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SAT SATURDAY 07 AUGUST 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00t7wld (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00t6fcj (Listen) SAT Walking Home, Episode 5 SAT SAT To have any hope of reaching the Wilderness Swift to sail SAT back to Juneau, Lynn must first outrun or outwit the grizzly SAT bear on his trail. But this bear is like no other he has SAT seen. And it is circling him. SAT SAT With his back to the surf, and armed only with a SAT pepper-spray, Lynn is running quickly out of options. SAT SAT Lynn Schooler is the critically acclaimed author of The Blue SAT Bear (2003) and The Last Shot (2006). He has lived in Alaska SAT for almost forty years, working as a commercial fisherman, SAT shipwright, wilderness guide, and an award-winning wildlife SAT photographer. SAT SAT Abridged by Jeremy Osborne SAT Reader: Colin Stinton. SAT Producer: Rosalynd Ward SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t7wlg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t7wlj (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t7wll (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00t7wln (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t7wlr (Listen) SAT With Shaykh Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow, Centre for the SAT Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, SAT Cambridge. SAT SAT 05:45 Brother Mine b00cm7h6 (Listen) SAT Blood Isn't Always Thicker Than Water 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 explores non-blood siblings and how shared experience SAT can be a greater bond than blood. SAT SAT He looks at this through the stories of Phillip Frampton - SAT who grew up in care homes - and Eric White, who arrived in SAT Britain as a Jewish refugee during WW2. Growing up in a SAT Christian family, when it came to returning to his Jewish SAT roots and siblings, Eric felt insecure and unsettled. SAT Phillip Frampton (author of "The Golly in the Cupboard") SAT spent his childhood in 1960s children's homes: his care SAT siblings are as real to him as any blood brothers and the SAT bond persists to this day. SAT SAT Producer: Terry Lewis SAT A Tinderbox production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00t7wlt (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00t7wlw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00t81my (Listen) SAT Keighley and Worth Valley - The Railway Children at 40 SAT SAT It was back in spring 1970 that Lionel Jeffries and his film SAT crew first descended on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway SAT in West Yorkshire to begin making the classic British film, SAT The Railway Children. To this day, the film remains a firm SAT family favourite with many people remembering the images of SAT the children sitting on the fence waving to the Old SAT Gentleman or running down the embankment to stop the train SAT after a landslide. The film's closing scene remains a SAT tear-jerker as the steam clears on the platform to reveal Mr SAT Waterbury standing on the platform being greeted by his SAT daughter played by Jenny Agutter. To the people living along SAT the Keighley and Worth Valley though, the real star of the SAT film was their railway. The Keighley and Worth Valley SAT Railway is a standard gauge branch line, joining the SAT national railway network at Keighley and running 5 miles SAT along the Worth Valley to Oxenhope with the stations of SAT Ingrow, Damems, Oakworth and Haworth along the way. SAT SAT Helen Mark begins her journey along the 5 mile stretch of SAT the Keighley & Worth Valley by catching the train at SAT Oxenhope with Jim Shipley, former Station Master at Oakworth SAT Station. Many of the film's classic scenes were filmed at SAT Oakworth Station and several local people were used as SAT extras. Jumping off the train at Haworth, Helen meets up SAT with Graham Mitchell, who 'starred' as himself opposite SAT Bernard Cribbins' s portrayal of Perks the Porter. Graham SAT reveals more about the history of the railway which was SAT built by local mill owners back in 1867 and eventually SAT bought outright by local people who opposed its closure by SAT British Rail in the early 60s. The line eventually reopened SAT in 1968 and two years later The Railway Children arrived. SAT The railway never looked back. SAT SAT Helen joins Bill & Betty Black for a picnic lunch SAT overlooking the embankment from which the children would sit SAT on the fence and wave to the Old Gentleman at the back of SAT the train. 40 years ago the couple had a picnic in the same SAT spot with their children while they watched the filming take SAT place and they remember the impact the film had on the local SAT community. SAT SAT Finally Helen arrives at Oakworth Station where much of the SAT filming took place, in particular the final tear jerking SAT scene as Mr Waterbury emerges from the steam onto the SAT platform to be reunited with his family. Helen hears from SAT David Petyt, current Station Foreman and one of the 350 SAT volunteers who run the railway, and David Pearson who was 15 SAT years old at the time of filming and who played a part in SAT that final moving scene. Generations of families now visit SAT the valley to see where the film was made and travel on the SAT steam trains that still play such an important part in the SAT life of the valley. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00t81n0 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT As cloned meat enters the UK food chain, Caz Graham visits a SAT dairy farm in Staffordshire to explore how cattle breeding SAT relies on technology. Professor Andrew Leitch from City SAT University London tells Farming Today the world must embrace SAT cloning technology or mass starvation may result. SAT SAT The Food Standards Agency has launched an enquiry into how SAT meat and milk from the offspring of cloned cows has entered SAT the food chain. Tim Smith, its Chief Executive, tells SAT Farming Today that despite this, legislation to prevent SAT cloned food arriving in the UK from parts of the world where SAT cloning is commonplace is secure. SAT SAT But the Soil Association warns that animal welfare and SAT consumer suspicion means that the cloning of food animals SAT shouldn't happen in the UK. SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00t81n2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00t81n4 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00t833q (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by author and journalist Gary Younge and SAT poet Murray Lachlan Young. Songstress Sandie Shaw shares her SAT Inheritance Tracks, we gain academic insight into the SAT discovery of the UK's largest wasps' nest, and a listener SAT speaks out for Esperanto. And we hear from Yvonne Scholes SAT whose son Joseph hanged himself in a Young Offenders' SAT Institution. SAT SAT The producer is Simon Clancy. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00t833s (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig is joined by mountaineer and adventurer Suzy SAT Madge who has recently returned from a horse, ski and SAT mountaineering odyssey in Afghanistan. With no proper maps SAT or photos to guide her, she travelled along the Silk Route SAT in north east Afghanistan on horse, foot and ski. SAT Mountainous valleys where only a handful of Westerners have SAT been since Marco Polo in 1271, discovering a world of Kyrgyz SAT nomads where no one has climbed or seen skis, far away from SAT the bombs and Burkas of this beautiful country. SAT SAT Sandi also talks to travel writer Jason Elliot who first SAT visited Afghanistan in the 1980s, when aged just nineteen, SAT he went to fight with the mujahideen in the war against the SAT Soviets. His latest book is a thriller set in the months SAT leading up to 9/11. SAT SAT They'll be joined by BBC foreign news correspondent Jill SAT McGivering who has travelled extensively across Asia and SAT reported from Afghanistan. Her novel is inspired by a real SAT incident she experienced whilst being embedded with British SAT troops in Helmand Province. SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b00t833v (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT SAT A glass of bubbly at Europe's longest champagne bar before SAT skipping across to Paris for lunch: Katharine Whitehorn SAT shows us how to grow old disgracefully in the new series of SAT 'Reasons To Be Cheerful.' SAT SAT It is a common assumption that older people must be SAT miserable about their lot in the modern age. SAT SAT But Katharine, doyenne of female columnists for more than 50 SAT years, loves modern travel, especially the Eurostar; she SAT believes conveniences around the home have revolutionised SAT the lives of women and marvels at advances in medicine that SAT have transformed what it means to be a pensioner. SAT SAT Katharine is joined in her crusade by cultural and social SAT historian Amanda Vickery, Independent travel editor Simon SAT Calder and Professor Tom Kirkwood from Newcastle's Institute SAT of Aging and Health. SAT SAT She battles against professional Grumpy, comedian and travel SAT writer Tony Hawks, and tries to convince him that modern SAT life has more ups than downs. SAT SAT Producer: Martin McNamara SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00t833x (Listen) SAT How can political parties sell themselves to the public? SAT Party membership in Britain is falling and is now one of the SAT lowest in Europe. So how can parties attract more supporters SAT and why do people still become card-carrying members today? SAT Anne McElvoy examines how the internet has affected the way SAT people network - has it made us less tribal and less SAT ideological? And she investigates some of the new techniques SAT being used by parties to bring people into their fold and to SAT re-energise the parties' grassroots. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00t833z (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 b00t8341 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT In the second part of this series on inter-generational SAT finance, Alvin Hall meets two twenty-somethings and explores SAT how different the financial challenges facing today's young SAT people are to those that faced their parents at that age. SAT SAT Alvin joins 26 year old would-be farmer, James Crow, who's SAT struggling to come to terms with not being able to inherit SAT the family farm. After generations of growing wheat on the SAT farm in Cambridge, the business was no longer profitable, SAT forcing James to reassess his future. He seeks advice from SAT the careers advisory service, Next Step. SAT SAT Alvin then meets 24 year old football fan, Daniel Robinson, SAT whose love of the game means he spends everything he earns SAT on match tickets and merchandise. Daniel tells Alvin of his SAT dream to emigrate to Australia. But his lack of SAT qualifications and skills means he has a long way to go to SAT achieve his goal. SAT SAT While some observers, like Universities and Science SAT Minister, Conservative MP David Willetts argue that young SAT people will have to shoulder a heavy burden in supporting an SAT ageing population into retirement, Alvin asks whether some SAT young people aren't too reliant on their parents. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00t7kyn (Listen) SAT Series 31, Episode 8 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 b00t8343 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00t8345 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00t7kyq (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Garland SAT St Baptist Church in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, with SAT questions for the panel including Tom Holland, author and SAT historian; Dominic Lawson, former editor of The Specator and SAT The Sunday Telegraph; Sarah Churchwell, Senior Lecturer in SAT American Literature and Culture at University of East Anglia SAT and columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. SAT SAT Producer: Rachel Simpson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00t8347 (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 b00t8349 (Listen) SAT Rebus: Strip Jack, Rebus: Strip Jack, part 1 SAT SAT Ian Rankin's celebrated detective, Inspector Rebus, SAT investigates the disappearance of an MP's wife. Ron Donachie SAT stars in a new two-part dramatisation by Chris Dolan set in SAT Edinburgh and the Highlands in 1992. SAT SAT When the Scots MP, Gregor Jack, is caught in an Edinburgh SAT brothel during a police raid the media go to town. When the SAT MP's wife goes missing is it just a coincidence? Someone is SAT out to strip Jack of his career - but how far will they go? SAT SAT D.I. Rebus .....RON DONACHIE SAT D.S. Holmes ....... ANDY CLARK SAT WPC Moffat.... LISA GARDNER SAT Gregor Jack.... GAVIN KEAN SAT C.S. Watson..... DOUGLAS RUSSELL SAT Ronald Steele.... ROBIN LAING SAT Helen/Cathy ..... EMMA CURRIE SAT Costello/Rab ..... LEWIS HOWDEN SAT Patience...... MONICA GIBB SAT Kemp..... LAURIE BROWN SAT Vanessa.... MARYAM HAMIDI SAT Other parts played by the cast. SAT Producer/director Bruce Young. SAT SAT 15:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00t6zqz (Listen) SAT Series 2, Ludwig van Beethoven SAT SAT Professor Robert Winston continues his exploration into the SAT relationship between the music and the medical conditions of SAT composers who suffered mental and physical illness. SAT SAT Beethoven famously lost his hearing while still a young man, SAT becoming profoundly deaf by the time he composed his late SAT masterpieces. However, he was also plagued by a catalogue of SAT other chronic illnesses. Stomach problems, asthma and SAT pancreatitis made his life a misery. Prof. Winston SAT investigates with John Suchet, Stephen Johnson and Dr SAT Francois Mai how these daily torments may have been key to SAT the transcendent spirit of Beethoven's music. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Taylor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00t834c (Listen) SAT Presented by Bidisha. The intriguing art of taxidermy in the SAT work of Polly Morgan, can calling a woman a dyke ever be SAT anything but abusive, what will happen to the rights of SAT women in Afghanistan when troops leave, equalities minister SAT Lynne Featherstone on women's body image, novelist Jean Kwok SAT describes life as a US sweat-shop worker immigrant, the SAT choices of women now facing bankruptcy in growing numbers, SAT and music by Mahler with Scottish mezzo soprano Karen Cargill. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00t834f (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00t834h (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00t834k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00t834m (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t834p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00t834r (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Peter is joined by the historian, presenter and author Simon SAT Schama. He covers everything from bolognese sauce to grape SAT scissors, from Obama to The Osbornes in his latest SAT collection of musings 'Scribble, Scribble, Scribble'. SAT SAT With a BAFTA winning performance in The Thick of It and SAT acclaimed roles in I'm Alan Partridge and Nighty Night, SAT Rebecca Front is in the new BBC Two sitcom Grandma's House. SAT She plays the mother of Simon Amstell who decides to give up SAT his presenting career in the search of something more SAT meaningful. SAT SAT Front man of Flaming Stars, journalist and author Max SAT Decharne gives us The Hipster's Guide to Rockabilly with his SAT book new book 'A Rocket in Your Pocket'. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi is on interview duties this week with her guest, SAT the actor Rafe Spall. He's recently been seen as a Desperate SAT Romantic and now takes the lead as hapless sports journalist SAT Pete in Channel 4's latest sitcom 'Pete versus Life'. SAT SAT Stand up comes from Ireland's Neil Delamere. He's huge in SAT his native land and making a big impression in the UK. Neil SAT Delamere tops off a run at London's Soho Theatre and SAT performs the comedy honours on Loose Ends. SAT SAT There's music from indie five-piece Mystery Jets. They've SAT come a long way since their beginnings on Eel Pie Island SAT when the original line up included lead singer Blaine SAT Harrison's dad. They had a brief sojourn in Berlin and SAT return with their third album 'Serotonin'. SAT SAT And from Sunderland singer-songwriter Lucas Renney. Lucas is SAT the former lead singer and guitarist of John Peel favourites SAT The Golden Virgins but is now concentrating on a solo career SAT and performs 'She Gives Me The Chills' from his debut album SAT 'Strange Glory'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00t834t (Listen) SAT Paul Kagame SAT SAT On Monday Rwanda goes to the polls, amid claims that the SAT Hutu opposition has been brutally quashed, and free speech SAT stifled by President Paul Kagame and the majority Tutsi SAT government. The man who has led this tiny landlocked state SAT since the genocide in 1994, taking it from basket case to SAT emerging African success story, has been seen as a saviour, SAT steering a traumatised country to democracy. He outlawed SAT talk of ethnicity or division, and instilled discipline and SAT ambition in colleagues and citizens alike. Aid money has SAT been spent effectively: 19 out of 20 children are in school, SAT the country has a health system. He changed the official SAT language from French to English, banned plastic bags, and is SAT pushing broadband internet connections. Sleeping little, SAT Kagame reads voraciously about economic successes like SAT Singapore or Korea, and has transformed Kigali into a clean SAT and modern capital city. He uses a PR agency, has a facebook SAT page, and occasionally tweets: but he's also accused of SAT censorship and control of the media. Once praised by Clinton SAT and Blair as a leader, Kagame is now under attack for SAT banning political parties, and the unexplained and brutal SAT murders of opposition politicians and journalists. Almost SAT uniquely among Africa leaders, Kagame faces no personal SAT allegations of corruption or nepotism. Kagame wants another SAT term of office, and will get it. He denies any involvement SAT in the assassinations, but says that the scale of the horror SAT experience in Rwanda means the country needs a strong hand, SAT and that the West doesn't understand. Nigel Thompson SAT profiles the man behind Rwanda's extraordinary story. SAT SAT Producer, Samantha Fenwick. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00t834w (Listen) SAT Sarfraz Manzoor and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 The Archive Hour b00t834y (Listen) SAT The People's Republic of Hulme SAT SAT 25 years ago, the Manchester district of Hulme became so SAT difficult for the city council to administer that they left SAT many of the residents to their own devices - with surprising SAT results. SAT SAT Europe's biggest concentration of deck-access concrete SAT flats, the "crescents" (a nod to the Georgian crescents of SAT Bath), had, after only two years, been declared unfit for SAT families to live in, and within ten years, become unheated, SAT pest-infested slums. The police refused to patrol anywhere SAT above ground level - including the "decks" - and so the SAT Crescents went unpatrolled. Rent was always cheap in Hulme, SAT but as life on the Crescents deteriorated, the council SAT stopped charging rent entirely. The result, to some, was SAT anarchy, with widespread crime and squatting. Other people SAT found the freedom to be incredibly creative. Residents SAT didn't only cover the grey concrete surfaces in graffiti - SAT they converted the flats into recording studios and illegal SAT nightclubs, such as The Kitchen, fashioned from three SAT knocked-through flats, where during the rise of "acid house" SAT in the late 1980s, the music provided a very much wilder SAT alternative to the nearby Hacienda club. SAT SAT Many Mancunians still value this version of Hulme. Hulme may SAT not have been a good place to raise a young family, but for SAT anyone young and in need of cheap or free accomodation, or SAT work-space, Hulme could provide them. With Manchester's two SAT universities, and the city centre, only ten minutes' walk SAT away, Hulme was also conveniently central. Hulme also had a SAT history of groundbreaking culture - it had its own arts SAT cinema the Aaben, and in the late 1970s Tony Wilson had SAT promoted the first Factory nights at the Russell Club in SAT Hulme, before the Hacienda was ever built. Hulme was also SAT politically radical. Tamil refugee, Viraj Mendis, fighting SAT extradition in 1986, took refuge in the Church of the SAT Ascension, Hulme, for two years, and was defended by a SAT weekly demonstration that marched from Hulme to stop the SAT traffic on Oxford Road. Police eventually entered the church SAT and arrested him. Creative movers including Nico, Alain SAT Delon, Sasha, Mike Pickering, A Guy Called Gerald, the SAT Ruthless Rap Assassins, and Mark Kermode himself, who all SAT lived in, and sometimes performed in, what was otherwise a SAT vast slum. But the crime levels rose after the city's second SAT "summer of love" gave rise to stronger, deadlier drugs and SAT the spread of criminal gangs. Traveller-communities, and SAT veterans of radical environmental protest, arrived in SAT customised buses. The continuous party atmosphere went on, SAT but the writing, for Hulme's low-rise apartment blocks and SAT crescents, was on the wall. SAT SAT When the Crescents were demolished, in the early 1990s, it SAT was filmed, commemorating the final flattening of what for SAT them had become a bohemian peoples' republic. In fact much SAT of the period this programme looks into - from the 1970s to SAT the mid-90s - coincides with rise of home-video and a SAT strong, local independent film-making mini-industry. This SAT programme will utilise an archive drawn from Manchester's SAT former Film and Video Workshop, which helped in the making SAT of video documentaries like "No Place Like Hulme" (1989) and SAT super-8 films like "No City Fun" (1978) which were made in SAT Hulme at the time. SAT SAT But as far back as the 1940s, the planning of the concrete SAT crescents had been predicted in a government-funded film, "A SAT City Speaks" - where the former landscape, of Victorian SAT back-to-back terraced houses was juxtaposed with sleek, SAT modernist visions for what eventually became the low-rise SAT concrete Hulme built in the late 1960s and early 70s. On the SAT soundtrack, the Halle Orchestra blasted out Wagner's Ride of SAT the Valkeries. Hulme always seems to have inspired dramatic SAT musical accompaniment. SAT SAT And like the beginning, the end of Hulme was also SAT well-documented. 1993's Hulme Demolition Sound System and SAT the amazing night-time performance given by theatre group SAT Dogs of Heaven, when cars were pushed off the top of one of SAT the floodlit Crescents, will provide another high-point in a SAT programme tracing the story of this defiant, expressive, SAT chaotic centre for regional popular culture. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00t67j0 (Listen) SAT The Wings of the Dove, Episode 1 SAT SAT by Henry James SAT Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths SAT SAT Kate and Merton need money. Milly needs love. How far will SAT they go to get what they want? SAT Kate Croy is in love with Merton Densher; a poor writer. Her SAT rich aunt Maud disapproves. Maud has offered Kate a wealthy SAT existence but if Kate chooses to marry Merton she risks SAT losing it all. When American Heiress Milly Theale steps into SAT her London society, Kate sees a way out. SAT SAT Kate.....Lyndsey Marshal SAT Merton.....Blake Ritson SAT Maud.....Clare Higgins SAT Lord Mark.....Toby Jones SAT Milly.....Anna Maxwell Martin SAT Susie.....Barbara Barnes SAT Croy.....Jonathan Keeble SAT Marian.....Deborah McAndrew SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00t838f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Reality Check b00t7fjt (Listen) SAT Series 3, Our military future? SAT SAT Justin Rowlatt is joined by experts on the government's SAT defence policy - and those at the sharp end of it - to SAT discuss whether it is time to radically rethink the British SAT armed forces. SAT SAT With the government's Strategic Defence Review under way SAT against a background of public spending cuts, is now the SAT time to consider a big reduction in the size and ambition of SAT the British military? SAT SAT But what would a smaller defence force look like? What would SAT it do? What would it mean for Britain's place on the world SAT stage? And would it be a credible strategy, given present SAT and expected future threats to global peace? SAT SAT Justin Rowlatt discusses the future of the military with a SAT panel of guests at the military thinktank, RUSI. SAT SAT He is joined by Professor Mary Kaldor from the London School SAT of Economics; Professor Malcolm Chalmers of RUSI; Commodore SAT Steven Jermy, recently retired from the Navy; Patrick SAT Hennessey, former soldier and author of The Junior Officers' SAT Reading Club; Freshta Raper, who escaped from Saddam SAT Hussein's Iraq; and Sarah Lasenby, a peace activist from Oxford. SAT SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander SAT Editor: Hugh Levinson. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00t6y67 (Listen) SAT (1/12) Tom Sutcliffe returns with a new series of the SAT perennial cryptic panel quiz, which has been running on BBC SAT radio since 1947. Six teams from around the UK compete to SAT unravel the programme's trademark convoluted questions. SAT SAT Literature, history, nostalgia, music, entertainment, SAT etymology and the natural world are among the topics SAT routinely encompassed by Round Britain Quiz questions - SAT often all at once. The teams need to be able to draw on the SAT widest possible range of knowledge and employ all their SAT powers of lateral thinking. As ever, the series title will SAT be awarded to the team who score the most victories from the SAT four contests in which they appear. SAT SAT Last year's series win for the Welsh was a fitting swan-song SAT for the late Patrick Hannan and his team-mate Peter Stead. SAT This year Wales is represented by former Mastermind champion SAT and 'Who Wants To Be A Millionare' winner, David Edwards, SAT partnering the satirist and playwright Myfanwy Alexander. SAT SAT In the first programme the South of England team, regulars SAT Fred Housego and Marcel Berlins, play the Midlands team of SAT writer Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock, Chief Executive SAT of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Northern SAT Ireland field the writer Polly Devlin and the respected SAT journalist and historian Brian Feeney. The North of England SAT team pairs writer and publisher Michael Schmidt with the SAT novelist Adele Geras, and the regular team members for SAT Scotland are writer and critic Michael Alexander and SAT journalist Alan Taylor. SAT SAT As ever, many of the questions in the series have been SAT suggested by listeners. Each programme closes with a SAT 'cliffhanger' question, also available on the show's SAT webpages, to which Tom will reveal the answer the following week. SAT SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Morpurgo's Islands of Inspiration b00mwl6s (Listen) SAT Children's writer Michael Morpurgo travels back to his SAT favourite place, the Isles of Scilly, to explore the stories SAT and legends that are part of the islands' history, where he SAT believes "every rock and wreck has a story to tell" - SAT stories that have inspired his own work. SAT SAT He first visited the isles over 30 years ago. He went there SAT reluctantly, unconvinced as to what so small a group of SAT islands could offer him. He describes it as "the best SAT decision I never made". What he found there was a place full SAT of beauty, isolation and a unique community. The Isles of SAT Scilly are an archipelago of over two hundred small islands, SAT only five of them inhabited. It was on the smallest of these SAT populated isles, Bryher, that Michael stayed that first SAT time, and which he visits many times a year and upon which SAT many of the stories are based. SAT SAT He unpicks why the islands have been such a source of magic SAT and inspiration for him. He speaks to Scillonians to hear SAT firsthand old stories and to uncover new ones he's never SAT heard before, revealing how historical fact and handed-down SAT fiction can often be blurred. SAT SAT Throughout the programme there are readings from Michael's SAT books inspired by these islands. SAT SAT Producer: Susie Matthews SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 AUGUST 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00t83kd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00h31lm (Listen) SUN Murder She Thought - Series 2, Domestic Violence SUN SUN A pleasant, reasonable woman wants to find the perfect SUN husband. Trouble is, she's had several and none has proved SUN acceptable. So what do you do when divorce isn't an option? SUN SUN Award-winning Hollywood actress Glenne Headley reads Cathy SUN Ace's tale. SUN SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t83kg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t83kj (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t83kl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00t83kn (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00t83kq (Listen) SUN The bells of York Minster. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00t834t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00t83ks (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00t83kv (Listen) SUN The Art of Faith: Part 1 SUN SUN Mike Wooldridge explores the universal principles that SUN underlie all sacred art. SUN SUN In conversation with the Director and Students of the SUN Prince's School of Traditional Arts in London, he considers SUN the meaning of tradition and originality in sacred art, and SUN asks how the artist's spirituality informs their work. SUN SUN Producer: Eley McAinsh SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00t83kx (Listen) SUN A Passion for the Angus is served up at Gamage Hall Farm as SUN Tom Heap travels to Gloucestershire to talk to Paul and SUN Kirsty Westaway about their Pedigree and their cross bred herd. SUN The husband and wife team have been running Melview Farming SUN in Gloustershire for 4 years and all 135 acres of it are SUN dedicated to the Aberdeen Angus and it's food. They have a SUN passion to improve the breed and believe developments in SUN genetics holds the key. Tom Heap talks to them about their SUN breeding and rearing policy and discovers what it's taken to SUN turn a run down local authority tenanted farm into a dynamic SUN and forward looking enterprise. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00t83kz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00t83l1 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00t83l3 (Listen) SUN William Crawley 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 b00t83l5 (Listen) SUN Clive Anderson presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN Children with AIDS Charity. SUN SUN Donations to Children with AIDS Charity should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Children with AIDS Charity. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. 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SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00t83lc (Listen) SUN The Lady of the Lamp SUN SUN Marking a century since the death of Florence Nightingale, SUN this act of worship explores the legacy of one of the most SUN influential medics of all time. SUN SUN Flowing from her Christian faith, the care and compassion SUN that the 'Lady of the Lamp' showed to those wounded in the SUN Crimean War made her world famous and changed the face of SUN nursing for all time. SUN SUN Members of the Florence Nightingale School Choir join forces SUN with the Guy's and St Thomas' Staff Choir in the chapel of SUN St Thomas' Hospital, London where the design of the ward SUN environment was influenced by Florence Nightingale. SUN SUN The preacher is The Revd Tom Keighley, a Nightingale Nurse SUN and Fellow of the Nightingale Foundation. SUN The service is led by The Revd Mia Hilborn, Hospitaller at SUN Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London. SUN SUN Music directors: Andrew Earis & Laka Daisical SUN Organist: James Mooney-Dutton SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00t7kys (Listen) SUN A Pioneering Scientist SUN SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on the colourful career of the founder SUN of the British Museum, Sir Hans Sloane, a pioneering SUN naturalist and physician, rooted in the commercialism of his age SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00t83lf (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00t83lh (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Nawal Gadalla SUN Directed by ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Alice Aldridge ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... Will Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Alysha ..... Emma Deakin. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00t83lk (Listen) SUN Lord David Cobbold SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs is Lord David SUN Cobbold. SUN SUN He was just 32 years old when he took over the ancestral SUN pile Knebworth House and he succeeded in turning a crumbling SUN corner of the establishment into one of the best rock SUN concert venues in the world. Over the past forty years, SUN everyone from Led Zeppelin to Paul McCartney to Robbie SUN Williams has played there. The concerts have not only SUN allowed him to keep the house in private hands, but have SUN also given him a front-row seat to some of the most SUN celebrated performances in rock history. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00t6ykd (Listen) SUN Series 57, Episode 1 SUN SUN The classic long running panel game Just a Minute returns to SUN the airwaves. SUN SUN Chairman Nicholas Parsons takes control of a loquacious and SUN rebellious bunch of players whose task it is to speak on a SUN subject he gives them for one minute without hesitation, SUN repetition or deviation. SUN SUN A classic team of players launch the new series. They are: SUN Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Gyles Brandreth and Jenny SUN Eclair. Tune in, to find out how many words per minute they SUN can manage. SUN SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00t83lm (Listen) SUN Richard Johnson is on a mission to revive the fortunes of SUN the British kebab. He travels to Istanbul to discover how a SUN meal we dismiss as post-pub snack can be a real delicacy. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00t83lp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00t86fs (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Fu Manchu in Edinburgh b00rt91z (Listen) SUN Miles Jupp investigates the hidden connections between SUN Edinburgh and Sax Rohmer's criminal mastermind Fu Manchu. SUN Did the 'Devil Doctor' get his doctorate at Edinburgh SUN University? SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00t7kny (Listen) SUN Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw join SUN gardeners in Powys, Mid Wales. Eric Robson chairs the SUN discussion. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 A Guide to Coastal Birds b00t86sv (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss SUN on the Devonshire coast. With the help of wildlife sound SUN recordist Chris Watson they offer a practical and SUN entertaining guide to identifying the birds that you're most SUN likely to see and hear in Britain's estuaries; birds like SUN Redshank, Dunlin, Curlew and Knot. SUN SUN This is the first of five programmes to help identify many SUN of the birds found around our British coastline in places SUN like sandy beaches, rocky shores, sea cliffs, off-shore SUN islands and estuaries. Not only is there advice on how to SUN recognise the birds from their appearance, but also how to SUN identify them from their calls and songs. SUN SUN This series complements three previous series; A Guide to SUN Garden Birds, A Guide Woodland Birds and A Guide to Water SUN Birds and is aimed at both the complete novice as well as SUN those who are eager to learn more about our coastal visitors SUN and residents. SUN SUN Produced by Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00t870t (Listen) SUN The Wings of the Dove, Episode 2 SUN SUN by Henry James SUN Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths SUN SUN Milly confides in Kate that she believes herself to be SUN gravely ill and Kate begins to see a way for her and Merton SUN to have a future. SUN SUN When Merton returns to London, Kate sets out to bring her SUN lover and her friend together. With Kate's assurances that SUN there is nothing between them, Milly allows herself to hope SUN that Merton may be the one great passion in her short life. SUN SUN Milly.....Anna Maxwell Martin SUN Lord Mark.....Toby Jones SUN Maud.....Clare Higgins SUN Susie.....Barbara Barnes SUN Kate.....Lyndsey Marshal SUN Merton.....Blake Ritson SUN Lord Strett...Sam Dale SUN Lady Aldershaw...Alison Pettitt SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00t870w (Listen) SUN Aminatta Forna talks to novelist Louise Dean about her new SUN book The Old Romantic. As a new novel inspired by the Fritzl SUN case in Austria is published, writer Rupert Thomson and SUN critic Alex Clark talk to Aminatta about the SUN fictionalisation of real crime. And if all you read are the SUN books of Dan Brown, where do you turn when you have run out? SUN John O'Farrell helps out an Open Book listener. SUN SUN Producer: Sally Spurring. SUN SUN 16:30 But Found No Keepers: The Flannan Isle Lighthouse Mystery b00t870y (Listen) SUN On Boxing Day, 1900, The Hesperus arrives at Flannan Isle to SUN relieve the lighthouse keepers. She sounds her steam whistle SUN to alert the keepers but there is no response. The telegram SUN from the captain reads 'managed to land Moore, who went up SUN to the Station but found no Keepers there.' What the relief SUN keeper did find was the lamp prepared, the washing up done, SUN but the clock stopped, the fires out and the last entry in SUN the diary dated 15th December. The three lighthouse keepers SUN had vanished. SUN SUN The mystery of their disappearance has fascinated people SUN ever since - not least artists. Wilfrid Gibson, a friend of SUN Robert Frost and Edward Thomas, wrote an atmospheric poem on SUN the subject, published in 1912, that intrigued the public of SUN the day. Peter Maxwell Davies has written an opera, there's SUN a song by Genesis and an episode of Dr Who all based on the SUN mystery. SUN SUN The poet Kenneth Steven visits Flannan and relates what he SUN sees there to Wilfrid Gibson's poem. Using the original SUN reports - the telegram giving the first news, a letter SUN written two days later by Joseph Moore, the official report SUN by the lighthouse superintendent - with archive recordings SUN and expert opinion, he pieces together what happened, and SUN interweaves all these elements with the wind, the waves, and SUN the silence of the deserted isle. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May. SUN SUN 17:00 The Mossad b00t7dfn (Listen) SUN The Mossad, or 'Institute of Special Tasks', is one of the SUN most feared and fabled security services in the world. It SUN has been lauded for daring operations and accused of SUN cold-blooded murder. It is widely thought to have been SUN behind the assassination of a leading member of the group SUN Hamas. Mahmoud al-Mahbouh's body was found in his luxury SUN hotel room in Dubai earlier this year. It was locked on the SUN inside and had a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the outside. First SUN indications were that he had died from natural causes. SUN SUN In this special documentary, the BBC's Security SUN Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to key figures from The SUN Mossad, which was founded after the Arab-Israeli war in SUN 1948. Their testimony is both revealing and intriguing: SUN SUN "They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill SUN and they teach you to do things which normal people don't SUN do." SUN SUN "You follow people against their will, you open their mail SUN against their will, you listen to them against their will." SUN SUN "The reputation of The Mossad, no matter how high it is, SUN doesn't compare to how good it really is." SUN SUN The programme includes interviews with a Ephraim Halevy SUN (former head of The Mossad and confidant of Israeli Prime SUN Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and SUN Ariel Sharon) as well as Rafi Eitan (leader of the team SUN which captured the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the SUN sixties). SUN SUN Other former Mossad members talk about their recruitment and SUN training as well as covert operations in the Middle East. SUN They insist they follow a strict ethical code but others SUN question whether their methods are in breach of SUN international law. SUN SUN Presenter: Gordon Corera SUN Producer: Mark Savage. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00t834t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00t8710 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00t8712 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t8714 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00t8716 (Listen) SUN Steve Delaney makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN On Pick of the Week this week the creator of Count Arthur SUN Strong, Steve Delaney, finds out something he didn't know SUN about Frank Zappa. Something he didn't know about time SUN capsules. Something he didn't know about John Lennon. SUN Something he didn't know about Aushwitz. Something he didn't SUN know about nightingales. Something he didn't know about John SUN Cooper Clarke and something he didn't know about yodelling. SUN He did know about Chris and Alice in the Archers however. So SUN that's something I suppose. SUN SUN Hunt For The Nightingales Song - Radio 4 SUN Laurel Canyon - Radio 2 SUN Yodel-Ay-Ee-Ooo - Arthur Smith and the Global Yodel - Radio SUN 2 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN John Cooper Clarke - 6Music SUN Useful Idiots - World Service SUN Repairing Auschwitz - Radio 4 SUN We Were Here - How To Create Your Own Time Capsule - Radio 4 SUN The Secret World - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN The Ladies - Radio 4 SUN The Organist Entertains - Radio 2 SUN The Archers - Radio 4 SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN FAX: 0161 244 4243 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00t8745 (Listen) SUN There are tensions on Lakey Hill and Jim steps in to build SUN bridges. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00t8747 (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 Washington Rules: Andrew Bacevich SUN SUN President Obama announced his plan to end the combat mission SUN in Iraq but Andrew Bacevich, former army Colonel and SUN professor of history at Boston University, discusses whether SUN the U.S. military commitment ever truly ends and how much SUN power the President of the United States has to redirect the SUN mission. SUN SUN Boy Scouts of America, still building leaders? SUN SUN Americana visits with members of the Boy Scouts of America SUN at their National Jamboree. SUN SUN The boys and leaders explain how the motto to always, "be SUN prepared" still holds relevance even as archery and knot SUN tying have lost favour in the 100 years since the group was SUN founded. SUN SUN America Eclipsed: Gary Shteyngart SUN SUN Gary Shteyngart explains the satirical future he sees for SUN America through his newest book, "Super Sad True Love SUN Story". The U.S. he envisions is a nearly post-literate, SUN over-consumptive nation, spiralling towards tragedy. SUN SUN American Strength: Cartoons SUN SUN A team of America’s most well-known characters, Bugs Bunny, SUN Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd perform musical masterpieces with SUN the help of Orchestra Director George Daugherty and the SUN Sydney Symphony Orchestra. SUN SUN Daugherty explains how the famous Toons continue to leave SUN their American stamp on music lovers of all ages. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00g4bmx (Listen) SUN Big Charlie, Episode 2 SUN SUN The true story of the transportation of an elephant between SUN two Butlins camps in the 1950s. SUN SUN Colonel "Elephant Bill" Williams arrives in Ayr and meets SUN Big Charlie and his mahout, Shaik Ibrahim, for the first time. SUN SUN Written by JH Williams. Abridged and read by Tony Lidington. SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00t7knt (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00t7kyj (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN Financier turned royal courtier Sir John Riddell, who as SUN private secretary to both the Prince and Princess of Wales SUN remained on good terms with both. Lolita Lebron who led a SUN gun attack on the US House of Representatives to make the SUN case for Puerto Rican independence. Screenwriter Tom SUN Mankiewicz who revived the fortunes of James Bond and saved SUN Superman. Donald Shiley, whose artificial heart valve was SUN credited with saving thousands of lives. And Eric Tindill SUN who until his death held the distinction of being the oldest SUN surviving Test cricketer in the world and an All Blacks SUN Rugby player. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b00t8752 (Listen) SUN An asylum seeker takes his own life after his lawyers go SUN into administration; a man and his family are thrown into SUN detention because they've unwittingly been given false SUN papers by an unscrupulous immigration adviser; a woman who's SUN fled torture but hasn't been able to see her children for SUN years because of bungling lawyers. Their experiences cost SUN them money and heartache. But poor legal advice can cost all SUN of us in the long run if wrongly advised clients end up SUN appealing their decision, or people, who've been told SUN incorrectly that they can stay, then have to be removed from SUN the country at the taxpayers' expense. SUN Changes to the way legal aid is paid have made the system SUN "unsustainable". Asylum lawyers can now wait years for legal SUN aid payments to be settled. John Waite talks to some of the SUN hundreds of committed advisers who have been forced out of SUN their jobs because they either can't make it pay - or can't SUN do the job properly any more. And he asks the Legal Services SUN Commission to justify a false economy and a failure of SUN justice. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00t83l5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00t7jyv (Listen) SUN Power Play SUN SUN Huge hopes and vast sums of money are being pinned on the SUN so-called Intelligent Grid: a new network of electricity SUN systems feeding information about supply and demand across SUN the grid all the time. Linked to new compulsory smart SUN meters, it will extend into every home. Peter Day asks SUN what's happening to our power supplies and why. SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00t875x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00t875z (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00t8761 (Listen) SUN Episode 13 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week Andrew Pierce of the SUN Daily Mail takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00t7kyl (Listen) SUN British actor Alfred Molina is like a one-man League Of SUN Nations . He's played at least a dozen different SUN nationalities on screen - from Russian to Welsh to Mexican - SUN and explains why he's the go-to guy when Hollywood needs an SUN exotic villain. SUN SUN Mark Gatiss, the co-creator BBC TV's Sherlock Holmes series, SUN continues his celebration of British character actors with a SUN hymn to the work of Miles Malleson, who essayed a series of SUN curates and bishops in some unforgettable cameos SUN SUN Oscar winning designer Julie Harris talks to Matthew Sweet SUN about some of her greatest creations for the screen, and SUN about the mink bikini she designed for Diana Dors to wear at SUN the Venice Film Festival. SUN SUN Neil Brand traces the cinematic roots of the arch-villain to SUN 1920s Berlin and a mesmerist and master of disguise with a SUN cunning plan. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00t83kv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 AUGUST 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00t8783 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00t7fjp (Listen) MON Robots and gender - Economic progress MON MON Prosperity is accused of encouraging greed, ruining the MON environment, undermining communities, causing unhappiness MON and widening social inequalities. The push for growth has MON been the bedrock policy for almost every world economy but MON since the financial crisis, belief in growth has become MON increasingly challenged. Daniel Ben-Ami, takes on what he MON calls the 'growth sceptics' and makes the claim that more MON affluence benefits the whole of society. He discusses the MON 'glories of growth' with Laurie Taylor and Kevin Doogan on MON Thinking Allowed on 4 August. MON MON Also, the rise of the 'fembot'. The Japanese government is MON investing billions in the development of robotic technology. MON They think the robot will do for the 21st century economy MON what the automobile did for the 20th. However, Jennifer MON Robertson thinks that as female robots are developed to MON perform some of the functions traditionally performed by MON women, it bodes ill for the future of Japanese society. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00t83kq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t87jb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t87nb (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t87ln (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00t87s8 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t87vl (Listen) MON With Shaykh Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow, Centre for the MON Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, MON Cambridge. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00t87yc (Listen) MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Martin MON Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00t8qy7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00t899c (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00t8qy9 (Listen) MON Series 4, Kay Mellor MON MON Television screenwriter Kay Mellor was born into a working MON class Leeds household in the 1950s and brought up MON single-handedly by her mother from the age of three. Her MON mother re-married when Kay was 10. She remembers a secure MON childhood. But money was tight, she did badly at school and MON was married, with a child, at just sixteen. The marriage has MON endured the intervening decades and the success she MON eventually found. She talks to Wendy Robbins about the MON loneliness of teenage motherhood, her uphill struggle to MON educate herself and her writing life which has always been MON inspired by the Yorkshire people she still lives amongst. MON Producer: Smita Patel. MON MON 09:30 Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star b00t8qyc (Listen) MON Episode 4 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 four Alan meets Jackie Abbott who, for seven MON years, was the lead singer in The Beautiful South, having a MON string of massive hits and touring the world. Alan discovers MON that Jackie's story is remarkable. She was never seeking the MON life of a singer, she was working in a shop when she was MON picked up andput straight into an already successful band. MON After ten years she gave it all up as quickly as she MON accepted it. Could it be that Alan's ambitions were misinformed? MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00t899f (Listen) MON We are a Muslim, Please, Episode 1 MON MON For Zaiba Malik, growing up in Bradford in the '70s and '80s MON certainly has its moments - staying up all night during MON Ramadan with her father; watching mad Mr Aziz searching for MON his goat during Eid; dancing along to Top of the Pops (as MON long as no-one's watching). And, of course, there's her MON mother - whether she's writing another ingratiating letter MON to the Queen or referring to Tom Jones as 'Thumb Jone'. MON MON But Zaiba's story is also one of anxiety and seemingly MON irreconcilable opposites. Growing up she is constantly torn MON between two identities: 'British' and 'Muslim'. Alienated at MON school and confused at home, the racism she encounters as a MON child mirrors the horrors she experiences at the hands of MON Bangladeshi interrogators as a journalist years later. MON MON Five years after the 7/7 attacks galvanized debates about MON Muslim-British identity, we see, through Zaiba's childhood MON eyes, the poignancy of growing up in a world whose MON prejudices, contradictions and ambiguities are at once MON distressing and yet utterly captivating. MON MON Zaiba Malik is an award-winning investigative journalist who MON has worked on some of the BBC and Channel 4's most acclaimed MON radio and TV documentaries, including 'Sleepers: Undercover MON with the Racists', 'Dispatches: Trouble at the Mosque' and MON 'Killing for Honour'. She writes for newspapers including MON the Guardian, and was recently named as one of the twenty MON most influential black and Asian women in the UK. MON MON Read by Nisha Nayar. MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier. MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t8b0z (Listen) MON Presented by Bidisha. Niki Segnit on flavours and natural MON pairings in food, why age is no barrier for British artist MON Rose Wylie whose work has wowed critics in the States, the MON story of Precious Williams - her parting from her Nigerian MON princess mother and growing up black in a white community, MON and why plans to give women protection from abusive partners MON are being put on hold. MON MON Go Orders’ may be scrapped MON MON 'Go orders' or Domestic Violence Protection Notices give MON police the powers to ban suspected domestic abusers from MON their victim’s home. The orders were being introduced under MON the Crime and Securities Bill 2009/2010. But the Home MON Office has deferred the pilot schemes until the MON comprehensive spending review in the Autumn. MON Bidisha speaks to a woman who was a victim of domestic MON abuse; and she also discusses the Home Office deferring the MON pilots with Caroline Evely, a chief inspector who works in MON the area of violence and public protection and Anastasia de MON Waal, director of the family and education unit at the think MON tank Civitas. MON MON Rose Wylie MON MON The artist Rose Wylie has hit the headlines for being the MON only British woman to be featured in the National Museum of MON Women in the Arts in Washington’s ‘Women to Watch’ MON exhibition. Her painting Lords and Ladies (pictured) is MON included in the show. It features "underrepresented and MON emerging women artists†– but Rose is 75. Also, sisters MON Savannah and Sienna Miller have chosen her as next season’s MON guest artist for their fashion label Twenty8Twelve. Bidisha MON visited Rose in her tiny 16thC cottage in Kent that is MON stuffed floor to ceiling with her art, to find out how she MON feels about suddenly being in the media spotlight. MON MON "Women to Watch" is at the National Museum of Women in the MON Arts in Washington DC. MON In the UK you can see Rose’s work in the Twenty8Twelve MON stores and in September she’s taking part in the exhibition MON 'IN DREAMS', at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London. MON MON Niki Segnit and The Flavour Thesaurus MON MON Bacon and eggs, basil and tomato, cheese and onion: there MON are some flavours which are natural partners, destined to go MON together. But what about coconut and beetroot or chocolate MON and black pudding? In her new book The Flavour Thesaurus, MON Niki Segnit explores classic and more unusual flavour MON combinations. Niki Segnit talks to Bidisha about how to be MON an ingredient led rather than recipe dependent cook. MON MON The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit. Published by MON Bloomsbury, MON ISBN-10: 0747599777. MON MON Precious Williams MON MON The journalist Precious Williams, the daughter of a Nigerian MON princess, was just three months old, in 1971, when she was MON privately fostered by a white couple in their late fifties. MON She joins Bidisha to discuss her memoir ‘Precious – A True MON Story’,in which she tells her own story of growing up black MON in a white community in rural Sussex and her struggles with MON racial identity and a sense of belonging. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t8bsj (Listen) MON Mrs Tolstoy, True Happiness MON MON By Stephen Wakelam. MON MON True Happiness. Leo Tolstoy has given up writing fiction MON and cut himself off from his children. Sofya wants to move MON the family to Moscow. MON MON In his fifties the great writer Leo Tolstoy has a spiritual MON crisis and converts to Christianity. He stops sleeping with MON his wife. They have ten children. Taking the vows of poverty MON and chastity literally Tolstoy wants to give everything MON away but Sofya has a large family to feed. This is the woman MON who transcribed 'War and Peace' six times and who fights off MON rivals on daily basis for a place at his side. For forty MON eight years, the Tolstoys tormented each other with love and MON hate. Ian McDiarmid and Haydn Gwynne star in this portrait MON of a tempestuous marriage. MON MON Sofya Tolstoy ... Haydn Gwynne MON Leo Tolstoy ... Ian McDiarmid MON Chertkov ... Paul Ritter MON Tanya Tolstoy ... Vineeta Rishi MON Grigory/Taneev ... Sam Dale MON Musician ... Michael Shelford MON Vanya Tolstoy ... James Warner MON MON Directed by Claire Grove. MON MON 11:00 Desi Pubs b00t8xfh (Listen) MON Bobby Friction looks at the changes in the Desi pub's place MON in the Punjabi community in West Bromwich. Set up in the MON model of the British working man's club, the Desi pub now MON needs to adapt to survive. And there is tension from the MON Sikh temple in the area who forbid the use of alcohol. MON MON With unprecedented access, Bobby Friction takes a tour of MON the many 'Desi' (South Asian) pubs in West Bromwich, near MON where he lives, and asks what part the pub plays in the MON Punjabi community. MON MON The pub is a great British tradition, but as the Asian MON population established themselves in Britain, the first Desi MON pub was opened in Southall. And the Desi pub has become a MON regular fixture in areas like West Bromwich, which is highly MON populated by Asians and in particular Punjabis - many of MON whom class themselves as following the Sikh religion. MON MON Originally the pubs had a working man's club atmosphere and MON were populated by the older generation of foundry workers, MON but as entertainment and food increased in the pubs, MON landlords began trying to attract more families. Most older MON Asian women don't visit pubs or drink alcohol. However, the MON next generation of young Asians, men and women, are far more MON likely to be found in mixed pubs catering for all MON communities than in purely Desi pubs. MON MON Right next door to one of the pubs visited by Bobby is a MON Sikh Gurdwara (temple). He talks to religious leaders who MON are concerned that the pubs are encouraging drinking - which MON is against the Sikh religion - and making people waste their MON money and time. There is also worrying evidence that the MON Punjabi community has the highest incidence of death from MON alcohol-related illnesses than any other community in the UK. MON MON Other contributors see the positive side of the pubs, MON explaining that they keep the community in touch with their MON roots. Also, the Bhangra music scene emerged from the Desi MON pub and today they support this music industry with live MON bands and DJs, as well as jukeboxes playing purely Desi music. MON MON What do these shifts say about the Punjabi community of West MON Bromwich and the British immigrant experience? MON MON Producer: Laura Parfitt MON A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00d7b5x (Listen) MON Series 2, Chapter the Fifth: An Already Bad Life Made Worse but Sort of on Purpose MON MON By Mark Evans MON Volume Two, Chapter the Fifth: An Already Bad Life Made MON Worse But Sort Of On Purpose. MON MON The comic Victorian epic sees Pip reach his lowest ebb in MON the worst place in the world, the East End of London in the MON first half of the nineteenth century. Full of self-loathing MON Pip drinks some very strong gin, finds he is really quite MON keen on opium, and falls in with a gang of thieving boys. MON But is their leader, Mr Abraham Bagel, a Roman Catholic MON ne'er-do-well, all he seems? MON MON Sir Philip...........................Richard Johnson MON Mr Benevolent........................Anthony Head MON Young Pip..................................Tom Allen MON Harry Biscuit......................James Bachman MON Sternbeater...................Geoffrey Whitehead MON Ripely Fecund......................Sarah Hadland MON Mr Parsimonious...............Laurence Howarth MON Pippa........................................Susy Kane MON Mr Scrunge...............................Mark Evans MON MON Produced by Gareth Edwards. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00t8c9v (Listen) MON Julian Worricker talks to the man charged with reviewing the MON Government's new "fit to work" test which may be failing MON legitimate benefit claimants MON MON We find out what happened to plans to get fast food chains MON to display calorie counts on menus and in store. MON MON Michael Connor, the new chief executive of Consumer Focus MON tells us why empowered customers are good for business. MON MON And, three years on from the Credit Crunch, we look at how MON the recession has changed 'ordinary' lives. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00t8ccb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00t8cjp (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00t8xfk (Listen) MON (2/12) Tom Sutcliffe chairs the second programme in the 2010 MON series of Radio 4's evergreen quiz of cryptic clues and MON unlikely connections. Critic Michael Alexander and MON journalist Alan Taylor, of Scotland, return to face MON publisher Michael Schmidt and novelist Adele Geras, MON representing the North of England. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00t8745 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t8xfm (Listen) MON Rumpole and the Family Pride MON MON By John Mortimer. MON Dramatised by Richard Stoneman. MON MON We rejoin Rumpole and Hilda in the late 1950s, when they MON have been married for a year or two. Rumpole mingles with a MON branch of Yorkshire aristocracy remotely connected to MON Hilda's family when he represents a Lord in the Coroner's Court. MON MON Hilda's first cousin (once removed), Rosemary, lives with MON her husband, Richard, the 17th Baron Sackbut, in Sackbut MON Castle and Hilda and Rumpole are invited to Yorkshire when a MON body is found in the grounds of the castle. MON MON Older Rumpole/Mr Cursitor ..... Timothy West MON Young Rumpole ..... Benedict Cumberbatch MON Hilda ..... Cathy Sara MON Liz Probert/Helen Yarrowby ..... Elaine Claxton MON Lord Richard Sackbut ..... Julian Wadham MON Rosemary Sackbut/Pippa Bastion ..... Sophie Thompson MON Jonathan Sackbut/Young Man ..... Joshua McGuire MON "Plunger" Plumstead/Tarquin Yarrowby/Mr Saggers ..... MON Stephen Critchlow MON Mrs Percier ..... Susan Wooldridge MON Dr Malkin/Castle Guide/Policeman ..... Geoffrey Whitehead MON Dr Swabey/Gavin Bastion ..... Adrian Scarborough MON MON Music: The sax quartet version of Gershwin's "They Can't MON Take That Away From Me" was arranged by Julie Hodge and MON performed by "Sax" who are Luiza Beddoes, Kate Mylnar, MON Janine Ng and Julie Hodge. MON MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie. MON A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 The Archive Hour b00t834y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Generation Gap b00t8hlw (Listen) MON Pocket Money MON MON Two people from different generations discuss society's MON changing attitudes to money. MON MON The series takes a look at how our relationship with money MON has changed in the last 50 years. It covers the lifespan MON from our earliest encounters with pocket money, to our views MON on money as we face retirement. With ever more complicated MON ways of managing money and shifting attitudes, what changes MON have been seen in our society over the last 50 years? MON MON Jean is 83 and was given half a penny a week pocket money MON which she spent on sweets to share with friends less MON fortunate. It's a contrast to her young great granddaughter MON Simone who gets £6 a week. Simone and her friends go MON shopping regularly and get extra handouts on top of their MON pocket money in sharp contrast to Jean who had to save hard. MON MON Producer: Laura Parfitt MON A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00t83lm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00t8xls (Listen) MON Abstinence MON MON Ernie Rea and his guests explore the place of faith in our MON complex world. MON MON Ernie is joined by three guests who discuss 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 edition, representatives of three different faiths MON discuss the purpose and effect of abstinence. What benefit MON does abstaining from food or sex or pastimes have on the MON spirit, the soul or the waistline and is denying yourself MON always a good thing? Ernie hears about some extreme forms MON of abstinence which are questioned and challenged by the MON guests, who include Raana Bokhari from the Religious Studies MON Department of the University of Lancaster, Peter Stanford, a MON Catholic writer and journalist and Dr Atul Shah, a member of MON the Jain community. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00t8hqm (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t8htm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00t97p0 (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 2 MON MON The classic long running panel game is back on the airwaves. MON MON Chairman Nicholas Parsons takes charge once again. Subjects MON include 'A Man Walks into a Bar...' Paul Merton, Sue MON Perkins, Liza Tarbuck and John Sergeant take it in turns to MON speak without Repetition hesitation or Deviation. Tune in, MON to find out how many words per minute they can manage. MON MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00t8ck1 (Listen) MON Helen tackles a delicate subject and Susan starts to get MON things organised. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00t8j15 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an MON interview with writer Tom McCarthy, whose novel C is one of MON the 13 books still in contention for the 2010 Man Booker MON Prize for fiction. MON MON Producer Timothy Prosser. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t8bsj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 McCarthy: There Were Reds Under the Bed b00t7hhf (Listen) MON David Aaronovitch thinks the unthinkable about the McCarthy MON period. MON MON The hunt for the so called 'Reds under the beds' during the MON Cold War is generally regarded as a deeply regrettable blot MON on U.S history. But the release of classified documents MON reveals that Joseph McCarthy was right after all about the MON extent of Soviet infiltration into the highest reaches of MON the U.S government. MON MON Thanks to the public release of top secret FBI decryptions MON of Soviet communications, as well as the release under the MON fifty year rule of FBI records and Soviet archives, we now MON know that the Communist spying McCarthy fought against was MON extensive, reaching to the highest level of the State MON department and the White House. MON MON We reveal that many of McCarthy's anticommunist MON investigations were in fact on target. His fears about the MON effect Soviet infiltration might be having on US foreign MON policy, particularly in the Far East were also well founded. MON MON The decrypts also reveal that people such as Rosenberg, MON Alger Hiss and even Robert Oppenheimer were indeed working MON with the Soviets. We explore why much of this information, MON available for years to the FBI, was not made public. We also MON examine how its suppression prevented the prosecution of MON suspects. MON MON Finally, we explore the extent to which Joseph McCarthy, MON with his unsavoury methods and smear tactics, could have MON done himself a disservice, resulting in his name being MON forever synonymous with paranoia and the ruthless MON suppression of free speech. MON MON Hearing from former FBI, CIA and KGB operatives as well as MON formerly blacklisted writers, David Aaronovitch, himself MON from a family of communists tells the untold story of Soviet MON influence and espionage in the United States. MON MON Producer: Kati Whitaker MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00t7g8z (Listen) MON Conversion Wars MON MON Crossing Continents encounters converts in Egypt who live in MON constant fear. We meet 'Mariam', a convert to Christianity MON who is secretly married to a Christian and who lives in MON hiding as her family have threatened to kill her. She is now MON pregnant, and says that she will never be allowed to MON officially marry her husband and that her child will have to MON be raised without official papers. MON MON But there is also a group of Christian TV channels, mostly MON based in the USA and run by converts, who are targeting the MON region's Muslims. The programme gains rare access to one of MON these channels, where they discover converts using shocking MON language to attack Islam. The largest of these channels, MON called Al-Hayat, claims to have millions of viewers in the MON Arab World. Its most prominent preacher, Father Zakaria MON Boutros, is famous for his incendiary attacks on Islam and MON the Prophet Muhammad. Father Boutros lives in hiding after MON receiving numerous death threats. He has inspired a new MON generation of preachers who are deliberately attacking Islam MON as a method to convert Muslims to Christianity. His brand of MON 'shock' preaching has spread across the airwaves and the MON internet. MON We track down the Al-Hayat channel to the USA, and find that MON it is a 'vital partner' of one the USA's most prominent TV MON evangelists. Joyce Meyer Ministries (JMM) receives tens of MON millions of dollars a year in donations, and much of it is MON spent on 'Christian outreach.' While JMM deny any editorial MON control over the station, the BBC finds they helped to MON launch it and they buy airtime. A spokesman for JMM MON eventually sends an email saying that Father Boutros will no MON longer be hosting a show on Al Hayat. MON The programme is written and reported by Omar Abdel-Razak of MON the BBC Arabic Service and narrated by Hugh Levinson. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00t7h92 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. This week we're back discussing the MON oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and how the leaking well MON will be permanently sealed. Quentin finds out how proteins MON can function without water and the science of snails - do MON they have a homing instinct? MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00t8qy9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00t8j2h (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00t8j3b (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 b00tbsyw (Listen) MON The Story of a Marriage, Episode 1 MON MON "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins MON her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery in MON the heart of every relationship, how we can ever truly know MON another person. MON MON It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself MON living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not MON only for her husband's fragile health but also for her son MON who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a MON stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. All MON the certainties by which Pearlie has lived are thrown into MON doubt. Does she know her husband at all? And what does the MON stranger want in return for his offer of $100,000? MON MON Written by Andrew Sean Greer and abridged by Fiona McAlpine. MON Read by Adjoa Andoh. MON MON ProducerL Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00t7305 (Listen) MON Chrs Ledgard travels to a three day celebration of MON storytelling, Festival at the Edge in Shropshire, one of MON many storytelling festivals now held globally. Here he meets MON storytellers from all over the world, and the audiences who MON have come to hear them, to try and discover why in a digital MON age there has been such a resurgence of interest what is MON after all, an ancient method of communication. Producer Paul MON Dodgson. MON MON 23:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00j67mn (Listen) MON Harry Hindle-Rand MON MON Ian McDiarmid stars as Dr Henry Pickerskill, retired English MON master of Haunchurst School for boys, looking back on his MON favourite pupils and their fortunes in the adult world - MON based on their school reports and their letters to him after MON they left. MON MON Harry Hindle-Rand, an apparently saintly pupil and school MON chorister, secretly encourages one of the master's weakness MON for altar wine in exchange for answers to end of term exams. MON While the boy may be a heavenly singer, Pickerskill uncovers MON Hindle-Rand's darker motives and predicts correctly that he MON will become successful as an adult. Just not in the way one MON might have expected. MON MON Dr Henry Pickerskill ..... Ian McDiarmid MON Harry Hindle-Rand ..... Thomas Sangster MON Lefty Rogers ..... Tony Gardner MON The Chaplain ..... Mike Feast MON The Colonel ..... Richard Johnson MON Elfyn Wynn Thomas Evans ..... Philip Madoc MON Collyer ..... Tom Kane MON Stealgroynes ..... Louis Williams MON MON Written and directed by Andrew McGibbon. MON MON Producers: Nick Romero and Jonathan Ruffle MON A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 AUGUST 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00t877d (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00t899f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t8785 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t87lq (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t87jd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00t87nd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t87sb (Listen) TUE With Shaykh Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow, Centre for the TUE Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, TUE Cambridge. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00t87vn (Listen) TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00t87yf (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00t97xc (Listen) TUE Series 6, Living Will TUE TUE A woman is brought to A&E by her husband . She is TUE unconscious having attempted suicide. She's been in pain for TUE more than 30 years with severe arthritis. Having witnessed TUE elderly relatives' death in distressing circumstances years TUE ago, she and her husband have written living wills or TUE advance directives. They ask for no medical treatment in TUE certain circumstances. She has always maintained with TUE everyone she knew that she doesn't ever want to be admitted TUE to intensive care. She has left five copies of her advance TUE directive with her husband, sister, daughter, lawyer and GP. TUE The staff in A&E are torn about what to do - should they TUE admit her to intensive care and save her life, or let her die ? TUE What should hospital staff do? Do they admit her to A&E TUE against the spirit of her advanced directive or give basic TUE treatment knowing it might prolong her life against her TUE wishes but prevent a slow painful death caused by the overdose? TUE Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the TUE complex ethical issues around advanced directives and TUE decision making at the end of life. TUE Producer: Pam Rutherford. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00tc661 (Listen) TUE We are a Muslim, Please, Episode 2 TUE TUE Award-winning investigative journalist Zaiba Malik's memoir TUE of growing up in the 70s and 80s, torn between being TUE 'British' and 'Muslim'. TUE TUE It's the festival of Eid, one of the most holy days in the TUE Muslim calendar, but the sacrificial goat has disappeared. TUE TUE Read by Nisha Nayar. TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier. TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t89g4 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jenni Murray. 7/7 London bombings survivor TUE Davinia Douglass on her remarkable recovery. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t8bs0 (Listen) TUE Mrs Tolstoy, A Simple Life TUE TUE By Stephen Wakelam. TUE TUE A Simple Life: Sofya Tolstoy is pregnant again. Leo invites TUE an aristocratic Christian disciple to stay. Is Sofya right TUE not to trust him? TUE TUE In his fifties the great writer Leo Tolstoy has a spiritual TUE crisis and converts to Christianity. He stops sleeping with TUE his wife. They have ten children. Taking the vows of poverty TUE and chastity literally Tolstoy wants to give everything away TUE but Sofya has a large family to feed. This is the woman who TUE transcribed 'War and Peace' six times and who fights off TUE rivals on daily basis for a place at his side. For forty TUE eight years, the Tolstoys tormented each other with love and TUE hate. Ian McDiarmid and Haydn Gwynne star in this portrait TUE of a tempestuous marriage. TUE TUE Sofya Tolstoy ... Haydn Gwynne TUE Leo Tolstoy ... Ian McDiarmid TUE Chertkov ... Paul Ritter TUE Tanya Tolstoy ... Vineeta Rishi TUE TUE Directed by Claire Grove. TUE TUE 11:00 In Living Memory b00td9pg (Listen) TUE Series 12, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the early 1970s Britain's universities were swept by a TUE wave of student protest and sit-ins. They wanted cheaper TUE meals in their refectories, the right to have visitors of TUE the opposite sex in their rooms after 10pm, and world TUE revolution. Jolyon Jenkins looks at three of the protests TUE that occured in 1970. At Keele, students tried to levitate TUE the vice-chancellor's residence. At Warwick, they occupied TUE the registry and discovered what appeared to be files TUE monitoring their political activities. And at Liverpool they TUE took over the Senate House, calling for the sacking of the TUE Chancellor, Lord Salisbury, because of his alleged TUE pro-apartheid sympathies. Forty years on, Jolyon Jenkins TUE talks to the veterans of the protests, on both sides, and TUE finds that the resentments still run deep. Among those TUE involved in the Liverpool protest was broadcaster Jon Snow, TUE who says "we were united in our determination to grind the TUE nose of the university into the dust". TUE TUE 11:30 Simply Absurd b00t9f0b (Listen) TUE Former Python Terry Jones takes a look at Theatre of the TUE Absurd - the plays of Ionesco, Adamov, Beckett and others TUE who shook the public with their surreal, seemingly TUE irrational plays in the post war years. TUE TUE What did it mean to have a stage full of empty chairs or TUE where people change into rhinoceroses? Where the action was TUE like a bad dream and the dialogue reduced to nonsense? TUE TUE Many of these plays might now seem irrelevant, a strange TUE kink in the history of drama - but is their legacy the TUE surreal humour we enjoy and take for granted - the best TUE example of which, of course, is Monty Python's Flying Circus? TUE TUE Recorded partly in Paris, where in a tiny theatre two of TUE Ionesco's plays have been in a continuous run since 1957, TUE the programme revives the Absurd plays, finds out why they TUE were written and sets Terry the task of placing them in the TUE family tree of influences that culminated in zany modern TUE comedy. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Marling TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00t8c7x (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 b00t8c9x (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00t8ccd (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00t9f0d (Listen) TUE Series 2, Franz Schubert 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 Franz Schubert was often uncomfortable in the polite circles TUE of middle-class Viennese society. Was he hiding a secret? TUE Prof. Winston looks at the evidence that Schubert was lured TUE into an unsavoury clandestine lifestyle and contracted TUE syphilis, which many writers have assumed cast a shadow over TUE both his remaining life and his music. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Taylor. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00t8ck1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t9f0g (Listen) TUE Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle TUE TUE By John Mortimer. TUE Dramatised by Richard Stoneman. TUE TUE When Rumpole and Hilda attend a concert performed by The TUE Casterini Trio, Rumpole is surprised to be approached by TUE Elizabeth Casterini - the trio's beautiful violinist. TUE Rumpole falls for her charms. But then, the Trio's cellist, TUE Tom Randall is murdered. TUE TUE Elizabeth's husband Desmond was supposedly suspicious of TUE Randall's feelings for Elizabeth. And, since he owned the TUE gun that was found by the body, Desmond is arrested. TUE Flattered by Elizabeth's seductive pleas, Rumpole agrees to TUE defend Desmond at the Old Bailey. But there, Rumpole's TUE admiration for Elizabeth rapidly begins to wane. TUE TUE Older Rumpole ..... Timothy West TUE Young Rumpole ..... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Hilda/Dorothy Clapton ..... Cathy Sara TUE Elizabeth Casterini ..... Faye Castelow TUE Desmond Casterini/Henry ..... Adrian Scarborough TUE Bonny Bernard/Peter Matheson ..... Matthew Morgan TUE Claude Erskine-Brown/DS Straw ..... Nigel Anthony TUE Sam Ballard ..... Michael Cochrane TUE Oliver Oliphant/Barman ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Christopher Peek/Waiter/Usher/Alfred ..... Stephen Critchlow TUE TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie. TUE A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00t9f0j (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producers: Nick Patrick and Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00glbkx (Listen) TUE The Other Garden and Collected Stories by Francis Wyndham, The Facts of Life TUE TUE Francis Wyndam's three subtle stories of desire and yearning TUE during the dark days of the second world war are matchless TUE in tone and nuance. They centre on the young and old, on TUE those upstairs and downstairs, on those living in town and TUE country... TUE TUE 1.The Facts of Life TUE TUE Young Newton never settled at the school, then he has to see TUE the TUE headmaster about a rather delicate subject... TUE TUE Read by Bill Nighy TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 15:45 Generation Gap b00t8hlk (Listen) TUE Student Budget TUE TUE Two people from different generations discuss society's TUE changing attitudes to money. TUE TUE The series takes a look at how our relationship with money TUE has changed in the last 50 years. The series covers the TUE lifespan from our earliest encounters with pocket money, to TUE our views on money as we face retirement. With ever more TUE complicated ways of managing money and shifting attitudes, TUE what changes have been seen in our society over the last 50 TUE years? TUE TUE Andrew McCormack was the first pupil at his school to get TUE into Oxford. He is finding student life a strain TUE financially and is often mixing with students who have more TUE money than he has. He compares notes with his father Peter TUE McCormack who was at Strathclyde University in the 1970s. TUE TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt TUE A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00t8rg9 (Listen) TUE Every August exam results are published, and every August TUE newspaper headlines are filled with comments about dumbing TUE down. But how much thought lies behind modern examination TUE questions, and who decides the language that is used ? In TUE Word of Mouth we hear from Edexcel's chair of history TUE examiners Angela Leonard, and her managing director Ziggy TUE Liaquat. The key word is accessibility, and enabling TUE students to understand the questions they have been set. It TUE all seems a brave new world for our presenter Chris Ledgard, TUE who recalls stumbling through an A Level question about TUE Bismarck's expediency, not knowing what expediency meant. TUE Also the American critic Joe Queenan attacks the editors who TUE insist on the use of simpler words in his books. "People who TUE don't enjoy words should just shut up," he says. The TUE producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00tbhbc (Listen) TUE Series 22, Sappho TUE TUE The Greek poet Sappho has been described as everything from TUE a great intellectual to little more than a vamp. Hard facts TUE about her life are in short supply - we know that she lived TUE on the island of Lesbos over two and half thousand years TUE ago, and fragments of her poetry still survive. The best TUE examples deal with the language of desire, but whether she TUE really was a lesbian (with a small l) is less clear. TUE Historian Bettany Hughes is as obsessed with who Sappho TUE might be, as with whom the fragmentary evidence suggest she TUE was. "This lack of facts has not stopped people making up TUE stories about her," writes expert Peggy Reynolds. "Sappho is TUE not a name, much less a person. It is, rather, a space." An TUE enigmatic choice for presenter Matthew Parris to decipher. TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00t8hq9 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t8hsl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00lt16c (Listen) TUE Series 2, Ipswich TUE TUE When the crew have to go on a refresher Safety & Emergency TUE Procedures course, it spells trouble for Douglas's inner dog TUE and Martin's inner ear. Plus Arthur gets a chance to show TUE off his exceptional eating skills. TUE TUE With special guests Phil Davis ("Vera Drake") and Alex TUE MacQueen ("The Thick Of It"). 