t60pf (Listen) SUN Knights in Shining Armour SUN SUN Sometimes the figure offering salvation from physical or SUN spiritual peril isn't who we'd expect, as Tom Robinson reflects. SUN SUN Producer: Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00t60ph (Listen) SUN Masterchef SUN SUN For food-writer, small-holder and finalist of this year's SUN Masterchef, Alex Rushmer the hedgerows and woods surrounding SUN his Cambridgeshire home are his so-called "wild larder", SUN where he plunders nature's rich bounty. Caz Graham joins SUN him and his partner Charlotte on a walk around his SUN small-holding and surrounding countryside to pick up some SUN tasty and very importantly, free produce to cook up a meal SUN for the summer months. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00t60pk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00t60pm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00t60pp (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 b00t613d (Listen) SUN Duncan Bannatyne presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity Mary's Meals. SUN SUN Donations to Mary's Meals should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Mary's SUN Meals. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a SUN UK tax payer, please provide Mary's Meals with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: SCO22140. SUN SUN Mary's Meals SUN SUN Duncan Bannatyne appeals on behalf of Mary’s Meals which SUN provides daily school meals in communities where poverty and SUN hunger prevent children from gaining an education. Mary’s SUN Meals provides daily meals for over 400,000 children in SUN Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. SUN SUN Duncan Bannatyne at a Mary's Meals project in Malawi SUN SUN Mary's Meals runs school feeding projects in some of the SUN world's poorest countries, giving hungry children a meal SUN every school day, in their place of education. The project SUN aims to provide vital nutrition and a motive for children to SUN come to class. SUN SUN The charity feeds more than 400,000 children in 15 countries SUN SUN A benificiary of Mary's Meals gets ready for class SUN SUN Mary's Meals work is community based, the food children SUN receive is a local dish usually prepared by local volunteers. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00t613g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00t613j (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00t613l (Listen) SUN Bread of Heaven SUN SUN Bishop Alan Wilson and the Revd Carole Peters lead a SUN meditation for Lammas Day, the festival of the wheat SUN harvest, from Eton College Chapel with the fourth of this SUN year's Eton Choral Courses. Director of Music: Ralph SUN Allwood. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00t5ldg (Listen) SUN New Old Fashioned SUN SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on changing styles of architecture and SUN commends buildings that prove to be "the boldest and the SUN best" in every age rather than simply "new old fashioned" as SUN the most forward looking legacy to the built environment. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00t613n (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00t613q (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Simon Frith SUN Directed by ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Archer ..... Alison Dowling SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ...... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Susan Carter ...... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Jackie Osborne ..... Jenny Coverack SUN Alysha ..... Emma Deakin. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00t613s (Listen) SUN Jimmy Mulville SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Jimmy Mulville. SUN SUN He began his life in comedy as a performer and writer but SUN success in front of the camera clearly wasn't enough - he SUN set up the production company Hat Trick and has turned out a SUN huge number of hits, including "Have I Got News for You", SUN "Father Ted" "Room 101" and "Outnumbered". SUN SUN But he says that for many years he was a ticking time bomb - SUN he became addicted to drugs and alcohol and, after SUN triumphing over them, also fought cancer. These days, he is SUN the father to four children and says he looks back with an SUN overwhelming sense of gratitude at how his life has unfolded. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00t3ybg (Listen) SUN Series 53, Episode 6 SUN SUN Back for a second week at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, SUN regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined on the panel by David Mitchell, with Jack Dee in SUN the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00t66nr (Listen) SUN A growing body of evidence suggests we may need more Vitamin SUN D. But since access to the sun is limited and people are SUN wary of skin cancer, should we be fortifying more foods with SUN Vitamin D or consuming supplements? SUN SUN Health professionals have been appalled at the return of SUN rickets in some communities and studies have shown that SUN infants can be at risk of heart failure if the mother is SUN lacking in Vitamin D. Current guidelines are based on the SUN avoidance of rickets rather than on an optimal amount of SUN Vitamin D for health. Why is the UK apparently behind other SUN countries in its recommendations and in supplementation and SUN fortification of foods - and does this need to change? SUN SUN Producer: Margaret Collins. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00t66nt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00t66nw (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 A Legend Before Slumdog b00smp1n (Listen) SUN When A.R. Rahman won two Oscars for the film score of SUN Slumdog Millionaire it shot him to international recognition. SUN SUN But the man dubbed 'The Mozart of Madras' had been a SUN phenomenally successful composer long before that. He has SUN been a massive celebrity in India for the past 20 years, yet SUN remains a shy and modest man who attributes his success to SUN his Sufi faith. SUN SUN Presenter Navid Akhtar meets A.R.Rahman and explores the SUN role that spirituality and technology have played in his SUN long career. SUN SUN Still only in his early 40s, Rahman has produced SUN chart-topping music for over 500 movies, countless catchy SUN advertising jingles and even a West End musical Bombay SUN Dreams, whose producer Andrew Lloyd Webber describes him as SUN the 'most talented melodist of our time'. SUN SUN Now he's being increasingly sought out by international film SUN directors. SUN SUN Since his spectacular debut as a film composer on Roja in SUN 1992 (chosen as one of the ten top soundtracks ever by Time SUN magazine), A.R. Rahman's prolific output has transformed and SUN reinvigorated Indian film music, effortlessly introducing SUN fusion elements from all over the world. SUN SUN He has become the highest-earning music composer in India. SUN The soundtracks are launched ahead of the films and become SUN instant dance hits. Often his soundtracks have become SUN chart-toppers even when the films flopped, selling out SUN within hours of their release. SUN SUN In the week that he completes an ambitious world tour at SUN Wembley Arena, we discover what lies behind his success. SUN SUN Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SUN A Culturewise production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00t4vk1 (Listen) SUN Matthew Biggs, Eric Robson and Matthew Wilson join Bob SUN Flowerdew at home to answer some of the questions sent in by SUN GQT listeners. SUN SUN We also ask what exactly is growing in Bob's garden? SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Picturing Britain b00k2dwy (Listen) SUN Brand Britannia SUN SUN If you open any glossy magazine the cool eye of photographer SUN Richard Foster will most likely be behind the high heeled SUN boots, the glitzy watches and sleek sunglasses. But Richard SUN is immobile from the chest down. He was driving with his SUN teenage boys along dirt roads in Australia, surf boards SUN strapped to the roof, when he turned the car over and broke SUN his neck. Adil Ray meets Richard as he trains his lens on SUN swirling sheets of chocolate to find out how he has SUN recovered and how a luxury brand photographer faces up to SUN the recession. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Bowen. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00t67j0 (Listen) SUN The Wings of the Dove, Episode 1 SUN SUN by Henry James SUN Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths SUN SUN Kate and Merton need money. Milly needs love. How far will SUN they go to get what they want? SUN Kate Croy is in love with Merton Densher; a poor writer. Her SUN rich aunt Maud disapproves. Maud has offered Kate a wealthy SUN existence but if Kate chooses to marry Merton she risks SUN losing it all. When American Heiress Milly Theale steps into SUN her London society, Kate sees a way out. SUN SUN Kate.....Lyndsey Marshal SUN Merton.....Blake Ritson SUN Maud.....Clare Higgins SUN Lord Mark.....Toby Jones SUN Milly.....Anna Maxwell Martin SUN Susie.....Barbara Barnes SUN Croy.....Jonathan Keeble SUN Marian.....Deborah McAndrew SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00t67j2 (Listen) SUN Siri Hustvedt SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to American writer Siri SUN Hustvedt about her novel What I Loved. SUN SUN Siri Hustvedt's novel is part love story, thriller, and part SUN family saga. SUN SUN It's set in New York's glamorous art world, and starts in SUN 1975 when an art historian buys a remarkable painting of a SUN woman and tracks down the artist. The two men become good SUN friends and their lives intertwine as their sons grow up SUN together. SUN SUN In the boys' teenage years the worlds of the two families SUN fall apart and the novel changes tack, as a mystery develops SUN in the second half of the book that the reader has no idea SUN about in the novel's early stages. SUN SUN This is a novel about love and loss that became a SUN word-of-mouth success with book groups, and went on to SUN become a world wide bestseller after its first publication SUN in 2003. SUN SUN James Naughtie chairs the programme. SUN SUN September's Bookclub choice : 'Life of Pi' by Yann Martel. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Morpurgo's Islands of Inspiration b00mwl6s (Listen) SUN Children's writer Michael Morpurgo travels back to his SUN favourite place, the Isles of Scilly, to explore the stories SUN and legends that are part of the islands' history, where he SUN believes "every rock and wreck has a story to tell" - SUN stories that have inspired his own work. SUN SUN He first visited the isles over 30 years ago. He went there SUN reluctantly, unconvinced as to what so small a group of SUN islands could offer him. He describes it as "the best SUN decision I never made". What he found there was a place full SUN of beauty, isolation and a unique community. The Isles of SUN Scilly are an archipelago of over two hundred small islands, SUN only five of them inhabited. It was on the smallest of these SUN populated isles, Bryher, that Michael stayed that first SUN time, and which he visits many times a year and upon which SUN many of the stories are based. SUN SUN He unpicks why the islands have been such a source of magic SUN and inspiration for him. He speaks to Scillonians to hear SUN firsthand old stories and to uncover new ones he's never SUN heard before, revealing how historical fact and handed-down SUN fiction can often be blurred. SUN SUN Throughout the programme there are readings from Michael's SUN books inspired by these islands. SUN SUN Producer: Susie Matthews SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00t3zb8 (Listen) SUN A special court system is supposed to protect the interests SUN of the vulnerable and the elderly. It's appointed thousands SUN of 'deputies' - or guardians - to ensure their money is SUN properly managed. The system was reformed three years ago - SUN but have the changes worked? SUN SUN There have been allegations the system is slow, bureaucratic SUN and open to abuse. In some cases lawyers are appointed to SUN oversee people's financial arrangements - and families claim SUN they charge excessive fees. In other cases, it's a relative SUN who's appointed as a deputy - but are there adequate SUN safeguards to ensure they're not misappropriating the money? SUN Fran Abrams investigates cases where the system has left SUN some vulnerable people worse off. SUN SUN Producer: Samantha Fenwick. SUN SUN 'Court of Protection cost me £50,000' SUN SUN Fran Abrams hears concerns about the financial arrangements SUN for mentally incapacitated people. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00t5yfw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00t67j4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00t67j6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t67j8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00t67jb (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio 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 b00t67n0 (Listen) SUN Jamie stands his ground and Clarrie comes to the rescue. