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SAT SATURDAY 28 MAY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b011ckzb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b011j0nn (Listen) SAT Babysitting George, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Celia Walden. The public affection for the SAT womanising, hell-raising, often charming and mostly drunk SAT George Best has begun to wane in favour of a macabre SAT fascination with his disintegrating life. The last couple of SAT occasions on which Celia meets George prove that as well as SAT the aggressive egotist flashes of the old humour are still SAT there alongside the wine-fuelled death wish. SAT SAT Read by Clare Corbett SAT Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011ckzd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011ckzg (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011ckzj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b011ckzl (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011ckzn (Listen) SAT with Rev Peter Baker. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b011ckzq (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b011ckzs (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b011ckzv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b011hyy2 (Listen) SAT Literary Walks, Hereford - Bruce Chatwin SAT SAT Clare Balding walks on the Black Hill near to Hereford in SAT the footsteps of novelist Bruce Chatwin who explored the SAT border between Wales and England for his eponymous novel. SAT She's joined by local writer and walker Bill Laws. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b011hyy4 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT A new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture SAT Organisation claims a third of all food produced for human SAT consumption is lost or wasted globally - that's 1.3bn tonnes SAT a year. But while householders and retailers have been SAT confronted with the amount they throw away the amount wasted SAT on farms has not yet been measured. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith looks at how produce destined for our plates SAT is lost and whether farmers should do more. She visits a SAT livestock farm in Herefordshire to see how many animals die SAT before they reach the abattoir and what happens to them. SAT Richard Jones, the butcher in the farm shop also explains SAT how much of the animals which do go to slaughter can be used SAT for food and what people are simply too fussy to eat. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b011ckzx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b011j2fg (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b011j2fj (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with novelist John Connolly, poet Elvis SAT McGonagall, a Rwandan man who took his teenage son back to SAT the scenes of the genocide he'd fled, and a young woman who SAT grew up on the diplomatic circuit. There's a Guerilla report SAT about The Floral Dance and actress Niamh Cusack shares her SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b011j2fl (Listen) SAT Libya, Afghanistan, Chechnya SAT SAT John McCarthy talks to three writers who have reported as SAT freelancers from conflict zones. Lucy Morgan Edwards worked SAT in Afghanistan both during and after the Taliban regime as SAT an aid worker, journalist and election observer. Despite the SAT risks she grew to love the country and its people. Benjamin SAT Hall's thirst for front line journalism took him to Misrata SAT in Libya at the height of Gaddafi's attacks on the rebel SAT city and Oliver Bullough wrote from Chechnya as it struggled SAT against Russian domination. They tell John about the SAT practical difficulties and excitement of travelling in such SAT dangerous places without backup. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 What's So Great About ...? b011j2fn (Listen) SAT Series 3, Snooker SAT SAT Lenny Henry returns to the fray with the first of three SAT further attempts to get to grips with things that he's SAT always found mystifying. This week, he travels to the SAT Crucible in Sheffield to meet the stars of the game of SAT Snooker. With the 2011 World Championships as his SAT introduction to the reality of the green baize table, Lenny SAT poses the question What's So Great About...Snooker? to Steve SAT Davis, Stephen Hendry, Dennis Taylor, John Virgo, John SAT Parrott and Terry Griffiths... What is the lure of this SAT sport that back in 1985 it held 18 million TV viewers SAT captivated past midnight when an emotional Taylor overcame SAT the legendary Davis to win the World Championships on the SAT last black? SAT SAT Stephen Hendry gives Lenny a quick masterclass in the SAT mystique of cue action and John Virgo unpicks some of the SAT sport's arcane and sometimes incomprehensible language SAT ("that thick kiss on the pink has got him needing SAT snookers...") So can this glittering line-up manage to SAT convince Lenny out of his lifelong aversion to the game of SAT coloured balls...? SAT SAT Producer: Simon Elmes. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b011j2fq (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT SAT The rule of law has exercised parliament this week in the SAT matter of super injunctions. Who should decide on the rights SAT to privacy and free speech- the judges or parliament? SAT One person who took this matter very seriously was the law SAT lord Lord Bingham, widely regarded as the most talented SAT British lawyer of our time, and whose memorial service took SAT place on Wednesday at Westminster Abbey. SAT Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer and Conservative MP SAT Jesse Norman consider his legacy. SAT SAT David Blunkett, in his time as Home Secretary, came into SAT frequent conflict with the judiciary. He tells Week In SAT Westminster why. SAT SAT Parliament debated a motion this week calling on the SAT government to re consider its contribution to bailing out SAT the countries in the Eurozone which have gone bust. SAT John Redwood Conservative and Stephen Williams Liberal SAT Democrat have opposing views on what Britain should do. SAT SAT On Monday the Commons Select Committee on Business SAT Innovation and Skills reported on the effects of the SAT controversial take-over of the historic British firm SAT Cadburys, by the multinational company Kraft. SAT The Chair of the Committee Adrian Bailey, and Conservative SAT member Margot James discuss the remit of the report. SAT SAT The Editor was Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b011j2fs (Listen) SAT Fin de Siecle Deauville hosts the G8 world leaders where SAT there have been clear signs of a different world order SAT emerging -- Bridget Kendall's been taking note. Andrew SAT Harding tells us what it's like in Libya's second city SAT Misrata which endured a two month siege by Libyan forces SAT loyal to Colonel Gaddafi; Conor Woodman is in a town in Laos SAT which has been taken over by Chinese investment; there's a SAT picnic under the palms in Algiers for Chloe Arnold as she SAT charts the decline of the Russian community in the city and SAT Tim Ecott paints a portrait of the Faroe Islands out in the SAT north Atlantic, a place where men are hardy, the sheer SAT hardier and where there might just be puffin on the lunch SAT menu! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b011j2fv (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b011ckxs (Listen) SAT Series 74, Episode 7 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b011ckzz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b011cl01 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b011bybz (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair presents a discussion about politics and news SAT from Saffron Walden Town Hall in Essex with Business SAT Secretary, Vince Cable; Shadow Business minister, Chuka SAT Umunna; novelist and screenwriter, Anthony Horowitz; and LBC SAT broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b011j2fx (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b011j2fz (Listen) SAT Sunk SAT SAT A drama to mark the 100 year anniversary of the Launch of SAT Titanic (31st May 1911). SAT SAT This is the fascinating story behind the 1943 Nazi SAT propaganda film, Titanic, which was up until then, the most SAT expensive German film ever. The film was commissioned by SAT Goebbels with a view to discredit British and American SAT capitalists. Ironically, this production became a symbol for SAT the corruption and 'sinking' of the Third Reich itself. SAT SAT Walter Zerlett-Olfenius .....Richard Laing SAT Herbert Selpin.....Blake Ritson SAT Joseph Goebbels.....Jason Watkins SAT Hans Nielsen .....Nick Dunning SAT Sybille Schmitz .....Lucy Cohu SAT Ernst Fritz Furbringer .....Miche Doherty SAT Miss Volkmaan.....Séainín Brennan SAT The Barman.....Paul Kennedy SAT SAT Producer/Director.....Gemma McMullan SAT SAT 15:30 The Music Group b011c0s6 (Listen) SAT Series 5, Episode 5 SAT SAT Joining The Music Group this week are the host of Carpool, SAT Scrapheap Challenge and Kryten in Red Dwarf, Robert SAT Llewellyn; chef, cookery writer and co-founder of fast food SAT chain Leon, Allegra McEvedy and artist, TV director and SAT ex-Slits' guitarist Viv Albertine. SAT SAT Their choice of music includes a rousing piece of power SAT folk, a personal manifesto for female empowerment and a SAT 1970s tribute to Thirties' night life in Berlin. SAT SAT Along way we discover out how to bring a machete back from SAT Burma and what aerobics has to do with punk rock. There's SAT some lively disagreement over The X-Factor, militancy and SAT The Woodcraft Folk and a track to which two of the guests SAT can't help but sing along. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b011j2g1 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Cook the Perfect chicken curry with Sanjeev Kapoor; the SAT dangers of the drug ketamine; the latest discussion in the SAT Women in Business series asks whether you need an office; SAT comedian Rory Bremner talks about living with ADHD - or SAT Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Jenni discusses SAT whether female masturbation is the last taboo; and a SAT performance from singer Andrea Corr. SAT SAT Producer: Rachel Simpson. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b011j2g3 (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b011ckzq (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b011cl03 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b011cl05 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011cl07 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b011j2g5 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by grumpy stand-up and I'm Sorry I Haven't A SAT Clue host, Jack Dee. Jack's alter ego, Rick Spleen, a failed SAT comic and serial liar, returns for more trials and SAT tribulations in Lead Balloon. SAT SAT Ute Lemper's career has seen her in prime roles in Chicago, SAT Cats and Cabaret. She's been on stages in London's West End, SAT Vienna, Paris, Las Vegas and Broadway. As part of this years SAT Bath International Music Festival, Ute Lemper performs Last SAT Tango in Berlin, a homage to Marlene Dietrich, Piazolla, SAT Edith Piaf and Weimar cabaret. To close the festival on SAT Sunday 5 June, there will be a Brecht and Weill Night with SAT performances by Frances Rufelle, Clive Rowe and Roger SAT Lloyd-Pack. SAT SAT From early roles alongside Ray Winstone in Scum and most SAT notably Jimmy the Mod in Quadrophenia, Phil Daniels has SAT doggedly stuck to his working class roots throughout his 35 SAT year career. More recently he's been in Eastenders and he SAT was also the voice of Blur's 'Parklife'. He talks to Clive SAT about his life encapsulated in his autobiography 'Class SAT Actor'. SAT SAT What's the difference between a Young Fop and a Dandy? A Cad SAT and a Crusty Old Duffer? Jon Holmes answers these questions SAT and more from the consummately well dressed British SAT Gentleman and founder of Chap Magazine, Gustav Temple. SAT SAT With music from Brighton's Mechanical Bride, the musical SAT moniker of Lauren Doss who brings her eerie folk pop to SAT Radio 4. She plays Young Gold from her soon to be released SAT debut album Living With Ants. SAT SAT And from the former vocalist with Zero 7 Sophie Barker, who SAT performs Paradise Lost from her second album, Seagulls. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b011j2g7 (Listen) SAT Series 10, Superinjunctions SAT SAT Writers respond to the week's news. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b011j301 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests literary critic John Carey and SAT writers Natalie Haynes and Sarfraz Manzoor review the SAT cultural highlights of the week. SAT SAT One Man Two Guvnors is Richard Bean's adaptation of SAT Goldoni's 18th century comedy A Servant of Two Masters. SAT Updated to Brighton in the early 60s it's directed by SAT Nicholas Hunter and stars James Corden as the perpetually SAT hungry Francis Henshall - a man who has to go to great SAT lengths to prevent his two employers from meeting. SAT SAT Ann Patchett's novel State of Wonder has echoes of Conrad's SAT Heart of Darkness. Marina Singh, working for a US SAT pharmaceutical company, is sent into the Amazonian jungle to SAT track down a rogue researcher and find out what happened to SAT her colleague who was previously assigned the same mission. SAT SAT Heartbeats is French-Canadian director Xavier Dolan's second SAT film. With a nod to the Nouvelle Vague it revolves around SAT Marie and Francis - a pair of twentysomething friends living SAT in Montreal - - whose lives and friendship are disrupted SAT when the attractive but callous Nico appears on the scene. SAT SAT Rockstar - the games developer behind the hugely successful SAT Grand Theft Auto franchise - have brought gaming to the mean SAT streets of postwar Los Angeles with LA Noire. The player SAT rises through the police ranks as Cole Phelps (voiced by Mad SAT Men actor Aaron Staton), investigating a series of murders SAT and unearthing the corruption at the heart of the booming SAT city. SAT SAT Richard Long has been practicing his idiosyncratic style of SAT land art for more than four decades. His latest show - Human SAT Nature at the Haunch of Venison in London - comprises work SAT which has taken him to China, South Africa and his own home SAT turf of Dartmoor. It appears alongside an exhibition by SAT Italian artist Giuseppe Penone whose work also explores the SAT relationship between man and nature SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b011j303 (Listen) SAT A Life Less Ordinary, Episode 1 SAT SAT The first of three programmes looking at how an ordinary SAT life was transformed by extraordinary events. We begin with SAT John Mosey. When Pan-Am flight 103 was blown up by a SAT terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, the relatives of those on the SAT plane had little choice but to follow events via their SAT televisions and radios. Reverend John Mosey was one of them. SAT His 19 year old daughter Helga was killed that night, a fact SAT he and other family members learnt from news reports in SAT their Birmingham home. Within 24 hours he was being SAT interviewed about his reaction. It was the first of hundreds SAT of such interviews he's given in the years since, and in SAT that time he's come to see the media as the most effective SAT means of pressing the case for justice and conveying his SAT spiritual convictions. He returns to the archive, examining SAT how the events of Lockerbie were reported, and re-examining SAT his position at the centre of a terrible personal tragedy SAT and an intense media storm. He speaks with some of those SAT journalists who were there on the scene, and he seeks to SAT understand how the events of the 21st December 1988 have SAT transformed his conventional life into 'a life less SAT ordinary'. SAT SAT 21:00 Saturday Play b0076sz7 (Listen) SAT The Bottle Factory Outing SAT SAT Beryl Bainbridge's darkly comic novel The Bottle Factory SAT Outing . SAT SAT It's 1970. Two Northerners, Freda and Brenda share a bedsit SAT in London and work in the local Bottle Factory, run by a SAT family of Italians. On the day of the annual factory outing, SAT the van Freda's booked fails to turn up...and things rapidly SAT go from bad to worse... A black comedy with the suspense of SAT a thriller . SAT SAT Brenda and Freda share a flat in London, and secrets. When SAT Brenda confides her 'goings on' in the cellar of the bottle SAT factory with the married Rossi, Freda decides it has got to SAT stop. She will confront Rossi and save her friend. SAT SAT The day of the planned factory outing arrives, but begins SAT badly. Brenda and Freda end up in a Ford Cortina driven by SAT Rossi with Vittorio beside him. At the last minute Patrick SAT tries to squeeze in the car but is rejected by Freda. SAT SAT They drive to Windsor Park for a picnic, and games. As the SAT group drifts apart Freda is left with Vittorio. She's just SAT about to start her seduction of him when Patrick pops up and SAT is angry with her. SAT SAT In the heat of the day, suspicions and passions flare. . SAT SAT Jane Rogers has faithfully adapted this hilarious, dark SAT novel. Her own books include Mr Wroe's Virgins, which she SAT adapted for TV and Island. Other adaptations for radio SAT include Shirley by Charlotte Bronte and Lorna Doone. SAT SAT BRENDA.........Sian Reeves SAT FREDA............Sharon Percy SAT ROSSI...........Vincenzo Nicoli SAT VITTORIO..........Ernesto Tomasini SAT PATRICK.........James Scales SAT MARIA/MRS HADDON...Flaminia Cinque SAT SAT Directed in Manchester by Susan Roberts. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b011cl09 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b011c23k (Listen) SAT Public figures and public morality SAT SAT There are the sins we know we know; the sins we think we SAT know and the sins we know we don't know, but think we should SAT know. All over the papers and news the rich, powerful and SAT famous are being called to account. It might be Justice SAT Secretary Kenneth Clarke, mildly mispeaking himself, and SAT thus earning a barrage of demands for his resignation. Or SAT the outrage at Chris Huhne, who - before he was an MP - may SAT have been speeding and may have asked his wife to take his SAT penalty points, a crime which hundreds of thousands of SAT Britons have committed. And that's before we even get to the SAT footballing hero, with his more than wandering eye. We and SAT the media that serve us, are certainly having our moral SAT pound of flesh. Is this the sign of a healthy democracy and SAT a Fifth Estate that knows its moral boundaries and is SAT policing them with commendable vigour? Are we getting more SAT of these stories now because members of the elites in our SAT society are behaving more badly than in the past and SAT therefore need to be brought to book, or is it just our SAT desire to bring down the powerful? Or maybe it's more that SAT our culture is being driven by sanctimony, fear and SAT loathing? Should we be tackling the elite for their moral SAT turpitude, or looking at our own hate fuelled hypocrisy? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by David SAT Aaronovitch with Claire Fox, Clifford Longley, Melanie SAT Phillips and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b011c0nb (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 8 SAT SAT In which of his compositions did Hector Berlioz make SAT extensive use of the 'idee fixe', a term he used for a SAT recurring musical motif or theme? SAT SAT You can find out the answer by joining Paul Gambaccini and SAT this week's trio of music enthusiasts, in the latest heat of SAT the ever-popular music quiz. This week the competitors are SAT from Sussex, Bristol and Hertfordshire - and they'll each be SAT hoping to take another of the places in the semi-finals, SAT which begin in just a fortnight's time. SAT SAT Paul's questions are as wide-ranging as ever, covering the SAT classics, show tunes, film music, jazz, rock, and six SAT decades of the pop charts. SAT SAT COMPETITORS THIS WEEK SAT SAT RICHARD FOSTER, a piano tuner from Crowborough in Sussex SAT CHARLES KINSEY, a retired chemistry teacher from Bristol SAT STEVE ROBERTS, a retired PR manager from Hatfield. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b0118cnc (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a weekly selection of favourite SAT poetry requested by listeners. Today's programme includes a SAT poem about a writing bureau that transmutes into a small SAT forest, another about an imagined set of neighbours, a SAT bitter love poem from the 8th century, and a sinister SAT folkloric tale read by the poet Robin Robertson. Other poets SAT featured include Harold Nemerov, Lawrence Sail and Molly SAT Holden. The readers are Alison McKenna, Peter Marinker and SAT Jonjo O'Neill. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 MAY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b011fjkv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00mg6n2 (Listen) SUN Johnson's Miscellany, Episode 3 SUN SUN Three readings featuring extracts from Samuel Johnson's SUN major works introduced by his biographer, David Nokes. SUN SUN Samuel Johnson (better known as Dr Johnson) was born in SUN Lichfield in September 1709. Half-blind, shambolic and SUN poverty-stricken, he became the most admired and quoted man SUN in the eighteenth century. SUN SUN The son of a bookseller, lack of funds forced him to leave SUN Oxford before taking a degree and, after a stint as a SUN teacher, he travelled to London in search of work. Beginning SUN as a Grub Street journalist, Johnson made lasting SUN contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, SUN moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and SUN lexicographer. A devout Anglican and political conservative, SUN Johnson has been described as "arguably the most SUN distinguished man of letters in English history". SUN SUN His most famous work is, without doubt, A Dictionary of the SUN English Language, published in 1755. It was not the most SUN accurate dictionary, nor the most comprehensive, but it SUN became widely recognised as the first standard dictionary SUN until publication of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years SUN later. SUN SUN Other major works by Johnson are, among others, his Lives of SUN the English Poets including his biography of Richard Savage; SUN the novella, Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia; his notes on The SUN Plays of William Shakespeare; The Idler essays; The Rambler SUN magazine and A Journey to The Western Isles of Scotland. SUN In these three programmes David Nokes,author of a biography SUN of Johnson, introduces a series of extracts from the great SUN man's work. In chronological order, we work our way through SUN his literary life. SUN SUN In today's programme we hear an extract from Johnson's SUN Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare and one of the SUN final instalments of biography and literary criticism SUN examining the life and work of the poet, Alexander Pope. SUN SUN Read by Michael Pennington SUN Introduced by Professor David Nokes SUN Produced by Joanna Green SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011fjkx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011fjkz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011fjl1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b011fjl3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b011j39b (Listen) SUN The bells of Worcester Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b011c244 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Politicians and pogo sticks SUN SUN Philip Cowley discusses how politicians have changed to SUN reflect the political landscape around them. He uses letters SUN from leading politicians to show how today's politicians SUN compare favourably to those of the 1950s. And he has a small SUN confession to make. SUN SUN Four Thought combines big ideas and evocative storytelling SUN in a series of personal viewpoints - speakers take to the SUN stage ready to air their latest thinking on the trends, SUN ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and SUN society. SUN SUN Recorded live at the RSA in London, these talks are SUN unscripted, thought-provoking and entertaining, with a SUN personal dimension. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b011fjl5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b011j39d (Listen) SUN On the Edge SUN SUN Mark Tully considers those on the edge: of society, of the SUN arts, of religions, and of perceived wisdom. People who SUN don't quite belong, but who often offer us new insights. SUN SUN Tully suggests that we have them to thank for much of the SUN positive aspects of progress. SUN In the programme he says that, 'being on the edge is often SUN represented as a chaotic state, opposed to an ordered one SUN and, more profoundly, an uncertain state as opposed to a SUN certain one. More profoundly because certainty can so easily SUN be the barrier to change, development, and adapting to new SUN knowledge.' SUN SUN But being on the edge can be an uncomfortable place as poet SUN and writer, Mamang Dai explains in an interview for the SUN programme. She lives at the edge of India, in one of its SUN remotest states, Arunachal Pradesh, set in the eastern SUN Himalayas, with China just across the mountains, the Kingdom SUN of Bhutan to the west, and Myanmar or Burma to the east. She SUN not only lives on the edge of India geographically. There SUN are 26 major tribes in Arunachal Pradesh and their cultures, SUN which were protected by geography, by the State's remoteness SUN and lack of communications, are now on the edge of modernity SUN with India's development plans , in particular plans to SUN build dams on the rivers which flow through the mountains. SUN Mamang describes her fears for her homeland at a time of SUN great change but is cheerfully optimistic that good things SUN will come, and new ways of being will bring undreamt of SUN benefits. SUN SUN Franciscan Priest, Richard Rohr is quoted in the programme. SUN He thinks being on the edge, or as he puts it, in a 'liminal SUN place', is essential at times: 'Nothing good or creative SUN emerges from business as usual. This is why much of the work SUN of God is to get people into liminal space and to keep them SUN there long enough, so they can learn something essential. SUN It's the ultimate teachable space, maybe the only one.' SUN SUN Tully himself, while nostalgic for what he feels was a more SUN certain and ordered society in his younger days, recognizes SUN that change, though often difficult at the time, has much to SUN offer. Most of all, we owe a great deal to those - On the SUN Edge. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b011j39g (Listen) SUN Charlotte Smith primps and preens a bull in preparation for SUN this year's agricultural shows. Six million people visit SUN agricultural and country shows in the U.K. each year. But SUN for some it is not just a nice day out - it's a year long SUN business. Charlotte visits Howe Mill Estate in Wiltshire SUN where they breed Belted Galloway cattle in the hope of SUN taking home the top prizes. SUN SUN Jim Frame, the Stockman, has many tricks to give the animals SUN a competitive edge - including shampooing and blow drying SUN the bulls to fluff them up. The Estate Manager, Terry SUN Barrett, explains the kudos that comes with winning a top SUN prize and how this can increase the price of their bulls SUN overnight. SUN SUN Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b011fjl7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b011fjlb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b011j39j (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b011j39l (Listen) SUN Excellent SUN SUN John Humphrys presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Excellent. SUN SUN Donations to Excellent should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio SUN 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Excellent. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give SUN online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide Excellent with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1094478. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b011fjld (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b011fjlg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b011j39n (Listen) SUN "A warmed heart and an engaged mind" SUN SUN A service from St Johns Methodist Church, Llandudno led by SUN the Rev Mike Long. Over this bank-holiday weekend the SUN streets of this popular North Wales holiday resort will be SUN thronged with visitors; the church has had from its SUN beginning a distinctive ministry to holiday makers. This SUN weekend also falls soon after that day in May 1738 when John SUN Wesley felt his heart 'strangely warmed' and was called, SUN together with his brother Charles, to a travelling ministry SUN which gave rise to the world-wide Methodist Church. SUN Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley. Organist: Graham SUN Eccles. The Conwy Valley Mixed Voice Choir is directed by SUN Trystan Lewis. Producer: Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b011ckxz (Listen) SUN Series 2, Quetzalcoatlus SUN SUN 15/20. As David Attenborough explains, ".the biggest animal SUN to fly was not a bird, but a reptile." - it was a SUN Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur with at least a forty foot SUN wingspan. David Attenborough, a huge fan of palaeontology, SUN is skilled in bringing the past natural histories to life SUN through stories about the discovery of key fossils. What a SUN creature this "terrible lizard" must have been - big enough SUN to scavenge the bodies of dead Tyrannosaurus and yet able to SUN fly, probably in large numbers. And with a twist so typical SUN of Sir David's writing, he brings this pterosaur to life at SUN the very end. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b011j39q (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b011j39s (Listen) SUN Written by: Adrian Flynn SUN Directed by: Jenny Stephens SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b011j39v (Listen) SUN Roger Waters SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the musician Roger Waters. SUN SUN As one of the founding members of the band Pink Floyd, he SUN has seen huge critical and commercial success. But in 1985 SUN he walked away from the group and years of acrimony SUN followed. They were reunited for one final performance, SUN twenty years later, for Live 8. It was a moment many of SUN their fans thought they would not live to see and it was, he SUN says, highly emotional. SUN SUN "We did a run through on the Friday night and it was SUN remarkable, there were about fifty or sixty people working SUN on the site, putting out rubbish bins or whatever it was SUN they were doing and they all stopped and at the end they all SUN applauded - that was a very moving moment." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b011lhrb (Listen) SUN Series 60, Episode 2 SUN SUN Ever-popular panel show hosted by Nicholas Parsons. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b011j39x (Listen) SUN The Food Programme investigates whether the Great British SUN food renaissance is over. With food prices rising and SUN consumer confidence falling, has the UK's good food bubble SUN burst? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon visits the Real Food Festival at Earls Court SUN in London. It is a showcase for producers of fine food, and SUN so a perfect indicator of how premium food products and SUN sales are faring in the current economic downturn. Sheila SUN meets chefs, farmers, producers and economists to discuss SUN whether the British food renaissance is doomed, or in fact SUN whether it ever even began. SUN SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon, Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b011fjlm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b011j3gn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with an in-depth SUN look at events around the world. Listeners can comment via SUN email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 FIFA: Football, Power and Politics b011j7vp (Listen) SUN FIFA's power to award the World Cup, the global super event SUN sought by so many nations, means it holds the dreams of SUN millions of football fans in its hands. Consequently kings, SUN presidents and prime ministers seek FIFA's sporting jewel, SUN anxious to secure glory and status for their nation. The SUN sensational decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia SUN and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar made global headlines. But SUN FIFA also administers the whole of world football, presiding SUN over an organisation with more members than the U.N. SUN SUN On June 1st the current FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, seeks SUN re-election. Standing against him, insider and President of SUN the Asian F.A. Mohammed Bin Hammam. It is an election beset SUN by scandal, full of bitter accusation with FIFA riven by SUN unprecedented internecine warfare. SUN SUN Sociologist and sports historian David Goldblatt (author of SUN The Ball is Round) asks what is FIFA ? Where has it come SUN from and who is it for? Tracing its 107 year history from SUN humble, part time origins in Paris to its multi-billion SUN pound manifestation at its ultra modern Zurich H.Q. . An SUN organization, which as late as the 1970's employed less than SUN 10 full-time staff, and has now changed beyond all SUN recognition to wield global, economic, political and SUN cultural influence. SUN SUN Goldblatt hears from those who have documented its story and SUN its secrets and from those who have helped shaped its modern SUN identity. From the man who sold world football to the SUN corporate giants; the man who knows what makes FIFA and its SUN president tick; and from the Swiss M.P. seeking to bring SUN FIFA to heel. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Burman. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b011ckxj (Listen) SUN Postbag edition SUN SUN Peter Gibbs and the panel answer a collection of listener SUN questions from Sparsholt College. Rosie Yeomans updates on SUN the GQT trial beds. SUN SUN Panellists are Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew SUN Wilson. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 15 by 15 b011j3gq (Listen) SUN Stroke SUN SUN What's in a word? Where did it come from? Where does it SUN lead? In a new series of five programmes Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN chooses a word and sees where it leads him. In 15 minutes he SUN expects to learn 15 things he didn't know before. SUN SUN Along the way Hardeep talks to art critic Richard Cork about SUN the brushstrokes of Claude Monet, meets massage therapist SUN Martin Kingston, remembers Botham's cricket strokes, and SUN hears about the Stroke Association's preventative campaign. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Bannerman SUN A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b011j3kf (Listen) SUN Plantagenet: Series 2, Edward I - Old Soldiers SUN SUN by Mike Walker. Inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Edward SUN Longshanks - the Hammer of the Scots - was grief-stricken SUN after the death of his first wife. But he finds new love SUN with Margaret, sister of the French King. And heartache with SUN his son Ned. SUN Edward 1st ... Philip Jackson SUN Margaret ...Ellie Kendrick SUN Ned ... Sam Troughton SUN Gaveston ...Simon Bubb SUN Wallace.. .James Lailey SUN Roger Bigod ... Jonathan Forbes SUN With Sean Baker, Brian Bowles, Nyasha Hatendi, Stuart SUN McLoughlin, Joanna Monro, Peter Polycarpou, Daniel Rabin, SUN Alun Raglan and Jane Whittenshaw. SUN SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b011j3kh (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup celebrates a renaissance in historical SUN fiction writing with authors Philippa Gregory, Sarah Dunant SUN and Adrian Goldsworthy. SUN SUN In its heyday in the 1950s and 60s writers such as Anya SUN Seton, Georgette Heyer, Margaret Irwin and Jean Plaidy SUN achieved commercial success - Jean Plaidy sold a 100 million SUN books in her lifetime - but little literary acclaim. SUN SUN So why is the genre enjoying a re-birth, and how do novels SUN from Tudor tyrants to the 1930s Depression, from Renaissance SUN Italy to the Napoleonic wars, speak to us now? SUN SUN The programme also includes an interview with Hilary Mantel, SUN author of Booker prize winning novel "Wolf Hall" about the SUN Tudor politician Thomas Cromwell. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b011j3kk (Listen) SUN A mixture of poetry requests to take us from dawn to dusk, SUN with work by Norman MacCaig, Stephen Spender and Peter SUN McDonald. There's a languid poem dreamt up by the American SUN James Wright as he lay in a hammock at dusk, one by DH SUN Lawrence longing for the company of his love to watch the SUN sun setting and a 'crop of stars' growing silently, and a SUN wry warning to a deluded Lothario as he takes the night air SUN to try his luck. SUN SUN The readers are Jonjo O'Neill, Peter Marinker and Alison SUN McKenna. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Islam Inc b011c0ty (Listen) SUN From Africa to Kazakhstan, a new Islamic network is SUN attracting millions of followers - and millions of dollars. SUN Inspired by a little-known Turkish Imam, the Gulen movement SUN has more than a thousand schools in more than a hundred SUN countries as well as thinktanks, newspapers, TV and radio SUN stations, a university - and even a bank. The movement's SUN critics claim it's determined to create a new Muslim empire. SUN It's supporters say it's just the expression of a modern, SUN business-friendly Islam committed to human rights and SUN democracy. Edward Stourton travels to Turkey to find out SUN about the man who inspired what has become a global SUN phenomenon - Fetullah Gulen. There he meets supporters and SUN critics of the movement. He also talks to some of its most SUN committed ambassadors - who are running its schools in SUN Central Asia. SUN Producer: Helen Grady. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b011j2g7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b011fjlp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b011fjlr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011fjlt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b011j43j (Listen) SUN John Waite makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b011j43l (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b011j43n (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00n881r (Listen) SUN A Glimpse of Stocking, The Hostess with the Mostest SUN SUN A short story in celebration of 'something shocking' - the SUN nylon stocking. SUN SUN If bus hostess Jill is to afford a summer holiday, she's got SUN to win the monthly customer satisfaction bonus. SUN All that stands in her way are some curling sandwiches, a SUN top-loading video cassette player and a pair of American Tan SUN tights. Well, it is 1984... SUN SUN Written by Laura Marney and read by Gayanne Potter. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b011ckxg (Listen) SUN The Moral Maze prides itself on robust discussion, but many SUN listeners thought this week's programme was more about bad SUN manners than reasoned argument. Did they go too far? Or is SUN all fair in love and debate? SUN SUN Could Chris Evans be the saviour of children's radio? Quite SUN possibly, judging by the massive response to his short story SUN competition, 500 Words. Ahead of next week's announcement of SUN the winners, executive producer Helen Thomas reveals what it SUN is about the Radio 2 Breakfast Show that appeals to all SUN ages. SUN SUN Inspired by all this youthful talent, Feedback is searching SUN for the radio critics of the future. If you are 13 or under SUN do please write to us with your views on what you love - or SUN hate - about anything at all on BBC Radio. SUN And local radio - what is it good for? Roger talks to David SUN Holdsworth, who's in charge of all 40 of the BBC's radio SUN stations in England to find out why we still need it in the SUN internet age. SUN SUN Contact the Feedback team to let Roger know what you'd like SUN him to tackle this series about anything you've heard on BBC SUN radio. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b011ckxn (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Indian born writer and activist Mala Sen, who campaigned SUN for the rights of ethnic minority workers in the UK. SUN SUN The nobel prize winning scientist Dr Willard Boyle, who SUN invented the tiny charge couple device that is behind all SUN digital imaging SUN SUN Lloyd Knibb - the Jamaican drummer who came up with the ska SUN beat. SUN SUN The actor Edward Hardwicke best known for playing Dr Watson SUN to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in the 1980s TV series SUN SUN And the seventh Earl of Onslow, a political maverick and SUN true British eccentric. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b011j2fv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b011j39l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b011cfn5 (Listen) SUN Continental Drift SUN SUN Continental Drift SUN As the sovereign debt crisis continues what next for the SUN Euro? What next for Europe? Peter Day asks the experts. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b011j43q (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn talks to the political editor of the Financial SUN Times, George Parker, about the big political stories at SUN Westminster. SUN SUN She speaks to the former Labour health minister, Lord SUN Warner, about the coalition's plans to reform the National SUN Health Service in England. She asks him why he is critical SUN of Labour's opposition to proposals to increase competition SUN within the NHS. SUN SUN This week's MPs' panel is made up of the Conservative Mary SUN Macleod and Labour's Liz Kendall. Among the issues they SUN discuss is the NHS bill SUN SUN Maurice Glasman, a Labour peer and adviser to Ed Milliband, SUN debates the meaning of 'Blue Labour' with Patrick Diamond, SUN who advised the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. SUN The discuss Labour's record on the economy, the role of SUN markets and the state and the direction Ed Miliband is SUN taking Labour. SUN SUN Programme editor: Terry Dignan. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b011j43s (Listen) SUN Episode 54 SUN SUN John Harris of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b011ckxq (Listen) SUN In the Film Programme this week Francine Stock talks to the SUN screenwriter Jane Goldman about the latest X-Men feature; SUN discusses metaphysics and the intractability of goats with SUN Michelangelo Frammartino, the director of the brilliant and SUN mysterious Le Quattro Volte; and shares in the author and SUN critic Kim Newman's enthusiasm for a comedy thriller SUN featuring Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum and Vincent Price. SUN There's also a master class in the kind of music that makes SUN an action sequence really fizz from Neil Brand. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b011j39d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 MAY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b011j44p (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b011c239 (Listen) MON Playboy - Celebrity politics MON MON Carrie Pitzulo, the author of a new history of Playboy MON claims it has "a surprisingly strong record of support for MON women's rights and the modernisation of sexual and gender MON roles". Are Bunny Girls and Playmates of the Month really MON allies of the feminist cause? Laurie is joined by the author MON Carrie Pitzulo and the sociologist Angela McRobbie to MON discuss the secret and surprises of the bunny brand. MON Also, why do young people trust popular entertainers more MON than politicians? Sanna Inthorn discusses her new research MON into celebrity politics. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b011j39b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011j44r (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011j44t (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011j44w (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b011j44y (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011j450 (Listen) MON with Rev Peter Baker. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b011j452 (Listen) MON Caz Graham assesses the impact of reducing the number of MON sheep on the hills. The cross-party Environment Food and MON Rural Affairs committee has suggested a return to 'headage MON payments' - basing farm subsidies on the number of animals MON kept, rather on the size of the farm. The last time this MON happened, many people feel over-grazing damaged the MON environment. MON MON At the RSPB Geltsdale Nature Reserve a reduced grazing MON experiment has been running for 11 years. Rare farmland MON birds, birds of prey and mountain sheep co-exist in this MON wild and beautiful part of the North Pennines. Farming Today MON hears how bilberry, lapwing, and black grouse have enjoyed a MON revival since grazing was reduced. MON MON Presenter: Caz Graham Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b011j454 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b011j456 (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk MON at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; MON Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b011j458 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr wanders the globe with Paul Theroux, as he MON celebrates the pleasures and pains of travel, and discovers MON what makes the best travel writing. The General Secretary of MON Amnesty International Salil Shetty looks back at 50 years of MON the organisation, and argues that Amnesty has had to change MON from a small letter-writing charity aimed at freeing MON dissidents, to a global multi-national focused on poverty MON and gender issues. At 50 you're generally considered MON middle-aged and heading towards retirement, but the MON journalist Catherine Mayer rejects the traditional patterns MON of aging, arguing that more and more people are starting to MON live agelessly. And the landscape artist Charles Jencks MON explains how science and the patterns inherent in nature MON have influenced his designs. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b011j48c (Listen) MON Ox Travels, The Return of the Native MON MON Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top MON travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these MON stories. MON MON Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting MON life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they MON transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of MON encounters. MON MON In 'The Return of the Native', Nicholas Shakespeare tells MON the story of his Brazilian brother in law's journey to MON Africa to confront, for the first time, the shocking facts MON of his family's roots in slavery. MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b011j48f (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Hairdressing consistently tops the MON list of careers that rate job satisfaction, so why don't we MON encourage more girls to go into it? Top colourist Jo MON Hansford discusses the benefits of life in a salon. In MON Turkey, more than 40 per cent of women have experienced MON domestic violence according to one report so why aren't the MON country's laws offering women greater protection? Author Ann MON Patchett talks about her journey to the Amazonian jungle, MON the setting of her latest novel. For that Bank Holiday MON lunch, we've tips on how to Cook the Perfect..Barbecue. MON MON Ann Patchett: State of Wonder MON MON The Orange Prize winning author Ann Patchett joins Jane to MON talk about her latest novel, 'State of Wonder'. It is the MON tale of the research scientist Marina Singh's journey into MON the dense rainforest of the Amazon river. She has two tasks: MON the first, to report on the progress of her former teacher MON Dr. Swenson, who is studying the Lakashi tribe and claims to MON be developing a new drug that will change the lives of MON Western women. The second is to find out the truth about the MON death of her colleague Anders Eckman who died whilst also MON attempting to report on Dr. Swenson's work. MON MON Domestic Violence in Turkey MON MON Forty two per cent of women in Turkey have experienced MON physical or sexual violence committed by a husband or MON partner, according to Human Rights Watch. Turkey has strong MON protection laws. However implementation failures by police, MON prosecutors and judges make the protection system MON unpredictable, and at times dangerous. Jane discusses the MON issues with Emma Sinclair-Webb, Turkey researcher at Human MON Rights Watch and Zeynep Erdim, who works for the BBC in MON Istanbul. MON MON Cook the Perfect: BBQ - Lamb Kebabs MON MON Pastrami lamb kebabs and hickory smoked stuffed mushrooms - MON that's the Cook the Perfect barbecue menu. Clare Kelly from MON the Weber grill academy shows Jane how to barbecue perfectly MON cooked meat and a delicious vegetarian alternative. MON MON Is Hairdressing a Good Career Choice for Girls? MON MON Hairdressing consistently tops the list of high satisfaction MON jobs, and if you’re good at it you’ll never be out of MON work..so why are some people more than a bit sniffy about MON their daughters considering the profession? Maybe it’s time MON for a serious re-assessment: hairdressing is supposedly MON recession proof and future proof. It’s unlikely that even in MON the moving pavement avatar – strewn next few decades, MON someone in Mumbai will be able to do your perm if you’re in MON Huddersfield. To find out why it’s such a popular career MON choice for young women Anna Bailey went to Willis B Hair MON Salon in South London on their trainee evening. Jane MON discusses the issues with Jo Hansford is Britain’s leading MON colourist and Dr Fizer Shaheen, from the New Economics MON Foundation. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011j48h (Listen) MON Once More with Feeling, Episode 1 MON MON By Kieran Prendiville. A comedy drama set in the MON no-prisoners world of northern social clubs. MON MON Its protagonist is Les Bone, a plumber who once came within MON sniffing distance of the big time when his band Nuclear Dump MON went mega.....without him. MON MON Les got fired the day before the band cut its first hit MON single. Which, like the album it came from, went platinum. MON Making it the most expensive sex of Les' life...being the MON price he paid for getting caught with the lead singer's MON girlfriend. MON MON And now, twenty five years down the line, still unlucky in MON love, single-parent Les has been tossed a second chance. His MON kids have a boyband (even if one of them is a girl) and MON they're a boy short for an upcoming tour of south Yorkshire, MON one of the hardest enclaves in clubland. MON MON Les and The Family Bone are to share a coach with a spangly MON jacketed blue nosed comic, a bad impressionist and a driver MON who can fart the 1812 overture...if anyone would let him. MON MON Les ..... Paul Copley MON Sheila ...... Belinda Everett MON Elaine ...... Blue Merrick MON Denny ...... Christian Rodska MON Chris ...... Harry Hepple MON Alan/Scotch Billy ..... Rob Hudson MON Kevin ..... Brogan West MON Troy ..... James Baxter MON Kimberly/Nurse ..... Joan Walker MON Compere ..... Kieran Prendiville MON MON Produced and directed By Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Boy Racers b011j7v1 (Listen) MON Two young motor racing drivers battle it out at speeds of MON 150 mph to become stars on the track. Aasmah Mir follows MON their fortunes and find out what it takes to make it motor MON sport. In a multi-million pound industry, she discovers it MON is not just dedication you need, but very deep pockets. MON MON With dreams of becoming Formula One Champion, teenagers Alex MON Lynn and Oliver Rowland are team mates and rivals racing in MON the British Formula Renault UK Championship. Aasmah goes MON trackside to join them on the important first race weekend MON of the championship at Brands Hatch. Off track, she goes MON behind the scenes in the pit, where the drivers psych MON themselves up for the race and parents nervously wait to see MON who will make it to pole position and onto the podium; she MON also hears from world champions and international stars MON Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button on their journey to that MON pinnacle of achievement. MON MON From very different backgrounds, seventeen year old Alex MON from Essex only passed his driving test last October and is MON financially supported by family and sponsors. Eighteen year MON old karting champion Oliver, whose father died last year, MON recently moved from his home in Sheffield to Northampton to MON pursue his career and is funded by a racing foundation, as MON well as working in the Silverstone shop. For these two MON teenagers, motor racing is a way of life. MON MON Both drivers are part of the British Racing Drivers' Club's MON Superstars scheme, a mentoring programme, which recognises MON emerging talent and potential champions. But in a hugely MON competitive sport, the stakes are high, with very few MON succeeding to the top. MON MON Producer: Tamsin Barber. MON MON 11:30 Mr Blue Sky b011j7v3 (Listen) MON Birthday Greetings MON MON Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal MON optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the MON silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every MON bit of bad news. MON MON This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass MON is always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his MON wife of 19 years, Jacqui or "Jax" (played by Rebecca Front), MON knows all too well. MON MON In this episode Harvey and Sean's jobs are put in the firing MON line whilst Robbie discovers a new love of birds...for the MON time-being. MON MON Cast: MON Harvey Easter...Mark Benton MON Jacqui Easter.....Rebecca Front MON Charlie Easter....Antonia Campbell-Hughes MON Robbie Easter....Joe Tracini MON Rakesh Rathi....Navin Chowdhry MON Ray Marsh....Justin Edwards MON Sean Cahoun....Michael Legge MON Mr Bolt....Simon Day MON MON Writer ..... Andrew Collins MON Title Music performer/arranger ..... Jim Bob MON Producer/Director ..... Anna Madley MON An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b011j7v5 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker MON MON The government is proposing to cut £350 million pounds from MON the £2.2 billion annual Legal Aid budget. They say they want MON to focus resources on 'more deserving cases; what does this MON mean and who will lose out? Sumptuous TV advertising MON tempting tourists to come to Scotland and Wales have paid MON dividends - boosting both foreign and domestic visitors. MON 'Visit Britain' is planning an overhaul of its public image MON but what makes a good tourism advert and does England , in MON particular, fall short of showing itself in its best light? MON Ever had an unexpectedly high telephone bill? OFCOM would MON like to hear from you. They want to collect data and MON experiences and see if they can establish whether strangely MON expensive telephone bills - landline or mobile - are more MON usually the fault of the user or the phone company. 'Click MON and Collect' is the name for the increasing number of retail MON outlets that are offering to collect and return your parcels MON for you. It is a response to the sometimes frustrating MON business of having trek to out of town parcel collection MON centres or post offices with restricted hours for MON collections. The online payment network Pay Point is leading MON the way with 3,500 outlets nationwide that will accept MON parcels, at least for return. Buying medicines online MON without a prescription can be a perilous business. Drug MON companies have stepped up their 'Get Wise' campaign aimed at MON persuading the public not to buy medicines which may not be MON what they claim to be, could damage your health, or even MON kill you... and end up costing more than buying the MON legitimate product over the counter. Critics say the MON campaign needs to send a more sophisticated message than MON simply 'don't do it'. MON MON 12:57 Weather b011j45b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b011jzn2 (Listen) MON National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. To MON share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b011j7v7 (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 9 MON MON The contest to find this year's musical mastermind reaches a MON crucial stage, with Paul Gambaccini chairing the ninth and MON last heat of the 2011 series. One of today's competitors MON will take the only remaining place in the semi-finals of MON this year's competition. MON MON The final trio of contestants this year come from the London MON area and Kent. To make it through, they'll have to MON demonstrate the widest possible knowledge of music in many MON genres, from the classical repertoire through show tunes, MON film themes, jazz, classic rock, and six decades of the pop MON charts. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b011j43l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b011j7v9 (Listen) MON Corrinne Come Back and Gone MON MON by Lenny Henry. Corrinne Jackson gets a letter from her MON daughter inviting her to return to Jamaica after twenty MON years. Her husband is dead. Twenty years earlier she fled to MON the UK leaving her children behind. Now there's a chance to MON set things right. MON MON Corrinne...Claire Benedict MON Miss Valda...Dona Croll MON Bridie...Nadine Marshall MON Ruth...Clare Perkins MON Simone...Petra Letang MON Marcus...Alex Lanipekun MON Child Bridie...Leah Ocran MON MON Directed by Claire Grove MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b011j303 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star b00t1v74 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Ex Home Secretary Alan Johnson goes in search of the life he MON thought he nearly had: as a rock star. In the 1960s Alan MON Johnson was in a band ("The Area") that cut a single but MON couldn't get it released. He gave music up for a career that MON took him from Postman to Union Leader to The Cabinet. So MON what has he missed out on? Does the fame of being a senior MON government minister compare in any way with that of being in MON a successful band. MON MON In this series he meets five people who tasted the fame he MON craved. Each of the warm and engaging interviews reveal MON something different about life in music and the truth behind MON the myths. MON MON In Episode one Alan meets The Merseybeats, contemporaries of MON The Area who achieved everything Alan dreamed of, and 45 MON years later are still touring with the same hits. Has the MON life gone stale or become tired? Is it really a career that MON could have sustained someone for all that time? MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b011j39x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b011j7vc (Listen) MON Series 4, What Don't We Know? MON MON "What Don't We Know?" MON Professor Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince return for a new MON series of the witty, irreverent science/comedy show. This MON week the Infinite Monkeys will be asking what don't we know, MON do we know what we don't know, does science know what it MON doesn't know, and are there some things that science will MON never be able to know? Joining them on stage for this brain MON twister and to discuss whether any of us actually know MON anything at all, are the comedian Paul Foot, biologist MON Professor Steve Jones and cosmologist and science writer MON Marcus Chown. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b011j7vf (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011j45d (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b011j7vh (Listen) MON Series 60, Episode 3 MON MON Popular panel show hosted by Nicholas Parsons. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b011j7vk (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b011j7vm (Listen) MON Playwright Terence Rattigan re-assessed MON MON Mark Lawson re-assesses the life and plays of Terence MON Rattigan, in his centenary year. He talks to leading MON playwrights, actors and directors about Rattigans rise, fall MON and return - from West End golden boy to a forgotten figure, MON until his current status as a rediscovered genius: an MON English Chekhov. MON MON Includes memories and reflections from writers David Hare, MON Ronald Harwood, Nicholas Wright, Dan Rebellato, actors MON Donald Sinden, Michael Simkins, Nancy Carroll, directors MON Adrian Brown and Thea Sharrock, Rattigan's agent Michael MON Imison, biographer Michael Darlow and his friend Princess MON Jean Galitzine. MON MON Producer India Rakusen. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011j48h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 FIFA: Football, Power and Politics b011j7vp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 20:30 Analysis b011j7vr (Listen) MON Unhealthy Expectations? MON MON Is our NHS debate avoiding the key issue? The talk is of MON another reorganisation of the NHS and greater efficiencies MON enabling the NHS in England to face the future. But the MON overall challenge goes much deeper, and the politicians dare MON not address it. As well as the pressures of demography and MON inflation in health care costs, the health service faces MON what it has always faced - public expectation of ever better MON health care means an ever greater proportion of our national MON wealth has been spent on health. Now it is said that this MON must simply stop. But does this hope - one in a long history MON of so far unrealised hopes -simply obscure the more painful MON reality. One way or another, privately or publicly, our MON health care ambitions have to be paid for, and we are MON failing to decide how. MON MON In 'Unhealthy Expectations' Michael Blastland looks at how MON this problem has loomed for years but never been faced - at MON least not in open political debate. He explores what the MON real choices are if constantly improved care is to be MON provided - and whether this must mean either much higher MON personal taxes or a population prepared to pay much directly MON for care. Or is there a realistic way of squaring the circle MON of rising demand within fixed budgets? MON If something has to give, then what? Will you give up your MON expectations? MON MON 21:00 Material World b011cfmv (Listen) MON Adam Rutherford stands in for Quentin this week and hears MON the latest news about the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland, MON the Grimsvotn eruption that caused it and its impact for MON aviation. He reports from his small garden in East London on MON how private gardens benefit the urban environment, and he MON discovers how scientists from Imperial College London are MON working out the shape of one of the smallest things known - MON the electron. MON MON The producer is Martin Redfern. MON MON Iceland Volcanic Ash MON MON It sounds like a re-run of last year: An Icelandic volcano MON erupts and sends a vast cloud of hazardous ash into European MON airspace, grounding flights. But things have changed. It’s a MON different volcano – Grimsvotn – and an eruption that’s 100 MON times bigger than Eyjafjallajökull last year. Had it MON happened last year, all of UK airspace would have closed, MON instead of just the Northern part. Is this the start of a MON new cycle of Icelandic eruptions and can the aviation MON authorities cope? Adam discusses the issues with Dr Sue MON Loughlin, head of volcanology at the British Geological MON Survey, and Dr Carina Fearnley, Lecturer in Environmental MON Hazards at Aberystwyth University. MON MON Urban Garden MON MON The UK is an urbanised society with over 85 percent of the MON population living in towns and cities. With this in mind, MON how important are domestic gardens and greens spaces in the MON maintenance of urban environments? A report published this MON week by the Royal Horticultural Society pulls together, for MON the first time, the key scientific evidence demonstrating MON the importance of green spaces in urban environments. The MON report concludes that gardens and green spaces contribute MON significantly to a range of environmental and health MON factors. Most notably greenery can be used to help reduce MON the energy cost of air conditioning in summer by providing MON cooling effects and in winter reduce heating costs by MON providing insulation. The report also demonstrates that MON greenery can be used to prevent flooding, support MON biodiversity and provide a number of physical and MON psychological health benefits. MON MON Electrons MON MON The nuclei of atoms are tinier still and electrons are much MON much smaller. So it sounds like an impossible task to MON measure the shape of an electron, that is essentially what MON has been done in a basement in South Kensington. The results MON are reported in this week’s edition of the journal Nature. MON The work could lead to the discovery of new particles beyond MON the range even of the great Large Hadron Collider at Cern MON near Geneva. The research team at Imperial College London MON is led by Professor Ed Hinds. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b011j458 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b011j45g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b011k3zq (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 b011j81g (Listen) MON The Forgotten Waltz, Save the Last Dance for Me MON MON 'The Forgotten Waltz' is Anne Enright's long-awaited novel, MON her first since 'The Gathering', which won the Man Booker MON 2007. MON MON In a snow blanketed Dublin, Gina reflects on the last MON decade, from the moment she first caught a glimpse of Sean MON Vallely, through a haze of cigarette smoke, through the MON happenstance and lust, the hotel rooms and the secrets, that MON have brought down two marriages, three mortgages and left MON her a reluctant inhabitant of her childhood home. Startling, MON honest, witty and wry, Enright's novel captures the nuances MON and the bliss of an overwhelming attraction that becomes an MON affair and charts the gradual encroachment of reality, MON damage and a love that can't be ignored or surpassed. MON MON In today's episode, the realities of loving a family man, MON and remembering a father. MON MON The Reader is Niamh Cusack. MON The Abridger is Sally Marmion MON The Producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Arise Black Man: The Peter Tosh Story b00w1yzy (Listen) MON Peter Tosh found international fame alongside Bob Marley as MON a member of The Wailers. As a solo artist he released MON several landmark reggae albums and even recorded with the MON Rolling Stones. But he was more than just a successful pop MON star: he was a revolutionary and a hero to many of Jamaica's MON poor. He spent his life as a strident campaigner for civil MON rights and for the legalisation of marijuana. He was more MON militant and political than his former band mate and his MON uncompromising arrogance often landed him in serious MON trouble. For that reason, as this documentary reveals, his MON life could be as brutal as the way it ended. Grammy award MON winning film-maker Don Letts explores his career. MON MON 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions b011mffd (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON MON Northern Ireland comedian Colin Murphy hosts this MON entertainment show which explores the answers to some MON original and unusual questions. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 31 MAY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b011j8yk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b011j48c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011j8ym (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011j8yp (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011j8yr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b011j8yt (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011j8yw (Listen) TUE with Rev Peter Baker. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b011j8yy (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b011j8z0 (Listen) TUE With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk TUE at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; TUE Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Choice b011j8z2 (Listen) TUE Di Franks TUE TUE When Di Franks asked her doctor about donating her kidney, TUE she wasn't sure she would be taken seriously. TUE Because Di wasn't giving her healthy organ to a sick and TUE needy relative.. she wanted to donate it to a complete TUE stranger. TUE Five years ago it was illegal to give a kidney to someone TUE you didn't know in this country. TUE When it was made legal, inspired by a friend in the US who TUE had themselves donated a kidney, Di was faced with the TUE extraordinary choice. TUE Should she undergo a major operation to remove a vital organ TUE to help someone she would probably never know ? Not only was TUE she was risking her own life, the choice could have TUE consequences for her son and the rest of her family if they TUE ever needed her organ... TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b011j8z4 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Edward Heath TUE TUE Nick Robinson, the BBC Political Editor, concludes his TUE series exploring how different prime ministers have used TUE their power and responded to the challenges of their time. TUE TUE Sir Edward Heath took Britain into the EEC (now the European TUE Union) in 1973, but this historic achievement still divides TUE opinion and his premiership ended in defeat. When Heath won TUE his party's first leadership election in 1965, he TUE personified a less class-bound and more modern Toryism. He TUE won the 1970 general election promising to modernise TUE Britain's economy, reform the unions and reduce state TUE intervention. However, after unemployment reached one TUE million (then a post-war record) in 1972, he made a TUE 'U-turn', boosting state spending and trying to curb TUE inflation through talks with the unions and industry. When TUE the talks failed, Heath imposed a freeze on pay and prices. TUE In late 1973, his pay controls were challenged by the miners TUE at a time when the economy was hit by a four-fold increase TUE in world oil prices. Heath responded to the miners' overtime TUE ban by putting industry on a three-day week, and when the TUE miners voted to strike in February 1974 he called an early TUE election on the question of ''Who governs?'. Although the TUE Conservatives won most seats, they fell short of an overall TUE majority and Heath failed in his last-ditch attempt to form TUE a coalition with the Liberals and stay in Number 10. TUE TUE As prime minister, Heath was ahead of his time in seeing the TUE need for radical reform, but entry into Europe and his TUE U-turn strained his party's loyalties. He could ill afford TUE to treat people with apparent disdain and in this respect he TUE brought troubles on himself. His grudging attitude to his TUE Tory successor, Margaret Thatcher, further damaged his TUE reputation, but in some ways he had been an unlucky prime TUE minister. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b011mt3r (Listen) TUE Ox Travels, Madam Say Go TUE TUE Sonia Faleiro describes a meeting with a young woman TUE returning home to India after a life in domestic servitude TUE in Abu Dhabi, and investigates the terrible conditions TUE suffered by many foreign workers in the Gulf. TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b011j8z6 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE In his new book, American author and economist, Bryan TUE Caplan, challenges parents to rethink their role with their TUE children. Less is more he says, parents need to relax and TUE let their offspring be more independent. So has modern TUE parenting turned children into a unnecessarily heavy burden? TUE Freelance journalist Lydia Slater joins Bryan and Jane TUE Garvey to discuss his ideas. TUE TUE Tamara Rojo has been Principal Ballerina with the Royal TUE Ballet for the last decade. She has been described as the TUE best dance actress of her generation and in June, the TUE Spanish ballerina will be bringing ballet to a wider TUE audience by performing Kenneth MacMillan's timeless classic TUE Romeo and Juliet alongside Carlos Acosta in front of a TUE potential twelve thousand people at the O2 in London. She TUE joins Jane to discuss. TUE TUE We find out how one of the three businesswomen we're TUE following this year is getting on in the latest in our TUE series on Women in Business. Daniella Genas is a 26 year old TUE from Birmingham and her company is called Aspire4u. Daniella TUE wants to make a difference in the lives of young people from TUE disadvantaged backgrounds - so she runs training courses for TUE them. But alongside this the company also organises events - TUE anything from corporate seminars to Christmas parties. The TUE idea is that the event management side of the business will TUE - eventually - fund the work with the young people. Gita TUE Patel, Daniella's mentor attends the company's latest event TUE - an evening celebrating Carribbean food and culture. Judy TUE Merry reports. TUE TUE Frederick Leboyer was born in 1918; he is 92. He is best TUE known for the book "Birth Without Violence", which first TUE appeared in 1975 and was a reaction to what many felt was TUE becoming an over-medicalised approach to childbirth. He TUE became known for advocating immersing the baby in warm water TUE shortly after birth; an idea which was taken on by Michel TUE Odent in his advocacy of water births. Frederick Leboyer TUE also encouraged the importance of touch, and baby massage. TUE Jane talks to him. TUE TUE Producer: Kirsty Starkey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ld3s (Listen) TUE Once More with Feeling, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Kieran Prendiville. A comedy drama set in the TUE no-prisoners world of northern social clubs. TUE TUE Its protagonist is Les Bone, a plumber who once came within TUE sniffing distance of the big time when his band Nuclear Dump TUE went mega.....without him. TUE TUE And now, twenty five years down the line, still unlucky in TUE love, single-parent Les has been tossed a second chance. His TUE kids have a boyband (even if one of them is a girl) and TUE they're a boy short for an upcoming tour of south Yorkshire, TUE one of the hardest enclaves in clubland. TUE TUE As the family band hits the road, Les meets an old flame and TUE receives devastating news about daughter Sheila. TUE TUE Les ..... Paul Copley TUE Sheila ...... Belinda Everett TUE Elaine ...... Blue Merrick TUE Denny ...... Christian Rodska TUE Chris ...... Harry Hepple TUE Alan/Scotch Billy ..... Rob Hudson TUE Kevin ..... Brogan West TUE Troy ..... James Baxter TUE Kimberly/Nurse ..... Joan Walker TUE Compere ..... Kieran Prendiville TUE TUE Producer/Director: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b011j8z8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 6 TUE TUE 6/30 Jennifer Owen has published a book about her life long TUE study of the wildlife she has observed in her ordinary TUE garden. Owen hasn't described hundreds; she has described TUE thousands of species that live in a complex web of TUE ecological relationships within her garden walls. Sarah Pitt TUE meets Jennifer and kick starts a mini series of "Citizen TUE Conservation" within Saving Species. We'll also be asking TUE the Royal Horticultural Society how they encourage the TUE natural world to flourish in gardens. TUE TUE Brett Westwood has been out and about with Matthew Oates in TUE search of the Wood White Butterfly. The Wood White is one of TUE Britain's rarest butterflies and so far seems to have TUE enjoyed the sunny spring. TUE TUE Presenter: Joanna Pinnock TUE Producer: Sheena Duncan TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 In for the Kill b011j8zb (Listen) TUE Crime writer Mike Phillips investigates the coming of age of TUE black British crime fiction and asks why there is still a TUE reluctance to see the black detective as hero. TUE TUE In recent years as the ethnic mix in the UK has changed, the TUE literature produced by black Britons has embraced broader TUE themes beyond questions of identity and freedom. The TUE autobiographical narratives of the past are being superseded TUE by a new generation of writers who are tackling other genres TUE - notably crime fiction. TUE TUE Mike Phillips was one of the first to delve into this area TUE with Sam Dean, the journalist who features in his novels TUE Blood Rights and The Late Candidate. In this programme, he TUE meets other writers who are following his example, and TUE discovers what their work tells us about modern Britain. The TUE UK still lags behind the US where novelists such as Walter TUE Mosley and Barbara Neely have captured the black crime TUE fiction genre. Phillips discovers why this is the case. TUE TUE Producer: Paula McGinley. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b011j8zd (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. The Localism Bill TUE is well on its way to becoming law but does anyone really TUE know what it is? It appears to be about devolving more power TUE to local communities and giving them the chance to organise TUE everything from their allotments to running local schools. TUE While some people welcome it others see it as way of taking TUE power away from local councils. So who would benefit people TUE or should the system be left as it is with the state having TUE more control? How will these plans be financed? Some fear it TUE could lead to controversial decisions involving areas like TUE planning. So are you in favour of the proposals? Would you TUE use them? How would you use them? How will it be implemented TUE long term? TUE An opportunity to contribute your views to the programme. TUE Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines TUE open at 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b011j8zg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b011jzmp (Listen) TUE With Shaun Ley. National and international news, featuring TUE analysis, comment and interviews. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Fela Kuti Comes Home b011j8zj (Listen) TUE Fela Kuti is Africa's most famous musician. Before his death TUE in 1997 he recorded nearly 50 albums and invented his own TUE genre of music: Afrobeat. In the 70s and 80s his legendary TUE club in Lagos was famed for housing the best live band on TUE Earth. As witnessed by James Brown, Stevie Wonder and Paul TUE McCartney. TUE But there was more to Fela Kuti than ground-breaking music. TUE He was also a political revolutionary who spent his life TUE strongly criticising successive military regimes in his TUE native Nigeria. While his contemporaries would sing in more TUE general terms of oppression, Fela singled out his targets, TUE personally naming them in songs which became popular all TUE over Africa. It wasn't long before he was a hero to many TUE working class Nigerians. TUE But his taunts didn't go down so well with the authorities. TUE Nor did his controversial lifestyle: he openly smoked TUE marijuana, declared his home an independent state of Nigeria TUE and married 27 women on the same day. The story goes he was TUE the most arrested person in Nigerian history. He appeared in TUE court hundreds of times, had spells in prison and TUE permanently suffered from his injuries after regular TUE beatings at the hands of the military and police. Fela TUE believed they were also responsible for the death of his TUE mother, who was thrown from an upstairs window when his home TUE was stormed by 1000 soldiers. TUE In 2009 his incredible story was turned in to a successful TUE Broadway musical and this April it performed in Lagos for TUE the first time. Fela Kuti was coming home. But while the TUE rest of the world is finally paying attention to this TUE musical and political revolutionary why will you struggle to TUE hear any of his music on Nigerian radio? Have they forgotten TUE Fela? Or do the powers that be still find his music TUE offensive? Radio 4 visited Lagos to find the answers. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b011j7vk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hpk3t (Listen) TUE Mole TUE TUE Richard Monks' comic tale of an amateur gardener who becomes TUE dangerously obsessed with hunting down the mole that has TUE dared to desecrate his pristine lawn. But his obsession TUE hides a deeper and more damaging problem. TUE TUE Margaret ...... Lesley Sharp TUE Colin ...... Neil Dudgeon TUE Mathew ...... Robert Lonsdale TUE Jonte ...... Paul Rider TUE Nurse ...... Manjeet Mann TUE Doctor ...... Gunnar Cauthery TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b011j8zl (Listen) TUE Tom Holland presents Radio 4's popular history programme in TUE which listener's questions and research help offer new TUE insights into the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b011j8zn (Listen) TUE Winter in the Air and Other Stories, Winter in the Air TUE TUE Winter in the Air is the title story from Sylvia Townsend TUE Warner's recently republished collection in which a woman TUE reflects on the final and difficult days of her marriage. At TUE the same time she looks ahead to her new life in her TUE solitary flat in 1950s London. TUE TUE The stories in this collection were written between 1938 and TUE 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, and TUE the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. Sylvia TUE Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her time TUE was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and poetry. TUE She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These stories TUE illustrate her talent for sharp, insightful, and vivid TUE storytelling. TUE TUE The reader is Susannah Harker TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 15:45 Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star b00t3vl2 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In Episode two Alan meets Chris Spedding - a guitarist who TUE has played with many of the biggest names in rock but who, TUE except for one top ten hit, has nearly always managed to TUE avoid the limelight himself. He was on Top of The Pops - TUE but sometimes hidden inside a Womble outfit. Alan and Chris TUE discuss what the rock and roll life is like when you're not TUE that famous. TUE TUE 16:00 The Secret History of Social Networking b00y8xdv (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE The social networking game isn't over yet - Rory TUE Cellan-Jones looks at the sites of the future and asks where TUE the phenomenon is heading. TUE The power of social networks has taken off in recent years. TUE Now, there are more than half a billion Facebook users, but TUE does that mean that one site will dominate social networking TUE in the future? Rory visits the headquarters of microblogging TUE site Twitter, where a new way of sharing information is TUE being developed. TUE With the explosive growth of Facebook has come vigorous TUE debate about privacy, sharing information online, and about TUE what online social networking is doing to our relationships. TUE Today, some young entrepreneurs think they've spotted gaps TUE in the market where Facebook is vulnerable. TUE New sites are springing up all the time. The future of TUE social networking could lie in localised sites geared TUE towards specific interests, in limiting your online circle TUE to your closest friends, or in sites that allow users to TUE keep control of their personal information. TUE Finally, Rory returns to the social networking pioneers of TUE the 70s and 80s. How do the hippies and hackers who created TUE the first social network think their revolution has turned TUE out? Part 3 of 3. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b011jrh3 (Listen) TUE James Walton, Lindsey Davis TUE TUE This week's guests championing favourite paperback books are TUE the journalist and critic James Walton and Lindsey Davis, TUE the creator of the Ancient Roman detective Falco. Presenter TUE Harriett Gilbert brings along a favourite read of her own TUE and finds out why her guests love their choices. The books TUE are a historical romance, a novel about a poetry TUE anthologist, and a strangely powerful novel which invokes TUE the unknowable inner world of children. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b011jzt0 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011j8zq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b00stq0j (Listen) TUE Series 6, In The Dog House TUE TUE Clare is entranced by a dog that follows her into work. TUE Brian is less entranced. However, the dog comes in useful TUE when there's a bump in the night. TUE TUE Clare ..... Sally Phillips TUE Brian ..... Alex Lowe TUE Ray ..... Richard Lumsden TUE Helen/Tamzin ..... Liza Tarbuck TUE Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti TUE Libby ..... Jess Robinson TUE Clerk/WPC ..... Alex Tregear TUE Jonathan/Burglar ..... Paterson Joseph TUE TUE Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b011jrh5 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b011jrh7 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ld3s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Men with the Ear of the President b011jrh9 (Listen) TUE Who advises the most powerful man in the world and what do TUE they tell him? Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former Chief of TUE Staff, speaks to key advisors to the American President TUE including Karl Rove, the man described as George W. Bush's TUE "brain." What is the role of the Chief of Staff? How do they TUE break bad news to their boss? Are they sounding boards or TUE punching bags? How do interpersonal dynamics intersect with TUE developing strategy? How do they cope with global crises and TUE what fits them for the job? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b011jrhc (Listen) TUE Blind amateur cook Richard Lane learns how to make Creole TUE fish stew, spiced rice and Sri Lankan cabbage in the latest TUE instalment of Can't See Will Cook. Richard visits Kathy TUE Lester who gives him some tips on how to spice up his TUE cooking. Plus your views and comments on recent stories. TUE Presenter: Peter White TUE Producer: Steven Williams. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b011jrhf (Listen) TUE Is the increasingly networked, online world of teenagers TUE contributing to emotional bullying and violence among teen TUE girlfriends and boyfriends? This is one of the questions TUE raised by the research of Christine Barter of the University TUE of Bristol. TUE TUE She is one of the few UK researchers to study the incidence TUE and impact of emotional and physical violence within teenage TUE sexual relationships. TUE TUE Dr Barter and her colleagues have surveyed and interviewed TUE both a general school population between the ages of 13 and TUE 17 years old, and also disadvantaged teenagers who were TUE excluded from school or in foster or care homes. Perhaps TUE unsurprisingly, girls are much more likely to be on the TUE receiving end of aggressively controlling and physically TUE violent behaviour. TUE TUE The researchers were surprised themselves however that as TUE many as a quarter of girls say they had been victims of TUE physical violence from their boyfriends. With emotional TUE violence or controlling behaviour, three quarters of teenage TUE girls said had been on the receiving end of this. The TUE researchers were also disturbed that the incidences of these TUE behaviours doesn't vary much from the youngest to the oldest TUE teenagers. TUE TUE Emotional violence ranges from name calling to being TUE frequently checked up on through texting and social TUE networking sites. This includes keeping tabs on their TUE girlfriends by monitoring their movements through mobile TUE phones. One young woman interviewed by Dr Barter said she TUE frequently had to send photos of herself by camera phone to TUE prove to her boyfriend she was where she said she was. New TUE technologies give teenagers many more opportunities to exert TUE control over their partners. TUE TUE The studies suggest the impact, particularly on girls, can TUE be very damaging for self-esteem. However, a significant TUE number of young women, particularly from disadvantaged TUE backgrounds, feel that these controlling and aggressive TUE behaviours indicate that their boyfriends are showing they TUE care about them. Christine Barter worries that this suggests TUE these attitudes are becoming normalised among young people. TUE TUE Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. TUE TUE 21:30 The Choice b011j8z2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b011j8zs (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b011k3zd (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 b011jrhh (Listen) TUE The Forgotten Waltz, Knocking on Heaven's Door TUE TUE 'The Forgotten Waltz' is Anne Enright's long-awaited novel, TUE her first since 'The Gathering', which won the Man Booker TUE 2007. TUE TUE In today's episode, Christmas without your lover, and TUE figuring out Evie's story - and Sean's heart. TUE TUE The Reader is Niamh Cusack. TUE The Abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The Producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b011j7vc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions b011r18f (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Northern Ireland comedian Colin Murphy hosts this TUE entertainment show which explores the answers to some TUE original and unusual questions. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 JUNE 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b011jrm8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b011mt3r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011jrmb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011jrmd (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011jrmg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b011jrmj (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011js8l (Listen) WED with Rev Peter Baker. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b011jsht (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b011jshw (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk WED at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; WED Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b011jshy (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Barry McGuigan. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b011mt35 (Listen) WED Ox Travels, The Piece of String WED WED Shehan Karunatilaka climbs up the staircase at Adam's Peak WED in Sri Lanka in search of a man who dispenses a length of WED string for the wrist to help bring fortune and ward off WED calamity. WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b011jsq6 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011l9th (Listen) WED Once More with Feeling, Episode 3 WED WED By Kieran Prendiville. A comedy drama set in the WED no-prisoners world of northern social clubs. WED WED The revelation about Sheila's real father threatens to WED fracture the family. Meanwhile Chris dies a comedy death, WED and comedian Denny takes full advantage. WED WED Les ..... Paul Copley WED Sheila ...... Belinda Everett WED Elaine ...... Blue Merrick WED Denny ...... Christian Rodska WED Chris ...... Harry Hepple WED Alan/Scotch Billy ..... Rob Hudson WED Kevin ..... Brogan West WED Troy ..... James Baxter WED Kimberly/Nurse ..... Joan Walker WED Compere ..... Kieran Prendiville WED WED Producer/Director: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b011jsq8 (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 1 WED WED With the trauma surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power WED plant in Japan and the increasing urgency of the debate WED about Britain's future use of nuclear power, Alan Dein joins WED a group for whom the nuclear industry has been an WED uninterrupted staple of their daily lives. But the golfing WED members of SASRA, the Sellafield Area Sports and Recreation WED Association, have a life away from the pressure of working WED at one of the most recognisable nuclear establishments in WED the world. WED WED Alan Dein joins Don Gash, the treasurer, fixtures secretary WED and - in his own words - general dogsbody for the SASRA golf WED society and a small group as they play their weekly WED competition round on the old golf that hugged the Cumbrian WED coast between Seascale and Calder Hall long before the WED nuclear industry arrived to dominate the landscape. The talk WED is of dry fairways, short rough and the business of working WED for an industry that was once seen as heroic and pioneering WED before entering a period of intense critical scrutiny. WED WED And Alan also wonders how these British nuclear workers view WED events at Fukushima where their Japanese colleagues face the WED worst nightmare of people involved in this business. WED WED As they make their way to the far end of the course, the WED holes which neighbour the Sellafield landscape of their WED working lives, Alan learns how they balance a very WED particular kind of work and leisure. WED WED Producer: Tom Alban. WED WED 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b00jj0mx (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Comedian Mark Steel presents a show from the magnificent WED Town Hall of Walsall in the West Midlands and celebrates the WED accent, the hippo and why the town has nothing to do with WED Birmingham. WED WED Producer - Julia McKenzie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b011jv81 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b011jrml (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b011jzmr (Listen) WED National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty WED minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To WED share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b011jv83 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b011jrh5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b011jv85 (Listen) WED The Big Broadcast WED WED Words and music by Neil Brand WED WED It's 1932, and the Chicago Beefsteak's Hour of Charm is the WED most successful programme on Midwest US radio. Tonight's WED live broadcast stars famous husband and wife team of WED composer/lyricists Grant Thornhill and Jean Forsythe. WED Gambling Grant is in debt to gangster Brannigan but a new WED song might just save the day. WED WED Jean Forsythe ... Josie Lawrence WED Grant Thornhill ... Nigel Harman WED Arthur Clarke ........... Sam Dale WED Brannigan ............. Sean Baker WED Myrna .............. Joanna Monro WED Sadie ........... Jane Whittenshaw WED Billy ........... Stuart McLoughlin WED WED BBC Singers WED Margaret Cameron, Charles Gibbs, WED Olivia Robinson, Stephen Jeffes WED WED Director: David Hunter WED WED 15:00 Money Box b011jv87 (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests take your calls on debt and debt WED collection WED WED Do you have a question about your rights if you are being WED mistakenly pursued for a debt? WED WED The Office of Fair Trading has issued guidance to the debt WED collection industry but are they sticking to the rules? WED WED The programme will explain what you can do if debt WED collectors visit your property and how to respond if WED businesses won't accept you are not the debtor in question. WED WED Or if you are in debt the panel of experts can help you draw WED up an action plan to pay the debts off. WED WED Whatever your question, Vincent Duggelby and a team of debt WED experts will be ready to help. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b011jv89 (Listen) WED Winter in the Air and Other Stories, Shadwell WED WED Shadwell is selected from Sylvia Townsend Warner's recently WED republished collection, Winter in the Air. In this story, WED the death of Mrs Probus threatens a precarious future for WED her long time servant, Shadwell. WED WED The stories in Winter in the Air were written between 1938 WED and 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, WED and the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. WED Sylvia Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her WED time was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and WED poetry. She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These WED stories remind us that she was a sharp, insightful, and WED vivid storyteller. WED WED The reader is Susannah Harker WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 15:45 Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star b00t6xs2 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED In Episode three Alan meets Amelia Fletcher - singer with a WED number of successful indie bands in the eighties and WED nineties. She's still in a band today, whilst simultaneously WED holding down a serious office job - as chief economist with WED the Office of Fair Trading. Amelia and Alan talk about the WED joys and perils of combining the rock life with a demanding WED job. Did Alan make a mistake by thinking the two don't mix? WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b011jv8c (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b011jrhf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b011jv8f (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011jrmn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Party b011jrmq (Listen) WED Series 2, All publicity is good publicity WED WED The young aspiring politicians of the new political Party WED attempt to step up a gear and get the recognition and WED publicity they deserve. All they need to do is sort out the WED diversity of their group first. Second series of a satirical WED comedy written by Tom Basden. WED WED Simon - Tom Basden, WED Duncan - Tim Key WED Jared - Jonny Sweet WED Mel - Ann Crilly WED Phoebe - Katy Wix WED Photographer - Jane Wittenshaw WED WED Producer - Julia McKenzie. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b011jv8h (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b011jv8k (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including an interview with the novelist WED Ali Smith, whose novels Hotel World and The Accidental were WED shortlisted for the Booker Prize. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011l9th (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b011jv8m (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by David WED Aaronovitch with Claire Fox, Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik WED and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b011jv8p (Listen) WED Series 2, Anne Applebaum WED WED Anne Applebaum, the author of "Gulag", asks how governments WED can best compensate victims of former repressive regimes and WED turn secret police records into meaningful archives. WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience at the RSA (the Royal Society for the WED encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, WED speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on WED the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our WED culture and society. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b011jv8r (Listen) WED Human microbes WED WED Our body is the playground for around 100 trillion microbes, WED hiding in our mouth, nose, guts, skin and genitals. WED WED In the first in a new series of Frontiers, Geoff Watts WED visits the Human Microbiome Project in the US, where they're WED sequencing the genomes of bacteria which live on our body. WED Our microbes help us digest food in our stomach, produce WED natural moisturisers on our skin and synthesise vitamins in WED our intestine. WED WED "We need to start thinking of ourselves as super-organisms," WED says Dr Julie Segre, senior investigator at the US National WED Institute of Health. "This is the second genome - the WED bacterial genomes as well as the human genomes, all of that WED is part of the true genetic content of a human." WED WED The Human Microbiome Project aims to catalogue 3,000 WED microbes on our body and sequence their genes. The theory is WED that we have co-evolved with our microbes in order to defend WED our bodies against pathogens. Geneticists are aiming to find WED out what constitutes a healthy microbial community, and what WED happens when the group is invaded by 'bad' bacteria. WED WED Geoff also talks to a group of scientists from MetaHIT - a WED European project which concentrates on the human gut. They WED have found that we all fall into one of three distinct WED types, depending on the dominant group of bacteria living WED there. WED WED New research has suggested that pathogenic microbes could be WED implicated in a whole host of diseases, including obesity, WED heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, arthritis and autism. WED WED "We may find there are new links between the human WED microbiome and diseases that today we don't think of having WED any underlying microbial component," says Claire WED Fraser-Liggett, Director of the Institute for Genome WED Sciences at the University of Maryland. WED WED The hope is that this research may pave the way for more WED personalised treatments which could help get our bacterial WED communities back on the right track. WED WED Producer: Michelle Martin. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b011jshy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b011jrms (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b011k3zg (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 b011jv8t (Listen) WED The Forgotten Waltz, The Things We Do for Love WED WED In today's episode Gina realises what she owes to Evie - and WED what Evie will always have over her. WED WED The Reader is Niamh Cusack. WED The Abridger is Sally Marmion WED The Producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Shedtown b011jvhf (Listen) WED Something's Gonna Change WED WED Who hasn't thought about running away from it all at some WED time or other? Throwing caution to the wind, wrenching WED oneself out of a long established orbit to head for the deep WED space of the unknown? WED WED Barry (Tony Pitts) and Jimmy (Kevin Eldon) haven't. Until WED now. Friends since school days in a small town, they find WED themselves slipping inexorably and almost unconsciously into WED middle age. WED WED Shedtown is a dream born out of quiet desperation. WED Throughout the series our wooden icon of escape and WED isolation 'the shed' becomes a symbol of possibility and WED change; a new community by the sea where our heroes can WED circumnavigate the mundane, once and for all. WED WED It's the works day out for the workers of Blakeley WED Industrial Museum - and something's got to change. WED WED Barry ...... Tony Pitts WED Jimmy & Johnny ..... Kevin Eldon WED Colin ..... Johnny Vegas WED Diane ..... Suranne Jones WED Dave ..... Shaun Dooley WED Eleanor ..... Ronni Ancona WED Maureen ..... Emma Fryer WED William ..... Adrian Manfredi WED Nicky ..... Caron May Carly WED Yvonne ..... Jessica Knappett WED Father Michael ..... James Quinn WED Wes ...... Warren Brown WED WED Narrator ..... Maxine Peake WED Music ..... Paul Heaton WED Written and created by Tony Pitts WED Directed by Jim Poyser WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions b011r187 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Northern Ireland comedian Colin Murphy hosts this WED entertainment show which explores the answers to some WED original and unusual questions. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 JUNE 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b011js1h (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b011mt35 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011js1k (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011js1m (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011js1p (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b011js1r (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011jvjp (Listen) THU with Rev Peter Baker. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b011jvk5 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b011jvlr (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk at THU 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; THU Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b011jvlt (Listen) THU The Battle of Stamford Bridge THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Stamford THU Bridge. THU THU On 25th September 1066, English forces under the command of THU King Harold Godwinson confronted an invading force of THU Norsemen, whose leaders included Harold's brother Tostig. THU This was the culmination of a succession struggle which had THU been sparked by the death of Edward the Confessor eight THU months earlier. Harold was victorious; but barely three THU weeks later he was dead, killed at Hastings. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b011mt37 (Listen) THU Ox Travels, The Man Who Laughed in a Tomb THU THU Anthony Sattin tells the story of Abdu who lives in a THU graveyard in Cairo, where the attitude towards death and the THU dead is altogether more relaxed and familial than it is in THU Britain. THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b011jvyn (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ld41 (Listen) THU Once More with Feeling, Episode 4 THU THU By Kieran Prendiville. A comedy drama set in the THU no-prisoners world of northern social clubs. THU THU After a disastrous performance, the band is paid off. Les THU picks up with Elaine where he left off twenty five years ago THU - and gets dumped again. THU THU Les ..... Paul Copley THU Sheila ...... Belinda Everett THU Elaine ...... Blue Merrick THU Denny ...... Christian Rodska THU Chris ...... Harry Hepple THU Alan/Scotch Billy ..... Rob Hudson THU Kevin ..... Brogan West THU Troy ..... James Baxter THU Kimberly/Nurse ..... Joan Walker THU Compere ..... Kieran Prendiville THU THU Producer/Director: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b011jvyq (Listen) THU The stories behind the world headlines. THU THU 11:30 Sore Fingers b011jvys (Listen) THU It's like Billy Bunter with banjo's.The unmistakeable sound THU of Appalachia in Stow on the Wold : Bluegrass enthusiasts THU pack up their banjo's and fiddles for a week of fast and THU furious music which has become a fixture on the THU international Bluegrass calendar. THU THU Bluegrass is a relatively recent form of American folk music THU - made popular in the 30's and 40's by Bill Munroe . The THU music has it's roots in the folk music of Ireland, Scotland, THU England and Wales - taken over with the early settlers and THU fused with other American influences . But it's made a THU return journey back across the Atlantic with burgeoning THU interest here in American Bluegrass and Old Time music THU .Every year since 1996 a Summer School and convention for THU Bluegrass enthusiasts - called Sore Fingers - takes place THU during the Easter vacation at Kingham Hill school in the THU Cotswolds. As the pupils depart for the holiday a new set of THU students arrives - some with moustaches, all with an THU instrument and, for five days, the Oxfordshire playing THU fields and quads echo to the sound of Kentucky. The THU instruments include banjo, fiddle, mandolin , Dobro and THU guitar. It's called Sore Fingers for a reason : the students THU and the tutors play all day and late into the night. THU The talent is prodigious - amongst the fastest picking THU you're likely to hear this side of Pike County. Amongst the THU tutors are world class players flown in from America - THU including banjo player Tony Trischka, flat picker Jim Hurst THU and Dobro virtuoso Mike Witcher .Amongst the students there THU are grizzly beards from Doncaster who've been flat picking THU and claw hammering for fifty years , alongside teenage THU virtuosos - including 16 year old Edward Bennett from THU Cornwall, winner of the Clifftop , West Virginia Banjo THU competition. This programme eavesdrops on a week at Sore THU Fingers talking to the players about their lives outside and THU inside the Bluegrass camp: we hear about the history of the THU music, its' revival in England and dip in to some of the THU classroom sessions . We hear from the Scouse sheet metal THU worker who gave it all up to make banjo's ; the couple who THU met in the fiddle tutor group and who've been together ever THU since and the carer sent to Sore Fingers by the council for THU a respite break who keeps coming back. All this and some THU fine, uplifting music. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b011jvyv (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b011js1t (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b011jzmt (Listen) THU National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty THU minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To THU share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b011jvyx (Listen) THU Foreign THU THU When did you first notice that not everyone was like you ? THU For American satirist Joe Queenan, growing up in an Irish THU American neighbourhood of Philadelphia, it was the moment he THU walked into an Italian cheese shop. Poet Elvis MacGonagall, THU sole resident of the Graceland caravan park outside Dundee, THU dodges the question by writing a brilliant poem that rhymes THU foreign with sporran. And Amanda Mitchison recounts an THU episode in a Cairo market where she was continually THU shortchanged in her efforts to buy chicken breast. In short THU she says, to be foreign is always to be the fool, unsure how THU to dress, to speak, and to buy a decent piece of chicken. THU New writing and discussion on the subject of Foreign, what THU it means and why it matters, chaired by Dominic Arkwright. THU The programme is produced by Miles Warde. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b011jv8h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b011jvyz (Listen) THU SBLT (Single But Living Together) THU THU by Ewa Banaskiewicz THU THU What happens if you separate but circumstances force you to THU continue to live together? THU Alex thinks she can make it work with a list of rules but THU then emotions begin to get in the way. THU THU Alex ..... Natasha Little THU Josh ..... David Seddon THU Liz ..... Sarah Smart THU Duncan ..... Will Tudor THU Rilla ..... Jane Whittenshaw THU Nicky ..... Alex Tregear THU Zoe ..... Martha Avens THU THU Directed by Sally Avens. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b011hyy2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b011j39l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b011jvz1 (Listen) THU Winter in the Air and Other Stories, Idenborough THU THU Idenborough is selected from Sylvia Townsend Warner's THU recently republished collection, Winter in the Air. In this THU story, Amabel is taken on a trip through the English THU countryside. An overnight stay in a picturesque village THU calls to mind a memory from twenty years before. THU THU The stories in Winter in the Air were written between 1938 THU and 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, THU and the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. THU Sylvia Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her THU time was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and THU poetry. She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These THU stories remind us that she was a sharp, insightful, and THU vivid storyteller. THU THU The reader is Susannah Harker THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 15:45 Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star b00t8qyc (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU In Episode four Alan meets Jackie Abbott who, for seven THU years, was the lead singer in The Beautiful South, having a THU string of massive hits and touring the world. Alan discovers THU that Jackie's story is remarkable. She was never seeking the THU life of a singer, she was working in a shop when she was THU picked up andput straight into an already successful band. THU After ten years she gave it all up as quickly as she THU accepted it. Could it be that Alan's ambitions were THU misinformed? THU THU 16:00 Open Book b011j3kh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b011jvz3 (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 17:00 PM b011jvz6 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011js1w (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's Your Round b00yjs4p (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU The panel for this first episode is Rufus Hound, Miles Jupp, THU Sara Pascoe and Adam Hills. Find out what hilarity ensues THU when each of them play the rounds they've brought along, THU variously entitled "Them Next Door", "What Does My Dad THU Know?", "Come To Romford!" and "Newspaper Headline or THU Cryptic Crossword Clue". All these games are untried, THU untested and unpredictable so it could all end in disaster. THU But that's all part of the fun. THU THU Angus Deayton is the host valliantly trying to keep the show THU together. THU THU Writers: Angus Deayton, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell THU Devised by Benjamin Partridge THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b011jw48 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b011jw4b (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who meets the writer John Berger, who won THU the Booker Prize in 1972, and whose book Ways of Seeing is THU one of the best-known art history texts of recent decades. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ld41 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 A Celebration for Ascension Day b011js1y (Listen) THU The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is the THU preacher at this service live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, THU London, marking the day when Christians remember the THU departure of the risen Jesus from this earth, leaving his THU disciples with the promise of the gift of his Holy Spirit. THU Music by Haydn, Finzi and Vaughan Williams is sung by the THU BBC Daily Service Singers and the Choir of St THU Martin-in-the-Fields directed by Andrew Earis and THU accompanied by Martin Ford (organ) and members of the THU Southbank Sinfonia. The celebrant is the Vicar of St THU Martin's, the Revd Nicholas Holtam. Producer: Stephen THU Shipley. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b011j8z8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b011jvlt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b011js20 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b011k3zj (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 b011jw8d (Listen) THU Please Look After Mother, Episode 1 THU THU Kyung-Sook Shin is arguably Korea's most popular and THU acclaimed novelist. Please Look After Mother has already THU sold over 1.5 million copies in Korea and has been reprinted THU over 100 times, turned into plays and a film. It is now THU published in 19 countries. THU THU 'It's been one week since Mother went missing. THU The family is gathered at your eldest brother Hyong-chol's THU house. You decide to make flyers and hand them out where THU Mother was last seen. Hyong-chol designates you to write up THU the flyer, since you write for a living. You blush, as if THU you were caught doing something you shouldn't. THU THU Name: Park So-nyo THU Date of birth: 24 July 1938 (69 years old) THU Appearance: Short, salt-and-pepper permed hair, prominent THU cheekbones, last seen wearing a sky-blue shirt, a white THU jacket and a beige pleated skirt. THU Last seen: Seoul Station subway.' THU THU Please Look After Mother tells the story of So-nyo, an THU elderly wife and mother, who goes missing on Seoul station. THU Only with her gone, do her children and her husband begin to THU appreciate not only all she has done for them, but who she THU really was. As first her daughter, then her son and then her THU husband search the streets for her, we learn, too, how much THU they have left unsaid. THU THU A story in part about the cultural clash between the THU generation who inhabit modern, urban Seoul and their parents THU steeped in the rural traditions of Korea, Please Look After THU Mother is also a universal and humbling reminder of how easy THU it is to take the people we love for granted. THU THU In today's episode, So-nyo's successful grown-up children THU begin to search for their mother, lost when the train doors THU closed before her on a packed Seoul station. THU THU The reader is Sian Thomas THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The translator is Chi-Young Kim THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Dave Against the Machine b011jw8g (Listen) THU Angels From Outer Space THU THU Dave Lamb's brand new sitcom series about conspiracy THU theorist Dave Railings continues and this week it's aliens. THU THU When the post is delivered on time to the flat that Dave THU shares with his deeply frustrated younger brother Jim, Dave THU jumps to the conclusion that their usual, rubbish postman THU must have been replaced by an alien clone. Jim is initially THU dismayed, but then realises that Dave's fear of being THU abducted by aliens (again) gives him his best opportunity THU yet to escape his disturbed older brother. THU THU Meanwhile community police officers Nigel and Geoff find THU themselves on duty at a dating march for single people, THU where the abuse they start to get from the public drives THU Geoff to drink. And if that wasn't bad enough for Nigel, it THU seems as if the guvnor has a thing for him. Belly laughs and THU plot twists as Dave Railings attempts to save the public THU from its own ignorance and foil an intergalactic scavenger's THU bid to stockpile human DNA. The truth is out there... THU possibly. THU THU Dave Railings ..... Dave Lamb THU Jim Railings ..... Jim North THU Nigel Spikes ...... Nick Walker THU Geoff Brown ...... Richie Webb THU Callious ..... Carrie Quinlan THU THU Written by Dave Lamb THU Script edited by Anil Gupta THU Directed by Adam Tandy THU Produced by Richie Webb THU A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions b011r189 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU THU Northern Ireland comedian Colin Murphy hosts this THU entertainment show which explores the answers to some THU original and unusual questions. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 JUNE 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b011jvhw (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b011mt37 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011jvhy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011jvj0 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011jvj2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b011jvj4 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011jyq7 (Listen) FRI with Rev Peter Baker. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b011jx01 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b011jx03 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b011j39v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b011mt39 (Listen) FRI Ox Travels, The Wrestler FRI FRI Rory Stewart tells the story of the Turquoise Mountain FRI project which he launched with local people to regenerate a FRI poverty-stricken district in Kabul. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b011jx05 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ld49 (Listen) FRI Once More with Feeling, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Kieran Prendiville. A comedy drama set in the FRI no-prisoners world of northern social clubs. FRI FRI Against all odds, the family band makes the Blackpool FRI showcase and comedian Denny gives the performance of his FRI life. FRI FRI Les ..... Paul Copley FRI Sheila ...... Belinda Everett FRI Elaine ...... Blue Merrick FRI Denny ...... Christian Rodska FRI Chris ...... Harry Hepple FRI Alan/Scotch Billy ..... Rob Hudson FRI Kevin ..... Brogan West FRI Troy ..... James Baxter FRI Kimberly/Nurse ..... Joan Walker FRI Compere ..... Kieran Prendiville FRI FRI Producer/Director: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Virtually Famous b011jx07 (Listen) FRI Ellie Gibson joins the participants and organisers of a 48 FRI hour "Games Jam". Why are events like this becoming the FRI place to be for video games designers and musicians FRI struggling to find their next contract? Ellie ventures into FRI the exciting creative cauldron which is shaping the future FRI of the gaming industry. FRI FRI Designers Tom and Adam Vian, alongside artist Catherine FRI Unger, try to design and programme a game in 48 hours based FRI around the theme of extinction. Ellie chips in with helpful FRI suggestions and tips, before eventually testing and indeed FRI breaking their final game! She speaks to other participants FRI and finds out why they spend their spare weekends in FRI windowless rooms, tapping away at keyboards and surviving on FRI plenty of caffeine and just a few hours sleep. FRI FRI Even in the offices of major games companies there's an FRI indie ethos, with designers walking around barefoot and FRI listening to music. But the world of marketing is never far FRI away. Consultant Nicholas Lovell explains how it's vital for FRI the industry to make sure people spend money while they FRI play. FRI FRI Ellie gets interviews and opinions from the BAFTA Video FRI Awards where the next big things in games development are FRI recognised, and industry veteran Peter Molyneux explains how FRI the indie games scene marks a return to the spirit of his FRI early years. FRI FRI Producer: Toby Field. FRI FRI 11:30 Polyoaks b011jx09 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI First episode of a new Sitcom written by Private Eye medical FRI columnist Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer set in the FRI Bewildering New World of the NHS. FRI FRI As responsibility for the Health Service is stripped from FRI managers and handed to doctors, brothers-in-medicine Roy & FRI Hugh Thornton are struggling to work out what to do with all FRI this sudden money and power. If they can diagnose acute FRI appendicitis surely they can manage an £80 billion health FRI budget. Can't they? FRI FRI But a useless Celebrity TV Doctor, an overly-aggressive FRI South African Nurse and a sinister GP Consortium Chairman FRI don't make their lot any easier. FRI FRI Anyone who wants to know what's really happening to the FRI Nation's Health Service, (but can't wade through the 367 FRI page Health & Social Care Bill) should listen to 30 minutes FRI of Polyoaks, starring Nigel Planer, Tony Gardner, Celia FRI Imrie and David Westhead. FRI FRI Dr Roy Thornton ..... Nigel Planer FRI Dr Hugh Thornton ..... Tony Gardner FRI TV's Dr Jeremy ..... David Westhead FRI Betty Crossfield ..... Celia Imrie FRI Vera Du Plessis ..... Carla Mendonca FRI Mr Devlin/ Patient ..... Phil Cornwell FRI Mr Ridgewell/ Mr Dawson ..... David Holt FRI Mrs Briggs ..... Kate O'Sullivan FRI FRI Written By Phil Hammond and David Spicer FRI FRI Producer/Director: Frank Stirling FRI An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b011jx0c (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b011jvj6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b011jzmw (Listen) FRI National and international news with Edward Stourton. Thirty FRI minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To FRI share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b011jx0f (Listen) FRI Listeners' champion Roger Bolton is back with a new series FRI of Feedback to put your criticisms, queries and concerns to FRI BBC radio's top dogs. FRI FRI It will be a long hot summer as BBC management chew over FRI where the axe will fall to make savings needed - and staff FRI at 5Live prepare to move to Salford but will the listeners FRI hear any difference? FRI FRI And Roger investigates threatened changes to BBC local radio FRI and spends a morning with the Today team - can he get a word FRI in edgeways? FRI FRI Contact the Feedback team to let Roger know what you'd like FRI him to tackle this series about anything you've heard on BBC FRI radio. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b011jw48 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bg33d (Listen) FRI The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole, Rumpole on Trial FRI FRI John Mortimer's two part Radio 4 Rumpole story brings us the FRI magician of the Old Bailey at his implacable best as he FRI defends our ancient freedoms, while remaining uneasy about FRI exactly what his wife Hilda is up to in her continuing FRI friendship with a high court judge FRI FRI ASBOs may be the pride and joy of new Labour, but they don't FRI cut much ice with Horace Rumpole; he takes the old fashioned FRI view that if anyone is going to be threatened with a FRI restriction of their liberty then some form of meaningful FRI legal procedure ought to be put in place. FRI FRI Not that Hilda agrees of course, but she's too busy FRI completing her memoirs and planning a radical new career to FRI dissuade him from taking an interest when one of the Timson FRI children is given an ASBO for playing football in the FRI street. And if that wasn't enough, Rumpole's colleagues have FRI voiced some rather prudish objections to the small cigars FRI and glasses of red wine he enjoys in his room in Chambers. FRI They may even slap an ASBO on him, which won't help his FRI cause of being appointed a QC at long last! FRI FRI Horace Rumpole ..... Timothy West FRI Hilda Rumpole ..... Prunella Scales FRI 'Soapy Sam' Ballard ..... Michael Cochrane FRI Bonny Bernard ..... Nicholas le Prevost FRI Prosecutor Parkes ..... Roger May FRI Madam Chair of Magistrates ..... Jillie Mears FRI Graham Wetherby ..... David Holt FRI Lars Bergman ..... Matthew Morgan FRI Judge Bullingham ..... David Shaw-Parker FRI Fig Newton ..... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI FRI Producer/Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b011jx0h (Listen) FRI Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team join gardeners in Kirkcudbright, FRI West Scotland. He is joined by Anne Swithinbank, Christine FRI Walkden & Matthew Biggs. In addition, Christine Walkden FRI visits Logan Botanic Garden. FRI Matthew Wilson updates on the 2012 Olympic Park in London. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star b00td741 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final episode Alan takes his only copy of The Area's FRI crackly 7 inch single to a state-of-the art modern studio to FRI get the verdict of Roxy Music guitarist, and now studio FRI owner, Phil Manzanera. Alan learns how the industry has FRI changed since he tried his luck and gets an informed opinion FRI on the quality of his music from Phil and Phil's engineer FRI who just happens to be Alan's son Jamie. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b011jx0k (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b011jx0m (Listen) FRI Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b011jx0p (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011jvj8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b011jx7l (Listen) FRI Series 74, Episode 8 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b011jx7n (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b011jx7q (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ld49 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b011jx7s (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion about politics and FRI what's in the news from St Julian's Methodist Church, FRI Newport, Gwent, with the historian and biographer of FRI Georgiana, the Duchesss of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman; FRI shadow Labour minister for Wales, Owen Smith; Conservative FRI MP, Nadine Dorries; and Helen Mary Jones, who was Plaid FRI Cymru's assembly member for Llanelli but lost her seat in FRI May's elections. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b011jx7v (Listen) FRI Series 2, Chameleon FRI FRI 16/20. Many of the world's chameleons live on the huge FRI continental island of Madagascar off the Eastern coast of FRI Africa. Some are tiny, as small as a finger nail - others in FRI comparison are giants. Sir David Attenborough gives us a FRI personal insight into the natural history of chameleons FRI through one very special individual - a chameleon he had as FRI a pet, called Rommel. In this life story you will feel as if FRI you've met Rommel personally and with the delightful embrace FRI with which Sir David writes, you smile all the way through. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00zllrj (Listen) FRI Bullitt by Robert L Pike, Dramatised by Adrian Bean FRI FRI Starring Jason Isaacs as Lieutenant Clancy. FRI A gritty detective story set in New York's rough 52nd FRI Precinct in 1963. Lieutenant Clancy, head throbbing from FRI days without sleep, is assigned to protect an important FRI Mafia witness Johnny Rossi. But when he's found dead, Clancy FRI has only a matter of hours to find the killer before his FRI enemy Assistant District Attorney Chalmers finds out. FRI The famous film transposed the action to San Francisco and FRI Steve McQueen's casting and the iconic car chase sequence FRI were famously added, and so the coolest of cop films was FRI born. But this radio adaptation goes back to the original FRI novel. FRI FRI LIEUTENANT CLANCY........Jason Isaacs FRI ADA CHALMERS/BARNETT/RENICK/ FRI JOHNNY ROSSI............Kerry Shale FRI DETECTIVE KAPROWSKI......Lou Hirsch FRI CAPTAIN WISE/JOHNNY ROSSI/ FRI SHIPS OFFICER.......... John Biggins FRI DR WILLARD/PETE ROSSI..... Stephen Hogan FRI DOC FREEMAN/SERGEANT.....Bruce Alexander FRI DETECTIVE MARY KELLY......Sasha Pick FRI ANN RENICK/LAPD OFFICER.....Emerald O' Hanrahan FRI HOTEL MANAGER/ FRI CHALMERS' SECRETARY......Kate Layden FRI FRI DIRECTED BY PAULINE HARRIS FRI BBC DRAMA NORTH FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b011jvjb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b011k3zl (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b011jx7x (Listen) FRI Please Look After Mother, Episode 2 FRI FRI In today's episode, as Chi-hon continues the fruitless FRI search for her mother, memories of their rare moments of FRI closeness surface. Mulling over them, Chi-hon begins to see FRI her mother for who she really was, and what she did for her FRI daughter. FRI FRI The reader is Sian Thomas FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b011jrh3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions b011r18c (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI Northern Ireland comedian Colin Murphy hosts this FRI entertainment show which explores the answers to some FRI original and unusual questions. FRI
27 May, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 28/05/2011 - 03/06/2011
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