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 Mr Sargent ..... Phil Davis TUE Dr Peter Duncan ..... Alex MacQueen TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore. TUE TUE Produced & Directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00t8cjr (Listen) TUE Vicky and Susan have plenty to talk about and Jennifer tries TUE to head off a social disaster. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00t8htp (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including a review of Black Dynamite, a TUE new film which re-visits the plotlines, wide lapels and big TUE hairstyles of the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t8bs0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Battle for Hearts and Lungs b00t8rky (Listen) TUE Sue Armstrong investigates the growing pressure on TUE developing countries as tobacco companies battle for the TUE hearts and lungs of new smokers. At the same time, some TUE poorer tobacco growing countries like Malawi are becoming TUE ever more dependent on tobacco as a cash crop. How do they TUE resolve the dilemma between health and wealth? TUE TUE In much of the rich world, smoking is on the wane in the TUE face of rising taxes on cigarettes, bans on promotion and TUE lawsuits against tobacco companies. Less than 21% of British TUE people and 24% of Americans now smoke -the lowest rates on TUE record. But elsewhere, smoking is exploding. TUE TUE The World Health Organization predicts that tobacco will TUE kill more than eight million people worldwide each year by TUE 2030, with eighty percent of these premature deaths in low- TUE and middle-income countries. TUE TUE In China alone more than 300 million people smoke. That's TUE equivalent to the entire population of the US, and one third TUE of the world's smokers. TUE TUE We hear about Malawi's growing dependency on tobacco as a TUE cash crop. Although the government has tried to introduce TUE minimum prices, small farmers like Elson Matope hardly cover TUE their costs, and continue to live on less than a dollar a TUE day, despite supplying the raw material for one of the TUE richest industries in the world. TUE TUE Malawi has not yet signed up to the WHO's international TUE Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and rules about TUE cigarette advertising and promotion are lax compared to TUE rules in the developed world. Are cigarette manufacturers TUE trying to take advantage of poor regulation to build up new TUE markets in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world, as TUE smoking has declined in the developed world? TUE TUE Producer: Ruth Evans TUE A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00tbhvr (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00t97xc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:45 The Test of Time b00mfhx1 (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE Professor Gus McGrouther finds striking parallels between TUE his wound healing research in Manchester and the earliest TUE methods recorded on Mesopotamian clay tablets. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00t8j17 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00t8j2k (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 b00tbsz0 (Listen) TUE The Story of a Marriage, Episode 2 TUE TUE Pearlie has settled down in marriage with Holland and they TUE have a son, but a stranger enters her life who will change TUE everything. TUE TUE Read by Adjoa Andoh. Written by Andrew Sean Greer and TUE abridged by Fiona McAlpine. TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Happy Tuesdays b00tbkfx (Listen) TUE Pauline Pepys Dowry TUE TUE Samuel Pepys' diaries make occasional mention of his sister TUE Pauline who has come to visit. She appears not to have been TUE an entirely welcome guest. This comedy is inspired by TUE Pauline, and by many other unwelcome love-lorn house-guests TUE throughout human history... TUE TUE Meet Pauline Pepys. Her love life is in tatters, her TUE sister-in-law wants her to move out of the spare room, and TUE her best friend is her worst enemy. Oh, and this being TUE London in the 1660s there's a nasty spot of plague about. TUE This episode sees Pauline fall for a handsome executioner, TUE but when he seems to prefer Charlotte she offers to fix TUE Pauline up with a very romantic poet. Meanwhile Elizabeth TUE has arranged for a lavish portrait of herself and Samuel TUE that is not altogether going to plan. And the maid is doing TUE something awful with a dead fish and a goat. TUE TUE A new historical comedy starring Olivia Colman as hopeless TUE romantic Pauline, Sharon Horgan as her best friend Charlotte TUE the vainest woman in Britain, David Mitchell as a distinctly TUE itchy Samuel Pepys, Katherine Parkinson as Elizabeth his TUE wife, who is very stressed about making the right impression TUE on society; and Tom Hollander as Russell de Bret, a man who TUE in the twenty first century would be a rock star, but has TUE chosen instead the career of public executioner; with TUE Rebekah Staton as the peculiarly fish-obsessed house maid TUE Jane and Dave Lamb as Joth a very angry painter and Wilston, TUE a very sad poet... Pauline Pepys' Dowry is written by Amy TUE Shindler and Beth Chalmers and produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE TUE 23:30 Tickets Please b00nv6nh (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE By Mark Maier TUE TUE Why does an intercity journey turn into an emotional TUE roller-coaster? Because the train staff have to battle with TUE their thwarted infatuations - for each other! And those TUE toughies in the wedding carriage aren't helping matters... TUE TUE Robin........Jeremy Swift TUE Nadine.......Alex Kelly TUE Peter......Malcolm Tierney TUE Carol......Tessa Nicholson TUE Carl........Nicholas Boulton TUE Diana.......Melissa Advani TUE Linda.........Kate Layden TUE Keith.....Stephen Hogan TUE other parts played by Philip Fox and Joseph Cohen-Cole TUE TUE Directed by Peter Kavanagh TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 AUGUST 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00t877g (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00tc661 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t8787 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t87ls (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t87jg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00t87ng (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t87sd (Listen) WED With Shaykh Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow, Centre for the WED Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, WED Cambridge. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00t87vq (Listen) WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. WED WED 06:00 Today b00t87yh (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Fry's English Delight b00t9t6r (Listen) WED Series 3, The Trial of Qwerty WED WED All rise for Judge Stephen Fry, in whose court the Qwerty WED keyboard stands trial. WED WED The gravest charge against the still ubiquitous Qwerty is WED that the layout was designed deliberately to slow typing down. WED WED Typists in the 1870's got too fast for their machines. The WED keys would easily stick. Typists would have to delve under WED the bonnet to untangle them. WED WED Messy business. Dirty Mr Qwerty. WED WED But will the charge against Qwerty stick? Invented in the WED 1870's before the age of ergonomics and future proofing, it WED was a result of a commercial race to dominate the new WED typewriting industry with a universal system. The father of WED formats. There were typewriting races too, which resembled WED today's motor racing. Hyped up typists, competing systems WED and publicity hungry manufacturers proved only one thing: WED the new fangled typewriting machines could be very noisy. WED WED Alongside contributions from historians and qwerty experts, WED Stephen meets a man who has deqwertified himself and adopted WED Dvorak, a system claimed to be quicker and cleaner than WED Qwerty. There's also an examination of newer, more modern WED formats, which may be more efficient but are no match for WED qwerty. WED WED We also meet some speedy junior qwertists' primary school WED pupils who learn to touch type as part of their curriculum. WED They come up an idea for the ultimate system for inputting WED text and in so doing demonstrate an important point about WED how thought relates to language, and how any system, using WED keyboard, pen or even speech is a compromise. WED WED But will Qwerty be acquitted? WED WED Producer: Nick Baker WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:30 Head to Head b00t9t6t (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED In a returning series, Edward Stourton revisits passionate WED broadcast debates of the 1960s and 70s when keen intellects WED clashed on matters of real moment. Each programme explores WED the ideas, the great minds behind them and echoes of the WED arguments in present-day politics. WED WED The first episode is taken from Prospects of Mankind (1960), WED a television series chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the former WED US first lady. The subject: Britain's place in the rivalry WED of the cold war. WED WED At 88, Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest 20th-century WED thinkers, battles for Britain's neutrality in a dangerous WED world. In Hugh Gaitskell 'the best prime minister we never WED had', some say, the grand old man of pacifism meets his WED match. The then leader of the Labour party argues for WED Britain's continued close relations with the United States WED and the need for nuclear arms to avert Armageddon. WED WED Should Britain keep a nuclear deterrent? And continue to WED nurture its 'special relationship' with the White House? The WED current discussion over Trident was never more relevant. WED WED In the studio dissecting the debate are Tony Benn, whose WED political career goes back to the Gaitskell days, and Ray WED Monk, professor of philosophy at Southampton University and WED Russell's biographer. WED WED Producer: Dominic Byrne WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00tc3gz (Listen) WED We are a Muslim, Please, Episode 3 WED WED Award-winning investigative journalist Zaiba Malik's memoir WED of growing up in the 70s and 80s, torn between being WED 'British' and 'Muslim'. WED WED Zaiba is finding her double life as a British-Muslim WED teenager all too confusing. So she begins her Year of Silence. WED WED Read by Nisha Nayar. WED WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier. WED WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t89g6 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Dr Karen Throsby on women and WED extreme sports. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t8bs2 (Listen) WED Mrs Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata WED WED By Stephen Wakelam. WED WED The Kreutzer Sonata: Sofya copies a new manuscript. A WED disturbing tale about a man who murders his wife. Is it WED directed against her? WED WED In his fifties the great writer Leo Tolstoy has a spiritual WED crisis and converts to Christianity. He stops sleeping with WED his wife. They have ten children. Taking the vows of poverty WED and chastity literally Tolstoy wants to give everything WED away but Sofya has a large family to feed. This is the woman WED who transcribed 'War and Peace' six times and who fights off WED rivals on daily basis for a place at his side. For forty WED eight years, the Tolstoys tormented each other with love and WED hate. Ian McDiarmid and Haydn Gwynne star in this portrait WED of a tempestuous marriage. WED WED Sofya Tolstoy ..... Haydn Gwynne WED Leo Tolstoy ..... Ian McDiarmid WED Chertkov ..... Paul Ritter WED Tanya Tolstoy ..... Vineeta Rishi WED WED Directed by Claire Grove. WED WED 11:00 Case Study b00t6zqv (Listen) WED Series 2, HM - The Man Who Couldn't Remember WED WED Without a few unusual people, human behaviour would have WED remained a mystery - ordinary people whose extraordinary WED circumstances provided researchers with the exceptions that WED proved behavioural rules. Claudia Hammond revisits the WED classic case studies that have advanced psychological research. WED WED When a 27 year old man known in the text books simply as HM WED underwent brain surgery for intractable epilepsy in 1953, no WED one could have known that the outcome would provide the key WED to unravelling one of the greatest mysteries of the human WED mind - how we form new memories. WED WED HM was unable to remember anything that happened after the WED operation, which was conducted by Dr William Scoville in WED Hartford, Connecticut, though his life before the surgery WED remained vivid. For 55 years, until he died in December 2008 WED at the age of 82, HM - or Henry Molaison, as he was WED identified on his death - was studied by nearly 100 WED psychologists and neuro-scientists; he provided data that WED enabled them to piece together the memory process. The WED research was first coordinated by Dr Brenda Milner of McGill WED University and then by Professor Suzanne Corkin at MIT. Both WED women got to know Henry well, but he never got to know them; WED for him each meeting with them was the first. WED WED His inability to form new memories meant that HM was unable WED to look after himself, but he remained cheerful, with a WED positive outlook on his condition. He was happy, he WED maintained, to provide information that could help others. WED And this he continues to do, even after death. His brain was WED dissected by Dr Jacopo Annese of the Brain Observatory at WED UCSD, and is the subject of an ongoing on-line collaborative WED study. WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess WED WED 11:30 The Castle b00tbcdp (Listen) WED Series 3, Four Wiseguys and a Funeral 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, when some gangsters from De Warenne's past WED pay a little visit, Henry becomes a made man and Charlotte WED becomes an unmade woman. Plus a clever sting and a souped-up WED getaway sheep. 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 b00t8c7z (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00t8c9z (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00t8ccg (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00tbd0n (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Joe Kent. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00t8cjr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tgg3k (Listen) WED Stannie and Jim WED WED by Simon Littlefield WED Trieste 1914 WED A fictional romance is woven round a comic reimagining of WED James Joyce's WED relationship with his brother Stanislaus as they fight, WED write, and prepare for war. WED Stannie ..... Andrew Scott WED James ..... Aidan Mcardle WED Beatrice ..... Alison Pettit WED Nora ..... Tessa Nicholson WED Baron Ralli ..... Michael Shelford WED Captain ..... David Seddon WED Dr Silvestri ..... Sam Dale WED Irredentist ..... Tony Bell WED WED Director ..... Sally Avens WED WED 15:00 Alvin Hall's Generations of Money b00t8341 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00gnfl1 (Listen) WED The Other Garden and Collected Stories by Francis Wyndham, Dear Derek WED WED Stories by short fiction writer Francis Wyndham, recalling WED England in the 1940s. WED WED Agatha is drawn to her young cousin Phillip when he comes to WED stay, but should she really be snooping in his bedroom? Read WED by Emily Woof. WED WED 15:45 Generation Gap b00t8hlm (Listen) WED Two people from different generations discuss society's WED changing attitudes to money. WED WED The series takes a look at how our relationship with money WED has changed in the last 50 years. The series covers the WED lifespan from our earliest encounters with pocket money, to WED our views on money as we face retirement. With ever more WED complicated ways of managing money and shifting attitudes, WED what changes have been seen in our society over the last 50 WED years? WED WED Joy and her grandson Phillip discuss their attitudes to WED debt, in particular mortgages. Joy has never bought anything WED on credit in her life and the only debt she had was a very WED small mortgage. Phillip, on the other hand, is happy to have WED a large mortgage and take gambles with money. WED WED Producer: Laura Parfitt WED A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00tbgwr (Listen) WED What does it mean to be truly free? Laurie Taylor discusses WED emancipation, ideas of black freedom from slavery, through WED key figures of the 20th century to the present day. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00t8w4l (Listen) WED Constipation WED WED Dr Mark Porter investigates constipation, to discover the WED causes and treatments of this extremely common problem that WED is often suffered in silence due to embarrassment. He visits WED Southampton General Hospital to talk to Nick Coleman, WED consultant gastroenterologist, about how to manage this WED uncomfortable condition. WED Producer: Erika Wright. WED WED 17:00 PM b00t8hqc (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t8hsn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00q2w82 (Listen) WED Series 6, The Cruise WED WED Ed has had a brilliant idea for a book, so when an WED opportunity arises to go on a cruise with Jaz and the band, WED Ed takes up the offer in order to find creative WED reinvigoration at sea. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00t8cjt (Listen) WED News spreads fast in Ambridge and Tony strikes out alone. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00t8htr (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including an interview with producer WED William Orbit, who takes classical themes and gives them a WED 21st century twist. WED WED Producer Gavin Heard. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t8bs2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Reality Check b00tbhnt (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Justin Rowlatt chairs a debates on a topical issue, bringing WED together experts in a particular field with people living at WED the sharp end. WED WED 20:45 Talking to the Enemy b00tdn7z (Listen) WED First Contact WED WED Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, took part in WED the negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement in WED Northern Ireland. Here he takes us into the negotiating room WED and explains how negotiations with men of violence come WED about, work or fail, and can lead to peace. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00tbjk9 (Listen) WED Hydrogen for Transport WED WED Vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells promise pollution WED free transport as their waste product is water. The idea of WED using hydrogen has been around for decades but has not so WED far gone much beyond a few experimental projects. Gareth WED Mitchell explores if hydrogen can ever realistically replace WED oil as the fuel for mass transport. So far there have been a WED number of demonstration projects of buses in a number of WED European cities, including London and Oxford, and at the WED Winter Olympics in Vancouver. But now there is an increasing WED interest in using hydrogen. Gareth visits researchers in WED Birmingham and in Germany who have designed fuel cells that WED are already powering cars that can travel for 100 miles at WED up to 50 mph. He discovers that there is a growing network WED of hydrogen stations around the world and many of the German WED based manufacturers are working on vehicles that are powered WED in full or partly by fuel cells. Does hydrogen have a WED future? WED Producer: Deborah Cohen. WED WED 21:30 Fry's English Delight b00t9t6r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00t8j19 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00t8j2m (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 b00tbsz2 (Listen) WED The Story of a Marriage, Episode 3 WED WED Buzz becomes a regular visitor to the Cook household. One WED night he makes a startling confession. WED WED Read by Adjoa Andoh. Written by Andrew Sean Greer and WED abridged by Fiona McAlpine. WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Ladies b00tbkg9 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED The Ladies meet an extreme wedding planner, and the new WED voice of the automated Tesco tills. And there's a failed WED attempt to get people to sign up to a new religious cause. WED WED Written by Emily Watson Howes WED WED Cast List: WED WED Emily Watson Howes WED Kate Donmall WED Susanna Hislop WED Fran Moulds WED WED Produced by Mark Talbot WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Rik Mayall's Bedside Tales b00nfqzs (Listen) WED Jimmy's Bangkok Coffee 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 Jimmy's Bangkok Coffee. 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 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b00p87r0 (Listen) WED Series 4, Greece WED WED He's back! But this time, he's got a computer! Budleigh WED Salterton's most famous citizen has been grounded by both WED the Home Office and his father, so he's set up GWH Travvel WED ("2 Ms, 2 Gs, 2 Vs - bit of a mix up at the printers"). WED WED Run from his bedroom in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of WED his long-suffering former Primary School teacher Mr Timmis WED and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop WED Travel/Advice/Events Management/Website service, where each WED week his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming WED the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a WED rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or WED finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll WED look in the Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to WED D"...), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it all, WED so you won't want to". WED WED In this episode we see the struggle between the Apollonian WED and Dionysian principles as Giles travels to Greece on a WED desperate rescue mission and eats far too much haloumi. WED WED Starring Marcus Brigstocke as Giles. WED WED Cast: WED Giles Wemmbley Hogg ..... Marcus Brigstocke WED Professor Bakoyannis ..... Jack Klaff WED Mr Timmis ..... Adrian Scarborough WED Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ..... Catherine Shepherd WED Jeremy ..... James Bachman WED Luke ..... Mark Evans WED Aphrodite ..... Nina Millns WED Colonel Yiannis ..... Chris Pavlo WED WED Written by Marcus Brigstocke & Jeremy Salsby. WED WED Producer: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 AUGUST 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00t877j (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00tc3gz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t8789 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t87lv (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t87jj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00t87nj (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t87sg (Listen) THU With Shaykh Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow, Centre for the THU Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, THU Cambridge. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00t87vs (Listen) THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b00t87yk (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 The Choice b00tbbv1 (Listen) THU In the first of a new series, Michael Buerk (OCF) in THU conversation with people who have faced a life-changing choice. THU Michael talks to Heather Pratten about her decisions to help THU her terminally ill sons in very different ways. THU THU 09:30 GPs Who Need GPS b00tdmsr (Listen) THU Doctor of the Isles THU THU GP Rachel Weldon's Medical Practice stretches beyond the THU shores of the remote Isle of Eigg to cover the other Small THU Isles of Muck, Rum and Canna. THU THU The very much suburban GP Phil Hammond narrates the journeys THU taken by Rachel, her husband and boatman Eric and collie dog THU Laurie, as they carry out their monthly round to Canna. THU THU Produced by Lucy Adam. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00tc3h1 (Listen) THU We are a Muslim, Please, Episode 4 THU THU Award-winning investigative journalist Zaiba Malik's memoir THU of growing up in the 70s and 80s, torn between being THU 'British' and 'Muslim'. THU THU In an attempt to bond with the girls at school, Zaiba goes THU clubbing in Bradford and discovers a whole new world. THU THU Read by Nisha Nayar. THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier. THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t89g8 (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Vanessa Feltz on gastric bands. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t8bs4 (Listen) THU Mrs Tolstoy, Vanichka THU THU By Stephen Wakelam. THU THU Vanichka: Leo Tolstoy is cold and formal with his wife, THU Sofya. She is increasingly attracted to a portly pianist who THU has come to the country for the summer. THU THU In his fifties the great writer Leo Tolstoy has a spiritual THU crisis and converts to Christianity. He stops sleeping with THU his wife. They have ten children. Taking the vows of poverty THU and chastity literally Tolstoy wants to give everything THU away but Sofya has a large family to feed. This is the woman THU who transcribed 'War and Peace' six times and who fights off THU rivals on daily basis for a place at his side. For forty THU eight years, the Tolstoys tormented each other with love and THU hate. Ian McDiarmid and Haydn Gwynne star in this portrait THU of a tempestuous marriage. THU THU Sofya Tolstoy ... Haydn Gwynne THU Leo Tolstoy ... Ian McDiarmid THU Chertkov ... Paul Ritter THU Taneev ... Sam Dale THU Vanya Tolstoy ... James Warner THU THU Directed by Claire Grove. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00tbcdr (Listen) THU The Romanian healthcare system is in crisis. Earlier this THU year the university hospital in Bucharest announced it had THU just 4 euros left in the bank, and it's not alone in its THU financial woes. Even the Romanian health minister hasn't THU denied that his country's medical system is facing imminent THU collapse. National funds were due to run out in July. THU THU Across the country doctors complain of a lack of X-ray film THU and surgical thread. Operations are postponed indefinitely. THU Patients are being asked to pay for their own bandages and THU hospital infections are spreading at alarming rates. Over THU the last year 4,700 doctors, fed up with wages of around 300 THU euros a month, have left the country to earn a better living THU in western Europe. THU THU It's not just a problem for Romanians. As cash for drug THU treatments and preventive work such as needle exchanges runs THU out, there are fears that the country's already high rates THU of TB and HIV could get out of control, with the potential THU to spread beyond Romania's shores. THU THU The wealthy are going to Hungary, Germany and Austria for THU treatment, paying up to 900 euros a day for a hospital bed. THU Inside Romania a black market is growing with doctors taking THU back-handers to prioritise those who can afford it. Those THU who can't have to put up with what state treatment they can THU find. THU THU It's hard to see a solution. Government coffers are empty THU and the economy shrank by over 7% in 2009. And in May this THU year, to great protest, the government announced it would THU reduce public sector pay and pensions by 25%. THU THU As Romania's healthcare system teeters on the edge of THU collapse, Oana Lungescu, the BBC European Affairs THU Correspondent, returns to her homeland to find out how THU ordinary citizens are coping. THU THU Producer: Ben Crighton. THU THU 11:30 The Manchester Writers b00tbck6 (Listen) THU John Harris explores the work of a group of authors who THU captured a northern social realism in the 1930s with writing THU that went on to shape the views of northern living for THU generations. THU THU Walter Greenwood, Howard Spring and Louis Golding wrote THU about Greater Manchester at a time of severe economic THU depression and great poverty and their novel's describe THU conditions that have resonances with our life today - cuts THU in welfare, increased unemployment and a coalition government. THU THU Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole', Golding's 'Magnolia Street' THU and Spring's 'Fame is the Spur' depict a tough, working THU class life and although the three authors wrote from THU slightly different perspectives, they describe people THU enduring a grim, hard existence in an industrial landscape. THU THU As the final parts of industrial Manchester and Salford are THU finally transformed by investment and modernisation, 'The THU Manchester Writers' visits the streets that inspired these THU authors and hears how their work has endured and influenced THU ideas of northern England. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00t8c81 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00tb993 (Listen) THU Delayed Inquests THU THU The grieving families waiting years for answers over the THU deaths of their loved ones. Some coroners are facing a THU backlog of cases, hold-ups with official inquiries, and THU difficulties in finding inquest venues. John Waite discovers THU the patchy service offered to relatives, and hears how THU things could get even worse. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00t8cb1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00t8ccj (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00tdq88 (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 or you can reach us online via our Radio 4 THU message board. THU THU Presenter: Stewart Henderson THU Producer: Dilly Barlow THU A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00t8cjt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00dgjw5 (Listen) THU The Judgement Test THU THU Officers in the armed units of the Police have a dangerous THU job - both physically and psychologically. We ask them to THU face death and to make life and death decisions. But when it THU comes to the crunch, what kind of decisions does Constable THU John Woolf make? And how are they affecting him? THU THU In Michael Butt's play, a probing journalist asks some THU difficult questions and gets some very unexpected answers. THU THU John Woolf ..... Ian Hart THU Paul ..... Jay Simpson THU Linda ..... Claire Price THU Gerry Lawson ..... Alistair Danson THU Mr Taylor ..... Peter Sproule THU Mrs Taylor ..... Caroline Gruber THU Armourer ..... Ian Barnes THU Counsellor ..... Andrew Branch THU THU Director: Penny Gold THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00t81my (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00t83l5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00gnfl3 (Listen) THU The Other Garden and Collected Stories by Francis Wyndham, Matchlight THU THU Francis Wyndam's three stories of desire and yearning during THU the dark days of the second world war are matchless in tone THU and nuance. They centre on the young and old, on those THU upstairs and downstairs, on those in town and country... THU THU 3. Matchlight THU THU After a dull night at the cinema, she is mysteriously THU approached by someone on the way home... THU THU Reader Amanda Root. THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU 15:45 Generation Gap b00t8hlp (Listen) THU Benefits THU THU Two people from different generations discuss society's THU changing attitudes to money. THU THU The series takes a look at how our relationship with money THU has changed in the last 50 years. The series covers the THU lifespan from our earliest encounters with pocket money, to THU our views on money as we face retirement. With ever more THU complicated ways of managing money and shifting attitudes, THU what changes have been seen in our society over the last 50 THU years? THU THU Two single fathers from different generations discuss their THU family's experience of the benefit system. Stuart currently THU looks after his 14-year old son who has special needs and THU gets all kinds of benefit including disability allowance. THU His friend Kevin - now a grandfather - has had two children THU in different marriages and a range of experiences as a THU single parent. THU THU Producer: Laura Parfitt THU A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00t870w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00t9r4g (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 b00t8hqf (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t8hsq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons b00tbhbf (Listen) THU Tracey Emin and How She Done the Bed THU THU The multi award winning National Theatre of Brent's Artistic THU Director; Desmond Olivier Dingle and the entire acting THU company (Raymond Box) returns triumphantly to Radio 4 in the THU second of an occasional series celebrating the rare but THU rarefied beings deemed in Desmond's expert view to be Iconic THU Icons. THU THU The second Iconic Icon is Tracey Emin. THU THU Desmond and Raymond enact the controversial story of Tracey THU Emin and her ground breaking, but unmade, Bed. They also THU chuck in the entire history of modern art, popular culture THU in the 1990's and the first ever recreation of the female THU soul on radio. THU THU Written by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by John THU Ramm, and performed by Patrick and John in front of an THU audience at the Bush Hall in London, this latest addition to THU the Brent canon will be as essential and massive a THU contribution to the current artistic life of this country as THU the rest of their work. THU THU And, of course it will be very funny. THU THU Director: Patrick Barlow THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00t8cjw (Listen) THU It's a day of celebrations for Matt, while Fallon starts a THU recruitment drive. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00t8htt (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with writer Candia THU McWilliam, who reflects on her recovery from a period of THU blindness, and her experience of writer's block. THU THU Producer Timothy Prosser. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t8bs4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00tbhnw (Listen) THU Original insights into major news stories and topical THU investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00tbhny (Listen) THU In At The Start THU THU There's a tiny office space in Silicon Valley that has THU produced a stream of blockbuster companies in recent years, THU including Google and PayPal. Peter Day learns how owner THU Saeed Amidi is now trying to nurture the start-up spirit on THU a much larger scale. THU Producer: Neil Koenig and Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 The Hidden World of Jacques Cousteau b00lv1r2 (Listen) THU For 40 years, the Calypso was the mythical flagship of that THU most emblematic of Frenchmen, Jacques Cousteau. Now, with THU restoration underway on the boat, Nick Haslam sets out to THU re-evaluate the renowned, yet sometimes controversial, THU underwater explorer, and to shed light on the bitter battle THU over both Cousteau's legacy and his boat. THU THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 21:30 The Choice b00tbbv1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00t8j1c (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00t8j2p (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 b00t97p2 (Listen) THU The Story of a Marriage, Episode 4 THU THU Despite having her life shattered by Buzz's news, Pearlie THU agrees to help him, and tells him what happened to her THU husband during the war. THU THU Read by Adjoa Andoh. Written by Andrew Sean Greer and THU abridged by Fiona McAlpine. THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Recorded for Training Purposes b00tbk8t (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 4 THU THU What do we mean by this? Exactly: modern communication can THU be baffling (that first sentence, for example, makes no THU sense). So here comes Recorded for Training Purposes to do THU silly sketches about how and why we communicate. THU THU Recorded in front of a studio audience, the show features a THU cast whose credits run from Radio 4 afternoon plays, via THU award-winning fringe theatre, to Star Wars: Rachel Atkins, THU Dominic Coleman, Lewis Macleod, Julie Mayhew, Ingrid Oliver THU and Colin Hoult. 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 Safety Catch b00jd60v (Listen) THU Series 2, Brothers in Arms THU THU Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern morality set in THU the world of arms dealing. THU THU Episode 1 : Brothers In Arms THU THU Darren Boyd stars as reluctant arms dealer Simon McGrath who THU is generally a nice chap - he just happens to work as an THU arms dealer, or 'Defence and security equipment system THU solutions broker' as he prefers to call it. Whilst battling THU with his conscience he justifies to himself why five years THU on he's still in a job he just fell into - after all, what THU he really wants is to pursue is his career in electronic THU music. But until that takes off he'll stay where he is, and THU as his mother so eloquently puts it, "any job where you get THU your own desk and a hot dinner can't be all bad". And so as THU we renew our acquaintance with Simon we find him, using his THU 'flair for original ideas' to go to extreme lengths to prove THU to everyone just how badly he feels about doing the job he THU does. THU THU Cast: THU THU Simon Mcgrath..........................Darren Boyd THU Anna Grieg...............................Joanna Page THU Boris Kemal............................Lewis Macleod THU Judith McGrath..........................Sarah Smart THU Angela McGrath........................Brigit Forsyth THU Madeleine Turnbull....................Rachel Atkins THU Peter..........................................Gus Brown THU Paramedic.....................................Philip Fox THU THU Written by Laurence Howarth THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 AUGUST 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00t877l (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00tc3h1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00t878c (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00t87lx (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00t87jl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00t87nl (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00t87sj (Listen) FRI With Shaykh Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow, Centre for the FRI Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, FRI Cambridge. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00t87vv (Listen) FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00t87ym (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00t83lk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00tc3h3 (Listen) FRI We are a Muslim, Please, Episode 5 FRI FRI Award-winning investigative journalist Zaiba Malik's memoir FRI of growing up in the 70s and 80s, torn between being FRI 'British' and 'Muslim'. FRI FRI Now working as a journalist, Zaiba returns to her home town FRI of Bradford to see how things have changed. FRI FRI Read by Nisha Nayar. FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier. FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00t89gb (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Mine's a pint: the rise of female FRI ale-drinkers. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t8bs6 (Listen) FRI Mrs Tolstoy, The Legacy FRI FRI By Stephen Wakelam. FRI FRI The Legacy. Leo Tolstoy is old and ill. Sofya fights for FRI control diary and papers. Will the marriage survive? FRI FRI In his fifties the great writer Leo Tolstoy has a spiritual FRI crisis and converts to Christianity. He stops sleeping with FRI his wife. They have ten children. Taking the vows of poverty FRI and chastity literally Tolstoy wants to give everything FRI away but Sofya has a large family to feed. This is the woman FRI who transcribed 'War and Peace' six times and who fights off FRI rivals on daily basis for a place at his side. For forty FRI eight years, the Tolstoys tormented each other with love and FRI hate. Ian McDiarmid and Haydn Gwynne star in this portrait FRI of a tempestuous marriage. FRI FRI Sofya Tolstoy ... Haydn Gwynne FRI Leo Tolstoy ... Ian McDiarmid FRI Chertkov ... Paul Ritter FRI Tanya Tolstoy ... Vineeta Rishi FRI FRI Directed by Claire Grove. FRI FRI 11:00 Sud-U-Like b00tbcdt (Listen) FRI From the very first UK laundrette in Queensway, West London FRI (opened in 1949) to present day laundry-services, the FRI laundrette has played a vital part in the UK's modern FRI history. But is the popular opinion of laundrettes as FRI unsavoury places to visit only when you are at your lowest a FRI fair assertion? FRI FRI As Yasmeen Khan discovers, not everyone finds laundrettes FRI depressing places - for many, the local laundrette is as FRI much a community centre and social hub as the pub - more FRI Dot.com than Dot Cotton - such as Manchester's first FRI Internet launderette, where customers can surf the net and FRI watch films while washing their smalls! FRI FRI Yasmeen also visits the Liverpool offices of Associated FRI Liver Laundrettes, the UK's largest chain of laundrettes, FRI and learns first-hand what business is really like in the FRI clothes-cleaning industry - and what the future holds. The FRI programme will also hear from Yasmeen's family - about why FRI and how they ended up in the laundrette business (5 shops FRI across Huddersfield), what the ups and downs of owning FRI laundrettes were and just how much the people, machines and FRI washing powder impacted on their lives. FRI FRI Yasmeen takes a trip back to her Yorkshire home town of FRI Huddersfield to visit the only one that has remained as a FRI laundrette. And then there's "that advert", with the guy FRI stripping off in the laundrette in front of the admiring FRI ladies - did it only sell jeans, or did the laundrette FRI business profit as well? FRI FRI And of course, what programme about laundrettes would be FRI complete without a trip to the most famous laundrette in the FRI country? Yasmeen pops down to Albert Square to learn all FRI about the role the Eastenders washeteria has had in the FRI history of the soap-opera, and to find out why it has FRI remained a key location for so many years. FRI FRI Produced by Neil Gardner and Yasmeen Khan FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Old Harry's Game b00808tt (Listen) FRI Series 6, Episode 2 FRI FRI Satan introduces Edith to Adam and Eve. For the father and FRI mother of all humanity they are alarmingly stupid. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00t8c84 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00t8cb3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00t8ccl (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00td4w0 (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00t8cjw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00t9zf4 (Listen) FRI Tall Stories FRI FRI by Samina Baig FRI FRI Samina's life is a whirl of work and worry about her single FRI status until a family crisis stops her in her tracks. Both FRI her parents are admitted into separate hospitals forcing her FRI to come to terms with their sudden entry into old age. FRI Between hospital visits, emergency phone calls and cookery FRI lessons, she attempts to finally grow up and preserve the FRI fading family memories that connect her to her roots. But FRI then things take a turn for the worse... FRI FRI Samina ..... Nina Wadia FRI Mum ..... Indira Joshi FRI Dad ..... Madhav Sharma FRI Radiographer, Miriam ..... Christine Kavanagh FRI Taxi Driver ..... Michael Shelford FRI Peter ..... Sean Baker FRI Doctor/Patient ..... David Seddon FRI Nurse 1 ..... Alison Pettitt FRI Nurse 2 ..... Samina Zehra FRI FRI Directed by Mary Peate. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00tcpcl (Listen) FRI Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew are guests FRI of Wenhaston Gardeners Club in Suffolk. FRI FRI We explore drought-tolerant plants at the Dry Garden, RHS FRI Hyde Hall. FRI FRI The chairman is Peter Gibbs. FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Generation Gap b00t8hlr (Listen) FRI Retirement FRI FRI Two people from different generations discuss society's FRI changing attitudes to money. FRI FRI The series takes a look at how our relationship with money FRI has changed in the last 50 years. The series covers the FRI lifespan from our earliest encounters with pocket money, to FRI our views on money as we face retirement. With ever more FRI complicated ways of managing money and shifting attitudes, FRI what changes have been seen in our society over the last 50 FRI years? FRI FRI John Luff is in his 50s and has just taken early retirement FRI from BT and is now running a consultancy business. He is FRI able to retire fully, and his plans for retirement revolve FRI around travel and leisure. His mother Rose is in her late FRI 80s and has relied on her husband's pension from the post FRI office which has been tough. A new retirement village FRI concept has enabled her to part-buy a flat and live in a FRI community which offers 5 star facilities including shops, FRI hairdressers, restaurant, and a gym. They compare their FRI experiences. FRI FRI Producer: Laura Parfitt FRI A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00tbhbh (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 b00td4x3 (Listen) FRI The League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss continues his series FRI on British character actors. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00t8hqh (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00t8hss (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b00tbhhg (Listen) FRI Series 6, Ronni Ancona interviews Lee Mack FRI FRI A brand new series of Chain Reaction, the talk show with a FRI twist where this week's guest becomes next week's interviewer. FRI FRI This series kicks off with Scottish actress, comedian and FRI impressionist Ronni Ancona interviewing one of the UK's most FRI celebrated comics, writer and star of "Not Going Out" Lee FRI Mack. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00t8cjy (Listen) FRI Susan is feeling sidelined while Jamie thinks he is under FRI surveillance. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00t8htw (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Gavin Heard. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00t8bs6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00t9rb4 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Little FRI Wenlock Village Hall, Shropshire. The panel includes the FRI broadcaster John Sergeant. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00tbjkc (Listen) FRI A History of Fireworks FRI FRI Lisa Jardine reflects on the history of fireworks and FRI especially on the role they have played in France; once they FRI were the rejected symbol of a decadent monarchy, now they FRI are a must for civic celebrations FRI FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus b00tbjkf (Listen) FRI Inside the Palace: Secrets at Court (AD 700 - 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 FRI In this episode he is using objects from the collection to FRI gain insight into the private lives of some very powerful FRI people. From inside a harem to inside a Chinese grave, Neil FRI enters the intriguing, even painful, realms of great royal FRI courts of the world. FRI FRI Producers: Paul Kobrak and Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00t8j1f (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00t8j2r (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 b00tbszn (Listen) FRI The Story of a Marriage, Episode 5 FRI FRI There is an obstacle standing in the way of Buzz's FRI happiness, and Pearlie agrees to help him deal with it. FRI FRI Read by Adjoa Andoh. Written by Andrew Sean Greer and FRI abridged by Fiona McAlpine. FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00tbhbc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00qcn23 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI FRI Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas FRI creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from his FRI studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best. FRI The winner of each show will be enforceable by law, so pay FRI attention. FRI FRI This edition includes policies such as restricting Prime FRI Ministers to two full terms of office; the introduction of a FRI maximum wage; and making all 4x4s transparent. FRI FRI Produced by Ed Morrish. FRI
06 August, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 07/08/2010 - 13/08/2010
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