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00t67n2 (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 b00g4bmv (Listen) SUN Big Charlie, Episode 1 SUN SUN Colonel "Elephant Bill" Williams' amazing story of how, in SUN the summer of 1957, the largest elephant in captivity - Big SUN Charlie - was moved from Butlin's Holiday Camp in Ayr, SUN Scotland, to Butlin's, Filey, Yorkshire. SUN SUN In May 1957, an advertisement in The Times caught Elephant SUN Bill's eye. Butlin's Ltd was offering £1,000 in cash for the SUN immediate safe transport of the largest elephant in SUN captivity from its camp in Ayr to its camp in Filey - a SUN distance by road of 350 miles. SUN SUN Colonel JH Williams had earned his sobriquet "Elephant Bill" SUN as a result of his experiences working with elephants in the SUN jungles of Burma and, intrigued by the advertisement, he SUN volunteered his services. As did 3,500 other people, for the SUN problem of moving Big Charlie, a 5 and a half ton male SUN elephant, and one of the finest tuskers in captivity, had SUN captured the popular imagination. SUN SUN Some of the suggestions for moving the elephant were SUN eccentric in the extreme, but not long after the SUN advertisement appeared, Elephant Bill found himself engaged SUN as elephant consultant - with very ill-defined duties - to SUN help Mr Willie Wilson of Glasgow transport Big Charlie. SUN SUN Although Big Charlie was accompanied at all times on the SUN journey by his gentle and devoted mahout, Shaik Ibrahim, the SUN job was made much more hazardous by the fact that Big SUN Charlie was on "musth" - or in season - and that Billy SUN Butlin's demands for constant publicity posed tricky SUN problems for all concerned. SUN SUN The story of this incredible journey begins today. SUN SUN Written by J.H.Williams. Abridged and read by Tony SUN Lidington. SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00t4vjx (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00t5ld6 (Listen) SUN Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on SUN the lives of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b00t67qs (Listen) SUN With universities facing swingeing funding cuts, a handful SUN are already officially classified as "at risk" and in danger SUN of complete financial collapse. Vince Cable, the Secretary SUN of State with responsibility for Universities has warned SUN that if that does happen - there'll be no Government SUN bail-out. Meanwhile as the cuts bite, courses are being SUN scrapped and jobs are being axed. The University of Cumbria SUN has seen one third of the Board of Governors step down after SUN a report into their effectiveness described them as naive SUN after presiding over an unsustainable annual deficit. At SUN Leeds Metropolitan University a former Vice Chancellor SUN pursued a 'low-charging, high impact' policy offering cut SUN price courses and pouring over £20m into partnership deals SUN with local sports teams. Critics say the policy left it with SUN a deficit approaching £7-million. SUN SUN Professor Simon Lee the former Vice Chancellor emphatically SUN rejects these criticisms and told us that: SUN - The decisions made whilst he was Vice Chancellor were done SUN with the full support of the Board of Governors and senior SUN managment team SUN - The 51% share in Leeds Rugby Club bought by the university SUN offered students the opportunity to study there during the SUN day then watch games at night as well as take part in SUN community projects SUN - The contribution of £14m to the building of the new SUN Headlingley Carnegie Cricket Pavilion offered first class SUN opportunities to students to study and work there SUN - By offering lower fees than other universities in England SUN applications to Leeds increased dramatically. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00t613d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00t4qqn (Listen) SUN Now Wash Your Hands Please SUN SUN In this edition of In Business Peter Day hears some simple SUN ideas about cleanliness which could change the fortunes of SUN poor people around the world, hearing from three projects SUN about the techniques of big business, marketing in SUN particular, they are using to carry their messages. SUN SUN Val Curtis of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical SUN Medicine in London says the single most cost effective SUN intervention to save lives in developing countries is SUN washing hands with soap - one million lives could be saved SUN every year. She's working with producers to make soap SUN available at prices, and sizes, suitable to the pockets of SUN the poor. SUN SUN Linda Scott is a Professor of Marketing at Oxford who SUN discovered millions of girls were missing school in Africa SUN every month once they started having periods. She discovered SUN that they were shunned by family and no longer supported SUN once they were deemed to be women. Now she plans to change SUN that, and economically empower more women, by introducing SUN them to sanitary protection. SUN SUN And there's news of an on the ground initiative using a SUN solid business principles to make sanitary pads made of SUN bamboo available at half the price of imported versions in SUN Rwanda and a solution to eye care in countries where SUN opticians are rare. SUN Producer: Richard Berenger. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme: SUN SUN Dr Val Curtis SUN London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine SUN SUN Linda Scott SUN Said Business School, Oxford SUN SUN Julian Kayibanda SUN SHE (Sustainable Health Enterprises) SUN SUN Sjoerd Hannema SUN Adaptive Eyewear SUN SUN Peter Day's Webcomment SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00t67sl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00t67sn (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00t67sq (Listen) SUN Episode 12 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week Zoe Williams of The SUN Guardian takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00t5ld8 (Listen) SUN Oliver Stone talks to Matthew Sweet about his controversial SUN new documentary South Of The Border. The film, which SUN contains a lengthy interview with Venezuelan president Hugo SUN Chavez, has been accused of ducking the issue of human SUN rights in the South American country. Stone mounts a stout SUN defence of his work. SUN SUN League Of Gentlemen star and the co-creator of BBC's SUN Sherlock Holmes series, Mark Gatiss, salutes another great SUN British character actor, Martita Hunt, aka the chilling Miss SUN Havisham in David Lean's Great Expectations. SUN SUN Neil Brand traces the origins of kitchen sink realism to SUN 1920s Germany and the silent classic People On Sunday, SUN co-written by Billy Wilder SUN SUN Matthew meets two unsung heroines of the British cinema, SUN Margaret Matheson and Ann Scott, who have blazed a trail as SUN film producers since the early 80s. SUN SUN MARK GATISS’ GREAT BRITISH CHARACTER ACTORS SUN SUN Over six weeks The League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss picks SUN six character actors who made the cinema a richer and better SUN place to be, without ever getting their faces on the cover SUN of the Picturegoer. SUN SUN Martita Hunt SUN SUN This week Mark celebrates Martita Hunt, who gave life to one SUN of the most Gothic characters on the British screen – Miss SUN Havisham in the David Lean version of Great Expectations. SUN SUN Oliver Stone SUN SUN South Of The Border is out now, certificate 15. SUN SUN Picture credit: Francois Duhamel SUN SUN Neil Brand SUN SUN People On Sunday is available on DVD. SUN Down Terrace is in selected cinemas, certificate 15. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00t60pf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 AUGUST 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00t69mp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00t4q0s (Listen) MON We are told that life presents us with myriad choices. Like MON products on a supermarket shelf, our jobs, our MON relationships, our bodies and our identities are all there MON for the choosing. We are encouraged to 'be ourselves', but MON the pressure to make those choices can lead to enormous MON anxiety. In a new study Renata Selacl researches dating MON sites, self help books and people's relationship to MON celebrity, and uncovers the complexities involved in the MON choices we make and how they often lead to disquiet. In MON Thinking Allowed on 28 July, Laurie Taylor explores whether MON we have too much choice in our lives. MON Also, a new study from Norwegian Sociologist Sveinung MON Sandberg looks at the life skills that Oslo drug dealers MON acquire and explores whether operating from within a welfare MON state is very different from the street life of dealers in MON the USA. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON Sveinung Sandberg MON MON Sveinung Sandberg, Research Fellow in the department of MON sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway MON MON Street Capital: Black Cannabis Dealers in a White Welfare MON State MON Sveinung Sandberg (Author) and Willy Pedersen (Author) MON MON Renata Salecl MON MON Renata Salecl, Centennial Professor at the Department of Law MON at the London School of Economics & Senior Researcher at the MON Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, MON Slovenia MON MON Choice MON Publisher: Profile Books MON ISBN-10: 1846681928 MON ISBN-13: 978-1846681929 MON MON Rachel Bowlby MON MON Rachel Bowlby, Northcliffe Professor of Modern English MON Literature, University College London MON MON Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping MON Publisher: Faber and Faber MON ISBN-10: 0571193072 MON ISBN-13: 978-0571193073 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00t60p9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t69qg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t69w3 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t69s4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00t6b03 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t6bc4 (Listen) MON with the Revd Neil Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, MON Edinburgh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00t6bd3 (Listen) MON Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00t6xry (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00t6fc8 (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00t6xs0 (Listen) MON Series 4, Julia Hobsbawm MON MON PR supremo, professional networker & businesswoman, Julia MON Hobsbawm, takes Wendy Robbins to London's Hampstead & rural MON Wales. Julia was born in 1964 and grew up among the MON country's leading intellectuals and communists in London's MON Hampstead. Her father is the Marxist historian, Eric MON Hobsbawm, who fled Germany in the 1930s as Hitler came to MON power. Life at home in North West London was a whirl of MON dinner parties, "German" lunches, and mittel-European salons MON - hosted expertly by Marlene Hobsbawm whose parents had fled MON anti-semitism in Vienna. Despite this family history Julia MON says that she learned about the Holocaust from TV. MON Meanwhile, at her grandmother's appartment nearby she MON revelled in big Jewish family get-togethers and a different MON sort of politics altogether - here, people voted Tory and MON followed entrepreneurial paths. MON This is where the very unacademic Julia - with terrible A MON levels & no degree - would forge strong bonds with her MON grandmother's niece, Gretl, who ran a manufacturing business MON making dresses for Marks & Spencer. MON Julia also travels to the Croesor Valley near Portmeirion in MON rural north Wales. This is where the family spent all their MON holidays throughout Julia's childhood in a house rented from MON the architect & local landowner Clough Williams Ellis. He MON delighted in renting out the cottages on his estate to MON intellectuals, writers, radicals and artists. Here, as well MON as London, Julia mixed with many of the great & good - of MON great benefit, as she admits, to the networking career she MON would establish as an adult. MON Producer: Rosamund Jones. MON MON 09:30 Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star b00t6xs2 (Listen) MON Episode 3 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 three Alan meets Amelia Fletcher - singer with a MON number of successful indie bands in the eighties and MON nineties. She's still in a band today, whilst simultaneously MON holding down a serious office job - as chief economist with MON the Office of Fair Trading. Amelia and Alan talk about the MON joys and perils of combining the rock life with a demanding MON job. Did Alan make a mistake by thinking the two don't mix? MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00t6fj5 (Listen) MON Walking Home, Episode 1 MON MON Episode One. MON MON Lynn is exhausted from attempting to self-build a house: a MON project he hopes may help revive his fading marriage. MON MON In recent times, people he has known have died and his MON closest friend, Luisa, is dying of cancer. He is fifty-one MON years old and concludes that time is short. MON MON In an attempt to make sense of things, he abandons his MON project and prepares to journey solo into the Alaskan MON wilderness, to try to circumnavigate Mount Fairweather by MON boat and foot. MON MON Lynn Schooler is the critically acclaimed author of The Blue MON Bear (2003) and The Last Shot (2006). He has lived in Alaska MON for almost forty years, working as a commercial fisherman, MON shipwright, wilderness guide, and an award-winning wildlife MON photographer. MON MON Reader: Colin Stinton MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t6ft0 (Listen) MON Presented by Bidisha. Bidisha talks to taxidermist Polly MON Morgan about her latest show. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t6ft2 (Listen) MON The Shooting Party, Episode 1 MON MON by Isabel Colegate, dramatised by DJ Britton, narrated by MON Olivia Colman MON MON Autumn 1913. A shooting party on an Oxfordshire country MON estate. A whole society under the microscope, a society MON soon to be destroyed in the trenches of the Western Front. MON MON The eve of the shoot. MON MON Cast MON MON Isabel Colegate ..... Olivia Colman MON Cicely Nettleby ..... Ellie Kendrick MON Sir Randolph Nettleby ..... Sam Dale MON Olivia Lilburn ..... Jaimi Barbakoff MON Lionel Stephens ..... Michael Shelford MON Minnie Nettleby ..... Christine Kavanagh MON Osbert Nettleby ..... Joshua Swinney MON Lord Gilbert Hartlip ..... Sean Baker MON Aline Hartlip ..... Sally Orrock MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON It was an error of judgement that resulted in a death. It MON took place in the autumn before the outbreak of what used to MON be known as the Great War. MON MON Autumn 1913 and Sir Randolph Nettleby has invited guests to MON the biggest shoot of the season on his Oxfordshire country MON estate. We follow the action from one evening to the next, MON a dinner, a morning's shoot, a lunch, the fatal afternoon, MON and the fallout. An army of servants and gamekeepers has MON rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual of the hunt. MON Everything about it would seem a perfect affirmation of the MON certainties of Edwardian country life. Yet, their social and MON moral code is under siege from within and without. MON Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion at MON the slaughter of animals, anger at the inequities of class - MON these and other forces are about to rise up and challenge MON the social order, an order that can last only a while MON longer. Funny, compassionate, sobering and dispassionate, MON the last throes of feudal England are recorded in perfect MON detail, together with the germ of its destruction. The book MON is an exquisitely written hymn to the passing of an age. MON MON 11:00 The Graduate b00t6y65 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON John, Mohsin, Caroline and Fiona are four graduates from MON Leeds University and Leeds Metropolitan University who MON completed their degrees in June last year, joining the job MON market in the midst of a recession. To see just how hard the MON year ahead would be, the graduates agreed to be followed. MON MON Six months in, we catch up with the group to see whether or MON not they have been able to find work, and meet two new MON graduates, Samantha Del Core and Lauren Hughes. MON MON Samantha graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University with a MON degree in Interior Architecture and had planned to set up MON her own business. But as Sam faces competition on the MON horizon from 2010's cohort of eager young graduates, will MON her entrepreneurial spirit carry her through? MON MON And Lauren, an aspiring journalist, questions whether the MON seemingly endless round of work experience placements she MON has been doing will get her anywhere. MON MON 2010 was the previous Government's benchmark for getting 50% MON of all school leavers into Higher Education. By widening MON participation and increasing access to students from MON disadvantaged backgrounds, universities were seen as way of MON increasing social mobility. But as entry to the top MON professions - such as law and medicine - continues to be MON dominated by those from the most affluent families, Sarfraz MON Manzoor asks whether a degree alone can enable someone to MON realize their aspirations. MON MON Producer: Katie Burningham MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00d45vn (Listen) MON Series 2, Chapter the Fourth: A Restoration Re-Ruined Only Even Worse MON MON Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. MON MON Pip Bin struggles against the cruel plotting of his evil MON guardian Mr Gently Benevolent, recently returned from the dead. MON MON Pip finds himself heavily in debt when he has to bribe the MON whole of the House of Commons. 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 b00t6gmz (Listen) MON Julian Worricker finds out how thefts of water from the MON mains supply have affected a Suffolk village and asks MON whether significant water theft is on the increase. MON MON Plus, he examines the planned use of dormant bank accounts MON to fund Government plans for a 'big society'. MON MON And John Waite speaks to a convicted fraudster who stole MON over 2 million pounds from ex-pats living in France and has MON spent several months in a French prison for his crimes. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00t6grs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00t6gyx (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00t6y67 (Listen) MON (1/12) Tom Sutcliffe returns with a new series of the MON perennial cryptic panel quiz, which has been running on BBC MON radio since 1947. Six teams from around the UK compete to MON unravel the programme's trademark convoluted questions. MON MON Literature, history, nostalgia, music, entertainment, MON etymology and the natural world are among the topics MON routinely encompassed by Round Britain Quiz questions - MON often all at once. The teams need to be able to draw on the MON widest possible range of knowledge and employ all their MON powers of lateral thinking. As ever, the series title will MON be awarded to the team who score the most victories from the MON four contests in which they appear. MON MON Last year's series win for the Welsh was a fitting swan-song MON for the late Patrick Hannan and his team-mate Peter Stead. MON This year Wales is represented by former Mastermind champion MON and 'Who Wants To Be A Millionare' winner, David Edwards, MON partnering the satirist and playwright Myfanwy Alexander. MON MON In the first programme the South of England team, regulars MON Fred Housego and Marcel Berlins, play the Midlands team of MON writer Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock, Chief Executive MON of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Northern MON Ireland field the writer Polly Devlin and the respected MON journalist and historian Brian Feeney. The North of England MON team pairs writer and publisher Michael Schmidt with the MON novelist Adele Geras, and the regular team members for MON Scotland are writer and critic Michael Alexander and MON journalist Alan Taylor. MON MON As ever, many of the questions in the series have been MON suggested by listeners. Each programme closes with a MON 'cliffhanger' question, also available on the show's MON webpages, to which Tom will reveal the answer the following week. MON MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00t67n0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00m38hv (Listen) MON Higher - Partners MON MON The first of two plays chronicling the comic chaos of the MON Geography department at Hayborough University - ranked 132nd MON in the academic league table. When neurotic and emotionally MON stunted lecturer David Poll is delegated the task of finding MON partners in industry he blunders into a scheme which doesn't MON quite benefit the department. By Joyce Bryant MON MON Karen..............Sophie Thompson MON David..............Robert Daws MON Jim...............Jonathan Keeble MON Alannah.............Kathryn Hunt MON Fiona...............Lisa Allen MON Joselyn...............Natasha Byrne MON MON Producer Gary Brown. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00t5zp5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Generation Gap b00t6p21 (Listen) MON Dentists MON MON Two people from different generations who work in the health MON industry or have experience of the health industry discuss MON how technology has changed over their lifetimes. MON MON The series takes a look at a broad spectrum of the health MON professions from surgeons to nurses, dentists to birthing MON specialists, and looks at how technology has changed during MON the course of their working lives. MON MON How does the new technology affect our society? What social MON changes does our approach to technology reveal? MON MON The series begins with two dentists. Alistair McClean, now MON retired, worked in Perth as a dentist for 40 years, MON qualifying in 1964. Elaine Halley also works in Perth but MON qualified in 1992. They compare notes on the vast change in MON dental techniques and social changes such as the NHS, MON fluoride in water and views on cosmetic dentistry. MON MON Producer: Laura Parfitt MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00t66nr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00t6ykb (Listen) MON Sanctuary 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 of MON sanctuary in the modern world. The guests discuss why MON Britain has a long and honourable but not unblemished record MON of offering sanctuary to those with a well founded fear of MON persecution, why churches were often seen as a place of MON sanctuary and how modern notions of sanctuary, known as MON seeking asylum, have become complicated by issues of MON economic migration. MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss the right to sanctuary are Jonathan MON Wittenberg, Rabbi of the New North London Synagogue, the Rev MON Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey and MON Douglas Murray, Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion. MON The programme also hears from Alain, who sought sanctuary in MON the UK after fleeing from the Democratic Republic of Congo. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00t6s47 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t6s89 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00t6ykd (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 1 MON MON The classic long running panel game Just a Minute returns to MON the airwaves. MON MON Chairman Nicholas Parsons takes control of a loquacious and MON rebellious bunch of players whose task it is to speak on a MON subject he gives them for one minute without hesitation, MON repetition or deviation. MON MON A classic team of players launch the new series. They are: MON Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Gyles Brandreth and Jenny MON Eclair. Tune in, to find out how many words per minute they MON can manage. MON MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00t6gzh (Listen) MON The travellers return and there's a surprise in store for MON Jennifer. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00t6s8y (Listen) MON Mark Lawson reports from the Harrogate Crime Writing MON Festival. His guests include best-selling writers Karin MON Slaughter and Jeffery Deaver. Mark also tracks down clues MON for new authors hoping for a life of successful crime fiction. MON MON Producer Robyn Read. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t6ft2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Big Noise b00sqkgj (Listen) MON A music project in Scotland is aiming to improve life for MON the kids of Stirling. MON MON The Simon Bolivar National Youth Orchestra under conductor MON Gustavo Dudamel stole the show at both the Proms and the MON Edinburgh Festival, offering real proof of the talent and MON virtuosity that has emerged from the El Sistema programme in MON Venezuela. MON Can Scotland's version of El Sistema - dubbed The Big Noise MON - achieve as much in the deprived area of The Raploch near MON Stirling? Lesley Riddoch finds out. MON MON In June 2008, Sistema Scotland, the brainchild of former MON bishop and current chair of Creative Scotland Richard MON Holloway, got underway in the Raploch. Its aim - to inspire MON and galvanise the education and motivation of children from MON all backgrounds through involvement in orchestral MON musicianship. Ability is irrelevant. Anyone can join. MON MON It's a project that's not lacked critics. Some argue it MON takes attention and money away from existing outreach MON projects. Others resent the insistence on classical music. MON Richard Holloway is convinced it will boost confidence, MON pride and empathy, and thereby articulacy and educational MON ability, both in children and in the wider community. MON MON Two years on, the Big Noise's first full orchestra is MON launched and Lesley Riddoch takes stock to analyse what the MON Venezuelan initiative can do in a UK context. MON MON Producers: Amanda Hargreaves and Bronwen Tulloch. MON MON Big Noise MON MON Big Noise MON MON Big Noise MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00t4qbd (Listen) MON Madagascar MON MON Madagascar is in crisis. Since a coup last year that brought MON a DJ in his mid-thirties to power as president, this huge MON island nation has become a pariah state. For the most part, MON the international community has refused to recognise the new MON government. Most seriously for Madagascar, in an effort to MON persuade the new regime to restore democracy, most aid has MON been withdrawn. This has created a huge dent in the state's MON coffers because donor assistance accounted for a staggering MON half of Madagascar's income. MON MON The fallout for an already poor nation has been profound. MON Thousands have lost their jobs in garment factories as a MON result of the United States' decision to suspend favourable MON trade tariffs for Madagascar. Others eke out a living on the MON streets, or have headed for the countryside to subsist on MON what rice they can grow. Hospitals and schools are under MON serious pressure. Over half of all children are MON malnourished, and family breakdown is an everyday event. MON MON Now there is evidence that Madagascar's unique and MON spectacular wildlife - ancient hardwoods, baobabs, and MON lemurs - is especially endangered by corruption, poverty and MON a breakdown in the rule of law. The forests are being MON plundered. Loggers have illegally sought out and exported MON rare rosewood, and there is anecdotal evidence that hunting MON for bush meat, and the smuggling of rare wildlife are both MON on the increase. MON MON As Madagascar celebrates fifty years of independence from MON French rule, Linda Pressly visits the capital of MON Antananorivo and travels out to one of the National Parks to MON find out how people are surviving in this island nation MON seemingly in freefall. MON MON Clips MON MON MISERY IN MADAGASCAR AFTER COUP MON MON Read reporter Linda Pressly's article for BBC News, charting MON the hardship felt by Madagascans following the withdrawal of MON aid by developed countries, following the country's violent MON change of government. MON MON SUBSCRIBE TO THE CROSSING CONTINENTS PODCAST MON MON Don't miss an episode of Crossing Continents by subscribing MON to the free podcast. Alternatively, you can catch up via the MON BBC iPlayer. MON MON FOLLOW CROSSING CONTINENTS ON TWITTER MON MON Find out what the Crossing Continents team are up to on the MON road, and keep up to date on future programmes by following MON us on Twitter. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00t4qm6 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. This week: the science behind crowd MON management, could cross-bred bees remove deadly parasites in MON hives and could singing also help stop the bee decline. And MON are we born with built in grammar knowledge and if we're MON not, can we learn it? MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Crowd Management MON MON 21 people died and 500 were injured at the Love Parade in MON Germany last week – how can we prevent these in the future? MON Ron Woodham of the Emergency Planning College and Mark MON Hamilton of Buckinghamshire New University are studying how MON modelling, pressure sensors, and looking more at human MON behaviour in crowds might prevent disasters like this in the MON future. MON MON Bees MON MON Honey bees are in danger, and colonies are collapsing around MON the world. Norman Carreck at the University of Sussex is MON trying to mate bees from different colonies to improve MON disease resistance – some bees are more hygienic than others MON and may be able to protect colonies from pests. MON Norman presented his work at this week’s Royal Entomological MON Society meeting in Swansea. Also there was local artist Owen MON Griffiths who was shortlisted but didn’t make the final of MON So You Want To Be A Scientist. But that hasn’t deterred him MON and his colleague Fern. Their idea of commissioning a piece MON of music for a choir, based on the sound of bees, and MON performing it to hives to measure any impact on yield or MON behaviour, received it’s world premiere on Tuesday. MON There are more singing events at Swansea University on MON Friday August 6th at 6pm and Monday August 9th at 6pm if you MON want to go along. MON MON Grammar and Education MON MON Children seem to be very good at learning the grammar of MON sentences – many linguists think it’s an inborn ability. Now MON it seems not everyone learns quite so easily – Dr Ewa MON Dabrowska from Northumbria University and Dr Fred Dick from MON Birkbeck College discuss why some people have a problem MON working out how where the rabbits and hats should be if they MON hear “Every rabbit is in a hat”. MON MON 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00t6xs0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00t6sc6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00t6v2t (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 b00t6v2w (Listen) MON The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 6 MON MON Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother MON and a Gujarati father, and this twin inheritance is at the MON heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel MON about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. MON MON On a perfectly ordinary day in September 1981, while the MON children are dressing up and playing at being Lady Di, Sian MON gets word from Wales - her father has died. When she goes MON back to Tan y Rhos for the funeral, Sian begins to realise MON just how much she has left behind. MON MON The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the MON 6 part BBC drama Luther. She previously played Suzie MON Costello in Torchwood. MON MON Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis MON MON Producer: Kate McAll. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00t3zb4 (Listen) MON Chris Ledgard investigates the world of the inner monologue MON to find out how we talk to ourselves. Are the words we use MON internally the same as when we speak. Contributors include MON the author Tim Parks, whose books - such as Europa - often MON read like an internal discussion. His latest book recounts MON his efforts to overcome a debilitating illness, which he MON discovered was caused by too many words. MON MON 23:30 Punt PI b00krgd4 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON Steve Punt turns private investigator, examining little MON mysteries that perplex, amuse and beguile. MON MON Steve examines persistent rumours that Hitler was intending MON to set up his command headquarters in the most unlikely of MON places - the south London suburb of Balham. MON MON For years, the corridors of the large residential block Du MON Cane Court have echoed to whispered claims of dubious links. MON At first glance, it all seems to stack up - not only was the MON building spared bombing by the Luftwaffe, but many say it MON was a hotbed of German spies who were busily laying the MON groundwork for Hitler's triumphant arrival. But the picture MON soon becomes confused as Steve discovers that Balham is not MON alone in claiming a Nazi pedigree. MON MON Steve speaks to Balham locals, including Radio 4 favourite MON Arthur Smith, and tracks down experts. He explores the MON reality behind the Nazis' spy operation and their plans for MON invasion, gaining privileged access to the original MON documentation detailing the Third Reich's designs on Britain. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 03 AUGUST 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00t69ld (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00t6fj5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t69mr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t69s6 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t69qj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00t69w5 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t6b05 (Listen) TUE with the Revd Neil Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, TUE Edinburgh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00t6bc6 (Listen) TUE Presented By Caz Graham and produced by Martin TUE Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00t6dzl (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00t6zqs (Listen) TUE Series 6, Obesity Surgery TUE TUE How should a surgeon respond when obese patients, who have TUE paid privately for weight loss surgery, seek NHS help when TUE that surgery has unexpected consequences? TUE TUE Join Joan Bakewell and her guests for Inside the Ethics TUE Committee.... TUE TUE Producer: Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00t6fcb (Listen) TUE Walking Home, Episode 2 TUE TUE Four days before starting his solo journey, Lynn's close TUE friend Luisa died. With his heart as dark and heavy as the TUE sea he has taken his small boat, the Wilderness Swift, out TUE into the Gulf of Alaska. TUE TUE The weather channel forecasts very strong winds. Lynn must TUE wrestle with the elements and his own, deep fears as he TUE charts an irrevocable course for Lituya Bay. TUE TUE Lynn Schooler is the critically acclaimed author of The Blue TUE Bear (2003) and The Last Shot (2006). He has lived in Alaska TUE for almost forty years, working as a commercial fisherman, TUE shipwright, wilderness guide, and an award-winning wildlife TUE photographer. TUE TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE Reader: Colin Stinton TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t6fj7 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jenni Murray. Scottish mezzo soprano Karen TUE Cargill on singing Mahler. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t6g9r (Listen) TUE The Shooting Party, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Isabel Colegate, dramatised by DJ Britton. Preparations TUE for the shoot, below stairs and in the village. TUE TUE Isabel Colegate ..... Olivia Colman TUE Sir Randolph Nettleby..... Sam Dale TUE Cornelius Cardew ..... Jude Akuwudike TUE Gamekeeper Glass ..... David Seddon TUE Ellen ..... Sally Orrock TUE Gilbert Hartlip ..... Sean Baker TUE John ..... Michael Shelford TUE Osbert ..... Joshua Swinney TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 11:00 In Living Memory b00tbbtz (Listen) TUE Series 12, Pope John Paul II in Britain TUE TUE The visit by Pope John Paul II to England, Scotland and TUE Wales in 1982 was a momentous occasion for British TUE Catholics. This was the first time a Pope had set foot in TUE Britain. The six day tour was a pastoral trip not a state TUE visit, and on occasion after occasion the Pope showed his TUE popular touch. In Westminster and Wembley, Coventry and TUE Cardiff, the crowds turned out for noisy, colourful TUE celebrations. TUE TUE But the visit - which cost millions to organise - was very TUE nearly cancelled at the last minute. As the Pope's arrival TUE day in May 1982 drew closer, the crisis in the Falklands TUE deepened. Many commentators suggested it would be impossible TUE for the Pope to visit a nation at war with Argentina, a TUE Catholic country. Argentine and British bishops flocked to TUE Rome to press their case. Back in Liverpool, Bishop Vincent TUE Malone was in the final planning meetings for the northern TUE leg of the tour. As he waited for a call from his TUE Archbishop in Rome with, he firmly expected, bad news, he TUE discussed first aid and whether creams should be in tubes or TUE bottles. It all seemed a little pointless. But then the TUE phone went. It was the late Archbishop Derek Worlock - Pope TUE John Paul II had defied the doubters and the trip was on. TUE TUE In this programme, Chris Ledgard speaks to Bishop Malone, TUE other officials and people who were part of the huge crowds TUE and congregations. The main organiser, Monsignor Ralph TUE Brown, explains how he dealt with companies wanting to cash TUE in on the souvenir trade by bringing in the world's biggest TUE sports management company, IMG. More used to dealing with TUE Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, IMG led the church through TUE the commercial side of the tour, negotiating deals on TUE popemobiles, taking care of spoons and candlesticks, and TUE seeing off the firm that wanted to produce a screwdriver TUE with a flashing papal head! TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00t6zqx (Listen) TUE Diana Quick TUE TUE Diana Quick, the classical actress known also for her widely TUE varied television work, notably as Julia Flyte in TUE "Brideshead Revisited" and lately as one of the actresses TUE portraying the Queen, chooses some of the writing which TUE means a lot to her. Her readers are her long-time partner TUE Bill Nighy and their daughter Mary. TUE TUE Producer: Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00t6gdn (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00t6gn1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00t6grx (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00t6zqz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Ludwig van Beethoven TUE TUE Professor Robert Winston continues his exploration into the TUE relationship between the music and the medical conditions of TUE composers who suffered mental and physical illness. TUE TUE Beethoven famously lost his hearing while still a young man, TUE becoming profoundly deaf by the time he composed his late TUE masterpieces. However, he was also plagued by a catalogue of TUE other chronic illnesses. Stomach problems, asthma and TUE pancreatitis made his life a misery. Prof. Winston TUE investigates with John Suchet, Stephen Johnson and Dr TUE Francois Mai how these daily torments may have been key to TUE the transcendent spirit of Beethoven's music. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Taylor. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00t6gzh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00m44rs (Listen) TUE Higher - Inspection TUE TUE The second comedy about the Geography department at TUE Hayborough University. Where if you have a pulse you can TUE have a degree. In these straightened times there have to be TUE cuts. So it does seem a bit of a coincidence that when David TUE Poll is earmarked for disciplinary measures leading to TUE possible dismissal the Quality Assurance Inspectorate turns up. TUE TUE Karen.............Sophie Thompson TUE David..............Robert Daws TUE Jim..............Jonathan Keeble TUE Maura..............Maggie Fox TUE Sadie..............Fiona Clarke TUE Dick...............Malcolm Raeburn TUE TUE Produced by Gary Brown. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00t6zr1 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Contact: TUE Home Planet TUE BBC Radio 4 TUE PO Box 3096 TUE Brighton TUE BN1 1PL TUE TUE Or email home.planet@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Or telephone: 08700 100 400 TUE TUE Producers: Nick Patrick and Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00t716d (Listen) TUE Lost in the Lanes, Absent Without Eve TUE TUE A third series of short stories written by writers new to TUE radio. TUE TUE Each year we set them within the environs of Brighton - Pier TUE Shorts, Pavilion Pieces and this year the infamous Lanes of TUE Brighton. More often than not the various journeys lead TUE them beyond the winding Lanes of centuries past and into the TUE Lanes of today, where the antique shops stand beside the TUE more modern examples of what they would once have been, from TUE treasures to cupcakes, and on, across roads, into the place TUE of markets stalls and cafes, buskers and the vibrant life TUE that is the North Laines. TUE TUE Our first story, Absent Without Eve, is written by Lizzie TUE Enfield. Read by Jan Ravens. TUE TUE When their children left home, Eve imagined she and her TUE husband David would be free to spend Saturday mornings TUE wandering the North Laines together, sipping leisurely TUE cappuccinos and browsing second hand bookshops. But David TUE has other plans for himself and his recently acquired TUE motorbike - plans that don't seem to include Eve. TUE TUE Producer: Celia de Wolff TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Generation Gap b00t6rby (Listen) TUE Two people from different generations who work in the health TUE industry or have experience of the health industry discuss TUE how technology has changed over their lifetimes. TUE TUE St Mary's Hospital has a cutting edge birthing centre for TUE new mothers. Daughter and mother Sarah and Jean compare TUE notes on their experiences of how technology helped their TUE birth experience, and how our attitudes have shifted towards TUE a more natural approach. TUE TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00t7305 (Listen) TUE Chris Ledgard travels to a three day celebration of TUE storytelling, Festival at the Edge in Shropshire, one of TUE many storytelling festivals now held globally. Here he meets TUE storytellers from all over the world, and the audiences who TUE have come to hear them, to try and discover why in a digital TUE age there has been such a resurgence of interest what is TUE after all, an ancient method of communication. Producer Paul TUE Dodgson. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00t7307 (Listen) TUE Series 22, John Lennon TUE TUE Journalist John Harris, author of influential books on TUE music, politics and popular culture, was born just as the TUE Beatles were splitting up, and was only 11 when John Lennon TUE died. Yet Lennon's mischievous anti-establishment position - TUE and the richness of his lyrics and music - makes him TUE Harris's nomination for a Great Life. Matthew Parris tries TUE to define what it is that makes this enigmatic, often TUE difficult figure an inspiring subject for reflection. The TUE expert witness is Barry Miles, in whose London gallery John TUE first met Yoko in the mid 1960s. TUE TUE This is the first of new series of Great Lives - future TUE programmes include Bettany Hughes on the Greek poet Sappho TUE and Dominic Sandbrook on Richard Nixon. TUE TUE Producer: Christine Hall. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00t6s2h (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t6s49 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00lq8lk (Listen) TUE Series 2, Gdansk TUE TUE When MJN Air is chartered to ferry a chamber orchestra, TUE Carolyn has to deal with the mysterious Case Of The Poisoned TUE Cashews, while Martin gets to run through all of the Seven TUE Deadly Sins. And Arthur learns how not to pronounce TUE "Szyszko-Bohusz", but does eat a lot of pudding. 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 Madame Szyszko-Bohusz ..... Britta Gartner TUE Amsterdam ATC ..... Matt Green TUE Maestro ..... Simon Greenall TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore. TUE TUE Produced & Directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for the BBC. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00t6gyz (Listen) TUE Susan starts making plans and there's a generous offer from TUE Peggy. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00t6s8c (Listen) TUE With Kirsty Lang, including a review of a new film which TUE focuses on designer Coco Chanel's affair with the leading TUE composer Igor Stravinsky. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t6g9r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Mossad b00t7dfn (Listen) TUE The Mossad, or 'Institute of Special Tasks', is one of the TUE most feared and fabled security services in the world. It TUE has been lauded for daring operations and accused of TUE cold-blooded murder. It is widely thought to have been TUE behind the assassination of a leading member of the group TUE Hamas earlier this year. Mahmoud al-Mahbouh's body was found TUE in his luxury hotel room in Dubai earlier this year. It was TUE locked on the inside and had a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the TUE outside. First indications were that he had died from TUE natural causes. TUE In this special documentary, the BBC's Security TUE Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to key figures from The TUE Mossad, which was founded after the Arab-Israeli war in TUE 1948. Their testimony is both revealing and intriguing: TUE TUE ?"They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill TUE and they teach you to do things which normal people don't TUE do" TUE TUE ?"You follow people against their will, you open their mail TUE against their will, you listen to them against their will". TUE TUE ?"The reputation of The Mossad, no matter how high it is, TUE doesn't compare to how good it really is." TUE TUE The programme includes interviews with a Ephraim Halevy TUE (former head of The Mossad and confident of Israeli Prime TUE Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and TUE Ariel Sharon) as well as Rafi Eitan (leader of the team TUE which captured the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the TUE sixties). Other former Mossad members talk about their TUE recruitment and training as well as covert operations in the TUE Middle East. They insist they follow a strict ethical code TUE but others question whether their methods are in breach of TUE international law. TUE TUE Presenter: Gordon Corera TUE Producer: Mark Savage. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00t7dfq (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00t6zqs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:45 The Test of Time b00mfhwz (Listen) TUE Aristotle's Meteorology TUE TUE Aristotle's Meteorology: Science writer Gabrielle Walker TUE goes punting on the River Cam to discover whether TUE Aristotle's treatise on meteorology stands up to modern TUE scrutiny. He likens earthquakes to bodily ructions but TUE remarkably knew that "where there is dry land there comes to TUE be sea, and where there is now sea, there one day comes to TUE be dry land". TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00t6sby (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00t6trb (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 b00t6v30 (Listen) TUE The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 7 TUE TUE Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother TUE and a Gujarati father, and this twin inheritance is at the TUE heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel TUE about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. TUE TUE On the morning of the 31st of October 1984, the same day TUE that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated, Babo's TUE mother, Trishala, is taken ill with a severe pain in the TUE breast. TUE TUE The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the TUE 6 part BBC drama Luther. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello TUE in Torchwood. TUE TUE Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis TUE TUE Producer: Kate McAll. TUE TUE 23:00 Happy Tuesdays b00t7dfs (Listen) TUE Mr and Mrs Smith TUE TUE In a new collaboration between BBC Radio and Television, TUE Happy Tuesdays showcases a series of new comedy pilots for TUE Tuesday nights on BBC Radio 4. Some of the most exciting TUE comedy talent around are given the chance to try out new TUE ideas and formats. TUE TUE A year in to married life and already things are a little TUE creaky for Will and Annabelle. So, following Will's TUE unimaginative anniversary present, Annabelle has signed them TUE up for a course of marriage counselling. TUE TUE The episode begins with Will and Annabelle talking to their TUE counsellor Guy. They discuss their disastrous weekend in a TUE boutique hotel to celebrate their anniversary. We hear their TUE sides of the argument, before we cut to the anniversary TUE weekend itself. The listener is taken back and forth from TUE the anniversary weekend to the session, where Guy mediates TUE the dispute, usually leaning more towards Annabelle's point TUE of view. In contrast to Will's uptight control-freakery, Guy TUE is laconic and urbane and clearly irritating to Will. TUE TUE FULL CAST DETAILS: TUE Will Smith ..... Will Smith TUE Annabell Smith ..... Sarah Hadland TUE Guy, Darrell, Restaurant Manager ..... Paterson Joseph TUE Sally, Receptionist, Waitress ..... Morwenna Banks TUE John, TV repairman ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE TUE ABOUT WILL SMITH: TUE Will's writing credits include Armstrong and Miller (BBC1), TUE Harry and Paul (BBC 1), The Late Edition (BBC 4) and Moving TUE Wallpaper (ITV 1). Will and his writing partner Roger Drew TUE are writing for the current series of multi-award winning TUE The Thick of It (BBC 2), in which Will also features as Tory TUE researcher Phil Smith. Will has written and performed two TUE series for Radio 4: Will Smith Presents the Tao of Bergerac TUE and Will Smith's Midlife Crisis Management. TUE TUE Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. TUE TUE 23:30 Punt PI b00kwf9y (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Steve Punt turns private investigator, examining little TUE mysteries that perplex, amuse and beguile. TUE TUE Steve goes on the trail of TV detector vans, investigating TUE rumours that the vehicles are little more than a myth. Some TUE people are utterly convinced that the vans are empty and TUE that it is simply not possible to detect a television set. TUE TUE Faced with a wall of official silence, Steve travels TUE hundreds of miles to track down one of the vehicles for TUE himself. He searches out those who were once involved in the TUE TV licensing business and wades through the post office TUE archives to get the lowdown on the history of this very TUE British phenomenon. TUE TUE And he turns to the scientific boffins to establish once and TUE for all whether the technology really does exist, mounting a TUE controlled experiment to find out if it is possible to see TUE into the living rooms of TV licence evaders. TUE TUE But just when Steve thinks that the case is closed, a TUE witness comes forward who throws the entire investigation TUE into confusion. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 AUGUST 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00t69lg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00t6fcb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t69mt (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t69s8 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t69ql (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00t69w7 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t6b07 (Listen) WED with the Revd Neil Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, WED Edinburgh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00t6bc8 (Listen) WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Fran Barnes. WED WED 06:00 Today b00t6dzn (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00t7dgt (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Jeff Goldblum. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00t6fcd (Listen) WED Walking Home, Episode 3 WED WED Lynn has explored Cenotaph Island and has once more anchored WED the Wilderness Swift in Lituya Bay. He starts exploring the WED remains of a mining trail which cuts into the forest. WED WED But he soon discovers what had once been a road for men has WED become a bear highway. WED WED Lynn Schooler is the critically acclaimed author of The Blue WED Bear (2003) and The Last Shot (2006). He has lived in Alaska WED for almost forty years, working as a commercial fisherman, WED shipwright, wilderness guide, and an award-winning wildlife WED photographer. WED WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED Reader: Colin Stinton WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t6fj9 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Jenni Murray talks to Dr Shirley WED Shirwood about Bulbmania. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t6g82 (Listen) WED The Shooting Party, Episode 3 WED WED By Isabel Colegate, dramatised by DJ Britton. As a frisson WED of romance ruffles the women, a fierce rivalry between Lord WED Hartlip and Lionel Stephens unsettles their host. WED WED Isabel Colegate ..... Oliva Colman WED Sir Randolph ..... Sam Dale WED Glass ..... David Seddon WED Olivia ..... Jaimi Barbakoff WED Cicely Nettleby ..... Ellie Kendrick WED Aline ..... Sally Orrock WED Gilbert Hartlip ..... Sean Baker WED Count Tibor ..... David Seddon WED WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 11:00 Repairing Auschwitz b00t7f94 (Listen) WED A major appeal is underway for funds to repair the death WED camp sites at Auschwitz in Poland, the great symbol of the WED Nazi Holocaust. Well over a million people a year visit. And WED this hugely symbolic place is also regularly visited by WED leading politicians and personalities. But many of the WED buildings, meant by the Nazis as temporary structures, are WED crumbling. Earlier this year, as this programme will reveal, WED part of the site came close to catastrophic flooding. And WED the museum's conservation departments struggle to preserve WED the condition and authenticity of thousands of objects left WED when the Nazis robbed those they were about to murder. WED WED At the same time, "repairing" a death camp begs all kinds of WED questions about how we remember this most terrible part of WED the European past. How far is it appropriate to repair and WED modernise the site if it is meant as a place of memorial and WED an authentic record of what happened during the war? How can WED the practical demands of a mass tourist destination be WED reconciled with the dignity of what is a mass grave? And how WED much tension is there between the different groups and WED countries - notably Poland and Israel - for whom the site WED has such significance? WED WED Based around visits to Auschwitz and insight into the work WED there "behind the scenes", this programme will explore with WED museum staff, former Auschwitz prisoners, visitors and WED historians the dilemmas of preserving the physical memory of WED the Holocaust as its living witnesses die out. WED WED 11:30 The Castle b00t7f96 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Vuvuzela of Terror WED WED Hie ye to 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, we discover that an Englishman's home is WED his castle and an Englishman's moat is his tax write-off. WED Until Sir John is investigated and has to hire some WED Frenchmen and a bucket of eels. Meanwhile, the Woodstock WED Hospital is about to lose its no-star status... 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 WED Producer: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00t6gdq (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00t6gn3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00t6gs5 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00t7fjk (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00t6gyz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t7fjm (Listen) WED Rescue Me WED WED Rukhsana is a successful lawyer in her late 20s, living in WED London where she shares a house with Arif, who, like her, is WED British Bengali. WED WED When her mother has a heart attack, Rukshana returns to WED Dhaka to be with her family. Then she calls Arif. Her WED parents have taken her mobile and her passport. And they WED won't let her leave the house. She's very scared. WED WED Arif flies out to Dhaka, the city where he was born, to see WED if he can find her. With the help of James, at the British WED High Commission, he embarks on a search which forces him to WED examine his own past. WED WED Arif ...Richard Sumitro WED James ...Tony Bell WED Rukhsana ...Nisha Nayar WED Munera ...Nina Wadia WED Shaqueeb ...Shiv Grewal WED Mother/Nurse ...Shobu Kapur WED Cabbie/ Priest ...Bhasker Patel WED Written by Tanika Gupta WED Directed by Jeremy Mortimer WED WED Tanika Gupta (writer) was born in 1963 in Chiswick, and is a WED British playwright of Bengali origin. She has written for WED television, including for East Enders, Grange Hill, A WED Suitable Boy, The Bill, Crossroads, and adaptations and WED original radio plays for BBC Radio. She also wrote for the WED Asian network soap, Silver Street, and the BBC World Service WED soap, Westway. Her adaptation of Hobson's Choice (2003) WED played at the Young Vic; Fragile Land (2003) at Hampstead; WED and Gladiator Games (2005) at Sheffield Crucible and WED Stratford East theatres. A group play, Catch (2006), was WED performed at the Royal Court Theatre, and White Boy (2008) WED at the National Youth Theatre/Soho. Tanika Gupta was WED awarded an MBE in 2008. WED WED 15:00 Alvin Hall's Generations of Money b00t5xqf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00t72h7 (Listen) WED Lost in the Lanes, Calling WED WED Twelve-year-old Tom and his sister first came to Brighton WED after they lost their father in the great storm of 1883. WED They left their mother at her new job in the big house, and WED walked to their lodgings in the Lanes. But in the middle of WED the night Tom hears their mother, calling for them. And in WED trying to find her, he finds his own future. WED WED Written by Emma Darwin, and read by Philip Voss. WED WED Part of a series of three stories written by new writers to WED radio set in The Lanes of Brighton and beyond. WED WED Producer: Celia de Wolff WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Generation Gap b00t6rc0 (Listen) WED Community Nurses WED WED Two people from different generations who work in the health WED industry or have experience of the health industry discuss WED how technology has changed over their lifetimes. WED WED Sharon Dempsey nurses in the community, as did Merle Parke. WED They compare notes on how technology in their jobs affects WED the relationship with the patient. From computerising WED records and using high tech equipment to having machinery WED that can help patients monitor their own symptoms and help WED nurses make remote diagnoses. WED WED Producer: Laura Parfitt WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00t7fjp (Listen) WED Prosperity is accused of encouraging greed, ruining the WED environment, undermining communities, causing unhappiness WED and widening social inequalities. The push for growth has WED been the bedrock policy for almost every world economy but WED since the financial crisis, belief in growth has become WED increasingly challenged. Daniel Ben-Ami, takes on what he WED calls the 'growth sceptics' and makes the claim that more WED affluence benefits the whole of society. He discusses the WED 'glories of growth' with Laurie Taylor on Thinking Allowed WED on 4 August. WED WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00t7fjr (Listen) WED The gallbladder is tucked beneath the liver and aids WED digestion. It is possible to function without it and when WED gallstones develop they can be troublesome and painful. Dr WED Mark Porter examines the causes and treatment of gallbladder WED problems and visits Gloucester Royal Hospital to see its WED surgical removal. WED WED Producer: Erika Wright. WED WED 17:00 PM b00t6s2k (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t6s4c (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00pxjpr (Listen) WED Series 6, Charity Begins Next Door WED WED Ed has a new member in his writing class, and unlike Stan, WED Olive and Pearl, Clive is actually impressed by Ed's writing WED portfolio. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00t6gz1 (Listen) WED It's Ambridge versus New Zealand at Brookfield, and Kathy WED finds that the cupboard is bare. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00t6s8f (Listen) WED With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with singer Bjork, WED who discusses her love of the Moomins, the children's book WED characters created by Finnish writer Tove Jansson. WED WED Producer Ella-Mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t6g82 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Reality Check b00t7fjt (Listen) WED Series 3, Our military future? WED WED Justin Rowlatt is joined by experts on the government's WED defence policy - and those at the sharp end of it - to WED discuss whether it is time to radically rethink the British WED armed forces. WED WED With the government's Strategic Defence Review under way WED against a background of public spending cuts, is now the WED time to consider a big reduction in the size and ambition of WED the British military? WED WED But what would a smaller defence force look like? What would WED it do? What would it mean for Britain's place on the world WED stage? And would it be a credible strategy, given present WED and expected future threats to global peace? WED WED Justin Rowlatt discusses the future of the military with a WED panel of guests at the military thinktank, RUSI. WED WED He is joined by Professor Mary Kaldor from the London School WED of Economics; Professor Malcolm Chalmers of RUSI; Commodore WED Steven Jermy, recently retired from the Navy; Patrick WED Hennessey, former soldier and author of The Junior Officers' WED Reading Club; Freshta Raper, who escaped from Saddam WED Hussein's Iraq; and Sarah Lasenby, a peace activist from Oxford. WED WED Producer: Ruth Alexander WED Editor: Hugh Levinson. WED WED 20:45 Westminster Newbies b00t7fjw (Listen) WED The House of Commons is often said to be arcane and WED bewildering for new members. Following the General Election, WED more than two hundred new MPs have taken their seats in the WED Commons, and they've been adjusting to life at Westminster. WED WED Their new careers have started at a time when the reputation WED of Parliament has been shaken by scandal. Some of them have WED found themselves on the coalition government benches, WED alongside MPs who would normally be their political enemies. WED WED Over the past few weeks, BBC Radio 4 has been following some WED of the new MPs and asking them to record their thoughts as WED they settle in. WED WED The Conservative MP Rory Stewart is a former diplomat and WED used to be the deputy governor of a province of southern WED Iraq. During his brief time in Parliament, his constituents WED in Cumbria have been shaken by the mass shootings by Derrick WED Bird in June. WED WED Chi Onwurah is the new Labour MP for Newcastle Central, and WED is the city's first ever black MP. She was born in the city, WED but spent her first two years in Nigeria, before civil war WED in the country forced her and her family to return to the UK WED as refugees. WED WED Dave Ward is the Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East. A WED former councillor from the city, he was elected with a small WED majority, and now finds himself sitting alongside WED Conservative MPs on the government benches. WED WED Elinor Goodman looks at how these three MPs from very WED diverse backgrounds are getting on in their fledgeling WED careers. Now they've had a few months to get their feet WED under the table, have their views on what it means to be an WED MP changed? WED WED Producer: Chris Wimpress. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00t7fjy (Listen) WED Future Vaccines WED WED The middle of the last century was a boom time for vaccine WED makers. Many common diseases, especially of childhood, began WED to resemble a distant memory. Researchers and manufacturers WED were eyeing up a shopping list of future targets. But then WED things went wrong. Some diseases proved much more complex. WED Litigation prompted by real or imagined side effects began WED to worry the drug companies. Profits started to slide. Many WED manufactures got out of the business. The best idea ever for WED preventing disease seemed to be going nowhere. WED WED That's now changed. Advances in biotechnology and the advent WED of a couple of new, commercially successful vaccines have WED injected a new confidence into the industry. In spite of WED repeated failures to deal with two of the highest profile WED diseases, malaria and HIV, vaccine researchers have WED rewritten their shopping list. This now includes not just WED the traditional targets - the classic infectious diseases - WED but even some types of cancer, autoimmune disease and WED smoking! WED WED Geoff Watts reviews past ups and down of vaccine making, and WED explains why its fortunes have now changed. Examining the WED enterprise in commercial as well as scientific terms, he WED investigates whether the commerce and the science of vaccine WED development are likely to confront new hurdles - or if the WED future really does offer the prospect of hitherto unattained WED levels of immunity, a new golden age for vaccines. WED WED PRODUCER: Martin Redfern. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00t7dgt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00t6sc0 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00t6trd (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 b00t6v33 (Listen) WED The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 8 WED WED Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother WED and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the WED heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel WED about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. WED WED Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother WED and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the WED heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel WED about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. WED WED It's 1989. Babo and Sian's daughters are growing up fast. WED Bean is sweet sixteen and in love, though her parents are WED completely unaware of it. All that, however, is about to WED change. 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 WED Producer: Kate McAll 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 WED Producer: Kate McAll. WED WED 23:00 The Ladies b00t7fyq (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Comedy featuring a bored woman who keeps randomly calling WED anyone she knows, and a terminally ill woman who tries to WED set her husband up with a stranger. WED WED Written by Emily Watson Howes. WED WED Cast List: 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 b00n8pdp (Listen) WED The 22nd of May 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 The 22nd of May. WED WED Performer ..... Rik Mayall WED Writers ..... Rik Mayall & John Nicholson WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED Once a week, for six weeks, we open a small and peculiarly WED shaped window in to the mind of Rik Mayall. Written by Rik WED and John Nicholson, it's a woozy, strange and resonant WED series from one of the country's most loved comic WED performers. Rik wants to sit with you in your room - one on WED one. He wants to let you know things - important, secret WED things, things about your neighbours. About him. About you. WED WED 23:30 Punt PI b00l2ltw (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Steve Punt turns private investigator, examining little WED mysteries that perplex, amuse and beguile. WED WED Steve turns the spotlight on mind control. Thanks to works WED of fiction, the idea that government agencies have the WED ability to brianwash people to commit dastardly acts has WED firmly lodged itself in the public imagination. WED WED Punt is assigned to sort fact from fiction, entering a murky WED work of government intelligence, military secrecy and wild WED speculation. From hypnosis to narcotics and now microwave WED technology, Punt calls in expert witnesses to ascertain WED whether it really is possible to get people to act against WED their free will. Can our wily PI track down the real WED Manchurian Candidate? WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 AUGUST 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00t69lj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00t6fcd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t69mw (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t69sb (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t69qn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00t69w9 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t6b09 (Listen) THU with the Revd Neil Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, THU Edinburgh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00t6bcb (Listen) THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anna Varle. THU THU 06:00 Today b00t6dzq (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Voices From The Old Bailey b00t7g2g (Listen) THU Conmen and a Brawl in the Streets 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 She discusses conmen, and asks what they reveal about THU appearance, identity and social mobility in the growing city THU of London, Europe's first metropolis. THU THU The Old Bailey was a theatre in which high and low both THU played starring roles. This episode's cases mix the greatest THU writers and artists of the time - Dr Johnson, Joshua THU Reynolds - with ballad singers, beggars, prostitutes and THU fraudulent vicars. There is comedy as well as pathos in THU these cases. THU THU With historians Hannah Grieg, Peter King and Judith Hawley. THU Recorded on location in Joshua Reynolds' house in Soho. THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Burke THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00t6fcg (Listen) THU Walking Home, Episode 4 THU THU Lynn has crossed Cape Fairweather, and thirty more miles THU will complete his circumnavigation of Mount Fairweather. In THU the stretch between Grand Plateau Glacier and Yakutat, the THU sight of flocking seabirds leads to a moment of revelation. THU THU He comes to a decision. But there are dangers ahead before THU he can head for home. THU THU Lynn Schooler is the critically acclaimed author of The Blue THU Bear (2003) and The Last Shot (2006). He has lived in Alaska THU for almost forty years, working as a commercial fisherman, THU shipwright, wilderness guide, and an award-winning wildlife THU photographer. THU THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU Reader: Colin Stinton THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t6fjc (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of THU topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t6g84 (Listen) THU The Shooting Party, Episode 4 THU THU By Isabel Colegate, dramatised by DJ Britton. As the path of THU Lionel and Olivia's true love runs surprisingly smoothly, an THU animal rights protestor interrupts the shoot, and barely THU notices how efficiently he is despatched. THU THU Isabel Colegate ..... Oliva Colman THU Sir Randolph ..... Sam Dale THU Cardew ..... Jude Akuwudike THU Glass ..... David Seddon THU Olivia ..... Jaimi Barbakoff THU Lionel ..... Michael Shelford THU Cicely ..... Ellie Kendrick THU Aline ..... Sally Orrock THU Gilbert ..... Sean Baker THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00t7g8z (Listen) THU Conversion Wars THU THU In the Arab World converting from Islam to Christianity is THU one of the biggest taboos. Omar Abdel Razek explores the THU hidden world of converts, from Egypt to Morocco to the USA. THU THU 11:30 We Were Here: How to Create Your Own Time Capsule b00t7g91 (Listen) THU What on earth would bring this lot together: a group of THU North Wales dry-stone wall builders, a French space THU engineer, a former curator at the British museum, and a THU gaggle of Lincolnshire school kids? Here's what: a THU fascination with the idea of speaking to the people of the THU future, of preserving a snapshot of themselves capable of THU withstanding the passage of time. These are the people who THU bury time capsules. THU THU For BBC Radio 4, Ian Peacock explores what it is that makes THU us want to capture ourselves in this curious way, and how on THU earth we decide what bits of human culture of worth keeping THU for posterity - in essence, the secrets of filling the THU perfect time capsule. Amongst the capsules he encounters is THU the daddy of them all: the mighty Crypt of Civilisation in THU Atlanta. Sealed in 1940, this vast chamber attempts to THU communicate all the greatest achievements of humanity to the THU people who will open it in the year 8113 AD, if indeed any THU people remain to work out how to open the steel door. But THU this is far from the norm. Back in London, we meet Brian THU Durrans, self-confessed capsule junkie and founder member of THU the grandly titled International Time Capsule Society. Its THU purpose is simple, to chart the locations of as many time THU capsules as possible, and probe the motivations of those who THU bury them. As Peacock discovers in the society's archives, THU there are no rules when it comes to time capsules. The THU burial of a pair of Lycra leggings in an official City of THU Norwich capsule attests to that. And how about this for THU extreme time capsuling: plans are still in place to launch a THU satellite containing millions of messages from everyday THU people on a specially protected DVD. The only trouble is, THU how will anyone play it when there's no space on the THU satellite for a DVD player? THU THU And at a primary school Lincolnshire we discover the joys THU and heartbreaks of time capsules. Map in hand, the THU ever-persistent Peacock goes hunting for a cannister buried THU in the 1960s. It becomes an increasingly desperate search as THU hole after hole yields nothing but rusty nails and coins. THU Then, when all hope seems lost, a break-through. Could this THU be the capsule after all? And what do the pupils of the past THU have to say to their modern counterparts when a dirty, THU sodden cassette peaks out of the leaky cannister? Listen and THU you'll find out. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00t6gds (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00t8752 (Listen) THU A man and his family are thrown into detention for having THU false papers, a woman who fled torture hasn't seen her THU children for years because of bungling lawyers and many more THU asylum seekers are being denied any legal representation at THU all and are being deported without their cases being heard THU properly. The high cost of inadequate immigration legal THU advice. THU Changes to the way legal aid is paid has made the system THU "unsustainable". Immigration lawyers can now wait years for THU legal aid payments to be settled. John Waite talks to some THU of the hundreds of committed and hard-working immigration THU advisers who have been forced out of their jobs because they THU either can't make it pay - or can't do the job properly any THU more. Critics say the new "buy cheap, pay twice" system THU means asylum seekers are being pushed from pillar to post THU trying to get their claims processed - and much of that cost THU is being born by the public purse. We ask the Legal Services THU Commission to justify a false economy and a failure of THU justice. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00t6gn5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00t6gs7 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00t7h8y (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 b00t6gz1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t7h90 (Listen) THU The Barber and the Ark THU THU by Marcia Layne THU THU Issachar has been given an ultimatum by Yvonne, either the THU dreadlocks go or she does. But the veteran barber he visits THU has other ideas. Over a bottle of his 'special ingredient THU roots tonic' the barber shares his dream of discovering the THU Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia. A dream that will change THU Isaachar's life. THU THU Issachar ..... Everal A.Walsh THU Errol ..... Ram John Holder THU Yvonne ..... Kay Purcell THU Malachi ..... Tachia Newall THU Abdullah ..... Faz Singhateh THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00t5vkh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00t613d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00t72h9 (Listen) THU Lost in the Lanes, Lost and Found THU THU Written by Graham Jameson. The reader is Sam Dale. THU THU It's a bad day for the head teacher when a school trip to THU the seaside goes badly wrong and Joseph is lost. Joseph, on THU the other hand, has a much better day than he'd anticipated. THU He finds himself in a fascinating hidden world, makes an THU exciting discovery and meets a glamorous look-a-like. THU THU Part of a series of three stories written by new writers to THU radio set in The Lanes of Brighton and beyond. THU THU Producer: Celia de Wolff THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Generation Gap b00t6rc2 (Listen) THU Mental Health THU THU Two people from different generations who work in the health THU industry or have experience of the health industry discuss THU how technology has changed over their lifetimes. THU THU Una Parker had ECT treatment for severe depression in the THU 1970s. She talks to Andrew Smith who is in his twenties and THU is being treated for depression by drug therapy. However, THU ECT is still used today, though there is much greater THU knowledge around it. How has technology changed our approach THU to the treatment of mental health? THU THU Producer: Laura Parfitt THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00t67j2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00t7h92 (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 b00t6s2m (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t6s4f (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Secret World b00t7h94 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 6 THU THU Ghost hunter Derek Acorah is trying to find his missing THU bobble hat - but can't seem to conjure up an image. THU Jack Nicholson stalks thin women just so he can eat the food THU they leave. Ian Hislop goes to a nail bar. Daniel Craig gets THU some car insurance. Find out how these stories unfold in an THU impression show with a difference. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00t6gz3 (Listen) THU Emma receives a sweet surprise and Jolene gets away from it THU all. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00t6s8h (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, who reports on the opening night of THU Earthquakes in London, Mike Bartlett's new National Theatre THU play, where the action moves from 1968 to 2525 and back THU again. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t6g84 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00t7jys (Listen) THU Should the Government cut back on its £300m a year use of THU methadone to treat drug addicts? Linda Pressly reports on THU calls, in Scotland and south of the border, to rebalance THU policy away from 'harm reduction' substitute drug THU prescribing towards getting addicts clean. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00t7jyv (Listen) THU Power Play THU THU Huge hopes and vast sums of money are being pinned on the THU so-called Intelligent Grid: a new network of electricity THU systems feeding information about supply and demand across THU the grid all the time. Linked to new compulsory smart THU meters, it will extend into every home. Peter Day asks THU what's happening to our power supplies and why. THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Hunt for the Nightingale's Song b00t7jyx (Listen) THU When he was fourteen years old, some friends of his parents THU gave wildlife sound recordist, Chris Watson, The Observer's THU Book of Birds. Flicking through the pages, Chris was THU captivated by the description of a bird which sang at night. THU The bird was a Nightingale; and since first reading about THU it, Chris has been fortunate enough to hear Nightingales THU both in Britain and Europe but always as part of a chorus of THU birds. THU THU Now, in this programme, he tries to get a microphone really THU close to a Nightingale to record its remarkable song - a THU rich, mellow series of notes. THU THU The location is Rutland Water. There are two areas here THU which are regularly frequented by Nightingales - the Lyndon THU Reserve on the South Shore and Hambleton Wood, which is on a THU peninsula extending out into the Reservoir. Having been THU guided by the Wardens from the Nature Reserve to the areas THU of scrub where Nightingales have been heard singing, Chris THU is able to rig up microphones near potential song posts. Of THU course, it's not as easy as it sounds, and one bird in THU particular decides to play a game of Hide and Seek and THU switch song perches. But over the course of several nights, THU and using different microphone techniques, Chris is able to THU get closer and closer to a singing male bird - and on one THU occasion gets even more than he bargained for, when two THU males begin a vocal sparring match on adjacent territories. THU The result, after several sleepless nights and a battle with THU brambles and nettles is the most astonishing clear, THU beautiful recording of a Nightingale. THU THU Despite their name, male Nightingales sing during the day THU and night. These birds spend their winter in Africa. The THU males return to Britain in April at the start of their THU breeding season. When they first arrive back, male birds THU sing to mark and defend a territory during the day. When the THU females return, a few days later, the unpaired males sing at THU night to attract a female. Neighbouring males compete with THU one another in a display of vocal sparring; copying and THU over-lapping each other's songs, each bird trying to outdo THU his rival. Females select their prospective mate using song THU as an indicator of the fitness of a male, as well as the THU quality of their territory. Once paired, the males continue THU to sing to defend their territory and keep rival males at THU bay. Females don't sing although they do call and are known THU to produce an amphibian-like 'croaking' sound. THU THU Nightingales have a reputation for being shy, skulking THU creatures, difficult to see even when they are singing! In THU the last 30 years the population has reduced by almost half THU so the birds and their song are fast disappearing from our THU landscape. Studies by the British Trust for Ornithology, THU suggest that increasing pressure from deer could in part be THU responsible for this decline. Nightingales have very THU specific habitat requirements for nesting; low scrub or THU coppiced woodland. The rich and complex under-storey of THU plants such as brambles, honeysuckle and rose has been a THU traditional feature of coppiced woodland, providing nesting THU sites for Nightingales and insect-rich feeding habitats. As THU deer numbers have risen, this low-level vegetation and low THU shrubs have been increasingly reduced by browsing, often THU leaving a bare woodland floor and fewer hiding places for THU Nightingales. There may be also problems on their wintering THU grounds, or at some stage between the point when the birds THU leave the nest and reaching their southernmost wintering THU sites. THU THU In Hunt for the Nightingale's Song, the story of Chris's THU quest to find and record a Nightingale is inter-cut with a THU commentary featuring Rob Thomas (Cardiff University), and THU Rob Fuller (British Trust for Ornithology) about the song of THU the Nightingale, its composition and function. THU THU Producer Sarah Blunt. THU THU 21:30 Voices From The Old Bailey b00t7g2g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00t6sc2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00t6trh (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 b00t6v36 (Listen) THU The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 9 THU THU Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother THU and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the THU heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel THU about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. THU THU Now that her older sister Mayuri is married, only Bean THU remains at home. But that won't be for long as Bean has THU plans of her own, plans that will cause Sian to weep until THU she can weep no more, and Babo to wonder what to do with the THU space that children leave behind. THU THU The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the THU 6 part BBC drama Luther. She also played THU Suzie Costello in Torchwood. THU THU Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis THU THU Producer: Kate McAll. THU THU 23:00 Recorded for Training Purposes b00t7jyz (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 3 THU THU More sketches from Recorded for Training Purposes, the THU sketch show about modern communication. So, whether it's THU tannoy announcements, text messages or even smoke signals, THU the RFTP team have a flippant skit about it. THU THU The versatile cast of Rachel Atkins, Dominic Coleman, Lewis THU Macleod, Julie Mayhew, Ingrid Oliver and Colin Hoult THU performed the sketches in front of a live studio audience at THU the BBC Radio Theatre in London. 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 Terry Nutkins: In the Ring of Bright Water b00n5td6 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU When Terry Nutkins was 13 he moved to the isolated West THU Highlands to live with the writer Gavin Maxwell. 40 years THU after Maxwell's death, Terry tells the story of that time. THU THU View of Sandaig Bay THU THU Gavin Maxwell's memorial stone at Sandaig Bay THU THU Willie McLeod and Terry at Sandaig Bay THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 AUGUST 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00t69ll (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00t6fcg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t69my (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t69sd (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t69qq (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00t69wc (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t6b0c (Listen) FRI with the Revd Neil Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, FRI Edinburgh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00t6bcd (Listen) FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Melvin Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00t6dzs (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00t613s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00t6fcj (Listen) FRI Walking Home, Episode 5 FRI FRI To have any hope of reaching the Wilderness Swift to sail FRI back to Juneau, Lynn must first outrun or outwit the grizzly FRI bear on his trail. But this bear is like no other he has FRI seen. And it is circling him. FRI FRI With his back to the surf, and armed only with a FRI pepper-spray, Lynn is running quickly out of options. FRI FRI Lynn Schooler is the critically acclaimed author of The Blue FRI Bear (2003) and The Last Shot (2006). He has lived in Alaska FRI for almost forty years, working as a commercial fisherman, FRI shipwright, wilderness guide, and an award-winning wildlife FRI photographer. FRI FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI Reader: Colin Stinton. FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t6fjf (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t6g8d (Listen) FRI The Shooting Party, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Isabel Colegate, dramatised by DJ Britton. Cardew is FRI heading back to the shoot, Ellen and Osbert are looking for FRI their pet duck, Olivia and Aline are watching the guns, FRI Glass has put Dan with Tom at the head of the beaters for a FRI better view. And an error of judgement results in a death. FRI FRI Isabel Colegate ..... Oliva Colman FRI Sir Randolph ..... Sam Dale FRI Tom ..... Sean Baker FRI Cardew ..... Jude Akuwudike FRI Glass ..... David Seddon FRI Olivia ..... Jaimi Barbakoff FRI Lionel ..... Michael Shelford FRI Cicely ..... Ellie Kendrick FRI Ellen ..... Sally Orrock FRI Osbert ..... Joshua Swinney FRI FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 A Quiet Invasion b00t7knr (Listen) FRI Episode 2 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 As momentous as those events seemed at the time, what FRI happened to Kirsty and other British hostages was part of a FRI much bigger story. FRI FRI The events of August 1990 still vividly etched on her FRI memory, Kirsty returns to Kuwait to hear how friends and FRI colleagues there dealt with the events that tore their lives FRI apart so suddenly. In an intensely private society, she FRI finds few people have talked publicly about their FRI experiences before and hears remarkable tales of resistance FRI and bravery. FRI FRI The Islamic Art collection she was working with was shipped FRI to Baghdad during the invasion and Kuwait's National Museum FRI torched. We find out what happened to the priceless FRI treasures in the collection. FRI FRI Producer: Ruth Evans FRI A Ruth Evans production for Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Old Harry's Game b007zp26 (Listen) FRI Series 6, Episode 1 FRI FRI Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in hell. An eminent FRI historian arrives in the infernal kingdom and Satan strikes FRI a bizarre bargain with her. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00t6gdv (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00t6gn7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00t6gs9 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00t7knt (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00t6gz3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t7knw (Listen) FRI Tetherdown FRI FRI The place: London. FRI The threat of terrorism, imported and home-grown, hangs in FRI the air. A recession bites. Fresh crimes of violence are FRI reported daily, with Londoners torn between fascination and FRI fear, and the police struggling to retain the confidence of FRI the public. FRI The year: 1896. FRI In the well-heeled suburb of Muswell Hill, Henry Smith, a FRI retired engineer, is found tied-up and beaten to death in FRI his own home. Scotland Yard detectives are on the scene FRI within the hour, but their investigations are hampered by FRI judges and politicians, who refuse to recognise the latest FRI breakthrough in forensic science, fingerprints. "The British FRI policeman," says a high court judge," must depend on his FRI customary tenacity and ingenuity." FRI As the detectives identify suspects, and launch a nationwide FRI manhunt, news of the crimes goes global, with reports in FRI newspapers as far apart as the USA and New Zealand. FRI Tetherdown (the name of the road where the murder took FRI place) is a fast-moving play by Scott Cherry and Gregory FRI Evans which views these tragic events of over a century ago FRI through the prism of 2010. Every character is based on a FRI real person connected to the case. FRI FRI Nicholas Woodeson (Great Expectations; Conspiracy; Red FRI Riding) stars as Detective Constable Burrell. FRI FRI DC Burrell ..... Nicholas Woodeson FRI Inspector Marshall ..... Sean Baker FRI Nutkins ..... Ben Crowe FRI Emily ..... Alison Pettitt FRI Milsom ..... Tony Bell FRI Fowler ..... Jude Akuwudike FRI Judge ..... Ian Masters FRI FRI Director: Marion Nancarrow. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00t7kny (Listen) FRI Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw join FRI gardeners in Powys, mid-Wales. Eric Robson chairs the FRI discussion. FRI FRI Chris Beardshaw reveals how to grow the perfect yew hedge. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Generation Gap b00t6rc4 (Listen) FRI Heart Surgeons FRI FRI Two people from different generations who work in the health FRI industry or have experience of the health industry discuss FRI how technology has changed over their lifetimes. FRI FRI Mr Terence Lewis is one of the country's pioneering heart FRI surgeons. He recently retired but he returns to the FRI building named after him at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth FRI to meet heart surgeon Clinton Loyd, who is conducting FRI cutting-edge surgery using minimally invasive techniques. FRI Technology has moved on quickly in the last 50 years, but FRI technology has also got to be measured against cost. FRI FRI Producer: Laura Parfitt FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00t7kyj (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 b00t7kyl (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet talks to actor Alfred Molina. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00t6s2p (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t6s4h (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00t7kyn (Listen) FRI Series 31, Episode 8 FRI FRI The Now Show FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis take a satirical look through FRI this week's news. Helping them along the way are Laura FRI Shavin, Mitch Benn, and special guests. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00t6gz5 (Listen) FRI Written by ..... Nawal Gadalla FRI Directed by ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Alice Aldridge ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Christopher Carter ..... Will Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Alysha ..... Emma Deakin. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00t6s8k (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who meets Karl Marlantes, who has spent FRI more than 30 years writing his Vietnam war novel, which is FRI based on his own experiences in the US Marine Corps. FRI FRI Producer Ella-Mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t6g8d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00t7kyq (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Garland FRI St Baptist Church in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00t7kys (Listen) FRI A Pioneering Scientist FRI FRI Lisa Jardine reflects on the colourful career of the founder FRI of the British Museum, Sir Hans Sloane, a pioneering FRI naturalist and physician, rooted in the commercialism of his age FRI FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus b00t7kyv (Listen) FRI The Silk Road and Beyond (AD 400 - 800) 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. FRI In this episode he is exploring the world along and beyond FRI the Silk Road in the 7th century AD at a time when the FRI teachings of the prophet Muhammad were transforming the FRI Middle East. He begins by discovering how the Syrian capital FRI Damascus was rapidly becoming the centre of a new Islamic FRI empire. His journey then takes him onwards to Korea, Peru FRI and Sutton Hoo in Great Britain. FRI FRI Producers: Paul Kobrak and Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00t6sc4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00t6trk (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 b00t6v3b (Listen) FRI The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 10 FRI FRI Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother FRI and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the FRI heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel FRI about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. FRI FRI Babo and Sian's youngest daughter, Bean, has been having an FRI affair with Javier for two years now. She's been waiting FRI all that time for him to leave his wife and three children. FRI Then Javier is involved in a car crash, which changes FRI everything. Back in Anjar, Grandmother Ba's life is coming FRI to an end but first she must be sure that Bean is safe. FRI FRI The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the FRI 6 part BBC drama Luther. She also played Suzie Costello in FRI Torchwood. FRI FRI Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis FRI FRI Producer: Kate McAll. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00t7307 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Terry Nutkins: In the Ring of Bright Water b00n9l1h (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Terry Nutkins recalls the childhood time he spent living in FRI the West Highlands with the writer Gavin Maxwell, author FRI Ring of Bright Water, and his famous otters. FRI FRI Gavin Maxwell's Memorial Stone at Sandaig FRI FRI Sir John Lister Kaye and Terry Nutkins FRI FRI Edal's Memorial Stone at Sandaig FRI FRI Douglas Botting (Maxwell's biographer) and Terry FRI FRI Lavinia (Maxwell's former wife) and Terry FRI
30 July, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 31/07/2010 - 06/08/2010
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